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Cindy Overton
I'm Cindy Overton.
Woody Overton
We are in the studio bringing you your latest and greatest true crime news from around the world. And we love and appreciate each and every one of y' all. Thank you for liking and listening and sharing. We're in the new studio. New studio means new issues, new problems. But we're working out the bugs. As y' all know, we always strive to be better, to give you the best listening experience that you can get. Right?
Cindy Overton
So that's right.
Woody Overton
So what do you have for them today?
Cindy Overton
I have an update on Tom Girardi.
Woody Overton
Who's that?
Cindy Overton
He is married. Well, he was the spouse of a real housewife.
Woody Overton
That's why I don't understand.
Cindy Overton
Yes, well, you would know him. He, he was the inspiration for the movie. Movie with Aaron Brockovich. The Aaron Brockovich movie. He was the attorney that did the real case.
Woody Overton
Okay, so still waiting.
Cindy Overton
So on June 3rd, I'm still waiting.
Woody Overton
Who's this guy?
Cindy Overton
He was the man who inspired the film Aaron Brockovich.
Woody Overton
And so what does that mean?
Cindy Overton
I was just saying that's how like how you would know him. You've known, you know of Aaron Brockovich.
Woody Overton
The movie like 150 years ago.
Cindy Overton
I'm just saying.
Woody Overton
Okay, so, so this dude must be like 95 years old.
Cindy Overton
He literally, he was, was sent. Okay, he was sentenced to 87 months or 7 years in federal prison for orchestrating a decade long fraud scheme that siphoned tens of millions of dollars from his clients.
Woody Overton
Wait, this is the same dude that's married to one of your housewives?
Cindy Overton
Not anymore, but yes, he was. Erica in Beverly Hills. Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Woody Overton
So he's living in Beverly Hills. He's an attorney who won. He was based off a movie a million years ago. I think it was like sewer water or bad pollutants in the water or something.
Cindy Overton
Yeah, but he had other major cases. Like the China plane that went down there was a Chinese plane that without like how many ever passengers were on it and lots. I mean everybody died on it and they sued and he was the lawyer that sued. Okay, so.
Woody Overton
So you got seven years in Jail for scamming.
Cindy Overton
For scamming. Multi. I mean it was several, several cases. There was other cases of like bad water in California and you know, he was scamming on all of his cases.
Woody Overton
So you scam on Aaron Brockford?
Cindy Overton
Probably, probably. This dude's a, he's a horrible person. He embezzled over 15 million Beverly Hills housewives. Erica did. What's he paid in the beginning? Only like 20 something thousand. A show like not, not a season episode. But some are up into the hundreds of thousands now. So he, it was apparently like a Ponzi scheme. So anyway, this has been going on for several years now and he finally went to trial and was taken so long is because they have said that he could not stand trial because he has dementia and is suffering from things like that and he doesn't remember. And so a major, I'm not even reading this thing, but a major thing is been proving that he was unable to stand trial because of his mental capacity.
Woody Overton
So they had to have him tested to see if he was fit.
Cindy Overton
Right. And they found him fit for trial. And so there, everybody's claiming because of his age that he's faking this, you know, dementia. He's completely faking it. And so the judge apparently believed he was faking it because instead of putting him in some type of home for you know, patients and you know, whatever, some type of facility like that, he's actually sentenced him to prison and a.
Woody Overton
I got in a rock. All right. They don't just narrow really, really make these decisions. My stuff like the state of Louisiana has right here in East Feliciana Parish the forensic lock up for the criminally insane. Everybody that's even questioned by something like this, they send them there, they lock them up. It's a prison or a jail and they evaluate them. However, months or even a year if it takes whatever, then all these other side of gets coming in evaluate and all this stuff goes to the judge. So it's not like the judge is saying, oh well, I think he's faking it. He's got a lot of scientific data states that he's faking.
Cindy Overton
No, I, I mean I, I, I agreed with you from the beginning when you, when you said that and I just said that. Okay, well then I said in the very beginning that he went through all, you asked me if he went through all of the testing and all of that and I, I said that he had. And so even after all the testing, the judge still believed that he could or should stand trial and that he would go to prison instead of being put in like what you're describing. So basically that's, that's it.
Woody Overton
Okie dokie. So that he went to prison?
Cindy Overton
Yes.
Woody Overton
And he's not mentally incompetent.
Cindy Overton
That's what they're saying.
Narrator
It's time for beast mode.
Woody Overton
People love their fur babies. Except for in New York City and the Queens had an apartment. Know what happened there? No, they had a personal living there. And see, you know, Belgium bell. Belgian Malinois is.
Cindy Overton
Isn't that a huge dog?
Woody Overton
And that's what the. It looks like. A German shepherd is what the cops use. And like the ones we have like just $15,000 a piece. And they, the trainers would fly over to Belgium to hand pick them and whatever and raise them in the kennels. And the handlers had to go and spend weeks with them during the training and all that they've been trained for. Attack a pursuit and sniff out. Those are multi use dogs. And so I mean very, they can be very aggressive obviously. But the, the ones that are trained, our canine heroes, we always talk about 99 of the police departments use these Belgian Belgian malinois now. Oh, Queens. The guy had an apartment. And it wasn't a $40,000 a month apartment. Guess how many bedrooms had one?
Cindy Overton
None.
Woody Overton
One.
Cindy Overton
Okay.
Woody Overton
One bedroom. Okay. And you know, shit happens.
Cindy Overton
And.
Woody Overton
You know, if you are living in an apartment in Queens, you know you can hear what's going on next door, Right. Have you ever listened to a wall with glass and try to hear what's going on through the wall?
Cindy Overton
Yes.
Woody Overton
Me too. Where'd you do it? People having sex.
Cindy Overton
Oh, gross.
Woody Overton
What's gross? Or you trying to listen to people having sex or are you trying to listen to people's conversation?
Cindy Overton
I think people having sex is grosser.
Woody Overton
Well, who's to say that you might not accidentally listen to somebody having sex, right?
Cindy Overton
Maybe.
Woody Overton
Well, I don't know. How about these neighbors are doing. But this dude that lived in this apartment in Queens had 48 Belgian Maloise. What was he gonna do with that 48 Belgian Melos? I'll tell you a second. So at some point authorities get called and they came in, they said the floor was slick with feces. The air was so thick with ammonia. Like the sword we had the other day, the air was so thick with ammonia, the rescuer struggled to breathe.
Cindy Overton
Wow.
Woody Overton
And it doesn't stop there. So this is one bedroom apartment. Melon walls are the size of German shepherd's base. A little lesser thing, so they said tucked in the closets Cabinets in every corner of this four seals apartment where the Belgian Malinois, which were malnourished, matted and barely surviving. I assume the med is roll around there and piss the. So the keeper, if you can call him that, I guess he Keeper he kept in an apartment. He's facing a hundred counts of animal cruelty. Right. And his name is Isaac Yadgarov.
Cindy Overton
Okay.
Woody Overton
37 years old. And after the authorities went over and did what they do, they issued a warrant for this cat and he turned himself in on May 13th where he was arraigned on 96 misdemeanor charges for animal neglect, failure to provide proper sustenance. This according to the queen's district attorney Katz. Now, the horror was unreal. Uncovered on May 8 when NYPD, ASPCA and NYC's animal care centers responded to the seventh floor apartment after Yad Garo was evicted. No, he just leaves.
Cindy Overton
Yeah, right.
Woody Overton
And they said inside responders found a hoarding scene beyond comprehension. Dogs crammed in the closets and cages and even kitchen drawers.
Cindy Overton
What?
Woody Overton
Yes, he is sweet baby. And I'm sure some of them had to be puppies, right? So in three of the dogs were so sick that they had to put them down. That sucks. So the remainder, thankfully, are the care of local shelters, received medical free treatment and food. But they said the defendant is accused of keeping dozens of dogs in unsanitary and deplorable conditions, unable to move freely and surrounded by filth. Animals are voiceless and vulnerable and deserve to be treated with basic care and decency. And I totally agree with that. So cops go to question yard Garoff, and you know what he tells them? Is it no guesses? No, you got the silent. The cat's got your tongue today.
Cindy Overton
I have no guesses. What do you say?
Woody Overton
Okay. So they asked him and he said, well, you know, I was gonna give the dogs up anyway after I was evicted.
Cindy Overton
Yeah.
Woody Overton
So anyway, guess how much time this cat is looking at.
Cindy Overton
27 years.
Woody Overton
If convicted, he faces up to a year behind bar. One year. Can you believe that? That's. I don't understand that. That is a beast mode. There's Malinois and not the beast. You know, of course they're, we're making an animal story, but it is what it is. That just sucks, sucks, sucks.
Cindy Overton
And I don't know, I saw a reel yesterday with one and it was barking ferociously at a piece of luggage that had already been inspected. And he had done the whatever, like move where it's like not aggressive, just like letting his, his trainer know, each.
Woody Overton
One have a different sound. And also they're trained in foreign languages. So you can't say the dog's tearing your ass up. You can't say stop. They have certain words for it. They also have certain. It's a game for them to find whatever they're looking for. They know that's how they train them. They're going to get their toy if they're successful.
Cindy Overton
Yeah.
Woody Overton
And so he's done doing the alert and what happened?
Cindy Overton
And they opened up the, the suitcase and, and there was nothing in it. And so they closed up the suitcase and the dog got more set and they were trying to, you know, get rid of the suitcase. Like it was just going away. And he like went off like barking, like aggressive arc. Yes. He, they, they ended up having to cut a fake, like bottom out of it. And there was two baby tigers.
Woody Overton
What?
Cindy Overton
Two baby tigers.
Woody Overton
What?
Cindy Overton
Two baby tigers.
Woody Overton
And I was thought you could say meth. Mari.
Cindy Overton
Two baby tigers.
Woody Overton
That's crazy. Yeah, baby tigers.
Cindy Overton
Yeah.
Woody Overton
I watched all those smoking shows and some people try to like smuggling parrots and like that. Never heard of anybody smuggling baby tiger.
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Woody Overton
That's crazy. Yep. I'm not trying to one up to you but this literally is update on June 4, 2025 and 5 to 6pm okay, how weird is this? You know what the name of it is?
Cindy Overton
My equipment up all day y' all.
Woody Overton
Everything we do it's been a day.
Cindy Overton
Let me your day up more. Do I have permission to say yeah.
Woody Overton
I'm about to you down some more there y' all. It has been that day.
Cindy Overton
Not between us.
Woody Overton
Not between us. Main mechanical that go wrong has gone wrong on every level. Everything you can imagine, you couldn't even imagine.
Cindy Overton
It's still going on right now. I'm just not telling you cuz I don't want the table flipped.
Woody Overton
Not yet. Cuz I, I literally told her before we started st said well I said one more thing. I'm going to flip this table. It's not just podcast. We're talking about a bunch of stuff but not Cindy's and Woody stuff. It's just life. Right? So guess what?
Cindy Overton
What?
Woody Overton
I'm one up in your ass. Okay, now I'm going to tell y' all everything about Tom Girardi that you never knew.
Cindy Overton
Oh I have it all right here.
Woody Overton
You didn't want this just came out right now. This just came out.
Cindy Overton
I have it here in my head.
Woody Overton
Okay, so we're going to tell them about it because you, I didn't. You didn't tell me about all this. I didn't have know about all this. All right, so Thomas Girardi once portrayed a picture of power, wealth and fame. Now the former attorney ran the losses Los Angeles law firm Jared Casey for 55 years was known for taking on David versus Goliath cases, y' all. I'm reading from People magazine suing large corporations including Pacific Gas, Electric, Lock, Heat, Motion, Martin and Boeing among others and extracting huge settlements for his clients. Gerardi was also married to Real Housewives of Beverly Hill star Erica Gerard and the two showcased their ultimate lifestyle on the on the reality TV show pair often took private jets showed off their multi million dollar mansion in Pasadena and talented expensive jury and a forty thousand dollar month glam budget. What the fuck is that?
Cindy Overton
So she could get her hair and makeup done. 4000amonth and her Botox and all of her facials and her nails and 4,000 bucks.
Woody Overton
She better be looking at his bottle. According to Erica, their riches were the results of decades of hard work. She said. Tom did not grow over the silver spoon in his mouth. We both came up the whole hard.
Cindy Overton
Way and we appreciate GR she has a deeper voice for a woman.
Narrator
But that lifestyle came to an erupt.
Woody Overton
Halt abrupt, abrupt halt in November 2020 when Erica filed for divorce from Gerard. Within a month, the former lawyer was tangled in a complicated web of legal controversies. He was accused of embezzling his clients funds for his own personal spending. He was sued by his former law partners and his law firm was facing bankruptcy. Now since that shock of turn events, Jurari has been disbarred and found guilty in federal court of embezzling more than $15 million from his clients. In March 2021, he was diagnosed with dementia and late onset Alzheimer and was later moved into assisted living home. He has been residing in a memory care facility since October 2022 due to declining cognitive functions. So how did he get here, you might ask? Here's a look. Here's a look at the former attorney's fall from Grace Gross career beginnings to his federal indictment. Gerard, who was raised in Los Angeles, was inspired to pursue a career in law thanks to the 1950 television show Perry Mason who the didn't like Bray Mason, in which the character was a defense attorney. Now, after receiving his Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School that would be in New Orleans, Louisiana, and completing a master's degree in law at New York University, sure already started his own law firm in 1965. But instead of legal fence work, he watched on Perry Mason. He said, ah, that I'm going to to sue people personal injury cases, many of which refer to him by his connections in the legal world. Initially I relied on friends who are a couple of years ahead of me who would send me cases, gerard told attorney law magazine 2015. Every once in a while, criminal defense attorney Bob Courtney would get a dog bite or a slip and fall case and would send notice to me. This is how I did my early practice. Now Gerardi quickly made a from name himself, particularly in a medical malpractice case. By 1970, he had secured a malpractice verdict of 1.4 million, which was the largest of his kind in California at that time. Now he won millions in settlements for his clients following his successful medical malpractice. Gerard excelled in another area of personal injury law called toxic torts lawsuits, aiming at composition compensation for hazardous exposure to chemicals and pollutants. For more than 50 years, he took on lawsuits against major corporations, Ford and Merck, among others. Gerard won over 30 verdicts of 1 million or more and over 100 settlements of 1 million or more during his career. Okay, that's according to National Pros magazine. Lots of times insurance companies would settle with him on reputational loan. Another attorney told LA magazine so and y' all running along and now they talk about Aaron Rockfish, which we all know about. In 1993 he took it. He got $333 million settlement for that. The PG&E case. We know all about PG&E. And then he married R H O B H Real Housewives Beverly Hills in January 2000. Yes. So she's coming to the party a little late.
Cindy Overton
Well, she's. She's very young. I think she's younger than his children.
Woody Overton
So he likes Erica. Gerard met Eric in the late 1990s at Chasen's, a Beverly Hills restaurant where Gerard was a regular and Erica was a waitress. So they said Eric that time she was in her late 20s, newly divorced with a young son. Georgie was 32 years older. She said this was the best thing for my mind and this. That's what she told People magazine about me Gerori. But the pair developed a fast friendship and just months after their first date, she had moved in with attorney Bang City. So the two married in January 2000 at the Los Angeles Country Club. The LA Times says it was Erica's second marriage in Gerard's third. And despite Gerard's success as an attorney and his previous acrimonious divorces, he did not sign a pre up said everyone thought I was marrying him to have a baby and lock down the money, as ugly as that sounds. Eric was telling people about their age difference. But according to Erica, their love was genuine, wide.
Cindy Overton
It was.
Woody Overton
It was really two people coming together who really enjoy each other's company. That's what she said. But your already's personal professional life again. Sugar. Turn the and it began to crumble near the end of 2020 when Erica filed for divorce. So she got 20 years in.
Cindy Overton
Yeah.
Woody Overton
Then she got no money since she president. She said after much consideration, I have decided to end my marriage to Tom. And this is not a step taken lightly or easily. I have great love and respect for Tom and for all years and lives we built together. It's my absolute wish to proceed through this process with respect, with the privacy that both Tom and I deserved. I request others give Us that purpose privacy was. Well, well. One month after Eric filed for divorce, the couple were sued for allegedly embezzling money meant for Gerard's clients. Lawsuit borrowed on behalf of several families lost loved ones in the line Air Flight 16 crash claim that Gerard and Erica Bell at least 2 billion in funds meant for the families killed in the crash. And that's what case he settled against Bowen 2019 Thomas Resorts embezzling the proceeds of settlements that should have been directed at his clients, including as the basis for his complaint the widows and orphans who lost loved ones in tragic crash line Air Flight 610 in an order to continue in his and Erica's lavish Beverly Hill lifestyles. So sue says they were on the verge of financial collapse and they. He got placed on a conservatorship which was his younger brother. And this four months later he was diagnosed. What have you. What have you. Anyway, it just goes on and on and on. I just want you to be like this just came out after you gave us the story.
Cindy Overton
I didn't really give a story.
Woody Overton
What you mean?
Cindy Overton
I didn't. I didn't get through the first paragraph of the story.
Woody Overton
But it wasn't this story.
Cindy Overton
I'm not. No, I don't. I didn't read it to know if it was.
Woody Overton
This story technically would have been old news and this would have been.
Cindy Overton
Right, right. You're always going to bring the new news.
Woody Overton
Well, I just looked it up. I didn't make it up. It's just. That's how the day's been. It just popped up. You got anything else for us?
Cindy Overton
I do.
Woody Overton
Hurry before I take it.
Cindy Overton
Yeah, I've got a story about Epstein.
Woody Overton
Epstein, yeah. Sex drive, y' all. This. This weekend we dropped the first episode. Queens of digital marketing. Human sex trafficking. Tune into it. It's going to be a multi part series and Ms. Tina is one. And she tells it all.
Cindy Overton
She does.
Woody Overton
It's. It's something. I mean, really. Really?
Cindy Overton
Yeah.
Woody Overton
It's a pussy human face with sex trafficking.
Cindy Overton
Yeah. I mean it doesn't.
Woody Overton
Epstein and P. Diddy. Look, you tag them both in the next. Now, P. Diddy and Epstein were both charged with sex trafficking.
Cindy Overton
They were actually.
Woody Overton
They said one woman accused them both of.
Cindy Overton
That's right.
Woody Overton
Is that what you're talking about?
Cindy Overton
No.
Woody Overton
Okay.
Cindy Overton
So for years people have debated whether he was murdered or he could committed suicide. And so this story is out of New York. But in a move aimed at quelling years of speculation, the FBI announced plans to release surveillance footage that purportedly confirms Jeffrey Epstein Died by suicide in his jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center on August 10th of 2019. FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino stated that the video clearly shows Epstein was alone in his cell with no signs of outside involvement. And it's quoted Bank Bungino is reported or quoted saying there's video clear as day. He is the only person in there and the only person coming out.
Woody Overton
They got it wrong there. What Ghost of Elvis was in.
Cindy Overton
That's right. The footage does not capture the act of suicide itself, but is expected to show that no one entered or exited Epstein's cell during the critical time frame.
Narrator
Totally agree with that.
Woody Overton
Work cell box for many years. And it just didn't happen like that. You know, it's not like he was in gen pop general population. And they have the cell doors open, you know, 12 hours a day. These are locked down 23 out of 24 hours a day. He's on suicide while she's on whatever. And it's not like your. Your buddy from down the road is coming over to visit you if I mean, you're lockdown.
Cindy Overton
Right. And so despite the official ruling of a suicide by the medical examiner, Epstein's death has been the subject of widespread conspiracy. Conspiracy theories fueled by irregularities at the jail, including malfunctioning cameras and guards failing to perform required checks. Conspiracy.
Woody Overton
Everybody loves a conspiracy.
Cindy Overton
And then the independent autopsy.
Woody Overton
No doubt that the guards failed to do the checks. That's common standard. And we used to have to write it in a notebook. You're supposed to check them every five minutes. I mean, swim might not have gone down for an hour. Yeah, like you want to say check them for 12 hours.
Cindy Overton
Right, exactly. But apparently Epstein's family commissioned an independent autopsy. I don't think they used our parish forensic. Or Louisiana.
Woody Overton
Well, they. The autopsy would have been done by state. And then they got the independent.
Cindy Overton
Yes, and they did because they did not believe that he committed suicide.
Woody Overton
You know that pathologist that comes in as independent has got a mate. He didn't have to saw off the skull. He didn't have to peel the face off. He didn't have to rip them all open and. And take all the organs out. It's all there.
Narrator
Everything's been done.
Woody Overton
All the work's been done.
Cindy Overton
And by the time the. This secondary person goes in, his pants aren't on the ground like the ones.
Woody Overton
Yeah, right. So he didn't have sandwich with blood on his Walmart lamp.
Cindy Overton
So the. The independent autopsy suggested signs of possible strangulation.
Woody Overton
Hang yourself this way.
Cindy Overton
That's What? Right. So Bungino acknowledged the public's skepticism, but reiterated that there is no evidence contradicting the suicide conclusion. There's just nobody there. So I say to people, if you have a tip, let us know. But there's nothing there. So the FBI has not provided a specific timeline. The dude of the release of the.
Woody Overton
Footage, he's been dead for a minute. And if it hadn't come out by now, it ain't coming out. Right. If they, if there were shades gray to be painted or whatever the you want to say, they would already done that. Him, he was a bad dude.
Cindy Overton
And his, his lifelong like associate, whatever, her last name, whatever, just however you said her first name. Maxwell. That she was convicted. She got. Yeah, she got 20 years in prison, so.
Woody Overton
And they were gave old Bill Clinton. About that.
Cindy Overton
Yeah.
Woody Overton
You ready? I am going. You had such a fine day today. I'm going to give you the most heartwarming, wonderful, beautiful story we've ever done on true Grass.
Cindy Overton
I'm gonna walk out of this night. I'm walking out. I'm gonna flip those over. I'm out.
Woody Overton
All right, listen to this.
Narrator
It's time for family matters.
Woody Overton
Well, you know y' all family really does matter. And I always say you have to have a license to drive a car, but there's no kind of screening or anything to have a kid. And we're going to Arizona. This dude had a two year old daughter, right? And he, he went and picked up his daughter Kristen Salem from her daycare in December of 1999. And he's a good dad. He planned to take her to see the Christmas lights. This according to the East Valley Tribune in. Out in Arizona. So picks up a baby girl. Let's go look some Christmas lights. Right? And instead the twosome drove to a department store in Mesa, Arizona. And guess what he bought?
Cindy Overton
I don't even want to know.
Woody Overton
He purchased a gas can and then.
Cindy Overton
Bought some gas at a department store.
Woody Overton
That's what they said. Okay, so maybe that's different in Arizona. He then drove to a remote desert area in East Mesa and tell me. Oh yeah, this is horrible. No, he. He puts his two year old daughter on the ground. Poor douser. And gasoline. And set her on fire. Oh, it gets worse. She crawled about 10ft before she died.
Cindy Overton
Why are you doing this to me?
Woody Overton
Listen, that actually has. Makes me feel warm, fuzzy inside how it ends. Okay. All right. So ultimately the cops do what they do. And he got convicted of first degree murder and robbery in connection with robbery. Robbery connection to her killing in 2001. And thankfully I don't have to ask Siri, because the state of Arizona census Idiot death. Right.
Cindy Overton
Okay.
Woody Overton
No, no. However, in 2013, this part, I like this. She's crying for real, y' all. That in 2013 his death sentence was commuted after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that he had mental retardation. And so then they resented him to life in prison. All right. Right. So what do you do then? How does this make Woody feel all warm and fuzzy inside?
Cindy Overton
He got killed in prison.
Woody Overton
What else would he call that?
Cindy Overton
Prison justice.
Woody Overton
All right, so let me tell you what happened. His name is Sean ryan grail. He's 50 years old on April 19 this year at the ASPC Tucson facility, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections Rehabilitation Reentry, whatever the that means. So. But he was serving his life sentence for pouring the Gasoline on his two year old daughter. And April 19th, hell or jail, we don't care. The Grim Reaper came calling and he died in that facility. Okay, now let me see what happened. They said all M8 deaths are investigated, but they ain't investigating this. All right? All inmate deaths are investigated in consultation with the county medical examiner's office. This court reporter. Corrections. And they said it is unclear how they made that.
Cindy Overton
Yeah.
Woody Overton
I mean, come on, man. The only thing they can be possibly worse than child molester in prison. Yeah, I mean, regular murders, it's a big deal. You set your 2 year old baby on fire and she crawls for 10 yards, cuz she's burning it out. That knows. But he died on April 19. The fires of hell burned a little bit brighter. And I'm assuming this inmate justice. Or maybe the Grim reaper just came down and got this stick.
Narrator
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Woody Overton
In his sleep and said let me bring you to see the devil, right?
Cindy Overton
Yeah he is the devil and he is not mentally. If he knew well enough to I mean I would. I don't even know if that's probably for terminology to say these days. But that's what the report says. So. But yeah.
Woody Overton
But I have a reading report.
Cindy Overton
You did literally.
Woody Overton
Oh we had better helpless Warner SS and I was reading it over. Yeah. Courtroom docket. I didn't write this. This a court reporter said. And I said the mental retardation thing, man. I don't care what they call it where they lay with. But I was saying what was said in court.
Narrator
A court of law, a judge and.
Woody Overton
Better health office said you're insensitive to people who have. Okay. Whatever you call it. I'm not insensitive. I hate that. But I agree. I mean. I mean this dude you knew well enough two. Two years. Two years old. He drives it out in the desert and burns her to death.
Cindy Overton
He would just drive catch her on fireware. I mean I don't know.
Woody Overton
Leah Marie, we need. I actually want to do that story if you would research him and send it to you because I want to read the game. I know y' all. They have these websites where they list all the thing on appeals and I want to hear what his appeal. But more importantly they list the actual trial. Yeah. So where they listed details of why he did it. Please piss off his wife. He had a. He didn't just one day wake up and sound bar daughter though they might have been in a custody bathroom memory will get to the bottom of it and look good. So the. I mean it's just been such a fantastic day. I think I'm just gonna let you sit there and suck up the joy of it and I'll just give you a little bit more. All right. If you want a real happy story.
Cindy Overton
I don't want to be teased about a real happy story.
Woody Overton
Do you want a real happy story? Yes, if I'm happy. All right. Fuck it. I'm gonna give you a real happy story.
Cindy Overton
The guy's name is Happy.
Narrator
It's time for beast mode.
Woody Overton
So the Arizona be game and fish department and I I affectionately call them. I got good friends that are retired from it and everything else and whatever that's you know got to happen. Cuz there are out there that's just. Are total outlaws and then there's innocent people who have a little bit of fame behind them and they be trying to with them.
Cindy Overton
Yeah.
Woody Overton
Until. Because when he's. When he's not there.
Cindy Overton
Yeah.
Woody Overton
And they try to get the juice from other people that are on his property. And of course he wasn't doing anything wrong. We found out he Called our boss next day and gave him an earful. Never seen him since. But let's go the Arizona game of fish department. And I'm respecting this because I think about game warden you out there in the woods, especially during hunting season. Guess what? It's not like you stop a on the street for to ride with traffic. Te you know they are. Yeah. Everybody out there has got a gun, right?
Cindy Overton
Yeah.
Woody Overton
So I got mad respect for the good ones, the bad ones, and that's in the department. So going out to Arizona and man and his dog around the mountains even think it's coming a bad story. Yeah. Okay. A man and his dog around the mountains and on May 25, around 10pm a place called Buckeye, which is about 30 miles west of Phoenix, Arizona. The man was just walking his dog in this residential area called the Bardo. Right. I guess it means hills, mountains. And guess what happened.
Cindy Overton
The man found the dog, saved him.
Woody Overton
Close okay, but not quite that. Guess what suddenly appeared.
Cindy Overton
A bear.
Woody Overton
Close, but not quite a coyote. I don't think they had many bears in Arizona desert. A mountain lion roll.
Cindy Overton
Oh, my God.
Woody Overton
Mountain lion.
Narrator
Appears.
Woody Overton
And then it wasn't a Mexican standoff. Now, lion didn't just look at him. He approached them. Oh yes. And attacked them.
Cindy Overton
Both of them. At the same time. I understand. It reminded me of you getting attacked by a panther.
Woody Overton
Oh, God, that's the worst one. All right. But anyway, smoking a mountain lion attack. Both of them stops and he looks at like. And then he's on their ass. Right. He attacks him. The mountain lion only attacks one reason. That's to eat a. Yeah, right. So he's trying to eat him. And this is according to boss. I mean the Arizona game room and. And fish department. So they said the brief altercation did not result in serious injuries for the K9. Me and the dog naturally. Stupid.
Narrator
You know why?
Woody Overton
Because the reason I said that. Why didn't it resolve the serious injuries for the dog?
Cindy Overton
Because the. I'm guessing the man's the one that got attacked.
Woody Overton
He attacked both of them.
Cindy Overton
I know.
Woody Overton
Why would the dog receive less injuries than the man? This.
Cindy Overton
The man shot the mountain lion because.
Woody Overton
The man attacked the mountain lion. He was not one resolving him gun.
Cindy Overton
Well, you don't know that this is true.
Woody Overton
But the. So my line attacks both of them.
Cindy Overton
Okay.
Woody Overton
Man's like f you. I'm out here walking my dog, chilling in my Verada neighborhood. He attacks a mountain lion.
Cindy Overton
That's like you. That's like bigger than you are. That's like you A few minutes ago, mountain line would have walked into here.
Woody Overton
And said, oops, I was about to kill.
Cindy Overton
You better keep stay.
Woody Overton
I was about to kill another before we started this show. So. But anyway, so he starts kicking the line, trying to get him off his own, right. And they said. But the altercation didn't deter the mountain lion because then he. He kicked him off for a second. Mountain lion made a loop, came right back for some more like let's dance.
Cindy Overton
Yeah.
Woody Overton
Right. So the. Now at this time, the man is always an old suspense on the man, right? Exactly. And. And once he kicks him out of line, all down the line's like, I like to taste that ass. I'm gonna give me some of it. So back on. Right, Right. And here it comes. So he's. He's following the man and dog as they haul ass home. So then he closes the gap and gets on him again. But this time what happened?
Cindy Overton
They got into their house.
Woody Overton
Boom.
Cindy Overton
Well, where'd the gun come from?
Woody Overton
Boom. The man smoked him all around like a pack.
Cindy Overton
So he did have a stay tuned.
Woody Overton
So. And shot the big cat. Shot the big cat. Oh my God. Shot the big cat and killed it. And they go to the spots. I mean the state wildlife management agency came out and they investigated the incident and then they picked up that dead ass down the line without further incident.
Cindy Overton
And is he gonna get him stuffed now?
Woody Overton
Let's take the.
Cindy Overton
No, I know who picked him up.
Woody Overton
But them to taste like.
Cindy Overton
I don't know if I want to taste a mountain.
Woody Overton
L. Anyway, well the. Let me tell you a little bit about mountain lions and dogs. And okay. Said mountain lion and human encounters are rare, but the spread of urban and suburban sprawl is leading to increased run ins as the big cats lose their natural habitat. The University of Arizona estimate that roughly 2500-3000 wild mountain lions are living in the state. They said if you encounter a line, do not run, face the line and slowly back away before you eat your ass there. Seriously says, if you encounter a mountain lion, do not run, face the line and back away, leaving an escape route. Who the Say you can't run as far back fast backwards as you can forward.
Cindy Overton
You can't say, hey, mountain.
Woody Overton
Yeah, right. Hey. So the. Anyway, the university said in a statement on the island packet, you should also try to appear larger by raising your arms over your head. You may also throw rocks and sticks as long as you can avoid crouching.
Cindy Overton
That would freaking provocal.
Woody Overton
You tell me I can throw lots of sticks.
Narrator
I'm not Doing anything I want to.
Woody Overton
This trying to eat me.
Cindy Overton
Oh my gosh. So provoke him.
Woody Overton
Another dog owner recently went to extreme links to protect her pup. Kim Spencer of Tampa, Florida was on an evening walk with her dog Kuma when an alligator emerged from the lake nearby with a sightseeing. That happens all the time. Yeah, I was like anyway, when that alligator got to his head in the Shaws Spencer jumped on the back of the gator and rang on the reptile and said that's not thing I'm just doing it jumped on the shoulders and lit like that is and was trying to pry Shaws open but come and survive the attack thing suspensor blah blah blah blah blah. So the that is my happiest story in D. You and you want to see a picture of Al Shar the suspect pictures all the time. But you know, hey, public service announcement 2025 plus one's coming after you. You have Woody over's permission to do whatever the you want, right?
Cindy Overton
Yeah.
Woody Overton
If you get killed, you get killed. But at least go down here. Bite him on the balls. Bite anywhere you can. I don't give you my brother every year and be biting your foot. You might nut sack might be the only thing. It might be a female mountain lion. What you gonna do, bite an old egg? I don't know about the rest of the furry parts. All right. There's other ones. Man dead, brother injured at first fade. Mountain lion attack in California in 20 years. Pretty sure I don't want to with the mountain lion. Who you got the air sound. Two years ago, I saw my first one live. Now they got them like on Facebook.
Cindy Overton
And like in the middle of the Baton Rouge.
Woody Overton
First one I saw was here.
Cindy Overton
Yeah, I've never seen it. Yeah, sorry.
Woody Overton
So there you have it.
Cindy Overton
How did why the possum need cops? Like why are they called possum cops?
Woody Overton
I have no idea. I didn't make that derogatory. I don't use that derogatory slang term except what you do for game warrens. The I don't know. I couldn't answer. Somebody passed down over the years. Okay, look, the men and women of law enforcement gave war just had my ultimate respect. They do a job and no one else wants to do.
Cindy Overton
Yeah, right.
Woody Overton
They could have gone and been an FBI agent or I'm a science active or run motorcycle cop. Everybody's got their own place. Yeah y' all. I really do respect you.
Cindy Overton
Yeah.
Woody Overton
He left the lab. One of my buddies is retired. He's a great tax service now guy Adams, what the are you doing?
Cindy Overton
Thank goodness I'm so good at that.
Woody Overton
Anyway, you got to stop hitting that. I can't help it that it's not.
Narrator
Eight years of me doing that.
Woody Overton
I'm used to throwing these guns, and I'm not used to having a mounted microfiber. All right, so there you have it. That's it. Been a long day.
Cindy Overton
It's going to be a long day.
Woody Overton
Mama said there be days like this.
Cindy Overton
Mama said it would never be boring.
Woody Overton
Yeah. Yeah. First all you mamas out there. So the real life, real crime community app we downloaded for free from the app store. Go there first. I tell everybody, best week ever starts now.
Cindy Overton
They laughed at you. You.
Woody Overton
Yeah. And I didn't say who is to say what day of the week the week has to start on.
Cindy Overton
Apparently, the calendar does.
Woody Overton
I didn't say that the week partly wasn't already over. I was just saying that.
Cindy Overton
Yeah. I mean, we. We. You start off most days saying that. So, I mean, I think. I think Ruthie was just being funny. Yeah.
Woody Overton
So all good love appreciate each and every one of y' all recording the new hashtags us for me something. And that is recorded in this new studio. We are get all our straight.
Cindy Overton
Oh, we're getting it straight. This is ridiculous.
Woody Overton
Recording in the studio. This s. And. Oh, God, this is such a story. Every one of them is horrible and also fascinating in some way. Courtney's and then mary poo shows, Ms. Barbara's and Haley's and all the other ones that I work before, but this one. Holy. Totally, totally different than anything done for.
Cindy Overton
Yeah. I'm excited about that. Getting justice, but I'm really excited about the Queens.
Woody Overton
Yeah. That's coming out this week. So.
Cindy Overton
And that's a. I did finish editing it today, and it is amazing. And just to hear what that woman went through. That's just a part of what she went through.
Woody Overton
Yeah. You know, just stay tuned next week.
Cindy Overton
Talk about God having his hand in your life and how.
Woody Overton
Talk about bad.
Cindy Overton
Well, I know, but to bring your crime. Yeah.
Woody Overton
And surviving.
Cindy Overton
Survive and thriving.
Woody Overton
Yeah.
Cindy Overton
I love that.
Woody Overton
So that's it. You got anything else? All right, so, y' all, that's all I have for Thursday, June 5th. And Woody Oton.
Cindy Overton
I'm Cindy Overton, and this is true.
Woody Overton
Crime Time for this Thursday. Thursday. Mahalish Lair. Peace.
Real Life Real Crime: True Crime Time For June 5, 2025 | Child Murder, Celebrity Crime & a Mountain Lion Showdown
Hosted by Woody Overton and Cindy Overton
In this segment, Woody and Cindy delve into the downfall of Thomas Girardi, a once-respected attorney known for his high-profile cases and appearances on reality TV's "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills."
Background: Thomas Girardi ran the prestigious Los Angeles law firm Girardi & Keese, garnering fame for securing substantial settlements in cases against major corporations like Pacific Gas & Electric and Boeing.
Downfall:
Personal Life:
Current Status: Girardi has been residing in a memory care facility since October 2022 due to declining cognitive functions.
Woody and Cindy discuss a disturbing case involving severe animal neglect.
The Incident:
Charges and Consequences:
Yadgarov's Defense:
The hosts examine the ongoing controversy surrounding the death of financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Official Ruling:
Conspiracy Theories:
Authorities' Stance:
Woody and Cindy recount the tragic story of Sean Ryan Grail, who was convicted of a heinous crime involving his two-year-old daughter.
The Crime:
Legal Proceedings:
Inmate Death:
In a gripping wildlife encounter, Woody and Cindy narrate an intense confrontation between a man, his dog, and a mountain lion.
The Encounter:
Outcome:
Wildlife Management Insights:
Additional Stories:
In this episode of True Crime Time For, Woody and Cindy Overton navigate through a myriad of true crime stories, from high-profile legal scandals and heartbreaking personal tragedies to shocking wildlife confrontations. Their candid discussions, enriched with firsthand insights and notable quotes, offer listeners a comprehensive understanding of each case's complexities and underlying issues.
Notable Quotes:
Cindy on Girardi's Fraud: "He was the man who inspired the film Aaron Brockovich... He embezzled over 15 million from Beverly Hills housewives." [07:03]
Woody on Animal Cruelty Sentence: "If convicted, he faces up to a year behind bars. One year." [16:07]
Cindy on Grazedov's Apology: "Animals are voiceless and vulnerable and deserve to be treated with basic care and decency." [14:59]
For those intrigued by these in-depth crime analyses and real-life stories, Real Life Real Crime continues to deliver captivating narratives that shed light on the darkest corners of human behavior.