Karen Kilgariff

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark · MFM Minisode 420 · 27 Jan 2025 podcast

She had a knife and threatened my brother with it to get him to comply and come with her. She then needed to find a payphone so she could call my parents and demand a ransom for the return of my brother, who by this time was crying. Nevertheless, she dragged my bawling brother to the closest place she could find, the high school.

There was indeed a payphone there, but to get to it, she would have to cross the practice field and get to the tennis courts on the other side of the main field. And it says for scale, this is like three city blocks. It is a huge high school.

All with a screaming, crying child who was pleading with her to take him home. So fucking traumatizing.

Yeah. He even offered her his own money. Turns out his not fully formed brain was concocting a plan to give her monopoly money in exchange for his life, which is equal parts funny and absolutely heartbreaking. Yes. As she undoubtedly shouted at him to shut up and continued dragging him to the payphone, the football team on the practice field began to notice something was wrong.

I have searched high and low for an article about this, which I know exists because I've seen it, but because I can't find it and because I hate asking my parents and brother to relive this part of their lives, I am recounting this from memory as best as I can. The football players saw my brother crying and this disheveled woman holding a knife and correctly assumed he was in danger.

They surrounded the woman and one of the players tackled her. As football players are wont to do, I guess. I'm not sure what part of scary lady with a small child and knife made the idea of tackling seem appealing, but that is indeed what happened. The police were called, probably using the very payphone she planned to ransom my brother through because 80s.

And my hysterical brother relayed that he lived two blocks over and wanted to go home. Yeah. So that is how my mother came to find out that my brother actually never made it to the neighbor's house at all. And it says, because calling to make sure he arrived safely just wasn't a thing.

and instead was dragged by a stranger in search of a payphone, but was luckily intercepted, pun intended, you're welcome, Georgia, by the football team and returned to my mother.

My brother doesn't like to talk about this incident much, but he did surprise me once when he brought it up and credited this experience for his obsession with personal safety slash weapons and trying to keep our family safe from harm. He is a wonderful man who would move mountains for those he loves. And he has always been there to bail me out of a few unfortunate situations.

I am beyond lucky that our story didn't end in tragedy like so many others. And I am so grateful that I can find a modicum of humor in such a terrible memory. I think that is why I relate to your podcast so much. My family has always imbued humor into sad or scary situations for better or worse. Stay sexy and make sure your kid arrives safely at their friend's house.

Offer your kidnapper monopoly money. Don't offer your kidnapper monopoly money. Oh, wait, I've got it. Stay sexy and let the football team rescue you, Virginia.

A hundred percent. And then like this woman probably had mental health problems, which is so sad. But like a knife to a six or seven year old child is just... Just no. Wrestle her immediately to the ground. Yeah, these teenagers...

I don't know Belize that well, but shit.

Oh my God. I'm just, yeah.

That's like a great way to just like implant trauma on top of trauma. Yes. You know?

ssdgm and don't go looking for manatees margo oh my god have you seen the video i think it's in thailand i'm probably completely wrong about the animal and the place but in thailand they're these like crocodile or alligators who have these little webby fingers and they've learned that in this river if they lay on their backs and hide their body and put their hand up like they're drowning.

It looks like a human is drowning and the people jump in to save the human because they have these little like fingers and from far away, it looks like a hand. They're like, help me, help me. They've learned that people will jump in and like swim to them. And then do they attack the people and try to bite them and eat them?

Yes. Oh my God. These little arm hand thing. I mean, it's the creepiest. It's the tricky little bastards. It's nature. This is why. This is why. Yes. Everybody's evolving. The Bible. This is why. This is why. OK, I guess I guess we asked for people to tell us their weird childhood hobbies. Oh, good.

I don't remember that one.

Yeah. Okay. So this one's called peanut people. Hello, all sort of day one listener. I started from the beginning in 2018. So whatever that is. Yeah. You asked for weird childhood hobbies. And I remembered mine that I think helped me figure out my career path. When I was around eight, we had this big plastic jar of shell on peanuts. It was old and stale and needed to get thrown out.

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