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That Chapter Podcast

A Ring, an Obsession, and the Murder of Patrick de la Cerda

That Chapter Podcast

Mike Oh

True Crime

4.97K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Patrick De La Cerda was happily engaged to Jessica Devnani, and things were going great right up until the moment Patrick De La Cerda was found in a horrifying way. Was it linked to a very shady character from Jessica Devnani's past, Gregory Bender? Send your scary stories to: [email protected] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatchapterpodcast Business enquires : [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Florida, we are inside you today.

0:03.0

Probably should do another take of that.

0:09.0

Specifically, we are in Deltona, a city in central Florida, just north of Orlando.

0:13.0

Valuja County.

0:15.0

Oh, Valuja, you again.

0:16.0

Dias Mia.

0:17.0

You know, you'd think after this many years and covering these many true crime stories, it would stop being Florida. But I mean, that's trying to ask a tiger to like change its stripes. Or asking Florida to stop being insane. You know, I googled interesting facts about Deltona. As always, I know you guys come for geography lessons. And it brought up 21 things you need to know about Deltona before you move there. It should have been 22.

0:38.2

With the final point being don't. But that's the where for today's who, what, when, how,

0:42.8

and all the rest of those questions you guys have. A city of 93,000 folks and you know what,

0:48.1

I'll cut you break, Deltona. You're all right. That's the where of where does our story take

0:53.6

place? The when was February 27th, 2018.

0:58.0

That morning, frantic calls were being made, but none of those calls were being answered.

1:07.0

29-year-old Jessica Dovnani was going to work at her bank in Orlando, and as she did almost every morning, she called her fiancée, 25-year-old Patrick Delacerta.

1:16.6

He was up in Deltona, about 30 minutes north of Orlando, and her giving him a shout was the usual every morning.

1:24.6

They didn't live together at this point, so every morning they would call,

1:30.5

check in, what's the crack?

1:32.0

Except, of course, this morning, she was calling to no answer.

1:36.3

And you know, no biggie, right?

1:37.9

Maybe he's at work, he worked in construction with his dad, maybe he's off busy doing

1:42.6

something.

1:46.0

So she clocks into work, starts clock at the banking, whatever you do, whatever bankers do. And then a couple of hours later,

1:52.3

she tries calling him again, nothing, again and again, nothing. You know, sometimes people

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