You are listening to The Evidence Locker.

Our cases have been researched using open source and archive materials.

It deals with true crimes in real people.

Some parts are graphic in nature, and listener discretion is advised.

Each episode is produced with the utmost respect to the victims, their families, and loved

everyone's.

On the 22nd of February, 1979, residents in an apartment building noticed a putrid smell

coming from Lelea, former Sana Day Ayala's apartment.

She was a widow in her late 40s who lived alone.

Neighbors knocked on the door, but no one answered, so they called the police.

When the officers arrived, they recognized the unmistakable smell of death.

They couldn't get in through the front door, so made their way inside via her balcony instead.

The apartment was quiet, and nothing looked out of place.

Lelea's body was seated in a chair facing the television that was on.

On a side table was a cup with some leftover tea and a plate with morsels of fish.

In her refrigerator, police officers found a container of petite forest, a tea time favorite

among the socialite set of the time.

Lelea had died three days before, and the funeral home's doctor declared that the cause

of her death was a heart attack.

It was a sad and tragic event, Lelea dying alone in front of her TV and waiting to be

discovered for days.

Her friends felt terrible, they were still in shock about losing another friend, Nilde

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