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Pockets Are Essential

1:29:54 recording · EN · 2 speakers

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Brief overview

A Portland live show pairs two solved local cases: the 1958 Martin family drowning and 1990s teen robbers.

  1. One civilian diver closed a 67-year mysteryArcher Mayo dove 20 days, located the car, and recovered the camera case and remains.
  2. Star students robbed about 19 businessesTom Curtis and Ethan Thrower netted $60 to $500 a robbery across a year-long spree.
  3. A cut robbery unit missed the patternEach hold-up was investigated in a vacuum, so nobody linked the same MO around Grant High.
Executive Summary AI
  • Karen and Georgia open a live My Favorite Murder show in Portland, joking that the crowd won a noise contest and thanking the city for supporting them since day one.2:18
  • Backstage friends Kate Maddox and Carrie Sullenbetter passed around nicotine pouches to get through two shows in one night, and one host retells flying her mother Janet to Boston for a filmed live show only to find her front tooth cap missing.3:46
  • Georgia tells the Martin family disappearance: on December 7th, 1958, Ken and Barbara Martin and daughters Barbie (14), Virginia (13) and Sue (11) drove east from northeast Portland for evergreen boughs, were last seen at the Paradise Snack Bar in Hood River and a gas station at Cascade Locks, and in May of 1959 two of the girls' bodies were found in the river.17:43
  • In 2018 a local diver, artist and sculptor named Archer Mayo took up the case, researched the Cascade Locks construction at the Oregon Historical Society, dove three times a day for 20 days from March, and brought up a matching hubcap, an early 1950s Ford County Squire, the sole of Barbara Martin's shoe, a camera case with Ken Martin's name and address, and human remains.29:54
  • Karen's story covers Grant High School stars Tom Curtis and Ethan Thrower, who stole cars and robbed about 19 businesses for $60 to $500 each until Ethan shot himself in the car after the Rustica robbery, his DNA in the stolen Suburban led to arrest the day before prom, and both later left prison, Tom in 2009 and Ethan in 2006 to become a youth social worker and author.42:15
Key Quote
“It's a comedy true crime podcast.”
— Karen10:50
Key Quote
“It was a cold case for over six decades.”
— Georgia14:07
Key Quote
“Like, one person can make such a huge difference.”
— Karen38:58