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Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes

Dead Weight PT 2

Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes

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True Crime

4.825.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this concluding half of a two-parter, Paul and Kate return to an investigation started by the discovery of two bodies in 1931 Los Angeles. After a suspect is apprehended, a harrowing investigation and court case lead investigators in some unexpected directions. 

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:06.3

Two rich young Americans move to the Costa Rican jungle to start over,

0:11.0

but one of them will end up dead and the other tried for murder three times.

0:16.2

It starts with a dream, a nature reserve and a spectacular new home.

0:20.6

But little by little, they lose it. They actually lose it.

0:23.6

They sort of like nuts.

0:25.1

Until one night, everything spins out of control.

0:32.3

Listen to Hell in Heaven on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:44.5

I'm Kate Winkler-Dawson. I'm a journalist who's spent the last 25 years writing about true crime.

0:51.2

And I'm Paul Holes, a retired cold case investigator who's worked some of America's

0:55.1

most complicated cases and solve them. Each week, I present Paul with one of history's most

1:01.1

compelling true crimes. And I weigh in using modern forensic techniques to bring new insights

1:06.3

to old mysteries. Together, using our individual expertise, we're examining historical true crime cases

1:13.3

through a 21st century lens. Some are solved and some are cold, very cold. This is buried bones. Hey, Kate, how are you?

1:43.8

I'm doing well. Have you been thinking about this case, Paul?

1:46.4

I've been thinking about it all week.

1:49.6

What's going on?

1:51.1

What's going on? I was trying to not snicker every time you said, he, he, he, he, he when we were talking about the offender.

1:58.3

And I said, I wonder if he's going to get mad at me,

2:21.3

which is why I put the reveal at the very end, because then you wouldn't have time to be mad at me when I said, oh, it's a woman. I am so used to you just leaving me hang in and bamboozling me and all of that. So it's all good. I know. It's my job. I know. I've been called a lot of things. I'm not sure a bamboozler is something I've ever been called, but I appreciate it. Well, let's get into this because I just, there's a lot of background. So the first half of this was very forensic-y. You know, talk about wounds and weapons and who the potential offender is. Now we know who the offender is. And now you're

2:36.0

going to have to kind of get into the criminal profiling part of this or the offender profiling,

2:41.1

because this is not an open-in-check case, as you can tell a woman who is being accused of

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