Bryan Cranston's Chaotic 20s: How He Became a Murder Suspect and Was Targeted by a Scorned Lover on a Soap Set

"Little did we know they put out an APB on us and to find us, we were somewhere in the Carolinas, I think at that point," Cranston said of being a suspect in a murder case

Bryan Cranston is opening up about the crazy brushes with murder he's experienced in his lifetime.

On Tuesday's episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson's Dinner's on Me podcast, the Breaking Bad alum delved into the chaos of his early 20s and shared a few anecdotes that indirectly involved murder.

Over a meal of poke and salmon curry, Cranston, 67, recalled traveling the country with his brother Kyle sometime in the mid 70s when they stopped in Florida. Low on funds, the pair stopped a while in the Sunshine State in order to accrue funds and got jobs as waiters in a restaurant called the Hawaiian Inn.

He prefaced the story by explaining that the restaurant was helmed by a "cantankerous" chef named Peter Wong who "just hated everyone."

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"There was just no way on earth you were ever going to get on his good side. But he liked the ladies. And so, all the men knew, oh, if we had any problem in the kitchen, we had to send them in," Cranston added, noting how Wong was "awful" and the staff would often have meetings where they joke about the ways they'd plot to get rid of him.

"We'd all discuss how rotten and mean Peter Wong is, and we'd all discuss, if one were to do away with Peter Wong ... how would one do it?" he recalled, sharing how some jokingly suggested the use of a "meat grinder" or hitting him over the head with "his own wok."

"We would laugh," the Malcolm in the Middle star said. "You're in a kitchen, there's a million ways to kill someone in a kitchen."

Soon, it was time for the Cranstons to move on and they headed "up north" with plans to go "all the way to Maine and on our motorcycles."

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"Well, little did we know that right at the time we said goodbye and left the job, Peter Wong went missing. He was not found for a week, week and a half, two weeks," he said. The actor revealed that the chef had always carried a "wad of cash" on his person and for to the dog track.

One day, a "young lady in a honey trap" approached him and led him back to "a house or something" when someone knocked him over the head and robbed him. They later put his body in the "trunk of a car." Homicide investigators then came into the restaurant to question those who worked with him. When asked if anyone had mentioned doing Wong harm, fingers were pointed at the Cranston brothers who had coincidentally left town at the time of the murder.

"Little did we know they put out an APB [all-points bulletin] on us and to find us, we were somewhere in the Carolinas, I think at that point," he mused, reflecting on how things would have gone down if "someone really pulled us over and down on the ground with guns ablaze."

Fortunately, before police tracked them down, investigators put "the pieces together" and arrested the actual culprits who had murdered Wong after interviewing witnesses and gathering surveillance tapes. (Billy Wayne Waughtel and two accomplices were arrested for the murder, and Waughtel later pleaded guilty but was killed in prison, per the Daytona Beach News-Journal.)

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Cranston also shared another time he had a brush with murder.

Shortly after the end of his first marriage, the actor recalled going on an audition where he met a woman who was "assertive, and in command [and] beautiful." Despite the "very hot and heavy romance" the two shared "right off the bat," he decided to break things off after learning she had a problem with drugs.

After their breakup, Cranston got a job on a soap opera called Loving in New York City and agreed to see her for dinner as "friends."

"We were drinking and we were eating and she made this beautiful meal and then it started turning. She started talking like, we're still together. Yeah. And I went, 'Oh, I've made a mistake,'" he said.

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Later on set of the soap, Cranston had a rude awakening when she showed up on set with her "arms crossed" and began confronting him.

"You thought, you thought that you can just walk out on me. Is that what you thought? You thought you can just walk out and leave me alone," he recalled her confrontation. "Is that right? And I'm like, 'Oh my god, this is a soap opera.'"

Cranston continued, sharing how their relationship "devolved from there." Eventually, he admitted, he even had a "vision of killing her."

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"I went to a different place," he explained. "You know, they used to call it seeing red. And all you see is emotion, and rage, and fear, and anxiety... and the moment that I snapped out of this, she was, in my mind, I had already killed her. And I was so afraid of myself. At that moment that I went, 'Oh my God, what is happening to me?'"

"I'm so frightened by this woman, this petite woman, five foot two. I mean, just, I just didn't know what to do," he added as Ferguson confirmed, "You finally shook it, but yeah, I can imagine."

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