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  • The Night Justice Finally Caught the Man Who Stalked Marianela

    The Night Justice Finally Caught the Man Who Stalked Marianela
    2026/09/10
    The Night Justice Finally Caught the Man Who Stalked Marianela

    The smell of death, a darkened apartment and five judicial releases that almost let a killer walk free - this true crime story ends in a Buenos Aires courtroom in November 2023. How did a nineteen-year-old journalism student’s murder survive a decade of collapsed cases and conflicting forensic timelines to finally reach a verdict?

    In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Marianela Rago’s last night to the arrests and the long legal aftermath, following the details that shifted the case after years of stalled proceedings. What changed in November 2023 that made silence fill a courtroom?

    Person: Marianela Soledad Rago Zapata
    Date: June 28, 2010
    Location: Apartment 7-A, Tucumán 2080, Balvanera, Buenos Aires
    Person: Francisco Amador López
    Date: November 2023

    - Marianela was 19 years old and in her second year at Escuela de Comunicación ETER when she was found dead.
    - Matías Rago, her brother, discovered her face down on the bed on the night of June 28, 2010.
    - Francisco Amador López was 22 when he and Marianela first met and had been her school supervisor when she was 17.
    - Marianela had ended the relationship with Francisco in June 2009, more than a year before her death.
    - Five times a judge signed Francisco’s release before the case collapsed and later changed in November 2023.

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    25 分
  • He Killed Her With Her Own Gun - Their Son Sat Alone Seven Hours

    He Killed Her With Her Own Gun - Their Son Sat Alone Seven Hours
    2026/09/09
    He Killed Her With Her Own Gun - Their Son Sat Alone Seven Hours

    The image of a birthday cake with a choking figure was posted publicly one month before a uniformed federal officer was shot with her own regulation nine-millimeter pistol. A seven-year-old boy sat alone for seven hours beside two bodies; no one came. What did that photographed message mean, and why did it change nothing?

    In this episode, we tell the story of Jessica Marilén García and the days leading to July 24, 2023, laying out the timeline, relationships, and the photograph that stayed with investigators and family. How did a posted image, a shared home, and a carried weapon converge into a night that left a child alone?

    Person: Jessica Marilén García
    Date: July 24, 2023
    Age: 26
    Weapon: regulation nine-millimeter pistol
    Child: seven-year-old son

    - Jessica was born on June 13, 1997, in San Ramón de la Nueva Orán, Salta.
    - She joined Escuadrón de Seguridad Ciudadana Norte and carried a loaded service pistol to work daily.
    - Jessica met Leonardo Luis Jiménez in late 2013 when she was sixteen and he was eighteen.
    - On June 13, 2023, Leonardo gave Jessica a birthday cake with frosting that read "Te amo mucho pero a veces me dan ganas de-" and a drawing of a figure choking another.
    - After Jessica decided to end the relationship in mid-2023, Leonardo continued living in the same house where on July 24, 2023, the weapon was used to kill her.

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    24 分
  • He Googled "How to Shoot Someone Asleep" - Her Silence Explains Nothing

    He Googled "How to Shoot Someone Asleep" - Her Silence Explains Nothing
    2026/09/08
    He Googled "How to Shoot Someone Asleep" - Her Silence Explains Nothing

    The phone in his pocket contained a search made minutes before he died asking how to shoot someone while they sleep, yet the case did not resolve into a simple verdict. Photographs, two forensic exams, hospital and therapy records document bite marks, burns, bruising, and a severe prolapse, but the central question remains: when does surviving become a crime?

    In this episode, we tell the story of Nicole Adim and Christopher Grover, laying out the documented injuries, timelines, and the moments when Nicole tried and failed to leave, and asking whether the physical record and those actions can answer what really happened the night Christopher died.

    Person: Nicole Adim
    Person: Christopher Grover
    Date: September 27, 2017
    Event: Gunshot wound to the head
    Evidence: Two separate forensic examinations with photographs

    - Christopher Grover was born March 26, 1987, in Rineck, New York.
    - The first documented physical assault occurred February 2013 when their son Ben was about six weeks old.
    - Sara Caprioli performed two forensic examinations in September 2014 documenting bite marks, burns, and bruising.
    - Fei, their daughter, was born in February 2015 after documented assaults during that pregnancy.
    - On the night of September 27, 2017, an officer found Nicole barefoot and disoriented at a red light with two small children in the backseat.

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    23 分
  • He Says He Cooked Her - The Body That Never Appeared

    He Says He Cooked Her - The Body That Never Appeared
    2026/09/07
    He Says He Cooked Her - The Body That Never Appeared

    The man who told police he cooked his wife’s body in a pot and tossed the parts with restaurant garbage has been silent for over a decade, yet no remains were ever found. How can a recorded confession and a completely different trial story coexist when the one thing everyone wants-the body-never turns up?

    In this episode, we follow the disappearance of Don Marip Papin and the conflicting accounts from her husband, David Beans, tracing the days after she failed to appear at the restaurant she co-owned and the strange gaps that followed. What did David say, what did others know, and where might the answer still be hiding?

    Person: Don Marip Papin
    Date: October 18, 2009
    Person: David Beans
    Location: Los Angeles, California
    Witness: Joe (motorcycle shop owner)

    - Don Marip Papin was born March 16, 1970, in Burlington, Vermont.
    - Don disappeared on the morning of October 18, 2009 and did not show up to open the restaurant that day.
    - David Beans gave a recorded confession saying he cooked her body in a large pot over four days, beginning with her head.
    - Don’s car remained parked in front of the restaurant with her keys inside on the day she disappeared.
    - For months prior, Don had been secretly depositing small amounts of cash in Joe’s motorcycle workshop to hide money from David.

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    22 分
  • She Died While Someone Came Back to Watch - 3 AM Footage

    She Died While Someone Came Back to Watch - 3 AM Footage
    2026/09/06
    She Died While Someone Came Back to Watch - 3 AM Footage

    The security cameras recorded every frame of a Saturday night that ended with a twenty-five-year-old called Poli dying in the street; the man who drove away returned, sat beside her body for several seconds on camera, then left. What does the footage of that pause - captured in a continuous record and later called feminicide by a Mexico City court - actually tell us about what he knew and felt?

    In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events captured on video, the relationships between the people at the party, and the moments that turned a routine night into a homicide; how did a gesture meant to keep a drunk man from driving become the hinge of a fatal outcome?

    Person: Poli (nickname used by friends and family)
    Person: Fernanda Cuadra, 31 years old
    Person: Diego Armando Elguera
    Date: June 12, 2021
    Location: Colonia Viaducto Piedad, Mexico City

    - Security footage captured a complete and continuous record of the entire sequence that night.
    - Poli was twenty-five years old at the time of the incident.
    - Diego arrived at approximately 11:10 PM driving a white Ford Focus.
    - Fernanda handed Diego his car keys in the early morning hours after he slept on her couch.
    - A Mexico City court sentenced Diego to 75 years and 10 months in September 2023, classifying the crime as feminicide.

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    23 分
  • She Was Kept Alive - Then They Chose to Kill Her

    She Was Kept Alive - Then They Chose to Kill Her
    2026/09/05
    She Was Kept Alive - Then They Chose to Kill Her

    A black plastic bag found on a highway access road led investigators to a child who had been held alive for approximately seven days, fed, and given a meal three hours before she died - yet no witness saw her after 3:30 p.m. on August 22, 2011. What decision turned deliberate custody into murder, and who spoke to the family while she was missing?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline of the disappearance, the massive search that deployed up to 1,600 police and 16 dogs, the traced and false phone calls, and the medical examiner's finding that reframed the crime - then a court action six years later that named names. How did the forensic timeline both make sense and then collapse when seen from the other side?

    Person: Candela Sol Rodríguez Labrador
    Date: August 22, 2011
    Location: Villa Tesei, Hurlingham, Province of Buenos Aires
    Search personnel: approximately 1,600 police, 2 helicopters, 140+ patrol cars, 16 tracking dogs
    Missing age: 11 years old

    - Two cartoneras found the black plastic bag on a Wednesday afternoon in late August 2011, thirty-five blocks from her house.
    - Candela left home at approximately 3:30 p.m. on August 22, 2011, to walk four blocks to a Scout meeting and never arrived.
    - By August 24, 2011, 330 officers had been deployed; by August 27 the search expanded to about 1,600 police.
    - Four phone calls reached Carola Labrador during the nine days Candela was missing; investigators traced the calls to a girl who had been making a bet.
    - The medical examiner concluded Candela had been held alive for approximately seven days and was given a meal three hours before she died.

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    24 分
  • He Destroyed Every Camera - The Body No One Stopped

    He Destroyed Every Camera - The Body No One Stopped
    2026/09/04
    He Destroyed Every Camera - The Body No One Stopped

    The cameras in her apartment were all smashed before police arrived, every single one - a deliberate erasure of evidence that suggests someone expected what was coming. Norma Jusley Piñeros Guzmán, a 28-year-old webcam model in Usme, Bogotá, was killed on August 5, 2023; how many neighbors heard the fights and chose silence?

    In this episode, we tell the story of Norma’s life, the control exerted by Cristian David Rodríguez Zambrano, and the pattern of threats, surveillance, and isolation that led to her death - and ask whether the warning signs were visible enough to have changed the outcome.

    Person: Norma Jusley Piñeros Guzmán
    Age: 28
    Location: Barrio Usme, Bogotá, Colombia
    Date: August 5, 2023
    Perpetrator: Cristian David Rodríguez Zambrano

    - Norma was the sixteenth woman killed in a feminicide in Bogotá in 2023.
    - Cristian destroyed every camera in the apartment before police arrived.
    - Norma worked as a webcam model and provided the only income for the household.
    - Neighbors regularly heard Cristian’s raised voice through shared walls prior to August 5.
    - Family and friends reported visible bruises and a pattern of financial control by Cristian.

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    23 分
  • She Said Yes - Lured Into the Woods and Never Returned

    She Said Yes - Lured Into the Woods and Never Returned
    2026/09/03
    She Said Yes - Lured Into the Woods and Never Returned

    A young woman left her home in pajamas for what sounded like a friendly meal and vanished; investigators would later find her body with eight penetrating wounds and signs of manual strangulation, hidden under leaves and stones. Who chose her, why they believed her size made her vulnerable, and how a condolence message arrived from one of the killers the same afternoon she was discovered are the questions that haunt this case.

    In this episode, we tell the events that led from a new friendship at school to a planned murder, following the timeline, the people involved, and the small details that reveal motive and method. What does the group’s financial dependence, a private confession, and the timing of the killer’s message to the victim’s mother reveal about who Ariane was to them?

    Person: Ariane Bárbara Laureano de Oliveira
    Date of death discovery: August 31, 2021
    Age: 27
    Location: Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
    Cause: Eight penetrating wounds and neck trauma consistent with manual strangulation

    - Body found after seven days in a wooded area on August 31, 2021.
    - Ariane born December 4, 1993; was 27 at time of death.
    - Group planned the killing overnight between August 23-24, 2021 and targeted Ariane for her size.
    - Jefferson Cavalcante Rodríguez transferred roughly 800 reais (~$150) to Raiza during the two weeks before the murder.
    - One of the perpetrators sent a condolence message to Ariane’s mother the same afternoon the body was found.

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    23 分