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The First Degree

Episode 238: Rebeca Peña

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.510K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On April 10th, 2001, actress 26-year-old Rebeca Peña works on the film Muhammad Ali in Miami, Florida. Late that night, Rebeca leaves the set and drives to her Miramar apartment. No one ever sees her again. Six days later, fishermen find a suitcase floating in a Miami canal with Rebeca’s body inside. The police investigation reveals that Rebeca’s ex-boyfriend and the father of her child, 26-year-old Berkley Calvin Curtis Jr., may have been involved in Rebeca’s death. For years, Rebeca accused Berkley of physical and mental abuse. But Berkley is quickly cleared when his new girlfriend provides him with an airtight alibi the same night Rebeca was murdered. Berkley’s name is cleared. He moves across the country, raises Rebeca’s daughter, and starts a new family. But, 20 years later, on December 14th, 2020, the police arrest now 46-year-old Berkley. In episode 238, Jac and Alexis reveal how Berkley may have almost gotten away with murder.

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First degree.

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First degree.

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First degree.

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First degree.

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The first degree.

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Get on the news.

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Get on the K-3.

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Get on the Facebook.

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These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.

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I think a lot of us want to think that they're these monsters

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that kind of crawl out from under a rocker, from

0:28.0

the blackness of the night and fit this perception.

0:32.0

The scary thing is that they're not.

0:34.0

They look normal, they act normal, you know,

0:36.0

and for all intents and purposes, they blend in the surrounding.

0:40.0

So really what makes it killer?

0:42.0

So I guess that makes any of us capable of that.

0:46.0

But I don't know. He just didn't have...

0:48.0

There wasn't anything odd about it.

0:50.0

Nothing that came off strange.

0:52.0

I mean, I would have a beer with the guy.

0:54.0

I didn't mind that.

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