Hey guys and welcome to Moms & Murder, a true crime podcast featuring myself Mandy and

my dear friend Melissa. Hi Melissa. Hi Mandy. How are you? I am doing good and so happy to be back in 2019. How are you? I'm going about it. What am I going to do? I'm not sure I can't turn back time. We're going forward. It's 2019. Luckily we don't really write checks anymore. So it shouldn't be an issue till about June or July. Yeah. Trying to remember this. So yeah. And you're like on vacation, VK still coming to us from the great state

of not Florida. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. So you're having the time of your life. I'm very happy for you. Yeah. Good. Great question. Great. We had time off. Yeah. It has. It's been awesome. And my kids are getting to hit the slopes really for the first time. They did it a little bit last time we came. But they're doing much better this time. It's been so fun watching them learn how to ski and my my older son is snowboarding and yeah, it's been a great time. That's

super cool. But now that you said hit the slopes, I expect you're going to say words like drummets a lot. And thank you, everyone that told us what drummets are we know we've got it now. It's under control. Thank you so much for reaching out every last one of you. We appreciate it. But yeah, we're back. Let's do this. Mandy. Mandy has a great crazy. Of course, we always say that. So really it's like white noise at this point whenever I say this. But yeah, I never heard of

this case specifically. So this was a new one for me and I'm excited to get into it. Yeah. So I actually chose this one because I was kind of looking for a like sense I'm up here or where it's really, really cold and actual winter. I wanted a case that was like wintery. And so my husband actually suggested this case. And so that it just kind of went from there. So I've just been working on it while I've been here. And it is very wintery, a very wintery story. There you go. Not necessarily.

Family friendly, I wouldn't say. One of the more not family friendly stories, I think. Yeah, absolutely. So this is a little bit of an older case. The story actually takes place in the late 80s. I believe it was 1986. And it involves hell crafts in her husband, Richard crafts. So some people might recognize this a little bit of this story because it was actually one of the inspirations for the world.

The dark comedy murder movie bargo. And then Melissa, you mentioned that there was a TV show. Yeah, also with that. But I didn't I've never seen that. So I don't know. TV show is amazing. The first two seasons. It was on FX. But it's the same people that did it. So I love the movie. But the shows. The first two seasons of it are like the best seasons of TV.

How have I not talked to you about this? So so good idea. Yeah, you would love it. It's it's really, really, really, really, really good. Did I sell enough for you? Yeah.

So hella, Laura Nielsen was born on the 4th of July in 1947 in Denmark. She was an only child and grew up in a small Danish village. She was a very happy, go lucky kid. She loved learning. She loved going to school. Never really gave her parents much of a hard time. She was also very intelligent and learned French and English as a teenager.

And also just picked up German Norwegian and Sweden. So German, it seems like it'd be a hard language just to pick up. I haven't even picked up English.

Yeah. As per our German conversation. So I can't imagine just picking these other ones up. Yeah. So she was very smart. Yeah. She was also very well liked among her classmates and continued to dazzle with her personality into adulthood.

She went on to study abroad in England and eventually got a job as an O-Pair in France. And while living there, she got a job as a flight attendant, which really was perfect for her because she loved the thrill of exploring new places. She liked meeting new people.

And honestly, I can't really think of a better job if you like those things. I can. It is called yawning. I am she was into a low deck marathon.

And the whole time I was reading this, I was like, it's like, it's like yawning, but in the sky. So I have quite a few references. I will try to.

So what is the use? What is yawning? Yawning is people. Man, there's a show called Balota on Bravo. My husband calls it quote, the worst show I have ever watched.

And it's about people who live under the deck on yachts. I mean, they're not like under, they're not trolls. They work on the yacht.

And so it's about them like living, you know, working with these people who rent these charter these yachts. And captain Lee, he just wants everyone to have a good charter.

But a lot of the deck hands and stuff, they don't even know their apps. It's a whole thing, Mandy. I have become quite a yawning. I'm actually hating myself right now. But anyway, call yourself a yawning.

I like him up for the yawning for the troll person that lives under the yacht.

So anyway, but the idea with most of them is they love to travel. And so this ends up being a modes of, you know, being able to do that for them. So same idea. Oh my gosh, my rabbit trail.

So intense tonight. Keep going, Mandy.

So hella loved her job as a flight attendant. And eventually she applied to work for pan Am. And she was selected as one of the eight out of 200 to get the position.

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