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Bad People

110. Delimar Vera

Bad People

BBC

Society & Culture, True Crime, Unknown

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Baby girl Delimar Vera is declared dead in a house fire. Years later, the bereaved mother thinks she recognises her at a party. The girl she thinks is her daughter is called Aaliyah. The woman who has brought her up claims to be Aaliyah’s birth mother.

Hosts Amber Haque and Dr Julia Shaw discuss the truth about Delimar Vera’s real fate – and how the research on phantom pregnancy and child abduction help us understand what happened and why.

Producers: Maggie Latham and Rachel Oakes Executive Producer: Innes Bowen Production Coordinator: Juliette Harvey Mix Engineer: John Scott Recording Studio: 88Hertz Commissioning Editor: Dylan Haskins Assistant Commissioners: Izzy Lee-Poulton and Sarah Green

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0:00.0

This is the shocking moment English football has been dreading.

0:05.0

My name is Moses Swaybu and I used to be a professional footballer.

0:08.5

But then I got in deep with organised crime and became a match fixer operating in the English League.

0:14.0

A match fixing investigator has highlighted two matches he says appear to have

0:19.0

suspicious betting patterns.

0:21.0

How honesty are you going to be with me?

0:22.3

This is 100%.

0:23.0

Join me. Sports Strangers Crimes presents. Confessions of a Match mixer.

0:28.0

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:30.0

BBC Sounds, Music, radio podcasts.

0:35.0

You're listening to bad people, the podcast about the bad things people do and why.

0:40.0

And before we start, I just want to flag that this episode contains details of the death of a baby which some listeners may find distressing

0:50.0

Julia. Yeah. As I have a little habit of doing, I just want to kick things off by throwing a little tip bit in the mix for us okay. Have you ever had a hunch just like an intuition so strong that you've

1:07.2

just not been able to shake it off? So the scientist... She begins with an exhale already.

1:15.0

The scientist of me wants to say, obviously I don't rely on hunches because

1:19.2

hunches are nonsense and I know I'm a very objective person but also the psychologist of me goes all of us are biased and all of us have these like I don't know assumptions all the time and I mean if I think about it I am quite a like vibes-based person in terms of when I meet new people for example and when I

1:37.8

Especially dates I there's just this intangible quality about things where I feel like I can't quite put my

1:44.9

finger on it but somehow I don't know like the person shows up wearing a gee late like

1:50.2

maybe I can put a tangible thing on it.

1:53.0

Just that any other item of clothing is acceptable but the geely is just like a

1:58.0

a-e a-e-e-ece.

2:00.0

And so maybe there are specific red flags, but it's, yeah, I'm very vibes-based, which is kind of like a hunch.

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