My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

So you're throwing your mom under the bus. Anyway, stay sexy and always sit in the back row.

I still can't tell how I feel about it to this day.

I was torn.

I noticed that I requested my presence in Boston, but I was living in, fuck, I hate this word, Worchester.

Then it hit me. Whitey fucking Bolger was standing directly across from me.

It's based on the book, The Twelfth Victim.

This book seems to be the most comprehensive and factual biography of Pearl Hart that's out there because there's a lot of misinformation that she herself spread.

Buffalo is considered, quote, one of the roughest and most dangerous towns in America.

the vast majority of women in the 19th century did not have sexual relations outside of marriage. They did not smoke and they certainly did not use opium and morphine. They did not wear men's clothing, ride a straddle or carry six shooters.

Pearl Hart broke all these taboos and then some. She swore, smoked, drank, robbed, rode hard, broke jail and used men with abandon.

Like I said, the main source used in today's episode is the book Wildcat by John Boasnecker.

This book seems to be the most comprehensive and factual biography of Pearl Hart that's out there because there's a lot of misinformation that she herself spread.

So even her Wikipedia isn't completely true. So this book Wildcat is the best.

Buffalo is considered, quote, one of the roughest and most dangerous towns in America.

It is sewn with saloons and the Irish longshoremen love nothing more than a fight. And the quote, prostitutes, numbered in the hundreds.

For the sake of our story, I will refer to her as Pearl throughout, but she doesn't start using that alias until adulthood.

the main source used in today's episode is the book Wildcat by John Boasnecker.

This book seems to be the most comprehensive and factual biography of Pearl Hart that's out there because there's a lot of misinformation that she herself spread.

Buffalo is considered, quote, one of the roughest and most dangerous towns in America.

the vast majority of women in the 19th century did not have sexual relations outside of marriage. They did not smoke and they certainly did not use opium and morphine. They did not wear men's clothing, ride a straddle or carry six shooters.

would men with families act so recklessly and provoke people who were known to be intolerant of outsiders.

the conspirators saw just two chilling options. They could lift the siege and let the immigrants carry the word of the attack to California, which they feared would unleash aggression on the Southern Mormon settlements, or they could leave no immigrants alive who are old enough to quote tell tales.

Oh, I read a really good book that's like a feel good book. So I wanted to pass that along. Yes. Called Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.

And it's essentially about an old lady, right? Who they live in this small beach town. She is the night cleaner of the town's aquarium. There's an octopus who lives there who's like super smart and remarkably bright creature and they become friends.

But there's also like a mystery. Her son went missing and all this shit. And the octopus knows what happened to her son and has to like figure out a way to octopus tell her.

And it's also like super heart wrenching, but you know, it's going to turn out good in the end. And it totally does. It's like a tear jerker.

That's the last line of that book, right? And that's the day. And then it's a link to the Netflix movie.

After her sister's death, Dede Maribol makes it her life's work to keep her sister's memories alive and tell their story. She raises her sister's six children as her own with the help of her mother. In addition to raising her own sons, which is amazing, she establishes both the Maribol Sisters Foundation and a museum in honor of her sisters in the early 1990s and writes a book called Alive in Their Garden about them and their work.

Other books are written, including the famous novel In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez, which is later turned into a movie starring Selma Hayek.

a 1974 Associated Press article by the writer Richard Bellotti and the book Crazy with the Papers to Prove It by sports writer Dan Coughlin.

On a recent trip to Green Apple Books, fourth generation SF native here, I found the following.

It's a collection of essays and almost all of the cases were unknown to me.

The one that stopped me in my tracks, and which I think would be an excellent tale for MFM, is that of Theodore Durant, also known as the Demon in the Belfry.

His tone is very dry and matter-of-fact, considering how horrifying the subject is.

And the rest of the sources are in our show notes if you want to read up on anything.

the James boys were raised like Jesse James family, were raised by strong defiant mothers who made sure that they knew how to use a weapon and fight for what they wanted.

Americans in the depression found something to admire in the bold and desperate men who only stole from the banks what the banks stole from the people.

If Americans found something almost romantic in Bonnie and Clyde, a boy and girl bandit team, despite their murderous ways, the notion of a mother and son bandit team also appealed to the country's streak of rebellion against authority, especially when most police of the day were regarded as only a cut above the crooks they were supposed to catch.

And as she was signing it to me, she said, I'm also going to write my phone number in here because you're going to need help one day.

There are two actually Houdini biographers, William Kalish and Larry Sloman, who think those gut punches and appendicitis stories are all red herrings. They wrote a book a few years ago, suggesting that certain branches of spiritualism had ties to organized crime.

I just read If You Tell by Greg Olson and it was insane.

So if you're interested in this case, you should definitely read If You Tell by Greg Olson.

It's a very compelling read. It goes really fast and it is the most comprehensive writing that you can find on this case.

he's described as, quote, quick-witted and could pour on the charm. He's a smooth talker and a master of BS.

the reason why my mom was able to control Dave was because while I love him, he's just a very weak man. He has no backbone.

I read a really good book called The Making of Us by Lisa Jewell.

And it's basically one of those stories of a sperm donor and the four siblings who find each other as adults that were children of the sperm donor, but there's a mystery and there's some murder going on in it.

Or possible murder. I don't want to spoil it. But it was really... It's good.

It's like a mystery, but not too heavy.

A light hearted, a light mystery.

It's called Anxiety Rx and it's by this doctor named Russell Kennedy who created this like new way.

He has anxiety. He's had it his whole life. And he, I don't know, he's just giving me this new way to look at my own anxiety and to look at what anxiety is and how it's more this alarm in the body and that our brain picks up on and just runs with.

I don't know. It's just a really great book and I highly recommend it for people who want to understand their anxiety a little more and in that way are able to help themselves.

Anxiety Rx by Russell Kennedy, MD.