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  • Thirty-eight years archived: the confession that changed everything

    Thirty-eight years archived: the confession that changed everything
    2026/11/04
    Thirty-eight years archived: the confession that changed everything: The kidnapping and murder of Kate and Sheila Lyon

    A document marked as "lied" in 1975 remains buried in police files for nearly four decades. Two girls disappear in broad daylight at a shopping mall in Maryland, and the lead that could have saved them was ignored without explanation. How is it possible that the answer was archived from the very beginning?

    In this episode, we explore the disappearance that obsessed an entire community: the forgotten statement of Lloyd Lee Wells in 1975, its rediscovery 38 years later, and the confessions that ultimately came too late. From the "man with the tape recorder" that no one could identify to the massive blood traces found in a basement, we will examine how investigative negligence allowed the mystery to linger for three decades.

    Victims: Kate Lyon (10 years old) and Sheila Lyon (12 years old)
    Date: March 25, 1975
    Location: Wheaton Plaza, Wheaton, Maryland
    Status: Confessed guilty (Lloyd Lee Wells, 2017); open investigation regarding accomplices

    - The sketch of the scruffy young man from 1975 matched police photos of Wells from 1977, but was abandoned without investigation
    - Wells mentioned that the victims were "burned," a detail never publicly disclosed before his confession
    - Wells' uncle, Richard Allen Wells, worked as a security guard at Wheaton Plaza on the day of the disappearance
    - Excavations in 2014 found burned soil and bone fragments with no recoverable DNA, but the basement revealed a "slaughterhouse" with luminol

    Kate Lyon, Sheila Lyon, Wheaton Maryland 1975, serial killer, kidnapping, forensic investigation, unsolved mystery, true crime Spanish

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    22 分
  • The volunteer who buried Sydney Southerland

    The volunteer who buried Sydney Southerland
    2026/11/03
    The volunteer who buried Sydney Southerland: The murder of Sydney Southerland

    On August 19, 2020, Sydney went for a jog on her usual route on County Road. Hours later, her bloodied phone and glasses were found scattered on the road. The impossible: the man who deliberately ran her over with his truck volunteered to search for the body he himself had buried, embracing her mother while lying without remorse.

    In this episode, we explore how Wake Llewellyn, a neighbor pretending to be "almost unknown," hid his previous harassment on social media, how the surveillance from his own wife incriminated him, and why his decision to consent to the search of his truck sealed his confession. The contradictions between his account and the forensic evidence reveal a predator in plain sight.

    Victim: Sydney Southerland
    Date: August 19, 2020
    Location: County Road, Jackson, Mississippi
    Status: Guilty; life imprisonment without parole

    - Wake Llewellyn embraced Sydney's mother during the search, comforting her for the crime he committed hours earlier.
    - Surveillance footage from his own home showed the truck intact in the morning and irreparably damaged that night.
    - Facebook revealed frequent communication and prior harassment that Wake denied under interrogation, constructing a stranger alibi.
    - He voluntarily consented to the search of his vehicle, believing he would eliminate legal defense, but traces of fresh blood directly linked him to the hit-and-run.

    Sydney Southerland, County Road Jackson Mississippi, 2020, crime of opportunity, social media harassment, forensic investigation, criminal minds, sexual predator, incriminating evidence, 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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    19 分
  • The cooked heart: three deaths in twenty-one days

    The cooked heart: three deaths in twenty-one days
    2026/11/02
    The cooked heart: three deaths in twenty-one days of Lawrence Anderson in Chickasha, Oklahoma.

    February 9, 2021. A whispered 911 call reveals two bodies in an Oklahoma kitchen. In a pan, a human heart cooked with potatoes. The man who prepared it had been released by order of the governor just three weeks prior, after serving only a fraction of his sentence. How was a repeat offender with three prior convictions put back on the streets without real supervision?

    In this episode, we explore the chain of decisions that allowed Lawrence Anderson—who repeatedly violated his parole—to be released just weeks before committing a massacre of criminal minds. We analyze Anderson's confession about the extraction of the heart from his neighbor Andrea Blankenship, the testimony of the only survivor who pretended to be dead, and the forensic investigation that exposed a completely broken justice system.

    Victim: Andrea Blankenship
    Date: February 9, 2021
    Location: Chickasha, Oklahoma
    Status: Sentenced with pending capital punishment resolution

    - Lawrence Anderson was released through commutation on December 18, 2020, following a 3-1 vote by the parole board and the signature of Governor Kevin Stitt.
    - Less than twenty-one days later, he entered the home of his neighbor Andrea Blankenship, repeatedly stabbed her, extracted her heart, and kept it in his pocket for two days.
    - He cooked the human organ in his home, demanded that his family eat it to "expel demons," and killed his uncle Leon Pai and four-year-old Caseigh Gates when they resisted.
    - Anderson's criminal record showed three prior convictions (2006, 2012, 2017), none fully served, and two documented parole violations that never resulted in his return to prison.

    Andrea Blankenship, Chickasha Oklahoma, murder, February 2021, Lawrence Anderson, human heart, failed justice, broken penal system, homicide, forensic 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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    24 分
  • Thirteen years of silence: the rifle that disappeared in Jenner

    Thirteen years of silence: the rifle that disappeared in Jenner
    2026/11/01
    Thirteen years of silence: the rifle that disappeared in Jenner: The murder of Lindsay Coché and Jason Allen

    Two closed sleeping bags at Fish Beach, Jenner. Inside, a pool of dried blood and two bodies with gunshot wounds to the head. The killer collected every shell casing, vanished without a trace, and for 13 years no one knew his name.

    In this episode, we explore how a committed Christian couple was executed by a shooter with a Marlin 1894 rifle who never left any gunpowder evidence, how the suspect was investigated and released six days later, and how a completely different crime in 2017 unearths the confession that closes the impossible case. The forensic investigation, the shell casings hidden for years, and the deliberately misleading questions that reveal the truth.

    Victim: Lindsay Coché, 22 years old; Jason Allen, 26 years old
    Date: August 15, 2004
    Location: Fish Beach, Jenner, California
    Status: Resolved (2017); Jon Michael Gaylon sentenced to three life terms

    - Gaylon was arrested six days later with camouflage clothing and an illegal weapon, but investigators did not formally link him without technical ballistic evidence.
    - His father destroyed rifles while he was detained in 2004, admitting that he feared his son would commit something worse, but never reported it to the police.
    - During interrogation for the murder of his own brother in 2017, Gaylon described the 2004 crimes with pride, correcting the detective's deliberate mistakes about details never published.
    - He kept handmade shell casings at his home for 13 years, along with a documented pattern of armed violence since 2004.

    Lindsay Coché, Jason Allen, Jenner California, murder 2004, rifle, crime without motive, forensic investigation, unsolved mystery, serial killer, 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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    20 分
  • The sergeant who killed for forged policies

    The sergeant who killed for forged policies
    2026/10/31
    The sergeant who killed for forged insurance policies: The serial murder of Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu

    A South African police sergeant with access to investigation protocols committed six murders over six years without being detected. The pattern remained invisible because the victims shared different last names, disconnected in official records. Only when a detective decided to investigate beyond an isolated case did he discover that all of them had forged insurance policies in the name of the same woman.

    In this episode, we explore how Nomia Ndlovu managed to collect over $95,000 in insurance while her relatives were unaware that she had insured them. We examine the clash between her perfect alibis—always 15 minutes away from the crime—and her systematic presence as the last to see them alive or the first to find them dead. The case collapses when a blackmailed criminal agrees to cooperate, allowing the police to record Nomia giving explicit instructions to murder her mother, two sisters, and five nephews.

    Victim: Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu
    Date: 2004-2018
    Location: South Africa (Olyphants Fontein, Tembisa)
    Status: Sentenced to six consecutive life sentences (2021)

    - Nomia directly killed Audrey Mantshole by strangulation, but she used hitmen for five additional victims, none legally identified.
    - The undercover operation recording captured her voice giving detailed murder instructions: burn her sister Joyce alive with five children, kill Gloria, eliminate her mother María.
    - Upon hearing her sentence of 70+ years in 2021, she abandoned her act of remorse and threatened the judge, witnesses, and family members, saying she would find them "in the dark."
    - A lieutenant colonel diagnosed her with clinical psychopathy: deep mythomania, total lack of empathy, absolute absence of remorse.

    Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu, South Africa serial murders, serial killer, forensic investigation, forged insurance policies, 2018, criminal minds, hitman, police corruption, homicide, South African justice, 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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    20 分
  • The killer who comforted her victim's mother

    The killer who comforted her victim's mother
    2026/10/30
    The killer who comforted her victim's mother: The murder of Missy Ávila in California.

    On the night of October 2, 1985, Missy Ávila disappeared in Angeles National Forest. Three days later, her body was found face down in a creek with a log on her back. The impossible: the convicted killer lived in her mother's house for years, accompanied her to Missy's funeral, and celebrated Thanksgiving with the family while pretending innocence.

    In this episode, we explore the silent betrayal of two childhood friends driven by teenage envy, the late confession of a witness who kept a secret for three years, and how a mother managed to change California law. The details contradict the sentencing: premeditation was evident, but she was only convicted of second-degree murder.

    Victim: Missy Ávila
    Date: October 2, 1985
    Location: Angeles National Forest, California
    Status: Convicted; law enacted in 2013

    - Karen lived in Irene's house while she was the killer, comforting her at Missy's funeral.
    - The body was found with cut hair, multiple bruises, and a log deliberately placed to prevent floating.
    - The only eyewitness waited three years and demanded immunity before confessing to the crime.
    - Karen attempted to publish memoirs about the murder in 2013 for profit; the massive campaign by the mother aborted the project.

    Missy Ávila, Angeles National Forest California, 1985, murder, teenage envy, betrayal, witness, investigation, forensic, justice, Missy law, 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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    22 分
  • The mother-in-law who planned a murder at a family gathering

    The mother-in-law who planned a murder at a family gathering
    2026/10/29
    The mother-in-law who planned murder at a family gathering: The transnational honor crime of Surjit Athwal

    A mother-in-law summoned her family in Coventry to publicly announce that her daughter-in-law must die. A sister-in-law heard it, secretly called the police... and no one acted. Years later, Surjit disappeared in India without a trace. How could a family carry out a transnational murder and take nearly a decade to face justice?

    In this episode, we explore the first honor crime case convicted in the UK: the conspiracy between Bachan Kaur Athwal and her son Sukhdave, the life insurance policy activated on the day of the fatal flight, and the warning letter written before the homicide. A terrified witness breaks the silence before the court, revealing how patriarchal control, systematic abuse, and family honor became justification for murder.

    Victim: Surjit Athwal
    Date: December 9-18, 1998
    Location: Coventry, UK / Ravi River, Punjab, India
    Status: Convicted (Bachan Kaur Athwal and Sukhdave Athwal, life sentences; Bachan released in 2022)

    - The life insurance policy was activated on the same day Surjit flew to India, indicating deliberate premeditation.
    - A warning letter written in December 1998 was located years later, corroborating that the plan was known before the crime.
    - Sukhdave filed for divorce for abandonment knowing that Surjit was dead; deliberate falsehood before civil courts.
    - Bachan and Sukhdave forged documents from the Metropolitan Police of London to block investigations in India.

    Surjit Athwal, Coventry honor crime, 1998, transnational murder, family conspiracy, systemic abuse, delayed justice, forensic investigation, 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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    19 分
  • The list that the police ignored before murdering her

    The list that the police ignored before murdering her
    2026/10/28
    The list that the police ignored before murdering her: The homicide of Banaz Mahmod

    Banaz Mahmod handed the police a letter with the names of those who planned to kill her. Weeks later, her body was found buried in a suitcase 160 kilometers from her home. The officer who received the report called her manipulative and closed the case.

    In this episode, we explore how a young woman was murdered despite five documented police contacts, the undercover recording that confesses the crime, and the system that completely failed when she did exactly the right thing to save herself. A case of family honor, institutional negligence, and an investigation that came too late.

    Victim: Banaz Mahmod
    Date: January 24, 2006
    Location: London, United Kingdom (body found in Birmingham)
    Status: Convicted (father, uncle, and cousins sentenced to life)

    - Banaz reported to the police five times between December 2005 and January 2006, handing over a written list with the names of her killers.
    - On December 31, 2005, her father attempted to kill her; she escaped bleeding and the police labeled her manipulative.
    - She was raped, tortured, and strangled for over two hours on January 24; her phone was deactivated on January 23.
    - Rahmat, her partner, who testified against the killers, entered witness protection and died by suicide on March 20, 2016.

    Banaz Mahmod, London, honor killing, 2006, family crimes, police negligence, forensic investigation, delayed justice, criminal minds, hitmen, 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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    20 分