True Crime Reporter

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January 03, 2023 True Crime Reporter® Answers Questions About Murder Mysteries
This episode marks Part 2 of questions posed to investigative reporter Robert Riggs by true crime fan and Texas A&M architecture major Patricia Rocha.
Hopefully, listeners can take away advice about staying safe in the wake of an arrest of a suspect in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students on November 13, 2022, at their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho.
Two other roommates upstairs slept through the brutal slayings.
The mysterious murder struck fear in college students across the country.
This is a continuation of our new press conference at the True Crime Reporter® podcast.
This episode marks the second part of our press conference in which the fans of the True Crime Reporter® podcast ask investigative reporter Robert Riggs questions.
If you want to come on the podcast to ask Robert questions, email [email protected].
Tell him what you want to talk about and why.
Here’s today’s True Crime Reporter® press conference.
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34 min
December 27, 2022 Reporter Robert Riggs Answers Questions About Serial Killers
Serial Killer Kenneth McDuff's Mug Shots Record Life Of Crime
In a new press conference-style episode, True Crime Reporter's Robert Riggs takes questions from fans.
True crime fan Patricia Rocha turns the table on Riggs and asks what it is like to go inside the crime scene tape.
Riggs recently met Rocha, an architecture student, and her friends at a ceremony for Outstanding Alumni from the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University.
Afterward, Rocha and her friends peppered him with questions about true crime cases.
Robert-Riggs-Outstanding-Alum-College-of-Architecture-Texas-AM-and-Patricia-Rocha-Arch-Student
Looking on was Bill Peel, an Outstanding Alum and Executive Director of Innovation at Texas A&M’s Mays School of Business. Peel suggested that a press conference-style interview by fans should be a regular feature here.
Riggs has covered his share of press conferences at the White House, Capitol Hill, Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and breaking news at crime scenes.
But unlike the spokespersons behind those podiums, you will not find Riggs dancing around any questions.
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27 min
December 20, 2022 Why & How Women Murder - Love Triangles and Hiring Hitmen
What goes on inside the minds of women who commit murder and other crimes?
In my previous episode on December 13, 2022, titled A Mother’s Pursuit of Justice: The Contract Murder of Dan Markel, I reported that three women are the focus of an eight-year-long murder investigation.
Markel, a distinguished law professor at Florida State University was gunned down by hitmen at his Tallahassee home in 2014.
Katherine Maguahua (phonetic pronunciation: MAC-BANA-WAH) was the go-between for the contract killing.
In November of 2022, evidence from an FBI sting helped convict Maguahua.
She received a life sentence plus 60 years for hiring her ex-boyfriend, the father of her children, to execute Dan Markel. Allegedly so his ex-wife could move the couple’s two sons to South Florida.
The ex-wife, 35- year old Wendi Adelson, a fellow law professor, and her mother, Donna Adelson, have been named as unindicted conspirators in the alleged plot.
According to criminal trial testimony, Katherine Maguahua hired the hitmen at the request of Wendi Adelson’s brother Charlie Adelson. She was a girlfriend and dental assistant in his office. Charlie Adelson has been charged with the murder and is expected to stand trial in 2023.
But back to Katherine Maguahua, was it for love or money?
I reached out to Meghan Sacks, a criminologist with a Ph.D. who teaches classes on Women and Crime at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey to explore this true crime subject.
Sacks is also the co-host of the Women and Crime podcast.
We discuss possible motivations in the Austin cyclist murder case that I covered on July 11, 2022, A Love Triangle Ends In An Alleged Murderous Fit Of Jealous Rage.
You will also hear me discuss interviewing female inmates at Texas prison units.
Archive News Report About Female Inmates Con Games
Links to resources about the Dan Markel murder case:
Full coverage by Paul Caron, Dean of the Pepperdine University
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2022/10/extreme-punishment-the-chilling-true-story-of-dan-markels-murder.html
Link to recent court testimony by Wendi Adelson:
https://youtu.be/KIDXVsibEJw
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True Crime Reporter® is a @2022 copyrighted and trade-marked production by True Crime Reporter®, LLC, in Dallas, Texas.

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36 min
December 20, 2022 Why & How Women Murder – Love Triangles and Hiring Hitmen
What goes on inside the minds of women who commit murder and other crimes?
In my previous episode on December 13, 2022, titled A Mother’s Pursuit of Justice: The Contract Murder of Dan Markel, I reported that three women are the focus of an eight-year-long murder investigation.
Markel, a distinguished law professor at Florida State University was gunned down by hitmen at his Tallahassee home in 2014.
Katherine Maguahua (phonetic pronunciation: MAC-BANA-WAH) was the go-between for the contract killing.
In November of 2022, evidence from an FBI sting helped convict Maguahua.
She received a life sentence plus 60 years for hiring her ex-boyfriend, the father of her children, to execute Dan Markel. Allegedly so his ex-wife could move the couple’s two sons to South Florida.
The ex-wife, 35- year old Wendi Adelson, a fellow law professor, and her mother, Donna Adelson, have been named as unindicted conspirators in the alleged plot.
According to criminal trial testimony, Katherine Maguahua hired the hitmen at the request of Wendi Adelson’s brother Charlie Adelson. She was a girlfriend and dental assistant in his office. Charlie Adelson has been charged with the murder and is expected to stand trial in 2023.
But back to Katherine Maguahua, was it for love or money?
I reached out to Meghan Sacks, a criminologist with a Ph.D. who teaches classes on Women and Crime at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey to explore this true crime subject.
Sacks is also the co-host of the Women and Crime podcast.
We discuss possible motivations in the Austin cyclist murder case that I covered on July 11, 2022, A Love Triangle Ends In An Alleged Murderous Fit Of Jealous Rage.
You will also hear me discuss interviewing female inmates at Texas prison units.
Archive News Report About Female Inmates Con Games
https://youtu.be/1gwrOt7Umsg
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36 min
December 13, 2022 A Mother’s Pursuit of Justice: The Contract Murder of Dan Markel
FSU Law Prof Dan Markel Was Shot Point Blank By Contract Killers as He Pulled Into The Garage of His Home
Murder is a life sentence for the victim’s family and friends. Closure is a myth perpetuated by the news media.
During three decades of investigative reporting, Robert Riggs has witnessed how the victim’s families often suffer in silence and are left out of the confusing criminal justice process.
In this episode of the True Crime Reporter® podcast, Ruth Markel shares a remarkable story of grief, resilience, and hope during an eight-year murder investigation that is not over.
FSU Law Professor Dan Markel
Her son, Dan Markel, a Florida law professor, was ambushed in a murder-for-hire conspiracy allegedly masterminded by his ex-wife, Wendi Adelson, and members of her family, according to state prosecutors.
Wendi Adelson has denied those accusations during a police interrogation and under oath in court testimony.
The anatomy of the murder has been highly publicized on television crime shows and true crime podcasts.
But Robert Riggs is here with the “rest of the story” from behind the crime scene tape.
In this interview, Ruth Markel reveals how the victim’s family can become advocates for their lost loved ones. She inspired the Florida State Legislature to pass a grandparent visitation bill titled the “Markel Act.”
Before the murders, Markel had published eight books about the advancement of women in the corporate workplace. She never expected to write about such a horrific and powerless situation as the murder of her son.
Now Ruth Markel shares her story to help others survive their grief from murders and violent crime in her book titled The Unveiling: A Mothers’ Reflection on Murder, Grief, and Trial Life.
Riggs and Markel discuss her fight for justice on behalf of her son and the struggle to be legally reunited with her grandchildren.
Riggs starts the episode by recounting the key events of the contact murder in 2014.
Links to resources mentioned during the podcast:
Full coverage by Paul Caron, Dean of the Pepperdine University
https://youtu.be/KIDXVsibEJw
Court Testimony by Wendi Adelson
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42 min
December 06, 2022 “To Catch A Predator” — Chris Hansen Reports How Children Are At Risk On Social Media
Chris Hansen, the journalist who created the televised series To Catch A Predator, warns that the problem of adults preying on children for sex is growing at an alarming rate.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has reported that during the peak of the pandemic, inappropriate contacts between adults and children, predatory contacts, as well as the transmission of inappropriate material between adults and children shot up nearly 900%.
Indicative of the problem is the case of the former Virginia police officer accused of “catfishing” a teenage girl and murdering her grandparents and her mother.
“Catfishing” is a form of online deception in which someone pretends to be a different person.
Firefighters discovered the teen's family inside their burning home in Riverside, California.
28-year-old Austin Edwards, the ex-cop, was killed in a shootout with San Bernadino County Sheriff’s deputies. The teenage girl was not harmed.
Hansen and investigative reporter Robert Riggs have encountered predators throughout their respective journalism careers.
The journalism community has honored Chris Hansen with 10 Emmys and 5 Edward R. Murrow reporting Awards.
Chris has broken stories worldwide and is launching a new series, True Crime Nation, on the TruBlu Streaming Network. His To Catch A Predator series is now called TAKEDOWN.
In this episode of True Crime Reporter®, Riggs and Hansen go inside the crime scene tape to remind parents that predators live online and that they need to have a conversation with their children about how to stay safe online and on social media.
35 min
November 28, 2022 Deep Fried Theft Rings Cash In On Blackmarket Cooking Oil
Cooking oil left over from french fries and fried chicken has become liquid gold.
Organized criminal gangs are emptying storage tanks at restaurants and convenience stores across the United States.
Hello. I’m investigative reporter Robert Riggs with an unusual story from inside the crime scene tape.
Did you know a gallon of used cooking oil is now worth more than a gallon of gasoline?
The thefts fuel a multimillion-dollar black market.
Gary Edgington Working Counter Insurgency and IED's in Iraq for the U.S. Army
Here to talk about it is Gary Edgington, a 40-year law enforcement veteran.
We are going to talk about a wide range of his cases from his career with the
Beverly Hills Police Department, LA County District Attorney…we will touch on the OJ Simpson murder trial. His work on narcotics cases and a member of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in Los Angeles. And later his role in counter-insurgency operations in Iraq.
Now he is the author of, Outside The Wire–A Novel of Murder Love, and War.
It’s a fictional thriller inspired by his experience about Iranian operatives bent on destroying America.
Here’s my interview with Gary Edgington.
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43 min
November 22, 2022 Deep Fried Theft Rings Cash In On Blackmarket Cooking Oil
Cooking oil left over from french fries and fried chicken has become liquid gold.
Organized criminal gangs are emptying storage tanks at restaurants and convenience stores across the United States.
Hello. I’m investigative reporter Robert Riggs with an unusual story from inside the crime scene tape.
Did you know a gallon of used cooking oil is now worth more than a gallon of gasoline?
The thefts fuel a multimillion-dollar black market.
Here to talk about it is Gary Edgington, a 40-year law enforcement veteran.
We are going to talk about a wide range of his cases from his career with the
Beverly Hills Police Department, LA County District Attorney…we will touch on the OJ Simpson murder trial. His work on narcotics cases and a member of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in Los Angeles. And later, his role in counter-insurgency operations in Iraq.
Now he is the author of, Outside The Wire–A Novel of Murder Love, and War.
It’s a fictional thriller inspired by his experience about Iranian operatives bent on destroying America.
I have put links to the book and his website in the show notes.
Here’s Robert Riggs' interview with Gary Edgington.
We want to become your favorite true crime podcast. Please leave a review wherever you listen.
Join our true crime community and follow us here.
The True Crime Reporter® podcast features stories about serial killers, mass murderers, murder mysteries, homicides, cold cases, prisons, violent criminals, serial rapists, child abductors, child molesters, kidnappers, bank robbers, cyber criminals, and assorted violent criminals.
True Crime Reporter® is a @2022 copyrighted and trade-marked production by True Crime Reporter®, LLC, in Dallas, Texas.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
43 min
November 15, 2022 Whoever Comes In This Room Is Going To Die With Us
Sitting in the maternity ward of Dallas Methodist hospital, 30-year-old Nester Oswaldo Hernandez told his girlfriend that “we are both going to die today, and whoever comes in this room is going to die with us.”
Hernandez, a violent offender out on early parole in Texas, executed a social worker and a nurse as they entered the room of his girlfriend and newborn baby, according to a Dallas police arrest warrant.
Hernandez had just accused his girlfriend of cheating on him. He pistol-whipped her and fatally shot the two healthcare workers before a security officer wounded him.
Hernandez had a long rap sheet.
He was on parole for an aggravated robbery. In 2015 Hernandez and a female accomplice attacked a woman who was returning home from work.
They taped the victim's hands together and taped over her eyes. They broke her nose and fractured her eye during the robbery. Hernandez stole her phone, car, and $3,000 cash from a school fundraiser.
A year before the hospital murder, Hernandez was released early on parole with a special electronic monitoring condition.
Hernandez was granted permission to be at the hospital with his girlfriend during and after the baby's delivery. He was wearing an active ankle monitor.
Shortly after the shooting, Dallas police chief Eddie Garcia called the killings "an abhorrent failure of our criminal justice system" and said, “we give violent criminals more chances than our victims.”
Investigative reporter Robert Riggs, former U.S. prosecutor Bill Johnston, and the Chief of Police of Prosper, Texas, Doug Kowalski discuss early release policies that are setting off a wave of violence across the United States.
We want to become your favorite true crime podcast. Please leave a review wherever you listen.
Join our true crime community and follow us here.
The True Crime Reporter® podcast features stories about serial killers, mass murderers, murder mysteries, homicides, cold cases, prisons, violent criminals, serial rapists, child abductors, child molesters, kidnappers, bank robbers, cyber criminals, and assorted violent criminals.
True Crime Reporter® is a @2022 copyrighted and trade-marked production by True Crime Reporter®, LLC, in Dallas, Texas.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
50 min
November 15, 2022 “Whoever Comes In This Room Is Going To Die With Us”
Nester Oswaldo Hernandez -- Parolee Charged With Murdering 2 Nurses In Dallas June 2022
Sitting in the maternity ward of Dallas Methodist Hospital, 30-year-old Nester Oswaldo Hernandez told his girlfriend “we are both going to die today, and whoever comes in this room is going to die with us.”
Hernandez, a violent offender out on early parole in Texas, executed a social worker and a nurse as they entered the room of his girlfriend and newborn baby, according to a Dallas police arrest warrant.
Hernandez had just accused his girlfriend of cheating on him. He pistol-whipped her and fatally shot the two healthcare workers before a security officer wounded him.
Hernandez had a long rap sheet.
He was on parole for an aggravated robbery. In 2015, Hernandez and a female accomplice attacked a woman who was returning home from work.
They taped the victim's hands together and taped over her eyes. They broke her nose and fractured her eye during the robbery. Hernandez stole her phone, car, and $3,000 cash from a school fundraiser.
A year before the hospital murder, Hernandez was released early on parole with a special electronic monitoring condition.
Hernandez was granted permission to be at the hospital with his girlfriend during and after the baby's delivery. He was wearing an active ankle monitor.
Shortly after the shooting, Dallas police chief Eddie Garcia called the killings "an abhorrent failure of our criminal justice system" and said, “we give violent criminals more chances than our victims.”
Investigative reporter Robert Riggs, former U.S. prosecutor Bill Johnston, and the Chief of Police of Prosper, Texas, Doug Kowalski, discuss early release policies setting off a wave of violence across the United States.
We also discuss how thieves in some cities get a free pass and crime in New York City.
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50 min