163. [Virginia] The Murder of Michelle Castillo

Bless This Mess: A Southern True Crime Podcast

Bless This Mess

Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.8 • 733 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In March of 2014, Michelle Castillo's children awake for school unable to find their mother. They search the home and soon become worried, contacting their father Braulio, who lives in another home, to come help. Still unable to find Michelle, Braulio contacts authorities to assist in the search. While looking through their 10,000 square foot home, they find a gruesome discovery and wonder, could the seemingly happy Michelle have taken her own life?

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to bless this.
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0:24.3	Hey.
0:25.0	All right.
0:25.1	We're back this week and we're going to Virginia.
0:29.9	Bordering on, I would say, parts of it are very southern, but other parts are very...
0:35.6	Washington, D.C. and very city-like yeah. Very city-like. Yes. But technically it's in our... It's in our... Old South realm. Yes, yes, it is. So we're going to Virginia. So let's just... We're going to get to the point because we have to go carp pumpkins after this. So we have to... We have to stay on tracks do okay do we do we yes we can't
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