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Karen Kilgariff
This is exactly right.
Hunting for Answers narrator
Short on time, but big on true crime. On a recent episode of the podcast Hunting for Answers, I highlighted the story of 19 year old Lashay Dungy. But she never knocked on that door. She never made it inside. And that text message would be the last time anyone would ever hear from her. To hear this and more true crime stories, Open your free iHeartRadio app search hunting for answers and listen now.
Andrea Gunning
I'm Andrea Gunning, host of the podcast Betrayal. Police Lieutenant Joel Kern used his badge to fool everyone, most of all, his wife, Caroline.
Karen Kilgariff
He texted, I've ruined our lives. You're going to want to divorce me.
Andrea Gunning
How far would he go to cover up what he'd done?
Georgia Hardstark
The fact that you lied is absolutely horrific.
Karen Kilgariff
And quite frankly, I question how many other women are out there that may bring forward allegations in the future.
Andrea Gunning
Listen to betrayal on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Dana Schwartz
In 1920, a magazine article announced something incredible. Two young girls had photographed real face. But even more incredible, that article was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who invented Sherlock Holmes. How did he fall for that? Hoax is a new podcast from me, Dana Schwartz, the host of Noble Blood.
Georgia Hardstark
And me, Lizzie Logan.
Dana Schwartz
Every episode, we'll explore one of the most audacious and ambitious tricks in history and try to answer the question why.
Georgia Hardstark
We believe what we believe.
Dana Schwartz
Listen to Hoax on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Steven
My favorite mom.
Dana Schwartz
Hello and welcome to Rewind with Karen and Georgia.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
That's right, it's Wednesday, and that means we're recapping our old episodes with all new commentary and updates and insights.
Dana Schwartz
Today, we're looking back on episode 64, which we named you won't believe this live at Revolution Hall.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Yep, it's our Portland live show. And this episode came out April 13, 2017.
Dana Schwartz
So let's get into the intro of episode 64.
Steven
Hi. Sweater already? No, hi.
Georgia Hardstark
Doing it out of obligation.
Steven
We know.
Georgia Hardstark
That's the first time that happened.
Karen Kilgariff
I actually. I didn't hear what you said.
Georgia Hardstark
I said they're doing it out of obligation because one person did it. That's the first time that ever happened.
Karen Kilgariff
It is the first time that's ever happened.
Steven
That's Portland. What's up, Portland?
Karen Kilgariff
That is so Portland of you, Portland. I swear to God.
Steven
Wow. Hi, Portland. I like you. Thank you.
Karen Kilgariff
I actually am a little bit sad because this is the last night of our room.
Georgia Hardstark
Here's the.
Karen Kilgariff
I wish it could be like 14 more nights. It really has been very, very fun and exciting. Thank you very much for being here and thank you for getting tickets and waiting for tickets and dealing with scalpers and letting us know that you didn't get enough tickets and you're mad about it and it's our fault that your lives were ending because of the tickets.
Georgia Hardstark
And you've been listening from the beginning and how you know and that you should get first run of ticket.
Karen Kilgariff
You are. You are the biggest fans and you deserve the most tickets. So we're.
Georgia Hardstark
Thank you. Yeah.
Karen Kilgariff
Thank you kindly for being here first.
Georgia Hardstark
Are admonishing the assholes. That's how I start every show is just telling you guys what dicks are.
Karen Kilgariff
Well, listen, there's plenty of clappers, but the assholes need to be, like, given their proxies as well.
Steven
Do they?
Karen Kilgariff
I love that you. Good start. Good start.
Georgia Hardstark
Let's start over. Stephen, can we go again?
Karen Kilgariff
Here we go.
Steven
I'll roll it back.
Georgia Hardstark
Roll it back.
Karen Kilgariff
I still don't know where he is in the light.
Steven
I still don't know.
Georgia Hardstark
You don't see anything anyways.
Karen Kilgariff
I know. I actually am legally blind.
Steven
Oh, right here, look it.
Georgia Hardstark
Vince came backstage and said, update from the audience. Stephen has a line of people waiting to be a photo with him.
Karen Kilgariff
Steven, that's the quickest way to get fired is get more popular than the host.
Georgia Hardstark
And mommy Ray Morris is here, too.
Steven
Mommy Ray Morris. Yeah.
Karen Kilgariff
Steven invited his mother, who probably has never heard this podcast, has no interest in murder, doesn't think what we're doing is right. Probably it's gonna.
Georgia Hardstark
You know, Steven's not her favorite anyways. It's true. Well, now Steven's a successful one, even though his sister's a doctor, I think.
Karen Kilgariff
Sure.
Georgia Hardstark
Now who's successful?
Karen Kilgariff
Well, you better tell her that podcasts are the wave of the future. So doctoring is out. Yeah.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah. Hell, yeah. Nobody needs a doctor anymore. I'm sorry. I've been drinking this fucking insane same crack.
Steven
Caffeine.
Karen Kilgariff
What is it?
Georgia Hardstark
It's yerba mate. Have you guys.
Steven
Have you guys heard of it? Oh, Portland.
Karen Kilgariff
Have you heard of yerba mate? And do you know gluten is bad for you?
Georgia Hardstark
I can see everything and everyone and I can see her auras. Oh, shit, girl. Real good right now.
Karen Kilgariff
Do you have any animal familiars on.
Steven
The stage right now? I don't know what that is.
Karen Kilgariff
You know, there are animals you hallucinate that talk to you and tell you how to live.
Georgia Hardstark
Oh, that's. Well, my cats then. Are that. Because that's all my life is. I know that's his name.
Karen Kilgariff
That's right. I have actually a very similar thing right now, which is that Georgia likes to bring me, which is one of the best things about touring with Georgia. She brings me a coffee. It's just super exciting. So she last night and tonight has brought me a mocha from Stumptown. And last night when she gave it to me, I was like, awesome, thanks. Drank the whole thing super fast. And when I went to walk out for the first show, I was like, oh, my God. Like, I was fucking blazing.
Georgia Hardstark
And then you're like, is this from.
Karen Kilgariff
Some town or are you dosing me just to change it up on tour a little bit?
Georgia Hardstark
A little bit of that Adderall, then we're good. Oh, we forgot to mention that this is all accidental. Our necklines. Yeah. I'm sure you guys were wondering.
Karen Kilgariff
They're definitely sitting out there going, two scalloped necklines.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah.
Steven
Why?
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah.
Karen Kilgariff
Do that on a live tour.
Georgia Hardstark
I mean, I thought they. I guess, like, I had it in my mind that they weren't matching, but I guess they're super matchy matchy. Yeah, it's on purpose, but we're going with it. We didn't. Karen was like, cut yours off. And I'm like, I'm not cutting it off.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah. I demanded that she cut up her dress. I was like, I'm the primary. You have to adjust yours.
Georgia Hardstark
But. And then we. But I did make her part her hair the other way so we didn't look exactly the same.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah. Although I am going to cut it short. And then we're just going to come out holding hands like the Shining Twins. Like, get ready for the wall of blood. Verbal. The verbal wall of blood.
Georgia Hardstark
That's Karen and I'm Georgia.
Karen Kilgariff
Oh, that's right.
Georgia Hardstark
And this is my favorite murder.
Karen Kilgariff
This is my favorite murder. Thank you.
Steven
We.
Karen Kilgariff
We want to tell you guys the story from last night, cuz it's pretty hilarious.
Georgia Hardstark
Oh, my God.
Karen Kilgariff
But we're telling it to you as adults, promising that you won't get any ideas from it.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah. I was like, do we tell them or are they just going to be like.
Karen Kilgariff
I'm like, we got to tell them. We got to tell them. Yeah. So last night, during the hometown murder portion of the show at the end, we had this girl come up and told the fucking most amazing story. It was like everything I've ever wanted in a story of finding dead bodies. And the dead body is a bad guy. And it was this and it was that. It was her cousin. It was like, second, like one Kevin Bacon away from that kind of death. A dead body in a creek. It's. What more do you want?
Georgia Hardstark
And they didn't know. And they were like, what is that, a jacket? It's not a jacket. It is a jacket, but there's an entire. You know, there's an arm and the jacket. So think about that before you offer to be the hometown tonight. It's like, you gotta beat that.
Karen Kilgariff
Very high. Very high stakes. So as she's telling the story, I was asking questions like, well, did he tell you what it felt like to pick up a dead arm and stuff? I was, you know, going.
Georgia Hardstark
I was very excited.
Karen Kilgariff
Barbara Walters, deep with it, trying to make her cry. And as we were talking, she was like, I don't know.
Georgia Hardstark
And I was standing here, and it.
Karen Kilgariff
Was kind of like this. So we were talking to her, and she was like, I don't really know. Whatever. And then I look and I see.
Georgia Hardstark
Both of their faces and Karen's especially. And it's horrified behind my shoulder and what's happening? And that's my biggest nightmare.
Karen Kilgariff
What's happening is this.
Georgia Hardstark
And I turned.
Karen Kilgariff
There's a girl in an army jacket. No judgments. And she's sneaking cartoon style down the aisle.
Georgia Hardstark
But she fucking army rolled onto the.
Steven
She got onto the stage and then.
Karen Kilgariff
Like, army rolled and standing here. So I, of course, have to kick into fucking third grade teacher mode. And I was like, that is not cool. That is not cool.
Georgia Hardstark
And I just stood here, kind of went like this. And that was really cool of you.
Karen Kilgariff
Thank you. And turns out it was this girl's sister.
Steven
She just.
Karen Kilgariff
The exact information I was asking for, she came to provide.
Steven
But the sister took a beat.
Karen Kilgariff
That's all she wanted to do was be like, I know what the arm felt like.
Georgia Hardstark
She said, she did such a sister move. This girl took a beat while Karen was yelling at her. And then she goes, oh, that's my sister. Like, she took a minute to shoot it. We were both like, what the fuck?
Karen Kilgariff
Well, I was, like, immediately picturing, like, a fucking bowie knife. And, like, she's just gonna roll up and then be like, I'm mad about the. Yeah, I didn't get. I didn't get tickets the first time around.
Georgia Hardstark
And I got overserved at the bar. Then she came up and did such a fucking sister thing. I couldn't believe it. She goes, you're forgetting this important part, which is such a sister thing to say.
Karen Kilgariff
It was super perfect. What I realized, though, is because I was of Course, super embarrassed that I had to like that. I got super bossy with her. But in my mind, looking back on it, nobody sneaks like this. Unless they're like on fucking meth or something, right?
Steven
It's like, I'm just gonna come up here for a second and interrupt the show.
Karen Kilgariff
No, I will fucking kill you.
Georgia Hardstark
Those are not good intentions. And now we know that Vince is fucking useless in an emergency. Even though I specifically told him, you need to fucking protect me.
Karen Kilgariff
He was backstage smoking.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah.
Karen Kilgariff
No, he doesn't smoke.
Georgia Hardstark
He doesn't smoke.
Karen Kilgariff
Also, Steven never moved from his spa.
Georgia Hardstark
I had to record the show. You couldn't take your finger off the play button.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah. Audio above all.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah.
Karen Kilgariff
So that was. That was kind of an. That was an exciting portion of the night. It was. It was a real roller coaster, actually.
Georgia Hardstark
Oh, God, that was scary. Worst nightmare. It was fine.
Karen Kilgariff
What else have we done? Oh, also, do you want to just take a quick shoe walk? Because they're so good. Just tell the people. Work it, own it.
Steven
That's why you're wearing them.
Georgia Hardstark
I can walk in them. This is like the. The two times a year I wear heels and it's an hour long. I wore these at my wedding last year. Last time I wore them. You fucking changed. You've just, like, given up.
Karen Kilgariff
I can't do.
Steven
I can't do it anymore.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
I didn't mean it like that.
Steven
I didn't mean it like that.
Karen Kilgariff
I can't do it anymore.
Georgia Hardstark
She had heels on last night and tonight is clog night.
Karen Kilgariff
I wore heels and even those ones were like the kind you can play basketball in or whatever. They weren't like any cracks. Had crazy heels. Feels like a sneaker. But when I went to put them on tonight, I was like, but fuck that shit.
Steven
And I grabbed the old. Yeah, do your own thread carrot hit.
Karen Kilgariff
Thank you. Oh, follow spot. Here we go. That's the magic of theater.
Georgia Hardstark
We're trying to get her to come over, Shell, but you know, this is.
Karen Kilgariff
Where I come alive.
Georgia Hardstark
I do. You can't tell right now, but I did say fuck it to my Spanx, Jess.
Karen Kilgariff
Oh, really?
Georgia Hardstark
No, I just won't now.
Steven
Do it now. Do it now. You can kinda.
Georgia Hardstark
A little bit.
Karen Kilgariff
Yes. Look at that woman. She's free.
Georgia Hardstark
Fuck it, fuck it.
Karen Kilgariff
She's free. Fuck it, fuck it all. Wait, I think we have a couple more anecdotes for you.
Georgia Hardstark
I know, right? I can't remember any.
Karen Kilgariff
Well, here's mine. When I was leaving my hotel tonight, the most lovely man that worked at the front desk named Tyler. This is what it was like. You walk by and I'm gonna be Tyler and you're walking. You leave.
Georgia Hardstark
This is how Karen walks whenever she goes.
Steven
Nuh, that's not true.
Karen Kilgariff
Okay, you have to make eye contact with me.
Georgia Hardstark
Okay?
Karen Kilgariff
Oh, but I. Yeah. Then I was like, hello, Murderina.
Steven
I know you.
Georgia Hardstark
You can tell immediately that, like, what it's gonna. It's not like, excuse me, ma'.
Steven
Am.
Georgia Hardstark
No, do you need more towels? It's.
Karen Kilgariff
It's. You've been whispering in my ear for the past six months. I need to talk to you right now. You have to touch me. We. I've never seen this person before. Met them before. We stood across the hotel front desk holding arms like I was gonna pull him up onto the lifeboat style, full on arm clasp. Like, yes, Tyler, yes, I'm here with you. This is really happening.
Georgia Hardstark
The best is when you then get a. My so and so got murdered. And you're then like, great. This has turned into the best fucking interaction I've ever had.
Karen Kilgariff
Yes, exactly.
Georgia Hardstark
Tell me everything now.
Karen Kilgariff
We're having a level 17 conversations that like, normally people that are only friends for five years have or shit faced. Yes.
Georgia Hardstark
Or Vince and I were walking yesterday down. We were walking down the street and this couple walks by us. And then I hear her go. I see her look at her. Her boyfriend in a way that was like, okay. And then she goes. As she passes, she says, that's my favorite murder. Like she doesn't know which one I am. And I turn around and wave at her because she was really sweet, but she just didn't know which one I was.
Karen Kilgariff
When she told me that, I was like, what if her favorite murder was happening behind you? She's like, oh my God, I love it when an old lady kills a homeless person.
Georgia Hardstark
And I'm like, thank you.
Steven
That's my favorite mom.
Georgia Hardstark
Thank you for listening. And she's like, who the fuck are you? Away from me. That happened to me recently at a store.
Karen Kilgariff
She's like, tell that one, it's good.
Georgia Hardstark
She goes, I go to buy a thing. And then she goes, I know you from somewhere. And I said, oh, did you watch the cooking channel? Because I was like, well, she doesn't own my face. Unless she's like, right, right, right. And she was like, oh, no, you look like someone who was in earlier.
Steven
Then I died.
Karen Kilgariff
She was fucking with you.
Georgia Hardstark
And then I totally made fun of myself.
Karen Kilgariff
Oh, I thought you were my good friend. What?
Georgia Hardstark
No.
Karen Kilgariff
That sucks.
Georgia Hardstark
Not you. You guys missed out last Night. And I'm sorry I brought a tissue on stage for my allergies because I fucking wiped my nose on this exact tablecloth yesterday.
Karen Kilgariff
It's like that. We're that comfortable here with you.
Steven
Georgia was.
Karen Kilgariff
We're just sitting there, and she's like, oh, fuck, it blows her nose on the tablecloth. Thanks, Revolution Hall. We're so proud to be here with you. Have us back.
Georgia Hardstark
I just, like, can feel into my heart, like, a sixth sense how mortified my mom is, and it gives me life. Like, my mom can't handle me not standing up straight. She would be so mortified. And I fucking love it. That's like, I live to embarrass my mom.
Karen Kilgariff
If you blew your nose on a.
Georgia Hardstark
Tablecloth, you mean if she knew that I did that, not even, like, at a restaurant real quick, but, like, in front of a bunch of people.
Steven
Oh, she would die.
Georgia Hardstark
It's great.
Karen Kilgariff
For real.
Steven
Good.
Karen Kilgariff
If my mom saw this tights, boot clog combination, she'd just be like, I don't know what you're doing or why you're still rebelling, but you need to figure it out.
Georgia Hardstark
You have lipstick on, though.
Karen Kilgariff
So I have lipstick on so I don't look like a corpse, which is what she normally would accuse me of. Oh, honey, put some lips. You look like a corpse.
Georgia Hardstark
And then I'd scream at her, I'm never having babies. And then she would just turn into dust and die.
Karen Kilgariff
That's really. That really is like the fucking the gauntlet to throw down in any fight with your mom. I will not reproduce.
Georgia Hardstark
Oh, I said it and it felt. So I said it to her on the phone. She called my sister, Georgia, how wonderful. What a gift it is. And I'm like, you weren't even around. What are you fucking telling cuts?
Karen Kilgariff
You sitting on the toilet with an eating. God damn it.
Georgia Hardstark
She wins again. I never tell my mom that I'm pregnant and have a baby. And she just never tell her.
Karen Kilgariff
You just pretend that you've gained very specific weight and then lost it. Specifically.
Georgia Hardstark
Speaking of it turns.
Steven
We gotta stop.
Georgia Hardstark
I need to stop thinking that when I'm away from home at any time on tour, I can eat whatever the fuck I want because we're touring a lot and I need to stop fucking doing that. Like, I basically had foie gras for breakfast today. Oh, that's fancy.
Karen Kilgariff
Fancy.
Georgia Hardstark
I know.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah. Spend that tour money, baby.
Georgia Hardstark
Fuck yeah, dude.
Karen Kilgariff
That's why we're holding off all the tickets, so that Georgia can eat foie gras.
Georgia Hardstark
For breakfast.
Karen Kilgariff
Sorry.
Georgia Hardstark
No, that does sound a little shitty, doesn't it?
Karen Kilgariff
Tweet us about it.
Georgia Hardstark
I know some people can't afford foie gras.
Steven
I'm sorry, I'm again, you know, bougie.
Georgia Hardstark
I don't eat it at home, so I'm at home also, it seems like.
Karen Kilgariff
What'S going on with Portland, where now you guys are just all about donuts all the time? Are you just like. No, it's. No.
Georgia Hardstark
Two nights in a row. We had donuts back. Oh, the first night, man, we had.
Karen Kilgariff
Donuts that look like us.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah, Voodoo. Voodoo donuts of all place. It wasn't even like Bob's Donuts down the street, like, made donuts. It's like voodoo donuts. They know who we are. That blew my mind.
Karen Kilgariff
Well, they could have googled it or.
Georgia Hardstark
It was like the one girl who works there who's just like. Just started and she's like, hey, let's podcast them. And they're like, whatever. Who can get over whatever?
Karen Kilgariff
It's your shift. If you can lean, you can clean or make donuts of your favorite podcasters. We don't give a shit, man.
Georgia Hardstark
Patricia just makes the fucking most obscure shit. I don't know what the fuck she's. She's getting fired.
Karen Kilgariff
Did you see Patricia's. Wait, wait, don't tell me. Donut. It was insane.
Steven
My God.
Karen Kilgariff
It's just a red square.
Georgia Hardstark
It's just Paula Poundstone's face.
Karen Kilgariff
Just a big long tie and a huge blazer.
Georgia Hardstark
Steven had one, too. It was fucking great.
Karen Kilgariff
What'd you just say to Steven?
Georgia Hardstark
Steven had one, too, and it was fucking great. I realized I didn't announce.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah, they made one of Stephen, which is so fucking. It was so hilarious. Yeah, absolutely. Clap for Steven's donut.
Georgia Hardstark
I ate my own head. It was jelly filled, which is pretty. Right on. It's pretty accurate.
Karen Kilgariff
I think it's pretty accurate.
Georgia Hardstark
Should we sit down?
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah, let's. Okay. All right. Yeah.
Steven
Okay.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah. No, clap for it. For sure.
Georgia Hardstark
I'm going to there.
Karen Kilgariff
She.
Steven
Allergies, man.
Georgia Hardstark
Don't. In Portland, you guys have all the allergies. I can't open this.
Karen Kilgariff
Okay, so what we do on this podcast is we have you guys.
Georgia Hardstark
I don't know if you guys listen, but what we.
Karen Kilgariff
We, you know, we look up murders and then we read them to you.
Georgia Hardstark
Most of them got tickets. Like, the guy scalping, like, buy one, get one free. There's a show.
Dana Schwartz
Hey, there's a great show tonight.
Georgia Hardstark
You guys want to come in?
Steven
I Guess.
Karen Kilgariff
Okay, I don't have anything else to do, so we should explain it.
Dana Schwartz
Okay, we're back from the intro.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
I mean, if you do the math. Am I wrong to believe that this is our first live show in Portland? Because it's April 2017. Our first live show ever was December 2016.
Georgia Hardstark
I mean, I don't know the math.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Or November 2016.
Karen Kilgariff
So it would be.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
It kind of makes sense.
Dana Schwartz
Oh, like we posted a back catalog.
Georgia Hardstark
Of the live show.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
No, no, no. This is the first time we ever played live in Portland. It was three shows. And that's why we're talking about it so much, because the last episode, which is the last rewind, we just got home from three insane shows in Portland.
Dana Schwartz
That's right.
Georgia Hardstark
That's right.
Karen Kilgariff
It's crazy.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
And so now this is the insanity.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah.
Dana Schwartz
And we're on tour while you're listening to this, so, yeah, that's all you're gonna hear about for the rest of your fucking life.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Tour this and tour that.
Karen Kilgariff
And then we're gonna do a spinoff.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Show of this show about touring.
Dana Schwartz
And we're always gonna wear the same dress. What if we wore the same dress this tour? Just one dress.
Georgia Hardstark
Same.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah.
Dana Schwartz
No matter how dirty or tattered it gets, or wrinkly, whatever, you have to keep wearing it.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
I mean, do you remember that moment where we looked at each other backstage and we're like, scallop neck. How did this happen?
Dana Schwartz
I don't know. It blew my mind because it was.
Georgia Hardstark
A little black dress.
Dana Schwartz
But the scalloped neckline, I've never seen that before.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah, we both thought we did. We were both.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
We were both shopping, and we're like, yes, here it is at the same time in, like, across town, basically.
Dana Schwartz
Second. 90210. Prom vibes.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah.
Dana Schwartz
That was crazy.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
It's so funny.
Dana Schwartz
What are your dresses like this time? I texted Craig, your assistant, and said, if you know what Karen's wearing for the first city, will you let me know so I can coordinate?
Georgia Hardstark
Because I'm just, like, picturing.
Dana Schwartz
I like to coordinate outfits, you know? Like, I thought that'll go great with this. It's just, like, fun for me. And so I'm like, what if she's wearing this color and I'm totally clashing with these stripes? I don't know.
Karen Kilgariff
I'm wearing black, baby.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
All black.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
That's it.
Karen Kilgariff
It's a black dress.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
And it looks like a lot of the dresses you've seen before.
Dana Schwartz
You do jewel tones lately, though. You might throw in a fucking purple.
Georgia Hardstark
At a goddamn girl.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Those are coming up. But I'm starting off. Look, I want us to just get our feet on the stage. I want us to know this has.
Karen Kilgariff
Been a long time.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Yeah, like, we were so young and innocent back during this rewind episode where it's just like walking on stage like, hey, what's up?
Karen Kilgariff
Are you guys going to rush the stage? Anyway, let's party.
Dana Schwartz
Like, I was 36 when this came out. Oh, my God. I wasn't even in Perry Menopause yet. That's insane.
Georgia Hardstark
Okay, okay.
Dana Schwartz
All right. Maybe I'll wear black too, for the first for Denver. Although it's already have happened when we're recording. Did we wear black?
Georgia Hardstark
I don't know.
Karen Kilgariff
Did we?
Georgia Hardstark
Join the social media?
Karen Kilgariff
What do you think?
Georgia Hardstark
Join the rifle. Take the poll.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Everything's content.
Karen Kilgariff
Take the poll. Join the raffle.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
That's my version of an Internet poll.
Georgia Hardstark
All right.
Dana Schwartz
Should we get into it?
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Let's do it.
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Karen Kilgariff
It's my. I'm first, right?
Georgia Hardstark
Yes.
Karen Kilgariff
All right.
Georgia Hardstark
Mom.
Karen Kilgariff
Well, I'm going to do this guy. I didn't really know that much about him. And then it turned out he was kind of like a. He's like. He's like. He's like a secret star. He's a man named Bobby Jack Fowler. And let's just start it here. I'm gonna tell it like a story on the rainy night every time.
Georgia Hardstark
It scares the shit out of us when you guys do that.
Karen Kilgariff
I didn't even start. Stephen. If there's ever been a queue jump in the world, it was that they don't even have any idea what this guy's deal is.
Georgia Hardstark
Well, they already know.
Steven
Keep it. Look at him.
Georgia Hardstark
Now, she can't say he was a real nice, normal guy.
Steven
Cause clearly he's a fucking psychopath.
Karen Kilgariff
There's just no. It's like, oh, did he do it? I'm not sure. Well, he is wearing. He is wearing overalls with no shirt. So I think. I think he might be guilty.
Steven
Oh, no.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah, he got caught mid something illegal.
Karen Kilgariff
I mean, either that or it's just like a denim tank top. Either way. Either way, he should go to jail. Oh, honey, you know what? That. And I'm sure you guys are very familiar with this, but I was up here, you know, it was probably a decade ago at this point. And I saw newspaper faces of meth.
Georgia Hardstark
Oh, my favorite. Oh, my God. Obsessed.
Karen Kilgariff
I got it. Which Stephen. Can you find that right now? Can you put that up right now? It was the best thing in the world. It was. The Oregonian did this thing of like people's mug chops across the years. So it starts out, it's like you're 16. You get arrested for whatever, shoplifting, nail polish. And then five mug shots in. You look like you're 64.
Georgia Hardstark
And like number two or three, you're like, oh, honey, quit right now. And you're still kind of cute.
Steven
You can moisturize.
Karen Kilgariff
You could come back.
Georgia Hardstark
You could come back and like stay out of the sun. Cause we know you're sleeping. Facials just like, you're fine. And then at 4, you're like, fuck, man.
Karen Kilgariff
And then it's like this 30 year old Bobby Jack liked meth. Let's just say that among other things.
Georgia Hardstark
Method.
Karen Kilgariff
All right. On the rainy night of January 27, 1995, Newport residents Jennifer Essen, who was 15, and Carlise, who is 16, are last seen leaving. Essen's boyfriend's house in the north end of town. They're headed toward Jennifer's house where she lived with her brother and her sister in law, Rocky and Barbara Tucker. They never arrive. Two and a half weeks later, loggers spot their bodies in heavy brush above Moolock beach, about a mile from where they were last seen. Both had been strangled. Five months later, on June 8, 1995. When nude. What?
Georgia Hardstark
It's my birthday.
Steven
Is it really?
Georgia Hardstark
Is it okay? You like can't help but say that?
Karen Kilgariff
No, you have to say it when it's your birthday.
Steven
Is that your birthday? Sorry, but that's my birthday.
Georgia Hardstark
Anyways. Tell me about a nude body. I was 15.
Karen Kilgariff
Do you remember what your birthday party was like in 1995?
Georgia Hardstark
15.
Dana Schwartz
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Georgia Hardstark
Mm. No, no, I think that was the last face of meth.
Karen Kilgariff
Oh. Yeah.
Georgia Hardstark
You know what I mean?
Karen Kilgariff
Okay, makes sense.
Georgia Hardstark
So it wasn't Great.
Karen Kilgariff
All right. Five months later, on Georgia's birthday, 1995, a nude, bleeding, 35 year old woman with a rope tied around her ankle jumps out of a second story window at the Tides Inn Motel and runs into the night screaming for help.
Georgia Hardstark
Fuck. Yeah, that'.
Karen Kilgariff
That's the beginning of my film right there. Police are called and she tells them that she had met a man at the Anchor Bar. They had shared a couple drinks, they'd played the poker machine, you know how you do. And then they decide that they're gonna go on a trip to a nearby casino. But he says he wants to take a shower first and gets her to agree to come back to his motel room.
Georgia Hardstark
No, don't be that close to a naked stranger, you know?
Karen Kilgariff
You mean right outside the bathroom door? Still not good. But what if I tell you he showers in his overalls, does that change?
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah, he's not naked.
Karen Kilgariff
Okay. Once they're in the motel room alone, the man tells her he believes women like to be raped. When she argued. Yes, we know that's not right. When she argued, the man attacked her, punching her repeatedly, ripping her clothes off. Ties a rope around her ankle, saying he was going to put her in the ocean.
Georgia Hardstark
Oh.
Karen Kilgariff
The victim, believing she was about to die, bit him and leapt out the window.
Georgia Hardstark
Go girl.
Karen Kilgariff
Whatever it takes. Whatever it takes. That man who was arrested on the scene was Bobby Jack Fowler.
Steven
This is where you were.
Georgia Hardstark
Steven.
Karen Kilgariff
Steven.
Georgia Hardstark
And then everyone goes, yes, I see it.
Karen Kilgariff
Here's what I love. I sent him this, I don't know, seven minutes before I left to come to this theater. We never talk about anything, we never plan anything.
Georgia Hardstark
And he knows that about Us, we're fucking. So it's basically our fault, but we'll never admit it.
Karen Kilgariff
It's always Steven's fault. All right. Fowler was a transient construction worker who traveled extensively across North America. He spent time rabbiting around from British Columbia.
Georgia Hardstark
And I don't copy and paste right there.
Karen Kilgariff
Very strange. It makes it seem fun. And what he was doing is not fun. Now, from British Columbia, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Texas, Oregon, South Carolina, Arizona, Tennessee and Washington State, during his travels, he developed an extensive criminal record that included attempted murder, sexual assault, and firearms offenses. Just developing a record, but seemingly able to leave after he develops that record. For some reason, he liked alcohol, amphetamines, methamphetamines. He liked to travel far and wide and beat up cars and pickups, hitchhikers.
Georgia Hardstark
That could sound like he, like, beat up cars.
Karen Kilgariff
He doesn't mind. Yeah. Once you do enough meth, you can beat up a car. And that is the pro side to meth that no one ever talks about.
Georgia Hardstark
That's one of the few bonuses.
Karen Kilgariff
Yes, you look very old, but you can beat up a car. He spent lots of time in bars and motels. He believed that. He believed that women he came into contact with. With who were hitchhiking and hanging out in bars wanted to be sexually assaulted.
Georgia Hardstark
Listen, I hang out in fucking bars, and I don't want that.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah. I feel like if we took a quick poll, he would be proven wrong.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah.
Karen Kilgariff
So here's. We'll talk about a couple of his arrests. In 1969, Bobby Jack was charged. Bobby Jack. Bobby Jack was charged with murdering a man and a woman in Texas. But he was only convicted of discharging a firearm within city limits at.
Georgia Hardstark
Towards. Up inside of a person.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah, I guess.
Georgia Hardstark
How the. Does that work?
Karen Kilgariff
It wasn't a problem. For some reason, he also spent time in a Tennessee prison for sexual assault and attempted murder. Because, in the words of the investigator, he tied a woman up, beat the hell out of her with his. With her own belt, covered her up with brush, and left her to die. So during his 1995 trial for the sexual assault at the Tides Motel, he fought the kidnapping charge. So he had a real problem with the fact that he was being sexual assault. He was like, yeah, whatever. But kidnapping, he was very offended by because he claimed that that woman was in the motel room on her own accord and that she threw herself out the window voluntarily. So it shouldn't be his problem. And so because of that, he filed a $3 million lawsuit claiming violation of his. His civil liberties.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
He lost.
Georgia Hardstark
He Lost. Oh, good, good, good, good, good.
Karen Kilgariff
So on January 8, 1996, Fowler is convicted of kidnapping in the first degree, attempted rape in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, coercion, assault in the fourth degree and menacing. He was sentenced to 16 years, three months with the possibility of parole. But he died of lung cancer in prison in 2006.
Steven
Yeah.
Georgia Hardstark
But. There's a but.
Karen Kilgariff
Here's where it starts getting good or bad? Worse. Upsetting.
Georgia Hardstark
I know, it's murdery, you know.
Karen Kilgariff
So the police, because of this arrest, have Bobby Jack Fowler's DNA and they put it into the system. They put it into the motherboard, into the mainframe. So in May of 2012, Interpol informs the Canadian police that has received a positive hit from a DNA sample on a 16 year old murder. A 16 year old murder victim named Colleen McMillan. She had been murdered in 1974. And back then the Canadian Mounties had taken a piece of her blouse that they believed to have semen on it and they put it away and saved it. And so that when DNA testing came into possibility, they had that DNA test makeup waiting to be tested and in the system. So when fucking Bobby Jack Fowler's DNA comes through the system, Interpol finds that they are a match.
Georgia Hardstark
Motherboard lights up.
Karen Kilgariff
That's right, the mainframe goes berserk. Colleen McMillan in 1974, had gone out to meet friends. The last thing she said to her little brother before she left the house was, don't tell mom, I'm hitchhiking. Her body was found a month later off a logging road 30 miles from her home. Home. She'd been strangled to death.
Georgia Hardstark
That brother did not live a good life after that, I bet.
Karen Kilgariff
No, I think that was probably pretty dark. So the DNA belonged to American Roofer. That's how he's described in this article. Cut and paste. American Roofer, Bobby Feller. That's the new History Channel series, American Roofers. We're a fucking lunatic on meth walk goes around strangling everybody.
Georgia Hardstark
It's very weird, like you can describe him any way. And they picked Roofer.
Karen Kilgariff
That hit was the oldest hit on a DNA sample in Interpol history.
Georgia Hardstark
Wow.
Karen Kilgariff
So essentially from the murder of Colleen McMillan in Canada in 1974 to the attempted rape, kidnapping and sexual assault In Newport in 1995, there is a 21 year gap where Bobby Jack Fowler was driving around North America fucking shit up. So because they see that and they start connecting. So he basically is a, he is a big suspect in a lot of the trail of highway of Tears murders. Oh, so he's been. Colleen's murder is considered one of the highway of Tears murders, one of the earliest ones. But most of those murders are First Nation women, which is why Noah ever hears about them, because it's Native American or sorry, Native Canadian, which they call First Nation women up there. And they get no press, nobody talks about them. And that's why they had to start. They started a task Force in 2006 in Canada because so many women, especially First Nation, were disappearing along Highway 16, which cuts across British Columbia. It's an east west highway used by truckers and loggers. And so many women have disappeared off of this highway that they actually had to start a task force for it. And Bobby Jack Fowler is now connected to at least three of the murdered women that have been found on the highway of Tears. But also they're looking at him in connection with the May 3, 1992 killings of Melissa Sanders and Sheila Swanson, 17 and 19 respectively, both of Sweet Home. They had been camping with their family at Beverly beach, and they were Last seen at 11 o' clock outside of a grocery store in Beverly beach. And they were looking for a ride home. Their bodies were found two and a half months later, 50ft from a logging road. So basically the police believe Bobby Jack Fowler may have killed minimum 20 people between the US and Canada, but they think, they think it's more likely above 40.
Georgia Hardstark
So he's a fucking. He's a regular old serial killer.
Karen Kilgariff
He's the, he's a legit, straight up serial killer.
Georgia Hardstark
I never even heard of him.
Karen Kilgariff
I've never heard of him. And he, There was, there's, there's a bunch more. If you look him up. I would definitely, because it's, there's all these. They are trying to, they're trying to connect him to these murders. There's so many murders on the highway of Tears and he. They thought they had him for like 9, but then when they. Some of them, it's only circumstantial evidence, so they can actually only prove three, which is a fucking lot. But between there and then, all the shit that he did in America, he's like Ted Bundy level serial killer that no one's ever heard of and, you know, did a lot of stuff right here in Portland. So. Congratulations, everybody. Well done. Bobby Jack Bella.
Steven
Good job.
Georgia Hardstark
Thank you.
Steven
Good job, good job.
Georgia Hardstark
Okay, we're back.
Dana Schwartz
Karen, do you have any updates?
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
No new updates on Fowler himself. He is still considered a suspect in multiple murders along the highway of Tears, but nothing has been proven since his death in 2006. Very frustrating. So Highway 16 has been since 2017. There's been progress in making it safer, like subsidized bus services along Highway 16, new cell towers covering those long stretches of dead zones that have been there. They're meaningful changes, but they're just first steps. The Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and girls released its final report in 2019, officially calling this violence a form of genocide and issuing hundreds of calls for justice. So there's been a lot of community led action. Indigenous led groups like the Tears to Hope Society create growing awareness and healing spaces for the people that have been affected by these murders. They do things like relay runs, community safety workshops. And if you want to know more about getting involved, you can go to tears to hope society.com and check out what they offer. I was very moved because last year at the Emmys, Defero Wunatai, who was nominated as outstanding lead actor in a comedy for Reservation Dogs, which, if you haven't seen that show, it is brilliant. It is amazing. He went there hair, he wore a black tuxedo with a red hand over his face. So his first, like big moment at an award show, he went and represented missing and murdered indigenous women. I just think that's like incredible. I saw it and I was like, you are so badass and this is so important. And you like, like eyes on the prize for him in that way. And so many people when you look up, I was just trying to make sure I had all the information right. All the Google searches are, why does the guy have the red hand at the Emmys? So people saw it and were like, what is this about? Like, just imagine how many people he made aware of this, like insane genocide as the native people believe it to be. It's like it is. No one's doing anything about murders that have been happening for years and years and years.
Dana Schwartz
Yeah, I'm glad it's getting that title.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
But there's a long way to go. Canadian and U.S. governments really need to serve indigenous populations better. These people deserve justice and they deserve safety. Yeah, it's a heavy story.
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Karen Kilgariff
What the fuck?
Georgia Hardstark
That's what it looks like.
Karen Kilgariff
What's that guy's picture Elvis have to do with it?
Steven
I'll tell you all about it.
Georgia Hardstark
Kleinfall State park is on the banks of the Deschutes river in central Oregon. And it's basically you guys go there for somewhere there. The park provides fishing access to the river. In 1976, the Transamerica Bicycle Trail was the first bicycle touring route to cross the US traveling between Astoria, Oregon and Yorktown, Virginia. Mostly rural, two lane highway. It was an 80 day. It was called the Bike Centennial Trail because it was a bicentennial and it was like, ride this trail.
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It was a fun play on words. Yeah, I get it.
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Karen Kilgariff
Yeah.
Georgia Hardstark
Nah, if you're just like, I have a feeling. And it could be like a deer, right? So no, it's just like a really.
Karen Kilgariff
Busy body deer that's just up in your fucking business. When did you guys check in?
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
You're not allowed to camp here.
Karen Kilgariff
This is my area.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah, you don't want to see what I do at night. That's why you can't camp here. It gets real weird.
Karen Kilgariff
She's somehow. That deer has curtains.
Steven
You.
Georgia Hardstark
Busy body deer.
Karen Kilgariff
Busy body deer.
Georgia Hardstark
Well, they settle in for bed around 10:30, and then around 11:30pm they're awakened when a truck drives into and over their tent.
Karen Kilgariff
What?
Georgia Hardstark
They think that at first it must be like an accident, a bunch of drunk teenagers. But Terry expects to hear them freaking out, but instead hears what sounds like a single person get out of the truck. Then she hears Shayna scream, leave us alone. And hears the first blow of the hatchet. Then. Then she hears Six quick more blows. And she says, at that point, I knew we were being murdered by a single psycho. And then he turns his attention to Terry. She says he's above me. I'm thrashing from side to side, and I catch a glimpse of a piece of wood. I feel a hunk of cold metal and start to lose consciousness. At that point, she said she knew she was going to die. But a voice in her head said, I'm too young to die. So she opens her eyes, and standing over her was a meticulously dressed cowboy straddling me on each side. I could see the boots, the pant legs, the shirt meticulously tucked into his pants. But his what, sorry?
Karen Kilgariff
Like a type a cowboy.
Steven
That what you said?
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah.
Karen Kilgariff
I hate the idea of that so much.
Georgia Hardstark
Steven, put that up again. That's where that comes in.
Karen Kilgariff
Ugh. I hate his pelvis.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah.
Karen Kilgariff
See, I feel like he would have gotten those jeans tailored for sure.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah, well, she said that they were, like, perfectly, you know, around his boots in the exact way. They're just like, not a. She said not a bulge of his cowboy shirt was out of place. Everything was in place.
Karen Kilgariff
Even though he had just fucking driven over people and hacked them with a hatchet.
Georgia Hardstark
Mm. But she said he couldn't. She couldn't see his face. His head disappeared in the darkness. But she said she could see the ax or hatchet poised above her. And he brings it down slowly, like as if to, you know, what's it called?
Dana Schwartz
Line it up.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah. Aim. And she grabs the hatchet right here, like she's praying, and says to him, please go away. Take whatever you want, but go away and leave us alone. And he fucking leaves.
Karen Kilgariff
Sorry.
Georgia Hardstark
You got questions, go for it.
Karen Kilgariff
Do you think? He was so fucking, like, tightly wound. He's like. Well, she did ask politely. I want her murder her so badly. But she has such good manners.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah, maybe. I know.
Karen Kilgariff
I also, there's something about, like, a cowboy. They're supposed to be this certain way. You know what I mean? They're supposed to be like, yes, ma'. Am. Come on, let me serve you some beans. Like it's all supposed to be. You know what I mean? Jump on my horse with me. They're not supposed to fucking. They don't even think they use hatchets.
Georgia Hardstark
No. I don't know. I don't think they do, do they? I don't know.
Karen Kilgariff
I don't think.
Georgia Hardstark
Got it. I think they would.
Karen Kilgariff
They need to. That's for the logger or the house houseman.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah. She feels around the tent for her contacts. Puts them in with bloody fingers.
Steven
What? How?
Karen Kilgariff
How impossible. I stand there for 20 minutes in my bathroom. I don't mean to question the victim, but I want more information about those contact lenses.
Georgia Hardstark
And then she finds her flashlight. Listen, I don't fucking wear contacts. You tell me, okay?
Karen Kilgariff
They're fucking impossible to put in and take out. One time I thought one was stuck.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
To my eye forever.
Karen Kilgariff
And it was very upsetting the idea that you would even try to do contacts in a tent. Who are they? What? Okay, sorry, sorry.
Georgia Hardstark
This is really triggering.
Karen Kilgariff
Yes, I'm very upset from the cowboy thing. Then you went straight into bloody contacts.
Georgia Hardstark
Carrie, Karen doesn't want to fucking.
Karen Kilgariff
I'm. Right now I'm that deer. Like, what the fuck?
Steven
What the fuck is going on over there? You're disgusting.
Karen Kilgariff
Wear glasses for the weekend. Your gritty hands and your eyes.
Georgia Hardstark
Bloody, bloody, bloody, gritty hands. Fucking.
Karen Kilgariff
Okay, I'm a little bit keyed up in this coffee right now.
Steven
Oh, we are both so excited.
Georgia Hardstark
But never getting one of these.
Karen Kilgariff
Show mode. No, give it back to me. My lifeblood.
Georgia Hardstark
Your life contact. Your lifeblood.
Karen Kilgariff
Don't go back for that.
Georgia Hardstark
I'm gonna go. Okay, Stephen, cut that off. Okay, she gets her flashlight, she gets out of the crush tent. She sees headlights down the park road and she's like, is that the fucking maniac killer or is that just someone driving through? So she runs over to it and I'm like, fuck it, I gotta figure it out. It's two teenagers driving through the park. Worst case scenario, what if they were the killers? It was a couple, they just gotten in a fight. Cause teenagers just, you know, get in fights. Seriously? She said that? I'm serious.
Karen Kilgariff
So they're all like, arms crossed, like, why are you so bloody?
Georgia Hardstark
And then it's like.
Steven
Can you imagine.
Georgia Hardstark
Being like a 16 year old girl and you're mad at your boyfriend? Cause he talked to this girl that night. Like she just asked for a sticker and he gave her one. She's like, here, I'm lady. And then suddenly, fucking bloody person.
Steven
Can you help me?
Karen Kilgariff
Those teenagers either got married or broke.
Georgia Hardstark
Up, right then they were like, well, I guess it's not that important that she asked you for a cigarette anymore in the scheme of things.
Karen Kilgariff
Now that I realize I have some perspective as a 16 year old now that I know hatchet murders are happening 50ft away from me.
Georgia Hardstark
Let's see. So the two teenagers are driving through the park. They find her covered in blood. She flags them down and then they Were like, get in. And she was like, no, my friend. Come follow me. And my friend is here. And so the teens follow her, and they find the friend by the river, and she's lost consciousness. Her head is all fucking hit up. And then they bring her to the car, and the teens take them both to the hospital in critical condition. Guess what? What? They both survive.
Karen Kilgariff
Thank God. Right? Jesus.
Georgia Hardstark
I wasn't going to tell you that before.
Dana Schwartz
I told you about all the hatchet.
Georgia Hardstark
Shit, just because then you would be able to breathe a sigh of relief, and I didn't want you to do that.
Karen Kilgariff
That's good. That's good storytelling, right? Yes. It's tension. You use that tension. Also, it would have been such a bummer if she had died, because we.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Were riffing like crazy right before.
Georgia Hardstark
No one wanted to really laugh. But now you can laugh.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah, now we can do whatever it.
Georgia Hardstark
Is now the deer want. But you didn't know that you weren't gonna die. We just did it. Cause that's what we're like.
Karen Kilgariff
That's what we do.
Georgia Hardstark
That's what we're like, da, da, da. Okay, there. Shayna's suffering from serious head injuries. And that's the friend. And Terry has a broken right leg, two broken ar. One of which is severely hacked by the ax. And there's a tire print left temporarily on her body cam. You fucking deal.
Karen Kilgariff
Sorry. Is that the girl that talked to the teenagers?
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah.
Karen Kilgariff
Two broken arms and a broken leg.
Georgia Hardstark
She tried to. She fucking still ran over to the.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah. Cause she was on like she was in crazy adrenaline mode.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah, enough to put her fucking contacts in.
Karen Kilgariff
Apparently when adrenaline hits, the first thing you want to do is touch her fucking iris a bunch.
Georgia Hardstark
Do you think she's got her saline solution? No, I'm just being an asshole.
Karen Kilgariff
She's got that. She swirls them around a little bit.
Georgia Hardstark
Is that what you do? Investigators have no description of the car, no eyewitnesses, no sign of the weapon, no fingerprints. So aside from sketches made of the truck's tire tracks, the investigation quickly goes cold. So in the years following, both women recover. Shayna has permanently impaired vision, loss of memory of the tech, and doesn't want to fucking talk to a about it. And they stop talking to each other, but. I know. But Terry goes back to Yale, finishes she's just like, a badass. Fifteen years later, she goes back to fucking find the person who did it and writes this goddamn book about it.
Karen Kilgariff
Oh, that's her book?
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah.
Karen Kilgariff
Holy shit.
Georgia Hardstark
You can show the other one, too.
Karen Kilgariff
I Got to read that book. Is that her?
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah.
Karen Kilgariff
Wow.
Georgia Hardstark
I have to say, don't listen to the audiobook. Read it. It's the audiobooks. I'm sorry if. Yeah, don't you recommend the book?
Steven
Book.
Georgia Hardstark
Read it right before bed. It's. It'll give you nightmares. Yeah, read it. It's just because the woman who reads it is southern and it just like. It doesn't make sense in. You know what I mean?
Karen Kilgariff
Yes.
Georgia Hardstark
Because you're just like listening to a southern accent. The woman isn't Southern.
Karen Kilgariff
You know, that's. I realized I just bought the Errol Morris book that's about the one that's not the one that you did. The story about Dr. Jeffrey McDonald is that you did Sam Shepard or Jeffrey McDonald.
Georgia Hardstark
Sam Shepard.
Karen Kilgariff
Okay. So I bought the audiobook about Jeffrey MacDonald and the guy that's reading it sounds like an alien that's trying to blend in with human beings. And it is so distracting.
Georgia Hardstark
It is really. It's an art form, I've realized for fucking years and years. So she goes fucking back. But after three years, the statute of limitations has expired.
Karen Kilgariff
On attempted murder.
Georgia Hardstark
On fucking attempted murder. Three years, Oregon.
Karen Kilgariff
On being a super neat cowboy.
Georgia Hardstark
On running over people in their tent that are sleeping and hatcheting them. Fuck, three years, you're free. Yeah. So it's unsolved. So in 92, she realized she's suffering from PTSD and she goes back to investigate. She goes to Redmond with a video camera and just starts fucking knocking on doors. And she says, remember me? I'm this girl. And everyone is like, oh, fuck. Like everyone had. It really had hit them because it was a really nice town and they were so embarrassed that that had happened in their town. They were just like, shit, man. Like, we're sorry.
Karen Kilgariff
Well, that became their hometown murder, essentially. They were like, did you hear about that fucking crazy shit that happened?
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah. So she starts to comb police files and interview anyone who had talked to her. Nearly all the official records of the attack, interviews, physical evidence, crime scene photos had been purged, but she's able to find a 30 page report. And even that took a lot of effort. The first suspect she zeros in on is a convicted child molester named Richard Wayne Godwin. He was known to have killed a five year old girl and kept her skull as a candle holder. He's in prison for that murder and all the clues about the attack seem to point in his direction. And of course I'm like, it's him. Like anyone who comes up, it's Him?
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah.
Georgia Hardstark
A female relative of his was camping at Klein Falls State park that night. And it's possible he was pissed at her and did this attack, but various details convinces her that it wasn't him. But he is up for parole. So she fucking hell knows that and goes in and proceeds to intervene on his parole hearing to oppose an early release.
Karen Kilgariff
Shit.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah. Which worked.
Karen Kilgariff
That's nice. Yeah, she just. All she did is walk. Gonna go. Just quick note. Candle holder, skull, you guys. See you guys later. The.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Do you need me to do.
Georgia Hardstark
Okay. So with the help of the teenage girl who was in the rescue car that night, who the night she was attacked, as well as other locals who had. Everyone was like, we know who Dudu. Terry finds out about a local man who was a teenager at the time of her attack.
Karen Kilgariff
What?
Georgia Hardstark
Less than 24 hours after the attack, Dirk Duran beat his teenage girlfriend so badly that she was put in the hospital. Her parents tried to file charges against him, but they were told that since they were both minors to just forget it.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah, that's the best way to deal with anything, really. That's ab. That's absolutely.
Georgia Hardstark
The judge told them that.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah, well, he would know best, right?
Georgia Hardstark
Teenagers, they're always beating the outfit. They always beat the. Out of each other girlfriend and try to drown them in front of an entire. Entire bunch of people. She, the girl tells Terry that the night of the attack, she and Dirk had gotten in a huge fight that had been broken up by her dad around 11pm that Dirk had left in a rage. And after the attack, the time of the attack, showed up at her house high on drugs. She remembered that a tool. And the next day he beat the shit out of her. She remembers that a toolbox in Dirk's pickup truck where he always stored a hatchet. And that toolbox was missing. And then she realized something else was different about his truck that night or in that time. She said, I noticed he had changed the tires on the front of his pickup. She visited the scene of the alleged attack and said she recognized the tire tracks from Dirk's car. Without a shadow of a doubt. She said, I knew it was him. Shit, he could turn from this. Really nice. Yes, ma'. Am. Thank you, ma'.
Steven
Am.
Georgia Hardstark
To Satan in his eyes. I mean, it was just like two different people night and day. And then Terry found out from locals that he had an ax that had. Or like a hatchet or an axe that had his initials carved in it that went missing after the attack. And he told people that he hurt someone with it. And had to get rid of it. The cops question him about it.
Karen Kilgariff
Who, sorry? Who did he tell?
Georgia Hardstark
He was like, anyone who would listen. Every person she fucking interviewed. This book is tits. Like, anyone who fucking. Like, it's legit. Anyone who will listen. She fucking. He fucking is like, he just Moses.
Karen Kilgariff
Up to the bar, hey, y'.
Steven
All.
Georgia Hardstark
Because he knew he was a suspect and everyone believed it, so he would just bring it up with people because everyone. His nickname name became Dirk the hatchet man.
Karen Kilgariff
No.
Georgia Hardstark
Yep. Dirk Duran the hatchet Man.
Karen Kilgariff
Well, that actually fits really nicely, I have to say.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah, it's not like Dirk Duran, the. Like the.
Karen Kilgariff
The guy that ran over some gals, right?
Georgia Hardstark
Dirk Duran, the, like, sword man. That's why immediate suspect. And everyone thinks he did it. Got the name. He'd been. Okay, so he'd been adopted at a young age, and his parents were pillars of the community, and they ignored their adopted sons of many abnormalities and issues, including rage and bullying. And Terry suspects that law enforcement did at the time as well. Because his dad was like, a big man. Terry is told that Dirk's mom had always coddled him, including doing his laundry for him and making sure that his signature cowboy outfit was always meticulous, Even making cowboy shirts for him.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Oh, handmade.
Karen Kilgariff
Mom made cowboy shirts.
Georgia Hardstark
I want to talk about when you date a guy and his mom does his. Did his laundry, and you're like, oh, no, get out.
Karen Kilgariff
Get out right now. In theaters now. Get out.
Georgia Hardstark
That is one of the. Oh, yeah, I do ask every guy I date or dated. What? When? So when did you start doing your laundry? Not even today. Because I want to know if you're a fucking child.
Karen Kilgariff
You're like, I'm not sure, mom. And then they bring her in.
Georgia Hardstark
During the investigation, Dirk is given two polygraphs. So the investigation gets opened back up because this bitch is fucking stirring some shit up.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah, she is.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah, girl. During the investigation, Dirk's given two polygraphs, Fails them both. And when the examiner tells him this, he cowers and starts bawling. When he's told, reaches out holding the hands or arm to arm. We don't know. Saying, I didn't do it, but maybe I don't believe that Terry works with Dirk.
Karen Kilgariff
You do know you can't. You can say nothing. That's also an option. No.
Georgia Hardstark
Or you can admit to it because the statute of motherfucking limitations is up. So you can be like, yeah, fucking did it. Son of a bitch. Okay. Terry worked with victims advocates groups, rights to change the statute of limitations on Attempted murder in Oregon. It's eliminated in 96. So thank Terry, among other people, for that.
Karen Kilgariff
So there's none at all. None at all anymore. Tell your friends. Yeah.
Georgia Hardstark
But it's not retroactive.
Karen Kilgariff
Oh, well, yeah.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, he served four years in jail for a crime he committed against a hunting partner. The reason he's nailed is because I clearly copied and paste that. Because I would never say that is because. Because that she'd brought him to the attention of the police and they needed to fucking do something. They were watching him carefully. Ultimately, though, she's never able to prove conclusively that he's the attacker. And then. So she said, and the book is really fucking amazing because as she's doing this, she's, like, finally coming to terms with all what happened, because she used to make. You know how we do. Like, yeah, I got attacked when I was, you know, like. And showing the scar and being like, this is a badge of honor. And look how I got past this and I'm successful. And then suddenly she's like, I have ptsd. So she goes back. So she learned. She said, I learned that traumatic memory gets stored in the brain differently than other memories. When a trauma occurs, it isn't stored in a narrative with a beginning, a middle, and an end. It gets stored in fragments like shards of broken glass. So one of the things that I found profoundly healing for everyone to do is to put those fragments together in a narrative with a beginning, a middle, and an end so you can tell the story of it. You can incorporate it and begin to make sense of it. So that's what she did with this book, even though she couldn't get this guy to justice. And that is Terry Gentz and her book, A Strange Piece of Paradise.
Karen Kilgariff
Nice, Terry Gentz. I love that because that must have been so hard. That must have been the hardest thing in the world to walk away from, like, a successful life and pretending that you're good with everything and diving back into the deepest shit and putting it together like you could just keep going.
Georgia Hardstark
And she was successful and doing well, but she just wouldn't fucking let go.
Karen Kilgariff
But she kind of probably wasn't doing it.
Georgia Hardstark
No, Totally deep down.
Karen Kilgariff
That's awesome.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah.
Karen Kilgariff
Well done, Terry. Gents.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah, that's it.
Karen Kilgariff
If you know Terry or work with her, please tell her we say hi.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah. Should we.
Karen Kilgariff
That was a good story.
Georgia Hardstark
Thank you.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Okay, we're back. Do you have updates for that horrible story?
Dana Schwartz
Kind of. So Dirk Duran was a pseudonym that Terry used for her Attacker in of front her book. But in coverage of this case, some media outlets have used his real name. But I wanted to flag that Terry chose to give him a fake name because she was wary of giving him attention and. Or potentially endangering women who might reach out looking to reform him. So just. Just a little update.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Wow, that's a really smart and unbelievable kind of like, thing to be aware of that there are.
Karen Kilgariff
There is.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Is this kind of like, part of the population that has this very strange attraction to these horrifying men.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah, it's just very smart.
Dana Schwartz
Mind boggling. Mind boggling. All right, well, we got so lucky. And we got a great hometown from Portland. From an audience member. This is a story about her weekend with Susan. Monica.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah. Should we figure out a hometown to hear from people? Can you, if possible, can we just bring the lights up a tiny bit so we can just see?
Georgia Hardstark
We know the show's almost over when my tissue is.
Steven
Oh, my God. It goes all the way up there. Hi. I didn't know. You didn't know this is the third show.
Karen Kilgariff
I know, but I didn't. I honestly hadn't seen that part.
Georgia Hardstark
Look. And there's Steven right there. And there he.
Steven
And then he was there and they were there. You see him?
Karen Kilgariff
No. I still can't see him because I haven't put my contacts in. I refuse to do it anymore.
Georgia Hardstark
Out of your hands and get it together.
Karen Kilgariff
Does anybody have a good hometown? Murderer.
Steven
That's a good story.
Georgia Hardstark
I don't pick. Karen picks. Karen picks.
Karen Kilgariff
Do you promise?
Steven
Yes.
Karen Kilgariff
Okay. Come up these stairs.
Georgia Hardstark
Oh, I got a thing. Thank you.
Karen Kilgariff
Hi.
Steven
Let's give this person a hand. Hi.
Karen Kilgariff
What's your name?
Steven
Name's Nicole.
Karen Kilgariff
Nicole, come here. It's Nicole, everybody.
Steven
Hi, Nicole. Clap for Nicole. Hi. I'm gonna hug you. Hi.
Georgia Hardstark
Okay, just.
Steven
Hi. Feel so wrong.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
Cause my sister Angela is the one that brought me, and she turned me on to you guys. She's amazing.
Karen Kilgariff
Okay, Angela, do you want to sneak up here like a cartoon character?
Steven
Please give me Angela.
Karen Kilgariff
Don't roll up on the stage high, Quaker, or I'll fucking pull a gun on you. You should have seen the way my tone changed last night. It went from like, girl, look at this dress.
Steven
Look at this dress, everyone. That's Siamese. Let's walk it. Walk it around. Walk it around.
Karen Kilgariff
Yes. For one second, I thought you were gonna fall off the stage. Turn. That scared the out of me. Yeah. Okay, guys, the sisters don't know how.
Georgia Hardstark
To talk into microphones, but Nicole.
Karen Kilgariff
And what's Your nervous.
Georgia Hardstark
What's your name?
Karen Kilgariff
I'm Angela. Angela.
Georgia Hardstark
Angela. Okay.
Karen Kilgariff
Wait, try it again. Angela.
Steven
Yeah. Yes, Stephen.
Karen Kilgariff
Okay, but Nicole's telling the story, and then Angela's gonna do backup if need be.
Steven
Yes, I will. I'm the Karen.
Georgia Hardstark
She's a Karen.
Karen Kilgariff
Clearly, I'm the Karen.
Georgia Hardstark
Got it.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
So I have to be completely honest. So a few years, what, five years probably, I was in the throes of drug addiction. So I spent a lot of time in and out of jail, which to interrupt.
Karen Kilgariff
That's part of why I love you guys, because you're so honest about it. And we know that we can be successful because we've gotten past it.
Steven
That's right. Thank you a lot. That is a big thing. Welcome back.
Karen Kilgariff
We're glad you're here for real.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
In one of my throws of let's still be drug addicts, I ended up in jail for a weekend. It was the longest weekend of my life because I ended up in jail with Susan. What is her last name?
Karen Kilgariff
Susan? Monica.
Andrea Gunning
The pig farm lady.
Steven
What? Yes.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
And she was from Klamath Falls, Grants Pass area. And I ended up in jail with her and I ended up having to be sober.
Steven
That sucks.
Georgia Hardstark
It was a good one.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
It was terrible. And she scared the living crap out of me. She is. She's a tall woman and she is completely hairless. She has no hair at all whatsoever. And I was completely unaware of the situations going on in my own town because I was so consumed with myself. I was like, give me drugs or give me nothing. So I ended up in jail with her. She's completely hairless. Apparently she had fed bodies to her pigs.
Steven
What? Whose bodies?
Karen Kilgariff
I don't even know how many victims she had. I don't think she had like.
Steven
Yes.
Karen Kilgariff
And so did one of my friends. Hold on a second.
Steven
You know what? That's not cool. Yeah.
Karen Kilgariff
I love when I get a chance to do this.
Steven
Yes, that is her. Stop talking to them. I'm so sorry. But go ahead, Go ahead.
Karen Kilgariff
You tell the story.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
I ended up with her and she had court and they came and got her and they gave her a wig. And she was mad about the wig because it wasn't her natural hair.
Georgia Hardstark
They made her wear a wig. Wait, sorry.
Karen Kilgariff
So she had like alopecia or something?
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
Yeah, something where she was completely hairless and was losing. We consistently by the time I met her.
Andrea Gunning
Sher will do that to you.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
By the time I met her, she said she had lost like 50 pounds or something. She was just skin.
Dana Schwartz
Who did she kill?
Karen Kilgariff
She Killed workers on her farm, from what I remember.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
And then used their EBT food cards after they were already dead.
Georgia Hardstark
What did she.
Karen Kilgariff
She was also on meth.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
She was on something.
Georgia Hardstark
What did she. What was she like when you were in jail?
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
Okay, so here's the creepiest. Is that because I was so sober, I was so scared of her. Once I realized who she was and there was only two other girls in there, it wasn't like it was a big dorm. It's four little beds with no tv. And it's the weekend. You're not getting out till Monday.
Karen Kilgariff
Jail, right?
Georgia Hardstark
I found the right right now.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
I was on the top bunk and I was reading. Since I've been in and out of jail so much. The officer was kind of new, so they always left me a pile of books. Well, I. Yeah.
Steven
So nice, right? So considerate.
Karen Kilgariff
That is nice.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
And I was laying on the top bunk and my book fell down. And I was too scared to move a muscle. So she gets up, she gets my book, she puts it on top of my bunk with me and then tucks me into bed.
Steven
I died. I died.
Karen Kilgariff
Did it look like a big thumb was tucking you into bed?
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
It was like this horrible blanket. This not warm. This crap blanket. I'm in these clothes, but smell like someone else.
Steven
This murderer, this pig murderer, not even like a good one that used a.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
Gun, like one that fed people to pig. Has now put a blanket on top of me and tucked me in for the night.
Dana Schwartz
She's like, night, night.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
No, what she says is, are you doing okay? Are you coming down okay? I'm like, yes, thank you.
Karen Kilgariff
And I roll over. You're helping me so much.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
So the whole weekend, she told me about her murder. She showed me all her court documents, all the papers she had in the jail cell. She was constantly, constantly complaining. She needed, like, this special meal with, like, no meat. Everything has to be kosher.
Karen Kilgariff
And.
Steven
I was like, vegan. The Pearoni. Yeah.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
And she showed me all her paperwork. She's like, they don't know. But I told them the body's here. And they won't listen to me. I'm like, who's not listening to you?
Steven
Tell them where the body is.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
She's showing me all these drawings and everything. And this other woman so she can play the dice game. It was just the worst weekend of my life.
Andrea Gunning
But the highlight of my life is.
Karen Kilgariff
When I don't answer the call from prison. Cause I don't have any money to.
Georgia Hardstark
Answer her prison call.
Karen Kilgariff
It's a collect call.
Andrea Gunning
So her Voicemail is just roommates with pig farm lady.
Steven
Roommates with pig farm lady. And I'm like, oh, my God, Yes. That's so sister. I get out of jail.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
She like, so tell me what happened.
Steven
Tell me everything. Okay. Are you gonna get clean?
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
Is everything going?
Steven
No. Tell me more about the pig lady. Oh, my God.
Georgia Hardstark
Rock fucking bottom right there.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
And I will tell you guys, that's the last time I've ever been in jail.
Steven
I'm proud of you.
Karen Kilgariff
I mean, you know what? Here's the thing. If you went back to jail after that, it's just gonna be a disappointment. It's not gonna be as good at all.
Steven
Yeah, of course. You're like, they left me Shakespeare, but.
Georgia Hardstark
I don't even care.
Karen Kilgariff
Who cares?
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
She was, like, motherly. You know what I mean? She wanted to talk to everyone, find out what their problems were. She wanted to, like, girl chat at night. I'm like, leave me the fuck alone. I'm so sorry for whatever I did to be here.
Karen Kilgariff
You're, like, cold and hot and sweating, and you're just like, yes.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
And she's just, like, talking. She's showing you all her paperwork. She's like, and there's so much more that they don't know.
Steven
I'm like, what don't they know? I'm gonna testify against you. This is how this.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
I'm trying to, like, stay calm the whole weekend, you know?
Georgia Hardstark
And I'm coming down with agitators.
Karen Kilgariff
If you're prison wives, you have to testify against your prison wives. That's a clause.
Georgia Hardstark
There could be a clause.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
I'm not sure exactly what it is.
Karen Kilgariff
I mean, what if you did fall in love with her, though?
Steven
Oh, my God. How'd you guys meet?
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
It was just the longest weekend. By the time Monday came around and I knew I was getting to leave, I was like, well, have a good life and good luck with court. Because she is convinced that she's going to go home.
Georgia Hardstark
Oh, my God.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
She just kept saying, well, I'm going to get to go home. They're not going to be able to do anything. It's fine. They didn't even find all the evidence.
Karen Kilgariff
I'm like, wait, her name is Susan. What? Susan, Monica. Susan, Monica. Two first names. I hate that.
Georgia Hardstark
Pig farm killer.
Karen Kilgariff
A pig farm killer. And she would feed the people that worked for her to her pigs. Did she kill them beforehand?
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
In one incident, she told me that she had killed the guy and then didn't know what to do with the body. So she just took it outside to the barn.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
Is what she told me.
Karen Kilgariff
Okay.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
She's like, I just let you know. I just let the pigs take care of it. They'll eat anything.
Georgia Hardstark
I don't feel bad about eating fucking pig anymore. It's like, you know.
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
Yeah.
Georgia Hardstark
And did she tell you that story?
Karen Kilgariff
As she was tucking you in.
Georgia Hardstark
I.
Karen Kilgariff
Laid the body gently into the pig Menken. Is that warm enough for you?
Steven
Did you know pigs will eat anything? They will eat anything, apparently. Yeah. That is amazing.
Karen Kilgariff
That is a really amazing story. Nicole, right?
Nicole (audience member sharing story)
Yes.
Karen Kilgariff
Nicole, everybody.
Steven
Yes. What was your name again? An Angela. Backup.
Georgia Hardstark
Sister. Sister.
Steven
You guys were. That was incredible. Thank you.
Georgia Hardstark
I'll steal that from you.
Steven
Oh, thank you.
Georgia Hardstark
You guys were great, right? That was. Yeah. Yeah.
Steven
Come here.
Georgia Hardstark
I love your.
Karen Kilgariff
Well done.
Georgia Hardstark
Everyone keeps asking me, who's watching Elvis. Oh, I forgot to get a cap sitter.
Karen Kilgariff
I love that. That was a sister team. That's fun. That's good times. That's fun times. That's exactly what happened last night. Except for the second one. Was not invited on the stage.
Georgia Hardstark
Except it wasn't terrifying and I didn't think my life was ending.
Karen Kilgariff
And then army roll just. I'll never forget it.
Georgia Hardstark
No. That was beautiful.
Karen Kilgariff
She did turn out to be very nice and apologized on Twitter.
Georgia Hardstark
Yeah. Lovely, lovely ladies. Okay, we're back.
Dana Schwartz
Karen, want to give us any updates on this case?
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
There aren't really any updates, Susan. Monica is still in prison serving her 50 year sentence. She got convicted in 2015. And basically, it's just. That's.
Karen Kilgariff
That's it.
Dana Schwartz
Just as awful as. As it was.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Yeah.
Dana Schwartz
All right, well, so this episode was originally titled Live at Revolution hall, but if we were naming it today, perhaps we would call it.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
We can call it I can see your auras, which is what Georgia told the audience because she had had so much yerba mate.
Karen Kilgariff
I don't remember that at all.
Dana Schwartz
Oh, my God.
Georgia Hardstark
What am I. I'm like, what am.
Dana Schwartz
I going to caffeinate myself with. With this trip?
Georgia Hardstark
I don't.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
That's the great mystery you have to solve for yourself.
Dana Schwartz
Oh, my God.
Georgia Hardstark
All right, we could also call it.
Dana Schwartz
I love this get out in theaters now. When Karen says something about guys whose mom does their laundry, get out of that relationship.
Karen Kilgariff
Yeah.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Don't date guys that. Whose mom still do their laundry.
Dana Schwartz
No, still or ever. Like, yuck.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Come on.
Dana Schwartz
All right, well, thanks for listening to another episode of Rewind and go to my favorite murder.com live and see if there's any tickets left for any of our upcoming shows. We'd Love to see you there.
Karen Kilgariff
Yes.
Dana Schwartz
Now here's our goodbye from the 2017 Revolution hall in Portland. Did you hear that?
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Yeah.
Karen Kilgariff
I like it.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Let Mimi sing.
Karen Kilgariff
Portland, we adore you so much. Thank you so much for your support. Honestly, I've been telling everybody this anecdote, but it really is true. You guys, you guys were there so early for this podcast and you were so vocal and you were so in it. And one of the first pieces of Stay Sexy, Don't Get Murdered graffiti that we ever saw that got posted to Twitter was from Portland, Oregon, and it really meant the world to us.
Georgia Hardstark
You guys love your vandalism and we love you for it.
Karen Kilgariff
You vandalize in our name. Thank you kindly for that.
Georgia Hardstark
You've graffitied our hearts.
Karen Kilgariff
Yes. Permanently. Tattoo style. We love you. Stay sexy and don't get murdered. Bye, you guys.
Steven
Thank you.
Hunting for Answers narrator
Short on time, but big on trip. True crime. On a recent episode of the podcast Hunting for Answers, I highlighted the story of 19 year old Lachey Dungey. But she never knocked on that door. She never made it inside. And that text message would be the last time anyone would ever hear from her. To hear this and more true crime stories, open your free iHeartradio app. Search hunting for Answers and listen now.
Andrea Gunning
I'm Andrea Gunning, host of the podcast Betrayal. Police Lieutenant Joel Kern used his badge to fool everyone, most of all his wife, Caroline.
Karen Kilgariff
He texted, I've ruined our lives. You're going to want to divorce me.
Andrea Gunning
How far would he go to cover up what he'd done?
Georgia Hardstark
The fact that you lied is absolutely horrific.
Karen Kilgariff
And quite frankly, I question how many other women are out there that may bring forward allegations in the future.
Andrea Gunning
Listen to betrayal on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Georgia Hardstark
I knew I wanted to obey and submit, but I didn't fully grasp for the rest of my life what that.
Georgia Hardstark (rewind host)
Meant for my heart. Podcasts and Rococo Punch this is the Turning River Road. In the woods of Minnesota, a cult leader married himself to 10 girls and forced them into a secret life of a beautiful abuse. But in 2014, the youngest escaped. Listen to the Turning river road on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
In this special "Rewind" episode, hosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark revisit their iconic 2017 live show at Portland’s Revolution Hall. Alongside podcast collaborator Dana Schwartz, they offer behind-the-scenes commentary, updates, and reflections on the live event. The episode revisits key stories from the original show—including a chilling serial killer case, a harrowing survivor’s experience, and an unforgettable audience hometown. The episode’s tone is lively, irreverent, self-deprecating, and deeply compassionate, with signature banter and true-crime insights.
Throughout the episode, Karen and Georgia blend dark subject matter with humor, empathy, and an encouraging embrace of their community—both fans and survivors. The "Rewind" format layers nostalgia, growth, and self-awareness atop classic stories, illustrating how true crime discussion has evolved to center justice and compassion.
Closing Note:
“Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered. You vandalize in our name. Thank you kindly for that. You’ve graffitied our hearts.” – [82:02]
For further info and to support Indigenous safety efforts:
Visit tearstohope.ca (Tears to Hope Society) and the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (link).
Stay sexy, don’t get murdered, and cherish those Portland memories!