OBITCHUARY

This week Spencer is giving us a little bit of a Cult Liter vibe with his coffin spinner as he talks about the death of Karen Silkwood and the conspiracy surrounding it, but first, Madison is breaking down the wild experiments of Robert Cornish. We’ve got an obituary with a mystery, one for a well-loved gal and so much more, includinggggg of course some dumb.ass.criminallllls!

 

 

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Sources:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sandiegouniontribune/name/dorothy-kilgallen-obituary?id=10550024

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1286415290/?article=fcd1d182-3cee-4007-a88e-78a4cf9dd888&terms=dorothy%20kilgallen

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/gas-station-clerk-narrowly-avoids-fatal-shooting-as-crazed-woman-attempts-to-rob-store-at-gunpoint/ar-AA22jR79

https://time.com/archive/6894500/science-lazarus-dead-alive/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Cornish
https://www.utterlyinteresting.com/post/robert-e-cornish-the-biologist-who-wanted-to-bring-dead-dogs-back-to-life

https://www.newspapers.com/image/960354714/?match=1&terms=Robert%20E.%20Cornish

https://alphahistory.com/pastpeculiar/1934-doctor-revives-dead-see-saw/

https://emsmuseum.org/collections/archives/resuscitators/early-resuscitation-experiment/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Thora_Chamberlain

https://www.newspapers.com/image/94351028/?match=1&terms=Thomas%20H.%20Mcmonigle

https://www.newspapers.com/image/275280006/?article=d4536c2a-cede-4b9a-807f-41c6a7a227e7&terms=Robert%20E%20Cornish

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/gas-station-clerk-narrowly-avoids-fatal-shooting-as-crazed-woman-attempts-to-rob-store-at-gunpoint/ar-AA22jR79

https://www.legacy.com/legacy/dawn-anderson?ttm_pid=210838186&ttm_affiliate=legacyremembers&ttm_affiliatetype=standard&ttm_campaign=legacy

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1228984482/

https://www.peakofohio.com/local-news/dunkirk-woman-arrested-at-dollar-general/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1107424788/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1301117983/?article=e3fbbd26-b355-4983-9228-d7b965b678a1&terms=%22Karen%20Silkwood%22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerr-McGee

https://time.com/3574931/karen-silkwood/

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Buckle up Geoffs this week we’ve got a good one for you, Spencer is telling us about some real graves for some unreal characters and then Madison is telling us about some hold ups that have blocked cemeteries from opening their gates! We’ve got an obituary that left nothing to the imagination, one for a reality show character and so much more including DUMB ASS CRIMINALLLLLLLLS woohoo!

 

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Sources:

https://ew.com/rhoa-kim-zolciak-ex-big-poppa-lee-najjar-dead-11956394

https://nypost.com/2026/04/26/us-news/florida-pickup-truck-crushes-250k-lamborghini-in-shocking-video/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/290806256/?article=fe5d8798-04f0-4535-bc73-374ab6005aac&terms=weird

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-25/woodland-hills-nursery-is-turning-into-a-cemetery-some-locals-are-fighting-it

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/boethings-treeland-nursery-woodland-hills-petition-cemetery/

https://www.change.org/p/stop-anaheim-hills-environmentally-unfriendly-veterans-cemetery

https://voiceofoc.org/2023/09/orange-county-is-running-out-of-burial-ground-in-public-cemeteries/

https://www.occemeterydistrict.com/gypsum-canyon-memorial-park

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-31/discovery-of-rare-orchid-stymies-10m-crematorium-development/100954222

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=5523389721022805&set=in-2019-craig-and-rhianon-of-murphy-family-funerals-purchased-60-acres-at-339-th

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-22-me-15475-story.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-mar-12-me-28138-story.hml 

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11476

https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/04/09/paul-bunyon-and-the-weight-of-myth/

https://www.history.com/articles/was-paul-bunyan-a-real-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Fournier

https://www.wilsonmcreynolds.com/obituaries/Sherlock-Holmes?obId=33007913

https://www.historyhit.com/the-curse-on-shakespeares-grave/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/dobbys-grave-beach

https://www.haferfuneralhome.net/obituaries/John-Curtis-Lucas?obId=48172362

https://www.kctv5.com/2026/04/29/woman-charged-connection-with-attack-woman-visiting-husbands-grave/

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Oh my gawwwwd Geoffs! This week Spencer is telling us about a mansion used for mourning and the history of Stanford University…which actually started with a death! But first, Madison is telling us all about famed coroner Michael Baden. We’ve got an obituary that was a little premature, one for a bird…I mean Byrd! And of course, we’ve got some dumb.ass.criminallllls!

 

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Sources:

https://richmond.com/news/obituary/article_2b9a5be3-0e3c-4b22-9ddd-acfd85f21bb1.html#tracking-source=home-the-latest

https://web.archive.org/web/20150329051921/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3481300025.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Baden

https://web.archive.org/web/20080404163413/http://www.hbo.com/autopsy/baden/bio.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/who-dr-michael-baden-coroner-examined-michael-brown-n183516

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-2a.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_Assassinations

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-08-11-me-33974-story.html

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/30/774838950/jeffrey-epstein-case-expert-hired-by-his-family-suggests-doubt-on-suicide-findin

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/witness-in-spector-case-suggests-tampering/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/prosecutor-accuses-spector-witness-invention-148073/

https://www.ksat.com/news/2017/07/19/florida-man-arrested-after-reporting-cocaine-stolen/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1226796045/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/570915825/

https://www.vsu.org.au/about-vsu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Welton_Stanford

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/stanford-nob-hill-mansion-22204721.php

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TGIT GEOFFS!! This week your favorite gruesome twosome are back and better than ever! We’re giving you a part two of people who faked their own deaths and it’s craaaaaazy. We’ve got an obituary that was a lil premature, one full of lies and so much more…including some dumb.ass.criminalllllls!!! Let’s GOOOO!

 

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Sources:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/posthumous-postcards-9.7081752

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fraudster-faked-his-death-but-left-fingerprints-851999

https://www.businessinsider.com/people-who-faked-their-own-deaths-2012-8#a-man-faked-his-own-cremation-only-to-get-caught-after-he-remarried-his-wife-6

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jan/15/businessman-faked-death-us

https://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/14/missing.pilot.found/

https://insidetruecrime.com/bailout-confidence-man-cons-pathological-liar/

https://www.wired.com/2009/09/lost-and-found-other-people-who-tried-to-vanish/

http://www.pseudocide.com/william-grothe.html

https://www.newspapers.com/image/776406251/?match=1&terms=%22william%20grothe%22

https://news.pollstar.com/2009/01/09/missing-sesac-lawyer-turns-up/

https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/sesac-attorney-who-faked-his-own-death-returns-to-nashville-faces-charges/article_5de85e83-3969-57dd-8a75-a0847385ba2b.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2010/03/18/Crash-and-Burn:-The-Marcus-Schrenker-Story.html

https://www.oxygen.com/accident-suicide-or-murder/crime-news/molly-and-clayton-daniels-staged-car-accident-to-fake-death

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna12214849

https://www.oxygen.com/accident-suicide-or-murder/season-4/episode-20/videos/clayton-daniels-completely-charred-car

https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Woman-sentenced-to-20-years-for-staging-fake-death-7625042.php

https://www.newspapers.com/image/433896084/?article=fc16b8d1-68f6-424c-88de-5e7f1d6ed7f8&terms=alan%20abel%20

https://www.newspapers.com/image/628283187/?match=1&terms=%22alan%20abel%22

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1287533161/?match=1&terms=%22obituary%20disclosed%20as%20hoax%22

https://www.newspapers.com/image/877066432/?match=1&terms=%22obituary%20disclosed%20as%20hoax%22

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-wednesday-edition-1.4829798/the-ny-times-wrote-his-first-obit-in-1980-but-prankster-alan-abel-died-last-week-at-94-1.4829804

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/19/649432714/alan-abel-has-died-for-real-this-time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Abel

https://www.14news.com/2026/04/14/epd-woman-arrested-after-being-found-topless-near-evansville-ymca/

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a39686219/john-anne-darwin-now/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Darwin_disappearance_case

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Holme_House

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/08/anne-darwin-deceiving-my-sons-was-unforgivable

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20241114-john-stonehouse-the-british-politician-who-was-caught-faking-his-own-death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stonehouse

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1176956188/?match=1&terms=%22john%20darwin%22

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Get in the lifeboat Geoffs because this week Madison is telling us EVERYTHING there is to know about what happened to the victim’s of the Titanic sinking. Next, Spencer has some tales of Hollywood stars who died completely broke! We’ve got an obituary for an icon, one for someone who was an absolute diva, and one that told a tragic tale. Oh…did you really think we’d forget..we’ve also got some dumb.ass.criminalllllls!

 

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Sources:

https://www.newspapers.com/image/767913397/

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/13/741391152/encore-billie-holidays-grave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Garland

https://www.biography.com/actors/judy-garland-london-concerts-final-years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Gaye

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1022271941/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/parenting/i-help-people-plan-their-deaths-here-are-the-wackiest-funeral-wishes/ar-AA200Hzs?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=69cebcaaa8e648788bf5b4b26df20372&ei=25

https://titanicfacts.net/titanic-body-recovery/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/608154332/?match=1&terms=arrested%20clown

https://www.newspapers.com/image/703710495/?terms=weird%20death&match=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Titanic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Carpathia

https://www.titanicconnections.com/recovering-titanic-bodies-the-grim-task-of-the-mackay-bennett/

https://www.toddvanbeck.com/call-to-duty-the-funeral-directors-response-to-the-titanic-disaster-1912/

https://archives.novascotia.ca/titanic/fatalities/archives/?ID=4
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna42755013

https://www.titanic.memorial/post/memorial/fairview+lawn+cemetery+halifax/

https://www.titanic.memorial/post/memorial/mount+olivet+cemetery+halifax/

 

 

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