MFM Minisode 477

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2:13detail. Hello and welcome to my favorite murder, the mini-show. Achieve the stories that you've sent us in email. The weird ship we've asked you for and the weird ship we haven't. We haven't. That's right. And you're gonna go first this time. Yeah, go first. Okay. This one's fucked up, but it's and it's long, but there's a follow up. Great. And it says my family murder with music notes. So I think it's like our theme song, but my family murder. Oh, no. But it's bad. Okay. Don't sing that song. I know. Yeah. Hello, everyone. All animals included. I've wanted to write this since the beginning of the podcast. And I finally think it's time. This will be a bit long, but there are some twists and turns and I promise it's worth it. My mother was one of seven children. Five of them have since passed all in various horrible ways, but the most unfortunate is my aunt that was murdered. My mother and my aunt were less than a year apart and understandably very close. They were like twins sharing their clothes and friends and did literally everything together. After my aunt graduated high school, she worked at a local Wendy's, saving up for a trip with friends to Daytona Beach, Florida. Before she left,

3:17she received a special occasion dress for her 18th birthday that was meant to be for her bridal showers since she was in a long-term relationship and had planned on getting married very soon. My aunt went to the beach with a group of seven or so others, a mix of both guys and girls. The very first night they were there, everyone was playing cards and hanging out, staying up late like teens do. My aunt and a friend left the room to get ice and they saw a man down the hall who seemed to be trying to get into his hotel room. When they tried to continue down the hall, passed him, he suddenly turned around and pulled a gun on them and demanded they take him back to their room. Once in the room, he seemed unsure of what to do as he wasn't expecting so many people to be in there. He sat down and was twirling his gun around his finger while smoking, telling them he does this quite often and it's how he makes his living. He's never done this before and he's shitting it right. When they offered to give him all of the money they had, so he would leave, he refused. Instead, he demanded they all undress and lock them out on the balcony. One of their

4:18guy friends had been lying on a beach chair on the balcony and was asleep so they covered him with a towel so he wouldn't be noticed. They woke their sleeping friend and he climbed down to the balcony below and ran to get help. However, help didn't make it back in time. The man singled out one girl who he demanded he take with him, terrified she started crying and begging and my aunt spoke up and offered to go in her place. No. The man left my aunt leaving his cigarette butt in the ass tray in the room. The next day, my aunt was found naked in a ditch. She had been raped and shot in the head. My mom's sweater wrapped around her head. Being so close, my mom had to be the one to tell the police where her birthmarks were in order to identify her over the phone when my grandparents initially received the call. Fucking devastating. My grandparents had a deal with reporters knocking on their door for months and my mom suffered PTSD as she was constantly receiving medicine phone calls threatening her. So much so that the police put my mom on an official curfew and would escort her

5:19home from high school. My aunt was buried in the dress she had received just a few weeks prior for her birthday. Recently, my grandmother passed so it's just my mom and her brother left out of the family of nine. My mom recently reached out to a non-profit organization who specializes in cold cases. We are currently being assigned a detective who is responsible for my aunt's case and will work with him to try to solve it. My mom is hoping we can finally test the rape kit and cigarette butt that was left behind to get some closure. Update. Since having this email in my draft for literal months, things have come to light. There is a palm print that was never fucking tested that they are going to run. All caps, why has this not happened yet? And then it says time and that palm print will tell who killed her. My aunt was a monumental badass and showed bravery in a situation that would cause most people to panic. Needless to say, I was raised with a healthy fear of strangers and to absolutely fuck politeness. Stay sexy and if you do get murdered, hopefully it was at least to save the life of a friend or a loved one. Blair. And then Allison found this.

6:23It's an update from the Project Cold Case website. On January 25th, 2024, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office made the following announcement. Basically, in 2017, Carol's case was revisited and reopened by members of the JSO Cold Case Unit. And in 2020, a person of interest had been formulated. Billy Mansfield, Jr., a white male 65, was ultimately identified as the suspect in Carol Barrett's murder. Mansfield would have been 24 at the time of Carol's murder. In September of 2022, after multiple interviews spanning two years, Billy Mansfield advised that he was, in fact, the suspect in the police sketch, completed following the abduction. He went on to confess to the abduction from the Daytona Beach Shores Hotel, as well as to her murder shortly thereafter. Billy Mansfield will remain in prison in California on one life sentence for murder, as well as four concurrent life sentences in Florida for murder in separate cases. And that's the end of it. That's the update. So that essentially they caught a serial killer. Yeah. And when she wrote in,

7:24they hadn't fucking solved it yet. I don't think in 10 years of doing this true crime show, I have ever heard or either of us have ever told each other a story about somebody being like, I'll go in for her and say, what an unbelievable move that was brave and so brave. Okay, well, then here's an old story, kind of an update, but more of, I was there too, I guess. Oh my god. What is it? hometown story. We were students at Sarah Lawrence at the same time as Larry Ray's victims. Remember my Sarah Lawrence dorm dad story. It just starts off, hey, happy to write into you too as the unknowing fourth and fifth members of our little girl squad. My two best friends and I all went to Sarah Lawrence College, recently known for the insane Larry Ray sex cult situation. We all listened to your episode on Larry Ray. And to be honest, it was a rough listen. We're OG murderinos, but we didn't know much about the true crime nightmare

8:26happening under our noses. That's crazy. Yeah, they didn't know. Okay, here's the thing. It wasn't until listening to your episode and subsequently watching the new documentary on the story that we realized we were freshmen on campus at the same time that Larry Ray was formalizing his control over other Sarah Lawrence students at that apartment in NYC. So they were freshmen. Wow. We actually even knew, as remark is, the journalist who broke the story that ultimately led to raising indictment. He was a student two one year ahead of us. Oh, and one of us even lived in Slonomwood's nine, the exact dorm where it all started during our senior year at the college. That dorm had some seriously weird energy. It's all caps wild to us that we spent so much time there, not knowing what happened in that exact spot a couple years prior. If any of our parents had known that as we were accepting our offers and committing to Sarah Lawrence, there was a 50-year-old man living in the dorms, culting it up. None of us would have ended up at that school now. Thank goodness

9:29we didn't know about that batship mess because college was great. We got a pretty solid education in my two best friends and I are now all successful professionals with pets living in LA. Nice. We are sitting on my couch right now eating cookies, watching the documentary on Larry Ray, freaking out that we were in classes with these kids. They went through an absolute horror show while we wrote research papers. How do we not know about this insanity at such a tiny college? It's hard to call your dad when you're in a cult if your dad or your friend's dad is leading the cult. True are words we're never not. Anyway, big SSTGM love from your Sarah Lawrence college murderinos, exo exo, Ryan, Zoe, and Hannah. And the parentheses says, use our names. We will be so excited. That bleep their names is, yeah, they had like a parallel flight door life where it's like we're doing the regular Sarah Lawrence college experience. And just over there. Because you think you'd notice those things like we all think we'd be perceptive and actually be like something where it's going on

10:32but she wouldn't know. It's like I don't know something about that girl's dad living in the dorms is giving me a weird feeling. Right. So insane. This podcast is brought to you by Squarespace. There's a huge difference between having a hobby and making it a career. And one of them involves invoices. Squarespace gives you the tools to build a clean professional site and get paid for what you do. Squarespace lets you showcase consultations events and experiences on a customizable website and get paid with professional invoices and online payments. Built in scheduling and email tools help manage bookings and communication without juggling multiple platforms. You can offer courses, videos, blogs, or memberships directly on your site all behind a paywall you control. Set one time prices or subscriptions and create recurring revenue through your Squarespace website. Go to squarespace.com slash murder for a free trial. And when you're ready to launch, use offer code murder to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Go. Bye. As the year gets going, everyone starts settling back into routines. And at the end of a long day,

11:33you can still unwind without unraveling thanks to RK non-alcoholic beverages. When I'm off alcohol and someone passes me a soda water at a party, I am not excited about it. I want to still feel like I'm treating myself like I'm getting some kind of flavor profile that's not just bubbly and I love that RK actually knows that we care about that. Ready to join the Zero Proof Revolution? Shop now at rk0proof.com and make every moment count. Goodbye! When you're thinking about getting your first EV or upgrading to your next one, the big question is always the same. Will this car actually work for my life? Hyundai's electric EV lineup has plenty of options that fit how people actually live and drive. From the ultra fast charging and long range of the Ionic 5 to the spacious, luxurious cabin of the Ionic 9, to the super powerful Ionic 5N. Across the lineup, Hyundai's EVs include advanced safety technology like highway driving assist too, and blind spot collision avoidance assist. Available on the Ionic 5, Ionic 5N, and Ionic 9.

12:36Hyundai's EVs come with America's best warranty, including a 10 year or 100,000 mile powertrain limited warranty. With performance, comfort, and confidence built in, it's love at first charge with Hyundai's electric EV lineup. Learn more about Hyundai EVs at HyundaiUSA.com, call 562-314-4603 for complete details. America's best warranty claim based on total package of warranty programs. See dealer for limited warranty details, see your Hyundai dealer for further details and limitations. Goodbye! Okay, I'm not going to read you. I'm not going to read the title of this, but we need to get more flight attendants to write us in with their wildest stories. Hell yes, right? Yes, please. Here it goes. Welcome aboard. I'm just going to cut straight in on this. I am a U.S.-based flight attendant. I have been for about five years, get us started at parties, and we have stories upon stories. My favorite murder at gmail.com, please, please send them. I actually have a weed story for you. It was January 2017, and our day had started at 4.30 a.m. in a cold and snowy Boston. We worked three flights that day,

13:42and we're in Atlanta with one more to go. We were going from Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale, where we were supposed to have a 21-hour layover. An exciting thing to have, a beach layover in the middle of January when you live in Massachusetts. We boarded the airplane like normal. I told 200 people how to fasten their seatbelt, not to stow their jackets in the overhead bin so we could fit as many roller boards on this aircraft as possible and smiled and smiled while people figured out where they were sitting. A passenger came to me in the bat galley and asked for some water, happily I nodded and reached into the containers pouring her a glass of water. She made a comment about not feeling well, but was hoping the Tylenol would make her feel better. I handed her some cookies saying, maybe this will help calm your stomach too, let us know if you need anything else, and continued back to the aisle to start closing bins. Finally, all the passengers were on board and seated, and the forward boarding door was closed. We armed our doors, played the safety demo, and started to do our final cabin walkthrough. Just as the airplane started to push back, we suddenly stopped. The pilots came over the intercom. There was some sort of mechanical issue,

14:45and we would need to go back to the gate to fix it. We pulled back and the waiting game began. After about 20 minutes, the maintenance team had fixed the issue and we were pushing back again. This time, the gal who had asked for the glass of water stood up and said she wasn't feeling good. I motioned for her to head to the bathroom while I walked to the phone to tell the pilots not to taxi. We waited for the girl for about 20 minutes, continuing to check on her. No, the whole plane's waiting for you. She said it was something she ate. Mind you, the whole plane was waiting on her. I'm so sorry, but oh my god. I'm so angry. What do you think? I mean, the tension of just like, so are you about to tell me that she's starting food poisoning and the entire plane is just sitting there waiting for her to be done? Let's see. With some sort of a GRDS situation. She's got food. Well, we were waiting for her. Another passenger stood up and asked if he could go to the bathroom. We nodded saying make it quick, hoping the two passengers in the bathroom would wrap it up and we'd be on our way to being able to drink my ties by 3 pm.

15:46Well, after about five minutes, neither one of the passengers was coming out. We waited and my coworker in the back suddenly said, do you smell that? I took a sniff and stood up saying, yes, I do. That's right. The man who got up while the girl was sick in the bathroom had started smoking weed on the plane. I tell you forgot that was the big hit. This was 2017, so sadly, it had become a thing. We had to call the pilots and get authorities involved. We knocked on the door, asking him to come out so we could talk to him. We needed to tell him to stop and all those other things. Concurrently, the other bathroom door opened and the sick girl came out. I was walking the wheat smoking gentleman to the forward boarding door so the authorities could take him. Why would you fucking do that? It's like saying I would love federal charges for my pot problem. I have zero chili, even though I'm a stoner. Do you know that that actually happened to us right before the plane took off? Some guy went and did a pot jewel in the bathroom and then they were just like, just go sit down. They basically let

16:48him do it because they were like, we just want to take off. I mean, I wonder if it's just weed or if it's a vape. If it makes a difference. It's like you're not supposed to do it. It's illegal either way, but I think they were just like, go sit down. Yeah, Jesus Christ. Yeah. I was walking the wheat smoking gentleman to the forward boarding door so the authorities could take him when the sick girl tapped my shoulder. I turned around to talk to her and she turned as white as a sheet. And then she proceeded to all caps, vomit all over my uniform. It took everything in me to stay calm, cool, and collected in front of those 250 passengers when I wanted to flip the mother fucking out because vomit and pantyhose do not mix. I guess like soaking vomit. I mean, what doesn't? What does mix with vomit? What are we looking for here? The brothel is pretty fucking bad. Grammar school cap litter. I remember that. After all those events within the same hour and a half and a quick change for me, we were finally clear to depart Atlanta, the smell, the smell, to try to leave for the third time.

17:53Well, somehow we had some kind of divine intervention. The date of the flight was January 6, 2017. I'm not sure if you remember, but that was the day of the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting. Had our plane taken off at its original schedule time, we would have been in the airport at the time of the shooting. Oh my god. Somehow by some miracle, I had a passenger who tried to smoke weed in the airplane bathroom and another who felt the need to vomit on me. It was one of the more stressful boardings I have ever experienced. So much so, I can remember it almost clearly, but in a lot of ways, I'm grateful for those two punks who delayed 254 people. It was because of them we weren't in the crosshairs of a tragic event. I need to say on behalf of the the woman who it sounds like had food poisoning. Yeah, you can act like she's the same as the guy that went and smoked pot. No, she's a victim of a tiny bacteria. But could she have better aim? It sounds like no. Yeah, you know, I can't imagine that was her first choice.

18:54Yeah, because also, I feel like if you're in a situation where your face turns white, all of a sudden, things are happening right out of your control. Just want to defend that person. No, I think you're right. She needs to write it. I want to hear her side of the story. Yeah, we want to hear her in detail and we want to hear what the panic thing is. Also, I bet you got sick from eating fucking airplane food. So it's not even on her. Seriously, I still get chills when I think about the story. To all my flight attendant brothers and sisters, my heart is with you. I am one of the few lucky ones who still has her job and cannot comprehend having my wings clipped. The job is more than a job. It truly is a lifestyle. I miss my passengers, Sundays in Paris, and spending time in airports. I love my job and I'm so proud to get my passengers from point A to point B safely. And so all the MFM crew, thank you for all you do. You've kept me sane through all the turbulence my job brings into my life. SSDGM Tatiana, or as my wings with my not real name say, Susan, because let's be real,

19:57passengers don't need to know my name. They don't know the comments that you'd get from Tatiana. It would be so fucking obnoxious from businessmen. Oh, Tatiana. Like, oh, so obnoxious. You just don't even need it that close. Well, Susan. I'm Susan. I'm fucking Susan. That's all you need to know is I'm Susan. And I'm wearing pantyhose. I'm the one wearing pantyhose today. Oh, my God. Well, I love that Susan. You did a great job. Thank you, kindly. Okay. It says glitch in the matrix and Mexican sinkhole, greetings and salutations from Spain. English is not my first language. So please bear with me. Already written so beautifully in a way that I could never do in another language. I think at this point, we're past specific hometown requests and any story is in. Anyway, I wanted to tell you about this crazy thing that happened to my uncle a few years ago. For context, my uncle, for context, they can write for context in another language. My uncle is a professional diving instructor who lives in the Mexican Mayan Riviera, Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Delum. Wow. In case you don't know, this whole area has an

21:02underground river system that's approximately 95 miles long. Wow. This causes sinkholes to appear all over the territory that are basically entrances to the river system called Sonotes. My uncle is specialized in exploring them. When someone finds one of these in their property, they call him to go into it to see if it connects with the river system or if it can be turned into a tourist attraction like many in the area are. Have you ever seen those Sonotes? No. It's a perfectly kind of blue circle, like a light blue gorgeous circle. Like a lagoon kind of thing? Yes, but it's like a swimming hole that's this beautiful color and it usually looks very tropical and jungly kind of around it. Yeah. And then there's just a bunch of people in there, sometimes the water's warm because it's like a swimming pool in your own backyard with some cave systems sometimes attached. That's terrifying. Okay. This means he has to climb into a dark hole in the ground and repel inside it until he reaches the water all while wearing full diving gear tanks, etc. Why? I really don't know,

22:07but he's very passionate about it. We're a rad job. Yeah. Like if you don't want to go to college, that's okay. There's rad jobs out there for you. Podcasting, for example. Podcasting works great. If you're brave like us, you can either podcast or dive into Sonotes. That's right. To see if they're connected to the underground river. Both are treacherous. Both are similar. And both require oxygen. Back in 2012, a my uncle was mourning the loss of his youngest daughter, my cousin who had tragically passed away from cancer at age 13 a few months before. That's horrible. One day he received a call to go explore Sonote on a plot of land that was in the middle of nowhere miles away from the city of Marida or any kind of civilization. He and his colleague packed up their equipment and went on their way. It took them hours to find the exact location as it was literally in the middle of the jungle. Everything was going according to plan. They went into the thing, confirmed it connected with a river system and set up a line, which is a thin rope that divers use to mark the correct way to go in cave systems. Again, why anyone would enjoy this is beyond me,

23:12but there are a lot of people that like to go through this to go to put themselves through this. Truly. There's so many couches to be sad on. I know. It's so much content to be eaten up. Right. As they were done, they began pulling themselves and their equipment up to the surface when my uncle started to feel unwell. He experienced chest pain. His heart was pounding. He was dizzy. Yes, he was having a heart attack. His colleague managed to pull him up to the surface and realized there was no cell phone reception where they were as my uncle laid down thinking that this was it and his colleague experienced a panic attack out of nowhere. They both see an ambulance with the siren full on rushing toward them. What? What was an ambulance doing in the middle of the Mayan jungle? Turns out the paramedics assigned to the ambulance were on their lunch break. As the day was particularly slow, one of them decided to show his partner a sinkhole where his dad used to take him when he was a kid. Yes, it was the same sinkhole my uncle had been exploring.

24:14As these two paramedics were chatting and eating lunch, they noticed my uncle's friend freaking out and rushed to help, which basically saved my uncle's life. If the paramedics had not been there at that exact time, he would not have made it. To this day, my uncle is convinced that my cousin sent them to save his life and honestly, I can't argue with that. What are the chances? Thank you for bringing absolute joy into my life twice every week. SSDGM Zoe. Oh my god, Zoe, that is so sweet. I mean, the idea that you'd be having a heart attack in the middle of the jungle and it's like, oh, we're here too. Like a literally ambulance. Oh, it's so good. That's incredible. Yeah. As the year gets going, everyone starts settling back into routines. And at the end of a long day, you can still unwind without unraveling thanks to RK non-alcoholic beverages. When I'm off alcohol and someone passes me a soda water at a party, I am not excited about it.

25:15I want to still feel like I'm treating myself like I'm getting some kind of flavor profile that's not just bubbly. And I love that RK actually knows that we care about that. Ready to join the Zero Proof Revolution? Shop now at rk0proof.com and make every moment count. Goodbye. When you're thinking about getting your first EV or upgrading to your next one, the big question is always the same. Will this car actually work for my life? Hyundai's electric EV lineup has plenty of options that fit how people actually live and drive. From the ultra fast charging and long range of the Ionic 5 to the spacious, luxurious cabin of the Ionic 9 to the super powerful Ionic 5n. Across the lineup, Hyundai's EVs included advanced safety technology like highway driving assist 2 and blind spot collision avoidance assist. Available on the Ionic 5, Ionic 5n and Ionic 9. Hyundai's EVs come with America's best warranty, including a 10 year or 100,000 mile powertrain limited warranty. With performance, comfort and confidence built in, it's love at first charge with Hyundai's electric EV lineup.

26:18Learn more about Hyundai EVs at HyundaiUSA.com. Call 562-314-4603 for complete details. America's best warranty claim based on total package of warranty programs. See dealer for limited warranty details. See your Hyundai dealer for further details and limitations. Goodbye. Look, we've all experienced being regular excited. Like, a meeting gets canceled. You see a dog in a hunt. But then there's vacation excited. The kind that only happens when you book a trip to Baha Mar. Baha Mar lets you do the trip your way with three luxury hotels in one place. The refined rosewood, the playfully hip SLS, and the stylish grand-hiate. So every kind of travel is covered. Beyond the hotels, there's no shortage of things to do, including one of the Caribbean's largest and most luxurious casinos. There are over 45 restaurants, bars and lounges, including standout spots from chefs like Daniel, Boulou and Marcus Samuelson. For families, Baha Bay offers a 15 acre water park. Wildlife encounters like sharks and sea turtles

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28:24the parents, all of whom started insisting they wouldn't go to our wedding if so and so was there. So it's both sets of parents. One is cheating and one is being cheated on. Jesus, it's the entire family. Everybody's involved. It's fucked up. Great. I decided the solution was to call off the wedding entirely and just get married quietly by ourselves. Now, my family is no, you sounded so sad for someone who had a huge wedding that you didn't want. Well, the work, I know that the work put into it even if they just started thinking about it, it's so much work. And then also this is the kind of thing where it's like when people make selfish decisions like that, where it's like, and the ripple effect is now your daughter isn't going to, or son, whoever it is, isn't going to have their wedding. Totally. Because you had to kind of like, hey, these things are so sexy up here and acquire a lot. I love the way things about Jesus. It just turns me on. His big crucifix is the hottest thing I've ever seen. Okay. Now, my family is nosy and there was absolutely no way to pull this off without

29:29answering some awkward questions. So since my mom started this shit show, I figured I let her deal with it. That's right. That's right. What was her solution to the dilemma? Tell my entire family that my fiance got cold feet and called off the wedding. Oh, mom narcissistic, toxic narcissists. Yeah, that's fucked up. I'm not vindictive by nature. Says the next line. Oh, but that right there is some class A bullshit. What followed was a carefully worded letter by yours truly to my entire family explaining the truth. IE, my mom was busy banging my future father-in-law. Hi-rode? No. Satisfying? Hell yes. I mean. Because also it's like nothing had to happen. No, no, you could have just like made this quiet and chill and not tell anybody anything, but still handled it. Totally. And said you're like, he left her at the altar. Totally. That's dark fucked up. My mom got the last laugh in the end. A year later, our parents divorced and she married my father and law. You guessed it. This means my husband was now my step-brother.

30:34My aforementioned asshole friends found this so funny. They made me a t-shirt to commemorate the event, which says, quote, he wasn't my brother when I married him. Oh, shit. I'm a side note. My sister apparently felt left out and ended up marrying my husband's cousin. Honestly, you can't make this shit up. For real? I guess the messages stay sexy and don't marry your brother, M. M. How small of a town do you live in? Like, truly? Or how big of a family do you have? It's just something like a backwards homework movie. You know what I mean? It's time for that. Yeah, I'll be your, I'll be siblings for Christmas or something. Yes. Get some weird incest vibe going in there. Give people something to talk about. Oh. Hallmark channel. All right. Speaking of which, subject line of this email is badass granny and mountains of treasure cocaine. Ooh. Hello, ladies. MFM team and pets. I just listened to your mini-sode featuring a beach treasure story and realized I've been sitting on one that hits so many of your favorite elements

31:34a badass grandmother with an epic grandma name treasure found treasure found on the beach. Sorry, I hate when I do that. And a pet hero. I've done my best to include all the names for your enjoyment. So here we go. Back in the early 90s, my grandmother. Hesterly. Stop it. Bring it back. I've never heard that name before. That's a witch. I've here. Well, I've heard of Hester Prince. Yeah, but Hesterly is like a, how are you feeling today? A little Hesterly. I'm kind of Hesterly today. Oh, so my grandmother Hesterly used to spend her winters in Florida like so many new Englanders tired of scraping ice off their windshields. Granny was a huge animal lover and since transporting her full menagerie commercially was a nightmare, she'd load up her RV and drive south with a large doberman to Chihuahua's an African great period. Oh my god. A canary and a bait of fish named Machiavelli. That sounds amazing, but the smell was just I mean. And the noise. Because you know, she

32:34smoked probably too. So cigars. While in Florida, she walked a doberman named Raven every morning between five and six a.m. She'd stroll five miles along the beach collecting little treasures along the way to place in a bowl on her coffee table. Grandma's in Florida. They can't help it. Her favorites were skate egg cases, also known as mermaid purses, but one morning she found something very different. On this particular day, Granny left even earlier than usual. About halfway through her walk, she came across a wooden pallet roughly four by four feet loaded with what looked like shrink wrapped bricks. As she got closer, she realized she'd found in her words a metric fuck ton of cocaine. Oh my god. She knew drug drops were common in the area, neutrally buoyant packages with GPS trackers tossed offshore later retrieved by other nefarious parties. But this one clearly hadn't been picked up. And she also knew enough to recognize that whoever lost that much cocaine was not going to be happy. Yeah, you walked the fuck away.

33:37Yeah. Well, always cautious, especially as a woman who traveled solo, Granny had one of those early brick style cell phones tucked into her fanny pack. Oh my god. She called 911. The dispatcher asked a lot of questions and it quickly became clear it wasn't safe for a petite woman in her mid-60s to sit alone on the beach next to a mountain of cartel grade drugs. They asked if anyone was with her. She said, well, I've got my dog. When they learned Raven was a doberman, they immediately changed their tune and asked her to stay put and guard the drugs. My god, no. She tried to explain that Raven was in fact a total softie who just looked intimidating, but they insisted. So there she stood, scanning the beach nervously, expecting armed drug dealers to emerge at any moment. Ma'am. Like, can she go sit up in the tree line and like not be dying? Yeah. Just let her do a couple lines and then to walk down the beach. Please give her some work away. Thankfully, within 10 minutes, a helicopter hovered above and police officers swarmed in from

34:39every beach entrance and down the shore on ATVs. She gave her statement and was even contacted later by the local newspaper for an interview, but she declined. Worried that the cartel or whoever owned the mystery mountain of cocaine might track her down for retribution. Did she get it if no one claims it? After 30 days, yes. Come back and you can adopt this palette of coke. Every time she told this story to her grandkids, we were horrified. Do you know how much that cocaine was worth? We gave her endless grief for handing over what we called our potential tuition fund to the police. I mean, who would have suspected a snowboard granny as a drug boss, but in all seriousness, she was a total badass who never took shit from anyone. Even in her late 80s, she walked with a cane topped with a silver donkey head telling us you never know when you'll need to hit someone over the head with democracy. Love you, Hesterley. Hesterley, you are our hero. I'm in a hot. Thanks for all you do. Stay sexy and may you one day stumble upon your own

35:41mountain of treasure cocaine. Okay. Okay. That was so great. That's a TV show. Betty White then has to get rid of all the coat. Like she actually has to sell it all. Yeah. Every week, she finds drugs and then has to sell them all by the end of the week. Right. With her dog. And if she doesn't just to do all the drugs. If she can't sell them all, they got to get gone somehow. That's right. So she goes down to her friend and a mom's house. What's the other one's name? What? The other golden girls. Oh, mom. Rose. There's a rose. There's a blanche. Those are the only ones I know. Rose blanche. Sophia. Sophia. And Dorothy. Dorothy. Dorothy. Dorothy. Thank you very much for being here with us on this mini. So we love to read your emails. Yeah, that was a journey. Yeah. Right into my favorite murder at gmail.com if you have a story that sounds like any of these, but different. Yeah, anything really at this point. Yeah, we just love communication. We do. Stay sexy. And don't get

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