2: S1 Dead Man Talking: The Kolojaco Case
Dead Man Talking
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🗓️ 9 October 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In 1998, two people were sentenced to life in prison for murder. Diamantina Kolojaco was found guilty of persuading her young lover to kill her husband for the insurance money. But a year after she went to prison, serial killer Angel Resendiz wrote to her from death row with a message: that he had committed the murder. In this episode Alex interviews Diamantina in prison — her first ever media interview.
Could an innocent couple die in prison for a murder Resendiz committed?
Presented by Alex Hannaford and produced by Peter Sale
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| 0:18.0 | Sage Canyon Drive is a sleepy road in the South Belt Ellington neighborhood of Houston. It's a typical American suburb really of modest ranch homes and manicured lawns. |
| 0:24.5 | In the early hours of June the 13th, 1998, the peace in that neighborhood was broken |
| 0:30.9 | when an electrical engineer called Darrell Kolehako was found dead on his living room floor. |
| 0:36.7 | He had suffered massive head injuries from multiple blows with a steel pipe. |
| 0:42.4 | Darrell's estranged wife, Diamantina, and her boyfriend, Andres Mascoro, were arrested and charged with capital murder. |
| 0:51.0 | Prosecutors would say Diamantina had paid Andres to kill her husband for more than $100,000 in life insurance |
| 0:58.7 | money. |
| 0:59.7 | They said the couple had met in a bar seven months before the murder and embarked on an affair |
| 1:04.1 | that they'd moved into an apartment together, although she occasionally still stayed with her |
| 1:08.1 | husband at the house on Sage Canyon Drive. |
| 1:11.7 | On the day of the murder the prosecution would claim |
| 1:13.9 | Diamantina kept her children back from the house while |
| 1:17.9 | Andres killed Darrell. A jury ended up convicting Andres of capital murder and he was sentenced to life in prison. |
| 1:28.6 | He's not eligible for parole until 2039. Four months after that Diemantina received the same sentence, but were |
| 1:36.7 | they innocent? |
| 1:39.7 | The a-mantina and her boyfriend got put in life in prison because of what I did. |
| 1:46.0 | What I did. their backs on turn. Follow the railroad Riley. |
| 1:54.7 | Way in their backs on turn. |
| 1:57.4 | Up over the mountains, Riley. |
| 2:00.1 | When their backs are turn. You from the place you're promised. |
| 2:05.0 | When their backs are turned. |
| 2:08.0 | Run, run, run with a railroad. |
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