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Speaker 1:
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Speaker 2:
[00:31] K-Pop Demon Hunters, Saja Boys Breakfast Meal and Huntrix Meal have just dropped at McDonald's. They're calling this a battle for the fans. What do you say to that, Rumi?

Speaker 1:
[00:39] It's not a battle. So glad the Saja Boys could take breakfast and give our meal the rest of the day.

Speaker 3:
[00:45] It is an honor to share.

Speaker 4:
[00:46] No, it's our honor.

Speaker 5:
[00:48] It is our larger honor.

Speaker 4:
[00:50] No, really, stop.

Speaker 2:
[00:52] You can really feel the respect in this battle.

Speaker 3:
[00:55] Pick a meal to pick a side. Ba-da-ba-ba-ba.

Speaker 6:
[00:59] Participate in McDonald's while supplies last.

Speaker 7:
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Speaker 1:
[01:21] Hey weirdos, I'm Alaina. I'm Ash. And this is Morbid. It's Morbid, and we got big news for you, baby. We do. We got new merch. Yay. And we actually like it. We love this merch. I'm so excited. We were so part of this merch. We were part of it, we were included. They took all of our feedback. It was crazy. Yeah. It was awesome. We didn't have a lot of experiences like that. Yeah, but no specifics, just no, you know, in general. We just had, we really collabed. There's clothes, obviously, like there's shirts, there's sweatshirts. So comfy. Phone cases that are really high quality, might I say. I have one on my phone currently. Yeah, I love that one. There's pillows. I love the pillows so much and everything, like all the sweatshirts and the t-shirts. One of the things that we told them, we said, we need these to be very soft, please. Yes, I want soft. And they're so soft. They are. So you can go ahead and buy that on the SiriusXM Store. It's literally siriusxmstore.com, super simple. And if you are an international listener, lucky you, lucky you. One, because we envy you, but two, because you can get our merch too. You just have to get it at a different store. It's podswag.com, podswag.com. And it has all the same stuff. Yeah. So yeah, we got new merch. It's very exciting. And there'll be even more to come. Yeah, there's more to come. We're working on a couple of things. Little, uh, little drip drop, drip drop, raindrop, drop top. Morbid just released merch in their shop shop.

Speaker 3:
[03:15] I like that a lot.

Speaker 1:
[03:16] Thanks.

Speaker 3:
[03:19] Mikie on the ones and twos.

Speaker 1:
[03:21] Obsessed. And then we're obviously still going to be at Radio City on June 27th. They haven't gotten rid of us. So they haven't decided that they wanted to put an actual professional up there. They're still allowing us to come. Crazy. So get tickets to that. Get them on Ticketmaster, please. Because that's the only place that we said, yes, that pricing sounds good. Yeah. Anywhere else. Like, whoop, don't know. And Debbie's going to teach us a tap. Hell yeah. We actually need to order tap shoes. Yeah. And it's going to be a lot of fun. It's one night only. Get your tickets. Specialized merch. This is it. Specialized merch for that night. It's going to be a lot of fun, too. We have a fun theme that we'll let you guys know about soon. Oh my God. Do it. I ordered a dress from a, I won't say the site, but a sketchy site and I just hoped for the best. Oh no. I got it yesterday and it has, you know, like the like, like we both had them on our wedding dress, those like really pretty buttons. Yeah. It has those on the back and also the front. They weren't supposed to be on the front. I said, who is responsible for this and why did you send it to me? The quality control was not there. No, and the buttons are like not in a row. I was like, what the? Damn. Yeah. So that'll be going to savers. You got like the wish version stuff. Yeah, I sure did. I was like, the dress looked great online. Yeah. But I was like, I've never bought from here before. Like, should I try it? And you never will again. I will not. It's a, actually it's a place you got something though. That was great. So it must just be like a hit or miss. Luck of the draw. Yeah. Yeah. Some places be like that. Sure do. So now I have no idea what I'm wearing because the other dress from a completely different website that I ordered, which I also won't name, came with like a chemical fucking stain on it. It literally, it was like tool and there was just like a hole in the tool and it was like weirdly frayed on the edges. I was like, what? So I got to find a reputable store. Yeah, you do. Anybody want to dress us?

Speaker 5:
[05:18] Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 1:
[05:19] Gucci, I'm looking at you. You're listening, right? Listen, I have a couple of sales associate friends.

Speaker 5:
[05:24] There you go.

Speaker 1:
[05:25] Party, let's go. All right. Do you have anything you want to talk about? You should preorder The Butcher Legacy. It's coming up soon. That's still coming out as well. And that's like the countdown is on. Yeah, the countdown is on. It's pretty much the final countdown. It'll be out August 11th. You can preorder on butcherlegacy.com. You can get it anywhere you would like. Remember, if you preorder, sometimes you get it like a day early and shit. It's a pretty fun little thing to preorder because you get like some little perky perks that way. I saw people last time with The Butcher Game. They're like, I got it a day early. So you might get it before everybody else. It's always fun to get things first. It is. There's like a fancy special edition that you can get. There's I don't know if there's signed copies left, but I'm trying my hardest to make sure I can sign as many as humanly possible. And who knows, maybe she'll be at a place near you. That's the thing. I will be going to some places. I'll let you know when we lock all those down, but I will be signing stuff. And trust me, I want to sign as many as I possibly can, much to the chagrin of anybody that's around me while I have to sign things. Not me. I don't care. I was going to say, because I think my husband's like, Jesus. I just open up the pages for you if I have to when we're out of place. I'm like, here you go. Sign there. Yeah, that's easy. I got you. But yeah, so I'll try to sign as many as humanly possible. Before we get into the show too, we met a couple of you guys in Salem and you were so nice. Shout out to Kathy and her super cool husband. They bought us coffee. They were amazing. Which was so nice and they were having a little staycation in Salem. I hope you guys had the best time. I loved them. Then we met this squad of sisters. Oh my God. Juliana and all your sisters. Yes. Katrina. Karina. Karina. Yes. Sorry, I'm bad with names. The baby. The baby who we're talking about. I will name the baby, but that might have been one of the cutest babies I've ever seen in my fucking life. And the cutest dog. Oh my God. Was the dog Kato? Yes. I loved that dog. Oh, you were all great. They were just on a little sister trip. I thought that was so cute. Yes. Then there was a guy on a trolley. He was taking a tour of Salem and he leaned out the window and said, Ash and Alaina. So shout out to the guy on the trolley. So shout out to that guy because we didn't get to actually meet him, we said, yeah. We said, hey, but the bus kept moving. All right. So I think that's everything. Yeah. All right. Hell yeah. I'm going to be talking to you about a killer dentist today. Let's go. I don't think that's a sentence I've ever uttered before. No, definitely not. This is the story of Glen Engleman, who I'd never heard of. Glenen. But a Glenen, I know. I like that name. I'm just calling him Glen for short. Yeah, as you should. You know what I mean? Yeah. Dave found this one and he said, do you want to do a story about a killer dentist? And we said, yes. Hell yeah, Dave. All right, so it starts on the night of December 17th, 1958. So way back. Oh, in the 50s. In the 50s, honey, but it rolls through time. Oh, it pops off. Yeah. So 27-year-old James Bullock just left home. He was headed for a night class that he had at St. Louis University. I would love to do the whole St. Louis, St. Louis joke the whole way through, but I have to say it a lot of times. And I did Google it and apparently locals to St. Louis say it like that. They don't like when you say St. Louis. Okay. So that's what I'm doing. If you happen to be a local in St. Louis that does like when people say St. Louis, I'm sorry, but you're not the majority and I can only strive to make so many people happy. Here's the thing. Regional dialect is a thing. Yeah. Reminder. And then two, we literally cannot please everybody with certain pronunciations of certain places. We try so hard. No matter what we say, there is a subsection of people that get angry about the pronunciation. So we just got to pick one and go with it. We looked on several websites and it said, say St. Louis if you're talking to St. Louis people. And you know what? There's bigger problems in the world, bigger than St. Louis or St. Louis. It's true. Being pronounced one way or the other. It's true. So just reminder. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you for having my back on that. There's bigger problems. So James was headed to his night class at St. Louis University, but the next time anybody saw him, he was being chased through the city by an unidentified gunman. What the fuck? That escalated so quickly.

Speaker 4:
[09:36] Wildly.

Speaker 1:
[09:37] Exponentially.

Speaker 4:
[09:38] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[09:38] It's about to escalate even more because a little past 7:30 PM, Polly Tulio was driving on Fine Arts Drive near the City Art Museum. When he came upon a very unexpected sight in the middle of the road, illuminated by his headlights, he said he saw a quote, stockily built man wearing a brown hat and a dark top coat standing over another man on the ground pointing a gun at him. Holy shit. When the lights of the car crossed over the stocky man, he fled down a side street and just disappeared into the night. And this is 730 at night? Yes, a little past 730. So just as Tulio got out of the car, another passerby, Dan Holmes, stopped, and both of them ran to see if they could help the man lying in the middle of the street. And when it was clear that he was badly injured, Dan ran to the art museum to find a guard to call the police. He was still breathing when he was discovered in the streets by the two drivers, but James Bullock couldn't speak, and he died just as he was being loaded into the ambulance. He was young. Very young. Now, as the closest officers to the scene when the call came in, detectives John Vining and Phil Dwyer were dispatched to the art museum, and they were stunned by the condition of this victim. By the time they arrived, James was a bloody mess. He had two bullet holes in his head and one in his shoulder. And in addition to the two small caliber bullet wounds in his head, there were also six tiny wounds in his chest, which suggested that he'd been shot by a shotgun. Holy shit. And it also looked like somebody had struck him with their car and run over both of his legs. Oh my god. Like, talk about overkill. This poor man. A quick search of his body produced his wallet, which still had a $20 bill inside, and he was wearing his gold wedding ring. So the detectives were like, okay, this doesn't really seem like a robbery, but what the fuck is this? Now, just behind the art museum, they were able to locate his green Plymouth, and the driver's side door was still open, and the car was actually still running. Inside, they did find blood evidence, so that suggested that he had been shot one time inside the car, and then was able to, he got out on foot and ran in the direction of where he was found on the street. And there was literally a blood trail in the snow from the car to the road. Holy shit. Yeah. Other than the blood in the car and his body on the street, though, there really didn't seem to be any additional evidence. And remember, this is the 50s, so there's not a whole bunch that they're doing at that crime scene. But the most puzzling thing to the Detectives were the three distinctly different injuries that he had suffered. Whoever shot him in the head and shoulder was obviously or at least most likely the same person who shot him in the chest. But they weren't sure yet if it was the same person that had run over his legs or if that happened afterwards. And maybe it was an accident or something like that. So they hoped that his family could provide some insight into what had happened here. And they started with his wife of only six months. Ruth. I know. Not wanting to shock her or imply anything super nefarious, they just said that James had been killed in an accident and they left out a lot of details. According to Ruth, he occasionally drove through Forest Park on his way to the university. So that's why he was in that area that night. But unfortunately, other than that, there wasn't a lot that she could tell. Yeah. So rather than subject her to the horrible state that her husband's body was in, the identification was done by James's aunt, Geraldine, who had been taking care of him since he was young because both of his parents had died. Oh. This is such a tragic situation. And it's like, which is worse? I know, I know. My goodness. Now the next morning, when the news about the murder hit the papers, a man named Lester Rodwell came forward and he told police that he was the one who had run over James's legs accidentally. According to him, he said he was on his way home from classes at the university. And as he drove around the corner, he saw a man standing in the road waving his arms. But by the time he processed what was happening, it was too late to hit the brakes. And even though he tried to swerve to avoid hitting James, he still fell. And that was when Rodwell ran over his legs. Oh, man. Yeah. It was clear that obviously he should have reported this when it happened. Yeah. But he should always report that. Yeah. But it was an accident and he was ruled out as a suspect. Okay. Now, Lewis Gola, who had been driving a few yards behind Rodwell that evening, confirmed the story too. He said he also saw that man waving his hands and what he thought was an attempt to flag somebody down. He said he also caught a glimpse of a second man who either appeared to be with Bullock or chasing him. He wasn't quite sure, which I was like, I feel like that's a pretty clear distinction. Yeah. But I don't know. He said the man was of average height. He was wearing an old trench coat and a hat, and it was pretty difficult to describe his appearance other than that. As he passed the two men though, Gola said that it appeared the second man was saying something to James, but he couldn't make out the words. He did notice that the man had what looked like blood on his face, and in his hand, he was either holding a gun or a club, most likely a gun, given what we know. Yeah. Now, aside from a few witnesses who had seen the second man, there was also a report of a strange incident that occurred shortly before James was killed. Jerry Wilmering, who was parked by the school with his girlfriend just about two hours before the shooting, he told police that a man ran up to their car out of the darkness, out of just like no where, and tried to get into the vehicle, shouting, I'm not the one, I'm not the one. Yeah, I'm not the one either. You're not getting in this car. That's basically what Jerry told the man. He got out of the car and they kind of just like fought briefly before the man ended up running away and Jerry and his girlfriend just drove home like, what the just happened? Because Jerry is also not the one. Jerry is not the one. Yeah. So with not much else to go on, the detectives turned their attention back to Ruth Bullock, hoping that she might be able to fill in any kind of missing information. And according to her, the couple had met about nine months earlier. They dated for a pretty short time, only three months, and then they were married. But she insisted they had no marital problems and they were absolutely happy, she said. She couldn't think of any reason why somebody would have wanted her husband dead. And she couldn't think of anybody who he'd even fought with recently or had any kind of issue with at all. Damn. Now at first she seemed every bit the devastated new wife that you would expect in this situation. But the more investigators spoke with her, the more complicated the entire picture of their life together got. Because it turned out that Ruth had previously been married to Dr. Glen Engleman, a dentist that she met while he was still in dental school. They were married in 1953, but there were problems in that relationship from the start. The biggest thing being that I don't know why this is coming up so often in stories lately. Although he was a married adult man, he refused to move out of the home that he shared with his mother. Is this like an epidemic? I think it might be. It's like the male loneliness epidemic, but it's like the male loves his mama too much epidemic.

Speaker 2:
[16:23] What is going on?

Speaker 1:
[16:24] Now, not only would he not move out of the house that he shared with his mom, but he also wouldn't let Ruth move in with them. Okay. Which is weird. So instead, Ruth just like shared an apartment with several other young women who she was in dental school with, and she and her husband would see each other at night and then just go their separate ways. Even your stomach was upset about that. My stomach just was like, no, absolutely not. Your stomach said, a lot. So after about three years, Ruth had had enough of this and they divorced. She insisted that they parted on good terms. Since nothing changed, really. Yeah, honestly. But we weren't living together to begin with. Well, that's the thing. She actually still continued to see him pretty regularly. Oh, he cleaned her teeth still. Sometimes he gave her money and they occasionally slept together. So it was pretty much just like their marriage, but it just wasn't official anymore. Okay. He also even cleaned her new husband's teeth just a few weeks earlier. It's getting really weird. Imagine your new husband, your old husband cleaning your new husband's teeth. Like that's a little bit messy. No. It's kind of giving Reba. You know what I mean? I love that show. Single mom who works too hard. Loves her kids and never stops. So Ruth offered this information up freely to the detectives. She was like, yeah, I still slept with my ex-husband from time to time, and him and my new husband got along, cleaned his teeth. Okay. I don't know if James knew that she was still sleeping with her ex. But yeah. So everything she told them was shocking and pretty scandalous. Even now, that would be shocking and scandalous. But again, mind you, this is the 1950s. And even to Hardin Detectives, they were like, what the fuck is your arrangement? They're like, what's going on? But she took a polygraph exam and she passed it. So they were like, okay. Those are scientific. So yeah, back then they were like, oh shit. They were like, oh, that's it. With the dozens of notifications you get on your phone a day, it's easy to become desensitized to them. But if that latest ping is from your security camera, ignoring it could spell disaster. Picture this, somebody's breaking in, but you're at the movies or you're on a flight. You'll see that footage in a couple hours, but by then, it's obviously too late. The good news is Simply Safe's Active Guard outdoor protection can help prevent break-ins before they even happen. It's a customizable whole home security system backed by 24-7 monitoring agents that you can rely on to act even when and if you can't. I actually was prompted to get a Simply Safe system after a very spooky event. It was like this weird snowstorm. Somebody was banging on my door at 3 AM. I don't know what was going on, but it freaked me out. I got Simply Safe and since then, I have had so much peace of mind knowing that when I am home, my home is protected and when I'm not home, my home is protected. You can have that peace of mind too. Right now, our listeners get 50 percent off their new Simply Safe system at simply safe.com/morbid. That's simply safe.com/morbid. There's no safe like Simply Safe.

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Speaker 1:
[20:53] So under the circumstances, they thought it was worthwhile to track down Glenn Engleman for an interview. I would say so. Yeah, because I mean, he's still intimately involved with Ruth even after their divorce. Maybe he wanted to get rid of her new husband and rekindle their romance. Yeah, so he could continue living at mom's house and date his wife. Maybe he wanted to change that up a little or who knows. Unfortunately, though, when they did catch up with him, he would not talk to them. No. Yeah. At a later quarters- His mom said no. His mommy probably did say no. I actually don't really know anything about his mommy, but other than she was fully disappointed. I know enough. Well, at a later corners in Quest, he said, as a result of advice I have been given by my counsel, I feel I may incriminate myself. Oof. I was like, why? I was like, wow, that's not guilty talk at all. Yeah. That made him look pretty fucking suspicious, but apparently he did have an alibi. Well, shit. Thomas Johnson, a friend of his, told detectives that he visited Engleman at his office around 7:15 PM on the night of the murder. So like, I mean, he was discovered right around that time. James was. Yeah. He said the two had stayed at the office until around 9 PM just chatting. And they also went to a local drug store to get a drink, and they were seen by the pharmacist at the store. And you got to trust Tommy Johnson. Yeah, of course. I do trust Tommy Johnson. But that being the case, it would have been impossible for Engleman to have been involved in this murder. Right. Right. So it seemed that every time detectives thought that they found something that might lead them to the killer, every lead was quickly falling apart. So with no new evidence and no new leads to work from, they went back to James' personal history, hoping maybe there was something there to point to the killer. But once they started digging into his past, it was pretty clear that he wasn't somebody that you would necessarily expect to get murdered. His supervisors at Union Electric Company described him as an industrious and conscientious worker. They said he was moving ahead in his career quickly due to his hard work and drive to succeed. And his friends were just as shocked. According to his friend Ed Lugey, there was something about him that made you want to do your best to help him. Oh, that's heartbreaking. He had such a tragic story. As a kid, he had already gone through a lot. First, he experienced a physical disability that required multiple surgeries when he was young. And then his parents were both killed in a tragic accident when he was a teenager. Yeah. So that along with his personality just endeared him to people. And everybody who knew him best was very, very protective of him. Oh, James. Yeah. So there was absolutely nothing to go on here. So the case was in danger of growing cold and being shelved when in 1959, a St. Louis lawyer contacted police and told them that he might know who killed James Bullock. According to the lawyer, his client, Thomas Murphy, had confessed to him that he and another man, Ivan Deckard, had been hired by Glen Engleman and Ruth Bullock to kill James. Jesus. Now, when detectives looked into Murphy and Deckard's backgrounds, it did turn out that both of them had been in prison for murder and they were only recently paroled when James Bullock was killed. Yikes. Yeah. In an interview with investigators, Murphy said that he'd just been paroled on December 1st, 1958, when an acquaintance asked him whether he would be interested in taking a hit job, fresh out of prison. Dude, you just got out. And he said, yeah. Yeah. And soon he was put in touch with Glen Engleman and his ex-wife, who offered $12,500, which would be about $150,000 today for the murder. And they all worked out the details. So the story definitely, it seemed plausible. And detectives did even manage to verify some of the details that were provided, like having met with Ruth and Engleman in certain locations to discuss the plan. They had also always suspected though, that Engleman was involved in the murder, but he had that alibi that ruled him out as the killer. So this new version of events did make sense. They were like, okay, this is how that could have worked out. This is how he was involved. But there was a problem. Murphy changed his account of things not that long after his first confession. Literally just days later, he said that, sure, I was involved in the conspiracy, but I didn't do the actual killing and I'm not sure who did. Oh, there you go. It's like, pull it back. What? Pull it back down. And then Ivan Deckard, the man who he originally said he did everything with, was just as unreliable and his details changed all the time, too. Now, the other issue was that by the time investigators had caught up with Ivan Deckard, the second man involved, he was already in jail for a robbery where two police officers had been shot. My God. And Ivan's partner in the robbery had also been killed. Holy shit. So he was facing very serious charges for the robbery and the shootings. And it was clear to the detectives that he was hoping to use what he knew about the James Bullock case as a bargaining chip to get a lighter sentence. So it's all super messy now. Yeah. So because of all the inconsistencies in just the straight up mess, they were looked at as unreliable witnesses. And the prosecutor declined to bring the case to a grand jury. So now with their best lead having fallen apart and nothing new to go on, the detectives just had to shift their attention to more pressing matters. Now in the years after James' death, Ruth eventually collected a very large insurance payout from his life insurance. And she kind of just went about her life. When the judge gave his ruling in the insurance case, he said, death officially remains a mystery and whether the mystery will be solved to the satisfaction of the state criminal law is another mystery in and of itself. Well damn. He said, say mystery again. He said mystery. Now Glen Engleman, meanwhile, just continued growing his dental practice in St. Louis. Oh good. He got married a second time to a woman named Edna.

Speaker 4:
[26:21] All right.

Speaker 1:
[26:22] They seemed to live a quiet life, but behind closed doors, everything was very awful. He was having extramarital affairs. He would fly into violent rages at any kind of inconvenience, and he was always directing his anger and his violence at Edna. Things finally came to a head in 1965, and the marriage broke down completely when Engleman literally threw her out of the house, like physically threw her out of the home.

Speaker 4:
[26:46] Was it his mom's house?

Speaker 1:
[26:48] Probably. Who even knows?

Speaker 4:
[26:49] He sounds like such a loser.

Speaker 1:
[26:50] He is a loser. So he physically threw her out of the house and then just tossed all her luggage and everything that belonged to her out at her, as she was just trying to get out of there. Later, Edna would tell her brother that was just the last of many violent altercations that she experienced with Glen, and at one time she said he even tried to kill her with an overdose of barbiturates.

Speaker 4:
[27:10] Holy shit.

Speaker 1:
[27:11] Yeah. Eventually, within a decade or so, the activities of Glen would be of interest to a great many people. But until then, he was just another suspect in a case that sadly a lot of people had forgotten about by then. But then, on the afternoon of September 5th, 1976, a woman named Carmen Hallm and her husband Peter, they were on their way to a car show in Pacific, Missouri, when at some point they stopped paying attention and finally realized that they'd driven past their destination. According to Carmen, rather than just turn around and go back, Peter said that he wanted to stop by a state park to check out some of the local caves. So they parked their car and they started walking to the woods in the direction of the caves. They stopped briefly just to talk at a little pond, take in the scenery, just having a nice little afternoon hike. But then suddenly, there was a loud bang and Peter fell to the ground bleeding out of absolutely nowhere. What? So Carmen screamed and ran back in the direction of the car. And a local family heard her screaming and ran to help. And they flagged down a car and somebody got the police. In her eventual statement to the police, Carmen explained that she and her husband had been out for a walk, stopped briefly, and Peter was suddenly shot. But she didn't see or hear anyone else around them at the time. What? That's so scary. Yeah, like sniper kind of stuff. By the time they made it to the hospital, 26-year-old Peter was dead from a single gunshot wound. Holy shit, that is young. Yeah. Now back at the park, crime scene technicians searched around the woods and found a six-millimeter hunting rifle with a telescopic site buried under a large pile of leaves, just about 50 yards from where Peter had been discovered. They found one spent cartridge on the ground, and it had obviously been discharged from the chamber. And the bullet itself had gone through Peter's body, so they didn't have that to match with the gun, but the caliber matched the wound, so it seemed that that was the rifle used. And the fact that there was a rifle buried where he was killed. Yeah, exactly. So in a press conference with reporters, lead detective George Ice urged journalists not to jump to conclusions about the death. According to Ice, there was a strong possibility that the shooting was accidental. He said, for example, it could have been a hunter who accidentally fired his weapon and then ran once he realized what he had done. I mean, that's valid. Because at first, when I read that, I was like, what the fuck are you talking about? But then with that example, it's like, OK, maybe. But still, he did encourage anybody who had been in the area that day to contact police. Whether they had seen or heard anything, he just wanted to hear from people in the area. Unfortunately, while several people did come forward and they gave statements to the police, none of them had actually seen Peter get shot and nobody had really anything of value. Peter's parents even offered a thousand dollar reward for information leading to the arrest, but the trail still went cold and the case became inactive. Now, if the case had happened in St. Louis, detectives might have noticed that there were some similar aspects to the James Bullock case. Peter and his wife hadn't been married for very long when Peter was murdered, and Peter had recently taken out a life insurance policy with much more coverage than most people his age, and his wife was the sole beneficiary.

Speaker 4:
[30:15] Oh, no.

Speaker 1:
[30:16] Yeah. But most importantly, just like Ruth Bullock, Carmen Holm had a connection to Dr. Glenn Engleman. What are the odds? Not only had she worked for him as a dental assistant in the recent past, but she had also known him for decades, and her brother Nick was still very close friends with him.

Speaker 4:
[30:34] Oh, no.

Speaker 1:
[30:35] Yeah. Now, unfortunately though, Peter Helm's death did not occur in St. Louis, so investigators had no reason to suspect Carmen of her husband's death, or a random dentist who lived 40 miles from the crime scene. Oh, shit. So nobody challenged her when she filed paperwork for a claim on the insurance policy, and just a few months after the death, she received $60,000, which today is about $350,000.

Speaker 4:
[30:58] Holy shit.

Speaker 1:
[30:59] Yeah. So moving forward here, a little past 7.30 on November 3, 1977, a bell telephone operator got a call from a man who didn't give his name, and she could barely understand him. As far as she could tell, the man was hurt and just needed an ambulance. She managed to get the address before the man on the other end just dropped the phone, and the ambulance was dispatched to the house of Arthur and Venita Goosewell. When the ambulance arrived at the remote farmhouse just outside of Edwardsville, it was clear that this was not an ordinary medical emergency. The front of the house was completely dark and the door was locked, so paramedics went around back where they found the door to the kitchen unlocked. Inside, lying face down on the floor, was 55-year-old Venita, and she was dead with three gunshot wounds to her head. What is going on? In the living room adjacent to the kitchen, paramedics found her husband, 61-year-old Arthur, just sitting in his reclining chair. He was bleeding heavily from a gunshot wound to the back of his head, but he was still conscious and seemed to be mumbling something softly. Oh, my God. When the paramedics got close to check his injuries, they heard him say, I've been shot and robbed. I can't see. I've been shot and robbed. My wife has been hurt. She needs an ambulance. I can't see. I need an ambulance. Oh, that's so sad. And then he lost consciousness. And as he was carried out to the ambulance, he briefly regained consciousness, though, and he muttered the word to over and over a few times before just passing out again. Oh, man. Yeah. Unfortunately, by the time they made it to Anderson Hospital a short time later, there was nothing that they could do to save Arthur, and he was pronounced dead at 930 PM. Oh, Arthur. I know. Now, when they arrived at the scene that night, investigators from the Illinois Department of Law Enforcement suspected a robbery gone wrong. Arthur clearly said they'd been robbed, and from the sound of it, there had been two men. That's kind of what they thought the two, two, two was. Yeah. It also seemed that someone had torn through the house in a hurry. But the longer that investigators were looking at the scene as a whole, the less sense that theory made. Yeah. Detective Richard Barrett said, Parts of the house were ransacked, but parts weren't. That's an oddity. In fact, not only did it seem that nothing of significance was missing from the house, but when Vernita's body was taken to the morgue, she was still wearing a ton of jewelry, including rings and a watch. Giveaway. And her purse was lying in the hallway not far from her body, and everything inside was still intact. Yeah, that's not a robbery. And there was also no sign of forced entry. Oh, so yeah. When the autopsy was conducted, though, the coroner determined a small caliber weapon had been used in both of the murders, and there were powder burns on the victim's skin that indicated that the shooter obviously fired at very close range. The crime was not only extremely out of the ordinary for the region, but it was also extremely brutal given the ages and the personalities of both victims. The secretary of their church, Mary Jagell, told reporters, They were just lovely people. They didn't have any enemies. I'm sure they didn't. And their neighbors echoed the same sentiment with one saying there was not anyone in the community who would say anything negative about them. Arthur and Fernita. I know, don't they just sound so sweet? They really do. And they're just like managing their farm together. Yeah. Now a search of the house and of the surrounding property, again, didn't really turn up anything useful in the investigation. There was no fingerprints and no other evidence found at the scene. One of the neighbors, Clarence O'Brien though, did tell detectives that his wife had seen a car pull up at the house around 6 p.m. and drive around the outbuildings in the back. But he also said that Arthur and Vernita's two sons, Richard and Ronald, came by pretty often to visit or help their parents. So they just thought it was one of them just coming to stop by. Yeah, that makes sense. Right. In addition to everything investigators were learning, they also found out that everyone who knew the couple knew they were unlikely targets for a robbery because Arthur was known to be a successful farmer at the time. And he was one of the wealthier residents in the area, but he paid for everything, even just small purchases, with checks and he never had cash in the house. So it's like you're not going to find anything. That's the thing. It was like well known amongst the community. Now at the time, there was no way local investigators would have connected the murders of Arthur and Vernita Goussouel to two other seemingly unrelated murders years earlier. It also somehow didn't occur to any of them that the Goussouels injuries resembled the execution style links common in mob-related murders, like point-blank range back of the head.

Speaker 7:
[35:25] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[35:26] Those connections would come a lot later to everybody's shock and horror. But until then, the case was treated as a straightforward, yet pretty rare instance of a home invasion gone wrong.

Speaker 7:
[35:35] Damn.

Speaker 1:
[35:36] Now in hope of generating some leads, the Madison County Farm Bureau offered a $5,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest of the killers. But other than some pranks from true blue assholes. I can't believe we've always been this shitty as a species. Even back then. I really can't believe it. We just never got better. No. We just got a little different. That's all. Exactly. Different methods. Other than that, the reward did not produce any concrete leads. So while detectives on the Goosewell case spun their wheels just desperately trying to find anything that would lead them to the killer, the Goosewell's estate, which was valued at roughly half a million dollars back then, which today would be about 2.5 million, it got tied up in probate court for a little over a year before everything was finally split evenly between Richard and Ronald Goosewell in late 1978. Now by the time their estate was awarded to their two children, the murder case had been shelved and detectives on the case shifted their attention again to more present active cases. But then in April 1979, just one year later, the case was unexpectedly revived when one of Arthur and Vernita's children, 33-year-old Ronald, was found dead in the backseat of his own car in East St. Louis. Oh, we're back in St. Louis. On the evening of April 4th, police were called to the parking lot of Coleman's Plaza in St. Louis for a report of a suspicious vehicle that had been in the lot for several days. Now when they arrived and they checked out the car, they found Ronald slumped in the backseat with a huge bullet hole in his chest. Upon examination, the coroner determined that his body had been in the lot for at least several days. And while the gunshot wound in his chest was the cause of death, he also suffered a skull fracture from a blunt force injury. And there were also several scratches along his back, which the coroner believed had been caused by the body being dragged. What? Yeah. Now given the fact that his parents had also been murdered, Ronald's murder was immediately assumed to be linked. At the time of his death, the investigation into his parents' death, like I said, was at a standstill after everybody ran out of leads. So the working theory was that Arthur and his wife were mistaken for another unrelated man, Richard Goosewell, like unrelated, who investigators believed was targeted by the mafia after he testified in a case involving mining rights. So that's what they originally thought before Ronald was killed. Damn. Because it seemed, mistaken identity in that case seemed plausible. Yeah. But now Ronald's murder called that into question because obviously one case of mistaken identity is possible. But two is like. One, like why would somebody go back and kill the previous mistaken victim's son? Yeah, that doesn't make sense. You know that feeling when you walk out of a doctor's office and you're like, wow, they actually made me feel so much better. The right doctor can make you feel lighter, clearer, more hopeful. I personally love my primary doctor. He's the nicest guy. The first thing he asks when he comes in the room is like about my life, about my job. He remembers things from our last appointment. It's awesome. You can find doctors just like that on ZocDoc. ZocDoc is a free app and website that helps you find and book high quality in-network doctors so that you can find somebody you love. We're talking about booking in-network appointments with more than 150,000 providers across all 50 states. I've had to use ZocDoc in a pinch before, and I'm always hesitant to use something like that because I do love my doctor so much. But I use ZocDoc and I was so pleased with the experience. I had the kindest nurse practitioner who helped me through a little ear infection thing going on and I was like, wow, you are such a nice person. So stop putting off those doctor's appointments and go to zocdoc.com/morbid to find and instantly book a doctor you love today. That's zocdoc.com/morbid, zocdoc.com/morbid. Thanks ZocDoc for sponsoring this message.

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[41:00] According to his wife, Barbara, Ronald was last seen by his coworkers at the Amaco Oil Refinery on March 31st, around 11:30 p.m. They apparently chatted briefly in the locker room as Ronald was headed home, but when he still hadn't returned home four hours later, Barbara reported him missing. When his body was discovered, his wallet also appeared to be missing, but there was no other evidence collected at the scene and there was not a single witness. Oh, shit. Now later that month, a man named Andre Jones confessed to killing Ronald Goussouel. Oh. He had been arrested and pleaded guilty to the murder of three people in East St. Louis, and he was awaiting sentencing when he made his confession here. He also confessed to the brutal murder and robbery of a young couple earlier that same month. The fuck? He was facing the death penalty in the robbery homicide, and it's likely that he offered up the other confessions to try to get a lighter sentence. Oh, okay. But just like in the other cases, if detectives have been aware of the connections between the victims and a certain St. Louis dentist, Oh, my God. the murder of Ronald Goussouel and his parents might have made a lot more sense. But they had no way of knowing that Ronald's wife Barbara had known Glen Engleman for nearly 20 years.

Speaker 3:
[42:12] What is going on?

Speaker 1:
[42:13] And like the others, Engleman offered up a way to help her get access to the Goussouels' money a lot faster than just waiting for nature to take its course. Ladies. They didn't know that.

Speaker 5:
[42:24] Oh, no.

Speaker 1:
[42:25] So instead, detectives focused on Andre Jones and started looking for evidence that confirmed his confession. Now, back to Glen Engleman.

Speaker 5:
[42:32] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[42:33] By the late 70s, he was on his third marriage to Ruth Jolly, and things were starting to fall apart. Engleman was just as abusive to her as he had been to his previous wives, and Ruth tried several times to leave him, but he wouldn't agree to a divorce, and at that time, it would have been pretty impossible for her to strike out on her own and maintain the same life. She had a young son as well, so she tried to stick with it, but sometimes her husband said things that absolutely terrified her. He talked about killing people or having people killed. His ex-wife's new husband outside the art museum in St. Louis, he said. A man in the woods outside Pacific. Oh, and even three members of a family in Edwardsville. Oh, any of that sound familiar to you? Sure does. The thing was, though, these stories always seem to involve women that Glenn had been involved with romantically in his past. Ruth started to wonder if he had maybe been having an affair throughout their marriage or multiple affairs. Probably. But unfortunately, it was even worse. He probably was having affairs, but I think there was more to it. Even worse shit. Exactly. Now, in the late afternoon of January 14th, 1980, a woman named Sophie Marie Barrera left her dental laboratory a little before 5 PM. It was a pretty ordinary day as far as anybody could tell, except this afternoon, when she put her key in the ignition and turned it to start the car, the car exploded into a ball of flames, instantly killing Sophie in the blast and shattering the windows of the surrounding buildings. When emergency responders arrived a short time later, there was no attempt made to save Sophie because, according to Sergeant Thomas Casey of the Bomb Squad, the lower part of her anatomy was destroyed. Holy shit. She had been killed instantly. Her death was a surprise to everybody she knew, to say the absolute least. But when detectives arrived at the lab that afternoon to start their investigation, eerily, it seemed like Sophie had expected something like this might happen to her. What? Sitting by the phone in her office, detectives found a pad with the police emergency number written down on it. And call logs would later reveal that she called that number earlier in the day, but had hung up. Oh, yeah. Also, her son Frederick told investigators that his mother had said something a few days earlier, indicating she thought she might die in an explosion.

Speaker 4:
[44:46] What the fuck?

Speaker 1:
[44:47] In fact, in March of the previous year, police had been called to her home when she found a bag full of dynamite and an electric detonator beside her home. What? Earlier that day, a local boy had seen the bag and opened it up to look inside. And when he didn't find anything that was interested in him, he walked away and he left the bag open, which luckily exposed it to rain. So when the bag did explode a short time later, it just scorched the outside of the garage, but it didn't. It could have absolutely blew up the house. Absolutely. Now, it was quickly determined that the bomb placed in Sophie's car was very similar to the one that had been found at her home just a year earlier and that both were created by the same person and both devices demonstrated a quote, apparent high level of skill. Holy shit. Yeah. So when detectives looked back at the earlier investigation into the bomb at the house, they concluded that Sophie may have known her killer and maybe hadn't been entirely forthcoming in previous interviews. Thomas Casey said, Personally, I thought there was more she could reveal. A lot of innuendos were made on her part, but we were unable to substantiate a lot of them. I think out of fear, I think she was scared. Now, as you might imagine, she had a connection to a certain dentist in the area. Oh, you don't say. At the time of her death, she was involved in a lawsuit with local dentist, Glen Engleman. Oh, Jesus. He owed her a little over $14,000 for work that was performed by her lab, and he was refusing to pay it. He's such a piece of shit. He really is. Also look up a picture. Oh, yeah. On the night of her murder, detectives interviewed Engleman for more than three hours, but told reporters that they weren't seeking warrants for his arrest at that time. They did indicate that he refused to take a polygraph, though, and that they were planning on following up with him in the days that followed. Doesn't he look exactly like you thought? No, actually. Worse? Way worse. Really? Because I'm thinking like he's getting all these women to do things and like having affairs and marrying several women. Yeah. What? What? Yeah. I think money had a lot to do with a lot of this. Wow. I think a lot of it was just money, money, money. Yeah. Now, as far as Sophie's son was concerned, his mother's death likely had something to do with the lawsuit against Engleman, which was scheduled to be heard in County Circuit Court days after Sophie was killed. Holy shit. Now, not long after the murder of Sophie Barrera, Ruth Jolly, Glenn's wife at the time, finally came to the conclusion that all of the things her husband told her about the previous murders were very likely true. So in late January, after becoming frightened for not only her own safety, but her son's, Ruth went to the police and she told them about everything she suspected her husband to be involved in. Not only did she think Glenn murdered Sophie, but she also believed that he had killed Peter Holm and several other people. He is so scary. He's terrifying. Now, at first, federal investigators were kind of skeptical of her story, but at the same time, they had to admit she did seem to know a lot of details, a lot more than the ordinary person. So they asked her if she would be willing to wear a wire and record her conversations with her husband. And she agreed, which, like, that's so brave. I was going to say that, yeah, that really is. That's such a scary situation to get yourself into or to have to be involved in. Now, to investigators' surprise, the recordings not only implicated Glenn Engleman in the murder of Sophie Barrera, but also in the murders of Peter Holm, the three members of the Goosewell family, and the 1963 death of a man named Eric Frey, whose death had previously been ruled accidental. What? We have a whole other death here. There's a whole other person. In one recording, Engleman can be heard saying, I'm $20,000 ahead. Fortuitous event with Barrera dying. Referring to him not having to pay lab debt anymore. Fortuitous event. With Barrera dying. Wow. Yeah. Now, in another conversation recorded just a few days later, he was heard openly discussing the death of Peter Holm. On the recording, he doesn't just implicate himself, but also Peter's wife, Carmen. I'm glad she got connected finally. Yeah. Ruth later clarified that Glen had conspired with Carmen and her brother, Nick, to kill Peter for insurance money. Eww. Ruth told investigators Carmen was going to give Glen Engleman $20,000 for his help. This is so gross. It really is because it's all just about money. Yeah. Now, in time, the recorded conversations between Ruth and Glen would verify nearly every single detail of Ruth's original story. Wow. Just like he had done in the murder of Peter Holm, Glen Engleman had conspired with Barbara Boyle in the murder of Arthur, Vernita, and Ronald Goosewell, all so she could get her hands on the inheritance. Wow. She had an entire family killed. She did. For inheritance. In order for the money to make its way to Ronald, Arthur and Vernita needed to die first. As far as murder for hire schemes went, it was remarkably elaborate and unfolded over much more time than things usually did. But in the end, it paid off because Barbara inherited more than $500,000, which today would be 2.2 million. Wow. What a nasty bitch. Right. To investigators on the Sophie Barrera case, not only were the recordings incredible, but they also seemed to close several previously unsolved murders in various parts of Missouri. The only question remaining was, why would a successful dentist, who never appeared to be in need of money, willingly and eagerly participate in multiple murders? Yeah. That's the thing. Why would you want to be involved in that? But based on the recordings and testimony from Ruth, in mid-February 1980, federal agents were able to finally get in arrest for Glenn Engleman on charges of murdering just Sophie Barrera and Peter Helm. By that time, he was very suspicious that investigators were on to him, especially for the murder of Sophie, and they didn't want to give him any opportunity to run. Now, at the same time, they also arrested one of his co-conspirators in the Barrera killing, a man named Robert Handy, who was a former neighbor of Glenn's in the 60s, and known to police for multiple prior counterfeiting arrests, just like a local con. Why are you living these lives? Who knows? As detectives continued matching the details of Ruth Jolly's statement and the recordings to the unsolved murders, things finally started to fall into place. So get ready to solve this giant puzzle at this point. All right, let's go. So Glenn Engleman was Ruth Bullock's ex-husband, the original Ruth. Yeah. And the two were still having that sexual relationship when James Bullock was murdered in 1958, and Ruth was awarded the insurance bailout. Eric Frey, one murder that we hadn't talked about yet because they just discovered that he was involved, he owned a drag strip with Glenn Engleman at the time of his death, which was originally thought to be an accidental explosion in a well at the strip in 1963. Stop. Eric's wife received a huge insurance payout for the accident, and it was later discovered that she shared that payout with Glenn Engleman. What the fuck? Now at the time of Eric Frey's death, Nick Miranda worked at that same drag strip, and his sister Carmen would later work for Glenn Engleman as a dental assistant, before leaving the job and marrying Peter Helm. Wow. In every single case pretty much, Engle had a direct connection to the wives of the victims, and it would turn out benefited financially from the deaths. They would always split the insurance payout. So was her name Carmen Miranda? It was. That's a famous singer. Yeah. Yeah. Look at that. I had to double check that to make sure I wasn't crazy. Her maiden name, yeah, she was Carmen Helm. Yeah, that's crazy. Before she killed her husband, or after she killed her husband. The only outlier in that respect, of him knowing all the wives and benefiting from the insurance payout, was Sophie Barrera. But obviously in that case, his debt was essentially wiped away. He didn't have to go to court. So on March 15th, 1980, Glen Engleman, Robert Handy were indicted on capital murder charges and the bombing death of Sophie, Sophie Barrera, first degree murder for the shooting of Peter Helm, Helm, excuse me, and 16 counts of mail and wire fraud related to all the money received from Peter Helm's wife, Carmen. Holy shit. At the time of the indictment, Missouri's death penalty was on hold pending revisions. So the maximum penalty for the Helm's murder, for Helm's murder, excuse me, was life in prison. But the Sophie Barrera case, on the other hand, was a federal charge. And the maximum penalty for capital murder was death, which the federal prosecutor fully intended to pursue. Now Engleman pleaded not guilty to the charges and went to trial in the fall of 1980. Unfortunately for him, the evidence against him, especially the records made by his wife, without his knowledge, and the eventual testimony of Carmen Holm, who testified against him, all particularly damning. She had to to get her own ass out of it. Now on September 17th, he was found guilty of the murder of Peter Holm and sentenced to 30 years in prison. And a month later, he was found guilty of the Sophie Barrera murder and sentenced to 30 years with an additional 20 for various other charges. So that motherfucker was gonna spend forever in prison. But he was still facing a potential trial for the murders of Arthur, Vernita and Ronald Goosewell, and a possible death sentence if he lost that trial. He eventually decided not to take the risk. And in 1985, he just pleaded guilty to all three of those murders, murders, excuse me, and he was given three life sentences. Damn. Now, the previous year, federal prosecutors arrested Ronald Goosewell's wife Barbara Boyle just days before she and her boyfriend were planning to flee the country. Oh, man, the timing. She went to trial and was ultimately found guilty of conspiring in the death of her husband. But the jury determined there was insufficient evidence to convict her of the deaths of Arthur and Vernita. Wow. She did, however, serve 25 years in prison, but was paroled in 2009. Damn. Yeah. So Glennon Engleman obviously appealed his guilty verdicts. They always do, specifically in the Barrera and the Hall murder cases. But the higher courts upheld the lower courts rulings, luckily. Unfortunately, while detectives strongly suspected Engleman of being the shooter in the James Bullock case, the district attorney in 1985 didn't feel that there was enough evidence to charge him and bring him to trial. Come on. I know. They just didn't think that they would win. But he did spend the rest of his life in prison. He died on March 3rd, 1999, in the infirmary of the Jefferson City Correctional Center, where he had at the time been receiving treatment for advanced complications from diabetes. Yikes. Now, as for why he participated in and even arranged so many murders, the answer was simple. He was a psychopath who frequently confessed to enjoying killing. That had to have been the only answer because it was really no. It was money and he enjoyed it. He already had money. But he just wanted more. He was a greedy fuck. He just liked killing people. He had to have liked doing this. Former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Bill Bryan said, he had no conscious when it came to killing. He said once, it takes a certain kind of person to be able to kill another human being. It always seemed to me that he got some pleasure out of the planning and carrying out of it. So he just liked the entire start to finish, planning it, actually going forward with it. And what's crazy to me is he was able to find so many, especially so many women that were also completely lacking any kind of conscience when it came to, how do you find that many people that are on your level? I think a lot of times, or I will say at least in one specific case, Carmen. She was so much younger than him and she had her brother and Glen Engleman just like really hounding her to do this. And obviously she's like just as culpable, but she was so young that I think she was very easily molded by these two people. But then in the other cases, it's like these women just wanted money. Yeah, I just don't, I don't understand how he was able to find so many people that were willing to just be rotten with him. Like that's just crazy. Well, and it's sad too that a lot of them really weren't, like they didn't face any justice, you know what I mean? It's crazy. It really is a crazy, complicated web. So that is the wild case of Glennon Engleman, the killer dentist. That's wild. Also something that we didn't really touch on, imagine he was your dentist. That's the other thing. Imagine you're just like, wait, fuck. Dr. Engleman? Like it's just like what? He cleaned my teeth last week. He cleaned my teeth. And then you gotta find a new dentist. He just told me I need a root canal. What the fuck's that about? You know he was one of those asshole dentists that like shames you about like not being super on top of your flossing. He made you feel like the biggest piece of shit.

Speaker 5:
[57:23] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[57:24] And he loved it. Loved it. Fuck that guy. Such a douche bag.

Speaker 5:
[57:28] So gross.

Speaker 1:
[57:28] And it's just so sad how many young people, like obviously like so many people lost their lives, but so many young people, like 26 years old, 27 years old.

Speaker 5:
[57:35] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[57:36] And then like Arthur and Vernita, just this sweet couple enjoying their farm together. And their son. Yeah. So there's only one member left of their family after that.

Speaker 4:
[57:44] Oh, I can't imagine how he felt.

Speaker 1:
[57:46] And to know that your sister-in-law just literally took out your entire family. Wiped out your whole family for money. There wouldn't be a safe corner of this earth, let me tell you, honey. Nope.

Speaker 5:
[57:55] Uh-uh. Nope.

Speaker 1:
[57:56] No. Damn. What a story. What a story. Do you have a fun fact as a little palate cleanser for us? I actually do have a really fun fact. Tell me all about it. Um, it's illegal, it's straight up forbidden in certain parts of Washington state to kill Bigfoot. What? Yep. In 1969, I don't know if I'm going to say this right, Scamania County? Okay. They passed an ordinance, which is number 69-01, period. And this designated Bigfoot as an endangered species, and it made the killing of him, Bigfoot, himself, Bigfeet. Or any Sasquatch, quote unquote, a very serious crime. And you could be punished for it because they have to protect public safety and they have to protect Bigfoot. Fair enough. And the penalty was downgraded from this, I guess. I don't like that. In 1984, it was a felony. They made it an actual felony to kill a Bigfoot. It's a misdemeanor now. A misdemeanor to kill a being? Yeah, I think it should still be called a felony. Felony. That's felonious behavior. Now it carries up to a $1,000 fine and or one year in jail. That's not enough. Make it a felony again. I think it's pretty felonious to kill a Bigfoot. Yeah, they're just existing. That's just me. What did Bigfoot do to anybody? Yeah, don't you dare kill a Bigfoot. All Bigfoot is trying to do is avoid your ass. Yeah, he doesn't want to deal with us. He's the master of it too. He has successfully avoided us for a long time. He sure has. Let him just continue to. Let him live.

Speaker 2:
[59:36] He's just got Bigfeet.

Speaker 1:
[59:37] That's all he's ever guilty of. He's just a big boy.

Speaker 2:
[59:39] He's just a big boy.

Speaker 1:
[59:40] He's just vibing.

Speaker 2:
[59:42] Exactly.

Speaker 1:
[59:42] Let him live.

Speaker 3:
[59:43] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[59:43] I love that that's against the law, though.

Speaker 3:
[59:45] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[59:45] Where was that? Good for Washington State. Washington State. Yeah. Good for you guys. You go, girls. We should also consider making that a law. Yeah, let's petition our local government. Let's do it. That's what's important right now. Yeah, exactly. Let's do that one. Let's put all our effort into that. All right, guys, we'll be busy doing that. In the meantime, we hope you keep blessed today. We hope you keep it weird. But not so weird that you don't petition your local government to make the killing of Bigfoot a felony. Just kidding. Just that. We petition them to do a lot more than that. Bye. Bye.

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