MFM Minisode 473
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
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4.6 • 179.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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This week’s hometowns include a near-John Wayne Gacy victim and a reverse dog kidnapping.
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| 0:00.0 | This is exactly right. |
| 0:25.6 | Hello and welcome to my favorite murder. |
| 0:27.3 | That's Georgia Hart, the minisode. |
| 0:27.9 | That's right. |
| 0:29.1 | God, damn it. |
| 0:31.9 | Ten years of this. That's right. |
| 0:32.8 | God, you want me to go first? |
| 0:34.2 | Sure. |
| 0:34.9 | Okay. |
| 0:35.9 | The subject line of this email is, My dad was almost John Wayne Gacy's first murder victim. |
| 0:41.5 | Holy shit. |
| 0:42.2 | We covered John Wayne Gacy when we did the Chicago podcast festival way back in November of 2016. |
| 0:48.9 | So do you want to hear that? |
| 0:50.5 | You can. |
| 0:51.6 | Hello, all. |
| 0:52.3 | There was only one way to tell this story, and that's to get straight |
| 0:54.8 | to the point. By the way, my name is Kristen Murphy. Feel free to use my name. My father told me this |
| 1:00.6 | vague story of him in the 70s about his incident with a sketchy hitchhiker, because that's what |
| 1:06.2 | they did in the 70s. I finally asked him the whole story now that I'm older, and he told me everything. |
| 1:11.5 | It was such an intense experience for him that he remembers it in grave detail to this day. |
| 1:16.7 | It was the fall of 1972, and my dad was 18, trying to find a ride to the Cheech and Chong concert. |
| 1:23.0 | Oh, my God. That's such a time of place. I can smell it. |
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