Rewind with Karen & Georgia - 118: Golden State Killer Caught!

Karen Kilgariff (0:06)

My Favorite Murder Hello. And welcome.

Georgia Hardstark (0:17)

To Rewind with Karen and Georgia.

Karen Kilgariff (0:19)

This is a show where we look back on our old episodes from 2018, and we get to revisit the incredible breaking news moment that we still can't believe we were there for.

Georgia Hardstark (0:29)

That's right. In a very special Rewind today, we're rewinding to episode 118, which we named Golden State Killer Caught.

Karen Kilgariff (0:37)

It happened. It was real.

Georgia Hardstark (0:38)

Incredible.

Karen Kilgariff (0:39)

This episode originally came out on April 26th, 2018

Georgia Hardstark (0:42)

All right. Let's listen to the intro of episode 118

Karen Kilgariff (0:52)

Is that it? Oh my God. You guys.

Georgia Hardstark (0:59)

Fuck. They caught the fucking Golden State Killer. East Area motherfucking rapist.

Karen Kilgariff (1:04)

That, this is one of the fucking weirdest experiences of my life.

Georgia Hardstark (1:10)

Let's talk about last night. I'm laying in bed. I'm fucking, I've been up since 5 AM. I'm like, great. I already know I'm going to need a Xanax to go to sleep just for shit of it because I drank a fucking cold brew that day. Then I look at my text and immediately, and see what I've fucking been hoping to see every morning I wake up for fucking ever. You texting me and Steven, they caught the Golden State Killer. Yes. I fucking pop out of bed gasping, scaring the shit out of Vince.

He was like mad at me and I call you immediately.

Karen Kilgariff (1:45)

I was driving home from the Hollywood improv, just did a show there, met some nice listeners who had come to the show. I was having a wonderful evening, coming down off of that. And I have to admit to you, although I was not reading and driving, I waited for a red light. But as I am addicted to Twitter, I opened my Twitter and I'm actually going to read his name because this is the first person who told me, which means the world to me because someone was on it and immediately was just like, did you hear this?

Georgia Hardstark (2:17)

Everyone else who's tweeted us after loses to this guy.

Karen Kilgariff (2:21)

It is, his name is Eric and it's at era, ERA, can't see.

And he wrote, they got him question mark? Reddit is excited. So he basically came over and let me know. And so at a red light, I opened this thing and it's basically just like there is an arrest. And it's 100% DNA match.

Georgia Hardstark (2:44)

You know, I didn't see that part yet. The thing that got me excited like that I wasn't just like, oh, this is just another thing is when it said, when you said Reddit's excited. And I'm like, well, Reddit, if Reddit's excited, that's like almost better than if fucking law enforcement is excited.

Karen Kilgariff (3:00)

Yeah, because I feel like Reddit is set up to make people stop being excited.

Georgia Hardstark (3:03)

Right. They're like shut their down.

Karen Kilgariff (3:05)

It's like, no, no, you're being, you're being rash. You're being immature.

Georgia Hardstark (3:08)

You're being too hopeful. Or you're fucking pinning it on someone that has nothing to do with it. And that's fucking illegal and crazy and stop it. Exactly.

Karen Kilgariff (3:17)

Yes, that's very important point to make.

Georgia Hardstark (3:20)

So and what happened, you know, then I lay down and I start fucking Googling and redditing and Twittering for fucking hours. And at first it was, they had the name of some dude that it wasn't.

I'm obviously going to say his name, but he was also in law enforcement. You know, it could have been him, all this shit. And so I did all this fucking research on him. Then it wasn't him. So, and like they put photos up, they put, it's just.

Karen Kilgariff (3:44)

Of the wrong guy?

Georgia Hardstark (3:45)

Of the wrong guy. But at the same time, this guy, this guy's a piece of shit too. So, I mean. But it's the wrong guy.

Karen Kilgariff (3:53)

I think it's like, that's the thing that we were talking about before. It's just this. All I can think about is the beginning of Making a Murderer, where they are having that exact same kind of press conference. And was it Ken Kratz or whoever that guy is, it's just like, we got him. This is it. And it's just that thing where as we watch stuff like this, then we're just like, this is it. And Joseph DiAngelo is the, you know, police, police allege Joseph DiAngelo is the fucking golden state killer. And then we want that to be true so bad that it's just like, and now we're going all the way down this road. And that's all I think about is these days, how many fucking documentaries have you seen? Or then they pull it all apart.