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5 min readOn a September night in 1987, Minnie Clyde Winston, 77, stepped out of her bath in her suburban Atlanta home and noticed red droplets on the floor. She checked herself—nothing. She called for her husband Willie, 79, who was hooked up to a dialysis machine in another room. He was fine. But when they looked around, blood was seeping through the floors and walls of the bathroom, kitchen, living room, bedroom, hallways, and basement. The droplets ranged from the size of dimes to silver dollars. The couple had lived in the house for 22 years without incident.
Police arrived expecting a violent scene. They found two bewildered elderly people, no signs of forced entry, no intruders, no struggle. The Winstons had a security system that had been activated for nearly three hours before the blood appeared. Detectives treated the home as a crime scene, photographed everything, and sent samples to the Georgia State Crime Lab. The lab confirmed the substance was human blood, type O. Willie and Minnie both had type A. There was no match. Detective Steve Cartwright told the Atlanta Constitution: "I've been on the force 10 years and I've never seen anything like this." Hospitals reported no one with significant blood loss. Missing persons turned up nothing. The blood never returned after that single night.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Episode Intro & Disclaimer** - Hosts Spencer and Madison open with the standard content warning and introduce the show's premise
- 2 (09:04) **Listener Email: Inside the Creative Writing Class with an Accused Murderer** - A listener shares a firsthand account of attending a writing class with Shannon Gallagher, the "neck brace lady" from a previous episode
- 3 (16:14) **Am I the Asshole? Questioning a Friend's Grief** - The hosts read a listener submission about whether it's appropriate to question the official narrative of a friend's adult son's death
- 4 (19:42) **Am I the Asshole? Telling a Daughter Her Bio Mom Loved Drugs More** - A difficult parenting situation involving addiction, grief, and a 20-year-old daughter's desire to know her biological mother
- 5 (24:01) **Coffin Spinner: The Inventor of the Bloody Mary** - Spencer shares an obituary for Ferdinand Pitois, the inventor of the Bloody Mary cocktail
- 6 (26:58) **Coffin Spinner: The Box of Preserved Penises** - Spencer discovers a bizarre medical artifact: three perfectly preserved human penises found in a cardboard box
- 7 (38:54) **Coffin Spinner: The Man with Three Penises** - A 78-year-old UK man donated his body to science, revealing he had three penises
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Show Notes
In possibly our most chaotic episode yet, we’re getting NC-17 this week as Spencer tells us about a box of d*cks. Next, Madison has a wild true story of a house that was mysteriously bleeding! We’ve got an obituary for a Weiner, one for a husband and subsequently his wife, and of course, we’ve got some dumb.ass.criminalllllllllls!
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