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True Crime Vanished

True Crime Vanished

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 Some people disappear and the world moves on. But the truth doesn't vanish — it just waits to be found.

True Crime Vanished is a podcast dedicated to unsolved disappearances and cold cases that the justice system left behind. Every episode digs into the real criminal investigations, missing persons files, and evidence that detectives, families, and journalists spent years piecing together. The angle here is different: instead of just retelling what happened, we follow the investigative thread — the overlooked witness, the mishandled evidence, the question nobody asked.

Your host, Isabella, spent years working alongside investigative journalists and victim advocacy organizations before bringing those skills into audio storytelling. She reads the case files, interviews the people closest to the investigations, and refuses to treat real cases as entertainment. These are real cases, real people, and real consequences.

This show is built for true crime listeners who are tired of surface-level retellings. If you want context, depth, and honest analysis of criminal investigation failures and breakthroughs — you are in the right place.

New episodes drop every day. Each case is covered in 18 to 25 minutes, giving you enough time to go deep without losing the thread.

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  • The bloodied axe on the wooden floor

    The bloodied axe on the wooden floor
    Apr 30 2026
    The girl who escaped with photos: The chained truth: The torture and kidnapping case of the Turpins.

    A 17-year-old girl, never schooled or medically examined, planned for two years her only chance to escape. On January 14, 2018, at 3 a.m., she jumped out of a window with photographic evidence in hand. What she revealed was one of the most extreme domestic abuse stories ever documented: thirteen siblings chained in a middle-class neighborhood home, with parents earning $140,000 a year and traveling to Disney World.

    In this episode, we explore how David and Lois Turpin maintained a facade of a perfect Christian family while their children suffered from severe caloric malnutrition, chaining, and total isolation. We analyze the devastating contradictions: minors with the weight of a seven-year-old, false statements made to the Department of Education for seven years, and a system that failed even after the rescue. The central question remains open: who else saw and chose not to act?

    Victim: The Turpin siblings (13 minors rescued)
    Date: January 14, 2018
    Location: Perris, California, United States
    Status: David and Lois Turpin sentenced to 25 years to life (June 22, 2019); Olguín found guilty of subsequent abuses (September 2024)

    - A 17-year-old girl, never medically examined, planned her escape for two years with photographic evidence as her only tool.
    - Malnourished minors documented with weight and muscle atrophy consistent with prolonged imprisonment; severe caloric malnutrition medically diagnosed.
    - Parents registered a fictitious private school with the State for seven years without any inspection; a legal mechanism existed but was inoperable in practice.
    - Six siblings placed with a new foster family where they suffered additional physical and sexual abuse, despite the agency being aware of that family's prior history of abuse.

    The Turpin siblings, Perris California kidnapping 2018, extreme malnutrition, domestic abuse, family facade, chaining, Child Youth Family Services negligence, secondary victimization, forensic investigation, failed justice, true crime Spanish

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    21 Min.
  • The Poisoner Who Never Confessed: Yiya Murano

    The Poisoner Who Never Confessed: Yiya Murano
    Apr 30 2026
    Woman Walks Out of Prison and Appears on Television with Cakes: The Cyanide Deaths of Carmen del Giorgio, Nilda Gamba, and Lelia Formisano

    Buenos Aires, 1979. Three middle-class women die within weeks of each other, each certified as natural death. Then an autopsy reveals cyanide in the first victim's body. Two exhumations follow. All three contained the same poison. One person connected them all: a soft-spoken, charming woman who brought cakes on visits and managed their savings.

    This investigation explores how three deaths certified as cardiac failure became murders, yet the poisoning method was never established. We examine the doorman's testimony, the missing promissory notes, the psychiatric profile of a woman prosecutors called an intelligent psychopath-and the inexplicable gap between an acquittal in 1982 and a conviction in 1985, separated by three mysterious years.

    Victim: Carmen Zulema del Giorgio, Nilda Gamba, Lelia Formisano
    Date: February-March 1979
    Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
    Status: Convicted; Released 1993

    - Cyanide found in all three bodies, yet the exact poisoning vector was never officially determined
    - Woman acquitted in 1982 despite three cyanide deaths and eyewitness testimony, then convicted in 1985 with unexplained new evidence
    - Doorman witnessed her leaving victim's apartment with papers and a jar on the day of the fatal fall
    - After release from prison, woman married, cooked in prison kitchen, and appeared on television holding cakes

    Yiya Murano, Buenos Aires 1979, cyanide poisoning, three victims, unsolved method, acquitted then convicted, Argentina military dictatorship, true crime English

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    22 Min.
  • The blankets hidden inside the closet

    The blankets hidden inside the closet
    Apr 29 2026
    Recorded murder: money against justice in Guatemala: The homicide of Melissa Palacios Chacón

    On July 4, 2021, Melissa sent an audio message to a friend: "I'll be late, a tire punctured." It was her last voice transmission. Hours later, her body was found in a remote village with her face disfigured by rock blows. Security cameras recorded who picked her up that noon. The audios captured what happened. However, four years later, her killer remains in preventive detention without trial, live-streaming from prison that she will be free.

    In this episode, we explore how a murder documented by video, audio, and recovered text messages was downgraded from homicide to violent emotion by a judge who then recused himself from the case. We analyze the chained recusals that have suspended hearings one after another, the live streams from prison, and the question that haunts the family: can money and political connections buy impunity even when there is irrefutable forensic evidence and exposed criminal minds?

    Victim: Melissa Palacios Chacón
    Date: July 4, 2021
    Location: Río Hondo, Zacapa, Guatemala
    Status: Preventive detention without trial (four years)

    - Cameras recorded the suspect picking up Melissa at noon and traveling three hours to where her body was found.
    - A forensic audio captured the victim pleading as they demanded her cell phone password, followed by blows that silenced her voice forever.
    - The judge who downgraded the charge from murder to homicide was recused; five subsequent judges have also been recused or removed, indefinitely delaying the trial.
    - The accused live-streamed from prison in January 2022 declaring that she would be free soon, suggesting access to a cell phone and possible manipulation of judicial processes.

    Melissa Palacios Chacón, Río Hondo Zacapa murder 2021, investigation, judicial corruption, security cameras, forensic audio, mystery, pending justice, intrigue, true crime Spanish

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    23 Min.
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