The Patternless Killer Who Became Invisible in Moscow

Rachel Barber: the nanny who planned a crime for years against a family that trusted her

Marilyn's last post: 30 stabs and a secret: The femicide of Marilyn Martínez in San Borja, Lima. On January 16, 2023, a scream pierced an apartment in San Borja. Marilyn, an influencer with 600K followers who smiled on TikTok, was packing to escape when her husband arrived. An impossible detail: her last post from the day before carried a message of female autonomy. In this episode, we explore the contradictions between the happy couple image on social media and the documented cycle of violence since 2013, the partially empty closet that evidenced her intention to leave, and the jealousy declared by Alexander Pinedo Barrón as the motive for 30 stabs to the head and arms. How was a woman on the radar of millions murdered without anyone seeing the outcome coming? Victim: Marilyn Martínez Date: January 16, 2023 Location: San Borja, Lima, Peru Status: Aggravated femicide; preventive detention since January 23, 2023 - Alexander admitted that comments from men on social media were the declared trigger for his attack. - The couple's son witnessed the crime from another room and locked himself in out of fear of his father. - Marilyn made her first report at 18 years old for serious assault, which she withdrew after manipulation by Alexander. - Alexander requested a reconstruction of the event at the scene and carried it out with complete coldness, asking to be recorded. Marilyn Martínez, San Borja Lima femicide 2023, coercive control, domestic violence, influencer, criminal minds, serial murder, forensic investigation, 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, 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 Patternless Killer Who Became Invisible in Moscow

Killer Changes Weapons Every Crime While Police Search Five Separate Cases: The Serial Murders of Sergey Reakovsky In June 1988, a screwdriver murder in Balashikha opens a file. Two weeks later, another stabbing victim dies in the hospital. The two cases sit in separate desks, handled by different units, connected by nothing but geography. This episode traces five years of institutional fragmentation across twenty-four homicides. We examine the fingerprint of exceptional dimensions left at multiple scenes, the glove that pointed to an unusually large hand, the DNA evidence that finally linked two murders-and why none of these pieces met on the same table until two survivors described the same extraordinary physical profile. Victim: Anatoly Bilkin, Claudia Koclova, Vasili Zaitsev, Irina Shumakova, Tatiana Norquina, Nikolay Belkin, Oleg Volkov, Margarita Tusikova, Irina Furmanov, Boris Osipov, Olga Suiko, and seventeen others Location: Balashikha and Moscow outskirts, Soviet Union Date: June 1988 - April 1993 Status: Convicted, 1995 trial - A fingerprint of exceptional dimensions appeared on a ski pole in January 1989, found again on eyeglasses four years later, yet never cross-referenced until the arrest. - Police investigated Anatoly Bilkin's screwdriver murder and Claudia Koclova's fourteen stab wounds separately despite occurring fifteen days apart in the same district. - A semen sample from Irina Shumakova's 1990 decapitation remained in a laboratory with no suspect to match it against for three years. - Boris Osipov's body showed mutilations that occurred twenty-four hours after death, revealing the killer returned to the scene-a planned behavior masked as isolated crimes. Sergey Reakovsky, Balashikha Moscow homicide serial killer 1988-1993, unsolved mysteries, forensic science, true detective, criminal minds, investigation, serial killers, 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

Ted Bundy: The Perfect Predator Who Deceived Everyone

Man Jumps from Eight-Meter Window as Courtroom Realizes Who He Really Is: The Serial Murders of Ted Bundy A law student in a three-piece suit sits calmly in a Florida courtroom, taking notes on legal motions. Hours earlier, forensic evidence linked him to the bodies of at least thirty women across five states. The question that haunted investigators for years was not whether he killed-it was how someone so articulate, so intelligent, so utterly charming had operated in plain sight. In this episode, we trace the complete architecture of Ted Bundy's deception: the carefully constructed public identity, the calculated exploitation of interstate police failures, the systematic selection of victims, and the moment when forensic science finally caught what charisma could not hide. From his first documented attack in 1974 to his final escape across state lines, we examine how a man with an IQ of 136 weaponized intelligence itself-and why the system took so long to see what was in front of it. Victim: Margaret Bowman, Lisa Levy, Kimberly Leach, and 27+ others Date: January 1974 - February 1978 Location: Washington, Utah, Colorado, Florida Status: Executed 1989 - At age eight, Ted Bundy had documented access to domination pornography; no one understood why - A girl named Ann Marie Burr vanished from blocks away in 1961; the case was never solved and Bundy denied it until death - He was interviewed by police after the Lake Sammamish disappearances and dismissed because he was too articulate and educated to be a killer - Forensic dentistry proved bite marks on a victim's skin matched his teeth with such precision that no jury could ignore it Ted Bundy, serial killers, forensic dentistry, homicide investigation, Florida State University, Chi Omega murders, 1970s true crime, criminal psychology, unsolved disappearances, charismatic predator, televised trial, 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

Marilyn Martínez: the influencer whose public life hid a decade of violence

A like on Facebook triggered the femicide of Adriana: The murder of Adriana Jacobo Rocha Adriana liked a photo of Yael on social media. Her friend Alexa saw it, secretly contacted Giovanni, and for weeks planned the perfect crime. The trigger for a premeditated femicide was not an explicit love triangle, but a digital gesture that escalated to murderous planning among teenagers. In this episode, we explore how a message of false reconciliation turned into a deadly trap, how a toy gun kept Adriana under psychological terror, and how screenshots from a threatened friend revealed the entire network of premeditation. We trace from the first public threat in the classroom ("your days are numbered") to the extortion call that activated the investigation, through 20 testimonies of systematic harassment and the autopsy that confirmed strangulation asphyxia and sexual assault prior to death. Victim: Adriana Jacobo Rocha Date: January 17, 2019 Location: Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, Mexico (Cerro del Pájaro) Status: Sentenced to 67 years and 8 months (Alexa Quesada García and Giovanni de Jesús González Rodríguez) - Alexa planned the murder weeks in advance and then called a friend "almost proudly" to report what she had done - A toy gun, not real, was used to intimidate; a cutter caused the injury that immobilized Adriana during the assault - The coerced friend made a rescue call under threat of death; her tracking led investigators directly to Alexa within hours - Adriana's cell phone was confiscated during the transfer to eliminate her ability to call for help and destroy evidence of prior communications Adriana Jacobo Rocha, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, femicide, January 2019, serial killer, premeditated murder, forensic investigation, criminal minds, bullying, digital crime, justice, mystery, true crime Spanish 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 Night the Zodiac Was Inches Away from Being Captured

Two Officers Stop the Zodiac in the Dark and Let Him Walk: The Murder of Paul Lee Stein October eleventh, nineteen sixty-nine. A taxi driver named Paul Stein is shot in the head on a quiet residential street in San Francisco, and three teenagers watch a man calmly wipe down the vehicle before walking into the darkness. The killer's identity would become unmistakable-but not before two patrol officers unknowingly stopped him mere minutes after the murder and released him into the night. We explore the chain of catastrophic errors that put the Zodiac within arm's reach of capture: a radio dispatcher's single typographical mistake that changed "Caucasian" to "African American", the officers who questioned the real suspect without recognizing him, and the killer's later letter mocking the police for their brush with him. How did the country's most wanted serial killer slip through the hands of law enforcement when he was standing directly in front of them? Victim: Paul Lee Stein Date: October 11, 1969 Location: Washington and Cherry Street, Presidio Heights, San Francisco, California Status: Unsolved - A radio operator's typo broadcasts the wrong suspect description, sending every responding officer to hunt for someone who doesn't exist - Two patrol officers stop a man matching the actual witness description perfectly but release him because they're looking for a different person - The killer mails a bloodstained piece of the victim's shirt to the San Francisco Chronicle, confirming his identity and bragging about evading capture - Detectives later reconstruct that the Zodiac was detained and questioned by police while still holding evidence from the crime scene Paul Lee Stein, San Francisco 1969, Presidio Heights, taxi driver murder, Zodiac killer, police error, unsolved case, serial killer, investigation, homicide, 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