The Yuka Takaoka case: obsession, jealousy, and the attack that shocked Japan

Irene Garza: the secret of a church that hid a murder for fifty years

The priest who confessed to a crime for 57 years: The murder of Irene Garza A young teacher went to confess on Holy Saturday in McAllen, Texas, and never came out alive from the Sacred Heart church. Her body floated in an irrigation canal days later, but the priest who heard her confession took more than half a century to be convicted - although his guilt was an open secret from the first month. In this episode, we explore how the ecclesiastical institution concealed a murder for decades: the handwritten note that contradicted everything, the inexplicable scratches on the priest's hands, the polygraph that was tampered with, and the pact between the church and the prosecution to exile the killer instead of prosecuting him. A monk from Oklahoma and a lawyer who kept silent for 42 years finally revealed the truth that no one wanted to see. Victim: Irene Garza Date: April 16, 1960 Location: McAllen, Texas Status: Resolved (2017) - The green slide viewer found at the bottom of the canal was recognized by Fight in his own handwritten note as evidence of his presence at the scene. - Irene's clothing was unbuttoned with her underwear missing, indicating sexual assault in a closed location - the soundproof rectory described by monk Tessen. - The scratches on Fight's forearms were photographed by detectives the night of the crime, located on the outer side inconsistent with climbing a fence. - The district attorney informally admitted to lawyer Davis that both he and the church knew of Fight's guilt and had agreed to send him to a monastery in Missouri before any formal charges. Irene Garza, McAllen Texas, 1960, murder, priest, church, killer, investigation, crime without justice, institutional corruption, mystery solved, true crime Spanish If you want to listen to this podcast ad-free and have access to premium episodes, we invite you to try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and associated materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use in whole or in part is prohibited without prior written authorization from OBOMEDIA. For permissions, licenses, and business inquiries, write to: business@obomedia.com [business@obomedia.com].

The Pink Giant: How a Civilian Stopped the Killer

Teenager Walks Into Cafeteria and Opens Fire in Forty-Seven Seconds: The Chardon High School Shooting of Daniel Parmertor, Russell King Jr., and Demetrius Hulin Seven thirty-five in the morning. A seventeen-year-old pulls a stolen .22-caliber pistol from his backpack in a crowded high school cafeteria. Ten shots. Three students dead by dawn the next day. But the shooter himself could never explain why. In this episode, we examine the contradictions that define one of America's most disturbing school shootings: a killer described by classmates as quiet and kind, violent incidents years earlier that went largely unpunished, and a Facebook post two months before the attack declaring death to everyone-yet no one acted. We explore the unanswered trigger, the romantic conflict theory, and the generalized hatred that may have driven the violence. Victim: Daniel Parmertor, Russell King Jr., Demetrius Hulin Date: February 27, 2012 Location: Chardon High School, Chardon, Ohio Status: Convicted, three consecutive life sentences without parole - TJ Lane had posted images of death on Facebook two months before the shooting, yet no intervention occurred - The first shots targeted a specific table, suggesting deliberate initial victims, not random violence - Lane wore a shirt labeled KILLER to his sentencing and made an obscene gesture at victims' families - He carried a second unused magazine and a knife, indicating extended premeditation over days Chardon High School shooting, Chardon Ohio 2012, TJ Lane, school shooting investigation, homicide, true crime, unsolved motivation, serial violence, forensic investigation, criminal minds, true crime English To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com [business@obomedia.com].

Leslie Palacio: the crime recorded and confessed that ended with a fugitive killer

The night Eric disappeared with Leslie: The murder of Leslie Palacio Leslie Palacio's last transmission was a text message to her sister at 3 a.m. on August 29, 2020: "I have something important to tell you." She never did. Hours later, a neighbor's camera recorded Eric Rangel removing a lifeless body from his home while his father José helped him load it into a truck. In this episode, we explore how the surveillance cameras at the Long Casino document Leslie and Eric leaving together at 2 a.m., how a prepaid phone activated in Valley of Fire admits to the murder to a friend, and why an unequivocal neighborhood video has not resulted in any arrests three years later. The bloodstains in Eric's room, the burned body found eleven days later, and the pending toxicology raise an impossible question: how does the alleged killer remain at large while his father serves only eight months in prison? Victim: Leslie Palacio Date: August 29, 2020 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada and Valley of Fire Status: Unsolved homicide; fugitive killer - Neighborhood video shows Eric leaving shirtless and returning with his father José to remove Leslie's lifeless body to the truck. - Eric's prepaid phone activated in Valley of Fire on the same day of disappearance admits to the murder; geolocation matches exactly with the location of the discovery eleven days later. - José Rangel claims that Leslie died from an accidental overdose, but the Rangel family fled to Mexico, attempted to cross the border, and his son Eric remains at large. - Official toxicology still pending on the third anniversary; cause of death classified as "undetermined," preventing a definitive legal classification of the crime. Leslie Palacio, Las Vegas homicide, Valley of Fire 2020, murder, investigation, mystery, forensic, impunity, fugitive, Rangel family, true crime Spanish If you want to listen to this podcast ad-free and have access to premium episodes, we invite you to try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and associated materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use in whole or in part is prohibited without prior written authorization from OBOMEDIA. For permissions, licenses, and business inquiries, write to: business@obomedia.com [business@obomedia.com].

The Chameleon: How Ted Bundy Fooled the FBI

Killer Calls Police from Outside the Station to Claim His Crimes: The Zodiac Killer Case of Betty Lou Jensen, David Arthur Faraday, Darlene Ferrin, Michael Mageau, Bryan Hartnell, Cecilia Shepard, and Paul Lee Stine December 20, 1968: two teenagers shot dead on a rural road near Lake Herman, California. Seven months later, the killer calls the police station from a payphone fifty meters away, claiming both murders. He wasn't hiding-he was hunting for attention, sending cryptograms to newspapers and promising to reveal his identity. In this episode, we explore the documented attacks across Northern California, the cryptographic messages the FBI could not break, and the piece of the victim's bloody shirt mailed as proof of authorship. We examine the survivor's testimony that contradicted every assumption about the killer's identity, the boot prints that matched over a million pairs, and the police radio error that allowed the suspect to walk past officers just blocks from his final confirmed victim. Why did someone with this level of planning and ideology vanish completely, leaving behind fifty years of unsolved tips? Victim: Betty Lou Jensen, David Arthur Faraday, Darlene Ferrin, Michael Mageau, Bryan Hartnell, Cecilia Shepard, Paul Lee Stine Date: December 20, 1968 - October 11, 1969 Location: Lake Herman, Blue Rock Springs, Lake Berryessa, San Francisco, California Status: Unsolved - Nine .22 caliber shell casings recovered at Lake Herman, Winchester ammunition manufactured after October 1967, with no distinctive rifling marks to identify the weapon. - Michael Mageau survived the Blue Rock Springs attack and testified that Darlene Ferrin appeared to know her attacker and tried to calm him before he opened fire. - The Zodiac's three-part cryptogram, which promised to reveal his name, was solved in less than twenty hours by a couple with no cryptanalysis training while the FBI and NSA remained stuck. - Officers Donald Fouke and Eric Zelms intercepted a man matching the witnesses' description in Presidio Heights minutes after Paul Stine's murder, but the radio operator had broadcast an incorrect race description, so they let him walk past them. Zodiac Killer, Betty Lou Jensen, David Faraday, Darlene Ferrin, Lake Herman, Blue Rock Springs, Paul Stine, Northern California 1968, unsolved homicide, cryptogram, serial killer, investigation, forensic evidence, true crime English To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com [business@obomedia.com].

The Mario Biondo case: the death that was closed as a suicide and reopened as a possible homicide

The night Mario didn't come back: mystery in Madrid: The homicide of Mario Biondo May 30, 2013, apartment on Magdalena Street, Madrid. A domestic worker opens the door and finds the Sicilian cameraman hanging from a shelf with a scarf around his neck. The police close the case within hours: suicide. But ten years later, an Italian judge will say something very different. In this episode, we explore the three contradictory autopsies that reveal an impossible detail: a clot in the skull suggesting dragging after death, two unknown phones connected to the wifi that night, and data erased from the laptop after Mario was already dead. Raquel Sánchez Silva, his wife, admits to drug use in 2013 but denies it in 2014. How does an engineer cousin disappear from the attendance record at the anatomical institute? Victim: Mario Biondo Date: May 30, 2013 Location: Madrid, Spain Status: Closed case with no charges; homicide confirmed by Italian judge 2022 - Loose knot under the larynx, incompatible with voluntary self-placement according to Italian experts - Feet resting on the ground in partial suspension, biomechanical contradiction with accidental erotic play - Skull and stomach omitted in the first autopsy, serious breach of forensic protocol - Laptop password changed at 02:41 on May 31, six hours after the estimated time of death Mario Biondo, Madrid 2013, murder, investigation, forensic, mystery, hitman, justice, homicide, autopsies, corruption, Spanish true crime If you want to listen to this podcast without ads and have access to premium episodes, we invite you to try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and associated materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use in whole or in part is prohibited without prior written authorization from OBOMEDIA. For permissions, licenses, and business inquiries, write to: business@obomedia.com [business@obomedia.com].