MFM Minisode 416

Summary

My Favorite Murder Minisode 416 Summary

Released on December 30, 2024, "My Favorite Murder" Minisode 416 continues to blend true crime storytelling with comedic banter, hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. This episode features a series of listener-submitted stories that range from childhood mishaps to encounters with internet predators, all delivered with the duo's signature humor and insightful commentary.

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1. Marshmallow Explosion [01:23 – 05:28]

Summary: The episode opens with Karen sharing a harrowing childhood memory related to a significant industrial accident in Las Vegas from May 1988. A residential chemical plant, the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada, experienced multiple explosions due to a combination of a natural gas leak, spark welding, and volatile rocket fuel storage. The disaster resulted in two fatalities and $100 million in damages (1988 dollars), equivalent to approximately $222 million today.

Karen recounts witnessing the aftermath as a five-year-old, where a nearby marshmallow factory also exploded, spewing marshmallow fluff across the area. Her mother, Nancy, described looking unsafely close to the disaster site, highlighting the surreal blend of sweet smells and radiation dangers.

Notable Quotes:

• Karen Kilgariff [02:28]: "Do you have a story of some crazy shit that happened in your hometown?"
• Karen Kilgariff [04:25]: "Smelled so good. But Nancy's pulling her child right up to, right up to the curb being like, let's get in here and see marshmallows and radiation."
• Chloe [05:25]: "Stay Sexy. And don't store volatile chemicals next to marshmallow factories."

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2. Internet Predator Story [05:28 – 10:19]

Summary: Chloe shares her unsettling experience at age 11 with an internet predator via Yahoo Messenger. Under her father's supervision, Chloe adhered to strict rules for online safety, including limited screen time and monitored friend lists. One day, while her father was away, a stranger contacted her with the intent of grooming her. Chloe wisely disengaged and informed her father, who took decisive action by impersonating his daughter to bait the predator. This led to the predator requesting a meet-up, which resulted in his arrest when police intervened at a pre-arranged Taco Bell location.

Despite his arrest, due to the lack of laws at the time, the predator was released without legal repercussions. Chloe expresses immense gratitude towards her father for his protective measures, underscoring the importance of parental involvement in children's online activities.

Notable Quotes:

• Chloe [07:14]: "I was like, I was drunk in a gutter at this point of my life."
• Karen Kilgariff [09:50]: "I have a stomachache right now."
• Chloe [09:50]: "Stay sexy and don't talk to creeps on the Internet."

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3. Childhood Hobbies - Balloon Animals [12:10 – 16:17]

Summary: Karen reminisces about her childhood obsession with making balloon animals, a hobby she developed at nine years old. Despite limited resources—skinny balloons, a hand pump, and an instruction book—Karen dedicated her summer to crafting balloon animals, earning herself the moniker of a child clown. Her intensive focus led to the disappearance of her hand pump, likely hidden by her mother after Karen had already created around 40 balloon animals that summer.

Chloe echoes these childhood experiences, sharing her own ventures into collecting Snoopy memorabilia and selling stickers, highlighting the entrepreneurial spirit fostered during youth.

Notable Quotes:

• Karen Kilgariff [14:54]: "Imagine trying to enjoy your summer evening and all you hear in the distance is the high pitched sound of balloons squeaking together for hours on end with the occasional pop."
• Chloe [16:11]: "Stay sexy and don't be a greedy ass. Or an adult who buys contraband from kids."

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4. Third Man Syndrome - Einstein's Guidance [17:30 – 25:22]

Summary: Emily recounts a near-tragic experience during her high school years involving Third Man Syndrome—a phenomenon where individuals sensing an unseen presence during critical moments. After a vivid dream involving Albert Einstein advising her to "put it in neutral," Emily found herself in a real-life emergency when her sister suffered a grand mal seizure while driving. Recalling her dream, Emily calmly instructed the driver to shift the car into neutral, effectively preventing a potential accident.

This poignant story emphasizes the mysterious ways in which subconscious insights can surface during moments of crisis. Emily credits her dream as a life-saving intervention, highlighting the blend of fate and intuition.

Notable Quotes:

• Karen Kilgariff [23:15]: "After a long night of underage drinking, I passed out in her bed and had the most vivid dream of my life."
• Karen Kilgariff [24:17]: "He frantically grabbed the gear shift and put the car in neutral, allowing us to gradually slow down and drift to the shoulder before pulling the emergency brake."

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5. Elementary School Beanie Baby Ring [25:22 – 28:07]

Summary: Brooke shares a mischievous tale from the 1990s Beanie Baby craze. At age ten, driven by a desire to fund her expanding collection, Brooke orchestrated a scheme to sell her younger brother's prized Beanie Babies to teachers at school. By creating an inventory and presenting it to educators, she began stealing and selling the toys. The ruse fell apart when her brother noticed the disappearance of his favorite hound dog Beanie Baby, "Bones." Upon confrontation, Brooke was grounded and had to purchase expensive replacements, teaching her a valuable lesson in honesty and the pitfalls of entrepreneurial missteps.

Notable Quotes:

• Chloe [26:47]: "Stay sexy and don't piss off tired dads, Allie."
• Karen Kilgariff [27:33]: "Stay sexy and skip the bones, Emily."

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Closing Remarks [28:07 – End]

Karen and Georgia wrap up Minisode 416 by expressing gratitude to their listeners for sharing personal stories and encouraging more submissions. They reinforce their commitment to fostering a community where listeners feel comfortable sharing their unique and sometimes bizarre experiences.

Notable Quotes:

• Karen Kilgariff [28:15]: "Thank you for all your wonderful and delightful stories. And stay sexy and don't get murdered."
• Chloe [28:26]: "This has been an exactly right production."

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Conclusion

Minisode 416 of "My Favorite Murder" showcases the hosts' ability to seamlessly blend gripping narratives with humor and personal anecdotes. Through listener stories ranging from industrial disasters to internet safety and childhood shenanigans, Karen and Georgia provide a compelling and entertaining episode that resonates with a diverse audience. Not only do they highlight true crime elements, but they also delve into personal growth, safety, and the quirks of childhood, making the content both engaging and relatable for listeners new and old.

Transcript

[Karen Kilgariff]

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[Chloe]

Hello, hello and welcome to my favorite murder.

[Karen Kilgariff]

This is a minisode.

[Chloe]

It's your fucking stories and we fucking love them.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Look, you're making us do this. We have no choice.

[Chloe]

You will not stop filling up our.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Email box with these stories that we love.

[Chloe]

That we love.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Okay? The subject line of this one is marshmallow explosion.

[Chloe]

Great.

[Karen Kilgariff]

And then it just says sort of hometown and it starts salutations, et cetera. So this is being written by a spider named Charlotte. Ready? Just listen to the recentish episode about the Sun Valley mall disaster. And it jogged a memory of what I guess can be called my non murder hometown. Also from the 80s. I kind of love that idea.

[Chloe]

Yeah.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Do you have a story of some crazy shit that happened in your hometown?

[Chloe]

Yeah, it's like the balloon. What's it called? Release. Like what is a fucked up thing that they're like, this will be a great idea.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Yeah.

[Chloe]

In our small town or whatever.

[Karen Kilgariff]

You don't have to have even witnessed it. You can just say, this is the crazy thing that happened in my hometown.

[Chloe]

Yes, that's exactly what we want.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Do you have the world's biggest ball of twine? You better write in. Okay. In May 1988 in Las Vegas, a residentially based chemical plant called the Pacific engineering and production company of Nevada exploded multiple times, killing two people and causing $100 million in damages. In today's money. You want to guess it?

[Chloe]

100 million in the in when?

[Karen Kilgariff]

1988.

[Chloe]

Oh my God.

[Karen Kilgariff]

That's gotta be 800 million 222 million.

[Chloe]

That's a lot.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Still, it's so much.

[Chloe]

I just, I went for it.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Okay. There are disagreements over exactly how the fire that led to the explosion started as well as what exactly caused the explosions themselves. But it seems to have been some combination of a natural gas leak, spark welding and a highly volatile rocket fuel component stored at the site. Mmm, let's get that rocket fuel separate in an over that separate area desert. The explosions also triggered an explosion at the next door marshmallow factory which given I was 5 years old when this took place, is pretty much the only thing I remember. Yeah, I texted my mom Nancy about the disaster and since she didn't have a squishy child's brain when we lived In Vegas in 85, she had a bit more to say. The rocket factory was in Henderson in a neighborhood no one knew it was there until it exploded.

[Chloe]

You gotta tell people, you gotta let em know who their neighbor is.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Just this real low key. Like it said David's bridals on the outside, but inside the mattress firm. That's unfair. And then it says right next to it was a marshmallow factory. We went up and looked at it the day after and there were puffs of marshmallow all over the cacti and men in white su looking for radiation.

[Chloe]

But it smelled so good.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Smelled so good. But Nancy's pulling her child right up to, right up to the curb being like, let's get in here and see marshmallows and radiation.

[Chloe]

Smell the radiation.

[Karen Kilgariff]

When it happened, you were with your father at the post office and the two of you felt the explosion and the post office window waved back and forth.

[Chloe]

Whoa.

[Karen Kilgariff]

I love this. Your mom reminding you of what happened. I was teaching. The force of the explosion knocked plants off the top of the lockers in my classroom and it felt like I had been kicked in the back. I was the one who was responsible for going outside and making sure all the kids got in because we knew something was coming our way. But we didn't know how bad it was going to be. As teachers, we were making preparations for keeping the children overnight until we got word that it wasn't anything lethal and the buses would be coming for the children. Not only nothing lethal, what's coming is the children's greatest dream.

[Chloe]

Exploding marshmallow.

[Karen Kilgariff]

A ten foot wave of marshmallow fluff.

[Chloe]

So yeah, it's got a little radiation, but don't worry about it.

[Karen Kilgariff]

But just a little. It's kind of just a bit of spice.

[Chloe]

Yeah, Seasoning.

[Karen Kilgariff]

So yeah, stay Sexy. And don't store volatile chemicals next to marshmallow factories. Jen.

[Chloe]

Yeah. If you're gonna keep that a secret from the town, then you have to double pinky swear that you won't explode the fucking place.

[Karen Kilgariff]

It can't be in a neighborhood.

[Chloe]

No. Secretly, it can't.

[Karen Kilgariff]

And then you're like, we had rocket fuel welding sparks, and we had 5 year olds lighting matches. That was one room, right? And then over here, it's like, please.

[Chloe]

Well, no one said we couldn't do it because we didn't tell anyone that we were doing it.

[Karen Kilgariff]

We're innovators.

[Chloe]

It's kind of on you guys.

[Karen Kilgariff]

We're disruptors. Rocket fuel disruptors.

[Chloe]

Okay. This one's called an Internet Predator story. Hey, hey, hey. My name is Chloe, and, boy, do I have a story for you. When I was about 11 years old, AOL messenger and Yahoo. Messenger were very popular. Mm. My dad very graciously, and soon after this story happened, probably regrettably, allowed me to use Yahoo. Messenger to talk to my friends. There were rules, however, to make sure that I was safe. Thank God, and she was 11. Weekly, my dad would review my friends list to make sure that he knew everyone. And he also limited my time to about an hour a day most days. If I got a new message from someone, I showed my dad and got approval. But on one fall day, my dad had run out for something and left me alone briefly on Messenger, a message of hi popped up from someone I didn't know, and I still remember his screen name, which was my zip code in Wisconsin at the time. So it was a name and then a zip code. Due to this, I asked the person, hi, do I know you? To which he replied, no, I just found your profile on Yahoo. Profiles something or other and thought to send a message.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Did you have AIM or, like, did you have this service?

[Chloe]

I had aim, yeah.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Could they know who you were or how old you were, anything like that? I didn't have any of this. I was like, I was drunk in a gutter at this point of my life.

[Chloe]

Okay. Yeah, they could tell because you had, like, a profile, you know, and it'd be like. And you tell all about yourself and everything, and then you'd also be in, like, chat rooms that kind of gave away your age a little bit and.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Okay.

[Chloe]

That sort of thing. So, yeah, it was pretty, like, not a ton of info, but enough info that they knew that you were a child.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Enough info that I have a stomachache right now. Okay.

[Chloe]

Yeah, that, like, this was the wild west.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Yeah.

[Chloe]

And then it says, I didn't have a profile anywhere. And then I asked, okay, how old are you? To which he replied, I'm 26. For a reminder, I'm 11. I immediately stopped communicating, making a note to let my dad know when he came home and signed off for the night. Smart kid. A few days later, when my dad did his weekly messenger check, he asked me about the screen name he saw and I told him what had happened. I said frantically, I swear I didn't do anything bad and I meant to tell you and I forgot to which he laughed and said, it's okay. I did the right thing to stop the conversation. But my dad used this as a learning opportunity. He sat down and told me, men on the Internet aren't to be trusted, especially older men. And proceeded to message the guy, acting as if he was me. Oh, dad is ready to fight.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Dad's like, let's teach some people some lessons here.

[Chloe]

Yeah. Within 15 minutes, the man was asking for photos and then coaching, quote, me had to sneak out of the house and meet him nearly 15 blocks away at a Taco Bell at 11pm oh. Even describing his dark blue truck and license plate number, my dad immediately called the police who met the man at Taco Bell and arrested him.

[Karen Kilgariff]

How? I mean, Jesus.

[Chloe]

I know, like, this was a predator. This was not a mistake.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Right. You know, the predator had his eyes all the way open. It wasn't like, oh, she catfished me. I thought she was 25.

[Chloe]

Right, right. A few days later, the police came to the house to let us know that the man had been released. Because sadly at that time, there weren't laws to protect children being solicited via the Internet. And he hadn't done anything, quote, legally wrong. The cop apologized over and over, but said we did the right thing. So I'm sure he's on the radar by now. Yeah, by then at least. I am forever grateful to my dad for teaching me that Internet safety lesson. Because had I been like most of my friends with parents who didn't understand the interwebs, I likely could have been abducted.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Yeah.

[Chloe]

I hope you enjoyed my story, but I have to get myself back to painting. Stay sexy and don't talk to creeps on the Internet. Chloe.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Chloe. I don't know if the word enjoyed would be the one I would use for having heard that story. Cause it was a bit of a nail biter. But God bless your dad and your very adult 11 year old brain. That's like, okay, I need to let people know, like really a perfect 11 year old for the early in days.

[Chloe]

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[Chloe]

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[Karen Kilgariff]

The subject line of this email is my childhood balloon hobby. It says hello to the beautiful team of MFM and exactly right. I love everything you do. You guys have been a huge part of my weekly routine since I was 16 years old.

[Unknown]

Aww.

[Karen Kilgariff]

And then in parentheses it says I was the teenager you guys were yelling at for being a younger listener. Hey.

[Chloe]

Hi.

[Karen Kilgariff]

We cater to every demographic.

[Chloe]

Can you hear Mimi purring loudly into the microphone?

[Karen Kilgariff]

No, I can just. But I'm watching her when you stop petting her, slap you with her paw.

[Chloe]

Full claws, full claws out like just don't want to like just like get back. I don't want to protect her. She's full claws and she'll bite if I don't do it. Okay.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Yeah. She's like we are doing something. I don't care about your podcast. Anyways, I was listening to episode 451 and was reminded of my own balloon endeavors as a child and had to write in I have always been the type of person to pick up a random. Oh I guess episode 451 was Lawn Chair Larry. The man who flew in his weather balloons. Flew in a lawn chair, definitely. And survived. And lived to tell the tale. It's a good one. I've always been the type of person to pick up a random hobby every summer because of undiagnosed adhd.

[Chloe]

Hi. Me too.

[Karen Kilgariff]

And did so like clockwork as a kid. My mom was a teacher and my dad worked full time. So picking up a new hobby kept us kids busy during the summer and out of my mom's hair until I was around nine and I decided to pick up the hobby of making balloon animals.

[Chloe]

I love that.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Right?

[Chloe]

I didn't even like think of that as a thing you could learn.

[Karen Kilgariff]

But yeah, I know. They were. This is a crafty person that thought this up. They were like, I'm not doing the usual hook rugs or whatever. Hook rugs. That's the most 70s thing I've ever said in my life. While searching our craft closet. What?

[Chloe]

Yeah. Sign me up for that. Why don't I have that?

[Karen Kilgariff]

I mean, I'm so furious right now. For. On behalf of my inner 9 year old. While searching our craft closet, it came across our version of a fucking craft closet. Was like me looking through old photo albums of my parents just being like, I wonder who these people are? Like, just nothing interesting.

[Chloe]

There was nothing. There was a couple of board games with tons of missing pieces and dust bunnies and that was it.

[Karen Kilgariff]

And a big fu. Okay, so sorry. Back to the email. While searching our craft closet, I came across a bag of those skinny balloons. A hand pump, an instruction book on how to make balloon animals. I have no idea where the book or supplies came from, but I made it my mom's all summer long.

[Chloe]

Aw.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Imagine trying to enjoy your summer evening and all you hear in the distance is the high pitched sound of balloons squeaking together for hours on end with the occasional pop.

[Chloe]

Oh, my God.

[Karen Kilgariff]

The hand pump did end up going missing one day and I was unable to find it. Thus ending my early beginnings to being a child clown. I'm pretty sure my mom hid it, but only after I had already made 40 balloon animals that summer.

[Chloe]

Holy shit.

[Karen Kilgariff]

What do you like? Do you like rhinoceroses?

[Chloe]

Yeah. What do you want to snake? Okay.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Thank you for everything you do and being there when things got tough. You guys have been with me through two graduations. The pandemic and the strike. As I was a fresh film grad when it all went down. Stay sexy and don't let your kids pick up clown hobbies. Brooke C. She They.

[Chloe]

Wow, that's cool. Yeah. Let us know your weird childhood hobbies. But you know what I was thinking?

[Karen Kilgariff]

Yeah.

[Chloe]

I wonder if Brooke's mom or parents put just random hobby things in the. In their craft closet and was like, I know this kid likes to pick up random shit. If I say, you know, you should try, they're gonna tell me to off.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Right.

[Chloe]

So here are 10 different options. Someday she's gonna look through it, go find it. Right?

[Karen Kilgariff]

Yeah, exactly. Well, yeah, because I wonder if it's like, they're strategizing behind the scenes. Yeah, that's what you're saying of like.

[Chloe]

Yeah, like, I have something ready, something.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Interesting, but that they can kind of discover.

[Chloe]

Yeah.

[Karen Kilgariff]

I mean, God, that. That'd be amazing parenting.

[Chloe]

That really would be. Oh, that was sweet. Tell us what your weird childhood hobbies were. I, my friend, had the largest collection of Snoopy memorabilia.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Really?

[Chloe]

Dolls.

[Karen Kilgariff]

I got really into collecting Mrs. Grossman stickers, which were those, like, heart teddy bears. I really got into them, and then I thought. I tried to sell them at school, and people were like, we don't need this. We already have our own. Where I was like, sticky stickers you can buy. I got, like, a box for Christmas, and I was like, you can buy them through me. People were like, we don't know what you're talking about.

[Chloe]

See, Karen, you were into merch from a very early age. I just didn't know it.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Yeah, that's right. It's in our blood.

[Chloe]

Okay, this one's called. Oh, this one's called of course you can. A petty solution. Hi, Karen, Georgia, and the whole MFM crew. I came across your podcast a few months ago at the best time, as I had already watched every true crime series, documentary, and movie on all the streaming platforms. So naturally, I've been binge listening to your podcast at an alarming rate. I love everything you do and all your content. Please never stop being your amazing selves.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Okay.

[Chloe]

I was listening to one of the minisodes where a woman mentioned she would go door to door for surveys, and one man played dead in his car so he didn't have to talk to her. I forgot that one.

[Karen Kilgariff]

So good.

[Chloe]

It reminded me of the many things my dad has done over the years to get rid of unwanted visitors and callers. Aside from the time he cussed out the Jehovah's Witnesses that showed up at our house on Christmas, this story is one of my favorites. That's a bad idea. It's like you're celebrating Christmas the most lovely day with Your children and all these things, and they're like, hey, you know what you shouldn't do anymore?

[Karen Kilgariff]

I think this. Don't you think they're in there trying to pick off the, like, lonely people or the people are having a bad Christmas somehow?

[Chloe]

There you go.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Extra cynical, in my opinion.

[Chloe]

That is good. Okay. This is one of my favorites. Back when I was a kid, before the Internet was widespread, the best way to look at businesses was the phone book. Great resource. Unless someone accidentally submits the wrong phone number in their little ad. This happened with our home phone number. A doctor's office had our number listed as theirs and we would constantly get calls from patients. My dad reached out to the yellow pages to report the issue, but only the doctor's office could call to resolve this. So my dad located their office and informed them of the mistake. They claim there wasn't an issue and the number was correct. Someone fucking doubled down and was like, no, you're wrong. I love those people.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Even though you mean factually provable, but you're still gonna. You're gonna go ahead and deny it.

[Chloe]

Yeah. I'm the front office manager and I refuse to admit that that's not the right number. Cause I did it.

[Karen Kilgariff]

I'm the front office manager and I had a very difficult childhood with very critical parents. And so at this point, one more mistake would feel like it would break me in two. Therefore, that number is that. You see, that is not correct on paper. Oh, God. Incredible.

[Chloe]

How frustrating for the dad. Like, I promise I'm not just making this up. Like, what are you talking about?

[Karen Kilgariff]

It's literally the. The new post truth world we live in now where people are just like, that didn't happen. And you're just like, well, okay, I guess, I guess it's whatever you say, right? What the fuck?

[Chloe]

Oh my God. So cue several more weeks of back and forth of my dad trying to fix this issue to no avail. Finally fed up, he dec to make this a bigger issue for the doctor and started, quote, scheduling patients for next day appointments whenever they would call. It wasn't long after that that the calls stopped. Once your office got full of people insisting that they had appointments, next day appointments, and getting fucking pissed off that they. That they didn't.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Yeah.

[Chloe]

Oh, looks like I did make a mistake.

[Karen Kilgariff]

My collarbone is broken and you said I could come in as soon as possible.

[Chloe]

I like to sit and think about the absolute chaos and angry patience my dad unleashed on that doctor's office just to get some peace and quiet for himself. Stay sexy and don't piss off tired dads, Allie.

[Karen Kilgariff]

You're so right, Ally. And your dad was so right.

[Chloe]

Yeah, it's pretty diabolical and I love it.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Yeah, it's a real solve. Sometimes the solve is not in fighting, but in agreeing. It's like, fine, fine. I work for your doctor's office and I'm the worst employee of all time.

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[Chloe]

Edu.

[Karen Kilgariff]

The subject line of this email is Albert Einstein was my third man. Hello, longtime listener, longtime emailer. Just waiting for my big break. Hey, it's happening. You all recently did an episode about third man syndrome, something I'd never heard of, but definitely experienced in my youth. And then it says in parentheses a long time ago. Sigh. When I was in high school, I would occasionally get to spend the weekend with my cool older sister at her college a couple hours away. She'd let me drink all the Boone's farm wine my 15 year old body could handle, which was not a lot. I felt so cool hanging out with her and her roommates in their ratty college apartment. Despite being a bit of a party animal, she was incredibly studious and was one of the few women in her chemistry program. My God, did you ever take chemistry?

[Chloe]

Fuck no, dude.

[Karen Kilgariff]

I fucking attempted because I had this idea of myself of like I should be like more of an honor student. In junior year I tried to take chemistry and literally it took me like three weeks. And I like, I think the first semester I got an F and then I was just like okay, I'm dropping this class. I don't.

[Chloe]

I never been qualified to be able to sign up for it. So no.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Above her bed, she had a huge poster of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out. You know the one. After a long night of underage drinking, I passed out in her bed and had the most vivid dream of my life. I was sitting in a classroom as Albert Einstein stood at a chalkboard repeating the phrase, the answer is always neutral in a thick German accent. I attributed the dream to seeing her poster as I fell into a deep, drunk sleep. Later that day, me, my sister and her boyfriend began the 90 mile drive back to my hometown. She drove, he rode shotgun. I sat quietly in the back, fighting the ear. About halfway through our drive on a busy highway, my sister's face and body began to contort. She was having a grand mal seizure. Her boyfriend immediately began to panic, shouting, what do I do? In that moment, Einstein's words rang out so clearly in my head, it was as if he was sitting right next to me. With zero driving experience or car knowledge, I calmly said, neutral. Put it in neutral.

[Chloe]

Oh my fucking God.

[Karen Kilgariff]

He frantically grabbed the gear shift and put the car in neutral, allowing us to gradually slow down and drift to the shoulder before pulling the emergency brake.

[Chloe]

Oh my fucking God.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Incredible. I waited a long time to tell her about my dream as this experience was incredibly traumatic for her. Yes. Yes, it is. She struggled with epilepsy for most of her young life, but has now been seizure free for 10 years. Yay. She completed her degree and now works as a chemist in the top of her field. Yay, women in stem. I can't help but think that good old Albert was looking out for a fellow scientist like some kind of nerd guardian angel.

[Chloe]

Oh, I love it.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Stay sexy and skip the bones, Emily. Oh.

[Chloe]

Oh, that's like Third man Matrix glitch. Yeah, ish. Or like, I don't know, what would you call that?

[Karen Kilgariff]

I mean, it feels like all of those, like, what's just an incredible, unbelievable story that happened to you?

[Chloe]

Yeah, like a crazy coincidence.

[Karen Kilgariff]

It's like there's a Reddit thread of like, what's something that happened to you that no one would believe.

[Chloe]

Right. Okay, send this to my favorite murder Gmail, please. We want to hear all of them.

[Karen Kilgariff]

And also post them to Reddit because they started it.

[Chloe]

Right, sorry. And give Reddit all the credit. Okay? My last one's called elementary School Beanie Baby Ring. Hey, it was the 90s and the height of the Beanie Baby craze. Remember, I was around 10 and my brother was 8 and we were avid collectors of those stupid toys. Anyway, my greedy ass Needed more money for Beanie babies and at 10, didn't have a good way to get money. Teachers at my school were also collecting and would mention what Beanie Babies they wanted and then it says, why was this something they talked about during class? Class. And I saw my opportunity. I made an inventory of my brother's Beanie Babies and took it to school to share with the teachers. With enough interest, I started slowly sneaking and stealing his Beanie Babies to sell to teachers at school. Genius entrepreneur. One day, my brother noticed his favorite, a generic looking hound dog named Bones, was missing. After interrogation by my mom, I finally fessed up. I was grounded and forced to buy him replacements, which cost about four times as much as I was selling them for at school. I wonder why they didn't go to the teachers and were like, you need to give those back. You know, please don't buy things from children.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Don't buy, don't let children sell you stuff as a favor to the administration.

[Chloe]

And it says, I think that dumb bones one cost me like 25 to buy. Lesson learned. Love y'all in the pod. When I started listening, I was a stressed out internal medicine resident and single parent and now am a bonafide physician with a supportive husband and mother to three amazing daughters. Sixteen, three and one. Jesus H. So amazing. I so admire your altruism, advocacy and vulnerability.

[Karen Kilgariff]

We admire you too for your accomplishments, your child rearing range, and a third thing, entrepreneurship spirit. There it is.

[Chloe]

Stay sexy and don't be a greedy ass. Or an adult who buys contraband from kids. HB she her. I think that I like that. I feel like that's one of the points that you learn on this podcast is it's always the adult's fault if there's an adult child issue.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Yes.

[Chloe]

Like, don't buy shit from children. Personally.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Yes. There's a lot of adults writing in to go, hey, when I was a kid, listen this up. Stupid thing that an adult did where it's like, great, good. Yes, yes. The children must know. All right, we've done it.

[Chloe]

All right, send us your stories, guys.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Yes. Thank you for all your wonderful and delightful stories. And stay sexy and don't get murdered.

[Chloe]

Goodbye, Elvis. Do you want a cookie?

[Karen Kilgariff]

This has been an exactly right production.

[Chloe]

Our senior producer is Alejandra Kim Peck.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Our editor is Aristotle Acevedo.

[Chloe]

This episode was mixed by Liana Squalacci.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Email your hometowns to myfavoritemurder at gmail.

[Chloe]

Com and follow the show on Instagram and Facebook at my favorite murderer.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Goodbye.