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The embrace of the killer: Córdoba, 2024: The homicide of Catalina Gutiérrez The security camera recorded him loading her body into the car. Minutes later, that same man was crying while hugging Catalina's mother at the police station. How did her best friend become a killer without anyone seeing it coming? In this episode, we explore the 38 crucial minutes in Néstor Soto's house, the 28-minute co...

Recordings of his own murder: the Berfonder case: The homicide of Martín Berfonder in Santoalla do Monte A Dutch man who documents on video those who plan to kill him four years before he disappears. A burned car found in such a remote area that even hunters had no access, with skeletal remains 95 meters away. An unanswered question: how did no one prevent a crime that was announced? In this episo...

35 stabs: the crime that the police already knew about: The femicide of Dariela Valdés Rocha A young law student was murdered with 35 stabs in the home of the same man against whom she had filed four formal complaints. The police were aware of every threat, every documented act of violence, and yet Dariela did not receive protection the night she died. A case that exposes how the system failed at...

The skin suit: the crime that took 19 years to solve: The murder of Katarina Zada On January 6, 1999, the propellers of a tugboat on the Vistula River caught a sack sewn with human skin, an ear, and an earring. Inside, the remains of Katarina Zada, 23 years old, a theology student. The pathologist confirmed the inconceivable: the skin was removed while she was still alive. For 19 years, the case r...

The Smiling Grandmother: Twelve Deaths and a Smile: The Serial Murder of Nannie Doss A 50-year-old woman enters the police station after being arrested for multiple murders. She does not resist, does not cry. She only asks to take her romance magazine, where she looks for new partners while confessing to having poisoned twelve people over 25 years without being caught. How did the most beloved nei...

The night that took two years to accuse: The homicide of Ginny Sandoval Reyes In the early morning of December 29, 2016, four calls from neighbors were ignored by a carabineros operator. When the firefighters arrived at Malbo Street in Temuco, they found a mother and three children trapped in a fire that no one had reported. The impossible: the autopsy revealed that Ginny Sandoval had been stabbed...

The neighbor 200 meters away: confession without a body: The murder of Georgine Krüger in Berlin Georgine disappeared in 12 minutes. Her mobile phone turned off at 14:04 in the afternoon, exactly where her neighbor lived. Twelve years later, a police officer achieved the impossible: a secretly recorded confession that describes every detail of the crime, but the body never appeared. In this episod...

The Last Balcony of Liam Payne: The Involuntary Homicide of the Former One Direction Member October 2024, Buenos Aires. The staff at the CasaSur hotel called 911 fearing that a guest was destroying his room. They arrived too late: a man fell 14 meters from the balcony. It was Liam Payne, diagnosed since birth with a single kidney and under strict medical prohibition from alcohol. How did someone w...

Paula Josette: The Silenced Death in Cerezo Number 2: The suspicious death of Paula Josette Arizona On January 14, 2024, Paula Josette Arizona, 23 years old with no history of heart problems, enters Cerezo Number 2 prison in Sonora. Hours later, her body arrives at the hospital without clothes, without a cell phone, without a wallet. Authorities certify a heart attack. How does a healthy young wom...

The Champion and the Strangulation that Argentina Forgot: The Murder of Alicia Muñiz by Carlos Monzón In the early morning of February 14, 1988, in Mar del Plata, a street vendor saw a man strangling a woman and throwing her from a balcony. Then that man changed his clothes and jumped after her. Thirty-four years later, his lawyer stated on television that the crime never occurred, ignoring two au...

Hammer, secret agenda, and three weeks of impunity: The homicide of Alessandra Matusi Giovanni Padovani sat next to the shattered body he had just struck with a hammer and bat. He did not flee. He did not hide. He simply waited. A woman reported her aggressor to the police on August 1, 2022, and died at his hands exactly three weeks later - without legal protection, without precautionary measures,...

The gold tooth that condemned the mountain nomad: The serial murder of Roy Allen Melanson August 1992. A geologist stops on the slope of a mountain at 3,000 meters and sees something shining in the ground: a gold tooth embedded in a human skull. Eighteen years after her disappearance, Michelle Wallace had finally been found. But how did a vagrant without a fixed address manage to commit at least f...

The plan that no one stopped: Shad Robinson: The homicide of Shad Robinson in Milwaukee, 2024 A month before the crime, someone heard the entire plan—the date, the basement, the shot, the dismemberment—and said nothing. A 19-year-old woman with two jobs and plans to study law ended up scattered in pieces along the shores of Lake Michigan. How did this happen while someone knew exactly what was goi...

The House of Chains: The Rescue that Exposed a Broken System: The Turpin family case of David and Lois Turpin A seventeen-year-old girl, raised chained in darkness without a day of school, planned for two years the escape that would free twelve siblings. But the Turpin family did not live in an abandoned basement: they had a large house, documented trips to Disney on social media, an income of one...

The missing girlfriend and the judicial corruption of Guatemala: The femicide of Cristina Cecavisá Molina On the night of July 6, 2011, Cristina Cecavisá Molina disappeared after a birthday party. Her cell phone, documents, and wallet remained untouched in her room. But luminol revealed blood stains that transformed a disappearance into murder, and the flight of her partner with their children in...

Cat Litter: The Secret in Nathan's Suitcases: The Murder of Becky Watts in Bristol Twelve days. A teenager disappears on February 19, 2015, in Bristol, and her stepbrother pretends everything is normal while her dismembered body waits in suitcases filled with cat litter. How does someone live like this without falling apart? An impossible clue to ignore: witnesses heard a door slam when she should...

The fake profile that killed Christin Benfield: The murder of a pediatric nurse from Virginia A stolen photo, a Fetlife profile with a false name, and a message at 7:47 in the morning with the exact address of the house. Christin Benfield, a 37-year-old pediatric nurse, was lured to her own home by a stranger - but the architect of her death was sleeping under the same roof. How does a federal IRS...

The Abuse Folder: Nine Years of Documented Horror: The Case of Gisèle Pelicot A supermarket, a phone, 20,000 files. On September 12, 2020, Dominic Pelicot was arrested for voyeurism in Mazán. What forensic experts found on his device revealed an industrial system of rape: a folder labeled "Abuse" that meticulously documented how for nine years he had drugged his wife every night so that more than...

The obsession that ended in 22 stab wounds: The murder of Franky Fitzgerald A video call at 7:45 in the morning. A woman shows the body of her partner and asks if they are still friends. Four thousand hours of security footage, edited videos as false evidence, and a minimum 23-year sentence reveal how an obsession with true crime documentaries during the pandemic turned into a premeditated real ho...

The three threats that did not stop Colin: The murder investigation of Catherine Griffit A 12-centimeter knife pierced Catherine's neck from side to side. Her son Colin, 17 years old, called 911 two hours later claiming it was an accident. The impossible: he had threatened to kill her three times in front of doctors, police, and family members in less than a year. The system received each warning....

Six body parts in the washing machine: the killer who sought her victim: The murder of Marta Cecilia Solís in Guayaquil, Ecuador On October 5, 2025, a lawyer disappears in Guayaquil. Her daughter Andreina reports a kidnapping, participates in public searches, and cries out for justice. But the evidence she presents does not exist: nonexistent phone numbers, videos generated with artificial intelli...

The false identity of the femicide who killed twice: The murder of María Isabel Pávez A student of Obstetrics disappears in Santiago on December 17, 2020. Her cell phone apparently damaged, her money untouched, and a last alibi that doesn’t hold up. Eleven years earlier, in Mexico, a confessed femicide had disappeared without being captured. They were the same person. In this episode, we explore h...

Ghost Passages: The Seven Months of Natalia: The disappearance of Natalia Hitrago Moreno One afternoon in Cartagena, Natalia Hitrago Moreno says goodbye to her mother with one last call. Seven months later, airline tickets issued in her name crisscross the country as if she were still alive. Disappearance or enforced disappearance? Natalia's identity travels without her. In this episode, we explor...

Eleven days of marriage, a perfect murder at the bottom of the ocean: The death of Tina Watson on the Yongala A certified rescue diver watches his wife sink 24 meters deep and does not attempt to save her. His regulator is functioning. His tank has air. He ascends alone without activating any of the three emergency protocols he knows. In this episode, we explore how a dive computer contradicts eve...

The priest who confessed to a murder and lived free for 57 years: The homicide of Irene Garza Holy Saturday of 1960, a young teacher goes to confess in McAllen, Texas. She never comes out alive. The culprit admits the crime to a monk in the parish basement bathtub, but the Church silently protects him for four decades. How can a priest confess to murder and not face justice until 2017? In this epi...