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Heads of Sierra Blanca

Episode 5: Bodies

Heads of Sierra Blanca

Dechado Media

True Crime, Fiction

2.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Monica Rodriguez and Magdalena Salas embark on a desert excavation.

This episode is sponsored by SimpliSafe, BetterHelp and Daily Harvest.

Heads of Sierra Blanca is Executive Produced by Magdalena Salas, Monica Rodriguez, Gabrielle Ruiz, Alex Cline, Donald Albright, Alex Aldea, and Henry Tuten.

Hosted by Magdalena Salas and Monica Rodriguez

Edited by Victor Figueroa, Gabrielle Ruiz and Alex Aldea.

Sound Design by Victor Figueroa and Gabrielle Ruiz.

Music Composition by Andrew Joselyn and Alex Aldea.

Research by Henry Tuten, Magdalena Salas, Monica Rodriguez, and Alex Aldea.

Transcript

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0:00.0

On the last episode of the heads of Sierra Blanca, we're going to Wadas to follow this thing up.

0:07.0

We needed to make sure that we avoided making waves against the cartels or any violent group there at all costs.

0:13.4

So it's very disorientating to be in a branch of Wendy's and realize that murdering you would

0:17.3

be legal, effectively legal.

0:20.0

So Allah got a tip from a bus driver about a dump site marked with Mexican train dominoes.

0:25.6

The kids started digging, and the third hall, one of the kids was getting frustrated.

0:31.2

He thought he kept hitting a rock.

0:33.0

After digging around it, they slowly uncovered two decapitated bodies.

0:38.0

How do you know the kid wasn't lying?

0:41.0

Want me to take you there?

0:44.2

You can see for yourself.

0:47.0

It is undoubtedly one of the most dangerous places on the entire planet.

0:54.0

Whoever did this was not your typical killer.

0:57.0

There was something much more impersonal behind this

1:00.0

than anything I'd ever seen in my career.

1:02.0

Something colder.

1:04.0

37 year old Lorena Salas found dead in her home.

1:08.0

The killer believed to have drugged her,

1:11.0

then set up an elaborate contraption around her home, which ended in her

1:16.6

decapitation.

1:18.9

This is the heads of Sierra Blanca. According to studies, just over 10% of break-ins are planned beforehand.

1:27.0

The rest are spur of the moment.

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