Welcome to Sword and Scale Rewind with your hosts Matt Fondelier and Ian Bag.
Hey, everybody, welcome back to Sword and Scale Rewind. This is the
show where we talk about that other show, Sword and Scale. You know
what, You'll love it. Hopefully you like us too. I'm one of
the hosts. My name is Matt Fondelier. I've written some episodes of the
show, but I just love it. I just love Sword and Scale.
Scared the crap out of me many many years ago. I just got totally
hooked on it. And if you're listening to the show, I sort of
feel like you're probably feeling the same way. Now I'm joined once again by
one of my good buds, Ian Bag. Well, this is how I
found the show. How did you find out about it? Well, I
reached out to you. I reached out to me. He said, Andy,
let this be scared shitless. I was like, who is this and
he's in It's finally and I said, oh, well found Eller and uh.
And then I listened to the show. I'm like, wow, I
had a chance and maybe I'm part of this. And you said, well,
it's a matter of fact. As a matter of fact, yes,
come in in and now we talked murder every week. We just loved the
way that you talked about dead babies and horrible murders. That we are like,
this guy is our guy. This guy has no shame, but we
love him. Well, if you listen to me last week, then you
did your homework and you already listened to episode one sixty seven, And if
you listen to one sixty seven, you're probably curled up in a little ball
in the fetal position in your So this one, this is uh, definitely
one of the more aft up stories that we've done, which is really seeing
something because everyone's they're all mess So this one is just this is just sadness.
It's just there's a couple parts in here where I know, I don't
think we're victim blaming, but we'll discuss sure. That's what we do on
the show. This is a reaction show. If you've never listened to it
before, what we do is we listen to the same thing you just listen
to, and then we say all those things that you're probably thinking, yeah,
and let us know if you think some of these things, like let
us know what you thought when you her first heard this. Wow, that
came out hard. Yeah. When it starts the episode, I'm I'm blaming
mom instantly. Yeah, just like a matter because I don't know about these
cases. So just the way you listen to it, you just go,
this bitch killed her kids. Of course it's true. I have the exact
same problem when you're when you get really into the true crime podcast genre,
you find yourself becoming what's called an armchair detective, where just you're lean back
and you're you're doing the facts, searching yourself. You're trying to figure it
out before the answers are revealed, just the facts. Mike, Yes,
and I am like you two and that when this episode started and you hear
them, well, really, even before they mentioned the mom, they just
mentioned the dad. They mentioned Kevin Krim, who's like on an airplane back
from a trip. He's looking forward to seeing his kids, and then police
are boarding the plane and I'm like, this guy did it. That's why
I thought. I was like, now he was fucking around in Chicago,
that son of a bitch was having all sorts of orgies. Well and Matt
his wife murdered, right, Yeah, And it's not at all the story,
No, at all, there's two twists right off the bat. Yeah,
I was shocked. Were you shocked that they made that announcement on the
plane? The police stay seated the police, I think they have to,
but he wasn't being arrested. Of course they wanted they wanted to get to
him before, you know, but it didn't make sense that they wouldn't have
just been waiting for him or made the announcement for or him. Kes that
made it sound like there was a criminal onboard. I think I agree with
you. They could have handled this in a much more subtle way. Right.
I'm assuming that the reason it took place on the plane was because they
knew that this guy was in seat twenty two F or whatever, and so
they could very easily identify this person, right versus waiting at the end of
that ramp when you get off the plane and then just knowing which of these
passengers is the guy. It was just it was just weird. And when
when I gotta say this, when I say things about they handle this wrong.
You know, at the end of the day, we're all human,
Like they may be the police, but they're humans. Sure, they don't
they don't we don't know, you know, they may be experts, but
at the same time we're just human. So absolutely. Yeah. So when
I when I say, oh, these fucking douche and wetpts, yeah I
was more so. I was more shocked than a MSNBC suppressed sends our eyes
out and coach, Yeah that's funny. I was like, really it was
in coach, that's weirder. Comedian was upfront. Yeah that's right, baba.
I fly first class. Wow, look at you, and I like
to brag about it every so often. What's that like, I've never done
it? Shut up, Let's just take a minute away from this case.
I'm totally serious. Look, I don't have never, I've never flow never.
Okay, I'm gonna tell you. Hold on, let me tell you
the one first class experience. No oh. This was me coming home from
my honeymoon with my beautiful wife, flying home from London and through circumstances that
were out of our control, we nearly missed our flight from London back to
California and running like home alone style, running through the airport trying to make
this flight. We finally got on the flight and we had to walk through
first class and I looked at two seven year old boys who had these full
cliners, and I'll never forget just sipping from a cup of orange juice,
and I was like, I'm sweating and panting from running through the airport,
and I was just like, these fucking kids, they're never gonna understand they're
seven years old. They're never gonna remember this experience. This is my honeymoon.
This is my honeymoon that I think, honestly, I don't think kids
should be allowed in first class. No, I really don't think it should
be a twenty one and over club. You should be required to drink.
I have required to drink in first class, and then you have everybody turned
into oasis, going to calling people pan heads for no apparent race. I
tell me about this glory, because again I've only I walked through. And
then they closed those two little hamper curtains. I don't see the curtain.
The curtains close on international flights, but they don't on on just a regular
yeah, domestic. I looked at the curtain and they were like, sir,
turn your head away to look that. Don't even think about moving that.
We're gonna have you exit from the back of the Blaney. Um.
It is the best flying drink. You get a snap, you get,
you get sometimes you get a hot towel. They used to give you hot
towels, and uh and uh, stay, give you a little package when
you fly international. Then you just put on some socks and aren't you own.
You can get pajamas. You can wear pajamas. It's the best.
But the problem with first classes one day you end up flying private jet.
Once you're facing the dragon, Dude's chased because once you're fly private jet,
you come back to first class and oh this is bullshit because on private jet
you have estimated time of leaving a departure, and on a on a on
this first class you're still leaving at exact times. So yeah, it is
be honest with me. And another audio is going out to a lot of
people. But you're living the high life. You're flying private jets. You
know you're flying first class. Ever been to the mile high Club? Have
I ever been to male high? Up? For the listener step been shipping
on an airplane? I'm not answering this. All right means yes on Southwest
back years ago, sad dumb all of say, I'll tell you fish sticks,
that's all us. I don't want to know what that means. We
have to laugh up front here because I just don't want to get into this
exist and I don't want to do it. I don't want to talk about
these things. As soon as we get there, it's no more, no
more first class, no more first class talk. Yeah, I have to
reluctantly try to bring us back to the story here. Now, neither of
us have to let you know, just let you people know. Michael's looking
through it at us through a window over there, telling us to keep on
track. Yeah. Probably he's just like you guys telling this story. Mike
doesn't care. He he cares how we roll. He cares, he does,
he cares too much, he cares too much. All right, let's
try to let's try to get through this story. This one's really messed up.
I don't have kids. I know you don't have kids. So neither
of us have had to deal with having a caretaker, somebody that you trust
too. How about a dog walker? Oh, there you go, you
have to trust him. So I've never had a dog walker before. Yeah,
my wife, My wife makes them rigorously fill out for him. And
yeah, we have to have they would to be suggested I gotta yeah,
all sorts of things, but as we learn in this, you can't trust
them. Mean shit. I mean honestly, this is the type of story
that makes me feel like if I were to have kids, I would I
don't care how hard it would be. I would have to just constantly be
watching them. I would not allow anybody, nobody allowed to look at It
sounds like, according to my friends, that's what happens on the first child.
If you have another one, you stopped caring as much as much.
Yeah, it kind of slowly slips down. Yeah. I was actually this
past week and I hung out with some friends of mine, just punched a
microphone, some friends of mine that I hadn't seen in forever, but somebody
that I grew up with, and I was reminded that at age eight,
my friend and I were dropped off by my parents at the movie theater to
go see a classic film called Hot Shots Part And I always remember that it
was like the first time I ever got to see a movie in the theater
by myself without my parents. But you're eight, eight years old, and
I had it in my memory that this happened. But as I've gotten older,
I have thought that can't be true. I can't possibly be true.
And I hung out with my friend and I was like, do you have
this memory? And he remembered the exact movie title and everything, and we
know when that movie was released, and it just my parents are incredible.
I have amazing parents. Can you imagine in twenty twenty one or twenty twenty
two having dropping off your eight year old child to go see a movie and
this was something that was just happening all the time. I'll go a reverse
on you. Isn't it sad that we can't? Yes, that's the problem,
Like not that. Can you believe you could? You could? It's
like, right, well, you're right. Why why have we gotten to
that point? What? What have we let take over the internet? Is
that what it is? I think there's just two Like it used to be.
You only found out about a missing kid if you were a milk drinker
and you bought write carton of milk, you know what I mean? Like
now I want to check my email and they're seventeen links, especially because I
read true crime stuff. My Facebook wall is my Google search engine. I'm
surprised police have not come to my door before. I've got to Google some
very upsetting things. Oh my god, but christ, Google just hasn't shut
you down. Hey man, can you come down a little bit. Yeah,
I'm sure it's only a matter of time. But I think, honestly,
that's why I think it is. I think, my You know,
all of the people now who have kids have heard more stories than they could
ever ever, so you expect to hear, so you don't think there's more.
You don't think more stuff is happening. You think it's the same amount.
But we know more. I'm gonna even go a step further. I'm
willing to bet that there's a little bit less than they're used to be,
but now we know more. And the reason I think there's less is because
of like security cameras and stuff. I think back in the day, people
could be just completely carefree about kidnapping somebody without anyone finding out, Like there
was just so many ways to get away with X, y Z. But
now I think there is a deterrent to having everybody having the camera and their
hand cameras being installed in buildings all the time. So I feel like there
has been a slight decrease, but the amount of information has just exploded that's
my hot take. That's a good hot take. Thank you. I'll tell
you mine. I mean it's not a hot take. I just something about
that what you just said. I could never get my camera open on my
phone and time to tape anything. I don't know how people actually tape stuff.
Yeah, I can describe about what just happened my camera. But well
again, i'll tech talkie after the show. Here, let's get let's get
that baby on your home screening, and I feel like we can figure this
out. That's two episodes and a rail you've called my grandpa. That is
awesome. O love it. Yeah, all right, Hot Shots Part two?
What was your favorite part? Oh my god? Well, I think
at the very end of the movie when mister Bean, who's the long lost
husband is rex rescued from prison and Charlie Sheen, who's rescuing him, is
carrying him on his shoulders and is getting shot repeatedly, and mister Bean,
who's not the one being shot, is the one who's like complaining about how
long it's all taking. And there's just a big finale with the American Gladiators.
I mean, it's it's one of the all time greats. I love
those kind of dumb movies. Yeah. Yeah, it's sad that there's not
more in the month anymore. Yeah, anyone else is sad in this horrible
case. I know, I'm trying to push it off. I don't know
if let's go to that. Let's not, let's not review hot Shots Part
two. Oh no, Well, let's go back to this idea of needing
somebody to take care of your kids. It's not going to be just anybody.
You want to make sure that you get references, right, And in
this particular story, that's exactly what happened. They the parents were very conscientious
about who's gonna watch their kids, and well, they weren't even planning on
getting a nanny, were they right? They were just making it work,
just working from home. Mega Network, Mega Network, And then they were
The wife was approached by somebody, Celia, who said, hey, you
should hire my sister. She's great with kids, Celiac, She's worked with
kids before. And she said, when you guys have your third child,
you guys are gonna need her. You're gonna need it. Now we find
out the very third child you're gonna need, You're gonna need this babysitter to
get rid of two of them. Oh no, horrible, but if you
done in sorry, I apologize to everybody at home work. Well, we
find out at the very end of this episode that can I stop. Yes,
I want to put it out there to people children. Yeah, I'm
available. Look when I'm not flying first class, let me take care of
it. Yeah. I want to know. How many people have a nanny
And there's there's different rates of nanni's, like one that just is in the
afternoon, that comes over after like after school, or do you have a
full full day nanny? Because I know a couple of friends that have nanny's
um and there they I have one that has a full time nanny, and
then I have one that just you know, they come over and they do
stuff when when after school? So do you do you think it's unnecessary?
Do you think do you think it's gross that somebody has one? Or I
need to know take on nanny's Yeah, because I don't. I don't know.
Like when I hear the story, I'm like, well, my mom
didn't work and my dad worked and my mom was able to keep it all
together, Like why us all together? Why? Why does she need why
does she need a nanny. I mean, listen, everybody, I gotta
just preface it by by trying to apologize as an advance for people who do
live this kind of a life. I do think that if you don't have
a job, one of the people in the relationship doesn't have a job,
that person can be the full time is the nanny, right skin maybe should
be the nanny. But I also understand that people have ambitions, people have
things that they want to do in their lives. They don't want to be
seen as just a mother or a housewife or insert word here. So I
understand that if again, just in this nineteen fifties view of Americana where the
husband goes off to work and it's just a wife's job to watch the kids.
That's kind of like an old school of thinking. So I can see
how having a caretaker at home to help lighten the load if you have multiple
kids, it requires a lot of work. I get it, I understand,
and I know this is this is weird, but it's part of the
story. I'm like, how much money is this guy making at CNBC?
Right, he can afford a nanny, but not a first class ticket.
M still on this first class thing but you know it's and they're paying cash
for right At least i'd have to do as half a dense attacks right off.
Yeah, well, I mean again, I just like you. I
feel like I've known people on all parts of the spectrum. I know people
who had nanny's, people who didn't have nannies. I never did. Both
my parents worked, so I don't really know. I guess that's why they
dropped me off at the movies when I was eight years old. A lot
I hired about. I was taken care of by the man theaters movie staff.
Um. But yeah, I was raised on popcorn. I just it
does seem story yoh yeah please. So I'm on LinkedIn and for some unknown
reason, I get a job opportunity for a comedian. It's for a nanny,
for a comedian to nanny a comedian. No, it's an it's to
be a nanny of a comedian's kids. Okay, there we go right now.
And it was full time and it was sixty thousand dollars a year or
something like that. There you go. But I was just like, this
is weird, And as I read through it, I figured out it was
one of my friends. Oh really, Yes, he's a little pale,
he's blonde, he's from New York. If you can't figure out what that
is. But it was. But I when they said paid cash, I
was, I was like, this, doesn't you know even though they did
so much, they wanted to references and stuff. I felt they paid what
they they got what they paid for, even though they didn't pay for a
murder. They but they still didn't, you know, and I didn't do
enough. Yeah, because if they had paid them over the counter, I
don't know what they under the table is. If they had paid them in
a more professional way, maybe you're not getting a professional. If you're paying
cash, you're not a professional unless it's a side job for a professional that
you know. You know, But it's at the same time, I was
just like, ah, it really bothered me. It bothered me a lot.
And I'm not blaming the parents. It's just because we know that there's
so many of this happens, and none of that happens, right, Yeah,
you know, because babysitters don't get paid cash and they don't murder us
all, you know, so one more kids so basically get paid cash,
right, I'm saying they get paid cash and none of them barely have references
and stuff like that. Usually teach your kid how to smoke and stuff.
But then it's it's it's it's I don't know why it bothers me that they
paid cash for a nanny, but I felt like they didn't get a professional.
Yeah, it's sort of like in the dating world. What I heard
was that there's certain dating sites that you go to if you're actually serious about
having a relationship. You want to go on one of those apps. You
know it's a free site or whatever. You're not going to have high quality
dates. Yeah, you gotta go to plenty of Fish, right, is
that what it is? Somebody this weekend they'd met on plenty of Fish.
I'm like, is that free? And I like, am I won't be
careful? Yeah exactly. I know it's a weird thing to equate it too,
but I can I can see what you're saying. You do want to
have a nanny, that's I guess licensed in blah blah blah. But well,
do you go to the mechanic that has a shop or the guy that
you know has another job that's nothing to do with being a mechanic. But
does it? Does it for fun in his garage. Yeah. Yeah,
no, I mean again, I feel like I have except and I don't
know why I'm so mad that like, that's that least. Yeah, that's
the least of the situation. Yeah, but it annoys the fuck Adamy.
Well, i'll tell you what bothers me about it. Okay, Well,
besides the by that she murdered children, it's very upsetting a fact. But
what is like really disturbing about this and kind of messes with my brain is
that allegedly this woman was a pretty okay employee for like two years. Right,
So even if you can get past the whole notion of the we are
paying under the table, after a year, she's proved herself, she's proven
herself, and I feel like at that point the walls are really coming down.
I mean, you people are getting too relationships with partners that last less
time than that, you know what I mean. So to me, the
really upsetting part is that this woman just had this like hatred and stuff just
like festering for two years and never said anything about being uncomfortable, and then
she just snapped. And nobody, at least the way this story's told,
nobody had any clue that that was going to happen. It was. It
was interesting that she would say things, but she would put on a different
face with the people, right, you know. They said that she was
being she was annoyed that they offered her more work because she needed more money.
Like instead of asking her saying saying, no, can you pay me
more? Yeah, she instead was just like incredulous that they would even suggest
that. And the hours weren't crazy. It was like twenty five hours a
week at is one of the parts of this episode I have like bulleted and
outlined in my outline. We can get to it right now. Though she
was only working twenty five hours a week, right, that's the part that
blew my mind. I didn't have another job and was able to live in
New York and pay for her son's private school. There's this whole thing where
she's like, it doesn't want her kid to repeat a grade, so they
let's get into that. Let's let's get into private school. Sure, Catholic
private school seven thousand dollars down payment? Yes, what what's Christian about?
Then? That's a great question. I don't get. I think Catholic private
school should be free, and they pick who they want, but it shouldn't.
You shouldn't be making a profit off of there's no church that should be
make a profit off of teaching somebody. Yeah, I guess when I hear
private school though, if whether or not it's a religious school, I just
feel like the like school institution takes priority over that church institution, you know
what I mean. Like, I'm not saying it's right, but I just
feel like, if you're a school, you are, like you're allowed to
charge people tuish in I don't think that should be exorbitant. And I'll tell
you from personal experience, I'm still paying my college loans because I went to
an extremely expensive college. My wife is, yeah, and it's it's ridiculous.
I mean, I had a great experience there, but I mean I've
been in a college for over ten years now, I mean at least tubes.
Yeah. So I mean I understand that a nice university is going to
cost you some money. And I guess, like the people in this story,
my parents sent me to a school that they were not prepared to pay
for financially and thus still paying for loans and whatever. But this situation in
this case, I mean the woman hadn't seen her son for like ten or
eleven years, which was a little bit unclear to me, but she like
fourteen or something left the family and then I guess maybe started to make a
little bit of money here and then told him to come on out. And
then now her expenditures are just going through the roof. But I'm she was
also sending money to different charities, you know, all over the place.
And it seemed like she had been told by somebody that her kid has to
go to a private school. Yeah, if you want your kid to be
anybody, or if you don't want them to go to hell, because mom
and dad there's they're they're they're able to pay for a nanny and they're sending
their kid to public school. Right, So what what? Where? Did?
Where did this twist off? Like? What what happened that this lady
has been talked talked into or told that her kid needs to go to private
Christian Catholic school? Right? Yeah, I mean that's one of the larger
questions in this first part of the story. I one can only surmise that
she it was almost, at least in my brain, like the seeds of
her envy like just starting to see how she's trying to be like Marina,
Like she wants to be able to give her kids the kind of thing that
she's seeing and being a part of every day. And she's going home to
this you know, shitbox apartment and forgive the term. And so maybe in
her mind this is a an elite status that my kid is attending this school.
I'm better than you. Yeah, trying to find a way to get
a little bit weird, weird jealousy, weird jealous weird, weird kind of
thing. We're about twenty five minutes, twenty six minutes into the show,
and I'd like to bring up that my sister's name is Jocelyn. Oh,
it is funny when like a name you're closed with. It's like the killer
in the story and my sister has all these attributes. Well, let me
ask you, though, is your sister name Jocelyn or is it Yoselin.
Well, from now on, she's gonna be al a lot tonight, Yosel
Yocelin. When you recommend this show to people, maybe don't recommend that your
sister listens to that one. Oh, jos BOSSI uh uh I. I
think the family, not the family that hired her, but her family was
setting up somebody. It wasn't specifically these people, but what were they setting
them up for, like putting this lady in charge. Hmm. It was
very bizarre, the whole as it. I don't may have gotten too far
ahead of the story. The fact the fact that they wrote fake recommendations and
stuff from people that didn't have children. Yeah, um is it's not just
a scam, it's evil, right because they had no idea how this lady
took care of kids. Yeah, especially when it's with kids, Like if
you want to write like a fake reference letter because you've got a job at
the Domino's Pizza and you want to say that you worked at Little Caesar's before,
but you really did it. Yeah, I'm not. I feel like
that's a little bit more okay, right, if you're going to be in
charge of children. Though, let's be honest here, it's not School of
Rock. Yeah, you know they they the twenty five hours thing though.
Yeah, that's that's what's wild to me. And I'm glad that we have
circled back to this because there is a line in the episode where they're saying
that Yosselyn could either have quality time with her son hayeseus or have money for
hayeseus. Right, And at the time hearing that sentence, it made sense
to me that, Okay, she's either got to spend time with her kid
or she's got to be at work to make money for the kid. I
get that she can't have both. But then when you hear that she was
only working twenty five hours a week, now, I'm like, how does
she not have plenty of time to be and still hang with a kid.
She could work two more part time jobs and still hang with a kid,
or she could work one more full time job and still have time with a
kid. She won twenty five hours. Let's commute time for most people,
right, and it's I mean, it is exhausting work to be dealing with
kids. I get that, But twenty five hours. Let's just say on
a five days a week, Yeah, Monday to Friday. That's five hours
for Monday to Friday. So that's ten o'clock to three o'clock or three to
three to eight or four to nine, right, four to nine probably actually,
I know you just were trying to mock me, but I'd probably say
no, would probably be two to six. What what would you think?
What do you think her hours were? Well, they do talk about this
idea of the like dance classes, so it's after school kind Yeah, it
was like an after school thing, so three thirty three. Yeah, but
also one of the kids is like ten months old, it's not even in
school, so my mom probably takes care of that child more. Yeah.
Right, either way, I think even if she showed up at two in
the afternoon, which sounds pretty late to me, that's a sweet job.
Yeah, that's like, that sounds pretty great to me. And you still
have the weekends. Yeah, chug your beers with your other child, do
you unless do you think it was two and a half hours in the morning,
two and a half hours and the swing shift, yea swing shift,
and she's traveling back and forth. But even then maybe, But that's that's
that's a school bus driver. That's a school bus driver job exactly. And
the idea that the wife, Marina started to say to her, Hey you
need some extra money, I'll give you some extra hours. Here, your
son can dog sit. And for some warped, fucked up reason she got
she saw that. Yeah, she took it as an insult, like,
how dare you say I do more work. I already playing work like I
just that's the disconnect that I'm just not understanding. She's offering you further employment
and add ten more hours to your week. Which what have they created this
over the two years that she's worked she's worked for them? Correct? Have
they created this jealousy? Like did it start out different? Which isn't said
in the show? You know she's basically they've made it seem like she was
above it as she was there, which is fine. You can be above
things, right, You can be like, well, look I don't want
any more hours, I'll keep these hours. I'll figure it out. You
can be above it, but don't take it and then be mad that you
got it exactly right. And also, if you are gonna get mad about
it, let's try to find some other ways to blow off steam here,
right, You know, you don't need to be like talking back to your
boss or anything. But what she was she she didn't talk about it like
they never said there was problems with her, like her work was shoddy.
It was the opposite. Yeah, this was extremely reliable and which which is
so bizarre, Like I fucking hate you. I'm gonna make this so good.
You'll never find anybody as good as me. Yeah, you, son
of a bitch. I'm gonna clean this kitchen counter and you won't look like
anyone ate here. Yeah. Yeah, you will eat off this floor.
You will never buy plates again. Well, listen, I know what it's
like to be angry at work. I think we all do, you know,
But no, I love this. Well, this isn't work, man,
this is this is just play. This is this is twenty five hours
a week. I'm gonna kill Mike. I'm above him. I guess it
just became too much to have like two different lives. You know, she
was like taking care of these rich kids in this huge house and they weren't
her kids. But then when she was with her kid, then the setting
wasn't right. So, you know, I think it just nothing ever felt
comfortable. Now, why do you think she was mentally ill? I think
she's mentally ill to the point where she diabolically committed a heinous ad. Right,
She's she's not insane, right, she's evil? For Yeah. Yeah,
I think she has a jealousy, a crazy mental disorder that doesn't stop
her from being a functioning person in society, but one that allowed her to
think it was okay to do this. That's to me, I don't I
don't know how the courts ever draw that line, like, yeah, you
were insane for doing this, but you weren't so insane that you didn't know
you were doing this, and the we should It's been over half an hour.
Now we got to just now talk about the horrible thing that we have
been avoiding talking about. Can we talk about something before we go to there?
Please, let's try to get to a whole hour before we talk about.
Let's all just all sit around and whispered this a second. Anybody else
find it weird that mom said she liked the boy the best. I actually
remember that line. She talked about how much she liked the boy. Oh
no, yeah, So then one of the boy dies and one of the
girls dies, but one of the girls lives. And now later on in
life, you're gonna hear that, because yeah, I was like, oh,
and then what do they do? They have two more kids? Yep,
and they're both boys. I was just like, oh my god,
I was so bizarre. It was just like, holy shit, Yeah,
it was so bizarre, I will say, And it's brought up in this
episode too. This does seem like a pretty strong family considering all the stuff
that happened. Yeah, you know, it's that is pretty Uh. The
fact that mom and dad are still together and had more kids is probably not
going to happen in many families after something like that, right, and just
it's like one of the clips that I have is them talking about, like
focusing on like the good things that came out of this, which, as
a listener just hearing the case, I'm just like, right, no good
came out of this? And what do you what are you talking about?
Because it would have been very easy for them to blame each other like why
were you out of town? Where were you? Where were you? Like?
What? What the fuck? You know? Why why weren't you with
two of the kids at least? Right, But thankfully they don't do any
of that. At least I would not that. Yeah, exactly exactly,
So so tell us what happened, man, lets let's get involved. So
they have this whole thing about both Jocelyn and Marina. Again, that's the
mom, the babysitter and the mom. They're sharing this responsibility of taking the
girls to their different classes. And this one ends when this one's about to
start. And for two years, this whole system they had in place all
worked out. But on this one horrible night, the mom goes to pick
up her daughter and meet them at the ballet class or whatever it was,
and she's not there, and then she starts frantically calling where are you,
and the woman's not picking up the phone. And then, of course the
really horrible part, which is the mom comes back to the apartment with her
other daughter. It's really dark in there, which is creepy as hell,
and then they open the bathroom door and they see that both of her kids
have been brutally murdered, and the woman who did it is standing there waiting
for her to see it. And then that woman tries to kill herself,
but only after she's had this moment of glory of watching the woman that she
hates be miserable. It's so insane. It's just so insane that she's just
waiting there. And the anger that she used on these kids is incredible.
Yeah, it's never brought up in the court case, when when when where
you listen to it? I'm just like, I'm like, can you like
the anger was insane? They thought they were they were their heads were taken
off, right, Like, that's crazy, that is so much anger.
And then the way I apparently they bled out slowly yep. Uh so just
just like so watching them, watching them, but like, well, that
was the thing that I think, uh, we probably could have spent a
little more horrible time with there probably just wasn't enough information about this. But
to me, the part of the story that didn't really get addressed is the
fact that Yosselyn was in that bathroom with those two bodies for ninety minutes,
however long it was. It wasn't three minutes, it was way longer than
that. And we talked. They talked a lot about what happened with the
actual murders, and obviously one of the most disturbing things ever is the idea
that the bodies were stacked, which is so gross and weird. And I
made, yeah, she's an organization first, But then to just sit in
the bathroom with the door closed and just sit there in that eerie silence.
You know, do you think she was waiting to kill the mom? Uh?
No, only because that's we're kind of told in the story. Otherwise,
I don't think they tell us. But I was just like, why
would you wait there? Why wouldn't you have just stabbed yourself then? Like
you really think you would just wanted to see your face? Yeah, I
mean that, that to me is what makes it because even more because you
think you'd see, let mom see the see the bodies, and then stab
mom and that would be the last thing they seen. Right. But I
guess there's there are things worse than death, you know. It's like you
you you don't get to die. You have to live the rest of your
life knowing that in what her she her mind is like you were a horrible
parent and blah blah b Yeah. So I just thought that the whole I
mean, the whole bathroom scene is just so deeply disturbing. And I don't
know why the idea of the bodies being stacked is so upsetting to me.
You joked about it like that, there's like an organizational aspect to it,
because she's a man. You joked about it just gives me trouble. You
joked about it. What else I'm supposed to do? Cry? Yeah?
No, But I don't know. For some reason, if the descriptor had
been that the bodies were just disheveled and thrown into the tub. I don't
think it. I mean, it's still very disturbing, but there is something
about the meticulousness of the stacking, and it's there's another episode of Sword and
Scale, one of the ones I worked on. I think it's actually a
plus one. I don't think it was one of the main ones. So
unless you want to pay for her, you can't listen to it. That's
what Matt. You said there for Sword and Sale plus if you want to
available now. But it was another case where the dude like stacked the bodies.
It's got to be some sort of so weird. It's got to be
some sort of mental disease, right, It's got to be it's got to
be some sort of psychiatry thing. Yeah, I don't. I don't know.
If you're if you're an expert, let us know why people would do
that. Yeah, yeah, I just it's got to be something. There's
no there's something to it. It's it's it's it's definitely specific and calculated.
It's not random. To answer your question, though, I just I guess
I already did. I don't. I don't think that she was ever intended
on killing Marina when she got there. I think she wanted Marie. That's
who she would suffer forever. It's weird that you don't kill the person that
you're most angry at, because that's who she was most angry at. They
never say she didn't get along with the kids or the kids didn't have a
good time, because the kids would have been telling mom, hey, don't
send us with her. You would have you would have seen a change in
the kids, right, Yeah, And they never said that the kids had
that. So all that animosity and anger was built up towards this woman and
just just just wanted to take away. Yeah, just like you said to
Just the anger that this woman had, just the amount of rage is just
so disturbing. And you know, again, there's plenty of other horrible details
to talk about. The idea that the little girl who died like tried to
fight for her life, but you know, she's six years old. The
idea that the other sister was, you know, four years old and she
saw everything was kind of old enough to understand what was happening. All the
neighbors were calling the shrieks of the mom. I mean, there's just what
an awful, awful thing. Yeah, Yeah, that that noise. Mike
brings up one of the sins. I can't remember which sin he brought up.
It was the sin of envy. Envy, but there was. She
probably hit about four or five sins, right, yeah, she wasn't.
She didn't not just the one time, right now, she she because she
was would have been jealousy would have been one of them, right, jealous
and vs. Jealousy? What what? What are's? Uh, there's sloth,
she did it slowly. There's rage, rage, rage, there's she's
coveting her life. Yeah, right, there's the one where you eat all
the time, gluttony, gluttony. Maybe she was gluttonous too, and didn't
say They didn't say she didn't. She didn't run away because she couldn't.
Uh. Yeah, murder's got to be one of them, right, yeah.
Yeah, it's been a while since I've seen seven. Yeah, it's
covered pretty exclusively in that movie. Well, there's other signs that, uh,
that Yoselin planned all this, including the fact that the night of the
murders, she left a bunch of legal documents behind with her family and included
essentially a sue A side note, she had every intention of killing herself after
her grand presentation, if you will, and just a real lesson. I
feel like all of us learned in this episode is you can't cut your own
throat and die. No, you just can't. People have tried for millennia.
You know, there's the exception that proves the rule. But this girl,
this monster, excuse me, this monster sliced so deeply that she broke
bones, she damaged her vocal core. She had to be like intubated.
She lived through it. So you know, people out there thinking about it,
just don't do it. You don't do it. I love the way
when she wakes up in a hospital, she just instantly starts blaming them,
just starts complaining, they made me work twenty three hours a week. Yeah,
these asshotas. I have to imagine that's where the narrative of she did
all of this because she hated Marina so much. I'm wondering if that's not
where that part of the story where he really gets filled in, because it
sounds like once she's on her in her recovery bed, that she's just a
fountain of complaints and you know, excuses, And I feel like that would
have been the time where she had maybe said why she was doing what she
was doing. She doesn't really ever say why though she doesn't really know.
But that's again why I feel like maybe she this is part of like her
just talking to doctors and people in the hospital. There's there's got to be
and it felt like she was pretending to be mentally ill. Well that's the
last part of this entire story, is this is the kind of trial and
the argument over whether or not she was mentally ill. Can you imagine having
to represent this woman? No, Okay, here's something I wanted to bring
up. The person that represents her, did they believe in her? Because
I was listening to that lady talk and I was like, um, she
sounds like she kind of m believer, which was really disturbing to me.
Well, when you are like a defense attorney, and especially if you're like
a state appointed one. Was that a state appointed one that I believe it's
like a public defender. Okay, this is a real tough case to have
to defend. I mean, the idea that she pleaded not guilty but had
also admitted to killing the kids is such a one too that like, I
just don't know how you defend that person. But instead they just tried to
make it seem like she was guilty, not guilty, but I did it.
Yeah, yeah, like that's I know, all the evidence that you
have, all the physical evidence, all points to me doing it, and
I did do it, but I'm not guilty. What's the one? What's
the what's the mental disease where you're like arrogant and you just believe yourself all
the time no matter what you do. Narcissism is that? Do you think
that's what she actually has? And I don't think that's I don't think you
can get off on anything being a narcissist extreme version of narcissism. Yeah,
I mean a narcissist would probably be would probably be angling that the killing was
more to benefit her life as opposed to doing it to ruin someone else's life.
Well, but she was doing it because they had what she deserved,
she felt she deserved. Yeah, I mean that's I think you could be
right. There's like a light narcissism at play here. That's that is probably
part of it. What about this idea that she went and saw a psychologist
of her own volition, like her family never told her to do it,
even though she told him that she was like having visions of the devil following
her at church and they're like, oh, okay, cool, well see
Tuesday, Like you don't need help. But she went and saw a there
you specialized in criminal behavior something absurd like that, right, which I don't
know how that was the psychologist that she found. I think it was just
by mistake that that that was that was his expertise. I mean kind of
not right, but you could have been like, that's that's why he would
have thought. She would have been thought off, I'm feeling crazy, I
gotta go see a psychologist. She goes and sees a psychologist. He asked
questions that she's not you know, like expecting, right, and that kind
of maybe gives her ideas well, That's what I was wondering, like what
the fuck did this guy tell her? Because he gave her a clean bill
of health, and then she went and yeah, murdered two children. I
went to a psycho. I go to a psychologist every once in a while,
and I go because I don't go to I go to a therapist rather
than the one that can give you drugs, because I prefer to not go
the drug way on things. And and yeah, right, I've seen you,
uh fan knows puzes um, but I always they never I don't remember
them ever judging me, writing me down, just that they just let me
talk. So I didn't understand what that was where you got a clean bill
help because they basically just said, yeah, come back, you know,
come back. They could have just been asking that. They never said go,
yeah, no, you're fine, go. They never say that that's
true, although they they do say in this case that there was just never
a follow up appointment. But that does sound a little a little strange to
me too. Most therapists want want that next watch a business. Yeah,
yeah, that's true. That cliche is always we're out of time. Yes,
we don't have time to talk about your murderous impulses, but we'll save
that for next week your love of nice. Let gets back to that next
week. Yeah, it did. The I thing is just it just grosses
me out and just terrifies me. The person, Yeah, the person that
can kill somebody with a knife is fucking way more like just evil than anybody
that shoots somebody with a gun, pushes anybody. You have to very rarely
is it one knife staff, right, and just to be able to feel
that over and over and over again, and the feel of something being cut
is just that's when. Yeah, that's that's evil. That is completely evil,
but a good person to have a Thanksgiving because they will make your turkey
carved. Yeah. If you ever need to vent a potato before you put
it in the microway, I can get it through. Yeah. No,
I agree, And I will say pulling the curtain back a little bit when
we're looking at Sword and Scale episodes, trying to stay away from like Appy
shot Er. Yeah, I mean there's plenty of episodes that that just there's
enough other circumstances that it's compelling enough story. But generally speaking, when you
want to tell a story about somebody who's super evil, they are generally committing
a first hand, you know, kind of crime. Yeah, I would
agree that the knife crime is really creepy. Also, any sort of like
farming equipment, you know, interesting like a like an axe, Oh okay,
you know, pretty scary. There is this guy in Vancouver that would
kill hookers and feed them to pigs who save that for a Sword in Scale
episode? Do you know about him? That's pretty cool? Yeah, that's
pretty cool. Listen, man, this is my business. I call him
the Hooker Bacon, the Hooker Bacon murders, the Hooker Bacon murders. I'm
wow, oh god, how do we go from as a seriousness that's stupid?
Like a seconds, we should be committed. Um, you actually provided
a great line here. I can get us right back unless you have a
thought ahead. You talked about your hooker Bacon trial murders. This trial.
This trial also had a snappy name. They called it the nanny murder trial.
Now, I'm always interested by the like name with which we refer to
a horrific incident like this. Obviously, like you know, the OJ trial
or whatever. Nanny murder trial is confusing to me. I first think a
nanny has been murdered, right, Then I have to do the math that
know a nanny did the murdering, right, And then I just don't even
know if nanny is even the right way to describe this woman. It's just
a very misleading, just like snappy headline kind of name. The fake nanny
murder trials is what they should be, yeah, or the Nana Boo Boo
trial. See now, where were you in twenty and sixteen? And this
could have been called Boo boo trial. They had to it. Do you
think they just overlooked things? There had to be some some hey, that
girl is not right, Like yeah, I mean, I just here's the
thing, and I agree with you. But after doing one hundred and sixty
seven episodes of this Bragger, one of the things that stands out a lot
is the person that it happens to or that like becomes the killer, is
the killer they you didn't, you would never know. You would never know
that that person would one day just snap and do all these terrible things.
That's what makes this whole genre so fucking scary. So you know, if
I had been this has been the very first episode of Sword and Scale I
ever listened to, I would be thinking, yeah, there had to be
other signs that she was a nutter before this went down. But frankly,
I'm not surprised that nobody saw it coming, because I mean, what was
really wild about this particular case is that all of this talk about the mental
health all came up after like during the trial, right, you know,
there wasn't talk about her being crazy in the lead up to this. It
was only after a legal strategy needed to be formed, right, And now
you get all these witnesses in these stories and all these things trying to like
quote unquote fill in the blanks, but those blanks are not supposed to be
filled in. With the mental illness angle. It's kind of single white female
kind of though, right, except for the nanny wants to have the life
of the mom. Yeah, yeah, I can see that. Yeah,
it's the same, the themes of like jealousy and wanting that to have that
life, but in single white female it's noticeable, like that bitch of nuts.
Yeah, but they point out specifically that Yosselin. Yosselin finished college,
she had several old jobs for you know, major companies. But what you
could still be crazy is what you're saying. Well, no, mo,
I'm saying, I don't want to work for this family. I don't work
in too many hours. You had jobs, you fucking have a college education,
and you had jobs with major companies. Get the fuck out of their
home, Yeah, go do something else. Yeah, Like that's like why
are there? But mom and dad don't know. Mom and dad don't know
that the lie that's been committed on to them by the by the family,
So who knows why she's been let go, or if she was let go
from these major, major jobs, maybe she was showing signs there of being
a complete fucking lunatic. Yeah, just that just makes it all the more
tragic, you know, And that's kind of what's talked about too. Is
I wish we knew if, in fact she was telling her family job for
twenty five hours a week. Yeah, I mean too. Actually I already
have one of those. I do that on top of my other forty hour
week up the family hearing about the visions of the black man visiting her at
church and it's the sign of the devil, and the devil made me do
it. All of that talk then becomes part of like this circus of it.
It's not a black man, there's not a black guy. It's a
guy that's just just a shadow. Yeah, I suppose. But the fact
that they have to bring in a like cultural expert to to talk about it
is all just another layer of this really sick fucking thing that Yoselin did.
But it's just putting the whole family through this trial. You did it,
right, But isn't that mostly isn't that most court cases like it's a show
to try you do the show to try to get away with stuff. I
hate to bring up that Kyle rittenhouse thing, but you're like his mom took
him to a in different state with a gun, like you know, like
what more do you need? And then then then there's a show. There's
a show, there's a show on all these cases. It's sorry, it's
just sort of the way that the American media and I'm intal justice similar works
that way. Rum but I don't understand how they don't crush some of the
show. What but with like A extra upsetting about this one though, is
when you say that you're guilty of doing something or no, she said she
was not guilty, so but but she also admitted to doing it, like
she shouldn't have been allowed. I guess again, it gets so complicated.
I was gonna say she shouldn't be allowed to say that I'm not guilty by
reason of insanity. But that's not fair either, because there are instances where
somebody does commit a crime and they're insane at the time that it happens.
But it's just a great line. It's just very complicated. How many people
get away with being uh mentally insane, you know, and you get away
with a horrible when you have that, like, nobody very rarely works.
Yeah, so you know, at some and at some point, I hate
to say it, just because you're mentally ill doesn't mean you do things.
I don't know why I hate to say that saying that. No, No,
I hate to like, I don't want people being blamed because they're mentally
ill, of course, I mean, that's that's it seems like such an
excuse for the people that are not taking responsibility for what they did. Right,
that's you just hit the nail on the head there, That's exactly right.
It's the using it as a way to get out from the responsibility of
your actions. That's what's so disturbing about it, because, I mean it's
been said a bazillion times on a lot of true crime shows just because you
have mental illness doesn't mean you're going to commit some horrible crime. Nobody is
suggesting that. It also seems like they kind of went with that mental illness
because they said, well, what happened in her life? Has she ever
had any mental illness? And they said her sister died when she was young
and they had to put her on antidepressants, And then they kind of ran
with it from there. Yeah, which antidepressants doesn't mean you're mentally ill,
it means you're depressed. Right, so yeah, and who you know,
I'm pretty sure, you know, being that young, or anybody losing you
know, somebody close from my spouse, a sister or brother, you know,
is gonna be depressed. Nobody's gonna nobody's gonna go, oh well,
let's go to Disneyland now. Yeah. So and if they are, they're
gonna end up on the show, right, That's right. And by the
way, I'm I was very relieved to hear that nobody on the jury bought
the insanity defense, and I was shocked. Usually there's one personal well you
know, well, I don't think they did not say it was unanimous.
You know, maybe it was, but it was that specific word. I
did not hear that. So who knows, we could be We could still
be par for the course here and have one person she may she may have
luck I was talking about a devil follower. Isn't that weird people that want
to do jury duty. It is very strange. If you don't try to
get out of jerry duty. I don't know if you should be allowed to
be on the jury. I have the golden ticket now, and so do
you. You work for a true crime show. You never had the new
jury duty again? Let me shoot these guns there? Yeah, not in
the courthouse. I have for several years now. When I get called in
for jury duty, which happened a couple of times, they will ask you
like, what do you do? What's your career? And I'm always like,
I'm a true crime podcast producer. Part of my job is to analyze
cases. Thank you for your time, mister Bondelier. You may leave.
Oh yeah, this episode wasn't that sad after all because we just found that
out first class. Oh my god, I had no idea use it.
You're welcome. You're from Canada. You don't even get jury duty, do
you? I get them in the mail, but I say I'm from Canada,
even though even though I am becoming a citizen, I'm green cinted and
I've not trying to become a citizen because of jury duty. I mean,
nine times out of ten, you don't actually get put on a jury or
anything. You just have to be there for the day, read a book,
and then you're gonna go home. I don't I don't have that kind
of time, but twenty five hours a week. I definitely the last time
that happened to me. I got put into like a juror pool room where
they spent like two days going through jury selection. It was actually for a
murder trial. I swear it was did you write down like maybe we should
cover this one? No? Now, it was like, if I remember
correctly, it was like a gang murder kind of a thing. So it
was I didn't really fit the sword in scale theme so much, but I
totally played the card. And I also work for a show hosted by Mark
Garigus, very famous defense attorney called a reasonable Doubt, and the attorney was
like, I've worked with mister Garigus before. And the other attorney just saw
that and was like, your excuse. It was great And if you don't
mind, if you are listening to this show, I encourage you if you
could call for jury duty, tell them listen to true crime podcasts, and
if you text us on or send us a tweet that makes it even more
Yeah, and just tell them listen. I spent a lot of my time
analyzing cases. I don't believe I can be impartial. I would think if
I was in a room with people, I would be trying to explain to
them my logic and reasoning, and I analyze case one sixty seven and gave
my opinion. Yes, right through this set of tweets and the date on
it. There you go. You're welcome. You're welcome everybody. What a
great way to start the new year. Huh. I don't know why I
was hanging Happy Birthday, Happy New Years? Oh man? Hey, by
the way, have you been to a birthday party since since the pandemic?
I have outdoors very distance. Was there a cake? Uh? Yeah,
I think there was no candles. No one's blowing. So I went out
for dinner with some friends and they brought me a cake afterwards with a candle
on it, Like, huh interesting. So I just pulled the candle out
and turned out. Very smart of you like that. Nobody know there's a
pat Oh it's Orange County. Well, let's wrap this episode up here,
now that we're smiling and celebrating your now that we're giggling, yosselin life in
prison, no possibility of parole. Good, thank god. She should just
be she should really, they should just finish the job on the throat that's
what I think, but it's not up to me. Unfortunately, we do
hear a clip of Mike reading her quote unquote apology. I hated it,
which very quickly. Oh you know, do we play because I just don't
feels it. Seconds? Yeah, twenty seconds of it. Right. I'm
very sorry for everything that happened. But I hope no one goes is this
hers or Mike's. I hope that no one goes through what I have gone
through. So many people wished me all the worst. My life is in
the hands of God. I ask for a great deal of forgiveness from God,
from Marina, from Kevin. I wish my family. I told my
family I did not feel well. People are so mean me. Executio didn't
even bring up the victims. It's just I mean we I feel like there's
been a few different categories of apologies that we hear on this show. Most
of them are insincere, but very rarely are they ones where they just flat
out ignore the fact that anyone other than them is being victimized in the scenario.
I hope nobody else is ever laid for work. Basically, what you
said, she said, nothing about what you did, right and again.
I'm it was good to hear that the jury didn't buy any of the bullshit.
And like you said, the lawyer is up there. She kind of
You kind of have to believe your client, not know how you do it.
Yeah, it's tough when you're when you're out with garages the other day,
ask the other day. So when you're with him again, ask him
how he takes a if Kenny take a case that he doesn't believe them,
how he does it? Well, if you look at his list of clients,
I think you would agree problem a whole lot as soon as I said
away, Hey, huh yeah, yeah, he makes a lot of money.
It's a very very nice guy to me. I will say that if
my membre accused of murder, he's gonna be my guy. Oh man,
God, that's for sure. Don't get accused of murder. Because I like
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