#310 El Hamburguesa

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🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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David Avendano Ballina, between the years of 1997 and 2007, ran a Mexican street gang known as "Las Goteras" the gang poisoned and robbed men, “accidentally” killing as many as 70 with simple but deadly eye drops. Ballina lived a life of crime that started at the ripe age of 6, when after he robbed and killed a woman he stopped to try some of her beef stew on the stove. Which forever labeled him with the dreadful nickname…EL HAMBURGUESA!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to True Crime Guys podcast.
0:07.1	I'm your host Michael and you know Andy's here because it's 420.
0:10.3	Oh yeah.
0:12.1	I'm recording on 420, man.
0:13.6	I'm here, man.
0:14.9	But this episode doesn't come out for a few.
0:16.8	I mean, I'm still here, man.
0:18.5	Yeah, we'll still be there then.
0:19.9	We'll still here.
0:20.6	You know what I mean? Still be here, man. You will, because you usually are. Right. I got you. Yeah. Anyways. 420, baby. Oh, guys. We have a great episode today. I say great because it's not great. I mean, it's a horrible episode. It's true crime. I mean, what am I talking about? It's a horribly great episode. It's great because it's it's not great i mean it's a horrible episode it's true crime i mean what am i
0:38.4	talking about it's a horribly great episode it's great because it's not well covered how about
0:43.2	yes that's what i meant yes i think this is episode you're really going to appreciate because it's not
0:47.5	well covered it's not one you it's not one you're like oh some else's doing this one exactly
0:52.6	el hamburgesa.
0:55.1	El hamburgessa. Yeah, the hamburger in English for you guys who, you know, no Espanion. The hamburger? No, it's just the hamburger. Oh, come on. I really thought this was the hamburger. Listen, if this guy just stole, we wouldn't be talking about them. Listen, I'm sure that, like, I bet that the hamburger, whatever, if that's his code, if that's his, like, name.
1:15.8	I'm sure they went with Hamburgerger and got a cease and desist from McDonald's.
1:20.7	Some newspaper printed Hamburger, and they, like, immediately got hit with a, no, thank you.
1:27.7	Honestly, I think this may have happened before the hamburger.
1:30.9	When did McDonald's come up with that?
1:31.9	We need to look that up.
1:33.3	I don't know.
1:34.2	But neither way.
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