Harvey Guillén

I'm Harvey Guillen, and this is Killer Story.

Cue the 80s music.

It's April 1980 in Los Angeles, California.

Joe Gamsky is young, handsome, charming, and hungry for a kind of life most people only dream about.

He wants wealth, power, influence, all of it.

And in his mind, it's not a question of if it will happen, it's when.

Which sounds entitled, I know, but Joe doesn't come from money.

He just knows money.

He spent most of his formative years rubbing elbows with the 1% by earning a scholarship to the most elite prep school in LA.

His classmates were the sons of CEOs, heirs to enormous fortunes, the original Nepo babies.

Meanwhile, Joe's father was a storefront psychologist, and his mother disappeared when he was in high school.

Well, sometime after she called Joe the Antichrist at a seance.

So, at school, Joe always felt like a tourist.

like he didn't belong.

But being that close to real wealth showed him it didn't have to be a fantasy.

It could one day be his.

So he studied, he worked, he apparently read the dictionary for three hours every night, all because, as one former classmate put it, he wanted to prove he was better and smarter than the rich kids.

And he was.

The real start to Joe's upward trajectory actually happens by accident when he bumps into two former prep school classmates on the street, Dean Carney and Ben Dosti.

And Joe takes advantage of the chance encounter by inviting them to a movie on him, which is both an honest invitation to catch up and a way for Joe to showcase how well he's doing, how impressive he is.