Karen Kilgariff
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 8 Jun
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I would say probably late 60s, early 70s. And they say in this article, they talk about how this mother, I think her name is Margaret, spelled with R-I-T. She worked, she got up at 7.30 every morning and went into work and worked till seven o'clock at night. And when she was done cooking for the restaurant, she would start to cook for the people that worked at the restaurant.
Like cook people their homemade, you know, food from home that they liked. Take a break, honey. No, she couldn't do it. She was like obsessive, which I love. Oops, sorry. That's a, that reminds me of my grandma. Like my grandmother's index fingers were both bent at almost like right angles because of how much she cleaned.
Cause she was, she came over here from Ireland when she was 17 and she was a maid for most of her life until she met my grandfather. So it's like those old country people are just like, we're here to earn it. We're here to fucking get it.
Yeah, that's right. And also, if you start a business, you got to put give it your all. So you make it into something. And they really did. They were this amazing family success story. And Marderos, well, he would constantly say to the whole family, success means nothing if we don't stay as one. Greed must never rear its head. There's plenty for all of us.
And so he had a sister and she had two sons and they loved all of each other. They were cousins, but they were they felt more like they were each other's. You know, he had four boys. She had two sons. They were all, you know, very, very close. Yeah. In fact, his wife was quoted as saying, before we married, he told me, I'm going to live with my parents my whole life. I will never leave my mother.
She was queen of the house, not me. Next to God, it was his mother. Holy shit. So just to give you a sense of that. So... Medeiros is diagnosed... Sorry, I don't have the date on this, but I believe it was in, like, 2001, I think, or so. He gets diagnosed with inoperable bladder and brain cancer. Holy shit. So... he basically felt like he knew something was wrong.
He had pains in places, but he didn't go to the doctor. He avoided it. And so by the time he went in, it had spread. Um, so he holds a family meeting and he tells his mother and his sister, his wife that he's dying. And that when he dies, he wants the Zancou business to go to his four sons. Oh my goodness. Um,
Now the problem there is that his four sons were at the time and had been for a couple of years, fuck ups. And in ways where the oldest son had been caught trying to cheat on a law school entrance exam. And so it was, had been a top student at, I think it was Woodbridge university. And so he was, basically got kicked out and was like barred from ever taking the test because he was going to cheat.
Wow. Uh, so after that he became an evangelical Christian. He was like one of those guys that stands on the street with a bullhorn. Yeah. Um, the second oldest son, uh, was tried for attempted murder when the pimp of the sex worker that he had just, uh, visited, um, stole money from him and he ended up chasing him up the freeway and shooting at his car. And he, he ended up getting, uh,
Tried for attempted murder. Wow. And it turned out to be a mistrial. So he never had to go to jail. But of course, that mark. And of course, you know, if this is the richest family in the community and shit like this starts popping off, everyone's talking about it. Then the two younger were basically just on drugs.
when I was reading this article, it sounded so harsh, but it's like, that's that thing of like, I, I feel like you can't get rich quick like that and have things just go great. Yeah. Because once you start getting all the money you want and you can buy all the things you want and you start wanting the things you can't have. Yeah. And it gets a little nuts like that. Oh, I got it.
Um, look at my riches. I just, please watch your behavior is what I'm saying. Um, Okay, so when he makes this announcement, the room goes silent because he's saying they're the ones that should get it. And his sister and his mother are both just staring at him. And let's see, it says, his mother sat stone-faced.
She didn't ask what kind of cancer he had or what the prognosis that the doctors gave him. Instead, she blurted out in Armenian, your sons, the shadow they cast is not yours. And then she got up and she walked up the stairs and shut the door. Now, she lived with him, as he had said, him and his wife Rita. She wouldn't speak to him. So she would get up at 730 every morning, go to work, come home.
They'd be standing in the kitchen. She'd get a glass of water and go upstairs and shut the door.
Yes. And as he was getting chemotherapy, as he was losing his hair, he ended up losing 60 pounds. Oh, my God. He was dying of cancer. Silent treatment. That's so sad. It's really fucked up. And it's very old country. I mean, it's how some people are. It's hard. And obviously, I think knowing, at least based on what the wife says, the relationship that he had with his mother, this...
was breaking him. It was terrible. Sure. Um... So after a year of the silent treatment, he went into his mother's room and he took down, there was a picture of him as a child in Beirut with her when he was like four years old that she had kept up on her dresser. He took it down. He took out the picture. He ripped it in half.
He burned the half with her on it and he crumpled up the half with him on it and threw it away and then put the frame back up. And two days later, their house catches on fire.
Yeah. Yeah. And their house, they, him and his wife almost get caught in the house. They have to get rescued by firemen. The house burns down. The mother takes, you know, her stuff or whatever. I don't know how much she had left and moves in with the sister.
No, but he, as he's going into his sickness and on, you know, I'm sure tons of painkillers and in a weird place, he's telling his son, Steve... that the fire is his mother's doing that she knew based on what he did to the picture that that's, that was her. And I can't stop doing that. Steven, we need a new setup. Um, sorry. Uh, so yeah, he's hallucinating basically and saying that, uh,
that it was somehow her doing. He believed that his mother and her sisters and his sisters were plotting against him.
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