Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Varuka of the Sea. How are you doing today? Wait, is it, oh, the varucca salt of the sea. Yes.

I'm not too salty today, I guess. I feel pretty good. How are you? I'm doing quite well.

Real quick, my, we'll explain the barucca salt thing in a minute, but my daughter turned 16 this week, and I'm kind of having a moment. Mind blown. Yeah. She's so great and wonderful, and I adore her, and I'm just, it's so cool to see her grow up. But when we started this, our older ones were both nine. Is that right? I don't think so. Eight? Eight. Okay. Don't ask me to do math in real time. Eight years ago. Eight, they would have been eight years old. So like half of their lives we've been doing this. Yes. Yes. It is truly wild to think that they're turning 16 this year. It's got me a little emotional. and I try not to be emotional, but I guess I'm

also old. So having a six year, six, it's fine. We can be emotional about our babies turning 16. That's like a

huge milestone. It is. So anyway, I'm just, I adore her and I'm very excited for her and what life

has in store. And she'll never hear this because there's no way she lives

into her show. Right. Does she have any big plans for her how she's going to celebrate this year?

Yes. So this weekend, I'm bringing her and two of her friends to the beach and we're staying

like in an Airbnb. They're just like... I love that. That's so nice.

Yeah. It's like she wanted like a SpongeBob birthday kind of thing. So like it's not going to be a wild party breaking out to meet boys kind of thing, which is nice. So it'll just be very low key and they're excited to like go to the boardwalk and stuff like that. So I think it'll be a lot of fun. And I just get to like be a little bit behind them, you know, doing everything and still like chaperoning. So yes, of course. Oh my gosh. Well, I hope that she has the best day with her friends and you, of course. I know that she will appreciate having you there. Maybe not on the day, but later on, she'll appreciate that you were there. I mean, I can drive, so that's your choice. But Mandy, I mentioned varuc assault here, or the

varuc assault of the sea, because recently we did a bonus episode where you talked about your

time at sea and your cruise. And anyway, so it just reminded me of that. And if you're

interested in hearing bonus episodes like that, just chat episodes or the things like Jerry

Springer. We're doing two part episodes of episode one and episode two of the Jerry Springer documentary

on Netflix and how we can't believe any of us survived during that time

and don't have really, really sick brains.

Anyway, you can find that at patreon.com slash moms and mysteries podcast or on Apple podcast

subscriptions.

You really nailed like a very long stream of consciousness, like perfectly put it into words.

Perfectly. Okay, I'll take it. Let's go. Let's do this.

All right. So we will get right into the story for this week.

On a quiet night in June of 1982, 20-year-old Kelly BergDove was alone working the graveyard shift at the Imperial

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