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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Actually is a part of our origin story.
He was there when we first met and first started talking about fucked up shit.
Of course not. Yeah. It's true. We were just sitting there, like, laying on a couch in your apartment, thinking, like, we were just postulating. Totally. Exactly. Yes. Just like, what if, what if? And that kind of sensitivity, it just took us, that's a perspective I just wasn't considering at all.
Right. And it goes hand in hand with like, we're not the kind of people that would assume a bunch of people would want to listen to us do what we're doing. Right. And that was like, that's just our, you know, that's our learning curve that makes this show a little painful and a little like... We don't want to look back and be like, oh, that means we're bad people.
Because there is a real naivete, if not straight up ignorance. Right.
We were the National Enquirer generation, where that little murdered girl's face was on that newspaper in the grocery store. When you were 15 years old, you were staring at her every single day. Yeah, you're desensitized to it. Completely.
I know. I wonder if there's like Dixie Mafia, there's a file cabinet somewhere. Oh, you gotta hope. It's just like some weird reveal where...
Yeah, for real. Any kind of Dixie Mafia, anything that you might know. For a second, I thought you were asking me if my grandpa was, right? I'm like, my grandpa was from Galway, Ireland.
Classic merch that I wear around the office every day.
All right, well, you want to hear mine? Absolutely. Well, mine is pretty interesting. I remembered that I read this book called, let me see. The Bible? God, I love it, and I'm here to tell you about it, too. It's called Alone Orphaned on the Sea, which is what I wanted to call my book, but forget it. Oh, sorry, Orphaned on the Ocean. I can call mine Orphaned on the Sea now.
So I got really into, for a little while, before I ever saw the show, I survived, which I cannot get on the lifetime on my Apple TV. I can't get it on my laptop. Oh, my gosh. It will not let me access Apple. Even for money, it won't let me watch old episodes of I Survived. And I think that's wrong. And someone needs to do something about it.
Um, but I love all your movies anyhow. So I read that I was super in, I got into these stories of survival for a little while in the, I would say mid nineties. Maybe I was having a hard time myself. I can't remember. Um, And I remember reading this book and being fascinated by it.
And the thing that drew me to the book initially is on the cover of the book, there's a picture and it's just the open ocean and then a tiny, in the middle, a tiny white raft and a little girl sitting in it. No. Is it a photograph? It's a photograph of the person I'm about to tell you about and how she was found. Losing my mind. Losing my mind. Can I look at the photo?
alone orphaned on the ocean all right so this is the story of terry joe depereau uh and she was from green bay wisconsin uh when this happened to her she was 11 years old and um her father arthur was an optometrist from uh also from green bay obviously she wasn't from a different area um Um, and Arthur had always dreamed of taking a year off and sailing around like the Bahamas.
Um, it basically sailing the world with his family. He had been in world war two and he had been in like the tropics. And so he thought that would be amazing. Especially it was coming up on winter in, um, green Bay and yeah.
And so he, um, He'd always wanted to basically live on a boat for like a year. And so his idea was he's going to take the family down to the Bahamas. They're going to rent a sailboat and try it out for a week, see if the kids actually like it or if he's just full of beans, and then see where their adventure will take them. Okay, so they fly down to Florida, and they charter –
A two-masted sailboat called the Bluebell. And they hire Captain Julian Harvey, who is a former Air Force fighter pilot and an experienced sailor. And they have him captain the ship. Doesn't that seem weird to be like, my whole family and some guy. Yeah. Well, the guy brought his wife, Mary. Okay. Um, so I think they were kind of acting as like the, uh, casual crew. It was a swinger situation.
It was super key party. Okay. So, because this was also in, uh, oh, this was 1961. Okay. Um, so they sailed out of Florida, um, on November 8th, 1961, and they sailed east toward the island of Bimini.
Um, Femini, femini, boo. And then they went on to Sandy Point on the great Abaco Island. And the family spent a week there snorkeling and collecting shells on pink and white beaches. They just had a gorgeous vacation.
And they had such a good time that Dr. Dupereau told the village commissioner, because they had to fill out paperwork to go back to America, that he planned to return before Christmas. So they were super into the sailboating family dream. Cool. So then they left and they set sail for home. And that night around 9 p.m., Terry Jo headed downstairs to her sleeping quarters in the back of the boat.
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