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Killer Meals: Straight from Death Row

• Colt Draine and Owen "The Mic" McMichael • Episode 112

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SPEAKER_01:

Uh hello there, my friend, on this very uh spoogy spooky season. I don't know what day it is. It's like I'm not even gonna say, let's not date this episode. It's just spooky season, guys. And yeah, and I called Owen, he answered, We're on a podcast, we're doing it live, folks. I tell stories whenever you listen to this. Okay, guys. That's just how we roll. So, nonetheless, um I I started off pitching this episode to Owen because I had read an article, or I was beginning to read an article that was uh serial killer's last meals. Uh, as I was diving into this article and looking into more of them because I was kind of looking for a list situation. It seemed that more often than not, a lot of death row inmates weren't serial killers. Really? For some reason or other. You would assume that they would almost, you know, that would be where serial killers would go, but they must uh pick blue states to commit their crimes. And I guess I don't know. Ones that don't have the death penalty.

SPEAKER_02:

Right.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean that's all about wacky political humor. Oh, I know. I know. Thanks. Thanks for recognizing the fact of how clever I actually am. Uh you know, one thing they say about smart people is they always recognize how smart they are. Let's see. So, you know, let's go ahead and go with uh Aileen Wornos. I forget how to say that. Darn it, I watched a video earlier, but you'll know her from uh a movie, I believe, called Monster. And it's uh she's the most famous female serial killer, I feel. Uh, she murdered at least seven people between 1989 and 1990. That's seven people in like a year. Uh she posed as a hitchhiking prostitute, Owen. So don't pick those guys up, people. Damn. I was looking for a new hobby. Damn it. This is also doubling as a public service announcement. No, no hitchhiking hookers, people out there in Podcast Land. Yeah, it's dangerous. Um, it's smelly too. Okay. Sorry. Oh. I'm glad we got a good laugh out of that. Um R I P7 guys who picked up hitchhiking hitchhiking prostitutes. I can't even get that out. Anyway, nonetheless. So this was in Florida and Georgia that this occurred. Um, she was arrested in '91.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

Obviously sentenced to death. Uh, I don't know. What do you think her uh last meal was, Owen? Do you have any clues? Um, what is this serial killing prostitute would be eating?

SPEAKER_02:

Guessing not uh rabbit cone fever, zoto, and duck. Rust duck.

SPEAKER_01:

Spot on. Well enlightened me. Um she actually turned down her last meal.

SPEAKER_02:

So I did see that. Okay, I can I didn't exactly remember if that was happening, but I see. That seems more like a right.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, yeah. We were just talking about that too. Remember, like I don't know. Oh, was it she had a cup of coffee? Didn't she just have a cup of coffee? Uh well she we hit her canteen, you know, or whatever she got off commissary from the prison, and I believe they say she had a hamburger, which would have been like the normal shit everybody else was eating. Uh so she did eat, but she didn't like do anything special. She refused like the special treatment before she was put down, you know. So I don't know. But yeah, snacks from the canteen and a cup of coffee, top it off, guys. You know, that's what serial killers do. All right, they turn down meals sometimes, okay? Do you have one that you wanted to get into there, Owen?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, and this one, um, I didn't have much on on the crime really, crimes that Stephen Woods uh committed, but basically he killed two people, luring them in, you know, under the guise of selling them drugs, and he was you know, planning to murder them because I knew about previous murder, two previous murders he'd committed.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_02:

And so yeah, he was um put to death by lethal injection in 2002, and his requests, which were met, which I just seems like a hell of an appetite for knowing at the end of the road. But uh Stephen Woods requested two pounds of bacon, a large four-meat pizza, four fried chicken breast, uh chicken bread steak, two hamburgers with bacon on French toast, garlic bread with marinam, mountain dew, Pepsi root beer, sweet tea, and two pints of ice cream.

SPEAKER_01:

How large was this man? Like, that's what I want to know. Maybe he's a fat death row inmate somehow. I mean, I think you'd want to die after eating all of that. Yeah. Think about the mess that they would have to clean up.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, okay. That's thanks. That's lovely. All right.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Well, Steven Woods, no relation to James Woods. That's it. Okay. So Thomas Grasso, double murderer, this guy. Um, this, you know, we're we're in Halloween guys. Halloween season, spooky season. Um, so you know, we're not quite to the Christmas, although I do see some of the stuff of his stores people. Um, but on the lighter note, Thomas Grosso strangled an 87-year-old woman with her Christmas tree lights uh on Christmas Eve of uh 1990. Then he uh murdered an 81-year-old man and stole a social security check. I believe you brought this up to me earlier. That was a heck of a thing. Grosso's final meal, my friend, was let's see, that's a list here. Two dozen steamed clams, a dozen steamed mussels, a half dozen of barbecue spare ribs, a double cheeseburger from Burger King. Gross, guys, gross. Half a pumpkin pie. Yeah, that's like the worst fast food, by the way. Jack of the box, Burger King. Half a pumpkin pie with whipped cream and strawberries, two strawberry milkshakes, and a 16-ounce can of spaghettios. Alright, guys. Served room temperature. Mind you. Oh my god. You you picked out the final. I didn't, yeah, I didn't see that. That's uh I see it.

SPEAKER_02:

Not that not that warm spaghettios are doing anyone any favors. And uh that's a fair amount of food, not as much as Stephen Woods, but it should be pointed out that Gasso in Italian means fat.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, fair enough. Yes, it does.

SPEAKER_02:

And it's a very eating Burger King, like one king and fur, not a health nut, but I guess it doesn't really matter if you're checking out after dinner.

SPEAKER_01:

Way to pick up on the last name there, Ellen. Uh no relation, Grasso is a very good restaurant, uh located in the PDX and hopping over into Vancouver and all that. It's great. Great. They make their stuff. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

I've been myself.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Anyway, nonetheless, guys, uh, on to our next uh Ruth Snyder, another female guy, made at least seven attempts to kill her emotionally and uh uh physically abusive husband. She eventually did do this uh March 20th, 1927. This is one of our older ones. She met a man she was having an affair with, then uh strangled her husband and stuffed his nose with chloroform soaked rags. Ugh. Uh these this this couple here staged his death as a part of a burglary. But she was later caught and sentenced to death. So this woman, before she was put to death, uh, which was by electric chair people. So now you know. Her last meal was chicken parmesan with Alfredo pasta, ice cream, two milkshakes, and then 12 packs of grape soda.

SPEAKER_02:

12 packs.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, that's amazing. You know, a lot of people like ice cream here, Owen. Everybody's like, I'm gonna have some ice cream here. Seems like it, yeah. Yeah, popular amongst those uh killers guys. Feels like ice cream.

SPEAKER_02:

All right. You got anything else? Yeah, speaking of which, uh Timothy McVay, all he had for his uh final meal was uh two pints of mint chocolate ice cream. Really? Damn. Mm-hmm. That's what's in this is an interesting one. Uh Ricky Ray Hector had killed a man in a restaurant, and after being on the run for three days, he agreed to turn himself in, but rather than um than being arrested, he shot. He would be arresting an officer and then shot himself in the head, resulting in a lobotomy. And despite his mental state, uh President Clinton, or he was on he was uh governor of Arkansas, so this happened on the '92 uh campaign. He he oversaw this uh you know, I mean, he was he was mentally ill, but I don't think he was before he shot himself in the head after killing two people.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

But what he wound up with for his final meal was steak, fried chicken, and cherry Kool-Aid. And he was served uh served uh some pecan pie, but he left it telling the guards that he was saving it for later.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh my god. Damn. Yeah, that's a weird uh I don't know. You know what I'm saying? Because he's probably a different person after the lobotomy.

SPEAKER_02:

I mean you can't even barely one would they think so?

SPEAKER_01:

Like I mean, I well, I know, I know that sounds like stating the obvious, but like, I don't know, man. I don't know. That's some weird shit, guys. Hey, you know, this is um different because me and Owen don't usually talk about dark things. I think that let's see, truly dark things. The only episode that I could think of off top about an individual was uh lobster boy. Oh, right. Right, where I was like, and granted, people like Ukasa from Africa, you know, that they're way worse. But like, if you can classify a person as worse when they're already a shit bag. But like, you know, Grady Styles, was that his name right? That's what a what a name. Is that right? Yeah. Oh my god. Yeah, yeah, that's lobster boy. I can't believe I remembered that. But you you you'd think he'd be like Ferris Bueller's friend when you hear that name. Grady Styles. Right?

SPEAKER_02:

Instead he's Lobster Boy. Ferris Bueller's friend. That would be an odd turn in Ferris Bueller's too, and it's him and lobster boy. No, like Ferris Bueller and Lobster Boy.

SPEAKER_01:

Like call your contacts in Hollywood, kill it. Yeah, yeah. Somebody get on this. I don't know. You know what I mean? I don't know, and I understand, but I'm not saying Grady Styles as Lobster Boy. I'm just saying the name. Whatever.

SPEAKER_02:

No, I gotcha. Well, this is taking a tangent as usual.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Well, it can't take a dark turn because we're already there, my friend. Yeah. Yeah, so way to go. Another guy on this list. Uh, this one uh people may have heard of. John Wayne Gacy, also known as the killer clown. Wah wah wah wah wah. Anyway, he was assault, uh he was uh convicted of assaulting and murdering at least 33 boys and young men. Alright, this guy's like one of the biggest shit bags ever, I'm pretty sure. So, you know, everybody knows the tale of him. He was kind of like he was a construction uh site, he he ran, he was a contractor, but he also was like active in the community, bro, and he did a lot of shit like that. That's what always like kind of got me about that guy is he's very active in the community, like volunteered, all these things donated money. Uh he liked to be a clown in his off time for children's uh uh birthday parties, etc. Like for the hell of it. That was like what he enjoyed. And um was killing young boys and having his way with them, unfortunately. So he he got caught, but he's one of the scariest people because you gotta think about like where he was in the community and he was very active and in it, you know, and he was placed in a position of power that possibly might have protected him a handful of times because people were like, No, you know what I'm saying? It couldn't be that guy. Look at all the stuff he does. But anyway, this fantastic man once also was uh owner of a KFC 3, I think, before. So right before they put him down. I like to use that word for some reason when it put him down.

SPEAKER_02:

He's a spring of spaniel or something.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, but yeah, nonetheless, yeah, yeah, yeah. Before he was executed by lethal injection, he had a dozen deep fried shrimp, a bucket of KFC, original recipe chicken, fries, and a pound of strawberries. John Wayne Gacy, an R.I.P. I don't say rest in peace. I don't know what you'd say. Yeah, rest in peace. There we are. Thank you, brother Lynch. Come on. Agent double low deuce faux block. Yeah. Thank you, Lynch. Thank you. I can't believe you didn't come telling us how long you're doing. I know I did, but hey, that's what that's what we're here for. It is. Surprise, surprise, kinda high. Um, any of the what hit me with another one, I won't keep them coming.

SPEAKER_02:

Um, what was I having trouble pulling this up too? Like Colt sent me an article on it, and then I thought it's easier to get it on a computer and I was looking, but there's one guy who drank like three two-liter. I can't remember the name, but he drank like, yeah, it was like a massive amount of soda. Like, it was a fair amount of food, but um, I may have found I may have found this.

SPEAKER_01:

I may have found this for you and sorry, I was looking around. I almost okay, so here we are. It was it Lawrence Russell Brewer, possibly. I think so. Okay, this shit bag. This shit bag here guys. Uh, he was arrested for torturing and killing a 49-year-old handicapped black male in Jasper County. Yeah, he is a big white supremacist piece of shit. For some reason, they still allowed him to eat before they killed him. And uh his last meal was two chicken fried steaks, a gravy, a triple meat, bacon cheeseburger, a cheese omelet, fried okra, which is disgusting, guys. Okra, no offense, South, not a fan. I don't know. What about you, Owen?

SPEAKER_02:

No, I I have uh tried it a couple times.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, but not a fan, guys. Okay, keep it south, keep it south of my area. Uh a pound of barbecued meat, so it's very uh it's any meat, apparently. Half a loaf of white bread, three fajitas, a meat lover's pizza, three root beers, the two-liter variety, I believe you said, or liter or whatever, and then peanut butter, fudge, and ice cream. So he went to town too on this last uh last two raw. But yeah, you know, here's another thing. It's not like it's like a an eating contest. So I wonder if like these people finish these things. I mean God forbid, and I wouldn't do anything to do, like end up on death row, but like, you know, uh, if I ended up in that position of ordering some sort of last meal, I would just order like as much as they would let me, I suppose, and eat it, roll around in it, and just kinda whatever. Who cares, right, guys?

SPEAKER_02:

So yeah, I would uh be going out of my way to request stuff that they'd have a long time, you know, have trouble getting. So, like, oh no, we gotta wait the eight months for the French butter to get here.

SPEAKER_01:

Like handmade, yeah. Damn it. Oh my god. I don't know. You know, I don't know what kind of insight this shows on these people. Not a whole lot um to eat like most people. So I guess everywhere you look, Owen, there could be a serial killer or a killer, murderer of sorts, you know, and they might just be thinking about strawberries while they're doing it.

SPEAKER_02:

Or um well, you know, Ted Bundy, another accomplished shit bag. He he also refused his last meal. Oh, he did?

SPEAKER_00:

Huh, didn't know that.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, very interesting. Ted Bundy fact.

SPEAKER_01:

I'd say that's like one of the more well-known serial killers. But yeah, he's was doing all his business right out this way where I'm at, where I stay. Um, lots of serial killers from this area out here. Didn't see Yeah, aliens, squatches, serial killers. Yeah. Fur trees, you got it all. Yeah, fur trees, salmon, yeah. Fucking hey, guys. Bridges. There's bridges everywhere. Moth. There's some moth. Oh, a moth? Moth. Moth. Oh, moth. That's like a moth. I think they got moths everywhere. I don't even know. Yeah. Well, well, now that you guys know this information, maybe I hope it like interested you a little bit. Uh we don't condone serial killing in any way, shape, or form.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, maybe if it's cinnamon toast trench, I still do love that.

SPEAKER_00:

Yum, yum. Indeed. And on that note, my friend. Much love, everybody.

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