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Hello, Hello, welcome to Rewind with Karen and Georgia.
A rewind if it's fine, it's Wednesday, and that means we're recapping one of our old shows with all new commentary, all new updates, which I don't think there can be old updates, and insights about one of the old shows we did.
Long of that's right, one of the old epps. And today we're looking back at episode thirty three, which we actually named what About Me Me.
She's been a big part of this podcast for nine whole years, that meme.
That's right. She's holding on too.
She's living through it. Her and Frank, so join us today as we take you back to the two hundred and fifty second day of twenty sixteen. That's right, Thursday, September.
Eighth, and now we can all be day one listener.
So let's listen to the intro of episode thirty three, What about Mimi?
Hi? That's how we started it this week.
Hi everybody, Hi, are you there? Hello?
Hey, that's Karen.
Who's this?
That's Karen?
Oh, and that's Georgia.
Thank you answer our voices if you can't tell them apart, Oh, yeah, you do yours Okay, Hi, this is Georgia. I gasp into the microphone a lot.
Hi, this is Karen I sing and it lie And this is my Favorite Murder, which is a podcast where we talk about murders that happen that interest us and intrigue uts and hopefully make your time at work in the swimming pool or on a darkened road while you take a walk, go buy a little bit faster.
Hey, you're welcome.
Goodbye.
Hey, that was it.
It's such an effort to do like an official beginning of this fucking pod.
Let's get into it. Let's fucking get into it.
Let's pass it all by.
He's keeping well, So Jacob, okay, so this is the thing we wanted to talk about that I said, don't fucking talk to me about and tell our podcast that right, which very stern. I'm very stern. So Jacob Weterling fat that has bought this. What is her thirteen year old kid who went.
He was kidnapped. He was kidnapped. It was him, his brother and a friend. They were riding their bikes to the store and a guy held them a gunpoint and told the other two to run away and took.
Jacob nineteen eighty nine, which we have said many times that the eighties aren't going to be under arrest for being fucking shitty.
It was not a good time for us as children.
Well, speaking of I just watched a documentary that is now on Netflix over the weekend called Who Took Johnny.
I stared at that all weekend, going watch it, Karen, this is supposed to be your thing, And I couldn't bring myself to watch why because I've heard them talk about it all last last podcast and it is so dark and it's so creepy, and it is so not your average kidnapping. I just didn't want to have to take it in.
I agree, there's a lot of information. The thing I took away from it, hold on, Johnny, I'm fucking reading. The thing I took away from it is that his mother, and like this is the only positive thing, is the biggest badass in the fucking world. So the whole thing, like kind of centers follows her around and what she had to go through, like when her son got kidnapped, and when the police seventy two hour waiting period for this little boy who in the dark on his paper route in the morning, his papers were left behind his adorable doc sund which was left behind, which why would you do that? And they said they thought he ran away. So she had to go to great lengths for years and years and became an advocate just like John Walsh's without a TV show for children, And it's amazing what she's done.
I can't, I can't take it in.
You gotta watch it.
And I just am so tired. I'm so tired.
I'm sorry.
No, that's okay.
Well, but the Franklin cover up it comes into play. It's so hard to believe. I have such a hard time with so many of these. Like there's two things. One of them is that a guy gets arrested and says that he was one of the people who took Johnny Gosh and he became a sex slave. And the other thing is that the mom says that she saw him Johnny as an adult came to her door, and those two things, like, if you believe them both, it's a fucking insane story. If you don't, then it's a fucking insane story because people are crazy.
Yeah, everything about it is, you know, it's if it was just everything way of just the facts that you actually know it's an intense tragedy of just a child disappearing. It's the it's the worst case scenario, because then you're a grieving parent who never gets relief and what that might do to you. But then there's also the thing of it's just like I think the reason people like stranger things or whatever, it's that thing of, well, then you must be crazy if you are in grief to this degree. Yeah, you And of course with the mothers, with women, it's always you're crazy. And so a woman trying to get answers and get her child help and get some action when she's being deemed crazy, which is the ultimate stamp that people can negate you and your voice with.
Yeah, she was saying, that's happening like men, men are stern, but women are shrill. You know.
It's the patriarchy. It's the butts of the standard bullshit.
And yet she was able to change laws and be an advocate for children who have gone missing and and her grief into something useful and worthwhile, not that grief is not those things.
But no, that's great, that's amazing.
That's she's amazing. Uh, Yeah, I definitely. I know. It's a hard it's a hard case. But it's a really good, fine watchumentary. Fine, fine, fine, I quit your four jobs that you have and stay home and watch Who Took Johnny?
Here's what I did to and but sorry. We started that by mentioning that Jacob wetterlings remains were finally found, so his parents have rest. And there was a lot of people who sent us that. It makes me really happy that people send us those articles and they're so, you know, enthusiastically like, oh, it's such a nice idea to think that after all these years, those at least, at the very least those parents have a little bit of rest. Yeah, and a little bit like it just at least they know where he is.
Well. I was so I read that about him being found, and they hadn't released a lot of detas tales about it. Now that there's more stuff coming out, like who like the guy confessed to it and that's how I found the body. But so the whole time I was watching Who Took Johnny? I was just and all these twists and turns that maybe was this, and it could have been this, and he might be still alive in an adult and all these things, and I couldn't help but just like picture this sad his bones buried somewhere remote and he has in the exact same way he looked when he got taken. And these crazy stories of what happened that are just not true, and in the meantime, these lonely bones somewhere. It just made me sad. I know, it's it's so tragic. It's heavy, heavy shit.
That's why I'm going to clumsily segue now into my next piece of housekeeping, because let's just let's not live there forever.
Sorry, did it get too dark?
Not at all. No, this is what we this is what we like, but we can't just like you know, we have to do it. Yeah, I have an apology to make for anyone who heard me talk shit about the British procedural Rosemary and Time, because what I did this weekend was watch probably twenty episodes of Rosemary and Time, which is a hilarious. It's not supposed to be hilarious, but I found it so enjoyable, so relaxing. It's two like middle aged British women who are gardeners and they keep getting hired. It's very murder she Roadie makes ever, there's two of them and these two are so enjoyable to watch the murders, which is ludicrous. There's always two murders. Everywhere they go. People are dropping like flies. No one cares, they're never suspected. But half of more than half of the show takes place in the most gorgeous gardens you've ever seen, so there's a real like you can see them aiming at like probably like a sixty year old lady who's going to sit in her chair at night, nit eat some candy and watch this sh show.
It sounds fucking amazing.
I was that lady this weekend and I fucking loved it. I was so relaxed. You have to see it. It's but one time someone asked me about British procedurals and someone recommended Rosemary in Time, And oh was I flippant about how that was Grandma Grandma crime show. And I don't care. Well, I apologize whoever I said that to you. I am one thousand percent wrong. I love Rosemary Time with the best of them, and Pam Ferris, and oh, I wrote their names down because Felicity Kendall and Pam Ferris are the two stars. They're so goddamn good. And Pam Ferris went on to star in a show called Call the Midwife, which.
I also love a lot, which want was she.
She is the nun that wears the habit all the time. She's like all business nuns. Yeah, it's like she looks like everyone in my family.
I love that show Call the Midwife.
I love Call the Midwife. And she's she's like, holds it down on there. So she's been on British TV for like forty years.
It sounds like a combination of murder, she wrote, and the Great British Bakeoff, Yes.
Where you're just kind of being soothed by British voices, a little violence, gorgeous flowers.
I mean you can't have one without the.
Other, and you shouldn't. And also they what I love is in a British procedural, you will watch them casually drinking tea. And I just love the fact that people like cut out time in the days now drink tea and eat cookies.
Think there's Boerman in there.
I am. I just saying that because I just had Bourman, and I mean it's probably everywhere, I mean deep down, I mean, as you on, Uh, this is all just like vodka, Hunderd Grain vodka.
Other housekeeping housekeeping.
I think the Rosemary and Time apology was my number one housekeeping pretty much this week.
That was correction corner.
Yeah, that was a huge correction because also once again I've gotten it wrong with England.
Oh hey, we're in Entertainment Weekly. Oh hey, guess what's right?
We just found this out tonight.
Yeah.
Someone very nice, HEEROI I'll look them up. They were like a stage mom that I've never had that gave a ship where they it's D Train. Of course, D Train's there for a QD train at D Train writes, hey, did you see this show in Entertainment Weekly? Congrats? And the answer was no, we absolutely have not. We didn't know it was going to be in there. We're in there with Atlas Obscuro, which is a rad website. We're in there. Was a band called Sunlit Youth.
I'm sure young people love them.
I'm sure that they're cool. It's like a bunch of dudes in stretched out white T shirts with really sparse facial hair.
Can I read you my textics? Change about it with my dad please? So I send him the photo that D Train sent us, and I said, my podcast is an entertainment weekly, because you know, the only thing that seems legitimate is if are on television or in a magazine. That's right, Like, it doesn't matter if you're on the website, that's right. And he said, OMG, wonderful, very proud of you, go girl, Marty. Then he said comedian. I like the sound of that, and I said me too, And he said, is this on Facebook? I'd like to share it, Daddy.
That's your job. Dad, Thanks, Dad, go ahead and throw that up on Facebook with a baby picture. Let's see it.
Yeah.
Well, that's funny because I texted my sister, Adrian and Audrey, who are my hometown posse and all fans of the show. Not Laura. She doesn't listen to it.
Your sister doesn't go.
She's like, I don't have time a fuck. And I literally have told her when she can listen to him, like when you drive after you drop off your daughter.
My sister in law's the only one who listens to it in my family, Like my not related person is the only one can hear my voice, and I love it, hate me.
Well, Audrey and Audrey and Adrian both totally listened to it. So I went onto our NonStop constant group text and just went, hey, you guys, look, we're in Entertainment Weekly. No one answered for a while, and then Adrian responded, what magazine is that? I'm like, I don't make me fuck say wow? And then no one answered for a while, and then I had written will someone please go buy one and give it to my dad? And so then nobody answers for a while, and then Adrian comes back and goes, Laura, are you on that? You're like hello, yeah, And I was like this is classic. And then I was like, sorry for bragging, and then my sister called me, of course, I'm so proud of you.
Yeah. I sent it to my mom and dad. I haven't heard a word from my mother. Well hates me?
No?
Can I just shout out Yolanda, my sister in law, and how sweet she is? Is she listening? Yeah?
Oh was she at the wedding? Of course I may have met her.
Yeah, she's a doll.
Thanks, Yolanda. You're the most important kind of family, which is the family that listens to.
It doesn't hate you for backing an egg over your their head and when you were five, that's right.
There's no grudges, no old grudges with those in laws.
All I've been in her mind is a great aunt, good time party goal, Yeah, good time party.
Probably a good gift giver.
I would say I'm terrible at good giving. Really, she's a great gift I'm a piece of shit.
What gift cards? It's all Starbucks gift cards everywhere.
I just forget. Yeah. More than that, I try.
To make it seem like as if I'm a Seventh day Adventist. I don't give gift either. Caroen Karen doesn't do that.
Can we agree and we did this on our last birthdays that we don't give each other gifts?
Let's not do that for each other.
Never.
No, I might. I might pick you up something and I.
See it totally.
It's like that's okay, well you're around. Yeah, But if it has to be on your birthday, I'm going to let you down.
I don't want you to be stressed out and then feel guilty. No way, I don't even we podcasted on your birthday and I didn't even know is your birthday?
Because I don't want to put that shit on people.
But then I feel older.
I didn't know, I know, But what do you get I'm not on Facebook. I keep to myself. I'm a fiercely private person.
Hey, it's my birthday today. You can't say that.
Didn't it feel weird? Just now?
Yeah?
All right, let's talk about murder. Are you ready?
That was called That was called family forum.
That last part that was called working out friendship details, friendship rules. This is an important thing because I swear to God if I'm friends with the person and they give me some fucking three stacks of beautifully wrapped gifts and I'm like, get off. Yeah, we're not going to be I don't want this from you.
You're going to be very disappointed when your rolls around getting this. Yeah, And then I feel obligated, and I wrote this card that's like, hey, thank you for.
Forcing this, like getting me out of me?
Can I just take you for a fucking meal? All right?
Yeah? And actually you should and I will. I feel you owe me? Who went first last week?
I think you did?
Okay?
Good? Am I wrong? All right? We're taking a quickie break. Stay tuned, and then my favorite murders are happening.
And we're back.
Hello, Hi, I'm looking at the photo right now on Instagram that we took from that recording.
Nine years even.
I have not seen this photo since back then, probably.
Right of your house.
Oh my god, look at everything. I know you could.
Actually when I saw that picture, that's what I said, I go, I wonder if George's seen this lately, because that is just like it captured a moment of your old apartment, like with all your stuff and different things, and like what your life looks like nine years ago.
It did. It was Stephen on the ground there, like what our whole lives were like back then in my cute little apartment. Oh my god, this is like I'm clumped.
Yeah, I mean, and I'm shit saying. It's almost like that's our point of view, like the other picture was Steven's point of view to us.
But I idinitely took this one. That's my love seat. I think that I'm taking this from yeah, with my whiskey. My whiskey on the table. If you'll notice that it's a vintage Rocks glass, which I don't use anymore because there's.
Leads all that lead that you were drinking that night and that it gave Steven. Here's ephen, this will make you feel better. Yeah, we were talking about all kinds of I mean, we were talking about it, We've talked about it a ton. I said it then it's I feel the same way the Johnny Gosh case kills me.
You still can't handle.
It's one of those things where like I think part of the draw and I think the emotional interplay if I may and I and I may not.
I wish it would.
This show is like or of any true crime kind of fans experience, is that you're looking into this like horrifying, you know, gaping maw of human mystery, I guess even mystery and misery, misery, pain, people being stuck in places with no answers.
Like unfathomable loss, yeah.
But then also lost but then almost like a person coming back, like are they really there? Will we not? Like it's so heartbreaking everything about that, and it hasn't gotten better.
And that's one of those cases.
Well.
The other one we mentioned was the Jacob Wetterling case, which I will mention every single time that season one of In the Dark that is about this case. When they were like days or a week before they were going to release the show, his murderer was caught. I mean, talk about timing. It's in. It's an incredible show, So make sure you check out season one of In.
The Dark, Season one of In the Dark.
Yeah, Entertainment Weekly, look at us go I need that Entertainment Weekly spread was really fun.
That was a very cool moment.
Was this the spread or it's keep saying we were mentioned?
Oh, it could be. Yeah, you know what the one where I screwed it up and was like, it's us in Sunlit Youth when it was supposed to be it's us and Local Natives so embarrassed. Oh, I apologized it on the next episode. But Local Natives is a cool band, and we were mentioned in there. But then I think maybe a couple months or a year later, was when it was the spread. That's right.
Well, you know we were actually in my loft by that by when this photos got taken. That's how you.
Know that's right. That's how we know it's progressed in time forward.
That's right. Instead of having carpet, I now have like grayish wood floors that are just hideous, And that's how you know we've made it.
That's how you know you're moving on up.
Yeah, when you have fake gray wood floors.
Yeah, I liked that. We said to each other, we don't have to give each other gifts. It's very that's the way to do it.
That was relief. I think I have that relief when I meet other friends that are also like, yeah, I don't do gifts either, or like with events where it's like we don't really like he's not like hardcore about it and I'm and so we don't. I don't always feel to have to feel the pressure every year because he does so great and I do some you know right, It just happens when it fucking happens, not like it's not expected, and that almost makes it better when you get a gift or give a gift that the person's not like, you don't feel obligated to give.
Yeah. It's that kind of beholden thing where someone sends you something and you're like, okay, so then the thing I get you has to be equal, if not greater, in emotional value. The hard element of gift giving.
Yeah. Yeah. Some people in my family like can insist on continuing to give adults gifts at the holidays. Yeah, And I just think it should be like just let's all just bring a dessert. That's the gift, you know, right, bring a box of C's and give the kids presents, like we don't need gifts anymore.
I'm sorry this will be way off. Well it's on topic for what you just said, but it's a little off. But I think I told you this. You can go onto the C's website and design your own box, so you can just go through and do the exercise of what would you put together if it was your custom made box just for you to eat? And I did that one night simply just to pass the time.
Well, they send it to you in the mail.
So it can be whatever you want in there, but it's like, you know, how use the normal nuts and shoes, say, for.
Example, it's like, miss that's Vince's nuts and shoes, and I'm assorted, and then we fight about it constantly.
Okay, the fight's over because if you go on there, you can split it down the center. You can do it however you want, fill the whole thing with caramel patties, whatever you want to do.
You can get you fucking chocolate covered nuts away from me. I'm not a fucking hippie health nut like. Give me I am caramel. Give me fucking marshmallow. I want the like indulgent ones, not like I don't want trail mix when I'm eating dessert.
You know, I hear you, I understand, But for me, the combination of their roasted almonds and like milk chocolate is so outstanding. But you know what I never had. And then I swear to God, we'll stop talking about this because it's not the right show and don't now. Yeah, and I'm so hungry. Have you brought those Scotch mellow bars there?
Yeah? The fucking with the marshmallow and the caramel. Yep, it's ridiculous. That's the first one I go to whenever I open a box.
It's like there's something about that combo. It's balanced so perfectly. Mary. See it just hats off to you once again. May I love you?
And like so prime it's like an LA institution. I know, that's right, Jesus, I love it.
She's a ballerballer baller.
All right, well, should we get into my story?
Should we go back to talking about this episode? Yeah?
This one, Yeah, this one. I had forgotten about this, and right, I forgot about the DNA thing at the very end, which is just mind blowing.
So yeah, let's well, we'll let you tell us, but from twenty sixteen, this is Georgia's story about Gary Earl Leiderman and the Michigan murders.
We're back.
And we're back and hi.
Hey, all right Georges first this week. Okay, so are you ready to put your phone down and listen to me?
I was gonna send you that picture you get me every good damn tongue?
What if I was that big of a dick?
Are you ready to listen? That's my one trigger is phone stuff.
No, I'm kidding. I don't give a shit about anything.
I'm pulling this microphone forward and leading.
Pay Go to instagram dot com slash my favorite murder to see a photo we just took.
Yes, I have no makeup on, neither do I.
And my pants are just completely unbuttoned and unzipped.
It's my Alicia Keys photo. All right, I'm taking this.
Is it going to make a lot of noise?
Or I'm not. I'm not going to make one move.
Steven, you better tell her if she I just.
Want to relax keeping an eye on her. Okay, give me the finger.
All right? All right, So my favorite murder this week is that of Gary Earle Leederman and the Michigan murders, so it's kind of a it's kind of a mashup.
Okay, all right.
In the late nineteen sixties, there was a serial killer targeting young women in the college town of ann Arbor, Michigan.
Ooh.
He was called the co Ed Killer, who became known as a co Ed Killer, and he murdered women in and ran ann Arbor in a two year period.
Okay.
His mo was picking up young women between the ages of thirteen and twenty one. Then he would rape, beat, and murder them, typically by stabbing or strangulation. Sometimes their bodies would be mutilated, which I don't get into. Don't worry, okay if you're a squeamish after death before being discarded in a desolate area. And he was also known to visit their bodies before they were found. Ooh, yeah, he was a fucking creep. Yeah, like a gross, fucked up, sadistic creep.
He was. He was the og Ted Bundy. It sounds like, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, he was. Like I think, I don't know, I should have looked this up. But they must have had the term serial killer already because they called him that. But it was like before, this was like a known thing, right, serial killing. So two young women attributed to the co ed Killer had been found when the body of Jane Mixer, a brilliant twenty three year old law student at the University of Michigan, was found on March twenty first, nineteen sixty nine. She was found at a cemetery just west of ann Arbor, and it was assumed she was a victim of the serial killer, the co ed Killer, but some of the details of her murder were different than the established mo o of the co ed Killer. Jane had disappeared after posting a note on a college ride share bulletin board. Fuck right, I mean, oh honey. Yeah, she was seeking a ride across the state to her hometown of Muskegan, where she intended Oh god, this is the worst part. She intended to inform her family of her engagement and emminent moved to New York. Like she intended to inform everyone of the beautiful life she was building for herself. Yeah, and was excited to start.
She just had some great news. Yeah, it's like, oh, her parents had been waiting to for this day.
Yeah. A guy she met at law school who was a sweet angel. They were going to move to New York and pursue their careers.
Her sweet baby angle.
I forgot about this. That's my saying hello, all right, thank you. Yeah, it makes me really sad. But you know, like I wonder how like there's one thing about hitchhiking that we are always like down hitchhike, But the other thing of like putting it. Hey, if anyone's heading to like fucking Miskeigan, are you ride?
I mean, in this day and age, I think it's a little bit better. Right, if you're going to do the head in nineteen sixty nine, don't get away from any corkboard of any kind. Yeah, there's nothing good is happening now, everything's laced with acid. Come on.
Oh those were great quotes. Amazing.
Yeah, I'm really mad about it. I had no idea.
No, it's ridiculous. So her body had been found in a cemetery atop a grave. She had been and we learned this from how to say this from Jean Benet Garrotted correct, Yeah, garreted garretted all right, with a nylon stalking and it wasn't her own stalking. It has come to kind of find out. But the way she died was that she was shot twice in the head with a twenty two caliber. She hadn't been beaten or sexually assaulted like the other victims of the co Ed Killer had, but she did have her dress pulled up showing her underwear, but it had been carefully covered up with her yellow rain coat afterwards, and her shoes and and her copy of Catch twenty two had been carefully placed nearby. So like this person took care.
It was like painting a picture.
Yeah, and like covering her body is such I mean, we all know what it means now, but back then, it was like we didn't understand, like that really meant caretaking this person.
Right, which means a personal relationship. Usually I didn't Yes, you're right, all right. I thought that's what you're saying.
No, but you're right. I just yeah, it means yeah, you're so smart. I'm just gonna hand this whole podcast over. You don't do it, by please don't do it. So four days after she's discovered the body, another body of the co ed victim the co Ed killer is found. Marilyn Skelton. She disappeared while hitchhiking, and Ann Arbor and her murder more closely resembled the m of the series Killer. I wrote, fucked up fact. Each woman up until this point, including Jane Mixer, had been menstruating at the time of their death. Oh what in the actual fact? What? What are the chances?
Okay? Who works at the tampon store is my first as I'm.
Oh, you think it's a well? They wore sanitary napkins, like went up to their chins.
Who sold the sanitary napkin belts? Did you just say that one up to their chin?
Have you seen these things?
Can I tell you a hilarious and very quick anecdote Always my friend Lisa Lanyon, who I went to hydeschool.
You be saying her full name? Are you about to tell him now?
She'd like it?
Okay.
I spent the night at her house one night and I went in to wash my face before we went to bed. I couldn't find anything to hold my hair back. And then I found this this, uh, this white elastic weird headband that had plastic clips on it. I was like, whatever, double it up, threw my hair back, wash my face.
Oh my god.
Came out of the bathroom. Her mother started laughing so hard she could not breathe, and then Lisa was like, Karen, you have a sanitary napkin belt on your head.
The joke is on man, because of what the fuck?
It was like some old thing I think she I think the story was like her mom showed her like, this is what you used to have to use, and then threw it in the bathroom drawer. Oh my god, it was like some old thing she found of, Like, Lisa, can you believe this used to have? Her mom had this great Boston accent. Her mom was hilarious.
That is the most beautiful story I've ever heard.
I own. Her mom lost her mind when she saw me, and she was like, you are the funniest girl where I was like, I was just putting your band in my hair.
How embarrassing. Loo good for you for washing your face before bed. Pro tip as someone who was open adult acne on her face right now, I always washed her face before bed.
Seriously, it's something that's very hard to do. Once you're in your like fourth episode of Rosemary time, you're like, I'm not getting off this couch.
Who cares. That's why within arm's reach at all times you have face wipes everywhere.
Oh girl, tip for the lazy. There'll be more of those coming out. We're very lazy. That was a great segue. That was the best story. Okay, sorry, no, don't sorry. That needs to be the girl who makes those amazing cartoons of us. Oh yeah, comic strips of us.
Yeah, can she can? That lovely girl please make one of this story.
Yeah, and give me a button nose, I demanded.
Everyone keeps commenting when I put photos like drawings on Instagram of how that you have a button knows an amazing cheek bone and every drawing because you do. That's right.
You just bend people to your will. You tell me I'm pretty hair bless you not. McCarthy actually texted me button knows the other morning.
He did shout out to that McCarthy. It was sarcastic. Yeah, but he listens, He listens and loves. Maybe he sarcastically listens.
No, I think he genuinely listens, but with being sarcastic about my button.
Okay, so, Matt McCarthy, of that, we watch wrestling pot do.
You watch wrestling podcast if you like wrestling?
All right, all right, back to the story, back to the murders, back to murdering. All right, so all had been menstruating, crazy, creepy, fucking weird and like seems linked, right, what are the chances?
What are the chances? That's insane.
So after three more murders of a thirteen year old named Don Luis Basin and twenty one year old Alice Elizabeth Callum, with his final victim, which was due to his capture, being an eighteen year old named Karen Sue Beneman, John Norman Collins, a former fraternity dude, was caught.
He's that young, Oh he's just former.
No, he was. He was, Oh god, I don't know his age, but he was a young man.
He was in college yet college age too.
Yeah, and honestly, like between you and me, he was fucking hot.
Oh that's they're the worst, that's the fuck it. It's the Ted Bundy thing.
Well, that's why these girls would get in his car and get on his motorcycle. He was a cute college Dude's not anymore. He's fucking gross but looking an old photo of right, he was.
No one's gonna drap thet guy.
And if a guy rolls up.
And is like, hey, can you help me with my thing? And yeah, and they look creepy. People are going to go no, I can use my very basic senses to be like no, thanks.
Yeah, it's this automatic thing of trusting an attractive face.
That's right. Giving credit to being attractive. Is that means you're a good person, trustworthy person. So what does it mean that people think I'm a terrible person? Does that mean I'm not attractive? Nobody thinks that you're trying to give people rides Always you're rolling up and trying to get people to get into your car to not kill them. Yeah, just to drive him around and talk about your own stuff.
Yeah. It just seems like to event sometimes when I say I went to therapy today, all I mean is I picked someone up and made them drive around with me for an hour.
You made them listen to you for an hour.
Yeah, I'm gonna give him twenty bucks and dropped them off.
Thank you.
Hey. So, he had been interviewed by police previously but had been eliminated as a suspect, and part of the reason he was caught was due to the identification by a clerk of the wig shop which his last victim, named Karen, had visited. Yes, this was an episode of the crown to remember.
The one with the car. But it's like the one thing they knew about him, Like they had no idea who it was for a long time, but the one thing they knew it was like a blue car.
It was a motorcycle. Oh oh, is that the one where the little girl gets kidnapped like from her driveway? Yeah, and they knew the car.
Yeah, and that turns out it was a guy that lived right in the neighborhood. Yeah, okay, I'm combining. Sorry, I'm come by.
You're right though, So Karen the last Karen.
I've watched too many crime shows, all the same in my mind.
Now, So Karen, Hi, Karen the last person who was murdered by him That day, the day of her disappearance, had visited a whig shop and the clerk had remembered that Karen was visiting her store to purchase a hair piece and there was a young man waiting outside for her on a blue motorcycle. Ooh, And Karen told the clerk, I mean, man, this bums me out. Ready, She said to the clerk to observe the man with whom she had accepted a ride a cocky in a motorcycle stating that she had made two foolish errors in her life, purchasing a wig and accepting a ride from a stranger, and then she stated, I've got to be either the bravest or the dumbest girl alive because I've just accepted a ride from this guy. What are the fucking chances? She was then seen climbing onto the motorcycle before riding away with him.
You know that makes me think of It's like when you get a bad feeling in your gut and you make light of it, that's right, and you feel like, oh, if I just say this to one person, it'll make it less a bad feeling.
That's crazy. And exactly you're like, this crazy thing just happened to me. This person assaulted me, and you're like, you should be taking it seriously.
Well, no, I just mean it more in the way of like before anything happened, before anything bad happens. But you do have the thing of this isn't right like what.
I was gonna. I mean, from your own life, are we fighting like what No? I ent from her own life.
Most of the time, if I get a thing, I walk, I don't do this. But I think probably back when I drank, I would do it more right, but there wasn't a lot of information coming in because of like the gallons of whiskey that I had inside.
Yeah, there's definitely jokes I've made that are like like, I have a hot date tonight, and it's like, well, it's just this with this person you don't fucking know. Yeah, and it's and you're really actually you should be afraid.
Yeah, you're nervous, and you're telling people and you're trying not to act quote unquote weird by telling them I'm nervous, So you're just trying to make a joke about it.
But then Vince and I got married, so it was fun. No, But one time I did go on a date with someone. I was going to date with someone, and I gave his phone number to my best friend. This is before self, like most before cell phones, to be like, hey, if I don't show up tomorrow, yeah this here's my and here's his info.
Yeah that's not cool. Well, but also now because a lot of people talk about this to us, which is I don't want to leave my house. I'm so anxious, I'm so nervous. I think everyone's going to kill me or whatever. Which I think is people connecting with us and people reaching out. They have heard us say it, they're going to just say it too, because they're admitting it. But there's also that thing of just it's just a safety precaution. Nobody cares, nobody thinks you're weird. You give that number, and then you just have a little thing in place, because it's I think it's a smart thing to do. It's just taking it's being proactive for yourself. Because, yeah, you're going to go on a date if you've met a person, none of the other other alarm bells are going.
On, right, It doesn't mean you shouldn't. That's a person you shouldn't go on a date with, because it's just being precautious.
But but yeah, but also do that thing that might feel weird, but you can just do it for with a friend. You don't have to do it to every person. You know, then you're being like neurotic. Yea, but you put a little safety sure measure out there.
Hell yeah, yeah, yeah, all right ready except the ride. So that's how he one of one of the main ways he got caught that led to all the other evidence against him, and in August nineteen seventy, John Norman Collins was found guilty of first murder of Karen, his last victim, and he was sentenced to sort of life imprisonment with hard labor and solitary confinement. He never admitted his guilt in either the murder of Karen or any of the other murderers linked to the Michigan murder he is suspected of committing. So they only tried him for that one crime, for the one murder that they had a ton of evidence on and I witnessed evidence, and then he was never going to get out, so they didn't try him for the other murderers, which has to be hard when you're the family of those other victims.
And how many other people were there.
Well, here's okay, So here's the rest of the story. So they, I mean, up until two thousand and two, they figured he had like seven murders in the area. But the case of Jane Mixer, who was considered solved by the fact that John Norman Collins had did it until two thousand and two, when Michigan State detectives noticed that a lot of the details of her murder didn't match up with collins crimes. So they took a look at the case again, and they took three drops of sweat that had been on Jane Mixer's pantyhose and a single drop of blood that had been on her hand to be tested for DNA. All Right, the DNA didn't match John Norman Collins, the co ed killer, but it did match sixty two year old Gary Liederman, who was a former nurse from southwestern Michigan who was a drug salesman in Michigan at the time of the murders in the area. It was thought that Liederman was the person who had responded to Jane's note on the college ride share bulletin asking for a lift home, because somehow a dorm room book, a phone book in the dorm rooms read the words quote Mixer and Muskegon, which is where she was going, and were linked to his handwriting. But that was in two thousand and two that they found those or that they linked those all right, anyways.
So that they had the evidence, but they just hadn't kind of put anything orgether sitting somewhere.
Yes, And then when his house was searched where he had lived with his wife of twenty seven years, two polaroid pictures of a sixteen year old foreign exchange student who had lived with him and his wife were found. The girl was drugged, unconscious, lying on his bed with her clothing pulled back to show her junk and it was similar to the post that Jane had been left in the semi terry whoa So the sweatstains linked to Leederman, not the serial killer, but the drop of blood found on her hand was linked through DNA to someone else. It was a Detroit man who was at the time of the DNA match serving life in prison for murder. The problem was I'm ready for this that John Ruellis, whose DNA matched the blood drop, was four years old at the time of the murder. Right, So the defense argued that the state police lab had contaminated the samples when both men's DNA were tested at the lab within a day of each other. Leaderman's had been tested separately. He had a recent arrest for forging prescription meds from where he worked as a nurse, and Ruella's was for murder. But the cross contamination made the DNA match to Liederman. It should have made it in the in the court case, just no one void because if you find someone else's DNA on this person, that there's no way that person could have come into the crime, then the rest of the DNA should be fucking thrown out. Of thrown out? Is evidence? Right?
What is that? Are you saying that's the law or not? Just what I like logic?
That's logic to me. We can get to that. It didn't get thrown out. The prosecution argued that rue Wells, who was four years old at the time and a chronic nose bleeder, must have been at the crime scene and somehow got a drop of blood on your face. That you're making is correct? Is what I feel too.
Yeah, a four year old with the bloody rose wandered over to a dead body.
They didn't argue that there was a mistake in the crime lag, but crime lab. But the other DNA was legitimate. And here's why they said that there was a four year old boy in the cemetery and had somehow gotten his blood on her.
That in and of itself is the creepiest thing we've talked about this whole episode. The idea of a four year old with a bloody nose walking through a cemetery and stumbling upon a dead body.
And it's absurd, but he was convicted. Lederman was convicted of the murder of Jane Mixer based on the DNA evidence and these other little basic things. According to the book Inside the Cell, The Dark Side of Forensic DNA by Aaron Murphy, which we all need to read immediately, I'm fucking buying, the lab analyst admitted that they routinely processed samples from different cases at the same time, as well as one of the negative controls processed in this case at the time that the pante hoose samples that was processed had become contaminated, like not even connected to all of this, but the analyst had tried to hide that fact. Oh. In addition, Ruyl's DNA wasn't even processed at that lab. It was sent out for testing in a different location, but they still were able to cross contaminate at that at the lab where it had originated. Like that's a fucked up shit. Yeah, right, So, after minutes of deliberation, Leaderman was convicted of first degree murder and got life in prison.
Minutes of deliberation, HM, jesus.
I know, all right, so I kind of wrote these things of like here's what's hard to argue with a Leaderman being guilty is that all of the crimes that were talking, including mixers, had to do with ride somewhere, which was the mo of.
The co ed killer.
They all had something tied around their necks, some of which didn't belong to the murder victim, including Jane's you're menstruating, which is fucking insane, bizarre. They were all left in locations where they would eventually be found kind of on purpose. They all were connected to the university, which I mean, if you live in ann Arborth, it's kind of hard not to.
Yeah, it's a university town.
A lot of them were strangled and the fifth known victim was shot in the head as well, so it wasn't totally against his emo. But at the same time, the majority of those murders he was never tried and convicted for, so it's not like we can say that he did them definitively, right. But according to Leederman's room main in college, Leaderman owned and liked to shoot at twenty two caliber and he was obsessed with the serial murders. Ooh, so it's kind of it's kind of this if any it reminds me of making a murderer where it's like, I don't know if he's guilty or innocent, but he shouldn't have been prosecuted based on these pieces of evidence.
Yeah, that's right, And that's the really the only thing you have at the end of the day, because everything else is bias and circumstance and kind of judgment.
Yeah. And it was two thousand and two at the height of like CSI being a big thing and everyone thinking DNA was like the end all be all and not realizing that so much of it, like I wouldness, testimony was flawed because it was because human error.
And people not admitting like covering up Yeah, and AARs like good god. Yeah, So that's that's crazy.
Yeah.
So you believe that leadermen should not be in jail. You think that that last death, that the woman that was found in the graveyard is a co ed killer. I don't think.
I can't say that definitively. I think there should have been more evidence to try. I feel like now in twenty sixteen, we should go back and look and find whatever other evidence we can find and DNA tests those other victims that we are attributing to the co ed killer kind of cross reference them with Jane Mixer and see what really happened. But I don't, I'm not. I can't say definitively that he should be let out. I just think in the same way Steven Avery was like, should get a new trial, and you know, Cereal a Non said, I know it should be. You know, you can't. You can't convict someone, especially when they have shoddy defense based on these basic things that you know, in the future we're going to laugh at as.
Like, I know, and the future could be like four years right.
Now, right, I mean, two thousand and two seems not that long ago, right, It's so huge, it's a huge difference when it comes to like scientific evidence and all this.
Now, where do you think, uh, where do you think that bloody four year old plays into this?
I mean, that's the most fun. That's the That's the only reason I'm talking about this murder is because that is so fucking insane and so clearly human error of cross contamination in that lab. I can't believe the trial went forward after that was found out.
That lawyer, when he found that out, that that's what that blood spatter was, must have been so stoked. The defense who I don't know whoever found that. It was just like this is I think the defense big reveal of like is this blood, well it was four years old.
The defense should have been stoked that was that they found a four year old's blood who had been whose DNA had been tested in the same lab a day before. But for some reason he didn't pursue that enough in the trial to convince the jury that that was fucking insane.
Because at the time, like you're saying, it's like DNA is a lock.
Yeah, I mean those prosecutors were good, I'm sure.
Well, and also you get somebody it's like it's you know, people want a thing like that. People want that story finished new period. They want they want it closed up, and they want somebody to pay. Yeah, and that's a hard position. You know. We've felt that same way. Yeah, where it's just like erase what's happening, or like somebody gets justice.
Yeah. Justice is such a fraudulent term.
All right, Wow, horrifying in every way. Are there updates on this case?
There aren't many. Yeah, that story is just like piling on horrifying things. It's just like too many, yes, too many. But during my story Karen, you did share a funny anecdote about misusing a sanitary napkin belt, because like, I think we were a lot jokier during the stories back then than we are now.
Well, yeah, we didn't. We just thought we were talking to each other. So when we would go off on tangents, which we always do, it would just be like, oh, wait, this makes me think of this saying okay, now back, yes, this horrible thing, and it wasn't. Really it didn't read to us as kind of stark and harsh and insensitive as it does now right.
I'd also like to point out, as I mentioned earlier, that full glass of whiskey, that I don't do that anymore. Maybe a can of wine, but a full glass of whiskey does not a good podcast make. So yeah, but it's great, but good thing you brought it up, because that iconic story was turned into a work of art by Nick Terry of course, for MFM Animated. It's called hair Tie, and you can see it in all its glory on the exactly right YouTube channel. I mean, if you're having a bad day and you just go to the exactly right YouTube channel and binge watch MFM Animated it's a joy.
Nick Terry has done something that like, as a self loathing gen xer who just wants to like turn away most of the time, Nick Terry makes me enjoy what we have made. Yeah, in a way that's like it just means the world. It's like being able to see it in the way of like, oh I get this.
Yeah, Like it points out the special moments that we miss because we're fucking halfway talking about something else. By the time it's over, you know.
We're all sanitary napkin belt, which is like most people don't know what that is. Also, this is the episode where I say sweet Baby Angle and for good or bad, we do have bumper stickers that say that on the exactly right store if you want to go buy one.
That's right. I love how sweete Angle has become just as important as Sweet Baby Angel, the original one. And it was because someone wrote in right and they accidentally wrote angle probably I think that's what it was.
And then there was that I did have the story from my hometown of somebody wrote when I was in high school, somebody wrote on a wall in black spray paint, Angle of Death, and we would my phone would be like Oh my god, it's the Angle of Death, and.
My god, I wanted to open a vantage clothing shop called Hail Satin and not been. Yes, I'm still trademarking that.
Like Cushit's that's very like early Agent Provocateur. Look, we're still doing it. We can't help it. It is what we're like, Oh, conversationally, we just can't stop doing it.
Stop it, let's get back into it. The story that I'm about to introduce that you do is so incredible. I think it's one of your best. It has an incredible update at the very end. And I think you get into this groove right now in this time period when you're doing like Mary Vincent and the story and some other really powerful ones that are just like legendary in the over four hundred episodes we've done.
Also, there's thank you very much. That's a lovely compliment. But I am ripping off the television show I Survived directly. I credit them at the time, but especially in retrospect, I was just trying to get this insane podcast homework done and so I could not. All of this is the producing minds of the people who made I Survived. And how brilliantly they made that show so I could basically tell the Jennifer Mory story because the first time I saw it, it affected me so deeply that I never forgot it. So like that day, I'm positive I was coming from one of my writing jobs and I was like, oh, I know, just rewatch that and write down the facts and then just retell it the way Jennifer Moury herself told this story, which is for the good or bad. That is how I got through the year that I worked on this podcast and had a job. If not too, but I do think it was this sincere because of my true, genuine like respect and admiration for that show and the way they tell victim stories. It was like, well, great, let's tell victim stories and let's get those.
Yeah, now I know the correct story, not the fucking yes, you know, over dramatize bullshit.
The first hand experience of a survivor is one of the most important things we could hear.
Okay, so let's listen to Karen's story about Jennifer.
So this week I'm going back to my tried and true, which is I'm going to retell you one of my favorite episodes if I survived.
Well, I never I've never seen this show, so please do.
And this one I love because this plays on if you, uh if this, if you have some home alone, as a young lady fears this is going to cause some problems. So spoiler alert, trigger alert, scary scary alert. Oh no, it has all these pieces. And the first time I saw this on I survived, I was like gripping the couch. I was so freaked out. So essentially it goes a little something like this. It's April fifteenth, nineteen ninety five, and a young, bright, beautiful, successful, twenty five year old young lawyer named Jennifer morey Is goes out and has a drink with her friends after work one night.
Big mistake, her fault. She goes.
She's at the local alehouse, all her friends are there. She doesn't want to go. At first, they convince her to stay. Then she ends up having a great time and she stays until midnight. Then her friend drives her home and she lives in an apartment complex called Bayou Park in Houston. And the reason that she picked this apartment complex to move into was because it was all about security and it had not just like you know, the the apartment security guards. They actually hired Pinkerton security guards to work at this place.
So we go back in time. That's still a thing.
No, they've been around, that's how long been around. It's still like a major company. So and that name means a lot to people in security. So that's why she picked that apartment building to live in. So she goes home at midnight, goes in. Let's say she washed her face, which is what you should do before you go to bed ladies. So she goes in, gets ready for bed, goes to bed, turns out all the lights, wakes up at four am. There's someone on top of her. No, yeah, yeah, I get ready for this. It's going to be this the whole time. So there's someone straddling her, and she can feel something on her neck and she realizes someone no, is not. She realizes someone's broken into an apartment and they're attempting to rape HER's She can't figure out if she's dreaming at first. It's that horrible in between feelings, and she finally when she becomes fully awake and she realizes someone straddling her, they've got a knife to her throat and they're going to raper, she just starts fighting. Good for her, so she does everything she can. She fights this guy. She grabs the knife. It's all the stuff, all the crazy shit, and she's fighting him so hard that he cuts her from the cheekbone to the middle of her neck and he slices her neck over. So she keeps on fighting, but suddenly it gets very slippery and there's blood everywhere, and finally she starts losing blood and like the fight goes out of her. He takes her by the hair and he pulls her across out of the bed, across the room, throws her into the bathroom and says, you stay in here, and you do not move, and he slams the door, and so she throws her back up against the door. In the bathroom, she grabs a washcloth and she puts it up against her wound. Pressure constant pressure when you have a wound like that. She throws her feet up against the wall and she's like jammed herself there so he can't come back in. And then she sits there and waits and listens, and she hears him zip his pants up, and then she waits, and then she hears the door close, and then she waits a little bit longer to make sure, and then she goes to open the door, and she can't open the door because there's so much blood on her hands that she cannot get a grip on the door, and she's pulling at it and pulling at it, and then she actually says in the story she actually started laughing because she was like, Oh, this is how I'm going to die. I get stuck. I get stuck in the bathroom, and that's how I can't get help. So finally she gets out. She yanks to her open, she gets out. She fumbles to throw on the hallway light. The lights are dead. Oh my god, she crawls. She gets to the phone. Phone's dead.
No no, no.
No, yeah. So then she finds her cell phone. It's live. She brings it back into the bathroom and she calls time on one. So that night a man named Richard Everett was working, was the dispatcher. He had just gotten onto his shift.
Got Heroes.
So this is four am when this started. So uh so, I guess he was starting a very early morning shift them maybe middle of nine, I don't know. So she explains to him what's happened, and he just starts telling her, You're going to be fine. Just try to stay calm, don't talk that much. We just keep it. The cops and the ambulance are on their way right now. They're going to be there really soon. You know, we could listen to this right now and we're going to be fine. There's no fucking way I would ever listen to it.
I don't know.
And she's saying, I'm bleeding so much, you please make sure they hurry or whatever, and he's like, they're come there as fast as they can. Just hold that washcloth. You're gonna be okay. And so after like ten minutes, he's just talking her down and she's actually starting to calm down and she's feeling okay. There's a knock at the door. No, no, no, So she's like, there's someone's knocking at the door, and he's like.
Who is it?
And she goes, well, hold, So she yells from the bathroom who is it? And he says, this is Brian Gibson, the security guard that's on duty tonight. No, I just got attacked by a guy who jumped off your balcony. Are you okay? Is that true?
Is it true?
And she doesn't know. So she's like, he goes, are you okay you should let me in? And she goes, I'm okay, I'm talking to nine one one right now. And the dispatcher on nine to one one goes, wait, what's going on and she goes, no, it's okay.
It's the security guard. He wants me to let him in.
And Richard Everett, for no reason and except for gut goes, do not let him in the door. And she goes, no, it's Pinkerton's security. That's the whole apartment, like, that's the whole setup here. And he goes, he said, here's the thing. We haven't notified security at your apartment complex yet, so unless they have a police scanner.
Yeah, but if he's someone jumping off, that doesn't matter. What is he gonna do?
We don't know about that story. But he goes, we just don't know what that is, so just don't let him in. So she's like, I'm not gonna let you in right now. Like guy's like, it's I swear, it's okay. Here's my badge, you know. Like he's like, I just need to help you. Are you you know, are you bleeding? There's blood out here? You know, I want to make sure that you're okay. And she's like, I'm fine. The cops are on their way, and he's like, I know I can hear the alarms, you know, I know CPR, I can help you whatever, and and and he goes, I'm sorry, I just the dispatcher to Jennifer, I just don't think you should let him in. And she's like, okay, I'm really scared though, I'm starting to lose blood, I'm getting light headed.
I gotta have a cooochie twins.
This is so exciting, Like what if I what if I pass out and I'm and the door is locked, they kick it down, and so he's just he just keeps talking to her, and he's like, just listen to the sound on my voice. I'm watching the cops drive up the street. They are three minutes away, so you just have to hang on for three more minutes. And meanwhile, the guy's like, Jennifer, can you talk to me? Are you okay? You know, can you just let me in? And so he.
Wouldn't if he was supposed to be there, he wouldn't be so insistent. He wouldn't, you know what I mean, Like.
Well, but it's a woman who's bleeding and there's blood. It's like, clearly there's a scenario. Now, if you were a security guard and you knew a woman had just gotten attacked with a knight.
You would kick the door down.
And she's in there bleeding out and freaking out and not letting anybody help her, you might kick the door down. Yeah, So but Richard's like, I don't know, so just don't do it. Well, then the knocking starts getting harder. He's like, you need to let me in here, and she then she's starting freak out because now she doesn't trust anybody. She has no idea what to do. But then suddenly she hears the sirens in the background, so she knows the police. And he's like, do you hear the sirens? Are they are coming up the driveway road. She's like yes, and he goes so the ambulance is there, like, you are going to live, You're fine, so just keep that door shit and you will be fine. Well the knocking stop, Oh my god, got go. It's totally silent outside of the door. So now she's more scared because she's like, what the fuck is it? When the cops pull up to this apartment complex. This security guard, Brian Gibson, meets them out there and he is a mess. He is bleeding from his right hand, there's blood on his face, there's blood on his uniform. Sure, and he tells the police his story that he walked up, he saw he jumped down from her second story balcony and attacked him. They got into this fight, and the guy ran off into the woods into a field over on the side, and he didn't see where he went. And then he went up to check on the lady, who will not let him in. Who's freaking out right. So the cops are like, all right, stay here, sounds good. They start to check everything out. There's no trail into the grasses, Dewey, no at six am, no nothing, So they're like, get that guy and put him in a room over there. They go up to Jennifer's apartment that the ambulance has already taken her away. She's going to live because the show was called I Survived. She told the story herself with a big old scar in her neck. She's gorgeous. This woman is like gorgeous and a lawyer, so she's she's killing it. The cops go into her apartment. There's blood everywhere. There's also a Pinkerton hat and there's men's underwear on the ground and a knife. So they pick up all this shit and they go back down to Brian Gibson, the security the Pinkerton's security guard that worked there.
How is that in there?
And they say can you take your shirt off? Please? And he's like, no, I no, it's fine. I was actually the one that was attacked there, Like, take your shirt off. There's claw marks all over his body. Oh my god, he's not wearing underwear. Nope, he has shaved his pubic care no pubic.
Care meaning no hair left behind.
That's exactly right. And he didn't have a hat because he was the person the security guard at the apartment building where she lived.
Did he have keys to everywhere? Was?
Well, he didn't have. Oh yeah, he must have had keys to get into her house, master or some key or he could have like I mean, he had total access. Oh sorry, shit, that was the most upsetting thing that I read. No, no, no, but I just forgot it. It's he was calling her by her first name when he was talking to her, oh before it when he was first on her, which I think is one of other the other reasons she got so freaked out and fought so hard is because it's like, what the fuck is going on?
Just how much I'm sleeping tonight? Zero?
But she survived. It turns out, Yeah, so they arrest him. He gets twenty years for attempted murder.
Yeah, what the fuck?
And he's on parole.
Now what No, I'm going to fucking in Texas. Jump off my second story of balcony.
He's on parl in Texas.
When is attempted murder going to be treated like what it was intended to be?
Like murder?
You mean murder? Right? That is so troubling to me that it's like, well, you didn't get away with it. You're not because she live, right, simply because she fought so you don't. You don't deserve the punishment of what you were intending to fucking do. Well.
And also, the cops are positive that if she had let him in when he came back the next time to quote unquote check on her, he would have killed her and picked up all his shit.
He was totally totally.
There's that is absolutely there. The cops are positive that's the reason.
So did what's the name of the guy, the uh, the one dispatcher did he hear? Richard Everett, all of the ribbons and whatnot.
They're still friends to this day. He went to her wedding. Yeah, my god, Yeah, they're they're close friends.
I'm gonna cry.
Yeah. And she talks about him when in her episode of I Survived, She the way she talks about him is like one of the sweetest things you've ever seen.
I can't deal with because.
He and the worst moment of her life like saved her life essentially in that way that like beautiful things happened too hideous fucking things. And she went on to become the Trauma supports the director of Trauma Support Services of North Texas. Gorgeous and she I read the things she went around. I mean it was twenty fifteen, I think when the article what the article is from twenty thirteen or twenty fifteen. She was going around speaking at schools and telling people horrible things happen in life, but it's all about what you're prepared, how you're prepared for them. And basically she gave this talk that was kind of like the stuff that we talk about, which is like running scenarios and thinking about these things can actually help you not panic and not completely lose it when something really upsetting happens because you've kind of run a scenario. You know where your cell phone is, you have things plant, you know where flashlights are, like, you have things planned out a little bit, so you at least can put a plan together.
It's a good way to like to make sense of your anxiety and that like, well, maybe someday this anxiety or this thing that me thinking about these awful things happening is going to make me better in a situation where I need to not fucking panic because I've already run the scenario through my head.
Or Yeah, and also it can take away from that, like you don't need to beat yourself up for thinking about it. Yeah, you don't need to tell yourself you're crazy for thinking about it. You're smart for thinking about it, and you're empowered for thinking about it, and you're taking action. It's not you know, you don't have to live in it and shut the door. You go out in your life knowing that you are armed with information.
And having an awareness and that security that you you know you've done as much as you can with your anxiety to prepare yourself, but you're not letting it take over your life. Yeah, and get in the way, like you're you're not going to never leave the house again because you're aware of all these fucking terrible things to happen.
Well. And also it's like, this isn't a story about how all security guards are evil. So a lot of them do just as good shit as Richard Everett the nine one one dispatch. You did a lot of them. Have you know good that good intentions of I took this job because I want to help people for this exact reason, but you take it on a case by case basis. Yeah, So if you meet a person you get the weird feeling in your gut, absolutely trust yourself and just get out of there. You know what I mean, you don't. That's that's what all that's about.
It's like to the individual, arm yourself with knowledge, but don't let that overwhelm you.
Yeah, and also take a break every once in a while. And like the other day is some girls like I had a She tweeted, I had a hard day at work. I'm gonna drink wine and watch I survived, And I wrote back, drink wine and watch Bob's Burger. If you already had a bad day, relax.
That's a great suggestion.
Take a break. Watch fucking Rosemary and Time, where it's a lot of nice flowers, a lot of great accents. It's chill, you don't live in it, like like visit and then go somewhere else for a while.
That's a beautiful take it. Have a glass of wine and watch Bob's Burgers as like Bob's.
Burgers is the Oh my god, it makes me so happy.
It is the most a perfect show.
It's positive, it's a family that loves each other. That's funny that that isn't perfect at all, and it's hilarious relatable.
My six year old nephew is obsessed with Bob's Burgers.
The songs they write for that show are the best comedy songs there are. Yeah, it is my favorite.
How they come up with those every episode goes my mind.
Whoever their musical I should look it up right now, whoever their musical director is fucking straight up one thousand props to Yeah.
Nuts And that's Karen. That was You tell those stories so well.
It's almost like I'm not cheating, Yeah when I am?
Are you I wouldn't know.
This is a podcast where some of the time I just retell TV shows.
But you say that, but you tell them, you don't read them.
That's true because I've seen that one. Jennifer's I've watched probably five times because she tells it. It's it's so compelling. She's so real, she's upset at certain points, she's very angry and like very self righteous at certain points. It's a fucking awesome thing to behold. So she's a great survivor.
You tell it to me like we're at a party together, Whereas like if I did mine, it would be like so many missing elements of it because I can't remember half the shit that like I have to kind of like go off my own notes, which I don't copy and paste, but you know I lead with them, right, Yeah.
But I mean I'm just copying her story. Wow, I mean, that's that's stories though, you just yeah, that's why I learned to tell stories, is just both of my parents, that's all they did. Yeah, It's like we're sitting by the fire, two cavemen, two cavemen, sitting by fire, tales as old as time.
The only thing we have to eat, our cookies.
Oh and did someone come running from I didn't say it right.
Oh, he's just he's a job of the hut right now.
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Tell us so, as George was talking about, of course you listeners really reacted to this story and really loved it. And then basically Jennifer Morey herself heard about this episode and this is a story she told us backstage in Dallas. I believe Dallas. Yeah, when she came on to our live we invited her to the live show, but we first got an email from her, and that was one of the scariest moments. Where truly it was fully like, now I understand what we're doing and the reality of what we're doing, and I think that this is like truly the beginning of a shift because all of the kind of conjecture, far away feeling that we had about the topics we were talking about and the people we were talking about, it was like the wave after wave of lessons over and over of like real people, real experiences, real relatives, real survivors, all those things. So that email from Jennifer moriy I was like, Oh, she's going to be I set that down. She said basically, my friend said that she had heard this podcast and they told my story, and I was really nervous. I sat down and listened and I loved it and I was so moved and thank you so much, and it was her telling us thank you, and it was I was so grateful. I was like, it was amazing. So then when we went to we knew that's where she lived, so we're like, if you in any way want to be there, we would love to. If you want to just watch it, if you want to come on stage, And so she came backstage. She walked on stage as our surprise guest, at the end of that show in Dallas and the audience went insane, and then she You can listen to episode ninety five. You can listen to all of it how it went. Episode ninety five is a live show called Jesus with a G and Jennifer Moore gives people a pep talk at the end. That's one of the most beautiful things that I'm so grateful of all the things I'm grateful for because of this podcast, because of us doing this and the way it's gone good or bad. The fact that that moment happened, I think is like, those are the thing to me. Then it was like, Oh, we just need to start doing stuff like this and this will be right, this will be the legacy.
We did her right, and that felt so good. I remember the whole show. I was so nervous, Yeah, the entire time to Inviyrn And she's a lawyer too, which is just like you just are always nervous around lawyers because we're gonna say the wrong fucking thing.
That's right, And also like, yeah, she had the right to come on and say whatever if she wanted to come on and say, hey, you guys are really insensitive and I think you should do a different thing. We would have loved to have received that as well. Definitely, we just kind of wanted the fact that she even wanted to be there, we really loved. But then how she was was just very much what I have seen a lot of times, at least of the survivors on I Survived, the people who are like truly stronger than they were before. And it's just like, she is such an inspirational person, and it kind she got to kind of represent herself fully and freely. It was great.
Yeah, yeah, all right, that was powerful. So should we wrap this up?
Yeah, let's wrap it up. When I saw I remember this title, I love George's cat Mimi a lot. She's really she's an iconoclast and she's a rebel, and she has the tiniest cat mouth that's ever existed in the cat species.
Angry heart, tiny mouth. Yeah, she's gonna live forever out of spite. Yeah, to cookie and mouth, like just to spite them.
Yeah, she's mad. But so we named this podcast what About Mimi?
Yeah, but if we were naming it today, which we always name it after something that happened in the episode, here's a couple options Yeah.
Let's see, I apologize for calling the British the British crime series Rosemary and Time, which is from probably nineteen ninety eight. I would guess I called that a Grandma crime show, and so in corrections corner, I said I loved seeing people take the time to drink tea and eat cookies and British procedurals. So the suggestion is drink tea and eat cookies.
Yeah, that's a solid one. And then our whole gift conversation and not doing it that would be called friendship rules. Yeah, and I think friendship rules are an important part of adult friendships.
So let's do it very true. How about we respect some boundaries? Yeah, come on, get involved.
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