Episode 28 - Bocas del Toro Murders
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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🗓️ 5 August 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, Between 2007 and 2010, the Boca Stel Toro province of Panama seemed to have become somewhat of a Bermuda |
| 0:38.0 | triangle for American ex-Pats who had decided to take root in the Caribbean coastal area. |
| 0:46.1 | Within those three years, five Americans mysteriously vanished without a trace, leaving their |
| 0:51.6 | family and friends desperately searching for answers. |
| 0:57.0 | Join me now as we look into their puzzling disappearances and how they later became found buried on a property of an island bar |
| 1:05.9 | known by locals as the Jolly Roger Social Club. Sharon McConnell Dickerson was a close friend with Bo Isler, one of the American |
| 1:26.5 | expats who would later go missing. Before Sharon and Bo met, she had developed an aggressive autoimmune disease that had caused her to start losing |
| 1:35.8 | her vision. She still had some of her eyesight, but at some point had to quit her job and |
| 1:41.7 | leave her old life behind. Although undergoing numerous surgeries to try and save her vision, it rapidly faded away. |
| 1:49.0 | But before Sharon completely lost her eyesight, she decided to move to the southwest desert of |
| 1:55.6 | Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
| 1:57.8 | She wanted the last things she saw to be turquoise jewelry, golden sunsets, green and red chilies, and Adobe everything. |
| 2:07.6 | New Mexico license plates read, The Land of Enchantment. |
| 2:12.4 | And that's one of the reasons why Sharon moved there. |
| 2:15.3 | It was in Santa Fe when she met her friend Bo. |
| 2:18.7 | He owned a small shop selling high-end cowboy and cowgirl cochure, Han tool Western belts. High End trading company. We just got talking and I of course was I had to look around at all these |
| 2:35.8 | beautiful things and I had a lot more vision back then. Today Sharon's vision is |
| 2:41.5 | almost completely gone but back then she could still get around |
| 2:45.6 | independently without anyone suspecting her vision was impaired. |
| 2:50.3 | When I met him, I did not walk with use of a cane or a guide dog, although my vision was impaired. |
| 2:57.8 | I couldn't drive or anything like that. |
| 3:00.1 | So I was able to look around at all these beautiful things and I found a pair of ruby colored patent leather vintage boots that just were the coolest boots ever. |
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