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542 - Dracula Ambitions

My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

July 23, 2026

This week’s episode is scam-themed in honor of our newest podcast, Royal Swindle. Georgia covers the Roslyn School Embezzlement Scandal and Karen tells the story of Elizabeth Bigley, the scamming “Queen of Ohio.”   For our sources, please visit https://www.myfavoritemurder.com/episodes.
Speakers: Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark
**Karen Kilgariff** (0:06)
My Favorite Murder Hello, and welcome to My Favorite Murder.

**Georgia Hardstark** (0:19)
That's Georgia Hardstark.

**Karen Kilgariff** (0:20)
That's Karen Kilgariff.

**Georgia Hardstark** (0:21)
And here we are, podcasting once again.

**Karen Kilgariff** (0:24)
Here we are.

**Georgia Hardstark** (0:25)
Well, those are pretty nails.

**Karen Kilgariff** (0:26)
I know, they're adults' nails that I've somehow put on me.

**Georgia Hardstark** (0:30)
Magnetic.

**Karen Kilgariff** (0:30)
They're like gel X, so they're like not my nails. And suddenly I feel like this and dresses, I feel like are the trick to making people think you have your shit together.

**Georgia Hardstark** (0:39)
Yeah, that's right. Boom. Are you now pointing things out like this?

**Karen Kilgariff** (0:42)
I'm definitely talking with my hands a lot more, pointing things out. But 10, 15 minutes ago, I was eating an uncrustable in the car wash, so still me didn't get me on my dress.

**Georgia Hardstark** (0:52)
Not so classy that it changes you deep down. That's good.

**Karen Kilgariff** (0:56)
How are you?

**Georgia Hardstark** (0:57)
I'm good. I'm still working on the same manicure I had two weeks ago.

**Karen Kilgariff** (1:01)
Try these.

**Georgia Hardstark** (1:02)
Gel X.

**Karen Kilgariff** (1:03)
They're gel and they're like press on, like lead press on nails.

**Georgia Hardstark** (1:06)
Oh, okay.

**Karen Kilgariff** (1:07)
You just suddenly feel like an adult.

**Georgia Hardstark** (1:09)
All right. I'm not that interested in being an adult though.

**Karen Kilgariff** (1:13)
Looking like one. People mistaking you for one, so they treat you differently.

**Georgia Hardstark** (1:16)
Yeah, but suddenly I put those on and people are asking me for tax advice. I don't have time like that.

**Karen Kilgariff** (1:22)
It's what I think like if I had nice big tits like it would be like if that's like what girls with nice big tits experience in life, you know?

**Georgia Hardstark** (1:32)
I have bad news for you.

**Karen Kilgariff** (1:33)
What?

**Georgia Hardstark** (1:34)
Someone with medium big tits.

**Karen Kilgariff** (1:36)
Come on.

**Georgia Hardstark** (1:37)
It's not that great.

**Karen Kilgariff** (1:38)
People give you a little, they're like a little nicer to you.

**Georgia Hardstark** (1:40)
Oh, I mean, I get into restaurants. I get always get a table.

**Karen Kilgariff** (1:44)
I never get a table with these A's.

**Georgia Hardstark** (1:48)
What a way to look at the world.

**Karen Kilgariff** (1:49)
Yeah.

**Georgia Hardstark** (1:50)
I've been ripped off with my small breasts.

**Karen Kilgariff** (1:52)
It's the thing of people who were pretty when they're kids. You're like, you don't know what real life, since they've been kids, they've been pretty.

**Georgia Hardstark** (1:57)
Yes.

**Karen Kilgariff** (1:58)
You don't know what it's like.

**Georgia Hardstark** (1:58)
You've never been.

**Karen Kilgariff** (1:59)
People don't treat you the way they treat everyone else.

**Georgia Hardstark** (2:01)
You've never had somebody turn around and go, oh, you're here?

**Karen Kilgariff** (2:04)
Right.

**Georgia Hardstark** (2:04)
Oh, my God.

**Karen Kilgariff** (2:05)
Or go, oh, you're here? It's more like that.

**Georgia Hardstark** (2:07)
Yeah. Or go, oh, you're here.

**Karen Kilgariff** (2:10)
Or go, oh, you're here.

**Georgia Hardstark** (2:13)
Oh.
Oh? You're here.

**Karen Kilgariff** (2:16)
You're trying to put the accent on the O. You're here.

**Georgia Hardstark** (2:20)
It's Scene Study with Karen and Georgia. And you're here.

**Karen Kilgariff** (2:24)
Scene. And you're here.
Okay. I have a true crime podcast, Bone Valley, which, wow. Hey. They just went for that.

**Georgia Hardstark** (2:34)
Where does this take place? Hell?

**Karen Kilgariff** (2:36)
But that's the podcast name and then they have seasons. The season I just started listening to, I'd never heard of it, is season five, called The Devil's Quarry.
The podcast Bone Valley is about wrongful convictions and miscarriage of justice in the US. So The Devil's Quarry, season five, is about this 12-year-old girl who was murdered in the 1980s and just the complete fuck up that happened with this guy going to jail for 20 years and all the things you hate about that. But he figures a way to get himself out. But then there's a psycho who actually probably killed her, who isn't, and so it's this kind of awful story. But it's really interesting.

**Georgia Hardstark** (3:18)
And important to tell.

**Karen Kilgariff** (3:19)
Yeah. That's great. Highly recommend it. Paul Solitareff is the host. He was a Rolling Stones contributor. It's good.

**Georgia Hardstark** (3:27)
Rolling Stones, the magazine?

**Karen Kilgariff** (3:29)
The magazine. No, he was in the Rolling Stones.

**Georgia Hardstark** (3:31)
You said it plural.

**Karen Kilgariff** (3:33)
It's not.

**Georgia Hardstark** (3:34)
He's a Rolling Stones contributor. He's like, ooh-wah, ooh-wah.

**Karen Kilgariff** (3:39)
I couldn't even have told you if it was or wasn't right. That's it. What about you?

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