Antolin Garcia-Torres

True Crime All The Time

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True Crime, Truecrime, Podcast, Documentary, Murder, Exhibit C, Serial, Killers, Society & Culture

4.7 • 13.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

15-year-old Sierra LaMar left home to walk to her bus stop on a Friday morning near her California home. Although a man was convicted of murdering her five years later, Sierra has never been found. The authorities were able to narrow down the timeline of when Sierra was taken to around ten minutes. But the details that eventually emerged were shocking.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss Antolin Garcia-Torres. Even as the evidence began mounting against him, Antolin maintained his innocence. His defense team was able to delay his trial for years and mounted a spirited defense. How the jury interpreted the evidence was key. The big question was around sentencing and whether they would hand down life or death.

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1:05.4	Music I'm Mike Ferguson. And with me as always is my partner in True Crime, Mike Gibson.
1:49.4	Give me, how are you? Hey, I'm doing good. How about yourself? I'm doing great. Yeah, we talked about it on Patreon, but my daughter graduated on this past Friday. She did. And then she started her adult job on Monday.
2:02.4	Yeah.
2:03.0	So she really had zero break.
2:06.1	Went right to it.
2:06.9	Yeah.
2:07.7	But I know she's excited.
2:09.5	But also, you know, there's some trepidation there.
2:12.1	You know.
2:12.6	You have that.
2:13.7	What it's like to start your big boy, big girl job. Yes. You job yes you know you this is not one that you can
2:21.6	just walk away from like the ones in high school right actually got to get up get ready be there on
2:28.9	time and i think you're supposed to do that for all of them but uh the importance that, yeah, it does ratchet up a little bit. Let's go ahead and give our Patreon shoutouts. We had Mariella. Hey, Mariella. Beth Carson. Well, thank you, Beth. Dale Lynn McCubbins. What's going on, Dale? Candy. Hey, Candy. Cindy Taw. Hey, thanks, Cindy. Carly Tate. There's good old Carly.
2:51.5	And last but not least, Peggy Deal Higgins.
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