261: The Breaking Bad Murder of Eva Bourseau | France

261: The Breaking Bad Murder of Eva Bourseau | France

Eva Bourseau, 23, was murdered in her Toulouse apartment on 26 July 2015 by two students, Taha Mrani Alaoui and Zakariya Banouni, over a drug debt. Her body was submerged in hydrochloric acid in a plastic trunk — a method inspired by the TV series Breaking Bad. Discovered by firefighters after her mother raised the alarm, the case shocked France and made international headlines. After a 15-day trial at the Cour d'Assises de Haute-Garonne in December 2018, Taha was sentenced to 30 years and Zakariya to 25 years. The case remains one of France's most disturbing student crime cases. Follow us on: YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc-3vROB1gpEWM1YoEr9vLA], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/evidencelockerpodcast/], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/evidencelockerpodcast/], X [https://x.com/EvLockPodcast], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@evidencelockerpodcast] For more information, visit: Evidence Locker Website [https://apple.co/3td9ivp] Listen ad-free: Visit our page at Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/evidencelocker] 25% of Evidence Locker Patreon proceeds are donated to support the Doe Network [https://www.doenetwork.org/], solving international cold cases. To learn more, visit: https://www.doenetwork.org/ [https://www.doenetwork.org/] Resources Web Couilleau, Pierre-Yves (Prosecutor). Indictment press statement [https://www.ibtimes.com/french-breaking-bad-murderers-were-inspired-tv-show-2044440] Wikipedia [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meurtre_d%27Eva_Bourseau] Articles In Breaking Bad-inspired killing, French students tried to dissolve victim's body in acid  [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/10/in-breaking-bad-inspired-killing-french-students-tried-to-dissolve-victims-body-in-acid-police-say/] Breaking Bad copycat murder spurs arrests in France [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/breaking-bad-copycat-murder-spurs-814562/] Breaking Bad-inspired killers of French student [https://www.thelocal.fr/20150811/french-students-dissolve-murder-victim-in-acid/] French students dissolve body in acid after killing girl in Breaking Bad murder plot  [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/french-students-dissolve-body-in-acid-after-killing-girl-in-breaking-bad-murder-plot-10449417.html] French students tried to dissolve body of murder victim in acid  [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11793814/French-students-dissolve-body-in-acid-after-killing-girl-in-Breaking-Bad-murder-plot.html] French Drug Dealers Reportedly Commit Gruesome, Breaking Bad-Inspired Crime  [https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/08/french-drug-dealers-breaking-bad-murder] French Breaking Bad Murderers Were Inspired by TV Show  [https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/france-students-body-found-dissolved-acid-breaking-bad-inspired-murder-1514906] Meurtre d'Eva Bourseau: elle aurait certainement eu une vie intéressante  [https://www.slate.fr/societe/38-rue-merly/episode-1-justice-proces-meurtre-eva-bourseau-portrait-famille-amie] Meurtre d'Eva Bourseau: Comment la personne que je connais a pu en arriver là? [https://www.slate.fr/societe/38-rue-merly/episode-5-meurtre-eva-bourseau-accuses-zakariya-taha-temoignages-proches-famille]  Costa, Élise. 'Meurtre d'Eva Bourseau: Quand tout sera fini, chacun va rentrer chez soi et moi, je serai toujours là  [https://www.slate.fr/societe/38-rue-merly/episode-9-meurtre-eva-bourseau-verdict-epilogue] 30 ans et 25 ans de réclusion pour les meurtriers d'Eva Bourseau  [https://france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/haute-garonne/toulouse/30-ans-25-ans-reclusion-meurtriers-eva-bourseau-famille-effondree-ecoute-du-verdict-1596389.html] Procès des meurtriers présumés d'Eva Bourseau : trajectoire fatale de deux étudiants brillants  [https://france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/haute-garonne/toulouse/proces-meurtriers-presumes-eva-bourseau-trajectoire-fatale-deux-etudiants-brillants-accros-reussite-1590489.html] Eva Bourseau était solaire, elle avait la joie de vivre  [https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-divers-justice/eva-bourseau-etait-solaire-elle-avait-la-joie-de-vivre-selon-sa-famille-au-proces-1544641699] Affaire Eva Bourseau : dettes, drogue et Breaking Bad [https://www.europe1.fr/societe/affaire-eva-bourseau-dettes-drogue-et-breaking-bad-3867881] 5 éléments pour comprendre l'affaire Eva Bourseau [https://vl-media.fr/5-elements-pour-comprendre-laffaire-eva-bourseau-comme-dans-breaking-bad/] La perpétuité et 30 ans de prison requis contre les meurtriers d'Eva Bourseau  [https://www.toulouseinfos.fr/actualites/32342-perpetuite-30-ans-de-prison-requis-contre-meurtriers-deva-bourseau.html] Eva Bourseau, 25 et 30 ans de prison pour ses meurtriers  [https://www.juriguide.com/2018/12/22/eva-bourseau-25-et-30-ans-de-prison-pour-ses-meurtriers/] La justice refuse d'indemniser en totalité les parents d'Eva Bourseau  [https://france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/haute-garonne/toulouse/toulouse-eva-bourseau-retrouvee-dans-de-l-acide-responsable-de-sa-mort-insoutenable-pour-son-pere-1952410.html] Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe Narrated by Noel Vinson Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler Background track: Doblado Studios: https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios [https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios] This True Crime Podcast was researched using open-source or archival materials.

260: The Unsolved Murder of Robert Wone | USA

On August 2, 2006, Washington D.C. attorney Robert Eric Wone was stabbed to death inside the Dupont Circle townhouse of his college friend Joseph Price. Three housemates – Price, Victor Zaborsky, and Dylan Ward – were home at the time. Evidence suggested the crime scene had been staged, and that Wone had been drugged and sexually assaulted before his death. All three men were acquitted of obstruction of justice charges in 2010. A civil wrongful death suit was settled in 2011. No one has ever been charged with Wone's murder. The case remains unsolved. Books: Read collections of The Evidence Locker Files [https://evidencelockerpodcast.com/books], available in print and digital editions. Follow us on: YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc-3vROB1gpEWM1YoEr9vLA], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/evidencelockerpodcast/], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/evidencelockerpodcast/], X [https://x.com/EvLockPodcast], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@evidencelockerpodcast] For more information, visit: Evidence Locker Website [https://apple.co/3td9ivp] Listen ad-free: Visit our page at Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/evidencelocker] 25% of Evidence Locker Patreon proceeds are donated to support the Doe Network [https://www.doenetwork.org/], solving international cold cases. To learn more, visit: https://www.doenetwork.org/ [https://www.doenetwork.org/] Resources Web WhoMurderedRobertWone.com [https://whomurderedrobertwone.com/] Robert Wone Murder Mystery [https://allthatsinteresting.com/robert-wone]  Robert Wone [https://unresolved.me/robert-wone] Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Robert_Eric_Wone] Articles Robert Wone: Life, Death, and Love [https://www.washingtonblade.com/2016/08/10/10-years-later-wone-murder-remains-mystery/] A Murder Mystery on Swann Street [https://dc.citycast.fm/history-archive/a-murder-mystery-on-swann-street-Robert-Wone] Tribe Family Remembers Robert Wone '96 [https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2011/tribe-family-remembers-robert-wone-96-123.php] Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe Narrated by Noel Vinson Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler Background track: Doblado Studios: https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios [https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios] This True Crime Podcast was researched using open-source or archival materials.

259: The Killing of Kirsty Bentley | New Zealand

On New Year's Eve 1998, fifteen-year-old Kirsty Bentley vanished while walking her Labrador, Abby, near the Ashburton River in Canterbury, New Zealand. Seventeen days later, her body was found hidden in dense scrub at Camp Gully, Rakaia Gorge, 40 kilometres away. She had been killed by a single blow of blunt force trauma to the head. Despite decades of investigation under Operation Kirsty, hundreds of suspects interviewed, a 2016 coroner's inquest, and a $100,000 reward offered in 2022, no one has ever been charged. New Zealand's most haunting cold case murder remains unsolved. Books: Read collections of The Evidence Locker Files [https://evidencelockerpodcast.com/books], available in print and digital editions. Follow us on: YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc-3vROB1gpEWM1YoEr9vLA], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/evidencelockerpodcast/], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/evidencelockerpodcast/], X [https://x.com/EvLockPodcast], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@evidencelockerpodcast] For more information, visit: Evidence Locker Website [https://apple.co/3td9ivp] Listen ad-free: Visit our page at Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/evidencelocker] 25% of Evidence Locker Patreon proceeds are donated to support the Doe Network [https://www.doenetwork.org/], solving international cold cases. To learn more, visit: https://www.doenetwork.org/ [https://www.doenetwork.org/] Resources Web Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_Bentley] New Zealand Police: Hot Spot: Op Kirsty [https://www.police.govt.nz/stolenwanted/ten7/2022/hot-spot-op-kirsty]  Articles Killer Blow: the Kirsty Bentley mystery [https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2020/kirsty-bentley-killer-blow/]   New evidence in cold case murder [http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/659450/New-evidence-in-cold-case-murder] The curious case of Kirsty Bentley’s murder [https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/75559999/the-curious-case-of-kirsty-bentleys-murder] DNA could crack open Kirsty Bentley cold case [https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dna-could-crack-open-kirsty-bentley-cold-case-20-years-after-ashburton-schoolgirls-murder/] Kirsty Bentley murder: Police offer $100,000 reward [https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kirsty-bentley-murder-police-offer-100000-reward-in-ashburton-cold-case/] Kirsty Bentley cold case narrows to 10 suspects [https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kirsty-bentley-cold-case-narrows-to-10-suspects/]  Brother John Bentley speaks on Ashburton cold case [https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kirsty-bentley-murder-brother-john-bentley-speaks-on-ashburton-cold-case/]  Teen’s killing still unsolved after 18 years (coroner inquest, 2016) [https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/308730/teen%27s-killing-still-unsolved-after-18-years] Lawyer sounds warning over $100,000 Kirsty Bentley murder reward [https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/474404/lawyer-sounds-warning-over-100-000-kirsty-bentley-murder-reward] Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe Narrated by Noel Vinson Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler Background track: Doblado Studios: https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios [https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios] This True Crime Podcast was researched using open-source or archival materials.

258: The Doppelganger Case of Adolf Beck | England

In 1895, a Swedish man named Adolf Beck was stopped on a London street by a woman who accused him of swindling her out of her jewellery. Police quickly connected him to a string of similar frauds — and to a man named John Smith, convicted of identical crimes in 1877. Over a dozen victims picked Beck out of line-ups. He was convicted at the Old Bailey and sentenced to seven years' hard labour. The problem: he wasn't John Smith. He wasn't any of it. Eight years later, still protesting his innocence, Beck was convicted again — for the exact same type of fraud. Only when the real culprit was arrested mid-crime did the truth finally surface. We explore how a face so ordinary it could belong to anyone sent an innocent man to prison twice, and what the case of Émilie Sagée tells us about the ancient human terror of the double. Books: Read collections of The Evidence Locker Files [https://evidencelockerpodcast.com/books], available in print and digital editions. Follow us on: YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc-3vROB1gpEWM1YoEr9vLA], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/evidencelockerpodcast/], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/evidencelockerpodcast/], X [https://x.com/EvLockPodcast], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@evidencelockerpodcast] For more information, visit: Evidence Locker Website [https://apple.co/3td9ivp] Listen ad-free: Visit our page at Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/evidencelocker] 25% of Evidence Locker Patreon proceeds are donated to support the Doe Network [https://www.doenetwork.org/], solving international cold cases. To learn more, visit: https://www.doenetwork.org/ [https://www.doenetwork.org/] Resources Web Wikipedia - Adolf Beck [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Beck_case] Wikipedia - Émilie Sagée [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie_Sag%C3%A9e] LawTeacher [https://www.lawteacher.net/cases/adolf-beck-case.php] Articles Old Bailey Proceedings Online [https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18960224-277?text=adolf%20beck] Crime Library [https://www.crimelibrary.org/notorious_murders/not_guilty/adolf_beck/index.html] Forensic Psychology – eyewitness testimony [https://www.simplypsychology.org/eyewitness-testimony.html] Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe Narrated by Noel Vinson Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler Background track: Doblado Studios: https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios [https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios] This True Crime Podcast was researched using open-source or archival materials.

257: The Mysterious Disappearance of Christine Walters | USA

In November 2008, 23-year-old Christine Lindsey Walters left her hotel room in Eureka, California, in her pyjamas, to collect identity documents from a nearby copy centre. She was trying to get home to Wisconsin. She never made it. A junior studying botany and ethnobotany at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, Christine had come to Humboldt County for a planned three-week holiday. She stayed, drawn to the area's natural beauty and a spiritual community. One week before she vanished, she participated in an illegal ayahuasca ceremony. Days later, she was found naked and covered in briar scratches on a stranger's doorstep, speaking of demons. She tested negative for drugs, was discharged, and began making plans to fly home. She was last seen on November 14, walking away from a copy centre on I Street, Eureka. Her belongings and untouched bank funds were later recovered. She has never been found. Books: Read collections of The Evidence Locker Files [https://evidencelockerpodcast.com/books], available in print and digital editions. Follow us on: YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc-3vROB1gpEWM1YoEr9vLA], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/evidencelockerpodcast/], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/evidencelockerpodcast/], X [https://x.com/EvLockPodcast], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@evidencelockerpodcast] For more information, visit: Evidence Locker Website [https://apple.co/3td9ivp] Listen ad-free: Visit our page at Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/evidencelocker] 25% of Evidence Locker Patreon proceeds are donated to support the Doe Network [https://www.doenetwork.org/], solving international cold cases. To learn more, visit: https://www.doenetwork.org/ [https://www.doenetwork.org/] Resources Web The Charley Project [https://charleyproject.org/case/christine-lindsey-walters] NamUs [https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP5477] Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/HelpFindChristineLindseyWalters] Articles Missing Women: Humboldt Mystery [https://lauthmissingpersons.com/missing-women-humboldt-mystery/] Lauth Investigations International — Christine Walters [https://lauthmissingpersons.com/tag/christine-walters/] True Crime Society - Christine Lindsey Walters [https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2019/07/29/missingmonday-christine-lindsey-walters/] Missing People in America — Christine Walters [https://missingpeopleinamerica.org/missing/christine-walters] Websleuths Forum — "CA: Christine Walters, 23, Arcata, 14 Nov 2008." [https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/ca-christine-walters-23-arcata-14-nov-2008.104148/] Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe Narrated by Noel Vinson Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler Background track: Doblado Studios: https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios [https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios] This True Crime Podcast was researched using open-source or archival materials.