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Jimmy Wisman
Yay.
James Petrigallo
Oh yay. Jimmy is on it today. Yay indeed, Jimmy. Yay indeed. My name is James Petrigallo. I'm here with my co host.
Jimmy Wisman
I'm Jimmy Wisman.
James Petrigallo
Thank you so much for joining us on another amazingly fun episode of small town Murder. Crazy, weird dark stuff here. We're going to go back to Alabama this week. It's crazy episode. Before we get to that though, would like to definitely say head over to shut up and give me murder dot com. What's there, you may ask. Merch number one. Get all the merch you want. Also tickets to live shows. Live shows in person. Austin, you are up next to Austin, Texas. So get your tickets. Phoenix is sold out the next night. No chance of any tickets there. We are releasing the few tickets we have left for Tarrytown. By the way, people have been saying it's sold out. We have a few tickets left so we're going to get those out there. Get your tickets for Boston and get your tickets for the virtual live show. It took place on October 30th is when it's happening. But you can watch it for two weeks after that. You can buy it whenever you want. You can watch it 100 times. Hang out with us. Wait till you see our costumes.
Jimmy Wisman
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Jimmy Wisman
There you go.
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Jimmy Wisman
Never heard of it.
James Petrigallo
It's from the 1800s. It was more popular than baseball and soccer and everything else in Europe. And it's the dumbest thing you've ever heard. And we'll talk all about it. Old timey madness.
Jimmy Wisman
Can't wait to find out how you score.
James Petrigallo
You don't. It's like power walking. Then for small town murder, we're going to talk about this exorcism that's on. That's on Netflix right now.
Jimmy Wisman
Unbelievably.
James Petrigallo
Devil. The Devil on Trial. That's. That's a much different movie. The Devil on Trial. It's about the only trial where someone tried to use demonic possession as an alibi, I guess you could say. Unbelievable excuse. And also just kind of exorcism madness all over the place. We'll do that. Patreon.com crime and sports. Get in there right now and you get a shout out to the regular show here. So can't beat that. Get in there. That said, disclaimer time. It's a comedy show, everybody. Now the murders. Nothing funny about that.
Jimmy Wisman
No.
James Petrigallo
Well, I mean, sometimes, but not the actual murder. There's nothing funny about the actual murder. The funny parts come all around the murder when someone goes, hey, I think I can get away with this.
Jimmy Wisman
I bet you can.
James Petrigallo
I bet you can. Because most of the people we're talking about are not bright enough to try to do that. So that's the thing here, what we don't do, what we go out of our way not to do, is we don't make fun of the victims or the victims families.
Jimmy Wisman
Why, James?
James Petrigallo
Because we're assholes. But we're not scumbags. See how that works? Pretty good deal, pretty simple. So if you think that that sounds good to you and you think that sounds fun, you're on board. Excellent. If you think true crime and comedy should never ever go together, maybe we're not for you. But maybe we are. And maybe you're just not. Really.
Jimmy Wisman
Give it a shot.
James Petrigallo
Give it a shot. That's all we're saying. But for the rest of you that want to hear a crazy story and can't wait, we have it for you. Locked and loaded. I think it's time Clear the lungs. Let's all sit back, arms to the sky, and let's all shout, Shut up.
Jimmy Wisman
And give me murder. Let's do this, everybody.
James Petrigallo
Let's go on a trip. We're going all the way to Alabama. Here we go. This is Calera Alabama.
Jimmy Wisman
How do you spell that?
James Petrigallo
C, A, L, E, R, A. Calera Alabama.
Jimmy Wisman
It's almost like the disease.
James Petrigallo
It's cholera. Alabama. Let's go, everybody. Any other Oregon trail ailments? Ailments here. Dysentery. Georgia, are we heading to next week? So Colera, Alabama. It's in central Alabama. And this, by the way, if you're going. This sounds familiar. We did this case for the virtual live show. So we do the virtual live shows, like every six months. And then six months later, we'll do it as a regular show. Because you know what? It's a story that we have done already. So I'm not going to just throw it away. We're doing. And it's. We pick great stories for live shows. So it's a good one here. Central Alabama. It's about 35 minutes to Birmingham. And go up there, it's about three, three hours and 15 minutes to Chinchula, Alabama.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, boy.
James Petrigallo
Which was the last Alabama one before this, which was Bargain Bin Bundy.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, yeah.
James Petrigallo
If you remember. And then we did another Alabama, but that's another sort. So this is in Shelby county. And the motto here. Wow, they're pushing hard to the rack here. The heart of the heart of Dixie. Oh, the heart of the heart.
Jimmy Wisman
So you see, there's a heart. But right there in the middle of.
James Petrigallo
That, that's the heart where the left ventricle of the heart that don't have. This doesn't have the same. Yeah, I don't feel it doesn't pop.
Jimmy Wisman
Doesn't zing with the paint.
James Petrigallo
Triple.
Jimmy Wisman
It's too many syllables.
James Petrigallo
What else? Aortas. Maybe it's a heart thing. I'm looking in this book.
Jimmy Wisman
The valve of the heart.
James Petrigallo
No, no, that don't sound good. Nobody likes V's in there. That doesn't work. Heart of the heart of that perfect.
Jimmy Wisman
Heart of the heart.
James Petrigallo
Heart of the heart of Dixie. So it is Dixie through and through here. Incorporated in 1893. Calera gets its name from the Spanish word that means limestone.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, does it?
James Petrigallo
I suppose so. Or it did in 1893. The town was known as Lime Kiln Station before it was incorporated. And then they said, well, that sounds like.
Jimmy Wisman
It sounds gross.
James Petrigallo
That sounds like a filthy industrial shithole. Let's Change that name.
Jimmy Wisman
It sounds smoky.
James Petrigallo
Limekiln Station does not sound good. That's like when they give them names and numbers.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Like some of them were like, this town was called like Area 62, Space 5 before it was. Before it was called, you know, Pleasant Town or some shit. You're like, okay, that's weird.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
The location was in the heart of the lime producing area of the state.
Jimmy Wisman
Didn't know.
James Petrigallo
One of the largest chemical lime producing areas in the United States here.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, it makes that.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. Who the hell. Who thinks. Where do they make chemical lime at? Yeah. Unless you're trying to get rid of a body quickly, I don't. You'd really have no need to even think about it.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, boy.
James Petrigallo
So it was established, this county, in 1818, and the county was named for a Revolutionary war hero and the first governor of Kentucky, Isaac Shelby.
Jimmy Wisman
Yep.
James Petrigallo
And the first courthouse was built of logs. Fucking logs. They Lincoln logged that first. The first courthouse. It was initially housed in an old school building which was a log building. And then they built a brick courthouse in 1854. Yeah, that's a good move because as we know, everything in this country burned down from like 1885 to 1930. So they had to rebuild it. It's now known as the old Shelby Courthouse and it houses the Shelby County Museum and Archives. Yeah. And the current limestone courthouse was built from 1905 to 1906 at a cost of $300,000. Then.
Jimmy Wisman
What a deal.
James Petrigallo
Which is like, wow, a lot of money. So much money. Now we're taking 1905.
Jimmy Wisman
It's the GDP of our country.
James Petrigallo
How the hell did they afford that 300 grand? How did they get 300 grand in a. Back then? That's wild.
Jimmy Wisman
That's a big bank loan.
James Petrigallo
Wow. Shelby county has a long history in agriculture. Since about 1990, it's become a big location for growing soybeans. Oh, so there you go. Soybeans. Reviews of this town. We've never been there. The hell do we know about it? I don't. I don't plan on it anytime soon. No, probably not. Five stars seems out of the way. No reason to go there. I don't think we're going to do a live show in Calera. Probably.
Jimmy Wisman
I'm not flying over it even.
James Petrigallo
No, down there. Crossing over. Five stars. Small town. Nice People love that. Easy to find. Everything clean. Is it clean? Yeah, it better be. There's nobody here. Starting to build it up more and more. They are building more houses, places to eat and things to do. Anything you need can be found in the city, easy access to the interstate, or even backroads to get to new nearby cities. I'll stay off of those, thank you. I've seen my cousin Vinny and I will. I will not have a repeat of that.
Jimmy Wisman
This town is like a plaid skirt. Easy access.
James Petrigallo
Easy access. Four stars. The crime in my city isn't bad. We'll be the judge of that.
Jimmy Wisman
Right?
James Petrigallo
I think we have the stats and you don't.
Jimmy Wisman
James is more thorough.
James Petrigallo
We got this. It's pretty rare when something bad happens here. If there is a problem, the police comes when they aren't busy.
Jimmy Wisman
Do they?
James Petrigallo
When they aren't busy? We're busy now. Hey. Yeah. My son just stabbed my husband. We're busy. The police, they will comes when they're not busy if they don't have other stuff going on.
Jimmy Wisman
Also, never put if there's a problem in anything because I'll always say check out the hook while my DJ revolves.
James Petrigallo
Well, at least they didn't say they'd solve it. Yeah, that helps. They didn't say they'd solve it.
Jimmy Wisman
Comes and solves it.
James Petrigallo
But by the way, every single word has a capitalized first letter in this. So they had.
Jimmy Wisman
Is that right?
James Petrigallo
They didn't just do all caps. They shift capital P every single word.
Jimmy Wisman
Wow.
James Petrigallo
It's the weirdest looking. I've never seen it before. Problem, yo, I'll solve. It's weirder like that, right? It's much weird. That's nuts.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, it's like lyrics.
James Petrigallo
It's strange. I don't know why they would present them like that. And there's no like spaces after the periods anyway.
Jimmy Wisman
And the cops comes.
James Petrigallo
They comes, they'll comes if they're not too busy.
Jimmy Wisman
That's awesome.
James Petrigallo
Three stars.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
I don't know much about this area.
Jimmy Wisman
Okay.
James Petrigallo
How about you learn a little before you make a review then logged on. What are you doing? Why would you go. I'm gonna make a review of this. I don't know very much about it.
Jimmy Wisman
Why'd you wait on all those sounds your computer was making?
James Petrigallo
And should I give it three star, five stars? Well, I don't know too much about one star. Well, I can't. I don't know too much. We'll just go three. We'll just play it right down the middle just in case.
Jimmy Wisman
Real safe.
James Petrigallo
Two stars. For late night food and drinks, there is one bar and the restaurants close early. The one bar is very small and crowded. I bet it is crowded. If there's only one of Them.
Jimmy Wisman
What's it called? Jesus. No plug.
James Petrigallo
They're not telling us Jesus. They want to keep it. You kidding me? It's crowded already. So many more people.
Jimmy Wisman
Don't tell anybody about the paper tiger.
James Petrigallo
Fuck One star. Like living in Mayberry. Police are very crooked. They don't know how to handle new people. New people that come in.
Jimmy Wisman
Do the police handle that?
James Petrigallo
Apparently when you come into town, they're going to handle you. Apparently.
Jimmy Wisman
How long you been.
James Petrigallo
Shit. She built houses everywhere and nothing is open past 10pm they only have five stores.
Jimmy Wisman
That is tough.
James Petrigallo
Or as the other person put it, anything you need can be found in this city before 10pm before 10pm they're not out late much. People in this town, 16,126. So that's actually a decent sized town. It's 35 minutes from Birmingham, so that makes sense. So it's like driving distance to Nashville.
Jimmy Wisman
There's a nice little area that's a little secluded, a little out of the way, a little peace and quiet.
James Petrigallo
Oh, little.
Jimmy Wisman
Questionable.
James Petrigallo
Little questionable, yeah. I don't think. A little dangerous for guys like me probably. I don't like it.
Jimmy Wisman
Anybody more ethnic than Toby Keith?
James Petrigallo
Yeah, it's a little bit. Yeah, that's. That's the scale. I feel like more ethnic than Toby Keith means stay off this back road. Population 16, 126. There's way more females than males. Like over 52% for some reason. 32 point is the median age so young, so low. Yeah, that's. That's very young. I think maybe the college being college being close by. Young children are all above average and 25 to 44 are above average. So they're fucking and having young children. It's pretty, pretty obvious what's happening here. 56% married. All like the divorce rates lower. The married with. Are single with children is lower. So it's kind of a family area here. Race of this town, 65.6% white, 27.9% black, 0.9% Asian, 3% Hispanic. Religion here a lot of religion. 70.7% religious and Baptist, 51% Baptist. As we know, Baptists are the Catholics of the South. They're going to be everywhere number one every week with a bullet. Unemployment rate here very low. It's under 3%.
Jimmy Wisman
That's great.
James Petrigallo
Which is extremely. That's actually not great. It's dangerous when it gets down that low. Then they can't find people to do shit at that point. It's weird. Yeah. Apparently you want like a 4, like economically in the balance a 4 means that there's people to. I mean it sucks for that four.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah. It's not going well for them.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. For everybody else, I guess it's good. Median household income here is $70,500. You're doing, well, about 1,000 more than the national average. So that's fine. Everything's great there. Cost of living here, 100 is average. Here it is 100.1 right around there. Yeah. On the money there. And we find that housing is actually the low thing here. Really? That's what's cheap. Median home cost $228,100.
Jimmy Wisman
That's unbelievable.
James Petrigallo
That's. And they're doing well with their. With their finances. So not too shabby here. And if you agree, here we go. And you need to come here. We have for you if you want to be done with all your shopping by 10pm we have for you the Calara, Alabama real estate report. The average two bedroom rental here goes for 1260 bucks, which is about the average. And anytime there's a college anywhere near anything, rent prices are way up because that's all everybody's doing. Here's a three bedroom, one bath, 1344 square foot house. It's not bad. It says attention home hunters on the listing and all capital letters here. It's nestled near a limestone park and Oak Mountain State Park.
Jimmy Wisman
What do you do with the limestone?
James Petrigallo
I don't know. Just look at the lime go. That's dusty and weird.
Jimmy Wisman
Bunch of kids leaving with scraped elbows.
James Petrigallo
I don't understand that. Perfect for families. That boasts a water heater less than a year old.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, the house does.
James Petrigallo
The house does, not the park. It's perfect for families because the water heater works.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
So a backyard shed and a front storm shelter for safety. 0.75 acres. Not a bad house. 99,000 bucks.
Jimmy Wisman
99 grand.
James Petrigallo
3 bedroom, 1350 square feet.
Jimmy Wisman
That's like a trip in time. That's what I paid for my first house.
James Petrigallo
That was that size 2001. Yeah, yeah. Three, 2003. Here's a four bedroom, three bath, 2556 square feet. It's built in 2016, so it is pretty new. It's pretty new. It's interesting though. It's. It looks. They staged it. Obviously had someone stage it. Like no one lives it set up like a hotel lobby. No one lives like that. It's. It's weird. No one puts fresh lilies out on a daily basis. I don't think.
Jimmy Wisman
Where do you throw your bags when you walk in the door?
James Petrigallo
Exactly. So it's a little bit weird how, but weird here. But it's interesting. It's $310,000. How many square feet? 25, 56. Four bedroom, three bath. That's not bad. But it's very cookie cutter.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, you can make it your own for that money.
James Petrigallo
You gotta want to live in a cookie cutter neighborhood. This one here, four bedroom, four bath, T bowl for each and every B hole out there. 3,000 and square feet on two acres.
Jimmy Wisman
Fucking what?
James Petrigallo
It's lovely. This house is absolutely. Has been redone to the specifications of 2023 HGTV. Like they just. Yeah, they just barn doors. They watch somebody barn door to somebody redo a house, and they were like, fuck, yeah. That's all there is to it.
Jimmy Wisman
Move that bus.
James Petrigallo
That's it. And it's. In five years, it'll look like everyone will go, yeah, five years somebody's gonna walk in and go, why all the gray? Why all the gray? A lot of photoshopped things in here too. They photoshopped a Pac man arcade machine in here for some reason, which is an interesting choice. If I go into a house and I expect a Pac man machine and.
Jimmy Wisman
It'S not there, you better have a.
James Petrigallo
Fucking Pac man machine is all I'm saying. Especially for $724,900. That machine's about 800 bucks.
Jimmy Wisman
Just get it and put it in the house.
James Petrigallo
But you know what? It's just been reduced. It's been slashed. 699,900. It's a bargain. Get on in there. And then finally, things to do.
Jimmy Wisman
Here we go.
James Petrigallo
The third annual crawfish boil.
Jimmy Wisman
Yep.
James Petrigallo
Let's get boiling.
Jimmy Wisman
I don't get it.
James Petrigallo
I love a crawfish. Oh, they're so good. Pop those tails off.
Jimmy Wisman
Feels like a lot of work.
James Petrigallo
It's not. You pop the tail off, you pull it out and you suck the thing. You suck the body.
Jimmy Wisman
How much meat is it in the tail?
James Petrigallo
A little bit. You eat like 50 of them. They're great. That feels like you get a pile and it's fun. And you rip them apart and you get them and you eat them. And there's potatoes. It's fucking good. Geez, man, am I more southern than you here on.
Jimmy Wisman
Feels like a slaughter for nothing.
James Petrigallo
That's great. They're fucking river roaches. Who cares? Slaughter them. They're great. They're delicious. I love them.
Jimmy Wisman
I made them at the river. Great. And just ate the claws. Just like crack those.
James Petrigallo
That's the one thing you don't Eat.
Jimmy Wisman
Is that right?
James Petrigallo
They're too tiny. Yeah, you just pop the tail. Yeah, you pop the tail.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah. There's not a lot of meat in the claw.
James Petrigallo
No, nobody does that. Yeah, you pop the tail, pull the meat and then suck on the body. And then you get all the juice out. Like the seasoning that you've done. And then you throw it away. Huh? Whole thing. Throw it away. Yeah, they're good. We had a big boil over the summer, man. We weren't here for it.
Jimmy Wisman
Son of a bitch.
James Petrigallo
Can't believe it. This year there's local vendors, fun and games, live music that they're not going to tell us about because it's so good. Yeah, I love that. And so brag about it.
Jimmy Wisman
Big fan of the mystery guest.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. The. Well, it's presented by the sponsor, ERA King Real Estate.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, yeah.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. They're saying come on down. They say they invite you to our third annual crawfish. But that sounds festive. The ERA real estate people. Also the Strawberry Festival and car show.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Why not mix those together?
Jimmy Wisman
I like strawberry shake and lean over my 67 Camaro.
James Petrigallo
How many years did the organizers have separate festivals? And like, it's gotta be the Strawberry Festival drawing people away from us and vice versa. So they finally said, you know what?
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Like two warring mob families that we could share this neighborhood. What do you say?
Jimmy Wisman
Bill brought that fucking hot ass Nova out of his garage. Nobody's gonna come get shortcake.
James Petrigallo
He's got a 69 challenger. His wife's got the shortcake. This place is fucking great. It's my favorite. It says there's nothing like biting into a sweet and juicy strawberry. Strawberries are wonderful.
Jimmy Wisman
Pretty legit.
James Petrigallo
And you add some festive music and a dash of outdoor family fun and you've got a recipe for a good time there, Char. It doesn't say Charlie, but I'm calling you Charlie.
Jimmy Wisman
A little bit of some Beach Boys surfboard on the top of a Volkswagen Pocomo on loop. Let's do it.
James Petrigallo
Kokomo on loop. Not even old Beach Boys. 80s Beach Boys.
Jimmy Wisman
Stamos.
James Petrigallo
Beach Boys. We're all sober Beach Boys. We don't even Manson. Who? Beach Boys. Yep, those are the ones. Our drummer's dead. Beach Boys. The one who hung out with Manson drowned. Don't worry, Beach Boys.
Jimmy Wisman
Everything's fine.
James Petrigallo
Poor Denny.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Denny was a mess.
Jimmy Wisman
They were supposed to be. It was a messy time.
James Petrigallo
It must be a mess. It's the 60s. Invite a gaggle of hippies over to your house and have them Take over. Who cares?
Jimmy Wisman
That's great.
James Petrigallo
So they said that the Strawberry Festival will feature all of the above. Well, that's good. At least they weren't telling us things. And then. Go. Now we'll have some of that stuff, but not all of it.
Jimmy Wisman
All of the above.
James Petrigallo
In addition to strawberry vendors, attendees will find food trucks, a car show, a kid zone, and plenty of live music. Who's the live music from? Local high school bands and choirs. No, that's gonna be great. As well as guest musicians. Automatic Slim Blues Band.
Jimmy Wisman
That's. Oh, Automatic Slim.
James Petrigallo
Automatic Slim Blues Band. That's a whole.
Jimmy Wisman
Right, but is it Automatic Slim Blues Band or is it Automatic Slim Blues?
James Petrigallo
No, no. Automatic Slim Blues Band. Four words.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, but I don't know where the emphasis is supposed to be.
James Petrigallo
I don't think you're supposed to. I don't think we're supposed to know where the emphasis is supposed to be. Well, you know what their emphasis is from 12 to 2pm so if you're in, if you're a performer and your fucking call time is like pre noon youn're not doing well, I'll tell you that right now.
Jimmy Wisman
High noon is your. That's when you start.
James Petrigallo
And then the headliners will be. The headliners is the name of that with a Z. Yeah, the headliners. They go on at three. Of course. I mean, they won't go on before two. That's a thing that comes with that. It's the 11th time they're doing this and the event planners hope to make it the biggest one yet. Sure. Tyler Madison, who runs this joint, says, we're trying to make it the biggest it's ever been. Just come on out and have some fun.
Jimmy Wisman
Do what Tyler says.
James Petrigallo
Just come on out and have some fun. It's not even trying to. I'm not gonna sell it to you anymore. Just. Just come on out, okay? Eat a fucking strawberry. What do you want?
Jimmy Wisman
Make it bigger.
James Petrigallo
Then he says it's a free for all festival for the community, which he means it's free for all. But it makes it sound like people are just brawling in the streets throwing strawberries at each other.
Jimmy Wisman
WrestleMania of the whole town.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. Slamming each other on classic car hoods and shit. Hell yeah. Festival. The Strawberry Festival will be a cupcake eating contest featuring cupcakes provided by the local bakery creations galore and more. Sure. So we gotta have that, obviously. And there's the whole schedule here of everything. Enjoy. Enjoy. A day with family and friends. Vendors will be selling foods, arts, crafts, produce and of course. Yep. Strawberries obviously.
Jimmy Wisman
Fucking better be.
James Petrigallo
Then there's a kid zone where they claim to include a princess character. Meet and greet, face painting, balloon art, inflatables. These are all things you can promise. And unicorn rides. Yeah, I'm calling you out on that, sir. Where's your unicorn?
Jimmy Wisman
Show me a picture.
James Petrigallo
You have a pony with a fucking horn strap to his head.
Jimmy Wisman
You glued a corn cob to that thing's face.
James Petrigallo
There's a leather strap around its chin. You're not even fooling children with that.
Jimmy Wisman
I don't think unless you hammered it.
James Petrigallo
Into this poor horse's face, they might.
Jimmy Wisman
Have made one and you need to be arrested.
James Petrigallo
Made me a unicorn. Here he is.
Jimmy Wisman
Staple it to its head.
James Petrigallo
Wow. It says, enjoy a plethora of baked goods such as cake pops while perusing the handmade crafts, clothing and jewelry to displayed from various vendors and vintage boutiques. It's also a swap meet.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, it's every festival in America.
James Petrigallo
It's all of them. So that said, crime rate, what we are interested in here, property crime is slightly above average. So there's more.
Jimmy Wisman
More than you think. Maybe these cops don't come.
James Petrigallo
I was gonna say nobody comes is the problem. That's the issue. Violent crime, though. Murder, rape, robbery, and of course, assault. You'd expect that to be low at least right? About average.
Jimmy Wisman
What in the is going on?
James Petrigallo
I don't know what's happening here, but these people seem to be. They seem very happy. And we're crime free. And if there is a problem, which there never is, apparently there is more than.
Jimmy Wisman
Maybe that's why they didn't solve it.
James Petrigallo
I think so. Maybe they should have checked out the hook.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, get that DJ revolved.
James Petrigallo
That's what I mean. That's the problem. I don't think anybody realized what's happening here.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, that guy just stopped it. If there's a problem, he didn't do anything else.
James Petrigallo
Nothing else. So that said, let's talk about a murder here and some wild shit here. Let's start out hot. January 13, 2018. Yeah, there is a young lady named Makorsha Purifoy.
Jimmy Wisman
Hell yeah, that is.
James Petrigallo
That's a handle. Boy. That's my Korsha Purifoy.
Jimmy Wisman
Glad you're saddled with that burden. I love that one.
James Petrigallo
They're both hard to say. Yeah, it's one of your names. But when both are hard to say.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, it's like, oh my God.
James Petrigallo
Your brain goes, oh, no, what do I do? It panics.
Jimmy Wisman
I'm not in the right place.
James Petrigallo
Your brain's set to pronounce one name, and you're like, oh, God, both of those are hard. I don't know.
Jimmy Wisman
Two nightmares. Did I leave the country?
James Petrigallo
Yeah. That's why I'm lucky my parents didn't name me after their grandfathers. And I'm not Gaetano Biaggio Petrogallo. That would have been. People's head would fucking explode. At least James are like, all right, I understand that one.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
So now she's 19 years old. Sure. And she is headed out. She lives on this. In this suburban neighborhood, and she is headed out to go to her work at a fast food restaurant.
Jimmy Wisman
What one?
James Petrigallo
Don't know.
Jimmy Wisman
We don't know.
James Petrigallo
Not important at all. But she's going out to sling french fries in one way or the other, I assume. Maybe it's that one. What is the one Alabama one we did.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, with the fries.
James Petrigallo
You got to eat them in the car. Eat them in the car. Was it.
Jimmy Wisman
Fuck.
James Petrigallo
Was it checkers?
Jimmy Wisman
I don't know.
James Petrigallo
I don't remember. But I want to eat wherever that was because the fries sounded really good.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
You got to eat them in the car.
Jimmy Wisman
Otherwise they're trash.
James Petrigallo
They're trash. I love all the Alabama where people were like, she's full of shit. Because nobody. Nobody waits to eat them fries. They were, like, so vocal.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah. Ain't no. Ain't no way she's telling the truth.
James Petrigallo
We got so many messages and everything. That lady's lying because you do not wait to eat those french fries. And it was like.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Not even like a joke thing. They were all dead serious. Like, when you get those french fries, you eat them right away. That lady is lying. Put her in prison.
Jimmy Wisman
It's the most desirous. Does your kitchen cook grits quicker than anywhere else argument ever. It's amazing.
James Petrigallo
It's damning circumstantial evidence in the history of murder down there. It was wild.
Jimmy Wisman
Are you. Are we to believe that your stove cooks grits faster than any other place on the planet?
James Petrigallo
That boiling water soaks into a grit faster on your stove than any other place on the planet? Love that. So boiling water soaks into the grit. So McCorsha says it was dark, it was cold. I wasn't sure, like, what I was seeing. That's January, right. In northern Alabama, in January gets cold.
Jimmy Wisman
In the south, just in general. It gets cold. They have fucking ice storms.
James Petrigallo
They'll tell you the weather's not. The weather is horrible down there. In the summer, it's a hundred degrees and humid and it's fucking. And it's cold as shit in the winter.
Jimmy Wisman
It's just shit.
James Petrigallo
It's hot and shitty.
Jimmy Wisman
Worst weather in the country.
James Petrigallo
My dad lived in North Carolina and I'm like, when is it nice out? Never went from freezing to fucking humid. Sweating, my ball stuck to my leg. In a day.
Jimmy Wisman
Four seasons of it'll all kill you. It's crazy.
James Petrigallo
It's insane down there. So, yeah, the weather gets rough down there. So I guess she. This is before dawn. This is pre dawn. And she is driving, going to fast. God, Jesus. Leaving your house pre dawn to go make fucking hash browns.
Jimmy Wisman
It's freezing.
James Petrigallo
Oh, God, Jesus, that's rough. And she says she spotted something in the road. She said, I think I see a person laying in the road is what she said. She was on the phone, she called her mom and said, I think I see something. Well, halfway in the road. She didn't know. So rather than, you know, pulling up and checking it out, she went back home to get her parents circle back at mom. She doesn't want to go check this out by herself, which I don't blame her. It could be somebody who's, you know, playing a trick and she's. They're gonna jump up and kidnap her. You don't know. You're smart. So she's like, she goes home and gets her dad and her mom. Hey, everybody, Just gonna take a quick break from the show to tell you a little bit more about the most safe sponsor there is. SimpliSafe.
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Jimmy Wisman
After circling back, we will circle back.
James Petrigallo
We will circle back and let us introduce some people. Okay here. Okay. Let's talk about Kathleen Dawn Martin. Okay. Now she'll go by Cat West.
Jimmy Wisman
Hell yeah.
James Petrigallo
As west will be her married name later on. And Kat, short for Kathleen, heard his second name. That's her kind of Internet personality, Kat West. So friends of hers say she's very extroverted always. She was born in 1975 by the way. And she's very extroverted. And they said she's always the life of the party. They said she has an online personality that we'll talk about later. But sure, it's kind of like her regular personality too. And it's weird because a lot of people, a lot of articles talk about how she's led a double life, but it's not a double life at all. It's out in the open life. It's very strange how they act like she was. They act like the husband and kids went to bed and then she grabbed a miniskirt and went out on the street and gave $20 blowjobs. That's what they act like it was and no one knew about it. That's how they act like it was.
Jimmy Wisman
Wait until she heard snoring in the house and then she's like, blowjob time. Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Like one of those suburban prostitution rings where all the mothers are like, we're bored. I don't think that ever happens in real life. But in movies that's always a thing where like eight attractive 35 year old ladies who's.
Jimmy Wisman
We're just tired of going to soccer practice.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. They have kids in the fourth grade together and they're like, you guys want to fuck for money?
Jimmy Wisman
We should.
James Petrigallo
Right? We should totally do it. And then they just get together and do it. It's a weirdest shit.
Jimmy Wisman
Slice one more fucking orange on.
James Petrigallo
I can't do it, can't do it anymore. Saturday afternoon, the goddamn Alabama football game's on. I can't do it. I'm not doing it.
Jimmy Wisman
I just want to blow a string.
James Petrigallo
For money I don't need that's all I want to do. Yeah, it's all that happens. I've seen like six movies where that's a plot. It's like, how is that a plot.
Jimmy Wisman
For walking around money?
James Petrigallo
Yeah. Just feel like doing it. I know it happened once in real life.
Jimmy Wisman
Did it really?
James Petrigallo
Yeah, there was a real thing that. That happened and they've made like. Like it happens everywhere now.
Jimmy Wisman
What a dream.
James Petrigallo
That's amazing. Oh, wow. So that's her friend. That's Kat's friend Britney that says she's very extroverted. Life of the party. She said Kat would get on stages and sing. She couldn't sing for the life of her. But she was sing. She would sing. She was proud of who she was. Now that's the type of. And that's the advantage of being a very. Like a hot woman.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
You can have no singing ability. You get up there and people are.
Jimmy Wisman
Like, yeah, give it hell, girl.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. Whereas us, they'd be like, okay, fucker, get off the fucking. Come on. Jesus Christ. Quit wasting.
Jimmy Wisman
You gonna sing the second verse too?
James Petrigallo
No, no.
Jimmy Wisman
You already did one. Get out.
James Petrigallo
He's not doing Free Bird. No, it's long. No, give him like an Ace of Bass song.
Jimmy Wisman
Is that the intro to November Rain? You son of a bitch.
James Petrigallo
No scenes from an Italian restaurant. No, I'm sorry.
Jimmy Wisman
He's gonna air guitar slashes part.
James Petrigallo
Fucking A. He's gonna air piano. Billy Joel solo And I won't have it. So as a kid, her mom, Nancy said she loved to be outside. That was her thing. She liked to go out. She said that was her big deal. She had a swing set. So she liked to be outside in the swing set. She likes to be like, seems like physically active doing things. Yeah, she likes to move around and do things. And later on we'll find out. When she gets drunk, she gets really active.
Jimmy Wisman
Really?
James Petrigallo
Yeah. When I get drunk, I'm like, oh, you know, we laugh, I'll walk around a little bit. But I'm not like, hey, let's go play basketball. Like, that's not.
Jimmy Wisman
I'll throw up.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. She goes on a trampoline when she gets shit faced.
Jimmy Wisman
I will for sure.
James Petrigallo
You are tempting fate right there. Honestly, that is brutal.
Jimmy Wisman
How good was that drink? You're gonna taste it again.
James Petrigallo
Imagine we went and like what we did at the steakhouse there. Imagine we had like three martinis and then jumped on a trampoline. We were throwing up anyway. Never mind. And before you call us wusses, they. They were really strong.
Jimmy Wisman
That's a lot.
James Petrigallo
It was just basically like glasses of vodka with a fucking olive in it. At this place that we go, they think they're doing us a favor.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah. Oh, you're gonna like this one. It's just a shitload of vodka. That's all it is of olive juice and then a couple olives on a stick.
James Petrigallo
It's crazy. So we leave drinking like fucking 16 ounces of vodka piece and we're like, I don't feel so good.
Jimmy Wisman
I had martinis. Why do I feel like I drank a quart of vodka?
James Petrigallo
I had three drinks, but wow, I don't seem so nice right now. That's how we were though. We were messed. Yeah. I shouldn't have eaten all that food. That's how we were.
Jimmy Wisman
I need more food. I didn't have enough.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. Jesus. I think I gotta put more food on top of that. So Kat's parents are Nancy and John Martin. And they say when she was in Florida, that's when they. She grew up in Florida. They say she was. She doted on her dolls all the time as like some, like. Some little girls are really maternal with their dolls. They want the dolls that shit and they have to feed and everything, which is strange. I always. I as a. I don't know if it's just a boy thing or just the fact that I'm lazy, but I didn't really want to. I didn't want any doll that needed to be tended to. Like a wrestling figure. You just stand it there, it doesn't shit itself. You don't have to feed and he's.
Jimmy Wisman
And he's good until you want to wrestle him.
James Petrigallo
That's it. He just stay, he'll hang out, you throw him in the closet. He won't cry and shit. None of that.
Jimmy Wisman
You can get one. And he'll be patient until you get the iron cheek to wrestle with him.
James Petrigallo
Nikolai Volkov will patiently await his tag team partner. It's fine. No one's worried about it. So yeah, they said that and they said she wanted to be a mom someday. Her dad said when she got a bit older she wanted to do modeling. Sure. And she, she has a real kind of Marilyn Monroe obsession from a young age. She's real into Marilyn Monroe and there's women who are real into Marilyn Monroe and women who don't give a shit about Marilyn Monroe.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, I don't think there's much in the middle of that.
James Petrigallo
There's not in the middle, no. They're either like, oh, I don't like her, or they're like, oh my God, she's the most iconic, whatever the fuck. So wherever you fall, it doesn't matter.
Jimmy Wisman
A lot of people just go, yes, she's a person.
James Petrigallo
She's fine. Yeah. Now she, her friend Britney says she kind of looked like her. And she tries to recreate some of her photos and her hairdos and a lot of her pictures. She has like the kind of that updo, the blonde, like platinum blonde, bright red lipstick, titties out, boobs popping, that sort of thing. And she tries to like replicate. So like some of her clothing is like that she'll wear. It's that kind of early 60s kind of like that kind of dress. Not the pin up girl show. No, no, the pin up girl shit's different, okay? The pin up girl shit is a.
Jimmy Wisman
Completely different, not necessarily rockabilly stuff.
James Petrigallo
No, pin up girl is like more like hanging in a motorcycle shop or some shit. Whereas this is more like. Yeah, this is more like that early 60s kind of classy, attempted whatever, white.
Jimmy Wisman
And black stripes, that type of shit.
James Petrigallo
Or like this little flowy skirt, you know that type of shit. More, less grease under the fingernails than a pin up girl.
Jimmy Wisman
A little more Gidget on the beach.
James Petrigallo
A pinup girl looks like she'd jerk you off and your dick would be dirty. When it was over, you'd be like, what'd you get on there? You know what I mean? That's not like That.
Jimmy Wisman
I think I prefer that.
James Petrigallo
That's fine. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm just saying filthy's great. I'm just saying that that's what. She's not Marilyn Monroe. It's a different thing.
Jimmy Wisman
I want to scrub my balls and go, is that 10W30? What? What is that?
James Petrigallo
Yeah. No, the Maryland girls look like they would be like, ew, yeah, that's Greece, not Grease. Ew. Something came out. Whereas. Whereas I feel like the rockabilly girl is like, where are you gonna put it?
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, she just rubs it on her face.
James Petrigallo
You don't have to shoot it up. Where are you putting it?
Jimmy Wisman
You don't have to put it in.
James Petrigallo
My hand where you want me to aim it. I feel like up or down?
Jimmy Wisman
Put it in my hand. I'll put it where it goes.
James Petrigallo
Don't worry about it. Yeah. So she's into Marilyn now. Our friend said she was obsessed with Marilyn Monroe and tried to emulate her in every way. And her pictures were definitely like that. And her friend said, and this is not shocking when you have the two. Here's two statements that she made and one definitely piggybacks. The other. She was obsessed with Marilyn Monroe and was trying to emulate her in every way. There were some self esteem issues there with her, which there were some self esteem issues with Marilyn too. So that makes a lot of sense. She craved adulation. Adulation from people, whether she knew them or not. What is that she wanted? That's every person online now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
That's Instagram.
James Petrigallo
Fuck. Shit. That's Instagram.
Jimmy Wisman
Full of it.
James Petrigallo
Like, let me ask you this. If Instagram Tomorrow didn't show likes or follower counts, would you even bother posting on it?
Jimmy Wisman
If I didn't know who I'm reaching.
James Petrigallo
No, no. Fuck, I'm out. There you go. And the only tells you why you're there then.
Jimmy Wisman
The only reason I'm in there is because of the show. And I want to be able to try to advertise as much as I can or show that, you know, people are gonna see that the show's up, whether they. Whether, whatever. But just that's all it's for. Yeah, I don't understand somebody with 20 fucking followers posting everything about their life.
James Petrigallo
That's why they have 20 followers, because no one cares about their life. It's not interesting to people at all. No one cares. What about.
Jimmy Wisman
But that website is full of those people.
James Petrigallo
No, that's what I mean. So that's. That's just what we've all ashots.
Jimmy Wisman
Is it a lottery that like the dream is that that shit creates a fucking 2 million follower account?
James Petrigallo
Yeah. I mean, I think the dream for everybody is that they. That can be their job now.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
You know what I mean? How many people bought a fucking van and tried to drive around in the Sierra Nevadas or whatever as a. You know, it's like that was. We're going to be Instagram people now.
Jimmy Wisman
Somebody just said there was a study. 12 million quote unquote, influencers are on Instagram. I still don't know what's the fucking definition? What does that mean?
James Petrigallo
Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
What's the low end? What's the fucking floor of followers for an influencer?
James Petrigallo
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, everybody thinks they're an influencer, so who knows? So the dad said, you tell her she's beautiful and she'd say, you're just my mom and dad. Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
She doesn't believe anybody.
James Petrigallo
No. So she's. And she's very pretty and needs to be told it a lot. That's the thing. Yeah. She needs it. Her parents said her feelings of isolation and self doubt and depression would spiral out of control because she was so freaked out about everything. Her mom said. I don't know how many different places we took her. She went to a lot of counseling. Really? Yeah. The parents are doing the right thing. Number one. They're there, they're paying attention and there's counseling involved. They're telling her, hey, you're beautiful. And then they're saying, okay, that doesn't work. Let's take you to counseling. That's really. And especially for back then because she was born in 75. Yeah. So she's a teenager. Like 1990.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
At that point it was like, you know, fix your shit. It was more like there was less counseling and more like tough love at that time and shit like that. Like your kid just needs a discipline. That's what they need.
Jimmy Wisman
But I mean that, that, that's nice.
James Petrigallo
That they recognize that person has existed.
Jimmy Wisman
Since the Don time.
James Petrigallo
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
Remember Summer Rental? The chick got the. That hot chick with the amazing tits and she's showing them to everybody.
James Petrigallo
Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
And the husband's like, just tell her they're nice because that's all she wants to hear.
James Petrigallo
Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
Everywhere.
James Petrigallo
Always gorgeous people. Marilyn Monroe was that person. I mean, that's.
Jimmy Wisman
And she got it. Everybody told her and she still didn't get it.
James Petrigallo
She fucking married several famous people and it was a huge movie star and it was iconic and fuck the president. I Mean, fuck the president, which, I mean, what's that word?
Jimmy Wisman
Do that at any time.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. Or for the last, I think, ever. Really? Yeah. Yeah, you could have. I don't think fucking the president was as big an accomplishment as people thought.
Jimmy Wisman
It was much of a task.
James Petrigallo
Now that we know what people did back in the day and forever, we're like, I think these guys just fucked whoever was around.
Jimmy Wisman
It's pretty easy.
James Petrigallo
Her parents said she was battling bipolar disorder and drinking too much. So those two things don't go together well. No, that's bad. Self medicating for bipolar with alcohol just tends to extend the depression times, which isn't good at all.
Jimmy Wisman
She's just taking a willy nilly medication for depression or was it like prescribed?
James Petrigallo
No, she was not. She's just drinking. That's what I mean. She was bipolar and she was drinking.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, no.
James Petrigallo
So she's unmedicated and drinking. So it's kind of. Kind of tough for her. But she's starting to get her shit together. By about 2004, she's 29. Is when her life kind of comes together. Through her 20s, she really had a lot of problems. I mean, she was just a lot of depression problems, drinking problems, some issues that her parents were trying to help her out with.
Jimmy Wisman
Very normal though, right?
James Petrigallo
In your 20s to try to not know who you are and find yourself.
Jimmy Wisman
That'S the time to do it.
James Petrigallo
That's the time to unravel and then revel back up again.
Jimmy Wisman
30S are supposed to be your 20s.
James Petrigallo
With money, figure out your 20s. Well, your 30s. Who the hell makes money in their 30s anymore?
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, if you've gone to college.
James Petrigallo
Oh, you meant if you're like a responsible person. Thank you. Yeah, I thought you meant. I was thinking like we're people like us.
Jimmy Wisman
You thought I was talking about us.
James Petrigallo
Trash. No, not trash. No, we didn't have shit. So this happened at a 2004 Super bowl party here. And that's where she met a guy that she was smitten for here. He's a guy named William Jeffrey west and he goes by Jeff. So. Jeff West. Billy. Jeff. Billy. Jeff West. Jeff West. Which sounds like an old west sheriff. I'm Jeff west and I'm going to clean this town up.
Jimmy Wisman
Batman.
James Petrigallo
Jeff West. This is my son Jeff. I'm sorry, Robin, but you're going to put you on the shelf for a while. We're going to put Jeff.
Jimmy Wisman
Adam west is like. His voice is like a little straighter.
James Petrigallo
Goldblum, kind of. Yeah, yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
Goldblum is a Little more flamboyant. That's all it is.
James Petrigallo
Well, Goldblum has more of a. He has more of like pause and draw. He has like a walk in thing once in a while where he's like. So I was walking to the store. Yeah. You know what I mean? He'll pop that out in there and.
Jimmy Wisman
Pop his eyes and then drag a word out forever.
James Petrigallo
Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
And then a long pause and then hit you with a word for no reason.
James Petrigallo
Then I'll talk a really fast sentence like this. Oh, I was thinking, like, that's what he's really his.
Jimmy Wisman
I was thinking, it's all it is.
James Petrigallo
With him is change of pace. He's like a pitcher who's.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
One fastball is 96, the next one's 92. He's hard to hit. That's what I mean. He's good like that. Yeah. It's crazy. He throws it in there. That's his. There you go. You just figured out Jeff Goldblum.
Jimmy Wisman
Jeff Goldblum.
James Petrigallo
That's his whole thing that he does. So now, Nancy, that's Cat's mom, said they fell in love on their first date.
Jimmy Wisman
Is that.
James Petrigallo
Well, Jesus.
Jimmy Wisman
Somebody did.
James Petrigallo
I guess. So can't do both, right? It was really love at first sight. She said it really was for all of us. And within a year, they're getting married.
Jimmy Wisman
God damn.
James Petrigallo
I mean, they, like met. I. They're both like 32. I think it's one of those things where also you make looking for someone.
Jimmy Wisman
So you meet a smoke show that doesn't know she's a smoke show. You better mar.
James Petrigallo
Oh, she knows she's a smoke show. Oh, yeah. That's why she. Yeah. Yes.
Jimmy Wisman
She just needs it.
James Petrigallo
She needs it. That's. If you put your. If you take sexy pictures of yourself and put them on Instagram, it's not because you think you're ugly, you know, or put them on only fans. Even more. You want people to pay for it.
Jimmy Wisman
Right.
James Petrigallo
It's not because you think you're ugly.
Jimmy Wisman
You know, only Instagram, you're giving it away for free.
James Petrigallo
Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
And you and that person even knows.
James Petrigallo
I think maybe her thing is like, I'm tired of everyone wanting to fuck me and not wanting to be with me might be the thing of her, you know. So Jeff west is a local army recruiter at the time when they meet him. So he's a military guy and kind of a straight laced kind of a cat. And they get married in Las Vegas. There we go. Gonna have that in 2005. They are going to have a daughter as well here named Lola. So they're gonna move around the country with Jeff's job. Like an army recruiting. If you're successful, that just means you're gonna really move a lot. They're going to just put you in wherever they need you. So that's a tough gig.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, if you're good for you. They want you in every state getting more and more of these boys.
James Petrigallo
I would assume if you're a recruiter, you want to stay in the mediocre range so you can kind of stay. Hey, let's not get too good here.
Jimmy Wisman
If you like the school your kids are in, just dial it down a little bit. Let a couple of fish go.
James Petrigallo
That's it. Yeah, you definitely. You don't want to be a superstar in this scenario.
Jimmy Wisman
Throw a couple back.
James Petrigallo
Okay, good. Now we're going to move you to a terrible place where we can't get anybody to join the army even.
Jimmy Wisman
Have you heard of Fargo?
James Petrigallo
That's where you're going. So they move all around with the daughter. Her friend, Cat's friend said Lola was her light. Lola was her gift. And she adored her daughter, which, I mean, she's always wanted a baby. So this is like finally. And she's like, you know, 30 years old too. It's a good time for her to have a baby. I would think.
Jimmy Wisman
It's 2005. 2005.
James Petrigallo
2005.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah. That's when they had the kid. Huh. That's an interesting time to name a kid. Lola.
James Petrigallo
Lola.
Jimmy Wisman
That was early for Lola.
James Petrigallo
Lola, yeah. Or maybe late. Oh, yeah, that's. She's born in 75. If her parents listen to classic rock on the radio, she's heard that song a million times quite a bit. And it's stuck in her head. And she's like.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, but I mean, like, because that's a popular name now.
James Petrigallo
It is. Which is Lila and Lola.
Jimmy Wisman
Both of them. But I think she got in early.
James Petrigallo
That's very early. Yeah, 2005. So 2007 comes along and they end up filing for bankruptcy.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, no.
James Petrigallo
While living in Cartersville, Georgia, which in 2007, there was quite a few people filing for bankruptcy.
Jimmy Wisman
If they weren't, they were just giving shit back and blowing up their whole lives.
James Petrigallo
Just giving shit back. Like I did with a house. Here you go.
Jimmy Wisman
You can have this back.
James Petrigallo
Luckily, the mortgage company we had was like under a huge investigation.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, that's great.
James Petrigallo
Fuck you. Take that back and never heard another word about it. Didn't fucking my credit or Anything.
Jimmy Wisman
Is that right?
James Petrigallo
I swear to God.
Jimmy Wisman
I short saled one and it fucked me for seven years now.
James Petrigallo
The mortgage company was like completely being taken apart by the federal government because they did all sorts of illegal shit so they couldn't like do anything. Wow. It's like the loans were all like, not technically legal, I guess, or whatever. So we were just like, wow, you can have that incredible peace out later.
Jimmy Wisman
They took my house, fucked my credit, and then there was a HELOC that they didn't satisfy before giving the money to the.
James Petrigallo
This is entertaining. The podcast right here. Jimmy's heloc. This is real. This is what the people want to hear. This is what they want to hear. Is everyone listen to a murder podcast? I hope someone brings up their heloc.
Jimmy Wisman
Ah, that's great. I was just gonna say they washed.
James Petrigallo
It because they didn't have the paperwork for it.
Jimmy Wisman
Cause it was in 2008 when they gave it to you.
James Petrigallo
Oh, it's just a mess.
Jimmy Wisman
So they didn't have the paperwork. So they called me and were like, we have to forgive this. And I was like, that's great.
James Petrigallo
Sounds good, thanks.
Jimmy Wisman
I used that to buy a motorcycle.
James Petrigallo
Whoops. Good. I didn't have it to give you. Anyway, thank you. So, yeah, they go in, they do the same thing. 2007, Cartersville, Georgia, they go bankrupt. And the case is handled very routinely. It's closed within months. At that point, this was very common. Bankruptcies were popping left and right. So they end up at some point here. They moved to Southern California.
Jimmy Wisman
Okay.
James Petrigallo
And this is in 2011. They live here. They moved to Southern California. And I guess her friend Brittany Driesler, the one who's been talking about her, I guess her husband was thinking of enlisting in the army.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, I know a guy, I don't.
James Petrigallo
Know how old he is, but I.
Jimmy Wisman
Know a guy that could use him.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, my like 37 year old husband is. Doesn't know what to do with himself, so. Well, he's not really our top.
Jimmy Wisman
Perhaps his credit's fucked and I can't get a job.
James Petrigallo
That's what I'm thinking. I don't want soldiers that are like, if you've been in the army, but you can't just show up at 37.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, you're gonna.
James Petrigallo
Your knees are gonna hurt. Get the fuck out of here. You've got a heloc. You got a HELOC to worry about. You got all sorts of shit going on. I got a mortgage. You know what I mean? No, but these. No, I Don't want that. No showing up while complaining.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
37 year olds, that's when it starts to fall apart. Absolutely not.
Jimmy Wisman
You can't sleep in the shit that they give them to sleep in. It's gonna hurt in the morning.
James Petrigallo
You need a special pillow because your neck's messed up. They don't give you that.
Jimmy Wisman
There's a bombing and you got to go out and with it takes me a minute to stretch.
James Petrigallo
You got to be 19. Yeah. Or else it doesn't work. So anyway, that's at the recruiting station. Britney said that Jeff west basically convinced her husband right away to join the army. Yeah, that's it. And they said, Brittany said her first impression of Jeff, he was just super reassuring and nice. He was just nice. And so this is how they met. This wasn't Kat's friend to begin with. Her husband. She walked in with her husband to a recruiting station, met him, they hit it off. So Jeff invited them over to hang out.
Jimmy Wisman
Bring your wife.
James Petrigallo
Come on and hang out. Yeah. So they came over to the house. Kat answered the door and they have a baby and she's dressed up nice and it looks like the perfect little family. Britney said that she was just in her tank top and shorts and really happy and bubbly. Hey, girl. Right off the bat she was like, you want a drink? Yeah. This is the house you want to go to.
Jimmy Wisman
This is so fun.
James Petrigallo
You walk in and they're putting drinks in your hand. That's good stuff. Here. Brittany said they look like a real happy couple. They said that was kind of like they were an unlikely couple. Yeah, basically. And yeah, she put it this way, if she's a nine, he's about a five and a half. So. All right, it's one of those straight laced military and. Straight laced military. So they're like, this is a weird.
Jimmy Wisman
How did you two get together?
James Petrigallo
He's not rich or anything. Like, what's up with that? Britney said, quote, seeing how cat carried herself and what she looked like and then seeing Jeff. And she takes a pause and goes, I know opposites attract.
Jimmy Wisman
What the fuck?
James Petrigallo
Which means, I mean, he's a troll is what she said.
Jimmy Wisman
He doesn't deserve her.
James Petrigallo
She said, put a horn on his head and call him a unicorn. And the kids could ride him at the fucking Strawberry Festival because he's a monster.
Jimmy Wisman
Wow.
James Petrigallo
He's a hideous monster. She said. She said, I know opposites attract, but I was like, that guy pulled that girl. Yeah. She said, you never know. It really made. And that really never made sense to Me until I started to get to know them more.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh.
James Petrigallo
I mean, it was to the point where you go, that's your wife. Holy shit, where'd you get her from? Which, you know, that's swinging a little bit above his weight class, say there. I mean, good for him. But also, that's stressful.
Jimmy Wisman
It is big. Yeah.
James Petrigallo
We're not good at handling that, guys. We need someone that we feel like is in our range. Yes.
Jimmy Wisman
And, oh, believe me, I appreciate an incredibly hot woman. But. Yeah, I know that. That's not. That's not for me.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. You look at that and you go.
Jimmy Wisman
There'S good for whoever gets to ride that ride.
James Petrigallo
It's like basketball players are trying to fuck her. I have no much of a chance here, so. Well, that.
Jimmy Wisman
Look, I just know that I'm beneath the minimum height requirement for that ride.
James Petrigallo
That's all.
Jimmy Wisman
Every time I see it, I just go, oh, I can't wait till one day I grow up.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, that's. That's. Yeah. Well, those. It's to hang on to that. A woman like that is hard. And it's not a lot of guys have the confidence for that, especially if they're hideous.
Jimmy Wisman
And if you can manage that, good for you. High five, Daddy O.
James Petrigallo
But most of the time, you're either very handsome or very wealthy.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
So for a guy who's not very handsome or very wealthy, he's. He has got some.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Confidence. He must have a hammer on him. Boy.
Jimmy Wisman
And, you know, that's the other option. Confidence. Looks money hammer. And probably in that order.
James Petrigallo
Covenants. Looks, money hammer. Probably in that order. I'm going to say Goldblum answered you.
Jimmy Wisman
Yes, he did. I think it's in that order.
James Petrigallo
I think it's in that order, probably. So she is asked if Britney is asked if she would describe their marriage as a conventional marriage. And Brittany laughed and said, definitely not.
Jimmy Wisman
Okay.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, it was. They said that Kat was just so. She was wild. She said she's wild. She said that she would jump from the kitchen counter to the sofa and just shirtless and braless. She's taking her tits out while people are over and leaping from the couch. From the counter to the couch like a fucking calico and military with her tits at.
Jimmy Wisman
How do you handle that?
James Petrigallo
That's a lot. Oh, it's one thing if, you know, a woman's hot, whatever. But she's like, here are my tits, brah. You're like, I can't. I don't know what to do with this.
Jimmy Wisman
I mean, I'm not. I don't.
James Petrigallo
I know what to do with it for a little while. And then I got.
Jimmy Wisman
I know to do them for, like, I don't know, 30, 40 seconds.
James Petrigallo
And then after that, I don't know what to do with it anymore.
Jimmy Wisman
I hope you know what to do with yours because, wow, you're going to be on. You're going to be crying a lot.
James Petrigallo
People are. I invited a guy recruited for the army. Oh, good. I'll get my tits out. Wow, that's wild. And the interviewer said, wait in front of you and your husband. This would happen. And she says, yes. My husband would go, oh, my gosh. Yeah, he did. We come over here all the time. This is great. Jesus Christ.
Jimmy Wisman
Is this free?
James Petrigallo
Holy shit. I'm going to join the Army. The Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force. Anything else? You want me to join the Boy Scouts, I'll join them all.
Jimmy Wisman
Is there a tip jar to keep this going? It's incredible what happens if I stop tipping.
James Petrigallo
And Jeff's just like, oh, that's my wife. That's what she does.
Jimmy Wisman
Wow.
James Petrigallo
And there's a baby in the house and everything. She's like, my tits have gotten bigger. Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
What a great.
James Petrigallo
Good for her. Good for her. So they would hang out at home, and they also stayed. Go out to bars and clubs together, the couples and all that kind of thing. Britney said she'd be lively and animated, and Jeff would be just sitting on the couch relaxing, having his drink. Wow. It's very weird. Like a Hugh Hefner relationship. Like, now, go on, girls. Go out and. Go out and frolic.
Jimmy Wisman
Show them your tits, girls.
James Petrigallo
Show them the goods, ladies. And then I'll be sitting here in my weird smoking jacket. So they said that Britney was asked if the two of them would fight ever. And Britney said, Kat would fight, Jeff would not.
Jimmy Wisman
What does that mean?
James Petrigallo
That if you've seen the Sarah Boone trial, I think that's what they're discussing.
Jimmy Wisman
All right.
James Petrigallo
The text messages in that trial, everybody, do yourself a favor. It's all on YouTube. The Sarah Boone trial, the text messages. I mean, the video she recorded. You know what happens in between videos or whatever. I mean, they're all her being aggressive. Sarah Boone being aggressive.
Jimmy Wisman
It's a drunk girl yelling at a man.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. And him go. And then the one with the video is, because she's not drunk, she's mad at him.
Jimmy Wisman
Wow.
James Petrigallo
He fell asleep. She wouldn't let him in the room. So he was sleeping on the floor in the hallway. And she came out and yelled at him, this is Sarah Boone. Not on George Torres, not Kat. And she's like, I told you not to go anywhere near me. You're out here. And now the whole hallway smells like you. And she's like, yelling at him, I don't love you. Get the hell out of here.
Jimmy Wisman
She's sober, remember?
James Petrigallo
Well, she says you drank. There was enough vodka there for two people to feel real nice, and you drank it all. She's mad because he drank her vodka.
Jimmy Wisman
Went through her portion to get to his.
James Petrigallo
It's wild. But text messages are different. And text messages, you can see exactly what everybody says. And it is just her haranguing this guy and him saying, fucking, I love you. I don't know. I don't know what happened. I'm sorry. What did I do? And, like, she's just like, you don't even. You Puerto Rican piece of shit.
Jimmy Wisman
Like.
James Petrigallo
Like. Shit like that. You're like, what the fuck? Yeah, this lady's crazy. You. Then she'll like, text her the guy's mother and be like, he's a piece of shit. You should come pick him up. Like, he's 40 something years old. You're like, wow, it's crazy. So Cat would fight. Jeff would not. I'm not saying Cat is like Sarah Boone. I'm just saying that reminded me, I just watched the trial. She said Cat would get emotional when she was drunk. She would get loud. That's normal. She would get feisty is the way she put it.
Jimmy Wisman
Girl, you gotta be so specific.
James Petrigallo
Feisty. When you say a woman who's drunk gets feisty, that's. That's, you know, that the guy version of that.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
You know what I mean?
Jimmy Wisman
A gal is a pain in the ass. A dude punches shit.
James Petrigallo
They're violent. Yeah. But he would sit there and just say, okay, boo boo. Okay, I love you. All right, baby girl. She'd go crazy and yell at him. He'd go, all right, all right, I love you. I love you. Which is kind of what George Torres did, too. So she said, you know, she said she never. He was never, ever jealous, though. It was never any. Put your tits away. Yeah, none of that. He's got a lot of confidence. I'll say. And one other friend said. That surprised me because I don't think many men would feel that way about that. No. Your ultra hot wife with her tits out. A lot of guys would be like, oh, Jesus, I don't like this at all. So 2014, they moved to Alabama. Okay, here they come. Lock, stock, and barrel moving right into Alabama here. And he got a job as a campus police officer at a college here. So that's where they.
Jimmy Wisman
With the military apparently.
James Petrigallo
Maybe he's retired. He's probably. Yeah, he's probably been in for 20 years at this point or something.
Jimmy Wisman
I doubt they're sending him to this little town.
James Petrigallo
Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
Recruiter.
James Petrigallo
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Now, Kat here on Facebook describes herself as a full time wife and mom. That's her. She's got Internet personality kind of thing where she takes very posed pictures and very staged shots. And on Facebook she posted a lot of selfies and obviously all the commenters would be like, you're beautiful, you're hot, you're gorgeous. All that shit, obviously that comes out of the woodwork. If you're a post and shit out of there, boy, you will know quick. There's also photos of her wedding though, and her and her husband, and her and her husband and her daughter playing in the snow and shit like that. So it's not amongst the boudoir. No, no, not really boudoir on here.
Jimmy Wisman
Okay.
James Petrigallo
Here it's just like selfies and people like, oh, you're hot.
Jimmy Wisman
Got it.
James Petrigallo
And then. But it's not like she's not trying to present herself as like, I'm single and hot. She's like, I'm a wife and mom, here's my husband.
Jimmy Wisman
And here's also what I look like.
James Petrigallo
Alone, but I'm pretty smoking at the same time. So she posts all that kind of shit. Her personal description though included the word exhibitionist in there.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, girl.
James Petrigallo
And she doesn't mean art, I don't think. I think she means having her tits out, jumping from counters to sofas. She had a private Instagram account with 52,000 followers, doing great. That linked. That just linked to OnlyFans though. So she'd have her site there where she'd post some teasing shit and then she would have. It would link you to OnlyFans that would say you go here for naughty fun dog on. And some of the images were included in a site for also mature hottie. She's trying to get into the milk market. Yeah. So she posted similar content on Twitter here where she joined about 2016. She started posting in March and she would just initially tweet links to a site where she sold clothes too. She sold dresses, coats, shoes, and kids clothing. I don't know if she resold shit or did like whatever the fuck. So what do they call them?
Jimmy Wisman
Or you up thrift? Is that it?
James Petrigallo
I don't know. That seems douchey.
Jimmy Wisman
It's where you like take shit and then you make it.
James Petrigallo
You go to Goodwill and then sell it for $3 more.
Jimmy Wisman
No, you go to Goodwill and then you customize it and sell it.
James Petrigallo
Oh, you customize. That'd be like Etsy then.
Jimmy Wisman
Ish. Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. I don't know. So on August 11, though, it all changed when it turned into nevermind baby clothes anymore. She tweeted, happy Frisky Friday. Let's get this party started. I'm done fucking around with a link to only fans. Happy Frisky Friday. Who wants to see my tits? Is what it was there. So the description included a link to a wish list page where viewers could purchase lingerie for her.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
And then she'll wear it for you. Oh, boy.
Jimmy Wisman
How fucking. Ah.
James Petrigallo
Why are we doing this?
Jimmy Wisman
Why isn't there a.
James Petrigallo
And we. I mean men. Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
Why isn't there a.
James Petrigallo
We don't get to touch that person. Why are we giving them lingerie?
Jimmy Wisman
I've got a wish list full of snap on tools. Buy those from me and watch me work on my car.
James Petrigallo
That's all.
Jimmy Wisman
Nobody wants that.
James Petrigallo
No, I would hope not.
Jimmy Wisman
I wish they would.
James Petrigallo
I mean, I'm sure there are women that have weird car fantasies.
Jimmy Wisman
Do you think there are some that would want to watch you work on something?
James Petrigallo
Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Women love that shit.
Jimmy Wisman
Did I just start something?
James Petrigallo
No. That's pretty.
Jimmy Wisman
Does that exist?
James Petrigallo
Yes, absolutely.
Jimmy Wisman
Does it really?
James Petrigallo
Yes. You just invented something that's been around for a long time.
Jimmy Wisman
People pay to watch people work on cars.
James Petrigallo
Yes. They pay to watch people sleep. They pay to watch people do everything. Yes. There's a. There is a niche, if you can think of a niche. It exists and there's people. People making more money than you could ever fathom God damn. Making. Doing anything.
Jimmy Wisman
Doing 2000 late and 2000 broke.
James Petrigallo
Fucking. That's what it goes, man. So she. This is. You can see sexier images here for 1599amonth.
Jimmy Wisman
That's a pretty good deal.
James Petrigallo
I mean, that's like Hulu with no ads. And that's like three of us, by the way. That's. Yeah, that's three Patreon. I think we put out more. Our tits aren't there episodes are bad. Put more work right then. Yes, yes, absolutely. If I had tits, that's what I'd be doing, but I don't. So Jeff, most of the time, he was the photographer for these. So that's how much he didn't mind. He was the one taking the fucking pictures. He was helping her and, you know, like suggesting poses for and shit like this looks sexy. Do that.
Jimmy Wisman
Hand it over.
James Petrigallo
And she had hundreds of paying subscribers that known her as Kitty Cat West.
Jimmy Wisman
Hundreds paying $16 a month.
James Petrigallo
She's making a fucking living. Her friend said she was very out loud about it. She was making money. So there's a weird thing when stuff happens in this case where lots of press accounts say double life. There's no double life.
Jimmy Wisman
It's one life.
James Petrigallo
I mean, it's. Yeah, during the day she's, you know, a mom and getting her kid fucking Cheerios and chopping up fruit and shit. But then at night, she's taking her tits out. But it's not a double life. Everyone knows about it. She's not just hiding.
Jimmy Wisman
It's called two jobs. That's all.
James Petrigallo
Her husband is involved in it. Her friends know about it. She posts it on her public pages, on Twitter.
Jimmy Wisman
She has two jobs that are polar opposites of each other.
James Petrigallo
That's all.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, she's a mom and she shows her tits.
James Petrigallo
She's like Batman.
Jimmy Wisman
She's like 65% of women.
James Petrigallo
I think she's Batman is what she is. Doing nice, boring work during the day and at night she's doing. She's having the fun doing the Lord's work at night. So now, Onlyfans, a little bit of background for Onlyfans here. It has become a huge deal for celebrities. The amount of money that people make on OnlyFans is staggering. It's staggering. There's actresses that go on there that make more fucking money on there than they do in their whole careers acting. It's. It's insane.
Jimmy Wisman
And a bunch of them don't even show anything.
James Petrigallo
No, that's the other thing. They don't even. What are we Paying for anyone. I don't know why anyone would pay. Pay for nude pictures of anyone at this point, when there's free porn, it's 100% all over the place.
Jimmy Wisman
Twitter is just porn now.
James Petrigallo
Yes.
Jimmy Wisman
Actual, Actual porn, James.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
Cock money shots.
James Petrigallo
Well, it's that actual porn that's in between 8 trillion political posts. So that's all Twitter is now. It's just political posts, aggressive political posts.
Jimmy Wisman
And then a cock shooting jizz everywhere.
James Petrigallo
Yay.
Jimmy Wisman
Wow. Boy, did this turn out great.
James Petrigallo
This is looking good. So this, I guess the big thing was that made this big was the Bella Thorne thing when she went on there.
Jimmy Wisman
Who's that?
James Petrigallo
She was a Disney star.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh.
James Petrigallo
And then when she was older, she went on there and she made a million dollars on the first day posting, quote, lifestyle content. Not showing her pussy. No, just posting.
Jimmy Wisman
Hear me, Arianna having spaghetti.
James Petrigallo
Yep. So, and then it became also then obviously there's women who do.
Jimmy Wisman
Catch me outside girl.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. I mean, there's women who do. That's just a porn site that she does. Yeah, they do their porn on there. So, yeah, that girl also made a million dollars. She also sells, like, makes a lot of money in music.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
That's just terrifying.
Jimmy Wisman
She sells, quote, unquote, rap.
James Petrigallo
Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
And then fist fucks herself. I don't know, man.
James Petrigallo
Well, I mean, fist fucking yourself, that's.
Jimmy Wisman
Something that takes talent.
James Petrigallo
That takes talent. She. I don't want to hear her rap.
Jimmy Wisman
I don't need.
James Petrigallo
No, I don't really want to watch her fist fuck herself either. But I mean, I don't want either of those things.
Jimmy Wisman
That seems like a product that's not aimed at me.
James Petrigallo
So they also say that, like, there's a bunch of people. There's a former teacher in a YouTube video telling people that she quadrupled her income posting nudes on only fans. She said, I would wear things that allow me to feel sexy because when I feel sexy, I feel powerful.
Jimmy Wisman
That's when I make you get A's.
James Petrigallo
That's when you're gonna get A's and B's right there. Here. Another woman saying she's working her way through a neuroscience master's program.
Jimmy Wisman
It's amazing.
James Petrigallo
That's fucking amazing. Changing the world. That is hilarious. Here. Also, a Minnesota pastor left the pulpit to go on OnlyFans and made a shitload of money.
Jimmy Wisman
Stop it.
James Petrigallo
Yes. Because that's a real good business too. You could do that. Or now these college. Like, if you're a college chick athlete, they all do onlyfans. With team gear around them and shit. There are girls, because now they're allowed to do that. There are college athlete girls that you've never heard of that play volleyball or soccer or something that make fucking millions of dollars a year.
Jimmy Wisman
Millions.
James Petrigallo
Unbelievable millions.
Jimmy Wisman
On fingering herself on a Georgia Bulldog.
James Petrigallo
I don't even know if they're fingering themselves.
Jimmy Wisman
They might just be doing their homework.
James Petrigallo
That's the thing. Yeah, you don't know. That's what's fucking nuts. So Brittany said Cat, when not behind the website, was not always confident. On the outside, not confident. But on the website that cam's on, she's killing. Once you can edit photos how you want and take the angle you want and everything, then she feels, you know, confident. And she said, yes, you have your husband, but you always want to be pretty to others. And remarkably, Jeff seemed to love it. Britney said, loved that other guys paid attention to her because that made him feel like a big man.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, he's winning.
James Petrigallo
Look at me.
Jimmy Wisman
They want her. I got her.
James Petrigallo
I get to have. Yeah. So she said, Jeff got the best of both worlds. He was able to be with his wife. She got what she wanted, which was to get to make my. Which was to get to make money. I get to show off what I have, and he's not going to leave me. Everybody's happy. He wants to see tits, she wants her tits out. Doesn't care who looks at him. She has a mind showing to people. Everybody's happy. Great. Good for you. That's fine. Imagine 2018. Her online shit really ramped up, though. She's pretty much, you know, posting everything. Only fans is her big thing now. And Brittany said she was starting to get knee deep in that type of industry. I think she started to see money rolling in. Was like, well, if I do more, I make more money. That's, you know, how you do with everything, right? So, I mean, go get a hot dog stand. You go, well, if I get two hot dog stands, I make even more money.
Jimmy Wisman
Start a podcast.
James Petrigallo
Start a podcast. Let's start to do fucking five more. And then let's do Patreon and then let's never sleep. And then let's fucking record every goddamn day and every day and every day and every day. It's gonna pay off, I swear. And then with only fans, she'd get providers, she'd get subscribers, and she could communicate with them and subscribers can make requests with her and all that kind of show. That's how it's going. That's going. Leading up to 2018. December 20, 2017. Here. Here are some texts between Jeff and Kat. Yeah, okay. This is December 20th. Like I said, five days before Christmas. Yeah. This is the Getting in the Christmas spirit. This is some. Some real Christmas spirit stuff right here. When you. When your wife sends you this right before Christmas, you're gonna go, there's gonna be a good holidays here. Nothing quote, show me now or it is goodbye. No more games. Never doing this holiday again with you. It goes the same every year. My family treats you like family. Your family treats me like shit. Hmm. It says shut, I believe. Oh, it says shut, I believe. It's a typo. Okay, Okay. I done with you being too scared to stand up to your mom for being a bitch after almost 14 years of promises. You have to want to be with me. I love you. You don't love me.
Jimmy Wisman
Your mom's a bitch.
James Petrigallo
Your mom's a bitch.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, boy.
James Petrigallo
This is a tough one. Yeah, this is a tough one. My first wife and my mother didn't get along. My mother. My mother. No, they don't get along. So my mother, she's great, but she will. She's tough.
Jimmy Wisman
She's an Italian lady named Angela.
James Petrigallo
That's what I mean. That's what I mean. She's from the fucking Bronx. Her mother stabbed people. She's meant for conflict. And so my ex wife would get angry that I would not defend her. And I'm like, you two don't even need to talk. I don't need to be in the. If you can't get along, just don't even talk. And apparently that was unacceptable. And I was supposed. I was supposed to, like, you're gonna make me fight this bridge between them. And like, I was just like, just ignore her. Leave her alone. She'll leave you alone and let's stop it. And I don't know if I was wrong or not, but.
Jimmy Wisman
See some cranberry sauce. Let's get the fuck out of here.
James Petrigallo
I really didn't have time for that. Bullshit is what it was.
Jimmy Wisman
I'm trying to make noodles. Get out.
James Petrigallo
Get the fuck. Yeah, go. So I was like, I wouldn't fight with her. That was my advice.
Jimmy Wisman
I moved out so I don't have.
James Petrigallo
To fight with her.
Jimmy Wisman
Leave me alone.
James Petrigallo
I try not to fight with her. I don't know what to tell you.
Jimmy Wisman
I'm gonna tell you how.
James Petrigallo
Force of nature. There's no stopping her. You can't stop her.
Jimmy Wisman
Perhaps. Perhaps she's changing now because she's always so sweet.
James Petrigallo
Oh, she's A sweetheart. She never stops. She's like a fucking. Like floodwaters. Like, just get out of the way. It's coming. It's coming. So tough shit. January 4, 2018. Right after the holidays here, Cat texts her husband. I know you're scared to tell me you don't want to be with me, but it's only hurting me more by lying. And then she said, if you don't want me. If you don't want me, say it. He replied, baby, I want you. Do you want me? We never really talked after New Year's Eve.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, my.
James Petrigallo
So I don't know why they're. Yeah, this is two weeks now, two weeks after New Year's Eve. So in three days, they haven't talked. Haven't talked about this, or haven't talked at all.
Jimmy Wisman
What the fuck?
James Petrigallo
It's weird. So on January 6, 2018, she said, this is the last time you will fuck me over. You promised you don't want me, Fine. Someone will. And he said, I always want you. And then she wrote, you're throwing almost 14 years of marriage away. Really? That's what I mean to you? And then she sent him a middle finger emoji fanned.
Jimmy Wisman
I just started using it.
James Petrigallo
The height of maturity. That's good stuff. Another time she wrote, stop texting during the conversation. So the middle finger emoji, that is. Imagine, okay, imagine your grandparents, everyone out there. Imagine your grandma and your grandpa, and they're fighting and they're sending letters to each other. And they're sending letters with a drawn middle finger on it. There you go, Harold. And they're like, listen, Alice, I tried my best.
Jimmy Wisman
Stop writing back.
James Petrigallo
I will not accept delivery of your postage.
Jimmy Wisman
Middle finger, middle finger drawn.
James Petrigallo
Return to sender. Middle finger on it. There you go. That's how you had to do it back then. It took three days.
Jimmy Wisman
Ah, it's incredible.
James Petrigallo
So January 12th. By January 12th, 2018, it seems like everything is okay again.
Jimmy Wisman
Okay.
James Petrigallo
Because they're having a date night. So I don't know if they're trying to talk to each other. Maybe they're taking a date night to go talk about it. I don't know what they're doing here, but earlier in the day, Cat tweets a link to sell a woman's wool jacket that day. Okay, so she's got some shit for sale. A few days earlier, she posted a lingerie photo showing her bare ass linked to her adult site there. Yeah, it's a G string type deal. Sure. You see your ass? I don't I don't know when as a society we decided, as long as your butthole is covered, I don't see your ass, but I see your ass. I'm not complaining. I'm just saying your ass is on full display.
Jimmy Wisman
And sometimes the asshole gets.
James Petrigallo
I don't care if the asshole seen or not.
Jimmy Wisman
Sometimes. Sometimes the ring around the asshole is seen and it's like you're seeing.
James Petrigallo
That's your asshole you're seeing. Peripheral asshole.
Jimmy Wisman
Just because wrinkles are covered doesn't mean I don't see your asshole.
James Petrigallo
No, I see. Yeah, I see that you tried to bleach it, but still it's seen.
Jimmy Wisman
When you seen them all. I know what that looks like. It's right there.
James Petrigallo
Side of a butthole, my darling.
Jimmy Wisman
He got side hole out.
James Petrigallo
Oh, my darling. Big butthole, side wrinkles.
Jimmy Wisman
Jesus.
James Petrigallo
Side butthole wrinkles. So that day also he said he took their daughter Lola to middle school and then spent the rest of the day hunting with his father, William Gerald West. So there you go. He's hunting. When he got home, that's when grandpa Jeff's dad took Lola to spend the weekend with her grandparents, which wasn't uncommon. That's a nice thing. Then they get a weekend alola.
Jimmy Wisman
Get out of here. I'm gonna solve problems with your mom.
James Petrigallo
She's 12 at this point.
Jimmy Wisman
By the time you get home, it's gonna be a happy house.
James Petrigallo
Plus, by the time you get home, you can't have a 12 year old in the house while you're doing a lingerie photo shoot with your ass out. Probably. I don't think so.
Jimmy Wisman
Mom. Is that side rank?
James Petrigallo
What is that? I can see side. No, I can see Ma.
Jimmy Wisman
That's side rink. I see it.
James Petrigallo
I see. I see side. I see wrinkles.
Jimmy Wisman
I see where the color changes.
James Petrigallo
My. Seriously, you have a wider butthole than I think you're aware of, Ma. I don't think you realize you picture your butthole is very narrow, but it's actually a decent width.
Jimmy Wisman
You need a fatter band on that thong.
James Petrigallo
Better band. That's how it goes. So Jeff and Kat go to dinner at the Red Zone Bar and Grill.
Jimmy Wisman
Hell yeah.
James Petrigallo
That's where they're going.
Jimmy Wisman
Sounds trashy.
James Petrigallo
I like it like they're gonna like on Saturdays. You can't even get in there when the Alabama games on.
Jimmy Wisman
You can. You can smell the beer mat.
James Petrigallo
Oh, yeah. I picture it like Toso's or worse. Yeah, but yeah, that smell, that smells that stale beer and like old grease and kitchen workers fucking each Other in the bathroom and shit like that.
Jimmy Wisman
You walk in and you go, what is it?
James Petrigallo
What is that? Is that bathroom grease? Oh, it's a lovely potpourri is what it is. An.
Jimmy Wisman
Combination of the three. Thank you.
James Petrigallo
That's nice. It's a lovely candle. So her friend Kat's friend said they go out to a restaurant, you know, they have some drinks and dinner.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
And. Yeah. So after dinner, they stopped at a liquor store.
Jimmy Wisman
Hell yeah.
James Petrigallo
And security cameras show them shopping. And they look to be happy. Nobody's angry. No hands in pockets. They're like laughing. Their hands are moving.
Jimmy Wisman
We went to. We went to a sports bar and we left that. Now we're getting more.
James Petrigallo
To go home.
Jimmy Wisman
Hell yeah.
James Petrigallo
To get to tie one on. That's good shit. So. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, this is a Friday night for, you know, the kidless couple here. So it shows them purchasing what appears to be a bottle of lucid absinthe and another bottle. Okay, so two bottles here. And everything seemed fine at one point on the video. Even pats her on the ass a couple of times. So if you're patting on the ass, things are going well in your relationship. If she's like middle finger emoji, you don't come over here, sweetheart, and pat her on the ass. So after drinks and dinner, that's when they stop. It's R and R. Wine and liquor is where they stopped. And they got absinthe. She picked out the absinthe. He got himself Jameson whiskey.
Jimmy Wisman
Jesus.
James Petrigallo
My God, he is going to town.
Jimmy Wisman
That's a man.
James Petrigallo
He's drinking like fucking McNulty. Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
Drinking like he's got something to forget.
James Petrigallo
Like a divorced homicide detective. That's what you're drinking. Like, who's behind on his child support.
Jimmy Wisman
Out of the bottle.
James Petrigallo
Wow. The total was 139 bucks.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah. That absinthe is expensive.
James Petrigallo
It's expensive shit. Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
And so is Jameson liquor. Expensive like 40, $50 a bottle, though.
James Petrigallo
If you flick it and it's glass, it's gonna cost you.
Jimmy Wisman
It's gonna be.
James Petrigallo
If it's plastic, it's shit. You'll. You'll feel awful tomorrow.
Jimmy Wisman
$12.99. Forget it.
James Petrigallo
So then they stopped at the grocery store to pick up an energy drink. A mixer maybe. I don't know. Maybe they're just getting tired. Gotta tie one on for the night here. Then they went back to their home in Calara where they each had approximately six drinks.
Jimmy Wisman
God damn.
James Petrigallo
This is after they were already drinking.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
So that's drunk. I tell you, when they take the kids away. This is as a person with kids, you know, you're like, kids are gone.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah. That's a lot of drinks.
James Petrigallo
That's a lot of drinks. Later on, after all these drinks, Kat changes into lingerie and asked Jeff to take pictures of her. That's for the online shit. Yeah. Now we're drunk in your lingerie. You're gonna be fucking. It's gonna be great.
Jimmy Wisman
Very little hotter than a super drunk chicken.
James Petrigallo
That's the worst. Take pictures of me. Well, if it's your wife, it's fine.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, but tell.
James Petrigallo
She bends.
Jimmy Wisman
A stranger, she bends over, doesn't touch the carpet, and then her face just plows right into the car.
James Petrigallo
I mean, at least you have it recorded so no one thinks you did it. I mean, that's not your fault.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, I. I don't want her falling down and then having bruises that she can blame on me.
James Petrigallo
That's what I mean. You don't want that. You don't want to fall anyway, still. So Jeff photographed Kat for her site and that's how it went. She was wearing a pink bra, multicolored panties, and pink stiletto heels.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Pictures were taken about 9:30. And Jeff said he then went to bed by himself that night. He posted a bottle. He posted a picture of the absence bottle standing up on the counter at some point on his Instagram page. For some reason, when you're drunk, you think that's a good idea.
Jimmy Wisman
Everybody's gonna be so impressed.
James Petrigallo
You're gonna be like, wow, he's drinking.
Jimmy Wisman
This guy's doing it.
James Petrigallo
So the next morning at 5am is when Makorsha Purifoy is on her way to work at the fast food restaurant. And she said she saw a person, what she thought was. Was lying halfway in the road. She got. Her parents came back and Marcorscha said her body was frozen. Like, frozen. I was traumatized. I was just in the car crying. She was only wearing a sports bra is what she said. So her mother called 911 and the mother said, they asked us, they asked to see if she was breathing or not. And she wasn't. And so we just waited for the police to get there. She just. She tells 911 operator, she's face down with no clothes on. The lady looks dead.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, my God.
James Petrigallo
Dead nude lady. I know you guys are busy sometimes, as I've heard from a review, but could you.
Jimmy Wisman
Comes now possibly Face down, ass up, all blue.
James Petrigallo
All blue comes dead.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
So they said you could hear her saying ma'am over the 911 trying to wake her up, but she's obviously got no response. And she said her husband touched the woman and saw no signs of life to see if she was cold or just whatever you could tell from touching that person.
Jimmy Wisman
There's no information here.
James Petrigallo
No, that's not good. She said she noticed the lights were on in the house across the street, which was the west home.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, it's her house.
James Petrigallo
That's the west home here. And said the front door was opened. This is the Marcos mom. Through which she could see a man pacing back and forth. Now, there was also a booze bottle. It's. The absinthe. Bottle is near. This is cat's body, and it's right near cat's body. And it was on top of a cell phone.
Jimmy Wisman
Okay.
James Petrigallo
So the bottle is on top of the cell phone laying there, which is strange. Now, the woman who called 911 told the dispatcher she could see a man inside this house right here, pacing back and forth in front of the window.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Maybe that has something to do with it. Perhaps connected, we don't know. So. Really interesting. And they said the liquor bottle, there's no way. This is like an accident. It has to be placed on top of the cell phone for it to go that way. So they. The police are obviously going to treat this as a homicide. For now, just. They treat everything as a homicide. But Jeff here, they don't. No comment from him. Obviously. He's in the house fucking pacing. So the first officer gets there, and it is Officer Fred Yarenko. And he said he was among the first officers on the scene and also served as the evidence technique, which is strange because they usually have a set person. That is. That's what they do. Yeah. Like, this is. Like this is draw short straws to see who's gonna have to first arrive, collect.
Jimmy Wisman
Start. Start cataloging.
James Petrigallo
That's not good.
Jimmy Wisman
No.
James Petrigallo
For murder cases, you need someone who. That's what they do. Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
But if this is your area, you.
James Petrigallo
Better get to work, I suppose.
Jimmy Wisman
Put on all your hats.
James Petrigallo
So he said that he noticed the lights on in the west home and the door open with someone standing inside while he was talking to the woman who called 911. As he showed up, he was talking to them and he said the door closed. Oh, now this is odd behavior from Jeff because he obviously must know his wife's not in the house.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
And he sees cops don't know where she is. And now there's cops and shit. And people are gathered around what looks Like a white lady laying in the street. So don't talk to me right now.
Jimmy Wisman
I'm gathering my thoughts.
James Petrigallo
Real weird shit here. So they said that the criminal investigator named Sergeant Mike Melhoff arrived about a half hour later. He said, looking at the scene, Kathleen's head is laying in the road. Her body is actually laying in the grass.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, wow.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. So it's not her feet on the road, it's her head. They said there was something else he noticed right away. He said it appeared that the body had been moved more than once.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh.
James Petrigallo
Which is interesting because she was found lying in a pool of blood. And this is right across the street from her house. But the cop noticed this investigator noticed that there's another pool of blood nearby. So either there was a second person or she was moved. So next to Kat's body, her cell phone and an open bottle of absinthe were there, which is interesting. And they said the bottle of absinthe was mostly full. They testified, too. The officer would say later on, there was a very optimistic fella that's. It's mostly full. There was a cork nearby. And he said he didn't notice any spilled alcohol from the bottle. There was also a matchbox from a restaurant, and that was the restaurant they had been earlier in the night, the Red Zone. And yeah, he said that he thoroughly documented everything. He said, quote, this was a big deal for us. Sure, it's a small town. You don't usually get a blonde lady dead in the road with no fucking top on.
Jimmy Wisman
But it seems as though in LA this would be a big fucking deal anywhere.
James Petrigallo
This would be a big deal.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, it's a big deal.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. Generally you find, you know, dead people who. Their lifestyle doesn't expect you to find them on the side of the road and.
Jimmy Wisman
And be moved.
James Petrigallo
And be moved.
Jimmy Wisman
Also several blood pools.
James Petrigallo
So the sergeant here said the absinthe bottle, it was just propped up on the phone, just like that. It's like leaning on it. Like, you couldn't make it stay like that unless you, like, you had to set it go. Ah, perfect, Right? So he said it was weird. He said it just did not seem right like that. Said it would have landed in such a way that there's no way it would have landed in such a way that it did, other than it being staged like that. And that's interesting. And that her friend also said it looked staged. And her friend said the bottle was placed on that phone. Well, unless the dude Perfect guys did it by somebody.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. So, Kat, they look they take her into the medical examiner. She has a roughly 2 inch gash on the left side of her head. And the cause of death is blunt force trauma to the head. So whatever caused that gash broke her skull in, basically. They said the injury that she suffered was enough to actually fracture the skull. The autopsy showed signs of sex, but there was no indication of sexual assault. And her blood alcohol level was 0.23. That's a hammered gal, which is up there. Yeah, that's you're drinking, which I mean, she's in her own house drinking, go crazy. But the medical examiner could not say exactly how that cat sustained the injury. They couldn't. Never was able to figure it out. The manner of death is ruled undetermined. Really because they have no idea what happened.
Jimmy Wisman
Is that right?
James Petrigallo
They don't know if it was an accident.
Jimmy Wisman
Gal didn't do this to herself.
James Petrigallo
I mean, but if you know her, yeah, being pantsless and drunk is just normal for her around the house. For her to get drunk and run around with no pants on is commonplace. That's very normal for her. Now it's very strange. They post there's. This is a big news story. Sure. And you know, this woman's found they haven't talked to her husband. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Underneath this article there's a shitload of comments and I just picked out some weird ones.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh boy.
James Petrigallo
To hear, to check this out. Somebody said hopefully there are fingerprints on the phone and bottom phone and her home computer will have loads of info. So it's trying to get, trying to figure out what people are thinking happened here. Somebody else says, why is this news? What?
Jimmy Wisman
What?
James Petrigallo
How many, how many suburban women are frowned dead naked, half in the road in front of their own homes? Is that normal? Really? I don't know.
Jimmy Wisman
I don't want to hear about it. Why is this news?
James Petrigallo
Wow.
Jimmy Wisman
Tell me about the structure.
James Petrigallo
What the fuck? Another guy says risky business to be involved in. How it's not. No, that's what I mean. She's not out on the street flagging down truckers for blowjobs. This is from her home with her husband taking the pictures.
Jimmy Wisman
How is that this is the most safe that you can do?
James Petrigallo
And then says there's a lot of truly evil people roaming, roaming free in society. And that has 22 likes and no dislikes.
Jimmy Wisman
Is that right?
James Petrigallo
Like how another one said, quote, quote, so this beautiful young mother dies and people have made it all about some sexual photos she took. Why should she be singled out and shamed when there's so many other people doing it without getting any flack. True.
Jimmy Wisman
Why is this news?
James Petrigallo
Why is this news? And then somebody says, very sad, but how could her husband not know what she was up to? He did know what she was up to, but that's what a lot of people thought.
Jimmy Wisman
Wow.
James Petrigallo
Was that. So obviously they got to talk to Jeff.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Because they said Jeff's was standing in the doorway. At one point he was on the porch smoking a cigarette and watching the events, but not coming over there or saying, hey, that my wife?
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Hey, let me ask you a question.
Jimmy Wisman
Could you guys get out of the way? My wife's coming home soon.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. Wow. This is going to be crazy. She kind of looks like that. Oh, shit. So they said when the detective spoke to Jeff inside, he said, his behavior is not what I expected it to be. Knowing that his wife was outside, he knew his behavior should be crushed. Yeah, you know, whatever.
Jimmy Wisman
Holy shit.
James Petrigallo
So he said, everybody grieves in a different way, which is true. Some people are stoic and some people are more shocked and some people are emotional. He said. And that was something I kept telling myself as a cop, though, if you get a suspicion, follow that shit.
Jimmy Wisman
I can't follow my gut. I only do evidence.
James Petrigallo
And I kept. I mean, it's not like you're, like, related to this guy. I just kept telling myself, everyone grieves in a different way. It's fine. As a cop, you should be looking for shit to be suspicious about, Right?
Jimmy Wisman
Can't do it. I gotta. I gotta follow the evidence.
James Petrigallo
I just don't want. I don't want people to think I'm being all suspicious of people all the time.
Jimmy Wisman
I don't want people to think I jumped to conclusions.
James Petrigallo
When you're a detective, people think you're suspicious. And I just like to try to make it real comfortable for people.
Jimmy Wisman
All, you gotta wait until the blood evidence comes.
James Petrigallo
You know how it goes. So they said, what happened, Jeff? And he said, I went to bed at 10:30. Yeah. I woke up at 5:15am My dogs woke me up barking at all the police lights outside the house. So I woke up dogs. I was confused. I looked outside and the cop said he found it very odd that Jeff didn't ask for any details about his wife's condition.
Jimmy Wisman
Nothing.
James Petrigallo
He never said, is she okay? Is she dead? Is she alive? Is she hurt? Nothing.
Jimmy Wisman
Wow.
James Petrigallo
He just was like, I went to bed, then I woke up then. But never asked, like, by the way, is she okay? Can I go see her? Next question, next question. They said, the detective said, I would have thought that he would have at least asked, you know, can I see her? Yeah, something like that. So they don't understand what happened. They're trying to figure it out. They're wondering, is it an accident? Was she so intoxicated she fell and cracked her head dead? Or was it murder? Did somebody kill her? So if so, who killed her? So they're trying to figure all this out. They're searching the neighborhood. Clues, witnesses. They take Jeff to headquarters to talk to him. He stays there for about six hours. He said he was absolutely cooperative. He did that. I'm a former Calara police officer and current Shelby County Sheriff's deputy. And I feel for this man because his name is worse than mine.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh.
James Petrigallo
And where he lives, this is tough. Luigi Ragazzoni.
Jimmy Wisman
Hell, yeah. Tell him what it is. Luigi.
James Petrigallo
Wow. Racazzoni. Actually, Luigi said he was on the scene documenting the list of first responders and of course, taking a lot of shit where people are telling him to get a mushroom and saying, I guess you're late to save the princess.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Whenever he shows up at a crime scene and there's a dead lady, they go, you're a little late to save the princess, Luigi. They say it every fucking time, I bet.
Jimmy Wisman
Would you ride a dinosaur here or something?
James Petrigallo
Look at you. How many coins you got, Luigi? Empty your pockets. So they said while he was doing so, a man later he found out was Jeff west, approached him and said, that's my wife. And Luigi said he apologetically informed Jeff, well, your wife's dead. Yeah, I mean, that's what it is, he said. Luigi said, I went from logging and assisting somebody in distress to assisting someone in distress. He said they talked about things other than Cat's death, such as guns and Jeff's military service. He said it was a human to human conversation, not a business transaction type of deal. Here he's trying to. He was trying to make Jeff feel better. And.
Jimmy Wisman
What are you in the military? Check this out.
James Petrigallo
This is a.40, by the way. My wife's. My wife's dead out there, if you notice that or not.
Jimmy Wisman
Don't worry about it. Let me show you what he carries.
James Petrigallo
Let me check this out. Check this out.
Jimmy Wisman
This guy's an old. He's old school, carries a.44 mag.
James Petrigallo
Weird. So Luigi accompanied Jeff back inside his home. And the body cam records everything here. Some of the recording, they get all here. And Jeff just said you hear him on one of the parts, say, I woke up and saw all this Meaning you and them and everything. He said he had no idea what happened to Cat. He was adamant about that. He speculated it might have been an accident. He also said their marriage was in a good place right now. We were having a good day. We were having a good day.
Jimmy Wisman
Tagged her and I said, you're it.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. Which is not it. So that's a Sarah Boone reference again. So in the interrogation at the police department, or really an interview, they're not really interrogating him. They don't really even have any suspicions. They don't know shit. At this point, the detective asked Jeff about the couple's relationship and their sex life.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, boy.
James Petrigallo
During that conversation, Jeff said that his wife was bisexual. Oh, this guy's got a fucking.
Jimmy Wisman
He's hit the lottery.
James Petrigallo
What a party he's got going on. And they talked about having relations with other women. Okay, come on.
Jimmy Wisman
What.
James Petrigallo
What the fuck, man?
Jimmy Wisman
What is you braggadocious?
James Petrigallo
What do you. What do you have, Jeff? I want to know what.
Jimmy Wisman
What is happening.
James Petrigallo
What do you. What's in there?
Jimmy Wisman
What do you possess?
James Petrigallo
Yeah, what is it? That is the antidote. Like, what the fuck do you have?
Jimmy Wisman
Wow, man.
James Petrigallo
Do you have the cure for something that they don't know about that we don't know yet.
Jimmy Wisman
He's not money. He's a five and a half. It's Hammer, right? That's the next one.
James Petrigallo
Gotta be because he's a fucking campus security officer. The kids make fun of that guy. Yeah, this guy. Oh, God. He's like, have you seen my hot wife? I'm gonna have a threesome with her and her fucking big titted friend later. So fuck you, kids. How's that?
Jimmy Wisman
Just smoking on campus.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, enjoy. So he said they talked about that. Specifically three women in Calera that they talked about having. So they were like, to the point. Not just like, I want to have a chick. They were like, maybe this one.
Jimmy Wisman
They're down to the final three.
James Petrigallo
They're down to the final three. This guy is about to have a party.
Jimmy Wisman
There's only two roses on the table.
James Petrigallo
That's not mean. He said she. She liked girls. She recently wanted to look into, quote, the lifestyle. My God, this guy is having way too much fun for his life. They discussed that men who subscribed to Kat's website would occasionally reach out to her in a private messenger and sometimes even send pictures of themselves. Well, yeah, you rate my dick. And he said she would just delete the pictures. When asked if he was ever jealous of the other men, he said, there's nothing to be jealous about. Me and her were in a good spot.
Jimmy Wisman
She's given me extra ass.
James Petrigallo
I mean, she's trying to get women, extra women over here to fuck me.
Jimmy Wisman
I got a surplus of pussy in this wild pussy.
James Petrigallo
Tits jumping around.
Jimmy Wisman
It's crazy.
James Petrigallo
You ever come in from the bathroom and have your tits? Your wife just tits out, jump from a counter to a sofa. It's amazing.
Jimmy Wisman
Here's the thing. We had a kid and then life got better.
James Petrigallo
Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
What?
James Petrigallo
Somehow it got awesome.
Jimmy Wisman
God damn it.
James Petrigallo
Jesus fucking Christ. She's jumping around like a gremlin. So he said, I'm not jealous of it. Meaning the pictures online. He said, it's just pictures. She got money for it. And he also said he didn't believe that she had cheated on him except for possibly one time, many, many years ago in California. He said she's never stepped out on the marriage now. He said he had six drinks that night. He said in a scale of one to 10 in terms of drunk, 10 being drunkest, he and his wife were about a six. You're a six, she's a nine. But still.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, she was a 23. And that's a six.
James Petrigallo
That's a six in this house.
Jimmy Wisman
Good God.
James Petrigallo
So a 10 is your breath is flammable.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah. There's marks, bruises.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. They got back to their house at 8:30. He said that his wife was a member of the Internet site called the Cougar Club. Okay, there you go. And Kathleen made pictures of herself in lingerie and posted them on the site. And people who visited the site could purchase the pictures. And that was in their PayPal account because he was asking them, how does the money go? He goes, well, it goes in there. It goes in her PayPal account. Then you transfer it to your bank account. So then when they arrive back to their house after eating dinner, he said that Kathleen went to change into a pink bra and pink panties and pink high heel shoes so she could post photographs for Cougar Club. He said that his wife often drank and when she was drunk she would go out of the house and into the yard. Which is what everybody says too. Even her parents say she'd wander off when she was drinking or even sober. She liked to go outside and do shit. She turned into like a 10 year old when she was drunk. He said that she'd go outside shit faced and would go jump on the trampoline in the backyard.
Jimmy Wisman
That's unbelievable.
James Petrigallo
That is. That's a stomach, an iron gut she's got.
Jimmy Wisman
She's not hidden.
James Petrigallo
So about halfway through the interview, the detective told Jeff that they believed his wife had been murdered. And Jeff said, how?
Jimmy Wisman
Good question.
James Petrigallo
You tell us, big guy. He said, that's what we're trying to figure out. Your wife is dead. Something went wrong. He said that he told Jeff that there was a hole to the side of her head. Head. And that Jeff questioned whether it was possible that someone else had come to the home. Or they said, did you think someone could have come after you were asleep? And he goes, I was asleep. How the fuck should I know? I don't know. He said he didn't know for sure what happened, but the only thing he could think of that may have occurred was that in the past, when his wife would be tanked, there were times where she would go jump on the trampoline. And maybe that was it. And, you know, they had some. Evidently they had some place. They had that in the backyard. So, you know, maybe that was it. He said he thought as a result of her jumping on the trampoline, being drunk, maybe she lost her balance and hit her head maybe on the bar of the perimeter side of the trampoline.
Jimmy Wisman
I got dazed.
James Petrigallo
And he thinks that maybe that's what. Maybe she wandered out into the front and died. Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
Got back up and then fell again.
James Petrigallo
Maybe that's it. Yeah. Got back up, tried to give. Go to the house and got confused or something. I mean, who knows?
Jimmy Wisman
What a nightmare.
James Petrigallo
It could be anything, really. So it's fucking weird. So the sergeant here says that he examined the backyard and looked over the whole trampoline. I mean, you've got luminol out there. And they found no blood, no traces of blood on the trampoline, on the bar of the trampoline around or in any other location in the backyard. So whatever happened, it didn't happen back here is what he said.
Jimmy Wisman
Right.
James Petrigallo
So Jeff tells investigators that. They say. You sound like. You keep saying, perfect marriage. Perfect marriage, but can't be. Nobody's marriage is perfect. What are your problems? And he said, well, there was some level of unhappiness, mainly because Kat wanted to have sex four or five times a week. And he did not always want to have sex that often.
Jimmy Wisman
Hmm.
James Petrigallo
That's not. Just bang your wife if she's like, hey, I really fucking throw her one. What are you doing?
Jimmy Wisman
You've got a gal that's hotter than you, that wants to fuck.
James Petrigallo
You better fuck her. That's her. And she's going to bring over other chicks, too. Show where you're worthy Get a pill.
Jimmy Wisman
And get to work.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, don't need a pill. He's like, fucking 35 years old.
Jimmy Wisman
Skin that smoke wagon there and see what happens.
James Petrigallo
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves.
Jimmy Wisman
Honest to God. Let's get in there, you got a problem, let's solve it.
James Petrigallo
Holy shit. So he said, I'm not as sexual as she is. Yeah, it is what it is. I'm happy with myself. She wasn't happy with it.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
So Jeff said his wife claimed he hit her once in California. And he said he was blocking her from hitting him when it happened. And because they said, was there ever any violence at all? And he said, I mean, years ago, this happened. The night he died, though he said, there's no argument, no violence. He said, again, quote, we were in a good spot. We were having a good day. Says we keep saying having a good day. From the Sarah Boone case in the interrogation, if you keep saying it, don't listen to Patreon. She's the lady who zipped her boyfriend up in a suitcase. And she says repeatedly, over and over, not only in her interview, she said to the psychologist, too. Because on the stand they kept saying. She kept saying, quote, we were having a good day. And I'm like, she keeps telling everyone that she want everybody to know everyone. We were having a good day.
Jimmy Wisman
I just love that she thought she was getting away with it, man. The whole time. From investigation, interrogation, all the way to trial and verdict, she thought they were gonna come out and go, don't drink booze anymore, but have a good day.
James Petrigallo
Her lawyer's closing argument. It was the worst closing argument I've ever seen. He threw like eight things out there, and he goes, I mean, reasonable doubts. You all don't even have to have the same reasonable double out. So you can have a doubt about one thing, you have a doubt about something else, and that's fine.
Jimmy Wisman
It's like a doubt. You don't have a law degree.
James Petrigallo
Fuck. They showed the. They showed the video over and over again. It's like you could see the suitcase moving. Yeah. He's begging for his life, saying, I can't breathe. And she's like, fuck you.
Jimmy Wisman
Wasn't there, like, a drink in the camera view, too?
James Petrigallo
I don't know about that one. In a different one, there was just fill me. They drank three liters of Woodbridge that day. Woodbridge Chardonnay.
Jimmy Wisman
God damn.
James Petrigallo
From a Florida Publix. Someone's gonna die. Someone. Someone's life is gonna end. If you're buying that much woodbridge Chardonnay. I'm sorry. No one can drink that much. Woodbridge. It's just not possible.
Jimmy Wisman
Somebody's gonna die.
James Petrigallo
Somebody's gonna die in some way, shape, or form. So he said we were totally in a good spot. I would not hurt my wife, which I don't like.
Jimmy Wisman
I don't either.
James Petrigallo
I like. I didn't. I didn't kill my wife, is what I like.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, I don't like the two words would not.
James Petrigallo
And then the minimization of hurt is not kill.
Jimmy Wisman
She's not hurt.
James Petrigallo
She's dead.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. So that's.
Jimmy Wisman
She doesn't feel anything.
James Petrigallo
I don't like either one. I don't like anything in that sentence there. So they searched the house. An evidence technician with the police department said that he conducted a search of the house to see if there was a secondary crime scene in the house. He found no secondary scene, but he did find a pair of woman's pants and underwear on the kitchen table. She is a part. She takes her underwear off, just throws them on the table and frolics. Awesome. The underwear matched what Kathleen had been wearing in photographs that she sent from her phone to his phone at 9:31 and 9:42 on the evening of her death. The shirt that she was wearing that night was never recovered by police. I don't know where the hell it is.
Jimmy Wisman
No shirt.
James Petrigallo
No shirt. So the shirt she was wearing when she got home, nowhere to be found anywhere in the house. Where'd it go? It vaporized. That's what I mean. It couldn't have.
Jimmy Wisman
It came off so fast.
James Petrigallo
Disappeared. Maybe that's what her clothes are like dandelion spores. She takes them off and they go. And they just. More clothes grow.
Jimmy Wisman
Wow.
James Petrigallo
So Kat's family here. This is her mom says it seems so impossible for the extreme sadness and grief we feel as the loss of our beautiful daughter Kat to ever diminish or decrease. However, the Lord is our hope, so I hope he can turn our mourning into comfort. She goes on to say, my family asks for your prayers and support in our time of loss. My beautiful daughter Kat was not just my daughter, but a cherished wife to Jeff as well as a loving mother to their daughter.
Jimmy Wisman
There's the answer.
James Petrigallo
So much negativity is out there. But with God, all I see and hear is the goodness of my cat. My family and I ask for help in the services to lay our daughter to rest. And where she will be goes. Okay, There you go. So days go by, no progress. Because they looked and said there's no physical evidence of shit. It's just she wandered out there and has a head injury from mystery. A mysterious head injury. They don't have a weapon. Yeah, they don't have a fucking. And they can't put together. No, they can't put together a timeline of what they think happened. Their timeline ends at 10:30 when Jeff said he went to bed. And then it's she could have wandered. It could have been two in the morning. We don't know. Fall is in the air. And that cooler weather calls for an update in your skincare. Moisturizing is key to keeping wrinkles at bay. That's why we need a skincare routine that's easy, fast and gives us results. Plus, what if your products had thousands of five star reviews were natural and affordable? Well, say hello to Dime Beauty. Dime Beauty is clean, high end skincare care that is affordable and it really works. Not sure where to start. I highly recommend the work system. It's everything you need in one powerful package. Take out the guesswork with a proven routine that includes a gentle yet effective cleanser, a super skin toner, two incredible serums and two luxurious moisturizers. See what everyone is raving about. From serum sets to the always sold out retinol alternative TBT cream, you'll find your perfect skincare match. Dime has over 2 million happy customers and their product reviews are literally 5 stars. Love your skin again. Go to dimebeautyco.com and unlock your discount. That's dimebeautyco.com that's dime beautyco.com Are you.
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James Petrigallo
Yeah, where's the shirt? So there's at least two Facebook groups with over 2,000 members at the time that popped up immediately created to discuss the case.
Jimmy Wisman
Wow.
James Petrigallo
This is people trying to figure it out. Neighbors are concerned here and everything like that. One neighbor who lives two doors down said, it's shocking that it happened so close to home. Home. So all you can do is worry about and think about your family. And that's all I've been doing. No, this has nothing to do with your family. Obviously. Yeah, this has nothing to do with your family. Come on. So this guy was just like, I'm looking up that neighbor. I really want to see.
Jimmy Wisman
I can't believe this was happening two doors down. I had no idea.
James Petrigallo
My dick should have been rock hard the whole time. Well, he's sitting there looking through all the pictures going, no, I'm just looking for info, baby. That's all it is. I'm trying to.
Jimmy Wisman
Trying to crack the case.
James Petrigallo
I'm. I always thought I could fancy myself a detective. I think I can go through this.
Jimmy Wisman
This case is juicy.
James Petrigallo
Oh, boy. I'll tell you what. By the way, meet me in the bedroom about five minutes, would you, darling?
Jimmy Wisman
I'm running down her. Get her her gift list. I'm gonna get you a few things.
James Petrigallo
Oh, I'm gonna get you something.
Jimmy Wisman
You're gonna look nice.
James Petrigallo
Put something on here for the kids. There you go, kids. Excellent. There's some bluey, and I'm gonna get some blowy. Bluey for you and blowy for me. Let's do this. All right, then. So the word of the death is met with a lot of sadness. Her friends, people she worked out with at the gym and all that kind of thing. One friend from the gym said she'd come in and do her thing and leave. She kind of kept to herself. She'd wave and smile. She was a nice lady. Yeah. Don't talk to me about my tits. Leave me alone. So the investigation, they're real, the cops, by the way, The. I think It's. Was it 48 hours that they talked to the cops on this? And the cop, the sergeant, Mike Melhoff, the. Yeah, Melhoff, the main investigator here. They asked him, had you heard of only fans? Yeah. And he said, no, ma'am.
Jimmy Wisman
This is the first day he heard of this website.
James Petrigallo
So. Yeah. So now not only does he have to investigate a murder, but he's got to figure out a whole corner of the Internet that he knows nothing about.
Jimmy Wisman
This is going to blow his fucking mind.
James Petrigallo
I tell you what. I spent a good week just looking into it. I Locked myself in a room, and I said to my wife, you leave me alone.
Jimmy Wisman
I made a list of all the females in my life, and then I searched their names.
James Petrigallo
So, you know, and then I just looked for pretty ladies, and then I.
Jimmy Wisman
Just looked at all the results of those women.
James Petrigallo
Feel like I got the lay of.
Jimmy Wisman
The land now, you know, there's 963 genes.
James Petrigallo
So they said, could one of her only fan subscribers have stalked and murdered her? And he said, do we have someone out. Else out there that's actually killing people he doesn't know? So they said they needed to. They knew they needed to cast a wider net than just Jeff.
Jimmy Wisman
Right.
James Petrigallo
Considering there was thousands and hundreds of people drooling over her tits.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
It's real possible that he went to.
Jimmy Wisman
Bed and somebody did something terrible to her.
James Petrigallo
So they sent Jeff home, and they said they spent about three weeks, quote, looking for other suspects, which is figuring out onlyfans and how it works and putting subscriptions on the county's credit card. Well, we have to know how the subscriptions work. Shit.
Jimmy Wisman
Pausing, Taking long lunches.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. You know, I'm go home and take a shower real quick. He said there were thousands of names that had to be culled through in order to properly investigate this. Basically, every one of her social media followers had to be talked to, asked about everything. Not just subscribers even.
Jimmy Wisman
She's got 50,000 Instagram followers, man.
James Petrigallo
Go through that shit.
Jimmy Wisman
God damn it.
James Petrigallo
So, I mean, you know, if a guy was in the Philippines or something, he's probably not the guy, but pretty.
Jimmy Wisman
Easy to write him off.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. As they continued to gather evidence, they said they had more public involvement than they even wanted. The Internet went crazy. This is, you know, now anytime past about 2016, anytime someone's murdered and it's not solved immediately, the Internet wants to solve it, and they rarely do. Sometimes they. Once in a while, it's.
Jimmy Wisman
They're batting, like, real bad. Real bad, but they're batting.
James Petrigallo
If you remember Sherry Papini, you understand that none of that shit was good. I'm here with Sherry Panini.
Jimmy Wisman
For every one of Those, there's. For 10,000 of those, there's one of the people, the group of people that from. Don't fuck with.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
Those people were doing great.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, they did fantastic.
Jimmy Wisman
There's way too many panini ones.
James Petrigallo
There's a lot of paninis out there. So they had to continue doing this. The one person with the police force said they had. You had this huge online presence, these murder discussion, Facebook groups. While they may have started in Calera, there were people from all over and they aren't quiet about their opinions. It seemed everyone had an opinion on the way Kat died. And everyone's opinion isn't just, you know, here's my opinion, for whatever it's worth. Everyone's like, this is what happened. You fucking.
Jimmy Wisman
Obviously.
James Petrigallo
I know I am fucking 4,000 miles away. I'm in upper British Columbia, but still.
Jimmy Wisman
I think I've done some GPS in and I figured it out.
James Petrigallo
Christ. So as the police gathered evidence, they said that they. Yeah, just too much here. They said what? They're reading the. Reading the comments and they say it's the husband. The next person. I vote stalker. It may have been a freak accident. It's all these, thanks. We know the options. And also the way. It's the way she lived. People said, oh, God. People would put, quote, I don't agree with her lifestyle. She brought this on herself. She was proud to have such an amazing figure. Good for her. You go, girl.
Jimmy Wisman
Empowerment.
James Petrigallo
She's dead. Good for her. She's dead. Not good for her.
Jimmy Wisman
You go, girl.
James Petrigallo
You go, girl. Everywhere between. You go girl. And she brought this on herself and everything in the middle. CEO and everything in the middle. Wow.
Jimmy Wisman
Holy fuck, girl boss. That's amazing.
James Petrigallo
So Jeff's work friend, Guy Carney, enters the picture here. He worked with Jeff west as a security officer with Jeff, and he said he heard about the death of Katt and he contacted Jeff and Jeff told him what happened on the night Katt died. And this is Guy's statement. He said, wes just told me they had gone out Friday night. They had. What I want to say he referred to as a date night. They had. You've never heard of that before? He had his term for it. I can't put. I believe he's date night. Maybe was his term. Like, that's not a commonly used phrase.
Jimmy Wisman
It's a fucking movie with Tina Fey, man.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. What are you talking about?
Jimmy Wisman
Came out in 2014. Jesus.
James Petrigallo
They had gone out that night. They had been consuming alcohol. And that due to the fact that he was having to get up to go to work at Birmingham Southern College the following morning, that he had gone to sleep. He laid on the couch to go to sleep, and his wife was still awake staying up at that time. So he said the next morning, he was woken up with the dogs barking. The dog barking woke him. He got up to see what the dog was barking about. And at that time, when he got up, he realized the front door was open. And he walked to the front door and looked outside, and that's when he saw his wife laying in the yard or on the ground.
Jimmy Wisman
So I got a cigarette.
James Petrigallo
So, yeah, he doesn't run out there and go, hey, oh, my God. That's the part. All of that's fine. It's fine till the point where you go, the second you saw your wife, you didn't burst through the door in your boxer shorts to go fucking see what was wrong. Because that's what a normal person would fucking do here. So Jeff on Facebook said, because now, I mean, people, he's now become a public figure.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
So he said all the online chatter has really fucked everything up. And he said to the public, our tragedy is just juicy gossip. He wrote on Facebook.
Jimmy Wisman
Very, by the way, it's.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, yeah, juicy. Incredibly so, according to Jeff, like we said, he went to bed at 10:30 and Cat stayed up. So the sergeant, the investigator said, now that's Jeff's version of what happened. So then they figured out, though, they. They're figuring out technology. Oh. Because they had to figure out only fans. Now they're figuring out different apps on the phones here. And they figured out that Jeff has a health tracker app on his phone. Yeah. You know, the fitness one.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah. Mine just told me, congratulations, you broke.
James Petrigallo
A record today while you've been sitting on your ass for the last two hours.
Jimmy Wisman
Matter of fact, I think it told me, time to stand up.
James Petrigallo
This laughing has been great for your heart rate.
Jimmy Wisman
What's going on with your heart, buddy?
James Petrigallo
What's up with that shit? So he said that Kat stayed up. And he said, no, that's Jeff's version of what happened. But before long, that's what they unearthed. And he said, well, the health app actually shows Jeff's phone moving as late as 10 minutes after 11:00.
Jimmy Wisman
Jeff.
James Petrigallo
Which is fine. Cause if you go, I don't know about 10:30, unless you're like, I know what time and you're really on top of it. If you've had a few drinks and you got 1030 or 10 after 11 is the same thing.
Jimmy Wisman
There's also this little thing called I went to bed, but my wife was up. So she could have picked up my phone.
James Petrigallo
She could have picked up my phone and checked into it and looked into it, or just I, you know, I decided I was going to go to bed around 10:30 and. But then I wandered around and then I brushed my teeth and then I went in there and I went to sleep or whatever. So, yeah. So the sergeant said that it's 10 minutes after 11. And he said he believes Jeff also lied about when he woke up that morning. He told the cops that the dogs got him up by barking at the police cruise. But a neighbor reported seeing Jeff before the police. Remember the. They were on the phone with 911, and on the phone they said, there's a guy right here in the doorway. He's pacing around, pacing. So having laid out what they believe was Jeff's movements that night, they then looked at Kat's phones. They were like, her phone's got one of these trackers, too. It's the greatest thing ever. You don't even have to be a good detective now. You really don't. You got your phone. I'll solve the case, dude, if you watch the first 48. Now, literally, they sit them down and they go, we'll talk when we get your phone data. They don't even want to.
Jimmy Wisman
Let's just stare at each other.
James Petrigallo
Let's just. I'm gonna.
Jimmy Wisman
It won't matter.
James Petrigallo
I'll just check to see if the GPS has you around where the. You were, where the murder happened, and if so, I don't even need to talk to you.
Jimmy Wisman
Just. I'll be in charge and we'll put you in a cage.
James Petrigallo
That's it. It's wild now how easy it is. So they said that they looked at her phone. They found that, and it showed her phone had stopped moving 16 minutes before Jeff's phone stopped moving. Oh, that's not good. No, but they said that doesn't help figure out what caused the wound.
Jimmy Wisman
Right. That doesn't mean she's moving and she's not.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, that doesn't give you a. She could have put her phone down. She could have been drunk and put her phone down and wandered off. If you're going to go jump on the trampoline, you don't need your phone.
Jimmy Wisman
Right.
James Petrigallo
So they don't know. This is about a month later, they get test results from the absinthe bottle. It had a tiny sliver of glass chipped off of it. Not enough to even cause a leak, as we know. It was mostly full, optimistic police officer there, but they did also find two spots of cat's blood on the bottom of it. So now they're thinking, murder weapon. This could be what bashed her head in. And the sergeant said, we had Jeff's fingerprints on which he took a picture with it the night before, fucking holding it.
Jimmy Wisman
I mean, we know he touched it.
James Petrigallo
We know he touched it, but they Were actually saying, they don't know if he touched it because they're saying in the store, the footage they have, she's touching it. He never touches that bottle. But it's sitting. She could have said, can you pour me a drink? He could have said, I'll make you one. Who knows?
Jimmy Wisman
He could have brought it in the house.
James Petrigallo
And that's the thing. And the interviewer, that's Maureen Marr, I think it's 48 hours. She's on her. A Dateline, one of the two. Either one, she said, wouldn't you expect that given this, given that they bought it together and said they'd been drinking, that his prints would be on it. And the cop said, oh, absolutely. So then what the fuck, you're back to square one.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, it doesn't do anything.
James Petrigallo
He said, though, there was something specific about the prints that helped point the finger at Jeff.
Jimmy Wisman
What's that?
James Petrigallo
He said basically the fingerprints. If you were going to pour a bottle, your prints would be like this on a bottle. Grab whatever is in front of you as a bottle and hold it. But if you were going to hold it, a baseball bat, it would be the opposite. You'd have it upside down. Nobody pours liquor like that. Nobody. I've never seen. Unless you're Tom Cruise in cocktail and you're flipping fucking bottles. No one holds a bottle like that. So that was the thing, they said that basically the bottle was held inverted, much like he'd be holding it like a club.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Now at the same time, if it was in a bag and he took it out, you take it out the same way. So there's probably. I probably have five wine bottles in my fucking house that have the exact same pattern of my fingerprints on them, which is interesting. They said that Jeff's thumbprint was found in a downward position on the bottle. And his ring finger was found over here, which she was demonstrating. So Kat's phone, they said the last time she moved, according to the data, was at 10:54pm and it recorded 87 steps. Now, data from the ADT alarm system. See what I mean? These cops don't even.
Jimmy Wisman
God damn.
James Petrigallo
Between all of this shit, they don't even really. They used to have to go like, talk to people, right. And get clues.
Jimmy Wisman
Now you just need apps.
James Petrigallo
Now you're just. You just call companies and say, give me your data.
Jimmy Wisman
When was this accessed and how it worked? Yeah.
James Petrigallo
So the ADT alarm system shows that they should have got Simplisafe. Much better. That's a sponsor. But it's we fucking love anything Great security system. They'll keep all your private.
Jimmy Wisman
None of your business.
James Petrigallo
None of your business.
Jimmy Wisman
Subpoena me. I still want.
James Petrigallo
I think they will.
Jimmy Wisman
I think they have to.
James Petrigallo
I think they have.
Jimmy Wisman
I don't think they have a choice.
James Petrigallo
So it showed the front door to the west home opened at 10:53 and 1/21 which is a minute before cat stopped moving and closed at 10:53 and 11 seconds. So it's only open for 10 seconds. It opened again at 1:51 and 46 seconds in the a.m. oh boy. 2am I thought she's. According to her phone, she has stopped moving. And he's been asleep for two hours.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
And remained open until 4:12 and 44am yeah almost three 1:51 to 4:12. Yeah, two and a half hours. That's a lot. Wow. At that time it closed and then the police said they responded to the scene shortly after 5am so that's interesting.
Jimmy Wisman
You were asleep, sir. You got a ghost in this motherfucker?
James Petrigallo
No shit. Or cat dropped her phone, wandered out at 2 o'clock in the morning. But then who closed the door at 4:12? Yeah, who closed it? Dude, that's the thing. Someone closed it wasn't you. You said you got up 5:00 so there's a lot of shit that's not lining up. So February 22, 2018, it's a little over a month later they announced they're going to their arrest Jeff for it based on circuit. I mean it doesn't get any more circumstantial.
Jimmy Wisman
I mean certainly lying.
James Petrigallo
He's lying and that's not great and it's. But I mean it's very circumstantial. But circumstances, all the circumstances lead to no other real answer to this question.
Jimmy Wisman
All the circumstances say husband.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, the bail set at a million and a half dollars. But why?
Jimmy Wisman
That's pretty high.
James Petrigallo
That's half a million dollars. But why? I don't understand why he. What's his motive here I understand that's not part of the legal thing, but yeah, for my curiosity, I sure as fuck need to know are you killing your circumstantial shit?
Jimmy Wisman
You should certainly have a motive nailed down.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. Why are you killing your wife who's you know, hot and banging you, bringing in threesomes and you know, making money? What the fuck are you killing her for?
Jimmy Wisman
Jesus.
James Petrigallo
So the now her friend Britney says Jeff should have never been arrested. Oh, they don't. They don't believe Jeff did shit. She firmly believes that the police failed to fully investigate the hundreds of OnlyFans subscribers who had paid to see her content. Content investigate all these guys. Jeff's attorney here is asked, did you ever consider that maybe someone for her online life could have played a role in what happened to her that night? And this is. They said that we looked into that, and there just wasn't that evidence out there. So there's no evidence that an only Fans online user was involved in her death. They said that. But his attorney, Jeff's attorney says what the evidence does show is that Cat wasn't murdered.
Jimmy Wisman
What does it show?
James Petrigallo
Their defense isn't that someone else did it. Their defense is it wasn't murder at all. This shit was an accident. Yeah, the lawyer said she fell and hit her head. And Jeff's parents, Jerry and Susie, they agree, too. They said they're not sure how she hit her head, but they don't think that the authorities can prove that she didn't hit her head either. So they don't think their son. They think their son's going to be fine. His dad, Jerry west, not the basketball player, said they set out to get Jeff. There was no investigation, really. And then they also. The mom said, I know he's innocent. And then the dad said, I don't care what anybody says. He did not do this. Jeff's parents say he's incapable of harming his family. And, I mean, but a lot of people say that. Yeah, that's very common. Ted Bundy's mother, he was in the electric chair, and she was still saying he was in after he was telling them where heads were. Still. He's like, he didn't do it. They know that this is a mistake, so that's fine. But they said, you know, that's normal. But the thing that's not normal is her parents fucking agree 100%. Even the victim's parents are saying that he didn't do it, which is tough if you're the prosecutor, because those are the ones who file charges. Actually, you file charges, you don't even have the victim's family supporting you. That's tough.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, you got to go to the family and say all the evidence says this. And they go, well, it's wrong. Recalculate. And they go, we recalculated.
James Petrigallo
And they go, you're a lion sack of shit. And then you're like, now you get the victim's family against you in court. That's one thing. That's like the prosecutor, the victim's family, those are all kind of Locked up.
Jimmy Wisman
They're supposed to be on the same team.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. This is Wild Cat's dad. John said he's honorable and he loved my daughter. I know he didn't do it. And the mom, Nancy said he didn't do this. She spoke publicly. This is the mother. And said Cat's mother. And said that her daughter was an alcoholic who suffered from bipolar disorder. Mom, she's coming.
Jimmy Wisman
Ma, I got kids.
James Petrigallo
She's telling. This is what normally what a defense attorney would say.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
When they would have to trash and.
Jimmy Wisman
The family would fucking cry their eyes. How dare you say that about my family.
James Petrigallo
She said, she's saying this. My daughter goes off and wanders off drunk. She'll hit her head on something that could very happen. And you're damning a good man. She said that she believes Kat died from a fall. She said her daughter quote fell all the time, especially when drunk.
Jimmy Wisman
Wow.
James Petrigallo
She's clumsy. And she said she'd get drunk, jump on the trampoline, take off her clothes, wander around the neighborhood.
Jimmy Wisman
She's like a naked fainting goat.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, she's like a two and a half year old. That's what two and a half year olds do.
Jimmy Wisman
Just running around in a diaper.
James Petrigallo
They just pull clothes off. And while you're. What the fuck are you doing? You have that kids, they just stripped. They're trying to get the last fucking pant leg off their foot. And you're like, stop.
Jimmy Wisman
Don't take your shoes off first, you dummy.
James Petrigallo
Jesus Christ. So yeah, she said that's what it is. And the father said, or the mother said, he didn't do this. He's a good man. He loved her with all her heart.
Jimmy Wisman
Shocking.
James Petrigallo
Her parents said she was conspicuously clumsy even when sober. She fell down when drinking. She was a fucking mess.
Jimmy Wisman
Wow.
James Petrigallo
Falling down all the time. Nancy said that the 13 year old daughter stayed with her and her husband until Jeff was arrested. And he said, or she'll stay be staying with them. They said, I trust him with my whole heart. That's what Nancy Kat's mom said. Both of the mothers here who now say they're attached at the hip. This is Jeff's mom and Cat's mom say the blood alcohol level was extremely high. And neither of them believe that online exhibitionism was a factor here. They don't think somebody came and stalked her and killed her. They think she fucking fell because she's drunk. Yeah, that's it.
Jimmy Wisman
Like a mom defense. Voltron. That's wonderful.
James Petrigallo
They come together and Jeff's mom Said he wasn't jealous. He knew she was sick and needed the attention. Okay, so. But the. This is. Her mom said. Yeah. Nancy said she was not aware of that part of her daughter's life until after her death. She didn't know she was doing all that only fan shit.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, because you don't tell your mom that.
James Petrigallo
But when she found out, she wasn't surprised at all. She said Kat was very insecure and always has been. So this makes sense to me here. She said she wanted everyone to think she was beautiful. She said nothing, nothing on earth could make her think Jeff is guilty now. She said, now I've seen all the evidence they have. Nothing could make me think he's guilty. They don't have the evidence, and I believe him, and I know he didn't do it. She said if there was a video of the death showing Jeff killing her actively, she would think it was doctored. She wouldn't even believe that. That's crazy. Now you're delusional.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
You're at the level of I believe it. If I saw you doing that. Yeah. You know what I mean. I know you way better than she knows him.
Jimmy Wisman
It's delusions.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. And Brittany, the friend, Kat's friend, said she could have run outside in the street. Right. Because she was so intoxicated. She said anything's possible. Yeah, my friend, that's not out of the range of. If you said. If you called me up and said Cat died, she was drunk in the middle of the night and ran around in the street and fell and hit her head, she'd go, oh, that makes sense.
Jimmy Wisman
You know, we got a friend that crossed a freeway.
James Petrigallo
Oh, yes, we do.
Jimmy Wisman
We don't think it's murder. No, I believe exactly what the cops think it is.
James Petrigallo
Yep. I think he. He did some. A lot of times. We know that he had substance problems from time to time. And.
Jimmy Wisman
And he was going, it might have.
James Petrigallo
It might have been suicide.
Jimmy Wisman
Maybe.
James Petrigallo
It sure as wasn't murder.
Jimmy Wisman
Nobody did that. No, no.
James Petrigallo
It was either an accident or suicide. But it wasn't. Yeah. That's sad. It was a great comic. God damn it. Goddamn underrated comic. He's one of the guys that makes you want to fucking hunt down TikTok. People who get booked at comedy clubs and sell out and burn their houses down or worse, over. They have no talent, no experience. And this was a guy who could kill and was so poor, he was kill at will for an hour and was so poor he had to run across a Texas freeway for more Booze for more booze. Fucking sad.
Jimmy Wisman
God, he played drunk Frogger and lost and lost. And we've got dildos that sell out constantly and live in the lap of luxury.
James Petrigallo
Fucking unbelievable. From three seconds of Internet fame. Oh my God. Ridiculous. Jeff's lawyer said she was not hit in the head with that bottle. He said it's clear because Jeff is a righty and the prints at the bottom the bottle were from his left hand.
Jimmy Wisman
So he wouldn't even swing with that.
James Petrigallo
It would be very. Yeah, if you were going to try and kill somebody with a swing, it wouldn't be after six drinks, wouldn't be with your offhand.
Jimmy Wisman
God, no.
James Petrigallo
Fuck no. And the lawyer said the bottle was in a bag. You would pull the bottle out of the bag in the same way with your thumb, just like I said, with your thumbprint down. And it would make sense you'd use your left hand to do that.
Jimmy Wisman
Certainly.
James Petrigallo
But you definitely wouldn't use your off hand as your kill hand.
Jimmy Wisman
No.
James Petrigallo
Stabbing people, when you stab someone is with your fucking power hand. When you hit somebody, it's with your power. So that's interesting. He said, I've handled well over 100 murder cases. Never went forward on a murder case where the manner of death was classified as undetermined. It's not even classified as a homicide.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, it's not even classified as coroner doesn't even know.
James Petrigallo
They don't know. So it's pretty fucking. And that's a really good explanation for the handprints too. So as much as that circumstantial evidence of him doing it, it's also just as much circumstantial evidence clearing of it.
Jimmy Wisman
More than I think, I think it's straight up evidence that he didn't do it.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, the left hand to me says there you go. Unless he did that. But then he wouldn't.
Jimmy Wisman
Unless he's been hiding from us this whole time.
James Petrigallo
He's actually left handed, just as good with his life. He just grew up super Catholic and they told him not to use it. So they said, what do you think happened to Kat that night? They asked the lawyer, he said in a nutshell, she fell, she hit her head, she could did it again. They said they found Jeff was dressed in the same clothes as in the security video from the night before. So he didn't clean up, toss his clothes and this is what he said. He said there was nothing on his clothes. No liquor, no blood, no bodily fluid, no tissue, no hair. There was no hair on the bottle. There's no glass in her wound.
Jimmy Wisman
What the fuck?
James Petrigallo
So where'd that sliver of glass go? Yeah, he said, despite. More likely would be she had the bottle and was drunk outside and dropped it and then picked it up even, and then wandered around and drank some more with it. Who knows? So they said. And despite this, they said there's no real effort to consider any other suspects either. It's just basically, it was an accident or he did it.
Jimmy Wisman
Right.
James Petrigallo
And we're saying it's not an accident too much.
Jimmy Wisman
We're saying it wasn't murder.
James Petrigallo
Well, yeah. So they said the only person they ever looked at was Jeff, and they never really looked at whether it was an accident or not. And so the police, Maureen Maher asked the sergeant here, was there ever a time you or anyone else in the police department looked into the possibility of it being an accident? Accident? His answer, absolutely not.
Jimmy Wisman
Wow.
James Petrigallo
Okay, well, I think you. If the. If the coroner determined. Medical examiner determines homicide, then you go, no, because the medical examiner said it's a homicide, but when it's undetermined.
Jimmy Wisman
Right.
James Petrigallo
And everyone that knows her thinks it's an accident, I think you at least have to look into the possibility that it might be an accident. So, yeah, absolutely not. As his answer, he said, I don't want to sit here and say that. I immediately ruled out an accident, but just the head trauma alone, knowing that the body had been moved, it was very hard to try to look at this as an accident.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah. And she's incredibly hot. We got to solve this.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, we got to solve it. You see how blonde she is?
Jimmy Wisman
See how sexy she is?
James Petrigallo
She's blonde.
Jimmy Wisman
Onlyfans is going to be suffering.
James Petrigallo
She's hot and blonde. We got to find this. But the other thing, and I don't know how this would work. Could she have fallen, fallen down, gotten back up again, repositioned herself, falling down again? Because if you have a head, you're going to get dazed. You get dazed, you follow?
Jimmy Wisman
I've seen boxing.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, that's what I mean. I mean, like a head wound. I don't know. So, anyway, Jeff's lawyer here said it's not hard to explain at all. They said the two blood pools at the scene suggest the cat fell, got up, fell again.
Jimmy Wisman
Okay.
James Petrigallo
He said, because it's that it's clear that she moved around after she had the head injury. And the defense lawyer said he's whittled down his entire case to only one witness, and that's Kat's mother. So my case is Kat's mother. If she's not fucking buying it, why should you buy it? You know that's not. This isn't the justice she wants or thinks is a thing. So you're gonna overrule her.
Jimmy Wisman
She knows him.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. And she has as much information as the cops, you or anybody else has about this shit. So there's a bail reduction hearing here, and Jeff here claims that he's being illegally detained and unlawfully denied liberty by the excessive bailiff amount.
Jimmy Wisman
Illegally?
James Petrigallo
You are being held for murder, sir. That's.
Jimmy Wisman
I think that's legal.
James Petrigallo
We're holding you for murders, and we're going to hold you for a while there. The motion states that he poses no real and present danger to others, himself or the public at large if allowed to be released. That doesn't matter.
Jimmy Wisman
And also, we don't know that.
James Petrigallo
We don't know that. Also, that's not why they're holding you. They're holding you to make sure you don't run away because you have a murder charge over your fucking head. So they said the main purpose of bond historically is to ensure the presence of the accused in court to address the charges. And his lawyer says it should not be used as punishment. Says Jeff is certainly looking forward to defending himself at trial in this case. There's absolutely no evidence that he's a flight risk. He was honorably discharged from the army after 21 years of service, has no criminal record, was gainfully employed up until his arrest, has strong ties to the community and a desire to clear his name. All fine. The attorney says that he maintains his innocence. He says he's heartbroken over the death of his wife and the disruption that this case has caused his family. He's also concerned about his daughter and how the loss of her mother is affecting her, and he can't be there to help.
Jimmy Wisman
Okay.
James Petrigallo
He said, Jeff is a good man, a good husband, a good father. When it's all said and done, we anticipate a successful outcome of this case. Prosecutor says, tell you what. Want a deal? Let's offer you a deal. He offers Jeff a deal, and he offers him a deal that Jeff could take without admitting he did anything. An Alfred plea. Exactly. He's going to say, you can just say you have evidence and we have enough evidence, but you don't admit your guilt. He would just have to acknowledge that the state had enough evidence to likely Convict. Convict. Wow. And it also. If the judge accepts that deal, it means that Jeff would be let off with time, sir. And two years probation. Basically, you accept this deal. You'll be out by the end of the week. You'll be back with your daughter by the end of the week.
Jimmy Wisman
What do you do?
James Petrigallo
And that you say yes.
Jimmy Wisman
Do you fuck.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. You say yes. And the second you leave the court, you go, I didn't fucking do that shit. I took the deal because who the fuck knows what's gonna happen in court, but I didn't fucking do it. You think they would have given me a deal where I could walk out with time served if they thought I killed her? This is. They know. They wanted to clear their books and keep died. I'd make it about them. Fuck those people.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
If it was me and I didn't actually kill my wife, if it was him and I killed my wife, I would. Or if him. And not kill your wife, I don't know. So I'm taking that deal. Trial is risky.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah. I don't know.
James Petrigallo
No matter what. Trial's risky.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah. And down there, you never know.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. And pictures of her. She's gonna be beautiful. You're a troll. It doesn't look good. It just doesn't.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
And the prosecution go, maybe he was getting jealous. And people go, I'd be jealous if I was.
Jimmy Wisman
Look at that guy.
James Petrigallo
That's what I mean. So they ask the defense attorney, what does it tell you as a defense attorney, when the prosecution offers that kind of deal? And he said, that tells you, as a defense lawyer, the prosecution has some problems with the case.
Jimmy Wisman
They got nothing.
James Petrigallo
And they recognize. And that's what it is. They have nothing. And the defense has the victim's family on their side. So it's a tough sell to this jury if they want to have a jury. But. And according to the prosecutors, plea deals are standard in every case. They're usually not actually like this, not in murder cases. In murder cases, they offer you second degree and 25 to life rather than first degree and life without or the death penalty or second degree and life with parole or some shit. They don't say, you can leave tomorrow. Every one of those deals would get taken. Every single one of them. And the lawyer told Jeff, this is a reasonable offer, and it doesn't get any better than this, pretty much. And the lawyer said. He rejected it immediately.
Jimmy Wisman
He didn't do it, man.
James Petrigallo
Jeff said, no. If you. You have to be either the craziest narcissist lunatic in the world or very innocent one of the two here.
Jimmy Wisman
He didn't do it.
James Petrigallo
How the fuck did he not go outside then? This is blowing my mind. How would you not go outside. How would you watch people go, yeah, it looks like my wife out there. She looks dead. I guess I'll just smoke a cigarette. What the fuck?
Jimmy Wisman
Looks like her.
James Petrigallo
Shit, dude. It's so weird. And they said, why did he reject the offer? And the lawyer said, because he says, I cannot say I'm guilty of something that I didn't do. Which the Alfred plea doesn't make you even say you're guilty. It says they have evidence, not, I'm guilty. If they made him do an allocution and everything, then, yeah, he has to go up there and go, yeah, I bashed your fucking head.
Jimmy Wisman
If you apologize for what I did, then, yeah, that's different.
James Petrigallo
But if you just go, they have evidence, but I didn't fucking do it. And you can still get the deal and walk out. Do it. Who cares? But they said that he decided to roll the dice and take his chances in court. And the defense attorney said he understands the risks of going to draw. He gets it. Judge banned cameras from the courtroom, but they did 48 hours was there taking notes. They followed this story.
Jimmy Wisman
Sure.
James Petrigallo
They were like, she's really hot. We're gonna go down to Alabama and just camp out for a while. What do you think?
Jimmy Wisman
Hi, this is Lester Holt. I live here now.
James Petrigallo
I've just rented a house, and it's lovely. And registered voter down here looking for other blonde women. Not only fans, I've heard this is.
Jimmy Wisman
Where there's a hotbed of horny.
James Petrigallo
I hear there's a hot prostitution ring going on with sexy milfs down here. That's part two of this story.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah, David Moyer just moved here, too. That sandbagging son of a bitch.
James Petrigallo
That some bitch. So anyway, they sat with. This is Nancy Martin. The. Martin sat with Jeff's mother, Carolyn, during the hearing. They held each other's hands, the mothers and everything. There's like fucking Laverne and Shirley. These. John Robbins, a defense attorney, believed the prosecutors had problems with their case. And, you know, before the trial, he said they talked with more. They called with more talk of a plea deal he rejected. They called back, yeah, they're like, what less can you offer, though?
Jimmy Wisman
I mean, you don't. You can just leave after you hang up.
James Petrigallo
Just. Yeah, just say they have enough evidence and then hang up. And then you can just go. We'll just let you write out.
Jimmy Wisman
Wow.
James Petrigallo
Nope. And the defense attorney said, we discussed what it take. What would it take to settle the case? But they could not come to terms. The prosecution also notified the court that it was filing. Making a filing of new evidence texts between Jeff and Cat, the ones that we showed. And the sergeant said it was apparently a very volatile relationship.
Jimmy Wisman
Okay.
James Petrigallo
That's what they're saying. It sounded like pretty normal. And they drink a lot, so that's also part of it.
Jimmy Wisman
That's a very dramatic drunk. Been together nine years. Argument 14.
James Petrigallo
And if one of the parties is bipolar, too, and he. If you're with somebody that long and you recognize when the phases come on, if you see someone's getting manic.
Jimmy Wisman
Yep.
James Petrigallo
And sending shit, that's when you're ignoring those. And you're like, this will blow over. I love you. I love you. I love you. De. Escalate. So maybe that's part. And we're not trying to just.
Jimmy Wisman
I don't know.
James Petrigallo
I'm randomly defending. I'm just trying to. We're trying to find anything. What, if anything. Anything here, because this is confusing. So the jury is nine women, three men. I don't know if that's good for him or not.
Jimmy Wisman
No, I don't think so.
James Petrigallo
I think he could have probably got that a little bit better.
Jimmy Wisman
Rolling the dice should have been 6 and 6.
James Petrigallo
Although the. Although the guys would have probably said, you think you're jealous of her tits? Fuck you. You did this. I would have been jealous. Come on, get out of here. So the prosecution tells the jurors here in the openings that the Wests did not have a harmonious marriage. And he was reading from the text. You're throwing away almost 14 years of a relationship she'd written about a week before she died. You don't want me? Fine. Someone will. I always want you. He replied. They said, yeah, that's how it goes. They told the jury in the first day of testimony here that he used a liquor bottle to kill his wife with a blow to the head. And he said, why hasn't he called this in? Talking about the 911 called, saying he was there. He would later say that he was sleeping. It did not result from a fall. The prosecutor said the severity of the head wound indicated that when this person got hit, they were going down fast.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Okay. Now the defense talks about how the text. Yeah, there was texts, but they went from fighting to erotic.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah. In no time flat.
James Petrigallo
So fast that the defense says, we're gonna use these to defend ourselves. Like you can just as easily use to defend. Look at how quickly they made. Next thing you know, she's saying, I want you to come over here and finger me. So what the fuck you know, the defense attorney said to me, it's a bunch of baloney. It's supposed to show the volatile marriage that they had. She's mad at him one minute, sending naked pictures to him, saying she loves him the next. Yeah, yeah, that's. That happens. Yeah, that's better than fucking. No makeup. The defense attorney said, anytime Kat said something that, quote, can be considered an argument, his response is, I love you. I want you. You're sexy. He knows exactly what she wants to hear.
Jimmy Wisman
Sure does.
James Petrigallo
And that's what that is. He showed. So the defense attorney showed a couple dozen more text messages that showed intimacy and love between the couple. Jeff repeatedly referred to his wife in multiple messages as sexy mama. And Kat often sent him photos of herself topless and in provocative positions. God damn it. She's an awesome. What a great wife. So he would reply, quote, your picture's hot as fuck.
Jimmy Wisman
Fuck, yeah.
James Petrigallo
Your picture's hot as fuck.
Jimmy Wisman
What else do you say, though?
James Petrigallo
Well, there's no way to be eloquent. There's no way to be eloquent. All the blood is rushing somewhere away from your brain.
Jimmy Wisman
How the fuck are you supposed to look at those?
James Petrigallo
They want us to have these.
Jimmy Wisman
All I got is the blood. God, those are awesome.
James Petrigallo
The blood has left my brain. Yeah. The part of me that forms words and sentences, it's gone from there.
Jimmy Wisman
I want to suck him. Shit. I'm so sorry.
James Petrigallo
He replied to one of her photos saying, looking good, sexy mama, which sounds like he's a trucker from the 70s. Hey, looking good, sexy mama.
Jimmy Wisman
Gonna stop her 19. Sexy mama.
James Petrigallo
Oh, baby. You see that? Mud flaps on her, buddy. I'll tell you what.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, Jesus.
James Petrigallo
I don't think that's a compliment, man. Truckers, you never know. She replied to him at one point thanking, thank you for making me feel sexy. I love you. So she.
Jimmy Wisman
They appreciate it.
James Petrigallo
They know what each other wants at this point.
Jimmy Wisman
And she knows what he means when he says that shit.
James Petrigallo
Exactly. So the defense attorney said the state's case is based solely on circumstantial evidence. Nobody's gonna come in here and tell you Jeff hit his wife in the head with a bottle. The medical examiner's not even gonna tell you she was murdered, so definitely not gonna say how it happened. Happen. We're very confident that when you hear all the evidence in the case, you will come to the conclusion that there's no murder here. There's no killing. Jeff is not guilty.
Jimmy Wisman
Right.
James Petrigallo
So he also told the jury that the only reason national media and Even local media were covering the trial is because she had pictures with her boobs out. Literally. She said. He said, I find that to be a little sad. If it weren't for the kitty cat website, no one would be interested. And it's true. Yeah, they wouldn't.
Jimmy Wisman
Funny name.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, that's.
Jimmy Wisman
Does he mean the cougar one or does he mean only thing?
James Petrigallo
No, no, her kitty cat. Oh, she goes by Kitty Cat West. That's how she does it. Yeah. So he said there's no discord between the couple about the adult photos. If they're gonna try to say he's jealous, he says, yes, she had a website. She posed nude. She did that for her own self esteem. Jeff was fully aware of what his wife did and assisted her in it. He's trying to make her happy, it feels like. So the sergeant who investigated this whole thing, he gets on the stand, Mike Melhoff, and he says, I wouldn't want to speculate as to, you know, what drove him to that point, but I can certainly say that I feel that, yes, he's. He's the one responsible for his wife's death. That's not real convincing, Sarge. No, I mean, I can't tell you why. How.
Jimmy Wisman
And you stuttered.
James Petrigallo
Really? Yeah. And he did. He's. He's. I know he's the one, but I know he's responsible somehow. I can't prove anything. I have no evidence. Cat's mom testifies that she herself witnessed Cat, in an intoxicated state, go outside barefoot, in any kind of clothes, underwear included, whether it was hot or cold, in various staging, varying stages of dress and undressed. When she heard her daughter fell down on the side of the road, naked and cold, she was not surprised.
Jimmy Wisman
Nope.
James Petrigallo
At all. She was like, God damn it. I told her to stop doing that, literally. She said her daughter was a heavy drinker who had problems stopping herself. Once she started drinking, she just keep drinking. She said she could not drink just one drink. She testified her daughter would be up drinking long after anyone else who joined her drinking would go to bed.
Jimmy Wisman
She'd just sit up by herself.
James Petrigallo
Whoever she's. They would go away. And she'd be like, I'll see you later. And she'd stay up and drink one more. And her mom said that is when she would go wander around outside and take her clothes off and shit.
Jimmy Wisman
Wow.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. Would frequently do that. She said that she would. It was not strange to wake up in the middle of the night and see her half naked, dancing or dancing outside all by herself. All by herself in the dark with a bottle, just drinking. So she goes, I could see her doing this. And half.
Jimmy Wisman
What is that?
James Petrigallo
She said her daughter would typically go outside while drunk without wearing clothes or fully clothed. Doesn't matter. Sometimes with shoes, sometimes no shoes. She said, this is witness I behavior I witnessed in both Florida and in Alabama. I saw her doing it when she. Since she was a kid, she's done this. She said that her daughter, she saw her daughter alive two days before she was found dead. She said that her and her husband took her to a follow up visit after she got a breast job six weeks earlier.
Jimmy Wisman
She just got new boobs, new tits.
James Petrigallo
Now you don't. Here's the thing I'm going to say, and I'm going to say this, this is going to sound crass, but I'm going to, I'm going to say this as a reality thing. You do not spend eight grand on tits and then kill them.
Jimmy Wisman
I'm not wasting them.
James Petrigallo
Not her. Because that's what he. If you're a murderer who looks at your wife as someone you could kill you. I own those tits and I just bought them and I'm going to get my use out of them.
Jimmy Wisman
10 grand just laying in the gutter. No way.
James Petrigallo
Not happening.
Jimmy Wisman
Not once.
James Petrigallo
Probably not. So they said that. Yeah, that's how that went. By the way, she is the lone defense witness, Nancy Martin, really Cat's mother, the lone defense witness. She said she saw Jeff at the funeral home where Jeff broke down while picking out a casket and was having a very hard time doing all this. She said, I know it hurt me, but I can't imagine how he felt.
Jimmy Wisman
Wow. Her daughter.
James Petrigallo
Her daughter. So they asked the prosecution, this is 48 hours doing this. Were you surprised at how supportive Kat's parents, particularly her mother was of the man the police say killed her daughter? And she said, you know, I can't really recall another case where the mother of the victim and the father of the victim were so attached to the sustained. Kat's parents are even giving Jeff legal advice. They help convince him not to testify. So they want him to get off on this, which you don't see this very often. You'll see it in our cases sometimes in the beginning, but then once evidence comes out, they're like, we changed our minds.
Jimmy Wisman
The other part too, being a mom or a parent really of a murdered child, if you don't, you said that.
James Petrigallo
Like your kid was murdered. You know, being the father of a murdered child and all, you know, in My experience of having.
Jimmy Wisman
If he didn't do it, and we're sure he didn't do it, if they convict him of it, they're closing this.
James Petrigallo
Exactly.
Jimmy Wisman
If I believe that he didn't do it, I'm riding this till the wheels fall off. So that force these motherfuckers to get back to work and find who did this.
James Petrigallo
Especially if you don't think anyone did it. It was a fucking accident. You just feel bad, you know, now.
Jimmy Wisman
You'Re don't want anybody to suffer for something that my drunk daughter did.
James Petrigallo
Your grandkids are losing your grandkids. Losing both her parents now for this. This is crazy. So the physical exam evidence they put out.2 inch wound to the skull did not appear to the medical examiner. Said it did not appear to have been caused by a fall, which. Then why wouldn't they rule it a homicide? Yeah, that makes no sense. The force of the blow pushed the woman's brain into its stem. They said, good God, that's a lot.
Jimmy Wisman
That's a tough fucking shot.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. Said it was a considerable amount of force to cause an injury like that. Scalp wounds bleed like mad. The brain is very vas. It's a very vascular structure. They said that testified that it wasn't likely that she fatally was wounded from falling. Particularly because she was only about 5 foot 2. She had less room to fall. So they said, how about the object they believed killed her? And they said whatever it was had an edge, but it wasn't sharp. There you go. So I wouldn't cut it from that, but it had an edge. Now the bottle, they said that two swabs taken of the bottom of the lucid absinthe bottle the prosecutors say tested positive for her blood. Also testing positive for her blood was a towel taken from the master bathroom. Which could be anything. I was going to say, I can't imagine how many people there's a little bit of their blood on a towel in their master bathroom.
Jimmy Wisman
I mean, if I change my blade on my razor.
James Petrigallo
Exactly.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, it's everywhere.
James Petrigallo
Exactly.
Jimmy Wisman
It's a blood bathroom.
James Petrigallo
You could pop a pimple and get blood. I mean, there's so many ways to bleed in the bathroom, it's not even fucking funny. And a white tank top retrieved from the laundry basket. Under cross examination, they said there was no way to tell how long the bloodstains have been there on the towel or the tank top. Might have been there for a month. We have no idea. So in the closing arguments here, the DA tries to tie together this theory. He Says Jeff lost his temper with his wife. He said he had a problem with her drinking and her social media usage, which no one else on earth said or thought. Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
And as drunk as they both were, they're both the same amount of drunk.
James Petrigallo
That's what I mean. They were trading off drinks. They stopped. Here's your bottle. Here's my bottle. That's not. I have a problem with your drinking.
Jimmy Wisman
No. You have your own.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. The prosecutors say the evidence from the night shows it. Jeff had thrown her phone into the street and clubbed her to death with the liquor. Bottle. Bottle. When she went after it. And he says that the way the bottle and phone were positioned convinced authorities it could not have been an accident. They said those are the two items stacked perfectly together right there on the street next to her body. That's. That's what they said. But the defense attorney said there's no evidence added to that. He said he does not have a history of violence either. This isn't a. Where there's been 10 domestic violence calls. Yeah. There's no history of violence in the sky he's ever been arrested for.
Jimmy Wisman
Escalated fast.
James Petrigallo
Real fast. So the prosecutor, before it goes to the jury, the prosecutor asks, in the last minute move, they convince the judge to let the jury consider a lesser charge than murder too, which they tried to offer an Alford plea. Now they're offering this. This is. We don't believe in our case. They offered. They said, how about reckless manslaughter? Put that in there too. Which like, that's like a total accident because you were around doing something. And the defense attorney said they were afraid that they were going to lose the right. And this guy said. The defense attorney said he wasn't real happy about the last minute lesser charge they introduced. You're trying the guy for fucking murder. You made a shit case and now you're like, well, how about this then?
Jimmy Wisman
How do I save my case?
James Petrigallo
Yeah. So the jury deliberates for less than five hours, which, I mean, Christ, we could. We deliberate for a month about this.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
And they find him guilty really, of reckless manslaughter.
Jimmy Wisman
Is that right?
James Petrigallo
You gave the jury a way out is what you did.
Jimmy Wisman
Sure did.
James Petrigallo
And they knew it. Murder's a step too far with the mom saying no and all that. Murder's a step too far. But they want to hold someone responsible because the prosecution saying she was killed, so they don't know how to do it. So that's what they're.
Jimmy Wisman
That's fucked up.
James Petrigallo
That's just a. That's a compromise verdict, which happens all the time with juries when you have 12 people together and you want them to agree on something.
Jimmy Wisman
And they sat through this. Not just the jury, but the prosecutor sat through.
James Petrigallo
They.
Jimmy Wisman
They know what they just did.
James Petrigallo
They know what they.
Jimmy Wisman
I couldn't. I wouldn't be able to do it.
James Petrigallo
No shit. So both sets of parents were stunned by the verdicts.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
The. His dad, Jerry west said that was shit. And you know. Yeah. Which is a great lie. I would love my dad to say that. If I'm. If I'm convicted of anything, I want my father to go, that was shit and you know it. Even if there was a pile of evidence, I want my dad to say that.
Jimmy Wisman
Dad said that shit about the Patriots win every time.
James Petrigallo
That was shitting. You know it. God damn it. Bullshit, Tuck. Rule my ass, Tom Brady. I was shitting. You know, you fumbled.
Jimmy Wisman
You fucking mad Maddie Ice gave the game away. Shit, and you know it.
James Petrigallo
Shit and you know it. That's fucking funny. Her father said, I couldn't believe it. I really couldn't. They were just shocked.
Jimmy Wisman
That's a less frustrated man saying, it's shit and you know it.
James Petrigallo
It's shit and you know it. Yeah. I couldn't believe. He hasn't even got to that part.
Jimmy Wisman
He'll get there.
James Petrigallo
He was still unbelieving. You give him 15 minutes, he would have went, now I believe it. And it's shit and you know it. You know it. Shit.
Jimmy Wisman
He was in too much disbelief to say it.
James Petrigallo
He didn't have it locked and loaded yet. Now they bring in the 15 year old daughter during sentencing to plea for her father. Here to plead for her father.
Jimmy Wisman
I hope she says it's shitting, you know.
James Petrigallo
You know it. She said, he's always been my shield against the world. Please give me my father back as soon as possible. Also, the mother in law, Nancy Martin, she also testified on his behalf and said it's a total shock of what happened. This is ridiculous. Please set him free. Set him free. The judge, however, saw things differently.
Jimmy Wisman
Really?
James Petrigallo
And saying that he had plenty of time to take accountability for Kat's death during sentencing and didn't.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, my.
James Petrigallo
He said, for your own reasons, you don't intend to do so. So the jury had to do that for you. You, sir, may fuck off. 16 years.
Jimmy Wisman
Oh, my God.
James Petrigallo
Which we just did a case last year where that last week where the lady got exactly 16 years for like a brutal murder that we know she did, and it was like fucked up too.
Jimmy Wisman
And she's out or she's like, almost out.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, almost. Yeah, she gets out. So with credit for time served, Jeff will be behind bars for 13 more years.
Jimmy Wisman
God damn.
James Petrigallo
So the prosecutor said it was kind of a split decision. Are you kidding? You had no evidence, you got a conviction. That's pretty good. The reactions here, the assistant district attorney who tried the case said, obviously we would have preferred a murder verdict, but sure, we're glad to get a sentence, as we did.
Jimmy Wisman
We can't believe it.
James Petrigallo
Even though we were going to let him go.
Jimmy Wisman
It was shitting.
James Petrigallo
We know it. We were planning on letting him go.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
But we're happy the judge wasn't going to do that for the defense. Jeff said he knows if he had accepted the plea deal, he'd already be home.
Jimmy Wisman
Wow.
James Petrigallo
Like, he. This would be all over with for him.
Jimmy Wisman
I'm a dummy. I would have done the same thing, man.
James Petrigallo
I would have taken that fucking deal. We have. We have gone over way too many trials that they're so unpredictable. I can fuck. Yeah. I'll say anything you want. Get me the fuck out of prison.
Jimmy Wisman
Whatever. Leaves me free to say whatever I want after this.
James Petrigallo
Then I'll get out and say I didn't vote. That's crazy and you know it. And they. It's the only reason they gave you that fucking deal, and you know it. So the attorney also says in retrospect, he probably should have taken the deal. Well, no shit. Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
Wow.
James Petrigallo
His parents both say, we all think he's not guilty. And they sat down with the. With the west there and they said, who thinks he got a fair trial? And. And Jerry west, the dad, said, nobody. And this is with all four parents. Nobody thinks that they believe the book judge threw the book at Jeff in sentencing for refusing to settle the case and putting everybody through a trial. So they said that, you know, also they were upset that her daughter's been judged harshly in the court of public opinions, basically as well.
Jimmy Wisman
The only bummer, James, is that fucking door. That door.
James Petrigallo
Closing the door. And also the movement on the phone.
Jimmy Wisman
It's not good.
James Petrigallo
It's not good. But that's all they have. I'm not saying I don't think he did it. Yeah, Yeah, I think he probably did it.
Jimmy Wisman
He had something to do with it.
James Petrigallo
He.
Jimmy Wisman
Sir, nobody else has any reason.
James Petrigallo
The door is open and closed. It's just too much. Unless she was. Was she wandering around till four in the morning too?
Jimmy Wisman
That seems to be wandering around and not going and looking at what's over there on the other side of the road, you know it's your wife.
James Petrigallo
You see a blonde head, it's in the road, you know it's her. Probably because she's not in bed with you. So anyway, the mother, Nancy here, Cat's mom, said it was the fact that she was doing these things that small towns don't understand.
Jimmy Wisman
Right?
James Petrigallo
So bring it back to small town murder. Here her friend Brittany is crying and said she's gone. That, that's heart wrenching. They have a daughter that's in the mix of everything. And they said that's what her mom said. Kat's mom said, yeah, she's got it. There's a child involved here. And every week Lola goes with her grandparents to see Jeff in jail. He said, are the four of you sticking together just for the sake of Lola? And they all and said no. And Nancy said, we're all family. So they said, when Jeff does get out of prison, this will be a family with someone missing still because Kat's gone. And they said they asked on 48 hours, they asked her parents or they asked, how would you like her to be remembered? And Jeff's dad said, a kind, caring mother. And Nancy said, a kind, caring person who loved her husband and loved her daughter very much. Apparently Lola's being raised jointly by both sets of grandparents. They're like trading her back and forth. 2021, Jeff files a motion. He wants his guns back.
Jimmy Wisman
What?
James Petrigallo
I mean, he's not going to get him in jail, I don't think. But he formally requests the return of his guns and other property confiscated during the, during the investigation.
Jimmy Wisman
None of nothing to do with this.
James Petrigallo
That's. They said she wasn't shot. They seized firearms from his home and truck during the investigation. They were not in evidence in the case and had nothing to do with the death. And an autopsy found obviously the blunt force trauma. He requested his guns, along with other seized property to be released to his father. The guns were passed down to west from his grandfather heirlooms, and he intends to give them to his son if he ever has one, he said, or if he ever gets out or if his daughter's into shooting. So 2022, he appeals. He argued that the circuit court erred in denying his motion for a judgment of acquittal. Because at the end of the case, before it went to jury, they asked for an immediate acquittal here. Let's do a pre deal. And the judge said no, which is just standard. Every case does that and they always say no. So he said the state failed to meet the burden of proof, to satisfy requirements of his guilt. And though he was indicted for murder, he was convicted of a lesser included offense of manslaughter. And they said the charge. This is the law. The charge upon which the conviction rests is the only charge that is subject to appellate review. So the record reflects that. West moved for a judgment of acquittal notwithstanding the verdict and a motion for a new trial. He argued that the evidence was not sufficient to support the verdict and that the verdict was contrary to the great weight of evidence. He argued in a brief that this conviction was against the weight of evidence because the victim had a history of alcohol. Alcohol abuse. The manner of her death was inconclusive. It's still not a homicide. Her high degree of intoxication presented a finding of an accidental death, and her injury was not inconsistent with a fall. The majority of the arguments were not supported by the evidence that was presented at trial, is what the appeals court said. And his appeal is denied.
Jimmy Wisman
Damn it.
James Petrigallo
There we go. So that is denied. He sits in prison. He can get out. Earliest he can be out is 2033.
Jimmy Wisman
We already did this. Huh?
James Petrigallo
We did that God damn virtual live show.
Jimmy Wisman
Poor bastard.
James Petrigallo
How. Think about this, though, okay? When we did this, this was the 420 virtual live show. How much weed did I make you smoke in a two hour period that you're not used to smoking?
Jimmy Wisman
My word.
James Petrigallo
Because you didn't look. You were like. Your eyes were like. I don't think you think you would.
Jimmy Wisman
The end of that was not good.
James Petrigallo
You did not absorb much of this. Was that Cheech and Chong that was teaching Chung Boy?
Jimmy Wisman
That was that foot. Foot long.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, that was. I had the foot long joint that I rolled. I rolled the quarter Pounder.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Not the real, but I rolled the big giant one. And we had the cross. Join me at all sorts of crazy. Oh, I had the soda stream in your face, too. That thing. The Louvre and the Louvre.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Oh, yeah. Got you good. So there you go, everyone. That is. And we went into. We did a little bit more detail.
Jimmy Wisman
Okay.
James Petrigallo
We always do more detail in the main show because it's longer than a live show. And the live show, some of the details or you don't really want to hear those fun. It's more of a comedy show. Yeah. This is more of a everything and talk about things. So there you go, everybody. That's killer Alabama. We don't know if he did it or not. I mean, that's a mystery.
Jimmy Wisman
He's got too much saying. He did.
James Petrigallo
Yep.
Jimmy Wisman
But he's also got everybody saying he didn't.
James Petrigallo
It's great. I think. I think he did it. And I don't think they had enough evidence to convict him.
Jimmy Wisman
Really makes you wish she could talk.
James Petrigallo
Yeah, that would be great.
Jimmy Wisman
Be nice if she could tell us if we were right or not.
James Petrigallo
Put it this way. If you're going to get. If you're going to have a cause of like, that guy's innocent, make it this guy, not Scott Peterson. There's a hundred times more evidence against Scott Peterson than there is against this guy. You know what I mean? So there you go. If you like the show, tell everyone about it. Please do get on whatever app you're on. Also give us five stars. It helps tremendously. We don't know why, but it drives the show off the charts and it's completely free and it takes 30 seconds. So help us out there. Also, definitely head over to shut up and give me murder.com. get your tickets for the live shows. Austin, Texas, right? Bring it. You're up next, guys. So don't go. Don't fuck this up. Austin. I'm telling you, you don't fucking. It's not sold out. I don't know if we're.
Jimmy Wisman
Put your fucking boots on.
James Petrigallo
Not going to be coming back. There's a lot of cities in Texas. They're always trying to do that. We said, well, Austin was good last time, so we'll go there.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
And so don't fucking make us liars. Please do that. Phoenix is sold out the next night. Get your tickets for New York at 10 Tarrytown so you don't have to go releasing those tickets. City traffic. And then Boston also. And it's just outside Boston again. Getting out of field. The city traffic. Trying to. Trying to make it nice and easy.
Jimmy Wisman
It's a lovely place. God damn it.
James Petrigallo
It's going to be a real loud drunk. Shut up and give me Mutter. Mutter. I just.
Jimmy Wisman
Give me mother.
James Petrigallo
Give me Mutter. So get in there and do that. Hang out with us also, the virtual live show. If you're listening to this, after the virtual live show happened, which was on October 30th. Still there still. Unless it's like a year later, it's over for two weeks after to buy. So you can buy. You can watch it 100 times. Do whatever you want. Within two weeks of October 30th. Hang out with us. Just like a regular live show, except you don't have to go anywhere. We're gonna wear costumes, which is also fun. We can't wait so please get in there, shut up and give me murder.com is where you get all of that. Also social media. We are at small town murder on Instagram, small town pot on Facebook, at murder small on Twitter. And you should definitely, absolutely get on Patreon.
Jimmy Wisman
Get over there.
James Petrigallo
Patreon.com Crime in sports is where you get all of the bonus materials. Anybody $5 a month or above, you get an enormous catalog of back shit that you've never heard. I'm talking hundreds of episodes that you've never heard about. Grows every other week because we put two new ones out, which you also get. One Crime in sports, one Small town murder. We give you all of it, baby. For the low cost of a price of a cup of coffee. Can't be beat it this week, which you're going to get for the Patreon. We are going to do for crime and sports. We're going to talk about pedestrianism.
Jimmy Wisman
Son of a gun.
James Petrigallo
It's an old timey crazy shit thing. It's one of those things if you like crime and sports and you like old timey stuff. And when we make fun of it, that's what it is. It was a more popular sport than baseball and soccer in the 1800s. And it's just guys in mustaches walking and yelling at each other and taking performance enhancing drugs. It's hilarious. So we'll talk all about that. And then for small town murder, we are going to talk about exorcisms here. We're going to have a little Halloween layover. Sure, what is it? The Devil on Trial, I believe is the name of the documentary where they tried to use demonic possession as a defense. So we'll talk about that particular exorcism possession thing and then a few other. We'll get into general exorcisms and see how that goes. So get in there. That is patreon.com crime and sports and what else do you get?
Jimmy Wisman
Give you some credit for it.
James Petrigallo
A shout out. When does that happen? Let's talk about right goddamn now. Jimmy, do me a favor. My mother hit me with the names of the most wonderful people on the face of the earth that keep our show flowing and rolling along. Hit me with them right now. Like an absinthe bottle.
Jimmy Wisman
This week's got a first visit. Gary Howard, Kyle Norway. Holy shit, Kyle. It's been a while, Larry. Butterfest. It's been a while, Larry. See you, Wendy. Loving it. You're brand new, but we love you too.
James Petrigallo
Welcome.
Jimmy Wisman
Evelyn, Evelyn. Evelyn Manacow. I don't know she. It's her ninth birthday, Evelyn.
James Petrigallo
Her ninth birthday.
Jimmy Wisman
I know. I seriously hope it's not okay.
James Petrigallo
Listen, tell your parents.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
That two very bad people have been in your ears and you can't have them there anymore.
Jimmy Wisman
Mommy and Daddy are doing this all wrong, Evelyn. I don't know what's going on or.
James Petrigallo
All right. They're doing it just right.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah. Who's. Who? Who's to say? It's up to you. Other producers this week. Happy birthday, Evelyn. Other producers are. Trude. Possibly Trudy Pestless, Peaceless. Peace Sleeves. I don't know. Peyton Meadows. Faraha Bayabisa. What? Bay Yips. It's. Is that good?
James Petrigallo
It's harder than mine.
Jimmy Wisman
Not.
James Petrigallo
That's a good one. It's harder than mine. I go, hey, that's a good one.
Jimmy Wisman
Janice Hill. Scarlet Horbes in New Orleans. Thank you so much, Anna Lee. She was embarrassed that she. She. I don't know. I don't know. She saw us in Oklahoma City or Kansas City. One of the two, and she.
James Petrigallo
Were you in the front row?
Jimmy Wisman
No, she. Oh, no.
James Petrigallo
Front row, center.
Jimmy Wisman
Is that where you are on the street? James. She was embarrassed for whatever she said.
James Petrigallo
I'm sure you were very nice to us, Anna Lee.
Jimmy Wisman
Thank you for coming to the show. You are a marvelous young young lady.
James Petrigallo
I have no memories of crazy encounters, so I'm sure you were fine.
Jimmy Wisman
Other producers continuing are Andrew Chandler, Devin. Nope. That's Kevin W. D. Rock. Chrissy with no last name. Alexa Napierowski.
James Petrigallo
Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
Nope. Casey Bazoob. Juan Lopez. DJ Tadich. I think. David with no last name. Amber J. Angel Abbott. Megan with no last name. Justin Tarleton. Neville milster. Piss. Oh, Mr. Piss Man. Got you. I think that's taking a jab at me.
James Petrigallo
James.
Jimmy Wisman
I think that's what that is. Chris Sen. Maybe. James Gilstrap. Mine, mine, mine. James Lee. Jillian. Roxan Keegan. Sarah with no last name. Mickey Pinto, Jennifer Pacho. Katherine Hunter. Shirley Savory. Shelby. Shelby Christopher. Cmp. Mofo Cass. Gil Breath. Kaylee. Kayla Barman. Yep. Nicholas. Nicola Johnson. Nicola. Maybe Gail Perry. Mike Weed. Lira. Is that right? Heidi Smith. Matt T. Emily Skinner. Patrick Murphy. Lady Dank. Alex. I don't know what that means, but I imagine she. It's a gal who smokes weed. James.
James Petrigallo
Girl.
Jimmy Wisman
Not a girl. Ryan. Maureen Tubbs. Terry Hutchison. Stephen McLean. Brian Hennis. Maybe Steph with no last name. Daniel Sulac. Gracie Edwards. Campbell Robert Ross. Chelsea Wagner. Jen S. Taylor with no last name. Anthony. Anthony. No, it's Amanda Shelton. Ah, Jesus Christ.
James Petrigallo
I want to name him Antony. But it's a girl. We'll call her Antna.
Jimmy Wisman
Anth. Jesus Christ. Kyle Kinghorn. Quinn Campbell. Nick the trucker. A snide 1912. Holly Hargraves. Kristen Frederickson. Mary Ryan. Cindy Patel. Alice Sarti. Natalie. Randall Gray with no last name. Lauren Huber. Aaron Santarella. Colleen with no last name. Alicia. What the fuck? G, W, O, Z, D, Z. That's not a name, is it?
James Petrigallo
She just.
Jimmy Wisman
Keyboard. Andrew Miller. Vicky Spect. Jude. Or maybe Judy Sheridan. Joanne Cleary. Rachel Halgren. Richard Halgren. Not Rachel.
James Petrigallo
Sorry.
Jimmy Wisman
Right. Sorry. Richie Ellen. Kelly Johnson. Jennifer Greyshop. Jennifer Lafrance. Also Chris Money. Maybe Money. Angela Sumpter. Katie with no last name. Ashley Priestler. Aaron with no last name. Ryan Adams. Probably not that artist. He's terrific.
James Petrigallo
Dana Persia.
Jimmy Wisman
Daniel. Danielle Bachina. Bachina. I think that's Root.
James Petrigallo
Right?
Jimmy Wisman
I think that's right. Celine Zon. Hugh GP Penis. Do you see how that doesn't sound right? It's not. Nobody's named Hugh G. Penis.
James Petrigallo
Hugh G. Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
You got it. You got it. It's. Come on. Janus is.
James Petrigallo
Bart Simpson. Had better shit than that. Come on, guys.
Jimmy Wisman
Come on. Hugh. Sheila. Riley.
James Petrigallo
Bart. It works.
Jimmy Wisman
Jen Blystone. Laura Kotzik. Danielle Kopech. Rachel Reese. Julie. Julia. Juliet Highland. Laura Larson. Amanda. Fabian. Salters. Fabian. All right. Tiffany with no last name. Pete with no last name. James West. Kristen Gartman. Gartman. Krista M. Chris G. Jennifer Allen. Alex with no last name. Hillary.
James Petrigallo
Keys.
Jimmy Wisman
The 940. T. T.J. beiner. Schnitzel. That's pretty good. Not bad. I hate that you made me do that. Melinda. Hillary. Hillary, maybe. And Weeza. Weeza. Weeza. Not going to do this. Weezer. Weezer. W. Check. Wc. All right. Clinton. I've done the best. I'm going to do. Clinton.
James Petrigallo
Bar Tech.
Jimmy Wisman
Bar Tech. David Riviera. Yes. Rivera. Brandon Bowling. Lisa Fairman. King cakes. Michael McDonnell. Emily Crofts. Kayla. Kayla Reynolds. Justin Quizna. Gretchen Still. Anthony Batten. Ryland Sink. Shasha Shank. Yeah. Holy. Eleanor Stein. Mueller. Kyle D. Dunham. Fuck, it's coming off. Penny Wilson. Bean cake. Wendy Walters. Elizabeth with no last name. Lydia Fenton. Melissa. Lindsay. Carrie. Kelly. Julianne. Rosa Chappetti with no last name. Glenn Schnell. Scotch Spate. Jordan Williams. Gage with no last name. Becca Bowen. Christine Du Moore. Joey.
James Petrigallo
Joy.
Jimmy Wisman
Joy. Danae Portier. Sierra. Spencer. Jenny Smith. Lenny. Oh, that's Jenny Howard. Luke Messamer. Emily. Cecil. Terry Frolic. Robert Graves. Tim. Tammy. Lindsay, lila G. Zach O'Grady. Sean Ingram, Ken Gillen, James Ott. Hainawacker, Melinda Cole, Alice C. Fred with no last name. Lisa Bell, Mitchell. Franklin, Sam with no last name. Andrew Clark. Clement. G Unit. Smitty. We should have stopped at Roy Rogers. I don't know what that means. I met. That's a. That's a quote from something, right? We should have stopped.
James Petrigallo
Yeah.
Jimmy Wisman
What is that? For the cheeseburgers, right? What is that?
James Petrigallo
Yes, we should have stopped to Roy Rogers. God damn. Damn it. That's gonna drive me crazy. Son of a.
Jimmy Wisman
But we.
James Petrigallo
Bastard. You God damn it.
Jimmy Wisman
Certainly should have stopped him.
James Petrigallo
We should have stopped, right?
Jimmy Wisman
Rogers, Emily Bethel, Nikki with no last name. Joel, Bernard, Richard. What is it?
James Petrigallo
Paulie and the woods in fucking Sopranos. Stopped at Roy Rogers when they're eating ketchup. Yeah. Thank you.
Jimmy Wisman
Yeah.
James Petrigallo
Boom.
Jimmy Wisman
When they're tracing the Russian. Freezing in the van.
James Petrigallo
Yeah. He wanted to stop at Ray Rogers. No, no. We're gonna get a steak at the casino. It's gonna be beautiful.
Jimmy Wisman
Just other Rogers now. Starving. Joelle Bernard, Richard. Richard. Maybe Pamela Goodman. Nikki with no last name. Emily Bethel. I think I said that. Angie Cook. Lisa Olsen. Megan Gerard. Gabe Grundy. Maximilian Bowers. Brianna Canning. Pa. Pa. Pa Garcia. The letter S. This show brought to you by the letter S and Cheyenne Parish, but also all of our patrons. Thank you so much.
James Petrigallo
Thank you everybody, so much. You've been tremendous, tremendous. You're the best. And thank you for all that you do for us. You want to find us on social media? It is. Shut up and give me murder dot com. There's a drop down menu. We're there. You'll find us. Keep doing that. Keep hanging out with us. Keep on coming back. And until next week, everybody, it's been our pleasure. Bye. If you like small town murder, you can listen early and ad free now by joining Wondery plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Prime members can listen early and ad free on Amazon Music. Before you go, tell us about yourself by filling out a short survey@wondery.com survey. Did you know that after World War II, the US government quietly brought former Nazi scientists to America in a covert operation to advance military technology? Or that in the 1950s, the US army conducted a secret experiment by releasing bacteria over San Francisco to test how a biological attack might spread without alerting the public? These might sound like conspiracy theories, but they're not. They're well documented government operations that have been hidden away in classified files for decades. I'm Luke lamanna, a Marine Corps recon vet and I've always had a thing for digging into the unknown. It's what led me to start my new podcast, Declassified Mysteries. In it I explore hidden truths and reveal some eye opening events like covert experiments and secret operations that those in power tried to keep buried. Follow redacted Declassified Mysteries with me, Luke Lamanna on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts to listen ad free. Join Wondery plus in the Wondery App.
Episode Summary: #541 - Death, Love & OnlyFans - Calera, Alabama
In this compelling episode of Small Town Murder, hosts James Pietragallo and Jimmy Wisman delve into the mysterious death of Makorsha "Kat" West in Calera, Alabama. Combining in-depth research with their signature comedic twist, the duo navigates through the intricate details of the case, unraveling the complexities of small-town dynamics, online personas, and the shadows that lurk within seemingly peaceful communities.
The episode opens with James introducing the tragic incident that occurred in Calera, Alabama: the untimely death of Kat West, a wife, mother, and OnlyFans model. While the transcript begins with commercial breaks, the core content centers on this perplexing case that intertwines personal lives with online activities.
Timestamp: [06:52] – [09:33]
James and Jimmy provide a historical and social backdrop of Calera, emphasizing its establishment in 1893 and its evolution from Lime Kiln Station to a hub of limestone production. They discuss the town's motto, "Heart of the Heart of Dixie," highlighting its agricultural roots, especially in soybean cultivation since the 1990s.
Notable Quote:
James Pietragallo [08:14]: "One of the largest chemical lime producing areas in the United States here."
The hosts humorously rate various aspects of the town, touching upon its development, cleanliness, and accessibility, while also mocking stereotypical small-town characteristics.
Timestamp: [33:09] – [66:00]
Kat West, born Kathleen Dawn Martin in 1975, emerges as a multi-faceted individual balancing her roles as a mother, wife, and online personality. Friends describe her as extroverted and the life of the party, with a pronounced obsession with Marilyn Monroe, striving to emulate the iconic star in her appearance and demeanor.
Notable Quotes:
Jimmy Wisman [34:06]: "I love that one."
Britney, Kat's Friend [33:10]: "I'm not doing it anymore."
James and Jimmy delve into Kat's OnlyFans activities, explaining how she monetized her online presence by selling provocative photos, which became a significant aspect of her life and, ultimately, the case.
Timestamp: [45:03] – [85:59]
The narrative traces Kat and her husband Jeff West's journey from their marriage in Las Vegas in 2005 to their relocation to Alabama in 2014. Jeff's career as a campus police officer and Kat's burgeoning OnlyFans model career set the stage for their complex relationship dynamics.
The hosts discuss their wedding, the birth of their daughter Lola, and the strains that arose from differing sexual expectations. Kat's increasing involvement in OnlyFans, coupled with Jeff's assertions of not wanting high-frequency sexual relations, highlights potential tensions in their marriage.
Notable Quotes:
Jeff West [85:54]: "I woke up and saw all this."
Kat West [85:24]: "Let's get on in there."
The culmination of these dynamics leads to the night of Kat's death on January 13, 2018, where she was found dead in the street, her body displaying signs of blunt force trauma.
Timestamp: [86:42] – [112:08]
Kat was found face down on the road outside her home in a state of apparent intoxication, sparking immediate suspicions. Jeff's demeanor upon discovering her death became a focal point, with police noting his lack of immediate concern or reactive behavior typically expected in such traumatic situations.
The investigation unfolds with Sergeant Mike Melhoff leading the case, scrutinizing Jeff's actions and the crime scene. Key evidence includes:
Notable Quotes:
Sergeant Mike Melhoff [89:37]: "He said, 'We were having a good day.'"
Kat's Mother, Nancy Martin [110:18]: "Nothing could make her think he's guilty."
The absence of Kat's shirt and the placement of objects at the scene raised questions about the nature of the incident, suggesting possible foul play or a staged accident.
Timestamp: [70:10] – [145:45]
James and Jimmy explore the intersection of Kat's online presence with the tragic event. Kat's OnlyFans account, where she sold explicit content, becomes a pivotal point of discussion, raising questions about potential motives and suspects from her subscriber base.
The hosts dissect the impact of platforms like OnlyFans on personal lives, emphasizing how online activities can sometimes clash with real-world relationships, potentially leading to conflicts or dangerous encounters.
Notable Quotes:
Kat West [83:44]: "Looking good, sexy mama."
Jeff West [136:32]: "I did not do this."
Timestamp: [145:25] – [163:02]
The legal proceedings against Jeff West are dissected, highlighting the complexities of circumstantial evidence and the influence of public perception. Despite the lack of definitive proof linking Jeff to Kat's death, the prosecution relies on the accumulation of suspicious behaviors, forensic evidence, and the volatile nature of their relationship.
Jeff's defense centers on the argument that Kat's death was an accident resulting from her intoxicated state, with the severe head injury not conclusively pointing to homicide. The family's unwavering support for Jeff adds another layer of complexity, as his parents maintain his innocence despite public scrutiny.
Notable Quotes:
Prosecutor [145:21]: "Your wife was killed."
Jeff's Attorney [148:54]: "The state's case is based solely on circumstantial evidence."
After a contentious trial, Jeff West is convicted of reckless manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in prison, a decision met with disbelief and disappointment from both families and the podcast hosts.
Notable Quotes:
Judge [159:37]: "You have plenty of time to take accountability for Kat's death."
Timestamp: [163:02] – [174:42]
James and Jimmy reflect on the trial's outcome, questioning the sufficiency of the evidence and the influence of OnlyFans on the investigation. They debate the balance between online personas and real-life relationships, pondering whether more comprehensive investigations into online interactions could have changed the verdict.
The episode concludes with the hosts encouraging listeners to engage with their platforms, promoting live shows and social media channels, while reiterating the unresolved nature of Kat West's death.
Complex Interpersonal Dynamics: The case underscores how personal relationships intertwined with online activities can lead to tragic outcomes.
Circumstantial Evidence Challenges: Jeff West's conviction highlights the difficulties in prosecuting cases reliant solely on circumstantial evidence without definitive proof.
Impact of Online Platforms: OnlyFans and similar platforms play a significant role in modern investigations, necessitating a deeper understanding by law enforcement.
Public Perception and Legal Outcomes: The support from Jeff's family contrasted with public skepticism showcases the influence of personal biases and relationships on legal proceedings.
James Pietragallo [08:14]: "One of the largest chemical lime producing areas in the United States here."
Jimmy Wisman [34:06]: "I love that one."
Jeff West [85:54]: "I woke up and saw all this."
Sergeant Mike Melhoff [89:37]: "He said, 'We were having a good day.'"
Kat's Mother, Nancy Martin [110:18]: "Nothing could make her think he's guilty."
Prosecutor [145:21]: "Your wife was killed."
Jeff's Attorney [148:54]: "The state's case is based solely on circumstantial evidence."
Judge [159:37]: "You have plenty of time to take accountability for Kat's death."
This episode of Small Town Murder masterfully blends true crime storytelling with insightful commentary, leaving listeners pondering the intricate layers of human relationships and the pervasive influence of the digital age on our lives.