- Hi, guys. How are you today? It's me again. I showed up. My name is Bailey Sarian
and today is Monday, which means it's murder,
mystery, and makeup Monday. (singing) Last week, I forgot to do an intro song and you all reminded me of that. Sorry about it. I was very distracted last week. Very distracted. (sighing) Anyways, if you are new here, hi. My name is Bailey Sarian. I said that. Every Monday, I sit down and I talk about a true crime story that's been heavy on my noggin and I do my makeup at the same time. For the month of October,
I thought it'd be fun to just sit down and do Halloween makeup. Just kind of, I mean, I'm
not really going crazy. Cool, I'm glad we're all caught up. Last week, I did a look. It was supposed to be Elvira,
but I was calling it Elvuca because I did not. I didn't look like Elvira, okay? Let's be real. If you're interested in true
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hit that subscribe button. I'm here for you every Monday and I also upload on Saturdays, as well. Last week I started. I did my intro in the costume. This week, I'm gonna try it the other way. So let me know down below what you like. Should I do my intro
with like the final look or should I just not? I don't know, I'm torn. It's not even really about it. It's about like, the true crime, okay? So this week I'm gonna talk
about Peter and Betty Fabiano. Have you heard of them? I didn't think so. I haven't heard about them, either, and I even went onto YouTube to see if there was any videos about it. Nothing. So, suspic. So, at the very end,
I'll change and all that. Okay, cool? Cool story. Glad, all right. Let's get into it. Peter and Betty Fabiano. (suspenseful music) Let's start with Peter Fabiano, okay? Peter was a former truck driver and during this time in his
life is when he met a woman named Betty and Betty had two children from a previous marriage, but
she was single at this time. And when they met, they
just kind of hit it off and they started dating. And this was in the 1940s. Sorry, 1940s. He continued working as a truck driver while they got married and
lived in Kingston, New York. And then, in 1956, the
couple moved to Los Angeles. The both of them opened up
two beauty shops, hair salons, which is so random. Like, it's so opposite of a truck driver. I don't know how Peter got
to opening beauty shops because this was his
idea, but he got there and his wife, Betty, helped him manage these two beauty shops. I don't know if he went to
school for beauty or what, but hey man, follow your dreams. So October 31st, 1957. The kids are out Halloween
night trick-or-treating. Trick-or-treat, oh yeah. Mm-hmm. All the kids are trying to find where the full sized candy bars at. As the night ended,
35-year-old Peter Fabiano, his wife, Betty, and
teenage stepdaughter, Judy, they all decided to call it
a night, get ready for bed, and they were just all gonna go mimis. Go to sleep. So they all get ready for bed and they go lay down and
they turn out the lights. They're going to bed. 11:00 PM comes around
and the doorbell rings. Betty kind of rolls
over and looks at Peter and is like, are you gonna get that? (laughing) I'm not gonna get that. Peter gets up and he's like,
okay, I'll go get the door. And Peter's thinking, these must be just late
night trick-or-treaters. I mean, I'll just get up. There's some candy left. I'll just give him the
leftover candy, not a big deal. So Peter gets up, grabs the candy bowl, and goes to answer the front door. Now, Betty's laying in bed
and she hears Peter opening up the door and she hears Peter say, quote, "Isn't it a little late for this?" End quote. Now, Betty heard two other voices, but she didn't recognize them, and she described them
as sounding masculine, but more like men trying
to sound like women. She thought was kind of strange. Then, a few seconds later,
Betty just hears a loud pop. I mean, it was loud. So Betty and her daughter Judy, they'd get up out of
bed and they just hurry to the front door where Peter was at. Now, when they run to the front door, they find Peter just laying on his back just inside the front door. There's blood. He's not responding. They both start freaking out. That's when Betty kind of
puts two and two together and she's like, ohm my
God, that was a gunshot. So right away, Betty goes to the kitchen. She grabs the phone and she calls 911. Now Judy, the daughter,
she just ran two doors down to her neighbors because
her neighbor was a member of the Los Angeles police department. So Judy just ran over there and she's knocking on the
door and the neighbor answers and Julie's telling them what happened. She heard a loud pop. Her dad is like, what seems
to be dead on the floor. This neighbor just called LAPD and then the police
arrived within minutes. Now, Peter was taken to a nearby hospital but sadly, he passed away due to bleeding, well, massive bleeding,
from the gunshot wound. So okay, what the f? What the f happened? So detectives go to the home. Well, okay, look. First, they ask Betty,
they're trying to ask Betty, what happened? Do you know somebody that
would want to hurt him? Can you tell us anything? And Betty's just really struggling. I mean, she just lost her husband. She's really upset and she can't seem to, she's not any help. So detectives just go over to the home and they're gonna search the home or just search where they found Peter. Now, when they're there,
they don't find any of the, God, what are those called? The shells, spent
shells, ammunition shell. Mm-hmm. They don't find that. They don't find any of that, but they also don't just
don't find any evidence, like any clues. They don't find anything, okay? So then they're looking, thinking, okay, well, maybe this was
like, an attempted robbery because what the hell? They didn't know. So they're looking and it
doesn't look like the shooting was a part of any type
of attempted robbery. So it said like, two days
later, I think it is, Betty's able to, obviously,
she's still grieving, but she's able to give some help, maybe some clues or something. I don't know. But Betty just tells
them that she and Peter, they ran two beauty shops. They've been married since 1955. Their shops were very successful. And as far as she could
remember, he had no enemies. She couldn't think of anybody. Detectives have nothing and they're like, okay, let's just interview
friends and relatives. They gotta figure something out, right? That's their job. But after interviewing a bunch
of friends and relatives, they just came up with nothing. It's just sounded like this
Peter guy was a really nice guy. Nobody disliked him. He was hardworking. He loved his job. He was very nice, very friendly. Nobody had anything
mean to say about them. Suspic. There are people who are
too nice and it's like, hmm. So you're saying nobody dislikes you? Okay, sure. Sure, Peter. Sure. So they come back to Betty again and they were like Betty. Betty. Betty. Can you think of anybody? Anybody who would want to harm Peter? And Betty's like, okay,
okay, let me think. Let me think. So Betty's thinking, thinking, and okay. And then she comes up
with a name, Joan Rabel. We're just gonna call her Joan because I don't know if it's
Ray-bel or Re-bel or yeah. Names are hard. Okay, so Joan, she was
a friend of the family. I don't know, maybe she would
wanna do something to Peter? So police, they go and they
look for this Joan girl and they were like, who the hell is she? Okay, let's go bring
her in and question her and whatnot and figure
out what her deal is. So they find this Joan
lady and they bring her in. They asked her some
questions, but they let her go because there's just no evidence that points the finger at her. Now, police just kinda keep investigating, but they don't have any leads. Now, a month goes by. The police station gets
a mysterious phone call. Now, someone calls the station. They wanna remain anonymous,
but this person says, hey, you gotta go to this rented locker. It's in a department store in downtown LA. I believe it's linked
to the murder of Peter. What was his name? Fabiano. I believe it's linked to
the murder of Peter Fabiano. So because police really
don't have any damn leads, they're like, all right, let's
go check out this locker. Now, it was in a department store. You can rent a locker to store items in. I've never heard of that,
but I guess it's a thing. Maybe it isn't anymore,
but it was at some point, so that's good, okay. So police go down to this locker and they're able to get
inside of this rented locker and guess what they find? Inside this locker, they find a gun. Now, not just any old gun. It was the same gun that was used in the murder of Peter Fabiano. We need to figure out
who's renting this locker because they obviously know something or they're responsible for this, right? Like, hello, okay. Police look up who's renting this locker and they come up with
the name Goldyne Pizer. Goldyne, huh? Okay. So who the hell is this Goldyne person? So they do some researching on Goldyne and they see that she was born in Illinois to German immigrants and she
moved to Los Angeles by 1940. She worked as a secretary, currently. I think she was working in some
kind of lab as a secretary, but regardless, she was working. But the thing was, she
didn't work with Peter or the family at all. So it's like, what did
she want with this family? They see that she was
married briefly in 1994, but the marriage didn't work out. It only lasted a couple
months and then they divorced. After her divorce ended,
Goldyne was known to date women, which was very taboo at the time, okay. This was in the 50s. Nope. But Goldyne was out here doing that. So because they find this
weapon that was in a locker in Goldyne's name and it's the same weapon that was used to kill Peter, police go and arrest 43-year-old Goldyne and they take her in for questioning. Now, Goldyne's just. (laughing) I'm laughing because Goldyne's funny. She just wasted no time. She was under arrest and within, I guess, just a couple of minutes, she was like, okay, I did it. It was me. You caught me. She didn't even try, which I wish all of these cases would go. That'd be great. She wasted no time. She was like, oh, you got me and then she tells police officers, quote, "It's a relief to get it off my mind." That's good. That's great. So police are like, all right, cool. We caught the killer. So like, why'd she do it? I don't get it. Goldyne is just ready to spill
the tea, as you kids call it. So Goldyne instantly says, look, a friend of mine, her name is Joan. She told me to do it. And police are like, what the hell? We already questioned her. Like she, what? Tell us more. So, Joan was a former employee of one of Peter Fabiano's beauty shops and Goldyne said Joan is the one who talked her into committing the crime. Goldyne said that she and Joan, they were friends for a couple of years. Goldyne and Joan, they planned
the murder for three months, Which, side note, that's
like three months too long. If you're planning a
murder for three months, maybe you should just let it
go and move on with your life. You went three months to think about it and realize that it wasn't worth it. Like, you know? Three months, you planned it? No. No. No. All that they would talk
about was Peter Fabiano. I mean, Joan was just
obsessed with this guy. Now, Joan is the one who described Peter as a vile, evil man and
he was just destroy anyone who was around him,
anyone who was his friend. He just was a terrible human being. This is what Joan told Goldyne. So Goldyne's hearing this
and just like, oh. my God. Like, wow, he sounds awful. So Goldyne is thinking,
okay, this Peter guy, he just ruined Joan and Joan's my friend. She's been a friend for a long time. Why would she lie to me about this guy? So she's painting in this
picture that Peter's just awful and Goldyne said that
she just was developing a deep hatred for him. So on October 21st,
Goldyne purchased a gun from a shop in Pasadena, which is like, it's not far from where she was at. The town over. Goldyne told the guy behind the counter that she just needed a
gun for home protection, so the guy is able to get her the gun and then Joan is the one who
actually pays for the gun and she also gets two bullets. Joan is the one who tells Goldyne, just keep this at your house and then I'll meet up with
you on Halloween night. Goldyne takes the gun home. She keeps it in a safe spot
and waits for Halloween night. So when Halloween night comes, Goldyne says that Joan
came over to the house. She has some blue jeans,
khaki jackets, hats, eye mask, and they decided to put
the gun in a paper bag, as if they were going trick-or-treating. So they got dressed up, outfits. I don't know what they're
supposed to be, but okay. Lame costume. And they drive to Peter's house. So they get to the home at about 9:00 PM and they just kind of park a
little bit down the street, but not too far, just where
they can see the house and wait for the lights to go out. So they're just sitting
there and they're waiting and eventually, the
lights to the house go out and that's their cue. So Goldyne says, okay, they
both go up to the house. Goldyne rings the doorbell
and nothing happens. So she rings again or she knocks and then that's when
Peter answers the door and he asks, isn't it
a little late for this? So Goldyne said she
holds up the paper bag, which had the gun in it, remember? And then she fires it and it goes off and it hits Peter, obv, and it kills him. Sorry. So once they shoot Peter,
they go running off, right? And they, they get back into their car and then they drive off. So once they get back into the car, they drive off to a lady
named Margaret's house and the reason that they drove
back to this lady's house is because they were actually,
they were borrowing her car. Jesus, I'd be so pissed if I was Margaret. Really? You're gonna use my car to kill somebody? Fucking dicks. Anyway, so they borrowed
this car from Margaret. So they drive down to Margaret's house because they're like, we
gotta return the car, okay? So they're driving back
to Margaret's house. They get there. I guess, at some point they
burn all their clothes, but it's kind of unclear. Like, if they burn it and
then get into the car. It doesn't matter, I guess, but they burn their clothes at some point. Evidence. So once they drop off the
car, Joan turns to Goldyne and tells her, "Forget you ever knew me." And then just walks off. Now, Goldyne was upset with by that. That little comment is like,
really made Goldyne, just stop. What, what do you mean? So, who's Joan? Who is this lady? Well, why did Joan wanna kill Peter? I mean, what was so wrong? So it all started when Peter hired Joan to work at his hair salon in Los Angeles. Now, Joan was a 40-year-old,
a freelance photographer. She was also a writer, I guess, but I think she was hired
for her photography skills. I'm not even sure what she was hired for, but regardless, she was hired, okay? She was just fucking hired. Peter liked her, whatever, and
he starts to introduce Joan to everybody in the salon. He introduces Joan to Betty, his wife, because Betty works there, as well. She comes in and she helps
out from time to time. Cool. Now, Betty would quickly
become Joan's obsession. So as time goes on, Joan becomes really close
with Peter and Betty and she just overall was really
enjoying working for Peter and she just really
liked when Betty came in and worked, as well, like
at the same time as her. She just liked her. She was like, yay, Betty. Yay. Now, the friendship between
the two of them fell apart when Betty and Peter, they
began to have marital problems. So Betty thought it would
be best for the two of them to split and for her to
move out of the family home. I guess it was just really bad. They weren't getting along. I'm not sure what it was over or anything, but they were just bickering. Betty's like, okay,
I'm just gonna move out because I need some space by myself. I'm gonna take my kids, don't worry, and then I'm just gonna move out. They're fighting and
guess where Betty moves? She ends up moving it with Joan. Hmm, hmm, hmm. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. So this is an 1957. Now, it was heavily
frowned upon, remember? To do anything, to breathe. When newspapers reported on this story, they would describe Joan
and Betty's relationship as abnormal because the
papers would never dare, dare, dare to use the L-word. The L-word. The L-word is lesbians. Oh, nay, nay, nay. They don't use that word. No such thing as lesbians. Even when researching this, it's like, you can't ever figure out
if Joan and Betty were like, a couple or they were having
sexual relations or anything. Not that it's our business. They just were living together. But I think it's safe to
say that they were lovers. So it was never confirmed nor denied if the two of them were in a relationship, but Goldyne said that
they were indeed lovers, Betty and Joan. So Betty and Joan were living
together for a little bit. It didn't seem like it was that long. Some of these older cases, it's
hard to find information on. I mean, they couldn't even say if they're in a relationship or not. The dates are a little, yeah. So Betty and Joan are living together for not even that long and
I don't know, you know? Betty just decides that, you know what? I miss Peter. Peter and Betty decide,
let's work on our marriage. Let's try and fix this
and be together again. Peter was like, we can be
together under one condition. You can no longer see Joan. So Betty's like, well, shit. Thanks, Joan. It's been real. I'm out. So Betty then moves back with Peter. As you maybe are putting
the pieces together, like a Lifetime movie, but
this ain't a Lifetime movie. This is real life. Joan is hurt, but she is pissed. She is heartbroken and she became fixated on removing the problem. The problem that was preventing
her from being with Betty and that problem, baby
girl, was a man named Peter. (dramatic, intense music) Now, when you break up with somebody, somebody leaves you for another person, of course, that's heartbreaking. That's really hard. And it hurts. It hurts really bad. It does, I know, but you
can't let yourself go to that, cross that line to just
becoming a little too obsessed. Okay, and Joan starts
to just become obsessed with Betty and getting her back. She was in love with Betty and Betty didn't know what she was missing because Betty could be
treated so much better if she was with Joan. I just have to show that to her. You know? Joan is a little selfish asshole. When Betty moves out,
that's when Joan is like, dude, I'm lonely. I need somebody. Let me call up Goldyne. (mimicking phone ringing) Goldyne? Hey, it's Joan. And they became very close. Now, you see, Goldyne and Joan, again, they had known each other
for a couple of years. Goldyne had like a major crush on Joan and Joan, she was aware
that Goldyne liked her, but she wasn't really interested in her. She wanted Betty. She was in love with Betty, right? So Joan is just feeling lonely and she just kind of needs somebody and that's when she calls up Goldyne and then they start hanging out and they start officially dating. Now, the relationship
between the two of them, it was moving really fast, but it was becoming more clear to Goldyne that Joan was clearly not over
her previous relationship. So Joan would constantly talk about Betty, constantly talk about
how Peter was abusive towards Betty and towards the children. Joan, then, would go on to say
that Peter was doing drugs. He was also selling drugs out of his house and that's how he had so much
money to run these businesses. Convinced Goldyne that
Peter was pure evil. Now, Goldyne had never met Peter or Betty, but she just felt so bad based off of what Joan was telling her and she was like, oh, my gosh, poor Betty. She's just really stuck in this marriage. She's being abused by this awful man. I just couldn't imagine being in her shoes and Joan just wants to help her. Goldyne was just allowing
herself to believe everything that Joan was saying and she then was just becoming controlled by Joan's personal agenda. So when Joan brought up the idea that maybe they should
shoot and kill Peter, that way he'll stop abusing people. He'll stop abusing his children. That's the only way to get Betty free. We have to kill him. Goldyne just followed all
of Joan's instructions. She didn't. She just was a sheep. Although Joan gave Goldyne
money to buy the gun, technically, Goldyne was
the one who purchased a gun and it would be later traced back to her, but it was like under Goldyne's name. Also, Golding technically
purchased the bullets. And then lastly, Goldyne
was technically the one who pulled the trigger and killed Peter. Now, Joan was a smart little cookie, okay? She knew to have Goldyne
put the gun into her name. She knew to have Goldyne
put the bullets in her name. She knew have Goldyne
technically pull the trigger so if anything came back to them, she could be like, it wasn't me. It was all Goldyne's idea. Joan was smart in that sense, kind of. I mean, not really, but you know. That part was smart, I
guess, but it's not smart, and I would suggest you don't do that. Of course, my eyes watering
and ruining all the fun. I'm really bummed. Bailey, people are literally dying. Get over it. So once the murder was done, remember Joan says to Goldyne,
"Forget you ever knew me," and Goldyne, that really stuck with her and it just left her with so much guilt. Guilt for killing someone. Grief because she was
officially being dumped by Joan and now she was stuck with the gun. Goldyne was. So they didn't think of a plan
of what to do with the gun or how to get rid of it
or anything like that. Or maybe Joan just didn't give two shits to really even care to get rid of the gun and just left it with Goldyne
was like, peace out, thanks. So that's when Goldyne
rented a store lockbox and that's why she put the gun in there. It just became very clear to Goldyne that Joan was just using her, that their relationship wasn't even real, and that Joan didn't even really love her. Goldyne was really hurt by this. Do you blame her? No. Should she have killed somebody? Absolutely not, but
like, I feel bad for her. Joan just wanted somebody
to do all of her dirty work and then toss her to the side like trash. All of this anger,
sadness, guilt, and grief is what led Goldyne to confessing. Why would she be loyal to Joan now? I mean, Joan just threw me
aside and was like, thanks. I bet you have Joan didn't dump Goldyne, maybe it would have led
to her not doing that. Police arrest Joan, as well. I don't know if I mentioned that and Goldyne was arrested
and put in jail, as well. Goldyne pleaded insanity
and stated, hold on. Goldyne pleaded insanity and stated to one of her psychiatrist evaluating the case that she had no motive and
whatever motive she had, it was because of Joan. She also went on to say that
she was easily influenced and that she's always been very
impressionable and trusting, which doesn't sound like insanity to me. Just sounds like a lot of people. Goldyne was just looking for a way out. Oh, I look like a clown. Kind of like it. Goldyne's psychiatrist later wrote that the only thought Goldstein had was that she had to save her friend Joan from an evil person. Joan pleaded innocent. Okay, Joan. Which, no comment by Joan ever, ever. Suspic. But both women were sentenced
to five years to life in prison after taking a plea
deal to reduce their charge from first degree murder
to second degree murder. Now, their case landed in history as the trick-or-treater murderer and was frequently,
frequently, and was frequently, and was frequently cited as an example of women receiving softer
treatment in the courtroom. According to the LA times,
Goldyne was eventually released and remained in the Los Angeles area. In 1971, she was made an officer
of the Miracle Mile chapter of the professional woman's club. Goldyne died at the age of 83 in 1998. She seemed to live a long, happy life. She never gave any interviews or anything. Like girl, come out with
a book or something. Write a Lifetime movie. Come on. Anyways, and then Joan. Joan was released at some point and there is little to no
trace of her after 1957. Just off the grid. Nothing. There's nothing on her. It's just like, what the hell? It's also been mentioned that possibly Joan changed her name, which I guess would make
sense, but it was weird. She never said a peep, nothing. Now, Betty went on to
live a very full life and she ended up passing away
at the age of 81 in 1999. Now, I know what you're all thinking. Did Betty love Joan? Did the two of them ever
reconnect after Peter's murder? Did Betty play a role
in her husband's murder? Was it her idea? These are questions we will
probably never get an answer to. Actually we were probably most likely, 99% never get an answer to. None of them talked and nobody knows. Nothing. Nothing. I'm gonna change my costume and I'll be right back for final thoughts. (whooshing) Whew. It's real moist in here. How do I put this lightly? I look like a hooker. Not even like an expensive one. In my mind these costumes are a good idea and then once I do them,
I just look. (laughing) I am the nurse from the
Blink 182 album cover. Remember? If you don't know,
because I know some of you are kind of young watching this. You youngins. I'm a nurse. Just go with that. I'm a nurse, obviously. I do nurse things. Okay, so before we sign off
here on today's episode, final thoughts, I have no idea. I think Joan was just truly
obsessed with Betty, right? But then I was thinking,
because nobody knows if Betty and Joan ended up
together after Peter passed away. So we don't know. Do you think Betty was in on it? I don't know. I really don't know. Nothing pointed to Betty. I don't know. What do you think? Regardless, yes, I do think that their sentence was way too light. They got to live happy, long lives, so what the fuck happened to Joan? I don't know, but she did not
deserve to get out of prison. Goldyne, I kind of felt bad for her because I do think she
needs to be held accountable for what she did. She got played, you know? That sucks when you just
are being used to get back at an ex or whatever. Anyways, let me know
your thoughts down below. Do you think Betty had
anything to do with it or do you think it was
just all of Joan's idea? Also, a big thank you
for hanging out with me. I appreciate you. I forgot to mention last Monday,
I hit 400,000 subscribers. Thank you so much to all of you who are watching, liking
disliking, commenting, subscribing. It means more than you know. I really appreciate it. I just want to say a big
thank you to you guys. Thank you. I hope you have a good day today. You make good choices and
please, please, please, be safe out there. Don't get played. Don't fall into anybody's
little trap, okay? If somebody tells you to kill someone, you say no, God damnit. That's not okay. Anyways, have a good day. Make good choices and I'll
be seeing you guys later. Bye.
