A dinner at the casino, twelve hours of silence, and a burned body in the desert. Lesli Palacio, 22 years old, had trusted Eric Rangel since childhood. But between 2 AM when they left together and 6:30 AM when he reappeared alone, something happened that remains unpunished three years later.

In this episode, you will discover how security cameras captured every movement, how the main suspect remains at large, and why the family cries out for justice while the system fails. Testimony from friends, recorded confessions, neighborhood video that shows it all. A case that exposes the gaps in a system that allowed the main accused to cross the border while Lesli's toxicology report remains unpublished three years later.

Case Details
Victim: Lesli Palacio, 22 years old, nursing student
Date: August 28-29, 2020
Location: Las Vegas and Valley of Fire, Nevada, United States
Status: Open case; main suspect Eric Rangel has been at large since August 2020; father José Rangel served 8 months of sentence; cause of death undetermined

- Neighborhood camera video shows both arriving together, Eric leaving alone without a shirt, and returning with his father to move the motionless body to the trunk, but police took nine days to issue an official alert

- Eric's prepaid phone was active in Valley of Fire on the same day of the disappearance; a call to a friend where he verbally admits to committing murder and asks for gasoline, but authorities do not capture the suspect

- José Rangel pleads guilty to complicity after admitting that Lesli died of an accidental overdose, a version that completely contradicts the video showing deliberate concealment behavior

- Official cause of death remains undetermined as of August 2023; toxicology tests pending since 2020 without public explanation while the family cries out for answers

Would you trust someone you have known since childhood who turns out to be involved in a death where the video completely incriminates him but remains free three years later?

murder Las Vegas, Lesli Palacio case, denied justice Nevada, unsolved crime, death in the desert, fugitive suspect, family cover-up, Valley of Fire, crime Las Vegas 2020, hidden truth, impunity United States, true crime Spanish podcast

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The Drum Kills Again: Ámbar and the Impossible Coercion: The Homicide of Ámbar Cornejo in Chile

A young woman disappears within seven blocks. Under the floor of the house where she was last seen, investigators find her body dismembered into fifteen parts buried two meters deep. The perpetrator had killed exactly this way before: dismembering and hiding after being released from prison four years earlier. How did a confessed murderer remain free to repeat the crime?

In this episode, we explore the chain of decisions that allowed Hugo Bustamante, who in 2016 had already strangled and dismembered an ex-partner in a metal drum, to kill again. We unravel the paradoxical role of Denis, Ámbar's mother: her affectionate messages to Bustamante contradict her claim of coercion, while cameras show her buying wax and tools without signs of intimidation. Victim or active accomplice in the region's serial killer?

Victim: Ámbar Cornejo
Date: July 29, 2020
Location: Villa Alemana and Tibú, Chile
Status: Convicted

- Bustamante was released after eleven years for an identical crime in 2005: strangulation and dismemberment with concealment in a metal drum.
- Cameras capture Denis and Bustamante moving a washing machine on July 30 at 1:00 PM, hours after the disappearance.
- Denis bought floor wax, an axe, and knives on the same July 30; the merchant identified her without coercive signs.
- Bustamante's searches include chloroform, ether, and prices for meat grinders, indicating total premeditation.

Ámbar Cornejo, Villa Alemana Chile, 2020, dismemberment, serial killer, true crime, forensic investigation, judicial mystery, suffocation, concealment, Spanish true crime

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The aunt who stopped Fátima's killers: The kidnapping and murder of Fátima Cecilia Aldrighetti Antón

A seven-year-old girl disappears in broad daylight, holding the hand of a woman known and trusted by the family. Authorities wait 72 hours without acting. What no one knew: the suspect was not an unknown predator, but a victim of domestic violence turned accomplice to the unthinkable. How an ordinary aunt achieved what the police could not: stop the killers.

In this episode, we explore the forensic investigation that traced Fátima from her disappearance in Tláhuac to the discovery of her body 96 hours later. We examine the contradictions between the official composite sketch and the suspect's real identity, the confession to Mario's aunt that broke the silence, and the web of domestic abuse that turned Gladys Giovanna Cruz into an instrument of crime.

Victim: Fátima Cecilia Aldrighetti Antón
Date: February 11, 2020
Location: Tláhuac, Mexico City
Status: Case closed - projected sentence over 100 years

- The mother discovers her missing daughter at 6:30 PM; C5 cameras show the girl walking hand in hand with Gladys 60 seconds later, calm and trusting.
- The official composite sketch did not match the actual photo of the suspect, raising public doubts about the initial investigation.
- Gladys confessed that Mario demanded a "permanent girlfriend" under threat of abusing his own daughters, forcing her to seek Fátima as a victim.
- Mario's aunt recognized the couple on television on 02/19, confronted them, extracted the confession, and alerted the municipal police.

Fátima Cecilia Aldrighetti Antón, Tláhuac 2020, kidnapping, murder, strangulation, forensic investigation, child abuse, domestic violence, true crime, criminal minds, Spanish true crime

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Nine days with five corpses: the escape of Timothy Jones: The multiple murder of Timothy Jones Jr.

A father drives over a thousand kilometers through the southeastern United States with the bodies of his five children wrapped in black bags in the back seat. While searching online for how to dissolve remains with muriatic acid, he responds to text messages normally from his boss and the babysitters. How did a man who had just committed the most ruthless crime in recent South Carolina history manage to maintain a functional facade for nine days?

In this episode, we explore the crack between the psychotic breakdown that Jones claimed and the digital evidence that revealed surgical premeditation: incriminating searches, handwritten notes detailing decomposition methods, surveillance video capturing the purchase of a saw and acid, and an escape route mapped cell by cell. We also investigate the institutional failure that allowed social services to document physical abuse but only obtain a written promise, while five children paid with their lives.

Victim: Timothy Jones Jr.
Date: August 28, 2014
Location: Lexington, South Carolina
Status: Sentenced to death, June 2019

- Jones searched for "body in landfill" and "muriatic acid" while driving with the corpses in the vehicle.
- He purchased a 20-inch saw, a 19-liter bucket, muriatic acid, and black bags, captured on surveillance video on September 3.
- He provided three different versions about his children during a single traffic stop: denial, lie about the number, final confession.
- The handwritten notes in the SUV detailed "sand bones to dust" and "burn bodies," contradictory to the narrative of reactive panic.

Timothy Jones Jr., Lexington South Carolina, multiple murder, 2014, homicide, forensic, investigation, criminal minds, premeditated crime, institutional corruption, true crime Spanish

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The Crossbow and the Camera: The Killer Who Wanted to Be Famous: The Serial Murder of Stephen Griffiths in Bradford

A security camera captures everything: a man shoots a crossbow in the hallway of a building, drags his victim's body, raises the weapon in a sign of victory, and then makes an obscene gesture directly at the lens. He knew he was being recorded. The haunting question is why someone who plans crimes with the precision of a criminologist ensures he is caught on video.

In this episode, we explore the contradiction that defines this case: a man who studied criminology and knew how to destroy evidence, but chose to become a spectacle. We examine how 81 fragments of a body in the River Aire, a backpack with weapons, and ritualized photographs reveal a predator obsessed with leaving his mark, not hiding it. Why did he confess to being "the crossbow killer" at his first appearance?

Victim: Suzanne Blaize, Shelley Armitage, Susan Rushworth
Date: May 21-22, 2010
Location: Bradford, United Kingdom
Status: Three life sentences without parole

- Griffiths shot a crossbow in a residential building hallway while cameras recorded every second of the murder.
- He confessed to dismembering bodies with power tools, a samurai sword, and burning them in his home stove.
- A police search in 2007 found his crossbow and knives three years before the first confirmed murder, with no legal consequences.
- He raised the crossbow in front of the security camera, made an obscene gesture, and then transported bags with remains to the River Aire knowing exactly where the sensors were.

Suzanne Blaize, Shelley Armitage, Susan Rushworth, Bradford, serial murder, 2010, crossbow, recorded crime, forensic, criminal minds, serial killer, investigation, true crime Spanish

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The drop of sweat that condemned Patrick Nogueira: The quadruple murder of Pioz

A drop of sweat under black light. An impossible fingerprint under duct tape. A WhatsApp message sent in real time while he dismembered four relatives, including two children aged 4 and 1. Patrick Nogueira, 19 years old, cleaned the scene with bleach, took a shower, ate a sandwich, and calmly waited for the last adult. The question that the police had to solve: how did a nephew living with the family manage to almost erase all the evidence, except for the invisible?

In this episode, we explore the 5,848 digital pieces of evidence that reconstructed every second of the crime: internet searches on how to kill in three seconds, transport records that placed him in Pioz at 3:30 PM, and photographs he shared live with his friend Martín Enríquez. We unravel how an identical incident from 2013 - when he stabbed his teacher in the back - revealed a pattern that no jury could ignore. What drives a teenager from an affluent family to commit such an act of brutality, and how did digital forensics catch him when he had already fled to Brazil?

Victim: Marcos Campos Nogueira, Hanine Santos Américo, Carolina, David
Date: August 17, 2016
Location: Pioz, Guadalajara, Spain
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment with review

- Internet search from the victims' home: "how to kill someone in three seconds"
- Fingerprint under duct tape from bags: technically impossible location without direct involvement in packaging
- Real-time WhatsApp messages with photographs; recovered after formatting the phone
- Garbage bags and duct tape purchased in advance by Patrick days before the crime

Patrick Nogueira, Pioz Guadalajara Spain, serial murder, investigation, forensics, WhatsApp, premeditation, homicide, true crime, justice, criminal minds, 2016, Spanish true crime

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Nineteen days to dissolve mom and dad in acid: The murder of Joel and Lisa Guy

A boiling pot on the stove. Inside, a head. In the bathroom, two blue 45-gallon containers with bodies partially dissolved in acid. One without a head. The other without hands. The police open the door of a house in Knoxville and discover that someone meticulously planned for nineteen days the murder and disappearance of their own parents.

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that unravel Joel Guy Jr.'s alibi: a handwritten notebook detailing every chemical step and every dismemberment instruction; Walmart cameras capturing him buying gloves and bandages hours after the murders, trying to treat an injury on his thumb; and a final line written before the crime that reveals the true motive: "500,000 will all be mine." How did such an elaborate plan end in a chaotic and incomplete scene?

Victim: Joel Sr. Guy and Lisa Guy
Date: November 26, 2016
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Status: Sentenced to two consecutive life sentences

- The notebook found detailed every step of the plan with precise instructions for dismemberment and chemical dissolution, including how to fake text messages from the victims' phones.
- Joel Jr. was captured on cameras buying emergency supplies at 3:35 PM on November 26, the same day as the murders, with a deep injury on his left thumb.
- The parents cut off his financial support on Thanksgiving, the immediate trigger: Joel Jr. had depended on them financially for a decade without employment.
- A meat grinder was found in the trunk of his vehicle when he was arrested, confirming the intention to return and complete the plan to destroy evidence.

Joel Guy Jr., Joel Sr. Guy, Lisa Guy, Knoxville Tennessee 2016, serial murder, investigation, forensic, planned crime, acid, premeditation, true crime Spanish

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Ten parts, one lie: the case of Hans Pozo: The homicide of Hans Hernán Pozo Vergara

A dog brings a human foot to a villa in Santiago. Four days later, arms, legs, hands, and a skull with two bullet impacts appear scattered throughout the city. The impossible: the body was refrigerated, dismembered with surgical precision, and its fingerprints erased. How did a serial killer erase all identity but leave an intact prison tattoo?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that disprove the official truth. The blood under the upholstery of Martínez's truck, the ballistics that do not match a suicide, the alarm reactivated at three in the morning, and the twenty-page letter written after the crime. Two bullet impacts at 1.03 meters from the ground on a man of 1.77: suicide or failed investigation?

Victim: Hans Hernán Pozo Vergara
Date: March 26-27, 2006
Location: Santiago, Chile
Status: Case closed (no identified culprits)

- Skull found with two 9mm impacts in the frontal and temporal regions, nose torn off, intentional disfigurement.
- Hands without fingerprints in black bags, temperature lower than the ambient: body previously refrigerated.
- Hans's blood under upholstery washed with bleach in the suspect's truck, confirmed by luminol and DNA.
- Ballistic trajectory at 1.03 m from the ground incompatible with self-firing of a man of 1.77 m, with no gunpowder residue on hands.

Hans Pozo Vergara, Santiago 2006, murder, dismemberment, investigation, ballistics, unsolved mystery, corruption, failed justice, true crime, Spanish true crime

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The Black Dahlia: Bisected, Washed, and Buried: The Murder of Elizabeth Short in 1947

A body discovered in Los Angeles cut into two perfect halves, drained of blood and arranged like a work of art. Seventy-five years later, a detective son investigates police recordings where his deceased father, a medical surgeon, would confess to the crime in his own voice.

In this episode, we explore the surgical lumbar bissection, the 1950 recordings where George O'Dell says "I killed her," and Lieutenant Jamieson's secret folder that would reveal documented police surveillance. Why did the investigation stop if the authorities already had him under microphones?

Victim: Elizabeth Short
Date: January 15, 1947
Location: Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California
Status: Open case

- Body bisected at the lumbar spine, unique cut without breaking bone: specific surgical knowledge
- Receipt for ten identical bags of cement, from the time of the crime, in the name of surgeon George O'Dell
- Police recordings from 1950 capturing confessions: "I killed her," "they can't prove it," screams of a woman being beaten
- Jamieson folder confirms formal surveillance; six suspects under microphones, O'Dell included, with no subsequent arrests

Elizabeth Short, Leimert Park 1947, unsolved murder, suspicious surgeon, perfect bissection, police cover-up, private investigation, confessional recordings, secret folder, buried justice, Spanish true crime

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The Basement Under the Neighbor's Bed: The serial murder case of Andrés Mendoza

A former president of citizen participation, a neighborhood leader known for distributing food packages, had a hidden basement under his bed with human remains preserved in salt and 4,300 bone fragments. How did he operate for decades without suspicion in his own community?

In this episode, we explore the contradictions that uncovered the case: security cameras show Reina Amador entering the residence but never leaving, while forensic experts discover remains of at least 19 victims where Mendoza confessed to only four. The husband, a former police officer who forced the door, the notebooks with body weights since 1974, and the VHS tapes of dismemberments reveal a serial killer operating in the shadows of his neighborhood.

Victim: Reina Amador and 18 other confirmed
Date: May 14, 2021
Location: Atizapán de Zaragoza, State of Mexico
Status: Life sentence, March 18, 2022

- Cameras show the victim's entry but never a record of leaving the residence
- Notebooks with dates since 1974 detailing exact weights of body parts
- Twelve cell phones and victim credentials found among the remains
- Mendoza claimed at least 30 deaths but only 19 were confirmed by forensics

Reina Amador, Atizapán de Zaragoza, serial killer, basement, disappearances, homicide, investigation, forensic, modus operandi, true crime, predator, 2021, Spanish true crime

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