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Cousins By Blood

Episode 18: "Raina"

Cousins By Blood

Matt Duff

True Crime

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ivan has said for 20 years, that the ring Amy B was wearing the night of the murders belonged to Raina. After 20 years, "Raina" has finally been located. In this episode, Sylvia goes over to Raina’s house to ask her about the ring. Also, the sub rosa hearing in Ivan’s trial is covered.

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0:00.0

Right now. Right now are you home? Right now this is Sylvia. Hello. Anybody home?

0:29.8

When I think it was a court trial, I have one shot more opportunity to be not

0:40.7

guilty or I go to prison in death row. Mm-hmm. Except the reality of it. We

0:46.7

have busted out of eyes. We have caught people in line. This is just insane

0:52.7

because everybody's pointing the finger at somebody else. You just don't hear

0:57.5

every day walking in somebody's house are going to take the plastic out and pop

1:00.7

somebody. So he could get the execution date pretty much any day? Yeah. There's no

1:07.4

impediments. This is Cousins by Blood. Episode 18, Reina.

1:17.6

For 20 years, Ivan has said that the ring that Amy B was wearing the night of

1:30.7

the murders was not Amy Kitchen's ring. For 20 years, Ivan has said that the

1:37.3

ring that Amy was wearing belonged to her friend Reina. And for 20 years,

1:43.9

Ivan has been looking for this Reina. But you see, Ivan never knew her last name. His

1:51.0

court appointed attorneys never hired a PI to find her. Tammy, Ivan's wife, has

1:56.5

hired multiple other PIs over the years to try to find this mysterious Reina. And

2:01.6

they never could. Well, on November 27th of 2020, I found Reina.

2:13.9

I started looking for Reina around June of 2019. So that's almost a year and a

2:19.0

half of looking for someone. And needless to say, after all that time, finding

2:25.5

Reina felt pretty good. But let's rewind to year 2000. You'll remember Amy was

2:33.0

actually with Reina at Club 7 the night that Ivan first met Amy. Ivan had

2:39.1

only been around Reina a few times, but mainly just that first night. Ivan was

2:44.0

with Bobbitt. You'll remember, Ivan was Bobbitt's roommate for a few months

2:47.4

that summer. Well, according to Ivan, Bobbitt and Ivan hit it off with Amy and

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