Latest / When Killers Get Caught with Brittany Ransom / Dorothea Puente was a landlord from hell
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- 0:00Hey, everybody. In serial killer country.
- 0:21My name is Brittany. Ransom and my name is Brian
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- 2:21support us, thank you so much. And this week in True Crime, my
- 2:26story, I'm just gonna I'm gonna give you the title first.
- 2:29Are you ready for this says Indiana mother dismembered.
- 2:33Husband ordered children to clean up crime scene.
- 2:36Oh my God. No, oh yeah, this is bad and it
- 2:40only gets worse. So how many Indiana and so mom
- 2:49killed the Husband chopped up his body and then she demanded
- 2:53that her children help her. So mom's name is thessalonica
- 2:59Alan, she's 34, and she killed Randy Allen.
- 3:03She shot him and then used an axe to cut off his legs.
- 3:06I don't know if she just got a little bit tired and didn't want
- 3:09to continue dismembering him. She tried to enlist her two
- 3:13teenage children to help dispose of the remains an attempt to
- 3:16burn the body. She is facing Like half a dozen
- 3:21charges easily murder. Abuse of a corpse child neglect
- 3:26and this all happened. The end of July.
- 3:31So about a week and a half ago and LaPorte Indiana.
- 3:36Now, there was a hearing just this past Wednesday and the
- 3:40judge entered a not guilty plea from her.
- 3:42I don't know why she did that and she got a public defender.
- 3:45So, the way that she was found out though is that her kids
- 3:47refused to help and so then she called This is the best part.
- 3:53She called one of the, the other, like the father of one of
- 3:56the children and had him try and have him come.
- 4:00I'm over to help her and he hopped the cops.
- 4:03Yeah. What know who?
- 4:05I'm trying to get me caught up in this stuff?
- 4:07No, thank you now, she and her, not guilty pleas.
- 4:11She said that the reason why she killed him is because he had
- 4:13been beating the children. Hmm.
- 4:17Okay. And that, he also beat her and
- 4:20she shot him after a physical fight.
- 4:22The kids. However, said that, like, Dad
- 4:25had just been like helping them on the computer and he viewed a
- 4:30Site that their mother had visited, which sparked an
- 4:32argument in their bedroom and the children heard a gunshot.
- 4:38The police also found two papers in the apartment Place.
- 4:40Another daughter's. Pillow that appeared to be a
- 4:42to-do list. The paper said things like hit
- 4:45him with a hammer and stabbed him roll up the body and sheets
- 4:48and plastic that was all released at the hearing.
- 4:52So I don't think that salonica is going to have the best time
- 4:56with this case. I just I mean listen I don't.
- 5:00I hate you killing people, but if you're gonna kill somebody,
- 5:02you got to do it a little bit better, not when the kids are
- 5:06home and then you can't tell your teenage children.
- 5:09So come join me know your blood on your hands to children
- 5:15please. Yeah.
- 5:16So that's the one that I saw this week and I'm not gonna lie,
- 5:21I've contemplated making a tick tock of this, because it just
- 5:24seems like it belongs in stupid ways.
- 5:26That Killers get gone. Put what she was searching.
- 5:32No, they did not say what the website was, just that Dad saw
- 5:36and it bothered him. It obviously wasn't something
- 5:39that was like illegal or grotesque because the kids would
- 5:42have mentioned that but I'm wondering if like, maybe like
- 5:45she, like, purchase something that he didn't want her to buy,
- 5:48you know what I mean? That stuff that people were most
- 5:50of the people who are married argue about.
- 5:52Yeah, you spend your money, things of that nature or she was
- 5:54searching for a hit man. Well, that would be weird.
- 5:59I mean, it could. I've been a dating site that
- 6:01would have caused an argument. Yes, you know.
- 6:05What was that dating site for people who are married want to
- 6:07cheat? Ashley Madison.
- 6:09There we go. Maybe it was Ashley Madison
- 6:11account. I got it probably was he can't
- 6:14be Ashley Madison because there aren't any women on Ashley
- 6:16Madison only men and fake account.
- 6:22But what did you learn about this week?
- 6:24Brian. Oh my God.
- 6:25All right, so I was torn between two but this one, I think I'll
- 6:31cover this one. Okay.
- 6:32Okay. So try those.
- 6:34The headline reads and She was warm public about Atlantic
- 6:37Atlanta Park after a woman. And her dog were fatally,
- 6:41stabbed. Wait, is this?
- 6:43The is this related to the thing that I told you about?
- 6:45When I said Elena police told people that this was not a
- 6:49serial killer. And then all of the people from
- 6:51Atlanta were like, that's exactly what you would say.
- 6:54If there was a serial killer because it was also in Atlanta
- 6:57this week. I'm not sure might be related.
- 7:00Oh, wow, that's fun says, officials in Atlanta, advise the
- 7:03public Thursday night To go to hide Mount Park.
- 7:07Okay? Alone at night.
- 7:10It seems like Piedmont, Piedmont.
- 7:12Sounds familiar to me. Piedmont.
- 7:13That might be Piedmont then again, that could be just the
- 7:15Filly way of saying it. So let's just go with that one
- 7:18here. That sounds like it would
- 7:19probably be that anyway. After it's a one week after a
- 7:23woman and her dog were stabbed to death the dog to near one of
- 7:27the park interest is. Yes the dog.
- 7:29Unfortunately, I don't know why but I just dug was being loud.
- 7:32And no, I was gonna say, I don't know why I'm picky.
- 7:35Take this one. I was just like three times in a
- 7:37row, Brian with you. And animal deaths.
- 7:39That's terrible. I don't know what's wrong.
- 7:45I thought it was bad enough when I had the lady Luber driver who
- 7:48stole the cat. Look.
- 7:49I was talking about the last one I talked about was cat Justice,
- 7:52okay? And this one is just
- 7:54unfortunately, that dog death, dog death.
- 7:59So I mean I am a cat person so but I would never wish harm upon
- 8:04a dog I do. You love dogs as well.
- 8:06Hello animals. Anyway.
- 8:09Yeah, at this rate how expensive it is to get like to pay to have
- 8:12a dog in an apartment. I won't have one until I have a
- 8:15house. They charge like hundred twenty
- 8:18dollars extra a month, I can't afford that but the woman her
- 8:22name was Katherine Janice pork and she was 40 years old and she
- 8:27was found at the scene. Multiple stab.
- 8:28Wounds walking her dog. Yeah.
- 8:32I don't get like why you would stabbed a donkey because The dog
- 8:35was also found stabbed and seeing where I imagine that
- 8:39scene. I bet you, they were real upset.
- 8:42Like the people who saw their like, oh, this dead woman, the
- 8:45dog is Step 2. Yeah.
- 8:50Um, I guess they're still. Looking.
- 8:55Okay, so there's audio from 911 call Park that was released
- 9:01somebody sell else found it may be him.
- 9:04Yeah yeah so hopefully somebody saw something because there's a
- 9:09balance there, you know, it's a park.
- 9:11So obviously there's security cameras and stuff there.
- 9:16That recorded it. So hopefully they can find
- 9:21something on the security cameras.
- 9:23They are asking anyone with any information to contact the
- 9:27Atlantic Atlanta Police homicide unit or Crime Stoppers.
- 9:33It's a phone number if you need it. 40 45 77 8477.
- 9:39There you go. And yeah there I guess the
- 9:43anonymous award a reward for 10,000.
- 9:48Dollars is pretty good for anybody with information.
- 9:51Don't be like that, one family that I talked about a couple
- 9:54weeks ago and Tick-Tock where the mom realized that her like,
- 9:57kids were a part of the crime and like she called the police
- 10:00and were like, so is there a reward for information about
- 10:03this? And people were like You don't
- 10:08know. Your kids are one of your kids
- 10:09is a murderer. Yeah.
- 10:11And the other one helped cover it up.
- 10:12Are you really just gonna call it?
- 10:13Ask about the reward money. I wouldn't people are mad.
- 10:18That's kind of stupid. I don't know.
- 10:22Oh yeah, so some pretty grisly stuff this week, unfortunately.
- 10:25I'm sorry, that's okay. That's okay next week.
- 10:28I won't have a non animal one. I guess we'll see what happens.
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- 11:56Brittany that I sent you. So this week, I decided to take
- 12:08a break from the massacres. Some of the, the Nature's of
- 12:13these like lust killers and like the, the sex crimes were a
- 12:18little much for me. Well, I'm just really what it
- 12:20is, is that like I spend like a lot of time reading these books,
- 12:25and it's just a lot of that taken consistently.
- 12:30So, I remembered that I had a series earlier this year, on
- 12:34Tech talk called Senior serial killers and that one
- 12:38specifically that they always interests me.
- 12:40Because the, the general age for when people start murdering
- 12:45others in a Serial fashion, is your late 20s to early 30s?
- 12:49So I A lot of times people are interested in the much younger
- 12:52Killers or the much older killers.
- 12:55And so, you have the exceptionally young, like, Jesse
- 12:58Pomeroy episode 15, or much older like today.
- 13:02And She's born in 1929 and she didn't kill for the first time
- 13:08until 1982. Oh wow, her name was Dorothea
- 13:12Puente and she is notoriously known as the Death House
- 13:16landlady and one of California's, more notorious
- 13:20serial killers with a kill count of nine.
- 13:24Oh, I think I've heard of her next, you might know this story.
- 13:28Oh, surprise me story. I know.
- 13:31Okay. Well, let's learn about who she
- 13:34was. Decades, before she became a
- 13:35murderer because she had a, I won't say interesting.
- 13:42A lot happened and it wasn't all good.
- 13:46So Drew Thea Helen Gray was born, January 9th, in 1929 in
- 13:51Redlands, California, which is in San Bernardino County.
- 13:54She was six out of seven children.
- 13:57Number six, out of seven children to give some background
- 14:01Redlands. California in 1929 was barely a
- 14:04town. Yet the Great Depression and the
- 14:06Dust Bowl had caused this. Like Mass Exodus of people from
- 14:11the Midwest both to the east and west coast and a lot of people
- 14:14moved into California is seeking jobs and prosperity for these
- 14:19parents were two of those people.
- 14:22The two of them thought like, oh, you know, California has a
- 14:25lot of farms we can like, you know, pick fruit or do farm
- 14:29stuff. I thinking that it was like an
- 14:31easy job. It's not an easy job and her
- 14:36mother Trudy May and her father, Jesse James Gray worked on one
- 14:41of the many sprawling, orange Orchards, which was the main
- 14:45crop in California. The time now, I have to say this
- 14:48because I looked into this one of my friends, you'll hear me
- 14:53refer to her as glitch. Glitch is parents named her
- 14:59brother's after celebrities to this is, apparently, a pretty
- 15:03common thing. Naming your child like the first
- 15:07and last name of a celebrity. So, Jesse, James Gray.
- 15:11Can you imagine though Justin Bieber Jackson, like an
- 15:15appendix. Trend in the 20s and it also, it
- 15:17came back in the 50s and so, like, that's glitches, parents
- 15:22naming a what was her brother named like Roy?
- 15:26Rogers something. Oh my God.
- 15:27Is Right. Weird.
- 15:30But yeah, it's that was already a weird Trend.
- 15:32I was like I'd that just like struck me and I was just like he
- 15:35imagined Beyoncé Knowles Martin. That's just sent you here thing
- 15:40to do. But regardless They had
- 15:46absolutely no experience when it came to Agriculture, and the two
- 15:50of them also had a drinking problem, Trudy ended up creating
- 15:55such a bad reputation for herself that well, they both got
- 15:59fired from the orange Orchard, but no one else would hire her
- 16:03and I couldn't find any records to explain exactly what she did.
- 16:06But like from this point forward, nobody in Redlands will
- 16:09hire Trudy. May owe a drinking on a child
- 16:12probably well so Jesse's the sole Breadwinner and he gets a
- 16:17job picking cotton for a sharecropper on the edge of
- 16:19town. There.
- 16:22They didn't seem to care if he got wasted because if he didn't
- 16:25show up for work, they just didn't pay him for the day and
- 16:29on the days that he did get paid.
- 16:30He spent most of his paycheck on alcohol.
- 16:33Hey I go to that because I'm just trying to set the scene for
- 16:37the world. That Dorothea was born into
- 16:40Trudy continue to drink throughout her entire pregnancy.
- 16:43And while she was breastfeeding, they say this is the reason why
- 16:47Dorothea was so short. She got the stunted growth as
- 16:51Fact of fetal alcohol syndrome when she moved to solid foods
- 16:56there really wasn't much because they were busted broke.
- 16:59And Dorothy is older. Siblings taught her how to like
- 17:02scavenge for food. Scraps, pretty much is when is
- 17:06soon as she was old enough to like walk with that.
- 17:09And that sometimes they took her out like when she was a toddler
- 17:11and they used her as a prop to like, get sympathy and gift that
- 17:16people, give them like food and money.
- 17:17Wow. That's terrible.
- 17:19Well, eventually the town started talking.
- 17:21About the crop of gray kids who are always out begging and Trudy
- 17:25would get upset. And she would like try and beat
- 17:27them. The older kids were pretty used
- 17:29to this though, and like they tried to teach Dorothea like all
- 17:32you have to do is just avoid her, let her drink a bottle of
- 17:35whatever it is. She's drinking around the house
- 17:36and she's going to forget why she was mad in the first place.
- 17:40That's terrible. Unfortunately, says treaty was
- 17:42so small and she was the slowest.
- 17:45Like she couldn't get away from her mom.
- 17:46When her mom was on the warpath. Well, this is your fault.
- 17:49She took a lot alike. It's your fault.
- 17:53I'm so short. She took a lot of beatings meant
- 17:58for the older children really Trudy was mad at her husband,
- 18:02but he was never home. So she took it out.
- 18:04A lot of the kids, think, the weird thing about her is that
- 18:10Trudy didn't have much malice towards the children, but she
- 18:14just didn't seem to like care about them, like they were just
- 18:19there and kind of annoying. Boinging.
- 18:22Now, Jesse wasn't home a lot. He was either sleeping somewhere
- 18:25in the house at a bar or at work.
- 18:29He was also violent with his wife and children.
- 18:32So, everyone was happier when he just wasn't around.
- 18:36He seemed to be more aggressive with the girl children, and they
- 18:40don't go a lot into details about how many siblings do with
- 18:42like the, but there were several girls and like he would just be
- 18:46annoyed by them. And so like they would just walk
- 18:48by and he would just hit them randomly like smack them, like
- 18:51back Ian them, and then so they lived in a one-bedroom house for
- 18:59Nine people like and so when he would come home and want to have
- 19:05sex with his wife, he would literally kick the children out
- 19:10and they would spend their walk, the streets at night Scavenging
- 19:14for food. Oh, the hell out of the house.
- 19:16So they kicked him out of the room, kick them out of the
- 19:19house. He was like you need to be gone.
- 19:21Oh and so they would like you know stop by people's houses you
- 19:28know go through the The garbage after people had dinner several
- 19:31times. During these night Walks Like
- 19:34the girls had to gamble sometimes on who they were
- 19:38walking by, you know, you never know who's gonna try and touch
- 19:41you. And since they're Thea was still
- 19:44so little like, like, maybe they might like grab one of the older
- 19:48girls like skirt and miss her and grab the baby.
- 19:51And so, she definitely experienced some level of sexual
- 19:54assault when she was very, very young.
- 19:58And so doing that. She didn't she didn't talk much
- 20:00about. It's easily.
- 20:03Couldn't get worse though, right?
- 20:04No, hopefully not. Well one night, Jesse passes out
- 20:09at work in the cotton field. He wakes up a rain during the
- 20:13night. He's completely soaked through.
- 20:16He's a terrible hacking cough and that strange cost last for
- 20:20months and months to the point where every time he coughed he
- 20:24was pulling on blood. A doctor was like this seems
- 20:29like pneumonia so they told him to Stay in bed and, you know,
- 20:33recuperate would shut down their only source of income.
- 20:37They spent their last money on medication for him, but he
- 20:40didn't get better. And then preacher from the local
- 20:44church that they used to go to came by and was like, oh, that's
- 20:48not pneumonia. This is tuberculosis oh I see a
- 20:52lot of cases because he's like, I am in our, you administer the
- 20:55last rites to people who are dying and for people who don't
- 20:58know, tuberculosis is very lethal, and very contagious.
- 21:01And so the local church was like, don't worry about it.
- 21:04You don't have to worry about food.
- 21:06We got you, y'all aren't allowed to leave your house, your
- 21:10quarantine, they forcibly porn team, this entire family and
- 21:16Jesse James Gray died in 1937. When Thea was eight years old,
- 21:22the family had no money and he was buried in Potter's field.
- 21:25The community felt bad for Trudy but not bad enough to risk
- 21:29hiring her. I don't know what this woman
- 21:32could have done to make them have a memory.
- 21:34This long, it's been at least eight years or longer since she
- 21:41got fired and people are still like Trudy.
- 21:44Nah oh goodness. And so as like Like after he
- 21:50died, they continue to quarantine the family and as no
- 21:53one came down with tuberculosis the donations started to
- 21:56dwindle, of course. And so Trudy began visiting with
- 22:01men about town in exchange for services, first for payment, for
- 22:08services. I mean, that's the job.
- 22:10It's a job and pay well, but it paid sometimes, she'd be gone
- 22:15for weeks at a time and the kids just kind of did for each other.
- 22:19Other it cooks for each other. They begged in town, sometimes
- 22:23they eat with some of the Mexican families in the
- 22:24neighborhood. And so, then Dorothea would try
- 22:26and pay them back by like cleaning the dishes and helping
- 22:29out in the kitchen. A year after Jesse died.
- 22:33Trudy got into a car accident. She'd been writing on the back
- 22:36of one of her clients motorcycles.
- 22:37When a car. Clipped the back wheel, the bike
- 22:40flew off the road and down a Rocky Hill, and when her body
- 22:44was recovered, it was unrecognizable due to the
- 22:49injuries she sustained. The police were like, well we
- 22:53have to find the family of this woman.
- 22:56They tracked down the kids and they're just like the kids are
- 22:59like She wasn't really here anyway.
- 23:04And they were like, well, we're just going to kind of keep doing
- 23:06what we've been doing. We've been handling our own
- 23:08business, but the state was like, no, we can't allow like a
- 23:13bunch of people all under 16 to live in a house together.
- 23:17Sorry. Children know.
- 23:19So they were all taken and sent to random orphanages across the
- 23:22state. Dorothea was alone for the first
- 23:25time in her life and orphanages were understaffed underfunded
- 23:30and A lot of horrible things happen to her.
- 23:32During that time for reference, you can assume that very much
- 23:36like the Indian schools that we are currently unearthing the
- 23:39horrors that happened in North America right now.
- 23:42Same kind of stuff happened at orphanages.
- 23:46Just any situation where like a few people are responsible for
- 23:51like a hundred children. I feel like that's a recipe for
- 23:54those children being horrific lie.
- 23:56Abuse. Yeah.
- 23:57Yeah. The Fiat nuns or anybody else.
- 23:59It never goes well. Well.
- 24:03But Trudy, I mean a Dorothea only to stay there for a year
- 24:07when she was almost 10 years old, one of her aunts learned
- 24:09about Trudy's death. Her, aunt went about Gathering
- 24:13all the kids from all over California and it took the
- 24:16better part of 1939 to do it, and she brought them all back
- 24:19together in Fresno, California, the kids very much.
- 24:24We're like, we're just going to try and move on from this.
- 24:28And when Dorothea was asked about her childhood she told
- 24:32People that she'd grown up in Mexico and had moved to the US
- 24:35when she was 10 years old, she even learned Spanish and over
- 24:39time she repeated this life. So often that it, she was like,
- 24:43she believed it. It has no Dorothea had
- 24:46stability. She had friends, she was growing
- 24:49up to be a very beautiful young girl.
- 24:52And then the state intervened again saying that this house
- 24:56that had like, four bedrooms was too small for the aunt and her
- 25:01children and Seven more children well which was shocking to
- 25:05Dorothea because she's like I grew up in a one-bedroom house
- 25:07with nine people. Yeah it is awesome.
- 25:09This is love just so much space. There is so much space for
- 25:13activities and they were like, yeah, no, you can't stay here.
- 25:17And they sent Dorothea and her siblings into foster homes.
- 25:20Oh my God. Why she lived in Fresno?
- 25:23L.a. Napa County.
- 25:26She was just consistently operated over and over again.
- 25:29And during that time period, she became kind of cold and
- 25:31stubborn. She would fight Foster families,
- 25:34even basic rules, kind of annoyed her because she'd been
- 25:37allowed to really come. And go her whole life except for
- 25:41the like year. She lived at the orphanage
- 25:43because nobody really cared unfortunately, by 16, Dorothea
- 25:48was tired of the foster home Shuffle.
- 25:50She got a job dropped out of school.
- 25:52Moved out and cut ties with everyone.
- 25:54She knew she even stopped reaching out to her real family
- 25:57because that was going to mess up her, her story that she was
- 26:01telling people. After she had, she saved up a
- 26:05little bit of money. She moved to Washington State
- 26:07and she ran out of money on in Olympia.
- 26:11She met another teen girl on the bus and they wanted a little
- 26:13room in a motel now at this point Dorothea is petite blonde,
- 26:20bright blue eyes, got that nice new bottle skin with a tiny hint
- 26:25of a Mexican accent, So she was the Pinnacle of like 1940s
- 26:30Beauty and she followed in her mother's footsteps.
- 26:35Now, 1945 was a really good year to be a prostitute in the u.s.
- 26:39because World War 2 was ending, soldiers were coming back from
- 26:41war, they had money and they hadn't seen a woman in years.
- 26:46Unlike her mother Dorothea, however, had a little bit better
- 26:48of a head for business and so she ended up renting two rooms
- 26:52so that both she and the girl could work and they stayed busy
- 26:55and made a lot of money. It that she started getting a
- 27:01regular client. He was 22 years old, and he's a
- 27:03soldier named, Fred McFall and he was spending, like, he liked
- 27:07her so much that he would look like a regular time slot to meet
- 27:10her and the timeslot afterward just so he could sit and talk to
- 27:13her. Oh, you cuddle time!
- 27:15Nice, she laid on her tragic. Mexican backstory, has she lost
- 27:23both of her parents and she'd only been allowed to move here
- 27:26when she was. Ten years old, and then Frank
- 27:29proposed to her Weeks Later. Drew they didn't really have any
- 27:33other options though. She was like, all right.
- 27:37Okay unfortunately for Fred Dorothea was a hustler through
- 27:43and through. She stopped hooking when she
- 27:45realized he could provide for her.
- 27:47But she had gotten used to making a lot of money while she
- 27:50was running her little tiny brothel.
- 27:52So like silk dresses getting her hair done consistently, you
- 27:57know, Fine Wines. Like I was living it up and
- 28:01fried was like, Fine. If you want it, I'll give it to
- 28:04you. They got married in Reno a
- 28:07couple months later. All of Fred's family was in
- 28:10Nevada, so they were there. And so, then Dorothea tells them
- 28:14the story at the wedding that she the Mexican tragic
- 28:19backstory. But then she tells his family
- 28:22that they actually had met in the Philippines during the the
- 28:28Baton Death March. And the problem with that story
- 28:31is that that means that Fred would have met her when she was
- 28:3413. I mean, yeah, which is not when
- 28:37he met her. The family just assumed that
- 28:41like she was drunk and we were like we're just gonna let this
- 28:44go fried assumes like she just doesn't want them to know that I
- 28:48met her when she was a prostitute or she's just a liar.
- 28:53If I got a job in Gardnerville and they had a pretty wonderful
- 28:56honeymoon period full of a lot of sex and she actually began
- 29:00showering Fred with a little bit too much attention.
- 29:02He kind of was a little like if she just like really into me or
- 29:07she like a nympho Like he was in, this is odd because
- 29:11generally most men in their early twenties.
- 29:14Aren't looking at their teenage wife who wants to bang them.
- 29:18And going, this feels like too much.
- 29:25Oh my gosh. So, the first sign of something
- 29:32going wrong in this marriage was that Fred?
- 29:36Can't like realize that she was an absolute Mass.
- 29:41She never lived in a household where she learned how to keep
- 29:47things tidy. It's true.
- 29:49She didn't know how to be a wife.
- 29:51She didn't know how to even be in a proper relationship.
- 29:54All she saw, in terms of adult relationships, were her drunk
- 29:58horny alcoholic parents. So that was a problem they would
- 30:05get into fights and of course she would respond by being even
- 30:09more sexual which didn't he didn't like it at all.
- 30:14Yeah. In fact Fred was like relieved
- 30:17when she got pregnant because he was like, great now, I don't
- 30:19have to fuck her. So like that, like nine month
- 30:28period, he's like awesome. I'm sure every time she came on
- 30:31to me was like, but the baby, I don't want to hurt the baby.
- 30:34Yeah, just rest, honey. It's okay.
- 30:37Take a break. She ended up having a baby girl.
- 30:42Dorothea kind of hoped that she would be better than her own
- 30:45mother, but after she had the baby, she didn't really feel
- 30:48anything towards her own child. She barely looked after it and
- 30:52one night, Fred came home from work and the house was a
- 30:54complete wreck and the baby was crawling through like the
- 30:58garbage on the floor and still wearing the diaper that he put
- 31:02on the baby in the morning. Oh no.
- 31:06Three months after their daughter was born, Dorothea
- 31:09started like taking the baby to her.
- 31:11Mother-in-law's house and leaving in there all day and
- 31:14then his mother-in-law would call him.
- 31:16Be like you have to come pick up the baby and he's like Mom,
- 31:20she's not good at being a mom, like please help her.
- 31:27And it only had seems like, oh, she didn't have a mom to look up
- 31:29to you. But, like, from a psychological
- 31:31perspective, some of my sources, believe that, because she never
- 31:35got to actually bond with an adult as a child in any
- 31:40meaningful way. At least it's possible.
- 31:43She didn't know how to bond with a child of her own.
- 31:46She's never done it. There's certain things that
- 31:49happen like from a psychological perspective that has to happen
- 31:53and they have to have it in a certain order and like, that's
- 31:56why I A lot of like that's why there's a big push right now for
- 31:59fathers to get paternity leave because the bonding period with
- 32:05infants is super important, right?
- 32:07Right, right. As is the following couple years
- 32:11before even the baby can talk and like things like your kids
- 32:15ability to speak. Depends on how often you talk to
- 32:18your child. Yeah, definitely kids.
- 32:20Learn more like the essentially they get better at the basics by
- 32:24having access to both of their parents and so So like maybe
- 32:28because she never had that like, as soon as she was born, Trudy
- 32:31was just like a mother one. Poor baby.
- 32:36Yeah. And so Frank became kind of
- 32:42distant and he started avoided going home and so Dorothea was
- 32:46just like, you know, I'm just gonna drink a little bit.
- 32:48Take the edge off a little know which only made things worse.
- 32:54She began cleaning the house, but mainly it was because she
- 32:56was literally home alone and bored.
- 32:59And so, Fred was like, oh, is this her attempt at, like
- 33:03reconciliation? No cleaning now.
- 33:05And so, Dorothea used sex and alcohol to kind of fill the void
- 33:11inside of her and Fred's. You dislike lustful behavior
- 33:15from her as a sign of Love, which he always had and she got
- 33:19pregnant again and Fred was like this time baby number two, she's
- 33:24gonna bond with baby. Number two, So when Dorothy has
- 33:30water broke Fred was at work. Hmm.
- 33:33She went to the hospital alone. She gave birth and she told the
- 33:37hospital, she wanted to give the baby up for adoption.
- 33:39Oh she came home the next day? No baby bump and no baby and
- 33:45Frank was like where's the baby and and Maybe, at some point she
- 33:51might have thought about like lying.
- 33:53Oh, I had a terrible miscarriage.
- 33:54But like, at this point she was just so fucking done that.
- 33:58She just said, I gave it away. It's gone.
- 34:01Oh like Fred immediately like rushes to all the local
- 34:06hospitals because she won't even tell him where she gave birth.
- 34:09Yeah, he tries to get his suit his second daughter, but Dorothy
- 34:13had already signed the paperwork, and there was
- 34:14nothing. That could be done
- 34:17unsurprisingly, they got divorced in 1948.
- 34:19Date Dorothea was 19 years old. Very little is mentioned about
- 34:25Fred and his daughter after this.
- 34:29So Dorothea run around apartment and the crappy part of l.a.
- 34:33expecting to jump back back into prostitution because she was
- 34:36like, well, it was good before, but 1948 was not as good of a
- 34:40year to be a prostitute as 1945. Also, she just given birth to
- 34:45two children. So she didn't have the exact
- 34:48perfect figure she had before, but she began Meeting clients at
- 34:56their homes, getting them wasted drunk waiting until they've
- 35:01passed out. And then robbing them of their
- 35:04checkbooks and valuable Nuke on. That is that's the way to get
- 35:11paid I guess. Well, this was successful at
- 35:15first, but in early 1949 police started, getting calls from
- 35:19bartenders about a young woman. Robbing, John's writing bad
- 35:23checks, the LAPD, LAPD said, but undercover operation and she got
- 35:27arrested within the week, right? Course, as she was only 19, the
- 35:31judge was pretty lenient. And she was sentenced to one
- 35:34year in prison, but they said she was eligible for parole
- 35:36after six months. in prison, she got in trouble for also not
- 35:42cleaning and so, Well, after you get in trouble enough for that,
- 35:48you start doing what you're supposed to do.
- 35:49Yeah, she didn't make many friends right away because she
- 35:54really thought she was better than most of the other women in
- 35:56prison. Our attitude slowly shifted
- 36:00though after some time of just being straight.
- 36:02Lonely. Yeah.
- 36:05And she started to see the value of relationships at least in
- 36:08understanding that that she could get something from other
- 36:11people and they could get something from her.
- 36:14She got really, she got a lot better at telling her fake
- 36:16backstory, so it was less obvious that it was faked by.
- 36:21Now she was raised in Mexico sent to the Philippines rescued
- 36:24by a soldier at the death. March, he had a tragic heart
- 36:27attack. Just after they got married,
- 36:29truly a heartbreaking. Oh, my God.
- 36:31That's so sad. It's going to keep its going to
- 36:34keep evolving as The Story Goes On.
- 36:36Oh, no, just got better at pickpocketing when she was and
- 36:40when she was in her cell, she practiced forging signatures.
- 36:43And then when she started talking to the other women in
- 36:45prison, they were like, listen the reason why you got caught
- 36:48like that is because you didn't change your pattern, enough
- 36:51police don't really even like arresting young pretty girls.
- 36:54So if Dorothea could just stay out of their way, when things
- 36:58got hot and change up, how she was robbing the men that the cop
- 37:02because the cops saw them as criminals to write.
- 37:04They were hiring prostitutes. I mean, so technically, they
- 37:07were also doing illegal stuff. They were like, well, if you do
- 37:10this, and you just kind of switch it up where you're going,
- 37:12and not going to the same. Cars everyday and stuff like
- 37:15that. She's like you'll get away with
- 37:16it too. She got a lot of prison, four
- 37:19months later. So that is two months before
- 37:22when she was supposed to be paroled.
- 37:24Oh, okay. Some of L.A.'s,
- 37:26most successful escorts had told her the best places to meet rich
- 37:29men and which hotels wouldn't bother you.
- 37:32So she went back to Turning tricks.
- 37:34She moved from Riverside County to Downtown LA.
- 37:37She didn't have to Rob these men anymore.
- 37:39So the police kind of turned a blind eye to her.
- 37:42In fact some pretty prominent members of the LAPD were her
- 37:45customers Now, what's interesting to me here is that
- 37:49she was definitely significantly more successful than her mother
- 37:51by a long shot. But she was still spending the
- 37:54majority of her money not getting drunk.
- 37:57But she had expensive tastes, like I said, and they were
- 38:00causing her trouble. She only drink the finest
- 38:03alcohol. She wore Silk Stockings only.
- 38:06She got new dresses and you had like weekly.
- 38:10She would eat out every night. Oh my god.
- 38:13Well, if you got the money too, I guess everything was going
- 38:17real good. Good then she got pregnant again
- 38:21since there was no access to abortion in 1950 and she
- 38:24couldn't work while she's pregnant.
- 38:26She had to kind of abandon her lifestyle.
- 38:30She gave birth in San Francisco in 1950.
- 38:32She told the adoption agency, that the father was just some
- 38:36guy. She hadn't bothered to learn his
- 38:38name, nor has she considered the consequences of taking an extra
- 38:41dollar from him to have sex without a condom.
- 38:46She went back to prostitution. immediately course, and spend
- 38:50the next two years hunting for a husband, That is when she met
- 38:57axle now. Okay, so I saw his name listed
- 39:02in two different ways Johnson or Johansson, and I think the
- 39:06actual Swedish way was probably a Johansson but the Americanized
- 39:11version of his name was Johnson. So there you go.
- 39:13We have both. He was a Swedish Merchant Seaman
- 39:16who was looking to settle down in America their courtship was
- 39:19longer than usual because they only got to go on a couple dates
- 39:22before he got called back to Port.
- 39:25But whenever he docked, he made sure to call Dorothea.
- 39:27She reinvented her past again, saying that her husband had died
- 39:30in 1948. She had been approached by a man
- 39:33at a department store. Who'd given her his card and
- 39:35told her that she could be a Rockette and she hopped on a
- 39:38plane to the east coast to audition.
- 39:40And she got the job because she was just so talented at dancing.
- 39:43But she wasn't ready to leave California, because she really
- 39:46loved her job as a chef in San Francisco.
- 39:48So, she would commute back and forth between California and New
- 39:51York. No, you would not when he ready.
- 39:55No, her job is a rocket ended when a girl dancing next to her,
- 39:59broke a heel and fell into her and they both fell into the
- 40:02orchestra pit and she broke her leg and the other dancer got
- 40:06paralyzed and that girl's husband ran off with another one
- 40:10of the Rockettes, why would you make that?
- 40:12A little Side Story watching, that's her new story.
- 40:17So the tragic. So we solve the Mexican then
- 40:19sent to the Philippines, then came back then her husband died.
- 40:23Now, we have the rocket story at it, too.
- 40:24Ooh, it who commutes from California to New York?
- 40:29Who knows how Axl didn't really question her story?
- 40:34He was like, he just kind of loved her energy and he was just
- 40:37like, listen, even if this is probably not entirely true,
- 40:41she's fun. So he proposed.
- 40:45Oh God and so dirty. I really liked this setup
- 40:47because she's like, mmm feed him.
- 40:50Good sex them. Good, he goes on the boat leaves
- 40:53me alone for a couple. Months.
- 40:56Sounds fun. She started burning through the
- 40:59money again though. Drinking.
- 41:04A lot of drinking. And usually what would happen is
- 41:07that she would just live like completely shitty and then when
- 41:12she got word that Axl was coming back, she clean it.
- 41:15She would clean everything up and be ready for him.
- 41:20But one time she was too drunk and he walked into the house and
- 41:23it was completely like a mess from top to bottom and he walks
- 41:27through the bedroom and she was passed out on their bed.
- 41:31And he beat the crap out of her. And because it was the 1950s and
- 41:36people didn't really there that they're like, neighbors might
- 41:40have been like my business prefer having a messy house.
- 41:45It's fine. Yeah, he went back to the Sea.
- 41:52She got bored. She started drinking and
- 41:54spiraling again. Then she started bringing men
- 41:58home. Now, her neighbors, didn't
- 42:00realize she was turning tricks again.
- 42:03They just thought she was cheating, so they told Axl when
- 42:07he got home. Oh, no, no, no.
- 42:10This went on for years. He would beat her until she
- 42:14began to act, right? And then she would do whatever
- 42:16she wanted while he was on, you know, on the water and then She
- 42:24would do what he wanted while he was back on Shore.
- 42:28She reinvented her backstory again, while they were still
- 42:32dating saying that she was like a holistic doctor and people
- 42:36kind of believed it because she brought like she had a lot of
- 42:38potions in her house. And like the neighbors would be
- 42:41like, yo, you know, what do I do about this word on my foot?
- 42:44And she be like I got you and she would go get like one of her
- 42:47little concoctions and give it to people and they worked but
- 42:50like she's are probably just like old wives tale.
- 42:52Al's. She's like, huh?
- 42:59but the problem was like her husband was like Where are you
- 43:03getting all these random real drugs from?
- 43:06And she's like, listen. He's like, also you never told
- 43:08me that you were like any kind of a doctor.
- 43:10She's like, listen, listen, I learned about this in Mexico.
- 43:13I would travel with my mother to remote Villages.
- 43:16And so I learned by watching her and at this point axles, like,
- 43:22what is wrong with this woman? And he has her committed in 1961
- 43:27was only because she's a liar. She's 32 years old, and she had
- 43:32pretty, All time at the San Francisco Marine Hospital.
- 43:35The problem is they didn't distinguish between people who
- 43:38were criminally insane versus those just in the middle of like
- 43:41a crisis, mmm, and the hospital also had a lot of six Sailors
- 43:45who were bringing in diseases from everywhere because they
- 43:48went all around the world. Yeah, at one point, axle
- 43:51actually had to step in because they were like, yeah, so we have
- 43:55her plan to be on the sterilization on this date and
- 43:59they were like, wait, what? Your sterilizing my wife, that's
- 44:02it. Does the hospital still had an
- 44:03active Eugenics program in the 60s?
- 44:07Yeah. And for anybody listening, who
- 44:08doesn't know the these programs were specifically for mentally
- 44:13ill, disabled people, and sometimes they forced it on
- 44:18black women, as a means of population control.
- 44:22So that the bad people wouldn't have children.
- 44:26Furthermore, a lot of States paid out, like, in the 80s and
- 44:3090s for forcibly. Sterilizing a lot of people
- 44:34across America. Fucking disgusting, you know,
- 44:38pretty much the way to deal with the mentally ill was to make
- 44:40sure at bare minimum. They couldn't make more mentally
- 44:43ill people because that's how that works.
- 44:45So, yeah, definitely the doctors found her a bit strange.
- 44:48She was pretty normal except when it came to these constantly
- 44:51changing stories today. Dorothea might have been
- 44:55diagnosed as being narcissistic, maybe even psychopathy
- 45:01specifically because she had no ability to emotionally connect
- 45:05with anyone. And a distinct lack of empathy.
- 45:09As Burgers she well you think she would be on the Spectrum had
- 45:13to think about like the fact that she also had fetal alcohol
- 45:17syndrome before we even knew what that was right.
- 45:22So like maybe that's part of it too.
- 45:24Was there a brain development issue?
- 45:25We don't know. But they were like, she's
- 45:32obviously having hallucinations and she's a schizophrenic.
- 45:35So like the reason why your schizophrenia gets like this, is
- 45:38because you're drinking so much, so stop drinking and go home and
- 45:41be with your husband. And that was the that was the
- 45:43diagnosis and the treatment. So that that was it.
- 45:53That was you just the medicine. Okay.
- 45:56If you stop drinking you'll be all right.
- 45:58I mean they weren't wrong, okay? It's just a regular, the wrong
- 46:02reason. Yeah, yeah, I mean, that was,
- 46:04that's right. But that's not right.
- 46:06That's how we treat schizophrenia though.
- 46:08Fail. Oh my God.
- 46:11So dirty. I had really like accepted being
- 46:14beaten by Axel because she was like Listen, I'm a really
- 46:17terrible wife so like I deserve it but she was not okay with the
- 46:20fact that he put her in a facility and the chasm very much
- 46:24grew between them. He kept putting off like going
- 46:27back out to sea because he was just like, I need to watch her
- 46:29and make sure she's okay. He eventually had to go back to
- 46:33work and he was like, fuck. When I get back, my house is
- 46:37going to be trash, is going to be awful, turns out.
- 46:40He had nothing to worry about. When he got home, the house was
- 46:43perfect. It also was empty because
- 46:46Dorothea legit left as soon as he was gone.
- 46:49Oh, she packed up all her stuff and she moved She moved to
- 46:54Sacramento. She's now in her mid-30s.
- 46:59She's got the body of a 30, something year old lady, but she
- 47:03still smart. So she gets back in touch with
- 47:06some old friends who were prostitutes and she starts
- 47:08organizing. She sets up the women in a
- 47:11house. Takes a cut.
- 47:13Has a brothel. Oh, there you go.
- 47:16The early 60s. Were a good time to be a
- 47:18prostitute. Unfortunately, that's because
- 47:23just has a lot of progressive things going on in America at
- 47:29the time. Oh, right?
- 47:31Yes. And unfortunately though she
- 47:36picked a house in a nicer neighborhood and her neighbors,
- 47:39reported her, the police did a sting operation, she and all the
- 47:43other women were arrested and I got to tell you the sting
- 47:46operation was ridiculous. So the front of the house was
- 47:49like a fake situation, right? And so a cop came in he
- 47:52pretended to be like a good trucker and like She like told
- 47:56him about all the different girls, explain them all?
- 47:58Like what they offered, he was like, I don't like any of them
- 48:01and so she was like I can give you a blowjob if you want like
- 48:05and you pay for it and he was like, yeah.
- 48:07Now you're all going to jail. What the hell?
- 48:09I was like, I don't want what, what?
- 48:12Yeah, that's how I feel about that story too is because she
- 48:15offered I think so. Is that why?
- 48:18Okay, I mean okay, well they was you got arrested though she told
- 48:24the police she had. Idea, that place was a brothel
- 48:28and she was just there. Visiting one of her friends.
- 48:30Yeah. They were talking about blow
- 48:32jobs and stuff, she got 90 days in jail and she made the best of
- 48:37it. She ran into a snag though
- 48:40because they were like, we really don't want to release you
- 48:42without a real address. But Axl wasn't picking up the
- 48:45phone. He was filing for divorce and he
- 48:48had been told by his lawyers don't respond because that can
- 48:50mess things up. So she got released and then she
- 48:54immediately got arrested again. Again, for vagrancy and put back
- 48:57in prison for another 90 days, which I gotta tell you, that
- 49:00just seems like a setup. So, she has lost a house that
- 49:03she had. Oh yeah, they took it back.
- 49:05Oh goodness. She wish pretty shocked.
- 49:09That axle wouldn't help her because they had been together
- 49:12for, like, 10 years. She thought like dang, not even
- 49:15only been gone for like three months.
- 49:17Yeah, but he was barely there, you know, true.
- 49:22Anyway, well in prison, she became a health expert.
- 49:26And prisoners came to her for advice.
- 49:28And this time when she got out, she became a nurse aide for the
- 49:31elderly, the very go. It was boring work and it paid
- 49:35crappy because she was an ex-con now, but it was a safe job.
- 49:39She started cooking for herself when she would cook with their
- 49:41clients to save her own cash and they didn't seem to care.
- 49:45Even though it was technically stealing, but they were like,
- 49:47yeah, she's a good cook and she wants to sit here and eat with
- 49:49me. So, whatever occasionally meds
- 49:52went missing but they were like maths, doctor will send more.
- 49:56And they did soon. The alcohol started going
- 49:58missing with the food then she's just started out right ceiling
- 50:02from herbaceous. She would use their own meds to
- 50:06put them to sleep and then she would steal money from them or
- 50:10just lay around doing nothing at work.
- 50:13She retired from private, nursing in 1966 after several
- 50:17patients died and she didn't want people connecting the dots.
- 50:22She managed to avoid going to jail for these because when
- 50:25autopsy I performed the patients had only the drugs that had been
- 50:29prescribed to them in their system and it wasn't like high
- 50:32enough doses to kill them. But technically, there's a
- 50:38belief that her total kill count is actually 15 because during
- 50:42this time period, like six of her patients died.
- 50:47Interesting. So if we add those in and
- 50:51technically she would have start killing people in the 60s but
- 50:55technically like Like this was more neglect than outright
- 50:58choosing, the murder somebody, right?
- 51:00Yeah. Regardless she took the all that
- 51:02money. She bought a large house at the
- 51:04corner of 21st and F Street. She knew the state wouldn't give
- 51:07her a license to run a boarding house since she had so many
- 51:10solicitation charges on her record, but she's just gonna do
- 51:13it anyway. Oh, oh, okay, I just really
- 51:17enough. Like she's listed here as being
- 51:19only in her late 30s. But looking easily 20 or 30
- 51:23years. Older, the years of drinking And
- 51:26just the lifestyle were hard on her life.
- 51:29Hm. Also she was just tired.
- 51:32Like she needed help to get the rooming house, ready.
- 51:34So she reached out for workers within the Hispanic Community,
- 51:37the local immigrants came out to help and there she met Roberto
- 51:42point. They they met and fell in love.
- 51:45Not really. He was looking to have a future
- 51:47in the US and he noticed whenever they were doing stuff,
- 51:50and walked by that, she stared at him real hard and he knew
- 51:53what that meant. So their relationship moved from
- 51:58business to personal, she, let the other workers go and he
- 52:02became the full-time. Handyman at her boarding house
- 52:05and when I say this was a big house for tea rooms, oh,
- 52:09massive, she gave him a place to live and eat and also if he
- 52:16wanted to sex, but they were not couple, like, he was like 20 and
- 52:23she was like 40 and her. Hair was turning white, and it
- 52:27was pretty obvious that he was using her, but she was also
- 52:30using him. So it felt a little, alright?
- 52:34The house opened in 1966, the rooms fill up immediately.
- 52:39The state is full of disabled and homeless people, because
- 52:42some of the The hospitals were beating deinstitutionalized and
- 52:51shut down. So people need places to live.
- 52:55And so the social workers would call her and there were like,
- 52:58hey, do you have space in here? You know, this person gets an
- 53:01SSI, check for the rent, she charged.
- 53:04She would also cook for all of her tenants and do their
- 53:06laundry. They thought she was a saint now
- 53:09really, she was checking their clothing for Wayward cash and
- 53:12stealing things from them. But regardless, of course, and
- 53:161968 Dorothy and Roberto travel to Mexico.
- 53:18City had an extravagant wedding with her fanciest wedding to
- 53:22date. She loved Mexico and didn't want
- 53:24to go home. When we got back though, with
- 53:28the citizenship secured Roberto started looking for others.
- 53:32He apparently never stopped dating other women.
- 53:35Like, even like while they were dating before, he was like
- 53:39dating women like in the early to because he was 20 and like in
- 53:42the early 20th, I mean yeah. And he didn't Want to have sex
- 53:47with Dorothea like at all. Oh no.
- 53:49As soon as he could, he moved to a spare bedroom in the house
- 53:52saying is because she snored. now, he never brought a woman
- 53:56back to the house because he knew the tenants adore Dorothea
- 54:01and they would tell on him, but He would be seen out in public
- 54:07with other women and Dorothea, was becoming this respected
- 54:12member of the community because she was doing so much for this
- 54:15Panic Community, she was done. Like I'm going to get more of
- 54:17that in a little bit but so people would call her and be
- 54:20like we saw your husband with a lady.
- 54:24But Dorothea was just like, honestly, I don't care.
- 54:28Just make sure you don't embarrass me.
- 54:30Oh my God. So back to why people thought
- 54:33she wasn't saying so She started donating a lot of money to
- 54:38charity this glamorous life that she'd always wanted and lied
- 54:42about became real. She had dinners with Pat Brown.
- 54:46Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood actually, funny story with the
- 54:49cleat Clint Eastwood dinner that she had, it was for like a
- 54:52republican like thing at dinner and she was annoyed because
- 54:57Clint Eastwood cared more about like his date that he brought
- 55:00with him. Then her own.
- 55:03Oh imagine that She created this like reputation, we're like a
- 55:10very much legitimised. Her folks would never accuse her
- 55:14of stealing from them, and if they did, when the police talked
- 55:17to her, it was immediately dropped.
- 55:19Like she had a little office and her office was full of pictures
- 55:22of her shaking hands with celebrities and like who you
- 55:25believe this respected beloved woman who donates to Charities
- 55:29and schools all over the community or a mentally ill
- 55:32person who lost a ring maybe sometime in the last Ear.
- 55:36Well based on movies, I'm going to say the mentally ill person.
- 55:43Roberto kind of enjoyed. Being a husband who didn't have
- 55:45to do anything. In fact, he stopped doing his
- 55:48job as a handyman, he would show up to take pictures for the
- 55:50fancy dinners, but that was about it.
- 55:53They started arguing a lot, he check out.
- 55:55He had checked out of the marriage entirely and when he
- 55:58officially left, Drifter Thea was already over him one day she
- 56:02like was gone to the house and she checked his room and it was
- 56:05empty. She pocketed, she like she did
- 56:07with any other tenant. She cleaned it up pocket,
- 56:10anything that seemed valuable and felt a sense of relief, she
- 56:16was back to relying on herself. The only person she could depend
- 56:18on Ice, no one to embarrass me. Of course, in the eyes of the
- 56:23community, her husband abandoned her, and so they were like,
- 56:26well, you know, it's understandable that she's been
- 56:28going to bars looking for people.
- 56:29Yeah. She started going after much
- 56:32older, man. Who are receiving checks
- 56:36tensions? Some of those men ended up as
- 56:39ten minutes at her house and others.
- 56:41She just robbed after having sex with them and drugging them.
- 56:45Police started getting reports of a glamorous older woman
- 56:50robbing men, she's being risky here but she didn't get caught
- 56:55doing this. 1976 she's 47 years old.
- 56:59She meets her next husband, Pedro Montalvo, he was an
- 57:03alcoholic at a bar who she picked up with the intention of
- 57:07robbing him. Turned out.
- 57:08She kind of liked him so she didn't drug them and they ended
- 57:11up sitting in her apartment above the boarding house.
- 57:13Just talking all night. Oh cool, that's cool.
- 57:16He moved. It almost immediately.
- 57:18They had a small ceremony at the local church, which wasn't legit
- 57:21because she was still married to Puente, but she didn't feel like
- 57:25being bothered by the divorce. Doesn't he had ran off anyway,
- 57:28who cares? Well, this was pretty short
- 57:31lived because it happened within like a month as soon as Pedro
- 57:35moved in. He Reveals His true nature.
- 57:38He wanted his woman to submit to him and when Dorothea would not,
- 57:42he would hit her. When he got drunk, his temper
- 57:44was like unpredictable and while Dorothy was no stranger to
- 57:49violence first from her dad, then from her second husband,
- 57:54like this was very different in response to those random
- 57:58attacks, she stopped going back up to her apartment and would
- 58:02spend time with her residents, who thought she was amazing.
- 58:06So, Pedro was like mad because not only is his wife being
- 58:09disobedient, but now she's being absent, but he couldn't hit her
- 58:12in front of the tenants. And so, then, I'm like two
- 58:15months after their random wedding, he just leaves.
- 58:17Yay. Okay good.
- 58:19Fuck out of here. It's wasted drunk ends up in a
- 58:21different state, and this is the last man that Dorothea would
- 58:24reach out to on her own cool. She started her Bar Crawl again,
- 58:29but this time was different. She was kind of revolted and
- 58:33just generally disgusted by men. Instead of robbing them, she
- 58:39would get enough information from them while they were drunk
- 58:42change, their address to her boarding house.
- 58:46Also, you are still reacting to me saying she was revolted by
- 58:49men. Yes, I was just wanted to
- 58:50comment on it. I mean, yes, that that happens
- 58:53after a while you just you just get fucking tired.
- 58:58Men like, bro, y'all suck. I'm always there, I'm somewhere
- 59:05on the line like it. This is a thin line of like,
- 59:09maybe I'd like to know they suck.
- 59:14Oh my God. Okay, sorry.
- 59:17But right, so what she was doing, when she would talk to
- 59:19them while they were at the bar, she'd write down their
- 59:21information when they weren't looking and then she would
- 59:24change their address to her party house.
- 59:27No one questioned it since boarding houses, have so many
- 59:29people moving in and out constantly.
- 59:32And so, by the time, the men got their checks, rerouted back to
- 59:35her, she had collected like one or two months worth of pension.
- 59:38Hmm, she invested her that money into a restaurant because after
- 59:43her time Talking to rich people. She was like, hmm, rich people
- 59:46make more money by putting their money into other businesses.
- 59:51So she got a business partner named Ruth Munroe.
- 59:54At first, your Thea was the cook at this restaurant that they
- 59:56purchased and then when she got tired of doing regular work and
- 1:00:00like went back to the boarding house Ruth was cool because she
- 1:00:04was just like, listen, the business is making enough money
- 1:00:05to support itself and workers, you're good, they became friends
- 1:00:11and that made Dorothea feel strange.
- 1:00:13JH, since she had never spent time with anyone who just wanted
- 1:00:17to be nice to her and accept nothing in return.
- 1:00:21Imagine that 1982, one of her front of the police department
- 1:00:26is like, listen, they're building a case against you for
- 1:00:30all these government checks that have bounced through your place,
- 1:00:35there was nothing to rob the drugging and the robberies to
- 1:00:37her, but some of the men who she defrauded were pretty open with
- 1:00:41the police and connections are being made.
- 1:00:44And then because that was now a thing.
- 1:00:47The police were like, well, maybe we should look into the
- 1:00:50allegations from her previous tenants.
- 1:00:54You need to figure out what to do because she was going to go
- 1:00:56to jail for a long time. So Ruth's husband had cancer and
- 1:01:02the doctors were going to stop, prescribing him pain meds
- 1:01:04because like at this point they felt like he's just going to die
- 1:01:08and you're delaying the inevitable.
- 1:01:10The cost of his care was a lot so she sold her house to pay for
- 1:01:16his care and since she had nowhere to go, our kids have
- 1:01:20moved out to other states through Thea, offered her Space
- 1:01:23in her own apartment above the boarding house.
- 1:01:25Ruth was kind of surprised but she accepted the offer.
- 1:01:29And Ruth was treated like a queen there.
- 1:01:32Like trivia was kind and caring and attentive.
- 1:01:35And Ruth is like, wow, no wonder so many people want to live here
- 1:01:39and then Ruth started getting sick first.
- 1:01:42She just started feeling a little sluggish, then encouraged
- 1:01:45by Dorothea. She started drinking to calm her
- 1:01:47nerves. That, of course, allowed
- 1:01:50Dorothea to continue drug occur. In early April of 1982 Ruth son.
- 1:01:55William Clausen came to visit her.
- 1:01:57When he found out that she was sick, he was surprised to see
- 1:02:00her sitting on the couch laughing with a crème de menthe
- 1:02:03in her hand, which is honestly not a good drink but that's
- 1:02:08beside the point. It's just nasty liquor.
- 1:02:11It's a it's crowded in math. Isn't as cement drink.
- 1:02:14Yeah. It's a it's a freaking cordials
- 1:02:16a mixer. Yeah, you don't just drink that
- 1:02:18but apparently back, then, you did gross.
- 1:02:22Yeah. So but Ruth was like, this is my
- 1:02:27friend with Thea, you know, we run a business together, she
- 1:02:31used to be a nurse so she's taking care of me, William was
- 1:02:34suspicious, but he couldn't really figure Dorothea out.
- 1:02:37He was like, listen, I never even heard of this woman until a
- 1:02:40couple weeks ago. Hmm, But like she seemed like on
- 1:02:44paper like a really incredible person of course.
- 1:02:48And he went back home. The Southland Park by the end of
- 1:02:51April, Ruth was dead. With the other investigations
- 1:02:56against her Dorothea was definitely a suspect but the
- 1:02:59detectives couldn't find any evidence to show that she was
- 1:03:01the murderer. You know, Dorothea played the
- 1:03:04distraught friend, I can't believe my friend, we have to
- 1:03:08close our business. Now, I can't run it without her,
- 1:03:10they won't even do that detectives needed something.
- 1:03:14And so, Dorothy had told them that.
- 1:03:15Well, she's been really depressed lately.
- 1:03:17She had to sell her husband, her house or husband's dying.
- 1:03:21She'd been drinking a lot, the corner discovered that she had
- 1:03:24Had overdosed on her own medicine, alcohol, and
- 1:03:27over-the-counter drugs. They ruled this as a suicide.
- 1:03:31Lou son was not happy about this, but he was just like,
- 1:03:34well, they have a joint account, my mom and Dorothea.
- 1:03:37He's like, so I'm just going to watch and see if Dorothea drains
- 1:03:40the account, The Joint business account and if she does, I'ma
- 1:03:44come for her, I mean, but she has to close her business now
- 1:03:48anyway. So what is she just closed the
- 1:03:50business account then? Well, technically, I think if
- 1:03:52you have a joint business account and and the money would
- 1:03:55be split evenly between both people.
- 1:03:57So he was looking for her. Do something illegal.
- 1:03:59Okay. This was directly as first real
- 1:04:02official murder, but she was not an idiot.
- 1:04:04She knew the police were watching her and all of her and
- 1:04:07police informants were just like, listen, I can't tell you
- 1:04:10anything else other than go get a good attorney.
- 1:04:12Yeah. She knew if she took Ruth money
- 1:04:15right away, she get caught. So her plan was to not drain the
- 1:04:18account until she was in Mexico. So she booked a trip to Mexico.
- 1:04:23The cops got wind of it and they grabbed her just as she was
- 1:04:26getting in a taxi with her luggage.
- 1:04:29The problem with that was they wanted to take their time
- 1:04:33because they had 30 fraud cases against her.
- 1:04:37But they grabbed her too soon. And so in fact, only three of
- 1:04:42those fraud cases were actually finished.
- 1:04:45The investigations were finished and so the judge was just like,
- 1:04:50I can't hold her for Stuff work you haven't done yet.
- 1:04:54And yeah, so he was in the judge was also kind of moved by the
- 1:04:58fact that she was. So, giving to the community, he
- 1:05:02really gave her the benefit of the doubt, and gave her five
- 1:05:05years in prison for three investing for the three of us.
- 1:05:07Investigations that have been completed.
- 1:05:09He said that there would be parole afterward.
- 1:05:11It was a weird parole rule, though.
- 1:05:13So, her parole was that she could never run a boarding house
- 1:05:16or work with people of a diminished capacity, pretty much
- 1:05:20ever again. Which were the people who she
- 1:05:23made a fortune exploiting. And then they said, I just
- 1:05:27Sacramento County Jail. In jail.
- 1:05:30She was an older woman. She was known to be the prison
- 1:05:33gossip, which kind of allowed her to kind of pass through all
- 1:05:36the gangs with no issue. She even talked to the guards
- 1:05:39and pass along information which was her fatal flaw, not fatal,
- 1:05:43but a big flaw. She told the guards who have
- 1:05:46been responsible for an assault on another enemy and the
- 1:05:50response to that was that Dorothea got beaten within an
- 1:05:53inch of her life in the shower and left for dead.
- 1:05:58She got Were to the hospital Wing.
- 1:06:00They wrapped her broken ribs. And then they put her in
- 1:06:03solitary and they were like, we'll just keep her here until
- 1:06:06this blows over and that was a year.
- 1:06:09Oh, It also caused a whole ripple effect in the prison.
- 1:06:16That was pretty awful too, because she given them the names
- 1:06:19of the people who were in charge of these attacks who were, like
- 1:06:22gang leaders. So they were all also in
- 1:06:24solitary, and then there was nobody to keep the gangs in
- 1:06:27check. So, like everything was real
- 1:06:29quiet. Yes.
- 1:06:31But what the attack on her did do was, he told everybody else
- 1:06:35don't talk to the guards. So from solitary, she started
- 1:06:41writing letters in prison. She's not responding to like
- 1:06:43those prison pen pals and those letter she could be whoever she
- 1:06:48wanted and she could take as long as she wanted to tweak the
- 1:06:51story and make it more believable.
- 1:06:54One man wrote to her every day. His name was ever seen, Gil - he
- 1:06:58was retired. He lived in Oregon a widower
- 1:07:01with children who never visited him.
- 1:07:03He was a loving man who was very lonely and I became friends.
- 1:07:08And then he started sending her commissary money by the time,
- 1:07:11she went back to gen. Pop the letters had turned very
- 1:07:14serious and the two were making plans together.
- 1:07:18Ever seen, was the man that Dorothea wished, she had met,
- 1:07:22when she was 16, the kind of person who she, you know, kind
- 1:07:25of bright. I'd hoped to had meet the
- 1:07:28problem was at 54 years old, that little girl was long on,
- 1:07:32right? Yeah, ever seen was talking to a
- 1:07:34woman who killed her best friend for a ticket to Mexico.
- 1:07:38It's just a different kind of gal.
- 1:07:40Yeah, when she was released in 1985, on parole ever seen,
- 1:07:44picked her up their relationship lasted for three months.
- 1:07:48Her big boarding house have been sold because she owed four
- 1:07:51thousand dollars in restitution to the victims to pay back the
- 1:07:55money that was stolen her. She couldn't buy it back from
- 1:08:00whoever had purchased it because It was being like renovated,
- 1:08:06right? Everson helped her get a new
- 1:08:09smaller house and her own apartment down the street.
- 1:08:12They opened a joint account together to prepare for their
- 1:08:14wedding and he put He would put like the rent money in there was
- 1:08:19like $600 which is still a lot of money because the $600 in
- 1:08:231985 way different than $600 in 2021.
- 1:08:27That's true. So I must have been a pretty
- 1:08:29nice apartment. Iverson had his very large
- 1:08:34pension directed to their joint account and this was so they
- 1:08:37could show their income to the bank when they were going to
- 1:08:40eventually buy a house together. Even though all of her wealthy
- 1:08:45friends in abandoned, her the social workers of Sacramento
- 1:08:49loved her. And they were just like, you got
- 1:08:51a new house. We got people and nobody else
- 1:08:54will let these people stay anywhere.
- 1:08:55What the hell? No, guys you, what are you
- 1:08:58doing? So this time her boarding house
- 1:09:05became the worst cases people who are seriously mentally ill,
- 1:09:09very drug and alcohol dependent criminal people who couldn't get
- 1:09:13a place to stay that way if they disappeared in a month.
- 1:09:17Nobody cared. Oh ok NVM thing that what you're
- 1:09:21doing a verse in more than likely didn't realize the truth
- 1:09:25until he found himself. Also going through what Ruth
- 1:09:28went through. Because he died too.
- 1:09:32That's why I hid or their relationship was so short.
- 1:09:34She drugged him as well. Now, Dorothea new of ever since
- 1:09:38body made it to a corner that it would be identical to what
- 1:09:41happened to Ruth. So she was like, his body has to
- 1:09:44disappear. So she wrapped him in sheets
- 1:09:46like bed sheets, then plastic sheeting.
- 1:09:49Then she started contacting some ex-cons folks new in the area.
- 1:09:55You work for Dorothea, you don't ask questions, you do your job,
- 1:09:59you make a lot of money. So she had hired a bunch of
- 1:10:04different guys to help with getting the regular house ready
- 1:10:07and one she ended up like connecting with his name was SML
- 1:10:11Flores and she was just like, listen I need you to build some
- 1:10:16special stuff for me. She asked him to build a box
- 1:10:19that was six feet long and she wanted him to deliver that to
- 1:10:26her apartment because she was gonna be moving things from her
- 1:10:29apartment to the rooming house. And then Then she wanted him to
- 1:10:33build a bookcase in her room in the boarding house and then she
- 1:10:38was going to put books in the the the coffin Shaped Box.
- 1:10:44She asked me to build the 6-foot bodice six-foot-long box, which
- 1:10:49is doesn't make any sense? Then she bought him a car like a
- 1:10:54truck. And she said, hey, once you're
- 1:10:58done building the book house, I'll fill the thing and you can,
- 1:11:01you know, cart a box of book. We could will take you to the
- 1:11:03boardinghouse, the box of books being ever since body.
- 1:11:07She then she nailed it shut. And he was like, that's kind of
- 1:11:09weird. She's like, that's so nothing
- 1:11:11falls out. Oh yeah, of course we took a
- 1:11:14taxi ride, a very weird, a taxi ride where and where she was
- 1:11:18like, turn left turn, right, turn this way and then she told
- 1:11:21them to go to the Garden Highway in, Sutter County and she's
- 1:11:25Like, you know what? I've changed my mind.
- 1:11:27I don't want this box. Let's just throw it.
- 1:11:31Oh, the highway off the highway because it was an area where
- 1:11:33people dispose of a lot of junk, it was right on the edge of a
- 1:11:37river. Okay.
- 1:11:39And so it's mail picked it up and chucked over the edge.
- 1:11:43You know, I spent all this time on this box.
- 1:11:46You just want to throw it away. Well, it smells like she was
- 1:11:51really happy with me but then like she didn't hire him
- 1:11:53anymore. Yeah.
- 1:11:55He was like, you know what? I got paid and also like I also
- 1:11:58got a free car from this job. So I'm just gonna like Not
- 1:12:01question it. Yeah, don't yeah.
- 1:12:04Yeah. Early 1986 everson's body is
- 1:12:08discovered on the banks of the river by a fisherman.
- 1:12:11The 6-foot box looked exactly like a coffin.
- 1:12:14The police were called with the body was like horrific lie,
- 1:12:17decompose the plastic wrap and the heat of California had
- 1:12:21caused it like to rapidly decompose and so nobody could
- 1:12:26identify him and he was filed as a John Doe, he wouldn't be
- 1:12:29identified for another three years.
- 1:12:33The day, went back to her. Check fraud days and she was
- 1:12:35making about five thousand dollars a month here.
- 1:12:37So, what she would do is she would kind of Stack her Rooming
- 1:12:43situations. So like, if somebody was a drunk
- 1:12:46and she knew that that drunk was going to get like had gotten
- 1:12:50popped by the cops, and Michael gave me he'll for 30 days
- 1:12:53because that's pretty normal. Then she would have somebody
- 1:12:56else come stay and she would collect the money from that
- 1:12:58person and then that person got caught.
- 1:13:00And so she was like stacking them like that, like back and
- 1:13:03forth. She also would do this thing
- 1:13:06with some of her tenants were before the mail, like before
- 1:13:09anybody else, even woke up, she would stop and get the mail.
- 1:13:12She would take all Checks and she would pay them like a
- 1:13:14stipend. Of course, weirdly though, older
- 1:13:18and older people were like, they wanted to board with her and
- 1:13:20stay and she's like, I'd only one people to stay because I
- 1:13:23want them to keep moving so I can steal from them.
- 1:13:28All the while this is happening her parole officers and parole
- 1:13:31agents, visit the boarding house and they never report that she
- 1:13:35is flagrantly. Violating her parole.
- 1:13:38Yeah. Because you're not supposed to
- 1:13:39have a brick and boarding house. Nope, tenant start going
- 1:13:43missing. So, August 19th, 1986.
- 1:13:49Betty Palmer, 77 years old goes missing.
- 1:13:52After she goes to a doctor's appointment, a few weeks, later
- 1:13:55Dorothea has an ID card with her own face on it, but Betty's
- 1:13:58name, hmm, to get her benefits. February, 1987 78 year old Leon,
- 1:14:04a carpenter goes, missing after being discharged from the
- 1:14:07hospital, sleeping and sleeping. Under these couch, she wasn't
- 1:14:10even like a full tenant. There was no space for his
- 1:14:13crash, and yeah. James Galbraith, 62.
- 1:14:16He went missing July 1987. He just got in treatment for a
- 1:14:21brain tumor and told his doctors he was moving to 14:26 F Street.
- 1:14:26October 1987 62 year-old Vera Martin moves into the boarding
- 1:14:30house. Never heard from again.
- 1:14:34Dorothy Miller, 64 also goes missing that month.
- 1:14:36October 1987 Burt Montoya, arrived in February of 1988 and
- 1:14:43as soon as Dorothy is started helping with his financials, he
- 1:14:45went missing two when other intense asked about him.
- 1:14:49She told them, he gone to visit his family in Mexico.
- 1:14:53Now just before Burt disappeared, the Department of
- 1:14:55Social Services, got wind of her illegal, rooming house and
- 1:14:58decided to pay her a visit the inspectors knew of her past, but
- 1:15:02they were like, it seems like she's cleaned up.
- 1:15:04Her act, everything is above board here.
- 1:15:08She also hired a handyman and they called him Chief, and the
- 1:15:12neighbors noted that Chief was seen digging around the property
- 1:15:16and building here, e cemented the basement.
- 1:15:19Also cemented a slab of concrete in the backyard.
- 1:15:22And then he also went missing. Oh, right?
- 1:15:29The first person to be persistent with her suspicions
- 1:15:32was Peggy. Nickerson a social worker, who
- 1:15:34had sent several people to Dorothea, and she couldn't get
- 1:15:37in contact with them anymore. And Dorothea was like, listen,
- 1:15:40they come and go, you know, how the transient folks are.
- 1:15:43And she's like, if they come back I'll let them back and
- 1:15:45Peggy was like sure. But just to be safe she didn't
- 1:15:51send anybody else to Dorothy as house ever again.
- 1:15:54Next person to disappear was Benjamin think he was 55 and he
- 1:15:58went missing April of 1988. He was last seen.
- 1:16:02After Dorothea told other tenants, she was going to take
- 1:16:04him upstairs and like be his nurse.
- 1:16:08Never seen a gap so it's just it's November 7th 1988, there's
- 1:16:14another social worker named, Judy moist, she was Burt, social
- 1:16:18worker, that's just his nickname.
- 1:16:20His name is actually much longer, he's like five Spanish
- 1:16:23names, but My God and she was just like she told the police
- 1:16:28Bert doesn't he's not the type of run away.
- 1:16:31I don't think he went to his family and it's also because
- 1:16:33like one day Judy like went to go see Bert and Dorothea told
- 1:16:44Judy, oh, he's sick right now, you can't go in there.
- 1:16:48He's like quarantine from everybody else and she's like,
- 1:16:50oh, when he feels better, I'm going to go check on him and
- 1:16:53then the next day she's like he got a call from his sister and
- 1:16:56he went to Mexico. Like these are not good lies.
- 1:16:59Uh-huh. Yeah, not consistent and doesn't
- 1:17:03make sense. He's just sick.
- 1:17:05Uh-huh. The police accepted of the
- 1:17:06complaint and they went to talk to the Dorothea while they were
- 1:17:10there. Another tenant past one of the
- 1:17:13officers and note that said she is making us live for her.
- 1:17:19By chance, one of the police officers who had been there.
- 1:17:23His name was John Cabrera was at the store later that day, buying
- 1:17:26cigarettes at the same time. As the tenant who passed him.
- 1:17:29A note that tenants name was John Sharp.
- 1:17:33The two decided to stop at a cafe and talk.
- 1:17:35Now, this happened, like hours later.
- 1:17:36He had gone back to the police precinct and done a little
- 1:17:39search on John Sharp, just to make sure like, they didn't have
- 1:17:42a history, right? And that he wasn't, like, trying
- 1:17:44to set Dorothy up. So then he was really
- 1:17:48interested. He was like well fancy meeting
- 1:17:50you here. Let's go have lunch and sharp
- 1:17:54didn't know all the details but he also like it was a pretty
- 1:17:58bleak picture that he like painted.
- 1:18:01You know, holes being dug in the garden overnight and then like
- 1:18:05three Thea was building this elaborate Garden every time
- 1:18:09these like weird you know? Yeah disappearances happen.
- 1:18:14You know things getting It in concrete guess getting sick.
- 1:18:18As soon as they arrived, the sickly sweet smell in the house,
- 1:18:22blamed on rats or fish. Emulsion in the yard Dorothy is
- 1:18:26spending habits getting outrageous.
- 1:18:30So, November 11th, four days. Later.
- 1:18:33Cabrera is like, let me see if I can do something.
- 1:18:37He was not new to the forest. He had been on previous
- 1:18:41serial-killer cases. Mmm.
- 1:18:46So he comes with the intention that they're going to dig up
- 1:18:50something that day, but he just shows up initially leaves the,
- 1:18:54the shovels in the car. He brings a parole, her parole
- 1:18:57officer and a couple other uniforms.
- 1:19:00Pretty is all smile. She offers them T.
- 1:19:04She lets them walk around the house.
- 1:19:06They don't see anything out of the ordinary though.
- 1:19:08Her room smelled. What kind of weird she told him,
- 1:19:11it must be a dead, right? Under the floorboards and she
- 1:19:13was very embarrassed about it. Cabrera was like, Hey, you know,
- 1:19:17you told me the other day that You like burry the trash for
- 1:19:24here for like compost? I'm just worried that.
- 1:19:27Like, there could be some evidence from that trash, you
- 1:19:32know, you didn't realize it was evidence, can we like poke
- 1:19:35around a little bit and so They both knew what this was,
- 1:19:41Dorothea knew that she had to let him do it because if she
- 1:19:45said, no, then everybody who walked out of her house that day
- 1:19:48was going to be suspicious of her.
- 1:19:49So she said, yes, because she was like, screw it.
- 1:19:52They're not going to find anything.
- 1:19:54Hmm. They find trash.
- 1:19:58They find like old beef jerky and piles of trash like you know
- 1:20:03and Dorothy has their oh so sad. They're ripping up my beautiful
- 1:20:06garden. You know, later on fact, so
- 1:20:08horrible. It get to the point where like
- 1:20:11they've dug pretty deep and like Cabrera is like fed up.
- 1:20:16He jumps into the hole, he pulls on a route with all her strength
- 1:20:21and it pops out and he sees a human shin bone.
- 1:20:24Here you go. That's what you're Come here,
- 1:20:26buddy. In fact, he hadn't been pulling
- 1:20:28on a root at all. He had been pulling part of part
- 1:20:31of the leg bone. Oh, out of the ground, you had
- 1:20:33already found what? You're looking for Buddy.
- 1:20:35He didn't realize what it was because he's just a regular cop.
- 1:20:37He's not a CSI. Yeah, he didn't arrest the fake
- 1:20:41stunned, Dorothea. She was just like because the
- 1:20:44problem was they were looking for Bert, who would only really
- 1:20:49been fate. Only been filing missing like a
- 1:20:51couple days before. There's no way that a body
- 1:20:55skeleton. You know, it's skeletonized.
- 1:20:58That's not the right word becomes the skeleton in a couple
- 1:21:01weeks at best. You know what I mean, skeletal.
- 1:21:07That's why I wrote my notes, but I was too excited.
- 1:21:10But yeah, there's no way to a body can become a scheme, come
- 1:21:13skeletal and just a couple days. So he's just like I have to get
- 1:21:18a warrant so we can do more surgery.
- 1:21:23The next day, it's a Friday. It takes some time to get the
- 1:21:28warrant Saturday forensics team descends on the property.
- 1:21:33They're like so yeah. That will you thought was jerky.
- 1:21:37Not jerky. That's mummified human flesh.
- 1:21:40Oh no. And they were like, well, we got
- 1:21:45some good news and some bad news for you because these remains
- 1:21:48are woman. So this is not Burt Montoya, but
- 1:21:52it's a body, you got a body, one Dorothea saw them.
- 1:21:57Look at the concrete slabs. She dresses in this like
- 1:22:00elaborate fancy red outfit puts like Or grand in cash, in her
- 1:22:04purse, walks out to the police. And she's like, am I under
- 1:22:08arrest officer and prepare is like?
- 1:22:10No. No.
- 1:22:11She's like, well, I'm really like, you know, a little like
- 1:22:14unsteady. I want to go get a coffee at the
- 1:22:16hotel that I'm going to stay at, because she can't stay there
- 1:22:19because this is a crime scene. So he's like, oh absolutely,
- 1:22:24I'll drive you there myself. Hm.
- 1:22:29They uncovered seven bodies that day.
- 1:22:33One of the watches on the body was still ticking.
- 1:22:38Meaning that this body was fairly recent, right?
- 1:22:43The reason why her her apartment, her little room.
- 1:22:46Smelled gross is because she Remove the Jaws.
- 1:22:55In a forensic, countermeasure. In fact, apparently, they found
- 1:23:00like a set of, like, part of a jaw outside of her window, like,
- 1:23:06on a Ledge. Oh, my God.
- 1:23:07Had tried to throw them out back, like hide them.
- 1:23:12So that smell it. Her room was from actual
- 1:23:15decomposition. Gross.
- 1:23:18The police were, like, yeah, we need to go talk to her.
- 1:23:22She was gone, of course, and the police are very embarrassed
- 1:23:28because they definitely just let a serial killer walk out of her
- 1:23:30house. Yeah, that was your fault.
- 1:23:33The FBI gets called, they start tracking bus stations trains,
- 1:23:36airports, she books a fake flight to LA in her own name,
- 1:23:40but she never took the fight because she wanted to send them
- 1:23:42on a wild goose chase. Instead, she hides in a hotel in
- 1:23:44downtown LA called The Royal Viking the public and the Press
- 1:23:48Hammer, the police, they're like making fun of them for letting
- 1:23:51her go. And she kept a low profile at
- 1:23:54first. And then she got bored.
- 1:23:58So she went to a bar fucking bored.
- 1:24:01She's completely out of place in this city Downtown Bar, and she
- 1:24:05introduced herself as Donna Johnson and she talked all night
- 1:24:09with a young man of gentleman and flirted with him.
- 1:24:11He told her he'd take her shopping the next day and he
- 1:24:14went home, and he was just like, I think, I think dhamma is the
- 1:24:20lady on the news. So he called CBS because he was
- 1:24:24like, I don't know if I want to call. 111 if I'm wrong.
- 1:24:27So he called CBS and they put them online with the assignment
- 1:24:29editor. And the assignment editor was
- 1:24:31like, oh, this could be big. You call the cuff before you
- 1:24:36call the damn reporters, okay, he called the reporters.
- 1:24:40Oh my God. So first to CBS guy was like,
- 1:24:43well, watch a news story, and see if it's her.
- 1:24:46And so he watched a new story but like they didn't show a
- 1:24:48picture of her and so then the news editor came and showed like
- 1:24:53a peak like a picture print out of her.
- 1:24:56And he was like, I think this could be her and he's like all
- 1:24:58right how about this tell her you're going to come see her
- 1:25:01tonight. and so, He convinces. Just this man to go.
- 1:25:09Tell her I'm going to meet you. I'll come see you tonight at the
- 1:25:11Viking and at 10:20 p.m. this man shows up with CBS and the
- 1:25:18cops if she gets arrested on TV, okay.
- 1:25:22I mean in any other circumstances is how people die
- 1:25:25true when like doing it. Been that kind of a killer like
- 1:25:29yeah pop pop and randoms. Yeah absolutely but like
- 1:25:33honestly that point she was cornered so she just Went over
- 1:25:35to her purr. They were like excuse me ma'am
- 1:25:38are your two thiet Dorothea Puente and she was just like she
- 1:25:42went over to her purse. Pulled out our wallet and was
- 1:25:44like this is I'm yeah it's me, here's my ID let's just take me
- 1:25:48in. Yeah she got arrested, no bail
- 1:25:51her lawyers tried to argue that the trial was going to be a
- 1:25:53media circus. This would hurt her, she was
- 1:25:56going to have a fair trial. The prosecution was like she's a
- 1:25:59cold-blooded killer and there is nothing that we can do to like
- 1:26:02change that. Yeah we can't make it any worse.
- 1:26:05Yeah. Yeah, the judge ruled that the
- 1:26:06trial is going to go as planned. So June, 19th 1990.
- 1:26:10Dorothea Puente stands trial for nine.
- 1:26:12Counts of murder. Her lawyers.
- 1:26:14Did a really good job, and they got it.
- 1:26:16Pushed off until February 9th. 1993.
- 1:26:21Oh, yes, they were able to file enough motions and get things
- 1:26:26shifted around that. It took three years.
- 1:26:29Oh, Her trial, they were 153 Witnesses. 3,500 pages of
- 1:26:38evidence that were shared and the jury did not deliberate
- 1:26:43begin deliberations until July 15th.
- 1:26:45Oh, my God. So, nearly five months of a
- 1:26:49trial and they were well aware that the prosecution was seeking
- 1:26:53the death penalty. Days pass.
- 1:26:57Nothing's heard from the jury. August 2nd.
- 1:27:00The judge receives a note that says we are deadlocked on all
- 1:27:04nine counts, we need further instruction, the defense is
- 1:27:08like, oh perfect mistrial, but the judge is just like no, no go
- 1:27:13back. Go through the evidence try
- 1:27:15again. Hmm.
- 1:27:17August 26, 1993, they have a decision before a pack Kirk
- 1:27:22courtroom the court clerk reads the verdict guilty of the crime
- 1:27:25of Murder in the second degree against Leona Carpenter guilty
- 1:27:29of the crime. Murder in the first degree of
- 1:27:31Dorothy Miller, guilty of the crime of Murder in the First
- 1:27:34Degree, Ben Fink. They were locked on the last
- 1:27:39six. Hmm they couldn't make up their
- 1:27:42mind. I think it was like 7 to 5.
- 1:27:45So with that, there was also they also have the allegation
- 1:27:50under special circumstances. That found Dorothea Puente had
- 1:27:54committed multiple murders, including Everson Hearing the
- 1:27:58verdict. The judge move to declare a
- 1:28:00mistrial on those other six counts.
- 1:28:04Those other six victims did not receive Justice, and that
- 1:28:07included and I wrote his name here Alvaro Jose Rafael
- 1:28:12Gonzalez. Bert Montoya.
- 1:28:15Just want to help. I had so many names random is
- 1:28:17Burton and that was his nickname.
- 1:28:20I don't know where it came from. But, uh, Burt did not get
- 1:28:25Justice. Yeah, December 11th 1983.
- 1:28:28Judge verga hands down the sentence.
- 1:28:30Dorothea Puente will be committed to life in prison
- 1:28:33without the possibility of parole that day in court with
- 1:28:39news cameras and writers she turns and looks at her attorney
- 1:28:45and goes I didn't kill anyone. Okay.
- 1:28:54She was incarcerated at the central.
- 1:28:55California women's facility in Chowchilla, conform California,
- 1:28:59where she maintained her innocence for the rest of her
- 1:29:02life. Come on her borders.
- 1:29:04Had died of natural causes and they didn't have money for a
- 1:29:10burial anyway. So she just put them in the
- 1:29:12backyard. Look, you already got caught?
- 1:29:14Why do you? Why you need to keep lying?
- 1:29:19Ironically she died in prison, March 27th. 2011 of actual
- 1:29:22natural causes. She was 82 years old and I
- 1:29:28thought sends the crazy story of Dorothea.
- 1:29:31Helen Gray, Mick foul. Johansson Puente Montalvo,
- 1:29:35which, at one point she did go by all of those names, which is
- 1:29:39the noxious, yeah. Okay, Daenerys owed.
- 1:29:42Are you? Okay?
- 1:29:45Dorothea Targaryen woman of sex. Names.
- 1:29:50But regardless I mentioned earlier off-camera but like the
- 1:29:55sources for today's were so fun. Like we had few just fantastic
- 1:30:00names for books like human Harvest by Daniel Blackburn.
- 1:30:04The Bone Garden by William would Disturbed ground by Carla
- 1:30:10Norton. Everybody just had a field day
- 1:30:12with these books. These are like horror story
- 1:30:15books. Yes, they were great and I
- 1:30:20Mistresses of Mayhem was a book about all women criminals.
- 1:30:23I like that. Yeah, title that one.
- 1:30:25I might have to buy that. Yeah it has original author's
- 1:30:29name is Francine was Salah but I also saw a copy where I guess
- 1:30:33like her last name change and it's also says hornberger.
- 1:30:35Hmm, so you're married God. Yeah, I guess you're right.
- 1:30:38Got married. But yeah, that's it for me.
- 1:30:40Sorry. Little long.
- 1:30:40But, oh my God, lady was nuts. That was a was a while, right?
- 1:30:46Just, this is all those interesting ones because this
- 1:30:49isn't somebody who I think like, yeah, sure.
- 1:30:51She suffered from she was a pathetic constantly, right?
- 1:30:57But she didn't have the typical. She didn't torture animals.
- 1:31:01She didn't, you know what her bed when she was 15?
- 1:31:05She didn't have any brain damage though.
- 1:31:07We're not quite sure about that, good luck, all syndrome.
- 1:31:10But like for the most part, this was just like a continuous Life
- 1:31:15Of Crime. That's low.
- 1:31:16We escalated over time. So very interesting though.
- 1:31:21Yeah, let's say it's very interesting.
- 1:31:24Well, what are we learning about today?
- 1:31:25Huh. Okay, well today, I don't even
- 1:31:29have like a proper intro for mine honestly because I was
- 1:31:33like, I don't know how to describe these things.
- 1:31:35I'm going to be talking to you after your conspiracy Crypt
- 1:31:38intro. I don't think you could do
- 1:31:39better. I don't think I could.
- 1:31:43Um, so, this week, I will be discussing some things.
- 1:31:51Okay so answer me this. Yeah um have you ever like
- 1:31:55driven or getting, you know, dribble around or walked around
- 1:32:00and seeing like something just strange just like our ordinary.
- 1:32:07You mean like glitches in The Matrix strange?
- 1:32:09Um no. But that's a, we could talk
- 1:32:13about that one day. This interesting topic.
- 1:32:15He said, one day. Yeah, that's a weird ride.
- 1:32:17That's right. And idea for next week is, what
- 1:32:21do you mean? Um, like something like an
- 1:32:26abnormality, like something creepy or something strange out
- 1:32:31in the wild of the world. I'ma stop you right there
- 1:32:36because I don't go into the wild but I'm a city kid.
- 1:32:41I mean, it was just really amazed the concrete jungle
- 1:32:46outside of your house is the wild No.
- 1:32:48No. What I think of the Wilds.
- 1:32:50I think of like the woods. No, we don't do Woods here.
- 1:32:54Okay. But continue.
- 1:32:58Well today I'll be talking about some creepy things that happen
- 1:33:05out into in the world, okay? Um over the past couple years
- 1:33:11recent yeah about like five years ago.
- 1:33:15Okay. That's extra creepy because it's
- 1:33:18like now, yeah, just warning. This is probably not going to be
- 1:33:24very paranormally. Okay.
- 1:33:27Episode. But you know, it's gonna be
- 1:33:29creepy, know, five years ago, seems like song.
- 1:33:35Now, like honest covid made last year seemed like a lifetime.
- 1:33:41This is true last year was long as your yeah.
- 1:33:47Like 2016. My beautiful daughter was born,
- 1:33:52my life was shitty, but it's not because of my no.
- 1:33:57Not because of my daughter being born.
- 1:34:00It was just I was just in this shitty shitty yinz energy.
- 1:34:11Oh, one major thing. Besides my daughter being born
- 1:34:15that comes to mind whenever I think of 2016 Is those creepy
- 1:34:24creepy clown? Sightings oh yeah, I remember
- 1:34:27that. That was that really that long
- 1:34:29ago? Yeah. 7:16 bra.
- 1:34:31Some of those were like legit. I've seen like people CCTV,
- 1:34:35footage of, like, folks and clown costume showing up with
- 1:34:38knives at people's houses. It's the other reasons why I'm
- 1:34:43happy. I will then, and there is no
- 1:34:47little peep hole on my door. Yeah, we just slide that lock
- 1:34:51Walk and never look hmm. No I myself have not run into
- 1:34:58any of these fine people standing on you know the side of
- 1:35:01the road or sending in parking lots but other people have.
- 1:35:07I remember somebody in a clown costume getting stabbed and I
- 1:35:10think the UK Wow, I did not see because the person was scared.
- 1:35:16I believe it. Like, and it was like the first
- 1:35:18of the clown had a knife to. Yeah.
- 1:35:20It was just the other person also, like they were, yeah, they
- 1:35:24were more prepared to use her life and protect your life
- 1:35:27because your creepy ass clown in the costume.
- 1:35:33Fear. That's it's an irrational fear
- 1:35:35for some people. So when people are presented
- 1:35:39with those, they go into like immediate fight or flight
- 1:35:43response, right? I've seen people scream
- 1:35:48butterflies. That's what I that's another one
- 1:35:50of those and falls under there too.
- 1:35:51Yes. Um fear of clowns coulrophobia
- 1:35:56well see you knew the name? Yes.
- 1:35:58Yeah. And so it's pretty common.
- 1:36:02It's, yeah, it's really common. Yeah.
- 1:36:05It's, you know, it's funny about the butterfly thing.
- 1:36:07I just remember being in high school and I was, you know, you
- 1:36:10stay home and watch Maury and they had those episodes, you
- 1:36:14know, phobia episodes and was person was like afraid of
- 1:36:18balloons, I believe and they just robbed Luna and he started
- 1:36:21screaming. I was just like, wow, that's a I
- 1:36:24know people have told me that part of the balloon.
- 1:36:26Fear is the not knowing when it'll pop, mmm.
- 1:36:31And the Butterfly thing is like, Fact that it still bugs and bugs
- 1:36:34move in a way that is technically kind of creepy.
- 1:36:36I mean, yeah. But I'd like I get the balloon
- 1:36:41thing because I people cry because of butterflies.
- 1:36:44Side note, I just learned recently that butterflies will
- 1:36:46eat almost anything that's dead. Yeah, it's a, it's really so
- 1:36:53they are beautiful monsters. That will definitely devour your
- 1:36:58body. It just take a really long time.
- 1:37:02Yes. Um but yeah enough of the
- 1:37:05Clowning Around let's get let's get to the meat of this.
- 1:37:11All right? I know.
- 1:37:14Now 2016 was not the first appearance of creepy clowns,
- 1:37:20okay, hanging around. I'm just going to go down a
- 1:37:23dates and tell you these instances, 2013.
- 1:37:27Okay, there were several Sightings over creepy.
- 1:37:30Clown in Northampton England. Oh no.
- 1:37:36This clown. Look like, I guess Pennywise his
- 1:37:39brother. Okay.
- 1:37:41And it was created by three filmmakers, Alex.
- 1:37:45That isn't a pea or D, I can never remember this year.
- 1:37:50I know I can't ever remember what I write.
- 1:37:53Alex, pal, Elliot Simpson and it Luke This was like for a movie
- 1:38:01Blonsky. Yes.
- 1:38:02Okay. So they were pretty much trying
- 1:38:05to get hits to her so they made a Facebook page so that happens
- 1:38:08a lot in California. Mmm.
- 1:38:10They do stuff like a random haunted house in the middle of
- 1:38:14like Town. Yeah, they just build for like a
- 1:38:16day and then people walk through and it's like come look at our
- 1:38:19new movie that comes out next month, so no and house.
- 1:38:21Yeah. Oh God, see, 2014 had some
- 1:38:29creepy clown. Counts as well, a YouTuber, his
- 1:38:33YouTube handles DM Pranks. Okay.
- 1:38:36You dressed up as a clown to creep.
- 1:38:39Pastor buyers out and and Cal I guess that's an anti mr.
- 1:38:46B's. Yeah, that's Ruby's.
- 1:38:47Gives money makes people happy. This guy dresses up like a crown
- 1:38:50and frightens people in California.
- 1:38:52And same year, there was a clown.
- 1:38:55That was Nick. There's a creepy clown of course
- 1:38:57it was. Nicknamed the Waco clown?
- 1:38:59Down since that's where it appeared the most.
- 1:39:03That one sounds familiar to me. Hmm. 2015.
- 1:39:09Okay, had a brief spotting OB creepy Crown.
- 1:39:14So this happened in Chicago. This I like this story.
- 1:39:20It's fucking creepy is so weird. Okay.
- 1:39:23So two people were out late at night.
- 1:39:26When you see this clown like climbing the fence of a
- 1:39:28cemetery. Yeah.
- 1:39:30Hope okay. Oh clown outfit makeup and
- 1:39:32everything? Do not like that now.
- 1:39:35Yeah. That's spooky enough.
- 1:39:38See, but what happened to actually just as bad?
- 1:39:41So the clown gets over the fence.
- 1:39:43He's in the cemetery. Now these people, they are
- 1:39:47recording him, which is climbing the fans and just getting in
- 1:39:49there and he turned around. If he just slowly waves at them,
- 1:39:57that's probably a good video and then he runs off into the wooded
- 1:40:01area of the cemetery. Okay.
- 1:40:04Never to be seen again. All righty.
- 1:40:07So you know buddy. Nobody knew who this clown was
- 1:40:10at all? Oh yeah, that was like the one
- 1:40:14of my favorite ones out of here. All right.
- 1:40:17So no 2016. It all started.
- 1:40:25In Green Bay Wisconsin, Sophia did just my mic so it all
- 1:40:32started in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Hmm, 1 clown one parking lot by
- 1:40:37himself at night, okay? If he just loves a clown went
- 1:40:43viral, there was even a Facebook page for this thing.
- 1:40:47Um, oh dear, it was the name of the clown was called gags.
- 1:40:54Now the news networks were covering it, so I'm going to go
- 1:40:58out on a limb and say that, you know, they were making, they
- 1:41:01were joking about it and stuff like that ball but they didn't
- 1:41:04know what was going to happen afterwards.
- 1:41:08So shut up. So gags was actually made up to
- 1:41:14promote a film titled. You guessed it gags.
- 1:41:20It's on Amazon. Amazon Prime, I looked it up
- 1:41:25when I was writing my notes on say, this actually does not seem
- 1:41:28like a bad story, other premises basically.
- 1:41:30Like there's this clown that shows up in Green Bay Wisconsin
- 1:41:35and people were just thinking oh well this is just a stupid
- 1:41:37clown, you know. Creepy is the but really, it's a
- 1:41:40killer creepy clown. But yeah.
- 1:41:43Um, so this movie came out in 2018, like I said, I haven't
- 1:41:48watched it yet. So this was two years before the
- 1:41:51movie came out, they were trying to promote it.
- 1:41:54Okay. See that's the failure here.
- 1:41:58Like, you got to like drop that like a couple weeks unless
- 1:42:03you're like, Jordan Peele, who can just be like listen is going
- 1:42:05to be a movie that comes out in a year and it's just it called.
- 1:42:08Nope. Like everyone's I'm high.
- 1:42:11I don't want this so bad. Listen I was so upset when I
- 1:42:14realized that it said 2022 and not 2021.
- 1:42:18I thought that movie was about to come out in like three days.
- 1:42:21I was so excited but like if you're just a no-name Movie
- 1:42:25Creator you can't drop the hint about the movie.
- 1:42:29Two years before it comes out. I'm pretty sure.
- 1:42:32Everybody forgot about that. It's about exactly what's in
- 1:42:36people's memories are very Very, very short on the internet
- 1:42:40goodness. Now, if you thought that was the
- 1:42:45end of it, you're looking more foolish than a clown after.
- 1:42:50I'm sorry, you're really trying to make these these clown gags
- 1:42:53work here. I'm sorry.
- 1:42:54I'm trying. Hmm.
- 1:42:57So, after Wisconsin, sightings and the movie promo more and
- 1:43:02more calm, sightings started to pop up from some.
- 1:43:05Never knew about gags. Yeah, I just knew it.
- 1:43:07Got weird. Yeah.
- 1:43:11Mainly South Carolina to Canada, she the UK and even Australia,
- 1:43:16oh, we're a lot of evil creatures live.
- 1:43:19So right there, he clown, coconut crabs that are toxic, so
- 1:43:25they can be eaten because they eat everything in existence and
- 1:43:28have giant pincers. Yeah.
- 1:43:29They don't, you know, they have they haven't damn spiders, that
- 1:43:33attack Birds. They have birds that attack
- 1:43:35people. We don't really need any clowns
- 1:43:38Australia. Real life is scary.
- 1:43:42So at this point you know clowns are all over the place.
- 1:43:46Everybody's spotting clowns and stuff, right?
- 1:43:49They got so bad WCA WCA the world Clown Association took
- 1:43:58notice. I didn't know there was a
- 1:43:59world-class Association. You were like WC.
- 1:44:01I was like, yeah, I know it was funnier without and you know,
- 1:44:07they said I'm against it like these clowns and I'm like, yo
- 1:44:10and Reason why I did this is because these creepy clowns on
- 1:44:14the side of the street, or seeing in parking, lots, or
- 1:44:16stalking people. Oh, yeah, I may have seen videos
- 1:44:20where people were like, in the woods, just hiking.
- 1:44:22Yeah. And then on the path in front of
- 1:44:24them, there's just a clown standing there.
- 1:44:26The thing is that was a real person.
- 1:44:28Yeah. Just real life trolling people
- 1:44:32and like these clowns ruining it for real clowns who work at
- 1:44:38circuses or amusing. Parks are carnivals, you know?
- 1:44:42Or they work at usually children's parties here honest,
- 1:44:45I just don't find clowns all that interesting.
- 1:44:48Except for the balloon animal thing, make me something cool
- 1:44:51with a balloon animal. I'm here forever.
- 1:44:53But I think it's maybe I'm because I'm an old person.
- 1:44:57Like, I'm just like, But like, you know, y'all should be able
- 1:45:01to make a living. So yeah.
- 1:45:04So yeah, 2016 was like one of the worst times to be like a
- 1:45:07professional clown, because o, because of all the freaking
- 1:45:11clown, sightings is this is terrible.
- 1:45:13It was terrible. They Nintendo by like after
- 1:45:16Halloween. Yeah, it did.
- 1:45:18It just dropped my, I'll get into that.
- 1:45:20But it is really just dropped off, right at the Halloween.
- 1:45:22And nobody knew what the fuck was going on.
- 1:45:28So weird. So even sir, Ronald McDonald had
- 1:45:33to step away from the Limelight for a little bit.
- 1:45:35Wait, no, this is true. McDonald's change the mask.
- 1:45:39No, no he just, you know, he just wasn't out in public I'll
- 1:45:43like that anymore. You know, they mean he's just
- 1:45:45worried you know because the clown is he out in public in
- 1:45:48general I mean he's a is there are other locations where you
- 1:45:51can like meet Ronald McDonald's. I don't think you can meet
- 1:45:54Ronald McDonald and I'm pretty sure like the dress was my
- 1:45:56favorite anyway. Then we Don was Playhouse
- 1:45:59things. They have.
- 1:46:01I think they had McDonald. They had a little statue statue
- 1:46:04of Ronald McDonald. I would think so.
- 1:46:07I was think they, that's what they did.
- 1:46:09I just know that he had likes, that least, you know, the back
- 1:46:12to him, they put him on a back burner, for a little bit.
- 1:46:16Clown costumes were banned and pulled from stores like no
- 1:46:20Spirit. Halloween could carry these?
- 1:46:22It all ha. So people have to make their own
- 1:46:24costumes if they wanted to be assholes.
- 1:46:26Oh my God. And people like who work for
- 1:46:33like theme parks, I'm used to Parks.
- 1:46:36You know, they were, you know, makeup and stuff like, you know,
- 1:46:39clowns. So I know like Halloween Horror
- 1:46:41Nights. They have like the scary clown.
- 1:46:43Yeah, the big giant teeth and stuff.
- 1:46:45Exactly. And these people were warned,
- 1:46:47like, you've got to, you got to make sure that stuff is off your
- 1:46:49face before you leave work because you can't, like, just go
- 1:46:53home and go. Oh, I'll wash it off.
- 1:46:54Ya know you gotta wash up before you clock out and all that stuff
- 1:46:57because freely The building because people were out there
- 1:47:01freaking out. Okay, what else?
- 1:47:07Oh, so apparently there's supposed to be some type of
- 1:47:11clown, Purge that happened to your 2016 like clowns are
- 1:47:16supposed to start attacking people.
- 1:47:17Oh right. Yeah, I do remember that.
- 1:47:19Um, yeah. On Halloween Eve day before
- 1:47:24Halloween night before. Halloween.
- 1:47:26Whatever. Yeah.
- 1:47:27All Hallows Eve. So Of course there wasn't like a
- 1:47:31freaking long clown, Purge on Halloween Eve but I was just
- 1:47:37about to ask to somebody die. No but on Halloween night there
- 1:47:44was an attack. Okay.
- 1:47:46Hmm. October 31st 2016, Jeff Brown
- 1:47:51and his brother Tommy were out driving in their pickup truck
- 1:47:56with their wives. Another adult woman.
- 1:47:59Women and in total, five kids. Oh no, and this is this happened
- 1:48:06Orange County East? Orange County.
- 1:48:08Florida. Okay.
- 1:48:10Change my whole mind there, you said, Orange County.
- 1:48:13I thought California. So I'm guessing after a
- 1:48:19successful night of trick-or-treating.
- 1:48:21They're driving around, so they're driving home when they
- 1:48:25spot about and say 20 people ahead I'm trying, you know, at
- 1:48:30the crosswalk where they all clowns trying to push the
- 1:48:35crosswalk button and um, you know, Jeff the hmm.
- 1:48:42Well his Jeff's thought was that you know they were trying to
- 1:48:46after the fact he thought they were trying to.
- 1:48:49So you know the traffic, you know, The Pedestrian crosswalks,
- 1:48:52you had a button you know, turn the light green or whatever.
- 1:48:57Yeah. So his thought was was that they
- 1:49:00were trying to push this button so they can make the traffic
- 1:49:03like turn red for income coming cars.
- 1:49:08So they could scare people attacked Them.
- 1:49:12Not just scare people attack them.
- 1:49:15So these people, these 20 people or about 20 people, they were
- 1:49:19wearing clown masks and they were in purge masks as well.
- 1:49:34Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's pink but
- 1:49:38Jeff drill, right? He they didn't do it in time for
- 1:49:44like the light turned red. So he just drove past them as he
- 1:49:49drove past them. One of these, 20 people, throw
- 1:49:53something at his truck. He, of course, you know, pulls
- 1:49:57over to check out the damage to see if anybody was injured in
- 1:50:01because he had the In his women in the back and his brother was
- 1:50:06a front with him so he gets out to check damage.
- 1:50:12Nothing is wrong, Airways fine but These 20 people freaking
- 1:50:18swarm them, of course. He's from they swarm.
- 1:50:22I don't know. I don't know.
- 1:50:25They were these form him and his brother just wipes hops into the
- 1:50:30driver's seat and tells her you're like go get help.
- 1:50:34So you know, get the kids to safety.
- 1:50:36Yeah. So you know, we're not here with
- 1:50:37these people. So they drive off, please these
- 1:50:43two guys against these 20 people, and they had hockey
- 1:50:48sticks. He said, they had bats, they had
- 1:50:51clubs, they had knives worried for Jeff.
- 1:50:55Hmm. So Tommy gets knocked out or
- 1:50:59knocked down by a hockey stick. I think I read in one of these
- 1:51:04reports, he actually got stabbed to like, in the head with the
- 1:51:07knife. Yes, thing.
- 1:51:11And if you want to kill somebody, this was a good time
- 1:51:13to do it. Probably in a clown costume.
- 1:51:15Yeah, unfortunately, so yeah, Tommy gets you gets knocked down
- 1:51:20and then he gets swarmed by more people.
- 1:51:23Jeff, finally gets. He's able to break away and try
- 1:51:27to get help, you know, try to go and get help.
- 1:51:29So, he's like, Tommy is this there by himself?
- 1:51:31Then, but I'm Jeff gets back, though, this whole mob has just
- 1:51:38disappeared, Scary scary. Yeah.
- 1:51:43So So the people who caused this attack, this purge style attack
- 1:51:52were thought to be teenagers because Jeff said he recognized
- 1:51:57like a couple of them as teenagers in the neighborhood.
- 1:52:02But I couldn't find any like arrest for engine hate that you
- 1:52:08find this like really interesting news story and then
- 1:52:11you can't find a follow-up. Like there was no nothing else
- 1:52:14after this. I could not find any house after
- 1:52:16this. So I'm going to assume that
- 1:52:19nobody was arrested in this attack.
- 1:52:22Hmm. But yeah.
- 1:52:26Oh yeah, apparently, this is funny.
- 1:52:29Creepy clowns were supposed to make a comeback last year. 2020,
- 1:52:35I guess like won't take talked to her a couple videos I saw
- 1:52:39creepy but you know, I guess even creepy clowns are afraid of
- 1:52:43covid, so they did not come back.
- 1:52:48But yeah, that's what I got for creepy clowns I got something
- 1:52:52else though. Okay, yeah, I'm not done yet, I
- 1:52:55guess I got some more. Okay, so, anyway, clown suck,
- 1:53:01let's talk about something interesting.
- 1:53:02He okay, let's talk about TV. Okay.
- 1:53:07That's right. TV's aren't the rack your brain?
- 1:53:12Yeah. They aren't a pinnacle of
- 1:53:14entertainment. I mean, we have smartphones and
- 1:53:17Tablets to, you know, Trail entertain us with and computers,
- 1:53:23of course to. And, you know, every game is
- 1:53:26what you need to be for that. Anyway, but so anyway.
- 1:53:27Anyway, but something to watch something about watching like
- 1:53:31cable TV is just nostalgic and speaking of TV, okay, and old
- 1:53:39have you heard of TV? Head of what TV head?
- 1:53:47No or TV, man. Okay, well if anybody else has
- 1:53:54not talking about Fooly Cooly TV boy Conte.
- 1:54:00But I'm talking about And almost Santa Claus type person who
- 1:54:05wears an old television set on his head.
- 1:54:10Is there a video of this? Yes, a CCTV video.
- 1:54:13I didn't know you had a name. Yeah I thought it was just
- 1:54:16somebody was like some weird guy was outside of my house last
- 1:54:18night with a TV honesty. I didn't realize that this was a
- 1:54:21name now. Yeah he has a personality.
- 1:54:24Well it was just I guess that was the name TV head TV man.
- 1:54:28Whatever they were trying to claim him.
- 1:54:31Okay. Me as an old TV, TV set on his
- 1:54:35head and he drops off owed television sets.
- 1:54:38Yeah. To random people at night.
- 1:54:40Where did this happen? No one knows why.
- 1:54:43Now, they'll take care. Oh, this happened in Henrico
- 1:54:49County Virginia. Okay.
- 1:54:51So yeah, this didn't happen over world is just it is one area.
- 1:54:56Well, yeah, because that means that everybody would have had to
- 1:54:58commit to a very strange I don't know like outfit that's just
- 1:55:05weird. We'll get into that later.
- 1:55:08Like it's probably not that easy to even find those old TVs
- 1:55:13anymore. Well well the tube TVs, right?
- 1:55:16Yeah. You don't have to have an actual
- 1:55:19tube TV to make this head. How many people made this for
- 1:55:23the following Halloween? Okay, okay, I need your answer,
- 1:55:29just let me know. Apparently a lot of people So,
- 1:55:36anyway, the weekend of August 2000, 1950 households in, like I
- 1:55:42said, Henrico County, Virginia, wake up to fine.
- 1:55:45Oh, TV sets, just sitting on their porches and TVs were
- 1:55:48placed at a certain way. They were facing into, you know,
- 1:55:53so that the people who open the door would see like their selves
- 1:55:56in the TV screen, that's funny. This definitely reminds me of
- 1:56:01that Sci-Fi show. We watched each one, the one
- 1:56:06with the kids obsessed with that TV show.
- 1:56:08Oh Oh, you mean chemical? Yeah.
- 1:56:11Okay, yeah. So a few home security cameras,
- 1:56:17caught glimpses of this person or these people.
- 1:56:19This is a group thing was a Duo as a team.
- 1:56:23I think it was, it was a team and it was to, at least two,
- 1:56:26people always thought it was the same guy.
- 1:56:28No, no, no. This one guy he were he was
- 1:56:30taller. He had like a white jumpsuit on.
- 1:56:33Okay? All the guy had like a blue
- 1:56:34jumpsuit on a little shorter? yeah, you know, a person or
- 1:56:42people wearing televisions sets on their head, delivering TVs,
- 1:56:49the gift of television, Now the old televisions, there's what?
- 1:56:55Yeah there there's I know, right?
- 1:56:57I would have soda still taking it, okay?
- 1:56:59Right is going to accept this gift.
- 1:57:01I have an old TV set not home, but it's in the garage but yeah,
- 1:57:05it's a big old. It has like At the at when this
- 1:57:10one was made, I guess didn't have like a cooling the way they
- 1:57:15cool TVs. Was it like they put some mint
- 1:57:18in the bottom of it but I'm not about that so that you know it
- 1:57:22won't overheat and so this TV is extremely heavy that I have it.
- 1:57:27Yeah sure. Sounds like like I can pick it
- 1:57:30up a little bit but already bud like my muscles like I can't
- 1:57:38pick it up so high. I'm picking up a little bit and
- 1:57:40then put it on something but that's about it.
- 1:57:42My mom. Yeah.
- 1:57:45So one of the the CTR the doorbell camera videos that I
- 1:57:51loved the ring light, right? Yeah the Rings.
- 1:57:53Yeah. Was one of the TV guys heat
- 1:57:57sets. You know he sets the TV down,
- 1:58:00he's carrying on reports. He said, sit down you know you
- 1:58:02just hits and makes it further is facing properly nice and
- 1:58:05gingerly he does it very, very nice.
- 1:58:10And then, you know, he starts walking down the stairs and he
- 1:58:13turns around looks right at the camera and he just you know, he
- 1:58:16waves at the camera and just you know, walks off.
- 1:58:21Hmm. Less creepy.
- 1:58:25Like this is like a complete contrast to freaking clowns
- 1:58:31true. Because I'm less bothered by
- 1:58:33this because this guy is just like out having fun.
- 1:58:35Yeah, exactly. Like, I mean, I guess the clouds
- 1:58:38were out having fun too. Hey, but they were having fun in
- 1:58:42the malicious kind of way. Yeah.
- 1:58:44This was like they attack people.
- 1:58:47Yeah, they were out to scare. Who will this guy is not out to
- 1:58:49scary? We just out to deliver
- 1:58:51television sets. For some reason.
- 1:58:57So yeah, either way the cops were called soon and they
- 1:59:02started collecting TVs up you know the go recycle them.
- 1:59:07So no charges were pursued. Since no real crime was
- 1:59:11committed right? Except for like I guess the cop
- 1:59:14said it would be considered like illegal dumping.
- 1:59:18Yeah. Because at this time like you
- 1:59:21know how we're supposed to recycle those old TV sets,
- 1:59:24instead of just drawing them away.
- 1:59:25Now, mhm. So yeah that's the thing.
- 1:59:29So did you know That no, you didn't know.
- 1:59:34So I'm going to let you know. There are a lot of cosplayers
- 1:59:38who have. So this is not like a cause not
- 1:59:41only a cosplay. This is like a whole somebody's
- 1:59:45made a webtoon about this by now it's a whole what's the word for
- 1:59:48like a community of it's just a whole community of people and
- 1:59:51they're called object heads. Oh.
- 1:59:54So I guess it started way. Before this happened.
- 1:59:59These objects heads were just TV friends.
- 2:00:02Yeah. So Objects, I guess this
- 2:00:03happening. He doesn't like yeah, we both
- 2:00:05live in the same city. Let's get weird.
- 2:00:08Yo probably I guess like to start this hardened like 2011 or
- 2:00:15object, heads were like a big and popular.
- 2:00:18Like like, I don't know, just have like a microphone for you.
- 2:00:22I like siren head ich. Habe not creepy.
- 2:00:28But, yeah, like I said, yeah, Fooly Cooly, have you watched
- 2:00:33that? And I met.
- 2:00:34Okay. Anyways, watchfully Cooley, it's
- 2:00:37awesome. I'm just saying, is there's a
- 2:00:40robot, honor, his name's Conte. He has a freaking monitor as
- 2:00:43ahead. Yeah.
- 2:00:44And And like I said, a lot of cosplayers, they'd use the TV
- 2:00:52had nothing and like, I was what I think I was watching like
- 2:00:56either YouTube or freaking Tick-Tock and I just, I was
- 2:00:59like, what the heck is that? What they're friggin TV heads?
- 2:01:02Like I remembered this story but I was like, this has I have
- 2:01:05anything to do with that. Does it not really?
- 2:01:08I think it's just like a Whole, it's a whole separate world.
- 2:01:13Yes, two people mother Branch off.
- 2:01:15Giveaway TVs. And honestly, I kind of want one
- 2:01:19just because just shake her head and he's awesome looking.
- 2:01:24Anyway, that is what I have for. My weirdness is weak.
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