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The journalist who covered his own murders: The investigation of Vlado Taneski A telephone cable. A specific mark published in an article that the police had kept as a secret trap. Vlado Taneski, a respected journalist from Kičevo, revealed the only detail that could identify him as the murderer of Zivana Temelkoska. How did someone so intelligent make such a catastrophic mistake? The obsession wi...

Bodybuilders without brains: two corpses in barrels: The kidnapping and double homicide of Marc Schiller and Frank Griga A businessman survived 25 days of torture, was burned alive in his car, run over twice on the same night, and the gang that kidnapped him was never arrested by him. Months later, the same gang would commit a serial murder so brutal that their victims would end up dismembered in...

Eight years in a 2.78-meter dungeon: The kidnapping of Natasha Kampusch March 2, 1998. A ten-year-old girl gets into a white van in Vienna and disappears. Eight years later, she reappears weighing exactly the same, only fifteen centimeters taller. The impossible: the police visited her captor's house weeks after the kidnapping and left without entering. In this episode, we explore how Wolfgang Při...

The mother who paid two million for revenge: The murder of Loara Tavares Rosario A 19-year-old architecture student was found wrapped in canvas with cement on a road in San Francisco de Macorís. Her face was disfigured; documents belonging to a woman who had been assaulted five days earlier lay next to her body. The impossible: the person who hired the crime almost went free for money. In this epi...

Five Days of Silence: The Mystery of Carla and Jesús: The Murder of Carla Beiyot and Jesús Cañisaire in Bolivia At 4 AM on January 1, 2018, Carla posted a photograph with Jesús on Facebook. An hour later, they both sent New Year's messages to their families. At 8 AM, cameras captured them getting into a white taxi with five strangers. Nineteen days later, their bodies were found in burlap bags 150...

The night Conor killed Amber Gibson: The murder of Amber Gibson in Hamilton, Scotland A 16-year-old girl leaves a Scottish park and never returns. Cameras capture her brother entering with her around 11:00 PM; 90 minutes later, he leaves alone, disheveled, with mud on his clothes. Three days earlier, she had identified another attacker in a photo board. The foster system that should have protected...

The night fame suffocated the truth: The murder of Doris Adriana Niño Early morning in May 1997 in Boyacá. Three farmers see a man throwing the body of a woman from a white vehicle and disappearing into the darkness. The corpse arrives at the morgue unidentified, buried under a false alias. A piece of paper in her pocket contains the exact address of Diomedes Díaz's apartment, the biggest vallenat...

Lucía: seven years, two trials, a death without answers: The femicide of Lucía Pérez Montero Three men arrived at a medical facility with the unconscious body of a 16-year-old girl. The doctors could not revive her. The police believed their initial version. The family did not. Between 10:30 AM and 3 PM on October 8, 2016, something happened in a home in Mar del Plata that forever changed the cour...

The book that predicted its own crime: The Murder of Mackenzie Lueck Mackenzie Lueck returned to Salt Lake City on June 17, 2019, after attending her grandmother's funeral. At 3:00 AM, she was dropped off at Hatch Park by a Lyft. Her phone died at 2:58 AM. She never contacted her family again. The impossible: the man waiting for her in the park had published a book years earlier that described exa...

Susana, 16 years old: The last statement that no one could deny: The homicide of Susan Capper in Manchester, 1992 On December 14, 1992, at dawn, a man finds a teenage girl with no facial features, with 80% of her body burned, crawling 400 meters from the forest. Before dying, she names her six attackers with last names and exact addresses. How did a group of adults torture a girl for seven days wi...

Two police officers, the same poison, six years apart: The homicide of Glenn Turner and Randy Thompson An obituary triggered the investigation that should have happened in 1995. Two young men, in different cities, died of identical cardiac arrhythmia with a six-year gap. No one connected the cases until Glenn's mother read the name Lin Turner in the press and recognized the impossible pattern. How...

The Bible of Merari: the ranch that the State did not see: The disappearance case of Merari García Mejía May 2024. A 20-year-old young woman uploads photos from a taxi to a job that promised her accommodation and a higher salary. She never made it home. Months later, untrained civilians discovered what authorities in previous inspections had not found: an extermination camp an hour from Guadalajar...

The perfect mine: how a marine concealed his crime: The murder of Erin Evelyn in Joshua Tree A marine photographs abandoned mines, requests a propane tank, and weeks later a pregnant woman goes missing. The impossible: he spent days pretending to help detectives while his victim lay 140 feet underground. The haunting question: how did a man meticulously plan the murder of someone he supposedly lov...

The network that protected Sheila Condor's killer: The femicide of Sheila Condor A mother identified her daughter's killer on WhatsApp while the police claimed not to know him. Forty-eight hours later, the suspect was found dead in a hotel, tied to a television, with the police station that covered him up under investigation for institutional conspiracy. In this episode, we explore how a sub-offic...

The Silence of Jorge: Once Victims, One Disappearance: The serial murders of Marta and ten other women by Jorge Ignacio Palma Marta sent her location to her mother in the early morning of November 7, 2019, from the house of a stranger in Valencia. That would be the last time anyone saw her alive. Her mother arrived at the door three days later but made the mistake of not entering when the killer o...

Agustina in the Gray Renault: 48 Hours of Intrigue: The Murder of Agustina Invinkelright in Esperanza, Santa Fe, Argentina. A 17-year-old girl voluntarily gets into her killer's car minutes after he had already approached her once under the pretext of protecting her on the road. At 5 AM, cameras capture the exact moment when she chooses to trust a stranger. The impossible question: how did a man w...

The police who executed their charges over a debt: The double murder of Parque Avellaneda Two retirees, Alfredo and María Delia, were found in their home with gunshot wounds to the back of the neck. The woman who had been patrolling their block for months disappeared for ninety minutes just before the discovery. How did trust become the perfect alibi for a double homicide? In this episode, we expl...

The Soldier Who Traveled 385 Kilometers: The homicide of Alice Ruggles Alice dialed 101 and accurately described what would happen. The agents took note. Twelve days later, she was dead in her bedroom in Gateshead with twenty-four wounds. How did an entire system fail when a young woman screamed that her life was in imminent danger? In this episode, we explore the systematic harassment by Harry Dy...

The drop of blood that brought down the star killer: The double homicide of Mauricio Leal and Marleni Martínez A drop of blood on the stairs of a luxury condominium in La Calera. A misplaced mop. Cameras capturing someone who shouldn't have been there. The Mauricio Leal case began as an apparent suicide of a celebrity hairstylist and ended up being a meticulously planned murder that was unraveled...

The psychiatrist of three presidents and the blood in the office: The homicide of Roxana Vargas A personal blog documents abuse, an earring appears on the corpse, and luminol reveals partially erased pools of blood in Edmundo Chirinos' office. Roxana Vargas, a 19-year-old journalism student, disappears after rejecting her therapist in 2008 and is found dead on a highway in Caracas. The psychiatris...

Murder without a body: the Beatriz Argañarás case: The disappearance of teacher Beatriz Argañarás in Tucumán, Argentina. A text message "come early, I have a little gift for you" was Beatriz Argañarás's last communication before disappearing forever. On July 31, 2006, the 45-year-old school principal left her home and never arrived at work. The impossible: two women were sentenced to 20 years for...

The owl necklace that condemned three: The femicide of Karina del Pozo An owl necklace buried in a thicket. A 20-year-old young woman missing. On the same night of the crime, three men gave six contradictory versions of what happened inside the vehicle. Forensic evidence points in one direction; testimonies point in another. Who really killed Karina? In this episode, we explore the impossible cont...

Ten hours of hell: The murder of Shanda Sherer: The torture homicide of Shanda Sherer in Madison, Indiana. A charred body in a boxer’s position. Four teenagers have breakfast at McDonald's, mocking, comparing a sausage to the remains of their twelve-year-old victim. How did four girls with histories of abuse and trauma become torturers capable of laughing while a girl burned? In this episode, we e...

The night that changed Houston: Joseline Nungaray: The murder of a minor in Texas At midnight on June 16, 2024, a 12-year-old girl climbs out of her apartment window in North Houston. Six hours later, her mother finds her under a bridge, bound hand and foot. The question that shocked the United States: how did two men already processed for illegal immigration commit this crime without being detain...

Twenty-eight stab wounds: the friendship that planned the murder: The homicide of Briana Gay in Warrington A detailed manuscript with a list of five victims. A best friend who pretended for months while planning every move. Briana Gay, a 16-year-old trans teenager, stabbed 28 times in broad daylight by two schoolmates who wrote their murderous intentions in a notebook before carrying them out. On...