Name: Dan Gable Opens Up About the Murder of His Sister
Uploaded: 2021-03-31T17:05:09.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dan Gable Opens Up About the Murder of His Sister' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-31. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dan Gable Opens Up About the Murder of His Sister' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-31. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience you know here's another thing because it's quite along
the same line
because and I hope I don't get emotional on this one but so you know when I was
15 I'd won a state championship and
my first state championship in wrestling first year as a high school sophomore
because that
high school started then and I anyway long story short this neighbor kid end up
murdering my sister and
he had walked to school with me a couple weeks before that and said something
to me who I if I
would have communicated it might have saved her life you know just because she
probably would have never
let the guy into the her house what did he say he just said like boy you got a
hot sister you know and
and he was kind of my age one year older than me but my sister was four years
older than me so he was
probably 16 and she was 19 and and she had a boyfriend and she was living in
home yet and
and uh so so the funny thing is is I didn't I actually was going to come home
and say something
to her but when I got home I got distracted and I said oh it's just boy talk
you know it's just boy
talking it was mostly about he just thought my sister was really hot and that
he would like to
do something with her you know but he never really said it outright I mean I
didn't I just figured
something you know the boy boys would like to do you know but anyway so you
know that two weeks later
we're on a fishing trip with my mom and dad and my sister's supposed to join us
and she doesn't
show up because she worked for my dad after uh she went to college for a year
and then she worked for
my dad uh after that as a secretary the real estate business so uh she didn't
show up so we called the
neighbor and back in those days she didn't have cell phones so we had a we had
a phone uh that was
outside a cabin that we rented not you know and i'll you know i can date you
because the date the cabin
we rented for four bucks a night so you know it's just unheard of and that was
you know it would have
you know been uh uh 1964. so so we were at a pay phone about a half a block
from from the cabin that
we were renting and we rolled the window down and you put the dime or nickel in
the phone and you call
and my dad called the uh i was in the front back seat my mom and dad were in
the front my dad was driving
and he called the neighbor and and he asked if um my sister's car was still in
the driveway and he said
yes so and she was supposed to be with us 90 miles away that morning she didn't
show up so so my dad and
my mom get really nervous and i tell they tell him to go get break into that
house if you can't you know
if there's nobody you know you can't get in break into it or she doesn't answer
the door but you know get
into that house and call us back so it's you can see the tension in the front
seat of the car you know
i can see my mom and dad worrying the phone rings finally at about 15 minutes
later and all of a sudden
the uh my dad drops the phone and and um my my mom was going she was kind of
going starting to
go hysterical and know what was wrong and and he looked over i'll never forget
this you know
being a 15 year old kid and i looked my dad said to her diane's not alive and
oh my god you know it's
just my mom opened the door of the car she took off running back to the block
to the cabin i got out and
ran after her when i when i followed her into the cabin by that time she was
already on the floor and she
had grabbed her hair and she was pulling her head hitting the wooden floor and
she looked up and
she had blood all over her forehead and um uh so my dad then followed in and we
packed up real quick
10 minutes we left half the stuff then we took off from my hometown 90 miles
away but within 15 minutes
within a half hour of that phone call i was in the back seat and there was a
lot of trauma going on in
that front seat and i said to my dad dad i may know something about this i don't
know for sure
but i may and you know he overreacted he slammed the car the brakes on the car
got out of the car
came around opened the door pulled me out slammed me against the door what do
you mean you may know
something about it and then i told him the story about the two weeks before
that me walking to school with
a neighbor kid and that what he had said and he just hugged me and threw me
back in the car and we
stopped at the next town which is about 15 miles later and went into the police
station and we told
the police what had happened as far as my sister daughter getting murdered the
night before and we
we were on our way there but but this my kid told me a story that i think if
you could help me as soon
as possible so they called a head to the waterloo police department the waterloo
police located he was
at work sacking groceries the next day in a grocery store and so they and he'd
actually admitted right
there that he did it you know after they they they got him but the thing is
what's a what's amazing is
this guy then he escaped from prison after about 20 he was only 16 he went to
got life in penitentiary
you know and uh and uh he escaped and and that pretty much doomed him to ever
getting out and
uh then because he was out for a month before they they caught him and he
actually in the trial he was
so mad about getting sentenced to life in prison that he pointed to the gable
family and on the way out
he said he was gonna kill us all and uh so anyway this guy goes to prison and
and uh he lives and
he dies in prison after he broke out he never really got a chance to ever let
him out but here's the
thing so it's just about oh i don't know say it's seven eight years ago when he
passed away but we're
we got another cabin now it's about 30 miles north of the cabin that was we
were in that time and that
was a rental cabin that's torn down now and we go right by that place so we're
going right by that
place actually i'd been at we me and my wife had been at our cabin that my mom
and dad owned and they
i inherited it when they passed on but we were at that cancer uh cabin and we
were coming home and we're
going right by the spot where that pay phone was and where we had learned about
her death and there's a
cell phone call it's the warden of the prison he's in i think it was uh indiana
he was in indiana the
prison and the warden told me that the guy that murdered your sister just died
the exact same spot
where i learned of the murder i was driving by and it's 130 it's about 115
miles from well it's actually
a lot further than that so it's like spooky it's like real spooky and then what
what's really amazing
is what he said to me the warden he said before he died he was seeing a
counselor and the counselor told
me this that he said you know i really he repented he said i really shouldn't
have i feel bad about
killing diane gable i mean this is years later uh but that he had told and he
had been rehabbed somewhat
and he goes and the reason why he said i knew i was going to kill somebody but
he said because she was
such a nice girl you know oh my god he said he knew he was going to kill
somebody he said he knew he was
going to kill somebody just it was just who he was yeah and they told me that
and and you know
i cried for an hour and it got a lot out of me but you know as bad as my dad
felt my mom felt and you know i felt probably
it kind of got rid of a lot of hatred when they when he told me that that he
admitted that she was
such a nice girl that he shouldn't have done it and it was you know probably
not too flory he
probably did it on his deathbed or something but he probably had all this guilt
but but you know it
helped me too and it helped me because even though i i cried for an hour and i
i think it the stuff you
build up inside you sometimes you just you don't know what it's going to take
to get it get it out of
you and i think that really helped me with my situation because you always feel
a little guilty
because of maybe you could have saved her life but but more than that it's been
something that
i based my whole life on too uh just communication i mean this is your business
communication i mean
sometimes my wife tells me i'm telling her too much you know you don't need to
tell me you know we
don't need to talk about this i said yeah i do i do you know i need to talk
about it's not just that
it's just anything that there's crops up i need to go home and i need to have a
conversation with
somebody that i that i like and love and um to be able to see whether i'm doing
the right thing or
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