Karen Kilgariff

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3,962 appearances 39 recordings 3 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 8 Jun

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark · 467 - Nipper & The Hat · 13 Feb 2025 podcast

Immediate sugar. And then the back of your throat starts to burn. Starts to burn a little. I mean, that was weird. It was like the tasting in the front was full on red velvet. Frosting velvet. Yeah. But the experience in the back was something terrible has happened in the back of your throat.

I'm not not nauseous, you know. I mean, that's the idea is like Tabasco desserts work against each other. Sure. And that's another installment of eating on a podcast. The thing people hate the most that we insist upon doing. I'm going to cleanse the Tabasco cupcake with a little bit of mac and cheese gummy. Gross. Well, some suggestions for your lover on this beautiful day.

Give him any of those things we just ate.

Yeah, the guy that hosts Hot Ones. Oh, yeah. One of those kind of people. Well, anything else? Any personal news before we move it along?

Nice. Oh, I have a little something. I want to talk to one very specific murderino. Her name is Gloria Evans. She goes to Cal State Dominguez Hills. Apparently for two years in a row in Mr. Pope's class, she has at the beginning of the year told everybody that her favorite thing is this podcast.

And the first year she did it, Mr. Pope, who is my very old friend, Chip Pope, said to her, just so you know, I know one of those hosts. And she was like, no, you don't. And then basically just didn't believe him. And then I just saw Chip at a party George and I were at together. And she was in his class again. And she again told everybody that this is her favorite thing, this podcast.

And so then Chip just told me that kind of in passing. And then I was like, well, I'm going to set Gloria Evans straight. Sounds like she's one of the leading murderinos out there, certainly at Cal State Dominguez Hills. So, Gloria, I know Chip Pope.

Everyone knows.

Good for you. If you're going to immediately come and tell me the thing I think I want to hear most, I absolutely doubt what you're coming at me with.

It was great. It was very fun. And Chris made a step and repeat so that people could go take pictures at the party. And the background said 50 years of Fairbanks, but it kind of looked like the Academy Award step and repeat. And then he made a plexiglass Getty Images floating thing so that when you took this picture, you had a Getty Images watermark on your picture. So fucking brilliant.

The man is an artiste. Yeah. Happy birthday, Chris Fairbanks.

This week on Buried Bones, Kate and Paul cover the death of investigative reporter Don Boles, who was known for exposing organized crime in Phoenix and who was killed in a 1976 car bombing. Tune in to hear how his legacy still impacts journalism today.

And then over on Rewind with Karen and Georgia, that's you and I. We're traveling back to recap episode 32, which was the episode where we covered the tragic death of the singer Selena and the now infamous Zancou chicken murders. On that show, we bring you all new case updates and insights and secrets and Easter eggs. You should be checking out Rewind if you're not.

Gloria, get over there.

All right, you're first. I am first today. Okay, so I have a feeling you're going to know this story, maybe because I've talked about parts of it, but it's the story of two infamous British gangster brothers who achieved folk hero status just a few years after their rise to fame. They were charming, entertaining nightclub owners. Ugh. Ugh. This is the story of the notorious Cray twins.

Holy shit. Do you know this? Yes, and they've been brought up a lot in the podcast, but we've never covered them, I guess. Yeah, I think I'm doing this now because we were talking about Tom Hardy and the movie Legend and all that stuff. So it was like, oh, well, actually, let's just go back and cover it.

So the main sources used in this story today are the book Our Story, written by Ronnie and Reggie Cray. And Fred Dynage. Also the book The Profession of Violence, The Rise and Fall of the Cray Twins by John Pearson. And an article by writer Duncan Campbell that ran in The Guardian in 2015 titled The Selling of the Crays, How Two Mediocre Criminals Created Their Own Legend.

And the rest are in our show notes. So... It all begins in October of 1933 when Reggie and Ronnie Cray are born into this world 10 minutes apart. Reggie first, then Ronnie at the family home in the Hagerston neighborhood of East London. In 1938, the Cray family left that home and moved to London. Bethnal Green. Big long pause because I was so positive.

I was like, it couldn't be that easy to pronounce. At the time, London's East End is gritty, overcrowded, and many of its residents are trapped in the constant cycle of poverty and unemployment. The Cray's parents are East Enders Violet and Charlie Cray, who already have a seven-year-old son named Charles Jr. when the twins arrive.

So by 1939, as World War II is kicking off, Ronnie and Reggie are six years old, and their father, Charlie, is gone much of the time. Reggie will later say, quote, Sure. Sure. You know, just a touch. We've been up in there. Meanwhile, the twins' mom, Violet, is a loving and attentive mother who instills in her boys a deep respect for family.

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