MFM Minisode 419
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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
34 min
6 speakers
6 chapters
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What is a mini-sode?
Do you see the logic that we're using here or are you fighting us tooth and nail?
What would you call it? We want to know. The maxi-sode? Maxi-sode? The midi sewed. Isn't that a, aren't like dresses midi now too? Yeah. The midi sewed. That's also a choice.
There's also the maxi pad sewed. Absolutely. With wings. One of our greatest bits of all time. The always maxi pad bit. Here we go. This is a classic hometown and the subject line is classic hometown POV from my six-year-old self. Great. Hi, ladies. I've been listening for years. Thanks to my amazing brother who introduced me to your pod.
What is the classic hometown story about Chelsea King?
My boyfriend has suffered, and that suffered is in quotes, through hours of your show. Thanks to me. Thanks to me. Mine has too. We taught young women to de-center men by centering us. I love it. It's pretty intense. Yeah. I'm holding space for that. Okay. It literally says, okay, to this story. I've been wanting to share this story for months, and I'm finally getting around to sending it in. My classic hometown story takes place in San Diego, Poe in 2010. I was only six years old at the time, but I remember this story so clearly, and I've always had a weird connection to the girl who died. Chelsea King was a 16-year-old track star from Poway High School who left her home on the morning of February 25th to go for her regular run at the Rancho Bernardino Community Park.
When she hadn't returned by 5 p.m. that evening, her family grew concerned and went to the park looking for her. The next day, her face was all over the local news and posters were plastered everywhere. A few days into the investigation, her underwear was found at Lake Hodges, 14 miles from where she went on her run. Her DNA, as well as DNA from a registered sex offender, John Gardner, was found on her underwear. At that point, it was sadly clear that she would not be found alive. John Gardner was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder, and on March 2, 2010, Chelsea's body was found in an isolated area of Lake Hodges. When it came out that her body had been recovered, I can remember the news playing at my house for hours. She lived less than 10 minutes from me. Being a six-year-old girl, I obviously didn't know all the details of her death, but I was old enough to know that something really bad had happened to her. I remember mourning her death.
When family members would talk about her, they would always look at me and say the same thing. You look just like her. Oh, for a little, for a child. Don't say that to a child, everyone. And then it says that I was stuck with me. And as a six-year-old, all I could see was myself 10 years later when she would be on the TV screen in my living room. I remember crying over her death and having so many confusing thoughts. I wanted to write her and her family letters. Obviously, those letters were just a confusing rambling of words. It didn't make sense because I I was a first grader, but for whatever reason, I felt heartbroken over her death. The reason is because you have empathy and it's somebody in your community and it's you learning about bad things happen in the world.
Totally. It's so normal and actually, you know, it'd be abnormal if you didn't do that. You know what I mean? Exactly.
Her family set up a foundation in her honor, and my mom and I participated in a 5K to fund college scholarships. Over a million dollars were raised in her name. Her killer was convicted and was linked to another murder that happened just the year before to a 14-year-old girl named Amber Dubois. I remember this. Yeah.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is a mini-sode?
1:43–2:25
2
What is the classic hometown story about Chelsea King?
2:25–8:24
3
How did Chelsea King's case impact the community?
8:24–9:27
4
What funny story does the listener share about being a 'trash mom'?
9:27–12:48
5
What lesson did the listener learn from their experience as a parent?
12:48–18:16
6
What is the runaway child story about?
18:16–34:58