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Going West: True Crime

Debanhi Escobar // Patreon Sneak Peak

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.610.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

FIRST HALF OF OUR NEW PATREON BONUS EPISODE ON Debanhi Escobar. LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE: patreon.com/goingwestpodcast In April of 2022, an 18-year-old woman went to some house parties with her friends in Mexico. But after she began acting erratically, her friends sent her home in a car service. During her ride home, she excited the vehicle and stood in the highway before wandering off. Her father scoured the city looking for her, only to find her deceased in a motel’s water tank. After 3 very different autopsies were conducted, her family is still wondering what on earth happened to her, and who is responsible. This is the story of Debanhi Escobar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What is going on going West patrons? I'm your host T and I'm your host Daphne and you're listening to Real Crime.

0:21.0

Howdy patrons. Thank you so much for tuning in to yet another episode of Real Crime. Switching over my little saying over here.

0:29.0

Today's case was recommended by one of our lovely longtime listeners and patrons, Eugenia.

0:35.0

So thank you so much Eugenia for sharing this case with us. It happened this year and it is such a wild case.

0:42.0

It actually reminds me a lot of Elisa Lam's case, which you probably know up.

0:46.0

So I think this is the craziest case that we have covered on Patreon thus far.

0:50.0

So again, thank you for tuning in and don't forget to share the story. You can't show the episode, but you can share the story.

0:56.0

Absolutely, yeah. This is one of those bizarre ones that you can easily go down a rabbit hole with.

1:01.0

Yeah, and I really wanted to cover this on going West, but we don't do international cases there, but this is that kind of case where it's like what the fuck?

1:08.0

Absolutely. Well, let's get into it guys. This is episode 41 of Real Crime. So let's get into it.

1:39.0

In April of 2022, an 18 year old woman went to some house parties with her friends in Mexico, but after she began acting erratically, her friends sent her home in a car service.

1:58.0

During her ride home, she exited the vehicle and stood in the highway before wandering off. Her father scoured the city looking for her, only for her to be found deceased in a motel's water tank.

2:16.0

After three different autopsies were conducted, her family is still wondering what on earth happened to her and who is responsible.

2:28.0

This is the story of Devani Escobar.

2:47.0

Devani Susana Escobar was born on September 6, 2003 in Mexico City, Mexico, though some report state she was born on September 4, 2003, but either way it appears she was born in early September of 2003 to parents Dolores and Mario Escobar, and she was an only child.

3:07.0

After completing her studies, Devani, being the bright and intelligent young woman she was, was excited to pursue a career in law, just like her father Mario.

3:17.0

So at age 18 in 2021, she began studying criminology at the University of Nuevo Leon, which is located in Monterey, Mexico.

3:28.0

And Monterey is a big city and it's the capital of the northeastern Mexico state of Nuevo Leon, hosting over 1 million people.

3:37.0

Monterey wasn't very close to her home of Mexico City though, or it still isn't, still in the same place.

3:44.0

Yeah, it hasn't moved.

3:46.0

It is like a 12 hour drive away, so it's 565 miles away or 910 kilometers, but you can get there much faster by taking an hour and a half flight.

3:59.0

Devani was known for always wanting to help people, which is why it's no surprise that while living in Monterey and going to university, she attended a gender violence march in Mexico, this was earlier this year, in an effort to, early enough in regards to what would happen.

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