Selects: The Great Finger in the Wendy’s Chili Caper
Stuff You Should Know
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4.6 • 79.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In 2005 a woman named Anna Alaya discovered a length of human finger – nail and all – in her Wendy’s chili. Her cries of disgust would set off a media firestorm, a criminal investigation and a prison sentence for her and her husband. Listen to Josh and Chuck go through the whole mess in this classic episode.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:06.2 | Happy Saturday morning or whenever this finds you. |
| 0:09.3 | Chuck here introducing this week's Selects episode. |
| 0:13.2 | And we're going to replay the Great Finger in the Wendy's Chili Caper episode from January 10th, 2019. There was a finger found in Wendy's Chili Caper episode from January 10th, 2019. |
| 0:22.1 | There was a finger found in Wendy's Chili, |
| 0:25.2 | and this is that story. |
| 0:27.8 | Enough said. |
| 0:34.4 | Welcome to Stuff You should know, |
| 0:36.6 | a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:44.0 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and there's Jerry. |
| 0:49.6 | And this is the Stuff You Should Know, Chili Caper edition. |
| 0:53.9 | Corporate Investigations, Las Vegas, San Jose. is the stuff you should know chili caper edition corporate investigations los vegas san jose |
| 0:58.2 | chili yeah and that means we get to use our special investigator nicknames |
| 1:02.9 | Seattle clerk Portland Bryant and San Francisco Jerry Roland that's not bad I would have |
| 1:10.1 | chosen tawny Ketian for me. |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah, that was a very ham-fisted way to set up an in-show mention of our three shows next week. |
| 1:20.1 | Oh, oh, yeah. |
| 1:21.4 | That was actually lost on me, Chuck. |
| 1:23.8 | Next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. |
| 1:26.1 | It's apparently lost on the Pacific Northwest because no one's coming. Right. Next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, it's apparently lost on the Pacific Northwest because |
| 1:28.4 | no one's coming. |
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