Episode 57

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

History, Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.0 • 63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

It's one thing to kill someone, it's quite another to publish your handiwork on social media for all your friends and family to see like some sort of macabre trophy. That's exactly what Facebook Killer Derek Medina did after killing his wife Jennifer Alfonso in the kitchen of their Miami condominium, while her 10-year-old daughter cowered upstairs under a red blanket. After shooting the unarmed woman eight times, in his words "emptying the clip", he went back upstairs and got dressed before taking a picture of the body, posting it on Facebook, and leaving the residence with the 10-year-old girl still upstairs. Horrified friends and family could do nothing but wait for news of what had transpired, meanwhile the picture of Jennifer's corpse remained posted on Facebook for hours before it was finally taken down. In this two-part story we will cover the trial of this cold-blooded killer with special guest Cathy Russon from courtchatter.com, and get to know the man behind this horror show.

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0:00.0	Mike, thank you so much for putting this together.
0:03.0	I know that it takes a ton of your time and energy and takes you away from your family and loved ones to give us this podcast every other week.
0:11.0	It is so wonderful and I'm calling to say, keep up the good work, and also calling to say,
0:18.0	thanks for the outro music every week. So I feel like I sit there and bob my head while I just absorb everything I just listened to
0:26.2	for the last 60 to 120 minutes.
0:29.0	And it makes my drives to and from work far richer.
0:34.3	So thank you so much.
0:35.5	Keep up the good work from the middle of America.
0:37.6	We will keep listening and we will keep putting the word out to you. Take care, buddy.
0:41.9	Sword and scale contains adult themes and violence. It is not intended for all audiences.
0:46.8	Listener discretion is advised.
0:52.8	He seemed insensitive, and so she got angry about that.
0:57.0	And they argued upstairs in their bedroom.
1:00.0	She threw stuff out, the stuff she had around, mascara, Italian.
1:05.0	What did the defendant do?
1:07.0	Well, he went and got his gun. He went and got his gun. Hello and welcome back to Season 3, Episode 57 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real.
1:57.2	Yeah. and scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real. Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break, and we know you've been waiting for a while, so we're going to get right to this story.
2:03.9	We kick off this season with a two-parter of a horrible crime.
2:08.0	It's one thing to kill someone.
2:09.9	It's quite another to show your work to the victim's friends and family like some sort of macabre trophy.
2:15.6	That's how Miami-Dade State attorney Catherine Fernandez-Rundle
2:19.3	described the defendant's actions in this case. We'll tell you all about it with the help of
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