True Crime Vanished

The Lipstick Message and the Killer Who Was Never Tried

Girl Vanishes from Her Bed as Lipstick Message Warns Stop Me Before I Kill: The Lipstick Killer murders of Chicago, 1945-1946 Chicago, June 1945. A woman is found stabbed and washed clean in her apartment with no witnesses and no leads. Six months later, another woman dies with a knife in her neck-and this time, a desperate message scrawled in her own lipstick appears on the wall: "For the love of God, catch me before I kill more. I can't control myself." The city descends into panic. Then a six-year-old girl vanishes from her bedroom. This episode reconstructs the three violent homicides that gripped Chicago during the final months of World War II and examines the chain of events that led police to William Heirens, a seventeen-year-old college student with no history of violence. Over six days of interrogation without legal representation, under documented coercion including forced sodium pentothal injection, and with no solid food, Heirens signed a confession to all three murders. Yet the physical evidence tells a different story-one of twenty-nine documented inconsistencies, fingerprints that failed FBI standards, and an alternative suspect never formally investigated. Victim: Susan Degnan, Josephine Ross, Frances Brown Date: June 1945-January 1946 Location: Chicago, Illinois Status: Heirens convicted without trial; died in prison 2012 - The lipstick message was presented as definitive proof, yet graphologists who analyzed it reached conflicting conclusions about authorship - Frances Brown's fingerprint, publicized as irrefutable, matched only six points when FBI standards required twelve for validity - The dismemberment showed anatomical precision, yet Heirens was an engineering student with no registered medical training or dissection experience - The psychiatrist who administered the truth serum later testified under oath that Heirens confessed to nothing-only mentioned an alter ego called "George" Susan Degnan, Josephine Ross, Frances Brown, Chicago 1945, Lipstick Killer, William Heirens, coerced confession, unsolved mysteries, 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]. If you'd like to listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, we invite you to try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and associated materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or total or partial commercial use is prohibited without prior written authorization. For permissions, licenses, and commercial inquiries: business@obomedia.com

Marichuy: the case closed as a suicide that ended up being evidence of ignored violence

Marichuy: the fall that the State wanted to hide: The femicide of María de Jesús Jaime Samudio A university student falls from the fifth floor of an apartment in the early morning of January 16, 2016. Within hours, the police close the case as a suicide. The impossible: four years later, DNA under her nails proves she was thrown by two men while struggling and calling for help. In this episode, we explore how an educational institution supports the official version, how the incomplete autopsy and the unsecured scene allow for a cover-up, and why the reclassification as femicide only comes when a mother goes viral with the truth on social media. An investigation into state omission and the impunity that persists. Victim: María de Jesús Jaime Samudio (Marichuy) Date: January 16, 2016 Location: Iztacalco, Mexico City Status: Arrest warrants issued; suspects at large since 2022 - The DNA under Marichuy's nails directly links the attackers, dismantling the suicide hypothesis after four years. - The forensic injury mechanics demonstrate that she fell on her feet while clinging to her attackers, incompatible with a voluntary jump. - Neighbors heard struggles, banging on doors, and cries for help in the hallway minutes before the fall. - The case was closed without securing the scene, without an intimate autopsy, and without notifying the prosecutorial authority, facilitating any manipulation of evidence. María de Jesús Jaime Samudio, Iztacalco femicide 2016, IPN, Julio Iván Ruiz Guerrero, Gabriel Galván Figueroa, state cover-up, criminal minds, justice, 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 without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licenses, and business inquiries, write to: business@obomedia.com [business@obomedia.com]. If you'd like to listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, we invite you to try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and associated materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or total or partial commercial use is prohibited without prior written authorization. For permissions, licenses, and commercial inquiries: business@obomedia.com

Guadalupe “Lupita” Medina: the girl without an identity that the system took nine months to recognize

Lupita: Nine months without a name in Nezahualcoyotl: The murder of Guadalupe Medina Pichardo A small girl's corpse lies in a vacant lot in Nezahualcoyotl, wearing red shoelaces. Nine months later, no institution knows who she was. The central question: how does a minor disappear without the State knowing her identity? In this episode, we explore the investigation that connected a citizen video, a forensic portrait, and a police report ignored one day before the discovery. We unravel why Lupita's empty civil registry allowed the prosecutor's office to archive the case, and how an activist and a forensic expert returned a name to a homicide victim that the system never registered. Victim: Guadalupe Medina Pichardo "Lupita" Date: March 18, 2017 Location: Colonia El Sol, Nezahualcoyotl, State of Mexico Status: Sentenced to 88 years in prison (sentence September 4, 2019) - She was never registered in the civil registry; the system had no record of her name in databases. - The report of child abuse was filed on March 17, one day before her death, but it was not cross-referenced with the discovery. - A citizen witness recognized Lupita alive in a video, showing the same red shoelaces found on the corpse. - The formal identification took 243 days; it only occurred when her aunt Marina contacted activist Verónica Villalvazo. Guadalupe Medina Pichardo, Nezahualcoyotl, child murder, 2017, abuse, investigation, forensic, justice, criminal minds, unregistered crime, true crime Spanish 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]. If you'd like to listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, we invite you to try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and associated materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or total or partial commercial use is prohibited without prior written authorization. For permissions, licenses, and commercial inquiries: business@obomedia.com

The “Cannibal” the System Set Free to Kill Again

Two Young Men Find a Severed Hand and Discover What Lies Beneath the Bridge: The cannibal case of José Dorcel Vargas Gómez On a February morning in 1999, two young men walking along the Torbes River in Tariba, Táchira state, discovered a severed hand and foot on the riverbank. What they found inside the shack beneath Libertador Bridge defied explanation: human heads, seasoned organs in containers, and evidence of systematic consumption. The man arrested had confessed to the exact same crimes four years earlier-and the state had released him anyway. In this episode, we trace how a documented confession to murder and cannibalism in 1995, a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, and a signed psychiatric order somehow resulted in the suspect walking free for two years without supervision or follow-up. Between 1997 and 1999, men disappeared from Tariba and San Cristóbal-young, homeless, marginal-matching the profile Dorcel described. The investigation uncovers not just the crimes of one disturbed man, but the bureaucratic collapse that allowed them to continue. Victim: Cruz Baltazar Moreno (confirmed); multiple additional victims identified between 1995-1999 Date: January 26, 1995 (first disappearance); February 12, 1999 (discovery and second arrest) Location: Under Libertador Bridge, Tariba, Táchira state, Venezuela; Torbes River Status: Convicted; unresolved victim count and unanswered questions regarding potential accomplices - A man confessed to killing and eating another person in 1995, was hospitalized with a paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis, and received a psychiatric placement order-which was issued one week after he was already released and lost to the system. - Two years passed with zero supervision or follow-up before his second arrest, during which an estimated twenty to forty people disappeared from the region matching his victim profile. - The forensic evidence showed anatomically precise cuts that raised questions about whether one homeless man with a machete could have produced them, yet no formal investigation into possible accomplices was completed. - Among the possible victims during the period of impunity was Antonio López, the same homeless witness who had reported the first crime in 1995 and triggered the initial arrest. José Dorcel Vargas Gómez, Tariba Táchira Venezuela, 1995 cannibalism murder case, 1999 arrest, serial killer, missing persons, forensic evidence gaps, psychiatric system failure, 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]. If you'd like to listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, we invite you to try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and associated materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or total or partial commercial use is prohibited without prior written authorization. For permissions, licenses, and commercial inquiries: business@obomedia.com

Fernando Báez Sosa: the group murder that was recorded on video and shook Argentina

Ten Against One: The Ambush That Changed Everything: The Murder of Fernando Báez Sosa One January morning, an eighteen-year-old buys an ice cream on the street after leaving a nightclub. Minutes later, he is dead. The impossible: ten middle-class attackers coordinate the murder of a stranger without any of them raising a hand to stop it. In this episode, we explore how a fifteen-second video recorded by one of the attackers becomes irrefutable evidence, how WhatsApp messages document the prior hatred, and why an innocent man was accused while the true culprits coordinated their defense. The case that exposes the cracks in Argentine justice and divides opinions on the sentences. Victim: Fernando Báez Sosa Date: January 18, 2020 Location: Villa Gesell, Buenos Aires Status: Convicted (sentence February 6, 2023) - Ten young people coordinate a premeditated attack captured on video while the victim holds an ice cream - Racist WhatsApp messages exchanged minutes before the beating reveal deliberate intent - Pablo Ventura detained without evidence: size 43 shoe when he wears size 50 - Five life sentences, three fifteen-year sentences, but lawyer Burlando considers the sentences insufficient Fernando Báez Sosa, Villa Gesell, 2020, murder, serial killer, investigation, forensic, premeditation, justice, mystery, criminal minds, true crime Spanish 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 without prior written authorization from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licenses, and business inquiries, write to: business@obomedia.com [business@obomedia.com]. If you'd like to listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, we invite you to try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and associated materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or total or partial commercial use is prohibited without prior written authorization. For permissions, licenses, and commercial inquiries: business@obomedia.com