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Cutter, gloves, and a hamburger: The calculated murder of Colleen Ritzer: The crime of a teenager in Danvers. October 2013. A 14-year-old student enters the school wearing gloves, a change of clothes, and a cutter in his backpack. His teacher, Colleen Ritzer, praises him for his drawings and offers him tutoring. Three hours later, Philip Chism will have a hamburger and watch a movie in the theater...

Five shots disguised as a domestic accident: The murder of María Marta García Belsunce A woman is found dead with five bullet wounds to the skull, and for over a hundred days, everyone—doctors, family, police—certified that it was an accidental fall in the bathtub. How does such an evident murder turn into a domestic tragedy? The contradiction that concealed a destroyed scene, a false certificate,...

The sock that kept twenty years of secret: The murder of Tana Wally A mother found her daughter strangled with her own blue sock. The killer lived ten feet from her window. For twenty years, no one could prove it - until a detective read a forgotten file and discovered what everyone had ignored. In this episode, we explore how a sock preserved the killer's DNA for over two decades, how a family th...

Buried under concrete: the final role of Jeff Machado. The murder of Jeff Machado. A wooden suitcase unearthed in a garden in Rio de Janeiro contained what remained of a shattered dream. Jeff Machado, a 44-year-old actor, disappeared on January 23, 2023, just as he was beginning rehearsals for the leading role he had pursued his entire life. Four months later, his body was found under concrete, st...

The Quintrala of Seminario: Ambition Without Limits: The Mystery of María del Pilar Pérez López A high-class architect hired hitmen to eliminate her ex-husband, brother-in-law, mother, sister, and daughter-in-law in Santiago, Chile. From her cell, she attempted to bribe the assassin using her own daughter as a messenger. How far does ambition go before it destroys everything, including one's own c...

Sealed in the Sacred Tank: The Crime of Summer Inman: The murder investigation of Summer Inman The body of a young mother was found in the septic tank of the church where she was married, sealed with six steel screws. Summer Inman disappeared on the night of March 22, 2011, after being kidnapped at gunpoint in front of a bank in Logan, Ohio. The question that haunts this case is impossible to igno...

The pastor without a body: seven years of silence in Ecuador: The murder of Juliana Campoverde A student disappears within six blocks. Her cellphone sends messages after she dies. A pastor who led his church without credentials was looking for scopolamine days before. The police took six years to connect the dots that her mother never stopped seeing. In this episode, we explore how a fake profile...

The Four of Guayaquil: Children Who Disappeared with Soldiers: The forced disappearance of Ismael, Josué, Nehemías, and Steven Four minors went out to play soccer on a December Sunday in the Las Malvinas neighborhood of Guayaquil and were detained by Ecuadorian soldiers. Sixteen days later, they were found burned 42 kilometers away. Security cameras documented everything: the beating, the unmarked...

The seven tattoos that revealed the freezer: The murder of Carol Maltesi A man bought an axe, a saw, and a refrigerator on Amazon. He used them to dismember his partner, stored the remains in the freezer for two months, and responded to messages from her family as if she were alive. How did a single mother trying to provide a better life for her son end up in fifteen pieces inside garbage bags? In...

Three friends, a panic message, and an unsolved revenge: The femicide of Juliana, Denise, and Nayeli in Ecuador Denise sent a message at 11:10 p.m. on April 4: "I feel like something is going to happen." Nayeli shared her real-time location with her sister. Three days later, their bodies were found buried together in the Esmeraldas River, with their hands tied and machete wounds. The impossible pa...

The killer that justice released two months earlier: The homicide of Laura Luelmo Laura disappeared on December 12, 2018, in El Campillo. Her phone marked a location 9 kilometers from home, but her body was found in the completely opposite direction, covered with branches. The man who lived across from her had been released just two months prior after serving time for stabbing an 82-year-old woman...