This week, in Sunnyside, California, a slaughter of three people, in an upscale suburban home, makes the area fear for their lives, but this turns out to be anything but random. It's actually a very calculated plan, concocted by a young man who idolized jailed stock swindlers, and murderous members of "The Billionaire Boys Club". This ruthless act allows him access to millions of dollars, and spend cash like the Menendez brothers!! Will he ever pay??Along the way, we find out Ludacris is inescapable, that greediness can form in childhood, and that if you murder your parents, you may want to hire a professional!!New episodes every Thursday!Donate at: patreon.com/crimeinsports or go to paypal.com and use our email: [email protected] to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Small Town Murder & Crime In Sports!Follow us on...twitter.com/@murdersmallfacebook.com/smalltownpodinstagram.com/smalltownmurderAlso, check out James & Jimmie's other show, Crime In Sports! On Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Wondery, Wondery+, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: What is the background of the Ewell family?
He's fighting because he's from Fresno.
Yeah. Got to get out of here. Even if the fights aren't in Fresno, I'm winning. So this is about four and a half hours to Lomita, California. That's our last California episode. Cooking up murder. That was the chef and the whole that whole thing. That was pretty crazy. This is in Fresno County. Area code five, five, nine. Little bit of history here. Sunnyside used to be known as Malter Morrow.
That's what it used to be. Well, it was named after a guy, apparently, here. It was named after a postmaster, George H. Malter. So they were going to call it that. But then they changed it to Sunnyside, because that sounds way more welcome. Sunnyside? Sounds like there's a beach nearby, and there isn't. Trust me.
Then the riverside.
Well, rivers are not... You know what I mean? People don't go, oh, nothing's more beautiful than a river. But sunny side sounds like you're going to wake up to waves crashing on your front door. The sunny side of the tracks.
That's it.
Fresno is Spanish for ash tree, by the way, in case you're wondering. Is that right? Yeah. At first, when people first got here, there was land disputes and natural disasters. Floods caused tons of damage everywhere. Fires were breaking out everywhere. In 1882, the greatest of the early day fires wiped out an entire block of the city of Fresno and then was followed by another big fire in 1883.
So there's a lot. People brought sheep here in 1865. They had sheep, and they started to – they've gone really through a lot of transitions. First there was sheep, and then there was wheat, and then raisins became a big thing here.
California raisins.
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Chapter 2: What was Dana Ewell's childhood like?
I don't know what's up with that shit. Very strange. His friend said, when I would go over to his house, his room was kind of a mess. I would kick some clothes over, and I would see a $100 bill on the floor. That used to blow me away. That's crazy. And we're talking in the early 80s here. $100 is a lot of money, and this kid's just on the floor under some dirty clothes.
It falls out of some old pants he threw in the pile.
When we were kids, which was well after this period, if you had $100, you knew exactly where that fucking $100 was.
In one bill?
Are you kidding me? Dude, it would be in a frame.
I know exactly where that $100 bill is. It's somebody else's.
It'd be handcuffed in a Halliburton. Like a nuclear footballer. Yeah, like a nuclear footballer. Like one of those bank guys who's going to the next meeting. That's what I would do. This person, Shelby, saw Dana at a mall one day, and Dana walked by and asked in a mock English accent, are you low on funds today, Mr. Shelby, and handed him a $20 bill. Here you go. Low on funds.
Just giving out $20 bills at the mall. Another person who went to school with him here, Kathy, said that he was driven as a kid even. And she said that was like his father. She said, I remember sitting and talking with him on the phone and he would be writing letters to people in businesses he admired. What a fucking right. What a boring kid.
What if my kid was right as a child was writing letters to CEO Mattel? I'd be like, dude, what are you doing? This isn't what you're supposed to – you're supposed to be into, like, music and, like, things that make you feel shit and, like, you know.
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