Speaker 1: Ladies, gentlemen, theyse and them's It's all Hallow's Eve with
Speaker 1: Wicked and Grim. My name is Jacko and for the
Speaker 1: past week I have been your master of ceremonies as
Speaker 1: we lead you through Halloween Week, and of course I
Speaker 1: will be here for the remainder of the very last day.
Speaker 1: Every story we've covered has turned and twisted, through the creepy,
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Speaker 1: a back to nineteen fifty seven on this very night,
Speaker 1: on the night of Halloween. But of course that's not
Speaker 1: a story for me to tell. That is a story
Speaker 1: for your hosts. So let me once again introduce your
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Speaker 2: Hey, how's it going.
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Speaker 2: should we get right into it.
Speaker 3: I think So this is the last day we made it.
Speaker 3: It's this is this is a celebration, Yeah.
Speaker 2: The end of the second annual Halloween weeks. It's here,
Speaker 2: this is it. It's all come down to this store.
Speaker 3: Oh, second annual. We've been around that long, right, it's
Speaker 3: like yesterday that we.
Speaker 2: Started, well, maybe the day before.
Speaker 3: I keep okay, I'm wearing a risk guard. It keeps catching,
Speaker 3: I'm taking it off, Okay, fair.
Speaker 2: Enough, Okay. So we're going to be going back to
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty seven, nice and this is the trick or
Speaker 2: treat murder. Oh so it's very holloween oriented.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at you go.
Speaker 2: So you ready for this?
Speaker 3: I'm ready all right.
Speaker 2: So in nineteen fifty seven in Los Angeles, Betty Fabiano
Speaker 2: was just about finished evaluating her life choices. By then,
Speaker 2: she was thirty five years old. She'd been married twice,
Speaker 2: and she was currently living with her second husband, Peter Fabiano,
Speaker 2: and her daughter, Judy Solomon. From the outside looking in,
Speaker 2: Betty had it all. Her and Peter owned two successful
Speaker 2: hair salons, and they had a beautiful house in the valley.
Speaker 2: Her son, Richard Solomon was at the start of his
Speaker 2: career in the navy, Judy was doing pretty well in school,
Speaker 2: and Betty could pick and choose her own business hours nice.
Speaker 3: So like living the life really.
Speaker 2: Pretty much everyone's dream. You know, you've got like the
Speaker 2: nice house, you got the nice family, your business owner,
Speaker 2: you can pick your own hours and do what you want,
Speaker 2: work when you want, how you want it. She's got
Speaker 2: it made.
Speaker 3: And it was California they live, right la. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: like dreams bought to live.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So it was a nice work life balance pretty
Speaker 2: much through and through love.
Speaker 3: That so I hope to get there one day.
Speaker 2: One day, one day. Yeah. No, she was being able
Speaker 2: to like just decide when she was going to help
Speaker 2: Peter her with the salons and when she devoted her
Speaker 2: time at the household. Like it was. It was beautiful, perfect,
Speaker 2: something to strive for. I can tell you that right now.
Speaker 2: But as we all know, things aren't always what they seem.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, that's very much so a thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, as I alluded to, she already kind of
Speaker 2: like second guessing her life choices. Right. So, Peter and
Speaker 2: Betty ran into some difficulties in their marriage. Only small
Speaker 2: fights broke out here and there, but they progressively grew
Speaker 2: into more intense altercations. As far as I could tell,
Speaker 2: nothing ever got physical, but I mean it was arguments.
Speaker 2: It was abrasiveness within the marriage, right so, never a
Speaker 2: good thing, not necessarily a sign of detriment by any means,
Speaker 2: but not enjoyable.
Speaker 3: Sometimes when people tell me they don't fight. I'm just like,
Speaker 3: there's something wrong with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, I mean, people are different. No matter
Speaker 2: how well you get alone.
Speaker 3: And you're living under the same roof, you're going to
Speaker 3: have a disagreements every once in a while.
Speaker 2: With rite life, it's like, do the fucking dishes for once,
Speaker 2: they did five days in a row, like that sort
Speaker 2: of shit.
Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, that's actually happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, on more than one occasion.
Speaker 3: Then it's actually the one that does the dishes more often.
Speaker 2: Yes, very much so, So maybe you should do some
Speaker 2: fucking dishes once in a while.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, kidding, Wow, you're gonna get rained on.
Speaker 2: I was joking. Come on. Anyways, moving on, particularly Peter particularly,
Speaker 2: things got a little bit more intense after Peter had
Speaker 2: hired a new secretary for one of their salons. Now,
Speaker 2: Joan Rabble was her name, and she had a colorful past.
Speaker 2: She was born in Philadelphia in nineteen seventeen, but she
Speaker 2: had traveled most of America by now, and she'd walked
Speaker 2: through peter salon doors in of course, nineteen fifty seven
Speaker 2: when this takes place. Now, she had been married and
Speaker 2: divorced and was a successful photographer writer, and she liked
Speaker 2: to get a lot of her inspiration for her tales
Speaker 2: through her travels, and she had many exotic tales to
Speaker 2: tell of her life when she came to the Fabiano's
Speaker 2: shop for a job. Okay, Now, Peter liked Joan right
Speaker 2: off the get go and what she had to say,
Speaker 2: so we hired her almost on the spot, and of
Speaker 2: course it wasn't long before he introduced her to Betty,
Speaker 2: and it didn't take much time for Joan to become
Speaker 2: the heart of the problem between Betty and Peter. But
Speaker 2: probably not in the way that you're thinking. Okay, So
Speaker 2: I just want to say this right now, whereabout is
Speaker 2: your head at them? Where you think these problems lied.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty basic that they had an affair of sorts,
Speaker 3: or their flirt network or the wife. Who's the which
Speaker 3: one's the wife? Sorry, Joan or Betty or Betty?
Speaker 2: Peter and Betty are the married couple.
Speaker 3: That Betty's just a little jealous of Joan. Maybe she's
Speaker 3: a looker.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, you're half right, let's put it that way. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll touch you. I'll fill you in on here in
Speaker 2: just one second. So I get Yes, you're there, but
Speaker 2: you're there's a curve ball coming at the same time.
Speaker 2: So Joan was with the couple quite a lot. She
Speaker 2: worked with them at least one of them during the day,
Speaker 2: sometimes both, and they often invited her over for dinner
Speaker 2: in the evenings. So Joan got really close with them,
Speaker 2: and when things got rocky between Peter and Betty, Betty
Speaker 2: actually moved in with Joan.
Speaker 3: Oh really, yeah, Oh dude, they have an affair.
Speaker 2: And Joan made the moves on Betty. Okay, okay, so
Speaker 2: you're right, but you're wrong with who. Yeah, yes, okay,
Speaker 2: So actually we don't really know who made the first
Speaker 2: moves per se, but newspapers at the time would later
Speaker 2: describe Joan and Betty's relationship as quote abnormal whatever that meant.
Speaker 2: But remember this is nineteen fifties, right, So now, when
Speaker 2: Peter realized what was going on in their relationship behind
Speaker 2: the scenes, he had a choice to make, and he
Speaker 2: chose to make it clear that he wanted Betty back.
Speaker 3: Okay, I like that.
Speaker 2: So Betty took a hard, long look at her life
Speaker 2: and she decided that what she wanted was Joan to
Speaker 2: go back to her husband.
Speaker 3: Oh Okay, she left Joan. Man, I'm not doing well
Speaker 3: with my guessing right now, not really, I'm failing.
Speaker 2: Maybe the next guest. I don't know if there's another
Speaker 2: guest in here, I can't recall, but if there's another one,
Speaker 2: we'll put you to the test.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So we don't obviously know exactly what was going on
Speaker 2: in everyone's mind at the time, but judging by what
Speaker 2: Joan went on to do after Betty left her for Peter,
Speaker 2: Joan was clearly heartbroken.
Speaker 3: Okay, even if.
Speaker 2: Things did go back to normal for a while, though
Speaker 2: now Peter did make it very clear that Betty had
Speaker 2: to cut all ties with Joan, she was no longer
Speaker 2: working at the salon, and everyone seemed to move on
Speaker 2: with their lives, at least for.
Speaker 3: A while, rightfully. So really, oh definitely. I mean in
Speaker 3: order for their marriage to work, I think that would have.
Speaker 2: To be well, yeah, I think if anyone is having
Speaker 2: an affair, yeah, and I think it's very understandable for
Speaker 2: the party to who that's reconnecting to say, okay, we
Speaker 2: need to set boundaries. There was an affair, that person
Speaker 2: that you had an affair with to be excluded from
Speaker 2: our relationship. For us to continue, that's totally understandable. And
Speaker 2: first off, perrops to Peter for being able to actually.
Speaker 3: Take it right now, for that's that is actually amazing.
Speaker 2: Good on him. Yeah, so things were better between Peter
Speaker 2: and Betty and Joan had moved on to someone else,
Speaker 2: and that someone else was Goldene Piser. Goldean was a
Speaker 2: forty two year old lab assistant who'd also been in
Speaker 2: a failed marriage and was just beginning to understand and
Speaker 2: explore her own sexuality when she met Joan. Now they'd
Speaker 2: actually known each other for a few years before nineteen
Speaker 2: fifty seven, but it was right after Betty left Joan
Speaker 2: that Goldean and her became really good friends.
Speaker 3: Ok.
Speaker 2: And Goldean, in a later interview, used the words coffee
Speaker 2: clatch to describe her friendship with Joan, And this apparently
Speaker 2: comes from a German word called I'm going to try
Speaker 2: and pronounce this. This is German, remember kafn klatches, which
Speaker 2: means coffee and gossip.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, so well done.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I probably butchered it, but I do not
Speaker 2: speak German. If you can't tell, it's not my first, second, third,
Speaker 2: or fourth language.
Speaker 3: That was about a hundred times better than what I
Speaker 3: would do, So props to you.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, prior to us turning on the microphones,
Speaker 2: I was just singing Ramstein, so that might have warmed
Speaker 2: me up.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. Yeah, our little pre show rituals or
Speaker 3: sometimes something else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, a lot of times you can catch those
Speaker 2: pre show rituals in an actual pre show we post
Speaker 2: on Patreon. So yeah, little little note.
Speaker 3: You should do a video of it too. Half the
Speaker 3: time one of us is wandering around dancing or trying
Speaker 3: to get our like, I don't know what.
Speaker 2: Is that called energy or mojo flowing?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, anyways, we digress. It was coffee and gossip that
Speaker 2: she described it, Asky, So they would spend hours together,
Speaker 2: either at a cafe or at each other's house, talking
Speaker 2: over a cup of coffee and slowly but surely developing
Speaker 2: the relationship. I'll just leave it with that now. Joan
Speaker 2: started telling Goldeen everything that had happened between her and Betty.
Speaker 2: According to her, all the blame for her failing relationship
Speaker 2: was on one person and one person only, the quote
Speaker 2: evil Peter Fabiano oh Man. So over the next three months,
Speaker 2: Joan told Goldeen over and over and what a terrible man,
Speaker 2: an awful husband. Peter Fabiano was Joan said that he
Speaker 2: used and dealt in narcotics. She said that he mistreated
Speaker 2: Betty and how she just wanted to get her old
Speaker 2: friend Betty out of the horrible marriage and away from
Speaker 2: that abusive man. So she painted him in an absolutely
Speaker 2: horrible light. Yeah, did whatever she could to get Goldeen
Speaker 2: onto her side.
Speaker 3: But really, from like me, I mean, I don't know everything,
Speaker 3: but just an outsider, he doesn't seem terrible.
Speaker 2: No, definitely not. I mean there was some and there's
Speaker 2: nothing confirmed, mind you, but there was some talk of
Speaker 2: a potential minor abuse in the relationship. I don't think
Speaker 2: it was physical. I do think it was a bit mental.
Speaker 2: By this sounds of it verbal. Mental. Yeah, However, any
Speaker 2: of that sort of stuff was reconciled as again as
Speaker 2: far as I can tell, when they were getting back together. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, everyone has their fault. That's probably what drove
Speaker 2: them apart, and then coming back together they're resolving it, right, yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, but then also too, lots of times if
Speaker 3: you're talking to a friend about a relationship, I mean
Speaker 3: you're venting to them, right, and lots of times more
Speaker 3: of the negative things come out than the positives too.
Speaker 3: So true, she could not even know the full picture.
Speaker 2: Yep. So regardless, though, her stories were more than enough
Speaker 2: to convince Goldean to help her take care of him.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that sounds scary.
Speaker 2: So on September twenty first, Goldean went to a shop
Speaker 2: in Pasadena where she ordered a thirty eight millimeter miss
Speaker 2: and Wesson pistol. Yes, she told the man behind the
Speaker 2: counter that she wanted it for home protection and that
Speaker 2: she only wanted two bullets for it. A few days later,
Speaker 2: Joan dropped by Goldine's house in a car she had
Speaker 2: borrowed from a friend. She gave Goldean the money for
Speaker 2: the gun and then drove her back to Pasadena to
Speaker 2: collect it. The two then made their way to Peter
Speaker 2: and Betty's home in the valley, and they staked it out.
Speaker 2: I'm picturing like classic, like parked in the side of
Speaker 2: the upper side of the road, like you know, ducking
Speaker 2: down in the dim light sort of thing. That's pretty
Speaker 2: much what they did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all dressed in black kind of thing.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't know for sure
Speaker 2: that's how it played out, but that's pretty much the
Speaker 2: sum of what they were doing, right, good visual driving
Speaker 2: by and watching that sort of thing. Yeah, now knowing
Speaker 2: what the horrible man Peter looked like, Golden waited until
Speaker 2: the time was right to make her move, and that
Speaker 2: time was Halloween night on nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 3: Oh. I feel like any incident that's scary like this
Speaker 3: that happens on Hallo Halloween night just amplifies the scariness. Ey. Oh, definitely,
Speaker 3: like it's terrifying one percent.
Speaker 2: I mean, if Halloween's not scary enough for some people,
Speaker 2: hearing something like this definitely would be.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So Joan borrowed a friend's car again, and then she
Speaker 2: headed over to Golden's house to pick her up. Now,
Speaker 2: in Goldene's own words, she said this, Joan came over
Speaker 2: to my house with some clothing, blue jeans, khaki jackets, hats, iemasks, makeup,
Speaker 2: and red gloves. We dressed up, got in the car
Speaker 2: and drove to Fabiano's home, arriving there about nine pm.
Speaker 2: So strange outfits, more of a disguise of some sort
Speaker 2: than really a costume. But they're just throwing on whatever
Speaker 2: they had to look strange and kind of fit in
Speaker 2: with Halloween.
Speaker 3: Again, right, And my brain sorry, I'm like totally listen
Speaker 3: to you, but I'm just like, this is so unnecessary.
Speaker 2: It is. But also, remember the conversation we had the
Speaker 2: other day about the urban legends also taking place, I
Speaker 2: believe it in the fifties. Wasn't it the one Halloween
Speaker 2: massacre that was proven to be false? Okay, yeah, how
Speaker 2: people are making their own costumes and everything. That's exactly
Speaker 2: what they're doing here.
Speaker 3: Oh not necessarily a costumes though, the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know, I just wanted to point that out. Okay,
Speaker 2: the costume part is falling in line with that.
Speaker 3: Okay, I see, yeah, but yeah, I know, this.
Speaker 2: Whole thing, trust me, definitely unnecessary. Anyways, so they dressed
Speaker 2: up in their Halloween costumes. Golden and Joan waited outside,
Speaker 2: sitting in the borrowed car until all the lights in
Speaker 2: the Fabiano home went out and the streets went quiet.
Speaker 2: It was then that Golding made her move. It was
Speaker 2: just a little past eleven pm when Golding walked up
Speaker 2: to the Fabiano's door and knocked. Sorry, I just wanted
Speaker 2: to add that in there. No one answered, so she
Speaker 2: waited a little bit and knocked again.
Speaker 3: If that was me, I wouldn't fucking answer either, There's
Speaker 3: no way in hell.
Speaker 2: Well, this time, she could hear movement behind the door. Okay,
Speaker 2: and it was Peter. He'd been in bed, laying going
Speaker 2: to sleep with Betty when they both heard the first knock,
Speaker 2: and he thought about leaving it, just like you're talking about.
Speaker 2: But it was Halloween. He figured it was just some
Speaker 2: late trick of treaters.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, So with.
Speaker 2: The second knock, he got out of bed, made his
Speaker 2: way downstairs, picked up the bowl of candy, and headed
Speaker 2: for the door. Oh no, He opened the door to
Speaker 2: expect to see a trick of treat yep, and he
Speaker 2: saw Goldeen in her costume, standing there with a brown
Speaker 2: paper bag in her hand, and he asked her. It's
Speaker 2: a little late for this, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Counts differ on whether Golden actually answered him or not,
Speaker 2: but some say she simply answered no, while others say
Speaker 2: that she said something to him as he opened the door.
Speaker 2: What we do know, though, is that Betty heard two
Speaker 2: voices from upstairs in her bedroom.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: She later said that one of them sounded like a
Speaker 2: man's voice and the other had sounded like a man
Speaker 2: pretending to be a woman and then she heard a
Speaker 2: loud pop.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, so she's like two voices aside from her hubbies.
Speaker 2: That was never clarified as far as I could tell.
Speaker 3: Okay, because I need clarification. Sorry here, Joan is the
Speaker 3: one that was with Betty, yes, but she's not even
Speaker 3: the one at the door.
Speaker 2: Joan is currently in the car on the side of
Speaker 2: the road. Oh, Goldeane was in the car with Joan,
Speaker 2: and now Goldeane went up to the door.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, that's not his thought. But then I also
Speaker 3: was thinking, I just assumed it would have been Joan
Speaker 3: going up to the door. So that's okay, she really
Speaker 3: convinced this person, she did. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So anyways, when Peter had opened the door and
Speaker 2: offered gold Dean some candy, Goldean had put both hands
Speaker 2: inside the paper bag that she was holding and lifting
Speaker 2: it up. Now, I'm sure he only assumed this was
Speaker 2: going to be her trigg or treat bag, right, But
Speaker 2: she instead pointed the bag directly at his chest, and
Speaker 2: what he couldn't see was the gun that was inside.
Speaker 3: Yep, brutal.
Speaker 2: So Goldean pointed it at his chest and pulled the
Speaker 2: trigger and the bullet hit Peter just below the heart
Speaker 2: and he hit the ground.
Speaker 3: Iikes, would Peter have known gold Dean then? No, okay,
Speaker 3: this would have been a complete stranger to him.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The month prior, on September twenty first, when Joan
Speaker 2: drove by the house with Goldean, that was to show
Speaker 2: Goldean who they were. And he's the evil man and
Speaker 2: he's the one.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, okay, So they had never met.
Speaker 2: It was just Goldiane staking out the house when she
Speaker 2: learned who he was, right, yeah, And of course all
Speaker 2: the talk and everything through Joan and the stories.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So after the loud quote pop, Golding took off, racing
Speaker 2: back to the car and her and Joan quickly drove away.
Speaker 2: But inside the house things were far from finished. Hearing
Speaker 2: the sound of the gun going off and not knowing
Speaker 2: what it was, both Betty and her daughter Judy came
Speaker 2: rushing downstairs to find Peter laying on his back by
Speaker 2: the front door, bleeding out.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Betty frantically tried to help him, and Judy ran to
Speaker 2: one of the neighbor's houses for help. The neighbor was
Speaker 2: Bud Alpert, a member of the lapd Okay, and Judy
Speaker 2: knew that Bud wouldn't know what to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good neighbor to have, eh.
Speaker 2: Definitely if any sort of authorities or your neighbor. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's quick and easy access. It's glorious. However, it was
Speaker 2: the middle of the night, Bud was sleeping, so it
Speaker 2: took a few minutes of banging on his door to
Speaker 2: wake him up. But once he answered the door and
Speaker 2: realized what was going on, he jumped into action and
Speaker 2: took over the scene. Okay, he called the ambulance, followed
Speaker 2: by police officers, and Peter was quickly rushed to hospital.
Speaker 3: Oh, I hope he lives.
Speaker 2: We'll touch on that shortly. The only witnesses of the
Speaker 2: murder other than Peter's family hearing the incident from inside
Speaker 2: the house, was a fifteen year old boy who'd heard
Speaker 2: the gunshot and seen the getaway cars speeding down the street.
Speaker 2: Police were left with very few clues as they tried
Speaker 2: to process this scene and figure out what was going on,
Speaker 2: and unfortunately, Peter died in the hospital from severe blood loss.
Speaker 3: I was thinking that because you did say the murder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So this left investigators with no one able to
Speaker 2: identify the shooter.
Speaker 3: Dang Wow. Okay, I was kind of thinking he'd lived,
Speaker 3: to be honest. See here I am again like, gosh,
Speaker 3: this whole story, I just can't predict whatsomever.
Speaker 2: There was potential because it did miss his heart right,
Speaker 2: so there was potential. But however, there was severe blood loss,
Speaker 2: and it could have been that it was to an artery.
Speaker 2: I couldn't find that. But I mean, he did bleed
Speaker 2: out so well.
Speaker 3: And then it does seem like there was a bit
Speaker 3: of time to where it makes his chances less, right, Oh,
Speaker 3: definitely with him, like having to go wake offa or
Speaker 3: the daughter, wake up the police officer, and then getting
Speaker 3: him to the hospital and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. And one of the problems too is it's
Speaker 2: not in a limb, it's inside the torso, right, So
Speaker 2: if you are say shot in the arm, and it
Speaker 2: does hit an artery and you are bleeding out, you
Speaker 2: can put pressure and tie that off. You can stop
Speaker 2: the bleeding out. Shot in the chest, you can't just
Speaker 2: put pressure on the chest. He's now bleeding internally, so
Speaker 2: he's still going to bleed out, right, dang.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he really didn't have much of a chance.
Speaker 2: So what he needed was medical attention, someone getting in there.
Speaker 2: Surge at stamp.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So all while this was going on, while he was
Speaker 2: bleeding out, while investigators were frantically trying to figure out
Speaker 2: what was going on, Golden and Joan drove back to
Speaker 2: a friend's where they dropped the car back off. A
Speaker 2: statement would be collected from Golden later, where it had
Speaker 2: her stating, we left the car on the street, separated,
Speaker 2: and walked to our homes. Joan said, forget you ever
Speaker 2: saw me?
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 2: It was then clear to Goldean that Joan had no intentions,
Speaker 2: oh ever seeing her again.
Speaker 3: Shit, yes, that is some ultimate betrayal.
Speaker 2: Yes. And it was right then and there that she
Speaker 2: realized this is pretty much on her shoulders and she
Speaker 2: was still left one big problem. She still had the
Speaker 2: murder weapon.
Speaker 3: Holy heck. And like in her mind, she's probably like, man,
Speaker 3: the person I just killed, is he really that bad?
Speaker 3: Because this person I thought was good as a monster?
Speaker 2: Pretty much? Oh? Pretty much?
Speaker 3: Oh sorry, I'm getting up, I'm making Ripley upset.
Speaker 2: It's all good. She feeds off your energy, so.
Speaker 3: Yeah she does. So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she knew that she was if she was caught
Speaker 2: with this gun, this murder weapon, she wouldn't be able
Speaker 2: to defend or explain herself in any way, right, So
Speaker 2: what she did. Her solution was she went to a
Speaker 2: nearby grocery store and rented out a locker. She left
Speaker 2: the gun inside it, and she probably thought that was that,
Speaker 2: or at least she hoped she did. But even with
Speaker 2: all of Joan's planning, the police would soon be closing
Speaker 2: in mm hm. And they would be closing in because
Speaker 2: when they asked if her husband had any enemies, Betty
Speaker 2: quickly gave them the name.
Speaker 3: Joan Rabble and then Joan rats out her friend instantly.
Speaker 3: I'm sure.
Speaker 2: Well, they brought Joan in for questioning, but Joan played
Speaker 2: it cool and gave them absolutely nothing.
Speaker 3: Okay, here again, just don't listen, and my predictions are
Speaker 3: just at the fucking lunch here.
Speaker 2: You're way off course on a lot of this.
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 3: I don't know if this case is just not predictable
Speaker 3: or if I'm tired, or what the hell's going on?
Speaker 2: Well, you did, you did get one thing right here
Speaker 2: that we'll be touching on here shortly, So just just
Speaker 2: hold hold onto your panty here. There was no physical
Speaker 2: evidence to tie Joan to the scene, so they couldn't
Speaker 2: hold her they had to let her go. But everything
Speaker 2: changed when investigators received an anonymous tip about a certain
Speaker 2: locker in a certain grocery store. Okay, now this anonymous
Speaker 2: tip again it is I mean, it's anonymous. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure we can guess who made.
Speaker 3: It, Joan, you think, Joe, I don't know. That's what
Speaker 3: I think. But maybe I should say someone else because
Speaker 3: my guess.
Speaker 2: Has been streat Well, that's not who i'd guess. You'll
Speaker 2: change your mind here. Shortly acting on the tip, the
Speaker 2: authority searched the locker and found the murder wapping laying inside.
Speaker 2: Of course, it was easy to find who the locker
Speaker 2: belonged to once they trailed the rental information, and it
Speaker 2: of course led them straight to Goldeing. Okay, now, when
Speaker 2: approached by police, Goldine was more than ready to talk,
Speaker 2: and she started confessing almost as soon as the police
Speaker 2: walked through her door.
Speaker 3: Which honestly will do better for her in the long
Speaker 3: run for sentencing definitely and all that. Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Goldean had time to think about what she'd done,
Speaker 2: and now out from under jones influence for quite a
Speaker 2: few days, Goldean had realized that she had been completely
Speaker 2: played and manipulated.
Speaker 3: And that she fucked up big. Yes, she took someone's
Speaker 3: life for God's.
Speaker 2: Sake, exactly. So earlier you did mention that Goldean would
Speaker 2: realize that she was being controlled. Yeah, so right on that.
Speaker 2: But I mean, again, it was an anonymous call. I
Speaker 2: don't know, but I'm pretty sure Goldean was the one
Speaker 2: who called it.
Speaker 3: That tip for the Oh okay, that wasn't going to
Speaker 3: be my second guest, just to kind of get this
Speaker 3: rolling where she could start confessing, hey, and getting it
Speaker 3: off her chest.
Speaker 2: Yes, she couldn't. She couldn't contain it. She realized she
Speaker 2: was used, and yeah, she's pretty much confessing. So police
Speaker 2: brought her back for questioning, and she began to tell
Speaker 2: them everything that happened. She told him that Joan had
Speaker 2: said everything and all these evil things about Peter Fabiano.
Speaker 2: She told him about how Joan asked her to kill him,
Speaker 2: and she'd driven Goldeine down to buy the gun and
Speaker 2: even paid for it herself.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Then Golden admitted that she didn't even know Peter or
Speaker 2: really have any reason to kill him on her own.
Speaker 2: Her exact words were, quote, I had no motive personally,
Speaker 2: whatever motive I had was to please Joan. I was
Speaker 2: always easily influenced. I had been impressionable and was always trusting.
Speaker 3: That's kind of sad, hey.
Speaker 2: It really is. She was completely taken advantage of, like
Speaker 2: one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, and I mean she probably thought that, like
Speaker 3: they were kind of in a relationship of sorts, right,
Speaker 3: and that's exactly what they loved each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's almost heartbreaking, really it is. You feel bad
Speaker 3: for her, but then a step back, she still murdered someone.
Speaker 2: That's true, that's true, But Joan, she was using, You're
Speaker 2: like a marionette puppet Jones, being a big old I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: She was a bitch, she was, yeah, terrible. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: it also sounded too like Goldane was kind of in
Speaker 3: a place in her life where she was trying to
Speaker 3: rebuild almost right, and the very susceptible to something like this.
Speaker 2: Through and through with that nail enough.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, gosh, that's so sad.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, with the confessions and evidence that followed, authorities
Speaker 2: had enough to arrest and charge both of them. Joan
Speaker 2: wouldn't admit to anything and barely spoke to investigators, but
Speaker 2: they had everything they needed from gold Dean's confessions, and
Speaker 2: the pair were taken to court. Whether you're both pleaded guilty, sorry,
Speaker 2: not guilty both really my mistake on that. Amazingly enough,
Speaker 2: the prosecutor had them psychologically examined to make sure that
Speaker 2: they were able to stand for their plea and they
Speaker 2: were sane enough to stand trial. Now, the reason for
Speaker 2: this was again we're going back to the nineteen fifth
Speaker 2: these when homosexuality was considered a mental illness.
Speaker 3: Oh boy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and at the time of the prosecution, the prosecution
Speaker 2: they actually wanted to find out if they could even
Speaker 2: build a case against either of them, or if they
Speaker 2: should just send them to a mental institution.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, wait a minute, they're gay, should they
Speaker 2: be in straight jackets? That's pretty much their thought process,
Speaker 2: which is like, holy fuck, that's brutal.
Speaker 3: That's disturbing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. So that's nice to see we've progressed
Speaker 2: at least a little. But since then, yes, yep, doctors however,
Speaker 2: did find both of them fit to stand trial. Okay,
Speaker 2: but they did also confirm a part of Goldin's experiences
Speaker 2: and in the evaluation of Goldean, the psychiacts. Sorry, psychiatrists
Speaker 2: wrote this quote The only thought she had was that
Speaker 2: she was saving her friend Joan Rabble from an evil person.
Speaker 2: She became a handy tool or putty in the hands
Speaker 2: of miss Rabble.
Speaker 3: Hmmm. Wow. So I mean people are they're seeing what happened,
Speaker 3: they're believing it and everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: So I'm very curious to know what the fuck happens
Speaker 3: with like sentencing and stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, for Joanes, she was diagnosed with apparently having schizoid personality,
Speaker 2: but I was still found well enough to go to court.
Speaker 3: That doesn't surprise me, because she seems literally like a beach.
Speaker 2: Just because you're a beyach doesn't mean you're quote schizoid.
Speaker 3: Well no, no, not at all. But I already think
Speaker 3: that she was like, I'm not a fan of her,
Speaker 3: and the fact that she's that that evil. I was like,
Speaker 3: something has to be like not quite right.
Speaker 2: You know, she's dealing with some mental issues potentially. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not that I think you have mental issues. You're
Speaker 3: beyond that is not what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, Like I know plenty of people without mental
Speaker 2: issues who are still biaces, trust me, probably more, probably more. Anyways,
Speaker 2: by then, both of the women had changed their pleas
Speaker 2: Golding went down the insanity route, and Joan pleaded guilty
Speaker 2: to second degree murder. Okay, many people looking back at
Speaker 2: Joan's sudden change in her stance, they saw her not
Speaker 2: wanting to receive a harsher sentence because of being homosexual.
Speaker 2: She was still which was still illegal at the time,
Speaker 2: and it could have actually influenced her trial. Oh okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: but either way, they were both found guilty of second
Speaker 2: degree murder. As a result of the trial, they both
Speaker 2: received a life sentence with a minimum of five years,
Speaker 2: and from there, Joan kind of disappears from the history books.
Speaker 2: There's no record of when or if she ever was
Speaker 2: ever released, but we do know that Goldine was and
Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy one she was released, and fourteen years
Speaker 2: after the murder, she was an officer at the Professional
Speaker 2: Women's Club in Miracle Mile and she spent the rest
Speaker 2: of her life in Los Angeles before she died in
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety eight at the age of eighty three.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm glad that they both got the same because
Speaker 3: that was what I was worried that Golden would get
Speaker 3: more than Joan.
Speaker 2: Yes, which I mean she was definitely the one who
Speaker 2: pulled the trigger. So I can understand the concern forgetting more.
Speaker 2: I mean, I it's right that she got the same,
Speaker 2: but I'm almost at the same time like hoping she
Speaker 2: got less because she was so manipulated.
Speaker 3: You know, hoping. But then she still she did the.
Speaker 2: Act exactly, she still committed the murder. So it's like, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: that's totally fair. I can one hundred percent respect that
Speaker 2: she should be serving time. Yes, yes, Now it's also
Speaker 2: a little tricky to pin down what happened to Betty
Speaker 2: Fabiano afterwards. We know she sold the businesses after Peter
Speaker 2: had died, but some accounts say that she remarried in
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty six. Now some say she didn't remarry. Some
Speaker 2: also say that she played a part in Peter's death,
Speaker 2: but there's little to no evidence to prove that. We
Speaker 2: know that she also died in her eighties, but she
Speaker 2: moved to Palm Desert, California, where she passed away at
Speaker 2: the age of eighty one. All in all, other than
Speaker 2: what was found in the court process, it's unclear of
Speaker 2: just how much of a role any of the women
Speaker 2: were really involved in this case. I mean, of course,
Speaker 2: we do know that Joan manipulated Golden, but we don't
Speaker 2: really know to what degree, and we don't know if
Speaker 2: Betty was really involved. What we do know is it
Speaker 2: was kind of like a messy love triangle situation that
Speaker 2: caught the better of multiple emotions. And for some they
Speaker 2: were simply trying to make sense of the world that
Speaker 2: refused to make sense of them, and for others it
Speaker 2: may have simply been revenge. Who knows. For whatever the reason,
Speaker 2: this story has left more than a few people broken hearted.
Speaker 3: Though that theory Betty being involved is very interesting.
Speaker 2: It is, but again, there's no evidence zip because.
Speaker 3: You have to wonder, Like I mean, it's a possibility
Speaker 3: that she decided to have gone back to him, being
Speaker 3: that the world wasn't very open to her situation and
Speaker 3: she wasn't happy, and like she was the one behind this.
Speaker 3: Not saying I could see it, not saying that's what
Speaker 3: happened by any means, but I could see it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there could be some like we sit here and
Speaker 2: we look and we say, oh, Joan was pulling all
Speaker 2: the strings behind the scene, Well, what if Betty was
Speaker 2: pulling Joan's strings because Joan was pulling Golden.
Speaker 3: Joan was obsessed with Betty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so who knows. Yeah, all we know is that
Speaker 2: at the cost of one man's life, this literally created
Speaker 2: the most infamous murder tied to the spooky Halloween season
Speaker 2: in American history, that would go down in history known
Speaker 2: as the Trick or Treat murders.
Speaker 3: Wow, huh yeah, way to end Halloween Week.
Speaker 2: I thought it was a good one to end off on.
Speaker 3: Very much though it was actually very interesting.
Speaker 2: So what was your favorite episode from Halloween Week?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, am I allowed to look at them all?
Speaker 3: I don't even know if I can remember.
Speaker 2: Off the top of your head. I'm surprised you're not
Speaker 2: just going with the three urban legends right away.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I forgot about that one.
Speaker 2: Oh could you forget about it?
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's all a blur. I can't even
Speaker 3: We need to go through what we've done. Come on,
Speaker 3: please bring them up.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, bring them up. I'll bring it up right now.
Speaker 2: Give us talk some entertainment while I'm pulling this up
Speaker 2: on Spotify.
Speaker 3: Oh, we all know that I'm not very good at
Speaker 3: talk and entertainment.
Speaker 2: Here, you can do it. I believe in you.
Speaker 3: Oh, what's okay? What's everyone's favorite Halloween candy. That's a
Speaker 3: good Halloween snap. I got these really cool KitKat like
Speaker 3: they were spooky kit cats or something. And so they're
Speaker 3: like shaped is what are they shaped as?
Speaker 2: Like little monsters?
Speaker 3: And yeah, they're freaking delicious.
Speaker 2: I was actually just talking the other day how slept on,
Speaker 2: Oh Henry bars are. They're actually fucking delicious.
Speaker 3: They're good, So they're good.
Speaker 2: Anyways, I got the list of here.
Speaker 3: I just have to say to finish this off. The
Speaker 3: only really Halloween County treat I don't love as Smarties.
Speaker 3: Oh also the emin ms that are just normal eminems.
Speaker 3: I like the pen and m and ms.
Speaker 2: You might want to pronounce peanuts a little more and
Speaker 2: not precisely.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 2: Anyways, what we covered so far was the Man with
Speaker 2: a Thousand Facesmyosuna scary shit, the hands resist him. The
Speaker 2: haunted paintings Booky, the Hungarian vampire Bella Kiss Oh god. Yeah,
Speaker 2: three Urban Legends version two Haunted places around the world.
Speaker 3: That was fun.
Speaker 2: The Alice killings.
Speaker 3: I already forget what that is.
Speaker 2: You forget what the alice? The playing cards oh shit. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then of course today the trick or Treat murders.
Speaker 3: Okay, I would definitely have to say Urban Legends because
Speaker 3: that shit's just fun. And I did like going around
Speaker 3: the world. The haunted spooky locations around the world is
Speaker 3: kind of fun too.
Speaker 2: Those are definitely fun. I do have to say, though,
Speaker 2: Jami Osuna, the Man with a Thousand Faces, that was
Speaker 2: that was a ride and head.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I do like this one too. I mean
Speaker 3: I like them all, don't get me wrong, I like
Speaker 3: them all. This one I found kind of interesting as well.
Speaker 3: But we'll do a post of sorts, say, and see
Speaker 3: what other people's favorites are. It's kind of neat for
Speaker 3: us to know.
Speaker 2: We'll learn too, definitely. So if you want to go
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Speaker 2: all of that wrapped up, that's a wrap that is
Speaker 2: Halloween Week.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: So just like last year, we're gonna hand this off.
Speaker 3: Take it away, Jacko.
Speaker 1: With what can only be described as the blink of
Speaker 1: an eye, the second annual Hallowing Week has come and gone.
Speaker 1: It has been a pleasure these past seven days to
Speaker 1: serve you as your master of ceremonies through these tales
Speaker 1: of Halloweing Week. Of course, I must return to my
Speaker 1: slumber once again, But don't be sad. I am always
Speaker 1: around in spirit. And if you light a single candle
Speaker 1: and listen closely to the flame flicker in the melting wax,
Speaker 1: you might just hear my voice. You might just hear
Speaker 1: my laugh. Until next time, stay wicked.