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Once Upon A Crime

Body of Evidence: Sierra LaMar

Once Upon A Crime

Esther Ludlow

Truecrime, History, True Crime, Crime, Criminals, Criminology, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A teenager goes missing in Morgan Hill, California never to be seen again. It would take meticulous detective work to prove she'd been the victim of a murder and bring her killer to justice. Resources: "Disappearance tests 'no-body' murder cases" by Jenna Lyons for The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 16, 2017 Statement of Facts: Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office Case #12-076-0868G, May 24, 2012 "Dissecting Torres' Past", Staff Writers, The Gilroy Dispatch, May 25, 2012.  "No body, no weapon, no crime scene: How disappearance led to guilty conviction" by Elizabeth Cho for The Davis Vanguard The State of California vs. Antolin Garcia-Torres, Indictment dated Feb 11, 2014.  Investigation Discovery Channel: See No Evil - Season 6, Episode 17, "Come Home Sierra".  Links: www.onestrangethingpodcast.com www.crimecon.com/housearrest

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0:00.0

Before we begin, I want to direct you to a great new podcast, One Strange Thing, hosted by

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the fabulous Laura Norton, who was also one half of the podcast, The Fall Line.

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Here's Laura to tell you more.

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We all enjoy a little mystery.

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We all enjoy a little mystery.

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And on the new podcast, One Strange Thing, that's just what you'll get.

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Every other week, One Strange Thing presents forgotten stories from America's

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news archives. They all have something in common. from America's News Archives.

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They all have something in common, a single element that can't quite be explained.

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I'm Laura Norton.

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Join me on one strange thing,

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and you'll hear about bizarre events that unfolded in our country's local newspapers,

0:48.0

but never made it much further than that.

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No matter the place or the people, one strange thing brings you stories that are very real and just a little otherworldly.

1:02.0

Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. This podcast details true crime cases. It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence. This episode

1:25.2

contains explicit language. It is not intended for children. Listener discretion is advised. Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

1:40.0

I began looking for cases where Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

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I began looking for cases where murders were solved without a body after I released episode

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173, till death do us part, the story of newlywed Nancy Andrade, who went missing on her

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honeymoon in 1982. That case happened right here in my hometown of San Jose California.

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When a person goes missing, and there's some evidence

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that foul play might be involved,

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