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From the infamous case the whole world watched to the unsolved case you have never heard of, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime, our true crime reports bring you real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries — one true crime case at a time, straight from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault. Because if a killer is still out there, the story is not over.

Every true crime story in our archive begins with a question no one could answer: an unsolved murder, a cold case reopened decades later, a mysterious death the coroner couldn't explain, a disappearance that never made sense.

Open the crime files with us. Each episode follows the crime investigation from the first call to the trial — how investigators build a murder case, where a police investigation goes cold, and what justice looks like when it arrives late, or never arrives at all. Some episodes hunt a serial killer who hid in plain sight. Others reconstruct a family murder that tore a town apart, or a murder mystery that turned neighbors against each other.

And then there are the missing: a missing person report filed too late; missing persons whose trails went cold within days; a missing woman last seen leaving work; a missing girl whose face was on every screen in the country; a missing man found dead years after he vanished; the missing and murdered whose names deserve to be remembered. We tell every crime story with respect for the victim, for the families, and for those who survived.

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© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved.]]>enTrue Crime© 2026 OBOMEDIA Creatorshttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/288c98f1ba63549724b74e49bf7d7f14.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-48-hours--6981245Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:49:49 +0000Creator at ObomediaCreator at Obomediacreators@obomedia.comTrue Crime 48 Hours — true crime stories for listeners who can't let go of a case. A true crime podcast by OBOMEDIA, built on real events. From the infamous case the whole world watched to the unsolved case you have never heard of, from classic true...
From the infamous case the whole world watched to the unsolved case you have never heard of, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime, our true crime reports bring you real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries — one true crime case at a time, straight from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault. Because if a killer is still out there, the story is not over.

Every true crime story in our archive begins with a question no one could answer: an unsolved murder, a cold case reopened decades later, a mysterious death the coroner couldn't explain, a disappearance that never made sense.

Open the crime files with us. Each episode follows the crime investigation from the first call to the trial — how investigators build a murder case, where a police investigation goes cold, and what justice looks like when it arrives late, or never arrives at all. Some episodes hunt a serial killer who hid in plain sight. Others reconstruct a family murder that tore a town apart, or a murder mystery that turned neighbors against each other.

And then there are the missing: a missing person report filed too late; missing persons whose trails went cold within days; a missing woman last seen leaving work; a missing girl whose face was on every screen in the country; a missing man found dead years after he vanished; the missing and murdered whose names deserve to be remembered. We tell every crime story with respect for the victim, for the families, and for those who survived.

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Cartagena, August 18, 2021. A 21-year-old woman enters a gastrobar accompanied by a man. Hours later, he boards a flight to Bogotá. Seven months later, a plane ticket is issued in her name to travel to Mexico. Natalia was never found.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions surrounding the disappearance: a trip announced "with friends" that occurred with a man linked to drug trafficking, fraudulent tickets issued under her identity months later, and an investigation that remains in "inquiry stage" without public answers. What happened in Cartagena on August 18, and who continued using Natalia's identity afterward?

Victim: Natalia Hitrago Moreno
Date: August 18, 2021
Location: Cartagena, Colombia
Status: Missing

- The last eyewitness was a waitress who identified Natalia by her tattoo on her right shoulder, accompanied by a man whose profile matches Hernán Darío Jiménez.
- A Bogotá-Mexico plane ticket was issued in Natalia's name seven months after her disappearance, but Migración Colombia does not confirm actual departure.
- Hernán Darío Jiménez, her partner of five years with a documented history of extreme violence, was captured in Mexico City in December 2022 in a drug trafficking operation.
- Internal tickets in Natalia's name for Medellín, Bogotá, Pereira, and Cali were found among materials seized from Hernán, suggesting planned movement under a fraudulent identity.

Natalia Hitrago Moreno, Cartagena disappearance 2021, murder, mystery, investigation, forensic, domestic violence, drug trafficking, corruption, justice, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Cartagena, August 18, 2021. A 21-year-old woman enters a gastrobar accompanied by a man. Hours later, he boards a flight to Bogotá. Seven months later, a plane ticket is issued in her name to travel to Mexico. Natalia was never found.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions surrounding the disappearance: a trip announced "with friends" that occurred with a man linked to drug trafficking, fraudulent tickets issued under her identity months later, and an investigation that remains in "inquiry stage" without public answers. What happened in Cartagena on August 18, and who continued using Natalia's identity afterward?

Victim: Natalia Hitrago Moreno
Date: August 18, 2021
Location: Cartagena, Colombia
Status: Missing

- The last eyewitness was a waitress who identified Natalia by her tattoo on her right shoulder, accompanied by a man whose profile matches Hernán Darío Jiménez.
- A Bogotá-Mexico plane ticket was issued in Natalia's name seven months after her disappearance, but Migración Colombia does not confirm actual departure.
- Hernán Darío Jiménez, her partner of five years with a documented history of extreme violence, was captured in Mexico City in December 2022 in a drug trafficking operation.
- Internal tickets in Natalia's name for Medellín, Bogotá, Pereira, and Cali were found among materials seized from Hernán, suggesting planned movement under a fraudulent identity.

Natalia Hitrago Moreno, Cartagena disappearance 2021, murder, mystery, investigation, forensic, domestic violence, drug trafficking, corruption, justice, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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The camera records Frank Suárez entering his building at 7:50 AM on February 25, 2021. Minutes later, his body is found in the internal area. He lived on the 6th floor but fell from the 9th floor. How did he go up three floors for no reason? A witness saw an unknown person forcing his lock that morning, but the police closed the case in less than 24 hours without investigating the lead.

In this episode, we explore the four systematic failures that turned this case into a mystery: the unexplained floor, the ignored witness, the complete absence of digital forensic analysis, and the immediate cremation that eliminated any possibility of a second examination. Was it deep depression documented by his family, or was someone else in the building that morning?

Victim: Frank Antonio Suárez Marroy
Date: February 25, 2021
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Status: Closed as suicide (02/26/2021)

- Last camera record shows Suárez alive at 7:50 AM; body found minutes later with no witnesses.
- He lived on the 6th floor but fell from the 9th floor; mother resided on the 12th floor, which does not explain the stop on the intermediate floor.
- Neighbor witness reported unknown person forcing the lock; police never confiscated or analyzed his cell phone or computer.
- Body cremated before a second examination, eliminating independent toxicological analysis and subsequent pathological investigation.

Frank Suárez, San Juan Puerto Rico, 2021, suicide, incomplete investigation, Puerto Rico police, ignored witness, forensic, unsolved mystery, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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The camera records Frank Suárez entering his building at 7:50 AM on February 25, 2021. Minutes later, his body is found in the internal area. He lived on the 6th floor but fell from the 9th floor. How did he go up three floors for no reason? A witness saw an unknown person forcing his lock that morning, but the police closed the case in less than 24 hours without investigating the lead.

In this episode, we explore the four systematic failures that turned this case into a mystery: the unexplained floor, the ignored witness, the complete absence of digital forensic analysis, and the immediate cremation that eliminated any possibility of a second examination. Was it deep depression documented by his family, or was someone else in the building that morning?

Victim: Frank Antonio Suárez Marroy
Date: February 25, 2021
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Status: Closed as suicide (02/26/2021)

- Last camera record shows Suárez alive at 7:50 AM; body found minutes later with no witnesses.
- He lived on the 6th floor but fell from the 9th floor; mother resided on the 12th floor, which does not explain the stop on the intermediate floor.
- Neighbor witness reported unknown person forcing the lock; police never confiscated or analyzed his cell phone or computer.
- Body cremated before a second examination, eliminating independent toxicological analysis and subsequent pathological investigation.

Frank Suárez, San Juan Puerto Rico, 2021, suicide, incomplete investigation, Puerto Rico police, ignored witness, forensic, unsolved mystery, Spanish true crime

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>1347falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-pregnancy-that-sealed-her-fate-betany-bad--71545167
On the night of May 23, 2024, a mother discovers massive blood in her son's kitchen. The body parts of her daughter Betany are found in three different locations: inside the house, at the neighbor's door, and scattered in the backyard. The horror was not improvised; Jack's journals reveal that it all began when he learned that his sister was pregnant.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions surrounding the case: how Jack was declared competent to stand trial while his defense argues insanity due to mental illness, what the word "innocence" meant in his handwritten notebooks, and why a mental health call in 2022 did not prevent the premeditated murder of two victims.

Victim: Betany Bad
Date: May 23, 2024
Location: Lakeville, Minnesota
Status: Guilty plea, sentencing pending (May 2026)

- Jack Bad wrote in his journals that his sister "was no longer innocent" after learning of the 17-week pregnancy
- The police found a bloody saw, axe, and multiple knives; the dismemberment was deliberate and postmortem
- Jack answered orientation questions correctly when arrested but inflicted a wound on his neck
- A mental health call in 2022 was the only documented precedent before the first-degree premeditated crime

Betany Bad, Lakeville Minnesota homicide 2024, first-degree murder, dismemberment, pregnancy, mental health, premeditation, handwritten journals, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545167Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe pregnancy that sealed her fate: Betany Bad: The murder of a pregnant sister On the night of May 23, 2024, a mother discovers massive blood in her son's kitchen. The body parts of her daughter Betany are found in three different locations:...
On the night of May 23, 2024, a mother discovers massive blood in her son's kitchen. The body parts of her daughter Betany are found in three different locations: inside the house, at the neighbor's door, and scattered in the backyard. The horror was not improvised; Jack's journals reveal that it all began when he learned that his sister was pregnant.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions surrounding the case: how Jack was declared competent to stand trial while his defense argues insanity due to mental illness, what the word "innocence" meant in his handwritten notebooks, and why a mental health call in 2022 did not prevent the premeditated murder of two victims.

Victim: Betany Bad
Date: May 23, 2024
Location: Lakeville, Minnesota
Status: Guilty plea, sentencing pending (May 2026)

- Jack Bad wrote in his journals that his sister "was no longer innocent" after learning of the 17-week pregnancy
- The police found a bloody saw, axe, and multiple knives; the dismemberment was deliberate and postmortem
- Jack answered orientation questions correctly when arrested but inflicted a wound on his neck
- A mental health call in 2022 was the only documented precedent before the first-degree premeditated crime

Betany Bad, Lakeville Minnesota homicide 2024, first-degree murder, dismemberment, pregnancy, mental health, premeditation, handwritten journals, true crime English

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A mother calls 911 to report domestic violence and asks the police to check the backyard. The officers find human remains surrounded by pigs. But the surveillance cameras installed in the home had recorded everything: nine months of systematic torture documented on video, and a complete child protection system that knew, saw, and did nothing.

In this episode, we explore how ten formal reports, forensic recordings of electric shocks and immersion in water, and a statement from Adrián describing head fractures were ignored for two months before his death by starvation. Michael Jones and Heather Colleen Jones shared photos of abuse on social media while internet searches revealed concealment plans. The system knew. Investigations document institutional negligence, bureaucratic gaps between states, and decisions that prioritized silence over intervention.

Victim: Adrián Jones
Date: September 28, 2015
Location: Piper, Kansas
Status: Sentenced to life in prison

- 32 surveillance cameras recorded specific tortures: bindings, electric shocks, immersion in dirty water for nine months.
- Adrián stated to psychologists in July 2015 that he was beaten and not fed; doctors did not report abuse.
- Heather posted on Facebook on December 24, 2014: "Unfortunately, I can't shoot him, but I will try to take everything from him until I feel better."
- Social services documented neglect in July 2013 but resolved it only with home services; the family cut contact two months later.

Adrián Jones, Piper Kansas, child murder, 2015, starvation, state negligence, failed protection system, forensic, justice, homicide, documented crime, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545165Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe 32 witnesses that no one saw: Adrián Jones: The murder of a 7-year-old boy in Piper, Kansas. A mother calls 911 to report domestic violence and asks the police to check the backyard. The officers find human remains surrounded by pigs. But...
A mother calls 911 to report domestic violence and asks the police to check the backyard. The officers find human remains surrounded by pigs. But the surveillance cameras installed in the home had recorded everything: nine months of systematic torture documented on video, and a complete child protection system that knew, saw, and did nothing.

In this episode, we explore how ten formal reports, forensic recordings of electric shocks and immersion in water, and a statement from Adrián describing head fractures were ignored for two months before his death by starvation. Michael Jones and Heather Colleen Jones shared photos of abuse on social media while internet searches revealed concealment plans. The system knew. Investigations document institutional negligence, bureaucratic gaps between states, and decisions that prioritized silence over intervention.

Victim: Adrián Jones
Date: September 28, 2015
Location: Piper, Kansas
Status: Sentenced to life in prison

- 32 surveillance cameras recorded specific tortures: bindings, electric shocks, immersion in dirty water for nine months.
- Adrián stated to psychologists in July 2015 that he was beaten and not fed; doctors did not report abuse.
- Heather posted on Facebook on December 24, 2014: "Unfortunately, I can't shoot him, but I will try to take everything from him until I feel better."
- Social services documented neglect in July 2013 but resolved it only with home services; the family cut contact two months later.

Adrián Jones, Piper Kansas, child murder, 2015, starvation, state negligence, failed protection system, forensic, justice, homicide, documented crime, true crime Spanish

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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An answering machine pronounces a name: Luis Carrera Almoina. It is March 2001 in Caracas, and Linda's sister has just identified the man who kidnapped her. The police have the name, the number, everything. But Linda disappears in a basement for four months while the system ignores the clearest evidence.

In this episode, we explore how an 18-year-old girl was systematically tortured in El Rosal while her case passed through 76 different judges, how the attacker confessed to killing eight women without being investigated for those crimes, and how Venezuelan justice ended up investigating the victim instead of the perpetrator. An investigation that does not end in a national court but in the International Court of Human Rights.

Victim: Linda Loaiza López
Date: March 27 - July 19, 2001
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
Status: Case resolved by international court (2018)

- The attacker was identified by name and phone number in the first days, but the police did not arrest him for four months.
- Linda was tortured, malnourished, and sexually abused in captivity, suffering 15 reconstructive surgeries after her rescue.
- A judge acquitted the attacker arguing "reasonable doubt" and ordered an investigation into Linda and her family instead.
- The mattress from the room where the abuses occurred was never collected as forensic evidence.

Linda Loaiza López, Caracas kidnapping 2001, serial killer, torture, failed justice, judicial corruption, gender violence, IACHR, human rights, Venezuela crime, true crime Spanish

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545164Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:00:04 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe answering machine that betrayed the killer: The kidnapping of Linda Loaiza López An answering machine pronounces a name: Luis Carrera Almoina. It is March 2001 in Caracas, and Linda's sister has just identified the man who kidnapped her....
An answering machine pronounces a name: Luis Carrera Almoina. It is March 2001 in Caracas, and Linda's sister has just identified the man who kidnapped her. The police have the name, the number, everything. But Linda disappears in a basement for four months while the system ignores the clearest evidence.

In this episode, we explore how an 18-year-old girl was systematically tortured in El Rosal while her case passed through 76 different judges, how the attacker confessed to killing eight women without being investigated for those crimes, and how Venezuelan justice ended up investigating the victim instead of the perpetrator. An investigation that does not end in a national court but in the International Court of Human Rights.

Victim: Linda Loaiza López
Date: March 27 - July 19, 2001
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
Status: Case resolved by international court (2018)

- The attacker was identified by name and phone number in the first days, but the police did not arrest him for four months.
- Linda was tortured, malnourished, and sexually abused in captivity, suffering 15 reconstructive surgeries after her rescue.
- A judge acquitted the attacker arguing "reasonable doubt" and ordered an investigation into Linda and her family instead.
- The mattress from the room where the abuses occurred was never collected as forensic evidence.

Linda Loaiza López, Caracas kidnapping 2001, serial killer, torture, failed justice, judicial corruption, gender violence, IACHR, human rights, Venezuela crime, true crime Spanish

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A 911 call where the victim whispers "I'm so sorry, Ron" while a man screams "Allah Akbar." Minutes later, a child emerges from the smoke with exposed intestines, burns all over his body, and deep stab wounds. But the impossible would happen years later in the courtroom: the father accused of killing them represented himself and personally interrogated the only witness who saw everything: his own son.

In this episode, we explore the tension between three declarations of psychiatric incompetence and the court's authorization of self-representation in a multiple homicide case. We examine the contradiction between the forensic causes of death (blunt force trauma, not gunshot) and the defense of self-defense; between the child forced to hold the shotgun and his own knife wounds. How did a man diagnosed with active delusional disorder manage to become his own lawyer in a triple murder trial?

Victim: Keniata Barrón, Ronnie Bella O'Neal
Date: March 18, 2018
Location: Riverview, Florida
Status: Sentenced to three consecutive life sentences

- Ronnie Bella's body was found so charred that it required identification by dental records, but the recorded cause of death was axe wounds to the neck, not burns.
- Ronnie Jr. testified that his father forced him to hold the shotgun while he shot his mother, but the psychiatrists who evaluated the accused months earlier declared him incapable of understanding the charges.
- The initial 911 call captured Keniata's voice saying "I was shot," but the autopsy revealed she died from repeated blunt force trauma, not by projectile.
- O'Neal argued self-defense during the trial, but he was captured calmly exiting the burning garage, ignoring officers' orders, subdued only with a taser without physical resistance.

Ronnie O'Neal, Riverview Florida, multiple murder, 2018, delusional disorder, legal self-representation, homicide, forensic investigation, family crime, criminal minds, true crime Spanish

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A 911 call where the victim whispers "I'm so sorry, Ron" while a man screams "Allah Akbar." Minutes later, a child emerges from the smoke with exposed intestines, burns all over his body, and deep stab wounds. But the impossible would happen years later in the courtroom: the father accused of killing them represented himself and personally interrogated the only witness who saw everything: his own son.

In this episode, we explore the tension between three declarations of psychiatric incompetence and the court's authorization of self-representation in a multiple homicide case. We examine the contradiction between the forensic causes of death (blunt force trauma, not gunshot) and the defense of self-defense; between the child forced to hold the shotgun and his own knife wounds. How did a man diagnosed with active delusional disorder manage to become his own lawyer in a triple murder trial?

Victim: Keniata Barrón, Ronnie Bella O'Neal
Date: March 18, 2018
Location: Riverview, Florida
Status: Sentenced to three consecutive life sentences

- Ronnie Bella's body was found so charred that it required identification by dental records, but the recorded cause of death was axe wounds to the neck, not burns.
- Ronnie Jr. testified that his father forced him to hold the shotgun while he shot his mother, but the psychiatrists who evaluated the accused months earlier declared him incapable of understanding the charges.
- The initial 911 call captured Keniata's voice saying "I was shot," but the autopsy revealed she died from repeated blunt force trauma, not by projectile.
- O'Neal argued self-defense during the trial, but he was captured calmly exiting the burning garage, ignoring officers' orders, subdued only with a taser without physical resistance.

Ronnie O'Neal, Riverview Florida, multiple murder, 2018, delusional disorder, legal self-representation, homicide, forensic investigation, family crime, criminal minds, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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November 1988. A 17-year-old girl is knocked off her bike in Misato, Saitama. What begins as an apparent robbery turns into 44 days of systematic captivity, over 400 documented assaults, and a death whose body will be found in a concrete drum. Her murderers would be released before serving a decade in prison.

In this episode, we explore how a house located in Adachi became a criminal meeting point while parents, neighbors, and police remained inactive. We analyze the failures that allowed Junko to call for help on December 30, only for the police to accept the explanation of a dialing error. We reveal why 100 assailants identified by DNA were never prosecuted and how the Japanese juvenile justice system turned the most brutal crime of the 80s into an unresolved debate.

Victim: Junko Furuta
Date: November 25, 1988 - January 4, 1989
Location: Misato and Tokyo, Japan
Status: Closed cases; documented recidivism 2004-2018

- More than 100 assailants confirmed by forensic analysis were never charged or tried.
- The police refused to enter the house where Junko had been held captive for 16 days after an initial visit.
- Junko's uterus showed severe damage consistent with sustained sexual violence over 44 days.
- The four defendants were convicted only of serious injuries, not intentional homicide.

Junko Furuta, Tokyo 1988, murder, serial killer, justice, forensics, investigation, mystery, corruption, kidnapping, true crime Spanish

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November 1988. A 17-year-old girl is knocked off her bike in Misato, Saitama. What begins as an apparent robbery turns into 44 days of systematic captivity, over 400 documented assaults, and a death whose body will be found in a concrete drum. Her murderers would be released before serving a decade in prison.

In this episode, we explore how a house located in Adachi became a criminal meeting point while parents, neighbors, and police remained inactive. We analyze the failures that allowed Junko to call for help on December 30, only for the police to accept the explanation of a dialing error. We reveal why 100 assailants identified by DNA were never prosecuted and how the Japanese juvenile justice system turned the most brutal crime of the 80s into an unresolved debate.

Victim: Junko Furuta
Date: November 25, 1988 - January 4, 1989
Location: Misato and Tokyo, Japan
Status: Closed cases; documented recidivism 2004-2018

- More than 100 assailants confirmed by forensic analysis were never charged or tried.
- The police refused to enter the house where Junko had been held captive for 16 days after an initial visit.
- Junko's uterus showed severe damage consistent with sustained sexual violence over 44 days.
- The four defendants were convicted only of serious injuries, not intentional homicide.

Junko Furuta, Tokyo 1988, murder, serial killer, justice, forensics, investigation, mystery, corruption, kidnapping, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Austria's prison system released a diagnosed psychopath to thunderous applause in 1990, celebrated as proof that rehabilitation worked. Within four months, he had murdered again. The man the Austrian press lauded as transformed was using the same strangling signature he had perfected in 1974, now across three countries and multiple jurisdictions that had no idea they were hunting the same killer.

In this episode, we explore how Jack Unterweger deceived an entire nation for fifteen years, the forensic details that finally exposed him, and the structural failures that allowed a murderer to operate openly as a media commentator on the very crimes he was committing. How did credit card records, hair evidence, and a retired detective's memory finally connect corpses in Vienna, Prague, Los Angeles, and beyond?

Victim: Margaret Safer, Blanka Bockova, Heidemarie Hammerer, Brunhilde Masser, Silvia Zagler, Sabine Moitzi, Karin Eroglu, Regina Prem, Shannon Exley, Irene Rodriguez, Cheryl Hammon
Date: 1974-1991
Location: Austria, Czech Republic, California, USA
Status: Convicted; died in custody

- Jack Unterweger published a bestselling autobiography in prison and received support from Nobel Prize-winning author Elfriede Jelinek, creating a false narrative of rehabilitation.
- His 1974 murder victim Margaret Safer was strangled with her own bra; the same method and signature appeared in every subsequent victim across three countries.
- Released on May 23, 1990, Unterweger immediately appeared on Austrian television as an expert commentator on serial strangulation cases-while actively committing those crimes.
- Credit card records placed him in Prague on the exact dates of Blanka Bockova's murder, in Vienna during four disappearances, and in Los Angeles when three women were killed with his identical signature.

Jack Unterweger, Austria psychopath released prison, Vienna serial murders 1990-1991, Los Angeles murders, psychiatric diagnosis ignored, forensic strangulation signature, true crime English

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Austria's prison system released a diagnosed psychopath to thunderous applause in 1990, celebrated as proof that rehabilitation worked. Within four months, he had murdered again. The man the Austrian press lauded as transformed was using the same strangling signature he had perfected in 1974, now across three countries and multiple jurisdictions that had no idea they were hunting the same killer.

In this episode, we explore how Jack Unterweger deceived an entire nation for fifteen years, the forensic details that finally exposed him, and the structural failures that allowed a murderer to operate openly as a media commentator on the very crimes he was committing. How did credit card records, hair evidence, and a retired detective's memory finally connect corpses in Vienna, Prague, Los Angeles, and beyond?

Victim: Margaret Safer, Blanka Bockova, Heidemarie Hammerer, Brunhilde Masser, Silvia Zagler, Sabine Moitzi, Karin Eroglu, Regina Prem, Shannon Exley, Irene Rodriguez, Cheryl Hammon
Date: 1974-1991
Location: Austria, Czech Republic, California, USA
Status: Convicted; died in custody

- Jack Unterweger published a bestselling autobiography in prison and received support from Nobel Prize-winning author Elfriede Jelinek, creating a false narrative of rehabilitation.
- His 1974 murder victim Margaret Safer was strangled with her own bra; the same method and signature appeared in every subsequent victim across three countries.
- Released on May 23, 1990, Unterweger immediately appeared on Austrian television as an expert commentator on serial strangulation cases-while actively committing those crimes.
- Credit card records placed him in Prague on the exact dates of Blanka Bockova's murder, in Vienna during four disappearances, and in Los Angeles when three women were killed with his identical signature.

Jack Unterweger, Austria psychopath released prison, Vienna serial murders 1990-1991, Los Angeles murders, psychiatric diagnosis ignored, forensic strangulation signature, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the...]]>1324falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-girl-who-disappeared-in-minutes-the-emely-case--71545159
A 16-year-old teenager, five months pregnant, disappeared in minutes on August 23, 2017. The security cameras at the gas station where she was supposedly left captured nothing: neither her boyfriend's car nor any trace. The impossible became darker when her body was found three days later, and the investigation revealed that one of the most powerful women in the region had orchestrated the cover-up while pleading on camera for her return.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that shattered the official version: cameras that did not record Marlon's car, geolocation that placed him at another gas station, and a bloodstained mattress that evidenced where the tragedy occurred. The autopsy revealed uterine perforation, induced extraction, and skull depression, while Marlene Martínez -the powerful mother- removed the security DVR and paid witnesses to make the remains disappear. How did a politically influential family manage to reduce a 5-year sentence to just 2 years on appeal?

Victim: Emely del Carmen Peguero Polanco
Date: August 23, 2017
Location: San Rafael de Cenoví, Dominican Republic
Status: Convicted (Marlon Martínez 30 years; Marlene Martínez 2 years)

- Emely sent text messages to her sister Lady that day, something unusual because she always used voice notes, alerting the family to anomalies.
- The Cenoví gas station cameras did not capture Marlon's car or any motorcycle, contradicting the boyfriend's first version.
- Kelvin Jiménez, a security guard, saw Marlon take out a "heavy bag" from the Torre apartment minutes later and load it into a vehicle.
- Marlene Martínez physically removed the security DVR after the initial alert and paid 100,000 pesos to Simón Bolívar to make the body disappear.

Emely Peguero, San Rafael Cenoví homicide cover-up, 2017, murder, investigation, forensic, true crime, justice, corruption, Dominican Republic, mystery, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545159Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:00:05 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe girl who disappeared in minutes: the Emely case: The murder of Emely Peguero Polanco A 16-year-old teenager, five months pregnant, disappeared in minutes on August 23, 2017. The security cameras at the gas station where she was supposedly...
A 16-year-old teenager, five months pregnant, disappeared in minutes on August 23, 2017. The security cameras at the gas station where she was supposedly left captured nothing: neither her boyfriend's car nor any trace. The impossible became darker when her body was found three days later, and the investigation revealed that one of the most powerful women in the region had orchestrated the cover-up while pleading on camera for her return.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that shattered the official version: cameras that did not record Marlon's car, geolocation that placed him at another gas station, and a bloodstained mattress that evidenced where the tragedy occurred. The autopsy revealed uterine perforation, induced extraction, and skull depression, while Marlene Martínez -the powerful mother- removed the security DVR and paid witnesses to make the remains disappear. How did a politically influential family manage to reduce a 5-year sentence to just 2 years on appeal?

Victim: Emely del Carmen Peguero Polanco
Date: August 23, 2017
Location: San Rafael de Cenoví, Dominican Republic
Status: Convicted (Marlon Martínez 30 years; Marlene Martínez 2 years)

- Emely sent text messages to her sister Lady that day, something unusual because she always used voice notes, alerting the family to anomalies.
- The Cenoví gas station cameras did not capture Marlon's car or any motorcycle, contradicting the boyfriend's first version.
- Kelvin Jiménez, a security guard, saw Marlon take out a "heavy bag" from the Torre apartment minutes later and load it into a vehicle.
- Marlene Martínez physically removed the security DVR after the initial alert and paid 100,000 pesos to Simón Bolívar to make the body disappear.

Emely Peguero, San Rafael Cenoví homicide cover-up, 2017, murder, investigation, forensic, true crime, justice, corruption, Dominican Republic, mystery, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective...]]>1280falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/teenager-calls-police-to-confess-he-killed-a-man-and-twenty-seven-bodies-emerge--71544833
August 1973. A sixteen-year-old dials Houston police to report a killing. What detectives discover in that house shatters the city: three excavation sites yield twenty-seven bodies, systematically buried across the region. The impossible question emerges-how many more remain hidden?

In this exploration, we reconstruct how an ordinary utility company employee built a network of horror across three years without detection. We examine the wooden torture board found in his home, the systematic recruitment of vulnerable teenagers paid cash per victim, and the police failures that allowed families' formal complaints to go unlinked and unresolved. Why did authorities dismiss so many disappearances as voluntary runaways?

Victim: Multiple young males aged 13-20
Date: August 8, 1973 (discovery); crimes 1970-1973
Location: Houston Heights neighborhood and surrounding areas; boat shed (southwest Houston), High Island beach, Lake Sam Rayburn shores
Status: 27 confirmed victims; 5 unidentified in recovered material; possibility of additional undiscovered remains

- Corll paid two teenage accomplices two hundred dollars in cash per victim delivered to him, creating a financial recruitment network
- The torture board with rope holes and handcuffs was built into his living room, hidden in plain sight among neighbors who called him kind
- At least fourteen missing persons complaints filed by families remained unresolved in police files before his arrest
- Photographic material recovered contained eleven identified victims and five faces never matched to any missing person report

Dean Corll, Houston Heights 1973, serial killer, torture, unsolved disappearances, police investigation, missing teenagers, homicide, criminal network, forensic evidence, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544833Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:00:05 +0000Creator at ObomediaTeenager Calls Police to Confess He Killed a Man and Twenty-Seven Bodies Emerge: The serial murders of Dean Corll in Houston, Texas August 1973. A sixteen-year-old dials Houston police to report a killing. What detectives discover in that house...
August 1973. A sixteen-year-old dials Houston police to report a killing. What detectives discover in that house shatters the city: three excavation sites yield twenty-seven bodies, systematically buried across the region. The impossible question emerges-how many more remain hidden?

In this exploration, we reconstruct how an ordinary utility company employee built a network of horror across three years without detection. We examine the wooden torture board found in his home, the systematic recruitment of vulnerable teenagers paid cash per victim, and the police failures that allowed families' formal complaints to go unlinked and unresolved. Why did authorities dismiss so many disappearances as voluntary runaways?

Victim: Multiple young males aged 13-20
Date: August 8, 1973 (discovery); crimes 1970-1973
Location: Houston Heights neighborhood and surrounding areas; boat shed (southwest Houston), High Island beach, Lake Sam Rayburn shores
Status: 27 confirmed victims; 5 unidentified in recovered material; possibility of additional undiscovered remains

- Corll paid two teenage accomplices two hundred dollars in cash per victim delivered to him, creating a financial recruitment network
- The torture board with rope holes and handcuffs was built into his living room, hidden in plain sight among neighbors who called him kind
- At least fourteen missing persons complaints filed by families remained unresolved in police files before his arrest
- Photographic material recovered contained eleven identified victims and five faces never matched to any missing person report

Dean Corll, Houston Heights 1973, serial killer, torture, unsolved disappearances, police investigation, missing teenagers, homicide, criminal network, forensic evidence, true crime English

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A severed skull under a bridge. A unrepentant confessor who recorded everything. Wendy disappeared the day after an arrest warrant was issued against her attacker - and the State had already known about four years of prior terror.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that saved a documented killer: how a man with a formal complaint ignored in 2011, arrested for violence in February 2012, murdered his victim 24 hours later with an active arrest warrant. We analyze the dental identification, the forensic evidence with positive luminol, the detailed confession without remorse, and the judicial collapse that freed him in 2019 due to "poor integration of the file."

Victim: Wendy Lizeth Ochoa (Mapastepec, Chiapas)
Date: April 28, 2012
Location: Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico
Status: Active criminal process

- The skull showed fine surgical cuts that ruled out animal mutilation: it was deliberately severed to prevent identification.
- Villatoro posted "Finally peace in my heart" on Facebook the eve of his arrest, hours after the planned crime.
- The arrest warrant was issued on February 27, 2012; the murder occurred on April 28 - both acts separated by order of the law.
- He was released on February 12, 2019, due to administrative error, despite a full confession, his own video, and documented forensic evidence.

Wendy Lizeth Ochoa, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, premeditated feminicide, 2012, recorded crime, serial killer, ignored arrest warrant, positive luminol, confession without remorse, collapse of the penal system, failed justice, forensic investigation, judicial cartel, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545156Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:00:06 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe Heart of Villatoro: Free Serial Killer: The Feminicide of Wendy Lizeth Ochoa A severed skull under a bridge. A unrepentant confessor who recorded everything. Wendy disappeared the day after an arrest warrant was issued against her attacker...
A severed skull under a bridge. A unrepentant confessor who recorded everything. Wendy disappeared the day after an arrest warrant was issued against her attacker - and the State had already known about four years of prior terror.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that saved a documented killer: how a man with a formal complaint ignored in 2011, arrested for violence in February 2012, murdered his victim 24 hours later with an active arrest warrant. We analyze the dental identification, the forensic evidence with positive luminol, the detailed confession without remorse, and the judicial collapse that freed him in 2019 due to "poor integration of the file."

Victim: Wendy Lizeth Ochoa (Mapastepec, Chiapas)
Date: April 28, 2012
Location: Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico
Status: Active criminal process

- The skull showed fine surgical cuts that ruled out animal mutilation: it was deliberately severed to prevent identification.
- Villatoro posted "Finally peace in my heart" on Facebook the eve of his arrest, hours after the planned crime.
- The arrest warrant was issued on February 27, 2012; the murder occurred on April 28 - both acts separated by order of the law.
- He was released on February 12, 2019, due to administrative error, despite a full confession, his own video, and documented forensic evidence.

Wendy Lizeth Ochoa, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, premeditated feminicide, 2012, recorded crime, serial killer, ignored arrest warrant, positive luminol, confession without remorse, collapse of the penal system, failed justice, forensic investigation, judicial cartel, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A size thirty-nine Wellington boot print was pressed into a victim's thigh in 1976. Detectives linked the murders. But when Peter Sutcliffe walked into a police station for interrogation, wearing those same boots, no one looked down.

This episode traces the investigation that became the most expensive in British police history-and the routine traffic stop in January 1981 that ended it by accident, not skill. We explore the contradictions that haunted the case: why a concrete footprint went unmatched for years, how a fake tape from a prankster diverted three hundred officers away from the killer, and why institutional hierarchy-dismissing victims based on their profession-slowed the response during the critical early years when interception was still possible.

Victim: Thirteen confirmed murders across West Yorkshire
Date: October 1975 - January 1981
Location: Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Halifax, Sheffield
Status: Convicted; sentenced to life imprisonment

- Boot print evidence found on Emily Jackson's body in 1976 was never matched to a suspect database due to poor coordination between police units.
- Peter Sutcliffe was questioned by police twelve times over six years while wearing the exact boots that left prints at crime scenes.
- A fake audio cassette claiming to be from the Yorkshire Ripper caused investigators to redirect resources away from Bradford and Leeds toward the northeast of England for two years.
- The FBI's criminal profiling unit warned Chief Detective Oldfield the tape was a hoax; he ignored the warning and wasted institutional resources.

Peter Sutcliffe Yorkshire Ripper, West Yorkshire murders 1975-1981, serial killer investigation, forensic science failure, unsolved mysteries, true crime investigation, homicide, detective work, criminal profiling, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544832Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:00:06 +0000Creator at ObomediaOfficer Questions Him Twelve Times and Misses the Boots That Prove Everything: The Yorkshire Ripper murders of Peter Sutcliffe A size thirty-nine Wellington boot print was pressed into a victim's thigh in 1976. Detectives linked the murders. But...
A size thirty-nine Wellington boot print was pressed into a victim's thigh in 1976. Detectives linked the murders. But when Peter Sutcliffe walked into a police station for interrogation, wearing those same boots, no one looked down.

This episode traces the investigation that became the most expensive in British police history-and the routine traffic stop in January 1981 that ended it by accident, not skill. We explore the contradictions that haunted the case: why a concrete footprint went unmatched for years, how a fake tape from a prankster diverted three hundred officers away from the killer, and why institutional hierarchy-dismissing victims based on their profession-slowed the response during the critical early years when interception was still possible.

Victim: Thirteen confirmed murders across West Yorkshire
Date: October 1975 - January 1981
Location: Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Halifax, Sheffield
Status: Convicted; sentenced to life imprisonment

- Boot print evidence found on Emily Jackson's body in 1976 was never matched to a suspect database due to poor coordination between police units.
- Peter Sutcliffe was questioned by police twelve times over six years while wearing the exact boots that left prints at crime scenes.
- A fake audio cassette claiming to be from the Yorkshire Ripper caused investigators to redirect resources away from Bradford and Leeds toward the northeast of England for two years.
- The FBI's criminal profiling unit warned Chief Detective Oldfield the tape was a hoax; he ignored the warning and wasted institutional resources.

Peter Sutcliffe Yorkshire Ripper, West Yorkshire murders 1975-1981, serial killer investigation, forensic science failure, unsolved mysteries, true crime investigation, homicide, detective work, criminal profiling, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A mother appears crying before national cameras asking for the return of her children. The red traffic light where she claims the kidnapping occurred only changes if another car crosses. Nine days later, she confesses to having drowned them in her own vehicle.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that dismantled the most publicized alibi of 1994: the impossible traffic light that registered no traffic, the rejection letter that triggered the motive, and how a lie detector and forensic rescue revealed the truth at the bottom of John D. Long Lake. How does a mother plan a stereotypical alibi while appearing to show genuine desperation?

Victim: Michael Smith (3 years) and Alexander Smith (14 months)
Date: October 25, 1994
Location: John D. Long Lake, Union, South Carolina
Status: Life imprisonment; possible parole in 2025

- The red traffic light where Susan claimed to be stopped only activates in front of another perpendicular vehicle; no cars were recorded that night.
- The letter from Tom Findley, rejecting a relationship because "I do not wish to have children," was found as evidence of the motive days after the crime.
- Michael's hand pressed against the interior glass of the submerged car was photographed by divers during the forensic rescue.
- Susan actively constructed two false alibis: a trip to the supermarket and a meeting with a friend; both collapsed during the investigation.

Susan Smith, Union South Carolina, infanticide, 1994, murder, investigation, criminal minds, forensic, true crime, motive, lie detector, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545155Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe mother who cried: nine days of lies: The infanticide of Michael and Alexander Smith A mother appears crying before national cameras asking for the return of her children. The red traffic light where she claims the kidnapping occurred only...
A mother appears crying before national cameras asking for the return of her children. The red traffic light where she claims the kidnapping occurred only changes if another car crosses. Nine days later, she confesses to having drowned them in her own vehicle.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that dismantled the most publicized alibi of 1994: the impossible traffic light that registered no traffic, the rejection letter that triggered the motive, and how a lie detector and forensic rescue revealed the truth at the bottom of John D. Long Lake. How does a mother plan a stereotypical alibi while appearing to show genuine desperation?

Victim: Michael Smith (3 years) and Alexander Smith (14 months)
Date: October 25, 1994
Location: John D. Long Lake, Union, South Carolina
Status: Life imprisonment; possible parole in 2025

- The red traffic light where Susan claimed to be stopped only activates in front of another perpendicular vehicle; no cars were recorded that night.
- The letter from Tom Findley, rejecting a relationship because "I do not wish to have children," was found as evidence of the motive days after the crime.
- Michael's hand pressed against the interior glass of the submerged car was photographed by divers during the forensic rescue.
- Susan actively constructed two false alibis: a trip to the supermarket and a meeting with a friend; both collapsed during the investigation.

Susan Smith, Union South Carolina, infanticide, 1994, murder, investigation, criminal minds, forensic, true crime, motive, lie detector, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>1294falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/plumber-discovers-leak-and-finds-six-bodies-dismembered-inside-apartment--71544831
A plumber detecting water damage in a Siberia apartment building uncovers something no one expected: human remains, a chained survivor, and evidence of systematic torture. The killer had been free for two years while psychiatric records claimed he was hospitalized thousands of kilometers away. This case of administrative collapse and invisible victims exposes how a serial killer operated in plain sight while the system failed at every level.

In this episode, we explore the investigative chaos that surrounded the discovery: multiple false suspects, dismembered remains found floating in the Kabá River, and the impossibility of identifying how many victims actually existed. How did Alexander Spesivtsev escape psychiatric supervision, and why did his mother's role as deliberate accomplice remain legally ambiguous throughout the trial?

Victim: Olga Galtseva (age 15), Nastia (age 13), Xenia (age 13), and others
Date: 1996, Novokuznetsk, Russia
Location: Apartment 357, Pionerskaya Street, Novokuznetsk, Western Siberia
Status: Convicted (Alexander Spesivtsev and Liudmila Spesivtseva)

- The psychiatric hospital 2,000 kilometers away never reported that Alexander Spesivtsev had been discharged in 1994, leaving him unmonitored and off medication for two years.
- Neighbors filed formal complaints about odors and water leaks from apartment 357, but police never responded or investigated.
- Eighty-two pieces of teenage clothing were stacked in the apartment, suggesting far more victims than the nineteen initially confessed to.
- Olga Galtseva survived long enough to give testimony about Liudmila's role as the lure and the dog killing her cellmate, then died hours after her statement.

Alexander Spesivtsev, Novokuznetsk 1996, serial killer, dismemberment, Kabá River, psychiatric hospital failure, missing children, torture, homicide investigation, administrative error, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544831Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaPlumber Discovers Leak and Finds Six Bodies Dismembered Inside Apartment: The serial murders of Novokuznetsk, 1996 A plumber detecting water damage in a Siberia apartment building uncovers something no one expected: human remains, a chained...
A plumber detecting water damage in a Siberia apartment building uncovers something no one expected: human remains, a chained survivor, and evidence of systematic torture. The killer had been free for two years while psychiatric records claimed he was hospitalized thousands of kilometers away. This case of administrative collapse and invisible victims exposes how a serial killer operated in plain sight while the system failed at every level.

In this episode, we explore the investigative chaos that surrounded the discovery: multiple false suspects, dismembered remains found floating in the Kabá River, and the impossibility of identifying how many victims actually existed. How did Alexander Spesivtsev escape psychiatric supervision, and why did his mother's role as deliberate accomplice remain legally ambiguous throughout the trial?

Victim: Olga Galtseva (age 15), Nastia (age 13), Xenia (age 13), and others
Date: 1996, Novokuznetsk, Russia
Location: Apartment 357, Pionerskaya Street, Novokuznetsk, Western Siberia
Status: Convicted (Alexander Spesivtsev and Liudmila Spesivtseva)

- The psychiatric hospital 2,000 kilometers away never reported that Alexander Spesivtsev had been discharged in 1994, leaving him unmonitored and off medication for two years.
- Neighbors filed formal complaints about odors and water leaks from apartment 357, but police never responded or investigated.
- Eighty-two pieces of teenage clothing were stacked in the apartment, suggesting far more victims than the nineteen initially confessed to.
- Olga Galtseva survived long enough to give testimony about Liudmila's role as the lure and the dog killing her cellmate, then died hours after her statement.

Alexander Spesivtsev, Novokuznetsk 1996, serial killer, dismemberment, Kabá River, psychiatric hospital failure, missing children, torture, homicide investigation, administrative error, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A hand emerging through the crack of a door after ten years in captivity. A school bus driver operating in the shadows of a residential neighborhood, keeping three chained lives while participating in search vigils. The question that haunts this case: how did an ordinary man manage to keep the darkest secret for a decade without a single neighbor believing what their ears heard?

In this episode, we explore the architecture of confinement: how Ariel Castro premeditated locks in the basement and attic years before the kidnappings, how he selected victims without safety nets (Michelle without a formal report, Amanda on her seventeenth birthday, Gina deceived with the name of her own daughter), and how Amanda's coded notebook recorded up to five assaults in a single day. The central tension remains unresolved: why did investigators not connect the search volunteer with the predator living two houses away?

Victims: Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesús
Date: August 2002 - May 6, 2013
Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Status: Closed - Life sentence (September 3, 2013, suicide in prison)

- Michelle Knight was kidnapped without a formal report because her family assumed she left voluntarily to avoid losing custody of her son.
- Amanda Berry received a single call from her own phone days after her abduction: a male voice announcing a fictitious marriage; it was the last recorded information in the FBI about her for eleven years.
- Castro volunteered in the organized searches for Gina DeJesús while she was chained in his basement, using the name of his own daughter to deceive her.
- More than two hundred seized items corroborated systematic torture; Michelle suffered five forced abortions after being kicked in the abdomen; Jocelyn was born without medical assistance.

Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesús, Cleveland 2002-2013, serial kidnapping, serial killer, captivity, criminal minds, forensic investigation, true crime, predator, homicide, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A hand emerging through the crack of a door after ten years in captivity. A school bus driver operating in the shadows of a residential neighborhood, keeping three chained lives while participating in search vigils. The question that haunts this case: how did an ordinary man manage to keep the darkest secret for a decade without a single neighbor believing what their ears heard?

In this episode, we explore the architecture of confinement: how Ariel Castro premeditated locks in the basement and attic years before the kidnappings, how he selected victims without safety nets (Michelle without a formal report, Amanda on her seventeenth birthday, Gina deceived with the name of her own daughter), and how Amanda's coded notebook recorded up to five assaults in a single day. The central tension remains unresolved: why did investigators not connect the search volunteer with the predator living two houses away?

Victims: Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesús
Date: August 2002 - May 6, 2013
Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Status: Closed - Life sentence (September 3, 2013, suicide in prison)

- Michelle Knight was kidnapped without a formal report because her family assumed she left voluntarily to avoid losing custody of her son.
- Amanda Berry received a single call from her own phone days after her abduction: a male voice announcing a fictitious marriage; it was the last recorded information in the FBI about her for eleven years.
- Castro volunteered in the organized searches for Gina DeJesús while she was chained in his basement, using the name of his own daughter to deceive her.
- More than two hundred seized items corroborated systematic torture; Michelle suffered five forced abortions after being kicked in the abdomen; Jocelyn was born without medical assistance.

Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesús, Cleveland 2002-2013, serial kidnapping, serial killer, captivity, criminal minds, forensic investigation, true crime, predator, homicide, true crime Spanish

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October 10, 2009, in Sucre, Bolivia. Two university students vanish into a vehicle with two unknown men and are found the next morning mutilated beyond recognition-faces slashed, skulls crushed, one victim missing her nose. Yet the autopsy reveals no sexual assault, contradicting everything police believed about the crime's motive.

Exploring this investigation uncovers a chilling pattern: how Jaime Cárdenas Pardo murdered for years with impunity by bribing officers, how he escaped from prison after conviction, and how his televised confession revealed something darker than any court sentence could capture. The central mystery: he was convicted of three murders, but claimed forty-and authorities only opened investigations into eight more, leaving the true victim count unknown.

Victim: Nairobi Muñoz, Martha Delgado
Date: October 10, 2009
Location: Sucre and La Paz, Bolivia
Status: Convicted; currently imprisoned

- Cárdenas confessed to over forty murders on television while laughing and using sarcasm about his victims
- He was convicted of only three murders, leaving a gap of unverified deaths and unnamed victims
- A four-year-old boy, son of his accomplice, was murdered by hitmen seeking revenge for the university students
- He escaped prison in March 2012 and remained free for thirty-four days before recapture via a photograph

Jaime Cárdenas Pardo, Sucre Bolivia serial killer 2009, antisocial personality disorder hedonistic psychopath, criminal investigation homicide, unsolved murders forensic evidence, true crime English

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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October 10, 2009, in Sucre, Bolivia. Two university students vanish into a vehicle with two unknown men and are found the next morning mutilated beyond recognition-faces slashed, skulls crushed, one victim missing her nose. Yet the autopsy reveals no sexual assault, contradicting everything police believed about the crime's motive.

Exploring this investigation uncovers a chilling pattern: how Jaime Cárdenas Pardo murdered for years with impunity by bribing officers, how he escaped from prison after conviction, and how his televised confession revealed something darker than any court sentence could capture. The central mystery: he was convicted of three murders, but claimed forty-and authorities only opened investigations into eight more, leaving the true victim count unknown.

Victim: Nairobi Muñoz, Martha Delgado
Date: October 10, 2009
Location: Sucre and La Paz, Bolivia
Status: Convicted; currently imprisoned

- Cárdenas confessed to over forty murders on television while laughing and using sarcasm about his victims
- He was convicted of only three murders, leaving a gap of unverified deaths and unnamed victims
- A four-year-old boy, son of his accomplice, was murdered by hitmen seeking revenge for the university students
- He escaped prison in March 2012 and remained free for thirty-four days before recapture via a photograph

Jaime Cárdenas Pardo, Sucre Bolivia serial killer 2009, antisocial personality disorder hedonistic psychopath, criminal investigation homicide, unsolved murders forensic evidence, true crime English

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A mother shot, stabbed, and burned her own daughters alive in Sacramento. For nine years, authorities ignored the cries of a survivor. The system that absolved her of murder in 1964 would fail again decades later, until a television program exposed what no one wanted to see.

In this episode, we explore how Teresa Cross kept her children as forced accomplices, how two unidentified bodies remained archived while one daughter pleaded for justice, and why a confession from her own son was necessary to unleash the final downfall of a serial killer operating in broad daylight.

Victim: Susan and Sheila Cross
Date: 1984-1985
Location: Orangeville and Sacramento, California
Status: Sentenced to two life terms (1995)

- Teresa shot her first husband in the back in 1964 and was acquitted; the system taught her that dramatic victimization works.
- Susan was stabbed, burned alive, and her body was found charred nine years later, classified as Jane Doe.
- Sheila died locked in a closet without water or food; that closet survived the fire Teresa ordered to destroy evidence.
- Terry reported to the police in 1992 and was dismissed as a liar; in 1993, she saw her dead sister on television and called America's Most Wanted.

Teresa Cross, Susan Cross, Sheila Cross, Sacramento, Orangeville, murder, torture, homicide, investigation, serial killer, forensic, unsolved mystery, true crime, late justice, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A mother shot, stabbed, and burned her own daughters alive in Sacramento. For nine years, authorities ignored the cries of a survivor. The system that absolved her of murder in 1964 would fail again decades later, until a television program exposed what no one wanted to see.

In this episode, we explore how Teresa Cross kept her children as forced accomplices, how two unidentified bodies remained archived while one daughter pleaded for justice, and why a confession from her own son was necessary to unleash the final downfall of a serial killer operating in broad daylight.

Victim: Susan and Sheila Cross
Date: 1984-1985
Location: Orangeville and Sacramento, California
Status: Sentenced to two life terms (1995)

- Teresa shot her first husband in the back in 1964 and was acquitted; the system taught her that dramatic victimization works.
- Susan was stabbed, burned alive, and her body was found charred nine years later, classified as Jane Doe.
- Sheila died locked in a closet without water or food; that closet survived the fire Teresa ordered to destroy evidence.
- Terry reported to the police in 1992 and was dismissed as a liar; in 1993, she saw her dead sister on television and called America's Most Wanted.

Teresa Cross, Susan Cross, Sheila Cross, Sacramento, Orangeville, murder, torture, homicide, investigation, serial killer, forensic, unsolved mystery, true crime, late justice, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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September 13, 1978. A man smiled at television cameras, charmed a national audience, and won a prime-time dating contest. Off-screen, he had already killed at least three times that year. No producer, no investigator, no one in the studio knew they were broadcasting a serial killer in real time.

This episode explores the impossible contradiction at the heart of a true crime investigation that spanned fifty years: how a convicted predator with a documented psychiatric diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder and extreme sadism was repeatedly released by the justice system, diagnosed as rehabilitated after thirty-four months in prison, and allowed to keep killing for over a decade. From the moment Alcalá assaulted eight-year-old Tali Shapiro in 1968, the system saw him, documented him, and still let him go-not once, but multiple times.

Victim: Robin Samsoe (primary case); also Ellen Hoover, Jill Barcomb, Georgia Wixted, Charlotte Lamb, Jill Parenteau, and others
Date: 1968-1979 (primary crimes); trials through 2010
Location: Los Angeles, California; New York; New Hampshire; multiple states
Status: Convicted of 7 confirmed murders; estimated 130+ victims; died in prison July 24, 2021

- Eight-year-old Tali Shapiro survived a skull-crushing assault in 1968, yet Alcalá was arrested, served thirty-four months, and was released
- Two months after release, he reoffended and was arrested for parole violation-then freed again in June 1977
- Between November 1977 and June 1978, four women were murdered in Los Angeles; their cases remained unsolved for twenty-four years until DNA linked them to Alcalá in 2002
- Police recovered over 1,000 photographs in a Seattle storage unit, with names, dates, and addresses written on the backs of images; one jewelry bag contained an earring from victim Robin Samsoe and DNA from victim Georgia Wixted, connecting two murders a year apart

Rodney Alcalá, The Dating Game, serial killer, Los Angeles murders, 1970s unsolved cases, antisocial personality disorder, forensic failure, criminal history ignored, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544829Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaSerial Killer Wins Dating Game Contest While Police Hunt Him for Murder: The Decades-Long Hunt for Rodney Alcalá September 13, 1978. A man smiled at television cameras, charmed a national audience, and won a prime-time dating contest. Off-screen,...
September 13, 1978. A man smiled at television cameras, charmed a national audience, and won a prime-time dating contest. Off-screen, he had already killed at least three times that year. No producer, no investigator, no one in the studio knew they were broadcasting a serial killer in real time.

This episode explores the impossible contradiction at the heart of a true crime investigation that spanned fifty years: how a convicted predator with a documented psychiatric diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder and extreme sadism was repeatedly released by the justice system, diagnosed as rehabilitated after thirty-four months in prison, and allowed to keep killing for over a decade. From the moment Alcalá assaulted eight-year-old Tali Shapiro in 1968, the system saw him, documented him, and still let him go-not once, but multiple times.

Victim: Robin Samsoe (primary case); also Ellen Hoover, Jill Barcomb, Georgia Wixted, Charlotte Lamb, Jill Parenteau, and others
Date: 1968-1979 (primary crimes); trials through 2010
Location: Los Angeles, California; New York; New Hampshire; multiple states
Status: Convicted of 7 confirmed murders; estimated 130+ victims; died in prison July 24, 2021

- Eight-year-old Tali Shapiro survived a skull-crushing assault in 1968, yet Alcalá was arrested, served thirty-four months, and was released
- Two months after release, he reoffended and was arrested for parole violation-then freed again in June 1977
- Between November 1977 and June 1978, four women were murdered in Los Angeles; their cases remained unsolved for twenty-four years until DNA linked them to Alcalá in 2002
- Police recovered over 1,000 photographs in a Seattle storage unit, with names, dates, and addresses written on the backs of images; one jewelry bag contained an earring from victim Robin Samsoe and DNA from victim Georgia Wixted, connecting two murders a year apart

Rodney Alcalá, The Dating Game, serial killer, Los Angeles murders, 1970s unsolved cases, antisocial personality disorder, forensic failure, criminal history ignored, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This...]]>1561falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mother-who-sold-her-son-for-revenge--71545150
A mother organized the kidnapping of her own 11-year-old son, provided his school route to the captors, and when she was informed that he had been murdered, her only concern was to destroy the chips from the cell phones. On May 9, 2019, Elmer disappeared in Iquitos in what seemed to be an impossible crime: the family itself was the architect of the plan.

In this episode, we explore how Arlen designed every detail of the kidnapping, from placing contact numbers in her son's backpack the night before to withholding the ransom money while her accomplices crumbled under greed. We reconstruct the internal breakdown between Lester, Cásculo, and Belson that ended in asphyxiation, the discovery of the black sack next to the cemetery, and the coldness of a mother who never cried during the search.

Victim: Elmer (11 years)
Date: May 9, 2019
Location: Iquitos, Peru
Status: Sentenced (life imprisonment, June 2022)

- Arlen placed a phone number in Elmer's backpack the night before the kidnapping, proving premeditation of 24 hours.
- Security cameras located Lester at payphones exactly when the captors called the family.
- Arlen withheld 4,500 of 5,000 soles from the ransom, causing the financial breakdown that triggered the asphyxiation murder.
- The mother did not cry during three days of searching; the only tears came when they found the body.

Elmer, Iquitos, family murder, kidnapping, 2019, criminal minds, investigation, homicide, true crime, forensic, revenge, justice, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545150Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe mother who sold her son for revenge: The murder of Elmer in Iquitos A mother organized the kidnapping of her own 11-year-old son, provided his school route to the captors, and when she was informed that he had been murdered, her only...
A mother organized the kidnapping of her own 11-year-old son, provided his school route to the captors, and when she was informed that he had been murdered, her only concern was to destroy the chips from the cell phones. On May 9, 2019, Elmer disappeared in Iquitos in what seemed to be an impossible crime: the family itself was the architect of the plan.

In this episode, we explore how Arlen designed every detail of the kidnapping, from placing contact numbers in her son's backpack the night before to withholding the ransom money while her accomplices crumbled under greed. We reconstruct the internal breakdown between Lester, Cásculo, and Belson that ended in asphyxiation, the discovery of the black sack next to the cemetery, and the coldness of a mother who never cried during the search.

Victim: Elmer (11 years)
Date: May 9, 2019
Location: Iquitos, Peru
Status: Sentenced (life imprisonment, June 2022)

- Arlen placed a phone number in Elmer's backpack the night before the kidnapping, proving premeditation of 24 hours.
- Security cameras located Lester at payphones exactly when the captors called the family.
- Arlen withheld 4,500 of 5,000 soles from the ransom, causing the financial breakdown that triggered the asphyxiation murder.
- The mother did not cry during three days of searching; the only tears came when they found the body.

Elmer, Iquitos, family murder, kidnapping, 2019, criminal minds, investigation, homicide, true crime, forensic, revenge, justice, true crime Spanish

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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May nineteen twenty-four: fishermen dredging the Leine River in Hannover recovered more than five hundred human bones. Within weeks, forensic experts confirmed they belonged to at least twenty-two young people, all dismembered with butcher's precision. The impossible contradiction: the man police arrested had been working as their own informant for six years while killing.

In this investigation, we examine the brutal mechanics of Haarmann's crimes, the ignored red flags stretching back to nineteen eighteen, and the evidence that vanished during a raid when police found him with a naked thirteen-year-old boy yet made no connection to the murders that would follow. We reconstruct the institutional failures, the ambiguous role of his accomplice Hans Grans, and the questions the parliamentary inquiry deliberately left unanswered.

Victim: Friedrich Karl Haarmann
Date: May 1924
Location: Hannover, Germany
Status: Convicted; Executed April 1925

- In October nineteen eighteen, police raided Haarmann's apartment, found him with a thirteen-year-old minor, and searched the space-yet Haarmann later confessed Friedel Rothe's severed head sat hidden behind the stove during that exact raid.
- Between nineteen nineteen and nineteen twenty-four, Haarmann worked as a paid police informant while hunting victims at the central station, offering food and shelter before murdering them by tearing their throats with his teeth.
- The remains bore cut marks from butcher tools, and two women independently reported suspicious meat to police before his arrest; those reports were filed away as pork and never independently analyzed.
- Hans Grans, Haarmann's lover and alleged accomplice since nineteen nineteen, was convicted only as an accomplice despite Haarmann's direct accusations; a letter recanting those accusations arrived after Grans' appeal succeeded.

Friedrich Haarmann, Hannover Germany nineteen twenty-four serial killer, butcher, police informant, murder investigation, institutional cover-up, homicide investigation, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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May nineteen twenty-four: fishermen dredging the Leine River in Hannover recovered more than five hundred human bones. Within weeks, forensic experts confirmed they belonged to at least twenty-two young people, all dismembered with butcher's precision. The impossible contradiction: the man police arrested had been working as their own informant for six years while killing.

In this investigation, we examine the brutal mechanics of Haarmann's crimes, the ignored red flags stretching back to nineteen eighteen, and the evidence that vanished during a raid when police found him with a naked thirteen-year-old boy yet made no connection to the murders that would follow. We reconstruct the institutional failures, the ambiguous role of his accomplice Hans Grans, and the questions the parliamentary inquiry deliberately left unanswered.

Victim: Friedrich Karl Haarmann
Date: May 1924
Location: Hannover, Germany
Status: Convicted; Executed April 1925

- In October nineteen eighteen, police raided Haarmann's apartment, found him with a thirteen-year-old minor, and searched the space-yet Haarmann later confessed Friedel Rothe's severed head sat hidden behind the stove during that exact raid.
- Between nineteen nineteen and nineteen twenty-four, Haarmann worked as a paid police informant while hunting victims at the central station, offering food and shelter before murdering them by tearing their throats with his teeth.
- The remains bore cut marks from butcher tools, and two women independently reported suspicious meat to police before his arrest; those reports were filed away as pork and never independently analyzed.
- Hans Grans, Haarmann's lover and alleged accomplice since nineteen nineteen, was convicted only as an accomplice despite Haarmann's direct accusations; a letter recanting those accusations arrived after Grans' appeal succeeded.

Friedrich Haarmann, Hannover Germany nineteen twenty-four serial killer, butcher, police informant, murder investigation, institutional cover-up, homicide investigation, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A nearly decapitated body on a Brisbane riverbank. A wallet with thirty-five dollars still inside. And inside the victim's left shoe: a bank card that did not belong to him. On the morning of October twenty-first, nineteen eighty-nine, the woman whose name was printed on that card returned to the river looking for it-only to find the entire scene cordoned off by police.

This episode explores the night of October twentieth when four women from Brisbane's underground lesbian subculture encountered Edward Baldock walking alone after a darts tournament. The contradictions begin immediately: the victim had twenty-seven wounds concentrated in his neck, his clothes were carefully folded beside him, and the card inside his shoe would become the single detail that unraveled the entire investigation. How did a card exchange become the forensic evidence that identified a killer?

Victim: Edward Baldock, 47
Date: October 20-21, 1989
Location: Brisbane River, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Status: Convicted, served 22 years

- Bank card belonging to Tracy Wigginton discovered inside victim's left shoe after he was found nearly decapitated with twenty-seven neck wounds
- Highway patrol stopped a green sedan carrying the four suspects hours before the body was discovered, documenting their identities without knowing their connection to the crime
- Lisa Kaczynski, one of the four women, voluntarily confessed to police and testified that Wigginton drank blood from the victim's wounds
- Tracy Wigginton changed her story three times when confronted by investigators, first denying knowing the victim, then claiming she lost her card days before the crime

Edward Baldock, Brisbane River murder 1989, homicide investigation, true crime, forensic evidence, criminal minds, vampire case, serial crime, unsolved mysteries, Australian murder, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A nearly decapitated body on a Brisbane riverbank. A wallet with thirty-five dollars still inside. And inside the victim's left shoe: a bank card that did not belong to him. On the morning of October twenty-first, nineteen eighty-nine, the woman whose name was printed on that card returned to the river looking for it-only to find the entire scene cordoned off by police.

This episode explores the night of October twentieth when four women from Brisbane's underground lesbian subculture encountered Edward Baldock walking alone after a darts tournament. The contradictions begin immediately: the victim had twenty-seven wounds concentrated in his neck, his clothes were carefully folded beside him, and the card inside his shoe would become the single detail that unraveled the entire investigation. How did a card exchange become the forensic evidence that identified a killer?

Victim: Edward Baldock, 47
Date: October 20-21, 1989
Location: Brisbane River, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Status: Convicted, served 22 years

- Bank card belonging to Tracy Wigginton discovered inside victim's left shoe after he was found nearly decapitated with twenty-seven neck wounds
- Highway patrol stopped a green sedan carrying the four suspects hours before the body was discovered, documenting their identities without knowing their connection to the crime
- Lisa Kaczynski, one of the four women, voluntarily confessed to police and testified that Wigginton drank blood from the victim's wounds
- Tracy Wigginton changed her story three times when confronted by investigators, first denying knowing the victim, then claiming she lost her card days before the crime

Edward Baldock, Brisbane River murder 1989, homicide investigation, true crime, forensic evidence, criminal minds, vampire case, serial crime, unsolved mysteries, Australian murder, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Three armed men burst into a middle-class apartment at noon in Mexico City. Five people executed with a shot to the head. But investigators closed the case as simple robbery, and the loot barely reached 315 dollars while valuable items remained intact at the scene.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that dismantle the official narrative: eleven calls made during the crime to a contact never investigated, an anonymous video showing five attackers instead of three, and evidence destroyed under the authority's custody. The differentiated torture of two victims, their bodies placed face to face, and an identifiable vehicle but off the registry suggest an ordered execution, not a robbery. Who ordered this massacre and why do authorities insist on covering it up?

Victim: Rubén Espinoza Cervantes
Date: July 30, 2015
Location: Calle Luz Saviñón 1909, Colonia Narvarte, Mexico City
Status: Open; masterminds unconvicted

- Three men were charged; subsequent anonymous video shows five attackers arriving in separate vehicles.
- Omar made eleven calls to a contact never officially investigated during the crime, one every five minutes.
- Victims' clothing was burned the next day in the presence of authorities, destroying primary evidence.
- Contact "Captain Storm" identified as a former Secretary of Public Security of Veracruz with a company ten minutes from the apartment.

Rubén Espinoza Cervantes, Narvarte multiple murder 2015, systematic execution, institutional cover-up, organized crime, destroyed investigation, obstructed justice, Veracruz, criminal minds, forensic, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545148Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaFive executions for 315 dollars in Narvarte: The multiple homicide of Rubén Espinoza Cervantes Three armed men burst into a middle-class apartment at noon in Mexico City. Five people executed with a shot to the head. But investigators closed...
Three armed men burst into a middle-class apartment at noon in Mexico City. Five people executed with a shot to the head. But investigators closed the case as simple robbery, and the loot barely reached 315 dollars while valuable items remained intact at the scene.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that dismantle the official narrative: eleven calls made during the crime to a contact never investigated, an anonymous video showing five attackers instead of three, and evidence destroyed under the authority's custody. The differentiated torture of two victims, their bodies placed face to face, and an identifiable vehicle but off the registry suggest an ordered execution, not a robbery. Who ordered this massacre and why do authorities insist on covering it up?

Victim: Rubén Espinoza Cervantes
Date: July 30, 2015
Location: Calle Luz Saviñón 1909, Colonia Narvarte, Mexico City
Status: Open; masterminds unconvicted

- Three men were charged; subsequent anonymous video shows five attackers arriving in separate vehicles.
- Omar made eleven calls to a contact never officially investigated during the crime, one every five minutes.
- Victims' clothing was burned the next day in the presence of authorities, destroying primary evidence.
- Contact "Captain Storm" identified as a former Secretary of Public Security of Veracruz with a company ten minutes from the apartment.

Rubén Espinoza Cervantes, Narvarte multiple murder 2015, systematic execution, institutional cover-up, organized crime, destroyed investigation, obstructed justice, Veracruz, criminal minds, forensic, Spanish true crime

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A family that went to church on Sundays, swept sidewalks, and organized dinners in San Isidro operated a kidnapping and murder business from their basement. For three years, no one in the neighborhood suspected anything. How is it possible that a man with a diplomatic career, connected to state intelligence, kept three corpses and a woman chained while his son watched movies upstairs?

In this episode, we explore the investigation that led to the capture of the most sinister clan in democratic Argentina: the contradictions between what the family claimed to know, the confessions of the accomplices, and what the police found in August 1985. We unravel how Alejandro identified Ricardo Mannochan, why Laborda executed Emilio Nahún without collecting a ransom, and what role an undercover police officer played in protecting Puccio for years. How much institutional protection surrounded this operation?

Victim: Ricardo Mannochan, Eduardo Aulet, Emilio Nahún
Date: July 22, 1982 to August 23, 1985
Location: San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Status: Resolved; life sentences executed; unresolved institutional details

- Three victims murdered in three years; a woman chained in a secret basement behind a wardrobe; police found a bucket, cot, and straw.
- Puccio denied everything until conviction in 1995; Laborda confessed that he recruited, manipulated, and defrauded money; unresolved contradictions about economic distribution.
- An undercover police officer warned Puccio of a monitored delivery operation; allowed the clan to prepare a defense; the informant's identity was never revealed.
- Daniel Puccio arrived from New Zealand with a letter from his father describing the business as "an industry without chimneys"; arrested in Brazil in 2019 with a false document; successful escape without public explanation.

Arquímedes Puccio, San Isidro kidnapping murder, 1982-1985, criminal minds, state intelligence, true crime, forensic, homicide, imperfect justice, Spanish true crime

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545146Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe clan that killed in broad daylight: The true story of Arquímedes Puccio A family that went to church on Sundays, swept sidewalks, and organized dinners in San Isidro operated a kidnapping and murder business from their basement. For three...
A family that went to church on Sundays, swept sidewalks, and organized dinners in San Isidro operated a kidnapping and murder business from their basement. For three years, no one in the neighborhood suspected anything. How is it possible that a man with a diplomatic career, connected to state intelligence, kept three corpses and a woman chained while his son watched movies upstairs?

In this episode, we explore the investigation that led to the capture of the most sinister clan in democratic Argentina: the contradictions between what the family claimed to know, the confessions of the accomplices, and what the police found in August 1985. We unravel how Alejandro identified Ricardo Mannochan, why Laborda executed Emilio Nahún without collecting a ransom, and what role an undercover police officer played in protecting Puccio for years. How much institutional protection surrounded this operation?

Victim: Ricardo Mannochan, Eduardo Aulet, Emilio Nahún
Date: July 22, 1982 to August 23, 1985
Location: San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Status: Resolved; life sentences executed; unresolved institutional details

- Three victims murdered in three years; a woman chained in a secret basement behind a wardrobe; police found a bucket, cot, and straw.
- Puccio denied everything until conviction in 1995; Laborda confessed that he recruited, manipulated, and defrauded money; unresolved contradictions about economic distribution.
- An undercover police officer warned Puccio of a monitored delivery operation; allowed the clan to prepare a defense; the informant's identity was never revealed.
- Daniel Puccio arrived from New Zealand with a letter from his father describing the business as "an industry without chimneys"; arrested in Brazil in 2019 with a false document; successful escape without public explanation.

Arquímedes Puccio, San Isidro kidnapping murder, 1982-1985, criminal minds, state intelligence, true crime, forensic, homicide, imperfect justice, Spanish true crime

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio,...]]>1354falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-invisible-killer-who-evaded-the-fbi-for-decades--71544825
Five young women found strangled in the Green River within two months of summer nineteen eighty-two. The killer lived next door, paid taxes, attended church, and painted trucks for thirty years. No one suspected him because investigators were hunting for someone smarter than he actually was.

We explore the impossible timeline: how a man with an IQ of eighty-two evaded fifty detectives and thirteen thousand suspects across nineteen years, why Rebecca Garten's attempted strangulation report was never connected to the murders, and why a voluntary saliva sample collected in nineteen eighty-four sat in evidence for fourteen years before DNA technology could speak the truth it always contained.

Victim: Wendy Leigh Field (first confirmed victim, July 8, 1982)
Date: July 1982 - November 2001 (arrest)
Location: Green River, King County, Washington
Status: Forty-nine confirmed victims; guilty plea two thousand three

- Ridgway passed a nineteen eighty-four polygraph despite Rebecca Garten positively identifying him as her attacker in photographs
- Detectives dismissed him because his psychological profile did not match the FBI's prediction of above-average intelligence and sophistication
- Ted Bundy from death row identified the corpse-abuse pattern in nineteen eighty-four letters, but this knowledge arrived too late to refocus the investigation
- Detective Tom Jensen preserved a saliva sample that no laboratory in nineteen eighty-four could process, betting on future technology that would arrive exactly fourteen years later

Gary Leon Ridgway, Green River Killer, Seattle Washington, nineteen eighty-two, DNA technology, homicide investigation, serial killers, psychological profiling, forensic science, unsolved mysteries, true crime English

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544825Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaTruck Painter Passes Polygraph as Detectives Search Nineteen Years for Wrong Profile: The Green River Murders of Gary Leon Ridgway Five young women found strangled in the Green River within two months of summer nineteen eighty-two. The killer lived...
Five young women found strangled in the Green River within two months of summer nineteen eighty-two. The killer lived next door, paid taxes, attended church, and painted trucks for thirty years. No one suspected him because investigators were hunting for someone smarter than he actually was.

We explore the impossible timeline: how a man with an IQ of eighty-two evaded fifty detectives and thirteen thousand suspects across nineteen years, why Rebecca Garten's attempted strangulation report was never connected to the murders, and why a voluntary saliva sample collected in nineteen eighty-four sat in evidence for fourteen years before DNA technology could speak the truth it always contained.

Victim: Wendy Leigh Field (first confirmed victim, July 8, 1982)
Date: July 1982 - November 2001 (arrest)
Location: Green River, King County, Washington
Status: Forty-nine confirmed victims; guilty plea two thousand three

- Ridgway passed a nineteen eighty-four polygraph despite Rebecca Garten positively identifying him as her attacker in photographs
- Detectives dismissed him because his psychological profile did not match the FBI's prediction of above-average intelligence and sophistication
- Ted Bundy from death row identified the corpse-abuse pattern in nineteen eighty-four letters, but this knowledge arrived too late to refocus the investigation
- Detective Tom Jensen preserved a saliva sample that no laboratory in nineteen eighty-four could process, betting on future technology that would arrive exactly fourteen years later

Gary Leon Ridgway, Green River Killer, Seattle Washington, nineteen eighty-two, DNA technology, homicide investigation, serial killers, psychological profiling, forensic science, unsolved mysteries, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without...]]>1331falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-nanny-who-wanted-to-steal-her-identity--71545144
An anonymous call offered easy money. Rachel Barber, a 16-year-old dancer, accepted without telling her mother. Hours later, she disappeared. What the family discovered in her killer's notebook revealed a documented obsession: Caroline Reed not only wanted to kill her, she wanted to become her.

In this episode, we explore how a trusted nanny spent years gathering personal data, how the police took 48 crucial hours to act, and how a phone cord and a notebook with Rachel's complete biography exposed an identity theft plan that almost worked. How does someone who was part of the family turn into a killer?

Victim: Rachel Barber
Date: March 1, 1999
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Status: Sentenced to 20 years; parole January 2015

- Caroline obtained Rachel's number by calling twice with fake money offers: modeling and "psychological study."
- In her home, there were photographs of Rachel, family data lists, and a notebook where she described the victim as "pure and perfect" while depreciating herself.
- The body was transported in military bags and buried on a family farm; the phone cord was still around her neck when it was found.
- In prison, Caroline lost 30 kilos, dyed her hair blonde, and straightened it to physically resemble Rachel, continuing the identity theft plan even behind bars.

Rachel Barber, Melbourne 1999, murder, identity, impersonation, obsession, criminal minds, forensic, premeditated crime, investigation, homicide, true crime Spanish

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An anonymous call offered easy money. Rachel Barber, a 16-year-old dancer, accepted without telling her mother. Hours later, she disappeared. What the family discovered in her killer's notebook revealed a documented obsession: Caroline Reed not only wanted to kill her, she wanted to become her.

In this episode, we explore how a trusted nanny spent years gathering personal data, how the police took 48 crucial hours to act, and how a phone cord and a notebook with Rachel's complete biography exposed an identity theft plan that almost worked. How does someone who was part of the family turn into a killer?

Victim: Rachel Barber
Date: March 1, 1999
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Status: Sentenced to 20 years; parole January 2015

- Caroline obtained Rachel's number by calling twice with fake money offers: modeling and "psychological study."
- In her home, there were photographs of Rachel, family data lists, and a notebook where she described the victim as "pure and perfect" while depreciating herself.
- The body was transported in military bags and buried on a family farm; the phone cord was still around her neck when it was found.
- In prison, Caroline lost 30 kilos, dyed her hair blonde, and straightened it to physically resemble Rachel, continuing the identity theft plan even behind bars.

Rachel Barber, Melbourne 1999, murder, identity, impersonation, obsession, criminal minds, forensic, premeditated crime, investigation, homicide, true crime Spanish

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February 1949, London. A sixty-nine-year-old widow vanishes after leaving her hotel with a businessman offering to help develop her business idea. What police discovered in the warehouse would expose a calculated system of murder-one that had worked flawlessly five times before. A pathologist's examination of two hundred kilos of greasy soil revealed what sulfuric acid could not destroy, unraveling a killer's fatal miscalculation.

In this episode, we explore how John George Haigh built a method that eliminated bodies but left behind systematic evidence: forged documents, jewelry sales witnessed by dealers, bloodstains on warehouse walls, and the meticulous planning of a con artist turned serial killer. How did a pathologist named Keith Simpson identify a victim from fragments the acid was supposed to obliterate, and why did Haigh's confidence in the absence of a corpse become his undoing?

Victim: Olive Durand-Deacon
Date: February 18, 1949
Location: South Kensington, London / Crawley, East Sussex, England
Status: Solved

- A killer voluntarily accompanied the victim's friend to report her disappearance to Scotland Yard the very next day
- Haigh confessed without pressure, believing sulfuric acid had made conviction impossible without a body
- Pathologist Keith Simpson discovered a gallstone the size of a cherry, preserved by protective fat tissue the acid could not penetrate
- Olive's dental prosthesis and bone fragments allowed definitive identification, collapsing Haigh's entire defense strategy

Olive Durand-Deacon, John George Haigh, London serial killer, sulfuric acid murder, 1949, forensic science, criminal minds, pathology, unsolved vanished, true crime English

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February 1949, London. A sixty-nine-year-old widow vanishes after leaving her hotel with a businessman offering to help develop her business idea. What police discovered in the warehouse would expose a calculated system of murder-one that had worked flawlessly five times before. A pathologist's examination of two hundred kilos of greasy soil revealed what sulfuric acid could not destroy, unraveling a killer's fatal miscalculation.

In this episode, we explore how John George Haigh built a method that eliminated bodies but left behind systematic evidence: forged documents, jewelry sales witnessed by dealers, bloodstains on warehouse walls, and the meticulous planning of a con artist turned serial killer. How did a pathologist named Keith Simpson identify a victim from fragments the acid was supposed to obliterate, and why did Haigh's confidence in the absence of a corpse become his undoing?

Victim: Olive Durand-Deacon
Date: February 18, 1949
Location: South Kensington, London / Crawley, East Sussex, England
Status: Solved

- A killer voluntarily accompanied the victim's friend to report her disappearance to Scotland Yard the very next day
- Haigh confessed without pressure, believing sulfuric acid had made conviction impossible without a body
- Pathologist Keith Simpson discovered a gallstone the size of a cherry, preserved by protective fat tissue the acid could not penetrate
- Olive's dental prosthesis and bone fragments allowed definitive identification, collapsing Haigh's entire defense strategy

Olive Durand-Deacon, John George Haigh, London serial killer, sulfuric acid murder, 1949, forensic science, criminal minds, pathology, unsolved vanished, true crime English

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On January 16, 2023, a scream pierced an apartment in San Borja. Marilyn, an influencer with 600K followers who smiled on TikTok, was packing to escape when her husband arrived. An impossible detail: her last post from the day before carried a message of female autonomy.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions between the happy couple image on social media and the documented cycle of violence since 2013, the partially empty closet that evidenced her intention to leave, and the jealousy declared by Alexander Pinedo Barrón as the motive for 30 stabs to the head and arms. How was a woman on the radar of millions murdered without anyone seeing the outcome coming?

Victim: Marilyn Martínez
Date: January 16, 2023
Location: San Borja, Lima, Peru
Status: Aggravated femicide; preventive detention since January 23, 2023

- Alexander admitted that comments from men on social media were the declared trigger for his attack.
- The couple's son witnessed the crime from another room and locked himself in out of fear of his father.
- Marilyn made her first report at 18 years old for serious assault, which she withdrew after manipulation by Alexander.
- Alexander requested a reconstruction of the event at the scene and carried it out with complete coldness, asking to be recorded.

Marilyn Martínez, San Borja Lima femicide 2023, coercive control, domestic violence, influencer, criminal minds, serial murder, forensic investigation, justice, Spanish true crime

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545142Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaMarilyn's last post: 30 stabs and a secret: The femicide of Marilyn Martínez in San Borja, Lima. On January 16, 2023, a scream pierced an apartment in San Borja. Marilyn, an influencer with 600K followers who smiled on TikTok, was packing to...
On January 16, 2023, a scream pierced an apartment in San Borja. Marilyn, an influencer with 600K followers who smiled on TikTok, was packing to escape when her husband arrived. An impossible detail: her last post from the day before carried a message of female autonomy.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions between the happy couple image on social media and the documented cycle of violence since 2013, the partially empty closet that evidenced her intention to leave, and the jealousy declared by Alexander Pinedo Barrón as the motive for 30 stabs to the head and arms. How was a woman on the radar of millions murdered without anyone seeing the outcome coming?

Victim: Marilyn Martínez
Date: January 16, 2023
Location: San Borja, Lima, Peru
Status: Aggravated femicide; preventive detention since January 23, 2023

- Alexander admitted that comments from men on social media were the declared trigger for his attack.
- The couple's son witnessed the crime from another room and locked himself in out of fear of his father.
- Marilyn made her first report at 18 years old for serious assault, which she withdrew after manipulation by Alexander.
- Alexander requested a reconstruction of the event at the scene and carried it out with complete coldness, asking to be recorded.

Marilyn Martínez, San Borja Lima femicide 2023, coercive control, domestic violence, influencer, criminal minds, serial murder, forensic investigation, justice, Spanish true crime

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In June 1988, a screwdriver murder in Balashikha opens a file. Two weeks later, another stabbing victim dies in the hospital. The two cases sit in separate desks, handled by different units, connected by nothing but geography.

This episode traces five years of institutional fragmentation across twenty-four homicides. We examine the fingerprint of exceptional dimensions left at multiple scenes, the glove that pointed to an unusually large hand, the DNA evidence that finally linked two murders-and why none of these pieces met on the same table until two survivors described the same extraordinary physical profile.

Victim: Anatoly Bilkin, Claudia Koclova, Vasili Zaitsev, Irina Shumakova, Tatiana Norquina, Nikolay Belkin, Oleg Volkov, Margarita Tusikova, Irina Furmanov, Boris Osipov, Olga Suiko, and seventeen others
Location: Balashikha and Moscow outskirts, Soviet Union
Date: June 1988 - April 1993
Status: Convicted, 1995 trial

- A fingerprint of exceptional dimensions appeared on a ski pole in January 1989, found again on eyeglasses four years later, yet never cross-referenced until the arrest.
- Police investigated Anatoly Bilkin's screwdriver murder and Claudia Koclova's fourteen stab wounds separately despite occurring fifteen days apart in the same district.
- A semen sample from Irina Shumakova's 1990 decapitation remained in a laboratory with no suspect to match it against for three years.
- Boris Osipov's body showed mutilations that occurred twenty-four hours after death, revealing the killer returned to the scene-a planned behavior masked as isolated crimes.

Sergey Reakovsky, Balashikha Moscow homicide serial killer 1988-1993, unsolved mysteries, forensic science, true detective, criminal minds, investigation, serial killers, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544823Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaKiller Changes Weapons Every Crime While Police Search Five Separate Cases: The Serial Murders of Sergey Reakovsky In June 1988, a screwdriver murder in Balashikha opens a file. Two weeks later, another stabbing victim dies in the hospital. The two...
In June 1988, a screwdriver murder in Balashikha opens a file. Two weeks later, another stabbing victim dies in the hospital. The two cases sit in separate desks, handled by different units, connected by nothing but geography.

This episode traces five years of institutional fragmentation across twenty-four homicides. We examine the fingerprint of exceptional dimensions left at multiple scenes, the glove that pointed to an unusually large hand, the DNA evidence that finally linked two murders-and why none of these pieces met on the same table until two survivors described the same extraordinary physical profile.

Victim: Anatoly Bilkin, Claudia Koclova, Vasili Zaitsev, Irina Shumakova, Tatiana Norquina, Nikolay Belkin, Oleg Volkov, Margarita Tusikova, Irina Furmanov, Boris Osipov, Olga Suiko, and seventeen others
Location: Balashikha and Moscow outskirts, Soviet Union
Date: June 1988 - April 1993
Status: Convicted, 1995 trial

- A fingerprint of exceptional dimensions appeared on a ski pole in January 1989, found again on eyeglasses four years later, yet never cross-referenced until the arrest.
- Police investigated Anatoly Bilkin's screwdriver murder and Claudia Koclova's fourteen stab wounds separately despite occurring fifteen days apart in the same district.
- A semen sample from Irina Shumakova's 1990 decapitation remained in a laboratory with no suspect to match it against for three years.
- Boris Osipov's body showed mutilations that occurred twenty-four hours after death, revealing the killer returned to the scene-a planned behavior masked as isolated crimes.

Sergey Reakovsky, Balashikha Moscow homicide serial killer 1988-1993, unsolved mysteries, forensic science, true detective, criminal minds, investigation, serial killers, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Adriana liked a photo of Yael on social media. Her friend Alexa saw it, secretly contacted Giovanni, and for weeks planned the perfect crime. The trigger for a premeditated femicide was not an explicit love triangle, but a digital gesture that escalated to murderous planning among teenagers.

In this episode, we explore how a message of false reconciliation turned into a deadly trap, how a toy gun kept Adriana under psychological terror, and how screenshots from a threatened friend revealed the entire network of premeditation. We trace from the first public threat in the classroom ("your days are numbered") to the extortion call that activated the investigation, through 20 testimonies of systematic harassment and the autopsy that confirmed strangulation asphyxia and sexual assault prior to death.

Victim: Adriana Jacobo Rocha
Date: January 17, 2019
Location: Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, Mexico (Cerro del Pájaro)
Status: Sentenced to 67 years and 8 months (Alexa Quesada García and Giovanni de Jesús González Rodríguez)

- Alexa planned the murder weeks in advance and then called a friend "almost proudly" to report what she had done
- A toy gun, not real, was used to intimidate; a cutter caused the injury that immobilized Adriana during the assault
- The coerced friend made a rescue call under threat of death; her tracking led investigators directly to Alexa within hours
- Adriana's cell phone was confiscated during the transfer to eliminate her ability to call for help and destroy evidence of prior communications

Adriana Jacobo Rocha, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, femicide, January 2019, serial killer, premeditated murder, forensic investigation, criminal minds, bullying, digital crime, justice, mystery, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545140Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaA like on Facebook triggered the femicide of Adriana: The murder of Adriana Jacobo Rocha Adriana liked a photo of Yael on social media. Her friend Alexa saw it, secretly contacted Giovanni, and for weeks planned the perfect crime. The trigger...
Adriana liked a photo of Yael on social media. Her friend Alexa saw it, secretly contacted Giovanni, and for weeks planned the perfect crime. The trigger for a premeditated femicide was not an explicit love triangle, but a digital gesture that escalated to murderous planning among teenagers.

In this episode, we explore how a message of false reconciliation turned into a deadly trap, how a toy gun kept Adriana under psychological terror, and how screenshots from a threatened friend revealed the entire network of premeditation. We trace from the first public threat in the classroom ("your days are numbered") to the extortion call that activated the investigation, through 20 testimonies of systematic harassment and the autopsy that confirmed strangulation asphyxia and sexual assault prior to death.

Victim: Adriana Jacobo Rocha
Date: January 17, 2019
Location: Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, Mexico (Cerro del Pájaro)
Status: Sentenced to 67 years and 8 months (Alexa Quesada García and Giovanni de Jesús González Rodríguez)

- Alexa planned the murder weeks in advance and then called a friend "almost proudly" to report what she had done
- A toy gun, not real, was used to intimidate; a cutter caused the injury that immobilized Adriana during the assault
- The coerced friend made a rescue call under threat of death; her tracking led investigators directly to Alexa within hours
- Adriana's cell phone was confiscated during the transfer to eliminate her ability to call for help and destroy evidence of prior communications

Adriana Jacobo Rocha, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, femicide, January 2019, serial killer, premeditated murder, forensic investigation, criminal minds, bullying, digital crime, justice, mystery, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A law student in a three-piece suit sits calmly in a Florida courtroom, taking notes on legal motions. Hours earlier, forensic evidence linked him to the bodies of at least thirty women across five states. The question that haunted investigators for years was not whether he killed-it was how someone so articulate, so intelligent, so utterly charming had operated in plain sight.

In this episode, we trace the complete architecture of Ted Bundy's deception: the carefully constructed public identity, the calculated exploitation of interstate police failures, the systematic selection of victims, and the moment when forensic science finally caught what charisma could not hide. From his first documented attack in 1974 to his final escape across state lines, we examine how a man with an IQ of 136 weaponized intelligence itself-and why the system took so long to see what was in front of it.

Victim: Margaret Bowman, Lisa Levy, Kimberly Leach, and 27+ others
Date: January 1974 - February 1978
Location: Washington, Utah, Colorado, Florida
Status: Executed 1989

- At age eight, Ted Bundy had documented access to domination pornography; no one understood why
- A girl named Ann Marie Burr vanished from blocks away in 1961; the case was never solved and Bundy denied it until death
- He was interviewed by police after the Lake Sammamish disappearances and dismissed because he was too articulate and educated to be a killer
- Forensic dentistry proved bite marks on a victim's skin matched his teeth with such precision that no jury could ignore it

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A law student in a three-piece suit sits calmly in a Florida courtroom, taking notes on legal motions. Hours earlier, forensic evidence linked him to the bodies of at least thirty women across five states. The question that haunted investigators for years was not whether he killed-it was how someone so articulate, so intelligent, so utterly charming had operated in plain sight.

In this episode, we trace the complete architecture of Ted Bundy's deception: the carefully constructed public identity, the calculated exploitation of interstate police failures, the systematic selection of victims, and the moment when forensic science finally caught what charisma could not hide. From his first documented attack in 1974 to his final escape across state lines, we examine how a man with an IQ of 136 weaponized intelligence itself-and why the system took so long to see what was in front of it.

Victim: Margaret Bowman, Lisa Levy, Kimberly Leach, and 27+ others
Date: January 1974 - February 1978
Location: Washington, Utah, Colorado, Florida
Status: Executed 1989

- At age eight, Ted Bundy had documented access to domination pornography; no one understood why
- A girl named Ann Marie Burr vanished from blocks away in 1961; the case was never solved and Bundy denied it until death
- He was interviewed by police after the Lake Sammamish disappearances and dismissed because he was too articulate and educated to be a killer
- Forensic dentistry proved bite marks on a victim's skin matched his teeth with such precision that no jury could ignore it

Ted Bundy, serial killers, forensic dentistry, homicide investigation, Florida State University, Chi Omega murders, 1970s true crime, criminal psychology, unsolved disappearances, charismatic predator, televised trial, true crime English

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A body found 900 meters deep without shoes or jacket, with a foreign glove next to it on a route that Ciro knew well. His girlfriend survived nine days alone in the canyon. But the evidence and her own words contradicted her.

In this episode, we explore how an unregistered phone call, impossible knowledge about a fracture not yet discovered, and a systematic refusal to cooperate with the forensic investigation pointed in one direction. 202 days of searching, experts concluding violent projection, a statement from a pump operator that changed everything - and a judicial file without answers.

Victim: Ciro Castillo Rojo
Date: April 4, 2011
Location: Colca Canyon, Arequipa, Peru
Status: Case archived, no convicted perpetrator

- Rosario Ponce testified without a cell phone battery, but the prosecution verified calls made during the nine days she was alone in the canyon.
- Upon being rescued, she claimed to know that Ciro "had fallen and had a broken arm" - information impossible to know without being present at the scene.
- The glove found next to the body was an identical model to Rosario's; Ciro was wearing his.
- Autopsy revealed polytrauma inconsistent with natural free fall; experts concluded external force.

Ciro Castillo Rojo, Colca Canyon homicide 2011, serial killer, murder, forensic investigation, unsolved mystery, true crime cartel, archived justice, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A body found 900 meters deep without shoes or jacket, with a foreign glove next to it on a route that Ciro knew well. His girlfriend survived nine days alone in the canyon. But the evidence and her own words contradicted her.

In this episode, we explore how an unregistered phone call, impossible knowledge about a fracture not yet discovered, and a systematic refusal to cooperate with the forensic investigation pointed in one direction. 202 days of searching, experts concluding violent projection, a statement from a pump operator that changed everything - and a judicial file without answers.

Victim: Ciro Castillo Rojo
Date: April 4, 2011
Location: Colca Canyon, Arequipa, Peru
Status: Case archived, no convicted perpetrator

- Rosario Ponce testified without a cell phone battery, but the prosecution verified calls made during the nine days she was alone in the canyon.
- Upon being rescued, she claimed to know that Ciro "had fallen and had a broken arm" - information impossible to know without being present at the scene.
- The glove found next to the body was an identical model to Rosario's; Ciro was wearing his.
- Autopsy revealed polytrauma inconsistent with natural free fall; experts concluded external force.

Ciro Castillo Rojo, Colca Canyon homicide 2011, serial killer, murder, forensic investigation, unsolved mystery, true crime cartel, archived justice, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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October eleventh, nineteen sixty-nine. A taxi driver named Paul Stein is shot in the head on a quiet residential street in San Francisco, and three teenagers watch a man calmly wipe down the vehicle before walking into the darkness. The killer's identity would become unmistakable-but not before two patrol officers unknowingly stopped him mere minutes after the murder and released him into the night.

We explore the chain of catastrophic errors that put the Zodiac within arm's reach of capture: a radio dispatcher's single typographical mistake that changed "Caucasian" to "African American", the officers who questioned the real suspect without recognizing him, and the killer's later letter mocking the police for their brush with him. How did the country's most wanted serial killer slip through the hands of law enforcement when he was standing directly in front of them?

Victim: Paul Lee Stein
Date: October 11, 1969
Location: Washington and Cherry Street, Presidio Heights, San Francisco, California
Status: Unsolved

- A radio operator's typo broadcasts the wrong suspect description, sending every responding officer to hunt for someone who doesn't exist
- Two patrol officers stop a man matching the actual witness description perfectly but release him because they're looking for a different person
- The killer mails a bloodstained piece of the victim's shirt to the San Francisco Chronicle, confirming his identity and bragging about evading capture
- Detectives later reconstruct that the Zodiac was detained and questioned by police while still holding evidence from the crime scene

Paul Lee Stein, San Francisco 1969, Presidio Heights, taxi driver murder, Zodiac killer, police error, unsolved case, serial killer, investigation, homicide, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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October eleventh, nineteen sixty-nine. A taxi driver named Paul Stein is shot in the head on a quiet residential street in San Francisco, and three teenagers watch a man calmly wipe down the vehicle before walking into the darkness. The killer's identity would become unmistakable-but not before two patrol officers unknowingly stopped him mere minutes after the murder and released him into the night.

We explore the chain of catastrophic errors that put the Zodiac within arm's reach of capture: a radio dispatcher's single typographical mistake that changed "Caucasian" to "African American", the officers who questioned the real suspect without recognizing him, and the killer's later letter mocking the police for their brush with him. How did the country's most wanted serial killer slip through the hands of law enforcement when he was standing directly in front of them?

Victim: Paul Lee Stein
Date: October 11, 1969
Location: Washington and Cherry Street, Presidio Heights, San Francisco, California
Status: Unsolved

- A radio operator's typo broadcasts the wrong suspect description, sending every responding officer to hunt for someone who doesn't exist
- Two patrol officers stop a man matching the actual witness description perfectly but release him because they're looking for a different person
- The killer mails a bloodstained piece of the victim's shirt to the San Francisco Chronicle, confirming his identity and bragging about evading capture
- Detectives later reconstruct that the Zodiac was detained and questioned by police while still holding evidence from the crime scene

Paul Lee Stein, San Francisco 1969, Presidio Heights, taxi driver murder, Zodiac killer, police error, unsolved case, serial killer, investigation, homicide, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A 20-year-old young woman left a family gathering on April 17, 2021, promising to return for dinner. Her mother found her hours later in a coma, with fractures in her skull, neck, and arms. Her boyfriend was already fleeing, protected by a wealthy family willing to do anything.

In this episode, we explore how the negligent transfer to a private clinic worsened the fatal injuries, how her parents were arrested for complicity, and how the video where Marlon tries to negotiate his freedom in exchange for releasing his family exposes a judicial system paralyzed by economic influence.

Victim: Monserrat Vendimes Roldán
Date: April 17, 2021
Location: Boca del Río, Veracruz, Mexico
Status: Ongoing investigation; homicide without conviction

- Marlon brutally beat Monserrat and fled before the police arrived, disappearing for 13 months.
- Her parents transferred the victim to a clinic without emergency services, worsening injuries that would cause brain death.
- The attacker was captured in Mérida thanks to viral banners and national pressure, but remains in a preventive module designed for 72 hours, not for homicide proceedings.
- Three consecutive hearings were suspended without public explanation, while the defense advances in systematic delays.

Monserrat Vendimes Roldán, Boca del Río Veracruz murder, 2021, domestic violence, forensic investigation, family cover-up, slow justice, criminal minds, judicial corruption, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545136Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe night Montse did not return for dinner: The homicide of Monserrat Vendimes Roldán A 20-year-old young woman left a family gathering on April 17, 2021, promising to return for dinner. Her mother found her hours later in a coma, with...
A 20-year-old young woman left a family gathering on April 17, 2021, promising to return for dinner. Her mother found her hours later in a coma, with fractures in her skull, neck, and arms. Her boyfriend was already fleeing, protected by a wealthy family willing to do anything.

In this episode, we explore how the negligent transfer to a private clinic worsened the fatal injuries, how her parents were arrested for complicity, and how the video where Marlon tries to negotiate his freedom in exchange for releasing his family exposes a judicial system paralyzed by economic influence.

Victim: Monserrat Vendimes Roldán
Date: April 17, 2021
Location: Boca del Río, Veracruz, Mexico
Status: Ongoing investigation; homicide without conviction

- Marlon brutally beat Monserrat and fled before the police arrived, disappearing for 13 months.
- Her parents transferred the victim to a clinic without emergency services, worsening injuries that would cause brain death.
- The attacker was captured in Mérida thanks to viral banners and national pressure, but remains in a preventive module designed for 72 hours, not for homicide proceedings.
- Three consecutive hearings were suspended without public explanation, while the defense advances in systematic delays.

Monserrat Vendimes Roldán, Boca del Río Veracruz murder, 2021, domestic violence, forensic investigation, family cover-up, slow justice, criminal minds, judicial corruption, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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On August eleventh, two thousand thirteen, Omaha police found two men dead in an alley, shot with a twelve-gauge shotgun. Eight days later, a third victim appeared-connected by a single photograph on Facebook to a man released from prison just twelve days before. Then a fourth body. Four murders in ten days, and a system that had documented every warning.

This episode explores the impossible contradiction at the heart of the case: Niko Jenkins had told the parole board he heard dangerous voices. His wife warned authorities. Prison guards knew his stated intentions. Yet Nebraska released him without treatment, without adequate supervision, without explanation. The forensic evidence was absolute-ballistics, DNA, security cameras, confession-but the context surrounding those four deaths raises a question the state has never publicly answered.

Victim: Jorge Cajiga Ruiz, Juan Uribe Peña, Curtis Bradford, Andrea Krueger
Date: August 2013
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Status: Death sentence imposed May 2017

- Released from prison July 30, 2013, despite documented warnings of imminent harm
- Formal psychiatric diagnoses dating to age eight: bipolar schizoaffective disorder with severe psychosis
- IQ decline of nineteen points documented between evaluations; served ten years in solitary confinement
- Four victims killed in ten days using two different weapons; full confession within thirty days of release

Niko Jenkins, Omaha Nebraska murders 2013, Niko Jenkins crimes, parole board negligence, solitary confinement mental health, criminal justice system failure, homicide investigation, death penalty case, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544819Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaTwelve Days After Release, He Started to Kill: The Murders of Jorge Cajiga Ruiz, Juan Uribe Peña, Curtis Bradford, and Andrea Krueger On August eleventh, two thousand thirteen, Omaha police found two men dead in an alley, shot with a twelve-gauge...
On August eleventh, two thousand thirteen, Omaha police found two men dead in an alley, shot with a twelve-gauge shotgun. Eight days later, a third victim appeared-connected by a single photograph on Facebook to a man released from prison just twelve days before. Then a fourth body. Four murders in ten days, and a system that had documented every warning.

This episode explores the impossible contradiction at the heart of the case: Niko Jenkins had told the parole board he heard dangerous voices. His wife warned authorities. Prison guards knew his stated intentions. Yet Nebraska released him without treatment, without adequate supervision, without explanation. The forensic evidence was absolute-ballistics, DNA, security cameras, confession-but the context surrounding those four deaths raises a question the state has never publicly answered.

Victim: Jorge Cajiga Ruiz, Juan Uribe Peña, Curtis Bradford, Andrea Krueger
Date: August 2013
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Status: Death sentence imposed May 2017

- Released from prison July 30, 2013, despite documented warnings of imminent harm
- Formal psychiatric diagnoses dating to age eight: bipolar schizoaffective disorder with severe psychosis
- IQ decline of nineteen points documented between evaluations; served ten years in solitary confinement
- Four victims killed in ten days using two different weapons; full confession within thirty days of release

Niko Jenkins, Omaha Nebraska murders 2013, Niko Jenkins crimes, parole board negligence, solitary confinement mental health, criminal justice system failure, homicide investigation, death penalty case, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Three sisters stabbed their father 35 times while he slept, then called the police and confessed everything. The same act that should close the case opens it: why did these confessed murderers never escape? Why did the system ignore their cries for years?

In this episode, we explore the tension between premeditation and survival: hidden cameras proving captivity, medical examinations confirming systematic sexual abuse, and a petition of 300,000 signatures that divided Russia. Were they calculated criminals or victims with no other way out?

Victim: Kristina, Angelina, and María Jachachiran
Date: July 27, 2018
Location: Moscow, Russia
Status: Open trial; sisters officially recognized as victims; sentencing pending

- Three sisters coordinated a lethal attack against their father while he slept, but confessed without a plan for escape or subsequent resistance.
- Social services were formally alerted by the school; they never visited the home despite systematic class absences.
- Medical examinations document sexual abuse of minors, scars from prolonged mistreatment, and psychological damage sufficient to declare the youngest sister unaccountable.
- The paternal family of the father denies having witnessed violence, even though they lived in the same home where Mikail installed hidden cameras in his daughters' bedrooms.

Mikail Jachachiran, Moscow 2018, murder, sexual abuse, self-defense, premeditated homicide, criminal investigation, criminal minds, failed justice, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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Three sisters stabbed their father 35 times while he slept, then called the police and confessed everything. The same act that should close the case opens it: why did these confessed murderers never escape? Why did the system ignore their cries for years?

In this episode, we explore the tension between premeditation and survival: hidden cameras proving captivity, medical examinations confirming systematic sexual abuse, and a petition of 300,000 signatures that divided Russia. Were they calculated criminals or victims with no other way out?

Victim: Kristina, Angelina, and María Jachachiran
Date: July 27, 2018
Location: Moscow, Russia
Status: Open trial; sisters officially recognized as victims; sentencing pending

- Three sisters coordinated a lethal attack against their father while he slept, but confessed without a plan for escape or subsequent resistance.
- Social services were formally alerted by the school; they never visited the home despite systematic class absences.
- Medical examinations document sexual abuse of minors, scars from prolonged mistreatment, and psychological damage sufficient to declare the youngest sister unaccountable.
- The paternal family of the father denies having witnessed violence, even though they lived in the same home where Mikail installed hidden cameras in his daughters' bedrooms.

Mikail Jachachiran, Moscow 2018, murder, sexual abuse, self-defense, premeditated homicide, criminal investigation, criminal minds, failed justice, Spanish true crime

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In the early hours of November 25, 1973, Albert De Salvo was stabbed six times in his maximum-security cell while he slept. Hours earlier, he had requested an urgent meeting because he claimed he had something to reveal about the Boston Strangler-the man he had confessed to being. But the confession that paralyzed Boston was never proven in court, and the killer died just before changing the story.

In this episode, we explore the thirteen murders that terrorized Boston between 1962 and 1964, the contradictions in De Salvo's detailed confessions, and the witnesses who pointed to a different man entirely. We examine the biological evidence, the mysterious details left at crime scenes, and the unsolved question: was the right person ever identified for these homicides?

Victim: Mary Sullivan, Joan Graff, Beverly Simmons, Evelyn Corbin, Patricia Bissette, Sophie Clark, Aida Irga, Jane Sullivan, Helen Blake, Nina Nichols, Anna Lessers, and others
Date: June 1962 - January 1964
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Status: Unresolved

- Thirteen women strangled with signatures-knots, positioned objects, no forced entry-across five jurisdictions in less than two years
- De Salvo confessed to all thirteen murders but was tried only for sexual assaults; the strangler murders never went to trial
- Two independent witnesses identified George Nazar-not De Salvo-in a lineup as the man seen entering victim Sophie Clark's building
- De Salvo demanded the reward be paid to Nazar and sought psychiatric hospital transfer rather than prison, structuring his confession as a financial transaction

Albert De Salvo, Boston Strangler, 1962, 1963, 1964, homicide investigation, serial killers, unsolved mysteries, forensic science, true crime English

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In the early hours of November 25, 1973, Albert De Salvo was stabbed six times in his maximum-security cell while he slept. Hours earlier, he had requested an urgent meeting because he claimed he had something to reveal about the Boston Strangler-the man he had confessed to being. But the confession that paralyzed Boston was never proven in court, and the killer died just before changing the story.

In this episode, we explore the thirteen murders that terrorized Boston between 1962 and 1964, the contradictions in De Salvo's detailed confessions, and the witnesses who pointed to a different man entirely. We examine the biological evidence, the mysterious details left at crime scenes, and the unsolved question: was the right person ever identified for these homicides?

Victim: Mary Sullivan, Joan Graff, Beverly Simmons, Evelyn Corbin, Patricia Bissette, Sophie Clark, Aida Irga, Jane Sullivan, Helen Blake, Nina Nichols, Anna Lessers, and others
Date: June 1962 - January 1964
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Status: Unresolved

- Thirteen women strangled with signatures-knots, positioned objects, no forced entry-across five jurisdictions in less than two years
- De Salvo confessed to all thirteen murders but was tried only for sexual assaults; the strangler murders never went to trial
- Two independent witnesses identified George Nazar-not De Salvo-in a lineup as the man seen entering victim Sophie Clark's building
- De Salvo demanded the reward be paid to Nazar and sought psychiatric hospital transfer rather than prison, structuring his confession as a financial transaction

Albert De Salvo, Boston Strangler, 1962, 1963, 1964, homicide investigation, serial killers, unsolved mysteries, forensic science, true crime English

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A university student falls from the fifth floor of an apartment in the early morning of January 16, 2016. Within hours, the police close the case as a suicide. The impossible: four years later, DNA under her nails proves she was thrown by two men while struggling and calling for help.

In this episode, we explore how an educational institution supports the official version, how the incomplete autopsy and the unsecured scene allow for a cover-up, and why the reclassification as femicide only comes when a mother goes viral with the truth on social media. An investigation into state omission and the impunity that persists.

Victim: María de Jesús Jaime Samudio (Marichuy)
Date: January 16, 2016
Location: Iztacalco, Mexico City
Status: Arrest warrants issued; suspects at large since 2022

- The DNA under Marichuy's nails directly links the attackers, dismantling the suicide hypothesis after four years.
- The forensic injury mechanics demonstrate that she fell on her feet while clinging to her attackers, incompatible with a voluntary jump.
- Neighbors heard struggles, banging on doors, and cries for help in the hallway minutes before the fall.
- The case was closed without securing the scene, without an intimate autopsy, and without notifying the prosecutorial authority, facilitating any manipulation of evidence.

María de Jesús Jaime Samudio, Iztacalco femicide 2016, IPN, Julio Iván Ruiz Guerrero, Gabriel Galván Figueroa, state cover-up, criminal minds, justice, Spanish true crime

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A university student falls from the fifth floor of an apartment in the early morning of January 16, 2016. Within hours, the police close the case as a suicide. The impossible: four years later, DNA under her nails proves she was thrown by two men while struggling and calling for help.

In this episode, we explore how an educational institution supports the official version, how the incomplete autopsy and the unsecured scene allow for a cover-up, and why the reclassification as femicide only comes when a mother goes viral with the truth on social media. An investigation into state omission and the impunity that persists.

Victim: María de Jesús Jaime Samudio (Marichuy)
Date: January 16, 2016
Location: Iztacalco, Mexico City
Status: Arrest warrants issued; suspects at large since 2022

- The DNA under Marichuy's nails directly links the attackers, dismantling the suicide hypothesis after four years.
- The forensic injury mechanics demonstrate that she fell on her feet while clinging to her attackers, incompatible with a voluntary jump.
- Neighbors heard struggles, banging on doors, and cries for help in the hallway minutes before the fall.
- The case was closed without securing the scene, without an intimate autopsy, and without notifying the prosecutorial authority, facilitating any manipulation of evidence.

María de Jesús Jaime Samudio, Iztacalco femicide 2016, IPN, Julio Iván Ruiz Guerrero, Gabriel Galván Figueroa, state cover-up, criminal minds, justice, Spanish true crime

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Chicago, June 1945. A woman is found stabbed and washed clean in her apartment with no witnesses and no leads. Six months later, another woman dies with a knife in her neck-and this time, a desperate message scrawled in her own lipstick appears on the wall: "For the love of God, catch me before I kill more. I can't control myself." The city descends into panic. Then a six-year-old girl vanishes from her bedroom.

This episode reconstructs the three violent homicides that gripped Chicago during the final months of World War II and examines the chain of events that led police to William Heirens, a seventeen-year-old college student with no history of violence. Over six days of interrogation without legal representation, under documented coercion including forced sodium pentothal injection, and with no solid food, Heirens signed a confession to all three murders. Yet the physical evidence tells a different story-one of twenty-nine documented inconsistencies, fingerprints that failed FBI standards, and an alternative suspect never formally investigated.

Victim: Susan Degnan, Josephine Ross, Frances Brown
Date: June 1945-January 1946
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Status: Heirens convicted without trial; died in prison 2012

- The lipstick message was presented as definitive proof, yet graphologists who analyzed it reached conflicting conclusions about authorship
- Frances Brown's fingerprint, publicized as irrefutable, matched only six points when FBI standards required twelve for validity
- The dismemberment showed anatomical precision, yet Heirens was an engineering student with no registered medical training or dissection experience
- The psychiatrist who administered the truth serum later testified under oath that Heirens confessed to nothing-only mentioned an alter ego called "George"

Susan Degnan, Josephine Ross, Frances Brown, Chicago 1945, Lipstick Killer, William Heirens, coerced confession, unsolved mysteries, forensic evidence, true crime English

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Chicago, June 1945. A woman is found stabbed and washed clean in her apartment with no witnesses and no leads. Six months later, another woman dies with a knife in her neck-and this time, a desperate message scrawled in her own lipstick appears on the wall: "For the love of God, catch me before I kill more. I can't control myself." The city descends into panic. Then a six-year-old girl vanishes from her bedroom.

This episode reconstructs the three violent homicides that gripped Chicago during the final months of World War II and examines the chain of events that led police to William Heirens, a seventeen-year-old college student with no history of violence. Over six days of interrogation without legal representation, under documented coercion including forced sodium pentothal injection, and with no solid food, Heirens signed a confession to all three murders. Yet the physical evidence tells a different story-one of twenty-nine documented inconsistencies, fingerprints that failed FBI standards, and an alternative suspect never formally investigated.

Victim: Susan Degnan, Josephine Ross, Frances Brown
Date: June 1945-January 1946
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Status: Heirens convicted without trial; died in prison 2012

- The lipstick message was presented as definitive proof, yet graphologists who analyzed it reached conflicting conclusions about authorship
- Frances Brown's fingerprint, publicized as irrefutable, matched only six points when FBI standards required twelve for validity
- The dismemberment showed anatomical precision, yet Heirens was an engineering student with no registered medical training or dissection experience
- The psychiatrist who administered the truth serum later testified under oath that Heirens confessed to nothing-only mentioned an alter ego called "George"

Susan Degnan, Josephine Ross, Frances Brown, Chicago 1945, Lipstick Killer, William Heirens, coerced confession, unsolved mysteries, forensic evidence, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their...]]>1532falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/guadalupe-lupita-medina-the-girl-without-an-identity-that-the-system-took-nine-months-to-recognize--71545131
A small girl's corpse lies in a vacant lot in Nezahualcoyotl, wearing red shoelaces. Nine months later, no institution knows who she was. The central question: how does a minor disappear without the State knowing her identity?

In this episode, we explore the investigation that connected a citizen video, a forensic portrait, and a police report ignored one day before the discovery. We unravel why Lupita's empty civil registry allowed the prosecutor's office to archive the case, and how an activist and a forensic expert returned a name to a homicide victim that the system never registered.

Victim: Guadalupe Medina Pichardo "Lupita"
Date: March 18, 2017
Location: Colonia El Sol, Nezahualcoyotl, State of Mexico
Status: Sentenced to 88 years in prison (sentence September 4, 2019)

- She was never registered in the civil registry; the system had no record of her name in databases.
- The report of child abuse was filed on March 17, one day before her death, but it was not cross-referenced with the discovery.
- A citizen witness recognized Lupita alive in a video, showing the same red shoelaces found on the corpse.
- The formal identification took 243 days; it only occurred when her aunt Marina contacted activist Verónica Villalvazo.

Guadalupe Medina Pichardo, Nezahualcoyotl, child murder, 2017, abuse, investigation, forensic, justice, criminal minds, unregistered crime, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545131Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaLupita: Nine months without a name in Nezahualcoyotl: The murder of Guadalupe Medina Pichardo A small girl's corpse lies in a vacant lot in Nezahualcoyotl, wearing red shoelaces. Nine months later, no institution knows who she was. The central...
A small girl's corpse lies in a vacant lot in Nezahualcoyotl, wearing red shoelaces. Nine months later, no institution knows who she was. The central question: how does a minor disappear without the State knowing her identity?

In this episode, we explore the investigation that connected a citizen video, a forensic portrait, and a police report ignored one day before the discovery. We unravel why Lupita's empty civil registry allowed the prosecutor's office to archive the case, and how an activist and a forensic expert returned a name to a homicide victim that the system never registered.

Victim: Guadalupe Medina Pichardo "Lupita"
Date: March 18, 2017
Location: Colonia El Sol, Nezahualcoyotl, State of Mexico
Status: Sentenced to 88 years in prison (sentence September 4, 2019)

- She was never registered in the civil registry; the system had no record of her name in databases.
- The report of child abuse was filed on March 17, one day before her death, but it was not cross-referenced with the discovery.
- A citizen witness recognized Lupita alive in a video, showing the same red shoelaces found on the corpse.
- The formal identification took 243 days; it only occurred when her aunt Marina contacted activist Verónica Villalvazo.

Guadalupe Medina Pichardo, Nezahualcoyotl, child murder, 2017, abuse, investigation, forensic, justice, criminal minds, unregistered crime, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>1141falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cannibal-the-system-set-free-to-kill-again--71544816
On a February morning in 1999, two young men walking along the Torbes River in Tariba, Táchira state, discovered a severed hand and foot on the riverbank. What they found inside the shack beneath Libertador Bridge defied explanation: human heads, seasoned organs in containers, and evidence of systematic consumption. The man arrested had confessed to the exact same crimes four years earlier-and the state had released him anyway.

In this episode, we trace how a documented confession to murder and cannibalism in 1995, a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, and a signed psychiatric order somehow resulted in the suspect walking free for two years without supervision or follow-up. Between 1997 and 1999, men disappeared from Tariba and San Cristóbal-young, homeless, marginal-matching the profile Dorcel described. The investigation uncovers not just the crimes of one disturbed man, but the bureaucratic collapse that allowed them to continue.

Victim: Cruz Baltazar Moreno (confirmed); multiple additional victims identified between 1995-1999
Date: January 26, 1995 (first disappearance); February 12, 1999 (discovery and second arrest)
Location: Under Libertador Bridge, Tariba, Táchira state, Venezuela; Torbes River
Status: Convicted; unresolved victim count and unanswered questions regarding potential accomplices

- A man confessed to killing and eating another person in 1995, was hospitalized with a paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis, and received a psychiatric placement order-which was issued one week after he was already released and lost to the system.
- Two years passed with zero supervision or follow-up before his second arrest, during which an estimated twenty to forty people disappeared from the region matching his victim profile.
- The forensic evidence showed anatomically precise cuts that raised questions about whether one homeless man with a machete could have produced them, yet no formal investigation into possible accomplices was completed.
- Among the possible victims during the period of impunity was Antonio López, the same homeless witness who had reported the first crime in 1995 and triggered the initial arrest.

José Dorcel Vargas Gómez, Tariba Táchira Venezuela, 1995 cannibalism murder case, 1999 arrest, serial killer, missing persons, forensic evidence gaps, psychiatric system failure, true crime English

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On a February morning in 1999, two young men walking along the Torbes River in Tariba, Táchira state, discovered a severed hand and foot on the riverbank. What they found inside the shack beneath Libertador Bridge defied explanation: human heads, seasoned organs in containers, and evidence of systematic consumption. The man arrested had confessed to the exact same crimes four years earlier-and the state had released him anyway.

In this episode, we trace how a documented confession to murder and cannibalism in 1995, a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, and a signed psychiatric order somehow resulted in the suspect walking free for two years without supervision or follow-up. Between 1997 and 1999, men disappeared from Tariba and San Cristóbal-young, homeless, marginal-matching the profile Dorcel described. The investigation uncovers not just the crimes of one disturbed man, but the bureaucratic collapse that allowed them to continue.

Victim: Cruz Baltazar Moreno (confirmed); multiple additional victims identified between 1995-1999
Date: January 26, 1995 (first disappearance); February 12, 1999 (discovery and second arrest)
Location: Under Libertador Bridge, Tariba, Táchira state, Venezuela; Torbes River
Status: Convicted; unresolved victim count and unanswered questions regarding potential accomplices

- A man confessed to killing and eating another person in 1995, was hospitalized with a paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis, and received a psychiatric placement order-which was issued one week after he was already released and lost to the system.
- Two years passed with zero supervision or follow-up before his second arrest, during which an estimated twenty to forty people disappeared from the region matching his victim profile.
- The forensic evidence showed anatomically precise cuts that raised questions about whether one homeless man with a machete could have produced them, yet no formal investigation into possible accomplices was completed.
- Among the possible victims during the period of impunity was Antonio López, the same homeless witness who had reported the first crime in 1995 and triggered the initial arrest.

José Dorcel Vargas Gómez, Tariba Táchira Venezuela, 1995 cannibalism murder case, 1999 arrest, serial killer, missing persons, forensic evidence gaps, psychiatric system failure, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime...]]>1266falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fernando-baez-sosa-the-group-murder-that-was-recorded-on-video-and-shook-argentina--71545130
One January morning, an eighteen-year-old buys an ice cream on the street after leaving a nightclub. Minutes later, he is dead. The impossible: ten middle-class attackers coordinate the murder of a stranger without any of them raising a hand to stop it.

In this episode, we explore how a fifteen-second video recorded by one of the attackers becomes irrefutable evidence, how WhatsApp messages document the prior hatred, and why an innocent man was accused while the true culprits coordinated their defense. The case that exposes the cracks in Argentine justice and divides opinions on the sentences.

Victim: Fernando Báez Sosa
Date: January 18, 2020
Location: Villa Gesell, Buenos Aires
Status: Convicted (sentence February 6, 2023)

- Ten young people coordinate a premeditated attack captured on video while the victim holds an ice cream
- Racist WhatsApp messages exchanged minutes before the beating reveal deliberate intent
- Pablo Ventura detained without evidence: size 43 shoe when he wears size 50
- Five life sentences, three fifteen-year sentences, but lawyer Burlando considers the sentences insufficient

Fernando Báez Sosa, Villa Gesell, 2020, murder, serial killer, investigation, forensic, premeditation, justice, mystery, criminal minds, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545130Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaTen Against One: The Ambush That Changed Everything: The Murder of Fernando Báez Sosa One January morning, an eighteen-year-old buys an ice cream on the street after leaving a nightclub. Minutes later, he is dead. The impossible: ten...
One January morning, an eighteen-year-old buys an ice cream on the street after leaving a nightclub. Minutes later, he is dead. The impossible: ten middle-class attackers coordinate the murder of a stranger without any of them raising a hand to stop it.

In this episode, we explore how a fifteen-second video recorded by one of the attackers becomes irrefutable evidence, how WhatsApp messages document the prior hatred, and why an innocent man was accused while the true culprits coordinated their defense. The case that exposes the cracks in Argentine justice and divides opinions on the sentences.

Victim: Fernando Báez Sosa
Date: January 18, 2020
Location: Villa Gesell, Buenos Aires
Status: Convicted (sentence February 6, 2023)

- Ten young people coordinate a premeditated attack captured on video while the victim holds an ice cream
- Racist WhatsApp messages exchanged minutes before the beating reveal deliberate intent
- Pablo Ventura detained without evidence: size 43 shoe when he wears size 50
- Five life sentences, three fifteen-year sentences, but lawyer Burlando considers the sentences insufficient

Fernando Báez Sosa, Villa Gesell, 2020, murder, serial killer, investigation, forensic, premeditation, justice, mystery, criminal minds, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>1366falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-medical-student-who-killed-his-own-family-for-money--71544814
December 20, 2004. Police arrive at a house in Tacna after a disappearance report and find a twenty-five-year-old medical student standing at the door with a canvas bag. Inside: a hammer, a knife, a machete, a sharpener. Inside the house: the body of Fidel Mina Mamani, beaten forty times. The contradiction that haunted investigators for years: did he kill for money, or was money just the excuse?

In this episode, we trace the documented timeline of Alex Maquera's homicides across 2004 and beyond. We examine the collision between his own confession-that he killed for theft and addiction-and the evidence that defies that logic: his murder of his own sister Priscila, her husband Rafael, and their four children in a single night, hours after the money was already secured. We explore the psychiatric profiles, the family history of violence, and the system failures that allowed the crimes to escalate and continue even after his arrest and imprisonment.

Victim: Fidel Mina Mamani (and seven others)
Date: December 20, 2004
Location: Tacna and Lima, Peru
Status: Convicted; serving sentence

- Police found the body of Fidel Mina Mamani with forty blows from a hammer, along with signs of strangulation and a slit throat.
- Maquera confessed calmly to seven additional homicides without apparent pressure, including the murder of his own sister Priscila, her husband, and four children buried in their backyard.
- Excavations of Priscila's home revealed six bodies wrapped in blankets, decomposed, with skulls fractured by repeated blunt-force trauma, matching Maquera's detailed confession.
- Fifteen years later in 2019, Maquera killed two more people inside Pocoyai prison using the same hammer and a knife, including Carmen Olmedo Moreno, who was sixteen weeks pregnant.

Alex Maquera, Tacna, Lima, Peru, December 2004, serial killer, psychopathy, hammer murders, family homicide, investigation, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544814Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaMedical Student Opens Door with Hammer, Knife, Machete Inside His Bag: The Eight Murders of Alex Maquera December 20, 2004. Police arrive at a house in Tacna after a disappearance report and find a twenty-five-year-old medical student standing at...
December 20, 2004. Police arrive at a house in Tacna after a disappearance report and find a twenty-five-year-old medical student standing at the door with a canvas bag. Inside: a hammer, a knife, a machete, a sharpener. Inside the house: the body of Fidel Mina Mamani, beaten forty times. The contradiction that haunted investigators for years: did he kill for money, or was money just the excuse?

In this episode, we trace the documented timeline of Alex Maquera's homicides across 2004 and beyond. We examine the collision between his own confession-that he killed for theft and addiction-and the evidence that defies that logic: his murder of his own sister Priscila, her husband Rafael, and their four children in a single night, hours after the money was already secured. We explore the psychiatric profiles, the family history of violence, and the system failures that allowed the crimes to escalate and continue even after his arrest and imprisonment.

Victim: Fidel Mina Mamani (and seven others)
Date: December 20, 2004
Location: Tacna and Lima, Peru
Status: Convicted; serving sentence

- Police found the body of Fidel Mina Mamani with forty blows from a hammer, along with signs of strangulation and a slit throat.
- Maquera confessed calmly to seven additional homicides without apparent pressure, including the murder of his own sister Priscila, her husband, and four children buried in their backyard.
- Excavations of Priscila's home revealed six bodies wrapped in blankets, decomposed, with skulls fractured by repeated blunt-force trauma, matching Maquera's detailed confession.
- Fifteen years later in 2019, Maquera killed two more people inside Pocoyai prison using the same hammer and a knife, including Carmen Olmedo Moreno, who was sixteen weeks pregnant.

Alex Maquera, Tacna, Lima, Peru, December 2004, serial killer, psychopathy, hammer murders, family homicide, investigation, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A domestic freezer. Two bodies stacked. Almost three years living under the same roof while the mother continued to collect welfare for children who were already dead. The discovery was not the result of a police investigation: it was accidental, during an eviction for unpaid rent in March 2015.

In this episode, we explore how a mother justified multiple homicides by claiming child abuse, while her own daughter testifies that the accusation was fabricated under death threats. We unravel the forensic investigation, the failures of the protection system that visited the house in 2002 and 2005 without intervening, and how Blair continued to collect $771 monthly in child support for children who were already frozen.

Victim: Steven Gage Berry (9 years old, August 2012) and Stony Blair (13 years old, May 2013)
Date: March 24, 2015
Location: Detroit, Michigan
Status: Life imprisonment without parole (June 2015)

- Steven Gage Berry was tortured approximately two weeks before being murdered; his body showed thermal injuries documented by late thawing.
- Blair mumbled "I'm sorry" at the arrest but later stated without remorse that she would kill again, describing her children as "demons."
- The surviving sister Gabi testified that Matthew repeatedly denied abuse, only "confirming" it after coercive interrogation with physical threats from the mother.
- As of March 2017, Blair accumulated 28 prison warnings for violent assaults, including throwing urine and feces at officials.

Michelle Blair, Detroit Michigan, child murder, freezer, homicide, 2015, mystery, investigation, forensic, true crime, criminal minds, failed justice, true crime Spanish

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545128Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe demons in the freezer of Detroit: The case of Michelle Blair A domestic freezer. Two bodies stacked. Almost three years living under the same roof while the mother continued to collect welfare for children who were already dead. The...
A domestic freezer. Two bodies stacked. Almost three years living under the same roof while the mother continued to collect welfare for children who were already dead. The discovery was not the result of a police investigation: it was accidental, during an eviction for unpaid rent in March 2015.

In this episode, we explore how a mother justified multiple homicides by claiming child abuse, while her own daughter testifies that the accusation was fabricated under death threats. We unravel the forensic investigation, the failures of the protection system that visited the house in 2002 and 2005 without intervening, and how Blair continued to collect $771 monthly in child support for children who were already frozen.

Victim: Steven Gage Berry (9 years old, August 2012) and Stony Blair (13 years old, May 2013)
Date: March 24, 2015
Location: Detroit, Michigan
Status: Life imprisonment without parole (June 2015)

- Steven Gage Berry was tortured approximately two weeks before being murdered; his body showed thermal injuries documented by late thawing.
- Blair mumbled "I'm sorry" at the arrest but later stated without remorse that she would kill again, describing her children as "demons."
- The surviving sister Gabi testified that Matthew repeatedly denied abuse, only "confirming" it after coercive interrogation with physical threats from the mother.
- As of March 2017, Blair accumulated 28 prison warnings for violent assaults, including throwing urine and feces at officials.

Michelle Blair, Detroit Michigan, child murder, freezer, homicide, 2015, mystery, investigation, forensic, true crime, criminal minds, failed justice, true crime Spanish

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>1344falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-gardener-who-confessed-to-being-new-york-s-worst-killer--71544813
A routine traffic stop on the Southern State Parkway at three in the morning turns into one of New York's darkest discoveries. Officers pull over a pickup truck without rear license plates, but what they find in the back shatters the quiet facade of a suburban gardener living a double life for four years.

In this episode, we explore the shocking contradiction between Rifkin's ordinary appearance-a dyslexic gardener mowing lawns in East Meadow-and the systematic homicide investigation that connects seventeen separate murders across New York. How did a man with no violent criminal history escalate to serial killing? What role did his father's suicide play in unleashing violence he had fantasized about since age twelve?

Victim: Tiffany Bresiani and 16 others
Date: June 28, 1993
Location: Southern State Parkway, Long Island, New York
Status: Convicted

- Rifkin told arresting officers "I am the worst serial killer in the history of New York" before they even asked questions
- His first victim, Heidi Balch, murdered in 1989 in the basement, was not identified until 24 years later through forensic reconstruction
- Seventeen separate murder investigations across four years remained unconnected because Rifkin varied his methods-no single police unit saw the pattern
- He possessed a photographic memory and kept trophies from each victim in his bedroom while living with his mother

Joel Rifkin, East Meadow Long Island serial killer 1989-1993, dyslexia psychology criminal behavior, murder investigation forensic evidence homicide New York unsolved mysteries true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544813Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaPolice Stop a Pickup Truck at Three AM and Discover Seventeen Bodies: The Serial Murders of Joel Rifkin A routine traffic stop on the Southern State Parkway at three in the morning turns into one of New York's darkest discoveries. Officers pull...
A routine traffic stop on the Southern State Parkway at three in the morning turns into one of New York's darkest discoveries. Officers pull over a pickup truck without rear license plates, but what they find in the back shatters the quiet facade of a suburban gardener living a double life for four years.

In this episode, we explore the shocking contradiction between Rifkin's ordinary appearance-a dyslexic gardener mowing lawns in East Meadow-and the systematic homicide investigation that connects seventeen separate murders across New York. How did a man with no violent criminal history escalate to serial killing? What role did his father's suicide play in unleashing violence he had fantasized about since age twelve?

Victim: Tiffany Bresiani and 16 others
Date: June 28, 1993
Location: Southern State Parkway, Long Island, New York
Status: Convicted

- Rifkin told arresting officers "I am the worst serial killer in the history of New York" before they even asked questions
- His first victim, Heidi Balch, murdered in 1989 in the basement, was not identified until 24 years later through forensic reconstruction
- Seventeen separate murder investigations across four years remained unconnected because Rifkin varied his methods-no single police unit saw the pattern
- He possessed a photographic memory and kept trophies from each victim in his bedroom while living with his mother

Joel Rifkin, East Meadow Long Island serial killer 1989-1993, dyslexia psychology criminal behavior, murder investigation forensic evidence homicide New York unsolved mysteries true crime English

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A call in the early morning asking for help. Minutes later, Sharon lies dead on the road. Her partner blames a phantom car. But her two-year-old son whispers the truth no one expected to hear: "my dad pushed my mom."

In this episode, we explore the collision between two irreconcilable versions: the defense of "traffic accident" against an autopsy that reveals blows prior to impact, messages of economic extortion, and the involuntary testimony of a child who witnessed everything. How did one court convict for negligent homicide while another reclassified the crime as femicide with the same evidence?

Victim: Rosario Bermeo Cisneros (Sharon La Hechicera)
Date: January 3-4, 2015
Location: Highway km 2.5 via San Pablo, Santa Elena, Ecuador
Status: Sentenced to 26 years in prison (confirmed January 2016)

- Her partner stated "hit-and-run car"; forensic evidence proved that Sharon was pushed from the vehicle, not run over.
- The first court sentenced 2 years for negligent homicide; subsequent judges reclassified it to femicide with prior evidence.
- Brian, two years old, spontaneously recounted the push while his mother was dying meters away.
- Text messages proved systematic economic extortion: "pay me for every year together if you want to separate."

Sharon La Hechicera, Rosario Bermeo, technocumbia, femicide Ecuador 2015, forensic investigation, criminal minds, homicide, justice, suspense, true crime, true crime Spanish

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A call in the early morning asking for help. Minutes later, Sharon lies dead on the road. Her partner blames a phantom car. But her two-year-old son whispers the truth no one expected to hear: "my dad pushed my mom."

In this episode, we explore the collision between two irreconcilable versions: the defense of "traffic accident" against an autopsy that reveals blows prior to impact, messages of economic extortion, and the involuntary testimony of a child who witnessed everything. How did one court convict for negligent homicide while another reclassified the crime as femicide with the same evidence?

Victim: Rosario Bermeo Cisneros (Sharon La Hechicera)
Date: January 3-4, 2015
Location: Highway km 2.5 via San Pablo, Santa Elena, Ecuador
Status: Sentenced to 26 years in prison (confirmed January 2016)

- Her partner stated "hit-and-run car"; forensic evidence proved that Sharon was pushed from the vehicle, not run over.
- The first court sentenced 2 years for negligent homicide; subsequent judges reclassified it to femicide with prior evidence.
- Brian, two years old, spontaneously recounted the push while his mother was dying meters away.
- Text messages proved systematic economic extortion: "pay me for every year together if you want to separate."

Sharon La Hechicera, Rosario Bermeo, technocumbia, femicide Ecuador 2015, forensic investigation, criminal minds, homicide, justice, suspense, true crime, true crime Spanish

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January 1981, early morning. A man dials 911 sobbing, confessing to an attack he just committed. Minutes later, police find a young woman barely alive near railroad tracks. But the caller vanishes into the city, and the emergency recordings become the only evidence he exists.

In this investigation, we explore the impossible contradiction at the heart of this case: a man who called police to confess his crimes in real time, who promised to stop and to kill himself, yet continued attacking for over four years. How could the same voice on multiple 911 recordings be dismissed in court? Why did an innocent man's suicide in prison give the true killer six more months of freedom?

Victim: Karen Potak, Kimberly Compton, Bárbara Simmons, Denise Williams
Date: January 1981 - August 1982
Location: Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota
Status: Paul Stefan convicted of murder; cases legally incomplete

- Killer called 911 at 3 a.m. on January 1, 1981, minutes before police found his first victim with a fractured skull and stab wounds to the neck
- Before any media reported details, he called again and mentioned the ice pick used on victim Kimberly Compton, a fact only the killer could know
- Kimberly Compton received 61 stab wounds; the brutality was so extreme investigators recognized it as something beyond functional attack
- Stefan's ex-wife and sister independently identified his voice on the 911 tapes in court, but the judge excluded the recordings as evidence due to technical standards

Paul Stefan, Saint Paul Minnesota murders ice pick 1981 serial killer emergency calls voice identification forensic investigation true crime English

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January 1981, early morning. A man dials 911 sobbing, confessing to an attack he just committed. Minutes later, police find a young woman barely alive near railroad tracks. But the caller vanishes into the city, and the emergency recordings become the only evidence he exists.

In this investigation, we explore the impossible contradiction at the heart of this case: a man who called police to confess his crimes in real time, who promised to stop and to kill himself, yet continued attacking for over four years. How could the same voice on multiple 911 recordings be dismissed in court? Why did an innocent man's suicide in prison give the true killer six more months of freedom?

Victim: Karen Potak, Kimberly Compton, Bárbara Simmons, Denise Williams
Date: January 1981 - August 1982
Location: Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota
Status: Paul Stefan convicted of murder; cases legally incomplete

- Killer called 911 at 3 a.m. on January 1, 1981, minutes before police found his first victim with a fractured skull and stab wounds to the neck
- Before any media reported details, he called again and mentioned the ice pick used on victim Kimberly Compton, a fact only the killer could know
- Kimberly Compton received 61 stab wounds; the brutality was so extreme investigators recognized it as something beyond functional attack
- Stefan's ex-wife and sister independently identified his voice on the 911 tapes in court, but the judge excluded the recordings as evidence due to technical standards

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A man appears on national television pleading for the return of his missing wife. Five days later, burned and dismembered remains are found just meters from his home. How did the perpetrator become the public face of the search?

In this episode, we explore the obsessive control that Diego exerted over Brenda, the gestural contradictions that a specialist detected in his television interview, and how two teenagers who were birdwatching witnessed the moment he burned the body. A chain of the Virgin of Guadalupe found alongside the charred remains sealed his fate.

Victim: Brenda Requena Montaña
Date: July 11, 2019
Location: San Juan, Argentina
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment (June 2021)

- Diego was preventively detained on July 14, three days before the body was found, thanks to Guajardo's testimony that contradicted his public narrative.
- Brenda's mother recognized a chain of the Virgin of Guadalupe alongside the charred remains; DNA confirmed the identity definitively.
- The analysis of body language revealed micro-expressions of denial while Diego was pleading on television for the return of his wife on screen.
- Two minors aged 14 and 17 declared that they saw Diego incinerating a body in El Bicum and received money to keep silent.

Brenda Requena Montaña, San Juan Argentina femicide 2019, murder, strangulation, investigation, forensic, gender violence, homicide, criminal minds, autopsy, true crime Spanish

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A man appears on national television pleading for the return of his missing wife. Five days later, burned and dismembered remains are found just meters from his home. How did the perpetrator become the public face of the search?

In this episode, we explore the obsessive control that Diego exerted over Brenda, the gestural contradictions that a specialist detected in his television interview, and how two teenagers who were birdwatching witnessed the moment he burned the body. A chain of the Virgin of Guadalupe found alongside the charred remains sealed his fate.

Victim: Brenda Requena Montaña
Date: July 11, 2019
Location: San Juan, Argentina
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment (June 2021)

- Diego was preventively detained on July 14, three days before the body was found, thanks to Guajardo's testimony that contradicted his public narrative.
- Brenda's mother recognized a chain of the Virgin of Guadalupe alongside the charred remains; DNA confirmed the identity definitively.
- The analysis of body language revealed micro-expressions of denial while Diego was pleading on television for the return of his wife on screen.
- Two minors aged 14 and 17 declared that they saw Diego incinerating a body in El Bicum and received money to keep silent.

Brenda Requena Montaña, San Juan Argentina femicide 2019, murder, strangulation, investigation, forensic, gender violence, homicide, criminal minds, autopsy, true crime Spanish

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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August 1957, Los Angeles. A nineteen-year-old named Judy Doll climbs into a stranger's car for what she believes is a professional photo shoot. She never returns. What remained hidden for months was that her killer kept a toolbox filled with photographs documenting every moment of his crimes-image after image, victim after victim.

In this episode, we explore the systematic predation of Harvey Glatman, a man of completely ordinary appearance who weaponized the desperation of aspiring models. We examine the contradictory witness descriptions, the rehearsal sessions with women he did not kill, and the devastating gap in information between jurisdictions that allowed a documented sex offender to operate freely in a new city.

Victim: Judy Doll, Shirley Britford, Ruth Mercado
Date: August 1957 - October 1958
Location: Los Angeles, California
Status: Solved; Perpetrator Executed

- Glatman used at least three false identities (Johnny Glenn, George Williams, Frank Johnson) within the same modeling circuit without detection
- A woman named Lorraine Vigil wrestled a gun from him during a fourth attempted abduction and shot him, leading to his arrest
- His home contained a toolbox with sequential photographs of each victim before, during, and after their murders
- He had served five years for kidnapping and sexual assault but arrived in California with no criminal history transmitted between states

Judy Doll, Shirley Britford, Ruth Mercado, Los Angeles 1957, serial killer, homicide investigation, true crime, forensic evidence, criminal predator, missing women, unsolved disappearance solved, true crime English

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August 1957, Los Angeles. A nineteen-year-old named Judy Doll climbs into a stranger's car for what she believes is a professional photo shoot. She never returns. What remained hidden for months was that her killer kept a toolbox filled with photographs documenting every moment of his crimes-image after image, victim after victim.

In this episode, we explore the systematic predation of Harvey Glatman, a man of completely ordinary appearance who weaponized the desperation of aspiring models. We examine the contradictory witness descriptions, the rehearsal sessions with women he did not kill, and the devastating gap in information between jurisdictions that allowed a documented sex offender to operate freely in a new city.

Victim: Judy Doll, Shirley Britford, Ruth Mercado
Date: August 1957 - October 1958
Location: Los Angeles, California
Status: Solved; Perpetrator Executed

- Glatman used at least three false identities (Johnny Glenn, George Williams, Frank Johnson) within the same modeling circuit without detection
- A woman named Lorraine Vigil wrestled a gun from him during a fourth attempted abduction and shot him, leading to his arrest
- His home contained a toolbox with sequential photographs of each victim before, during, and after their murders
- He had served five years for kidnapping and sexual assault but arrived in California with no criminal history transmitted between states

Judy Doll, Shirley Britford, Ruth Mercado, Los Angeles 1957, serial killer, homicide investigation, true crime, forensic evidence, criminal predator, missing women, unsolved disappearance solved, true crime English

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A young teacher went to confess on Holy Saturday in McAllen, Texas, and never came out alive from the Sacred Heart church. Her body floated in an irrigation canal days later, but the priest who heard her confession took more than half a century to be convicted - although his guilt was an open secret from the first month.

In this episode, we explore how the ecclesiastical institution concealed a murder for decades: the handwritten note that contradicted everything, the inexplicable scratches on the priest's hands, the polygraph that was tampered with, and the pact between the church and the prosecution to exile the killer instead of prosecuting him. A monk from Oklahoma and a lawyer who kept silent for 42 years finally revealed the truth that no one wanted to see.

Victim: Irene Garza
Date: April 16, 1960
Location: McAllen, Texas
Status: Resolved (2017)

- The green slide viewer found at the bottom of the canal was recognized by Fight in his own handwritten note as evidence of his presence at the scene.
- Irene's clothing was unbuttoned with her underwear missing, indicating sexual assault in a closed location - the soundproof rectory described by monk Tessen.
- The scratches on Fight's forearms were photographed by detectives the night of the crime, located on the outer side inconsistent with climbing a fence.
- The district attorney informally admitted to lawyer Davis that both he and the church knew of Fight's guilt and had agreed to send him to a monastery in Missouri before any formal charges.

Irene Garza, McAllen Texas, 1960, murder, priest, church, killer, investigation, crime without justice, institutional corruption, mystery solved, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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A young teacher went to confess on Holy Saturday in McAllen, Texas, and never came out alive from the Sacred Heart church. Her body floated in an irrigation canal days later, but the priest who heard her confession took more than half a century to be convicted - although his guilt was an open secret from the first month.

In this episode, we explore how the ecclesiastical institution concealed a murder for decades: the handwritten note that contradicted everything, the inexplicable scratches on the priest's hands, the polygraph that was tampered with, and the pact between the church and the prosecution to exile the killer instead of prosecuting him. A monk from Oklahoma and a lawyer who kept silent for 42 years finally revealed the truth that no one wanted to see.

Victim: Irene Garza
Date: April 16, 1960
Location: McAllen, Texas
Status: Resolved (2017)

- The green slide viewer found at the bottom of the canal was recognized by Fight in his own handwritten note as evidence of his presence at the scene.
- Irene's clothing was unbuttoned with her underwear missing, indicating sexual assault in a closed location - the soundproof rectory described by monk Tessen.
- The scratches on Fight's forearms were photographed by detectives the night of the crime, located on the outer side inconsistent with climbing a fence.
- The district attorney informally admitted to lawyer Davis that both he and the church knew of Fight's guilt and had agreed to send him to a monastery in Missouri before any formal charges.

Irene Garza, McAllen Texas, 1960, murder, priest, church, killer, investigation, crime without justice, institutional corruption, mystery solved, true crime Spanish

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Seven thirty-five in the morning. A seventeen-year-old pulls a stolen .22-caliber pistol from his backpack in a crowded high school cafeteria. Ten shots. Three students dead by dawn the next day. But the shooter himself could never explain why.

In this episode, we examine the contradictions that define one of America's most disturbing school shootings: a killer described by classmates as quiet and kind, violent incidents years earlier that went largely unpunished, and a Facebook post two months before the attack declaring death to everyone-yet no one acted. We explore the unanswered trigger, the romantic conflict theory, and the generalized hatred that may have driven the violence.

Victim: Daniel Parmertor, Russell King Jr., Demetrius Hulin
Date: February 27, 2012
Location: Chardon High School, Chardon, Ohio
Status: Convicted, three consecutive life sentences without parole

- TJ Lane had posted images of death on Facebook two months before the shooting, yet no intervention occurred
- The first shots targeted a specific table, suggesting deliberate initial victims, not random violence
- Lane wore a shirt labeled KILLER to his sentencing and made an obscene gesture at victims' families
- He carried a second unused magazine and a knife, indicating extended premeditation over days

Chardon High School shooting, Chardon Ohio 2012, TJ Lane, school shooting investigation, homicide, true crime, unsolved motivation, serial violence, forensic investigation, criminal minds, true crime English

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Seven thirty-five in the morning. A seventeen-year-old pulls a stolen .22-caliber pistol from his backpack in a crowded high school cafeteria. Ten shots. Three students dead by dawn the next day. But the shooter himself could never explain why.

In this episode, we examine the contradictions that define one of America's most disturbing school shootings: a killer described by classmates as quiet and kind, violent incidents years earlier that went largely unpunished, and a Facebook post two months before the attack declaring death to everyone-yet no one acted. We explore the unanswered trigger, the romantic conflict theory, and the generalized hatred that may have driven the violence.

Victim: Daniel Parmertor, Russell King Jr., Demetrius Hulin
Date: February 27, 2012
Location: Chardon High School, Chardon, Ohio
Status: Convicted, three consecutive life sentences without parole

- TJ Lane had posted images of death on Facebook two months before the shooting, yet no intervention occurred
- The first shots targeted a specific table, suggesting deliberate initial victims, not random violence
- Lane wore a shirt labeled KILLER to his sentencing and made an obscene gesture at victims' families
- He carried a second unused magazine and a knife, indicating extended premeditation over days

Chardon High School shooting, Chardon Ohio 2012, TJ Lane, school shooting investigation, homicide, true crime, unsolved motivation, serial violence, forensic investigation, criminal minds, true crime English

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Leslie Palacio's last transmission was a text message to her sister at 3 a.m. on August 29, 2020: "I have something important to tell you." She never did. Hours later, a neighbor's camera recorded Eric Rangel removing a lifeless body from his home while his father José helped him load it into a truck.

In this episode, we explore how the surveillance cameras at the Long Casino document Leslie and Eric leaving together at 2 a.m., how a prepaid phone activated in Valley of Fire admits to the murder to a friend, and why an unequivocal neighborhood video has not resulted in any arrests three years later. The bloodstains in Eric's room, the burned body found eleven days later, and the pending toxicology raise an impossible question: how does the alleged killer remain at large while his father serves only eight months in prison?

Victim: Leslie Palacio
Date: August 29, 2020
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada and Valley of Fire
Status: Unsolved homicide; fugitive killer

- Neighborhood video shows Eric leaving shirtless and returning with his father José to remove Leslie's lifeless body to the truck.
- Eric's prepaid phone activated in Valley of Fire on the same day of disappearance admits to the murder; geolocation matches exactly with the location of the discovery eleven days later.
- José Rangel claims that Leslie died from an accidental overdose, but the Rangel family fled to Mexico, attempted to cross the border, and his son Eric remains at large.
- Official toxicology still pending on the third anniversary; cause of death classified as "undetermined," preventing a definitive legal classification of the crime.

Leslie Palacio, Las Vegas homicide, Valley of Fire 2020, murder, investigation, mystery, forensic, impunity, fugitive, Rangel family, true crime Spanish

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Leslie Palacio's last transmission was a text message to her sister at 3 a.m. on August 29, 2020: "I have something important to tell you." She never did. Hours later, a neighbor's camera recorded Eric Rangel removing a lifeless body from his home while his father José helped him load it into a truck.

In this episode, we explore how the surveillance cameras at the Long Casino document Leslie and Eric leaving together at 2 a.m., how a prepaid phone activated in Valley of Fire admits to the murder to a friend, and why an unequivocal neighborhood video has not resulted in any arrests three years later. The bloodstains in Eric's room, the burned body found eleven days later, and the pending toxicology raise an impossible question: how does the alleged killer remain at large while his father serves only eight months in prison?

Victim: Leslie Palacio
Date: August 29, 2020
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada and Valley of Fire
Status: Unsolved homicide; fugitive killer

- Neighborhood video shows Eric leaving shirtless and returning with his father José to remove Leslie's lifeless body to the truck.
- Eric's prepaid phone activated in Valley of Fire on the same day of disappearance admits to the murder; geolocation matches exactly with the location of the discovery eleven days later.
- José Rangel claims that Leslie died from an accidental overdose, but the Rangel family fled to Mexico, attempted to cross the border, and his son Eric remains at large.
- Official toxicology still pending on the third anniversary; cause of death classified as "undetermined," preventing a definitive legal classification of the crime.

Leslie Palacio, Las Vegas homicide, Valley of Fire 2020, murder, investigation, mystery, forensic, impunity, fugitive, Rangel family, true crime Spanish

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December 20, 1968: two teenagers shot dead on a rural road near Lake Herman, California. Seven months later, the killer calls the police station from a payphone fifty meters away, claiming both murders. He wasn't hiding-he was hunting for attention, sending cryptograms to newspapers and promising to reveal his identity.

In this episode, we explore the documented attacks across Northern California, the cryptographic messages the FBI could not break, and the piece of the victim's bloody shirt mailed as proof of authorship. We examine the survivor's testimony that contradicted every assumption about the killer's identity, the boot prints that matched over a million pairs, and the police radio error that allowed the suspect to walk past officers just blocks from his final confirmed victim. Why did someone with this level of planning and ideology vanish completely, leaving behind fifty years of unsolved tips?

Victim: Betty Lou Jensen, David Arthur Faraday, Darlene Ferrin, Michael Mageau, Bryan Hartnell, Cecilia Shepard, Paul Lee Stine
Date: December 20, 1968 - October 11, 1969
Location: Lake Herman, Blue Rock Springs, Lake Berryessa, San Francisco, California
Status: Unsolved

- Nine .22 caliber shell casings recovered at Lake Herman, Winchester ammunition manufactured after October 1967, with no distinctive rifling marks to identify the weapon.
- Michael Mageau survived the Blue Rock Springs attack and testified that Darlene Ferrin appeared to know her attacker and tried to calm him before he opened fire.
- The Zodiac's three-part cryptogram, which promised to reveal his name, was solved in less than twenty hours by a couple with no cryptanalysis training while the FBI and NSA remained stuck.
- Officers Donald Fouke and Eric Zelms intercepted a man matching the witnesses' description in Presidio Heights minutes after Paul Stine's murder, but the radio operator had broadcast an incorrect race description, so they let him walk past them.

Zodiac Killer, Betty Lou Jensen, David Faraday, Darlene Ferrin, Lake Herman, Blue Rock Springs, Paul Stine, Northern California 1968, unsolved homicide, cryptogram, serial killer, investigation, forensic evidence, true crime English

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December 20, 1968: two teenagers shot dead on a rural road near Lake Herman, California. Seven months later, the killer calls the police station from a payphone fifty meters away, claiming both murders. He wasn't hiding-he was hunting for attention, sending cryptograms to newspapers and promising to reveal his identity.

In this episode, we explore the documented attacks across Northern California, the cryptographic messages the FBI could not break, and the piece of the victim's bloody shirt mailed as proof of authorship. We examine the survivor's testimony that contradicted every assumption about the killer's identity, the boot prints that matched over a million pairs, and the police radio error that allowed the suspect to walk past officers just blocks from his final confirmed victim. Why did someone with this level of planning and ideology vanish completely, leaving behind fifty years of unsolved tips?

Victim: Betty Lou Jensen, David Arthur Faraday, Darlene Ferrin, Michael Mageau, Bryan Hartnell, Cecilia Shepard, Paul Lee Stine
Date: December 20, 1968 - October 11, 1969
Location: Lake Herman, Blue Rock Springs, Lake Berryessa, San Francisco, California
Status: Unsolved

- Nine .22 caliber shell casings recovered at Lake Herman, Winchester ammunition manufactured after October 1967, with no distinctive rifling marks to identify the weapon.
- Michael Mageau survived the Blue Rock Springs attack and testified that Darlene Ferrin appeared to know her attacker and tried to calm him before he opened fire.
- The Zodiac's three-part cryptogram, which promised to reveal his name, was solved in less than twenty hours by a couple with no cryptanalysis training while the FBI and NSA remained stuck.
- Officers Donald Fouke and Eric Zelms intercepted a man matching the witnesses' description in Presidio Heights minutes after Paul Stine's murder, but the radio operator had broadcast an incorrect race description, so they let him walk past them.

Zodiac Killer, Betty Lou Jensen, David Faraday, Darlene Ferrin, Lake Herman, Blue Rock Springs, Paul Stine, Northern California 1968, unsolved homicide, cryptogram, serial killer, investigation, forensic evidence, true crime English

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime...]]>1385falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mario-biondo-case-the-death-that-was-closed-as-a-suicide-and-reopened-as-a-possible-homicide--71545119
May 30, 2013, apartment on Magdalena Street, Madrid. A domestic worker opens the door and finds the Sicilian cameraman hanging from a shelf with a scarf around his neck. The police close the case within hours: suicide. But ten years later, an Italian judge will say something very different.

In this episode, we explore the three contradictory autopsies that reveal an impossible detail: a clot in the skull suggesting dragging after death, two unknown phones connected to the wifi that night, and data erased from the laptop after Mario was already dead. Raquel Sánchez Silva, his wife, admits to drug use in 2013 but denies it in 2014. How does an engineer cousin disappear from the attendance record at the anatomical institute?

Victim: Mario Biondo
Date: May 30, 2013
Location: Madrid, Spain
Status: Closed case with no charges; homicide confirmed by Italian judge 2022

- Loose knot under the larynx, incompatible with voluntary self-placement according to Italian experts
- Feet resting on the ground in partial suspension, biomechanical contradiction with accidental erotic play
- Skull and stomach omitted in the first autopsy, serious breach of forensic protocol
- Laptop password changed at 02:41 on May 31, six hours after the estimated time of death

Mario Biondo, Madrid 2013, murder, investigation, forensic, mystery, hitman, justice, homicide, autopsies, corruption, Spanish true crime

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May 30, 2013, apartment on Magdalena Street, Madrid. A domestic worker opens the door and finds the Sicilian cameraman hanging from a shelf with a scarf around his neck. The police close the case within hours: suicide. But ten years later, an Italian judge will say something very different.

In this episode, we explore the three contradictory autopsies that reveal an impossible detail: a clot in the skull suggesting dragging after death, two unknown phones connected to the wifi that night, and data erased from the laptop after Mario was already dead. Raquel Sánchez Silva, his wife, admits to drug use in 2013 but denies it in 2014. How does an engineer cousin disappear from the attendance record at the anatomical institute?

Victim: Mario Biondo
Date: May 30, 2013
Location: Madrid, Spain
Status: Closed case with no charges; homicide confirmed by Italian judge 2022

- Loose knot under the larynx, incompatible with voluntary self-placement according to Italian experts
- Feet resting on the ground in partial suspension, biomechanical contradiction with accidental erotic play
- Skull and stomach omitted in the first autopsy, serious breach of forensic protocol
- Laptop password changed at 02:41 on May 31, six hours after the estimated time of death

Mario Biondo, Madrid 2013, murder, investigation, forensic, mystery, hitman, justice, homicide, autopsies, corruption, Spanish true crime

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A ten-year-old girl arrives home from school on August 23rd, 2016, and never leaves the apartment alive. Hours later, firefighters discover her body submerged and burning in a bathtub in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Three adults lived in that apartment. None were convicted of killing her.

In this episode, we reconstruct the fractured timeline of Victoria Martens' final hours through conflicting confessions, forensic contradictions, and a DNA sample that belongs to someone no one can identify. The medical examiner's autopsy reveals manual strangulation and stabbing-yet the confession describes an overdose. Geolocation data places two suspects outside the apartment during the exact window of death. A third admits to severe intoxication. And a neighbor witnesses someone descending the stairs with a body wrapped in a sheet before any emergency call was made.

Victim: Victoria Martens, age 10
Date: August 23-24, 2016
Location: Arroyo Villas apartment complex, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Status: Three convicted; killer unconfirmed

- Autopsy found no drugs or alcohol in Victoria's body, contradicting the mother's confession that she died from an overdose.
- Geolocation data places the two adult suspects outside the apartment during the exact 30-minute window when the medical examiner determined death occurred.
- An unidentified male DNA sample was found on Victoria's back that does not match any of the three convicted individuals or emergency responders present at the scene.
- A neighbor witnessed Jessica Kelly descending the apartment stairs carrying a girl wrapped in a sheet before emergency services received any call for help.

Victoria Martens, Albuquerque New Mexico, 2016, homicide, unsolved mysteries, forensic science, manual strangulation, child death, criminal minds, investigation, true crime English

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A ten-year-old girl arrives home from school on August 23rd, 2016, and never leaves the apartment alive. Hours later, firefighters discover her body submerged and burning in a bathtub in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Three adults lived in that apartment. None were convicted of killing her.

In this episode, we reconstruct the fractured timeline of Victoria Martens' final hours through conflicting confessions, forensic contradictions, and a DNA sample that belongs to someone no one can identify. The medical examiner's autopsy reveals manual strangulation and stabbing-yet the confession describes an overdose. Geolocation data places two suspects outside the apartment during the exact window of death. A third admits to severe intoxication. And a neighbor witnesses someone descending the stairs with a body wrapped in a sheet before any emergency call was made.

Victim: Victoria Martens, age 10
Date: August 23-24, 2016
Location: Arroyo Villas apartment complex, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Status: Three convicted; killer unconfirmed

- Autopsy found no drugs or alcohol in Victoria's body, contradicting the mother's confession that she died from an overdose.
- Geolocation data places the two adult suspects outside the apartment during the exact 30-minute window when the medical examiner determined death occurred.
- An unidentified male DNA sample was found on Victoria's back that does not match any of the three convicted individuals or emergency responders present at the scene.
- A neighbor witnessed Jessica Kelly descending the apartment stairs carrying a girl wrapped in a sheet before emergency services received any call for help.

Victoria Martens, Albuquerque New Mexico, 2016, homicide, unsolved mysteries, forensic science, manual strangulation, child death, criminal minds, investigation, true crime English

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On the night of December 23, 2019, Kevin Bacon went on a Grindr date and disappeared. When the police arrived at the suspect's home, he opened the door without resistance, knowing that Kevin's body was hanging from the basement ceiling. How did a man with a history of prior complaints manage to stay free long enough to commit a documented murder?

In this episode, we explore how multiple failures of the police and judicial system allowed Mark Lonski to operate without consequences. We analyze the manipulative conversation on Grindr where Kevin asked, "Are you going to keep me safe?", the purchase of the knife hours before the meeting, and the deliberate plan of body dehydration. The central question remains: institutional negligence or a systematic predator that the state itself did not see coming?

Victim: Kevin Bacon
Date: December 23, 2019
Location: Michigan, United States
Status: Life sentence without parole

- Kevin asked in a message, "Are you going to keep me safe?" before descending into the basement where he was tied up and stabbed.
- Lonski bought the knife at Walmart hours before the meeting and confessed to the crime via text photo to a friend in the early morning of December 24.
- Multiple victims escaped from Lonski's basement years earlier; the complaints did not progress because the victims admitted to voluntary entry.
- Lonski was declared mentally incompetent in 2014 for a kidnapping case, then released and never properly monitored.

Kevin Bacon, Michigan 2019, murder, true crime, investigation, criminal minds, predator, justice system, forensic, real crime, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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On the night of December 23, 2019, Kevin Bacon went on a Grindr date and disappeared. When the police arrived at the suspect's home, he opened the door without resistance, knowing that Kevin's body was hanging from the basement ceiling. How did a man with a history of prior complaints manage to stay free long enough to commit a documented murder?

In this episode, we explore how multiple failures of the police and judicial system allowed Mark Lonski to operate without consequences. We analyze the manipulative conversation on Grindr where Kevin asked, "Are you going to keep me safe?", the purchase of the knife hours before the meeting, and the deliberate plan of body dehydration. The central question remains: institutional negligence or a systematic predator that the state itself did not see coming?

Victim: Kevin Bacon
Date: December 23, 2019
Location: Michigan, United States
Status: Life sentence without parole

- Kevin asked in a message, "Are you going to keep me safe?" before descending into the basement where he was tied up and stabbed.
- Lonski bought the knife at Walmart hours before the meeting and confessed to the crime via text photo to a friend in the early morning of December 24.
- Multiple victims escaped from Lonski's basement years earlier; the complaints did not progress because the victims admitted to voluntary entry.
- Lonski was declared mentally incompetent in 2014 for a kidnapping case, then released and never properly monitored.

Kevin Bacon, Michigan 2019, murder, true crime, investigation, criminal minds, predator, justice system, forensic, real crime, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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At 1:45 in the morning on March 3, 2022, a shopping cart abandoned at the intersection of Pennsylvania and Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn contained a mutilated female torso. The discovery would unravel a case of homicide and dismemberment that exposed a system's fatal miscalculation about an eighty-one-year-old man released from prison.

This episode explores the final days of Susan Leiden, the evidence that connected her disappearance to her neighbor Harvey Marcelin, and the pattern of dismemberment that repeated itself across four decades. How did a convicted killer released on parole strike again, and why did authorities miss the warning signs hidden in plain sight?

Victim: Susan Leiden
Date: February 27 - March 3, 2022
Location: East New York, Brooklyn, New York
Status: Convicted

- Security cameras captured Susan Leiden entering the building on February 27 at 11:40 AM; she was never seen alive again.
- On March 1, Marcelin purchased a chainsaw, garbage bags, and cleaning supplies at Home Depot one day before remains were scattered.
- Footage from March 2 shows Marcelin on an electric scooter transporting an amputated leg in broad daylight through Brooklyn streets.
- The 2022 dismemberment pattern matched identically the 1985 murder of Ana Laura Serrera Miranda, committed while Marcelin was on parole for his first homicide.

Susan Leiden, Brooklyn, East New York, Pennsylvania Avenue, March 2022, Harvey Marcelin, dismemberment, homicide investigation, serial killers, forensic evidence, parole system failure, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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At 1:45 in the morning on March 3, 2022, a shopping cart abandoned at the intersection of Pennsylvania and Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn contained a mutilated female torso. The discovery would unravel a case of homicide and dismemberment that exposed a system's fatal miscalculation about an eighty-one-year-old man released from prison.

This episode explores the final days of Susan Leiden, the evidence that connected her disappearance to her neighbor Harvey Marcelin, and the pattern of dismemberment that repeated itself across four decades. How did a convicted killer released on parole strike again, and why did authorities miss the warning signs hidden in plain sight?

Victim: Susan Leiden
Date: February 27 - March 3, 2022
Location: East New York, Brooklyn, New York
Status: Convicted

- Security cameras captured Susan Leiden entering the building on February 27 at 11:40 AM; she was never seen alive again.
- On March 1, Marcelin purchased a chainsaw, garbage bags, and cleaning supplies at Home Depot one day before remains were scattered.
- Footage from March 2 shows Marcelin on an electric scooter transporting an amputated leg in broad daylight through Brooklyn streets.
- The 2022 dismemberment pattern matched identically the 1985 murder of Ana Laura Serrera Miranda, committed while Marcelin was on parole for his first homicide.

Susan Leiden, Brooklyn, East New York, Pennsylvania Avenue, March 2022, Harvey Marcelin, dismemberment, homicide investigation, serial killers, forensic evidence, parole system failure, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A hiker discovers a human jawbone in a rural valley, and within weeks, a double homicide shakes a quiet Washington town. The man arrested had a documented history-a prison file from 1989 explicitly predicting he would become a threat to the community. No one acted on it. The investigation uncovers something far worse: the same suspect had participated in the organized searches for a missing nine-year-old girl, appearing affected and helpful, all while returning to her burial site at night.

In this episode, we trace how Jack Spilman operated for months under institutional radar, balancing a functional facade with methodical predation. The evidence includes a verification phone call made from a gas station before the attack, a knife buried in a nearby dumpster, and a balaclava containing the blood of both victims-the highest concentration at the mouth opening. Psychiatric evaluations ruled out psychosis: Spilman knew exactly what he was doing and chose to do it anyway. What separates calculated evil from impulse? And how many warnings must exist before a system responds?

Victim: Penny Davis (age 9), Rita Hoffman (age 31), Amanda Hoffman (age 16)
Date: September 17, 1994 - April 13, 1995
Location: Eneas Valley and Wenatchee, Washington
Status: Convicted

- Spilman participated in daytime search efforts for Penny Davis while returning to her burial site at night to commit necrophilia
- A 1989 prison file contained an explicit prediction that he would become a threat to the community, filed and archived without action
- He made a verification call from a gas station to confirm Rita Hoffman was home before entering through an unlocked kitchen door at 11:30 p.m.
- A balaclava discovered in his room contained blood from both murder victims, with forensic evidence suggesting ingestion during the attack

Penny Davis, Rita Hoffman, Amanda Hoffman, Wenatchee Washington murders 1995, serial killer, homicide investigation, forensic evidence, psychopathy, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A hiker discovers a human jawbone in a rural valley, and within weeks, a double homicide shakes a quiet Washington town. The man arrested had a documented history-a prison file from 1989 explicitly predicting he would become a threat to the community. No one acted on it. The investigation uncovers something far worse: the same suspect had participated in the organized searches for a missing nine-year-old girl, appearing affected and helpful, all while returning to her burial site at night.

In this episode, we trace how Jack Spilman operated for months under institutional radar, balancing a functional facade with methodical predation. The evidence includes a verification phone call made from a gas station before the attack, a knife buried in a nearby dumpster, and a balaclava containing the blood of both victims-the highest concentration at the mouth opening. Psychiatric evaluations ruled out psychosis: Spilman knew exactly what he was doing and chose to do it anyway. What separates calculated evil from impulse? And how many warnings must exist before a system responds?

Victim: Penny Davis (age 9), Rita Hoffman (age 31), Amanda Hoffman (age 16)
Date: September 17, 1994 - April 13, 1995
Location: Eneas Valley and Wenatchee, Washington
Status: Convicted

- Spilman participated in daytime search efforts for Penny Davis while returning to her burial site at night to commit necrophilia
- A 1989 prison file contained an explicit prediction that he would become a threat to the community, filed and archived without action
- He made a verification call from a gas station to confirm Rita Hoffman was home before entering through an unlocked kitchen door at 11:30 p.m.
- A balaclava discovered in his room contained blood from both murder victims, with forensic evidence suggesting ingestion during the attack

Penny Davis, Rita Hoffman, Amanda Hoffman, Wenatchee Washington murders 1995, serial killer, homicide investigation, forensic evidence, psychopathy, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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A man wrote down every detail of his plan: the exact address, the dog's name, how to hide fingerprints. Then he threw it in the trash without destroying it. Patrick de la Cerda was shot four times on February 27, 2018, and the crumpled pages of the blue notebook became the most devastating forensic evidence in the investigation.

In this episode, we explore Gregory Vender's documented obsession, the restraining order that was never verified, and how a simple decision not to burn a notebook transformed a premeditated crime into a textbook case of criminal arrogance. How does someone capable of planning every small detail make the most basic mistake?

Victim: Patrick de la Cerda
Date: February 27, 2018
Location: Deltona, Florida
Status: Sentenced to life in prison without parole

- The notebook contained the exact address, sketches of the property, and the victim's dog's name, but it was left in the trash.
- Gregory Vender called Jessica twice on the day of the crime, directly violating the restraining order issued three months earlier.
- The 300 Blackout ammunition used in the four shots matched exactly with that found in the accused's desk drawer.
- Patrick's security system was stolen before the crime, demonstrating that the break-in was precisely planned in advance.

Patrick de la Cerda, Deltona Florida murder, 2018, forensic investigation, restraining order, premeditated crime, detectives, criminal minds, ammunition, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545115Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe Notebook that Condemned the Killer: The Murder of Patrick de la Cerda in Deltona, Florida. A man wrote down every detail of his plan: the exact address, the dog's name, how to hide fingerprints. Then he threw it in the trash without...
A man wrote down every detail of his plan: the exact address, the dog's name, how to hide fingerprints. Then he threw it in the trash without destroying it. Patrick de la Cerda was shot four times on February 27, 2018, and the crumpled pages of the blue notebook became the most devastating forensic evidence in the investigation.

In this episode, we explore Gregory Vender's documented obsession, the restraining order that was never verified, and how a simple decision not to burn a notebook transformed a premeditated crime into a textbook case of criminal arrogance. How does someone capable of planning every small detail make the most basic mistake?

Victim: Patrick de la Cerda
Date: February 27, 2018
Location: Deltona, Florida
Status: Sentenced to life in prison without parole

- The notebook contained the exact address, sketches of the property, and the victim's dog's name, but it was left in the trash.
- Gregory Vender called Jessica twice on the day of the crime, directly violating the restraining order issued three months earlier.
- The 300 Blackout ammunition used in the four shots matched exactly with that found in the accused's desk drawer.
- Patrick's security system was stolen before the crime, demonstrating that the break-in was precisely planned in advance.

Patrick de la Cerda, Deltona Florida murder, 2018, forensic investigation, restraining order, premeditated crime, detectives, criminal minds, ammunition, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A recently arrived Argentine woman in Brazil disappears four days after landing. Her dog stays by her body, covered in blood, on the beach. The impossible: during the court hearing, the animal's reaction against the suspect was presented as identification evidence.

In this episode, we explore how a man sentenced to 15 years for sexual abuse was still at large when he murdered Florencia; how security cameras, defensive scratches, and blood-stained clothing converge in 48 hours; and why a traumatized dog became a key witness in a court of justice.

Victim: Florencia Aranguren, 31 years old, Argentine artist and trapeze artist
Date: December 6, 2023
Location: José Gonçalves Beach, Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Status: Pending jury trial; preventive detention

- Carlos José de França had an active sentence of 15 years (2009) for robbery, assault, and sexual abuse of a minor, but was circulating in a semi-open regime without supervision.
- Cameras capture Florencia entering a curve with dense vegetation; 20 minutes later, De França passes by on a bicycle wearing a cap; no one else is seen in the area.
- Female underwear with blood stains was found in his home during the search; forensic analysis could reveal previous victims.
- De França bathed immediately after the crime, but scratches on his body and defensive wounds on Florencia's hands contradict his denial in court.

Florencia Aranguren, Búzios femicide 2023, forensic investigation, murder Brazil, dog reaction evidence, sexual abuse history, Argentine justice, unsolved crime, feminist poster, autopsy, judicial truth, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A recently arrived Argentine woman in Brazil disappears four days after landing. Her dog stays by her body, covered in blood, on the beach. The impossible: during the court hearing, the animal's reaction against the suspect was presented as identification evidence.

In this episode, we explore how a man sentenced to 15 years for sexual abuse was still at large when he murdered Florencia; how security cameras, defensive scratches, and blood-stained clothing converge in 48 hours; and why a traumatized dog became a key witness in a court of justice.

Victim: Florencia Aranguren, 31 years old, Argentine artist and trapeze artist
Date: December 6, 2023
Location: José Gonçalves Beach, Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Status: Pending jury trial; preventive detention

- Carlos José de França had an active sentence of 15 years (2009) for robbery, assault, and sexual abuse of a minor, but was circulating in a semi-open regime without supervision.
- Cameras capture Florencia entering a curve with dense vegetation; 20 minutes later, De França passes by on a bicycle wearing a cap; no one else is seen in the area.
- Female underwear with blood stains was found in his home during the search; forensic analysis could reveal previous victims.
- De França bathed immediately after the crime, but scratches on his body and defensive wounds on Florencia's hands contradict his denial in court.

Florencia Aranguren, Búzios femicide 2023, forensic investigation, murder Brazil, dog reaction evidence, sexual abuse history, Argentine justice, unsolved crime, feminist poster, autopsy, judicial truth, true crime Spanish

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November 1980. A letter arrives at an Italian newspaper signed "Ludwig" describing three unsolved murders with classified details no one outside the crimes could know. The police read it, note the impossible accuracy, and dismiss it as a hoax. Over the next four years, Ludwig will claim thirteen more victims across four countries-sending physical evidence, technical specifications, and architectural diagrams with each killing.

In this investigation, we uncover how two brilliant university students built their own cosmology of murder while operating completely invisible to authorities who received direct confessions in the mail. We explore the contradiction between perfect forensic correspondence and institutional blindness, the targeting of marginalized victims invisible to investigators, and why it took seven years to connect letters that authenticated every detail of violent acts.

Victim: Wolfgang Abel, Marco Furlán (perpetrators); Multiple victims including Guerino Spinelli, Luciano Stefanato, Claudio Costa, Alice María Pareta, Luca Martinotti, Mario Lovato, Giovanni Batista Pigato, Father Armando Bisón, and victims of the Heros cinema fire
Date: 1977-1984
Location: Verona, Padua, Venice, Vicenza, Trento, Milan, Italy; Amsterdam; Munich
Status: Convicted, escaped, recaptured

- Four Molotov cocktails thrown at a sleeping man's car in 1977, detail confirmed only in a letter the police filed away as a prank
- Hammer and axe murders described with brand names, colors, and weights before forensic analysis could verify them
- A fire at a Milan cinema set using a fuel mechanism so specific the perpetrator's letter matched technical blueprints the police had not released
- Two young men in Nazi costumes caught at a nightclub the same night investigators finally connected the correspondence to the crimes

Wolfgang Abel, Marco Furlán, Guerino Spinelli, Luciano Stefanato, Claudio Costa, serial killers, unsolved murders, Italian true crime, investigation failure, homicide investigation, criminal minds, forensic evidence, true crime English

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November 1980. A letter arrives at an Italian newspaper signed "Ludwig" describing three unsolved murders with classified details no one outside the crimes could know. The police read it, note the impossible accuracy, and dismiss it as a hoax. Over the next four years, Ludwig will claim thirteen more victims across four countries-sending physical evidence, technical specifications, and architectural diagrams with each killing.

In this investigation, we uncover how two brilliant university students built their own cosmology of murder while operating completely invisible to authorities who received direct confessions in the mail. We explore the contradiction between perfect forensic correspondence and institutional blindness, the targeting of marginalized victims invisible to investigators, and why it took seven years to connect letters that authenticated every detail of violent acts.

Victim: Wolfgang Abel, Marco Furlán (perpetrators); Multiple victims including Guerino Spinelli, Luciano Stefanato, Claudio Costa, Alice María Pareta, Luca Martinotti, Mario Lovato, Giovanni Batista Pigato, Father Armando Bisón, and victims of the Heros cinema fire
Date: 1977-1984
Location: Verona, Padua, Venice, Vicenza, Trento, Milan, Italy; Amsterdam; Munich
Status: Convicted, escaped, recaptured

- Four Molotov cocktails thrown at a sleeping man's car in 1977, detail confirmed only in a letter the police filed away as a prank
- Hammer and axe murders described with brand names, colors, and weights before forensic analysis could verify them
- A fire at a Milan cinema set using a fuel mechanism so specific the perpetrator's letter matched technical blueprints the police had not released
- Two young men in Nazi costumes caught at a nightclub the same night investigators finally connected the correspondence to the crimes

Wolfgang Abel, Marco Furlán, Guerino Spinelli, Luciano Stefanato, Claudio Costa, serial killers, unsolved murders, Italian true crime, investigation failure, homicide investigation, criminal minds, forensic evidence, true crime English

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© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and...]]>1288falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/doris-adriana-nino-the-fan-who-died-in-the-orbit-of-a-star-and-was-buried-without-a-name--71545110
In the early morning of May 15, 1997, a man in a yellow sweater throws a body wrapped in a raincoat into a thicket on the outskirts of Bogotá. Three farmers see everything. But when the police arrive, no one asks about the carpet that disappeared from the apartment where it all happened.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that condemned singer Diomedes Díaz: a death that changed causes between autopsies, fluids from three men found on the corpse, and a note with the exact address kept in the pocket of an engineer who loved an idol too much. How did six years in prison turn into three and a half years of freedom?

Victim: Doris Adriana Niño
Date: May 14-15, 1997
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Status: Closed case with reduced sentence

- Mechanical asphyxia confirmed in second autopsy after two years; first autopsy concluded overdose.
- Fluids from three men found on the corpse; post-mortem abuse never formally investigated.
- Carpet from the apartment replaced without authorization from the record label before forensic inspection.
- Diomedes released after 3 years and 7 months of a 6 and a half year sentence; died in 2013 as a popular idol.

Doris Adriana Niño, Bogotá premeditated homicide 1997, murder, mechanical asphyxia, investigation, cover-up, impunity, cartel, criminal minds, Spanish true crime

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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In the early morning of May 15, 1997, a man in a yellow sweater throws a body wrapped in a raincoat into a thicket on the outskirts of Bogotá. Three farmers see everything. But when the police arrive, no one asks about the carpet that disappeared from the apartment where it all happened.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that condemned singer Diomedes Díaz: a death that changed causes between autopsies, fluids from three men found on the corpse, and a note with the exact address kept in the pocket of an engineer who loved an idol too much. How did six years in prison turn into three and a half years of freedom?

Victim: Doris Adriana Niño
Date: May 14-15, 1997
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Status: Closed case with reduced sentence

- Mechanical asphyxia confirmed in second autopsy after two years; first autopsy concluded overdose.
- Fluids from three men found on the corpse; post-mortem abuse never formally investigated.
- Carpet from the apartment replaced without authorization from the record label before forensic inspection.
- Diomedes released after 3 years and 7 months of a 6 and a half year sentence; died in 2013 as a popular idol.

Doris Adriana Niño, Bogotá premeditated homicide 1997, murder, mechanical asphyxia, investigation, cover-up, impunity, cartel, criminal minds, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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September 1996. A man with sixteen documented sexual assault convictions walks free from a Victorian prison. Psychiatric records flag him as high-risk. No one stops him. Thirteen months later, a woman is found dead with injuries Australian forensic science had never documented before.

In this investigation, we examine how Peter Dupas moved through decades of institutional cycles-arrested, convicted, released, reoffended-each time the system processing him without breaking the pattern. We reconstruct the three murders that finally caught him, the forensic signatures that linked them, and the central question: why did a system with complete knowledge of his escalating violence repeatedly set him free?

Victim: Nicole Paterson, Margaret Josephine Mack, Mersina Halvagis
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Date: 1997-1999
Status: Convicted; three life sentences

- A man released in September 1996 with sixteen prior sexual assault convictions and documented psychiatric warnings against release
- A forensic signature so specific-mutilation of breasts and surgical placement-that it appeared in case files as unprecedented in Victorian records
- Investigators discovered he had called Nicole Paterson's phone fifteen times in forty days while denying ever knowing her
- His grandfather's grave was 128 meters from Mersina Halvagis's body, and he rented a hotel directly across from the cemetery where she was found

Peter Dupas, Nicole Paterson, Margaret Josephine Mack, Mersina Halvagis, Melbourne Victoria Australia, 1997, homicide, serial killer, forensic signature, criminal justice system failure, recidivism, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544802Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaSystem Releases Him Thirteen Months Before He Murders Three: The serial murders of Nicole Paterson, Margaret Josephine Mack, and Mersina Halvagis September 1996. A man with sixteen documented sexual assault convictions walks free from a Victorian...
September 1996. A man with sixteen documented sexual assault convictions walks free from a Victorian prison. Psychiatric records flag him as high-risk. No one stops him. Thirteen months later, a woman is found dead with injuries Australian forensic science had never documented before.

In this investigation, we examine how Peter Dupas moved through decades of institutional cycles-arrested, convicted, released, reoffended-each time the system processing him without breaking the pattern. We reconstruct the three murders that finally caught him, the forensic signatures that linked them, and the central question: why did a system with complete knowledge of his escalating violence repeatedly set him free?

Victim: Nicole Paterson, Margaret Josephine Mack, Mersina Halvagis
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Date: 1997-1999
Status: Convicted; three life sentences

- A man released in September 1996 with sixteen prior sexual assault convictions and documented psychiatric warnings against release
- A forensic signature so specific-mutilation of breasts and surgical placement-that it appeared in case files as unprecedented in Victorian records
- Investigators discovered he had called Nicole Paterson's phone fifteen times in forty days while denying ever knowing her
- His grandfather's grave was 128 meters from Mersina Halvagis's body, and he rented a hotel directly across from the cemetery where she was found

Peter Dupas, Nicole Paterson, Margaret Josephine Mack, Mersina Halvagis, Melbourne Victoria Australia, 1997, homicide, serial killer, forensic signature, criminal justice system failure, recidivism, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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On July 31, 2006, a 45-year-old teacher leaves her home for work and disappears without a trace. Blood splatters in a freshly painted apartment, a car filled with fuel, and text messages would be enough to convict two women of murder, but the body would never be found. How do you prove a perfect crime when the victim remains missing?

In this episode, we explore the forensic investigation that faced impossible contradictions: alibis that didn’t add up, injuries on hands that spoke of a struggle, and a fuel record that placed the accused exactly on the route to El Cadillal. Susana Acosta and Nélida Fernández were sentenced to twenty years, but decades later they were granted parole without revealing Beatriz's whereabouts, leaving the most disturbing question of Tucumán justice open.

Victim: Beatriz Argañarás
Date: July 31, 2006
Location: San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina
Status: Disappearance without a body; convicted on parole

- The apartment was painted and fumigated between the first and second searches, but Beatriz's blood remained on the bathroom frame, the wall, and the plumbing.
- Susana and Nélida filled up with gas twice on the day of the crime; the exact amount matched the trip from the apartment to El Cadillal and back.
- Luis Fernández's housekeeper testified that she washed one of his shirts with blood stains on the same July 31.
- Both convicted women married in prison as a pact of silence and obtained parole in 2023 and 2024 without revealing where the body is.

Beatriz Argañarás, Tucumán 2006, murder without a body, mystery, forensic investigation, Argentine justice, enforced disappearance, criminal minds, kidnapping, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545109Sun, 31 May 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaNo body, no forgiveness: the murder that Tucumán could not solve: The disappearance and murder of Beatriz Argañarás On July 31, 2006, a 45-year-old teacher leaves her home for work and disappears without a trace. Blood splatters in a freshly...
On July 31, 2006, a 45-year-old teacher leaves her home for work and disappears without a trace. Blood splatters in a freshly painted apartment, a car filled with fuel, and text messages would be enough to convict two women of murder, but the body would never be found. How do you prove a perfect crime when the victim remains missing?

In this episode, we explore the forensic investigation that faced impossible contradictions: alibis that didn’t add up, injuries on hands that spoke of a struggle, and a fuel record that placed the accused exactly on the route to El Cadillal. Susana Acosta and Nélida Fernández were sentenced to twenty years, but decades later they were granted parole without revealing Beatriz's whereabouts, leaving the most disturbing question of Tucumán justice open.

Victim: Beatriz Argañarás
Date: July 31, 2006
Location: San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina
Status: Disappearance without a body; convicted on parole

- The apartment was painted and fumigated between the first and second searches, but Beatriz's blood remained on the bathroom frame, the wall, and the plumbing.
- Susana and Nélida filled up with gas twice on the day of the crime; the exact amount matched the trip from the apartment to El Cadillal and back.
- Luis Fernández's housekeeper testified that she washed one of his shirts with blood stains on the same July 31.
- Both convicted women married in prison as a pact of silence and obtained parole in 2023 and 2024 without revealing where the body is.

Beatriz Argañarás, Tucumán 2006, murder without a body, mystery, forensic investigation, Argentine justice, enforced disappearance, criminal minds, kidnapping, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Freshly painted walls, the smell of bleach, and in the center of the room, an industrial shredder with remnants of flesh and bone. When investigators opened the basement door in Majadahonda, Madrid, they discovered evidence of two women who had vanished without a trace-one five years prior, the other just days before. The forensic contradiction that would haunt this case for years was just beginning.

In this investigation, we explore the impossible collision between a severely mentally ill man and the calculated precision of his crimes: forged documents prepared years in advance, a phone moved across multiple Spanish cities to construct a false alibi, internet searches for cremation methods, and the methodical construction of an industrial disposal system. How could a patient with paranoid schizophrenia-a man known to neighbors for screaming about demons and rituals with dead animals-orchestrate two murders with the cold calculation of a psychopath?

Victim: Adriana Joiosa and Lidia Hernández
Date: April 2015 (Adriana); circa 2010 (Lidia)
Location: Majadahonda, Madrid province, Spain
Status: Unsolved (bodies never recovered)

- Industrial shredder found in basement contained DNA from both victims mixed together
- Bruno's internet history included searches for "cremation," "meat grinder," and "funeral documentation" before the crimes occurred
- Adriana's phone continued sending messages and traveling across Spanish cities after she disappeared, with Bruno controlling her digital identity
- Bruno submitted forged property transfer documents three years after his aunt vanished, claiming ownership of the building where both victims disappeared

Adriana Joiosa, Lidia Hernández, Majadahonda basement murders, 2015, paranoid schizophrenia, industrial shredder, serial killers, investigation, forensic science, unsolved mysteries, homicide, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Freshly painted walls, the smell of bleach, and in the center of the room, an industrial shredder with remnants of flesh and bone. When investigators opened the basement door in Majadahonda, Madrid, they discovered evidence of two women who had vanished without a trace-one five years prior, the other just days before. The forensic contradiction that would haunt this case for years was just beginning.

In this investigation, we explore the impossible collision between a severely mentally ill man and the calculated precision of his crimes: forged documents prepared years in advance, a phone moved across multiple Spanish cities to construct a false alibi, internet searches for cremation methods, and the methodical construction of an industrial disposal system. How could a patient with paranoid schizophrenia-a man known to neighbors for screaming about demons and rituals with dead animals-orchestrate two murders with the cold calculation of a psychopath?

Victim: Adriana Joiosa and Lidia Hernández
Date: April 2015 (Adriana); circa 2010 (Lidia)
Location: Majadahonda, Madrid province, Spain
Status: Unsolved (bodies never recovered)

- Industrial shredder found in basement contained DNA from both victims mixed together
- Bruno's internet history included searches for "cremation," "meat grinder," and "funeral documentation" before the crimes occurred
- Adriana's phone continued sending messages and traveling across Spanish cities after she disappeared, with Bruno controlling her digital identity
- Bruno submitted forged property transfer documents three years after his aunt vanished, claiming ownership of the building where both victims disappeared

Adriana Joiosa, Lidia Hernández, Majadahonda basement murders, 2015, paranoid schizophrenia, industrial shredder, serial killers, investigation, forensic science, unsolved mysteries, homicide, true crime English

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A 16-year-old teenager falls from the seventh floor in Pergamino, Argentina. Four witnesses declare that he committed suicide. But the autopsy reveals something impossible: he had facial fractures prior to the fall. How does someone commit suicide who was already unconscious? What seemed like a desperate jump was actually a murder covered up by lies under oath.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that dismantled the first version. We analyze the testimony of two neighbors who saw Fabián Núñez holding Iván by the neck at the window, shouting "Jump or I'll throw you!" We reconstruct the 2014 trial where forensic experts, criminalistics, and forensic psychology converged on an inevitable verdict: what was the true motive behind this crime in the early hours of January 6, 2012?

Victim: Iván Ortiguera, 16 years old
Date: January 6, 2012
Location: Pergamino, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment for qualified homicide with premeditation (February 2014)

- Maxillary and nasal septum fractures documented before impact; forensic expertise incompatible with voluntary fall.
- Direct eyewitnesses saw Núñez holding Iván by the neck, with blood on his head and unresponsive, minutes before the fall.
- Núñez publicly admitted in a Clarín interview to having hit Iván and uttered the phrase "jump or I'll throw you," but denied having pushed him.
- Previous formal complaint for death threats against Iván establishes a pattern of violent behavior and a motive of pathological jealousy towards his daughter.

Iván Ortiguera, Pergamino homicide, 2012, murder, forensic investigation, criminal minds, suspense, true crime, justice, premeditation, qualified homicide, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A 16-year-old teenager falls from the seventh floor in Pergamino, Argentina. Four witnesses declare that he committed suicide. But the autopsy reveals something impossible: he had facial fractures prior to the fall. How does someone commit suicide who was already unconscious? What seemed like a desperate jump was actually a murder covered up by lies under oath.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that dismantled the first version. We analyze the testimony of two neighbors who saw Fabián Núñez holding Iván by the neck at the window, shouting "Jump or I'll throw you!" We reconstruct the 2014 trial where forensic experts, criminalistics, and forensic psychology converged on an inevitable verdict: what was the true motive behind this crime in the early hours of January 6, 2012?

Victim: Iván Ortiguera, 16 years old
Date: January 6, 2012
Location: Pergamino, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment for qualified homicide with premeditation (February 2014)

- Maxillary and nasal septum fractures documented before impact; forensic expertise incompatible with voluntary fall.
- Direct eyewitnesses saw Núñez holding Iván by the neck, with blood on his head and unresponsive, minutes before the fall.
- Núñez publicly admitted in a Clarín interview to having hit Iván and uttered the phrase "jump or I'll throw you," but denied having pushed him.
- Previous formal complaint for death threats against Iván establishes a pattern of violent behavior and a motive of pathological jealousy towards his daughter.

Iván Ortiguera, Pergamino homicide, 2012, murder, forensic investigation, criminal minds, suspense, true crime, justice, premeditation, qualified homicide, true crime Spanish

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London, spring 1993. Five men vanish from the same gay bar within twelve weeks. All are found bound, gagged, strangled-scenes so clean they seem unconnected. Then the killer calls the police himself, unprompted, demanding recognition for crimes investigators haven't yet linked. Why would a serial killer volunteer a confession before capture?

Explore how Colin Ireland meticulously studied forensic procedures and gay community codes, executed five murders with surgical precision, then destroyed his own perfect crimes by calling the newspapers. Discover the single fingerprint mistake, the fourth victim's refusal to break under torture, and the psychological profile that reveals a man hunting for fame rather than fleeing justice.

Victim: Peter Walker, Christopher Donn, Perry Bradley III, Andrew Collier, Emmanuel Spiteri
Date: March-June 1993
Location: London, England
Status: Solved

- Colin Ireland planned his first murder on New Year's 1993 with the stated goal of becoming a serial killer before December
- He called The Sun newspaper after killing Peter Walker, not to confess but to warn that the victim's dogs needed rescue
- The killer peered through a window frame to watch emergency responders arrive, leaving the only fingerprint evidence across four crime scenes
- Emmanuel Spiteri refused to reveal his bank PIN under torture, preventing the killer from completing his signature ATM withdrawal

Colin Ireland, London serial killer 1993, Coleherne pub murders, Earl's Court gay community, forensic signature, serial killer psychology, true crime English

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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London, spring 1993. Five men vanish from the same gay bar within twelve weeks. All are found bound, gagged, strangled-scenes so clean they seem unconnected. Then the killer calls the police himself, unprompted, demanding recognition for crimes investigators haven't yet linked. Why would a serial killer volunteer a confession before capture?

Explore how Colin Ireland meticulously studied forensic procedures and gay community codes, executed five murders with surgical precision, then destroyed his own perfect crimes by calling the newspapers. Discover the single fingerprint mistake, the fourth victim's refusal to break under torture, and the psychological profile that reveals a man hunting for fame rather than fleeing justice.

Victim: Peter Walker, Christopher Donn, Perry Bradley III, Andrew Collier, Emmanuel Spiteri
Date: March-June 1993
Location: London, England
Status: Solved

- Colin Ireland planned his first murder on New Year's 1993 with the stated goal of becoming a serial killer before December
- He called The Sun newspaper after killing Peter Walker, not to confess but to warn that the victim's dogs needed rescue
- The killer peered through a window frame to watch emergency responders arrive, leaving the only fingerprint evidence across four crime scenes
- Emmanuel Spiteri refused to reveal his bank PIN under torture, preventing the killer from completing his signature ATM withdrawal

Colin Ireland, London serial killer 1993, Coleherne pub murders, Earl's Court gay community, forensic signature, serial killer psychology, true crime English

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On September 10, 2018, neighbors in Posadas detect a putrid smell and call the police. Agents find Juan unconscious next to pills and alcohol. Inside the refrigerator gifted by his mother as a housewarming present: the body of Natalia, wrapped in a blanket. A letter signed in blood is addressed to "Mr. Lucifer." Was it a suicide pact or a premeditated feminicide?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that condemn Juan: the autopsy rules out voluntary suicide (asphyxiation by manual strangulation), messages from Natalia's cellphone sent days after her death, and activity on Facebook while the body was already decomposing in the apartment. The coroner determines that Natalia had been dead for between 8 and 10 days when she was found. How did Juan convince Natalia to move in with him only to murder her?

Victim: Natalia Samaniego
Date: September 10, 2018
Location: Avenida Santa Catalina, Posadas, Misiones
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment (December 21, 2021)

- Letter signed in blood addressed to "Mr. Lucifer" requesting the disappearance of the body, with Juan's initials confirmed by handwriting experts
- Juan active on Facebook the night of September 8 at 10:40 PM while Natalia was already dead in the apartment
- Messages sent from Natalia's cellphone days after the crime, where Juan pretended to be her partner and invited her mother to dinner
- Forensic autopsy rules out suicide pact: asphyxiation by manual strangulation without the victim's voluntary participation

Natalia Samaniego, Posadas Misiones Argentina 2018, feminicide, murder, forensic investigation, aggravated homicide, partner violence, criminal minds, justice, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545107Fri, 29 May 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaNatalia's refrigerator: crime in Posadas: The murder of Natalia Samaniego On September 10, 2018, neighbors in Posadas detect a putrid smell and call the police. Agents find Juan unconscious next to pills and alcohol. Inside the refrigerator...
On September 10, 2018, neighbors in Posadas detect a putrid smell and call the police. Agents find Juan unconscious next to pills and alcohol. Inside the refrigerator gifted by his mother as a housewarming present: the body of Natalia, wrapped in a blanket. A letter signed in blood is addressed to "Mr. Lucifer." Was it a suicide pact or a premeditated feminicide?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that condemn Juan: the autopsy rules out voluntary suicide (asphyxiation by manual strangulation), messages from Natalia's cellphone sent days after her death, and activity on Facebook while the body was already decomposing in the apartment. The coroner determines that Natalia had been dead for between 8 and 10 days when she was found. How did Juan convince Natalia to move in with him only to murder her?

Victim: Natalia Samaniego
Date: September 10, 2018
Location: Avenida Santa Catalina, Posadas, Misiones
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment (December 21, 2021)

- Letter signed in blood addressed to "Mr. Lucifer" requesting the disappearance of the body, with Juan's initials confirmed by handwriting experts
- Juan active on Facebook the night of September 8 at 10:40 PM while Natalia was already dead in the apartment
- Messages sent from Natalia's cellphone days after the crime, where Juan pretended to be her partner and invited her mother to dinner
- Forensic autopsy rules out suicide pact: asphyxiation by manual strangulation without the victim's voluntary participation

Natalia Samaniego, Posadas Misiones Argentina 2018, feminicide, murder, forensic investigation, aggravated homicide, partner violence, criminal minds, justice, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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On May 29, 1984, nine-year-old Bernita Wyatt vanished from Kenosha, Wisconsin. Within weeks, her disappearance would trigger the largest federal manhunt of the decade, spanning six states and involving 150 agents. The question investigators could not answer: how did the killers always stay one step ahead?

In this episode, we trace the fifty-three-day rampage of Alton Coleman and Debra Brown-a serial killer and his accomplice who murdered at least eight people, injured dozens, and robbed more than twenty victims while evading capture. We explore the forensic evidence that linked cases across state lines, the psychological profile that predicted their capture, and the debate over responsibility that would divide courts for years. What made the FBI break its own rules and create an eleventh spot on its most wanted list for the first time in history?

Victim: Bernita Wyatt, Annie Hilliard, Tamika Turks, Donna Williams, Virginia Temple, Rachel Temple, Marlene Walters, Eugene Scott
Date: May 29 - July 20, 1984
Location: Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio
Status: Both perpetrators arrested and convicted

- Nine-year-old Bernita Wyatt disappeared on the same day her abductor appeared in court for raping a fourteen-year-old girl
- A bracelet from one victim was found at the crime scene of another, linking murders across three different states
- Six-year-old Raymond Temple survived by hiding in a bathroom while his mother and sister were murdered in the same house
- Coleman carried a hidden knife at arrest with blood matching a fifteenth victim not in the initial count

Bernita Wyatt, Alton Coleman, Debra Brown, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, 1984, serial killers, murder, homicide, true crime, investigation, unsolved mysteries, forensic science, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544798Fri, 29 May 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaCouple Crosses Six States Leaving Eight Dead in Fifty-Three Days: The Murder Spree of Alton Coleman and Debra Brown On May 29, 1984, nine-year-old Bernita Wyatt vanished from Kenosha, Wisconsin. Within weeks, her disappearance would trigger the...
On May 29, 1984, nine-year-old Bernita Wyatt vanished from Kenosha, Wisconsin. Within weeks, her disappearance would trigger the largest federal manhunt of the decade, spanning six states and involving 150 agents. The question investigators could not answer: how did the killers always stay one step ahead?

In this episode, we trace the fifty-three-day rampage of Alton Coleman and Debra Brown-a serial killer and his accomplice who murdered at least eight people, injured dozens, and robbed more than twenty victims while evading capture. We explore the forensic evidence that linked cases across state lines, the psychological profile that predicted their capture, and the debate over responsibility that would divide courts for years. What made the FBI break its own rules and create an eleventh spot on its most wanted list for the first time in history?

Victim: Bernita Wyatt, Annie Hilliard, Tamika Turks, Donna Williams, Virginia Temple, Rachel Temple, Marlene Walters, Eugene Scott
Date: May 29 - July 20, 1984
Location: Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio
Status: Both perpetrators arrested and convicted

- Nine-year-old Bernita Wyatt disappeared on the same day her abductor appeared in court for raping a fourteen-year-old girl
- A bracelet from one victim was found at the crime scene of another, linking murders across three different states
- Six-year-old Raymond Temple survived by hiding in a bathroom while his mother and sister were murdered in the same house
- Coleman carried a hidden knife at arrest with blood matching a fifteenth victim not in the initial count

Bernita Wyatt, Alton Coleman, Debra Brown, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, 1984, serial killers, murder, homicide, true crime, investigation, unsolved mysteries, forensic science, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A 17-year-old teenager goes to the bathroom on a school trip and never returns. Her body is found 1.5 kilometers away, in the opposite direction, face down with her arms intertwined. The official autopsy closes the case as "natural causes." But eight years later, private experts hired by her father confirm the impossible: she was murdered by mechanical asphyxiation.

In this episode, we explore the fatal fractures between the initial forensic investigation and the buried truth. We unravel how the tractor driver who saw Victoria enter the bathroom was systematically dismissed, how the body was moved and the lack of supervision point to criminal negligence, and why the school remained silent while a family sought justice. The lingering question: who was the material author, and what more does the institution know?

Victim: Victoria Mafra Natalini
Date: September 11, 2015
Location: Finca Pereiras, Itu, São Paulo, Brazil
Status: Homicide with no identified perpetrator; case reopened

- The body was found 1.5 km in the completely opposite direction to where Victoria said she was going, suggesting deliberate post-mortem relocation.
- The tractor driver was the last to see her alive, agitated, entering the bathroom building; he was interviewed in 2015 but dismissed without justification.
- The initial autopsy did not detect signs of mechanical asphyxiation; private experts in 2023 identified direct compression of the airways.
- Two teachers supervised 34 teenagers in an extensive area; Victoria's absence went unnoticed for almost two hours.

Victoria Mafra Natalini, mechanical asphyxiation, unsolved case, forensic negligence, Itu São Paulo, 2015, covered-up murder, private investigation, experts, delayed justice, institutional corruption, homicide, Spanish true crime

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A 17-year-old teenager goes to the bathroom on a school trip and never returns. Her body is found 1.5 kilometers away, in the opposite direction, face down with her arms intertwined. The official autopsy closes the case as "natural causes." But eight years later, private experts hired by her father confirm the impossible: she was murdered by mechanical asphyxiation.

In this episode, we explore the fatal fractures between the initial forensic investigation and the buried truth. We unravel how the tractor driver who saw Victoria enter the bathroom was systematically dismissed, how the body was moved and the lack of supervision point to criminal negligence, and why the school remained silent while a family sought justice. The lingering question: who was the material author, and what more does the institution know?

Victim: Victoria Mafra Natalini
Date: September 11, 2015
Location: Finca Pereiras, Itu, São Paulo, Brazil
Status: Homicide with no identified perpetrator; case reopened

- The body was found 1.5 km in the completely opposite direction to where Victoria said she was going, suggesting deliberate post-mortem relocation.
- The tractor driver was the last to see her alive, agitated, entering the bathroom building; he was interviewed in 2015 but dismissed without justification.
- The initial autopsy did not detect signs of mechanical asphyxiation; private experts in 2023 identified direct compression of the airways.
- Two teachers supervised 34 teenagers in an extensive area; Victoria's absence went unnoticed for almost two hours.

Victoria Mafra Natalini, mechanical asphyxiation, unsolved case, forensic negligence, Itu São Paulo, 2015, covered-up murder, private investigation, experts, delayed justice, institutional corruption, homicide, Spanish true crime

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Fall 1977. Five babies vanished from storefronts across Moscow, each three months old, each taken in seconds. The Soviet state imposed total silence-no newspapers, no broadcasts, no public warning. Mothers received no alert. Yet one woman, Valentina Mamina, whose daughter barely survived an abduction, made a choice: she would hunt the killer herself.

In this episode, we explore the impossible contradiction that haunted the investigation: four hundred agents mobilized by the General Secretary could not stop Anatoli Biryukov, but a civilian mother found him in three days by walking through neighborhood shops. We examine the dark truth beneath his arrest-his two prior arrests in 1971 and 1972 for identical attempts, both resulting in minimal punishment; the role of his father, General Nikolai Biryukov, a decorated Soviet war hero; and the psychiatric diagnosis that later raised questions about whether the system had simply failed to contain him.

Victim: Natasha Denisyuk and four other infants murdered
Date: September-October 1977
Location: Moscow and Chekhov, Soviet Union
Status: Perpetrator arrested and convicted

- Biryukov had been arrested twice before, in 1971 and 1972, for nearly identical baby abductions-and both times was released with minimal penalties
- Four hundred Soviet agents failed to identify him during an emergency seventy-two-hour manhunt ordered by Leonid Brezhnev
- A civilian mother, Valentina Mamina, identified Biryukov by a distinctive facial scar while walking alone through stores, three days after he attacked her daughter
- Citizens subdued him inside a children's store before police arrived, capturing the only physical evidence recovered directly from him: the dark hat he lost while fleeing

Anatoli Biryukov, Moscow 1977, serial killer, baby murders, Soviet censorship, Valentina Mamina, Serbsky Institute diagnosis, neophilia, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Fall 1977. Five babies vanished from storefronts across Moscow, each three months old, each taken in seconds. The Soviet state imposed total silence-no newspapers, no broadcasts, no public warning. Mothers received no alert. Yet one woman, Valentina Mamina, whose daughter barely survived an abduction, made a choice: she would hunt the killer herself.

In this episode, we explore the impossible contradiction that haunted the investigation: four hundred agents mobilized by the General Secretary could not stop Anatoli Biryukov, but a civilian mother found him in three days by walking through neighborhood shops. We examine the dark truth beneath his arrest-his two prior arrests in 1971 and 1972 for identical attempts, both resulting in minimal punishment; the role of his father, General Nikolai Biryukov, a decorated Soviet war hero; and the psychiatric diagnosis that later raised questions about whether the system had simply failed to contain him.

Victim: Natasha Denisyuk and four other infants murdered
Date: September-October 1977
Location: Moscow and Chekhov, Soviet Union
Status: Perpetrator arrested and convicted

- Biryukov had been arrested twice before, in 1971 and 1972, for nearly identical baby abductions-and both times was released with minimal penalties
- Four hundred Soviet agents failed to identify him during an emergency seventy-two-hour manhunt ordered by Leonid Brezhnev
- A civilian mother, Valentina Mamina, identified Biryukov by a distinctive facial scar while walking alone through stores, three days after he attacked her daughter
- Citizens subdued him inside a children's store before police arrived, capturing the only physical evidence recovered directly from him: the dark hat he lost while fleeing

Anatoli Biryukov, Moscow 1977, serial killer, baby murders, Soviet censorship, Valentina Mamina, Serbsky Institute diagnosis, neophilia, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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A Colombian model falls from a rooftop in Mexico City on July 30, 2016, but her body appears three meters from the building, in a fetal position, with fractures that defy all logic of free fall. Authorities declare homicide, then deny it without explanation.

In this episode, we explore the forensic contradictions between the Superior Court and the Attorney General's Office, the inexplicable gap between two toxicology reports, and the unidentified companions who left with Stefanie from the Foro Normandy the night before. Physics, forensic medicine, and eight years of official silence remain unresolved about who placed her body on that street.

Victim: Stefanie Rocío Magón Ramírez
Date: July 30, 2016
Location: Colonia Nápoles, Mexico City
Status: Case closed as suicide; family rejects this version

- The apartment was completely tidy with no signs of struggle, money and belongings intact.
- First toxicology report negative; second, days later, positive for MDMA with no official explanation for the time gap.
- Private security cameras on Miami Street were never reviewed or seized by authorities.
- The Superior Court publicly declared homicide by beating on August 2; the Attorney General's Office reversed this without new evidence three days later.

Stefanie Rocío Magón Ramírez, Mexico City 2016, Colombian model, homicide by beating, forensic mystery, homicide without responsible parties, institutional corruption, incomplete investigation, human trafficking, denied justice, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545105Wed, 27 May 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaThree impossible meters: The fall of Stefanie Magón: The unsolved death of Stefanie Rocío Magón Ramírez A Colombian model falls from a rooftop in Mexico City on July 30, 2016, but her body appears three meters from the building, in a fetal...
A Colombian model falls from a rooftop in Mexico City on July 30, 2016, but her body appears three meters from the building, in a fetal position, with fractures that defy all logic of free fall. Authorities declare homicide, then deny it without explanation.

In this episode, we explore the forensic contradictions between the Superior Court and the Attorney General's Office, the inexplicable gap between two toxicology reports, and the unidentified companions who left with Stefanie from the Foro Normandy the night before. Physics, forensic medicine, and eight years of official silence remain unresolved about who placed her body on that street.

Victim: Stefanie Rocío Magón Ramírez
Date: July 30, 2016
Location: Colonia Nápoles, Mexico City
Status: Case closed as suicide; family rejects this version

- The apartment was completely tidy with no signs of struggle, money and belongings intact.
- First toxicology report negative; second, days later, positive for MDMA with no official explanation for the time gap.
- Private security cameras on Miami Street were never reviewed or seized by authorities.
- The Superior Court publicly declared homicide by beating on August 2; the Attorney General's Office reversed this without new evidence three days later.

Stefanie Rocío Magón Ramírez, Mexico City 2016, Colombian model, homicide by beating, forensic mystery, homicide without responsible parties, institutional corruption, incomplete investigation, human trafficking, denied justice, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A daughter inventories her deceased father's garage in Frankfurt and discovers three metal barrels. Inside them, human remains preserved by cold storage for eleven years. The man she knew as a landscape architect and jazz musician was about to become the center of one of Germany's most disturbing criminal investigations, with a timeline stretching back four decades.

In this investigation, we trace the forensic evidence linking five confirmed murders across different decades and victim profiles. The contradictions mount: a respected businessman with zero police reports, a basement containing thirty-two thousand photographs and videos documenting real crimes, and a pattern of dismemberment so precise it required surgical knowledge. How did this man evade detection for forty years while operating in plain sight?

Victim: Brita Simondialo (and four others)
Date: 1971-2003
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany
Status: Deceased Suspect; Five Confirmed Victims; Ten Cases Under Review

- Forensic examination revealed eight nails driven into the victim's body, with dismemberment performed while alive using a hand saw at specific anatomical points
- Witness testimony places the suspect with victims in the red-light district on the day of disappearance, yet no investigation occurred at the time
- The first victim disappeared in 1971 from a nursing home where the suspect worked at an adjacent printing facility; the case was closed unsolved
- Thirty-two thousand photographs and videos stored in the suspect's basement documented real tortures and murders, with search history including necrophilia and cannibalism terms

Brita Simondialo, Frankfurt serial murders, Manfred Adolf Seil, Hessen Germany, 2014, homicide investigation, dismemberment, forensic evidence, organized killer, cold case solved, necrophilia, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544796Wed, 27 May 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaDaughter Opens Garage and Finds Her Father's Victims Hidden for Decades: The Serial Murders of Manfred Adolf Seil A daughter inventories her deceased father's garage in Frankfurt and discovers three metal barrels. Inside them, human remains...
A daughter inventories her deceased father's garage in Frankfurt and discovers three metal barrels. Inside them, human remains preserved by cold storage for eleven years. The man she knew as a landscape architect and jazz musician was about to become the center of one of Germany's most disturbing criminal investigations, with a timeline stretching back four decades.

In this investigation, we trace the forensic evidence linking five confirmed murders across different decades and victim profiles. The contradictions mount: a respected businessman with zero police reports, a basement containing thirty-two thousand photographs and videos documenting real crimes, and a pattern of dismemberment so precise it required surgical knowledge. How did this man evade detection for forty years while operating in plain sight?

Victim: Brita Simondialo (and four others)
Date: 1971-2003
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany
Status: Deceased Suspect; Five Confirmed Victims; Ten Cases Under Review

- Forensic examination revealed eight nails driven into the victim's body, with dismemberment performed while alive using a hand saw at specific anatomical points
- Witness testimony places the suspect with victims in the red-light district on the day of disappearance, yet no investigation occurred at the time
- The first victim disappeared in 1971 from a nursing home where the suspect worked at an adjacent printing facility; the case was closed unsolved
- Thirty-two thousand photographs and videos stored in the suspect's basement documented real tortures and murders, with search history including necrophilia and cannibalism terms

Brita Simondialo, Frankfurt serial murders, Manfred Adolf Seil, Hessen Germany, 2014, homicide investigation, dismemberment, forensic evidence, organized killer, cold case solved, necrophilia, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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One early morning in May, a 21-year-old girl stabbed her boyfriend while he was sleeping, left him bleeding on the floor, lit a cigarette, and waited for the police smiling. She had spent over $8,000 to monopolize the host who obsessed her. The impossible: thousands turned her into a tragic heroine before the trial ended.

In this episode, we explore how the nighttime discovery of photographs triggered premeditated violence, how the victim feigned love to survive, and why the memo on Yuka's phone revealed a murder plan disguised as a romantic fantasy. The forensic investigation exposes a cross-shaped scar that was nearly lethal and a viral reaction that questioned Japanese justice.

Victim: Phoenix Luna
Date: May 23, 2019
Location: Kabukicho, Tokyo, Japan
Status: Sentenced to 3 years in prison

- Yuka stabbed Luna with a cross-shaped abdominal wound with only a 20% chance of medical survival.
- The memo on her phone planned to be a "tragic heroine" and kill Luna to be together in the afterlife.
- Luna revealed that she only said "I love you" during the attack to stop the stabbings, not out of genuine feelings.
- Media compared Yuka to "yandere" characters from anime and created fan art while the victim woke up from the coma.

Phoenix Luna, Kabukicho murder, 2019, obsession, premeditation, crime of passion, forensic investigation, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545104Tue, 26 May 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe obsession that ended in blood: Yuka and Luna in Kabukicho: The stabbing of a lovestruck influencer. One early morning in May, a 21-year-old girl stabbed her boyfriend while he was sleeping, left him bleeding on the floor, lit a cigarette,...
One early morning in May, a 21-year-old girl stabbed her boyfriend while he was sleeping, left him bleeding on the floor, lit a cigarette, and waited for the police smiling. She had spent over $8,000 to monopolize the host who obsessed her. The impossible: thousands turned her into a tragic heroine before the trial ended.

In this episode, we explore how the nighttime discovery of photographs triggered premeditated violence, how the victim feigned love to survive, and why the memo on Yuka's phone revealed a murder plan disguised as a romantic fantasy. The forensic investigation exposes a cross-shaped scar that was nearly lethal and a viral reaction that questioned Japanese justice.

Victim: Phoenix Luna
Date: May 23, 2019
Location: Kabukicho, Tokyo, Japan
Status: Sentenced to 3 years in prison

- Yuka stabbed Luna with a cross-shaped abdominal wound with only a 20% chance of medical survival.
- The memo on her phone planned to be a "tragic heroine" and kill Luna to be together in the afterlife.
- Luna revealed that she only said "I love you" during the attack to stop the stabbings, not out of genuine feelings.
- Media compared Yuka to "yandere" characters from anime and created fan art while the victim woke up from the coma.

Phoenix Luna, Kabukicho murder, 2019, obsession, premeditation, crime of passion, forensic investigation, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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August 1985. A thirteen-year-old observes an orange Toyota fleeing a brutal attack in Mission Viejo. He writes down the license plate. That single act-a detail so small it could have been forgotten-becomes the only solid evidence that will stop a serial killer who has terrorized Southern California for over a year with dozens of attacks. The Night Stalker had evaded the entire Los Angeles law enforcement apparatus. A teenager's notebook solved what homicide detectives could not.

In this episode, we explore how a license plate led investigators to an abandoned vehicle, which led to a fingerprint, which led to a name: Richard Leyva Muñoz Ramírez. We examine the contradictions in his criminal psychology-organized yet reckless, methodical yet careless-that had stalled the investigation for months. And we trace the moment when the fear gripping an entire region shifted from terror to recognition: his photograph published in newspapers, a bus ride home, a liquor store encounter, and neighbors with a metal pipe delivering justice where institutional forces had failed.

Victim: Bill Isabella, Inés Ericsson
Date: August 24, 1985
Location: Mission Viejo, Southern California
Status: Convicted, Executed

- A thirteen-year-old's observation of a stolen orange Toyota provided the first actionable lead after fourteen months of unsolved attacks across multiple counties.
- Fingerprint evidence from the rearview mirror matched records via an experimental computerized database method, not yet standard police practice in 1985.
- Stolen jewelry from a previous attack appeared on the black market and was traced to the same suspect through a receipt.
- Richard Ramírez was apprehended not by police tactical units but by neighborhood residents with a metal pipe after he was recognized from a newspaper photograph.

Richard Ramírez, Night Stalker, 1985, Southern California, serial killer, criminal minds, murder investigation, unsolved mysteries, forensic evidence, true crime English

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August 1985. A thirteen-year-old observes an orange Toyota fleeing a brutal attack in Mission Viejo. He writes down the license plate. That single act-a detail so small it could have been forgotten-becomes the only solid evidence that will stop a serial killer who has terrorized Southern California for over a year with dozens of attacks. The Night Stalker had evaded the entire Los Angeles law enforcement apparatus. A teenager's notebook solved what homicide detectives could not.

In this episode, we explore how a license plate led investigators to an abandoned vehicle, which led to a fingerprint, which led to a name: Richard Leyva Muñoz Ramírez. We examine the contradictions in his criminal psychology-organized yet reckless, methodical yet careless-that had stalled the investigation for months. And we trace the moment when the fear gripping an entire region shifted from terror to recognition: his photograph published in newspapers, a bus ride home, a liquor store encounter, and neighbors with a metal pipe delivering justice where institutional forces had failed.

Victim: Bill Isabella, Inés Ericsson
Date: August 24, 1985
Location: Mission Viejo, Southern California
Status: Convicted, Executed

- A thirteen-year-old's observation of a stolen orange Toyota provided the first actionable lead after fourteen months of unsolved attacks across multiple counties.
- Fingerprint evidence from the rearview mirror matched records via an experimental computerized database method, not yet standard police practice in 1985.
- Stolen jewelry from a previous attack appeared on the black market and was traced to the same suspect through a receipt.
- Richard Ramírez was apprehended not by police tactical units but by neighborhood residents with a metal pipe after he was recognized from a newspaper photograph.

Richard Ramírez, Night Stalker, 1985, Southern California, serial killer, criminal minds, murder investigation, unsolved mysteries, forensic evidence, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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A box arrived at a Saitama family's doorstep containing ten baby teeth, underwear, and sandals-the remains of their missing four-year-old daughter. When investigators publicly questioned whether the bones were authentic, the killer responded with something no detective expected: a photograph of the corpse, signed with a false name but bearing traceable handwriting. What followed was a cascade of communications that revealed a predator operating in plain sight, following funerals in real time and taunting authorities with knowledge only the killer could possess.

In this episode, we trace the 1988-1989 Saitama serial killings through the lens of a criminal investigation transformed by direct communication between perpetrator and family. We examine the contradictions embedded in the case: the handwriting evidence that arrived through the killer's own need for recognition, the escalation between the third and fourth murders that changed everything, and the psychiatric evaluation that concluded a man with severe dissociative traits was nonetheless fully criminally responsible. How does a brilliant child become invisible to the world, and what does it mean when that invisibility is finally broken through violence?

Victim: Mari Kono
Date: August 22, 1988 - July 23, 1989
Location: Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Status: Serial killer arrested and convicted

- Four girls aged four to seven disappeared over eleven months; the killer had no criminal record and lived with his parents
- The first three murders followed a pattern of escape; the fourth victim was retained at the killer's home, filmed, and partially cannibalized
- Miyazaki sent a package to the victim's family after police publicly doubted authenticity, then escalated to sending a photograph and attending the funeral while writing letters describing decomposition
- The killer's apartment contained over five thousand films, hundreds of mangas including extreme horror series, and his own recordings documenting the crimes

Mari Kono, Saitama Prefecture serial murders 1988, Tsutomu Miyazaki, child abduction, serial killer, Japan true crime, unsolved psychology, forensic investigation, criminal investigation, homicide, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A box arrived at a Saitama family's doorstep containing ten baby teeth, underwear, and sandals-the remains of their missing four-year-old daughter. When investigators publicly questioned whether the bones were authentic, the killer responded with something no detective expected: a photograph of the corpse, signed with a false name but bearing traceable handwriting. What followed was a cascade of communications that revealed a predator operating in plain sight, following funerals in real time and taunting authorities with knowledge only the killer could possess.

In this episode, we trace the 1988-1989 Saitama serial killings through the lens of a criminal investigation transformed by direct communication between perpetrator and family. We examine the contradictions embedded in the case: the handwriting evidence that arrived through the killer's own need for recognition, the escalation between the third and fourth murders that changed everything, and the psychiatric evaluation that concluded a man with severe dissociative traits was nonetheless fully criminally responsible. How does a brilliant child become invisible to the world, and what does it mean when that invisibility is finally broken through violence?

Victim: Mari Kono
Date: August 22, 1988 - July 23, 1989
Location: Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Status: Serial killer arrested and convicted

- Four girls aged four to seven disappeared over eleven months; the killer had no criminal record and lived with his parents
- The first three murders followed a pattern of escape; the fourth victim was retained at the killer's home, filmed, and partially cannibalized
- Miyazaki sent a package to the victim's family after police publicly doubted authenticity, then escalated to sending a photograph and attending the funeral while writing letters describing decomposition
- The killer's apartment contained over five thousand films, hundreds of mangas including extreme horror series, and his own recordings documenting the crimes

Mari Kono, Saitama Prefecture serial murders 1988, Tsutomu Miyazaki, child abduction, serial killer, Japan true crime, unsolved psychology, forensic investigation, criminal investigation, homicide, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time,...]]>1232falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-secret-room-that-was-never-built--71545102
A man spent weeks planning a fingerprint-proof locked room, concrete hooks, and soundproofing. His excuse: to store alcohol from his Mormon girlfriend. But when a young woman disappeared in Salt Lake City at 3 a.m., digital evidence revealed that he was there, exactly at the agreed time.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that sank the killer: a book published years earlier describing an identical crime, security cameras disabled hours before the disappearance, and a cellphone that recorded every movement. How did someone plan with such precision and still leave an inescapable digital trail? What did the content of that never-built room truly reveal?

Victim: Mackenzie Lueck
Date: June 17, 2019
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Status: Life sentence without parole

- Her phone turned off exactly at 3:00 a.m., just when the killer's cellphone recorded his arrival at the park.
- He published an Amazon book two years earlier describing two characters murdered and burned in the exact same method.
- He disabled the security cameras in his house the night of the crime, demonstrating direct premeditation.
- His defense collapsed when photographs of the victim were found on his cellphone, contradicting his claim of never having seen her in person.

Mackenzie Lueck, Salt Lake City murder 2019, forensic investigation, criminal minds, planned killer, true crime, digital evidence, justice, serial killer planning, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545102Mon, 25 May 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe secret room that was never built: The murder of Mackenzie Lueck A man spent weeks planning a fingerprint-proof locked room, concrete hooks, and soundproofing. His excuse: to store alcohol from his Mormon girlfriend. But when a young woman...
A man spent weeks planning a fingerprint-proof locked room, concrete hooks, and soundproofing. His excuse: to store alcohol from his Mormon girlfriend. But when a young woman disappeared in Salt Lake City at 3 a.m., digital evidence revealed that he was there, exactly at the agreed time.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that sank the killer: a book published years earlier describing an identical crime, security cameras disabled hours before the disappearance, and a cellphone that recorded every movement. How did someone plan with such precision and still leave an inescapable digital trail? What did the content of that never-built room truly reveal?

Victim: Mackenzie Lueck
Date: June 17, 2019
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Status: Life sentence without parole

- Her phone turned off exactly at 3:00 a.m., just when the killer's cellphone recorded his arrival at the park.
- He published an Amazon book two years earlier describing two characters murdered and burned in the exact same method.
- He disabled the security cameras in his house the night of the crime, demonstrating direct premeditation.
- His defense collapsed when photographs of the victim were found on his cellphone, contradicting his claim of never having seen her in person.

Mackenzie Lueck, Salt Lake City murder 2019, forensic investigation, criminal minds, planned killer, true crime, digital evidence, justice, serial killer planning, true crime English

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Early morning of September 1990, Route 38 in Catamarca. A driver saw police gathered and they told him there was nothing. Hours later, road workers found a body at that exact spot. How could the police not see it?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that brought down a government: the body washed by order of the police chief, witnesses who massively retracted between investigation and trial, and a deliberately concealed injected overdose of 34.6 micrograms. Who were the true perpetrators who never set foot in prison?

Victim: María Soledad Morales
Date: September 8-10, 1990
Location: Catamarca, Argentina
Status: Partially resolved; statute of limitations 2005

- Patrol car seen on Route 38 hours before the discovery, suggesting prior knowledge of the crime
- Body washed in the morgue by order of Ferreira, father of one of the accused, destroying forensic evidence
- Seven-year alibi shattered by former night watchman who confirmed tampering with attendance sheets
- 66 massive marches and the fall of Governor Sadi, but the intellectual co-authors were never prosecuted

María Soledad Morales, Catamarca 1990, covered-up murder, police corruption, incomplete justice, destroyed investigation, massive marches, serial killer impunity, criminal minds Argentina, forensic cover-up, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545100Sun, 24 May 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe night a government fell in Catamarca: The homicide of María Soledad Morales Early morning of September 1990, Route 38 in Catamarca. A driver saw police gathered and they told him there was nothing. Hours later, road workers found a body at that...
Early morning of September 1990, Route 38 in Catamarca. A driver saw police gathered and they told him there was nothing. Hours later, road workers found a body at that exact spot. How could the police not see it?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that brought down a government: the body washed by order of the police chief, witnesses who massively retracted between investigation and trial, and a deliberately concealed injected overdose of 34.6 micrograms. Who were the true perpetrators who never set foot in prison?

Victim: María Soledad Morales
Date: September 8-10, 1990
Location: Catamarca, Argentina
Status: Partially resolved; statute of limitations 2005

- Patrol car seen on Route 38 hours before the discovery, suggesting prior knowledge of the crime
- Body washed in the morgue by order of Ferreira, father of one of the accused, destroying forensic evidence
- Seven-year alibi shattered by former night watchman who confirmed tampering with attendance sheets
- 66 massive marches and the fall of Governor Sadi, but the intellectual co-authors were never prosecuted

María Soledad Morales, Catamarca 1990, covered-up murder, police corruption, incomplete justice, destroyed investigation, massive marches, serial killer impunity, criminal minds Argentina, forensic cover-up, true crime Spanish

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A university psychologist filed a report documenting persecutory delusions, depression, paranoia, and possible schizophrenia. Federal law disqualified this diagnosis from firearm purchases. That same man walked into a gun store weeks later and left with two weapons and over five hundred bullets-no system stopped him.

In this episode, we explore the chain of institutional failures that allowed Seung-Hui Cho to acquire military-grade firearms despite documented psychiatric crisis, the communication breakdown between the mental health system and federal background checks, and the legal mechanism that criminalized nothing he did before April sixteenth. How many warning signals must pass through how many institutions before the law permits action?

Victim: Emily Hilscher, Ryan Clark, and 30 others
Fecha: April 16, 2007
Ubicación: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Estado: 32 killed, 29 wounded

- A campus psychologist diagnosed him with schizophrenia and persecutory delusions in 2005, which federally disqualified him from buying guns-yet his name never entered the background check database.
- He legally purchased a Glock 9mm and Walther P22 weeks after diagnosis because the seller's federal registry check returned no psychiatric record.
- Campus police detained an innocent man (Emily Hilscher's boyfriend) as the primary suspect after the first two murders, failing to issue an active campus alert.
- He used the exact phrase "hello, how are you"-suggested years earlier by a teacher to help him communicate-as a greeting before opening fire in the first classroom.

Seung-Hui Cho, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Virginia 2007, mass shooting, psychiatric diagnosis, background check failure, institutional breakdown, homicide, systemic failure, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544793Sun, 24 May 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaPsychologist Documents His Delusions as He Buys Guns Nobody Stops Him: The Virginia Tech Massacre of Seung-Hui Cho A university psychologist filed a report documenting persecutory delusions, depression, paranoia, and possible schizophrenia. Federal...
A university psychologist filed a report documenting persecutory delusions, depression, paranoia, and possible schizophrenia. Federal law disqualified this diagnosis from firearm purchases. That same man walked into a gun store weeks later and left with two weapons and over five hundred bullets-no system stopped him.

In this episode, we explore the chain of institutional failures that allowed Seung-Hui Cho to acquire military-grade firearms despite documented psychiatric crisis, the communication breakdown between the mental health system and federal background checks, and the legal mechanism that criminalized nothing he did before April sixteenth. How many warning signals must pass through how many institutions before the law permits action?

Victim: Emily Hilscher, Ryan Clark, and 30 others
Fecha: April 16, 2007
Ubicación: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Estado: 32 killed, 29 wounded

- A campus psychologist diagnosed him with schizophrenia and persecutory delusions in 2005, which federally disqualified him from buying guns-yet his name never entered the background check database.
- He legally purchased a Glock 9mm and Walther P22 weeks after diagnosis because the seller's federal registry check returned no psychiatric record.
- Campus police detained an innocent man (Emily Hilscher's boyfriend) as the primary suspect after the first two murders, failing to issue an active campus alert.
- He used the exact phrase "hello, how are you"-suggested years earlier by a teacher to help him communicate-as a greeting before opening fire in the first classroom.

Seung-Hui Cho, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Virginia 2007, mass shooting, psychiatric diagnosis, background check failure, institutional breakdown, homicide, systemic failure, true crime English

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without...]]>1234falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-daughter-who-guided-her-parents-killers--71545099
On the morning of October 31, 2002, an eighteen-year-old girl disconnected the security cameras in her own house, drove two hitmen to the room where her parents were sleeping, and while they beat them to death with iron bars, she waited downstairs covering her ears. A successful and seemingly united Brazilian aristocratic family was destroyed from within by their own daughter in a crime planned with clinical coldness.

In this episode, we explore how an obsessive relationship with a model airplane instructor escalated into a meticulously coordinated serial murder. We examine the contradictions that betrayed Susan: a safe that was superficially damaged without being forced, intact jewelry but only cash missing, a motel bill specifically requested as a premeditated alibi, and the daughter's anomalous behavior before the press before being informed of the crime. The forensic investigation solved the case in seven days, but the legal and personal consequences for Susan Von Richthofen still raise questions about guilt, redemption, and justice.

Victims: Manfred and Marisa Von Richthofen
Date: October 31, 2002
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Status: Sentenced to 39 years and 6 months

- Susan disconnected the alarm and cameras from inside, revealing planned prior access that eliminated the hypothesis of spontaneous robbery.
- The safe was superficially damaged without being forced, indicating that the perpetrator knew the password and was simulating a robbery.
- Cristian Cravinhos bought an expensive motorcycle in cash with high denomination bills just seven days later, triggering his immediate arrest.
- Susan organized a birthday party at the house three days after the double homicide, behavior documented by neighbors that contradicts all expected mourning.

Manfred Von Richthofen, Susan Von Richthofen, São Paulo murder, October 2002, forensic investigation, hitmen Brazil, criminal minds, premeditated crime, true crime Spanish

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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On the morning of October 31, 2002, an eighteen-year-old girl disconnected the security cameras in her own house, drove two hitmen to the room where her parents were sleeping, and while they beat them to death with iron bars, she waited downstairs covering her ears. A successful and seemingly united Brazilian aristocratic family was destroyed from within by their own daughter in a crime planned with clinical coldness.

In this episode, we explore how an obsessive relationship with a model airplane instructor escalated into a meticulously coordinated serial murder. We examine the contradictions that betrayed Susan: a safe that was superficially damaged without being forced, intact jewelry but only cash missing, a motel bill specifically requested as a premeditated alibi, and the daughter's anomalous behavior before the press before being informed of the crime. The forensic investigation solved the case in seven days, but the legal and personal consequences for Susan Von Richthofen still raise questions about guilt, redemption, and justice.

Victims: Manfred and Marisa Von Richthofen
Date: October 31, 2002
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Status: Sentenced to 39 years and 6 months

- Susan disconnected the alarm and cameras from inside, revealing planned prior access that eliminated the hypothesis of spontaneous robbery.
- The safe was superficially damaged without being forced, indicating that the perpetrator knew the password and was simulating a robbery.
- Cristian Cravinhos bought an expensive motorcycle in cash with high denomination bills just seven days later, triggering his immediate arrest.
- Susan organized a birthday party at the house three days after the double homicide, behavior documented by neighbors that contradicts all expected mourning.

Manfred Von Richthofen, Susan Von Richthofen, São Paulo murder, October 2002, forensic investigation, hitmen Brazil, criminal minds, premeditated crime, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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March 22, 1999. A naked woman runs barefoot down a New Mexico street, ice pick wounds bleeding from her head, a metal chain still attached to her neck. She had been held captive for three days in a soundproof trailer. What investigators discovered that afternoon would destroy at least one officer psychologically forever.

In this investigation, we explore how a respected community mechanic operated an elaborate torture chamber in plain sight for four decades, the systematic manuals he wrote describing his methods, and the only woman who escaped before the discovery of the custom-built trailer and its horrifying contents. We examine the contradictions surrounding the officer who reviewed the video evidence and died shortly after, the estimated sixty victims whose bodies were never recovered, and why a confession and 223-year sentence led nowhere: Parker Rey died of a heart attack before entering prison, taking all knowledge of the missing women with him.

Victim: Cynthia Vigil
Date: March 22, 1999
Location: Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
Status: Escaped; Case Partially Unsolved

- Cynthia Vigil freed herself using an ice pick she found while chained to the trailer wall for three days
- David Parker Rey had recorded a detailed instructional tape six years before arrest, describing torture methods and referencing 37 previous victims
- Officer Patricia Rost committed suicide days after reviewing video evidence found in the trailer, though officials denied a direct connection
- Parker Rey died of a heart attack before formally entering prison, eliminating any possibility of identifying the estimated 60 missing victims

Cynthia Vigil, Truth or Consequences New Mexico 1999, torture chamber, unsolved disappearances, serial killer, homicide investigation, forensic discovery, criminal minds, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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March 22, 1999. A naked woman runs barefoot down a New Mexico street, ice pick wounds bleeding from her head, a metal chain still attached to her neck. She had been held captive for three days in a soundproof trailer. What investigators discovered that afternoon would destroy at least one officer psychologically forever.

In this investigation, we explore how a respected community mechanic operated an elaborate torture chamber in plain sight for four decades, the systematic manuals he wrote describing his methods, and the only woman who escaped before the discovery of the custom-built trailer and its horrifying contents. We examine the contradictions surrounding the officer who reviewed the video evidence and died shortly after, the estimated sixty victims whose bodies were never recovered, and why a confession and 223-year sentence led nowhere: Parker Rey died of a heart attack before entering prison, taking all knowledge of the missing women with him.

Victim: Cynthia Vigil
Date: March 22, 1999
Location: Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
Status: Escaped; Case Partially Unsolved

- Cynthia Vigil freed herself using an ice pick she found while chained to the trailer wall for three days
- David Parker Rey had recorded a detailed instructional tape six years before arrest, describing torture methods and referencing 37 previous victims
- Officer Patricia Rost committed suicide days after reviewing video evidence found in the trailer, though officials denied a direct connection
- Parker Rey died of a heart attack before formally entering prison, eliminating any possibility of identifying the estimated 60 missing victims

Cynthia Vigil, Truth or Consequences New Mexico 1999, torture chamber, unsolved disappearances, serial killer, homicide investigation, forensic discovery, criminal minds, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A common mother, without police training, infiltrated with a fake uniform in the territory of Los Zetas. In five years, she sent ten criminals to prison using only a notebook with photos and determination. Miriam's story does not end in justice: it ends with 13 bullets at the entrance of her home on Mother's Day.

In this episode, we explore how a merchant from San Fernando tracked down her daughter's killer through Facebook, disguised herself to obtain the name of the responsible party, and triggered a chain of confessions that dismantled a network of homicides. We investigate the contradictions between Mexican forensic reports that denied the remains of Karen and American specialists who confirmed her DNA a year later, and examine why the State acknowledged the danger Miriam faced but did not protect her.

Victim: Miriam Elizabeth Rodríguez Martínez
Date: May 10, 2017
Location: San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Status: Murdered; four identified material authors; mastermind undisclosed

- She disguised herself with fake Health identification and obtained the real name of the suspect without him suspecting
- U. S. specialists confirmed Karen's DNA a year later; Mexican police had denied any remains
- Two of Miriam's four killers were convicted fugitives on March 22, 2017, exactly the ones she had reported
- She requested formal protection after the escape of prisoners; she only received periodic patrols before being executed

Miriam Rodríguez Martínez, San Fernando Tamaulipas, kidnapping extortion murder 2017, undercover investigation, criminal minds, Los Zetas cartel, homicide, forensic, justice, unsolved mystery, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545098Fri, 22 May 2026 08:00:04 +0000Creator at ObomediaVengeful Mother: 10 Criminals and 13 Shots - The Case of Miriam Rodríguez Martínez A common mother, without police training, infiltrated with a fake uniform in the territory of Los Zetas. In five years, she sent ten criminals to prison using...
A common mother, without police training, infiltrated with a fake uniform in the territory of Los Zetas. In five years, she sent ten criminals to prison using only a notebook with photos and determination. Miriam's story does not end in justice: it ends with 13 bullets at the entrance of her home on Mother's Day.

In this episode, we explore how a merchant from San Fernando tracked down her daughter's killer through Facebook, disguised herself to obtain the name of the responsible party, and triggered a chain of confessions that dismantled a network of homicides. We investigate the contradictions between Mexican forensic reports that denied the remains of Karen and American specialists who confirmed her DNA a year later, and examine why the State acknowledged the danger Miriam faced but did not protect her.

Victim: Miriam Elizabeth Rodríguez Martínez
Date: May 10, 2017
Location: San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Status: Murdered; four identified material authors; mastermind undisclosed

- She disguised herself with fake Health identification and obtained the real name of the suspect without him suspecting
- U. S. specialists confirmed Karen's DNA a year later; Mexican police had denied any remains
- Two of Miriam's four killers were convicted fugitives on March 22, 2017, exactly the ones she had reported
- She requested formal protection after the escape of prisoners; she only received periodic patrols before being executed

Miriam Rodríguez Martínez, San Fernando Tamaulipas, kidnapping extortion murder 2017, undercover investigation, criminal minds, Los Zetas cartel, homicide, forensic, justice, unsolved mystery, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A yellow piece of paper stuck under a windshield wiper in Brooklyn became the thread that caught one of America's most wanted killers. But when detectives pulled on that thread, they discovered the official story of a lone gunman unraveled into something far darker-a narrative constructed with surgical precision, hidden accomplices, and evidence that did not fit.

In this episode, we trace how a single witness, Cecilia Davis, saw a man removing a parking ticket from a Ford Galaxie the night of the final attack. We examine the graphological match, the threat letters, the fabricated possession narrative, and the impossible details Berkowitz knew about murders he could never have committed. We confront the question that terrified investigators: if the demon dog was a lie, what else was fabricated, and who else was involved?

Victim: Donna Lauria (first fatality)
Date: July 29, 1976 - July 31, 1977
Location: New York City (Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn)
Status: David Berkowitz arrested August 10, 1977; sentenced 365 years

- A parking ticket traced to David Berkowitz's Ford Galaxie, spotted at the scene of the final attack by a single witness
- Berkowitz admitted in prison that the entire narrative of the possessed dog was fabricated weeks before his arrest, with documented proof
- Witness descriptions from multiple attack scenes described a second individual whose physical appearance did not match Berkowitz
- Berkowitz described specific unpublished details of a 1974 Stanford University murder (Arlis Perry) he could not have witnessed while stationed in the army

David Berkowitz, Son of Sam, New York serial killings 1976, criminal minds, homicide investigation, unsolved mysteries, forensic evidence, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544790Fri, 22 May 2026 08:00:04 +0000Creator at ObomediaCop Spots a Parking Ticket and Realizes the Son of Sam Is Standing Right There: The Serial Murders of New York, 1976-1977 A yellow piece of paper stuck under a windshield wiper in Brooklyn became the thread that caught one of America's most wanted...
A yellow piece of paper stuck under a windshield wiper in Brooklyn became the thread that caught one of America's most wanted killers. But when detectives pulled on that thread, they discovered the official story of a lone gunman unraveled into something far darker-a narrative constructed with surgical precision, hidden accomplices, and evidence that did not fit.

In this episode, we trace how a single witness, Cecilia Davis, saw a man removing a parking ticket from a Ford Galaxie the night of the final attack. We examine the graphological match, the threat letters, the fabricated possession narrative, and the impossible details Berkowitz knew about murders he could never have committed. We confront the question that terrified investigators: if the demon dog was a lie, what else was fabricated, and who else was involved?

Victim: Donna Lauria (first fatality)
Date: July 29, 1976 - July 31, 1977
Location: New York City (Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn)
Status: David Berkowitz arrested August 10, 1977; sentenced 365 years

- A parking ticket traced to David Berkowitz's Ford Galaxie, spotted at the scene of the final attack by a single witness
- Berkowitz admitted in prison that the entire narrative of the possessed dog was fabricated weeks before his arrest, with documented proof
- Witness descriptions from multiple attack scenes described a second individual whose physical appearance did not match Berkowitz
- Berkowitz described specific unpublished details of a 1974 Stanford University murder (Arlis Perry) he could not have witnessed while stationed in the army

David Berkowitz, Son of Sam, New York serial killings 1976, criminal minds, homicide investigation, unsolved mysteries, forensic evidence, true crime English

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Three children disappear at 12:15 PM on the busiest beach in Adelaide on Australia Day, in front of hundreds of people. Jane bought cakes with money her mother never gave her, and an unknown blonde man was seen with them minutes before vanishing without a trace.

In this episode, we explore the inconsistencies that persist 58 years later: four main suspects with partial confessions, excavations that found only trash, and fake letters that tormented the parents. The police never prosecuted anyone, although a teenager wrote two pages in 1968 confirmed as a cruel joke in 1992.

Victims: Jane, Arna, and Grant Beaumont
Date: January 26, 1966
Location: Glenelg Beach, Adelaide, Australia
Status: Unsolved

- The money for cakes appeared without explanation: Jane paid with one Australian pound when Nancy only gave 6 shillings and 6 pence.
- Arna had mentioned days earlier that Jane had "a boyfriend" at the beach, suggesting prior contact with the blonde man.
- Excavations in 1968, 2013, and 2018 searched for three bodies, but the parapsychologist Gerard Croiset pointed to a warehouse that turned out empty after 40 thousand dollars of searching.
- Andrew McIntire wrote in his diary that his father and Alan Munro arrived nervously with blood in the car that afternoon, but without material evidence, Munro was never prosecuted.

Jane Beaumont Arna Beaumont Grant Beaumont, Glenelg kidnapping Australia 1966, forensic investigation, disappearance, unsolved mystery, suspects, homicide, unresolved crime, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545096Thu, 21 May 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe Beaumont Brothers: Disappearance in Broad Daylight: The Kidnapping of Jane, Arna, and Grant Beaumont Three children disappear at 12:15 PM on the busiest beach in Adelaide on Australia Day, in front of hundreds of people. Jane bought cakes...
Three children disappear at 12:15 PM on the busiest beach in Adelaide on Australia Day, in front of hundreds of people. Jane bought cakes with money her mother never gave her, and an unknown blonde man was seen with them minutes before vanishing without a trace.

In this episode, we explore the inconsistencies that persist 58 years later: four main suspects with partial confessions, excavations that found only trash, and fake letters that tormented the parents. The police never prosecuted anyone, although a teenager wrote two pages in 1968 confirmed as a cruel joke in 1992.

Victims: Jane, Arna, and Grant Beaumont
Date: January 26, 1966
Location: Glenelg Beach, Adelaide, Australia
Status: Unsolved

- The money for cakes appeared without explanation: Jane paid with one Australian pound when Nancy only gave 6 shillings and 6 pence.
- Arna had mentioned days earlier that Jane had "a boyfriend" at the beach, suggesting prior contact with the blonde man.
- Excavations in 1968, 2013, and 2018 searched for three bodies, but the parapsychologist Gerard Croiset pointed to a warehouse that turned out empty after 40 thousand dollars of searching.
- Andrew McIntire wrote in his diary that his father and Alan Munro arrived nervously with blood in the car that afternoon, but without material evidence, Munro was never prosecuted.

Jane Beaumont Arna Beaumont Grant Beaumont, Glenelg kidnapping Australia 1966, forensic investigation, disappearance, unsolved mystery, suspects, homicide, unresolved crime, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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For nearly two decades, the same man who murdered over eighty women in Siberia appeared at crime scenes wearing the uniform that gave him access to his victims. He radioed in discoveries. He took notes. He spoke with colleagues. No one realized the Siberian Werewolf was standing right beside them.

This investigation explores the impossible gap between visibility and invisibility-how a disciplined, impeccable officer passed a psychological evaluation with red flags, how forty-five thousand suspects were processed while the killer attended case meetings, and why a seventeen-year-old survivor's testimony in 1998 was dismissed by a wife who shared his badge. We examine the DNA breakthrough in 2012 that finally matched his genetic profile to over twenty crime scenes, the confessions that revealed eighty-one murders, and the chilling pattern: bodies appearing on Wednesdays, tire tracks from a standard police vehicle, weapons from the evidence locker itself.

Victim: Mijail Popkov (perpetrator)
Date: 1992-2010
Location: Angarsk and Siberia, Russia
Status: Convicted 2015-2018; life imprisonment

- A police officer attended the funeral of one of his victims and paid for the funeral expenses from his own pocket.
- Svetlana Mis'diabychus reported her attacker in 1998; his wife provided an alibi; the case closed; he continued killing for fourteen more years.
- Popkov used weapons confiscated from the police evidence locker itself to commit murders, then participated in investigations of his own crimes.
- The syphilis he contracted from victims during his killing spree provided forensic proof that corroborated survivor testimony across a decade and a half.

Mijail Popkov, Angarsk Siberia serial killer, 1992 Russian homicide, investigation, murder, true detective, unsolved pattern, forensic evidence, serial killers, institutional failure, true crime English

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For nearly two decades, the same man who murdered over eighty women in Siberia appeared at crime scenes wearing the uniform that gave him access to his victims. He radioed in discoveries. He took notes. He spoke with colleagues. No one realized the Siberian Werewolf was standing right beside them.

This investigation explores the impossible gap between visibility and invisibility-how a disciplined, impeccable officer passed a psychological evaluation with red flags, how forty-five thousand suspects were processed while the killer attended case meetings, and why a seventeen-year-old survivor's testimony in 1998 was dismissed by a wife who shared his badge. We examine the DNA breakthrough in 2012 that finally matched his genetic profile to over twenty crime scenes, the confessions that revealed eighty-one murders, and the chilling pattern: bodies appearing on Wednesdays, tire tracks from a standard police vehicle, weapons from the evidence locker itself.

Victim: Mijail Popkov (perpetrator)
Date: 1992-2010
Location: Angarsk and Siberia, Russia
Status: Convicted 2015-2018; life imprisonment

- A police officer attended the funeral of one of his victims and paid for the funeral expenses from his own pocket.
- Svetlana Mis'diabychus reported her attacker in 1998; his wife provided an alibi; the case closed; he continued killing for fourteen more years.
- Popkov used weapons confiscated from the police evidence locker itself to commit murders, then participated in investigations of his own crimes.
- The syphilis he contracted from victims during his killing spree provided forensic proof that corroborated survivor testimony across a decade and a half.

Mijail Popkov, Angarsk Siberia serial killer, 1992 Russian homicide, investigation, murder, true detective, unsolved pattern, forensic evidence, serial killers, institutional failure, true crime English

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A body surfaces in the Riverside desert identified only by a single gold tooth. Days later, a system that had warned of danger six months prior discovers a man had recorded everything: the stalking, the planning, the kills across three states in five days. The contradiction is stark-psychiatric records document severe schizophrenia and active hallucinations; the audio tapes document premeditation and control.

In this episode, we trace how Philip Carl Jablonski moved from prison correspondence to freedom to a leather belt inscribed with victim names and dates. We examine the letters he sent detailing how he would strangle Carol Spadoni with her own hair, the notebook listing future targets found in his possession, and the audio recordings that contradicted his defense at trial. The central question remains: how did a documented danger walk free, and what happens when mental illness and premeditation converge in the courtroom?

Victim: Fátima Band, Eva Petersen, Carol Spadoni, Myrna Rogers
Location: Riverside, California; Burlingame, California; McPherson, Kansas
Date: April 1991
Status: Convicted, Death Row

- A psychiatrist documented active visual and auditory hallucinations weeks before his release from prison, yet the parole proceeded unchanged.
- He inscribed victim names and crime dates in blue pencil on the inner side of a leather belt and wore it at the time of arrest.
- The audio tapes recovered contained recordings made before, during, and after the murders, documenting anticipation and planning with verbal coherence.
- In letters written from prison to Carol Spadoni, he explicitly described in advance exactly how he planned to murder her.

Philip Carl Jablonski, Riverside California murder, Burlingame California homicide, Kansas serial killer, 1991, serial killers, premeditation, psychiatric evaluation, true crime investigation, forensic audio evidence, death row, unsolved system failure, true crime English

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A body surfaces in the Riverside desert identified only by a single gold tooth. Days later, a system that had warned of danger six months prior discovers a man had recorded everything: the stalking, the planning, the kills across three states in five days. The contradiction is stark-psychiatric records document severe schizophrenia and active hallucinations; the audio tapes document premeditation and control.

In this episode, we trace how Philip Carl Jablonski moved from prison correspondence to freedom to a leather belt inscribed with victim names and dates. We examine the letters he sent detailing how he would strangle Carol Spadoni with her own hair, the notebook listing future targets found in his possession, and the audio recordings that contradicted his defense at trial. The central question remains: how did a documented danger walk free, and what happens when mental illness and premeditation converge in the courtroom?

Victim: Fátima Band, Eva Petersen, Carol Spadoni, Myrna Rogers
Location: Riverside, California; Burlingame, California; McPherson, Kansas
Date: April 1991
Status: Convicted, Death Row

- A psychiatrist documented active visual and auditory hallucinations weeks before his release from prison, yet the parole proceeded unchanged.
- He inscribed victim names and crime dates in blue pencil on the inner side of a leather belt and wore it at the time of arrest.
- The audio tapes recovered contained recordings made before, during, and after the murders, documenting anticipation and planning with verbal coherence.
- In letters written from prison to Carol Spadoni, he explicitly described in advance exactly how he planned to murder her.

Philip Carl Jablonski, Riverside California murder, Burlingame California homicide, Kansas serial killer, 1991, serial killers, premeditation, psychiatric evaluation, true crime investigation, forensic audio evidence, death row, unsolved system failure, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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Sunday, February 15, 2015, 1:00 PM. María Fernanda leaves on her bicycle from Ceres, Santa Fe, after a message that summons her to a sawmill. She does not return. Two days later, her body is found covered by the bicycle, with stab wounds in her back and barbed wire around her neck. The impossible: the murderer, a 16-year-old girl obsessed with the same boy, posted on Instagram that night: "I needed to sleep like this."

In this episode, we explore how Karen Ñáñez orchestrated a crime with surgical premeditation: she stole Rodrigo's cell phone, sent false messages summoning Mafer, documented threats on social media, and left a trail of forensic evidence that included scissors, a bloody knife, and both phones in a bag. The surveillance cameras at the junkyard captured Karen dragging the body. How did a minor who received overwhelming evidence against her never serve effective prison time?

Victim: María Fernanda Chico Linardo
Date: February 15, 2015
Location: Ceres, Santa Fe, Argentina
Status: Sentenced to 13 years, assisted release without prison

- Karen Ñáñez, 14 years old, stole Rodrigo's cell phone while he was sleeping and used it to summon Mafer to the sawmill
- Instagram photo of Karen at the sawmill posted before the crime with the caption "this is where you'll end up"
- Surveillance cameras showed Karen dragging the body among bushes and her own bicycle
- Bag found in the canal with scissors, bloody knife, a lock of hair, and cell phones; convicted but on probation without effective prison time

María Fernanda Chico Linardo, Ceres Santa Fe murder, February 2015, teenage jealousy, premeditated crime, juvenile justice, criminal minds, forensic investigation, impunity truth, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Sunday, February 15, 2015, 1:00 PM. María Fernanda leaves on her bicycle from Ceres, Santa Fe, after a message that summons her to a sawmill. She does not return. Two days later, her body is found covered by the bicycle, with stab wounds in her back and barbed wire around her neck. The impossible: the murderer, a 16-year-old girl obsessed with the same boy, posted on Instagram that night: "I needed to sleep like this."

In this episode, we explore how Karen Ñáñez orchestrated a crime with surgical premeditation: she stole Rodrigo's cell phone, sent false messages summoning Mafer, documented threats on social media, and left a trail of forensic evidence that included scissors, a bloody knife, and both phones in a bag. The surveillance cameras at the junkyard captured Karen dragging the body. How did a minor who received overwhelming evidence against her never serve effective prison time?

Victim: María Fernanda Chico Linardo
Date: February 15, 2015
Location: Ceres, Santa Fe, Argentina
Status: Sentenced to 13 years, assisted release without prison

- Karen Ñáñez, 14 years old, stole Rodrigo's cell phone while he was sleeping and used it to summon Mafer to the sawmill
- Instagram photo of Karen at the sawmill posted before the crime with the caption "this is where you'll end up"
- Surveillance cameras showed Karen dragging the body among bushes and her own bicycle
- Bag found in the canal with scissors, bloody knife, a lock of hair, and cell phones; convicted but on probation without effective prison time

María Fernanda Chico Linardo, Ceres Santa Fe murder, February 2015, teenage jealousy, premeditated crime, juvenile justice, criminal minds, forensic investigation, impunity truth, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A man's body dressed in a black sequined suit lay face down in a rural ditch outside Peterborough on March 30, 2013. Police took hours to realize this deliberate arrangement was not accidental-it was a message. Joanne Dennehy had killed three men in ten days and then drove 150 kilometers away to stab two more strangers in broad daylight before her arrest.

In this episode, we trace the investigation that unraveled a serial killer's rampage across England in spring 2013. We examine the contradiction between her stable childhood and the sudden eruption of violence at thirteen, the three victims dumped in separate ditches with calculated precision, and the strangers attacked without motive or warning. Why did someone with no clear traumatic history decide she wanted to "see what it felt like" to kill-and plan nine murders?

Victim: Kevin Lee, Lucas Slaboszewski, John Chapman
Date: March 19-April 1, 2013
Location: Peterborough and Hereford, England
Status: Convicted; Life Sentence Without Parole

- Joanne Dennehy stabbed three men in ten days, then traveled 150 kilometers to attack two complete strangers within hours of her victims' discovery.
- Kevin Lee, her landlord and suspected romantic interest, was found wearing a black sequined dress in a ditch-a deliberate humiliation staged after three coordinated murders.
- Police detained her forty minutes after the second random stabbing attack; she was smiling and flirting with officers, showing euphoria, not panic.
- She sent a text message saying "oops I did it again" after the second murder, admitting the killing in the tone of someone who had made a minor mistake.

Joanne Dennehy, Peterborough Hereford serial killer 2013, triple homicide, attempted murder, unsolved motivation, forensic investigation, homicidal hedonism, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544787Tue, 19 May 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaWoman Smiles at Police Forty Minutes After Stabbing Two Strangers in Daylight: The Triple Homicide Spree of Joanne Dennehy A man's body dressed in a black sequined suit lay face down in a rural ditch outside Peterborough on March 30, 2013. Police...
A man's body dressed in a black sequined suit lay face down in a rural ditch outside Peterborough on March 30, 2013. Police took hours to realize this deliberate arrangement was not accidental-it was a message. Joanne Dennehy had killed three men in ten days and then drove 150 kilometers away to stab two more strangers in broad daylight before her arrest.

In this episode, we trace the investigation that unraveled a serial killer's rampage across England in spring 2013. We examine the contradiction between her stable childhood and the sudden eruption of violence at thirteen, the three victims dumped in separate ditches with calculated precision, and the strangers attacked without motive or warning. Why did someone with no clear traumatic history decide she wanted to "see what it felt like" to kill-and plan nine murders?

Victim: Kevin Lee, Lucas Slaboszewski, John Chapman
Date: March 19-April 1, 2013
Location: Peterborough and Hereford, England
Status: Convicted; Life Sentence Without Parole

- Joanne Dennehy stabbed three men in ten days, then traveled 150 kilometers to attack two complete strangers within hours of her victims' discovery.
- Kevin Lee, her landlord and suspected romantic interest, was found wearing a black sequined dress in a ditch-a deliberate humiliation staged after three coordinated murders.
- Police detained her forty minutes after the second random stabbing attack; she was smiling and flirting with officers, showing euphoria, not panic.
- She sent a text message saying "oops I did it again" after the second murder, admitting the killing in the tone of someone who had made a minor mistake.

Joanne Dennehy, Peterborough Hereford serial killer 2013, triple homicide, attempted murder, unsolved motivation, forensic investigation, homicidal hedonism, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A 71-centimeter katana, gifted as a reward for improving school grades. A 16-year-old, described as polite and cordial, executed his parents and 9-year-old sister in the early hours of March 31, 2000, with over 80 cuts of extreme brutality. The impossible question: how did the model son become a killer in a matter of hours?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that tore the case apart: the collection of knives and books on satanism hidden in his room, the two phone calls he attempted to make to have the crime discovered, and the autopsy that revealed selective amputations. We investigate whether he is truly rehabilitated or if his confession without resistance hides a more disturbing truth about dissociation and lack of empathy.

Victim: Rafael, Mercedes, and María Rabadán
Date: March 31, 2000
Location: Murcia, Spain
Status: Convicted, completed probation (2008)

- More than 80 total cuts on three bodies; the father with 3 fingers amputated and a lethal wound to the neck
- José called the police on April 1 with the exact address to have the crime discovered
- First serious case judged under the Spanish Minor Law; sentenced to only 6 years of confinement
- 2017 documentary where José states "it wasn't me, it was my body," denying emotional responsibility

José Rabadán Pardo, Murcia katana murder, 2000, teenage killer, forensic investigation, brutality, true crime, criminal minds, psychological dissociation, Spanish justice, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545093Tue, 19 May 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe father's katana: how a teenager killed his family: The triple homicide of José Rabadán Pardo in Murcia, Spain. A 71-centimeter katana, gifted as a reward for improving school grades. A 16-year-old, described as polite and cordial, executed...
A 71-centimeter katana, gifted as a reward for improving school grades. A 16-year-old, described as polite and cordial, executed his parents and 9-year-old sister in the early hours of March 31, 2000, with over 80 cuts of extreme brutality. The impossible question: how did the model son become a killer in a matter of hours?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that tore the case apart: the collection of knives and books on satanism hidden in his room, the two phone calls he attempted to make to have the crime discovered, and the autopsy that revealed selective amputations. We investigate whether he is truly rehabilitated or if his confession without resistance hides a more disturbing truth about dissociation and lack of empathy.

Victim: Rafael, Mercedes, and María Rabadán
Date: March 31, 2000
Location: Murcia, Spain
Status: Convicted, completed probation (2008)

- More than 80 total cuts on three bodies; the father with 3 fingers amputated and a lethal wound to the neck
- José called the police on April 1 with the exact address to have the crime discovered
- First serious case judged under the Spanish Minor Law; sentenced to only 6 years of confinement
- 2017 documentary where José states "it wasn't me, it was my body," denying emotional responsibility

José Rabadán Pardo, Murcia katana murder, 2000, teenage killer, forensic investigation, brutality, true crime, criminal minds, psychological dissociation, Spanish justice, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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On the night of December 28, 1992, an obsessed supporting actor walked into the police station and embraced the family of Brazil's most beloved actress. Photographers captured him. No one suspected. The next day, his license plate betrayed him: a piece of duct tape that turned an "L" into an "O."

In this episode, we explore how Guilherme de Pádua and Paula executed the perfect crime in front of dozens of witnesses, but the forensic expert dismantled every lie. Eighteen double-edged stabs, an altered license plate, and an intercepted conversation that says "I'll take care of everything": how did two actors almost escape justice?

Victim: Daniela Pérez
Date: December 28, 1992
Location: Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Status: Convicted; both released before serving 7 years

- The Volkswagen Santana's license plate had duct tape that turned "L" into "O," documented evidence of premeditation from hours before the crime.
- Eighteen double-edged wounds with no defensive injuries on the hands of the accused completely refuted the scissors version.
- Paula was found hidden under a sheet in the back seat during the ambush, contradicting her claim of ignorance.
- Both killers were released before serving seven years in 1999, while Law 8.930 of 1994 came too late for Daniela.

Daniela Pérez, Rio de Janeiro 1992, murder, actress, Brazil, serial killer, forensic, investigation, true crime, mystery, justice, homicide, true crime Spanish

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On the night of December 28, 1992, an obsessed supporting actor walked into the police station and embraced the family of Brazil's most beloved actress. Photographers captured him. No one suspected. The next day, his license plate betrayed him: a piece of duct tape that turned an "L" into an "O."

In this episode, we explore how Guilherme de Pádua and Paula executed the perfect crime in front of dozens of witnesses, but the forensic expert dismantled every lie. Eighteen double-edged stabs, an altered license plate, and an intercepted conversation that says "I'll take care of everything": how did two actors almost escape justice?

Victim: Daniela Pérez
Date: December 28, 1992
Location: Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Status: Convicted; both released before serving 7 years

- The Volkswagen Santana's license plate had duct tape that turned "L" into "O," documented evidence of premeditation from hours before the crime.
- Eighteen double-edged wounds with no defensive injuries on the hands of the accused completely refuted the scissors version.
- Paula was found hidden under a sheet in the back seat during the ambush, contradicting her claim of ignorance.
- Both killers were released before serving seven years in 1999, while Law 8.930 of 1994 came too late for Daniela.

Daniela Pérez, Rio de Janeiro 1992, murder, actress, Brazil, serial killer, forensic, investigation, true crime, mystery, justice, homicide, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A floppy disk arrived at a Wichita television station in February 2005, carrying hidden metadata that would shatter three decades of silence. The man who had terrorized Kansas since 1974 believed technology would protect his anonymity, but one overlooked detail would connect him to ten murders and end his invisible life. How could someone operate with such precision for so long, yet fall to a single computational error?

In this episode, we trace the evolution of a killer obsessed with control and signature, exploring the chasm between the clinical Otero family murders and the chaotic Bright attack, the deliberate taunting letters sent to police and media, and the strange twenty-five-year silence that preceded his fatal mistake. We examine how a municipal code compliance supervisor maintained a dual life as a church leader while meticulously documenting his crimes in office folders, and how DNA evidence from a young victim's sister would eventually seal his fate.

Victim: Josephine Otero, Kevin Bright, Kathryn Bright, Shirley Vian, Nancy Fox, Marine Hedge, Vicki Wegerle, Dolores Davis, and others
Date: January 15, 1974 - February 24, 2005
Location: Wichita, Kansas
Status: Convicted

- Dennis Rader kept Vicki Wegerle's driver's license in his possession for eighteen years before sending photographs of her body to authorities
- The floppy disk metadata revealed the file was created using software registered to Christ Lutheran Church in Park City, where Rader held a leadership position
- Police received a biological sample from Rader's daughter Kerry at a university health center and matched it to DNA from the Otero crime scene thirty-one years later
- The killer personally called emergency dispatch to report Nancy Fox's murder, stayed silent for twenty-five years, then resumed contact only after a thirty-year anniversary newspaper article triggered his compulsion to reengage

Dennis Rader, Wichita Kansas BTK murders, serial killer 1974, true crime, homicide investigation, forensic science, unsolved mysteries, criminal psychology, cold case, DNA evidence, true crime English

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A floppy disk arrived at a Wichita television station in February 2005, carrying hidden metadata that would shatter three decades of silence. The man who had terrorized Kansas since 1974 believed technology would protect his anonymity, but one overlooked detail would connect him to ten murders and end his invisible life. How could someone operate with such precision for so long, yet fall to a single computational error?

In this episode, we trace the evolution of a killer obsessed with control and signature, exploring the chasm between the clinical Otero family murders and the chaotic Bright attack, the deliberate taunting letters sent to police and media, and the strange twenty-five-year silence that preceded his fatal mistake. We examine how a municipal code compliance supervisor maintained a dual life as a church leader while meticulously documenting his crimes in office folders, and how DNA evidence from a young victim's sister would eventually seal his fate.

Victim: Josephine Otero, Kevin Bright, Kathryn Bright, Shirley Vian, Nancy Fox, Marine Hedge, Vicki Wegerle, Dolores Davis, and others
Date: January 15, 1974 - February 24, 2005
Location: Wichita, Kansas
Status: Convicted

- Dennis Rader kept Vicki Wegerle's driver's license in his possession for eighteen years before sending photographs of her body to authorities
- The floppy disk metadata revealed the file was created using software registered to Christ Lutheran Church in Park City, where Rader held a leadership position
- Police received a biological sample from Rader's daughter Kerry at a university health center and matched it to DNA from the Otero crime scene thirty-one years later
- The killer personally called emergency dispatch to report Nancy Fox's murder, stayed silent for twenty-five years, then resumed contact only after a thirty-year anniversary newspaper article triggered his compulsion to reengage

Dennis Rader, Wichita Kansas BTK murders, serial killer 1974, true crime, homicide investigation, forensic science, unsolved mysteries, criminal psychology, cold case, DNA evidence, true crime English

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© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All...]]>1366falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/28-stab-wounds-the-secret-plan-of-two-teenagers--71545090
A knife bought in Bulgaria, WhatsApp messages confessing the intention to kill, and a detailed manuscript of the plan. Two 15-year-olds methodically executed the crime against their 16-year-old classmate in a public park on February 11, 2023, with documented premeditation weeks prior. How did such an elaborate conspiracy go unnoticed in the school system?

In this episode, we explore the devastating contradictions: the poisoning attempts in January, the manuscript that Scarlett wrote in her own hand, the list of five potential victims found in her bedroom, and the messages the night before where one asked if Briana would scream "like a man or like a girl." The brutality of 28 stab wounds revealed a documented obsession with serial killers and a complete absence of remorse after the crime.

Victim: Briana Gay, 16 years old
Date: February 11, 2023
Location: Liner Park, Warrington, United Kingdom
Status: Both perpetrators sentenced to life in prison; appeal denied

- Scarlett sent messages to Eddie on January 23 confirming: "I'm still trying to kill her" after a poisoning attempt a week earlier.
- The night before the crime, Scarlett asked Eddie to bring the knife and described wanting to see "pure horror" on Briana's face.
- A manuscript of the plan was found at Scarlett's home detailing the method of the murder, along with a list of five future victims.
- Eddie admitted to buying the knife in Bulgaria; his blood and Briana's were found on the soles of his shoes; 28 stab wounds to the head, neck, chest, and back.

Briana Gay, Warrington murder, 2023, teenagers, premeditation, investigation, planned crime, WhatsApp, brutality, killers, mysteries, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545090Sun, 17 May 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at Obomedia28 stab wounds: The secret plan of two teenagers: The murder of Briana Gay in Warrington A knife bought in Bulgaria, WhatsApp messages confessing the intention to kill, and a detailed manuscript of the plan. Two 15-year-olds methodically...
A knife bought in Bulgaria, WhatsApp messages confessing the intention to kill, and a detailed manuscript of the plan. Two 15-year-olds methodically executed the crime against their 16-year-old classmate in a public park on February 11, 2023, with documented premeditation weeks prior. How did such an elaborate conspiracy go unnoticed in the school system?

In this episode, we explore the devastating contradictions: the poisoning attempts in January, the manuscript that Scarlett wrote in her own hand, the list of five potential victims found in her bedroom, and the messages the night before where one asked if Briana would scream "like a man or like a girl." The brutality of 28 stab wounds revealed a documented obsession with serial killers and a complete absence of remorse after the crime.

Victim: Briana Gay, 16 years old
Date: February 11, 2023
Location: Liner Park, Warrington, United Kingdom
Status: Both perpetrators sentenced to life in prison; appeal denied

- Scarlett sent messages to Eddie on January 23 confirming: "I'm still trying to kill her" after a poisoning attempt a week earlier.
- The night before the crime, Scarlett asked Eddie to bring the knife and described wanting to see "pure horror" on Briana's face.
- A manuscript of the plan was found at Scarlett's home detailing the method of the murder, along with a list of five future victims.
- Eddie admitted to buying the knife in Bulgaria; his blood and Briana's were found on the soles of his shoes; 28 stab wounds to the head, neck, chest, and back.

Briana Gay, Warrington murder, 2023, teenagers, premeditation, investigation, planned crime, WhatsApp, brutality, killers, mysteries, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>1216falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/buried-alive-in-silence-the-basement-murders--71544785
A couple checks into a widow's home in Grand Rapids, Michigan in early 1949. Within days, the young mother and her two-year-old daughter vanish-their bodies hidden beneath basement concrete that hasn't fully cured. Police arrive to find the killers still inside the house, having gone to the movies just hours before.

This episode explores the partnership between Raymond Fernández and Martha Beck, whose three-year crime spree claimed at least three confirmed victims through marriage fraud that escalated to serial murder. We examine the contradictions that defined them: Fernández's transformation after a near-fatal head injury, Beck's obsessive jealousy that triggered escalating violence, and the psychological rupture that left them unable to flee even when discovery became inevitable. What drove two ordinary people to drown a child and bury a mother in the same basement?

Victim: Delphine Downing, Rainelle Downing
Date: February 26-27, 1949
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Status: Convicted and executed

- Fernández received a severe head injury in 1945 that altered his behavior from calm to manipulative within months
- Beck attempted suicide with gas when Fernández rejected her, then he incorporated her into his murder scheme instead
- The couple remained in the house for 48 hours after the murders, attending a movie while neighbors discovered the fresh concrete
- Rainelle, age two, was drowned in a bucket of water; both bodies were buried with construction materials still visible

Delphine Downing, Rainelle Downing, Grand Rapids Michigan 1949, Lonely Hearts Killers, serial killers, marriage fraud homicide, criminal duo, true crime investigation, unsolved disappearances, forensic evidence, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544785Sun, 17 May 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaThey Buried Two Bodies Under Fresh Concrete While Neighbors Called Police: The Murders of Delphine Downing and Rainelle Downing A couple checks into a widow's home in Grand Rapids, Michigan in early 1949. Within days, the young mother and her...
A couple checks into a widow's home in Grand Rapids, Michigan in early 1949. Within days, the young mother and her two-year-old daughter vanish-their bodies hidden beneath basement concrete that hasn't fully cured. Police arrive to find the killers still inside the house, having gone to the movies just hours before.

This episode explores the partnership between Raymond Fernández and Martha Beck, whose three-year crime spree claimed at least three confirmed victims through marriage fraud that escalated to serial murder. We examine the contradictions that defined them: Fernández's transformation after a near-fatal head injury, Beck's obsessive jealousy that triggered escalating violence, and the psychological rupture that left them unable to flee even when discovery became inevitable. What drove two ordinary people to drown a child and bury a mother in the same basement?

Victim: Delphine Downing, Rainelle Downing
Date: February 26-27, 1949
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Status: Convicted and executed

- Fernández received a severe head injury in 1945 that altered his behavior from calm to manipulative within months
- Beck attempted suicide with gas when Fernández rejected her, then he incorporated her into his murder scheme instead
- The couple remained in the house for 48 hours after the murders, attending a movie while neighbors discovered the fresh concrete
- Rainelle, age two, was drowned in a bucket of water; both bodies were buried with construction materials still visible

Delphine Downing, Rainelle Downing, Grand Rapids Michigan 1949, Lonely Hearts Killers, serial killers, marriage fraud homicide, criminal duo, true crime investigation, unsolved disappearances, forensic evidence, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A woman disappears in the early morning of June 2, 2023, but her cell phone continues to send love messages written in her name. The same man who desperately searched for her had learned to imitate her digital voice - a detail that Cecilia's mother could not ignore. How does one hide a homicide when every search on YouTube, every drop of blood, and every fragmented bone tell the true story?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that dismantled the alibi: flight tickets never purchased, scratches on the accused's neck dated hours after the crime, and a search history on how to kill without leaving traces. César Sena tried to construct the perfect lie, but forensic investigation and digital analysis exposed every crack in his version.

Victim: Cecilia Strowski
Date: June 2, 2023
Location: Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina
Status: Trial scheduled for October 2024

- Security cameras recorded Cecilia entering the Sena residence on June 2, but never leaving the property.
- César searched on YouTube "how to dislocate an arm" on June 1 and "can a revolver use a silencer" on June 4-5 - premeditated searches.
- Messages sent from Cecilia's cell phone after her disappearance showed an impossible tone; her mother recognized they were not written by her daughter.
- Fragmented and burned bone remains were found in Campo Rossi, Tragadero River, and a pigsty; her ring and pendant identified the victim without a complete body.

Cecilia Strowski, Resistencia Chaco femicide 2023, murder, forensic investigation, digital evidence, aggravated femicide, true crime, justice, criminal minds, forced disappearance, true crime Spanish

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545089Sat, 16 May 2026 08:00:04 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe cell phone that accused the murderer of Cecilia: The femicide of Cecilia Strowski in Resistencia, Chaco A woman disappears in the early morning of June 2, 2023, but her cell phone continues to send love messages written in her name. The...
A woman disappears in the early morning of June 2, 2023, but her cell phone continues to send love messages written in her name. The same man who desperately searched for her had learned to imitate her digital voice - a detail that Cecilia's mother could not ignore. How does one hide a homicide when every search on YouTube, every drop of blood, and every fragmented bone tell the true story?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that dismantled the alibi: flight tickets never purchased, scratches on the accused's neck dated hours after the crime, and a search history on how to kill without leaving traces. César Sena tried to construct the perfect lie, but forensic investigation and digital analysis exposed every crack in his version.

Victim: Cecilia Strowski
Date: June 2, 2023
Location: Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina
Status: Trial scheduled for October 2024

- Security cameras recorded Cecilia entering the Sena residence on June 2, but never leaving the property.
- César searched on YouTube "how to dislocate an arm" on June 1 and "can a revolver use a silencer" on June 4-5 - premeditated searches.
- Messages sent from Cecilia's cell phone after her disappearance showed an impossible tone; her mother recognized they were not written by her daughter.
- Fragmented and burned bone remains were found in Campo Rossi, Tragadero River, and a pigsty; her ring and pendant identified the victim without a complete body.

Cecilia Strowski, Resistencia Chaco femicide 2023, murder, forensic investigation, digital evidence, aggravated femicide, true crime, justice, criminal minds, forced disappearance, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For...]]>1440falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mind-behind-the-tower-warnings-no-one-acted-on--71544783
August 1, 1966, 11:48 a.m.-a single shot echoes from the top of a university tower in Austin, Texas. Within minutes, the plaza below transforms into a zone of terror. By the time it ended, forty-five people had been struck by gunfire, and a massacre would rewrite American history forever.

In this episode, we explore the ninety-six minutes of violence, the warning signs that were ignored by a psychiatrist months before, and the contradiction that haunts investigators to this day: how did a man with documented violent impulses, a history of domestic abuse, and elite military marksmanship training walk into a public building with over a thousand rounds of ammunition and no one stopped him? We reconstruct the decisions, the failures, and the evidence that suggests something was happening inside his brain that neither medical professionals nor his own family understood in time.

Victim: Charles Joseph Whitman (perpetrator), Margaret Whitman, Kathleen Whitman, and 14 others
Date: August 1, 1966
Location: University of Texas Tower, Austin, Texas
Status: Deceased (killed by police at 1:24 p.m.)

- Whitman told a university psychiatrist in March 1966 that he wanted to climb the tower and shoot people from above; the psychiatrist documented it but escalated to no authority
- The night before the attack, Whitman wrote a detailed note requesting a brain autopsy and explicitly acknowledged violent impulses he could not control
- Autopsy revealed a malignant tumor in his hypothalamus, the brain region regulating impulse control and aggression, yet he still meticulously planned the massacre with over a thousand rounds and survival provisions
- Whitman murdered his mother and wife with a bayonet hours before the shooting, then wrote the time of death on paper while expressing that he loved them

Charles Whitman, Austin Texas 1966, mass shooting, tower sniper, homicide, true crime investigation, unsolved debate brain tumor violence, forensic autopsy, institutional failure, true crime English

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August 1, 1966, 11:48 a.m.-a single shot echoes from the top of a university tower in Austin, Texas. Within minutes, the plaza below transforms into a zone of terror. By the time it ended, forty-five people had been struck by gunfire, and a massacre would rewrite American history forever.

In this episode, we explore the ninety-six minutes of violence, the warning signs that were ignored by a psychiatrist months before, and the contradiction that haunts investigators to this day: how did a man with documented violent impulses, a history of domestic abuse, and elite military marksmanship training walk into a public building with over a thousand rounds of ammunition and no one stopped him? We reconstruct the decisions, the failures, and the evidence that suggests something was happening inside his brain that neither medical professionals nor his own family understood in time.

Victim: Charles Joseph Whitman (perpetrator), Margaret Whitman, Kathleen Whitman, and 14 others
Date: August 1, 1966
Location: University of Texas Tower, Austin, Texas
Status: Deceased (killed by police at 1:24 p.m.)

- Whitman told a university psychiatrist in March 1966 that he wanted to climb the tower and shoot people from above; the psychiatrist documented it but escalated to no authority
- The night before the attack, Whitman wrote a detailed note requesting a brain autopsy and explicitly acknowledged violent impulses he could not control
- Autopsy revealed a malignant tumor in his hypothalamus, the brain region regulating impulse control and aggression, yet he still meticulously planned the massacre with over a thousand rounds and survival provisions
- Whitman murdered his mother and wife with a bayonet hours before the shooting, then wrote the time of death on paper while expressing that he loved them

Charles Whitman, Austin Texas 1966, mass shooting, tower sniper, homicide, true crime investigation, unsolved debate brain tumor violence, forensic autopsy, institutional failure, true crime English

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November twenty-third, two thousand four. A university student buys a sandwich near campus and heads to the parking lot where she always parks her white Nissan Sunny. She never makes it home. Twenty-four hours later, her father and brother search that same parking lot, shake hands with the night security guard, ask him questions-unaware that their daughter's body is in the trunk of her car, parked just blocks away. This is the story of how a serial killer crossed the Atlantic with a erased record and came face to face with his victim's family.

We explore the impossible timeline of María Isabel's final hours, the physical evidence that contradicted the guard's alibi, and the critical communication failure between Ecuador and Spain that allowed a convicted murderer to walk free. How did eight prior murders go unshared with European authorities? Why did no one know that the man working the Lauren Cinemas parking lot was known in Ecuador as the Monster of Machala?

Victim: María Isabel Bascuñana
Date: November 23-24, 2004
Location: Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
Status: Solved

- The driver's seat was pushed back to fit someone taller than María Isabel, yet the guard claimed he never touched her vehicle
- Her mobile phone was used to call an erotic line six minutes after she died, from her own body
- The industrial garbage bag covering her corpse came exclusively from the cleaning supply list for that specific parking lot
- The security guard shook the father's hand in the parking lot on the morning her body lay hidden nearby

María Isabel Bascuñana, Lleida murder, Gilberto Chamba Jaramillo, Ecuador serial killer, 2004 homicide, DNA evidence, strangling, rape, serial killers, investigation, criminal records, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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November twenty-third, two thousand four. A university student buys a sandwich near campus and heads to the parking lot where she always parks her white Nissan Sunny. She never makes it home. Twenty-four hours later, her father and brother search that same parking lot, shake hands with the night security guard, ask him questions-unaware that their daughter's body is in the trunk of her car, parked just blocks away. This is the story of how a serial killer crossed the Atlantic with a erased record and came face to face with his victim's family.

We explore the impossible timeline of María Isabel's final hours, the physical evidence that contradicted the guard's alibi, and the critical communication failure between Ecuador and Spain that allowed a convicted murderer to walk free. How did eight prior murders go unshared with European authorities? Why did no one know that the man working the Lauren Cinemas parking lot was known in Ecuador as the Monster of Machala?

Victim: María Isabel Bascuñana
Date: November 23-24, 2004
Location: Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
Status: Solved

- The driver's seat was pushed back to fit someone taller than María Isabel, yet the guard claimed he never touched her vehicle
- Her mobile phone was used to call an erotic line six minutes after she died, from her own body
- The industrial garbage bag covering her corpse came exclusively from the cleaning supply list for that specific parking lot
- The security guard shook the father's hand in the parking lot on the morning her body lay hidden nearby

María Isabel Bascuñana, Lleida murder, Gilberto Chamba Jaramillo, Ecuador serial killer, 2004 homicide, DNA evidence, strangling, rape, serial killers, investigation, criminal records, true crime English

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Three in the morning, garage of a house in Rio de Janeiro. 30 shots concentrated in the genital region and groin, one at close range near the ear. The only witness: his wife, Flordelis dos Santos, a national congresswoman and evangelical pastor who had just lost her parliamentary immunity. A week later, at the wake, the police arrest two of her children.

In this episode, we explore how a woman who adopted 55 minors and built a religious empire ended up sentenced to 50 years in prison. We unravel the impossible contradiction between six attempts of arsenic poisoning (misdiagnosed as gastroenteritis), a missing cell phone, and testimonies that reveal who really controlled the church's money. Was Flordelis the mastermind or was she protecting her children from the perfect crime?

Victim: Anderson do Carmo
Date: June 16, 2019
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Status: Sentenced to 50 years and 28 days in prison

- Six documented episodes of arsenic poisoning between May 2018 and June 2019, all misdiagnosed as gastroenteritis.
- Anderson's cell phone was never found, corroborating the notebook where Flordelis noted plans to destroy it and throw it off the Rio-Niterói Bridge.
- Flordelis did not initially remember the number of shots; a week later, with her son detained, she cited exactly six shots, matching word for word with his testimony.
- Internet searches by her daughters about arsenic, and documented funding of the murder weapon directly from accounts controlled by Flordelis.

Anderson do Carmo, Rio de Janeiro, congresswoman pastor, murder 2019, killer, true crime, investigation, mystery, criminal minds, poisoning, justice, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545087Fri, 15 May 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at Obomedia55 children, a dead pastor, and 30 shots of revenge: The murder of Anderson do Carmo Three in the morning, garage of a house in Rio de Janeiro. 30 shots concentrated in the genital region and groin, one at close range near the ear. The only...
Three in the morning, garage of a house in Rio de Janeiro. 30 shots concentrated in the genital region and groin, one at close range near the ear. The only witness: his wife, Flordelis dos Santos, a national congresswoman and evangelical pastor who had just lost her parliamentary immunity. A week later, at the wake, the police arrest two of her children.

In this episode, we explore how a woman who adopted 55 minors and built a religious empire ended up sentenced to 50 years in prison. We unravel the impossible contradiction between six attempts of arsenic poisoning (misdiagnosed as gastroenteritis), a missing cell phone, and testimonies that reveal who really controlled the church's money. Was Flordelis the mastermind or was she protecting her children from the perfect crime?

Victim: Anderson do Carmo
Date: June 16, 2019
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Status: Sentenced to 50 years and 28 days in prison

- Six documented episodes of arsenic poisoning between May 2018 and June 2019, all misdiagnosed as gastroenteritis.
- Anderson's cell phone was never found, corroborating the notebook where Flordelis noted plans to destroy it and throw it off the Rio-Niterói Bridge.
- Flordelis did not initially remember the number of shots; a week later, with her son detained, she cited exactly six shots, matching word for word with his testimony.
- Internet searches by her daughters about arsenic, and documented funding of the murder weapon directly from accounts controlled by Flordelis.

Anderson do Carmo, Rio de Janeiro, congresswoman pastor, murder 2019, killer, true crime, investigation, mystery, criminal minds, poisoning, justice, true crime Spanish

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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October 2013. A green recycling bin disappears from the woods behind a school in Massachusetts. Inside, the body of Colleen Ritzer, a 24-year-old math teacher. The impossible question: who entered that school with gloves, a mask, and a hidden cutter, committed a crime in the bathroom, and then calmly went to the movies?

In this episode, we explore every minute of October 22, 2013: the bags prepared in the locker, the verbal confrontation that triggered everything, the recordings that document every movement from the classroom to the woods, and how Philip Chism -only 14 years old- managed to behave with superhuman calm while the police searched for the missing woman. The defense claimed a psychotic break; the prosecution presented evidence of completely calculated acts. How can someone commit such a brutal act and then have a hamburger for dinner as if nothing had happened?

Victim: Colleen Ritzer
Date: October 22, 2013
Location: Danvers, Massachusetts, USA
Status: Sentenced to 40 years in prison without the possibility of parole

- Philip entered the school with bags containing latex gloves, a cutter, a mask, and spare clothes: irrefutable evidence of premeditation.
- A female student saw Philip naked in the women's bathroom minutes after the attack but did not alert anyone, believing he was simply changing for sports practice.
- The security cameras recorded every step: Colleen entering the bathroom, Philip one minute later with gloves, leaving without her, carrying a container into the woods.
- That night, Philip used Colleen's stolen credit card to buy a hamburger and watch the movie Gravity at the cinema while the police were searching for him.

Philip Chism, Danvers Massachusetts teacher murder, October 2013, forensic investigation, criminal minds, premeditated murder, criminal suspense, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545086Thu, 14 May 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe student who dined after killing his teacher: The murder of Colleen Ritzer October 2013. A green recycling bin disappears from the woods behind a school in Massachusetts. Inside, the body of Colleen Ritzer, a 24-year-old math teacher. The...
October 2013. A green recycling bin disappears from the woods behind a school in Massachusetts. Inside, the body of Colleen Ritzer, a 24-year-old math teacher. The impossible question: who entered that school with gloves, a mask, and a hidden cutter, committed a crime in the bathroom, and then calmly went to the movies?

In this episode, we explore every minute of October 22, 2013: the bags prepared in the locker, the verbal confrontation that triggered everything, the recordings that document every movement from the classroom to the woods, and how Philip Chism -only 14 years old- managed to behave with superhuman calm while the police searched for the missing woman. The defense claimed a psychotic break; the prosecution presented evidence of completely calculated acts. How can someone commit such a brutal act and then have a hamburger for dinner as if nothing had happened?

Victim: Colleen Ritzer
Date: October 22, 2013
Location: Danvers, Massachusetts, USA
Status: Sentenced to 40 years in prison without the possibility of parole

- Philip entered the school with bags containing latex gloves, a cutter, a mask, and spare clothes: irrefutable evidence of premeditation.
- A female student saw Philip naked in the women's bathroom minutes after the attack but did not alert anyone, believing he was simply changing for sports practice.
- The security cameras recorded every step: Colleen entering the bathroom, Philip one minute later with gloves, leaving without her, carrying a container into the woods.
- That night, Philip used Colleen's stolen credit card to buy a hamburger and watch the movie Gravity at the cinema while the police were searching for him.

Philip Chism, Danvers Massachusetts teacher murder, October 2013, forensic investigation, criminal minds, premeditated murder, criminal suspense, true crime Spanish

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>1136falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/killer-hides-in-plain-sight-for-two-months-before-shooting-versace-on-his-own-steps--71544780
On a Tuesday morning in July 1997, fashion icon Gianni Versace climbed the marble steps of his Miami Beach mansion and was shot twice in the back of the neck. His killer had been in the city for weeks, his wanted photograph posted throughout the area. Yet no one stopped him.

In this episode, we trace the eighty-one-day trail of violence that led to Versace's death. From a hammer attack in Minneapolis to a stolen truck in New Jersey, we examine the contradictions that defined Andrew Cunanan's escape: meticulous planning alongside careless exposure, a fugitive moving freely while the entire city hunted him, and a killer who carried newspaper clippings documenting his own crimes.

Victim: Gianni Versace
Date: July 15, 1997
Location: Miami Beach, Florida
Status: Unsolved motive

- Jeffrey Trail received twenty-seven hammer blows in an apartment while neighbors heard only whispers and barking
- Cunanan presented his real passport at a Miami pawnshop for fifty dollars, leaving his address with the clerk
- The same .40 caliber Taurus pistol traveled across five states through five murders in eighty-one days
- Cunanan left his passport, identification, and newspaper clippings about his own crimes in the truck parked meters from the murder scene

Gianni Versace, Miami Beach, 1997, fashion designer murder, serial killer, narcissistic collapse, manhunt, unsolved mysteries, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544780Thu, 14 May 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaKiller Hides in Plain Sight for Two Months Before Shooting Versace on His Own Steps: The Murder of Gianni Versace On a Tuesday morning in July 1997, fashion icon Gianni Versace climbed the marble steps of his Miami Beach mansion and was shot twice...
On a Tuesday morning in July 1997, fashion icon Gianni Versace climbed the marble steps of his Miami Beach mansion and was shot twice in the back of the neck. His killer had been in the city for weeks, his wanted photograph posted throughout the area. Yet no one stopped him.

In this episode, we trace the eighty-one-day trail of violence that led to Versace's death. From a hammer attack in Minneapolis to a stolen truck in New Jersey, we examine the contradictions that defined Andrew Cunanan's escape: meticulous planning alongside careless exposure, a fugitive moving freely while the entire city hunted him, and a killer who carried newspaper clippings documenting his own crimes.

Victim: Gianni Versace
Date: July 15, 1997
Location: Miami Beach, Florida
Status: Unsolved motive

- Jeffrey Trail received twenty-seven hammer blows in an apartment while neighbors heard only whispers and barking
- Cunanan presented his real passport at a Miami pawnshop for fifty dollars, leaving his address with the clerk
- The same .40 caliber Taurus pistol traveled across five states through five murders in eighty-one days
- Cunanan left his passport, identification, and newspaper clippings about his own crimes in the truck parked meters from the murder scene

Gianni Versace, Miami Beach, 1997, fashion designer murder, serial killer, narcissistic collapse, manhunt, unsolved mysteries, true crime English

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An anti-fire helicopter discovered in June 2014 a burned car without license plates buried in a remote pine forest in Galicia. A fragmented skull lies 95 meters away. Four years earlier, a German farmer disappeared without leaving any digital or banking trace after claiming rights over a communal forest that his only neighbors had concealed.

In this episode, we explore the gap between the spontaneous confession of a suspect with intellectual disabilities and his subsequent retraction, the impossible 18-kilometer walk that connects his brother to the crime, and the prior recordings where another Rodríguez threatened to kill the Dutchman if he did not leave the village. Who really fired the 12-gauge shotgun that January morning?

Victim: Martín Berfonder
Date: January 19, 2010
Location: Santoalla, Orense, Galicia
Status: Convicted (2018)

- A life insurance policy taken out by Martín months before the crime named his wife as the sole beneficiary.
- The hard drives of Martín's computer, burned along with the vehicle, contained daily recordings of explicit threats against his life.
- Juan Carlos spontaneously confesses to agents disguised as farmers, then denies everything in May 2015, arguing a 65 percent intellectual disability.
- Julio claims to have found the body by chance, but the police consider it impossible for him to have walked 18 kilometers back without an accomplice.

Martín Berfonder, Santoalla Galicia murder, 2010, 12-gauge shotgun, forensic investigation, unsolved mystery, rural crime, communal conflict, Spanish justice, Spanish true crime

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An anti-fire helicopter discovered in June 2014 a burned car without license plates buried in a remote pine forest in Galicia. A fragmented skull lies 95 meters away. Four years earlier, a German farmer disappeared without leaving any digital or banking trace after claiming rights over a communal forest that his only neighbors had concealed.

In this episode, we explore the gap between the spontaneous confession of a suspect with intellectual disabilities and his subsequent retraction, the impossible 18-kilometer walk that connects his brother to the crime, and the prior recordings where another Rodríguez threatened to kill the Dutchman if he did not leave the village. Who really fired the 12-gauge shotgun that January morning?

Victim: Martín Berfonder
Date: January 19, 2010
Location: Santoalla, Orense, Galicia
Status: Convicted (2018)

- A life insurance policy taken out by Martín months before the crime named his wife as the sole beneficiary.
- The hard drives of Martín's computer, burned along with the vehicle, contained daily recordings of explicit threats against his life.
- Juan Carlos spontaneously confesses to agents disguised as farmers, then denies everything in May 2015, arguing a 65 percent intellectual disability.
- Julio claims to have found the body by chance, but the police consider it impossible for him to have walked 18 kilometers back without an accomplice.

Martín Berfonder, Santoalla Galicia murder, 2010, 12-gauge shotgun, forensic investigation, unsolved mystery, rural crime, communal conflict, Spanish justice, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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On a January afternoon in 1992, a teenager walked into a press conference in Quito and calmly described murdering fifteen people. What shocked Ecuador more was the impossible question no one could answer: how did a minor obtain weapons directly from active-duty police officers while those same officers hunted him?

This episode explores the rise of the Boy of Terror-a photographic-memory killer who orchestrated taxi driver executions across Quito while corrupt officers supplied his arsenal. We examine the broken chain of custody, the undercover sting that triggered a fatal confrontation, and the institutional collapse that allowed him to escape from custody and kill again.

Victim: Juan Fernando Hermosa Suárez (perpetrator)
Date: November 1991 - January 1992
Location: Quito, Ecuador
Status: Captured January 14, 1992

- Two active-duty police officers, Wilson Romero Vicuña and Rafael Pucha Isela, directly sold weapons to the teenage gang leader while the police hunted him
- Hermosa's adoptive mother, Zoila Amada Suárez, was killed in crossfire during his arrest-struck by 19 to 20 bullets from multiple directions, making it impossible to determine which officer's bullet caused her death
- A plastic gun smuggled by his girlfriend allowed Hermosa to shoot Sergeant Ángel Sailema five times and escape from juvenile detention with ten other minors-yet he was never formally charged for that murder
- Hermosa was recaptured in Colombia three months later but returned to the system without additional judicial consequences for the prison escape or the guard's death

Juan Fernando Hermosa Suárez, Quito Ecuador taxi driver murders 1991 1992, serial killer, homicide investigation, antisocial personality disorder, police corruption, true crime, criminal minds, unsolved mysteries, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544779Wed, 13 May 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaFifteen-Year-Old Confesses to Fifteen Murders as Police Watch in Stunned Silence: The Serial Killings of Juan Fernando Hermosa Suárez On a January afternoon in 1992, a teenager walked into a press conference in Quito and calmly described murdering...
On a January afternoon in 1992, a teenager walked into a press conference in Quito and calmly described murdering fifteen people. What shocked Ecuador more was the impossible question no one could answer: how did a minor obtain weapons directly from active-duty police officers while those same officers hunted him?

This episode explores the rise of the Boy of Terror-a photographic-memory killer who orchestrated taxi driver executions across Quito while corrupt officers supplied his arsenal. We examine the broken chain of custody, the undercover sting that triggered a fatal confrontation, and the institutional collapse that allowed him to escape from custody and kill again.

Victim: Juan Fernando Hermosa Suárez (perpetrator)
Date: November 1991 - January 1992
Location: Quito, Ecuador
Status: Captured January 14, 1992

- Two active-duty police officers, Wilson Romero Vicuña and Rafael Pucha Isela, directly sold weapons to the teenage gang leader while the police hunted him
- Hermosa's adoptive mother, Zoila Amada Suárez, was killed in crossfire during his arrest-struck by 19 to 20 bullets from multiple directions, making it impossible to determine which officer's bullet caused her death
- A plastic gun smuggled by his girlfriend allowed Hermosa to shoot Sergeant Ángel Sailema five times and escape from juvenile detention with ten other minors-yet he was never formally charged for that murder
- Hermosa was recaptured in Colombia three months later but returned to the system without additional judicial consequences for the prison escape or the guard's death

Juan Fernando Hermosa Suárez, Quito Ecuador taxi driver murders 1991 1992, serial killer, homicide investigation, antisocial personality disorder, police corruption, true crime, criminal minds, unsolved mysteries, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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A 23-year-old pregnant woman is found dead with a strap around her neck. The Stoughton police close the case as a suicide within weeks. The problem: the lead detective is the one she had reported as the father of the baby, and he was the one who requested the access code to the building days before. How can an entire institution bury a crime for three years?

In this episode, we explore how 32,000 text messages were hidden by the department, how a broken necklace contradicts the official version, and why three minutes between Sandra's phone and Matthew's statement places him at the murder scene. A forensic investigation by the FBI reveals cervical fractures inconsistent with female strangulation and uncovers an unsupervised mentoring program where multiple officers maintained relationships with minors for years.

Victim: Sandra Birchmore
Date: February 4, 2021
Location: Stoughton, Massachusetts
Status: Matthew Farwell arrested August 28, 2024; trial pending

- Lobby cameras manipulated with a 13-minute delay to conceal Matthew's exit
- Last activity of Sandra's iPhone at 9:40 PM; Matthew claimed to leave at 9:43 PM with her alive
- Dr. Michael Baden confirms cervical fracture consistent with strangulation, not suicide
- Phone handed over to the department "with no messages"; FBI extracted 32,000 from the same device

Sandra Birchmore, Stoughton Massachusetts, homicide, police cover-up, murder, investigation, forensic, justice, corruption, witness, 2021, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545083Tue, 12 May 2026 08:00:09 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe detective who did not investigate her colleague: The murder of Sandra Birchmore A 23-year-old pregnant woman is found dead with a strap around her neck. The Stoughton police close the case as a suicide within weeks. The problem: the lead...
A 23-year-old pregnant woman is found dead with a strap around her neck. The Stoughton police close the case as a suicide within weeks. The problem: the lead detective is the one she had reported as the father of the baby, and he was the one who requested the access code to the building days before. How can an entire institution bury a crime for three years?

In this episode, we explore how 32,000 text messages were hidden by the department, how a broken necklace contradicts the official version, and why three minutes between Sandra's phone and Matthew's statement places him at the murder scene. A forensic investigation by the FBI reveals cervical fractures inconsistent with female strangulation and uncovers an unsupervised mentoring program where multiple officers maintained relationships with minors for years.

Victim: Sandra Birchmore
Date: February 4, 2021
Location: Stoughton, Massachusetts
Status: Matthew Farwell arrested August 28, 2024; trial pending

- Lobby cameras manipulated with a 13-minute delay to conceal Matthew's exit
- Last activity of Sandra's iPhone at 9:40 PM; Matthew claimed to leave at 9:43 PM with her alive
- Dr. Michael Baden confirms cervical fracture consistent with strangulation, not suicide
- Phone handed over to the department "with no messages"; FBI extracted 32,000 from the same device

Sandra Birchmore, Stoughton Massachusetts, homicide, police cover-up, murder, investigation, forensic, justice, corruption, witness, 2021, true crime Spanish

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A seven-month-old infant discovered dead in a closet. Hours later, his mother and her adoptive father shot dead in Connecticut, nine hundred kilometers away. The killer: Katy Fusco's biological father-the same man who fathered her child through incest. A young woman's search for her roots on social media led her into the hands of a predator the system knew about but could not stop.

We explore how an eleven-year-old girl's diary confession went ignored, how a public wedding with photographic evidence failed to accelerate charges, and how a judge reduced Steven Playdoll's bail from one million dollars to twenty-eight thousand without explanation-the decision that sealed three fates. The investigation reconstructs the hours before Bennett's murder, the phone call that triggered Steven's plan, and the systemic failures that left a vulnerable adoptee and her family defenseless.

Victim: Katy Fusco, Bennett Playdoll, Anthony Fusco
Date: April 11-12, 2018
Location: Enrico, Virginia; North Carolina; New Milford, Connecticut
Status: Closed (perpetrator deceased)

- Seven-month-old Bennett was handed to his father under the pretext of a video call, then strangled and placed in a closet
- Katy called Steven on April 11 demanding divorce and custody, triggering a sequence he had already planned
- An eleven-year-old half-sister's diary revealing the incestuous pregnancy was deemed insufficient evidence by authorities in May 2017
- Steven's bail was reduced from one million to twenty-eight thousand dollars with no public explanation recorded

Katy Fusco, Bennett Playdoll, Anthony Fusco, incest, adoption, Connecticut murder, Virginia, 2018, genetic sexual attraction, systemic failure, predatory control, homicide investigation, true crime English

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544778Tue, 12 May 2026 08:00:09 +0000Creator at ObomediaBaby Found Strangled in Closet as Father Kills Mother Nine Hundred Miles Away: The Triple Homicide of Katy Fusco A seven-month-old infant discovered dead in a closet. Hours later, his mother and her adoptive father shot dead in Connecticut, nine...
A seven-month-old infant discovered dead in a closet. Hours later, his mother and her adoptive father shot dead in Connecticut, nine hundred kilometers away. The killer: Katy Fusco's biological father-the same man who fathered her child through incest. A young woman's search for her roots on social media led her into the hands of a predator the system knew about but could not stop.

We explore how an eleven-year-old girl's diary confession went ignored, how a public wedding with photographic evidence failed to accelerate charges, and how a judge reduced Steven Playdoll's bail from one million dollars to twenty-eight thousand without explanation-the decision that sealed three fates. The investigation reconstructs the hours before Bennett's murder, the phone call that triggered Steven's plan, and the systemic failures that left a vulnerable adoptee and her family defenseless.

Victim: Katy Fusco, Bennett Playdoll, Anthony Fusco
Date: April 11-12, 2018
Location: Enrico, Virginia; North Carolina; New Milford, Connecticut
Status: Closed (perpetrator deceased)

- Seven-month-old Bennett was handed to his father under the pretext of a video call, then strangled and placed in a closet
- Katy called Steven on April 11 demanding divorce and custody, triggering a sequence he had already planned
- An eleven-year-old half-sister's diary revealing the incestuous pregnancy was deemed insufficient evidence by authorities in May 2017
- Steven's bail was reduced from one million to twenty-eight thousand dollars with no public explanation recorded

Katy Fusco, Bennett Playdoll, Anthony Fusco, incest, adoption, Connecticut murder, Virginia, 2018, genetic sexual attraction, systemic failure, predatory control, homicide investigation, true crime English

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A woman lived 1,400 days with the bodies of her parents while imitating their voices over the phone, sending text messages in their name, and collecting their pensions. In September 2023, everything collapsed in less than 60 seconds when she spontaneously confessed to the police, pointing directly to the concrete mausoleum where she hid the corpses.

In this episode, we explore how Virginia deceived four sisters, neighbors, doctors, and authorities for nearly four years using ten mobile phones and multiple SIM cards. We examine the ignored signals—from the general practitioner to the television landlord—and the central question that lingers: why did she confess immediately when the police arrived at her door on September 15, 2023?

Victim: John Molic and Lois Molic
Date: June 17-18, 2019
Location: Essex, England
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment, minimum 36 years (October 2024)

- Virginia administered a lethal dose of medication to her father John on the night of June 17, after buying a knife and tools to crush drugs in May.
- She attacked her mother Lois with a hammer and knife (eight stab wounds) the next day, then impersonated her to notify that both "went on a trip."
- She defrauded ~£150,000 in state pension and teacher's pension over four years using 10 phones and notes on which to use with each contact.
- The general practitioner noticed that John was not picking up his usual prescription after cancellations managed by Virginia, triggering the formal investigation that culminated in the search warrant.

Virginia Molic, Essex, parricide, fraud, 2019, serial murder, investigation, forensic, identity theft, criminal minds, homicide, true crime,

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545081Mon, 11 May 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaFour years alongside the corpses: Virginia's confession: The parricide and fraud of Virginia Molic in Essex A woman lived 1,400 days with the bodies of her parents while imitating their voices over the phone, sending text messages in their...
A woman lived 1,400 days with the bodies of her parents while imitating their voices over the phone, sending text messages in their name, and collecting their pensions. In September 2023, everything collapsed in less than 60 seconds when she spontaneously confessed to the police, pointing directly to the concrete mausoleum where she hid the corpses.

In this episode, we explore how Virginia deceived four sisters, neighbors, doctors, and authorities for nearly four years using ten mobile phones and multiple SIM cards. We examine the ignored signals—from the general practitioner to the television landlord—and the central question that lingers: why did she confess immediately when the police arrived at her door on September 15, 2023?

Victim: John Molic and Lois Molic
Date: June 17-18, 2019
Location: Essex, England
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment, minimum 36 years (October 2024)

- Virginia administered a lethal dose of medication to her father John on the night of June 17, after buying a knife and tools to crush drugs in May.
- She attacked her mother Lois with a hammer and knife (eight stab wounds) the next day, then impersonated her to notify that both "went on a trip."
- She defrauded ~£150,000 in state pension and teacher's pension over four years using 10 phones and notes on which to use with each contact.
- The general practitioner noticed that John was not picking up his usual prescription after cancellations managed by Virginia, triggering the formal investigation that culminated in the search warrant.

Virginia Molic, Essex, parricide, fraud, 2019, serial murder, investigation, forensic, identity theft, criminal minds, homicide, true crime,

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A sixteen-year-old girl arrived as a summer guest and disappeared into a basement for four months while dozens watched. Over one hundred wounds covered her body by the time she stopped breathing on October twenty-sixth, nineteen sixty-five. The question that haunts this case is not who hurt her-it is why an entire neighborhood became silent accomplices to her destruction.

We examine the four-month escalation from a delayed payment to systematic torture, the moment a nurse entered the house and chose not to look, and the deliberate letter Gertrude Baniszewski prepared hours before Sylvia's death-before anyone else knew she would die. This case breaks the Milgram obedience framework and exposes something darker: collective failure with names and addresses.

Victim: Sylvia Marie Likens
Date: June-October 1965
Location: 3850 East New York Street, Indianapolis, Indiana
Status: Homicide (starvation, severe brain contusion)

- Gertrude Baniszewski reacted to a single late payment with immediate physical violence, suggesting prior patterns of cruelty, not exceptions.
- A neighbor witnessed visible marks and a black eye but did not call police; a nurse arrived on October fifteenth and left without descending to the basement.
- Gertrude dictated a false letter blaming strangers hours before Sylvia died, indicating premeditation rather than panic or loss of control.
- The autopsy revealed injuries in different stages of healing-cigarette burns, bruises, scalding marks-clinically proving sustained torture over weeks, not a single event.

Sylvia Marie Likens, Indianapolis basement, homicide investigation, true crime, murder, unsolved failures, forensic evidence, serial abuse, criminal minds, neighborhood negligence, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A sixteen-year-old girl arrived as a summer guest and disappeared into a basement for four months while dozens watched. Over one hundred wounds covered her body by the time she stopped breathing on October twenty-sixth, nineteen sixty-five. The question that haunts this case is not who hurt her-it is why an entire neighborhood became silent accomplices to her destruction.

We examine the four-month escalation from a delayed payment to systematic torture, the moment a nurse entered the house and chose not to look, and the deliberate letter Gertrude Baniszewski prepared hours before Sylvia's death-before anyone else knew she would die. This case breaks the Milgram obedience framework and exposes something darker: collective failure with names and addresses.

Victim: Sylvia Marie Likens
Date: June-October 1965
Location: 3850 East New York Street, Indianapolis, Indiana
Status: Homicide (starvation, severe brain contusion)

- Gertrude Baniszewski reacted to a single late payment with immediate physical violence, suggesting prior patterns of cruelty, not exceptions.
- A neighbor witnessed visible marks and a black eye but did not call police; a nurse arrived on October fifteenth and left without descending to the basement.
- Gertrude dictated a false letter blaming strangers hours before Sylvia died, indicating premeditation rather than panic or loss of control.
- The autopsy revealed injuries in different stages of healing-cigarette burns, bruises, scalding marks-clinically proving sustained torture over weeks, not a single event.

Sylvia Marie Likens, Indianapolis basement, homicide investigation, true crime, murder, unsolved failures, forensic evidence, serial abuse, criminal minds, neighborhood negligence, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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Lima, February nineteen eighty-six. A psychologist emerges from an interrogation room declaring he has saved humanity. Behind him lies a dead man, strangled with a belt. Yet no one could answer then, or ever would answer later: was that man truly guilty of the twenty dismembered bodies found across the city?

In this episode, we explore the fractures in a case that collapsed under the weight of circumstantial evidence, psychiatric contradiction, and a psychologist's unilateral decision. What was the real connection between the prison release dates and the murder timeline? Why would a psychologist risk everything on a confession that never came? And how did a man sentenced to twelve years walk free in less than five?

Victim: Ángel Díaz Balbín
Location: Lima, Peru
Date: February 1986
Status: Murdered in custody by interrogating psychologist; case remains unresolved

- Twenty dismembered bodies found in dumps across Lima, all exhibiting identical surgical precision with saw cuts at specific joints
- Psychologist Mario Polly obtained no confession before the February ninth deadline when lack of evidence required release
- Five psychiatric specialists diagnosed Díaz Balbín with paranoid schizophrenia; Polly publicly called him a psychopath without clinical evaluation
- Polly was sentenced to twelve years for homicide but released after four years and eight months with no public explanation

Ángel Díaz Balbín, Lima ripper, Peru 1986, unsolved murders, psychologist interrogation, paranoid schizophrenia, homicide investigation, forensic science, serial killer theory, true crime English

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Lima, February nineteen eighty-six. A psychologist emerges from an interrogation room declaring he has saved humanity. Behind him lies a dead man, strangled with a belt. Yet no one could answer then, or ever would answer later: was that man truly guilty of the twenty dismembered bodies found across the city?

In this episode, we explore the fractures in a case that collapsed under the weight of circumstantial evidence, psychiatric contradiction, and a psychologist's unilateral decision. What was the real connection between the prison release dates and the murder timeline? Why would a psychologist risk everything on a confession that never came? And how did a man sentenced to twelve years walk free in less than five?

Victim: Ángel Díaz Balbín
Location: Lima, Peru
Date: February 1986
Status: Murdered in custody by interrogating psychologist; case remains unresolved

- Twenty dismembered bodies found in dumps across Lima, all exhibiting identical surgical precision with saw cuts at specific joints
- Psychologist Mario Polly obtained no confession before the February ninth deadline when lack of evidence required release
- Five psychiatric specialists diagnosed Díaz Balbín with paranoid schizophrenia; Polly publicly called him a psychopath without clinical evaluation
- Polly was sentenced to twelve years for homicide but released after four years and eight months with no public explanation

Ángel Díaz Balbín, Lima ripper, Peru 1986, unsolved murders, psychologist interrogation, paranoid schizophrenia, homicide investigation, forensic science, serial killer theory, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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In the early morning of December 29, 2016, four people died in a house in Temuco: Ginny Sandoval was stabbed to death and three of her children were trapped in the fire that followed. An autopsy reveals that she was stabbed before the fire. The impossible: the police cleaned the scene before declaring it a homicide, erasing irreversible evidence.

In this episode, we explore how the emergency operator ignored four calls, how an unrelated ID was lost inside a patrol car, and how the prosecutor took six months to review the victim's phone. The trial faced a retracted confession against cell phone geolocation. In the end, a 30-year sentence without benefits, but it was never clarified who owned that ID found at the scene.

Victim: Ginny Sandoval Reyes
Date: December 29, 2016
Location: Temuco, Chile
Status: Sentenced to 30 years (simple homicide + arson)

- The court dismissed the theory of "three or four suspects" that the defense never identified, despite publicly accusing them.
- An ID unrelated to the victims was found at the scene and lost by an official; it was never processed or identified.
- Tolosa Yanqui confessed to the PDI and then retracted, claiming pressures that the court did not validate; the conviction rests on geolocation and contradictions.
- The police ordered the house to be cleaned before the homicide investigation was formalized, eliminating evidence irreversibly.

Ginny Sandoval Reyes, Temuco Chile homicide 2016, police negligence, murder, investigation, true crime, femicide, forensic, intrigue, criminal minds, true crime Spanish

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545079Sun, 10 May 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaFour dead in one night: the negligence that condemned: The murder of Ginny Sandoval Reyes in Temuco, Chile In the early morning of December 29, 2016, four people died in a house in Temuco: Ginny Sandoval was stabbed to death and three of her...
In the early morning of December 29, 2016, four people died in a house in Temuco: Ginny Sandoval was stabbed to death and three of her children were trapped in the fire that followed. An autopsy reveals that she was stabbed before the fire. The impossible: the police cleaned the scene before declaring it a homicide, erasing irreversible evidence.

In this episode, we explore how the emergency operator ignored four calls, how an unrelated ID was lost inside a patrol car, and how the prosecutor took six months to review the victim's phone. The trial faced a retracted confession against cell phone geolocation. In the end, a 30-year sentence without benefits, but it was never clarified who owned that ID found at the scene.

Victim: Ginny Sandoval Reyes
Date: December 29, 2016
Location: Temuco, Chile
Status: Sentenced to 30 years (simple homicide + arson)

- The court dismissed the theory of "three or four suspects" that the defense never identified, despite publicly accusing them.
- An ID unrelated to the victims was found at the scene and lost by an official; it was never processed or identified.
- Tolosa Yanqui confessed to the PDI and then retracted, claiming pressures that the court did not validate; the conviction rests on geolocation and contradictions.
- The police ordered the house to be cleaned before the homicide investigation was formalized, eliminating evidence irreversibly.

Ginny Sandoval Reyes, Temuco Chile homicide 2016, police negligence, murder, investigation, true crime, femicide, forensic, intrigue, criminal minds, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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June 6, 2002, dawn breaks over a luxury apartment in Santiago. A man exits through the main door dressed in clothes that are not his, leaving behind a family tied for eleven hours-two women raped, a ten-year-old boy nearly strangled. What made this attack different was the evidence he left behind: a cigarette butt, a bus ticket, and a wound in his back that would unravel everything.

This episode explores the convergence of three parallel investigations that should have connected months earlier. A murdered sixteen-year-old dismembered in Lo Espejo, sophisticated home invasions in the gated communities of Vitacura and Lastarria, and a stolen cellphone that appeared at a street market-all traced back to one name. How did the system's most celebrated rehabilitation case become one of Chile's most notorious predators?

Victim: Maciel Zúñiga Pacheco, Carolina Jüe (identified survivor)
Date: August 2001 - June 2002
Location: La Dehesa, Vitacura, Lastarria, Lo Espejo, Santiago, Chile
Status: Convicted

- A man released from prison in 2001 committed his first documented attack just 35 days later in an affluent neighborhood he knew from the opposite side of class
- Psychological evaluations during his teenage incarceration flagged psychopathic traits and sadistic tendencies, but those reports never reached the officials who presented him on television as a rehabilitation success
- The killer spoke about inequality and social injustice to his victims during the attacks, reading aloud while holding families captive
- A kitchen knife wound in his back perfectly matched the angle and depth described by the woman who stabbed him, destroying his alibi that drug traffickers had stabbed him

Roberto Martínez Vázquez, Santiago Chile 2002, psychopath La Dehesa, home invasion rape murder, unsolved mysteries solved, true crime investigation, serial attacker, forensic evidence breakthrough, true crime español

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544773Sat, 09 May 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaMan Walks Out at Seven Thirty Wearing Stolen Clothes After Eleven Hours of Terror: The La Dehesa Home Invasion of Roberto Martínez Vázquez June 6, 2002, dawn breaks over a luxury apartment in Santiago. A man exits through the main door dressed in...
June 6, 2002, dawn breaks over a luxury apartment in Santiago. A man exits through the main door dressed in clothes that are not his, leaving behind a family tied for eleven hours-two women raped, a ten-year-old boy nearly strangled. What made this attack different was the evidence he left behind: a cigarette butt, a bus ticket, and a wound in his back that would unravel everything.

This episode explores the convergence of three parallel investigations that should have connected months earlier. A murdered sixteen-year-old dismembered in Lo Espejo, sophisticated home invasions in the gated communities of Vitacura and Lastarria, and a stolen cellphone that appeared at a street market-all traced back to one name. How did the system's most celebrated rehabilitation case become one of Chile's most notorious predators?

Victim: Maciel Zúñiga Pacheco, Carolina Jüe (identified survivor)
Date: August 2001 - June 2002
Location: La Dehesa, Vitacura, Lastarria, Lo Espejo, Santiago, Chile
Status: Convicted

- A man released from prison in 2001 committed his first documented attack just 35 days later in an affluent neighborhood he knew from the opposite side of class
- Psychological evaluations during his teenage incarceration flagged psychopathic traits and sadistic tendencies, but those reports never reached the officials who presented him on television as a rehabilitation success
- The killer spoke about inequality and social injustice to his victims during the attacks, reading aloud while holding families captive
- A kitchen knife wound in his back perfectly matched the angle and depth described by the woman who stabbed him, destroying his alibi that drug traffickers had stabbed him

Roberto Martínez Vázquez, Santiago Chile 2002, psychopath La Dehesa, home invasion rape murder, unsolved mysteries solved, true crime investigation, serial attacker, forensic evidence breakthrough, true crime español

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Cristina's head was in a garbage bag in the basement while her husband Thomas prepared dinner and put their daughters to bed with complete ease. How can a man talk about the day, serve food, and put children to sleep knowing exactly what he was hiding beneath his feet?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions between the model family that Thomas and Cristina projected on social media and years of hidden domestic violence. We analyze how meticulously organized tools, dissolving chemicals, and his post-crime behavior reveal an act of sadistic premeditation, not a panic impulse as he claimed. What triggered the homicide on February 13, 2024?

Victim: Cristina Hox
Date: February 13, 2024
Location: Binningen, Switzerland
Status: Thomas found guilty, bail denied

- The jigsaw saw, pruning shears, and hand mixer were arranged with meticulous order in the laundry room, contradicting his panic alibi.
- Thomas changed his statement in March: first he said he found the dead body; then he claimed self-defense, but he had no injuries.
- He posted photos on Instagram the same day, February 13, with the phrase "my family is my world" hours before the crime.
- Cristina planned to leave the relationship out of fear of Thomas's reaction, according to testimonies from relatives documented by the investigation.

Cristina Hox, Binningen femicide, 2024, murder, forensic investigation, domestic violence, criminal suspense, criminal minds, intrigue, justice, homicide, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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Cristina's head was in a garbage bag in the basement while her husband Thomas prepared dinner and put their daughters to bed with complete ease. How can a man talk about the day, serve food, and put children to sleep knowing exactly what he was hiding beneath his feet?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions between the model family that Thomas and Cristina projected on social media and years of hidden domestic violence. We analyze how meticulously organized tools, dissolving chemicals, and his post-crime behavior reveal an act of sadistic premeditation, not a panic impulse as he claimed. What triggered the homicide on February 13, 2024?

Victim: Cristina Hox
Date: February 13, 2024
Location: Binningen, Switzerland
Status: Thomas found guilty, bail denied

- The jigsaw saw, pruning shears, and hand mixer were arranged with meticulous order in the laundry room, contradicting his panic alibi.
- Thomas changed his statement in March: first he said he found the dead body; then he claimed self-defense, but he had no injuries.
- He posted photos on Instagram the same day, February 13, with the phrase "my family is my world" hours before the crime.
- Cristina planned to leave the relationship out of fear of Thomas's reaction, according to testimonies from relatives documented by the investigation.

Cristina Hox, Binningen femicide, 2024, murder, forensic investigation, domestic violence, criminal suspense, criminal minds, intrigue, justice, homicide, Spanish true crime

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A Bible with personal annotations, personal items scattered in graves, and brick structures to incinerate remains. Merari García Mejía, 20 years old, left home on May 20, 2024, after a job offer on social media. Her sister Rubí warned her; she did not listen. Five months later, a civil collective discovered what the official authorities had raided six months earlier without revealing details.

In this episode, we explore how a ranch operated as a center for forced recruitment and extermination an hour from Guadalajara, the chain of contradictions between the State Attorney's Office and the FGR, and the modus operandi of the CJNG that turns economic desperation into the manufacturing of hitmen. What really happened during the raid in September 2024? Why did local authorities deny the existence of crematories when the physical evidence was undeniable?

Victim: Merari García Mejía
Date: May 20, 2024
Location: Rancho Isaguirre, Jalisco, Mexico
Status: Open investigation (FGR); 4 detained as of April 2025

- Collective found charred bone remains at six points on the property on March 5, 2025, six months after the official raid.
- State Attorney's Office denied the existence of crematories on March 13; the next day acknowledged hundreds of personal items at the site.
- Eduardo Olerman disappeared on February 26, 2024, and reappeared on October 21 with a handwritten letter; it was never revealed how he escaped.
- Four detainees include "El Astra" (leader), a recruitment operator, a former police officer from Tala, and a former military; 39 pages of false recruitment were deactivated by the FGR.

Merari García Mejía, Rancho Isaguirre Jalisco CJNG serial murder, 2024, extermination, cartel, forced recruitment, investigation, forensic, hitmen, criminal minds, kidnapping, true crime Spanish

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A Bible with personal annotations, personal items scattered in graves, and brick structures to incinerate remains. Merari García Mejía, 20 years old, left home on May 20, 2024, after a job offer on social media. Her sister Rubí warned her; she did not listen. Five months later, a civil collective discovered what the official authorities had raided six months earlier without revealing details.

In this episode, we explore how a ranch operated as a center for forced recruitment and extermination an hour from Guadalajara, the chain of contradictions between the State Attorney's Office and the FGR, and the modus operandi of the CJNG that turns economic desperation into the manufacturing of hitmen. What really happened during the raid in September 2024? Why did local authorities deny the existence of crematories when the physical evidence was undeniable?

Victim: Merari García Mejía
Date: May 20, 2024
Location: Rancho Isaguirre, Jalisco, Mexico
Status: Open investigation (FGR); 4 detained as of April 2025

- Collective found charred bone remains at six points on the property on March 5, 2025, six months after the official raid.
- State Attorney's Office denied the existence of crematories on March 13; the next day acknowledged hundreds of personal items at the site.
- Eduardo Olerman disappeared on February 26, 2024, and reappeared on October 21 with a handwritten letter; it was never revealed how he escaped.
- Four detainees include "El Astra" (leader), a recruitment operator, a former police officer from Tala, and a former military; 39 pages of false recruitment were deactivated by the FGR.

Merari García Mejía, Rancho Isaguirre Jalisco CJNG serial murder, 2024, extermination, cartel, forced recruitment, investigation, forensic, hitmen, criminal minds, kidnapping, true crime Spanish

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August 2, 1993. A four-year-old sent home from camp never arrives. Hours later, volunteers find his body two blocks away in a grove of trees, surrounded by deliberately arranged objects: a sandwich placed in his mouth, his drink spilled over the wounds, his shoes removed and positioned near his hands. The killer did not flee in panic. He acted with intention.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that would unravel a case the town thought was committed by a stranger. A glass of Cool Aid thrown violently to the floor. Impossible details about the crime scene described from a distance where they could not be seen. A thirteen-year-old boy's own family walking him to the police station four days after he voluntarily appeared to help.

Victim: Derrick Roby, age 4
Date: August 2, 1993
Location: Savona, New York
Status: Convicted

- Eric Smith arrived at the police station alone on August 5, three days after the murder, claiming he wanted to help solve the case
- When offered Cool Aid-the exact drink found spilled over Derrick's wounds-Eric violently threw the glass to the floor; this detail was never disclosed to the public
- During a reconstruction, Eric described the precise contents and position of the lunchbox from a physical distance that made observation impossible
- The crime scene showed ritualized post-mortem behavior: a sandwich inserted in the victim's mouth, shoes removed and positioned deliberately, the drink poured over wounds-actions requiring deliberation and sustained presence

Derrick Roby, Savona New York 1993, murder investigation, serial killer development, child killer, forensic evidence, homicide investigation, true crime, criminal minds, unsolved questions, true crime English

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© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544772Fri, 08 May 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaBoy Rides Past Four-Year-Old, Then Walks Into Police Station Three Days Later: The Murder of Derrick Roby August 2, 1993. A four-year-old sent home from camp never arrives. Hours later, volunteers find his body two blocks away in a grove of trees,...
August 2, 1993. A four-year-old sent home from camp never arrives. Hours later, volunteers find his body two blocks away in a grove of trees, surrounded by deliberately arranged objects: a sandwich placed in his mouth, his drink spilled over the wounds, his shoes removed and positioned near his hands. The killer did not flee in panic. He acted with intention.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that would unravel a case the town thought was committed by a stranger. A glass of Cool Aid thrown violently to the floor. Impossible details about the crime scene described from a distance where they could not be seen. A thirteen-year-old boy's own family walking him to the police station four days after he voluntarily appeared to help.

Victim: Derrick Roby, age 4
Date: August 2, 1993
Location: Savona, New York
Status: Convicted

- Eric Smith arrived at the police station alone on August 5, three days after the murder, claiming he wanted to help solve the case
- When offered Cool Aid-the exact drink found spilled over Derrick's wounds-Eric violently threw the glass to the floor; this detail was never disclosed to the public
- During a reconstruction, Eric described the precise contents and position of the lunchbox from a physical distance that made observation impossible
- The crime scene showed ritualized post-mortem behavior: a sandwich inserted in the victim's mouth, shoes removed and positioned deliberately, the drink poured over wounds-actions requiring deliberation and sustained presence

Derrick Roby, Savona New York 1993, murder investigation, serial killer development, child killer, forensic evidence, homicide investigation, true crime, criminal minds, unsolved questions, true crime English

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A chainsaw, a refrigerator, and the coldness of someone returning to work after dismembering his mother. Moisés Meraz murdered Amelia on February 2, 2011—a sacred date in satanic rituals—and stored her remains as if nothing had happened. How did a young man described as devoted and respectful become the perpetrator of the most heinous act against the one who loved him?

In this episode, we explore the spiral into the abyss: the death of his girlfriend Mónica, the obsessive return to extreme metal online cults, and the ritualistic procedures found on every part of the body. Contradictions that defy all logic: modern satanism that rejects violence versus specific mutilations documented in his Satanic Bible. The central unanswered question: who else was part of that network of online worshippers that radicalized him?

Victim: Amelia Espinoza
Date: February 2, 2011
Location: Maywood, California
Status: Life sentence (eligible for parole in ~2036)

- The body was dismembered on the same day of the murder with a circular saw and procedures that experts identified as specific satanic rituals.
- Moisés confided in his cousin Liliana about the remains; she took him to turn himself in, but he pleaded not guilty days later in court.
- The chosen date—February 2—coincides with the satanic holiday of blood offering rituals, indicating premeditation.
- Teeth pulled out from the roots, fingertips extracted, and skin from the skull removed in one piece suggest knowledge of pagan symbolism, not impulsive brutality.

Amelia Espinoza, Maywood California murder, 2011, dismemberment, satanic cult, criminal minds, blood ritual, premeditated homicide, forensic, investigation, unsolved mystery, true crime Spanish

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545075Thu, 07 May 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe perfect son who became a ritual killer: The murder of Amelia Espinoza A chainsaw, a refrigerator, and the coldness of someone returning to work after dismembering his mother. Moisés Meraz murdered Amelia on February 2, 2011—a sacred date in...
A chainsaw, a refrigerator, and the coldness of someone returning to work after dismembering his mother. Moisés Meraz murdered Amelia on February 2, 2011—a sacred date in satanic rituals—and stored her remains as if nothing had happened. How did a young man described as devoted and respectful become the perpetrator of the most heinous act against the one who loved him?

In this episode, we explore the spiral into the abyss: the death of his girlfriend Mónica, the obsessive return to extreme metal online cults, and the ritualistic procedures found on every part of the body. Contradictions that defy all logic: modern satanism that rejects violence versus specific mutilations documented in his Satanic Bible. The central unanswered question: who else was part of that network of online worshippers that radicalized him?

Victim: Amelia Espinoza
Date: February 2, 2011
Location: Maywood, California
Status: Life sentence (eligible for parole in ~2036)

- The body was dismembered on the same day of the murder with a circular saw and procedures that experts identified as specific satanic rituals.
- Moisés confided in his cousin Liliana about the remains; she took him to turn himself in, but he pleaded not guilty days later in court.
- The chosen date—February 2—coincides with the satanic holiday of blood offering rituals, indicating premeditation.
- Teeth pulled out from the roots, fingertips extracted, and skin from the skull removed in one piece suggest knowledge of pagan symbolism, not impulsive brutality.

Amelia Espinoza, Maywood California murder, 2011, dismemberment, satanic cult, criminal minds, blood ritual, premeditated homicide, forensic, investigation, unsolved mystery, true crime Spanish

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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On October sixteenth, 2009, a fifteen-year-old girl walked into a Missouri forest and dug two graves. Five days later, she lured a nine-year-old neighbor into those same woods. One grave would be filled that night-the other would remain empty, its purpose never fully explained.

In this episode, we explore how a chain of ignored warning signs-violent social media posts, psychiatric hospitalization, a friend's desperate plea, and a diary confession-all converged on one afternoon in October. We examine the evidence that led investigators to those graves, the question of premeditation versus impulse, and the haunting mystery of why the second grave was ever dug.

Victim: Elizabeth Olten
Date: October 21, 2009
Location: St. Martins, Missouri
Status: Solved (Conviction)

- Alisa Bustamante dug two graves five days before the victim disappeared, suggesting clear premeditation, not impulse
- The empty second grave was never explained, raising questions about whether a second victim was intended
- Her recovered diary confessed to the killing and stated it felt "quite pleasant" before noting she had to attend church
- She disclosed knowledge of the victim's neck wound to investigators before the body was discovered

Elizabeth Olten, St. Martins Missouri, 2009 murder case, serial killers, true crime investigation, forensic evidence, homicide, unsolved mysteries, criminal minds, murder investigation, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544771Thu, 07 May 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaGirl Digs Two Graves in Forest Five Days Before Murder: The Killing of Elizabeth Olten On October sixteenth, 2009, a fifteen-year-old girl walked into a Missouri forest and dug two graves. Five days later, she lured a nine-year-old neighbor into...
On October sixteenth, 2009, a fifteen-year-old girl walked into a Missouri forest and dug two graves. Five days later, she lured a nine-year-old neighbor into those same woods. One grave would be filled that night-the other would remain empty, its purpose never fully explained.

In this episode, we explore how a chain of ignored warning signs-violent social media posts, psychiatric hospitalization, a friend's desperate plea, and a diary confession-all converged on one afternoon in October. We examine the evidence that led investigators to those graves, the question of premeditation versus impulse, and the haunting mystery of why the second grave was ever dug.

Victim: Elizabeth Olten
Date: October 21, 2009
Location: St. Martins, Missouri
Status: Solved (Conviction)

- Alisa Bustamante dug two graves five days before the victim disappeared, suggesting clear premeditation, not impulse
- The empty second grave was never explained, raising questions about whether a second victim was intended
- Her recovered diary confessed to the killing and stated it felt "quite pleasant" before noting she had to attend church
- She disclosed knowledge of the victim's neck wound to investigators before the body was discovered

Elizabeth Olten, St. Martins Missouri, 2009 murder case, serial killers, true crime investigation, forensic evidence, homicide, unsolved mysteries, criminal minds, murder investigation, true crime English

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A young woman stabs her mother 151 times with a knife and hits her with a baseball bat. Hours later, in front of detectives, she calmly insists that her name is Samantha González and she is 15 years old. A threatening email sent that morning, delirious messages, and a diagnosis of schizophrenia reveal whether Isabela was a calculating killer or a mentally ill person trapped in delusions that convinced her to kill someone else.

In this episode, we explore the irreconcilable tension between acting and psychosis: why a psychiatrist declared "normal adolescent behavior" two years before the crime, how Isabela maintained a false identity under irrefutable surveillance evidence, and what Dr. Punce revealed about whom he believed she was killing when she plunged the knife 151 times. The central mystery remains: was it diagnostic negligence or a genuine case of untreated schizophrenia?

Victim: Jun Me Guzmán
Date: August 28, 2013
Location: Aurora, Colorado
Status: Hospitalized in Pueblo, Colorado with GPS tracker

- Isabela sent a threatening email to "Cecilia" the morning of the crime; the exact content was never publicly revealed.
- The first autopsy reported 79 wounds; the final expert report at trial raised the total to 151 stab wounds and multiple blows with a bat.
- Surveillance video from H Mart shows her covered in blood wearing clothing identical to that described by her brother, destroying her alibi of "Samantha González."
- Dr. Punce testified that Isabela believed she was killing "Cecilia" to prevent the end of the world, not that she was murdering her mother.

Isabela Guzmán, Aurora Colorado 2013, murder, schizophrenia, delusions, homicide, forensic, investigation, criminal minds, true crime, true crime Spanish

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A young woman stabs her mother 151 times with a knife and hits her with a baseball bat. Hours later, in front of detectives, she calmly insists that her name is Samantha González and she is 15 years old. A threatening email sent that morning, delirious messages, and a diagnosis of schizophrenia reveal whether Isabela was a calculating killer or a mentally ill person trapped in delusions that convinced her to kill someone else.

In this episode, we explore the irreconcilable tension between acting and psychosis: why a psychiatrist declared "normal adolescent behavior" two years before the crime, how Isabela maintained a false identity under irrefutable surveillance evidence, and what Dr. Punce revealed about whom he believed she was killing when she plunged the knife 151 times. The central mystery remains: was it diagnostic negligence or a genuine case of untreated schizophrenia?

Victim: Jun Me Guzmán
Date: August 28, 2013
Location: Aurora, Colorado
Status: Hospitalized in Pueblo, Colorado with GPS tracker

- Isabela sent a threatening email to "Cecilia" the morning of the crime; the exact content was never publicly revealed.
- The first autopsy reported 79 wounds; the final expert report at trial raised the total to 151 stab wounds and multiple blows with a bat.
- Surveillance video from H Mart shows her covered in blood wearing clothing identical to that described by her brother, destroying her alibi of "Samantha González."
- Dr. Punce testified that Isabela believed she was killing "Cecilia" to prevent the end of the world, not that she was murdering her mother.

Isabela Guzmán, Aurora Colorado 2013, murder, schizophrenia, delusions, homicide, forensic, investigation, criminal minds, true crime, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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August 1987. Philadelphia police opened a sealed apartment door and found seven decomposing bodies stacked across mattresses, closets, and the roof. The man who lived there-Harrison Graham-had been sleeping on top of the remains for years. The incomprehensible question: Did he know what he was doing, or had his mind already fractured beyond repair?

In this investigation, we examine the four-year killing spree that transformed a North Philadelphia apartment into a chamber of horror, the forensic evidence that contradicted Graham's own testimony, and the anonymous police call made years earlier that could have stopped the murders. Seven African American women-sex workers from the same neighborhood-went missing between 1983 and 1987. Two were identified only through forensic sculptures. One critical question haunted the case: Why did responding officers ignore Mary Hogan's anonymous call reporting a corpse in the building?

Victim: Seven women identified as Robin DeShaser, Mary Mathis, Cynthia Brook, Barbara Mahoney, Patricia Franklin, Sandra Garvin, and Valerie Jameson
Date: 1983-1987; Arrest: August 17, 1987
Location: 1631 North Nineteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Status: Convicted; Life Sentence (Death sentences commuted 2003)

- Police found an officer's peephole view revealed only the first body; seven total emerged within 24 hours of the apartment's opening
- Bloodstained footprints connected all rooms; no attempt at cleaning or concealment, only accumulation of remains
- Graham's mother called him and he surrendered peacefully eight days later, carrying the Cookie Monster puppet he had shown to neighborhood children
- An anonymous woman witnessed a corpse and reported it to police before 1987, but officers lacked the apartment number and never investigated

Robin DeShaser, Mary Mathis, Cynthia Brook, Barbara Mahoney, Patricia Franklin, Sandra Garvin, Valerie Jameson, Philadelphia serial murders, 1987, criminal minds, homicide investigation, forensic science, unsolved questions, true crime English

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August 1987. Philadelphia police opened a sealed apartment door and found seven decomposing bodies stacked across mattresses, closets, and the roof. The man who lived there-Harrison Graham-had been sleeping on top of the remains for years. The incomprehensible question: Did he know what he was doing, or had his mind already fractured beyond repair?

In this investigation, we examine the four-year killing spree that transformed a North Philadelphia apartment into a chamber of horror, the forensic evidence that contradicted Graham's own testimony, and the anonymous police call made years earlier that could have stopped the murders. Seven African American women-sex workers from the same neighborhood-went missing between 1983 and 1987. Two were identified only through forensic sculptures. One critical question haunted the case: Why did responding officers ignore Mary Hogan's anonymous call reporting a corpse in the building?

Victim: Seven women identified as Robin DeShaser, Mary Mathis, Cynthia Brook, Barbara Mahoney, Patricia Franklin, Sandra Garvin, and Valerie Jameson
Date: 1983-1987; Arrest: August 17, 1987
Location: 1631 North Nineteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Status: Convicted; Life Sentence (Death sentences commuted 2003)

- Police found an officer's peephole view revealed only the first body; seven total emerged within 24 hours of the apartment's opening
- Bloodstained footprints connected all rooms; no attempt at cleaning or concealment, only accumulation of remains
- Graham's mother called him and he surrendered peacefully eight days later, carrying the Cookie Monster puppet he had shown to neighborhood children
- An anonymous woman witnessed a corpse and reported it to police before 1987, but officers lacked the apartment number and never investigated

Robin DeShaser, Mary Mathis, Cynthia Brook, Barbara Mahoney, Patricia Franklin, Sandra Garvin, Valerie Jameson, Philadelphia serial murders, 1987, criminal minds, homicide investigation, forensic science, unsolved questions, true crime English

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On a night in June 2003, Luke Mitchell led his 14-year-old girlfriend's family directly to the body in the dark woods. With no witnesses seeing the dog guide him, he accurately described every detail of her clothing: the brooch that Jodi never usually wore, the blood, everything. The question that haunts the case 20 years later: was he convicted for being "the weird kid" or did he really kill his girlfriend while the real murderer walked free?

In this episode, we explore the impossible contradictions that define this homicide: the alibi collapsed by his own brother at trial, the knife found years later that the police refused to analyze, and Mark Kane, an alternative suspect with no formal investigation who died in 2020. A 42-day trial broke records in Scotland; Luke's mother lied under oath; witnesses changed their identifications; the official coroner publicly stated that the complete absence of scientific evidence is anomalous.

Victim: Jodi Jones
Date: June 30, 2003
Location: Dalkeith Woods, Scotland
Status: Luke Mitchell sentenced to a minimum of 20 years; case reviewed 2014, verdict upheld

- Luke described Jodi's different brooch, impossible to know if he only saw darkness and blood during the alleged crime
- Corin, Luke's mother, replaced his knife as a Christmas gift five months after the murder
- Knife found buried near the scene in 2015 was rejected by the police for forensic analysis
- Mark Kane, with no documented alibi and a physical resemblance to Luke, died in 2020 without formal questioning as a suspect

Jodi Jones, Dalkeith Scotland 2003, murder, investigation, serial killer, forensic, mystery, homicide, criminal minds, true crime, justice, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545072Tue, 05 May 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe boyfriend who guided the corpse unseen in the dark: The murder of Jodi Jones in Dalkeith, Scotland On a night in June 2003, Luke Mitchell led his 14-year-old girlfriend's family directly to the body in the dark woods. With no witnesses...
On a night in June 2003, Luke Mitchell led his 14-year-old girlfriend's family directly to the body in the dark woods. With no witnesses seeing the dog guide him, he accurately described every detail of her clothing: the brooch that Jodi never usually wore, the blood, everything. The question that haunts the case 20 years later: was he convicted for being "the weird kid" or did he really kill his girlfriend while the real murderer walked free?

In this episode, we explore the impossible contradictions that define this homicide: the alibi collapsed by his own brother at trial, the knife found years later that the police refused to analyze, and Mark Kane, an alternative suspect with no formal investigation who died in 2020. A 42-day trial broke records in Scotland; Luke's mother lied under oath; witnesses changed their identifications; the official coroner publicly stated that the complete absence of scientific evidence is anomalous.

Victim: Jodi Jones
Date: June 30, 2003
Location: Dalkeith Woods, Scotland
Status: Luke Mitchell sentenced to a minimum of 20 years; case reviewed 2014, verdict upheld

- Luke described Jodi's different brooch, impossible to know if he only saw darkness and blood during the alleged crime
- Corin, Luke's mother, replaced his knife as a Christmas gift five months after the murder
- Knife found buried near the scene in 2015 was rejected by the police for forensic analysis
- Mark Kane, with no documented alibi and a physical resemblance to Luke, died in 2020 without formal questioning as a suspect

Jodi Jones, Dalkeith Scotland 2003, murder, investigation, serial killer, forensic, mystery, homicide, criminal minds, true crime, justice, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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August ninth, nineteen eighty-seven. A well-lit highway. Systematic gunfire erupts from the bushes for forty minutes, killing seven people and injuring twenty. When police finally arrest the shooter, they do not find a desperate fugitive-they find a nineteen-year-old willing to recount every detail. The question was not who fired. The question was what had turned him into this.

In this episode, we explore the twenty-year spiral that led Julian Knight to Hoddle Street: his adoption into a military family, his years in the army cadets, his rejection from the Royal Military College, and the institutional failures that preceded the massacre. We examine the contradictions between his premeditated positioning and his personal collapse, between his exhaustive confession and his complete absence of remorse, and between the weapons training he received and the psychological support he never got.

Victim: Seven deceased, twenty injured; Georgina Papiano died eleven days after the attack
Date: August 9, 1987
Location: Hoddle Street, Clifton Hill, Melbourne, Australia
Status: Julian Knight convicted of seven murders and forty-six attempted murders; imprisoned at Port Phillip; parole blocked by law passed in 2014

- Knight selected three specific firearms from his mother's house and gathered over one hundred rounds of ammunition before positioning himself with tactical precision among bushes overlooking the highway.
- During the forty-minute attack, Knight switched weapons according to distance, repositioned when police approached, and even hit a police helicopter in the fuel tank with a sustained trajectory.
- Knight spent twelve consecutive hours confessing in exhaustive detail, participated in two scene reconstructions, and described himself as a "skilled killer" with no remorse for his victims.
- The Australian Army discharged Knight on July twenty-fourth for stabbing a sergeant major, with no documented psychological evaluation before or after, leaving him with combat training but no containment or transitional support.

Julian Knight, Hoddle Street Melbourne 1987, mass shooting Australia, homicide investigation, true crime, forensic case, criminal psychology, serial violence, unsolved institutional accountability, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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August ninth, nineteen eighty-seven. A well-lit highway. Systematic gunfire erupts from the bushes for forty minutes, killing seven people and injuring twenty. When police finally arrest the shooter, they do not find a desperate fugitive-they find a nineteen-year-old willing to recount every detail. The question was not who fired. The question was what had turned him into this.

In this episode, we explore the twenty-year spiral that led Julian Knight to Hoddle Street: his adoption into a military family, his years in the army cadets, his rejection from the Royal Military College, and the institutional failures that preceded the massacre. We examine the contradictions between his premeditated positioning and his personal collapse, between his exhaustive confession and his complete absence of remorse, and between the weapons training he received and the psychological support he never got.

Victim: Seven deceased, twenty injured; Georgina Papiano died eleven days after the attack
Date: August 9, 1987
Location: Hoddle Street, Clifton Hill, Melbourne, Australia
Status: Julian Knight convicted of seven murders and forty-six attempted murders; imprisoned at Port Phillip; parole blocked by law passed in 2014

- Knight selected three specific firearms from his mother's house and gathered over one hundred rounds of ammunition before positioning himself with tactical precision among bushes overlooking the highway.
- During the forty-minute attack, Knight switched weapons according to distance, repositioned when police approached, and even hit a police helicopter in the fuel tank with a sustained trajectory.
- Knight spent twelve consecutive hours confessing in exhaustive detail, participated in two scene reconstructions, and described himself as a "skilled killer" with no remorse for his victims.
- The Australian Army discharged Knight on July twenty-fourth for stabbing a sergeant major, with no documented psychological evaluation before or after, leaving him with combat training but no containment or transitional support.

Julian Knight, Hoddle Street Melbourne 1987, mass shooting Australia, homicide investigation, true crime, forensic case, criminal psychology, serial violence, unsolved institutional accountability, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true...]]>1177falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-microphone-in-front-of-the-stepbrother-s-face--71545071
The mask fell during the struggle. Nathan Matthews, the stepfather, picked it up from the ground while Becky tried to escape. Forty-eight hours later, the same man participated in the public search asking for her return, granting interviews to cameras, while the dismembered body lay in a shed three houses away.

In this episode, we explore how a family lived with a killer for twelve days without knowing it, how the bloodstains on the door frame contradicted the identical testimonies of Nathan and Shauna, and why a hardware store receipt from February 20 revealed the premeditation that the initial confession tried to hide. What do the deleted messages show about the true motive?

Victim: Becky Watts
Date: February 19, 2015
Location: Bristol, England
Status: Convicted - Nathan Matthews (life imprisonment, minimum 33 years); Shauna Hoare (17 years in prison)

- Nathan bought a circular saw, gloves, and a mask on February 20, hours after the crime, captured on security camera.
- The bathtub was spotless in a chaotic house; Shauna's fingerprints appeared on the body bags, refuting her defense of total ignorance.
- Two identical testimonies, word for word, with no contact between Nathan and Shauna during interrogation suggest a rehearsed account.
- A friend of Becky revealed in court that the teenager had told two years earlier that Nathan described plans on how to kill her; it was never reported.

Becky Watts, Bristol 2015, murder, forensic, investigation, mystery, homicide, intrigue, kidnapping, true crime, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545071Mon, 04 May 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaNathan's Mask: The Killer in the Search: The Murder of Becky Watts in Bristol The mask fell during the struggle. Nathan Matthews, the stepfather, picked it up from the ground while Becky tried to escape. Forty-eight hours later, the same man...
The mask fell during the struggle. Nathan Matthews, the stepfather, picked it up from the ground while Becky tried to escape. Forty-eight hours later, the same man participated in the public search asking for her return, granting interviews to cameras, while the dismembered body lay in a shed three houses away.

In this episode, we explore how a family lived with a killer for twelve days without knowing it, how the bloodstains on the door frame contradicted the identical testimonies of Nathan and Shauna, and why a hardware store receipt from February 20 revealed the premeditation that the initial confession tried to hide. What do the deleted messages show about the true motive?

Victim: Becky Watts
Date: February 19, 2015
Location: Bristol, England
Status: Convicted - Nathan Matthews (life imprisonment, minimum 33 years); Shauna Hoare (17 years in prison)

- Nathan bought a circular saw, gloves, and a mask on February 20, hours after the crime, captured on security camera.
- The bathtub was spotless in a chaotic house; Shauna's fingerprints appeared on the body bags, refuting her defense of total ignorance.
- Two identical testimonies, word for word, with no contact between Nathan and Shauna during interrogation suggest a rehearsed account.
- A friend of Becky revealed in court that the teenager had told two years earlier that Nathan described plans on how to kill her; it was never reported.

Becky Watts, Bristol 2015, murder, forensic, investigation, mystery, homicide, intrigue, kidnapping, true crime, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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June 2011. A worker detects an unusual smell in a Vienna basement and calls police. Inside two sealed freezers, they find human remains distributed in cement-filled buckets-directly underneath a functioning ice cream shop that had operated for three years without interruption. The shop owner had already fled to Italy.

In this episode, we trace the methodical trail of Estivalis Carranza across Europe-from Mexico through Barcelona, Munich, and Berlin-before she arrived in Vienna with a concrete plan. We examine the contradictions between her claims of psychological abuse and the physical evidence of premeditation: shooting lessons before the second murder, plastic sheeting laid in advance, identical dismemberment procedures, and a false disappearance report filed to divert investigation. How does someone maintain complete operational continuity while concealing two bodies worth 250,000 euros?

Victim: Holger Hols and Manfred Hinterberger
Date: April 27, 2008 - November 21, 2010
Location: Vienna, Austria
Status: Convicted

- Carranza remained silent for nearly three years, operating the ice cream shop normally above the first body, before confessing within hours of discovery
- She purchased a plane ticket to Paris upon learning of the discovery, then was apprehended in Udine, Italy, where she immediately confessed without legal counsel
- The forensic psychiatric report explicitly stated the crimes were conscious and meticulous acts, not explosions of uncontrolled violence, contradicting her later claims of abuse-driven desperation
- From her prison cell in 2018, she published a book claiming she killed out of greed-a statement that could legally reduce her indeterminate sentence from psychiatric custody to fifteen years maximum

Estivalis Carranza, Vienna Austria ice cream shop murders, 2008 2010 2011, serial killer, premeditation, forensic evidence, Austrian homicide, criminal psychology, psychiatric assessment, true crime English

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June 2011. A worker detects an unusual smell in a Vienna basement and calls police. Inside two sealed freezers, they find human remains distributed in cement-filled buckets-directly underneath a functioning ice cream shop that had operated for three years without interruption. The shop owner had already fled to Italy.

In this episode, we trace the methodical trail of Estivalis Carranza across Europe-from Mexico through Barcelona, Munich, and Berlin-before she arrived in Vienna with a concrete plan. We examine the contradictions between her claims of psychological abuse and the physical evidence of premeditation: shooting lessons before the second murder, plastic sheeting laid in advance, identical dismemberment procedures, and a false disappearance report filed to divert investigation. How does someone maintain complete operational continuity while concealing two bodies worth 250,000 euros?

Victim: Holger Hols and Manfred Hinterberger
Date: April 27, 2008 - November 21, 2010
Location: Vienna, Austria
Status: Convicted

- Carranza remained silent for nearly three years, operating the ice cream shop normally above the first body, before confessing within hours of discovery
- She purchased a plane ticket to Paris upon learning of the discovery, then was apprehended in Udine, Italy, where she immediately confessed without legal counsel
- The forensic psychiatric report explicitly stated the crimes were conscious and meticulous acts, not explosions of uncontrolled violence, contradicting her later claims of abuse-driven desperation
- From her prison cell in 2018, she published a book claiming she killed out of greed-a statement that could legally reduce her indeterminate sentence from psychiatric custody to fifteen years maximum

Estivalis Carranza, Vienna Austria ice cream shop murders, 2008 2010 2011, serial killer, premeditation, forensic evidence, Austrian homicide, criminal psychology, psychiatric assessment, true crime English

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A man diagnosed as a sexual psychopath appeared on a national dating show using his real name, was chosen by a contestant, and continued killing. For over a decade, he crossed the country evading capture, FBI warrants, and prior convictions. How did no system stop him?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that allowed his operation: a locker in Sierra Madre containing a thousand photographs of victims, gold earrings that could be trophies or self-defense, and the instinct of a woman who rejected an intimidating date. DNA decades later revealed four confirmed homicides, but thousands of unidentified photographs remain unanswered.

Victim: Robin Samsoe
Date: 1979
Location: California, New York, Wyoming
Status: Convicted, died in prison (2021)

- Over a thousand photographs of women, teenagers, and girls found in a locker registered under an alias.
- Appeared as "Bachelor 1" on ABC's Dating Game using his real name while actively seeking victims.
- Worked as a photographer at the Los Angeles Times, showing photographs of deaths to colleagues with no detected consequences.
- Diagnosed with psychopathy and sexual sadism in 1964, before his first crimes, but released on parole after assaulting an eight-year-old girl.

Rodney Alcalá, serial killer, Dating Game, California crimes, unsolved homicides, forensic investigation, criminal minds, mystery, justice corruption, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A man diagnosed as a sexual psychopath appeared on a national dating show using his real name, was chosen by a contestant, and continued killing. For over a decade, he crossed the country evading capture, FBI warrants, and prior convictions. How did no system stop him?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that allowed his operation: a locker in Sierra Madre containing a thousand photographs of victims, gold earrings that could be trophies or self-defense, and the instinct of a woman who rejected an intimidating date. DNA decades later revealed four confirmed homicides, but thousands of unidentified photographs remain unanswered.

Victim: Robin Samsoe
Date: 1979
Location: California, New York, Wyoming
Status: Convicted, died in prison (2021)

- Over a thousand photographs of women, teenagers, and girls found in a locker registered under an alias.
- Appeared as "Bachelor 1" on ABC's Dating Game using his real name while actively seeking victims.
- Worked as a photographer at the Los Angeles Times, showing photographs of deaths to colleagues with no detected consequences.
- Diagnosed with psychopathy and sexual sadism in 1964, before his first crimes, but released on parole after assaulting an eight-year-old girl.

Rodney Alcalá, serial killer, Dating Game, California crimes, unsolved homicides, forensic investigation, criminal minds, mystery, justice corruption, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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February twenty-third, two thousand twenty-two. A mother descends into her basement and discovers a human head submerged in a bucket, covered with a towel. Hours earlier, a young woman was arrested covered in blood, asking detectives if they had ever loved something so much they wanted to kill it. This wasn't a moment of sudden madness-it was the result of deliberate decisions made throughout the night.

In this episode, we trace the systematic dismemberment of a twenty-four-year-old man, the forensic evidence that contradicted claims of lost consciousness, and the psychological evaluation that became the trial's central battleground. How did a basement scene with minimal blood testify to something other than panic? And what did the defendant's own words reveal about intent versus claimed delusion?

Victim: Shad Tyrion
Date: February 21-23, 2022
Location: Eight hundred twenty-nine Stony Brook, Green Bay, Wisconsin
Status: Convicted

- The victim's body was dismembered with clinical precision into bags and boxes, yet the crime scene contained strikingly minimal blood evidence
- The defendant claimed she lost consciousness and saw herself from outside her body, yet described the acts in explicit detail and expressed satisfaction
- Eleven days before the murder, the perpetrator photographed herself next to Jeffrey Dahmer and searched phrases like "Jeffrey Dahmer entering the courtroom all sexy"
- The defendant was arrested wearing blood-soaked clothes, laughing, and told investigators "You're going to have fun looking for all the organs"

Shad Tyrion, Green Bay Wisconsin dismemberment 2022, true crime, homicide investigation, serial killer obsession, forensic evidence, murder trial, sadomasochism, mental competency, criminal psychology, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544765Sun, 03 May 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaMother Finds Head in Bucket as Police Discover What Happened in Basement: The murder of Shad Tyrion February twenty-third, two thousand twenty-two. A mother descends into her basement and discovers a human head submerged in a bucket, covered with a...
February twenty-third, two thousand twenty-two. A mother descends into her basement and discovers a human head submerged in a bucket, covered with a towel. Hours earlier, a young woman was arrested covered in blood, asking detectives if they had ever loved something so much they wanted to kill it. This wasn't a moment of sudden madness-it was the result of deliberate decisions made throughout the night.

In this episode, we trace the systematic dismemberment of a twenty-four-year-old man, the forensic evidence that contradicted claims of lost consciousness, and the psychological evaluation that became the trial's central battleground. How did a basement scene with minimal blood testify to something other than panic? And what did the defendant's own words reveal about intent versus claimed delusion?

Victim: Shad Tyrion
Date: February 21-23, 2022
Location: Eight hundred twenty-nine Stony Brook, Green Bay, Wisconsin
Status: Convicted

- The victim's body was dismembered with clinical precision into bags and boxes, yet the crime scene contained strikingly minimal blood evidence
- The defendant claimed she lost consciousness and saw herself from outside her body, yet described the acts in explicit detail and expressed satisfaction
- Eleven days before the murder, the perpetrator photographed herself next to Jeffrey Dahmer and searched phrases like "Jeffrey Dahmer entering the courtroom all sexy"
- The defendant was arrested wearing blood-soaked clothes, laughing, and told investigators "You're going to have fun looking for all the organs"

Shad Tyrion, Green Bay Wisconsin dismemberment 2022, true crime, homicide investigation, serial killer obsession, forensic evidence, murder trial, sadomasochism, mental competency, criminal psychology, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A woman disappears without a trace in the early hours of July 7, 2011. Her husband, wanted by Interpol two years later, was hiding in plain sight in Mexico: he had gained weight, changed his appearance, and became a single father. What the police could not achieve in two years, his own children did: they revealed him. How did a man protected by a former minister and former president of the Supreme Court manage to escape, evade justice, and die without being convicted?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that define this case: luminol blood stains in the master bedroom versus the organized crime theory planted by the suspect; a domestic worker threatened with death who reveals the truth; and a body that remains unfound 13 years later. The vehicle's GPS continues to indicate excavations in 2024, but impunity prevailed when Roberto Barreda died of COVID-19 without conviction.

Victim: Cristina Shecavisa
Date: July 6-7, 2011
Location: Guatemala City and El Progreso, Honduras
Status: Open case - body not recovered

- Roberto Barreda was captured in Mérida, Mexico on November 8, 2013 under the false identity Carlos Villarreal, after two years as a fugitive from Interpol.
- Petrona, the domestic worker and sole eyewitness, testified that she witnessed the murder by beating and was forced to clean; she was threatened with death by the Barreda family.
- Ofelia de León, former minister and former president of the Supreme Court, was arrested for obstruction of justice; she later received a plea deal paying only $518 in symbolic reparations.
- The GPS of Roberto's vehicle recorded a route to El Progreso on July 7, 2011; it remains an active guide for excavations in 2024, but in 13 years, over 51 genetic analyses have been conducted without locating the remains.

Cristina Shecavisa, Guatemala femicide 2011, Roberto Barreda fugitive, Ofelia de León corruption, murder, investigation, unsolved mystery, incomplete justice, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545068Sat, 02 May 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe faces of her children revealed the fugitive from Interpol: The femicide of Cristina Shecavisa A woman disappears without a trace in the early hours of July 7, 2011. Her husband, wanted by Interpol two years later, was hiding in plain sight...
A woman disappears without a trace in the early hours of July 7, 2011. Her husband, wanted by Interpol two years later, was hiding in plain sight in Mexico: he had gained weight, changed his appearance, and became a single father. What the police could not achieve in two years, his own children did: they revealed him. How did a man protected by a former minister and former president of the Supreme Court manage to escape, evade justice, and die without being convicted?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that define this case: luminol blood stains in the master bedroom versus the organized crime theory planted by the suspect; a domestic worker threatened with death who reveals the truth; and a body that remains unfound 13 years later. The vehicle's GPS continues to indicate excavations in 2024, but impunity prevailed when Roberto Barreda died of COVID-19 without conviction.

Victim: Cristina Shecavisa
Date: July 6-7, 2011
Location: Guatemala City and El Progreso, Honduras
Status: Open case - body not recovered

- Roberto Barreda was captured in Mérida, Mexico on November 8, 2013 under the false identity Carlos Villarreal, after two years as a fugitive from Interpol.
- Petrona, the domestic worker and sole eyewitness, testified that she witnessed the murder by beating and was forced to clean; she was threatened with death by the Barreda family.
- Ofelia de León, former minister and former president of the Supreme Court, was arrested for obstruction of justice; she later received a plea deal paying only $518 in symbolic reparations.
- The GPS of Roberto's vehicle recorded a route to El Progreso on July 7, 2011; it remains an active guide for excavations in 2024, but in 13 years, over 51 genetic analyses have been conducted without locating the remains.

Cristina Shecavisa, Guatemala femicide 2011, Roberto Barreda fugitive, Ofelia de León corruption, murder, investigation, unsolved mystery, incomplete justice, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A postal carrier notices an abandoned yellow Toyota without license plates parked in an empty lot, a man inside holding binoculars pointed at the street. Within hours, that single observation unravels a chain of three murders committed in forty-nine days across a quiet Melbourne suburb. The killer had meticulously planned each attack during storms to destroy evidence-but forgot one detail.

In this episode, we explore how a systematic predator orchestrated three homicides using handmade weapons and weather manipulation, yet was caught not by forensic breakthrough but by one person in the wrong place at the right moment. We examine the contradictions in his method: shoes designed to leave no footprints, a fake gun that couldn't fire, binoculars used to scout victims' routes-and the single strap that connected everything to his car.

Victim: Elizabeth Stevens, Deborah Fream, Natalie Russell
Location: Frankston, Victoria, Australia
Date: June-July 1993
Status: Convicted

- Elizabeth Stevens was strangled, slashed, and mutilated post-mortem during a storm on June 12, 1993, yet the killer deliberately chose rainy nights to wash away DNA
- Deborah Fream's car contained her blood but her body was found seven kilometers away, killed by the same attacker within thirty days of the first murder
- A binocular strap was recovered at Natalie Russell's murder scene and matched binoculars found in Paul Denyer's vehicle, despite his meticulous planning to avoid physical evidence
- Denyer's hand injuries matched skin fragments found under Natalie's nails from her struggle, contradicting his claim of a car engine repair accident

Elizabeth Stevens, Deborah Fream, Natalie Russell, Frankston Victoria serial killer 1993, Paul Denyer, homicide investigation, forensic evidence, criminal minds, true detective, murder investigation, unsolved mysteries solved, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544764Sat, 02 May 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaMailman Spots Car with Binoculars Watching Women in Frankston: The Serial Murders of Elizabeth Stevens, Deborah Fream, and Natalie Russell A postal carrier notices an abandoned yellow Toyota without license plates parked in an empty lot, a man...
A postal carrier notices an abandoned yellow Toyota without license plates parked in an empty lot, a man inside holding binoculars pointed at the street. Within hours, that single observation unravels a chain of three murders committed in forty-nine days across a quiet Melbourne suburb. The killer had meticulously planned each attack during storms to destroy evidence-but forgot one detail.

In this episode, we explore how a systematic predator orchestrated three homicides using handmade weapons and weather manipulation, yet was caught not by forensic breakthrough but by one person in the wrong place at the right moment. We examine the contradictions in his method: shoes designed to leave no footprints, a fake gun that couldn't fire, binoculars used to scout victims' routes-and the single strap that connected everything to his car.

Victim: Elizabeth Stevens, Deborah Fream, Natalie Russell
Location: Frankston, Victoria, Australia
Date: June-July 1993
Status: Convicted

- Elizabeth Stevens was strangled, slashed, and mutilated post-mortem during a storm on June 12, 1993, yet the killer deliberately chose rainy nights to wash away DNA
- Deborah Fream's car contained her blood but her body was found seven kilometers away, killed by the same attacker within thirty days of the first murder
- A binocular strap was recovered at Natalie Russell's murder scene and matched binoculars found in Paul Denyer's vehicle, despite his meticulous planning to avoid physical evidence
- Denyer's hand injuries matched skin fragments found under Natalie's nails from her struggle, contradicting his claim of a car engine repair accident

Elizabeth Stevens, Deborah Fream, Natalie Russell, Frankston Victoria serial killer 1993, Paul Denyer, homicide investigation, forensic evidence, criminal minds, true detective, murder investigation, unsolved mysteries solved, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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On July 27, 2019, a young man streamed live to strangers in ten countries while he murdered four members of his family. He then went to sleep, played video games, and waited calmly. The local police did not react - but a network of digital hunters on Discord did.

In this episode, we explore how ten strangers tracked the murderer through reverse image searches, PayPal payments, and emergency requests to gaming servers while the authorities slept. We unravel eight years of college lies, a false online identity, and a confession that revealed a calculated crime - not impulsive - with roots in 2016.

Victim: Saman family (Momotas, Moniruz, Malesa, Firuza)
Date: July 27, 2019
Location: Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Status: Guilty; life sentence without parole for 40 years (November 2020)

- Menaz Saman murdered his mother and grandmother at 3:00 PM, then played video games for eight hours before killing his sister and father.
- The Discord messages included selfies with a bloody knife taken while the bodies were still warm in the house.
- A group of digital hunters in multiple countries narrowed the search to an exact address in Toronto by tracing the IP of Skype and PayPal payments before dawn.
- He confessed that the motivation was to prevent his parents from discovering an eight-year academic lie - he never completed even one semester of college in 2015.

Menaz Saman, Scarborough Toronto family massacre 2019, serial killer, forensic investigation, true crime, Discord, criminal analysis, hitman, mystery solved, true crime Spanish

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On July 27, 2019, a young man streamed live to strangers in ten countries while he murdered four members of his family. He then went to sleep, played video games, and waited calmly. The local police did not react - but a network of digital hunters on Discord did.

In this episode, we explore how ten strangers tracked the murderer through reverse image searches, PayPal payments, and emergency requests to gaming servers while the authorities slept. We unravel eight years of college lies, a false online identity, and a confession that revealed a calculated crime - not impulsive - with roots in 2016.

Victim: Saman family (Momotas, Moniruz, Malesa, Firuza)
Date: July 27, 2019
Location: Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Status: Guilty; life sentence without parole for 40 years (November 2020)

- Menaz Saman murdered his mother and grandmother at 3:00 PM, then played video games for eight hours before killing his sister and father.
- The Discord messages included selfies with a bloody knife taken while the bodies were still warm in the house.
- A group of digital hunters in multiple countries narrowed the search to an exact address in Toronto by tracing the IP of Skype and PayPal payments before dawn.
- He confessed that the motivation was to prevent his parents from discovering an eight-year academic lie - he never completed even one semester of college in 2015.

Menaz Saman, Scarborough Toronto family massacre 2019, serial killer, forensic investigation, true crime, Discord, criminal analysis, hitman, mystery solved, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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November third, nineteen ninety-eight. A man enters a Humboldt County police station, sets a plastic bag on the counter, and confesses to four murders before anyone has accused him. But Wayne Adam Ford's decision to turn himself in raises a question that haunts the case to this day: was this genuine remorse, cold calculation, or something psychiatry has no name for?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that define Ford's case: a man with documented brain trauma and a psychiatric diagnosis who planned murders across multiple states with surgical precision; a serial killer who sought help voluntarily, rejected all treatment, and then surrendered with the very evidence that would guarantee his conviction. We examine the evidence from his mobile home-the knife, the saw, the coffee cans filled with human fat-and the four victims whose cases remained fragmented across California counties until Ford himself connected them.

Victim: Patricia Tamez, Tina Gibbs, Lanett White, and one unidentified woman
Location: Humboldt County, Kern County, and Northern California
Date: October 1997 - November 1998
Status: Convicted; Death Row, San Quentin

- Wayne Adam Ford suffered a severe head injury at age two and was struck by a vehicle at nineteen, with witnesses confirming drastic personality change after the second trauma
- He received a psychiatric diagnosis of atypical psychosis and severe borderline disorder in nineteen eighty-five, then voluntarily rejected all treatment
- He operated undetected for over a year across multiple California jurisdictions, selecting victims with similar characteristics and deliberately distributing dismembered remains to prevent identification
- He cooked his victims' tissue and stored it in coffee cans, evidence of sustained sadistic fetishism that contradicts any theory of pure impulsivity

Wayne Adam Ford, Humboldt County California, serial killer, dismemberment, psychosis, borderline disorder, homicide investigation, criminal psychology, true crime English

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November third, nineteen ninety-eight. A man enters a Humboldt County police station, sets a plastic bag on the counter, and confesses to four murders before anyone has accused him. But Wayne Adam Ford's decision to turn himself in raises a question that haunts the case to this day: was this genuine remorse, cold calculation, or something psychiatry has no name for?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that define Ford's case: a man with documented brain trauma and a psychiatric diagnosis who planned murders across multiple states with surgical precision; a serial killer who sought help voluntarily, rejected all treatment, and then surrendered with the very evidence that would guarantee his conviction. We examine the evidence from his mobile home-the knife, the saw, the coffee cans filled with human fat-and the four victims whose cases remained fragmented across California counties until Ford himself connected them.

Victim: Patricia Tamez, Tina Gibbs, Lanett White, and one unidentified woman
Location: Humboldt County, Kern County, and Northern California
Date: October 1997 - November 1998
Status: Convicted; Death Row, San Quentin

- Wayne Adam Ford suffered a severe head injury at age two and was struck by a vehicle at nineteen, with witnesses confirming drastic personality change after the second trauma
- He received a psychiatric diagnosis of atypical psychosis and severe borderline disorder in nineteen eighty-five, then voluntarily rejected all treatment
- He operated undetected for over a year across multiple California jurisdictions, selecting victims with similar characteristics and deliberately distributing dismembered remains to prevent identification
- He cooked his victims' tissue and stored it in coffee cans, evidence of sustained sadistic fetishism that contradicts any theory of pure impulsivity

Wayne Adam Ford, Humboldt County California, serial killer, dismemberment, psychosis, borderline disorder, homicide investigation, criminal psychology, true crime English

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A 17-year-old girl, never schooled or medically examined, planned for two years her only chance to escape. On January 14, 2018, at 3 a.m., she jumped out of a window with photographic evidence in hand. What she revealed was one of the most extreme domestic abuse stories ever documented: thirteen siblings chained in a middle-class neighborhood home, with parents earning $140,000 a year and traveling to Disney World.

In this episode, we explore how David and Lois Turpin maintained a facade of a perfect Christian family while their children suffered from severe caloric malnutrition, chaining, and total isolation. We analyze the devastating contradictions: minors with the weight of a seven-year-old, false statements made to the Department of Education for seven years, and a system that failed even after the rescue. The central question remains open: who else saw and chose not to act?

Victim: The Turpin siblings (13 minors rescued)
Date: January 14, 2018
Location: Perris, California, United States
Status: David and Lois Turpin sentenced to 25 years to life (June 22, 2019); Olguín found guilty of subsequent abuses (September 2024)

- A 17-year-old girl, never medically examined, planned her escape for two years with photographic evidence as her only tool.
- Malnourished minors documented with weight and muscle atrophy consistent with prolonged imprisonment; severe caloric malnutrition medically diagnosed.
- Parents registered a fictitious private school with the State for seven years without any inspection; a legal mechanism existed but was inoperable in practice.
- Six siblings placed with a new foster family where they suffered additional physical and sexual abuse, despite the agency being aware of that family's prior history of abuse.

The Turpin siblings, Perris California kidnapping 2018, extreme malnutrition, domestic abuse, family facade, chaining, Child Youth Family Services negligence, secondary victimization, forensic investigation, failed justice, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A 17-year-old girl, never schooled or medically examined, planned for two years her only chance to escape. On January 14, 2018, at 3 a.m., she jumped out of a window with photographic evidence in hand. What she revealed was one of the most extreme domestic abuse stories ever documented: thirteen siblings chained in a middle-class neighborhood home, with parents earning $140,000 a year and traveling to Disney World.

In this episode, we explore how David and Lois Turpin maintained a facade of a perfect Christian family while their children suffered from severe caloric malnutrition, chaining, and total isolation. We analyze the devastating contradictions: minors with the weight of a seven-year-old, false statements made to the Department of Education for seven years, and a system that failed even after the rescue. The central question remains open: who else saw and chose not to act?

Victim: The Turpin siblings (13 minors rescued)
Date: January 14, 2018
Location: Perris, California, United States
Status: David and Lois Turpin sentenced to 25 years to life (June 22, 2019); Olguín found guilty of subsequent abuses (September 2024)

- A 17-year-old girl, never medically examined, planned her escape for two years with photographic evidence as her only tool.
- Malnourished minors documented with weight and muscle atrophy consistent with prolonged imprisonment; severe caloric malnutrition medically diagnosed.
- Parents registered a fictitious private school with the State for seven years without any inspection; a legal mechanism existed but was inoperable in practice.
- Six siblings placed with a new foster family where they suffered additional physical and sexual abuse, despite the agency being aware of that family's prior history of abuse.

The Turpin siblings, Perris California kidnapping 2018, extreme malnutrition, domestic abuse, family facade, chaining, Child Youth Family Services negligence, secondary victimization, forensic investigation, failed justice, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Buenos Aires, 1979. Three middle-class women die within weeks of each other, each certified as natural death. Then an autopsy reveals cyanide in the first victim's body. Two exhumations follow. All three contained the same poison. One person connected them all: a soft-spoken, charming woman who brought cakes on visits and managed their savings.

This investigation explores how three deaths certified as cardiac failure became murders, yet the poisoning method was never established. We examine the doorman's testimony, the missing promissory notes, the psychiatric profile of a woman prosecutors called an intelligent psychopath-and the inexplicable gap between an acquittal in 1982 and a conviction in 1985, separated by three mysterious years.

Victim: Carmen Zulema del Giorgio, Nilda Gamba, Lelia Formisano
Date: February-March 1979
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Status: Convicted; Released 1993

- Cyanide found in all three bodies, yet the exact poisoning vector was never officially determined
- Woman acquitted in 1982 despite three cyanide deaths and eyewitness testimony, then convicted in 1985 with unexplained new evidence
- Doorman witnessed her leaving victim's apartment with papers and a jar on the day of the fatal fall
- After release from prison, woman married, cooked in prison kitchen, and appeared on television holding cakes

Yiya Murano, Buenos Aires 1979, cyanide poisoning, three victims, unsolved method, acquitted then convicted, Argentina military dictatorship, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544762Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaWoman Walks Out of Prison and Appears on Television with Cakes: The Cyanide Deaths of Carmen del Giorgio, Nilda Gamba, and Lelia Formisano Buenos Aires, 1979. Three middle-class women die within weeks of each other, each certified as natural death....
Buenos Aires, 1979. Three middle-class women die within weeks of each other, each certified as natural death. Then an autopsy reveals cyanide in the first victim's body. Two exhumations follow. All three contained the same poison. One person connected them all: a soft-spoken, charming woman who brought cakes on visits and managed their savings.

This investigation explores how three deaths certified as cardiac failure became murders, yet the poisoning method was never established. We examine the doorman's testimony, the missing promissory notes, the psychiatric profile of a woman prosecutors called an intelligent psychopath-and the inexplicable gap between an acquittal in 1982 and a conviction in 1985, separated by three mysterious years.

Victim: Carmen Zulema del Giorgio, Nilda Gamba, Lelia Formisano
Date: February-March 1979
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Status: Convicted; Released 1993

- Cyanide found in all three bodies, yet the exact poisoning vector was never officially determined
- Woman acquitted in 1982 despite three cyanide deaths and eyewitness testimony, then convicted in 1985 with unexplained new evidence
- Doorman witnessed her leaving victim's apartment with papers and a jar on the day of the fatal fall
- After release from prison, woman married, cooked in prison kitchen, and appeared on television holding cakes

Yiya Murano, Buenos Aires 1979, cyanide poisoning, three victims, unsolved method, acquitted then convicted, Argentina military dictatorship, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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On July 4, 2021, Melissa sent an audio message to a friend: "I'll be late, a tire punctured." It was her last voice transmission. Hours later, her body was found in a remote village with her face disfigured by rock blows. Security cameras recorded who picked her up that noon. The audios captured what happened. However, four years later, her killer remains in preventive detention without trial, live-streaming from prison that she will be free.

In this episode, we explore how a murder documented by video, audio, and recovered text messages was downgraded from homicide to violent emotion by a judge who then recused himself from the case. We analyze the chained recusals that have suspended hearings one after another, the live streams from prison, and the question that haunts the family: can money and political connections buy impunity even when there is irrefutable forensic evidence and exposed criminal minds?

Victim: Melissa Palacios Chacón
Date: July 4, 2021
Location: Río Hondo, Zacapa, Guatemala
Status: Preventive detention without trial (four years)

- Cameras recorded the suspect picking up Melissa at noon and traveling three hours to where her body was found.
- A forensic audio captured the victim pleading as they demanded her cell phone password, followed by blows that silenced her voice forever.
- The judge who downgraded the charge from murder to homicide was recused; five subsequent judges have also been recused or removed, indefinitely delaying the trial.
- The accused live-streamed from prison in January 2022 declaring that she would be free soon, suggesting access to a cell phone and possible manipulation of judicial processes.

Melissa Palacios Chacón, Río Hondo Zacapa murder 2021, investigation, judicial corruption, security cameras, forensic audio, mystery, pending justice, intrigue, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545064Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaRecorded murder: money against justice in Guatemala: The homicide of Melissa Palacios Chacón On July 4, 2021, Melissa sent an audio message to a friend: "I'll be late, a tire punctured." It was her last voice transmission. Hours later, her body...
On July 4, 2021, Melissa sent an audio message to a friend: "I'll be late, a tire punctured." It was her last voice transmission. Hours later, her body was found in a remote village with her face disfigured by rock blows. Security cameras recorded who picked her up that noon. The audios captured what happened. However, four years later, her killer remains in preventive detention without trial, live-streaming from prison that she will be free.

In this episode, we explore how a murder documented by video, audio, and recovered text messages was downgraded from homicide to violent emotion by a judge who then recused himself from the case. We analyze the chained recusals that have suspended hearings one after another, the live streams from prison, and the question that haunts the family: can money and political connections buy impunity even when there is irrefutable forensic evidence and exposed criminal minds?

Victim: Melissa Palacios Chacón
Date: July 4, 2021
Location: Río Hondo, Zacapa, Guatemala
Status: Preventive detention without trial (four years)

- Cameras recorded the suspect picking up Melissa at noon and traveling three hours to where her body was found.
- A forensic audio captured the victim pleading as they demanded her cell phone password, followed by blows that silenced her voice forever.
- The judge who downgraded the charge from murder to homicide was recused; five subsequent judges have also been recused or removed, indefinitely delaying the trial.
- The accused live-streamed from prison in January 2022 declaring that she would be free soon, suggesting access to a cell phone and possible manipulation of judicial processes.

Melissa Palacios Chacón, Río Hondo Zacapa murder 2021, investigation, judicial corruption, security cameras, forensic audio, mystery, pending justice, intrigue, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such...]]>1362falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-coffin-carried-by-the-killer-tiahleigh-palmer--71544761
On the morning of October 30, 2015, a man drove to his daughter's school with her body in his vehicle. The security cameras saw him arrive. They never saw her leave. Six days later, fishermen found a naked corpse in the Pimpama River-the same girl he would later carry in a coffin in front of three hundred mourners, crying as if he were a grieving father.

This investigation explores how a twelve-year-old adopted girl's death was hidden for seven months inside the walls of her own home, why three hundred fifty witnesses were questioned but the truth lay in a single screenshot, and how the man who orchestrated a precise cover-up-avoiding cameras on a forty-kilometer detour-was standing at the funeral clutching her casket.

Victim: Tyaleigh Palmer
Date: October 29-30, 2015
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Status: Convicted

- A twelve-year-old girl was adopted by the Thorburn family in January 2015 and dead by October of that same year.
- The man who carried her coffin at the funeral on November 14 had disposed of her body on October 30, two days before she was officially reported missing.
- Her adoptive brother had confessed in writing on Facebook that he was in a sexual relationship with her; that confession to his parents on October 29 was the last document before she disappeared.
- Richard Thorburn had a prior conviction for offenses against minors before being approved as an adoptive parent, a detail the investigation never publicly explained.

Tyaleigh Palmer, Gold Coast murder 2015, Pimpama River, homicide investigation, missing child, Australian true crime, forensic evidence, criminal family, cover-up, true crime English

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On the morning of October 30, 2015, a man drove to his daughter's school with her body in his vehicle. The security cameras saw him arrive. They never saw her leave. Six days later, fishermen found a naked corpse in the Pimpama River-the same girl he would later carry in a coffin in front of three hundred mourners, crying as if he were a grieving father.

This investigation explores how a twelve-year-old adopted girl's death was hidden for seven months inside the walls of her own home, why three hundred fifty witnesses were questioned but the truth lay in a single screenshot, and how the man who orchestrated a precise cover-up-avoiding cameras on a forty-kilometer detour-was standing at the funeral clutching her casket.

Victim: Tyaleigh Palmer
Date: October 29-30, 2015
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Status: Convicted

- A twelve-year-old girl was adopted by the Thorburn family in January 2015 and dead by October of that same year.
- The man who carried her coffin at the funeral on November 14 had disposed of her body on October 30, two days before she was officially reported missing.
- Her adoptive brother had confessed in writing on Facebook that he was in a sexual relationship with her; that confession to his parents on October 29 was the last document before she disappeared.
- Richard Thorburn had a prior conviction for offenses against minors before being approved as an adoptive parent, a detail the investigation never publicly explained.

Tyaleigh Palmer, Gold Coast murder 2015, Pimpama River, homicide investigation, missing child, Australian true crime, forensic evidence, criminal family, cover-up, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A man personally accompanied the family of his victim to file a missing persons report with the police, and the investigators didn't even interview him. For four years, between 1990 and 1994, this person murdered at least eleven women while his name appeared in the address books of several of them, without anyone cross-referencing the data.

In this episode, we explore how a serial killer operated with impunity in Charlotte while the police ignored the workplace connection at Taco Bell, overlooked a fingerprint at a crime scene, and refused to investigate him based on an incorrect racial profile. We unravel the forensic investigation errors, institutional bias, and the question that haunts the community: how many deaths could have been prevented?

Main victim: Caroline Love
Date: 1990-1994
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina and Barnwell, South Carolina
Status: Sentenced to 9 life sentences; death row

- He accompanied Caroline Love's family to the police station on June 19, 1992, while he was the main suspect, but he was never interrogated.
- His name appeared in the address books of at least five victims since 1992, information that was never cross-referenced.
- He pawned jewelry from Valencia Jumper weeks after murdering her; the pawn record existed but was not investigated until after his arrest.
- The coroner classified Valencia Jumper's death as accidental despite injuries inconsistent with burns and a smoke detector battery extracted from her body.

Henry Louis Wallace, Charlotte 1990, murder, serial killer, failed investigation, police bias, forensic, mystery, North Carolina, homicide, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545062Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe Taco Bell ghost that the police did not see: The case of Henry Louis Wallace A man personally accompanied the family of his victim to file a missing persons report with the police, and the investigators didn't even interview him. For four...
A man personally accompanied the family of his victim to file a missing persons report with the police, and the investigators didn't even interview him. For four years, between 1990 and 1994, this person murdered at least eleven women while his name appeared in the address books of several of them, without anyone cross-referencing the data.

In this episode, we explore how a serial killer operated with impunity in Charlotte while the police ignored the workplace connection at Taco Bell, overlooked a fingerprint at a crime scene, and refused to investigate him based on an incorrect racial profile. We unravel the forensic investigation errors, institutional bias, and the question that haunts the community: how many deaths could have been prevented?

Main victim: Caroline Love
Date: 1990-1994
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina and Barnwell, South Carolina
Status: Sentenced to 9 life sentences; death row

- He accompanied Caroline Love's family to the police station on June 19, 1992, while he was the main suspect, but he was never interrogated.
- His name appeared in the address books of at least five victims since 1992, information that was never cross-referenced.
- He pawned jewelry from Valencia Jumper weeks after murdering her; the pawn record existed but was not investigated until after his arrest.
- The coroner classified Valencia Jumper's death as accidental despite injuries inconsistent with burns and a smoke detector battery extracted from her body.

Henry Louis Wallace, Charlotte 1990, murder, serial killer, failed investigation, police bias, forensic, mystery, North Carolina, homicide, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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July 1938, Sverdlovsk. A three-year-old girl lies stabbed next to her house, a knife blade embedded in her skull. The man who killed her stands nearby as police lift the body. No one suspects him. What follows is not an isolated crime but a series of eight murders across three cities, victims aged two to four, committed by a sixteen-year-old who lived meters from his first victim-a case sealed for eighty years.

In this episode, we explore the structural failures that allowed a teenager to operate openly while authorities mobilized three hundred personnel searching for a disturbed adult in their twenties. We examine the forensic contradictions that haunt the case: confessions describing extreme brutality paired with weapons bearing no biological trace. We trace the geographic escalation, the lack of inter-jurisdictional communication, and the question that remains unanswered in released documents: Did Vladimir Vinitsky act completely alone, or was there someone operating in the shadows?

Victim: Gerda Ganova and seven others
Date: July 1938 - October 1938
Location: Sverdlovsk, Nizhny Tagil, Koba (Soviet Union)
Status: Executed November 1940

- The killer stood present while police collected the first victim's body, yet no one questioned him
- Eight documented murders committed over sixteen months by a teenager with no criminal record and no psychiatric diagnosis
- Weapons seized after capture bore no blood stains despite confessions describing extreme violence and multiple stab wounds
- Police profiled a man aged 20-25 with psychiatric history while the actual perpetrator was 16 and appeared completely ordinary

Vladimir Vinitsky, Sverdlovsk serial murders, Soviet Union 1938, child victims, unsolved contradictions, serial killers, cold case investigation, forensic science, Great Terror USSR, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544760Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaPolice Find The Killer Standing Over The Body While Three Hundred Agents Search Elsewhere: The serial murders of Vladimir Vinitsky July 1938, Sverdlovsk. A three-year-old girl lies stabbed next to her house, a knife blade embedded in her skull. The...
July 1938, Sverdlovsk. A three-year-old girl lies stabbed next to her house, a knife blade embedded in her skull. The man who killed her stands nearby as police lift the body. No one suspects him. What follows is not an isolated crime but a series of eight murders across three cities, victims aged two to four, committed by a sixteen-year-old who lived meters from his first victim-a case sealed for eighty years.

In this episode, we explore the structural failures that allowed a teenager to operate openly while authorities mobilized three hundred personnel searching for a disturbed adult in their twenties. We examine the forensic contradictions that haunt the case: confessions describing extreme brutality paired with weapons bearing no biological trace. We trace the geographic escalation, the lack of inter-jurisdictional communication, and the question that remains unanswered in released documents: Did Vladimir Vinitsky act completely alone, or was there someone operating in the shadows?

Victim: Gerda Ganova and seven others
Date: July 1938 - October 1938
Location: Sverdlovsk, Nizhny Tagil, Koba (Soviet Union)
Status: Executed November 1940

- The killer stood present while police collected the first victim's body, yet no one questioned him
- Eight documented murders committed over sixteen months by a teenager with no criminal record and no psychiatric diagnosis
- Weapons seized after capture bore no blood stains despite confessions describing extreme violence and multiple stab wounds
- Police profiled a man aged 20-25 with psychiatric history while the actual perpetrator was 16 and appeared completely ordinary

Vladimir Vinitsky, Sverdlovsk serial murders, Soviet Union 1938, child victims, unsolved contradictions, serial killers, cold case investigation, forensic science, Great Terror USSR, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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In the early hours of June 2, 2017, a young man wakes up during an attack in an apartment in Manchester's Gay Village. What happens in the following minutes exposes the most prolific sexual crime in British legal history: hundreds of hours systematically recorded, and an impossible question to answer. How did a "sweet and harmless student" record nearly 200 assaults without anyone stopping him?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that allowed this crime: a consent defense contradicted by videos of unconscious men, WhatsApp messages where Senaga boasted about attacks as "conquests," and a community that saw the signs but did not act. The police link 190 cases; only 160 were confirmed in court. The true number remains unknown.

Trigger Victim: 18-year-old (June 2, 2017)
Date: 2015-2019
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Status: Sentenced to 40 years in prison

- Senaga was arrested after attacking one of the few victims who woke up during the act and managed to escape.
- His phone contained hundreds of videos of assaults, stolen belongings from victims, and identical patterns of abuse with GHB.
- Close friends saw photos of unconscious victims on WhatsApp but interpreted the messages as stories of consensual conquests.
- The judge dismissed the consent defense as "ridiculous," considering that the videos showed disoriented, motionless men incapable of resistance.

Reyhard Tosya Marilu Senaga, Manchester, sexual assault, 2017, serial predator, forensic investigation, criminal minds, documented abuse, justice, imperfect crime, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545058Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe Student Who Secretly Recorded 160 Assaults: The Story of Reynard Tosya Marilu Senaga in Manchester In the early hours of June 2, 2017, a young man wakes up during an attack in an apartment in Manchester's Gay Village. What happens in the...
In the early hours of June 2, 2017, a young man wakes up during an attack in an apartment in Manchester's Gay Village. What happens in the following minutes exposes the most prolific sexual crime in British legal history: hundreds of hours systematically recorded, and an impossible question to answer. How did a "sweet and harmless student" record nearly 200 assaults without anyone stopping him?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that allowed this crime: a consent defense contradicted by videos of unconscious men, WhatsApp messages where Senaga boasted about attacks as "conquests," and a community that saw the signs but did not act. The police link 190 cases; only 160 were confirmed in court. The true number remains unknown.

Trigger Victim: 18-year-old (June 2, 2017)
Date: 2015-2019
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Status: Sentenced to 40 years in prison

- Senaga was arrested after attacking one of the few victims who woke up during the act and managed to escape.
- His phone contained hundreds of videos of assaults, stolen belongings from victims, and identical patterns of abuse with GHB.
- Close friends saw photos of unconscious victims on WhatsApp but interpreted the messages as stories of consensual conquests.
- The judge dismissed the consent defense as "ridiculous," considering that the videos showed disoriented, motionless men incapable of resistance.

Reyhard Tosya Marilu Senaga, Manchester, sexual assault, 2017, serial predator, forensic investigation, criminal minds, documented abuse, justice, imperfect crime, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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August 1991, Brandenburg. A man walking through brush stumbles on a hidden tent filled with women's clothing-items matching reports of the Pink Giant, a killer who terrorized East Germany for nearly two years. Instead of calling police, he approaches the tent, finds the man inside, and asks a single question: Do you want me to take you? What happens next stops one of Germany's most elusive serial killers with no weapon, no backup, and no protocol.

In this episode, we trace how Wolfgang Smith murdered six people while working a steady factory job, maintaining a girlfriend and an unborn child, all while police searched forests across the region. We examine the size forty-nine shoe print lost in the Berlin Wall's chaos, the pink underwear found beside a victim's body, and the infant thrown against a tree. Most chilling: during his full confession, Smith claims he cannot remember killing the baby-the single detail that reveals whether he was a compulsive sick man or a calculating predator.

Victim: Edeltraud Nixdorf, Christa Yux, Inge Fischer, Tamara Petróvskaya, Talita Bremer, and five-month-old child
Date: October 1989 - August 1991
Location: Brandenburg, East Germany; Ditz, Beelitz, Fürstenwalde
Status: Convicted, life imprisonment, psychiatric internment

- Size forty-nine shoe print discovered at first murder scene, lost in German reunification chaos
- Pink underwear and magazines found beside victim, revealing structured fetishistic pattern, not impulse
- Wolfgang Smith maintained dual life: factory worker, boyfriend with pregnant partner, serial killer with forest hiding places
- Smith confessed in detail to all six murders but denied memory of killing the infant-contradiction that defines his culpability

Wolfgang Smith, Brandenburg, East Germany, serial killer, Pink Giant, 1989, investigation, forensic evidence, criminal psychology, unsolved questions, homicide, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544758Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaStranger Asks One Question and the Pink Giant Gets in His Truck: The Serial Murders of Wolfgang Smith August 1991, Brandenburg. A man walking through brush stumbles on a hidden tent filled with women's clothing-items matching reports of the Pink...
August 1991, Brandenburg. A man walking through brush stumbles on a hidden tent filled with women's clothing-items matching reports of the Pink Giant, a killer who terrorized East Germany for nearly two years. Instead of calling police, he approaches the tent, finds the man inside, and asks a single question: Do you want me to take you? What happens next stops one of Germany's most elusive serial killers with no weapon, no backup, and no protocol.

In this episode, we trace how Wolfgang Smith murdered six people while working a steady factory job, maintaining a girlfriend and an unborn child, all while police searched forests across the region. We examine the size forty-nine shoe print lost in the Berlin Wall's chaos, the pink underwear found beside a victim's body, and the infant thrown against a tree. Most chilling: during his full confession, Smith claims he cannot remember killing the baby-the single detail that reveals whether he was a compulsive sick man or a calculating predator.

Victim: Edeltraud Nixdorf, Christa Yux, Inge Fischer, Tamara Petróvskaya, Talita Bremer, and five-month-old child
Date: October 1989 - August 1991
Location: Brandenburg, East Germany; Ditz, Beelitz, Fürstenwalde
Status: Convicted, life imprisonment, psychiatric internment

- Size forty-nine shoe print discovered at first murder scene, lost in German reunification chaos
- Pink underwear and magazines found beside victim, revealing structured fetishistic pattern, not impulse
- Wolfgang Smith maintained dual life: factory worker, boyfriend with pregnant partner, serial killer with forest hiding places
- Smith confessed in detail to all six murders but denied memory of killing the infant-contradiction that defines his culpability

Wolfgang Smith, Brandenburg, East Germany, serial killer, Pink Giant, 1989, investigation, forensic evidence, criminal psychology, unsolved questions, homicide, true crime English

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A man sentenced to death in Texas ripped out both of his eyes with his own hands while in prison. He ate the second eye. Is André Thomas a brutal killer who deserves the death penalty, or a severely mentally ill person whom the system has systematically failed since childhood?

In this episode, we explore how documented hospital failures 48 hours before the crime, a jury selected through racial maneuvering, and contradictory diagnoses of schizophrenia and psychosis led to a conviction that remains an uncomfortable controversy in American justice. How do you execute someone who removes their own organs citing the Bible?

Victim: Laura Marie Boren, André Lee Thomas Jr., Leya Marie Hughes
Date: March 27, 2004
Location: Sherman, Texas
Status: Death penalty pending

- André visited a mental health clinic on March 5 with documented suicidal threats, but he was not hospitalized
- An emergency detention order was issued on March 25 after self-harm, but the police never executed it
- Jury composed exclusively of white individuals after systematic elimination of African Americans
- André ripped out his right eye days after the arrest citing Matthew 5:29; he ate the second eye in 2008

André Lee Thomas, Sherman Texas 2004, triple homicide, schizophrenia, forensic, investigation, criminal minds, racial justice, mystery, true crime, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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A man sentenced to death in Texas ripped out both of his eyes with his own hands while in prison. He ate the second eye. Is André Thomas a brutal killer who deserves the death penalty, or a severely mentally ill person whom the system has systematically failed since childhood?

In this episode, we explore how documented hospital failures 48 hours before the crime, a jury selected through racial maneuvering, and contradictory diagnoses of schizophrenia and psychosis led to a conviction that remains an uncomfortable controversy in American justice. How do you execute someone who removes their own organs citing the Bible?

Victim: Laura Marie Boren, André Lee Thomas Jr., Leya Marie Hughes
Date: March 27, 2004
Location: Sherman, Texas
Status: Death penalty pending

- André visited a mental health clinic on March 5 with documented suicidal threats, but he was not hospitalized
- An emergency detention order was issued on March 25 after self-harm, but the police never executed it
- Jury composed exclusively of white individuals after systematic elimination of African Americans
- André ripped out his right eye days after the arrest citing Matthew 5:29; he ate the second eye in 2008

André Lee Thomas, Sherman Texas 2004, triple homicide, schizophrenia, forensic, investigation, criminal minds, racial justice, mystery, true crime, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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July 14, 1974: forty thousand people gathered at Lake Samamish for a summer holiday. In broad daylight, a man with his arm in a sling approached two college women asking for help with a boat. Both vanished within hours. Witnesses heard him use the name "Ted." Yet the man who did this had volunteered at a suicide crisis line, was studying law, and had received police commendations-a contradiction that would haunt the investigation.

In this episode, we trace how a charming law student became one of America's most elusive serial killers. We examine the ignored tip from his girlfriend, the composite sketch that circulated nationally, and the forensic evidence that finally linked him to a pattern of murders across Washington, Utah, and Colorado. Why did authorities discount the most direct lead, and how did a man so visible in such a crowded place slip away without capture for years?

Victim: Janice Ott and Denise Naslund
Date: July 14, 1974
Location: Lake Samamish, Washington
Status: Unsolved for 50 years; Bundy convicted but initially evaded capture

- Two women disappeared in daylight before thousands of witnesses at a public holiday celebration
- A girlfriend called police naming the suspect by his real name within weeks, but he remained free for over a year
- The man's apartment contained a kidnapping kit: rope, ski mask, pantyhose mask, ice pick, and plastic bags
- He escaped from a courthouse by jumping 26 feet through a window and later broke out of jail by crawling through ceiling ventilation ducts

Janice Ott, Denise Naslund, Lake Samamish Washington 1974, Ted Bundy, serial killer, vanished, missing persons, homicide investigation, unsolved mysteries, criminal minds, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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July 14, 1974: forty thousand people gathered at Lake Samamish for a summer holiday. In broad daylight, a man with his arm in a sling approached two college women asking for help with a boat. Both vanished within hours. Witnesses heard him use the name "Ted." Yet the man who did this had volunteered at a suicide crisis line, was studying law, and had received police commendations-a contradiction that would haunt the investigation.

In this episode, we trace how a charming law student became one of America's most elusive serial killers. We examine the ignored tip from his girlfriend, the composite sketch that circulated nationally, and the forensic evidence that finally linked him to a pattern of murders across Washington, Utah, and Colorado. Why did authorities discount the most direct lead, and how did a man so visible in such a crowded place slip away without capture for years?

Victim: Janice Ott and Denise Naslund
Date: July 14, 1974
Location: Lake Samamish, Washington
Status: Unsolved for 50 years; Bundy convicted but initially evaded capture

- Two women disappeared in daylight before thousands of witnesses at a public holiday celebration
- A girlfriend called police naming the suspect by his real name within weeks, but he remained free for over a year
- The man's apartment contained a kidnapping kit: rope, ski mask, pantyhose mask, ice pick, and plastic bags
- He escaped from a courthouse by jumping 26 feet through a window and later broke out of jail by crawling through ceiling ventilation ducts

Janice Ott, Denise Naslund, Lake Samamish Washington 1974, Ted Bundy, serial killer, vanished, missing persons, homicide investigation, unsolved mysteries, criminal minds, true crime English

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April 9, 1981, 10 PM in Mestre, northern Italy. A kitchen. A mother stabbed thirty-two times. Her nineteen-year-old son sits calmly waiting for his father to come home-knowing exactly what he will find.

In this episode, we explore the psychiatric evaluation that failed to detect a predator, the five-year hospital stay that produced only the appearance of recovery, and the decision that opened a door no one thought to lock again. How could a maximum-security facility grant unsupervised leave to a double murderer, and what happened when he disappeared in 1986?

Victim: Marisa Succo, Nazario Succo
Date: April 9, 1981
Location: Mestre, Venice, Italy
Status: Solved; Convicted

- Thirty-two stab wounds inflicted by his own son, who then sat waiting for his father's return
- Declared not guilty by reason of mental illness despite confessing without resistance
- Transferred to Reggio Emilia psychiatric hospital with minimum ten-year sentence but released on unsupervised university leave after five years
- Escaped May 15, 1986, leading to five confirmed murders across Italy and France within two years

Roberto Succo, Mestre Venice 1981, double homicide, psychiatric hospital escape, serial killer Italy France, forensic failure, unsolved evaluation system, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544756Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaNineteen-Year-Old Waits Seated as His Father Discovers What He Just Did: The Double Murder of Roberto Succo April 9, 1981, 10 PM in Mestre, northern Italy. A kitchen. A mother stabbed thirty-two times. Her nineteen-year-old son sits calmly waiting...
April 9, 1981, 10 PM in Mestre, northern Italy. A kitchen. A mother stabbed thirty-two times. Her nineteen-year-old son sits calmly waiting for his father to come home-knowing exactly what he will find.

In this episode, we explore the psychiatric evaluation that failed to detect a predator, the five-year hospital stay that produced only the appearance of recovery, and the decision that opened a door no one thought to lock again. How could a maximum-security facility grant unsupervised leave to a double murderer, and what happened when he disappeared in 1986?

Victim: Marisa Succo, Nazario Succo
Date: April 9, 1981
Location: Mestre, Venice, Italy
Status: Solved; Convicted

- Thirty-two stab wounds inflicted by his own son, who then sat waiting for his father's return
- Declared not guilty by reason of mental illness despite confessing without resistance
- Transferred to Reggio Emilia psychiatric hospital with minimum ten-year sentence but released on unsupervised university leave after five years
- Escaped May 15, 1986, leading to five confirmed murders across Italy and France within two years

Roberto Succo, Mestre Venice 1981, double homicide, psychiatric hospital escape, serial killer Italy France, forensic failure, unsolved evaluation system, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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June 1980. A Sunday school teacher enters her best friend's house with an axe and strikes her 41 times. Then she bathes in her bathroom, tries to clean the blood, and walks toward freedom. The contradiction is impossible: if she acted in dissociation without awareness, why did she clean the crime scene?

In this episode, we explore how a psychiatrist connected a four-year childhood trauma to a brutal attack, how a lie detector detected no deception, and how a jury acquitted Candy Montgomery in just five hours despite the forensic evidence. The central question remains unresolved: self-defense or murder disguised as dissociation?

Victim: Betty Pomeroy
Date: June 13, 1980
Location: 410 Dogwood, Wally, Texas
Status: Acquittal (August 30, 1980)

- Axe found under freezer with incriminating fingerprint of Candy
- 28 blows to the head; the last was fatal; prolonged duration suggests conscious agency
- Candy bathed in Betty's house after the attack and cleaned evidence
- Only Candy's version exists about what happened; Betty cannot contradict her

Betty Pomeroy, Wally Texas 1980, murder, homicide, self-defense, dissociation, psychological trauma, forensic investigation, unsolved mystery, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545055Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at Obomedia41 blows: the model mother who went free: The murder of Betty Pomeroy in Wally, Texas June 1980. A Sunday school teacher enters her best friend's house with an axe and strikes her 41 times. Then she bathes in her bathroom, tries to clean the...
June 1980. A Sunday school teacher enters her best friend's house with an axe and strikes her 41 times. Then she bathes in her bathroom, tries to clean the blood, and walks toward freedom. The contradiction is impossible: if she acted in dissociation without awareness, why did she clean the crime scene?

In this episode, we explore how a psychiatrist connected a four-year childhood trauma to a brutal attack, how a lie detector detected no deception, and how a jury acquitted Candy Montgomery in just five hours despite the forensic evidence. The central question remains unresolved: self-defense or murder disguised as dissociation?

Victim: Betty Pomeroy
Date: June 13, 1980
Location: 410 Dogwood, Wally, Texas
Status: Acquittal (August 30, 1980)

- Axe found under freezer with incriminating fingerprint of Candy
- 28 blows to the head; the last was fatal; prolonged duration suggests conscious agency
- Candy bathed in Betty's house after the attack and cleaned evidence
- Only Candy's version exists about what happened; Betty cannot contradict her

Betty Pomeroy, Wally Texas 1980, murder, homicide, self-defense, dissociation, psychological trauma, forensic investigation, unsolved mystery, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A man murdered his partner in Mexico in 2009 and disappeared. Eleven years later, under a false identity, he rebuilt his life in Chile and committed the exact crime on another woman. The connection came in an anonymous message during the funeral.

In this episode, we explore how an international serial killer managed to live hidden in Chile for years, build intimate relationships, and repeat his modus operandi without detection. We examine the screenshot that debunks the alibi, the money that was never withdrawn, the 15-centimeter wound on the neck, and the bus ticket to the Peruvian border. Why did it take almost a decade for the arrest warrant to be issued in Mexico?

Victim: María Isabel Pávez
Date: December 17-23, 2020
Location: Santiago, Chile (and Aguascalientes, Mexico 2009)
Status: Qualified life imprisonment, minimum 40 years

- Screenshot from the cell phone shows battery charged when María Isabel claimed it wasn't working
- Deposited money was never withdrawn, pinpointing the exact moment of death
- Bus ticket to Arica found in the apartment confirmed immediate border escape
- Anonymous message from a Mexican woman during the funeral connected two countries, two victims, and a killer with two names

María Isabel Pávez, Santiago Chile 2020, murder, femicide, serial killer, mystery, investigation, homicide, premeditated crime, Chile Mexico, false passport, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545054Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaTwo names, two lives, two identical deaths: The femicide of María Isabel Pávez A man murdered his partner in Mexico in 2009 and disappeared. Eleven years later, under a false identity, he rebuilt his life in Chile and committed the exact crime...
A man murdered his partner in Mexico in 2009 and disappeared. Eleven years later, under a false identity, he rebuilt his life in Chile and committed the exact crime on another woman. The connection came in an anonymous message during the funeral.

In this episode, we explore how an international serial killer managed to live hidden in Chile for years, build intimate relationships, and repeat his modus operandi without detection. We examine the screenshot that debunks the alibi, the money that was never withdrawn, the 15-centimeter wound on the neck, and the bus ticket to the Peruvian border. Why did it take almost a decade for the arrest warrant to be issued in Mexico?

Victim: María Isabel Pávez
Date: December 17-23, 2020
Location: Santiago, Chile (and Aguascalientes, Mexico 2009)
Status: Qualified life imprisonment, minimum 40 years

- Screenshot from the cell phone shows battery charged when María Isabel claimed it wasn't working
- Deposited money was never withdrawn, pinpointing the exact moment of death
- Bus ticket to Arica found in the apartment confirmed immediate border escape
- Anonymous message from a Mexican woman during the funeral connected two countries, two victims, and a killer with two names

María Isabel Pávez, Santiago Chile 2020, murder, femicide, serial killer, mystery, investigation, homicide, premeditated crime, Chile Mexico, false passport, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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On January ninth, two thousand seven, officers opened a trash can in a Knoxville kitchen and discovered what forensic experts would later confirm: a young woman was still breathing when she was placed inside those plastic bags. How did a carjacking in a parking lot lead to seventy-two hours of deliberate violence in a single house?

This episode explores the sequence of acts that transformed an apparent robbery into one of the most brutal crimes in Tennessee history. We examine the contradictions between what the defendants claimed happened and what the forensic evidence revealed, the decision to eliminate one victim before maintaining control over the other, and the impossible question of whether this was impulsive escalation or calculated design from the first moment.

Victim: Channon Gail Christian, Christopher Newsom
Date: January 6-9, 2007
Location: 16 Chipman Street, Knoxville, Tennessee
Status: Convicted (multiple trials, judicial oversight issues)

- A .22-caliber revolver, sneakers belonging to the male victim, and an envelope with fingerprints inside an abandoned vehicle formed the immediate thread to the perpetrators
- Forensic examiners determined the young woman died from suffocation inside the trash can, not from the earlier blows that rendered her unconscious
- The judge who presided over the original trials was later found to have been addicted to opioid painkillers and engaged in sexual misconduct, requiring all verdicts to be overturned and retrialed
- One defendant, sentenced to eighteen years for concealment, remained incarcerated in 2020 when he could have been released for good behavior, only to receive a life sentence plus ninety years after new testimony emerged

Channon Christian, Christopher Newsom, Knoxville Tennessee 2007, carjacking, sexual assault, homicide investigation, forensic evidence, judicial misconduct, murder case, criminal minds, true crime English

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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On January ninth, two thousand seven, officers opened a trash can in a Knoxville kitchen and discovered what forensic experts would later confirm: a young woman was still breathing when she was placed inside those plastic bags. How did a carjacking in a parking lot lead to seventy-two hours of deliberate violence in a single house?

This episode explores the sequence of acts that transformed an apparent robbery into one of the most brutal crimes in Tennessee history. We examine the contradictions between what the defendants claimed happened and what the forensic evidence revealed, the decision to eliminate one victim before maintaining control over the other, and the impossible question of whether this was impulsive escalation or calculated design from the first moment.

Victim: Channon Gail Christian, Christopher Newsom
Date: January 6-9, 2007
Location: 16 Chipman Street, Knoxville, Tennessee
Status: Convicted (multiple trials, judicial oversight issues)

- A .22-caliber revolver, sneakers belonging to the male victim, and an envelope with fingerprints inside an abandoned vehicle formed the immediate thread to the perpetrators
- Forensic examiners determined the young woman died from suffocation inside the trash can, not from the earlier blows that rendered her unconscious
- The judge who presided over the original trials was later found to have been addicted to opioid painkillers and engaged in sexual misconduct, requiring all verdicts to be overturned and retrialed
- One defendant, sentenced to eighteen years for concealment, remained incarcerated in 2020 when he could have been released for good behavior, only to receive a life sentence plus ninety years after new testimony emerged

Channon Christian, Christopher Newsom, Knoxville Tennessee 2007, carjacking, sexual assault, homicide investigation, forensic evidence, judicial misconduct, murder case, criminal minds, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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April 28, 1987: a night guard named Tamara Gatilova is found murdered at a kindergarten in Arzamas. Within hours, three local youths are arrested and coerced into confessions-word for word identical. But the autopsy reveals a contradiction that should have stopped everything: no evidence of sexual assault, yet all three confessed to rape.

In this episode, we examine how a prosecutor's meticulous review of court documents exposed the judicial machinery's fatal flaw, and how physical evidence-footprints bearing the mark of a cane-pointed to a completely different perpetrator. Who was the figure with a limp that the victim's seven-year-old daughter witnessed that night, and how did he evade capture for nearly a decade across more than 150 Soviet regions?

Victim: Tamara Gatilova
Date: April 28, 1987
Location: Arzamas, Soviet Union
Status: Solved (perpetrator identified as Sergei Kashinsev; three innocent teenagers wrongly imprisoned)

- The three confessions presented identical phrases and sentence structure despite coming from three supposedly independent interrogations under coercion.
- The autopsy of Tamara Gatilova showed zero evidence of sexual assault, yet all three confessions included detailed admissions of gang rape as an aggravating factor.
- Footprints outside kindergarten number seventeen contained a distinctive circular indentation at regular intervals-the mark of a cane-matching no suspect among the arrested teenagers.
- The victim's seven-year-old daughter testified to witnessing a short figure using a cane, but her testimony was dismissed as insufficient procedural weight in the Soviet system.

Tamara Gatilova, Arzamas 1987 murder, Soviet serial killer, Sergei Kashinsev, wrongful conviction, forensic evidence, investigation error, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544754Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaThree Teenagers Sign Identical Confessions as Evidence Points to a Limp: The Murder of Tamara Gatilova in Arzamas, 1987 April 28, 1987: a night guard named Tamara Gatilova is found murdered at a kindergarten in Arzamas. Within hours, three local...
April 28, 1987: a night guard named Tamara Gatilova is found murdered at a kindergarten in Arzamas. Within hours, three local youths are arrested and coerced into confessions-word for word identical. But the autopsy reveals a contradiction that should have stopped everything: no evidence of sexual assault, yet all three confessed to rape.

In this episode, we examine how a prosecutor's meticulous review of court documents exposed the judicial machinery's fatal flaw, and how physical evidence-footprints bearing the mark of a cane-pointed to a completely different perpetrator. Who was the figure with a limp that the victim's seven-year-old daughter witnessed that night, and how did he evade capture for nearly a decade across more than 150 Soviet regions?

Victim: Tamara Gatilova
Date: April 28, 1987
Location: Arzamas, Soviet Union
Status: Solved (perpetrator identified as Sergei Kashinsev; three innocent teenagers wrongly imprisoned)

- The three confessions presented identical phrases and sentence structure despite coming from three supposedly independent interrogations under coercion.
- The autopsy of Tamara Gatilova showed zero evidence of sexual assault, yet all three confessions included detailed admissions of gang rape as an aggravating factor.
- Footprints outside kindergarten number seventeen contained a distinctive circular indentation at regular intervals-the mark of a cane-matching no suspect among the arrested teenagers.
- The victim's seven-year-old daughter testified to witnessing a short figure using a cane, but her testimony was dismissed as insufficient procedural weight in the Soviet system.

Tamara Gatilova, Arzamas 1987 murder, Soviet serial killer, Sergei Kashinsev, wrongful conviction, forensic evidence, investigation error, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A 27-year-old teacher receives a gift of love that becomes a target of death. Ten days of documented surveillance on cameras, more than 10 9 mm shots in broad daylight on a Guatemalan road. How does a social media post and a new van trigger a planned ambush?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions surrounding femicide: the hidden relationship with a man of Mexican descent, the direct threat messages sent by his wife days before the crime, and the unanswered question of who ordered the execution. Intact belongings, perforated armor, and a mastermind still at large reveal a calculated crime that exposes the cracks in forensic investigation.

Victim: Michelle Soto Solares
Date: September 30, 2025
Location: Kilometer 61, Escuintla-Masagua highway, Guatemala
Status: Open investigation, no arrests

- Systematic follow-up by a black Pulsar motorcycle for at least 10 days before the ambush.
- More than 10 9 mm casings found at the scene, indicating a coordinated and sustained attack, not an impulsive act.
- Death threat messages documented on Michelle's cell phone from Denis Méndez's wife days prior to the crime.
- The vehicle's armor was easily penetrated, suggesting that the hitmen knew the protection measures.

Michelle Soto Solares, Escuintla Guatemala 2025, murder, femicide, hitmen, threats, investigation, mystery, premeditated crime, cartel, justice, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545053Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:02 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe van that sealed her fate in Guatemala: The murder of Michelle Soto Solares A 27-year-old teacher receives a gift of love that becomes a target of death. Ten days of documented surveillance on cameras, more than 10 9 mm shots in broad...
A 27-year-old teacher receives a gift of love that becomes a target of death. Ten days of documented surveillance on cameras, more than 10 9 mm shots in broad daylight on a Guatemalan road. How does a social media post and a new van trigger a planned ambush?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions surrounding femicide: the hidden relationship with a man of Mexican descent, the direct threat messages sent by his wife days before the crime, and the unanswered question of who ordered the execution. Intact belongings, perforated armor, and a mastermind still at large reveal a calculated crime that exposes the cracks in forensic investigation.

Victim: Michelle Soto Solares
Date: September 30, 2025
Location: Kilometer 61, Escuintla-Masagua highway, Guatemala
Status: Open investigation, no arrests

- Systematic follow-up by a black Pulsar motorcycle for at least 10 days before the ambush.
- More than 10 9 mm casings found at the scene, indicating a coordinated and sustained attack, not an impulsive act.
- Death threat messages documented on Michelle's cell phone from Denis Méndez's wife days prior to the crime.
- The vehicle's armor was easily penetrated, suggesting that the hitmen knew the protection measures.

Michelle Soto Solares, Escuintla Guatemala 2025, murder, femicide, hitmen, threats, investigation, mystery, premeditated crime, cartel, justice, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A mother ordered the murder of her ex-husband, his partner, and her niece's boyfriend on the same street in Santiago. All to keep properties she believed belonged to her. But the hitman was arrested 24 hours later, confessed everything, and an innocent woman nearly spent years in prison for his crimes.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that dismantled the operation: 80 recorded calls between the mastermind and the hitman, a handwritten plan detailing every room of the target house, and an accidental murder that was not in the original plan. How did a respectable architect, daughter of a successful immigrant, end up sentenced to life in prison?

Victims: Francisco Zamorano, Héctor Arévalo, Diego Smich
Date: April 23, 2008, and November 4, 2008
Location: Santiago, Chile
Status: Sentenced to 40 years effective, January 2011

- 80 calls between María del Pilar and the hitman Rus documented ongoing coordination post-murders.
- Claudio Sosa, completely innocent, was arrested and pressured into confessing to a crime he did not commit.
- A handwritten plan found in the hitman's house detailed the safe, rooms, and exact layout of the target.
- Diego Smich died in an unforeseen struggle, it was not a planned murder, which generated unusual legal tension in the sentencing.

María del Pilar Pérez López, Santiago, qualified homicide, hitman, property crime, 2008, forensic investigation, hired killer, criminal mystery, Chilean justice, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545052Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe architect who hired hitmen for inheritance: The triple homicide of María del Pilar Pérez López A mother ordered the murder of her ex-husband, his partner, and her niece's boyfriend on the same street in Santiago. All to keep properties she...
A mother ordered the murder of her ex-husband, his partner, and her niece's boyfriend on the same street in Santiago. All to keep properties she believed belonged to her. But the hitman was arrested 24 hours later, confessed everything, and an innocent woman nearly spent years in prison for his crimes.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that dismantled the operation: 80 recorded calls between the mastermind and the hitman, a handwritten plan detailing every room of the target house, and an accidental murder that was not in the original plan. How did a respectable architect, daughter of a successful immigrant, end up sentenced to life in prison?

Victims: Francisco Zamorano, Héctor Arévalo, Diego Smich
Date: April 23, 2008, and November 4, 2008
Location: Santiago, Chile
Status: Sentenced to 40 years effective, January 2011

- 80 calls between María del Pilar and the hitman Rus documented ongoing coordination post-murders.
- Claudio Sosa, completely innocent, was arrested and pressured into confessing to a crime he did not commit.
- A handwritten plan found in the hitman's house detailed the safe, rooms, and exact layout of the target.
- Diego Smich died in an unforeseen struggle, it was not a planned murder, which generated unusual legal tension in the sentencing.

María del Pilar Pérez López, Santiago, qualified homicide, hitman, property crime, 2008, forensic investigation, hired killer, criminal mystery, Chilean justice, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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In the early hours of January 1975, a teenager is dragged from her bed while her mother sleeps in the adjacent room. Locked 18 meters underground in an abandoned mine shaft, she dies on the same day her family arrives with the £50,000 ransom. Could she have been saved if the police hadn't made a chain of mistakes?

In this episode, we explore the three failed ransom attempts between January 14 and 17, the police intervention that alerted the kidnapper, and how the copying of serial numbers on banknotes caused a crucial one-hour delay. We unravel the identity of Donald Nilson, a former soldier turned one of Britain's criminal masterminds, and the forensic mystery surrounding his death: accident or intentional?

Victim: Lesley Whittle
Date: January 14, 1975
Location: Bathpool Park, Shropshire, England
Status: Case solved - Nilson sentenced to life imprisonment (deceased 2011)

- Lesley's body was found tied around the neck with metal wire 18 meters deep, weighing only 44 kilos, without food since her capture.
- The police did not alert the patrol in Bathpool Park in the early hours of January 17; an officer saw Nilson flee but did not pursue him.
- Nilson claimed that Lesley accidentally slipped, but forensics found her stomach completely empty despite his claims of having fed her.
- In three previous murders of postal workers, Nilson eliminated all identifiable witnesses; releasing Lesley would have been the only exception in his criminal career.

Lesley Whittle, Bathpool Park Shropshire, 1975, kidnapping, murder, police investigation, forensic, mystery, homicide, criminal intrigue, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544981Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:00:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe Black Panther: The Kidnapping That Killed a Teenager - Lesley Whittle, 17 years old. In the early hours of January 1975, a teenager is dragged from her bed while her mother sleeps in the adjacent room. Locked 18 meters underground in an...
In the early hours of January 1975, a teenager is dragged from her bed while her mother sleeps in the adjacent room. Locked 18 meters underground in an abandoned mine shaft, she dies on the same day her family arrives with the £50,000 ransom. Could she have been saved if the police hadn't made a chain of mistakes?

In this episode, we explore the three failed ransom attempts between January 14 and 17, the police intervention that alerted the kidnapper, and how the copying of serial numbers on banknotes caused a crucial one-hour delay. We unravel the identity of Donald Nilson, a former soldier turned one of Britain's criminal masterminds, and the forensic mystery surrounding his death: accident or intentional?

Victim: Lesley Whittle
Date: January 14, 1975
Location: Bathpool Park, Shropshire, England
Status: Case solved - Nilson sentenced to life imprisonment (deceased 2011)

- Lesley's body was found tied around the neck with metal wire 18 meters deep, weighing only 44 kilos, without food since her capture.
- The police did not alert the patrol in Bathpool Park in the early hours of January 17; an officer saw Nilson flee but did not pursue him.
- Nilson claimed that Lesley accidentally slipped, but forensics found her stomach completely empty despite his claims of having fed her.
- In three previous murders of postal workers, Nilson eliminated all identifiable witnesses; releasing Lesley would have been the only exception in his criminal career.

Lesley Whittle, Bathpool Park Shropshire, 1975, kidnapping, murder, police investigation, forensic, mystery, homicide, criminal intrigue, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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On the early morning of January 14, 1975, Dorothy Whittle returned home to Highley, Shropshire, and checked on her sleeping seventeen-year-old daughter. Six hours later, Lesley's bed was empty, and a note made of Dymo tape letters demanded fifty thousand pounds. What followed was not a simple kidnapping-it was the systematic exposure of critical police failures that would cost a teenager her life.

In this episode, we explore the cascade of three catastrophic errors: a BBC leak that destroyed the first ransom attempt, Scotland Yard's delayed serial number copying that cost Ronald Whittle an hour, and an unalerted patrol that forced the kidnapper to flee at the decisive moment. At the center of the investigation stands Donald Neilson, a methodical ex-soldier and serial killer known as the Black Panther, who had operated unchecked for nearly a decade-but did those police mistakes create the conditions for Lesley's death, or was she always destined not to survive?

Victim: Lesley Whittle
Date: January 14, 1975
Location: Highley, Shropshire, England
Status: Unsolved-Death circumstances contested

- The kidnapper spent months studying Lesley's family finances, home routines, and her inheritance of eighty-two thousand pounds before entering her bedroom
- Police did not alert the patrol at Bathpool Park despite orchestrating the ransom drop, causing Neilson to flee the exact moment Ronald arrived with the money
- Scotland Yard copied the serial numbers of fifty thousand pounds notes, taking over an hour-time Ronald did not have to complete the exchange
- Lesley's body was found weeks later in an eighteen-meter-deep well with a metal cable around her neck and her intestines completely empty despite her kidnapper's trial claim he had tried to feed her

Lesley Whittle, Highley Shropshire 1975, ransom kidnapping, Black Panther serial killer, Donald Neilson, police investigation failure, homicide, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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On the early morning of January 14, 1975, Dorothy Whittle returned home to Highley, Shropshire, and checked on her sleeping seventeen-year-old daughter. Six hours later, Lesley's bed was empty, and a note made of Dymo tape letters demanded fifty thousand pounds. What followed was not a simple kidnapping-it was the systematic exposure of critical police failures that would cost a teenager her life.

In this episode, we explore the cascade of three catastrophic errors: a BBC leak that destroyed the first ransom attempt, Scotland Yard's delayed serial number copying that cost Ronald Whittle an hour, and an unalerted patrol that forced the kidnapper to flee at the decisive moment. At the center of the investigation stands Donald Neilson, a methodical ex-soldier and serial killer known as the Black Panther, who had operated unchecked for nearly a decade-but did those police mistakes create the conditions for Lesley's death, or was she always destined not to survive?

Victim: Lesley Whittle
Date: January 14, 1975
Location: Highley, Shropshire, England
Status: Unsolved-Death circumstances contested

- The kidnapper spent months studying Lesley's family finances, home routines, and her inheritance of eighty-two thousand pounds before entering her bedroom
- Police did not alert the patrol at Bathpool Park despite orchestrating the ransom drop, causing Neilson to flee the exact moment Ronald arrived with the money
- Scotland Yard copied the serial numbers of fifty thousand pounds notes, taking over an hour-time Ronald did not have to complete the exchange
- Lesley's body was found weeks later in an eighteen-meter-deep well with a metal cable around her neck and her intestines completely empty despite her kidnapper's trial claim he had tried to feed her

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In this episode, we reconstruct the life of Jessica Camilleri from her childhood diagnosis, through the ignored signs, the systematic escalation of violence, and the night that changed everything. You will discover how a desperate mother tried to save a daughter with intermittent explosive disorder, an IQ of 55-60, and obsessions that the system never controlled. But you will also learn about the legal and psychiatric gaps that allowed a person convicted of assault just 24 hours earlier to return home without any containment.

Case Details
Victim: Rita Camilleri, 61 years old, mother
Date: July 20, 2019
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Status: Jessica Camilleri convicted of manslaughter. Sentence reduced on appeal to 16 years 6 months without parole (2031). Six additional charges for assaults in prison pending.

- Ninety stab wounds, but the defense argued self-defense. How is that amount of stabbings justified in an act of self-defense?
- Jessica was convicted of assault causing bodily harm on July 19. On July 20, she was returned to Rita's care without follow-up or psychiatric containment.
- She confessed to the psychiatrist that she did not want to stop while stabbing and that the idea of decapitating came from movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that she watched repeatedly.
- In prison, she has committed six formal assaults against guards and inmates, contradicting the narrative of total loss of control during the crime.

How many ignored warnings fit into a single life before the system finally acts?

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In this episode, we reconstruct the life of Jessica Camilleri from her childhood diagnosis, through the ignored signs, the systematic escalation of violence, and the night that changed everything. You will discover how a desperate mother tried to save a daughter with intermittent explosive disorder, an IQ of 55-60, and obsessions that the system never controlled. But you will also learn about the legal and psychiatric gaps that allowed a person convicted of assault just 24 hours earlier to return home without any containment.

Case Details
Victim: Rita Camilleri, 61 years old, mother
Date: July 20, 2019
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Status: Jessica Camilleri convicted of manslaughter. Sentence reduced on appeal to 16 years 6 months without parole (2031). Six additional charges for assaults in prison pending.

- Ninety stab wounds, but the defense argued self-defense. How is that amount of stabbings justified in an act of self-defense?
- Jessica was convicted of assault causing bodily harm on July 19. On July 20, she was returned to Rita's care without follow-up or psychiatric containment.
- She confessed to the psychiatrist that she did not want to stop while stabbing and that the idea of decapitating came from movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that she watched repeatedly.
- In prison, she has committed six formal assaults against guards and inmates, contradicting the narrative of total loss of control during the crime.

How many ignored warnings fit into a single life before the system finally acts?

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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How long had Andreina been planning this, and how many other victims might she have killed?

In this episode, you will discover how a daughter turned her apartment into a crime scene, used artificial intelligence to create fake videos, and built lies in real time while the police searched for her mother. We will reveal incriminating searches on her computer, the bank card of a missing woman from three years ago found in her possession, and a pattern of poisoning attempts that suggests a serial killer operating under the radar for years.

Case Details
Victim: Marta Solís, 50 years old, respected lawyer
Date: October 5, 2025
Location: Guayaquil, Ecuador
Status: Open case for murder, attempted homicide, and possible series; Andreina in preventive detention

- Andreina prevented her brother from accessing the apartment that same day and refused to sign the initial report, but publicly participated in the search with posters while actively obstructing the investigation
- Video generated with artificial intelligence simulating Marta alive was dismissed by an expert; Andreina also attempted to enter a hotel disguised as her mother to create a false alibi
- Searches on her computer included documentaries about Dahmer and Bundy, instructions for dismemberment and odor removal; industrial cutting tools found alongside fragmented remains
- Bank card of Jennifer Banguera, missing since January 2022 after being left at Andreina's house, was found among her belongings; case reopened with suspicion of a series

Were you in the search for Marta without knowing that her daughter had been planning this for years?

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545755Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:31:42 +0000Creator at ObomediaA mother disappears without a trace in Guayaquil. Her daughter enters a hotel disguised as her to deceive the police. Meanwhile, the remains are in a washing machine, preserved with salt and detergent. How long had Andreina been planning this, and...
How long had Andreina been planning this, and how many other victims might she have killed?

In this episode, you will discover how a daughter turned her apartment into a crime scene, used artificial intelligence to create fake videos, and built lies in real time while the police searched for her mother. We will reveal incriminating searches on her computer, the bank card of a missing woman from three years ago found in her possession, and a pattern of poisoning attempts that suggests a serial killer operating under the radar for years.

Case Details
Victim: Marta Solís, 50 years old, respected lawyer
Date: October 5, 2025
Location: Guayaquil, Ecuador
Status: Open case for murder, attempted homicide, and possible series; Andreina in preventive detention

- Andreina prevented her brother from accessing the apartment that same day and refused to sign the initial report, but publicly participated in the search with posters while actively obstructing the investigation
- Video generated with artificial intelligence simulating Marta alive was dismissed by an expert; Andreina also attempted to enter a hotel disguised as her mother to create a false alibi
- Searches on her computer included documentaries about Dahmer and Bundy, instructions for dismemberment and odor removal; industrial cutting tools found alongside fragmented remains
- Bank card of Jennifer Banguera, missing since January 2022 after being left at Andreina's house, was found among her belongings; case reopened with suspicion of a series

Were you in the search for Marta without knowing that her daughter had been planning this for years?

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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In this episode, you will discover how 48 hours of desperate searching, an apparent suicide, and an autopsy with irrefutable scientific findings exposed a femicide that an entire community witnesses but cannot judge. We will follow every minute of that fatal night: from the nightclub to the last camera recording, from the identification of the suspect to the twist that closes the case before the trial even begins.

Case Details
Victim: Agustina Invinkelright, 17 years old, student
Date: January 12-14, 2019
Location: Esperanza, Santa Fe, Argentina
Status: Closed case without trial; suspect deceased

- The soil in Agustina's lungs proves she was buried alive, not strangled as initially speculated
- The gray Renault captured on camera links the suspect within minutes, but his biking that afternoon suggests immediate consciousness of guilt
- The defense marks on Agustina and the injuries on the suspect compatible with high heels reveal a fierce struggle, but no direct witnesses survived
- The agricultural shed indicated by geolocation was empty; the body was 200 meters in a different direction, leaving open the question of whether Agustina was moved after the first burial

How does an entire community identify the culprit but justice can never convict him? Press Play to reconstruct the night that changed Esperanza forever.

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545754Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:31:39 +0000Creator at ObomediaA 17-year-old girl disappears in a town where everyone knows each other. The only man who knows what happened to her dies before he can speak. And yet, forensic science betrays him from the grave. In January 2019, Esperanza, Santa Fe, experienced the...
In this episode, you will discover how 48 hours of desperate searching, an apparent suicide, and an autopsy with irrefutable scientific findings exposed a femicide that an entire community witnesses but cannot judge. We will follow every minute of that fatal night: from the nightclub to the last camera recording, from the identification of the suspect to the twist that closes the case before the trial even begins.

Case Details
Victim: Agustina Invinkelright, 17 years old, student
Date: January 12-14, 2019
Location: Esperanza, Santa Fe, Argentina
Status: Closed case without trial; suspect deceased

- The soil in Agustina's lungs proves she was buried alive, not strangled as initially speculated
- The gray Renault captured on camera links the suspect within minutes, but his biking that afternoon suggests immediate consciousness of guilt
- The defense marks on Agustina and the injuries on the suspect compatible with high heels reveal a fierce struggle, but no direct witnesses survived
- The agricultural shed indicated by geolocation was empty; the body was 200 meters in a different direction, leaving open the question of whether Agustina was moved after the first burial

How does an entire community identify the culprit but justice can never convict him? Press Play to reconstruct the night that changed Esperanza forever.

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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In this episode, you will discover how Jack's handwritten journals revealed prior violent thoughts, how the prosecution elevated the charges from second to first-degree premeditated murder, and why the defense will argue in May 2026 that Jack was not mentally capable of understanding his actions - despite having been declared competent to stand trial.

Case Details
Victim: Betany Bad Israel, 30 years old, educator and wife; fetus of 17-18 weeks (Levy)
Date: May 23, 2024
Location: Lakeville, Minnesota, United States
Status: Jack Joseph Bad pleaded guilty on January 21, 2026, to two counts of first-degree premeditated murder; mental incompetence hearing set for May 21, 2026

- Jack answered basic questions correctly after his arrest but had a self-inflicted wound on his neck, evidence of two opposing mental states without public resolution
- Jack's journals documented family resentment and references to "loss of innocence," but their exact content was never fully published nor was his motive confirmed
- Police call for Jack's mental health in 2022 contrasts with the judge declaring him competent in October 2024: the same man, contradictory legal standards
- Axes, hacks, and bloody knives in the house, combined with the transfer of remains to three locations, suggest both premeditation and possible final decompensation

Will the defense prove that Jack did not understand his actions - and can his own journals demonstrate precisely the opposite?

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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In this episode, you will discover how Jack's handwritten journals revealed prior violent thoughts, how the prosecution elevated the charges from second to first-degree premeditated murder, and why the defense will argue in May 2026 that Jack was not mentally capable of understanding his actions - despite having been declared competent to stand trial.

Case Details
Victim: Betany Bad Israel, 30 years old, educator and wife; fetus of 17-18 weeks (Levy)
Date: May 23, 2024
Location: Lakeville, Minnesota, United States
Status: Jack Joseph Bad pleaded guilty on January 21, 2026, to two counts of first-degree premeditated murder; mental incompetence hearing set for May 21, 2026

- Jack answered basic questions correctly after his arrest but had a self-inflicted wound on his neck, evidence of two opposing mental states without public resolution
- Jack's journals documented family resentment and references to "loss of innocence," but their exact content was never fully published nor was his motive confirmed
- Police call for Jack's mental health in 2022 contrasts with the judge declaring him competent in October 2024: the same man, contradictory legal standards
- Axes, hacks, and bloody knives in the house, combined with the transfer of remains to three locations, suggest both premeditation and possible final decompensation

Will the defense prove that Jack did not understand his actions - and can his own journals demonstrate precisely the opposite?

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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In this episode, you will discover how a mother took the search for her daughter to the Congress of the Republic, what secrets are hidden in a flight ticket issued in the name of a missing person, and why the authorities never convicted anyone. We will go through the last verified hours of Natalia, the testimonies that contradict the official version, and the links to criminal networks that no one wants to publicly confirm.

Case Details
Victim: Natalia Hitrago, 21 years old, independent worker in makeup and modeling
Date: August 18, 2021
Location: Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia
Status: Case under investigation with no conviction; missing person for four years

- The video from Isla Bora Bora on August 15 shows Natalia with a never-identified man, completely contradicting her version of traveling with friends
- A flight ticket issued in Natalia's name for March 6, 2022—seven months after she disappeared—was never clarified by Migración Colombia
- Hernán Darío Jiménez, her partner of five years with a proven history of violence, was captured in Mexico City in 2022 for drug trafficking, but his connection to the disappearance remains unresolved
- The waitress at Mirador Gastrobar identified Natalia by her unique tattoo on the night of August 18, accompanied by a man who fits Jiménez's profile, but he denied being in Cartagena that day

What really happened in those last hours in Cartagena, and why did a mother have to take the case to Congress to get answers?

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545751Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:31:34 +0000Creator at ObomediaA young woman disappears on August 18, 2021, in Cartagena. Four years later, her passport is registered on an international flight seven months after her presumed death. Her partner lies from the very first minute, but about what? About where Natalia...
In this episode, you will discover how a mother took the search for her daughter to the Congress of the Republic, what secrets are hidden in a flight ticket issued in the name of a missing person, and why the authorities never convicted anyone. We will go through the last verified hours of Natalia, the testimonies that contradict the official version, and the links to criminal networks that no one wants to publicly confirm.

Case Details
Victim: Natalia Hitrago, 21 years old, independent worker in makeup and modeling
Date: August 18, 2021
Location: Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia
Status: Case under investigation with no conviction; missing person for four years

- The video from Isla Bora Bora on August 15 shows Natalia with a never-identified man, completely contradicting her version of traveling with friends
- A flight ticket issued in Natalia's name for March 6, 2022—seven months after she disappeared—was never clarified by Migración Colombia
- Hernán Darío Jiménez, her partner of five years with a proven history of violence, was captured in Mexico City in 2022 for drug trafficking, but his connection to the disappearance remains unresolved
- The waitress at Mirador Gastrobar identified Natalia by her unique tattoo on the night of August 18, accompanied by a man who fits Jiménez's profile, but he denied being in Cartagena that day

What really happened in those last hours in Cartagena, and why did a mother have to take the case to Congress to get answers?

disappearance Cartagena 2021, Natalia Hitrago, unsolved crime Colombia, human trafficking drug trafficking, partner violence, forged passport, searching mother, Congress Republic case, closed fiscal investigation, true crime Spanish podcast

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© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their...]]>1306falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/frank-suarez-three-floors-zero-answers-a-closed-case--71545750
He lived on the 6th floor. His body was found on the 9th floor. The police closed the case in less than 24 hours without digital forensics, without a suicide note, without an explanation for those three floors. Frank Suárez criticized the pharmaceutical industry from a platform of 4 million subscribers. Was it suicide resolved too quickly or an investigation never completed?

In this episode, you will discover the complete inventory of questions that the official investigation never answered. We will analyze the ignored witness, the cellphone never analyzed, the physically impossible fall to explain, and the most suspicious case closure in Puerto Rico in 2021. You will hear directly the contradictions between the version of his immediate family and the truth revealed by his son in a book published years later. Access to timelines, videos, testimonies, and the pattern of four investigative failures that can rewrite what you think you know about this death.

Case Details
Victim: Frank Suárez López, 70 years old, businessman and metabolism expert
Date: February 25, 2021
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico (residential building)
Status: Officially closed as suicide; no reopening or forensic review

- The police registered the fall from the 9th floor, but Frank resided on the 6th floor. He deliberately climbed three floors to a stranger's corridor before falling, according to the official version. No cameras of the route, no witnesses to that movement.
- His cellphone was never analyzed. There is no documented confiscation, no search for messages, notes, or history. Lieutenant Ángel Martínez closed the case without digital forensics.
- A neighbor stated that she saw an unknown man forcing Frank's lock on the morning of February 25. The police did not include this testimony in the official file.
- Frank publicly criticized the pharmaceutical companies from Metabolismo TV, accusing them of funding fraudulent studies. His family claims he was seeking antidepressants in the United States weeks before his death, contradicting his own public message.

Why is a violent death case closed in less than 24 hours without analyzing the victim's mobile device? Press Play to access the evidence that reclassifies this death.

Frank Suárez death, closed case Puerto Rico, suicide without forensics, pharmaceutical industry criticism, incomplete investigation, fall building San Juan, ignored witness, suspicious death 2021, Metabolismo TV, true crime Spanish podcast

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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He lived on the 6th floor. His body was found on the 9th floor. The police closed the case in less than 24 hours without digital forensics, without a suicide note, without an explanation for those three floors. Frank Suárez criticized the pharmaceutical industry from a platform of 4 million subscribers. Was it suicide resolved too quickly or an investigation never completed?

In this episode, you will discover the complete inventory of questions that the official investigation never answered. We will analyze the ignored witness, the cellphone never analyzed, the physically impossible fall to explain, and the most suspicious case closure in Puerto Rico in 2021. You will hear directly the contradictions between the version of his immediate family and the truth revealed by his son in a book published years later. Access to timelines, videos, testimonies, and the pattern of four investigative failures that can rewrite what you think you know about this death.

Case Details
Victim: Frank Suárez López, 70 years old, businessman and metabolism expert
Date: February 25, 2021
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico (residential building)
Status: Officially closed as suicide; no reopening or forensic review

- The police registered the fall from the 9th floor, but Frank resided on the 6th floor. He deliberately climbed three floors to a stranger's corridor before falling, according to the official version. No cameras of the route, no witnesses to that movement.
- His cellphone was never analyzed. There is no documented confiscation, no search for messages, notes, or history. Lieutenant Ángel Martínez closed the case without digital forensics.
- A neighbor stated that she saw an unknown man forcing Frank's lock on the morning of February 25. The police did not include this testimony in the official file.
- Frank publicly criticized the pharmaceutical companies from Metabolismo TV, accusing them of funding fraudulent studies. His family claims he was seeking antidepressants in the United States weeks before his death, contradicting his own public message.

Why is a violent death case closed in less than 24 hours without analyzing the victim's mobile device? Press Play to access the evidence that reclassifies this death.

Frank Suárez death, closed case Puerto Rico, suicide without forensics, pharmaceutical industry criticism, incomplete investigation, fall building San Juan, ignored witness, suspicious death 2021, Metabolismo TV, true crime Spanish podcast

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found...]]>1328falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-boy-who-accused-his-father-from-the-screen--71545749
In this episode, you will discover the exact moment a wounded child testified against his accusing father, how the two 911 calls completely contradicted his alibi, and why the judge described the verdict as the worst of her judicial career. You will hear the recording of the victim's voice screaming "I was shot," the forensic analysis that directly linked him to the scene, and the psychiatric evaluation that never resolved whether he was mentally ill or a strategic manipulator.

Case Details
Victim: Keniata Barrón (partner), Ronny O'Neal Jr. (son, 10 years old), Romney Bella (daughter with cerebral palsy)
Date: March 18, 2018
Location: Riverview, Florida, United States
Status: Sentenced to three consecutive life sentences without parole, 2021

- The 911 call at 11:43 PM captured Keniata's voice saying "I was shot" and O'Neal shouting "Allah Akbar," contradictory to his later total denial.
- O'Neal admitted in the second call that "I finished them off," but at trial claimed self-defense and police conspiracy, eroding all credibility.
- Two out of three psychiatrists declared mental incompetence; nevertheless, he was declared fit for trial and self-represented, personally interrogating his wounded son.
- The son's testimony via video link revealed that he was forced to hold the shotgun during the shooting, a detail that O'Neal never managed to refute in his own interrogation.

Can a father who stabbed his own son really convince a court that he is a victim of a conspiracy? Discover what happened when the surviving child looked directly at his accuser from the screen.

murder family Florida, father kills daughter cerebral palsy, child's testimony trial, Ronny O'Neal Riverview, recorded 911 calls, failed self-defense, psychiatric delusional disorder, arson evidence, true crime Spanish podcast

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545749Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:31:29 +0000Creator at ObomediaThat night in Riverview, Florida, a father executed his family with a shotgun, axe, and knife, then appeared before the court convinced of his innocence. Years later, he forced his only surviving son to look him in the eyes during the trial. How does...
In this episode, you will discover the exact moment a wounded child testified against his accusing father, how the two 911 calls completely contradicted his alibi, and why the judge described the verdict as the worst of her judicial career. You will hear the recording of the victim's voice screaming "I was shot," the forensic analysis that directly linked him to the scene, and the psychiatric evaluation that never resolved whether he was mentally ill or a strategic manipulator.

Case Details
Victim: Keniata Barrón (partner), Ronny O'Neal Jr. (son, 10 years old), Romney Bella (daughter with cerebral palsy)
Date: March 18, 2018
Location: Riverview, Florida, United States
Status: Sentenced to three consecutive life sentences without parole, 2021

- The 911 call at 11:43 PM captured Keniata's voice saying "I was shot" and O'Neal shouting "Allah Akbar," contradictory to his later total denial.
- O'Neal admitted in the second call that "I finished them off," but at trial claimed self-defense and police conspiracy, eroding all credibility.
- Two out of three psychiatrists declared mental incompetence; nevertheless, he was declared fit for trial and self-represented, personally interrogating his wounded son.
- The son's testimony via video link revealed that he was forced to hold the shotgun during the shooting, a detail that O'Neal never managed to refute in his own interrogation.

Can a father who stabbed his own son really convince a court that he is a victim of a conspiracy? Discover what happened when the surviving child looked directly at his accuser from the screen.

murder family Florida, father kills daughter cerebral palsy, child's testimony trial, Ronny O'Neal Riverview, recorded 911 calls, failed self-defense, psychiatric delusional disorder, arson evidence, true crime Spanish podcast

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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In this episode, you will discover how Linda Loaiza turned her four-month nightmare into the first case of gender violence in Venezuela judged by an international human rights court. You will learn the details of her captivity medically documented, the procedural contradictions that allowed the perpetrator's release, and how a survivor used international law to expose the institutional collapse of a state. This is a story of resistance, lost evidence, and delayed justice.

Case Details
Victim: Linda Loaiza López, 18 years old, student
Date: March 27, 2001, to July 19, 2001
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
Status: Perpetrator released in November 2009; whereabouts unknown. Case condemned internationally by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in November 2018.

- Judge Rosa Cádiz granted freedom on "reasonable doubt" in 2004 despite Linda identifying the perpetrator from the rescue and medical examinations documenting fractures in three parts of the jaw, traumatic brain injury, and genital tears.
- The mattress from the apartment where Linda was tortured for four months was never collected as evidence; it disappeared from the crime scene after the rescue.
- DNA tests and luminol were never conducted in the El Rosal apartment; forensic examinations were carried out eight days after the rescue, allowing for the destruction of biological evidence.
- The prosecution granted a partial conviction: deprivation of liberty and injuries, but not for sexual abuse, even though medical records documented genital tears; the absence of DNA evidence left the charge without procedural basis.

How did an eighteen-year-old survive four months of systematic torture, and why did the system that was supposed to condemn her allow her perpetrator to walk free?

Linda Loaiza López kidnapping Caracas 2001, gender violence Venezuela, torture four months, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, delayed justice Venezuela, internationally condemned case, true crime Spanish podcast

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545748Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:31:26 +0000Creator at ObomediaEighteen years, four months of horror, a system that abandoned her. In March 2001, Linda Loaiza López was kidnapped in Caracas. The police took days to file a formal complaint while her sister pleaded for help. For four months, she was tortured in an...
In this episode, you will discover how Linda Loaiza turned her four-month nightmare into the first case of gender violence in Venezuela judged by an international human rights court. You will learn the details of her captivity medically documented, the procedural contradictions that allowed the perpetrator's release, and how a survivor used international law to expose the institutional collapse of a state. This is a story of resistance, lost evidence, and delayed justice.

Case Details
Victim: Linda Loaiza López, 18 years old, student
Date: March 27, 2001, to July 19, 2001
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
Status: Perpetrator released in November 2009; whereabouts unknown. Case condemned internationally by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in November 2018.

- Judge Rosa Cádiz granted freedom on "reasonable doubt" in 2004 despite Linda identifying the perpetrator from the rescue and medical examinations documenting fractures in three parts of the jaw, traumatic brain injury, and genital tears.
- The mattress from the apartment where Linda was tortured for four months was never collected as evidence; it disappeared from the crime scene after the rescue.
- DNA tests and luminol were never conducted in the El Rosal apartment; forensic examinations were carried out eight days after the rescue, allowing for the destruction of biological evidence.
- The prosecution granted a partial conviction: deprivation of liberty and injuries, but not for sexual abuse, even though medical records documented genital tears; the absence of DNA evidence left the charge without procedural basis.

How did an eighteen-year-old survive four months of systematic torture, and why did the system that was supposed to condemn her allow her perpetrator to walk free?

Linda Loaiza López kidnapping Caracas 2001, gender violence Venezuela, torture four months, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, delayed justice Venezuela, internationally condemned case, true crime Spanish podcast

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl,...]]>1336falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/an-order-came-a-day-late-wendy-had-no-tomorrow--71545747
In this episode, you will discover how an honorably mentioned university engineer executed a premeditated femicide while having an active arrest warrant. You will learn about the mind behind the recorded confession where he narrated every detail of the crime, and how a court released him seven years later for "poor case integration" despite the blood luminescence in his house and his own confessional video. This is institutional collapse turned into tragedy.

Case Details
Victim: Wendy Lizeth Ochoa, 19 years old, high school student
Date: April 28, 2012
Location: Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico
Status: Attacker recaptured in May 2019 after irregular release; criminal process restarted

- An arrest warrant active since February 27 did not stop the attacker 24 hours later
- The prosecutor's office classified domestic violence as "not a serious crime" in October 2011, without acting until February 2012
- Villatoro recorded a video sharpening knives three days prior, verbalizing the plan against Wendy
- Released in 2019 due to procedural defect despite full confession, positive luminol, and dismembered remains

How many prior reports are needed before a justice system truly acts to protect a woman?

Murder Tuxtla Gutiérrez, femicide Chiapas, unexecuted arrest warrant, dismemberment Mexico, killer confession on video, luminol blood evidence, domestic violence institutional collapse, case without real justice, true crime Spanish podcast

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545747Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:31:24 +0000Creator at ObomediaAn order arrived a day late. Wendy Lizeth Ochoa disappeared on April 28, 2012, in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. Her ex-partner confessed without pressure to having murdered, dismembered, and devoured her heart. The most disturbing part: the arrest...
In this episode, you will discover how an honorably mentioned university engineer executed a premeditated femicide while having an active arrest warrant. You will learn about the mind behind the recorded confession where he narrated every detail of the crime, and how a court released him seven years later for "poor case integration" despite the blood luminescence in his house and his own confessional video. This is institutional collapse turned into tragedy.

Case Details
Victim: Wendy Lizeth Ochoa, 19 years old, high school student
Date: April 28, 2012
Location: Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico
Status: Attacker recaptured in May 2019 after irregular release; criminal process restarted

- An arrest warrant active since February 27 did not stop the attacker 24 hours later
- The prosecutor's office classified domestic violence as "not a serious crime" in October 2011, without acting until February 2012
- Villatoro recorded a video sharpening knives three days prior, verbalizing the plan against Wendy
- Released in 2019 due to procedural defect despite full confession, positive luminol, and dismembered remains

How many prior reports are needed before a justice system truly acts to protect a woman?

Murder Tuxtla Gutiérrez, femicide Chiapas, unexecuted arrest warrant, dismemberment Mexico, killer confession on video, luminol blood evidence, domestic violence institutional collapse, case without real justice, true crime Spanish podcast

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in...]]>1190falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-call-to-110-that-police-ignored-hidden-evidence-in-the-junko-furuta-case--71545746
In this episode, we reconstruct every moment of the hidden evidence: the intercepted call that could have saved her, the unrecorded police visit, the concrete drum found 24 days later, and the more than 100 men who participated, but only four were tried. You will discover why the Japanese system released dangerous repeat offenders and how parents, friends, and authorities chose to look the other way.

Case Details
Victim: Junko Furuta, 17 years old, high school student
Date: November 25, 1988 - January 4, 1989
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Status: Case solved; multiple subsequent reoffenses by perpetrators

- The police were called twice and did not act: a call to 110 was cut off by the captor and returned without investigation; an in-person visit was rejected at the door with no record of the residence
- More than 100 men participated in the abuses according to DNA evidence, but only four were tried and sentenced to lesser penalties that were served
- The offenders reoffended in serious violent crimes after their release: one was arrested for attempted murder with a metal rod in 2018, another for kidnapping and assault in 2004
- The body was identified only by fingerprints because the physical damage and pregnancy made visual recognition impossible; the autopsy documented brain shrinkage due to extreme stress

Are you ready to discover the system that failed and the names that were never pursued?

case Junko Furuta, unsolved crimes Japan, police failures true crime, forensic autopsy secrets, family criminal complicity, yakuza influence justice, documented sexual crimes, serious criminal recidivism, collective silence crime, hidden evidence cases, failed judicial system, true crime Spanish podcast

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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In this episode, we reconstruct every moment of the hidden evidence: the intercepted call that could have saved her, the unrecorded police visit, the concrete drum found 24 days later, and the more than 100 men who participated, but only four were tried. You will discover why the Japanese system released dangerous repeat offenders and how parents, friends, and authorities chose to look the other way.

Case Details
Victim: Junko Furuta, 17 years old, high school student
Date: November 25, 1988 - January 4, 1989
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Status: Case solved; multiple subsequent reoffenses by perpetrators

- The police were called twice and did not act: a call to 110 was cut off by the captor and returned without investigation; an in-person visit was rejected at the door with no record of the residence
- More than 100 men participated in the abuses according to DNA evidence, but only four were tried and sentenced to lesser penalties that were served
- The offenders reoffended in serious violent crimes after their release: one was arrested for attempted murder with a metal rod in 2018, another for kidnapping and assault in 2004
- The body was identified only by fingerprints because the physical damage and pregnancy made visual recognition impossible; the autopsy documented brain shrinkage due to extreme stress

Are you ready to discover the system that failed and the names that were never pursued?

case Junko Furuta, unsolved crimes Japan, police failures true crime, forensic autopsy secrets, family criminal complicity, yakuza influence justice, documented sexual crimes, serious criminal recidivism, collective silence crime, hidden evidence cases, failed judicial system, true crime Spanish podcast

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In this episode, you will discover how 32 surveillance cameras documented months of extreme abuse, how a child protection system completely failed across states, and how a mother mocked on social media the tortures she inflicted. Searches on Heather's phone reveal premeditated calculation. The audiovisual evidence leaves no room for doubt. This is the case that resulted in life sentences and a law named after the victim.

Case Details
Victim: Adrián Jones, 7 years old, son of the accused
Date: September 28, 2015 (death); November 25, 2015 (discovery)
Location: Piper, Kansas, United States
Status: Both sentenced to life in prison with eligibility for parole after 25 years since 2016 and 2017 respectively

- Ten abuse alerts were ignored or not escalated while the family strategically moved between Kansas and Missouri to evade state supervision
- Surveillance cameras recorded electric shocks, confinement in a shower without water or food, restraints, and exposure to cold for months
- Heather posted on Facebook descriptions of the tortures to strangers and mocked Adrián's bruises; at Christmas 2014, she wrote a phrase that foreshadowed his death
- The cell phone forensic analysis revealed searches about body disposal sites and body bags conducted between the death and the concealment of the child

Are you ready to discover how a complete system failed to protect a child while those responsible documented and publicized their crimes?

child abuse Kansas, unsolved cases United States, documented torture on video, protection system failure, life sentence cases, premeditated crime Kansas, social media and crime, Adrián Law 2021, institutional child neglect, forgotten victims justice, extreme torture cases, true crime Spanish podcast

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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In this episode, you will discover how 32 surveillance cameras documented months of extreme abuse, how a child protection system completely failed across states, and how a mother mocked on social media the tortures she inflicted. Searches on Heather's phone reveal premeditated calculation. The audiovisual evidence leaves no room for doubt. This is the case that resulted in life sentences and a law named after the victim.

Case Details
Victim: Adrián Jones, 7 years old, son of the accused
Date: September 28, 2015 (death); November 25, 2015 (discovery)
Location: Piper, Kansas, United States
Status: Both sentenced to life in prison with eligibility for parole after 25 years since 2016 and 2017 respectively

- Ten abuse alerts were ignored or not escalated while the family strategically moved between Kansas and Missouri to evade state supervision
- Surveillance cameras recorded electric shocks, confinement in a shower without water or food, restraints, and exposure to cold for months
- Heather posted on Facebook descriptions of the tortures to strangers and mocked Adrián's bruises; at Christmas 2014, she wrote a phrase that foreshadowed his death
- The cell phone forensic analysis revealed searches about body disposal sites and body bags conducted between the death and the concealment of the child

Are you ready to discover how a complete system failed to protect a child while those responsible documented and publicized their crimes?

child abuse Kansas, unsolved cases United States, documented torture on video, protection system failure, life sentence cases, premeditated crime Kansas, social media and crime, Adrián Law 2021, institutional child neglect, forgotten victims justice, extreme torture cases, true crime Spanish podcast

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In this episode, we reconstruct the capture of Michelle, Amanda, and Gina by Ariel Castro in Cleveland, what happened during eleven years underground, and why every warning sign was ignored or misinterpreted. From the first deception with puppies to the call that changed everything, discover how a school bus driver, with documented reports of domestic violence, became the monster the city didn’t see coming. Converging testimonies from the victims, contradictory letters from the perpetrator, and police searches that passed by the truth reveal deep cracks in how we protect the missing.

Case Details
Victims: Michelle Knight (21 years old), Amanda Berry (17 years old), Gina de Jesús (14 years old)
Date: August 23, 2002, to May 6, 2013
Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Status: Ariel Castro sentenced to life in prison; deceased in 2013

- Castro had documented reports of domestic violence since 1996 and locked his own daughters in the basement with deadbolts in 2005, but was never connected to the active disappearances
- The police sketch from 2004 partially matched Castro and he lived in the same residential area; he was never questioned
- Castro's letters from prison describe him as a predator in need of help, contradictory to his statement in court of consensual relationships
- Michelle was forced to have five abortions due to beatings; Jocelyn was born without medical assistance in a plastic pool while Michelle resuscitated her when she turned blue

Can a documented predator operate for a decade in plain sight because the systems do not communicate with each other?

Ariel Castro case Cleveland, ten-year kidnapping, Michelle Knight Amanda Berry, Gina de Jesús, serial predator Ohio, basement captivity, failed missing persons search, unconnected domestic violence, true crime Spanish podcast

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545743Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:31:15 +0000Creator at ObomediaA woman opens a door from the inside, reaches out her arm, and screams for help after ten years of being missing. Two neighbors hear her. In the basement: two more women chained, a creature born in captivity. How does someone maintain three active...
In this episode, we reconstruct the capture of Michelle, Amanda, and Gina by Ariel Castro in Cleveland, what happened during eleven years underground, and why every warning sign was ignored or misinterpreted. From the first deception with puppies to the call that changed everything, discover how a school bus driver, with documented reports of domestic violence, became the monster the city didn’t see coming. Converging testimonies from the victims, contradictory letters from the perpetrator, and police searches that passed by the truth reveal deep cracks in how we protect the missing.

Case Details
Victims: Michelle Knight (21 years old), Amanda Berry (17 years old), Gina de Jesús (14 years old)
Date: August 23, 2002, to May 6, 2013
Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Status: Ariel Castro sentenced to life in prison; deceased in 2013

- Castro had documented reports of domestic violence since 1996 and locked his own daughters in the basement with deadbolts in 2005, but was never connected to the active disappearances
- The police sketch from 2004 partially matched Castro and he lived in the same residential area; he was never questioned
- Castro's letters from prison describe him as a predator in need of help, contradictory to his statement in court of consensual relationships
- Michelle was forced to have five abortions due to beatings; Jocelyn was born without medical assistance in a plastic pool while Michelle resuscitated her when she turned blue

Can a documented predator operate for a decade in plain sight because the systems do not communicate with each other?

Ariel Castro case Cleveland, ten-year kidnapping, Michelle Knight Amanda Berry, Gina de Jesús, serial predator Ohio, basement captivity, failed missing persons search, unconnected domestic violence, true crime Spanish podcast

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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In this episode, you will discover how a family with political power almost managed to bury a crime along with the victim. From the disappearance of Emely Peguero on August 23, 2017, to the sentence that left more questions than answers, every detail will reveal the cover-up system that operated in the shadows. You will learn about the key testimony that changed everything and why justice left many without closure.

Case Details
Victim: Emely Peguero, 16 years old, 5 months pregnant
Date: August 23, 2017
Location: San Francisco de Macorís and Espaillat province, Dominican Republic
Status: Marlon Martínez sentenced to 30 years; Marlin Martínez: 2 years after appeal; acquittal for complicity under legal technicality

- The gas station cameras where Marlon claimed to have left Emely never recorded her; his vehicle appears in a completely different location
- Marlin physically removes the DVR from the La Torre apartment building to destroy evidence of the crime, an act documented by a security guard
- He pays 100 thousand pesos to a third party to make the body disappear while he appears before the media asking for Emely to return
- Autopsy reveals uterine perforation from forced extraction of the fetus and skull fracture; incompatible with Marlon's version of an accident

How does a mother achieve almost impunity while coordinating the cover-up of a crime that moved an entire nation?

case Emely Peguero, crime Dominican Republic 2017, family cover-up, Dominican justice, disappearance of pregnant teenager, crime of passion, police corruption, controversial sentence, hidden criminal truth, true crime Spanish podcast

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545742Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:31:12 +0000Creator at ObomediaA mother appears before the cameras pleading for a young woman to be found safe and sound while she already knew that her body was in a suitcase by the side of the road. Deleted cameras, 100 thousand pesos to make a body disappear, and a sentence that...
In this episode, you will discover how a family with political power almost managed to bury a crime along with the victim. From the disappearance of Emely Peguero on August 23, 2017, to the sentence that left more questions than answers, every detail will reveal the cover-up system that operated in the shadows. You will learn about the key testimony that changed everything and why justice left many without closure.

Case Details
Victim: Emely Peguero, 16 years old, 5 months pregnant
Date: August 23, 2017
Location: San Francisco de Macorís and Espaillat province, Dominican Republic
Status: Marlon Martínez sentenced to 30 years; Marlin Martínez: 2 years after appeal; acquittal for complicity under legal technicality

- The gas station cameras where Marlon claimed to have left Emely never recorded her; his vehicle appears in a completely different location
- Marlin physically removes the DVR from the La Torre apartment building to destroy evidence of the crime, an act documented by a security guard
- He pays 100 thousand pesos to a third party to make the body disappear while he appears before the media asking for Emely to return
- Autopsy reveals uterine perforation from forced extraction of the fetus and skull fracture; incompatible with Marlon's version of an accident

How does a mother achieve almost impunity while coordinating the cover-up of a crime that moved an entire nation?

case Emely Peguero, crime Dominican Republic 2017, family cover-up, Dominican justice, disappearance of pregnant teenager, crime of passion, police corruption, controversial sentence, hidden criminal truth, true crime Spanish podcast

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A mother cried in front of the cameras for nine days asking for her children to be returned, while she knew exactly where they were: at the bottom of a lake, inside the car she herself released. How could a woman sustain that lie, and what wounds truly led her to do what she did? This case is the collapse of a life built on abuses that no one wanted to see in time.

In this episode, you will discover how a traffic light brought down an impossible alibi, how a rejection letter became a documented trigger, and why Susan Smith spent nine days acting desperation while her two young children remained 36 meters underwater. You will learn about the hidden side of Union, South Carolina, where a family shattered by suicides, sexual abuse, and rejections would turn October 25, 1994, into a date that would forever change the concept of what a mother can do when everything falls apart.

Case Details
Victim: Michael Smith, 3 years old, and Alexander Smith, 14 months old
Date: October 25, 1994
Location: John D. Long Lake, Union, South Carolina, United States
Status: Susan Smith sentenced to life in prison; eligible for parole in 2025

- The traffic light where the "assault" occurred only activates red if another car is passing - none were recorded that night, making Susan's version physically impossible
- Tom Finley's letter explicitly rejected Susan because her children were an impediment, a documented trigger days before the crime
- Susan woke the children, dressed them, and took them to the lake, then got out of the car and watched for 5 minutes as it sank - premeditated accomplice, not impulsive suicide
- Two separate alibis were denied by those involved: her friend did not see her that night, nor did they remember her at the supermarket

How does a woman who attempted suicide twice before decide to kill her children instead of ending her own life?

mother infanticide 1994, Susan Smith South Carolina crime, news true case, John D. Long Lake, detective investigation, child sexual abuse victims, severe depression crime, trial death South Carolina, true crime Spanish podcast

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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A mother cried in front of the cameras for nine days asking for her children to be returned, while she knew exactly where they were: at the bottom of a lake, inside the car she herself released. How could a woman sustain that lie, and what wounds truly led her to do what she did? This case is the collapse of a life built on abuses that no one wanted to see in time.

In this episode, you will discover how a traffic light brought down an impossible alibi, how a rejection letter became a documented trigger, and why Susan Smith spent nine days acting desperation while her two young children remained 36 meters underwater. You will learn about the hidden side of Union, South Carolina, where a family shattered by suicides, sexual abuse, and rejections would turn October 25, 1994, into a date that would forever change the concept of what a mother can do when everything falls apart.

Case Details
Victim: Michael Smith, 3 years old, and Alexander Smith, 14 months old
Date: October 25, 1994
Location: John D. Long Lake, Union, South Carolina, United States
Status: Susan Smith sentenced to life in prison; eligible for parole in 2025

- The traffic light where the "assault" occurred only activates red if another car is passing - none were recorded that night, making Susan's version physically impossible
- Tom Finley's letter explicitly rejected Susan because her children were an impediment, a documented trigger days before the crime
- Susan woke the children, dressed them, and took them to the lake, then got out of the car and watched for 5 minutes as it sank - premeditated accomplice, not impulsive suicide
- Two separate alibis were denied by those involved: her friend did not see her that night, nor did they remember her at the supermarket

How does a woman who attempted suicide twice before decide to kill her children instead of ending her own life?

mother infanticide 1994, Susan Smith South Carolina crime, news true case, John D. Long Lake, detective investigation, child sexual abuse victims, severe depression crime, trial death South Carolina, true crime Spanish podcast

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© 2026 Created with...]]>1351falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mother-who-burned-her-daughters-for-nine-years--71545738
In this episode, you will discover how a surviving daughter, watching television in October 1993, triggered the collapse of one of the most evil mothers classified on the psychological scale. You will learn about the nine years of impunity of Teresa Cross Norr, the patterns of manipulation that kept her free, and how forensic evidence preserved in an intact closet after a deliberate fire ultimately condemned her to life in prison.

Case Details
Victim: Susan Cross (burned alive in 1984) and Sheila Cross (locked in closet in 1985)
Date: 1984-1985
Location: Sacramento, Nevada, Salt Lake City, California
Status: Teresa Cross Norr sentenced to two consecutive life sentences since October 1995

- The closet where Sheila died was the only piece of furniture that survived the deliberate fire of the house, preserving crucial evidence of the crime.
- Teresa was acquitted in 1964 for shooting her first husband Sanders in the back as he was leaving, establishing a pattern of judicial manipulation that lasted three decades.
- Fifteen-year-old Robert was forced to extract a bullet from Susan's chest using a homemade "surgery" under duress, leaving physical evidence of the first attempted murder.
- Terry's report about her sisters was dismissed as "fiction" by Utah police months earlier, but the televised identification of the body in October 1993 reversed the institutional verdict.

Do you want to know how a legal system allowed a psychopath classified at level 22 on the evil scale to live unpunished while murdering her own daughters?

Teresa Cross Norr, forensic closet, murder of daughters, Sacramento homicides, delayed justice, psychopathic mother, crimes 1984-1985, Salt Lake City crimes, criminal impunity, covered-up murder, America's Most Wanted case, true crime Spanish podcast

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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In this episode, you will discover how a surviving daughter, watching television in October 1993, triggered the collapse of one of the most evil mothers classified on the psychological scale. You will learn about the nine years of impunity of Teresa Cross Norr, the patterns of manipulation that kept her free, and how forensic evidence preserved in an intact closet after a deliberate fire ultimately condemned her to life in prison.

Case Details
Victim: Susan Cross (burned alive in 1984) and Sheila Cross (locked in closet in 1985)
Date: 1984-1985
Location: Sacramento, Nevada, Salt Lake City, California
Status: Teresa Cross Norr sentenced to two consecutive life sentences since October 1995

- The closet where Sheila died was the only piece of furniture that survived the deliberate fire of the house, preserving crucial evidence of the crime.
- Teresa was acquitted in 1964 for shooting her first husband Sanders in the back as he was leaving, establishing a pattern of judicial manipulation that lasted three decades.
- Fifteen-year-old Robert was forced to extract a bullet from Susan's chest using a homemade "surgery" under duress, leaving physical evidence of the first attempted murder.
- Terry's report about her sisters was dismissed as "fiction" by Utah police months earlier, but the televised identification of the body in October 1993 reversed the institutional verdict.

Do you want to know how a legal system allowed a psychopath classified at level 22 on the evil scale to live unpunished while murdering her own daughters?

Teresa Cross Norr, forensic closet, murder of daughters, Sacramento homicides, delayed justice, psychopathic mother, crimes 1984-1985, Salt Lake City crimes, criminal impunity, covered-up murder, America's Most Wanted case, true crime Spanish podcast

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In this episode, you will discover how a mother calculated every detail of her own son's tragedy, how a two-day ransom extended to eight days in the hands of criminals, and why Arlen's emotional silence was more revealing than any confession. We will follow the evidence from the black bag next to the cemetery to the life sentence, understanding motives of economic revenge, emotional coldness, and a crime that shocked an entire city.

Case Details
Victim: Elmer Ríos Guachamba, 11 years old, student
Date: May 9, 2019
Location: Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
Status: Life sentence handed down June 7, 2022, for Arlen (mother), Lester, and Belson; Cásculo in juvenile detention

- Arlen retains 4,500 of the 5,000 soles received as ransom, giving only 500 to the captors who had her son alive
- The mother never sheds a tear during the eight-day search; she only cries when the body appears
- The original plan was to hold Elmer for two days for 500 soles; Arlen's refusal to release the full amount escalates to suffocation
- Security cameras place Lester in extortion calls; a photograph of him armed in the jungle, with a tattoo of four stars, facilitates his capture

Can someone planning to recover their child act like Arlen, holding onto money while their child remains captive in the hands of desperate criminals?

minor abduction Peru, extortion kidnapping, crime of passion revenge, criminal mother Iquitos, life sentence Peru, emotional coldness psychopathy, child murder, criminal justice, hidden truth, true crime Spanish podcast

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© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545736Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:31:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaA mother receives the ransom money for her 11-year-old son and never asks if he is alive. Iquitos, Peru, 2019: Elmer disappears on his way home. His mother planned everything. But the plan turned into murder when she refused to part with the money....
In this episode, you will discover how a mother calculated every detail of her own son's tragedy, how a two-day ransom extended to eight days in the hands of criminals, and why Arlen's emotional silence was more revealing than any confession. We will follow the evidence from the black bag next to the cemetery to the life sentence, understanding motives of economic revenge, emotional coldness, and a crime that shocked an entire city.

Case Details
Victim: Elmer Ríos Guachamba, 11 years old, student
Date: May 9, 2019
Location: Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
Status: Life sentence handed down June 7, 2022, for Arlen (mother), Lester, and Belson; Cásculo in juvenile detention

- Arlen retains 4,500 of the 5,000 soles received as ransom, giving only 500 to the captors who had her son alive
- The mother never sheds a tear during the eight-day search; she only cries when the body appears
- The original plan was to hold Elmer for two days for 500 soles; Arlen's refusal to release the full amount escalates to suffocation
- Security cameras place Lester in extortion calls; a photograph of him armed in the jungle, with a tattoo of four stars, facilitates his capture

Can someone planning to recover their child act like Arlen, holding onto money while their child remains captive in the hands of desperate criminals?

minor abduction Peru, extortion kidnapping, crime of passion revenge, criminal mother Iquitos, life sentence Peru, emotional coldness psychopathy, child murder, criminal justice, hidden truth, true crime Spanish podcast

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In this episode, you will discover how security cameras captured every movement, how the main suspect remains at large, and why the family cries out for justice while the system fails. Testimony from friends, recorded confessions, neighborhood video that shows it all. A case that exposes the gaps in a system that allowed the main accused to cross the border while Lesli's toxicology report remains unpublished three years later.

Case Details
Victim: Lesli Palacio, 22 years old, nursing student
Date: August 28-29, 2020
Location: Las Vegas and Valley of Fire, Nevada, United States
Status: Open case; main suspect Eric Rangel has been at large since August 2020; father José Rangel served 8 months of sentence; cause of death undetermined

- Neighborhood camera video shows both arriving together, Eric leaving alone without a shirt, and returning with his father to move the motionless body to the trunk, but police took nine days to issue an official alert

- Eric's prepaid phone was active in Valley of Fire on the same day of the disappearance; a call to a friend where he verbally admits to committing murder and asks for gasoline, but authorities do not capture the suspect

- José Rangel pleads guilty to complicity after admitting that Lesli died of an accidental overdose, a version that completely contradicts the video showing deliberate concealment behavior

- Official cause of death remains undetermined as of August 2023; toxicology tests pending since 2020 without public explanation while the family cries out for answers

Would you trust someone you have known since childhood who turns out to be involved in a death where the video completely incriminates him but remains free three years later?

murder Las Vegas, Lesli Palacio case, denied justice Nevada, unsolved crime, death in the desert, fugitive suspect, family cover-up, Valley of Fire, crime Las Vegas 2020, hidden truth, impunity United States, true crime Spanish podcast

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545721Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:29:53 +0000Creator at ObomediaA dinner at the casino, twelve hours of silence, and a burned body in the desert. Lesli Palacio, 22 years old, had trusted Eric Rangel since childhood. But between 2 AM when they left together and 6:30 AM when he reappeared alone, something happened...
In this episode, you will discover how security cameras captured every movement, how the main suspect remains at large, and why the family cries out for justice while the system fails. Testimony from friends, recorded confessions, neighborhood video that shows it all. A case that exposes the gaps in a system that allowed the main accused to cross the border while Lesli's toxicology report remains unpublished three years later.

Case Details
Victim: Lesli Palacio, 22 years old, nursing student
Date: August 28-29, 2020
Location: Las Vegas and Valley of Fire, Nevada, United States
Status: Open case; main suspect Eric Rangel has been at large since August 2020; father José Rangel served 8 months of sentence; cause of death undetermined

- Neighborhood camera video shows both arriving together, Eric leaving alone without a shirt, and returning with his father to move the motionless body to the trunk, but police took nine days to issue an official alert

- Eric's prepaid phone was active in Valley of Fire on the same day of the disappearance; a call to a friend where he verbally admits to committing murder and asks for gasoline, but authorities do not capture the suspect

- José Rangel pleads guilty to complicity after admitting that Lesli died of an accidental overdose, a version that completely contradicts the video showing deliberate concealment behavior

- Official cause of death remains undetermined as of August 2023; toxicology tests pending since 2020 without public explanation while the family cries out for answers

Would you trust someone you have known since childhood who turns out to be involved in a death where the video completely incriminates him but remains free three years later?

murder Las Vegas, Lesli Palacio case, denied justice Nevada, unsolved crime, death in the desert, fugitive suspect, family cover-up, Valley of Fire, crime Las Vegas 2020, hidden truth, impunity United States, true crime Spanish podcast

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder...]]>1186falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-drum-kills-again-ambar-and-the-impossible-coercion--71545050
A young woman disappears within seven blocks. Under the floor of the house where she was last seen, investigators find her body dismembered into fifteen parts buried two meters deep. The perpetrator had killed exactly this way before: dismembering and hiding after being released from prison four years earlier. How did a confessed murderer remain free to repeat the crime?

In this episode, we explore the chain of decisions that allowed Hugo Bustamante, who in 2016 had already strangled and dismembered an ex-partner in a metal drum, to kill again. We unravel the paradoxical role of Denis, Ámbar's mother: her affectionate messages to Bustamante contradict her claim of coercion, while cameras show her buying wax and tools without signs of intimidation. Victim or active accomplice in the region's serial killer?

Victim: Ámbar Cornejo
Date: July 29, 2020
Location: Villa Alemana and Tibú, Chile
Status: Convicted

- Bustamante was released after eleven years for an identical crime in 2005: strangulation and dismemberment with concealment in a metal drum.
- Cameras capture Denis and Bustamante moving a washing machine on July 30 at 1:00 PM, hours after the disappearance.
- Denis bought floor wax, an axe, and knives on the same July 30; the merchant identified her without coercive signs.
- Bustamante's searches include chloroform, ether, and prices for meat grinders, indicating total premeditation.

Ámbar Cornejo, Villa Alemana Chile, 2020, dismemberment, serial killer, true crime, forensic investigation, judicial mystery, suffocation, concealment, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545050Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:24:23 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe Drum Kills Again: Ámbar and the Impossible Coercion: The Homicide of Ámbar Cornejo in Chile A young woman disappears within seven blocks. Under the floor of the house where she was last seen, investigators find her body dismembered into...
A young woman disappears within seven blocks. Under the floor of the house where she was last seen, investigators find her body dismembered into fifteen parts buried two meters deep. The perpetrator had killed exactly this way before: dismembering and hiding after being released from prison four years earlier. How did a confessed murderer remain free to repeat the crime?

In this episode, we explore the chain of decisions that allowed Hugo Bustamante, who in 2016 had already strangled and dismembered an ex-partner in a metal drum, to kill again. We unravel the paradoxical role of Denis, Ámbar's mother: her affectionate messages to Bustamante contradict her claim of coercion, while cameras show her buying wax and tools without signs of intimidation. Victim or active accomplice in the region's serial killer?

Victim: Ámbar Cornejo
Date: July 29, 2020
Location: Villa Alemana and Tibú, Chile
Status: Convicted

- Bustamante was released after eleven years for an identical crime in 2005: strangulation and dismemberment with concealment in a metal drum.
- Cameras capture Denis and Bustamante moving a washing machine on July 30 at 1:00 PM, hours after the disappearance.
- Denis bought floor wax, an axe, and knives on the same July 30; the merchant identified her without coercive signs.
- Bustamante's searches include chloroform, ether, and prices for meat grinders, indicating total premeditation.

Ámbar Cornejo, Villa Alemana Chile, 2020, dismemberment, serial killer, true crime, forensic investigation, judicial mystery, suffocation, concealment, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A seven-year-old girl disappears in broad daylight, holding the hand of a woman known and trusted by the family. Authorities wait 72 hours without acting. What no one knew: the suspect was not an unknown predator, but a victim of domestic violence turned accomplice to the unthinkable. How an ordinary aunt achieved what the police could not: stop the killers.

In this episode, we explore the forensic investigation that traced Fátima from her disappearance in Tláhuac to the discovery of her body 96 hours later. We examine the contradictions between the official composite sketch and the suspect's real identity, the confession to Mario's aunt that broke the silence, and the web of domestic abuse that turned Gladys Giovanna Cruz into an instrument of crime.

Victim: Fátima Cecilia Aldrighetti Antón
Date: February 11, 2020
Location: Tláhuac, Mexico City
Status: Case closed - projected sentence over 100 years

- The mother discovers her missing daughter at 6:30 PM; C5 cameras show the girl walking hand in hand with Gladys 60 seconds later, calm and trusting.
- The official composite sketch did not match the actual photo of the suspect, raising public doubts about the initial investigation.
- Gladys confessed that Mario demanded a "permanent girlfriend" under threat of abusing his own daughters, forcing her to seek Fátima as a victim.
- Mario's aunt recognized the couple on television on 02/19, confronted them, extracted the confession, and alerted the municipal police.

Fátima Cecilia Aldrighetti Antón, Tláhuac 2020, kidnapping, murder, strangulation, forensic investigation, child abuse, domestic violence, true crime, criminal minds, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545049Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:24:18 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe aunt who stopped Fátima's killers: The kidnapping and murder of Fátima Cecilia Aldrighetti Antón A seven-year-old girl disappears in broad daylight, holding the hand of a woman known and trusted by the family. Authorities wait 72 hours...
A seven-year-old girl disappears in broad daylight, holding the hand of a woman known and trusted by the family. Authorities wait 72 hours without acting. What no one knew: the suspect was not an unknown predator, but a victim of domestic violence turned accomplice to the unthinkable. How an ordinary aunt achieved what the police could not: stop the killers.

In this episode, we explore the forensic investigation that traced Fátima from her disappearance in Tláhuac to the discovery of her body 96 hours later. We examine the contradictions between the official composite sketch and the suspect's real identity, the confession to Mario's aunt that broke the silence, and the web of domestic abuse that turned Gladys Giovanna Cruz into an instrument of crime.

Victim: Fátima Cecilia Aldrighetti Antón
Date: February 11, 2020
Location: Tláhuac, Mexico City
Status: Case closed - projected sentence over 100 years

- The mother discovers her missing daughter at 6:30 PM; C5 cameras show the girl walking hand in hand with Gladys 60 seconds later, calm and trusting.
- The official composite sketch did not match the actual photo of the suspect, raising public doubts about the initial investigation.
- Gladys confessed that Mario demanded a "permanent girlfriend" under threat of abusing his own daughters, forcing her to seek Fátima as a victim.
- Mario's aunt recognized the couple on television on 02/19, confronted them, extracted the confession, and alerted the municipal police.

Fátima Cecilia Aldrighetti Antón, Tláhuac 2020, kidnapping, murder, strangulation, forensic investigation, child abuse, domestic violence, true crime, criminal minds, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A father drives over a thousand kilometers through the southeastern United States with the bodies of his five children wrapped in black bags in the back seat. While searching online for how to dissolve remains with muriatic acid, he responds to text messages normally from his boss and the babysitters. How did a man who had just committed the most ruthless crime in recent South Carolina history manage to maintain a functional facade for nine days?

In this episode, we explore the crack between the psychotic breakdown that Jones claimed and the digital evidence that revealed surgical premeditation: incriminating searches, handwritten notes detailing decomposition methods, surveillance video capturing the purchase of a saw and acid, and an escape route mapped cell by cell. We also investigate the institutional failure that allowed social services to document physical abuse but only obtain a written promise, while five children paid with their lives.

Victim: Timothy Jones Jr.
Date: August 28, 2014
Location: Lexington, South Carolina
Status: Sentenced to death, June 2019

- Jones searched for "body in landfill" and "muriatic acid" while driving with the corpses in the vehicle.
- He purchased a 20-inch saw, a 19-liter bucket, muriatic acid, and black bags, captured on surveillance video on September 3.
- He provided three different versions about his children during a single traffic stop: denial, lie about the number, final confession.
- The handwritten notes in the SUV detailed "sand bones to dust" and "burn bodies," contradictory to the narrative of reactive panic.

Timothy Jones Jr., Lexington South Carolina, multiple murder, 2014, homicide, forensic, investigation, criminal minds, premeditated crime, institutional corruption, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545045Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:24:14 +0000Creator at ObomediaNine days with five corpses: the escape of Timothy Jones: The multiple murder of Timothy Jones Jr. A father drives over a thousand kilometers through the southeastern United States with the bodies of his five children wrapped in black bags in the...
A father drives over a thousand kilometers through the southeastern United States with the bodies of his five children wrapped in black bags in the back seat. While searching online for how to dissolve remains with muriatic acid, he responds to text messages normally from his boss and the babysitters. How did a man who had just committed the most ruthless crime in recent South Carolina history manage to maintain a functional facade for nine days?

In this episode, we explore the crack between the psychotic breakdown that Jones claimed and the digital evidence that revealed surgical premeditation: incriminating searches, handwritten notes detailing decomposition methods, surveillance video capturing the purchase of a saw and acid, and an escape route mapped cell by cell. We also investigate the institutional failure that allowed social services to document physical abuse but only obtain a written promise, while five children paid with their lives.

Victim: Timothy Jones Jr.
Date: August 28, 2014
Location: Lexington, South Carolina
Status: Sentenced to death, June 2019

- Jones searched for "body in landfill" and "muriatic acid" while driving with the corpses in the vehicle.
- He purchased a 20-inch saw, a 19-liter bucket, muriatic acid, and black bags, captured on surveillance video on September 3.
- He provided three different versions about his children during a single traffic stop: denial, lie about the number, final confession.
- The handwritten notes in the SUV detailed "sand bones to dust" and "burn bodies," contradictory to the narrative of reactive panic.

Timothy Jones Jr., Lexington South Carolina, multiple murder, 2014, homicide, forensic, investigation, criminal minds, premeditated crime, institutional corruption, true crime Spanish

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A security camera captures everything: a man shoots a crossbow in the hallway of a building, drags his victim's body, raises the weapon in a sign of victory, and then makes an obscene gesture directly at the lens. He knew he was being recorded. The haunting question is why someone who plans crimes with the precision of a criminologist ensures he is caught on video.

In this episode, we explore the contradiction that defines this case: a man who studied criminology and knew how to destroy evidence, but chose to become a spectacle. We examine how 81 fragments of a body in the River Aire, a backpack with weapons, and ritualized photographs reveal a predator obsessed with leaving his mark, not hiding it. Why did he confess to being "the crossbow killer" at his first appearance?

Victim: Suzanne Blaize, Shelley Armitage, Susan Rushworth
Date: May 21-22, 2010
Location: Bradford, United Kingdom
Status: Three life sentences without parole

- Griffiths shot a crossbow in a residential building hallway while cameras recorded every second of the murder.
- He confessed to dismembering bodies with power tools, a samurai sword, and burning them in his home stove.
- A police search in 2007 found his crossbow and knives three years before the first confirmed murder, with no legal consequences.
- He raised the crossbow in front of the security camera, made an obscene gesture, and then transported bags with remains to the River Aire knowing exactly where the sensors were.

Suzanne Blaize, Shelley Armitage, Susan Rushworth, Bradford, serial murder, 2010, crossbow, recorded crime, forensic, criminal minds, serial killer, investigation, true crime Spanish

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A security camera captures everything: a man shoots a crossbow in the hallway of a building, drags his victim's body, raises the weapon in a sign of victory, and then makes an obscene gesture directly at the lens. He knew he was being recorded. The haunting question is why someone who plans crimes with the precision of a criminologist ensures he is caught on video.

In this episode, we explore the contradiction that defines this case: a man who studied criminology and knew how to destroy evidence, but chose to become a spectacle. We examine how 81 fragments of a body in the River Aire, a backpack with weapons, and ritualized photographs reveal a predator obsessed with leaving his mark, not hiding it. Why did he confess to being "the crossbow killer" at his first appearance?

Victim: Suzanne Blaize, Shelley Armitage, Susan Rushworth
Date: May 21-22, 2010
Location: Bradford, United Kingdom
Status: Three life sentences without parole

- Griffiths shot a crossbow in a residential building hallway while cameras recorded every second of the murder.
- He confessed to dismembering bodies with power tools, a samurai sword, and burning them in his home stove.
- A police search in 2007 found his crossbow and knives three years before the first confirmed murder, with no legal consequences.
- He raised the crossbow in front of the security camera, made an obscene gesture, and then transported bags with remains to the River Aire knowing exactly where the sensors were.

Suzanne Blaize, Shelley Armitage, Susan Rushworth, Bradford, serial murder, 2010, crossbow, recorded crime, forensic, criminal minds, serial killer, investigation, true crime Spanish

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A drop of sweat under black light. An impossible fingerprint under duct tape. A WhatsApp message sent in real time while he dismembered four relatives, including two children aged 4 and 1. Patrick Nogueira, 19 years old, cleaned the scene with bleach, took a shower, ate a sandwich, and calmly waited for the last adult. The question that the police had to solve: how did a nephew living with the family manage to almost erase all the evidence, except for the invisible?

In this episode, we explore the 5,848 digital pieces of evidence that reconstructed every second of the crime: internet searches on how to kill in three seconds, transport records that placed him in Pioz at 3:30 PM, and photographs he shared live with his friend Martín Enríquez. We unravel how an identical incident from 2013 - when he stabbed his teacher in the back - revealed a pattern that no jury could ignore. What drives a teenager from an affluent family to commit such an act of brutality, and how did digital forensics catch him when he had already fled to Brazil?

Victim: Marcos Campos Nogueira, Hanine Santos Américo, Carolina, David
Date: August 17, 2016
Location: Pioz, Guadalajara, Spain
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment with review

- Internet search from the victims' home: "how to kill someone in three seconds"
- Fingerprint under duct tape from bags: technically impossible location without direct involvement in packaging
- Real-time WhatsApp messages with photographs; recovered after formatting the phone
- Garbage bags and duct tape purchased in advance by Patrick days before the crime

Patrick Nogueira, Pioz Guadalajara Spain, serial murder, investigation, forensics, WhatsApp, premeditation, homicide, true crime, justice, criminal minds, 2016, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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A drop of sweat under black light. An impossible fingerprint under duct tape. A WhatsApp message sent in real time while he dismembered four relatives, including two children aged 4 and 1. Patrick Nogueira, 19 years old, cleaned the scene with bleach, took a shower, ate a sandwich, and calmly waited for the last adult. The question that the police had to solve: how did a nephew living with the family manage to almost erase all the evidence, except for the invisible?

In this episode, we explore the 5,848 digital pieces of evidence that reconstructed every second of the crime: internet searches on how to kill in three seconds, transport records that placed him in Pioz at 3:30 PM, and photographs he shared live with his friend Martín Enríquez. We unravel how an identical incident from 2013 - when he stabbed his teacher in the back - revealed a pattern that no jury could ignore. What drives a teenager from an affluent family to commit such an act of brutality, and how did digital forensics catch him when he had already fled to Brazil?

Victim: Marcos Campos Nogueira, Hanine Santos Américo, Carolina, David
Date: August 17, 2016
Location: Pioz, Guadalajara, Spain
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment with review

- Internet search from the victims' home: "how to kill someone in three seconds"
- Fingerprint under duct tape from bags: technically impossible location without direct involvement in packaging
- Real-time WhatsApp messages with photographs; recovered after formatting the phone
- Garbage bags and duct tape purchased in advance by Patrick days before the crime

Patrick Nogueira, Pioz Guadalajara Spain, serial murder, investigation, forensics, WhatsApp, premeditation, homicide, true crime, justice, criminal minds, 2016, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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A boiling pot on the stove. Inside, a head. In the bathroom, two blue 45-gallon containers with bodies partially dissolved in acid. One without a head. The other without hands. The police open the door of a house in Knoxville and discover that someone meticulously planned for nineteen days the murder and disappearance of their own parents.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that unravel Joel Guy Jr.'s alibi: a handwritten notebook detailing every chemical step and every dismemberment instruction; Walmart cameras capturing him buying gloves and bandages hours after the murders, trying to treat an injury on his thumb; and a final line written before the crime that reveals the true motive: "500,000 will all be mine." How did such an elaborate plan end in a chaotic and incomplete scene?

Victim: Joel Sr. Guy and Lisa Guy
Date: November 26, 2016
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Status: Sentenced to two consecutive life sentences

- The notebook found detailed every step of the plan with precise instructions for dismemberment and chemical dissolution, including how to fake text messages from the victims' phones.
- Joel Jr. was captured on cameras buying emergency supplies at 3:35 PM on November 26, the same day as the murders, with a deep injury on his left thumb.
- The parents cut off his financial support on Thanksgiving, the immediate trigger: Joel Jr. had depended on them financially for a decade without employment.
- A meat grinder was found in the trunk of his vehicle when he was arrested, confirming the intention to return and complete the plan to destroy evidence.

Joel Guy Jr., Joel Sr. Guy, Lisa Guy, Knoxville Tennessee 2016, serial murder, investigation, forensic, planned crime, acid, premeditation, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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A boiling pot on the stove. Inside, a head. In the bathroom, two blue 45-gallon containers with bodies partially dissolved in acid. One without a head. The other without hands. The police open the door of a house in Knoxville and discover that someone meticulously planned for nineteen days the murder and disappearance of their own parents.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that unravel Joel Guy Jr.'s alibi: a handwritten notebook detailing every chemical step and every dismemberment instruction; Walmart cameras capturing him buying gloves and bandages hours after the murders, trying to treat an injury on his thumb; and a final line written before the crime that reveals the true motive: "500,000 will all be mine." How did such an elaborate plan end in a chaotic and incomplete scene?

Victim: Joel Sr. Guy and Lisa Guy
Date: November 26, 2016
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Status: Sentenced to two consecutive life sentences

- The notebook found detailed every step of the plan with precise instructions for dismemberment and chemical dissolution, including how to fake text messages from the victims' phones.
- Joel Jr. was captured on cameras buying emergency supplies at 3:35 PM on November 26, the same day as the murders, with a deep injury on his left thumb.
- The parents cut off his financial support on Thanksgiving, the immediate trigger: Joel Jr. had depended on them financially for a decade without employment.
- A meat grinder was found in the trunk of his vehicle when he was arrested, confirming the intention to return and complete the plan to destroy evidence.

Joel Guy Jr., Joel Sr. Guy, Lisa Guy, Knoxville Tennessee 2016, serial murder, investigation, forensic, planned crime, acid, premeditation, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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A dog brings a human foot to a villa in Santiago. Four days later, arms, legs, hands, and a skull with two bullet impacts appear scattered throughout the city. The impossible: the body was refrigerated, dismembered with surgical precision, and its fingerprints erased. How did a serial killer erase all identity but leave an intact prison tattoo?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that disprove the official truth. The blood under the upholstery of Martínez's truck, the ballistics that do not match a suicide, the alarm reactivated at three in the morning, and the twenty-page letter written after the crime. Two bullet impacts at 1.03 meters from the ground on a man of 1.77: suicide or failed investigation?

Victim: Hans Hernán Pozo Vergara
Date: March 26-27, 2006
Location: Santiago, Chile
Status: Case closed (no identified culprits)

- Skull found with two 9mm impacts in the frontal and temporal regions, nose torn off, intentional disfigurement.
- Hands without fingerprints in black bags, temperature lower than the ambient: body previously refrigerated.
- Hans's blood under upholstery washed with bleach in the suspect's truck, confirmed by luminol and DNA.
- Ballistic trajectory at 1.03 m from the ground incompatible with self-firing of a man of 1.77 m, with no gunpowder residue on hands.

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© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545035Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:24:04 +0000Creator at ObomediaTen parts, one lie: the case of Hans Pozo: The homicide of Hans Hernán Pozo Vergara A dog brings a human foot to a villa in Santiago. Four days later, arms, legs, hands, and a skull with two bullet impacts appear scattered throughout the city....
A dog brings a human foot to a villa in Santiago. Four days later, arms, legs, hands, and a skull with two bullet impacts appear scattered throughout the city. The impossible: the body was refrigerated, dismembered with surgical precision, and its fingerprints erased. How did a serial killer erase all identity but leave an intact prison tattoo?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that disprove the official truth. The blood under the upholstery of Martínez's truck, the ballistics that do not match a suicide, the alarm reactivated at three in the morning, and the twenty-page letter written after the crime. Two bullet impacts at 1.03 meters from the ground on a man of 1.77: suicide or failed investigation?

Victim: Hans Hernán Pozo Vergara
Date: March 26-27, 2006
Location: Santiago, Chile
Status: Case closed (no identified culprits)

- Skull found with two 9mm impacts in the frontal and temporal regions, nose torn off, intentional disfigurement.
- Hands without fingerprints in black bags, temperature lower than the ambient: body previously refrigerated.
- Hans's blood under upholstery washed with bleach in the suspect's truck, confirmed by luminol and DNA.
- Ballistic trajectory at 1.03 m from the ground incompatible with self-firing of a man of 1.77 m, with no gunpowder residue on hands.

Hans Pozo Vergara, Santiago 2006, murder, dismemberment, investigation, ballistics, unsolved mystery, corruption, failed justice, true crime, Spanish true crime

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A body discovered in Los Angeles cut into two perfect halves, drained of blood and arranged like a work of art. Seventy-five years later, a detective son investigates police recordings where his deceased father, a medical surgeon, would confess to the crime in his own voice.

In this episode, we explore the surgical lumbar bissection, the 1950 recordings where George O'Dell says "I killed her," and Lieutenant Jamieson's secret folder that would reveal documented police surveillance. Why did the investigation stop if the authorities already had him under microphones?

Victim: Elizabeth Short
Date: January 15, 1947
Location: Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California
Status: Open case

- Body bisected at the lumbar spine, unique cut without breaking bone: specific surgical knowledge
- Receipt for ten identical bags of cement, from the time of the crime, in the name of surgeon George O'Dell
- Police recordings from 1950 capturing confessions: "I killed her," "they can't prove it," screams of a woman being beaten
- Jamieson folder confirms formal surveillance; six suspects under microphones, O'Dell included, with no subsequent arrests

Elizabeth Short, Leimert Park 1947, unsolved murder, suspicious surgeon, perfect bissection, police cover-up, private investigation, confessional recordings, secret folder, buried justice, Spanish true crime

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A body discovered in Los Angeles cut into two perfect halves, drained of blood and arranged like a work of art. Seventy-five years later, a detective son investigates police recordings where his deceased father, a medical surgeon, would confess to the crime in his own voice.

In this episode, we explore the surgical lumbar bissection, the 1950 recordings where George O'Dell says "I killed her," and Lieutenant Jamieson's secret folder that would reveal documented police surveillance. Why did the investigation stop if the authorities already had him under microphones?

Victim: Elizabeth Short
Date: January 15, 1947
Location: Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California
Status: Open case

- Body bisected at the lumbar spine, unique cut without breaking bone: specific surgical knowledge
- Receipt for ten identical bags of cement, from the time of the crime, in the name of surgeon George O'Dell
- Police recordings from 1950 capturing confessions: "I killed her," "they can't prove it," screams of a woman being beaten
- Jamieson folder confirms formal surveillance; six suspects under microphones, O'Dell included, with no subsequent arrests

Elizabeth Short, Leimert Park 1947, unsolved murder, suspicious surgeon, perfect bissection, police cover-up, private investigation, confessional recordings, secret folder, buried justice, Spanish true crime

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A former president of citizen participation, a neighborhood leader known for distributing food packages, had a hidden basement under his bed with human remains preserved in salt and 4,300 bone fragments. How did he operate for decades without suspicion in his own community?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that uncovered the case: security cameras show Reina Amador entering the residence but never leaving, while forensic experts discover remains of at least 19 victims where Mendoza confessed to only four. The husband, a former police officer who forced the door, the notebooks with body weights since 1974, and the VHS tapes of dismemberments reveal a serial killer operating in the shadows of his neighborhood.

Victim: Reina Amador and 18 other confirmed
Date: May 14, 2021
Location: Atizapán de Zaragoza, State of Mexico
Status: Life sentence, March 18, 2022

- Cameras show the victim's entry but never a record of leaving the residence
- Notebooks with dates since 1974 detailing exact weights of body parts
- Twelve cell phones and victim credentials found among the remains
- Mendoza claimed at least 30 deaths but only 19 were confirmed by forensics

Reina Amador, Atizapán de Zaragoza, serial killer, basement, disappearances, homicide, investigation, forensic, modus operandi, true crime, predator, 2021, Spanish true crime

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A former president of citizen participation, a neighborhood leader known for distributing food packages, had a hidden basement under his bed with human remains preserved in salt and 4,300 bone fragments. How did he operate for decades without suspicion in his own community?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that uncovered the case: security cameras show Reina Amador entering the residence but never leaving, while forensic experts discover remains of at least 19 victims where Mendoza confessed to only four. The husband, a former police officer who forced the door, the notebooks with body weights since 1974, and the VHS tapes of dismemberments reveal a serial killer operating in the shadows of his neighborhood.

Victim: Reina Amador and 18 other confirmed
Date: May 14, 2021
Location: Atizapán de Zaragoza, State of Mexico
Status: Life sentence, March 18, 2022

- Cameras show the victim's entry but never a record of leaving the residence
- Notebooks with dates since 1974 detailing exact weights of body parts
- Twelve cell phones and victim credentials found among the remains
- Mendoza claimed at least 30 deaths but only 19 were confirmed by forensics

Reina Amador, Atizapán de Zaragoza, serial killer, basement, disappearances, homicide, investigation, forensic, modus operandi, true crime, predator, 2021, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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A van enters the Cristo Salvador parish at 11:04 PM. Inside is Leonardo, a 24-year-old deacon. Hours later, the same priest who received him officiates his funeral mass, publicly asking for forgiveness for "the guilty one." The next day, that priest flees to the airport: he was the murderer.

In this episode, we explore how nine C5 cameras, cell phone messages, and 54 pieces of evidence reconstruct every minute of the night of the crime. The scene occurred inside the victim's car, with a second vehicle waiting in the shadows. A forensic investigation reveals strangulation asphyxia, but the question that was never answered remains open: what was the real motive for the homicide?

Victim: Leonardo Avendaño (24 years old)
Date: June 11-12, 2019
Location: Tlalpan, CDMX, Mexico
Status: Sentenced to 27 years 6 months (April 2021)

- Priest celebrates mass for the victim hours after strangling her
- Cameras capture joint exit at 03:16; second car follows and abandons the scene
- Geolocation of the priest's cell phone contradicts his statement that they never met
- Compromising photographs on Leonardo's iPad were never publicly detailed

Leonardo Avendaño, Tlalpan CDMX, murder 2019, strangulation, forensic investigation, criminal minds, premeditated crime, oral trial, treachery, hidden truth, true crime Spanish

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© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545031Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:23:57 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe priest who asked for forgiveness for his own victim: The murder of Leonardo Avendaño in Tlalpan, CDMX A van enters the Cristo Salvador parish at 11:04 PM. Inside is Leonardo, a 24-year-old deacon. Hours later, the same priest who received...
A van enters the Cristo Salvador parish at 11:04 PM. Inside is Leonardo, a 24-year-old deacon. Hours later, the same priest who received him officiates his funeral mass, publicly asking for forgiveness for "the guilty one." The next day, that priest flees to the airport: he was the murderer.

In this episode, we explore how nine C5 cameras, cell phone messages, and 54 pieces of evidence reconstruct every minute of the night of the crime. The scene occurred inside the victim's car, with a second vehicle waiting in the shadows. A forensic investigation reveals strangulation asphyxia, but the question that was never answered remains open: what was the real motive for the homicide?

Victim: Leonardo Avendaño (24 years old)
Date: June 11-12, 2019
Location: Tlalpan, CDMX, Mexico
Status: Sentenced to 27 years 6 months (April 2021)

- Priest celebrates mass for the victim hours after strangling her
- Cameras capture joint exit at 03:16; second car follows and abandons the scene
- Geolocation of the priest's cell phone contradicts his statement that they never met
- Compromising photographs on Leonardo's iPad were never publicly detailed

Leonardo Avendaño, Tlalpan CDMX, murder 2019, strangulation, forensic investigation, criminal minds, premeditated crime, oral trial, treachery, hidden truth, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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Skyler Neese climbed out of her window on the night of July 6, 2012, to meet her two best childhood friends. She never returned home. What the security camera did not capture was that Celia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf would attack her in the woods with over 50 stab wounds, burying her body under rocks next to a stream in Pennsylvania. For months, both killers cried alongside their families and helped in the search as if they were innocent victims.

In this episode, we explore how one night in August 2011—when Celia and Rachel were intimate while Skyler watched helplessly—triggered nine months of meticulous planning. We analyze Skyler's diary, the cell phone triangulation in the Blacksville woods that contradicts their stories, and Rachel's confession under psychological collapse that reveals knives, bleach, and prepared rags in the trunk. What real motive led Celia to be the main executor if the secret compromised Rachel more?

Victim: Skyler Neese
Date: July 6, 2012
Location: Blacksville, West Virginia
Status: Case closed, convictions executed

- Skyler voluntarily climbed out of her window at 12:30 AM, but her cell phone was triangulated in the woods, not at her home
- Celia actively participated in the public search, going door to door, while being the instigator and main executor of the crime
- Rachel confessed under a plea deal after psychiatric hospitalization, describing weapon preparation with forensic precision
- Skyler's diary revealed a secret from August 2011 that she threatened to expose on Twitter, but only Rachel had a genuine motive to silence her

Skyler Neese, Blacksville West Virginia murder, 2012, forensic investigation, criminal minds, teenage serial killer, unsolved mystery, suspense, premeditated homicide, true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545030Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:23:54 +0000Creator at ObomediaFifty stab wounds from her best friends: The murder of Skyler Neese Skyler Neese climbed out of her window on the night of July 6, 2012, to meet her two best childhood friends. She never returned home. What the security camera did not capture...
Skyler Neese climbed out of her window on the night of July 6, 2012, to meet her two best childhood friends. She never returned home. What the security camera did not capture was that Celia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf would attack her in the woods with over 50 stab wounds, burying her body under rocks next to a stream in Pennsylvania. For months, both killers cried alongside their families and helped in the search as if they were innocent victims.

In this episode, we explore how one night in August 2011—when Celia and Rachel were intimate while Skyler watched helplessly—triggered nine months of meticulous planning. We analyze Skyler's diary, the cell phone triangulation in the Blacksville woods that contradicts their stories, and Rachel's confession under psychological collapse that reveals knives, bleach, and prepared rags in the trunk. What real motive led Celia to be the main executor if the secret compromised Rachel more?

Victim: Skyler Neese
Date: July 6, 2012
Location: Blacksville, West Virginia
Status: Case closed, convictions executed

- Skyler voluntarily climbed out of her window at 12:30 AM, but her cell phone was triangulated in the woods, not at her home
- Celia actively participated in the public search, going door to door, while being the instigator and main executor of the crime
- Rachel confessed under a plea deal after psychiatric hospitalization, describing weapon preparation with forensic precision
- Skyler's diary revealed a secret from August 2011 that she threatened to expose on Twitter, but only Rachel had a genuine motive to silence her

Skyler Neese, Blacksville West Virginia murder, 2012, forensic investigation, criminal minds, teenage serial killer, unsolved mystery, suspense, premeditated homicide, true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>1413falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shell-casings-under-the-shattered-window--71545029
Three days before her death, Emma Walker received threatening messages from an unknown number. Her boyfriend Riley Gaul presented himself as a protector, but the evidence points in the opposite direction: he was the architect of the trap. A toxic relationship, a staged manipulation plan, and gunshots at 3:30 AM that her own father heard without understanding what was happening.

In this episode, we explore how a plan of control and recovery turned into premeditated murder. We analyze the contradiction between Riley's alibi in the parking lot and the geolocation that places him at the Walker home at 3:45 AM; we examine the messages where he asked to get rid of the stolen weapon; and we reveal how two friends set a trap for the killer twenty-four hours after the crime with hidden microphones and cameras that incriminated him.

Victim: Emma Walker, 16 years old
Date: November 21, 2016
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Status: Sentenced to life in prison, minimum 51 years

- The father heard gunshots at 3:30 AM, entered the room, observed Emma for twenty seconds, and went back to sleep without noticing that his daughter was dead.
- Riley Gaul built external threats (messages, a black man lurking) positioning himself as a protector, while he himself was the author of the manipulation.
- The geolocation of Riley's phone places him exactly at the Walker house at 3:45 AM, just fifteen minutes after the gunshots, contradicting his parking lot alibi.
- The recovered 9mm casings, the black clothing found in a bag, and the ballistics confirmed that the gun stolen from Riley's grandfather was the murder weapon.

Emma Walker, Knoxville Tennessee crime 2016, murder, serial killer, investigation, forensic, criminal minds, control, manipulation, premeditated homicide, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545029Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:23:51 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe Plan that Ended in Murder: Riley Gaul: The murder of Emma Walker in Knoxville, Tennessee Three days before her death, Emma Walker received threatening messages from an unknown number. Her boyfriend Riley Gaul presented himself as a...
Three days before her death, Emma Walker received threatening messages from an unknown number. Her boyfriend Riley Gaul presented himself as a protector, but the evidence points in the opposite direction: he was the architect of the trap. A toxic relationship, a staged manipulation plan, and gunshots at 3:30 AM that her own father heard without understanding what was happening.

In this episode, we explore how a plan of control and recovery turned into premeditated murder. We analyze the contradiction between Riley's alibi in the parking lot and the geolocation that places him at the Walker home at 3:45 AM; we examine the messages where he asked to get rid of the stolen weapon; and we reveal how two friends set a trap for the killer twenty-four hours after the crime with hidden microphones and cameras that incriminated him.

Victim: Emma Walker, 16 years old
Date: November 21, 2016
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Status: Sentenced to life in prison, minimum 51 years

- The father heard gunshots at 3:30 AM, entered the room, observed Emma for twenty seconds, and went back to sleep without noticing that his daughter was dead.
- Riley Gaul built external threats (messages, a black man lurking) positioning himself as a protector, while he himself was the author of the manipulation.
- The geolocation of Riley's phone places him exactly at the Walker house at 3:45 AM, just fifteen minutes after the gunshots, contradicting his parking lot alibi.
- The recovered 9mm casings, the black clothing found in a bag, and the ballistics confirmed that the gun stolen from Riley's grandfather was the murder weapon.

Emma Walker, Knoxville Tennessee crime 2016, murder, serial killer, investigation, forensic, criminal minds, control, manipulation, premeditated homicide, true crime Spanish

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and...]]>1167falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/imprint-sunk-in-fresh-cement--71545028
A warehouse was examined six times. Fernanda's body had been there since the first week, covered with lime 80 meters from her own home. How did a pregnant woman disappear in plain sight of the police for over a year without leaving a visible trace?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions between Felipe Rojas's confession, the forensic evidence, and the six failed examinations that overlooked a 70-centimeter grave. Sequenced surveillance cameras recorded every movement. A hardware receipt with an exact time links the accused to the lime and cement. And an autopsy reveals details that contradict the official narrative of an impulsive crime.

Victim: Fernanda Maciel
Date: February 10, 2018
Location: Conchalí, Santiago, Chile
Status: Charged with qualified homicide; preventive detention without conviction

- Rojas bought lime and cement on February 12, two days after the crime, with a hardware receipt stamped with an exact time.
- Cameras captured Rojas on a bicycle arriving at the warehouse at 17:17, Fernanda walking towards it at 17:29, and Rojas leaving alone at 19:31.
- The seventh examination found the body; the six previous ones overlooked a grave covered with debris and cement inside the warehouse.
- Rojas stated that the grave "was already ready," contradicting his account of an impulsive crime without premeditation.

Fernanda Maciel, Conchalí Santiago femicide 2018, qualified homicide, forensic investigation, mystery of examinations, sexual abuse, concealment, real crime, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545028Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:23:49 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe warehouse that concealed a crime for 17 months: The femicide of Fernanda Maciel A warehouse was examined six times. Fernanda's body had been there since the first week, covered with lime 80 meters from her own home. How did a pregnant woman...
A warehouse was examined six times. Fernanda's body had been there since the first week, covered with lime 80 meters from her own home. How did a pregnant woman disappear in plain sight of the police for over a year without leaving a visible trace?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions between Felipe Rojas's confession, the forensic evidence, and the six failed examinations that overlooked a 70-centimeter grave. Sequenced surveillance cameras recorded every movement. A hardware receipt with an exact time links the accused to the lime and cement. And an autopsy reveals details that contradict the official narrative of an impulsive crime.

Victim: Fernanda Maciel
Date: February 10, 2018
Location: Conchalí, Santiago, Chile
Status: Charged with qualified homicide; preventive detention without conviction

- Rojas bought lime and cement on February 12, two days after the crime, with a hardware receipt stamped with an exact time.
- Cameras captured Rojas on a bicycle arriving at the warehouse at 17:17, Fernanda walking towards it at 17:29, and Rojas leaving alone at 19:31.
- The seventh examination found the body; the six previous ones overlooked a grave covered with debris and cement inside the warehouse.
- Rojas stated that the grave "was already ready," contradicting his account of an impulsive crime without premeditation.

Fernanda Maciel, Conchalí Santiago femicide 2018, qualified homicide, forensic investigation, mystery of examinations, sexual abuse, concealment, real crime, true crime Spanish

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A blue suitcase sealed with black tape in a trash container. Inside, the body of a 21-year-old DJ. Next to it, a box with her identification documents. A man who meticulously planned made the mistake that sank him: he left clues that closed off all escape routes.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that dismantled the alibi: security cameras capturing the transport of the body wrapped in a gray blanket, a retracted distress message within seconds, and a WhatsApp session that recorded the suitcase before the crime. Forensic Medicine documented mechanical asphyxia with deep pressure marks. The central question: what triggered the attack during Valentina's sleep?

Victim: Valentina Tres Palacios
Date: January 21-24, 2023
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Status: Charged with aggravated femicide; detained in La Picota

- Paulus financed aesthetic procedures and hired a private investigator to follow Valentina from Instagram
- Cameras recorded the extraction of the body between 09:11 and 10:17 on January 22; Valentina does not appear again
- Previous restraining order from ex-wife documented; three children; anticipatory phrase: "Reason enough for one of us to perish"
- Captured at Tocumen Airport, Panama, 24 hours later, in transit to Turkey

Valentina Tres Palacios, Bogotá femicide, 2023, serial killer, forensic investigation, criminal minds, true crime, justice, aggravated homicide, cartel, concealment of evidence, Spanish true crime

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A blue suitcase sealed with black tape in a trash container. Inside, the body of a 21-year-old DJ. Next to it, a box with her identification documents. A man who meticulously planned made the mistake that sank him: he left clues that closed off all escape routes.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that dismantled the alibi: security cameras capturing the transport of the body wrapped in a gray blanket, a retracted distress message within seconds, and a WhatsApp session that recorded the suitcase before the crime. Forensic Medicine documented mechanical asphyxia with deep pressure marks. The central question: what triggered the attack during Valentina's sleep?

Victim: Valentina Tres Palacios
Date: January 21-24, 2023
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Status: Charged with aggravated femicide; detained in La Picota

- Paulus financed aesthetic procedures and hired a private investigator to follow Valentina from Instagram
- Cameras recorded the extraction of the body between 09:11 and 10:17 on January 22; Valentina does not appear again
- Previous restraining order from ex-wife documented; three children; anticipatory phrase: "Reason enough for one of us to perish"
- Captured at Tocumen Airport, Panama, 24 hours later, in transit to Turkey

Valentina Tres Palacios, Bogotá femicide, 2023, serial killer, forensic investigation, criminal minds, true crime, justice, aggravated homicide, cartel, concealment of evidence, Spanish true crime

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In the early morning of March 22, 2010, a four-year-old girl disappeared from her room. Nine days later, hundreds of people, search dogs, and authorities found her dead in her own bed, in the same place where they had left her to sleep. The question that all of Mexico is asking: how was it possible that no one found her?

In this episode, we explore the biomechanical contradictions that challenge the official version of an accident: the fixed livor mortis in a position opposite to the body found, the exhaustive searches that did not detect the corpse, and the fragmented accounts of the adults under interrogation. Each forensic detail opens a crack in the institutional narrative.

Victim: Paulette Guevara Farah
Date: March 22-31, 2010
Location: Huixquilucan, State of Mexico
Status: Case closed as accidental death, with no answers to critical contradictions

- The fixed livor mortis found on the left side of the body, but the girl was found in a right lateral position: biomechanically, this indicates repositioning after 15 to 24 hours of death.
- For nine days, Paulette's best friend slept three consecutive nights in that same bed without detecting any presence of the body.
- The search dogs did not locate the corpse in repeated searches, while authorities justified the failure with arguments about canine training.
- The mother was filmed manipulating the girl's pajamas and smoking calmly during the first hours of the search, according to witness testimony.

Paulette Guevara Farah, Huixquilucan child death 2010, asphyxia, forensic investigation, motor disability, livor mortis, autopsy, accidental homicide, unsolved mystery, Spanish true crime

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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In the early morning of March 22, 2010, a four-year-old girl disappeared from her room. Nine days later, hundreds of people, search dogs, and authorities found her dead in her own bed, in the same place where they had left her to sleep. The question that all of Mexico is asking: how was it possible that no one found her?

In this episode, we explore the biomechanical contradictions that challenge the official version of an accident: the fixed livor mortis in a position opposite to the body found, the exhaustive searches that did not detect the corpse, and the fragmented accounts of the adults under interrogation. Each forensic detail opens a crack in the institutional narrative.

Victim: Paulette Guevara Farah
Date: March 22-31, 2010
Location: Huixquilucan, State of Mexico
Status: Case closed as accidental death, with no answers to critical contradictions

- The fixed livor mortis found on the left side of the body, but the girl was found in a right lateral position: biomechanically, this indicates repositioning after 15 to 24 hours of death.
- For nine days, Paulette's best friend slept three consecutive nights in that same bed without detecting any presence of the body.
- The search dogs did not locate the corpse in repeated searches, while authorities justified the failure with arguments about canine training.
- The mother was filmed manipulating the girl's pajamas and smoking calmly during the first hours of the search, according to witness testimony.

Paulette Guevara Farah, Huixquilucan child death 2010, asphyxia, forensic investigation, motor disability, livor mortis, autopsy, accidental homicide, unsolved mystery, Spanish true crime

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A police lieutenant murders his wife inside the police academy where he was trained, leaves the body in the trunk of his truck, and reports himself as a victim. María Belén's cell phone records her final pleas as he strangles her with a judo hold.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that kept the homicide unpunished for weeks: the absence of drag injuries contradicts Cáceres's claim of acting alone, the body found without decomposition after ten days questions where the body really was, and messages from cadet Jocelyn Sánchez reveal prior knowledge of the crime. An investigation spanning 2,234 kilometers crosses three countries before his capture in Colombia.

Victim: María Belén Bernal
Date: September 11, 2022
Location: Police Academy, Quito, Ecuador
Status: Investigation in preparatory hearing; femicide debate pending

- The victim's cell phone recorded ten pleas for help until the final silence inside the lieutenant's room.
- Cáceres declared to the prosecutor's office that María Belén got off on Avenida Simón Bolívar, but luminol in the truck and DNA completely contradict him.
- The autopsy shows no injuries to the chest, abdomen, pelvis, or arms, indicating that at least two people carried the body, not one as he claims.
- The body found without decomposition ten days later suggests burial shortly before September 21, not the night of the 11th, leaving a gap of days unexplained.

María Belén Bernal, Quito Ecuador 2022, murder, judo hold, femicide, criminal lawyer, strangulation, criminal minds, investigation, institutional silence, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A police lieutenant murders his wife inside the police academy where he was trained, leaves the body in the trunk of his truck, and reports himself as a victim. María Belén's cell phone records her final pleas as he strangles her with a judo hold.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that kept the homicide unpunished for weeks: the absence of drag injuries contradicts Cáceres's claim of acting alone, the body found without decomposition after ten days questions where the body really was, and messages from cadet Jocelyn Sánchez reveal prior knowledge of the crime. An investigation spanning 2,234 kilometers crosses three countries before his capture in Colombia.

Victim: María Belén Bernal
Date: September 11, 2022
Location: Police Academy, Quito, Ecuador
Status: Investigation in preparatory hearing; femicide debate pending

- The victim's cell phone recorded ten pleas for help until the final silence inside the lieutenant's room.
- Cáceres declared to the prosecutor's office that María Belén got off on Avenida Simón Bolívar, but luminol in the truck and DNA completely contradict him.
- The autopsy shows no injuries to the chest, abdomen, pelvis, or arms, indicating that at least two people carried the body, not one as he claims.
- The body found without decomposition ten days later suggests burial shortly before September 21, not the night of the 11th, leaving a gap of days unexplained.

María Belén Bernal, Quito Ecuador 2022, murder, judo hold, femicide, criminal lawyer, strangulation, criminal minds, investigation, institutional silence, Spanish true crime

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A mother recognizes her daughter's remains by the nail polish she painted herself days before. In the early morning of March 4, 2020, Allison Bonilla, 19 years old, disappeared after getting off a bus in Cartago, Costa Rica. A man confessed where she was, but then denied everything.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that undermine the sentence: how an irrefutable DNA confession led to a simple homicide of just 18 years, why objects reappeared in areas already searched, and who the two men were that chased Allison that night. Justice convicted, but the case remains open and the family continues to wait for the truth.

Victim: Allison Bonilla
Date: March 4, 2020
Location: Cartago, Costa Rica
Status: Sentence under review

- The mother identified her daughter by the nail polish painted with her own hands days before the crime.
- Blood in the trunk of the BMW matched Allison's DNA; the accused confessed the exact location of the body.
- The accused was sentenced to only 18 years for simple homicide, acquitted of sexual assault, despite fractures consistent with deliberate throwing.
- Glasses and documents reappeared in areas already searched, and the two men who chased her were never identified.

Allison Bonilla, Cartago Costa Rica, 2020, murder, investigation, forensic, homicide, justice, mystery, truth, true crime, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545021Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:23:38 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe nail polish that identified Allison: five months without answers: The murder of Allison Bonilla A mother recognizes her daughter's remains by the nail polish she painted herself days before. In the early morning of March 4, 2020, Allison...
A mother recognizes her daughter's remains by the nail polish she painted herself days before. In the early morning of March 4, 2020, Allison Bonilla, 19 years old, disappeared after getting off a bus in Cartago, Costa Rica. A man confessed where she was, but then denied everything.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that undermine the sentence: how an irrefutable DNA confession led to a simple homicide of just 18 years, why objects reappeared in areas already searched, and who the two men were that chased Allison that night. Justice convicted, but the case remains open and the family continues to wait for the truth.

Victim: Allison Bonilla
Date: March 4, 2020
Location: Cartago, Costa Rica
Status: Sentence under review

- The mother identified her daughter by the nail polish painted with her own hands days before the crime.
- Blood in the trunk of the BMW matched Allison's DNA; the accused confessed the exact location of the body.
- The accused was sentenced to only 18 years for simple homicide, acquitted of sexual assault, despite fractures consistent with deliberate throwing.
- Glasses and documents reappeared in areas already searched, and the two men who chased her were never identified.

Allison Bonilla, Cartago Costa Rica, 2020, murder, investigation, forensic, homicide, justice, mystery, truth, true crime, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A red car explodes in flames in San Lorenzo, Paraguay, in the early morning of April 11, 2018. Among the ashes, a single intact piece: the license plate. Twenty-four hours later, the killer confesses live on the radio from Argentina, narrating every detail of the crime with surgical precision.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that reveal absolute premeditation: a man who carried a weapon for months, planned the meeting weeks in advance, but chose to confess over the phone. We analyze how security cameras, the radio recording, and the autopsy dismantled the defense of "a young Christian's mistake" and exposed the cruelty against Natalia, a 22-year-old law student turned victim of a years-long obsession.

Victim: Natalia Lorena Silveira Alfonso
Date: April 11, 2018
Location: San Lorenzo, Paraguay
Status: Sentenced to 30 years in prison

- The fire destroyed everything except the license plate, the only piece that would identify the vehicle and its registered owner.
- Ulises Núñez discovered Natalia in a private WhatsApp group of escorts in 2016 and planned the crime for years while carrying a weapon.
- The live radio confession to Radio 970 AM was preserved by the host and delivered to the police, providing details verified by cameras and the autopsy.
- Four suspensions without notice to the family nearly left the femicide unpunished; the conviction was upheld by appeal on December 20, 2021.

Natalia Silveira, San Lorenzo Paraguay 2018, premeditated murder, femicide, radio confession, forensic investigation, criminal obsession, justice, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545020Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:23:35 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe license plate that implicated the killer in Paraguay: The femicide of Natalia Silveira A red car explodes in flames in San Lorenzo, Paraguay, in the early morning of April 11, 2018. Among the ashes, a single intact piece: the license plate....
A red car explodes in flames in San Lorenzo, Paraguay, in the early morning of April 11, 2018. Among the ashes, a single intact piece: the license plate. Twenty-four hours later, the killer confesses live on the radio from Argentina, narrating every detail of the crime with surgical precision.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that reveal absolute premeditation: a man who carried a weapon for months, planned the meeting weeks in advance, but chose to confess over the phone. We analyze how security cameras, the radio recording, and the autopsy dismantled the defense of "a young Christian's mistake" and exposed the cruelty against Natalia, a 22-year-old law student turned victim of a years-long obsession.

Victim: Natalia Lorena Silveira Alfonso
Date: April 11, 2018
Location: San Lorenzo, Paraguay
Status: Sentenced to 30 years in prison

- The fire destroyed everything except the license plate, the only piece that would identify the vehicle and its registered owner.
- Ulises Núñez discovered Natalia in a private WhatsApp group of escorts in 2016 and planned the crime for years while carrying a weapon.
- The live radio confession to Radio 970 AM was preserved by the host and delivered to the police, providing details verified by cameras and the autopsy.
- Four suspensions without notice to the family nearly left the femicide unpunished; the conviction was upheld by appeal on December 20, 2021.

Natalia Silveira, San Lorenzo Paraguay 2018, premeditated murder, femicide, radio confession, forensic investigation, criminal obsession, justice, Spanish true crime

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A young woman disappears during a dream trip across the United States. Her fiancé returns alone with the shared van, without explanations. When the police arrive, her parents provide the lawyer's number. Months later, a handwritten letter from the mother mentions burying a body, and an eight-page confession reveals what happened during those silent days.

In this episode, we explore the fatal decisions that sealed Gabi's fate: the police intervention in Moab that did not document her injuries, the text message sent three days after she went missing, and the behavior of the killer's family that suggests more than complicity. How did a chain of ignored signals and wrong decisions allow a crime to go unpunished until it was too late?

Victim: Gabrielle Petito
Date: August 12 - September 19, 2021
Location: Wyoming, Utah, Florida, United States
Status: Case resolved; sentencing pending for family complicity

- The Moab incident recorded on body cam shows Gabi crying and struggling to breathe, but the police blamed her as the primary aggressor
- A selfie from the same day shows blood under her left eye, never considered in the initial Moab investigation
- The last text message attributed to Gabi mentions her grandfather as "Stan," a name she never used, suggesting it was sent by Brian
- A handwritten letter from Brian's mother found in his backpack refers to bringing a shovel and burying a body, admitted as evidence in court

Gabrielle Petito, Bridger-Teton Wyoming, murder 2021, forensic, investigation, criminal minds, intrigue, homicide, kidnapping, justice, suspense, true crime Spanish

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A young woman disappears during a dream trip across the United States. Her fiancé returns alone with the shared van, without explanations. When the police arrive, her parents provide the lawyer's number. Months later, a handwritten letter from the mother mentions burying a body, and an eight-page confession reveals what happened during those silent days.

In this episode, we explore the fatal decisions that sealed Gabi's fate: the police intervention in Moab that did not document her injuries, the text message sent three days after she went missing, and the behavior of the killer's family that suggests more than complicity. How did a chain of ignored signals and wrong decisions allow a crime to go unpunished until it was too late?

Victim: Gabrielle Petito
Date: August 12 - September 19, 2021
Location: Wyoming, Utah, Florida, United States
Status: Case resolved; sentencing pending for family complicity

- The Moab incident recorded on body cam shows Gabi crying and struggling to breathe, but the police blamed her as the primary aggressor
- A selfie from the same day shows blood under her left eye, never considered in the initial Moab investigation
- The last text message attributed to Gabi mentions her grandfather as "Stan," a name she never used, suggesting it was sent by Brian
- A handwritten letter from Brian's mother found in his backpack refers to bringing a shovel and burying a body, admitted as evidence in court

Gabrielle Petito, Bridger-Teton Wyoming, murder 2021, forensic, investigation, criminal minds, intrigue, homicide, kidnapping, justice, suspense, true crime Spanish

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A mother prays for her daughter to be brought back alive or dead. Hours later, an anonymous call reveals the exact location of the body in El Calvario hill. The impossible: the caller lived meters from the burial site and was a relative of the killer.

In this episode, we explore how a report of domestic violence months earlier went unexecuted, how a witness saw the aggressor arrive with a shovel and dirt burning evidence, and why Miguel Ángel Naranjo only confessed after six months under a plea agreement, leaving gaps in his account that the family never closed.

Victim: Melanie Stac Maya León
Date: June 28, 2018
Location: Medellín, Colombia
Status: Convicted - 34 years and 8 months

- A restraining order requested by the stepfather was never executed despite documented death threats
- The relative of the killer waited seven days to reveal the whereabouts of the body buried near his own house
- Miguel voluntarily presented himself smiling and declaring his innocence, but accepted a plea agreement to confess six months later
- The corpse was found with quicklime, broken teeth, and a disfigured face, evidence of deliberate cruelty

Melanie Stac Maya León, Medellín femicide 2018, serial killer, criminal minds, investigation, forensic, domestic violence, imperfect justice, criminal plea agreement, Spanish true crime

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© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545017Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:23:29 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe call that revealed the buried secret in Medellín: The femicide of Melanie Stac Maya León A mother prays for her daughter to be brought back alive or dead. Hours later, an anonymous call reveals the exact location of the body in El Calvario...
A mother prays for her daughter to be brought back alive or dead. Hours later, an anonymous call reveals the exact location of the body in El Calvario hill. The impossible: the caller lived meters from the burial site and was a relative of the killer.

In this episode, we explore how a report of domestic violence months earlier went unexecuted, how a witness saw the aggressor arrive with a shovel and dirt burning evidence, and why Miguel Ángel Naranjo only confessed after six months under a plea agreement, leaving gaps in his account that the family never closed.

Victim: Melanie Stac Maya León
Date: June 28, 2018
Location: Medellín, Colombia
Status: Convicted - 34 years and 8 months

- A restraining order requested by the stepfather was never executed despite documented death threats
- The relative of the killer waited seven days to reveal the whereabouts of the body buried near his own house
- Miguel voluntarily presented himself smiling and declaring his innocence, but accepted a plea agreement to confess six months later
- The corpse was found with quicklime, broken teeth, and a disfigured face, evidence of deliberate cruelty

Melanie Stac Maya León, Medellín femicide 2018, serial killer, criminal minds, investigation, forensic, domestic violence, imperfect justice, criminal plea agreement, Spanish true crime

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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On August 23, 2006, an 18-year-old girl arrived at a stranger's door claiming to have been missing for eight years. Doctors confirmed that she weighed exactly the same as she did at ten years old. How does a person survive such absolute captivity and, having moments of escape, take so long to flee?

In this episode, we explore the failed investigation that allowed the kidnapping, the eight years of isolation in a basement 2.78 meters deep without natural light, and the escape triggered by a phone call. Contradictions of Stockholm syndrome, death threats, and the death of Přiklopil on the same day create unresolved tensions in the official narrative.

Victim: Natasha Kampusch
Date: March 2, 1998 - August 23, 2006
Location: Austria (Vienna and surroundings)
Status: Rescued; perpetrator deceased

- Přiklopil had drawn detailed plans of the basement-prison before the kidnapping, ruling out spontaneous impulse.
- The police visited Přiklopil after witness descriptions of the van, but did not order a search due to the absence of a criminal record.
- Natasha weighed 42 kilos with only 15 centimeters of growth in eight years, medical evidence of the impact of confinement and food deprivation.
- The escape occurred when Přiklopil answered a phone call; the 2012 investigation closed the case with individual authorship, with no proven links to abuse networks.

Natasha Kampusch, Austria, kidnapping, 1998-2006, Wolfgang Přiklopil, captivity, serial murder, failed investigation, Stockholm syndrome, forensic, criminal minds, suspense, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545016Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:23:27 +0000Creator at ObomediaEight years in a basement: the Natasha case: The kidnapping of Natasha Kampusch in Austria On August 23, 2006, an 18-year-old girl arrived at a stranger's door claiming to have been missing for eight years. Doctors confirmed that she weighed...
On August 23, 2006, an 18-year-old girl arrived at a stranger's door claiming to have been missing for eight years. Doctors confirmed that she weighed exactly the same as she did at ten years old. How does a person survive such absolute captivity and, having moments of escape, take so long to flee?

In this episode, we explore the failed investigation that allowed the kidnapping, the eight years of isolation in a basement 2.78 meters deep without natural light, and the escape triggered by a phone call. Contradictions of Stockholm syndrome, death threats, and the death of Přiklopil on the same day create unresolved tensions in the official narrative.

Victim: Natasha Kampusch
Date: March 2, 1998 - August 23, 2006
Location: Austria (Vienna and surroundings)
Status: Rescued; perpetrator deceased

- Přiklopil had drawn detailed plans of the basement-prison before the kidnapping, ruling out spontaneous impulse.
- The police visited Přiklopil after witness descriptions of the van, but did not order a search due to the absence of a criminal record.
- Natasha weighed 42 kilos with only 15 centimeters of growth in eight years, medical evidence of the impact of confinement and food deprivation.
- The escape occurred when Přiklopil answered a phone call; the 2012 investigation closed the case with individual authorship, with no proven links to abuse networks.

Natasha Kampusch, Austria, kidnapping, 1998-2006, Wolfgang Přiklopil, captivity, serial murder, failed investigation, Stockholm syndrome, forensic, criminal minds, suspense, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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May 1996. An investigator counts wounds at the scene without filter: eighty. The real number would later be revealed. How did an attack with four different weapons, documented with a prophetic notebook, end in a sentence of only 24 years and the killer's release before serving his full sentence?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that shook the Argentine judicial system: the defense of irrefutable violent emotion versus defensive wounds on hands, arms, and a notebook found without blood. We analyze how Fabián Tablado went from spontaneous confession to early release, and why his violation of the restraining order in 2020 reignited a case that inspired international legislation against dating violence.

Victim: Carolina Aló
Date: May 27, 1996
Location: Tigre, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Status: Closed case; perpetrator on probation

- The investigator counted up to 80 stab wounds at the scene, but the autopsy recorded 113 injuries with four different knives executed in 5 to 10 minutes.
- A notebook found in the kitchen without blood stains contained a prophetic drawing of a woman lying next to a ritual image, presumably drawn by the attacker days before.
- Tablado spontaneously confessed upon arrest: "I didn't hit her, I killed her," but a divided 2-1 ruling convicted him only of simple homicide, rejecting cruelty despite forensic evidence of deliberate continuity.
- After regaining freedom in February 2020, he violated the restraining order in October while passing with his daughters 150 meters from the workplace of Carolina's father, who has since carried a panic button.

Carolina Aló, Tigre Buenos Aires murder, 1996, forensic investigation, serial killer mentality, premeditated crime, dating violence, Argentine justice, homicide cruelty, criminal minds, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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May 1996. An investigator counts wounds at the scene without filter: eighty. The real number would later be revealed. How did an attack with four different weapons, documented with a prophetic notebook, end in a sentence of only 24 years and the killer's release before serving his full sentence?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that shook the Argentine judicial system: the defense of irrefutable violent emotion versus defensive wounds on hands, arms, and a notebook found without blood. We analyze how Fabián Tablado went from spontaneous confession to early release, and why his violation of the restraining order in 2020 reignited a case that inspired international legislation against dating violence.

Victim: Carolina Aló
Date: May 27, 1996
Location: Tigre, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Status: Closed case; perpetrator on probation

- The investigator counted up to 80 stab wounds at the scene, but the autopsy recorded 113 injuries with four different knives executed in 5 to 10 minutes.
- A notebook found in the kitchen without blood stains contained a prophetic drawing of a woman lying next to a ritual image, presumably drawn by the attacker days before.
- Tablado spontaneously confessed upon arrest: "I didn't hit her, I killed her," but a divided 2-1 ruling convicted him only of simple homicide, rejecting cruelty despite forensic evidence of deliberate continuity.
- After regaining freedom in February 2020, he violated the restraining order in October while passing with his daughters 150 meters from the workplace of Carolina's father, who has since carried a panic button.

Carolina Aló, Tigre Buenos Aires murder, 1996, forensic investigation, serial killer mentality, premeditated crime, dating violence, Argentine justice, homicide cruelty, criminal minds, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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In the early morning of January 19, 2008, a man entered a house in Reno without forcing the door, took Briana Denison sleeping on the couch, and disappeared without waking anyone. The impossible: he left his DNA on the doorknob, untouched money, and did not activate the sleeping dog upstairs. How did a predator attack four times within a kilometer without being captured until his own girlfriend turned him in?

In this episode, we explore how a piece of underwear found in a truck connected three previous assaults to the homicide, and how the DNA of a four-year-old boy confirmed the identity of the serial killer. We unravel the pattern of a plumber who hunted college students, the failures that left him free after the first attack, and the contradiction between his alibi and the testimony of the one who brought him to justice.

Victim: Briana Denison
Date: January 19, 2008
Location: Reno, Nevada, USA
Status: Convicted; death penalty pending (2010)

- Briana disappeared from a couch next to an unlocked door while her friend slept upstairs; her pillow had blood and bite marks.
- Three previous attacks in October, November, and December 2007 within a kilometer shared the same male DNA from the murder.
- James Biela was identified by an anonymous tip nine months later; his girlfriend contradicted his alibi and found women's underwear in his truck.
- The DNA of Biela's four-year-old son matched genetic markers from the scene, confirming biological kinship to the killer.

Briana Denison, Reno Nevada murder, 2008, homicide, investigation, forensic, serial killer, sexual assault, mystery solved, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545014Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:23:22 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe unlocked door of Briana: serial killer of Reno: The Murder of Briana Denison In the early morning of January 19, 2008, a man entered a house in Reno without forcing the door, took Briana Denison sleeping on the couch, and disappeared...
In the early morning of January 19, 2008, a man entered a house in Reno without forcing the door, took Briana Denison sleeping on the couch, and disappeared without waking anyone. The impossible: he left his DNA on the doorknob, untouched money, and did not activate the sleeping dog upstairs. How did a predator attack four times within a kilometer without being captured until his own girlfriend turned him in?

In this episode, we explore how a piece of underwear found in a truck connected three previous assaults to the homicide, and how the DNA of a four-year-old boy confirmed the identity of the serial killer. We unravel the pattern of a plumber who hunted college students, the failures that left him free after the first attack, and the contradiction between his alibi and the testimony of the one who brought him to justice.

Victim: Briana Denison
Date: January 19, 2008
Location: Reno, Nevada, USA
Status: Convicted; death penalty pending (2010)

- Briana disappeared from a couch next to an unlocked door while her friend slept upstairs; her pillow had blood and bite marks.
- Three previous attacks in October, November, and December 2007 within a kilometer shared the same male DNA from the murder.
- James Biela was identified by an anonymous tip nine months later; his girlfriend contradicted his alibi and found women's underwear in his truck.
- The DNA of Biela's four-year-old son matched genetic markers from the scene, confirming biological kinship to the killer.

Briana Denison, Reno Nevada murder, 2008, homicide, investigation, forensic, serial killer, sexual assault, mystery solved, true crime Spanish

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On January 13, 1995, at 8 a.m., a Job Corps Campus employee discovers remains in a forest in Knoxville. The body shows over a hundred stab wounds and a pentagram carved into the chest. That same night, the killer walks around the university with a fragment of the victim's skull, showing it to her peers as if it were a trophy.

In this episode, we explore how an eighteen-year-old girl tortured a classmate for forty minutes, extracted a bone from her skull, and then confessed to the crime voluntarily, without police pressure. We analyze the defense of manipulation versus the forensic evidence that contradicts each argument, and the chain of systemic failures that left Crista without psychiatric protection since she was twelve years old.

Victim: Colleen Ann Slemmer
Date: January 12, 1995
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Status: Crista Pike on death row; last appeal denied in October 2023

- More than a hundred stab wounds inflicted while the heart was still actively beating, establishing premeditated torture of forty minutes.
- Crista voluntarily confessed to two different peers the same night, displaying the skull fragment as a trophy with apparent no remorse.
- The pentagram necklace identical to the carving on the body was found around Crista's neck during the arrest, directly linking her to the ritual.
- Crista verbalized her intention to kill hours before the attack, contradictory to the defense that she only intended to scare the victim.

Colleen Ann Slemmer, Knoxville Tennessee 1995, murder, forensic, pentagram, ritual sacrifice, death row, investigation, homicide, criminal minds, true crime Spanish

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On January 13, 1995, at 8 a.m., a Job Corps Campus employee discovers remains in a forest in Knoxville. The body shows over a hundred stab wounds and a pentagram carved into the chest. That same night, the killer walks around the university with a fragment of the victim's skull, showing it to her peers as if it were a trophy.

In this episode, we explore how an eighteen-year-old girl tortured a classmate for forty minutes, extracted a bone from her skull, and then confessed to the crime voluntarily, without police pressure. We analyze the defense of manipulation versus the forensic evidence that contradicts each argument, and the chain of systemic failures that left Crista without psychiatric protection since she was twelve years old.

Victim: Colleen Ann Slemmer
Date: January 12, 1995
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Status: Crista Pike on death row; last appeal denied in October 2023

- More than a hundred stab wounds inflicted while the heart was still actively beating, establishing premeditated torture of forty minutes.
- Crista voluntarily confessed to two different peers the same night, displaying the skull fragment as a trophy with apparent no remorse.
- The pentagram necklace identical to the carving on the body was found around Crista's neck during the arrest, directly linking her to the ritual.
- Crista verbalized her intention to kill hours before the attack, contradictory to the defense that she only intended to scare the victim.

Colleen Ann Slemmer, Knoxville Tennessee 1995, murder, forensic, pentagram, ritual sacrifice, death row, investigation, homicide, criminal minds, true crime Spanish

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Three men arrive at a medical facility with a lifeless teenager. The justice system acquits them. Six years later, one receives a life sentence for the same case. How is it possible that the same death generates two contradictory sentences in Argentina?

In this episode, we explore the autopsy that dismantled the initial accusation, the scandal of the "impalement" announced without evidence, and how two courts reached opposing conclusions about consent, premeditation, and responsibility. A forensic investigation riddled with contradictions that exposed the prosecutor, removed judges, and fractured the country.

Victim: Lucía Pérez (16 years old)
Date: October 8, 2016
Location: Mar del Plata, Argentina
Status: Life sentence for Matías; 15 years total for Juan Pablo (second trial, 2023)

- Nasal swab positive for cocaine discredited the facial washing hypothesis announced by prosecutor Sánchez.
- Condoms with Matías's DNA found at home proved sexual presence, but not consent under intoxication.
- First court: acquittal for abuse and femicide. Second court: conviction for abuse. Same event, two verdicts.
- Judge Aldo Carnevale retired before facing impeachment; two judges were suspended for their handling of the case.

Lucía Pérez, Mar del Plata femicide 2016, sexual abuse, overdose, forensic, investigation, criminal minds, killer, Argentine justice, imperfect femicide, Spanish true crime

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Three men arrive at a medical facility with a lifeless teenager. The justice system acquits them. Six years later, one receives a life sentence for the same case. How is it possible that the same death generates two contradictory sentences in Argentina?

In this episode, we explore the autopsy that dismantled the initial accusation, the scandal of the "impalement" announced without evidence, and how two courts reached opposing conclusions about consent, premeditation, and responsibility. A forensic investigation riddled with contradictions that exposed the prosecutor, removed judges, and fractured the country.

Victim: Lucía Pérez (16 years old)
Date: October 8, 2016
Location: Mar del Plata, Argentina
Status: Life sentence for Matías; 15 years total for Juan Pablo (second trial, 2023)

- Nasal swab positive for cocaine discredited the facial washing hypothesis announced by prosecutor Sánchez.
- Condoms with Matías's DNA found at home proved sexual presence, but not consent under intoxication.
- First court: acquittal for abuse and femicide. Second court: conviction for abuse. Same event, two verdicts.
- Judge Aldo Carnevale retired before facing impeachment; two judges were suspended for their handling of the case.

Lucía Pérez, Mar del Plata femicide 2016, sexual abuse, overdose, forensic, investigation, criminal minds, killer, Argentine justice, imperfect femicide, Spanish true crime

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On January 6, 1999, sailors on the Vistula River found a bag of human skin with an ear and an earring caught in the propeller of a tugboat. Katarzyna Zając, 23 years old, had disappeared nearly two months earlier without a trace. The impossible: her body was processed like a garment with surgical precision, a crime never seen in Polish criminology.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that paralyzed the investigation for 19 years: unknown DNA on the remains, fragments of vegetation proving the crime occurred on land, not in water, and a suspect who knew the victim but whose confession never went to public trial. Key evidence remains classified while Robert Janewski awaits in pretrial detention.

Victim: Katarzyna Zając
Date: November 12, 1998
Location: Krakow, Poland
Status: Closed trial, delayed

- Skin removed while alive according to forensic report; deliberate processing as a suit indicates knowledge of dissection.
- Robert Janewski's diaries record Katarzyna's name among women stalked; documented connection months before disappearance.
- DNA from a third person found on remains in 2000; never identified or publicly matched against the suspect.
- Non-aquatic vegetation fragments suggest crime on land, not river; redirects geography but initial investigation focused on water for a year.

Katarzyna Zając, Krakow Poland murder 1998, human skin, disappearance, forensic, Polish investigation, torture, homicide, unsolved mystery, true crime Spanish

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On January 6, 1999, sailors on the Vistula River found a bag of human skin with an ear and an earring caught in the propeller of a tugboat. Katarzyna Zając, 23 years old, had disappeared nearly two months earlier without a trace. The impossible: her body was processed like a garment with surgical precision, a crime never seen in Polish criminology.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that paralyzed the investigation for 19 years: unknown DNA on the remains, fragments of vegetation proving the crime occurred on land, not in water, and a suspect who knew the victim but whose confession never went to public trial. Key evidence remains classified while Robert Janewski awaits in pretrial detention.

Victim: Katarzyna Zając
Date: November 12, 1998
Location: Krakow, Poland
Status: Closed trial, delayed

- Skin removed while alive according to forensic report; deliberate processing as a suit indicates knowledge of dissection.
- Robert Janewski's diaries record Katarzyna's name among women stalked; documented connection months before disappearance.
- DNA from a third person found on remains in 2000; never identified or publicly matched against the suspect.
- Non-aquatic vegetation fragments suggest crime on land, not river; redirects geography but initial investigation focused on water for a year.

Katarzyna Zając, Krakow Poland murder 1998, human skin, disappearance, forensic, Polish investigation, torture, homicide, unsolved mystery, true crime Spanish

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A teenager with 80% of her body burned crawls nearly four blocks down an English road and, before dying, whispers six full names, exact addresses, and surnames of those who tortured her for a week. The impossible: they all lived on the same street. The central question that haunts this episode is how none of the neighbors who heard the screams chose to intervene.

In this episode, we explore the seven days of systematic captivity in house number 97, the control dynamics that preceded the crime, and why the six aggressors were released before Susan had been dead for thirty years. We examine the contradictions between the confessions, the physical evidence that disappeared from court records, and the role of witnesses who could have saved her but chose silence out of fear.

Victim: Susan Kapper
Date: December 7-14, 1992
Location: Manchester, 97 Lengu Guarde, Werneth Low
Status: Deceased December 18, 1992; all aggressors free as of 2024

- Susan identified only by an intact thumbprint at Withington hospital after burns on 80% of her body.
- Two forcibly extracted incisors found as trophies in one of the aggressor's homes; she was sixteen years old.
- Gian Paul, her caregiver since she was six, becomes the first perpetrator after her mother abandoned her.
- Bernadette Magnil adopted the alias "Chucky" during the torture sessions and sent manipulative letters from prison; she was released as a "model inmate" in 2015.

Susan Kapper, Manchester 1992, murder, torture, criminal minds, kidnapping, investigation, failed justice, prison, hidden truth, homicide, Spanish true crime

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A teenager with 80% of her body burned crawls nearly four blocks down an English road and, before dying, whispers six full names, exact addresses, and surnames of those who tortured her for a week. The impossible: they all lived on the same street. The central question that haunts this episode is how none of the neighbors who heard the screams chose to intervene.

In this episode, we explore the seven days of systematic captivity in house number 97, the control dynamics that preceded the crime, and why the six aggressors were released before Susan had been dead for thirty years. We examine the contradictions between the confessions, the physical evidence that disappeared from court records, and the role of witnesses who could have saved her but chose silence out of fear.

Victim: Susan Kapper
Date: December 7-14, 1992
Location: Manchester, 97 Lengu Guarde, Werneth Low
Status: Deceased December 18, 1992; all aggressors free as of 2024

- Susan identified only by an intact thumbprint at Withington hospital after burns on 80% of her body.
- Two forcibly extracted incisors found as trophies in one of the aggressor's homes; she was sixteen years old.
- Gian Paul, her caregiver since she was six, becomes the first perpetrator after her mother abandoned her.
- Bernadette Magnil adopted the alias "Chucky" during the torture sessions and sent manipulative letters from prison; she was released as a "model inmate" in 2015.

Susan Kapper, Manchester 1992, murder, torture, criminal minds, kidnapping, investigation, failed justice, prison, hidden truth, homicide, Spanish true crime

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A law student filed four formal reports, survived a shooting attempt, and was murdered with 35 stab wounds by the same man she identified to the prosecutor's office. The crime occurred while authorities were conducting home surveillance. How did a victim who did everything right end up dead?

In this episode, we explore the cycle of violence that authorities deliberately dismantled, the police omission during a documented assault, and the prosecutor's argument that used Dariela's fear as a reason to suspend her protection. We examine surveillance cameras that refute the detained person's version, nine defensive wounds that narrate her last fight, and the subsequent threats her family continues to receive.

Victim: Dariela Valdés Rocha, 25 years old
Date: January 15, 2023
Location: Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico
Status: Defendant in pending oral trial

- Four formal reports filed with the prosecutor's office between June 2022 and January 2023; surveillance suspended arguing the victim's will.
- Shooting attempt at Waldos store on June 2, 2022, with two injured; attackers claimed to have been hired by the detained person.
- Neighboring surveillance cameras invalidate the "third person" alibi; no gray vehicle or intruder recorded.
- Prosecutor Ricardo Iván Carpio Sánchez publicly admitted that the institution was aware of the reports and chose to leave the victim unprotected.

Dariela Valdés Rocha, Mexicali, feminicide, 2023, murder, ignored reports, domestic violence, investigation, failed justice, institutional corruption, forensic, truth and lies, true crime Spanish

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© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71545006Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:23:09 +0000Creator at Obomedia35 stab wounds: the system that ignored her reports: The feminicide of Dariela Valdés Rocha A law student filed four formal reports, survived a shooting attempt, and was murdered with 35 stab wounds by the same man she identified to the...
A law student filed four formal reports, survived a shooting attempt, and was murdered with 35 stab wounds by the same man she identified to the prosecutor's office. The crime occurred while authorities were conducting home surveillance. How did a victim who did everything right end up dead?

In this episode, we explore the cycle of violence that authorities deliberately dismantled, the police omission during a documented assault, and the prosecutor's argument that used Dariela's fear as a reason to suspend her protection. We examine surveillance cameras that refute the detained person's version, nine defensive wounds that narrate her last fight, and the subsequent threats her family continues to receive.

Victim: Dariela Valdés Rocha, 25 years old
Date: January 15, 2023
Location: Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico
Status: Defendant in pending oral trial

- Four formal reports filed with the prosecutor's office between June 2022 and January 2023; surveillance suspended arguing the victim's will.
- Shooting attempt at Waldos store on June 2, 2022, with two injured; attackers claimed to have been hired by the detained person.
- Neighboring surveillance cameras invalidate the "third person" alibi; no gray vehicle or intruder recorded.
- Prosecutor Ricardo Iván Carpio Sánchez publicly admitted that the institution was aware of the reports and chose to leave the victim unprotected.

Dariela Valdés Rocha, Mexicali, feminicide, 2023, murder, ignored reports, domestic violence, investigation, failed justice, institutional corruption, forensic, truth and lies, true crime Spanish

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An expert in mines descends 140 feet into an abandoned well in the California desert and finds the body of a 19-year-old girl with a makeshift garrote around her neck - made from a Marine Corps t-shirt. The question is impossible: how could someone within such a closed circle of a military base bury his own lover and remain free for weeks?

In this episode, we explore the evidence that condemns Christopher Lee: the blue propane tank he borrowed days before, the photographs of mines taken in advance, and the identical garrote found in his car when he was arrested in Alaska. The meticulous premeditation contrasts with his confession in court, where he suddenly changed his motive and accused the victim of unreported crimes.

Victim: Erin Evelyn
Date: June 28, 2014
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California
Status: Sentenced to life in prison without parole (November 2016)

- Christopher borrowed a blue propane tank days before, telling the ranch owner that he knew "the perfect mine that no one would ever find."
- The same tank was seen in Christopher's Jeep the morning of the disappearance by a marine neighbor.
- Erin sent a message to her friend Jessica saying that Christopher knew about the pregnancy and was planning a "surprise" in the desert.
- In his car at the time of the arrest, investigators found a second makeshift garrote, identical to the one used in the mine.

Erin Evelyn, Joshua Tree 2014, murder, investigation, mystery, evidence, premeditation, justice, homicide, forensic, detectives, true crime Spanish

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An expert in mines descends 140 feet into an abandoned well in the California desert and finds the body of a 19-year-old girl with a makeshift garrote around her neck - made from a Marine Corps t-shirt. The question is impossible: how could someone within such a closed circle of a military base bury his own lover and remain free for weeks?

In this episode, we explore the evidence that condemns Christopher Lee: the blue propane tank he borrowed days before, the photographs of mines taken in advance, and the identical garrote found in his car when he was arrested in Alaska. The meticulous premeditation contrasts with his confession in court, where he suddenly changed his motive and accused the victim of unreported crimes.

Victim: Erin Evelyn
Date: June 28, 2014
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California
Status: Sentenced to life in prison without parole (November 2016)

- Christopher borrowed a blue propane tank days before, telling the ranch owner that he knew "the perfect mine that no one would ever find."
- The same tank was seen in Christopher's Jeep the morning of the disappearance by a marine neighbor.
- Erin sent a message to her friend Jessica saying that Christopher knew about the pregnancy and was planning a "surprise" in the desert.
- In his car at the time of the arrest, investigators found a second makeshift garrote, identical to the one used in the mine.

Erin Evelyn, Joshua Tree 2014, murder, investigation, mystery, evidence, premeditation, justice, homicide, forensic, detectives, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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A young Colombian receives a job offer for Madrid, lands in Guatemala without warning, and escapes with her father's money. She arrives in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, where she disappears weeks later. The impossible contradiction: she was found as an unidentified body, identified only by a tattoo on her forearm, after a viral campaign exposed an international trafficking network.

In this episode, we explore how an address left by Daniela in her last messages connects the kidnapping in Guatemala, the pursuit in Mexico, and the arrest of Jonathan "El Pantera," a lieutenant of the Gulf Cartel. We analyze why the release of El Pantera due to "lack of evidence" left a femicide case open, and how Daniela's mother had to lead the investigation that Colombian authorities ignored due to foreign jurisdiction.

Victim: Daniela Patiño Inestrosa
Date: September 10, 2019
Location: Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Status: Femicide with no confirmed conviction

- The flight that was supposed to last nine hours only lasted six, landing in Guatemala instead of Madrid, with a one-way ticket.
- The trafficking network demanded three million Colombian pesos; Daniela escaped with only one of her father's savings and arrived alive in Mexico.
- She was identified as an unidentified body only thanks to the "ineffable" tattoo on her forearm after seven days missing.
- Guatemala dismantled the trafficking network four years later, using the location of the Oasis Spa that Daniela had left in messages as "if they kill me, report here."

Daniela Patiño Inestrosa, Playa del Carmen, homicide, trafficking network, Gulf Cartel, 2019, murder, investigation, femicide, Guatemala, Mexico, extortion, mystery, justice, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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A young Colombian receives a job offer for Madrid, lands in Guatemala without warning, and escapes with her father's money. She arrives in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, where she disappears weeks later. The impossible contradiction: she was found as an unidentified body, identified only by a tattoo on her forearm, after a viral campaign exposed an international trafficking network.

In this episode, we explore how an address left by Daniela in her last messages connects the kidnapping in Guatemala, the pursuit in Mexico, and the arrest of Jonathan "El Pantera," a lieutenant of the Gulf Cartel. We analyze why the release of El Pantera due to "lack of evidence" left a femicide case open, and how Daniela's mother had to lead the investigation that Colombian authorities ignored due to foreign jurisdiction.

Victim: Daniela Patiño Inestrosa
Date: September 10, 2019
Location: Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Status: Femicide with no confirmed conviction

- The flight that was supposed to last nine hours only lasted six, landing in Guatemala instead of Madrid, with a one-way ticket.
- The trafficking network demanded three million Colombian pesos; Daniela escaped with only one of her father's savings and arrived alive in Mexico.
- She was identified as an unidentified body only thanks to the "ineffable" tattoo on her forearm after seven days missing.
- Guatemala dismantled the trafficking network four years later, using the location of the Oasis Spa that Daniela had left in messages as "if they kill me, report here."

Daniela Patiño Inestrosa, Playa del Carmen, homicide, trafficking network, Gulf Cartel, 2019, murder, investigation, femicide, Guatemala, Mexico, extortion, mystery, justice, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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Six bodies found between 1964 and 1965, each with the same disturbing forensic signature: teeth removed, underwear in the trachea, spray paint particles adhered to the skin. Scotland Yard interrogated 8,000 suspects without making a single arrest. How did a serial killer operate for over a year in the British capital leaving such clear evidence, and end up without an official culprit?

In this episode, we explore the largest investigation in British criminal history through three contradictory suspects, a false confession dismantled in less than an hour, and an ambiguous suicide note that closed the case without truly closing it. Paint particles linked to an industrial estate in Acton, a witness who described the attacker with photographic precision, and a chief inspector who accused the culprit years later without getting the authorities to validate it.

Victim: Anna Tailford
Date: February 2, 1964
Location: London, United Kingdom
Status: Officially unsolved case

- The removed teeth were present in all six confirmed victims, but absent in two earlier bodies excluded from the official series.
- Kenneth Archibald voluntarily confessed to a murder he never committed; the jury acquitted him in less than an hour with no physical evidence presented.
- The spray paint particles found on four victims came from an air extractor that projected contamination directly onto an abandoned electrical substation where Du Rose believed he deposited the bodies.
- Mungo Ireland, security guard of the indicated estate, committed suicide writing "It may be my fault, but not all of it," a phrase that Inspector Du Rose interpreted as an implicit confession but that Scotland Yard rejected as insufficient evidence.

Anna Tailford, Irene Lockwood, Helen Bartelemy, Mary Fleming, Margaret McGowan, Brigit O'Hara, London 1964-1965, murder, serial killer, Scotland Yard investigation, forensic, mystery, unsolved crime, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Six bodies found between 1964 and 1965, each with the same disturbing forensic signature: teeth removed, underwear in the trachea, spray paint particles adhered to the skin. Scotland Yard interrogated 8,000 suspects without making a single arrest. How did a serial killer operate for over a year in the British capital leaving such clear evidence, and end up without an official culprit?

In this episode, we explore the largest investigation in British criminal history through three contradictory suspects, a false confession dismantled in less than an hour, and an ambiguous suicide note that closed the case without truly closing it. Paint particles linked to an industrial estate in Acton, a witness who described the attacker with photographic precision, and a chief inspector who accused the culprit years later without getting the authorities to validate it.

Victim: Anna Tailford
Date: February 2, 1964
Location: London, United Kingdom
Status: Officially unsolved case

- The removed teeth were present in all six confirmed victims, but absent in two earlier bodies excluded from the official series.
- Kenneth Archibald voluntarily confessed to a murder he never committed; the jury acquitted him in less than an hour with no physical evidence presented.
- The spray paint particles found on four victims came from an air extractor that projected contamination directly onto an abandoned electrical substation where Du Rose believed he deposited the bodies.
- Mungo Ireland, security guard of the indicated estate, committed suicide writing "It may be my fault, but not all of it," a phrase that Inspector Du Rose interpreted as an implicit confession but that Scotland Yard rejected as insufficient evidence.

Anna Tailford, Irene Lockwood, Helen Bartelemy, Mary Fleming, Margaret McGowan, Brigit O'Hara, London 1964-1965, murder, serial killer, Scotland Yard investigation, forensic, mystery, unsolved crime, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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October 1972. A man begins to kill, convinced that each death prevents a catastrophic earthquake. For months, thirteen people fall under his hands while he hears voices ordering him to carry out a delusional "mission" based on Einstein and April 18.

In this episode, we explore how a brilliant student became a serial killer, what points the psychiatric system failed before each homicide occurred, and how the jury had to decide between documented insanity and tactical rationality. The central contradiction: how can someone kill obeying orders that only he hears and be convicted of premeditation?

Victim: Herbert William Mullin and his 13 victims
Date: October 1972 - February 1973
Location: Santa Cruz, California
Status: Incarcerated; parole request denied in 2006

- Formal diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia in 1969, four years before the first recorded crime.
- California's 72-hour law allowed Mullin to be repeatedly released despite voluntary commitments.
- He returned to Kathleen Prentice's house after killing the Llaneras family to eliminate a witness; the prosecution used this to argue rational behavior.
- He voluntarily confessed to 13 murders but was only formally charged with 10; three remained uncharged despite spontaneous admission.

Herbert William Mullin, Santa Cruz earthquake delusion, 1972-1973, paranoid schizophrenia, serial killer, criminal minds, forensic, homicide, justice, investigation, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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October 1972. A man begins to kill, convinced that each death prevents a catastrophic earthquake. For months, thirteen people fall under his hands while he hears voices ordering him to carry out a delusional "mission" based on Einstein and April 18.

In this episode, we explore how a brilliant student became a serial killer, what points the psychiatric system failed before each homicide occurred, and how the jury had to decide between documented insanity and tactical rationality. The central contradiction: how can someone kill obeying orders that only he hears and be convicted of premeditation?

Victim: Herbert William Mullin and his 13 victims
Date: October 1972 - February 1973
Location: Santa Cruz, California
Status: Incarcerated; parole request denied in 2006

- Formal diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia in 1969, four years before the first recorded crime.
- California's 72-hour law allowed Mullin to be repeatedly released despite voluntary commitments.
- He returned to Kathleen Prentice's house after killing the Llaneras family to eliminate a witness; the prosecution used this to argue rational behavior.
- He voluntarily confessed to 13 murders but was only formally charged with 10; three remained uncharged despite spontaneous admission.

Herbert William Mullin, Santa Cruz earthquake delusion, 1972-1973, paranoid schizophrenia, serial killer, criminal minds, forensic, homicide, justice, investigation, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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An unemployed man from Brooklyn signs his police confession with the same handwriting and symbol he used to taunt New York for six years. In November 1989, a threatening letter arrives at the NYPD signed "Zodiac," but it is filed away. Months later, shootings and notes with stones reveal an obsessed imitator of the most famous killer never captured.

In this episode, we explore how Heriberto Seda kept the New York police paralyzed while his attacks evolved erratically: first coordinated Thursday attacks with astronomical patterns, then impulsive ones in 1992-1994. Three stones at a crime scene, a deciphered maritime code, and DNA on a stamp create a web of evidence that remains unsolved for years until a domestic shooting in June 1996 exposes him. How did a criminal imitator end up voluntarily revealing himself with his own signature?

Victim: Heriberto Seda (perpetrator); multiple victims including Joseph Prosy, Patricia Fonte, and Diane Ballard
Date: November 1989 - June 1996
Location: New York (Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan)
Status: Sentenced to 235 years in 1999; currently incarcerated

- Seda shoots his half-sister Gladis Reyes in June 1996 and voluntarily barricades himself with 13 homemade weapons and two bombs.
- A complete fingerprint extracted from a 1990 letter remains unmatched in databases until his arrest six years later.
- Patricia Fonte is stabbed over 100 times in an attack that breaks all of Seda's previous patterns: a non-Thursday day, extreme method, inexplicable rage.
- Seda signs his domestic confession with the cross and zodiac sevens identical to his letters to the NYPD, instantly revealing himself to Detective Herbert.

Heriberto Seda, New York, serial killer, imitator, Zodiac, investigation, mystery, homicide, 1989-1996, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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An unemployed man from Brooklyn signs his police confession with the same handwriting and symbol he used to taunt New York for six years. In November 1989, a threatening letter arrives at the NYPD signed "Zodiac," but it is filed away. Months later, shootings and notes with stones reveal an obsessed imitator of the most famous killer never captured.

In this episode, we explore how Heriberto Seda kept the New York police paralyzed while his attacks evolved erratically: first coordinated Thursday attacks with astronomical patterns, then impulsive ones in 1992-1994. Three stones at a crime scene, a deciphered maritime code, and DNA on a stamp create a web of evidence that remains unsolved for years until a domestic shooting in June 1996 exposes him. How did a criminal imitator end up voluntarily revealing himself with his own signature?

Victim: Heriberto Seda (perpetrator); multiple victims including Joseph Prosy, Patricia Fonte, and Diane Ballard
Date: November 1989 - June 1996
Location: New York (Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan)
Status: Sentenced to 235 years in 1999; currently incarcerated

- Seda shoots his half-sister Gladis Reyes in June 1996 and voluntarily barricades himself with 13 homemade weapons and two bombs.
- A complete fingerprint extracted from a 1990 letter remains unmatched in databases until his arrest six years later.
- Patricia Fonte is stabbed over 100 times in an attack that breaks all of Seda's previous patterns: a non-Thursday day, extreme method, inexplicable rage.
- Seda signs his domestic confession with the cross and zodiac sevens identical to his letters to the NYPD, instantly revealing himself to Detective Herbert.

Heriberto Seda, New York, serial killer, imitator, Zodiac, investigation, mystery, homicide, 1989-1996, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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March 1953. A tenant discovers a hidden door behind wallpaper in the kitchen of 10 Rillington Place. Inside: three bodies wrapped in sheets. The horror is that the killer had already testified in court years earlier, convincing the jury to convict an innocent man, and that innocent man was hanged.

In this episode, we explore how John Christie managed to transform his home into a grave while the justice system decorated him as a respectable citizen. We analyze the trial of Timothy Evans in 1950, where Christie was a key witness; the bodies under the living room floor discovered decades later; and the contradictions that no one saw coming: a serial killer with a criminal record acting as a police officer during the war. The central question remains: how could the system trust more in the social facade of a mythomaniac than in the inconsistencies of his own accusation?

Victim: Timothy Evans (innocent executed), Beryl Evans, Geraldine Evans, Ruth Fuerst, Muriel Eady, Ethel Christie, Kathleen Maloney, Rita Nelson, Hectorina MacLennan
Date: 1943-1953
Location: 10 Rillington Place, London, United Kingdom
Status: Closed case; accelerated judicial reform

- Three female bodies found wrapped in sheets inside a hidden room behind wallpaper in the kitchen.
- Timothy Evans, executed in 1950 for crimes that Christie committed, while Christie testified as a credible witness in his own trial.
- A can of tobacco with four samples of pubic hair never attributed to identified victims, suggesting unconfirmed crimes.
- Christie voluntarily confessed to seven murders without coercion but never took responsibility for the death of Geraldine Evans, the only baby, in 53 years of criminal investigation.

John Christie, 10 Rillington Place, London 1953, murder, forensic investigation, justice, Timothy Evans, miscarriage of justice, serial killer, criminal minds, true crime,

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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March 1953. A tenant discovers a hidden door behind wallpaper in the kitchen of 10 Rillington Place. Inside: three bodies wrapped in sheets. The horror is that the killer had already testified in court years earlier, convincing the jury to convict an innocent man, and that innocent man was hanged.

In this episode, we explore how John Christie managed to transform his home into a grave while the justice system decorated him as a respectable citizen. We analyze the trial of Timothy Evans in 1950, where Christie was a key witness; the bodies under the living room floor discovered decades later; and the contradictions that no one saw coming: a serial killer with a criminal record acting as a police officer during the war. The central question remains: how could the system trust more in the social facade of a mythomaniac than in the inconsistencies of his own accusation?

Victim: Timothy Evans (innocent executed), Beryl Evans, Geraldine Evans, Ruth Fuerst, Muriel Eady, Ethel Christie, Kathleen Maloney, Rita Nelson, Hectorina MacLennan
Date: 1943-1953
Location: 10 Rillington Place, London, United Kingdom
Status: Closed case; accelerated judicial reform

- Three female bodies found wrapped in sheets inside a hidden room behind wallpaper in the kitchen.
- Timothy Evans, executed in 1950 for crimes that Christie committed, while Christie testified as a credible witness in his own trial.
- A can of tobacco with four samples of pubic hair never attributed to identified victims, suggesting unconfirmed crimes.
- Christie voluntarily confessed to seven murders without coercion but never took responsibility for the death of Geraldine Evans, the only baby, in 53 years of criminal investigation.

John Christie, 10 Rillington Place, London 1953, murder, forensic investigation, justice, Timothy Evans, miscarriage of justice, serial killer, criminal minds, true crime,

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Winter of 1995, post-Soviet Ukraine: families wake up in the darkness of massive blackouts and never wake up again. Onoprienko, a man who worked as a carpenter, executed 43 people in just 90 days—a record speed in documented serial crimes. How did an abandoned child in an orphanage become the deadliest nightmare of a nation?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that haunt the case: was he a rational serial killer who planned methodically, or a schizophrenic whose 24-hour psychiatric evaluation concealed the truth? We analyze the torture of innocents, the 122 victim items found in his apartment, and the statements where he threatens 360 deaths if he escapes.

Victim: Multiple families (1995-1996)
Date: December 1995 - August 2013
Location: Ukraine (Garmarnia, Bránkivka, Energodar, Zhitomir)
Status: Executed (death penalty commuted; died in prison from heart failure)

- The wedding ring amputated from a victim's finger was given to his girlfriend Anna as a romantic gift, synchronized with each massacre.
- Onoprienko confessed to 52 murders over six years, but 43 occurred in just three months of 1995-1996.
- A six-year pause (1989-1995) between waves of violence challenges the compulsive profile; possible victims in Austria, Greece, and Germany were never investigated.
- The innocent Yevhen Yunusov was tortured to death in custody while Onoprienko remained free—seven agents were later convicted.

Anatoli Onoprienko, Ukraine serial killer, 1995-1996, family massacre, forensic investigation, imperfect crimes, failed justice, Zhitomir, Spanish true crime

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Winter of 1995, post-Soviet Ukraine: families wake up in the darkness of massive blackouts and never wake up again. Onoprienko, a man who worked as a carpenter, executed 43 people in just 90 days—a record speed in documented serial crimes. How did an abandoned child in an orphanage become the deadliest nightmare of a nation?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that haunt the case: was he a rational serial killer who planned methodically, or a schizophrenic whose 24-hour psychiatric evaluation concealed the truth? We analyze the torture of innocents, the 122 victim items found in his apartment, and the statements where he threatens 360 deaths if he escapes.

Victim: Multiple families (1995-1996)
Date: December 1995 - August 2013
Location: Ukraine (Garmarnia, Bránkivka, Energodar, Zhitomir)
Status: Executed (death penalty commuted; died in prison from heart failure)

- The wedding ring amputated from a victim's finger was given to his girlfriend Anna as a romantic gift, synchronized with each massacre.
- Onoprienko confessed to 52 murders over six years, but 43 occurred in just three months of 1995-1996.
- A six-year pause (1989-1995) between waves of violence challenges the compulsive profile; possible victims in Austria, Greece, and Germany were never investigated.
- The innocent Yevhen Yunusov was tortured to death in custody while Onoprienko remained free—seven agents were later convicted.

Anatoli Onoprienko, Ukraine serial killer, 1995-1996, family massacre, forensic investigation, imperfect crimes, failed justice, Zhitomir, Spanish true crime

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A frail old man with a gray mustache and a worn suit walked through Brooklyn while the police searched for a criminal who seemed impossible to catch. Between 1924 and 1927, two small children disappeared under identical circumstances, but no one connected the cases. How could someone who couldn't lift weight commit strangulations that required brute strength?

In this episode, we explore the true nature of Albert Fish: the irreconcilable tension between his appearance as an innocuous grandfather and the obsessive planning behind each homicide. We unravel how a confession letter, an envelope with union initials, and a dilapidated pension led to his capture in 1934, after six years pursuing the unresolved crime of Grace Budd.

Victim: Grace Budd
Date: June 3, 1928
Location: Wisteria Cottage, Westchester, New York
Status: Executed January 16, 1936

- 27 metal needles embedded in her pelvis and genital region confirmed by X-ray on December 28, 1934.
- Fish strangled children with their own suspenders, leaving specific marks that the police attributed to younger accomplices.
- He confessed to 100+ child rapes and hinted at up to 400 murders; no figure was judicially verified.
- The short circuit during his execution at Sing Sing required a second jolt, attributed to the metal needles in his body.

Albert Fish, Brooklyn 1924, child murder, Westchester, 1928, criminal investigation, serial killer, forensic, paraphilias, criminal minds, detectives, justice, homicide, mystery, true crime Spanish

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A frail old man with a gray mustache and a worn suit walked through Brooklyn while the police searched for a criminal who seemed impossible to catch. Between 1924 and 1927, two small children disappeared under identical circumstances, but no one connected the cases. How could someone who couldn't lift weight commit strangulations that required brute strength?

In this episode, we explore the true nature of Albert Fish: the irreconcilable tension between his appearance as an innocuous grandfather and the obsessive planning behind each homicide. We unravel how a confession letter, an envelope with union initials, and a dilapidated pension led to his capture in 1934, after six years pursuing the unresolved crime of Grace Budd.

Victim: Grace Budd
Date: June 3, 1928
Location: Wisteria Cottage, Westchester, New York
Status: Executed January 16, 1936

- 27 metal needles embedded in her pelvis and genital region confirmed by X-ray on December 28, 1934.
- Fish strangled children with their own suspenders, leaving specific marks that the police attributed to younger accomplices.
- He confessed to 100+ child rapes and hinted at up to 400 murders; no figure was judicially verified.
- The short circuit during his execution at Sing Sing required a second jolt, attributed to the metal needles in his body.

Albert Fish, Brooklyn 1924, child murder, Westchester, 1928, criminal investigation, serial killer, forensic, paraphilias, criminal minds, detectives, justice, homicide, mystery, true crime Spanish

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A nine-year-old boy was taken by his own father to the police station asking to be jailed. No one listened to him. Eight years later, that same boy had killed four children and attacked seven more. Cayetano Santos Godino, known as the Big-Eared Kid, embodies the darkest contradiction of Argentine criminology: was he born a criminal or was he shaped by systematic violence?

In this episode, we explore the unresolved tensions that defined the case: the acquittal due to insanity while confessing to murders with deliberate calculation, the skull scars that evidenced severe abuse against the premeditation in victim selection, and the death shrouded in mystery in Ushuaia. We unravel how a nineteenth-century justice system protected someone who should not have been protected and condemned someone who was also a victim. Could it all have been avoided?

Victim: Cayetano Santos Godino
Date: 31/10/1896 - 15/11/1944
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Status: Case resolved (1914), died in prison (1944)

- His father turned him over to the police in 1906 begging them to jail him; he was released in two months.
- He confessed to four murders but retracted the first (Arturo La Aurora), creating doubts about authorship.
- He carried a newspaper clipping about his own crime in his pocket, stating that it made him feel important.
- He was acquitted due to insanity on the same day as his birthday thirty years after he was born.

Cayetano Santos Godino, Big-Eared Kid, Buenos Aires, 1912, serial killer, investigation, mystery, forensic, Argentine justice, criminality, scientific debate, Spanish true crime

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A nine-year-old boy was taken by his own father to the police station asking to be jailed. No one listened to him. Eight years later, that same boy had killed four children and attacked seven more. Cayetano Santos Godino, known as the Big-Eared Kid, embodies the darkest contradiction of Argentine criminology: was he born a criminal or was he shaped by systematic violence?

In this episode, we explore the unresolved tensions that defined the case: the acquittal due to insanity while confessing to murders with deliberate calculation, the skull scars that evidenced severe abuse against the premeditation in victim selection, and the death shrouded in mystery in Ushuaia. We unravel how a nineteenth-century justice system protected someone who should not have been protected and condemned someone who was also a victim. Could it all have been avoided?

Victim: Cayetano Santos Godino
Date: 31/10/1896 - 15/11/1944
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Status: Case resolved (1914), died in prison (1944)

- His father turned him over to the police in 1906 begging them to jail him; he was released in two months.
- He confessed to four murders but retracted the first (Arturo La Aurora), creating doubts about authorship.
- He carried a newspaper clipping about his own crime in his pocket, stating that it made him feel important.
- He was acquitted due to insanity on the same day as his birthday thirty years after he was born.

Cayetano Santos Godino, Big-Eared Kid, Buenos Aires, 1912, serial killer, investigation, mystery, forensic, Argentine justice, criminality, scientific debate, Spanish true crime

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Two rusty blue barrels appear in a forest park in New Hampshire fifteen years apart. Inside, the remains of a woman and three girls, wrapped in black bags and tied with electrical wire. For nearly four decades, no one searches for them. No one knows who they are. The question no one can answer: how can a man murder an entire family and hide it so well that the whole world forgets their disappearance?

In this episode, we explore how an electrician who lived under five false identities, spoke four languages, and used different accents managed to outsmart the system for thirty years. Rasmussen left clues on two coasts: from California to New Hampshire, from 1978 to 2002. The investigation reveals impossible contradictions: a second barrel deposited years after the first, a biological daughter whose mother was never identified, and a quick confession that protected even darker secrets. How many real victims did this serial killer have?

Victim: Marlis Hinyar, Mary Bow, Sara Maws
Date: 1978-2002
Location: Allenstown, New Hampshire; Contra Costa, California
Status: Closed case; one unidentified victim

- Hunter discovers first barrel in 1985 with mummified woman and girl; identities unknown for eighteen years.
- Second barrel contains skeletons of two girls; one shares DNA with the adult woman, the other does not, revealing at least one additional victim never found.
- Rasmussen was arrested in 1987 under the false name Curtis Kimball after vehicle theft; serves eighteen months and disappears again.
- Murder of Eunsoon Jun in 2002 under the name Laurence Banner reveals past; Rasmussen pleads guilty without trial, cutting off investigation into previous crimes.

Marlis Hinyar, Mary Bow, Sara Maws, Terrence Rasmussen, Bebook Park New Hampshire, serial killer, murder, DNA, forensic investigation, unsolved mystery, imperfect crimes, 1978, true crime Spanish

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Two rusty blue barrels appear in a forest park in New Hampshire fifteen years apart. Inside, the remains of a woman and three girls, wrapped in black bags and tied with electrical wire. For nearly four decades, no one searches for them. No one knows who they are. The question no one can answer: how can a man murder an entire family and hide it so well that the whole world forgets their disappearance?

In this episode, we explore how an electrician who lived under five false identities, spoke four languages, and used different accents managed to outsmart the system for thirty years. Rasmussen left clues on two coasts: from California to New Hampshire, from 1978 to 2002. The investigation reveals impossible contradictions: a second barrel deposited years after the first, a biological daughter whose mother was never identified, and a quick confession that protected even darker secrets. How many real victims did this serial killer have?

Victim: Marlis Hinyar, Mary Bow, Sara Maws
Date: 1978-2002
Location: Allenstown, New Hampshire; Contra Costa, California
Status: Closed case; one unidentified victim

- Hunter discovers first barrel in 1985 with mummified woman and girl; identities unknown for eighteen years.
- Second barrel contains skeletons of two girls; one shares DNA with the adult woman, the other does not, revealing at least one additional victim never found.
- Rasmussen was arrested in 1987 under the false name Curtis Kimball after vehicle theft; serves eighteen months and disappears again.
- Murder of Eunsoon Jun in 2002 under the name Laurence Banner reveals past; Rasmussen pleads guilty without trial, cutting off investigation into previous crimes.

Marlis Hinyar, Mary Bow, Sara Maws, Terrence Rasmussen, Bebook Park New Hampshire, serial killer, murder, DNA, forensic investigation, unsolved mystery, imperfect crimes, 1978, true crime Spanish

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Three women stabbed in churches in Krakow in September 1964. No motive, no robbery, no sexual assault - just precise wounds to the back. A 17-year-old girl, described by teachers as "calm and polite," voluntarily confessed and eagerly participated in police reenactments.

In this episode, we explore how a national shooting champion spent 17 months planning failed poisonings before escalating to minors, how his friend Danusa kept his confessions for months without reporting him, and why a three-month undercover surveillance culminated in an arrest that revealed 16 knives and an anatomical atlas marked with organs and arteries.

Victim: Karol Kot and his victims
Date: 1964-1968
Location: Krakow, Poland
Status: Executed on May 16, 1968

- He confessed to licking blood off the knife after his first attack and voluntarily declared it to the police.
- Helena Bensen and Francesca Lewandowska recognized him in a lineup; Kot responded: "You have a good memory. Come here so I can finish you off."
- Leszek Kędzierski, 11 years old, received 11 stab wounds next to a sledding competition; Małgosia, 7 years old, survived with 8 wounds.
- He visited the hospital on the same day of the attack on 86-year-old María Pricha to inquire about her condition at the reception.

Karol Kot, Krakow, serial killer, 1964, murder, forensic investigation, true crime, psychopathy, criminal minds, homicide, intrigue, criminal truth, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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Three women stabbed in churches in Krakow in September 1964. No motive, no robbery, no sexual assault - just precise wounds to the back. A 17-year-old girl, described by teachers as "calm and polite," voluntarily confessed and eagerly participated in police reenactments.

In this episode, we explore how a national shooting champion spent 17 months planning failed poisonings before escalating to minors, how his friend Danusa kept his confessions for months without reporting him, and why a three-month undercover surveillance culminated in an arrest that revealed 16 knives and an anatomical atlas marked with organs and arteries.

Victim: Karol Kot and his victims
Date: 1964-1968
Location: Krakow, Poland
Status: Executed on May 16, 1968

- He confessed to licking blood off the knife after his first attack and voluntarily declared it to the police.
- Helena Bensen and Francesca Lewandowska recognized him in a lineup; Kot responded: "You have a good memory. Come here so I can finish you off."
- Leszek Kędzierski, 11 years old, received 11 stab wounds next to a sledding competition; Małgosia, 7 years old, survived with 8 wounds.
- He visited the hospital on the same day of the attack on 86-year-old María Pricha to inquire about her condition at the reception.

Karol Kot, Krakow, serial killer, 1964, murder, forensic investigation, true crime, psychopathy, criminal minds, homicide, intrigue, criminal truth, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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An airport janitor and an alcoholic drifter presented themselves as witnesses to the police at the scene of one of their own crimes for fourteen months. While Phoenix bled with thirty-seven linked shootings, no one was looking for them together. An impossible question dominated the investigation: how did two serial killers compete for victims without anyone connecting the dots?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that allowed the duo to operate freely: a map with red dots thrown together randomly, a television leak that changed the killer's weapon, and incriminating recordings in a bar that broke the silence. The black folders where Hausner documented his criminal obsession, the .410 shotguns that killed pregnant sex workers, and the presence of the shooters recorded in a detective's notebook reveal how the forensic expert finally caught them.

Victim: Reginald Remillard, Tony Méndez, David Estrada, and others
Date: May 17, 2005 - August 3, 2006
Location: Phoenix, Glendale, Scottsdale, Arizona
Status: Convicted. Hausner: death penalty; Ditman: life imprisonment

- Hausner boasted in recordings about competing with snipers from Washington while planning new attacks with Ditman.
- The map with red dots marks exactly thirty-seven shootings; physical evidence of conscious planning thrown in the trash.
- Ron Orton recognized Ditman on television and revealed details never made public: the .410 shotgun that the forensic expert kept secret.
- The black folders "The Hausner Way" contained hundreds of press clippings about his own victims; documented sadism since the age of nine.

Reggie Hausner, Dale Ditman, Phoenix, Arizona, serial shootings, serial killer, forensic expert, criminal investigation, mystery, 2005-2006, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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An airport janitor and an alcoholic drifter presented themselves as witnesses to the police at the scene of one of their own crimes for fourteen months. While Phoenix bled with thirty-seven linked shootings, no one was looking for them together. An impossible question dominated the investigation: how did two serial killers compete for victims without anyone connecting the dots?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that allowed the duo to operate freely: a map with red dots thrown together randomly, a television leak that changed the killer's weapon, and incriminating recordings in a bar that broke the silence. The black folders where Hausner documented his criminal obsession, the .410 shotguns that killed pregnant sex workers, and the presence of the shooters recorded in a detective's notebook reveal how the forensic expert finally caught them.

Victim: Reginald Remillard, Tony Méndez, David Estrada, and others
Date: May 17, 2005 - August 3, 2006
Location: Phoenix, Glendale, Scottsdale, Arizona
Status: Convicted. Hausner: death penalty; Ditman: life imprisonment

- Hausner boasted in recordings about competing with snipers from Washington while planning new attacks with Ditman.
- The map with red dots marks exactly thirty-seven shootings; physical evidence of conscious planning thrown in the trash.
- Ron Orton recognized Ditman on television and revealed details never made public: the .410 shotgun that the forensic expert kept secret.
- The black folders "The Hausner Way" contained hundreds of press clippings about his own victims; documented sadism since the age of nine.

Reggie Hausner, Dale Ditman, Phoenix, Arizona, serial shootings, serial killer, forensic expert, criminal investigation, mystery, 2005-2006, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Two backpacks filled with propane explosives rested in the Columbine cafeteria while 480 students ate. If they had detonated, it would have been the worst attack on American soil. But they failed. The question that obsessed the FBI for years: how did two teenagers smuggle in 99 pipe bombs, firearms, and homemade explosives without being stopped, after public threats a year earlier?

In this episode, we explore the more than twelve months of planning that went unnoticed by institutions, the contradiction between the psychological profiles of Harris and Klebold, and the legal loophole that allowed the purchase of weapons through an adult accomplice. The basement tapes were destroyed by the FBI. The surveillance records were never released. What were the authorities trying to hide?

Victim: Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold
Date: April 20, 1999
Location: Columbine High School, Littleton, Colorado
Status: Closed (suicides of attackers)

- The report against Harris for death threats in 1997 was ignored by the Jefferson County Sheriff.
- Robin Anderson, the adult buyer, acquired all the weapons at a gun show with no traceability records.
- Professor William Sanders bled to death nearly two hours after the attack while waiting for rescue; the SWAT team entered more than three hours after it began.
- The basement tapes contained explicit references to future copycats; the FBI destroyed them before any complete analysis.

Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, Columbine, 1999, school shooting, investigation, criminal minds, forensic, criminal planning, homemade explosives, hidden truth, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Two backpacks filled with propane explosives rested in the Columbine cafeteria while 480 students ate. If they had detonated, it would have been the worst attack on American soil. But they failed. The question that obsessed the FBI for years: how did two teenagers smuggle in 99 pipe bombs, firearms, and homemade explosives without being stopped, after public threats a year earlier?

In this episode, we explore the more than twelve months of planning that went unnoticed by institutions, the contradiction between the psychological profiles of Harris and Klebold, and the legal loophole that allowed the purchase of weapons through an adult accomplice. The basement tapes were destroyed by the FBI. The surveillance records were never released. What were the authorities trying to hide?

Victim: Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold
Date: April 20, 1999
Location: Columbine High School, Littleton, Colorado
Status: Closed (suicides of attackers)

- The report against Harris for death threats in 1997 was ignored by the Jefferson County Sheriff.
- Robin Anderson, the adult buyer, acquired all the weapons at a gun show with no traceability records.
- Professor William Sanders bled to death nearly two hours after the attack while waiting for rescue; the SWAT team entered more than three hours after it began.
- The basement tapes contained explicit references to future copycats; the FBI destroyed them before any complete analysis.

Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, Columbine, 1999, school shooting, investigation, criminal minds, forensic, criminal planning, homemade explosives, hidden truth, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A murder confession on a hospital stretcher. The doctors dismissed it as delirium. Forty-eight hours later, the police found the body exactly where he said. What no one knew then: it was his victim number fourteen, and the system had known him for years.

In this episode, we explore how a man voluntarily entered psychiatric hospitals confessing murders that no one reported, how his own confessions were ignored by doctors and police, and how a well near the La Almudena cemetery ended up revealing a chain of homicides that shook Madrid. Why did no institution act until it was too late?

Victim: Francisco García Escalero
Date: September 20, 1993
Location: Madrid, Spain
Status: Deceased (2014)

- He confessed at Ramón y Cajal hospital and was dismissed as delirium; two days later they found the body.
- He voluntarily entered psychiatric centers between 1985 and 1993 confessing murders; none reported to the police.
- The well he voluntarily pointed out contained remains of eleven people; he confessed to fourteen crimes.
- He was declared not criminally responsible due to paranoid schizophrenia despite patterns of partial planning in the homicides.

Francisco García Escalero, Madrid, serial killer, 1987-1993, homicides, imperfect crimes, psychopath, necrophilia, criminal investigation, mystery solved, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A murder confession on a hospital stretcher. The doctors dismissed it as delirium. Forty-eight hours later, the police found the body exactly where he said. What no one knew then: it was his victim number fourteen, and the system had known him for years.

In this episode, we explore how a man voluntarily entered psychiatric hospitals confessing murders that no one reported, how his own confessions were ignored by doctors and police, and how a well near the La Almudena cemetery ended up revealing a chain of homicides that shook Madrid. Why did no institution act until it was too late?

Victim: Francisco García Escalero
Date: September 20, 1993
Location: Madrid, Spain
Status: Deceased (2014)

- He confessed at Ramón y Cajal hospital and was dismissed as delirium; two days later they found the body.
- He voluntarily entered psychiatric centers between 1985 and 1993 confessing murders; none reported to the police.
- The well he voluntarily pointed out contained remains of eleven people; he confessed to fourteen crimes.
- He was declared not criminally responsible due to paranoid schizophrenia despite patterns of partial planning in the homicides.

Francisco García Escalero, Madrid, serial killer, 1987-1993, homicides, imperfect crimes, psychopath, necrophilia, criminal investigation, mystery solved, Spanish true crime

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A patrol stops a vehicle on Interstate 5 at 1:10 AM. The passenger is motionless: neck strangled, genitals mutilated, hands tied. In the trunk, 47 Polaroids of abused young men and a notebook with 61 coded entries. The driver smiles. How did a six-figure programmer, with a stable partner, hide a decade of homicides under a scoring system that the police took years to decipher?

In this episode, we explore how Craft operated for 12 years while three serial killers simultaneously sowed confusion in California. We analyze the institutional disconnect that allowed his escape in 1975, the deciphering of his code notebook ("Stable," "EDM," "Marine Head BP"), and the Amway hotel pencil found on a victim in Michigan that ultimately linked him to previously unconnected crimes.

Victim: Terry Gambrell
Date: May 14, 1983
Location: Interstate 5, California
Status: Sentenced to death (1989)

- A 20-month pause in murders (1976-1978) during a stable relationship contradicts the profile of a compulsive and uncontrollable killer.
- The prosecution concealed 30 of 46 proven murders in trial to prevent a coercion defense by an unidentified accomplice.
- Craft was interrogated and released in 1975 after the disappearance of Keith Crotwell because agencies did not share information.
- Three serial killers operated simultaneously (Kearney, Bonin, Craft), generating confusion that allowed Craft to continue for years.

Randy Craft, serial killer, California, 1971-1983, murder, investigation, mystery, homicide, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544954Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:21:26 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe scoring notebook: 61 codes, 60 deaths - The serial murder of Randy Craft A patrol stops a vehicle on Interstate 5 at 1:10 AM. The passenger is motionless: neck strangled, genitals mutilated, hands tied. In the trunk, 47 Polaroids of abused...
A patrol stops a vehicle on Interstate 5 at 1:10 AM. The passenger is motionless: neck strangled, genitals mutilated, hands tied. In the trunk, 47 Polaroids of abused young men and a notebook with 61 coded entries. The driver smiles. How did a six-figure programmer, with a stable partner, hide a decade of homicides under a scoring system that the police took years to decipher?

In this episode, we explore how Craft operated for 12 years while three serial killers simultaneously sowed confusion in California. We analyze the institutional disconnect that allowed his escape in 1975, the deciphering of his code notebook ("Stable," "EDM," "Marine Head BP"), and the Amway hotel pencil found on a victim in Michigan that ultimately linked him to previously unconnected crimes.

Victim: Terry Gambrell
Date: May 14, 1983
Location: Interstate 5, California
Status: Sentenced to death (1989)

- A 20-month pause in murders (1976-1978) during a stable relationship contradicts the profile of a compulsive and uncontrollable killer.
- The prosecution concealed 30 of 46 proven murders in trial to prevent a coercion defense by an unidentified accomplice.
- Craft was interrogated and released in 1975 after the disappearance of Keith Crotwell because agencies did not share information.
- Three serial killers operated simultaneously (Kearney, Bonin, Craft), generating confusion that allowed Craft to continue for years.

Randy Craft, serial killer, California, 1971-1983, murder, investigation, mystery, homicide, true crime Spanish

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A metal bar, 22 blows, and a 16-year-old who confessed on camera while sticking out his tongue and blowing kisses. In November 1996, Roderick Ferrer led a vampire clan from Kentucky to Florida to carry out a blood ritual that ended with two mangled bodies and a disturbing mystery: how did a boy manipulate four followers to commit one of the most brutal crimes of the decade?

In this episode, we explore Ferrer's fractured childhood in Murray, the formation of the clan through systematic psychological weakening, and the night of November 25 when he entered the Wendorf garage with ritual intent. We unravel key contradictions: Ferrer's ambiguous call to Heather ("Take care of my parents"), the confirmed ingestion of brain matter, and why Detective Wendorf was struck 22 times after he was dead. What triggered this escalation from animal sacrifice to planned double homicide?

Victim: Richard Wendorf, Naomi Wendorf
Date: November 25-26, 1996
Location: Eustis, Florida
Status: Ferrer sentenced to life in prison; sentence reduction request pending (2019)

- Ferrer confessed to drinking the blood of his victims alongside Howard Anderson, connecting vampire ideology with execution.
- The ritual burn in the shape of a "V" on Richard's shoulder was recorded post-mortem, a mark of extreme cruelty.
- Ferrer was the youngest inmate on death row in the U. S. at 16, sparking national debate on the death penalty for minors.
- Charity Keesee tipped off the group by calling her grandmother from Louisiana, leading to the capture 72 hours after the crime.

Roderick Ferrer, Murray Kentucky, vampire clan, Eustis Florida, November 1996, serial killer, criminal minds, criminal investigation, premeditated homicide, narcissistic psychopath, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544945Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:21:24 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe Adolescent Who Drank Blood in Eustis: The double homicide of Richard and Naomi Wendorf A metal bar, 22 blows, and a 16-year-old who confessed on camera while sticking out his tongue and blowing kisses. In November 1996, Roderick Ferrer led...
A metal bar, 22 blows, and a 16-year-old who confessed on camera while sticking out his tongue and blowing kisses. In November 1996, Roderick Ferrer led a vampire clan from Kentucky to Florida to carry out a blood ritual that ended with two mangled bodies and a disturbing mystery: how did a boy manipulate four followers to commit one of the most brutal crimes of the decade?

In this episode, we explore Ferrer's fractured childhood in Murray, the formation of the clan through systematic psychological weakening, and the night of November 25 when he entered the Wendorf garage with ritual intent. We unravel key contradictions: Ferrer's ambiguous call to Heather ("Take care of my parents"), the confirmed ingestion of brain matter, and why Detective Wendorf was struck 22 times after he was dead. What triggered this escalation from animal sacrifice to planned double homicide?

Victim: Richard Wendorf, Naomi Wendorf
Date: November 25-26, 1996
Location: Eustis, Florida
Status: Ferrer sentenced to life in prison; sentence reduction request pending (2019)

- Ferrer confessed to drinking the blood of his victims alongside Howard Anderson, connecting vampire ideology with execution.
- The ritual burn in the shape of a "V" on Richard's shoulder was recorded post-mortem, a mark of extreme cruelty.
- Ferrer was the youngest inmate on death row in the U. S. at 16, sparking national debate on the death penalty for minors.
- Charity Keesee tipped off the group by calling her grandmother from Louisiana, leading to the capture 72 hours after the crime.

Roderick Ferrer, Murray Kentucky, vampire clan, Eustis Florida, November 1996, serial killer, criminal minds, criminal investigation, premeditated homicide, narcissistic psychopath, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Six death row inmates escaped from Virginia's most secure prison on May 31, 1984, disguised as riot guards, using a stretcher with a covered television as a bomb decoy. No one stopped them. How did a family mowing their neighbors' lawns become one of Virginia's bloodiest crime gangs, with eleven confirmed murders in seven months?

In this episode, we explore how the turquoise ring stolen from a broadcaster connected Linwood Brownlee to a massacre that seemed unsolved, how the police radio found in his vehicle revealed months of systematic evasion, and why the only internal witness needed a deal with the prosecution to reveal the true extent of the horror that the criminal minds of these brothers had unleashed.

Victim: Multiple (11 confirmed)
Date: 1971-1985
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Status: Executed and sentenced to life in prison

- Linwood Brownlee shot a neighbor from the rooftop with a low-caliber gun at 16 years old and served only one year in a juvenile center.
- Johnny Gallagher's turquoise ring appeared on Linwood's finger during interrogation, linking him to the murder on September 14, 1979.
- The Wilkerson family was executed on October 19, 1979: father, mother eight months pregnant raped, and five-year-old son.
- James Brownlee's father slept with the door to his room locked for fear of his own sons.

Linwood Brownlee, James Brownlee, Richmond Virginia, serial murder, 1979, homicide, forensic, killers, mystery, investigation, imperfect crimes, justice, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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Six death row inmates escaped from Virginia's most secure prison on May 31, 1984, disguised as riot guards, using a stretcher with a covered television as a bomb decoy. No one stopped them. How did a family mowing their neighbors' lawns become one of Virginia's bloodiest crime gangs, with eleven confirmed murders in seven months?

In this episode, we explore how the turquoise ring stolen from a broadcaster connected Linwood Brownlee to a massacre that seemed unsolved, how the police radio found in his vehicle revealed months of systematic evasion, and why the only internal witness needed a deal with the prosecution to reveal the true extent of the horror that the criminal minds of these brothers had unleashed.

Victim: Multiple (11 confirmed)
Date: 1971-1985
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Status: Executed and sentenced to life in prison

- Linwood Brownlee shot a neighbor from the rooftop with a low-caliber gun at 16 years old and served only one year in a juvenile center.
- Johnny Gallagher's turquoise ring appeared on Linwood's finger during interrogation, linking him to the murder on September 14, 1979.
- The Wilkerson family was executed on October 19, 1979: father, mother eight months pregnant raped, and five-year-old son.
- James Brownlee's father slept with the door to his room locked for fear of his own sons.

Linwood Brownlee, James Brownlee, Richmond Virginia, serial murder, 1979, homicide, forensic, killers, mystery, investigation, imperfect crimes, justice, true crime Spanish

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A hardware store, two corpses, and an intact document in a charred pocket. In February 1972, Buenos Aires discovered that the worst criminal in its history was not a hardened adult, but a 20-year-old with reddish hair and shy manners. Eleven confessed murders in a few hours, committed over eleven months of terror.

In this episode, we explore how a middle-class student, a good piano student, became Argentina's most prolific serial killer. We analyze Robledo's lethal duo with Jorge Ibáñez and then with Héctor Somoza, the crimes in nightclubs and late-night businesses, the suspicious death of Ibáñez in August 1971, and the fatal mistake that closed the case: identity documents that survived the fire.

Victim: Carlos Robledo Puch
Date: February 3, 1972
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment; still incarcerated (50 years)

- Eleven confessed murders in a few hours with no evidence of prior denial.
- Intact identity documents in a charred pocket after an attempt to destroy evidence.
- Escape from Unit 9 La Plata in July 1972 and recapture in 68 hours near parents' house.
- Robledo claimed to be Robin Hood redistributing stolen money; no documentary corroboration of charity.

Carlos Robledo Puch, Buenos Aires 1972, murder, serial killer, Argentina, investigation, mystery, true crime, forensic, homicide, criminal minds, Spanish true crime

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A hardware store, two corpses, and an intact document in a charred pocket. In February 1972, Buenos Aires discovered that the worst criminal in its history was not a hardened adult, but a 20-year-old with reddish hair and shy manners. Eleven confessed murders in a few hours, committed over eleven months of terror.

In this episode, we explore how a middle-class student, a good piano student, became Argentina's most prolific serial killer. We analyze Robledo's lethal duo with Jorge Ibáñez and then with Héctor Somoza, the crimes in nightclubs and late-night businesses, the suspicious death of Ibáñez in August 1971, and the fatal mistake that closed the case: identity documents that survived the fire.

Victim: Carlos Robledo Puch
Date: February 3, 1972
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment; still incarcerated (50 years)

- Eleven confessed murders in a few hours with no evidence of prior denial.
- Intact identity documents in a charred pocket after an attempt to destroy evidence.
- Escape from Unit 9 La Plata in July 1972 and recapture in 68 hours near parents' house.
- Robledo claimed to be Robin Hood redistributing stolen money; no documentary corroboration of charity.

Carlos Robledo Puch, Buenos Aires 1972, murder, serial killer, Argentina, investigation, mystery, true crime, forensic, homicide, criminal minds, Spanish true crime

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A nurse enters the pediatric ward in February 1991, and in eleven weeks, four children die. The parents of a survivor hire a lawyer and name her godmother to their daughter, while that same nurse prepares to attack again. The question: how did an impostor with pathological lies and zero experience gain unlimited access to vulnerable babies in Grantham?

In this episode, we explore the concealed homicidal pattern in room 4 of the hospital: insulin injected into healthy babies, attacks that took months to interpret, signs of physical violence, and a disturbing motive linked to Munchausen syndrome by proxy. We analyze how the winter staffing shortage became a gateway for a serial killer, and why the local community defended her even when she was the prime suspect.

Victim: Multiple children (Liam Taylor, Timothy Hardwicke, Kylie Gibson, Paul Crampton, Becky Phillips, Katie Phillips, Claire Peck, and others)
Date: February-May 1991, with arrest in November 1991
Location: Grantham Hospital, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Status: Sentenced to 13 life sentences in Rampton in 1993

- Blood insulin level of Paul Crampton: 47,000 mU/L in second measurement, compared to normal level of 10-15 mU/L, ruling out natural causes
- Katie Phillips suffered five broken ribs and pinches while under Allitt's care, identified in subsequent evaluation in Nottingham
- Air bubble found under the armpit of Kylie Gibson, alternate method of lethal injection used when insulin did not work
- Allitt present in all 13 documented incidents while other nurses rotated, with no coincidental matches

Beverly Allitt, Grantham Lincolnshire serial killer, 1991, murder, Munchausen syndrome by proxy, forensic investigation, pediatric hospital, infanticide, criminal minds, true crime,

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A nurse enters the pediatric ward in February 1991, and in eleven weeks, four children die. The parents of a survivor hire a lawyer and name her godmother to their daughter, while that same nurse prepares to attack again. The question: how did an impostor with pathological lies and zero experience gain unlimited access to vulnerable babies in Grantham?

In this episode, we explore the concealed homicidal pattern in room 4 of the hospital: insulin injected into healthy babies, attacks that took months to interpret, signs of physical violence, and a disturbing motive linked to Munchausen syndrome by proxy. We analyze how the winter staffing shortage became a gateway for a serial killer, and why the local community defended her even when she was the prime suspect.

Victim: Multiple children (Liam Taylor, Timothy Hardwicke, Kylie Gibson, Paul Crampton, Becky Phillips, Katie Phillips, Claire Peck, and others)
Date: February-May 1991, with arrest in November 1991
Location: Grantham Hospital, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Status: Sentenced to 13 life sentences in Rampton in 1993

- Blood insulin level of Paul Crampton: 47,000 mU/L in second measurement, compared to normal level of 10-15 mU/L, ruling out natural causes
- Katie Phillips suffered five broken ribs and pinches while under Allitt's care, identified in subsequent evaluation in Nottingham
- Air bubble found under the armpit of Kylie Gibson, alternate method of lethal injection used when insulin did not work
- Allitt present in all 13 documented incidents while other nurses rotated, with no coincidental matches

Beverly Allitt, Grantham Lincolnshire serial killer, 1991, murder, Munchausen syndrome by proxy, forensic investigation, pediatric hospital, infanticide, criminal minds, true crime,

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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An unbearable stench emanated from an ordinary house in Cleveland since the summer of 2007. Neighbors repeatedly complained, but authorities blamed the adjacent sausage factory. In reality, eleven women were decomposing in three different floors, in the basement, and buried in the yard, while the police visited the house multiple times without seeing the obvious.

In this episode, we explore how three documented reports of rape and strangulation were filed away, minimized, or misclassified. We analyze the routine check on September 22, 2009, that detected nothing, and the security footage from October 20 that captured a naked woman falling from a window without being investigated at the time. How did a serial killer kill for two years under constant police surveillance?

Victim: Anthony Sowell
Date: 2007-2009
Location: 12.205 Imperial Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
Status: Sentenced to death; died in 2021

- Sowell was released in 2005 as a registered sex offender and settled in the house where he would kill eleven women in two years.
- Three survivors reported identical attacks: beatings, forced rape, attempted strangulation with a wire; none of the reports were thoroughly investigated.
- An officer from the specialized sexual crimes unit classified the attack on Gladys Wave as "attempted robbery," a mistake that cost him his job and opened a civil lawsuit against the city.
- Wires wrapped around necks, a skull in a plastic bucket in the basement, and evidence of necrophilia revealed a systematic pattern of depravity that the police overlooked.

Anthony Sowell, Cleveland Ohio, murder, 2009, serial killer, failed investigation, forensic, justice, imperfect crimes, police negligence, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544934Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:21:14 +0000Creator at ObomediaEleven corpses and a blind police in Cleveland: The serial killer Anthony Sowell An unbearable stench emanated from an ordinary house in Cleveland since the summer of 2007. Neighbors repeatedly complained, but authorities blamed the adjacent...
An unbearable stench emanated from an ordinary house in Cleveland since the summer of 2007. Neighbors repeatedly complained, but authorities blamed the adjacent sausage factory. In reality, eleven women were decomposing in three different floors, in the basement, and buried in the yard, while the police visited the house multiple times without seeing the obvious.

In this episode, we explore how three documented reports of rape and strangulation were filed away, minimized, or misclassified. We analyze the routine check on September 22, 2009, that detected nothing, and the security footage from October 20 that captured a naked woman falling from a window without being investigated at the time. How did a serial killer kill for two years under constant police surveillance?

Victim: Anthony Sowell
Date: 2007-2009
Location: 12.205 Imperial Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
Status: Sentenced to death; died in 2021

- Sowell was released in 2005 as a registered sex offender and settled in the house where he would kill eleven women in two years.
- Three survivors reported identical attacks: beatings, forced rape, attempted strangulation with a wire; none of the reports were thoroughly investigated.
- An officer from the specialized sexual crimes unit classified the attack on Gladys Wave as "attempted robbery," a mistake that cost him his job and opened a civil lawsuit against the city.
- Wires wrapped around necks, a skull in a plastic bucket in the basement, and evidence of necrophilia revealed a systematic pattern of depravity that the police overlooked.

Anthony Sowell, Cleveland Ohio, murder, 2009, serial killer, failed investigation, forensic, justice, imperfect crimes, police negligence, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A malnourished, one-eyed, alcoholic man wrote from his cell that he had killed between 100 and 600 people. Authorities in 19 states believed him without verification. But only two bodies were physically confirmed. How did a justice system build a monster from unproven confessions?

In this episode, we explore the devastating contradictions between Lucas's 600 alleged victims and the forensic evidence that only corroborates two real murders. We analyze the role of accomplice Otis Toole, the coercive pressure during the initial interrogation (deprivation of coffee and cigarettes), and how the Texas Rangers closed cold cases without genuine investigation. Was the worst serial killer in history fabricated to solve unsolved cases?

Victim: Henry Lee Lucas
Date: June 11, 1983
Location: Montague County, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida
Status: Life imprisoned; died in prison 2015

- Lucas confessed to 600 homicides but only two were confirmed with identifiable human remains.
- He wrote his initial confession while deprived of coffee, cigarettes, and after attempting suicide in his cell.
- His accomplice Otis Toole claimed membership in "the Hand of Death," an alleged satanic network of hitmen with no documented evidence.
- Lucas later retracted hundreds of confessions, claiming he invented crimes to gain attention and coffee during interrogations.

Henry Lee Lucas, Montgomery County Virginia, false serial killer, Texas Rangers closed cases, failed forensic investigation, coercive confessions, Otis Toole accomplice, unproven homicides, criminal justice error, criminal minds, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544933Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:21:10 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe one-eyed man who confessed to 600 murders: killer or invention?: The serial killer case of Henry Lee Lucas A malnourished, one-eyed, alcoholic man wrote from his cell that he had killed between 100 and 600 people. Authorities in 19 states...
A malnourished, one-eyed, alcoholic man wrote from his cell that he had killed between 100 and 600 people. Authorities in 19 states believed him without verification. But only two bodies were physically confirmed. How did a justice system build a monster from unproven confessions?

In this episode, we explore the devastating contradictions between Lucas's 600 alleged victims and the forensic evidence that only corroborates two real murders. We analyze the role of accomplice Otis Toole, the coercive pressure during the initial interrogation (deprivation of coffee and cigarettes), and how the Texas Rangers closed cold cases without genuine investigation. Was the worst serial killer in history fabricated to solve unsolved cases?

Victim: Henry Lee Lucas
Date: June 11, 1983
Location: Montague County, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida
Status: Life imprisoned; died in prison 2015

- Lucas confessed to 600 homicides but only two were confirmed with identifiable human remains.
- He wrote his initial confession while deprived of coffee, cigarettes, and after attempting suicide in his cell.
- His accomplice Otis Toole claimed membership in "the Hand of Death," an alleged satanic network of hitmen with no documented evidence.
- Lucas later retracted hundreds of confessions, claiming he invented crimes to gain attention and coffee during interrogations.

Henry Lee Lucas, Montgomery County Virginia, false serial killer, Texas Rangers closed cases, failed forensic investigation, coercive confessions, Otis Toole accomplice, unproven homicides, criminal justice error, criminal minds, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>1341falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-river-killer-who-escaped-for-fourteen-years--71544931
A man sentenced to 25 years for murdering two children was released in fourteen. With no police record in Rochester, he began killing women along the Genesee River. When helicopters detected him over a frozen body in January 1990, he personally guided agents to victims who had been missing for months.

In this episode, we explore how the psychological profile of Agent Greg McCreery identified the serial killer through postmortem mutilations, how testimonies from sex workers linked deviant sexual behavior to eleven homicides, and why the multiple personality defense collapsed when the same man recounted his crimes coherently and with a smile to the forensic psychiatrist. Conscious psychopath or mentally ill person out of control?

Victim: Arthur Shawcross (killer)
Date: 1972, 1988-1989
Location: Rochester, New York, Genesee River
Status: Sentenced to 250 years, died 2008

- Released for good behavior after murdering minors; relocated without update in the offender database
- June Stott's body showed dorsal blood pooling even though she was face down: evidence that the killer returned days later to mutilate
- Elizabeth Gibson's earring found in his vehicle; testimony from Joanne van Ostrand identified him as a impotent client who asked the victim to "play dead"
- Confirmed cyst in the right temporal lobe and karyotype 47 XYY; defense claimed mental illness but prosecution proved conscious control through a non-hypnotic interview by Dr. Park Dietz

Arthur Shawcross, Rochester, Genesee River, serial murder, forensic investigation, homicide, criminal minds, true crime, 1990, true crime, FBI, detective, psychological profile, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544931Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:21:07 +0000Creator at ObomediaThe River Killer Who Escaped for Fourteen Years: The Forensic Investigation of Arthur Shawcross A man sentenced to 25 years for murdering two children was released in fourteen. With no police record in Rochester, he began killing women along...
A man sentenced to 25 years for murdering two children was released in fourteen. With no police record in Rochester, he began killing women along the Genesee River. When helicopters detected him over a frozen body in January 1990, he personally guided agents to victims who had been missing for months.

In this episode, we explore how the psychological profile of Agent Greg McCreery identified the serial killer through postmortem mutilations, how testimonies from sex workers linked deviant sexual behavior to eleven homicides, and why the multiple personality defense collapsed when the same man recounted his crimes coherently and with a smile to the forensic psychiatrist. Conscious psychopath or mentally ill person out of control?

Victim: Arthur Shawcross (killer)
Date: 1972, 1988-1989
Location: Rochester, New York, Genesee River
Status: Sentenced to 250 years, died 2008

- Released for good behavior after murdering minors; relocated without update in the offender database
- June Stott's body showed dorsal blood pooling even though she was face down: evidence that the killer returned days later to mutilate
- Elizabeth Gibson's earring found in his vehicle; testimony from Joanne van Ostrand identified him as a impotent client who asked the victim to "play dead"
- Confirmed cyst in the right temporal lobe and karyotype 47 XYY; defense claimed mental illness but prosecution proved conscious control through a non-hypnotic interview by Dr. Park Dietz

Arthur Shawcross, Rochester, Genesee River, serial murder, forensic investigation, homicide, criminal minds, true crime, 1990, true crime, FBI, detective, psychological profile, true crime Spanish

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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August 6, 1966, Everman, Texas: a teenager is raped and murdered with a broomstick while her companions lie in a trunk. Sentenced to death, Kenneth McDuff avoided the electric chair three times. The system freed him anyway.

In this episode, we explore how a confessed killer escaped three execution stays, how a 1987 prison deal categorized him as a "minor charge inmate" despite his documented homicides, and why an attempted bribe to the parole board was buried in bureaucratic files. Three days after his release in 1989, the first body appeared.

Victim: Edna Sullivan
Date: August 6, 1966
Location: Everman, Texas
Status: Kenneth McDuff executed by lethal injection, November 17, 1998, Huntsville, Texas

- The murder weapon (broomstick) was found in McDuff's vehicle years after the crime, linking his 1966 method to later murders.
- A federal warrant from 1992 for weapons and drugs was the only thing that finally mobilized federal resources to capture him, not his previous crimes.
- Roydale Green, his accomplice, provided a consistent chronological account, led police to Sullivan's body, and was committed to a psychiatric hospital after his release.
- The children of the detectives who arrested him in 1966 (deputies Pamplin and McNamara) were present at his capture in 1992, correcting their parents' failure.

Kenneth McDuff, Edna Sullivan, serial killer, Texas, 1966, criminal investigation, criminal minds, forensics, justice, suspense, true crime English

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August 6, 1966, Everman, Texas: a teenager is raped and murdered with a broomstick while her companions lie in a trunk. Sentenced to death, Kenneth McDuff avoided the electric chair three times. The system freed him anyway.

In this episode, we explore how a confessed killer escaped three execution stays, how a 1987 prison deal categorized him as a "minor charge inmate" despite his documented homicides, and why an attempted bribe to the parole board was buried in bureaucratic files. Three days after his release in 1989, the first body appeared.

Victim: Edna Sullivan
Date: August 6, 1966
Location: Everman, Texas
Status: Kenneth McDuff executed by lethal injection, November 17, 1998, Huntsville, Texas

- The murder weapon (broomstick) was found in McDuff's vehicle years after the crime, linking his 1966 method to later murders.
- A federal warrant from 1992 for weapons and drugs was the only thing that finally mobilized federal resources to capture him, not his previous crimes.
- Roydale Green, his accomplice, provided a consistent chronological account, led police to Sullivan's body, and was committed to a psychiatric hospital after his release.
- The children of the detectives who arrested him in 1966 (deputies Pamplin and McNamara) were present at his capture in 1992, correcting their parents' failure.

Kenneth McDuff, Edna Sullivan, serial killer, Texas, 1966, criminal investigation, criminal minds, forensics, justice, suspense, true crime English

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Lake German, December 20, 1968, 11:20 PM. Nine unmarked shell casings. A promise written in ink: "Decipher my cryptogram and I will reveal who I am." The CIA failed, the FBI failed, Naval Intelligence failed. A history professor and his wife deciphered it in 20 hours - but the message contained no name.

In this episode, we explore how a serial killer from Northern California vowed to reveal his identity through Greek symbols, Morse code, and maritime signals, while the forensic investigation stalled due to impossible contradictions: nighttime attacks with firearms, then a leap to daytime crime with a knife and black hood. Military boot prints, forensic details that only the killer could know, and a phone call coordinated from a booth just meters from the police station. Was it the same attacker in both modes, or did someone else know the secrets of Zodiac?

Victim: Betty Lou Jensen, David Faraday, Darlene Ferrin, Michael Mageau, Bryan Hartnell, Cecilia Shepard
Date: December 20, 1968 - September 27, 1969
Location: Lake German, Blue Rock Springs, Lake Berryessa, Northern California
Status: Open case; new leads every week after 50 years

- Three-part cryptogram published in full August 3, 1969; deciphered in 20 hours but never revealed promised identity.
- Nine .22 Winchester Super-X shell casings with no identifiable markings: ammunition impossible to link to a weapon even if found decades later.
- Radical change in modus operandi at Berryessa: daytime attacker with a hood, ropes, and knife after two precise nighttime attacks with firearms.
- Surviving witness Michael Mageau stated he did not remember a prior encounter with the attacker; a lawyer's secretary later testified that he did mention it while hospitalized - a contradiction never clarified.

Betty Lou Jensen, David Faraday, Darlene Ferrin, Michael Mageau, Bryan Hartnell, Cecilia Shepard, Zodiac, Northern California, serial killer, 1968, 1969, unsolved cryptogram, FBI investigation, impossible forensics, criminal mystery, true crime Spanish

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Lake German, December 20, 1968, 11:20 PM. Nine unmarked shell casings. A promise written in ink: "Decipher my cryptogram and I will reveal who I am." The CIA failed, the FBI failed, Naval Intelligence failed. A history professor and his wife deciphered it in 20 hours - but the message contained no name.

In this episode, we explore how a serial killer from Northern California vowed to reveal his identity through Greek symbols, Morse code, and maritime signals, while the forensic investigation stalled due to impossible contradictions: nighttime attacks with firearms, then a leap to daytime crime with a knife and black hood. Military boot prints, forensic details that only the killer could know, and a phone call coordinated from a booth just meters from the police station. Was it the same attacker in both modes, or did someone else know the secrets of Zodiac?

Victim: Betty Lou Jensen, David Faraday, Darlene Ferrin, Michael Mageau, Bryan Hartnell, Cecilia Shepard
Date: December 20, 1968 - September 27, 1969
Location: Lake German, Blue Rock Springs, Lake Berryessa, Northern California
Status: Open case; new leads every week after 50 years

- Three-part cryptogram published in full August 3, 1969; deciphered in 20 hours but never revealed promised identity.
- Nine .22 Winchester Super-X shell casings with no identifiable markings: ammunition impossible to link to a weapon even if found decades later.
- Radical change in modus operandi at Berryessa: daytime attacker with a hood, ropes, and knife after two precise nighttime attacks with firearms.
- Surviving witness Michael Mageau stated he did not remember a prior encounter with the attacker; a lawyer's secretary later testified that he did mention it while hospitalized - a contradiction never clarified.

Betty Lou Jensen, David Faraday, Darlene Ferrin, Michael Mageau, Bryan Hartnell, Cecilia Shepard, Zodiac, Northern California, serial killer, 1968, 1969, unsolved cryptogram, FBI investigation, impossible forensics, criminal mystery, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A Walmart receipt from November 11, 2010, found in a garage triggered the discovery of one of the most disturbing crimes in Ohio. Matthew Hoffman's license photo matched exactly with the security camera image: same shirt, same day. The mystery was incomprehensible: three bodies had been placed inside the hollow trunk of a tree over 10 meters high.

In this episode, we explore how a morbid obsession with trees and a repeated shirt in two photographs connected a serial killer to the greatest atrocity in Mount Vernon. We analyze the contradictions between Hoffman's silence during interrogations and his 10-page confession, and the lingering question: why did he choose to leave one victim alive to testify against him? Forensic investigation revealed marks on shower curtains, remnants of flesh in bathtubs, and evidence of systematic dismemberment.

Victim: Tina German, Sara Meynard, Cody Meynard, Stephanie Spring
Date: November 10-11, 2010
Location: Mount Vernon, Ohio
Status: Life sentence without parole, 10 charges

- Sara Meynard was found alive in the basement surrounded by leaves, raped daily for days, and fed rotten cereal.
- Matthew Hoffman had a history of arson: he set fire to 10 houses in Colorado in 2001 and served 8 years in prison.
- The three bodies were dismembered in Hoffman's bathtub and placed in the tree through an upper opening, requiring chainsaws to verify the finding.
- Hoffman refused to speak for 48 hours of interrogation until he demanded a plea deal that spared him the death penalty, then revealing the exact location of the bodies.

Tina German, Mount Vernon Ohio, murder, 2010, serial killer, investigation, forensic, mystery, aggravated homicide, true crime, suspense, true crime English

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A Walmart receipt from November 11, 2010, found in a garage triggered the discovery of one of the most disturbing crimes in Ohio. Matthew Hoffman's license photo matched exactly with the security camera image: same shirt, same day. The mystery was incomprehensible: three bodies had been placed inside the hollow trunk of a tree over 10 meters high.

In this episode, we explore how a morbid obsession with trees and a repeated shirt in two photographs connected a serial killer to the greatest atrocity in Mount Vernon. We analyze the contradictions between Hoffman's silence during interrogations and his 10-page confession, and the lingering question: why did he choose to leave one victim alive to testify against him? Forensic investigation revealed marks on shower curtains, remnants of flesh in bathtubs, and evidence of systematic dismemberment.

Victim: Tina German, Sara Meynard, Cody Meynard, Stephanie Spring
Date: November 10-11, 2010
Location: Mount Vernon, Ohio
Status: Life sentence without parole, 10 charges

- Sara Meynard was found alive in the basement surrounded by leaves, raped daily for days, and fed rotten cereal.
- Matthew Hoffman had a history of arson: he set fire to 10 houses in Colorado in 2001 and served 8 years in prison.
- The three bodies were dismembered in Hoffman's bathtub and placed in the tree through an upper opening, requiring chainsaws to verify the finding.
- Hoffman refused to speak for 48 hours of interrogation until he demanded a plea deal that spared him the death penalty, then revealing the exact location of the bodies.

Tina German, Mount Vernon Ohio, murder, 2010, serial killer, investigation, forensic, mystery, aggravated homicide, true crime, suspense, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A psychic in Hawaii describes the exact method of entry of the killer -an iron chair on an air conditioner- a classified detail that no media had published. How does a state sentence a man to death for six homicides without a single physical piece of evidence linking him? The answer lies in twelve hours of interrogation and a confession that Blank retracted years later.

In this episode, we explore the tension between a detailed confession, the total absence of forensic evidence, and Blank's work connections to two victims. We will examine the impossible role of the psychic, the identification of the surviving victim Joyce Miller, and why in October 2021 her lawyers are still requesting DNA evidence for a man already sentenced to life in prison. Guilty or scapegoat built on words under pressure?

Victim: Victor Rossi, Barbara Bergua, Lilian Philip, Sam Arcuri, Louella Arcuri, Johan Brook
Date: 1996-1997
Location: Louisiana (Ascension, Parish, Saint James, Gonzales)
Status: Sentenced to life in prison; case under review with DNA evidence request (2021)

- Blank confessed in detail after twelve hours of interrogation, then retracted claiming emotional coercion.
- The psychic Rose Q described an iron chair on an air conditioner -classified method of entry- without access to public records.
- Zero physical evidence links Blank to any scene: no fingerprints, no DNA, no stolen items recovered.
- The murders ceased after his arrest in Alaska on November 14, 1997, supporting guilt but unresolved absence of forensic evidence.

Daniel Blank, Louisiana 1996-1997, serial murders, false confession, forensic, investigation, unsolved mystery, detective, homicide, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A psychic in Hawaii describes the exact method of entry of the killer -an iron chair on an air conditioner- a classified detail that no media had published. How does a state sentence a man to death for six homicides without a single physical piece of evidence linking him? The answer lies in twelve hours of interrogation and a confession that Blank retracted years later.

In this episode, we explore the tension between a detailed confession, the total absence of forensic evidence, and Blank's work connections to two victims. We will examine the impossible role of the psychic, the identification of the surviving victim Joyce Miller, and why in October 2021 her lawyers are still requesting DNA evidence for a man already sentenced to life in prison. Guilty or scapegoat built on words under pressure?

Victim: Victor Rossi, Barbara Bergua, Lilian Philip, Sam Arcuri, Louella Arcuri, Johan Brook
Date: 1996-1997
Location: Louisiana (Ascension, Parish, Saint James, Gonzales)
Status: Sentenced to life in prison; case under review with DNA evidence request (2021)

- Blank confessed in detail after twelve hours of interrogation, then retracted claiming emotional coercion.
- The psychic Rose Q described an iron chair on an air conditioner -classified method of entry- without access to public records.
- Zero physical evidence links Blank to any scene: no fingerprints, no DNA, no stolen items recovered.
- The murders ceased after his arrest in Alaska on November 14, 1997, supporting guilt but unresolved absence of forensic evidence.

Daniel Blank, Louisiana 1996-1997, serial murders, false confession, forensic, investigation, unsolved mystery, detective, homicide, true crime Spanish

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A new camera captures two images with sixty seconds in between: a girl on a bicycle and the red car following her. The photographer does not know that he has just documented the last minute of Engla Joglund. Anders Eklund, a Swedish truck driver, had remained invisible for eight years - responsible for at least two confirmed homicides, possibly more across Europe.

In this episode, we explore how a sixty-second photographic coincidence linked two murders separated by eight years, how Swedish police overlooked direct warnings in 2006-2007, and how the DNA of a victim from 2000 finally identified the serial killer in 2008. The investigation reveals a pattern of escalating sexual violence, an unexplained Norwegian wallet, and questions about how many additional victims Eklund left unresolved during his travels across Europe.

Victim: Engla Joglund and Pernilla Hellgren
Date: June 4, 2000, and April 5, 2008
Location: Falun and Härtsön, Sweden
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment, October 6, 2008

- A witness in 2000 described a man waiting under a bridge where Pernilla Hellgren was murdered; eight years later, the same man killed a ten-year-old girl.
- Eklund's DNA was not matched with the evidence from Hellgren until 2008, despite having been criminally registered since 1997 for attempted rape.
- Eklund's acquaintances alerted the police in 2007 about aggressive sexual behavior; the investigation was dismissed months before Engla's murder.
- A women's wallet with Norwegian money was found at Eklund's home; its owner was never identified nor linked to disappearances in Norway.

Engla Joglund, Pernilla Hellgren, Falun, Härtsön, homicide, serial killer, forensic, mystery, investigation, imperfect crimes, Sweden, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A new camera captures two images with sixty seconds in between: a girl on a bicycle and the red car following her. The photographer does not know that he has just documented the last minute of Engla Joglund. Anders Eklund, a Swedish truck driver, had remained invisible for eight years - responsible for at least two confirmed homicides, possibly more across Europe.

In this episode, we explore how a sixty-second photographic coincidence linked two murders separated by eight years, how Swedish police overlooked direct warnings in 2006-2007, and how the DNA of a victim from 2000 finally identified the serial killer in 2008. The investigation reveals a pattern of escalating sexual violence, an unexplained Norwegian wallet, and questions about how many additional victims Eklund left unresolved during his travels across Europe.

Victim: Engla Joglund and Pernilla Hellgren
Date: June 4, 2000, and April 5, 2008
Location: Falun and Härtsön, Sweden
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment, October 6, 2008

- A witness in 2000 described a man waiting under a bridge where Pernilla Hellgren was murdered; eight years later, the same man killed a ten-year-old girl.
- Eklund's DNA was not matched with the evidence from Hellgren until 2008, despite having been criminally registered since 1997 for attempted rape.
- Eklund's acquaintances alerted the police in 2007 about aggressive sexual behavior; the investigation was dismissed months before Engla's murder.
- A women's wallet with Norwegian money was found at Eklund's home; its owner was never identified nor linked to disappearances in Norway.

Engla Joglund, Pernilla Hellgren, Falun, Härtsön, homicide, serial killer, forensic, mystery, investigation, imperfect crimes, Sweden, Spanish true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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July 2009, M4 Don highway: four corpses, a girl stabbed 37 times, a marked knife that belonged to no one. But the real killing gang had been operating since 1997 under the radar, and its architect was a woman who declared without remorse: "I regret that there are so few victims."

In this episode, we explore how Inesa Tarber-Dieva and her family network executed a murder system for 15 years: her handwritten diary with photos and victim routines, the infiltrated police radio that alerted to chases, and the evidence that condemned the innocent Alexei Sirenko while the gang continued killing. How did a family structure operate as a criminal cartel in Russian territory without being stopped until 2013?

Victim: Inesa Tarber-Dieva
Date: 1997-2013
Location: Southern Russia (Novocherkask, M4 Don highway)
Status: Sentenced to 25 years (2023)

- Inesa recruited Roman, a teenage serial killer, two weeks after he shot her husband.
- Her operational diary included photographs, addresses, and victim routines: forensic evidence of systematic planning.
- A corrupt police officer (brother-in-law Sergei Celnik) provided real-time intelligence from the patrol radio.
- The gang was captured when Roman opened fire during a routine checkpoint in 2013; he killed an officer before dying in the confrontation.

Inesa Tarber-Dieva, Roman Pod-Copa-Ev, Novocherkask, murders, 1997, family gang, serial killer, investigation, forensic, police impunity, cartel, criminal minds, true crime Spanish

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July 2009, M4 Don highway: four corpses, a girl stabbed 37 times, a marked knife that belonged to no one. But the real killing gang had been operating since 1997 under the radar, and its architect was a woman who declared without remorse: "I regret that there are so few victims."

In this episode, we explore how Inesa Tarber-Dieva and her family network executed a murder system for 15 years: her handwritten diary with photos and victim routines, the infiltrated police radio that alerted to chases, and the evidence that condemned the innocent Alexei Sirenko while the gang continued killing. How did a family structure operate as a criminal cartel in Russian territory without being stopped until 2013?

Victim: Inesa Tarber-Dieva
Date: 1997-2013
Location: Southern Russia (Novocherkask, M4 Don highway)
Status: Sentenced to 25 years (2023)

- Inesa recruited Roman, a teenage serial killer, two weeks after he shot her husband.
- Her operational diary included photographs, addresses, and victim routines: forensic evidence of systematic planning.
- A corrupt police officer (brother-in-law Sergei Celnik) provided real-time intelligence from the patrol radio.
- The gang was captured when Roman opened fire during a routine checkpoint in 2013; he killed an officer before dying in the confrontation.

Inesa Tarber-Dieva, Roman Pod-Copa-Ev, Novocherkask, murders, 1997, family gang, serial killer, investigation, forensic, police impunity, cartel, criminal minds, true crime Spanish

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Five charred bodies in Pattaya in October 1975. The ashes in their lungs reveal they were burned alive. But no one connected the crimes until a Dutch ambassador decided to do the work that the police could not.

In this episode, we explore how Charles Sobhraj used false identities to evade three judicial systems, how police corruption facilitated his escape from the maximum-security Tihar prison, and why a serial killer sentenced to life imprisonment managed to be released at 78 after suing the state.

Victim: Charles Sobhraj (killer)
Date: 1975-2022
Location: Thailand, Nepal, India
Status: Deported to France; free

- Sobhraj killed at least 12 people in three countries using fake passports and at least six different identities.
- He escaped from Tihar prison in 1986 by drugging guards with sleeping pills, the same method he used on his victims.
- He voluntarily returned to Nepal in 2003 for a documentary, was photographed by authorities, and arrested, knowing that the case had not expired.
- The Supreme Court of Nepal deported him to France in 2022 citing heart disease, allowing him to walk free after 40 years of investigation.

Charles Sobhraj, Thailand Nepal India, 1975, serial killer, criminal minds, investigation, homicide, mystery, forensics, intrigue, corruption, imperfect crimes, Spanish true crime

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Five charred bodies in Pattaya in October 1975. The ashes in their lungs reveal they were burned alive. But no one connected the crimes until a Dutch ambassador decided to do the work that the police could not.

In this episode, we explore how Charles Sobhraj used false identities to evade three judicial systems, how police corruption facilitated his escape from the maximum-security Tihar prison, and why a serial killer sentenced to life imprisonment managed to be released at 78 after suing the state.

Victim: Charles Sobhraj (killer)
Date: 1975-2022
Location: Thailand, Nepal, India
Status: Deported to France; free

- Sobhraj killed at least 12 people in three countries using fake passports and at least six different identities.
- He escaped from Tihar prison in 1986 by drugging guards with sleeping pills, the same method he used on his victims.
- He voluntarily returned to Nepal in 2003 for a documentary, was photographed by authorities, and arrested, knowing that the case had not expired.
- The Supreme Court of Nepal deported him to France in 2022 citing heart disease, allowing him to walk free after 40 years of investigation.

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Four women disappear on a moving train on the night of July 4, 1980. Their bodies, thrown from the windows of car 7, are found scattered on the tracks between Talnoy and Novo-Kolodes. The killer is not a stranger: he is a 22-year-old convicted rapist obsessed with a world-famous singer, operating in one of the most surveilled regimes in history.

In this episode, we explore how Anatoli Nagiev evaded detection for over a year, committing at least 30 documented rapes across multiple regions. We analyze the forensic evidence that incriminates him—the gold ring, the violently ripped earrings, and the notebook with 319 names of women—along with the railway corruption that allowed a serial killer to operate during the 1980 Moscow Olympics. How did a necrophilic predator remain on parole after killing in January 1979, and how many real victims were silenced?

Victim: Olga Demyanenko, Nadezhda Kravchenko, and others
Date: July 4, 1980
Location: Kharkiv-Moscow train, Oryol Oblast
Status: Executed April 5, 1982

- Nagiev killed four women in less than an hour on a train, deliberately preserving the life of the only witness, electrician Prelutsky.
- The Soviet police manipulated evidence, staining the witness's boots with blood to frame him before the Olympics.
- In his home, they found a notebook with obscene notes about singer Ala Pugacheva, including the hotels where she stayed, with a cross drawn over her name.
- Nagiev escaped disguised as a gypsy woman during his transfer to prison in August 1981, remaining a fugitive for over a month before being shot 15 times.

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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Four women disappear on a moving train on the night of July 4, 1980. Their bodies, thrown from the windows of car 7, are found scattered on the tracks between Talnoy and Novo-Kolodes. The killer is not a stranger: he is a 22-year-old convicted rapist obsessed with a world-famous singer, operating in one of the most surveilled regimes in history.

In this episode, we explore how Anatoli Nagiev evaded detection for over a year, committing at least 30 documented rapes across multiple regions. We analyze the forensic evidence that incriminates him—the gold ring, the violently ripped earrings, and the notebook with 319 names of women—along with the railway corruption that allowed a serial killer to operate during the 1980 Moscow Olympics. How did a necrophilic predator remain on parole after killing in January 1979, and how many real victims were silenced?

Victim: Olga Demyanenko, Nadezhda Kravchenko, and others
Date: July 4, 1980
Location: Kharkiv-Moscow train, Oryol Oblast
Status: Executed April 5, 1982

- Nagiev killed four women in less than an hour on a train, deliberately preserving the life of the only witness, electrician Prelutsky.
- The Soviet police manipulated evidence, staining the witness's boots with blood to frame him before the Olympics.
- In his home, they found a notebook with obscene notes about singer Ala Pugacheva, including the hotels where she stayed, with a cross drawn over her name.
- Nagiev escaped disguised as a gypsy woman during his transfer to prison in August 1981, remaining a fugitive for over a month before being shot 15 times.

Anatoli Nagiev, Kharkiv-Moscow train 1980, serial killer, murder, rape, necrophile, criminal investigation, Moscow Olympics, police corruption, forensic, serial homicide, delusional obsession, Spanish true crime

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A hidden compartment in the ceiling of a house in Brussels contains three rifles and four pistols. Its owner, a Protestant pastor, convinced his daughter to murder her mother with a hammer blow. For five years, the police filed the reports with a note: "no action will be taken." How did he manage to kill fourteen people—possibly sixty—without anyone stopping him?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that allowed a financial manipulator to operate in a modern European city: Agnes withdraws her report from 1992 but in 1997 provides precise forensic details; bone remains found on Vander Maelen Street do not correspond to the registered family; Pandy presents false photos of living victims that the police accept without question. An experiment with liquid plumber in the courtroom exactly reproduces how Agnes described the dissolution of corpses.

Victim: Ilona Sores, Edit Finor, Andrea Finor, Daniel, Tunde, and eight unidentified people
Date: August 1986 - 1990
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment; died in prison 2013

- A Hungarian detective investigated on his own for years without institutional support after the police filed the case in 1992.
- Pandy hired Hungarian children to impersonate his murdered children in front of witnesses between 1992 and 1996.
- The forensic experiment with liquid drainage in the courtroom validated exactly Agnes's testimony about how she dissolved her mother.
- Eight victims identified by DNA were never identified; the estimated actual number reaches up to sixty people.

Andras Pandy, Brussels Belgium murder, 1986-1990, investigation, forensic, serial killer, mystery, homicide, true crime, justice, true crime Spanish

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A hidden compartment in the ceiling of a house in Brussels contains three rifles and four pistols. Its owner, a Protestant pastor, convinced his daughter to murder her mother with a hammer blow. For five years, the police filed the reports with a note: "no action will be taken." How did he manage to kill fourteen people—possibly sixty—without anyone stopping him?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that allowed a financial manipulator to operate in a modern European city: Agnes withdraws her report from 1992 but in 1997 provides precise forensic details; bone remains found on Vander Maelen Street do not correspond to the registered family; Pandy presents false photos of living victims that the police accept without question. An experiment with liquid plumber in the courtroom exactly reproduces how Agnes described the dissolution of corpses.

Victim: Ilona Sores, Edit Finor, Andrea Finor, Daniel, Tunde, and eight unidentified people
Date: August 1986 - 1990
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment; died in prison 2013

- A Hungarian detective investigated on his own for years without institutional support after the police filed the case in 1992.
- Pandy hired Hungarian children to impersonate his murdered children in front of witnesses between 1992 and 1996.
- The forensic experiment with liquid drainage in the courtroom validated exactly Agnes's testimony about how she dissolved her mother.
- Eight victims identified by DNA were never identified; the estimated actual number reaches up to sixty people.

Andras Pandy, Brussels Belgium murder, 1986-1990, investigation, forensic, serial killer, mystery, homicide, true crime, justice, true crime Spanish

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A couple from Iron River, Michigan invited neighbors over for homemade burgers while hiding human remains in the woods. Christopher Regan disappeared on October 14, 2014, but no one knew the truth until a detective found a confession carved into a tree that changed everything.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that unraveled their alibi: a GPS that placed Christopher at Kelly's house the night of the crime, blood stains on the repainted ceiling, and a pact from 2002 that turned murder into an act of "love." How did a couple without a body manage to confess to two homicides, and why did Kelly hint from prison that there were many more victims?

Victim: Christopher Regan
Date: October 14, 2014
Location: Iron River, Michigan (Caspian)
Status: Life sentence + 65 years (Kelly Cochran)

- Jason Cochran shot Christopher with a .22 caliber rifle and dismembered the body with a chainsaw the same night.
- Kelly claimed that Christopher never went to her house, but the GPS from his vehicle placed him there exactly at the time of the crime.
- Jason's autopsy revealed strangulation asphyxia, not overdose: Kelly strangled him 16 months after the first murder.
- From prison, Kelly hinted to her mother about "many other bodies in the woods"; police estimate between 11 and 21 unidentified victims.

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A couple from Iron River, Michigan invited neighbors over for homemade burgers while hiding human remains in the woods. Christopher Regan disappeared on October 14, 2014, but no one knew the truth until a detective found a confession carved into a tree that changed everything.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that unraveled their alibi: a GPS that placed Christopher at Kelly's house the night of the crime, blood stains on the repainted ceiling, and a pact from 2002 that turned murder into an act of "love." How did a couple without a body manage to confess to two homicides, and why did Kelly hint from prison that there were many more victims?

Victim: Christopher Regan
Date: October 14, 2014
Location: Iron River, Michigan (Caspian)
Status: Life sentence + 65 years (Kelly Cochran)

- Jason Cochran shot Christopher with a .22 caliber rifle and dismembered the body with a chainsaw the same night.
- Kelly claimed that Christopher never went to her house, but the GPS from his vehicle placed him there exactly at the time of the crime.
- Jason's autopsy revealed strangulation asphyxia, not overdose: Kelly strangled him 16 months after the first murder.
- From prison, Kelly hinted to her mother about "many other bodies in the woods"; police estimate between 11 and 21 unidentified victims.

Christopher Regan, Iron River Michigan murder, October 2014, homicide, serial killer, forensic mystery, true crime, investigation, suspense, intrigue, death toll, true crime Spanish

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A naked woman emerges from the Thames on a London morning in February 1964. Her teeth have been deliberately extracted. Her own underwear obstructs her airway. Scotland Yard cannot answer the question that haunts them: who did this, and why?

In this episode, we explore the investigation into a series of murders that Scotland Yard struggled to solve for over two years, examining the contradictions between two prime suspects, the forensic particles that pointed to a specific industrial estate, and the ambiguous suicide note left behind when the crimes inexplicably stopped.

Victim: Anna Tailford
Date: February 2, 1964
Location: Thames River, West London
Status: Unsolved

- Anna Tailford was nine months pregnant when she was strangled and her body dumped in the river
- Tiny particles of spray paint were found on victims' skin, pointing to a specific industrial shed, yet no worker was ever definitively charged
- Kenneth Archibald confessed to murdering Irene Lockwood unprompted, but was acquitted due to zero forensic evidence linking him to her body
- Mungo Ireland, the security guard at the suspected dumping site, died by carbon monoxide suicide after only three weeks on the job, leaving an ambiguous note

Anna Tailford, West London 1964, Thames River murder, unsolved serial killer, Jack the Stripper, forensic investigation, spray paint particles, serial killer investigation, dental mutilation, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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A naked woman emerges from the Thames on a London morning in February 1964. Her teeth have been deliberately extracted. Her own underwear obstructs her airway. Scotland Yard cannot answer the question that haunts them: who did this, and why?

In this episode, we explore the investigation into a series of murders that Scotland Yard struggled to solve for over two years, examining the contradictions between two prime suspects, the forensic particles that pointed to a specific industrial estate, and the ambiguous suicide note left behind when the crimes inexplicably stopped.

Victim: Anna Tailford
Date: February 2, 1964
Location: Thames River, West London
Status: Unsolved

- Anna Tailford was nine months pregnant when she was strangled and her body dumped in the river
- Tiny particles of spray paint were found on victims' skin, pointing to a specific industrial shed, yet no worker was ever definitively charged
- Kenneth Archibald confessed to murdering Irene Lockwood unprompted, but was acquitted due to zero forensic evidence linking him to her body
- Mungo Ireland, the security guard at the suspected dumping site, died by carbon monoxide suicide after only three weeks on the job, leaving an ambiguous note

Anna Tailford, West London 1964, Thames River murder, unsolved serial killer, Jack the Stripper, forensic investigation, spray paint particles, serial killer investigation, dental mutilation, true crime English

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Fred Perez was trimming his garden in broad daylight when a truck stopped in front of his house. One shot. He fell dead while neighbors watched from their windows. One of them wrote down the license plate-a single detail that would untangle thirteen unsolved deaths across Santa Cruz County and expose a killer the system had released again and again.

In this episode, we trace the psychiatric decline of Herbert William Mullin and the catastrophic failures of California's mental health system. We examine the contradiction between his documented paranoid schizophrenia and his calculated return to the Llaneras home to eliminate a witness. We ask the question the jury faced in 1973: if a man kills obeying voices only he can hear, can the law hold him responsible?

Victim: Fred Perez
Date: February 13, 1973
Location: Santa Cruz, California
Status: Solved

- Herbert William Mullin was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1968 but was released repeatedly from psychiatric facilities under California's 72-hour involuntary detention law.
- Mullin believed Albert Einstein's death, his own birthday, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake were connected signs commanding him to kill and prevent earthquakes.
- He killed thirteen people in four months-a priest in a confessional, a hitchhiker, four campers, two children aged four and nine-but only ten crimes were formally charged due to insufficient evidence.
- After killing the Llaneras family, Mullin left the scene, then returned and killed family friend Kathleen Prentice and her two children, suggesting calculated witness elimination that contradicted claims of complete psychosis.

Herbert William Mullin, Santa Cruz serial killer 1972-1973, paranoid schizophrenia, auditory hallucinations, psychiatric system failure, California mental health, criminal responsibility, insanity defense, homicide investigation, true crime English

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Fred Perez was trimming his garden in broad daylight when a truck stopped in front of his house. One shot. He fell dead while neighbors watched from their windows. One of them wrote down the license plate-a single detail that would untangle thirteen unsolved deaths across Santa Cruz County and expose a killer the system had released again and again.

In this episode, we trace the psychiatric decline of Herbert William Mullin and the catastrophic failures of California's mental health system. We examine the contradiction between his documented paranoid schizophrenia and his calculated return to the Llaneras home to eliminate a witness. We ask the question the jury faced in 1973: if a man kills obeying voices only he can hear, can the law hold him responsible?

Victim: Fred Perez
Date: February 13, 1973
Location: Santa Cruz, California
Status: Solved

- Herbert William Mullin was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1968 but was released repeatedly from psychiatric facilities under California's 72-hour involuntary detention law.
- Mullin believed Albert Einstein's death, his own birthday, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake were connected signs commanding him to kill and prevent earthquakes.
- He killed thirteen people in four months-a priest in a confessional, a hitchhiker, four campers, two children aged four and nine-but only ten crimes were formally charged due to insufficient evidence.
- After killing the Llaneras family, Mullin left the scene, then returned and killed family friend Kathleen Prentice and her two children, suggesting calculated witness elimination that contradicted claims of complete psychosis.

Herbert William Mullin, Santa Cruz serial killer 1972-1973, paranoid schizophrenia, auditory hallucinations, psychiatric system failure, California mental health, criminal responsibility, insanity defense, homicide investigation, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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June 1996, Brooklyn. A domestic shooting ends with a man barricaded in his apartment. When he surrenders, he hands detectives thirteen homemade weapons and unknowingly, the signature that will solve six years of unsolved murders. The symbol he drew-a cross and three sevens-was identical to the one used by the city's most elusive killer.

In this investigation, we uncover how a copycat obsessed with the California Zodiac terrorized New York for nearly a decade. The contradiction deepens: how did a killer operating without identification manage to select victims by zodiac sign without verifying their birth dates? Why did his careful astronomical system suddenly collapse into brutal, impulsive violence?

Victim: Patricia Fonte, Joseph Prosy, Mario Orozco, and others
Date: 1989-1996
Location: Brooklyn, Queens, New York
Status: Convicted; Sentenced to 235 Years

- Seda mailed a threatening letter signed "Zodiac" in November 1989 that was filed away without investigation
- A complete fingerprint recovered in 1990 matched no database records, but was preserved for six years
- The first three attacks occurred on nights when Orion and the Seven Sisters constellations were invisible from New York
- Patricia Fonte was stabbed over one hundred times, breaking the killer's own stated pattern of one victim per zodiac sign

Heriberto Seda, Brooklyn Zodiac, New York serial killer, 1989-1996, unsolved murders, homicide investigation, criminal copycat, forensic evidence, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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June 1996, Brooklyn. A domestic shooting ends with a man barricaded in his apartment. When he surrenders, he hands detectives thirteen homemade weapons and unknowingly, the signature that will solve six years of unsolved murders. The symbol he drew-a cross and three sevens-was identical to the one used by the city's most elusive killer.

In this investigation, we uncover how a copycat obsessed with the California Zodiac terrorized New York for nearly a decade. The contradiction deepens: how did a killer operating without identification manage to select victims by zodiac sign without verifying their birth dates? Why did his careful astronomical system suddenly collapse into brutal, impulsive violence?

Victim: Patricia Fonte, Joseph Prosy, Mario Orozco, and others
Date: 1989-1996
Location: Brooklyn, Queens, New York
Status: Convicted; Sentenced to 235 Years

- Seda mailed a threatening letter signed "Zodiac" in November 1989 that was filed away without investigation
- A complete fingerprint recovered in 1990 matched no database records, but was preserved for six years
- The first three attacks occurred on nights when Orion and the Seven Sisters constellations were invisible from New York
- Patricia Fonte was stabbed over one hundred times, breaking the killer's own stated pattern of one victim per zodiac sign

Heriberto Seda, Brooklyn Zodiac, New York serial killer, 1989-1996, unsolved murders, homicide investigation, criminal copycat, forensic evidence, true crime English

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March ninth, nineteen fifty: a man is executed for murdering his wife and daughter. Three years later, a tenant hammers a nail into a kitchen wall and finds three female bodies wrapped in sheets hidden behind the wallpaper. The killer who testified to send the innocent man to his death had been living downstairs the entire time, committing at least a decade of systematic murders.

In this episode, we explore the impossible contradiction at the heart of a homicide investigation: how a former police officer with a documented history of assault and theft gained enough credibility to destroy an innocent man's life, while the actual serial killer went undetected through fourteen years of living at number ten Rillington Place. We examine the evidence that was ignored, the testimony that was believed, and the question that haunted criminal justice for decades: how did the system fail so completely?

Victim: Timothy Evans, Beryl Evans, Geraldine Evans
Location: 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London
Date: 1943-1953
Status: Solved (Post-Execution Discovery)

- A man with previous convictions for theft and assault was accepted into the special reserve police force in 1939
- The real killer testified as a prosecution witness in the trial that sent an innocent man to the gallows
- Three female bodies were discovered hidden inside a kitchen wall cavity covered with wallpaper in March 1953
- Bones of two earlier victims were found reused as garden stakes, dated approximately ten years prior to discovery

Timothy Evans, Beryl Evans, Geraldine Evans, John Reginald Christie, Notting Hill London murders, 1950 execution, serial killer investigation, wrongful conviction, forensic science, homicide case, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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March ninth, nineteen fifty: a man is executed for murdering his wife and daughter. Three years later, a tenant hammers a nail into a kitchen wall and finds three female bodies wrapped in sheets hidden behind the wallpaper. The killer who testified to send the innocent man to his death had been living downstairs the entire time, committing at least a decade of systematic murders.

In this episode, we explore the impossible contradiction at the heart of a homicide investigation: how a former police officer with a documented history of assault and theft gained enough credibility to destroy an innocent man's life, while the actual serial killer went undetected through fourteen years of living at number ten Rillington Place. We examine the evidence that was ignored, the testimony that was believed, and the question that haunted criminal justice for decades: how did the system fail so completely?

Victim: Timothy Evans, Beryl Evans, Geraldine Evans
Location: 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London
Date: 1943-1953
Status: Solved (Post-Execution Discovery)

- A man with previous convictions for theft and assault was accepted into the special reserve police force in 1939
- The real killer testified as a prosecution witness in the trial that sent an innocent man to the gallows
- Three female bodies were discovered hidden inside a kitchen wall cavity covered with wallpaper in March 1953
- Bones of two earlier victims were found reused as garden stakes, dated approximately ten years prior to discovery

Timothy Evans, Beryl Evans, Geraldine Evans, John Reginald Christie, Notting Hill London murders, 1950 execution, serial killer investigation, wrongful conviction, forensic science, homicide case, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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A single phone call about a weapon breaks open a three-month killing spree that claimed forty-three lives across rural Ukraine. In the chaos of post-Soviet institutional collapse, one man methodically stalked families through blackout nights, leaving no witnesses and no visible trace-until investigators discover 122 stolen objects scattered through his apartment as if they were ordinary belongings.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that define Onoprienko's crimes: the meticulous surveillance at each scene, the deliberately broken family photographs, and the execution of children too young to identify him. We examine why a psychiatric history of schizophrenia was evaluated in just twenty-four hours, and how an innocent man, Yevhen Yunusov, died under torture while the real killer remained at large. Was Onoprienko a calculating psychopath with deep abandonment trauma, or did a fractured judicial system refuse to see the truth in front of its eyes?

Victim: Anatoli Yurievich Onoprienko
Date: December 1995-March 1996
Location: Zhytomyr Region, Ukraine
Status: Convicted, 43 documented murders confirmed

- Onoprienko waited outside homes for hours, smoking cigarettes, before attacking families inside
- Police arrested and tortured an innocent twenty-six-year-old man to death before catching the real killer
- Investigators recovered 122 victim belongings stacked casually in his apartment, not hidden as trophies
- He confessed to fifty-two total murders spanning from 1989 to 1996, describing each with complete emotional detachment

Anatoli Onoprienko, Zhytomyr Ukraine 1995 serial killer, true detective, unsolved mysteries, homicide investigation, serial killers, forensic evidence, morbid true crime, criminal minds, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544746Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:13:50 +0000Creator at ObomediaNeighbor Reports Sawed-Off Shotgun and Police Finally Catch Ukraine's Deadliest Killer: The Serial Murders of Anatoli Onoprienko A single phone call about a weapon breaks open a three-month killing spree that claimed forty-three lives across rural...
A single phone call about a weapon breaks open a three-month killing spree that claimed forty-three lives across rural Ukraine. In the chaos of post-Soviet institutional collapse, one man methodically stalked families through blackout nights, leaving no witnesses and no visible trace-until investigators discover 122 stolen objects scattered through his apartment as if they were ordinary belongings.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that define Onoprienko's crimes: the meticulous surveillance at each scene, the deliberately broken family photographs, and the execution of children too young to identify him. We examine why a psychiatric history of schizophrenia was evaluated in just twenty-four hours, and how an innocent man, Yevhen Yunusov, died under torture while the real killer remained at large. Was Onoprienko a calculating psychopath with deep abandonment trauma, or did a fractured judicial system refuse to see the truth in front of its eyes?

Victim: Anatoli Yurievich Onoprienko
Date: December 1995-March 1996
Location: Zhytomyr Region, Ukraine
Status: Convicted, 43 documented murders confirmed

- Onoprienko waited outside homes for hours, smoking cigarettes, before attacking families inside
- Police arrested and tortured an innocent twenty-six-year-old man to death before catching the real killer
- Investigators recovered 122 victim belongings stacked casually in his apartment, not hidden as trophies
- He confessed to fifty-two total murders spanning from 1989 to 1996, describing each with complete emotional detachment

Anatoli Onoprienko, Zhytomyr Ukraine 1995 serial killer, true detective, unsolved mysteries, homicide investigation, serial killers, forensic evidence, morbid true crime, criminal minds, true crime English

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On November 12, 1934, Mrs. Budd received an envelope that shattered six years of uncertainty. The letter contained descriptions of her ten-year-old daughter's death written with precision only the killer could possess. No one had connected this crime to the thin elderly man in the gray mustache who had walked through New York unnoticed for over a decade.

In this episode, we examine the contradictions that haunted investigators: how a seemingly innocuous grandfather deceived an entire city, the false leads that delayed justice, and the single detail on the envelope that finally led to capture. We trace Grace's disappearance in 1928 through Detective William King's trap six years later, the psychiatric evaluations that divided experts, and the moral verdict that transcended legal reasoning.

Victim: Grace Budd
Date: June 3, 1928 (disappearance); December 13, 1934 (arrest)
Location: Manhattan and Westchester County, New York
Status: Solved; Perpetrator Executed January 16, 1936

- Albert Fish had visited the Budd family twice before the kidnapping, each time bringing gifts and building trust with the parents
- X-rays revealed twenty-seven metal needles lodged in Fish's pelvis, corroborating his confessions about years of self-mutilation
- Fish actively collected newspaper clippings about other serial killers, including German murderer Fritz Haarmann
- The jury acknowledged Fish was insane but voted guilty anyway, prioritizing public safety over clinical diagnosis

Grace Budd, Albert Fish, New York serial killer, 1928 murder, Westchester County, true crime investigation, forensic evidence, criminal pathology, unsolved mysteries solved, homicide, true crime English

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On November 12, 1934, Mrs. Budd received an envelope that shattered six years of uncertainty. The letter contained descriptions of her ten-year-old daughter's death written with precision only the killer could possess. No one had connected this crime to the thin elderly man in the gray mustache who had walked through New York unnoticed for over a decade.

In this episode, we examine the contradictions that haunted investigators: how a seemingly innocuous grandfather deceived an entire city, the false leads that delayed justice, and the single detail on the envelope that finally led to capture. We trace Grace's disappearance in 1928 through Detective William King's trap six years later, the psychiatric evaluations that divided experts, and the moral verdict that transcended legal reasoning.

Victim: Grace Budd
Date: June 3, 1928 (disappearance); December 13, 1934 (arrest)
Location: Manhattan and Westchester County, New York
Status: Solved; Perpetrator Executed January 16, 1936

- Albert Fish had visited the Budd family twice before the kidnapping, each time bringing gifts and building trust with the parents
- X-rays revealed twenty-seven metal needles lodged in Fish's pelvis, corroborating his confessions about years of self-mutilation
- Fish actively collected newspaper clippings about other serial killers, including German murderer Fritz Haarmann
- The jury acknowledged Fish was insane but voted guilty anyway, prioritizing public safety over clinical diagnosis

Grace Budd, Albert Fish, New York serial killer, 1928 murder, Westchester County, true crime investigation, forensic evidence, criminal pathology, unsolved mysteries solved, homicide, true crime English

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A father walks into a police station in early 1900s Buenos Aires and tells officers his young son is dangerous. He asks them to lock him away. They refuse. Within months, children begin disappearing-some found strangled, one set on fire, another with a nail driven through her skull. The system ignored every warning sign.

In this episode, we examine the forensic evidence, the interrogation transcripts, and the impossible contradiction at the heart of Argentine criminal history: a boy with twenty-seven skull scars from systematic abuse, confessing to murder with calculated precision. We explore the father's desperate plea in 1906, the quick releases from reform schools, the victims whose names were buried with them, and the question that criminology still debates-was this a failure of the system, or a failure to recognize what was right in front of them?

Victim: María Rosa Fase, Reina Bonita Vainikoff, Jesualdo Giordano, others
Date: 1904-1912
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Status: Convicted of four documented murders; acquitted due to insanity at age 18

- Father explicitly told police his son was dangerous and requested incarceration in 1906; boy was released and reoffended within months
- Forensic doctors documented twenty-seven cranial scars indicating severe brain damage from childhood abuse, yet interrogation transcripts show calculated, anticipatory language about killing inmates
- Godino returned to the wake of victim Jesualdo Giordano and manually exposed the nail wound in the corpse's temple in front of the child's father
- Police found a newspaper clipping in Godino's pocket about one victim's murder with his photograph; when asked why he kept it, he said it made him feel important

Cayetano Santos Godino, Buenos Aires serial killer 1904-1912, Argentina first documented serial killer, child murders, forensic evidence, system failure, criminal psychology, unsolved mysteries, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A father walks into a police station in early 1900s Buenos Aires and tells officers his young son is dangerous. He asks them to lock him away. They refuse. Within months, children begin disappearing-some found strangled, one set on fire, another with a nail driven through her skull. The system ignored every warning sign.

In this episode, we examine the forensic evidence, the interrogation transcripts, and the impossible contradiction at the heart of Argentine criminal history: a boy with twenty-seven skull scars from systematic abuse, confessing to murder with calculated precision. We explore the father's desperate plea in 1906, the quick releases from reform schools, the victims whose names were buried with them, and the question that criminology still debates-was this a failure of the system, or a failure to recognize what was right in front of them?

Victim: María Rosa Fase, Reina Bonita Vainikoff, Jesualdo Giordano, others
Date: 1904-1912
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Status: Convicted of four documented murders; acquitted due to insanity at age 18

- Father explicitly told police his son was dangerous and requested incarceration in 1906; boy was released and reoffended within months
- Forensic doctors documented twenty-seven cranial scars indicating severe brain damage from childhood abuse, yet interrogation transcripts show calculated, anticipatory language about killing inmates
- Godino returned to the wake of victim Jesualdo Giordano and manually exposed the nail wound in the corpse's temple in front of the child's father
- Police found a newspaper clipping in Godino's pocket about one victim's murder with his photograph; when asked why he kept it, he said it made him feel important

Cayetano Santos Godino, Buenos Aires serial killer 1904-1912, Argentina first documented serial killer, child murders, forensic evidence, system failure, criminal psychology, unsolved mysteries, true crime English

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November 1985. A man walks through Bear Brook State Park in New Hampshire searching for deer. Instead, he finds a rusty industrial barrel sealed shut. Inside: human remains wrapped in black plastic, tied with electrical wire. A woman. A child. Dismembered. No one had reported them missing.

This episode explores the impossible mystery of invisible victims-women and children who vanished without triggering a single official investigation, a pattern of disappearances across eleven states and Canada, and the contradiction that would take fifteen years and a second barrel to reveal a connection. How does a family disappear without anyone noticing they are gone?

Victim: Marlis Hinyar, Mary Bow, Sara Maws
Date: November 1985 discovery; victims killed circa 1978-1981
Location: Bear Brook State Park, Allenstown, New Hampshire
Status: Solved 2019

- A hunter discovers a blue barrel containing a woman and child dismembered and wrapped in black bags tied with electrical wire in a remote New Hampshire forest.
- Fifteen years later, a second identical barrel is found 100 meters away, containing two more child skeletons, revealing the adult woman was the mother of multiple victims.
- DNA genealogy by civilian investigators-a librarian, genealogist, and DNA databases-solves what police could not, identifying the killer as Terrence Peter Rasmussen, who used five different names across eleven states.
- The victims' mother, Marlis Hinyar, disappeared in 1978 with her two daughters, reported missing only in a private notice published nineteen years later that police had never connected to the barrel investigation.

Marlis Hinyar, Bear Brook State Park, New Hampshire, 1985, Rasmussen serial killer, dismembered remains, genealogy investigation, invisible victims, forensic DNA, multiple identities, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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November 1985. A man walks through Bear Brook State Park in New Hampshire searching for deer. Instead, he finds a rusty industrial barrel sealed shut. Inside: human remains wrapped in black plastic, tied with electrical wire. A woman. A child. Dismembered. No one had reported them missing.

This episode explores the impossible mystery of invisible victims-women and children who vanished without triggering a single official investigation, a pattern of disappearances across eleven states and Canada, and the contradiction that would take fifteen years and a second barrel to reveal a connection. How does a family disappear without anyone noticing they are gone?

Victim: Marlis Hinyar, Mary Bow, Sara Maws
Date: November 1985 discovery; victims killed circa 1978-1981
Location: Bear Brook State Park, Allenstown, New Hampshire
Status: Solved 2019

- A hunter discovers a blue barrel containing a woman and child dismembered and wrapped in black bags tied with electrical wire in a remote New Hampshire forest.
- Fifteen years later, a second identical barrel is found 100 meters away, containing two more child skeletons, revealing the adult woman was the mother of multiple victims.
- DNA genealogy by civilian investigators-a librarian, genealogist, and DNA databases-solves what police could not, identifying the killer as Terrence Peter Rasmussen, who used five different names across eleven states.
- The victims' mother, Marlis Hinyar, disappeared in 1978 with her two daughters, reported missing only in a private notice published nineteen years later that police had never connected to the barrel investigation.

Marlis Hinyar, Bear Brook State Park, New Hampshire, 1985, Rasmussen serial killer, dismembered remains, genealogy investigation, invisible victims, forensic DNA, multiple identities, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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September twenty-first, nineteen sixty-four. Helena Bensen left a Krakow church unaware that a knife wound had pierced her back. No one around her noticed-not even the attacker, a seventeen-year-old boy who would later describe that moment as the most pleasurable of his life.

In this episode, we explore how a young man with access to an armory, a collection of sixteen bladed weapons, and an annotated atlas of human anatomy operated for two years while his confessions to a close friend went unreported. We examine the gap between his calm public image and the detailed sadistic fantasies he verbalized at school, and the silence that allowed him to escalate from stabbing women in enclosed spaces to the murder of a child.

Victim: Helena Bensen (first attack), Leszek Kędzierski (murder), Małgosia (child victim)
Date: September 1964 - July 1966
Location: Krakow, Poland
Status: Executed May 1968

- A seventeen-year-old national youth champion in target shooting had fantasized about a mass shooting from the armory but instead began stabbing women in churches and stairwells.
- His close friend Danusa Bodarcheek heard him confess to multiple attacks in detail over months but did not report him until details published in the press matched what he had told her.
- Police deliberately delayed his arrest until after his final exams to prove in court that he possessed the cognitive ability to understand his actions.
- During a formal victim identification lineup, Kot calmly told Francesca Lewandowska: "You have a good memory. Come here so I can finish you off."

Karol Kot, Krakow Poland 1964, serial killer, stabbings, young offender, psychiatric evaluation, homicide investigation, criminal psychology, true crime English

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© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544740Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:13:40 +0000Creator at ObomediaWoman Walks Out of Church Not Knowing She's Been Stabbed in the Back: The Serial Attacks of Karol Kot September twenty-first, nineteen sixty-four. Helena Bensen left a Krakow church unaware that a knife wound had pierced her back. No one around her...
September twenty-first, nineteen sixty-four. Helena Bensen left a Krakow church unaware that a knife wound had pierced her back. No one around her noticed-not even the attacker, a seventeen-year-old boy who would later describe that moment as the most pleasurable of his life.

In this episode, we explore how a young man with access to an armory, a collection of sixteen bladed weapons, and an annotated atlas of human anatomy operated for two years while his confessions to a close friend went unreported. We examine the gap between his calm public image and the detailed sadistic fantasies he verbalized at school, and the silence that allowed him to escalate from stabbing women in enclosed spaces to the murder of a child.

Victim: Helena Bensen (first attack), Leszek Kędzierski (murder), Małgosia (child victim)
Date: September 1964 - July 1966
Location: Krakow, Poland
Status: Executed May 1968

- A seventeen-year-old national youth champion in target shooting had fantasized about a mass shooting from the armory but instead began stabbing women in churches and stairwells.
- His close friend Danusa Bodarcheek heard him confess to multiple attacks in detail over months but did not report him until details published in the press matched what he had told her.
- Police deliberately delayed his arrest until after his final exams to prove in court that he possessed the cognitive ability to understand his actions.
- During a formal victim identification lineup, Kot calmly told Francesca Lewandowska: "You have a good memory. Come here so I can finish you off."

Karol Kot, Krakow Poland 1964, serial killer, stabbings, young offender, psychiatric evaluation, homicide investigation, criminal psychology, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A blue vehicle stopped next to the curb on a Phoenix street. Gunfire erupted. The driver vanished before witnesses could process what had happened. What no one knew was that inside that car were two men who had spent fourteen months murdering strangers for entertainment-and one of them had already left behind the evidence that would destroy them both.

Explore how between May 2005 and August 2006, residents across Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa, and Glendale lived under a reign of random terror. We examine the thirty-seven attacks, eight confirmed homicides, and the systematic documentation that Dale Hausner kept in black folders titled "The Hausner Way." The investigation stalled until a chance bar conversation, a map marked with red dots, and a single .410 casing revealed the identities of Arizona's most prolific serial shooters.

Victim: Tony Méndez
Date: May 17, 2005 - August 3, 2006
Location: Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa, and Glendale, Arizona
Status: Both suspects arrested and convicted

- Dale Hausner worked as a janitor at Phoenix airport and appeared kind to colleagues while keeping meticulous press clipping archives of his own crimes
- Samuel Dieteman competed with Hausner in a documented rivalry, each trying to outdo the other in number of attacks
- A television editor leaked the .22 caliber weapon information publicly, causing the shooter to switch weapons and continue undetected for months longer
- Ron Orton overheard Dieteman confess to shootings at a bar and recognized him on television news, providing the single detail-the .410 shotgun-that validated his credibility

Tony Méndez, Phoenix shooting spree, serial killers Arizona, homicide investigation, random recreational violence, true crime investigation, unsolved murders, forensic evidence, criminal minds, serial shooters, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544739Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:13:37 +0000Creator at ObomediaBlue sedan pulls up and opens fire as two men hunt for sport: The Serial Shooting Spree of Tony Méndez A blue vehicle stopped next to the curb on a Phoenix street. Gunfire erupted. The driver vanished before witnesses could process what had...
A blue vehicle stopped next to the curb on a Phoenix street. Gunfire erupted. The driver vanished before witnesses could process what had happened. What no one knew was that inside that car were two men who had spent fourteen months murdering strangers for entertainment-and one of them had already left behind the evidence that would destroy them both.

Explore how between May 2005 and August 2006, residents across Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa, and Glendale lived under a reign of random terror. We examine the thirty-seven attacks, eight confirmed homicides, and the systematic documentation that Dale Hausner kept in black folders titled "The Hausner Way." The investigation stalled until a chance bar conversation, a map marked with red dots, and a single .410 casing revealed the identities of Arizona's most prolific serial shooters.

Victim: Tony Méndez
Date: May 17, 2005 - August 3, 2006
Location: Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa, and Glendale, Arizona
Status: Both suspects arrested and convicted

- Dale Hausner worked as a janitor at Phoenix airport and appeared kind to colleagues while keeping meticulous press clipping archives of his own crimes
- Samuel Dieteman competed with Hausner in a documented rivalry, each trying to outdo the other in number of attacks
- A television editor leaked the .22 caliber weapon information publicly, causing the shooter to switch weapons and continue undetected for months longer
- Ron Orton overheard Dieteman confess to shootings at a bar and recognized him on television news, providing the single detail-the .410 shotgun-that validated his credibility

Tony Méndez, Phoenix shooting spree, serial killers Arizona, homicide investigation, random recreational violence, true crime investigation, unsolved murders, forensic evidence, criminal minds, serial shooters, true crime English

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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On the morning of April 20, 1999, two propane bombs rested on the floor of Columbine High School's cafeteria while nearly five hundred students ate breakfast meters away. The explosives were designed to collapse the ceiling and kill indiscriminately, but they never detonated-a technical failure that meant the difference between a massacre and an unimaginable catastrophe. Yet the attack that followed killed thirteen and wounded twenty-four, raising one question no one could ignore: how did two teenagers build an arsenal over a year without anyone stopping them?

In this episode, we reconstruct the attack minute by minute and examine the documented institutional failures that made it possible. We analyze Eric Harris's journals-which he called "The Book of God"-alongside Dylan Klebold's writings about depression and suicide, revealing two attackers with fundamentally different motivations. We investigate the ignored death threats posted online in 1997, the legal gun purchase made by an eighteen-year-old girl, the school's profile of popular students as targets, and the nearly four-hour delay before SWAT teams entered the building-a delay that sealed Teacher William Sanders's fate.

Victim: Twelve students and one teacher
Date: April 20, 1999
Location: Columbine High School, Littleton, Colorado
Status: Resolved; attackers deceased

- Two propane bombs in the cafeteria failed to detonate, preventing an estimated death toll far exceeding thirteen
- Eric Harris posted explicit death threats and bomb-making manuals on his website in 1997; the complaint filed by a parent was archived and ignored
- Harris and Klebold's journals reveal opposite psychological profiles: one describing a historic extermination plan, the other expressing suicidal ideation
- The SWAT team did not enter until 3:30 p.m., more than four hours after the attack began, while injured Teacher William Sanders bled to death waiting for emergency intervention

Columbine High School massacre, Littleton Colorado 1999, school shooting, propane bombs, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, institutional failures, forensic analysis, homicide investigation, true crime English

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On the morning of April 20, 1999, two propane bombs rested on the floor of Columbine High School's cafeteria while nearly five hundred students ate breakfast meters away. The explosives were designed to collapse the ceiling and kill indiscriminately, but they never detonated-a technical failure that meant the difference between a massacre and an unimaginable catastrophe. Yet the attack that followed killed thirteen and wounded twenty-four, raising one question no one could ignore: how did two teenagers build an arsenal over a year without anyone stopping them?

In this episode, we reconstruct the attack minute by minute and examine the documented institutional failures that made it possible. We analyze Eric Harris's journals-which he called "The Book of God"-alongside Dylan Klebold's writings about depression and suicide, revealing two attackers with fundamentally different motivations. We investigate the ignored death threats posted online in 1997, the legal gun purchase made by an eighteen-year-old girl, the school's profile of popular students as targets, and the nearly four-hour delay before SWAT teams entered the building-a delay that sealed Teacher William Sanders's fate.

Victim: Twelve students and one teacher
Date: April 20, 1999
Location: Columbine High School, Littleton, Colorado
Status: Resolved; attackers deceased

- Two propane bombs in the cafeteria failed to detonate, preventing an estimated death toll far exceeding thirteen
- Eric Harris posted explicit death threats and bomb-making manuals on his website in 1997; the complaint filed by a parent was archived and ignored
- Harris and Klebold's journals reveal opposite psychological profiles: one describing a historic extermination plan, the other expressing suicidal ideation
- The SWAT team did not enter until 3:30 p.m., more than four hours after the attack began, while injured Teacher William Sanders bled to death waiting for emergency intervention

Columbine High School massacre, Littleton Colorado 1999, school shooting, propane bombs, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, institutional failures, forensic analysis, homicide investigation, true crime English

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A man lies in a Madrid hospital bed in September 1993 and tells staff he has killed someone. He names the victim. He gives the exact location. The doctors dismiss it as delirium. Forty-eight hours later, police discover the body exactly where he said it would be-but by then, eleven more victims are already hidden in a well near the cemetery, waiting to be found.

In this episode, we explore the cascade of missed warnings that allowed a confessed killer to operate freely for six years: psychiatric admissions where he openly admitted to homicide, evaluations that deemed him manageable, and a system that never connected the pattern of homeless victims found near La Almudena cemetery. How many times did García Escalero walk into a hospital and tell staff what he had done? And why did no one report him until a body turned up exactly where a psychiatric patient said it would?

Victim: Víctor Luis Criado Martí (first identified victim)
Date: September 1993
Location: La Almudena Cemetery, Madrid, Spain
Status: Confessed, Convicted

- A psychiatric patient voluntarily confesses to murder from a hospital bed and describes the exact location of the body, and hospital staff interpret it as delirium instead of reporting it to police
- García Escalero had walked into psychiatric centers on multiple occasions years earlier and admitted to killing people, but no center filed a police report
- The killer deliberately amputated his victims' fingers to prevent identification, proving he was calculating and methodical, not in a state of complete psychotic break
- Eleven sets of human remains were eventually recovered from a well near the cemetery-all homeless individuals with no one to report them missing, making them invisible to the investigative system

Francisco García Escalero, Madrid serial killer 1987-1993, psychiatric system failure, homeless victims, La Almudena cemetery murders, systemic negligence, Spanish true crime, criminal psychology, institutional oversight, homicide investigation, true crime English

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A man lies in a Madrid hospital bed in September 1993 and tells staff he has killed someone. He names the victim. He gives the exact location. The doctors dismiss it as delirium. Forty-eight hours later, police discover the body exactly where he said it would be-but by then, eleven more victims are already hidden in a well near the cemetery, waiting to be found.

In this episode, we explore the cascade of missed warnings that allowed a confessed killer to operate freely for six years: psychiatric admissions where he openly admitted to homicide, evaluations that deemed him manageable, and a system that never connected the pattern of homeless victims found near La Almudena cemetery. How many times did García Escalero walk into a hospital and tell staff what he had done? And why did no one report him until a body turned up exactly where a psychiatric patient said it would?

Victim: Víctor Luis Criado Martí (first identified victim)
Date: September 1993
Location: La Almudena Cemetery, Madrid, Spain
Status: Confessed, Convicted

- A psychiatric patient voluntarily confesses to murder from a hospital bed and describes the exact location of the body, and hospital staff interpret it as delirium instead of reporting it to police
- García Escalero had walked into psychiatric centers on multiple occasions years earlier and admitted to killing people, but no center filed a police report
- The killer deliberately amputated his victims' fingers to prevent identification, proving he was calculating and methodical, not in a state of complete psychotic break
- Eleven sets of human remains were eventually recovered from a well near the cemetery-all homeless individuals with no one to report them missing, making them invisible to the investigative system

Francisco García Escalero, Madrid serial killer 1987-1993, psychiatric system failure, homeless victims, La Almudena cemetery murders, systemic negligence, Spanish true crime, criminal psychology, institutional oversight, homicide investigation, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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It is 1:10 a.m. on May 14, 1983, when a California Highway Patrol officer stops a Toyota Celica on Interstate 5 near Mission Viejo. The driver smells of alcohol, and the passenger appears to be sleeping. But when the officer tries to wake him, he discovers something impossible: the young man's hands are bound, his genitals mutilated, and he has been dead for hours. The driver, Randy Craft, simply smiles.

In this episode, we explore how a stable, six-figure earning computer programmer operated as a serial killer for over twelve years without detection, the notebook of sixty-one coded entries found under his seat that unlocked decades of unsolved murders, and the institutional failures that allowed him to evade detection across multiple counties and states. Why did forensic investigators find Polaroid photographs of unconscious and deceased victims in his trunk, and how did a pencil from a Michigan hotel become the crucial link connecting murders two thousand kilometers apart?

Victim: Terry Gambrell
Date: May 14, 1983
Location: Interstate 5, Mission Viejo, California
Status: Arrested and charged

- Officer discovers passenger with bound hands and mutilated genitals dead in moving vehicle on interstate highway
- Trunk contains forty-seven Polaroid photographs of abused young men, several already deceased when photographed
- Notebook with sixty-one coded entries found under driver's seat, each code corresponding to a different victim across twelve years
- Crimes nearly stopped during Craft's twenty-month stable relationship with Jeffrey Silig, resuming immediately after breakup

Terry Gambrell, Randy Craft, serial killer California, Mission Viejo 1983, highway murders, organized violence, homicide investigation, unsolved crimes, forensic evidence, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544734Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:13:29 +0000Creator at ObomediaOfficer Wakes Passenger and Realizes Hands Are Tied and Neck Strangled: The Serial Murders of Terry Gambrell and 60 Other Victims by Randy Craft It is 1:10 a.m. on May 14, 1983, when a California Highway Patrol officer stops a Toyota Celica on...
It is 1:10 a.m. on May 14, 1983, when a California Highway Patrol officer stops a Toyota Celica on Interstate 5 near Mission Viejo. The driver smells of alcohol, and the passenger appears to be sleeping. But when the officer tries to wake him, he discovers something impossible: the young man's hands are bound, his genitals mutilated, and he has been dead for hours. The driver, Randy Craft, simply smiles.

In this episode, we explore how a stable, six-figure earning computer programmer operated as a serial killer for over twelve years without detection, the notebook of sixty-one coded entries found under his seat that unlocked decades of unsolved murders, and the institutional failures that allowed him to evade detection across multiple counties and states. Why did forensic investigators find Polaroid photographs of unconscious and deceased victims in his trunk, and how did a pencil from a Michigan hotel become the crucial link connecting murders two thousand kilometers apart?

Victim: Terry Gambrell
Date: May 14, 1983
Location: Interstate 5, Mission Viejo, California
Status: Arrested and charged

- Officer discovers passenger with bound hands and mutilated genitals dead in moving vehicle on interstate highway
- Trunk contains forty-seven Polaroid photographs of abused young men, several already deceased when photographed
- Notebook with sixty-one coded entries found under driver's seat, each code corresponding to a different victim across twelve years
- Crimes nearly stopped during Craft's twenty-month stable relationship with Jeffrey Silig, resuming immediately after breakup

Terry Gambrell, Randy Craft, serial killer California, Mission Viejo 1983, highway murders, organized violence, homicide investigation, unsolved crimes, forensic evidence, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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November 26, 1996. A daughter arrives home in Eustis, Florida, and discovers her parents beaten beyond recognition-her father struck twenty-two times, her mother's brainstem severed. The family car is gone. Her sister is missing. Within forty-eight hours, police arrest five teenagers in Louisiana, and the sixteen-year-old at the center confesses immediately, showing zero remorse as he blows kisses to photographers.

We explore how a high school boy traveled ten hours from Kentucky with a cult following, how a metal bar became the instrument of execution, and why the warning signs-animal killings, school expulsion, documented abuse-triggered no institutional response before the murders occurred. At the center: an unanswered question about what Heather Wendorf, the victims' youngest daughter and the suspect's girlfriend, knew before that night.

Victim: Richard Wendorf, Naomi Queen Wendorf
Date: November 25-26, 1996
Location: Eustis, Lake County, Florida
Status: Roderick Ferrer sentenced to death; case closed

- Ferrer adopted the occult alias "Vesago" at age fourteen and built a vampire cult recruiting abused teenagers through blood rituals and psychological manipulation
- He killed two dogs at an animal shelter in Kentucky weeks before the murders, yet was never institutionally flagged for escalating violence
- During the ten-hour drive to Florida, Ferrer repeatedly told his followers he would kill when they arrived-a statement no one prevented
- The phrase "Take care of my parents" spoken to Heather hours before the attack remains ambiguous: metaphor or direct instruction to eliminate witnesses

Roderick Ferrer, Eustis Florida murders 1996, metal bar, death row youngest inmate, vampire cult homicide, occult ritual murder, criminal minds investigation, true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544733Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:13:25 +0000Creator at ObomediaTeenager Sticks Out Tongue at Cameras After Confessing to Murdering Parents with Metal Bar: The Double Homicide of Richard and Naomi Wendorf November 26, 1996. A daughter arrives home in Eustis, Florida, and discovers her parents beaten beyond...
November 26, 1996. A daughter arrives home in Eustis, Florida, and discovers her parents beaten beyond recognition-her father struck twenty-two times, her mother's brainstem severed. The family car is gone. Her sister is missing. Within forty-eight hours, police arrest five teenagers in Louisiana, and the sixteen-year-old at the center confesses immediately, showing zero remorse as he blows kisses to photographers.

We explore how a high school boy traveled ten hours from Kentucky with a cult following, how a metal bar became the instrument of execution, and why the warning signs-animal killings, school expulsion, documented abuse-triggered no institutional response before the murders occurred. At the center: an unanswered question about what Heather Wendorf, the victims' youngest daughter and the suspect's girlfriend, knew before that night.

Victim: Richard Wendorf, Naomi Queen Wendorf
Date: November 25-26, 1996
Location: Eustis, Lake County, Florida
Status: Roderick Ferrer sentenced to death; case closed

- Ferrer adopted the occult alias "Vesago" at age fourteen and built a vampire cult recruiting abused teenagers through blood rituals and psychological manipulation
- He killed two dogs at an animal shelter in Kentucky weeks before the murders, yet was never institutionally flagged for escalating violence
- During the ten-hour drive to Florida, Ferrer repeatedly told his followers he would kill when they arrived-a statement no one prevented
- The phrase "Take care of my parents" spoken to Heather hours before the attack remains ambiguous: metaphor or direct instruction to eliminate witnesses

Roderick Ferrer, Eustis Florida murders 1996, metal bar, death row youngest inmate, vampire cult homicide, occult ritual murder, criminal minds investigation, true crime

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

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A working-class family in east Richmond became a machine of violence that killed eleven people in less than seven months. The father locked his bedroom door at night-not to protect valuables, but to protect himself from his own children. Nobody stopped them until a turquoise ring on a teenager's finger cracked open the case.

In this episode, we trace how early warning signs were missed, how separate murders were never connected, and how the juvenile justice system's brief sentences may have sent a signal that violence would have no real consequences. We examine the contradiction between the helpful yard-work family that neighbors knew and the systematic predators operating behind closed doors, alongside the coordinated radio-monitored kills that terrorized a city.

Victim: Pauline Christian, Michael McGrath, Harvey Wilkerson, Judy Burton, and seven others
Date: March 1979 - October 1979
Location: Richmond and Henrico County, Virginia
Status: Convicted; escaped death row May 31, 1984

- Linwood Brownlee killed a stranger from a rooftop in 1971 at age 16 and received only one year in juvenile detention
- The gang used a police radio scanner in their vehicle to monitor active patrol quadrants in real-time while hunting victims
- A single turquoise ring belonging to murdered broadcaster Johnny Gallagher, worn on Linwood's hand, was the first crack in their seven-month spree
- Six death row inmates escaped Mecklenburg Correctional Center by impersonating riot guards with real uniforms and a fake explosive device on a stretcher

Pauline Christian, Michael McGrath, Harvey Wilkerson, Judy Burton, Christopher Phillips, Richmond murders 1979, Brownlee brothers, serial killers, juvenile justice failure, homicide investigation, unsolved escape, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A working-class family in east Richmond became a machine of violence that killed eleven people in less than seven months. The father locked his bedroom door at night-not to protect valuables, but to protect himself from his own children. Nobody stopped them until a turquoise ring on a teenager's finger cracked open the case.

In this episode, we trace how early warning signs were missed, how separate murders were never connected, and how the juvenile justice system's brief sentences may have sent a signal that violence would have no real consequences. We examine the contradiction between the helpful yard-work family that neighbors knew and the systematic predators operating behind closed doors, alongside the coordinated radio-monitored kills that terrorized a city.

Victim: Pauline Christian, Michael McGrath, Harvey Wilkerson, Judy Burton, and seven others
Date: March 1979 - October 1979
Location: Richmond and Henrico County, Virginia
Status: Convicted; escaped death row May 31, 1984

- Linwood Brownlee killed a stranger from a rooftop in 1971 at age 16 and received only one year in juvenile detention
- The gang used a police radio scanner in their vehicle to monitor active patrol quadrants in real-time while hunting victims
- A single turquoise ring belonging to murdered broadcaster Johnny Gallagher, worn on Linwood's hand, was the first crack in their seven-month spree
- Six death row inmates escaped Mecklenburg Correctional Center by impersonating riot guards with real uniforms and a fake explosive device on a stretcher

Pauline Christian, Michael McGrath, Harvey Wilkerson, Judy Burton, Christopher Phillips, Richmond murders 1979, Brownlee brothers, serial killers, juvenile justice failure, homicide investigation, unsolved escape, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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February 3, 1972. Inside a Buenos Aires hardware store: two corpses, a lit blowtorch, and a charred pocket holding one intact document. That forgotten paper was enough to capture the most prolific killer in Argentine history-a quiet, piano-playing boy who had murdered eleven people in eleven months without remorse.

In this episode, we trace Isabella Robledo Puch's transformation from middle-class student to serial killer, examining the relationship with his accomplice Jorge Ibáñez, the methodical escalation of violence, and the single oversight that ended his spree. How did a boy with no visible warning signs become Argentina's deadliest criminal? And why did he confess so readily when arrested?

Victim: Isabella Robledo Puch (perpetrator), Héctor Somoza, Acevedo, and nine others
Date: February 3, 1972
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Status: Life imprisonment without parole since 1980

- Guard Acevedo executed, then Somoza shot and burned to destroy fingerprints, yet his identity card survived intact in the charred pocket
- In eleven months, Robledo murdered eleven people-a number no Argentine criminal had reached before or since
- Inside his parents' piano: two .38 revolvers, five .22 caliber weapons, stolen money, and items linked to previous crimes
- His accomplice Jorge Ibáñez died in a car accident on August 5, 1971-the only person who benefited was Robledo himself

Isabella Robledo Puch, Buenos Aires 1972, eleven homicides, serial killer, psychopath, Argentine criminal history, homicide investigation, unsolved psychology, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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February 3, 1972. Inside a Buenos Aires hardware store: two corpses, a lit blowtorch, and a charred pocket holding one intact document. That forgotten paper was enough to capture the most prolific killer in Argentine history-a quiet, piano-playing boy who had murdered eleven people in eleven months without remorse.

In this episode, we trace Isabella Robledo Puch's transformation from middle-class student to serial killer, examining the relationship with his accomplice Jorge Ibáñez, the methodical escalation of violence, and the single oversight that ended his spree. How did a boy with no visible warning signs become Argentina's deadliest criminal? And why did he confess so readily when arrested?

Victim: Isabella Robledo Puch (perpetrator), Héctor Somoza, Acevedo, and nine others
Date: February 3, 1972
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Status: Life imprisonment without parole since 1980

- Guard Acevedo executed, then Somoza shot and burned to destroy fingerprints, yet his identity card survived intact in the charred pocket
- In eleven months, Robledo murdered eleven people-a number no Argentine criminal had reached before or since
- Inside his parents' piano: two .38 revolvers, five .22 caliber weapons, stolen money, and items linked to previous crimes
- His accomplice Jorge Ibáñez died in a car accident on August 5, 1971-the only person who benefited was Robledo himself

Isabella Robledo Puch, Buenos Aires 1972, eleven homicides, serial killer, psychopath, Argentine criminal history, homicide investigation, unsolved psychology, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

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In the spring of 1991, a small English hospital witnessed thirteen documented medical crises in nine weeks. Children admitted with minor illnesses collapsed without explanation. Some died. Others were transferred urgently to larger hospitals with inexplicable injuries: broken ribs, pinch marks, air bubbles under the skin, insulin levels forty-seven thousand times normal. One nurse was present at every single incident.

We explore how Beverly Allitt, rejected from her first nursing job for negative reports, was hired anyway due to staff shortages and given unlimited access to newborn babies and ward medications. We examine the contradictions that emerged: parents who trusted her enough to hire her a lawyer, a girl named Katie left deaf and partially blind after two cardiac arrests, and Allitt's calm smile captured on camera the moment police arrested her in November 1991.

Victim: Becky Phillips, Liam Taylor, Timothy Hardwicke, Claire Peck (and nine additional victims of serious assault)
Date: February-April 1991
Location: Grantham and Kesteven General Hospital, Lincolnshire, England
Status: Convicted, sentenced to thirteen life sentences, detained at Rampton Secure Hospital

- Four children died in nine weeks; no other staff member was present at all thirteen documented incidents.
- Paul Crampton's blood insulin levels measured 47,000 units per liter; normal range is 10-15 units.
- Katie Phillips, weeks old, survived with broken ribs, pinch marks, deafness, partial blindness, and cerebral palsy after being attacked twice by the same nurse inside the hospital.
- Allitt's pattern extended beyond the hospital: she poisoned a family member's juice and a friend's dog died from sudden seizures after she visited.

Beverly Allitt, Grantham pediatric ward murders 1991, Lincolnshire England, Munchausen syndrome by proxy, hospital homicide, infanticide, serial killer nurse, factitious disorder, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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In the spring of 1991, a small English hospital witnessed thirteen documented medical crises in nine weeks. Children admitted with minor illnesses collapsed without explanation. Some died. Others were transferred urgently to larger hospitals with inexplicable injuries: broken ribs, pinch marks, air bubbles under the skin, insulin levels forty-seven thousand times normal. One nurse was present at every single incident.

We explore how Beverly Allitt, rejected from her first nursing job for negative reports, was hired anyway due to staff shortages and given unlimited access to newborn babies and ward medications. We examine the contradictions that emerged: parents who trusted her enough to hire her a lawyer, a girl named Katie left deaf and partially blind after two cardiac arrests, and Allitt's calm smile captured on camera the moment police arrested her in November 1991.

Victim: Becky Phillips, Liam Taylor, Timothy Hardwicke, Claire Peck (and nine additional victims of serious assault)
Date: February-April 1991
Location: Grantham and Kesteven General Hospital, Lincolnshire, England
Status: Convicted, sentenced to thirteen life sentences, detained at Rampton Secure Hospital

- Four children died in nine weeks; no other staff member was present at all thirteen documented incidents.
- Paul Crampton's blood insulin levels measured 47,000 units per liter; normal range is 10-15 units.
- Katie Phillips, weeks old, survived with broken ribs, pinch marks, deafness, partial blindness, and cerebral palsy after being attacked twice by the same nurse inside the hospital.
- Allitt's pattern extended beyond the hospital: she poisoned a family member's juice and a friend's dog died from sudden seizures after she visited.

Beverly Allitt, Grantham pediatric ward murders 1991, Lincolnshire England, Munchausen syndrome by proxy, hospital homicide, infanticide, serial killer nurse, factitious disorder, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A stench so overwhelming that neighbors blamed the sausage factory next door. For two years, the smell poured from 12025 Imperial Avenue in Cleveland while families filed missing-person reports that went nowhere. The impossible detail: officers visited that house multiple times, took rape complaints from survivors, even watched security footage of a woman falling from a second-floor window-and Anthony Sowell remained free.

In this episode, we explore how a registered sex offender under active state supervision murdered eleven African American women while the system watched and looked away. We examine the ignored rape complaint filed as attempted robbery, the survivors whose reports were buried, and the structural failures that allowed a methodical predator to operate unchecked for over two years until October 29, 2009, when officers could no longer deny what lay inside that house.

Victim: Crystal Dozier, Tonia Carmichael, Leshanda Long, and eight others
Date: June 2007 - October 2009
Location: 12025 Imperial Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
Status: Convicted; sentenced to life without parole

- Sowell was a registered sex offender under active state supervision, yet officers found no anomalies during a September 2009 home visit the same day he attacked another woman
- A survivor filed a formal rape complaint in December 2008 that was deliberately misclassified as attempted robbery on the police form, resulting in his release
- Security camera footage captured a naked woman falling from a second-floor window on October 20, 2009; police allowed Sowell to take her to the hospital and did not arrest him
- Eleven bodies in various states of decomposition-two on the third floor, one in the basement beside a skull in a plastic bucket, five buried in the backyard-were discovered on October 29, 2009

Crystal Dozier, Tonia Carmichael, Leshanda Long, Cleveland Imperial Avenue serial killer, 2007-2009, homicide investigation, murder investigation, forensic evidence, registered sex offender, institutional failure, true crime English

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A stench so overwhelming that neighbors blamed the sausage factory next door. For two years, the smell poured from 12025 Imperial Avenue in Cleveland while families filed missing-person reports that went nowhere. The impossible detail: officers visited that house multiple times, took rape complaints from survivors, even watched security footage of a woman falling from a second-floor window-and Anthony Sowell remained free.

In this episode, we explore how a registered sex offender under active state supervision murdered eleven African American women while the system watched and looked away. We examine the ignored rape complaint filed as attempted robbery, the survivors whose reports were buried, and the structural failures that allowed a methodical predator to operate unchecked for over two years until October 29, 2009, when officers could no longer deny what lay inside that house.

Victim: Crystal Dozier, Tonia Carmichael, Leshanda Long, and eight others
Date: June 2007 - October 2009
Location: 12025 Imperial Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
Status: Convicted; sentenced to life without parole

- Sowell was a registered sex offender under active state supervision, yet officers found no anomalies during a September 2009 home visit the same day he attacked another woman
- A survivor filed a formal rape complaint in December 2008 that was deliberately misclassified as attempted robbery on the police form, resulting in his release
- Security camera footage captured a naked woman falling from a second-floor window on October 20, 2009; police allowed Sowell to take her to the hospital and did not arrest him
- Eleven bodies in various states of decomposition-two on the third floor, one in the basement beside a skull in a plastic bucket, five buried in the backyard-were discovered on October 29, 2009

Crystal Dozier, Tonia Carmichael, Leshanda Long, Cleveland Imperial Avenue serial killer, 2007-2009, homicide investigation, murder investigation, forensic evidence, registered sex offender, institutional failure, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A one-eyed drifter sits alone in a Texas cell in 1983 and begins confessing to murders across nineteen states. Within months, police departments from across America are calling to claim his crimes as solved. But the deeper investigators dig, the more impossible the timeline becomes: Lucas describes murders in two states on the same day, with forensic accuracy in some cases and complete fabrication in others.

In this episode, we examine the contradictions that defined one of America's most extensive criminal investigations: solid physical evidence for two victims set against hundreds of unverified confessions, a partner named Otis Toole whose own claims shift and collapse, and a six-year-old boy named Adam Walsh whose killer remains officially uncertain decades later. The central question that emerged from within the Texas Rangers themselves exposes a flaw no one wanted to address: did the system itself build the confessions it was desperate to believe?

Victim: Kate Rich and Becky Powell
Date: June 11, 1983
Location: Montague County, Texas and surrounding states
Status: Two confirmed convictions; hundreds of additional confessions unverified

- Lucas confessed to murdering over a hundred people, yet investigators found only two bodies with physical evidence matching his descriptions
- On specific dates Lucas claimed murders occurred, work records and witness statements placed him hundreds of miles away
- Texas prosecutor Jim Mattox's 1985 independent review concluded most "solved" cases lacked any independent physical evidence beyond Lucas's words
- Governor George W. Bush commuted Lucas's death sentence in 1998, signaling the case's evidentiary collapse-his only commutation during his entire governorship

Henry Lee Lucas, Kate Rich, Becky Powell, Adam Walsh, Texas serial killer, Otis Toole, 1983 confessions, murder investigation, criminal psychology, forensic flaws, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A one-eyed drifter sits alone in a Texas cell in 1983 and begins confessing to murders across nineteen states. Within months, police departments from across America are calling to claim his crimes as solved. But the deeper investigators dig, the more impossible the timeline becomes: Lucas describes murders in two states on the same day, with forensic accuracy in some cases and complete fabrication in others.

In this episode, we examine the contradictions that defined one of America's most extensive criminal investigations: solid physical evidence for two victims set against hundreds of unverified confessions, a partner named Otis Toole whose own claims shift and collapse, and a six-year-old boy named Adam Walsh whose killer remains officially uncertain decades later. The central question that emerged from within the Texas Rangers themselves exposes a flaw no one wanted to address: did the system itself build the confessions it was desperate to believe?

Victim: Kate Rich and Becky Powell
Date: June 11, 1983
Location: Montague County, Texas and surrounding states
Status: Two confirmed convictions; hundreds of additional confessions unverified

- Lucas confessed to murdering over a hundred people, yet investigators found only two bodies with physical evidence matching his descriptions
- On specific dates Lucas claimed murders occurred, work records and witness statements placed him hundreds of miles away
- Texas prosecutor Jim Mattox's 1985 independent review concluded most "solved" cases lacked any independent physical evidence beyond Lucas's words
- Governor George W. Bush commuted Lucas's death sentence in 1998, signaling the case's evidentiary collapse-his only commutation during his entire governorship

Henry Lee Lucas, Kate Rich, Becky Powell, Adam Walsh, Texas serial killer, Otis Toole, 1983 confessions, murder investigation, criminal psychology, forensic flaws, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name...]]>1196falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-river-holds-eleven-secrets-shawcross-unmasked--71544725
A police helicopter conducting aerial surveillance detected a corpse on the ice of the Genesee River on January 3, 1990. Within seconds, a man watching from a nearby bridge hurried into his vehicle and drove away. What investigators did not yet know was that this man had already murdered eleven women-and had been killing for two years while the city remained unaware.

In this episode, we explore how a convicted murderer released early from prison lived undetected in Rochester for years, how the bodies of women from Lake Avenue went unconnected for months, and why a critical failure in the sex offender database allowed a man serving time for killing children to operate freely. We examine the psychological contradictions that emerged during trial: a killer who claimed dissociation yet guided police to hidden bodies with perfect geographical recall.

Victim: Elizabeth Gibson, June Stott, Mary Welsh, June Cicero, Ann Marie Stephen, Dorothy Blackburn, Patricia Ives, Dorothy Keller
Date: 1988-1990
Location: Rochester, New York; Genesee River
Status: Convicted; Serving 250+ years

- Arthur Shawcross was a convicted murderer of two children in 1972, released after fourteen years, and relocated to Rochester without an updated sex offender alert
- FBI behavioral profiler Greg McCreery identified that the killer returned to bodies after death-a detail proven when one victim showed gravitational bleeding despite being found face down
- A witness named Joanne van Ostrand identified Shawcross from a photograph after he asked her to play dead during an encounter, matching McCreery's profile precisely
- The defense argued dissociative disorder and brain damage from a temporal lobe cyst, yet prosecution proved Shawcross remembered crimes coherently and located hidden bodies with exact directions

Arthur Shawcross, Rochester New York serial killer, Genesee River murders, 1990, serial killer profile, forensic evidence, dissociative disorder defense, true crime English

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A police helicopter conducting aerial surveillance detected a corpse on the ice of the Genesee River on January 3, 1990. Within seconds, a man watching from a nearby bridge hurried into his vehicle and drove away. What investigators did not yet know was that this man had already murdered eleven women-and had been killing for two years while the city remained unaware.

In this episode, we explore how a convicted murderer released early from prison lived undetected in Rochester for years, how the bodies of women from Lake Avenue went unconnected for months, and why a critical failure in the sex offender database allowed a man serving time for killing children to operate freely. We examine the psychological contradictions that emerged during trial: a killer who claimed dissociation yet guided police to hidden bodies with perfect geographical recall.

Victim: Elizabeth Gibson, June Stott, Mary Welsh, June Cicero, Ann Marie Stephen, Dorothy Blackburn, Patricia Ives, Dorothy Keller
Date: 1988-1990
Location: Rochester, New York; Genesee River
Status: Convicted; Serving 250+ years

- Arthur Shawcross was a convicted murderer of two children in 1972, released after fourteen years, and relocated to Rochester without an updated sex offender alert
- FBI behavioral profiler Greg McCreery identified that the killer returned to bodies after death-a detail proven when one victim showed gravitational bleeding despite being found face down
- A witness named Joanne van Ostrand identified Shawcross from a photograph after he asked her to play dead during an encounter, matching McCreery's profile precisely
- The defense argued dissociative disorder and brain damage from a temporal lobe cyst, yet prosecution proved Shawcross remembered crimes coherently and located hidden bodies with exact directions

Arthur Shawcross, Rochester New York serial killer, Genesee River murders, 1990, serial killer profile, forensic evidence, dissociative disorder defense, true crime English

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August 1966. Three teenagers at a baseball field in Everman, Texas are forced into the trunk of a 1955 Ford. What follows is one of the most brutal crimes in Texas history: the rape and murder of sixteen-year-old Edna Sullivan using a broomstick, and the murders of Marcus Danam and Robert Grant. Kenneth Allen McDuff is sentenced to death by electric chair. The case appears closed. It was not.

This episode explores the institutional failures that transformed a convicted triple murderer into a freed man, and the horrifying consequences of that release. We trace the commutation of his death sentence in 1972, the attempted bribery of a parole board member in 1980, and the administrative error that classified him as a minor-offense inmate in 1987-each link in a chain that should have held but broke.

Victim: Edna Sullivan, Marcus Danam, Robert Grant, and others
Date: August 6, 1966; Release October 11, 1989
Location: Everman and Austin, Texas
Status: Convicted; executed by lethal injection in 1998

- Kenneth McDuff was sentenced to death in 1966 for murdering three teenagers but had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment in 1972 when the Supreme Court temporarily banned executions nationwide.
- In 1980, someone attempted to bribe a parole board member to secure McDuff's release, but the bribe attempt was buried in bureaucratic error and never processed as a criminal charge.
- McDuff was released in October 1989 under a judicial agreement to reduce prison overcrowding, despite being classified incorrectly as a minor-offense inmate despite murdering three people.
- Within three days of his release, a body appeared; within two years, multiple women disappeared along the Interstate 35 corridor in patterns consistent with McDuff's known methods.

Kenneth Allen McDuff, Everman Texas, 1966 murder, triple homicide, serial killer, parole system failure, criminal justice, institutional failure, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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August 1966. Three teenagers at a baseball field in Everman, Texas are forced into the trunk of a 1955 Ford. What follows is one of the most brutal crimes in Texas history: the rape and murder of sixteen-year-old Edna Sullivan using a broomstick, and the murders of Marcus Danam and Robert Grant. Kenneth Allen McDuff is sentenced to death by electric chair. The case appears closed. It was not.

This episode explores the institutional failures that transformed a convicted triple murderer into a freed man, and the horrifying consequences of that release. We trace the commutation of his death sentence in 1972, the attempted bribery of a parole board member in 1980, and the administrative error that classified him as a minor-offense inmate in 1987-each link in a chain that should have held but broke.

Victim: Edna Sullivan, Marcus Danam, Robert Grant, and others
Date: August 6, 1966; Release October 11, 1989
Location: Everman and Austin, Texas
Status: Convicted; executed by lethal injection in 1998

- Kenneth McDuff was sentenced to death in 1966 for murdering three teenagers but had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment in 1972 when the Supreme Court temporarily banned executions nationwide.
- In 1980, someone attempted to bribe a parole board member to secure McDuff's release, but the bribe attempt was buried in bureaucratic error and never processed as a criminal charge.
- McDuff was released in October 1989 under a judicial agreement to reduce prison overcrowding, despite being classified incorrectly as a minor-offense inmate despite murdering three people.
- Within three days of his release, a body appeared; within two years, multiple women disappeared along the Interstate 35 corridor in patterns consistent with McDuff's known methods.

Kenneth Allen McDuff, Everman Texas, 1966 murder, triple homicide, serial killer, parole system failure, criminal justice, institutional failure, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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August 1, 1969: identical envelopes arrived at the Vallejo Times Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, and San Francisco Examiner. Inside, a 168-symbol cryptogram and a deadly ultimatum. The CIA couldn't break it. The FBI failed. A history teacher and his wife solved it in twenty hours at their kitchen table-but what they deciphered was not a name. It was something far more disturbing: a confession of philosophy, not identity.

This episode reconstructs the first four confirmed attacks between December 1968 and September 1969, the coded messages that paralyzed federal investigation, and the behavioral shift that changed everything. We examine the contradictions that still haunt the case: why did the killer evolve from silent nighttime shootings to daylight stabbings? Why did he build such an elaborate public presence? And why does the final segment of his cipher remain unsolved fifty years later?

Victim: Betty Lou Jensen, David Faraday, Darlene Ferrin, Michael Mageau, Bryan Hartnell, Cecilia Shepard
Date: December 1968 - September 1969
Location: Vallejo, San Francisco Bay Area, Lake Berryessa, Northern California
Status: Unsolved, active investigation

- The first victims, teenagers on a first date, were shot nine times with .22-caliber ammunition that left no rifling marks-making forensic linkage impossible even if the gun was found.
- A survivor described the killer as Caucasian, stocky, military haircut, aged 26-30-but he never appeared in any lineup, despite decades of tips.
- The killer's cryptogram promised to reveal his identity, yet the deciphered message contained no name, only an ideological statement about slaves in the afterlife.
- Lake Berryessa marked a radical behavioral shift: the killer moved from nighttime drive-by shootings to afternoon ambush with rope, knife, and homemade hood-same signature, completely different method.

Zodiac Killer, Betty Lou Jensen, Darlene Ferrin, Northern California murders, 1968-1969, cryptogram, unsolved homicide, serial killer investigation, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544723Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:13:05 +0000Creator at ObomediaThree Newsrooms Receive His Code or He Kills a Dozen More: The Zodiac Killer Murders of Northern California August 1, 1969: identical envelopes arrived at the Vallejo Times Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, and San Francisco Examiner. Inside, a...
August 1, 1969: identical envelopes arrived at the Vallejo Times Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, and San Francisco Examiner. Inside, a 168-symbol cryptogram and a deadly ultimatum. The CIA couldn't break it. The FBI failed. A history teacher and his wife solved it in twenty hours at their kitchen table-but what they deciphered was not a name. It was something far more disturbing: a confession of philosophy, not identity.

This episode reconstructs the first four confirmed attacks between December 1968 and September 1969, the coded messages that paralyzed federal investigation, and the behavioral shift that changed everything. We examine the contradictions that still haunt the case: why did the killer evolve from silent nighttime shootings to daylight stabbings? Why did he build such an elaborate public presence? And why does the final segment of his cipher remain unsolved fifty years later?

Victim: Betty Lou Jensen, David Faraday, Darlene Ferrin, Michael Mageau, Bryan Hartnell, Cecilia Shepard
Date: December 1968 - September 1969
Location: Vallejo, San Francisco Bay Area, Lake Berryessa, Northern California
Status: Unsolved, active investigation

- The first victims, teenagers on a first date, were shot nine times with .22-caliber ammunition that left no rifling marks-making forensic linkage impossible even if the gun was found.
- A survivor described the killer as Caucasian, stocky, military haircut, aged 26-30-but he never appeared in any lineup, despite decades of tips.
- The killer's cryptogram promised to reveal his identity, yet the deciphered message contained no name, only an ideological statement about slaves in the afterlife.
- Lake Berryessa marked a radical behavioral shift: the killer moved from nighttime drive-by shootings to afternoon ambush with rope, knife, and homemade hood-same signature, completely different method.

Zodiac Killer, Betty Lou Jensen, Darlene Ferrin, Northern California murders, 1968-1969, cryptogram, unsolved homicide, serial killer investigation, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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On November 10, 2010, a grocery receipt and a repeated t-shirt in a surveillance photo led investigators to a horrifying discovery: three bodies dismembered and stuffed inside a hollow tree trunk over ten meters high. Pools of blood and drag marks covered an empty house, but the killer had left a single clue-a Walmart receipt for garbage bags dated the day after the crime.

In this episode, we explore how a man captured on security footage buying supplies led to the unraveling of a premeditated homicide case marked by obsessive planning, a basement captive, and unanswered questions about why one victim was chosen to survive. Matthew Hoffman's ten-page confession revealed the timeline and location of the bodies, yet refused to explain the psychological origin of his crimes or his prior connection to similar behavior in Colorado.

Victim: Tina Herman (43), Kody Maynard (11), Stephanie Sprang (41)
Date: November 10, 2010
Location: Mount Vernon, Ohio
Status: Solved-Hoffman sentenced to life without parole

- Investigators initially doubted a hollow tree could physically hold three dismembered bodies until chainsaws revealed the remains inside.
- A single repeated t-shirt in a Walmart security photo on November 11 matched Matthew Hoffman's driver's license and identified the killer.
- Sarah Maynard, age 13, was held captive in Hoffman's basement for five days while her mother, brother, and family friend lay hidden in the forest.
- Hoffman conditioned his confession on prosecutors executing him during a staged escape-a demand that was categorically refused.

Tina Herman, Mount Vernon Ohio, 2010, serial killer, true crime investigation, homicide, criminal minds, unsolved questions, forensic discovery, kidnapping, true crime English

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544722Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:13:03 +0000Creator at ObomediaGirl Survives Five Days in Basement as Three Bodies Hide in Hollow Tree: The Mount Vernon Murders of Tina Herman, Kody Maynard, and Stephanie Sprang On November 10, 2010, a grocery receipt and a repeated t-shirt in a surveillance photo led...
On November 10, 2010, a grocery receipt and a repeated t-shirt in a surveillance photo led investigators to a horrifying discovery: three bodies dismembered and stuffed inside a hollow tree trunk over ten meters high. Pools of blood and drag marks covered an empty house, but the killer had left a single clue-a Walmart receipt for garbage bags dated the day after the crime.

In this episode, we explore how a man captured on security footage buying supplies led to the unraveling of a premeditated homicide case marked by obsessive planning, a basement captive, and unanswered questions about why one victim was chosen to survive. Matthew Hoffman's ten-page confession revealed the timeline and location of the bodies, yet refused to explain the psychological origin of his crimes or his prior connection to similar behavior in Colorado.

Victim: Tina Herman (43), Kody Maynard (11), Stephanie Sprang (41)
Date: November 10, 2010
Location: Mount Vernon, Ohio
Status: Solved-Hoffman sentenced to life without parole

- Investigators initially doubted a hollow tree could physically hold three dismembered bodies until chainsaws revealed the remains inside.
- A single repeated t-shirt in a Walmart security photo on November 11 matched Matthew Hoffman's driver's license and identified the killer.
- Sarah Maynard, age 13, was held captive in Hoffman's basement for five days while her mother, brother, and family friend lay hidden in the forest.
- Hoffman conditioned his confession on prosecutors executing him during a staged escape-a demand that was categorically refused.

Tina Herman, Mount Vernon Ohio, 2010, serial killer, true crime investigation, homicide, criminal minds, unsolved questions, forensic discovery, kidnapping, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A woman in Hawaii described a wrought iron chair placed on an air conditioner-the exact method of entry to a crime scene that investigators had kept classified. No one outside the police file should have known that detail. Yet she knew it.

In this investigation, we explore the six murders that gripped Ascension Parish between October 1996 and July 1997, the impossible psychic vision that guided detectives to a suspect, and the interrogation confession that rests on no fingerprints, no DNA, and no recovered stolen property. How can a conviction stand when physical evidence is entirely absent?

Victim: Victor Rossi, Barbara Bergua, Lilian Philip, Sam Arcuri, Louella Arcuri, Johan Brook, Leon Miller, Joyce Miller
Date: October 1996 - July 1997
Location: Ascension Parish, Louisiana
Status: Daniel Blank sentenced to life imprisonment; confession recanted; DNA evidence result unreleased

- A psychic in Hawaii provided a classified detail about the murder method that only the perpetrator should have known
- Daniel Blank confessed after twelve hours of interrogation but recanted, citing emotional coercion and his reduced cognitive ability
- No fingerprints, DNA, or stolen property recovered from Blank connects him to any crime scene
- The murders completely ceased after Blank's arrest in Alaska in November 1997

Victor Rossi, Barbara Bergua, Lilian Philip, Sam Arcuri, Louella Arcuri, Johan Brook, Leon Miller, Joyce Miller, Ascension Parish Louisiana serial killer, 1996 murders, false confession, homicide investigation, forensic science, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544720Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:13:01 +0000Creator at ObomediaPsychic Describes Classified Detail as Killer Hunts Six Homes: The Serial Murders of Victor Rossi and Five Others in Louisiana A woman in Hawaii described a wrought iron chair placed on an air conditioner-the exact method of entry to a crime scene...
A woman in Hawaii described a wrought iron chair placed on an air conditioner-the exact method of entry to a crime scene that investigators had kept classified. No one outside the police file should have known that detail. Yet she knew it.

In this investigation, we explore the six murders that gripped Ascension Parish between October 1996 and July 1997, the impossible psychic vision that guided detectives to a suspect, and the interrogation confession that rests on no fingerprints, no DNA, and no recovered stolen property. How can a conviction stand when physical evidence is entirely absent?

Victim: Victor Rossi, Barbara Bergua, Lilian Philip, Sam Arcuri, Louella Arcuri, Johan Brook, Leon Miller, Joyce Miller
Date: October 1996 - July 1997
Location: Ascension Parish, Louisiana
Status: Daniel Blank sentenced to life imprisonment; confession recanted; DNA evidence result unreleased

- A psychic in Hawaii provided a classified detail about the murder method that only the perpetrator should have known
- Daniel Blank confessed after twelve hours of interrogation but recanted, citing emotional coercion and his reduced cognitive ability
- No fingerprints, DNA, or stolen property recovered from Blank connects him to any crime scene
- The murders completely ceased after Blank's arrest in Alaska in November 1997

Victor Rossi, Barbara Bergua, Lilian Philip, Sam Arcuri, Louella Arcuri, Johan Brook, Leon Miller, Joyce Miller, Ascension Parish Louisiana serial killer, 1996 murders, false confession, homicide investigation, forensic science, true crime English

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From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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On April 5, 2008, an amateur photographer testing a new camera took two images one minute apart on a quiet Swedish road. In those frames: a ten-year-old girl on her bicycle and, directly behind her, a red Saab 900 with a completely legible license plate. Neither the photographer nor anyone else knew those would be the last documented moments of Engla Joglund's life-or that the vehicle belonged to the man about to kill her.

In this episode, we trace how those accidental photographs closed a case that had remained open for eight years and exposed one of Sweden's few confirmed serial killers. We examine the legible license plate that led to an arrest in forty-eight hours, the DNA match that solved a 2000 murder, and the critical moment when a man simply remembered his afternoon photos.

Victim: Engla Joglund and Pernilla Hellgren
Date: June 4, 2000 and April 5, 2008
Location: Falun and Härtsön, Dalarna region, Sweden
Status: Solved; Perpetrator Convicted

- A witness saw a man in work clothes near Pernilla Hellgren's body in 2000, yet no arrest was made for eight years despite recovered DNA
- Thomas Langton's camera timestamp placed Engla Joglund and Anders Eklund's vehicle at the same location one minute before her disappearance
- Eklund had a documented history of attempted rape and sexual assault dating back years, yet was never genetically profiled until his 2008 arrest
- The red Saab's tire tracks matched impressions found beside Engla's abandoned bicycle, and blood stains inside the vehicle matched the victim

Engla Joglund, Pernilla Hellgren, Falun, Härtsön, serial killers, Anders Eklund, Swedish murder, unsolved mysteries solved, forensic evidence, homicide investigation, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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On April 5, 2008, an amateur photographer testing a new camera took two images one minute apart on a quiet Swedish road. In those frames: a ten-year-old girl on her bicycle and, directly behind her, a red Saab 900 with a completely legible license plate. Neither the photographer nor anyone else knew those would be the last documented moments of Engla Joglund's life-or that the vehicle belonged to the man about to kill her.

In this episode, we trace how those accidental photographs closed a case that had remained open for eight years and exposed one of Sweden's few confirmed serial killers. We examine the legible license plate that led to an arrest in forty-eight hours, the DNA match that solved a 2000 murder, and the critical moment when a man simply remembered his afternoon photos.

Victim: Engla Joglund and Pernilla Hellgren
Date: June 4, 2000 and April 5, 2008
Location: Falun and Härtsön, Dalarna region, Sweden
Status: Solved; Perpetrator Convicted

- A witness saw a man in work clothes near Pernilla Hellgren's body in 2000, yet no arrest was made for eight years despite recovered DNA
- Thomas Langton's camera timestamp placed Engla Joglund and Anders Eklund's vehicle at the same location one minute before her disappearance
- Eklund had a documented history of attempted rape and sexual assault dating back years, yet was never genetically profiled until his 2008 arrest
- The red Saab's tire tracks matched impressions found beside Engla's abandoned bicycle, and blood stains inside the vehicle matched the victim

Engla Joglund, Pernilla Hellgren, Falun, Härtsön, serial killers, Anders Eklund, Swedish murder, unsolved mysteries solved, forensic evidence, homicide investigation, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A diary filled with photographs, addresses, and daily routines of selected targets. A family operating as a disciplined criminal structure for fifteen years across southern Russia, accumulating bodies without arrest until a single routine traffic stop in 2013. The contradiction: neighbors saw nothing, police filed no formal complaints, and a corrupt officer inside the family itself erased their tracks in real time.

This episode explores how a meticulous planning system, a police officer feeding intelligence through his service radio, and emotional bonds weaponized as recruitment tools allowed eleven documented murders to go unsolved for over a decade. At the center stands Inesa's operational notebook-not a diary of feelings, but a ledger of victims, their schedules, and escape routes-raising the unsolved question: how many more bodies remained hidden?

Victim: Inesa Tarber-Dieva and Roman Pod-Copa-Ev
Date: 1997-2013
Location: Novocherkassk and M4 Don Highway, Rostov Oblast, southern Russia
Status: Convicted, fifteen-year operation

- Inesa maintained an operational diary with photographs, names, addresses, and daily routines of each selected victim, proving she was the central planner, not an accomplice
- A corrupt active-duty police officer, Sergei Celnik, used his service radio to warn the gang of patrol positions and undercover posts during live operations
- An innocent local hunter, Alexei Sirenko, was detained for eighteen months based on ballistic evidence, while the actual gang continued murders undetected
- The gang operated openly in a medium-sized city with no formal complaints filed by neighbors, storing hundreds of victims' personal items in their homes across fifteen years

Inesa Tarber-Dieva, Novocherkassk murders 2013, serial killers, criminal investigation, forensic evidence, unsolved mysteries, homicide, Russian crime, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544718Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:12:56 +0000Creator at ObomediaWoman Tells Court She Regrets There Were So Few Victims: The fifteen-year murder spree of Inesa Tarber-Dieva A diary filled with photographs, addresses, and daily routines of selected targets. A family operating as a disciplined criminal structure...
A diary filled with photographs, addresses, and daily routines of selected targets. A family operating as a disciplined criminal structure for fifteen years across southern Russia, accumulating bodies without arrest until a single routine traffic stop in 2013. The contradiction: neighbors saw nothing, police filed no formal complaints, and a corrupt officer inside the family itself erased their tracks in real time.

This episode explores how a meticulous planning system, a police officer feeding intelligence through his service radio, and emotional bonds weaponized as recruitment tools allowed eleven documented murders to go unsolved for over a decade. At the center stands Inesa's operational notebook-not a diary of feelings, but a ledger of victims, their schedules, and escape routes-raising the unsolved question: how many more bodies remained hidden?

Victim: Inesa Tarber-Dieva and Roman Pod-Copa-Ev
Date: 1997-2013
Location: Novocherkassk and M4 Don Highway, Rostov Oblast, southern Russia
Status: Convicted, fifteen-year operation

- Inesa maintained an operational diary with photographs, names, addresses, and daily routines of each selected victim, proving she was the central planner, not an accomplice
- A corrupt active-duty police officer, Sergei Celnik, used his service radio to warn the gang of patrol positions and undercover posts during live operations
- An innocent local hunter, Alexei Sirenko, was detained for eighteen months based on ballistic evidence, while the actual gang continued murders undetected
- The gang operated openly in a medium-sized city with no formal complaints filed by neighbors, storing hundreds of victims' personal items in their homes across fifteen years

Inesa Tarber-Dieva, Novocherkassk murders 2013, serial killers, criminal investigation, forensic evidence, unsolved mysteries, homicide, Russian crime, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

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A man sentenced to life imprisonment in Nepal simply leaves prison and travels to the one country where his crimes could still catch him. Between 1975 and 1976, at least twelve young backpackers disappeared across Southeast Asia, their bodies discovered burned, poisoned, or drowned-yet no suspect emerged for nearly a year. This is the forensic investigation of Charles Sobhraj, a serial killer who outsmarted Interpol and three different judicial systems for nearly three decades.

In this episode, we trace how a man born without legal identity in Saigon became a master of false passports and predatory deception. We explore the contradiction between the victims-lonely travelers with no local connections-and Sobhraj's later ideological claims; we examine the single Dutch clothing label that broke the case open; and we follow the deliberate legal calculation that allowed him to walk free after serving time in India, only to be undone by a casino photograph in Kathmandu nearly thirty years later.

Victim: Laurent Carrière, Connie Bronzich, Henk Bintanja, Cornelia Hemker, Teresa Knowlton
Date: December 1975 - July 1976
Location: Thailand, Nepal, India
Status: Convicted; life imprisonment in Nepal (2004-2022)

- Sobhraj was released from a Nepalese prison in December 2022 after serving eighteen years and voluntarily returned to Paris, the jurisdiction with the strongest remaining evidence against him.
- The Dutch ambassador Herman Knippenberg manually cross-referenced scattered death reports across three countries and identified a serial pattern that local police had missed-no computer database existed to connect them automatically.
- Sobhraj orchestrated an escape from Tihar prison in 1986 using sedated guards, was recaptured within weeks, and remained imprisoned for ten additional years until the Thai statute of limitations on his murders expired.
- He was recognized in a Kathmandu casino by a journalist in 2003, arrested for crimes committed in 1975-a thirty-year gap he believed was legally closed, but Nepal had no statute of limitations for murder.

Charles Sobhraj, serial killer, backpacker murders, Pattaya Thailand, Kathmandu Nepal, 1975, false identities, Interpol manhunt, statute of limitations, homicide investigation, serial murders, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544717Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:12:54 +0000Creator at ObomediaSeventy-Eight-Year-Old Killer Walks Out of Prison and Boards Flight to Paris: The serial murders of Charles Sobhraj A man sentenced to life imprisonment in Nepal simply leaves prison and travels to the one country where his crimes could still catch...
A man sentenced to life imprisonment in Nepal simply leaves prison and travels to the one country where his crimes could still catch him. Between 1975 and 1976, at least twelve young backpackers disappeared across Southeast Asia, their bodies discovered burned, poisoned, or drowned-yet no suspect emerged for nearly a year. This is the forensic investigation of Charles Sobhraj, a serial killer who outsmarted Interpol and three different judicial systems for nearly three decades.

In this episode, we trace how a man born without legal identity in Saigon became a master of false passports and predatory deception. We explore the contradiction between the victims-lonely travelers with no local connections-and Sobhraj's later ideological claims; we examine the single Dutch clothing label that broke the case open; and we follow the deliberate legal calculation that allowed him to walk free after serving time in India, only to be undone by a casino photograph in Kathmandu nearly thirty years later.

Victim: Laurent Carrière, Connie Bronzich, Henk Bintanja, Cornelia Hemker, Teresa Knowlton
Date: December 1975 - July 1976
Location: Thailand, Nepal, India
Status: Convicted; life imprisonment in Nepal (2004-2022)

- Sobhraj was released from a Nepalese prison in December 2022 after serving eighteen years and voluntarily returned to Paris, the jurisdiction with the strongest remaining evidence against him.
- The Dutch ambassador Herman Knippenberg manually cross-referenced scattered death reports across three countries and identified a serial pattern that local police had missed-no computer database existed to connect them automatically.
- Sobhraj orchestrated an escape from Tihar prison in 1986 using sedated guards, was recaptured within weeks, and remained imprisoned for ten additional years until the Thai statute of limitations on his murders expired.
- He was recognized in a Kathmandu casino by a journalist in 2003, arrested for crimes committed in 1975-a thirty-year gap he believed was legally closed, but Nepal had no statute of limitations for murder.

Charles Sobhraj, serial killer, backpacker murders, Pattaya Thailand, Kathmandu Nepal, 1975, false identities, Interpol manhunt, statute of limitations, homicide investigation, serial murders, true crime English

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories,...]]>1294falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ring-that-exposed-the-train-killer--71544716
July fourth, nineteen eighty: railway agents discovered carriage number seven soaked in blood. Four female passengers had vanished from a moving train crossing the Oryol plains. By dawn, the bodies began appearing scattered across nearly thirty kilometers of track, each one bearing identical wounds-multiple stab marks, post-mortem violation, earlobes torn from stolen jewelry. A single predator had methodically discarded them from the windows into darkness. But investigators would soon uncover something far more chilling than the murders themselves.

This episode explores how a gold ring led police to Anatoli Nagiev, and what they discovered in his apartment transformed understanding of the crime's true scope. Investigators uncovered a notebook containing three hundred nineteen women's names, addresses, and routines-a meticulous tracking file that revealed Nagiev's real target was not random passengers, but a specific victim he had followed across the Soviet Union for over a year.

Victim: Olga Demyanenko, Nadezhda Kravchenko, and two unnamed train passengers
Date: July 4, 1980
Location: Kharkiv-Moscow railway, Oryol Oblast, Soviet Union
Status: Solved; perpetrator executed

- Nagiev had already murdered at least six women and raped over thirty across multiple regions before the train attack occurred
- A gold ring stolen from one victim and sold to a jeweler was the single detail that identified the killer
- Investigators discovered Nagiev had tracked Soviet pop icon Alla Pugacheva's movements for over a year and infiltrated her dressing room during the 1980 Moscow Olympics
- The electrician who survived the attack was nearly framed when guards planted victims' blood on his boots under Olympic security pressure

Anatoli Nagiev, Kharkiv-Moscow train murders 1980, serial killer Soviet Union, railway homicide investigation, unsolved murders solved, forensic evidence semen samples, true crime English

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Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544716Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:12:51 +0000Creator at ObomediaFour Bodies Found Along Twenty-Nine Kilometers of Track After Midnight Train Attack: The murders aboard the Kharkiv-Moscow express. July fourth, nineteen eighty: railway agents discovered carriage number seven soaked in blood. Four female...
July fourth, nineteen eighty: railway agents discovered carriage number seven soaked in blood. Four female passengers had vanished from a moving train crossing the Oryol plains. By dawn, the bodies began appearing scattered across nearly thirty kilometers of track, each one bearing identical wounds-multiple stab marks, post-mortem violation, earlobes torn from stolen jewelry. A single predator had methodically discarded them from the windows into darkness. But investigators would soon uncover something far more chilling than the murders themselves.

This episode explores how a gold ring led police to Anatoli Nagiev, and what they discovered in his apartment transformed understanding of the crime's true scope. Investigators uncovered a notebook containing three hundred nineteen women's names, addresses, and routines-a meticulous tracking file that revealed Nagiev's real target was not random passengers, but a specific victim he had followed across the Soviet Union for over a year.

Victim: Olga Demyanenko, Nadezhda Kravchenko, and two unnamed train passengers
Date: July 4, 1980
Location: Kharkiv-Moscow railway, Oryol Oblast, Soviet Union
Status: Solved; perpetrator executed

- Nagiev had already murdered at least six women and raped over thirty across multiple regions before the train attack occurred
- A gold ring stolen from one victim and sold to a jeweler was the single detail that identified the killer
- Investigators discovered Nagiev had tracked Soviet pop icon Alla Pugacheva's movements for over a year and infiltrated her dressing room during the 1980 Moscow Olympics
- The electrician who survived the attack was nearly framed when guards planted victims' blood on his boots under Olympic security pressure

Anatoli Nagiev, Kharkiv-Moscow train murders 1980, serial killer Soviet Union, railway homicide investigation, unsolved murders solved, forensic evidence semen samples, true crime English

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the...]]>1376falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pastor-dissolves-six-bodies-in-acid-while-police-file-the-report-away--71544715
In 1992, a woman walks into a Belgian police station and reports that her own father, a Protestant pastor, has been murdering family members and dissolving their bodies in commercial drain acid. She provides names, dates, and detailed methods. The police listen, take notes, and file the case away with a single handwritten decision: no action will be taken. For five years, nobody asks why.

This episode reconstructs how a single man built a system of total control over a complex household in Brussels, recruited vulnerable women through matrimonial advertisements, and eliminated those who became inconvenient or knew too much. We examine the contradictions between the fabricated postcards and letters Pandy created to prove his victims were alive abroad, the testimony of the one investigator who refused to close the file, and the moment when social pressure from a separate child-abuse scandal forced the authorities to reopen what they had chosen to forget.

Victim: Edit Finor, Andrea, Ilona Sores, Daniel Soltan, Tunde Finor, and unidentified others
Date: 1986-1997
Location: Anderlecht and Brussels, Belgium
Status: Convicted, Life Imprisonment

- Agnes Pandy reported the murders to police in 1992 with specific names and dates, yet was dismissed because her father presented forged letters from victims claiming to be alive in Israel and Miami.
- Forensic analysis of bone fragments found at Vander Maelen Street revealed DNA from at least seven unidentified women and a young man, not belonging to any reported missing persons in the Pandy family.
- During the trial in 2002, a forensic expert reproduced the exact dissolution method using drain acid in front of the jury, confirming every detail of Agnes's testimony.
- Pandy hired three Hungarian minors to pose as his living children in meetings with witnesses, telling them they were rehearsing for a movie, without revealing the cover-up they were part of.

Andras Pandy, Edit Finor, Brussels Belgium murders 1986, dissolved bodies drain acid, Hungarian refugee, serial killer, homicide investigation, criminal abuse, true crime English

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© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544715Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:12:48 +0000Creator at ObomediaPastor Dissolves Six Bodies in Acid While Police File the Report Away: The Andras Pandy Murders in Brussels, Belgium In 1992, a woman walks into a Belgian police station and reports that her own father, a Protestant pastor, has been murdering...
In 1992, a woman walks into a Belgian police station and reports that her own father, a Protestant pastor, has been murdering family members and dissolving their bodies in commercial drain acid. She provides names, dates, and detailed methods. The police listen, take notes, and file the case away with a single handwritten decision: no action will be taken. For five years, nobody asks why.

This episode reconstructs how a single man built a system of total control over a complex household in Brussels, recruited vulnerable women through matrimonial advertisements, and eliminated those who became inconvenient or knew too much. We examine the contradictions between the fabricated postcards and letters Pandy created to prove his victims were alive abroad, the testimony of the one investigator who refused to close the file, and the moment when social pressure from a separate child-abuse scandal forced the authorities to reopen what they had chosen to forget.

Victim: Edit Finor, Andrea, Ilona Sores, Daniel Soltan, Tunde Finor, and unidentified others
Date: 1986-1997
Location: Anderlecht and Brussels, Belgium
Status: Convicted, Life Imprisonment

- Agnes Pandy reported the murders to police in 1992 with specific names and dates, yet was dismissed because her father presented forged letters from victims claiming to be alive in Israel and Miami.
- Forensic analysis of bone fragments found at Vander Maelen Street revealed DNA from at least seven unidentified women and a young man, not belonging to any reported missing persons in the Pandy family.
- During the trial in 2002, a forensic expert reproduced the exact dissolution method using drain acid in front of the jury, confirming every detail of Agnes's testimony.
- Pandy hired three Hungarian minors to pose as his living children in meetings with witnesses, telling them they were rehearsing for a movie, without revealing the cover-up they were part of.

Andras Pandy, Edit Finor, Brussels Belgium murders 1986, dissolved bodies drain acid, Hungarian refugee, serial killer, homicide investigation, criminal abuse, true crime English

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© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All...]]>1209falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/neighbors-eat-hamburgers-at-her-house-night-after-he-disappears--71544714
On October fourteenth, twenty fourteen, Christopher Regan's GPS placed his vehicle at Kelly Cochran's house in Caspian, Michigan. He never drove away alone. Ten days later, his ex-girlfriend reported him missing-but Kelly claimed he was never there. The detectives had already seen something: a freshly painted door, blood spatter on the ceiling, and a woman who lied about where she had been.

This episode explores the contradictions that unraveled a calculated crime: the satellite searches of a well conducted before the disappearance, the chainsaw found in the garage, and the confession that came only when Kelly saw words carved into a tree. At the center is a pact made in two thousand two, a marriage agreement to kill any lover, and a question that haunts the case: how many other bodies are hidden in those Michigan woods?

Victim: Christopher Regan
Date: October 14, 2014
Location: Caspian, Michigan
Status: Convicted

- Kelly Cochran served hamburgers to neighbors months after dismembering Christopher Regan with a chainsaw
- Detective Neiger found botanical leaf samples in Regan's vehicle matching the Cochran property garden
- Kelly strangled her own husband Jason sixteen months after the first murder while he slept
- Satellite searches for a well disposal site appeared on the computer before Christopher disappeared

Christopher Regan, Caspian Michigan, murder two thousand fourteen, serial killers, true detective, homicide investigation, unsolved mysteries, criminal minds, forensic evidence, true crime English

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We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71544714Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:12:46 +0000Creator at ObomediaNeighbors Eat Hamburgers at Her House Night After He Disappears: The Murder of Christopher Regan On October fourteenth, twenty fourteen, Christopher Regan's GPS placed his vehicle at Kelly Cochran's house in Caspian, Michigan. He never drove away...
On October fourteenth, twenty fourteen, Christopher Regan's GPS placed his vehicle at Kelly Cochran's house in Caspian, Michigan. He never drove away alone. Ten days later, his ex-girlfriend reported him missing-but Kelly claimed he was never there. The detectives had already seen something: a freshly painted door, blood spatter on the ceiling, and a woman who lied about where she had been.

This episode explores the contradictions that unraveled a calculated crime: the satellite searches of a well conducted before the disappearance, the chainsaw found in the garage, and the confession that came only when Kelly saw words carved into a tree. At the center is a pact made in two thousand two, a marriage agreement to kill any lover, and a question that haunts the case: how many other bodies are hidden in those Michigan woods?

Victim: Christopher Regan
Date: October 14, 2014
Location: Caspian, Michigan
Status: Convicted

- Kelly Cochran served hamburgers to neighbors months after dismembering Christopher Regan with a chainsaw
- Detective Neiger found botanical leaf samples in Regan's vehicle matching the Cochran property garden
- Kelly strangled her own husband Jason sixteen months after the first murder while he slept
- Satellite searches for a well disposal site appeared on the computer before Christopher disappeared

Christopher Regan, Caspian Michigan, murder two thousand fourteen, serial killers, true detective, homicide investigation, unsolved mysteries, criminal minds, forensic evidence, true crime English

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OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.

Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.

We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.

From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.

© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie]]>1225falsefull