Erica Alonso // 283

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

After going out to a nightclub in February of 2015, a 27-year-old California woman disappeared. When police released surveillance footage of her at the club with her ex-boyfriend and another couple, they hoped people would come forward with answers. But when her car was found abandoned and her body was discovered in a creek bed in the mountains, her family became suspicious of one particular person. This is the story of Erica Alonso. BONUS EPISODES patreon.com/goingwestpodcast CASE SOURCES 1. KCAL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVejpPBcbnA 2. NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/missing-in-america/missing-america-erica-alonso-n311221?fbclid=IwAR2-PS6-vaXqmW02gqMwjoWcVO85bYmXAHFgoA-Z8Po1zAN7QGGUjMywMLg 3. CBS: https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/couple-who-gave-missing-oc-woman-a-ride-home-identified/ 4. The Orange County Register: https://www.ocregister.com/2015/04/30/erica-alonsos-body-verified-by-coroner-through-fingerprints/ 5. The Orange County Register: https://www.ocregister.com/2015/04/30/as-family-mourns-erica-alonso-questions-remain-as-autopsy-fails-to-reveal-cause-of-death/ 6. Erica's Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/164502854/erica-melissa-alonso/flower 7. Medium: https://medium.com/things-we-find-in-the-dark/remembering-erica-alonso-6490443e5458 8. Patch: https://patch.com/california/lagunabeach/desperate-family-scrapes-together-5000-reward-missing-laguna-hills-woman 9. KTLA: https://ktla.com/news/local-news/missing-laguna-hills-woman-was-subject-of-restraining-order-over-alleged-domestic-violence/ 10. Sutra: https://www.yelp.com/biz/sutra-costa-mesa 11. Justice for Erica Alonso Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/WeLoveEricaAlonso 12. CBS: https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/deputies-find-car-belonging-to-missing-laguna-hills-woman-27/ 13. ABC 7 Chicago: https://abc7chicago.com/erica-alonso-san-juan-capistrano-decomposed-body-cleveland-national-forest/686704/ 14. Orange County Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/orangecounty/comments/3e8wsb/erica_alonsos_death_ruled_overdose/?sort=new 15. New Santa Ana: https://newsantaana.com/toxicology-results-show-that-erica-alonso-had-a-lethal-dose-of-ghb-and-alcohol-in-her-system/#:~:text=UPDATE%3A%20Toxicology%20Results%20%26%20Cause%20of%20Death&text=%E2%80%93%20(July%2022%2C%202015),The%20results%20indicate%20Ms. 16. The Capistrano Dispatch: https://www.thecapistranodispatch.com/cause-of-erica-alonsos-death-determined-an-overdose/ 17. The Orange County Register: https://www.ocregister.com/2015/07/23/it-doesnt-make-sense-to-me-father-of-erica-alonso-surprised-to-hear-daughters-death-ruled-an-overdose/ 18. The David Pakman Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQOYEiyuF94 19. Patch: https://patch.com/california/missionviejo/ericas-law-regarding-body-dumping-goes-effect-2018 20. People: https://people.com/crime/woman-who-disappeared-after-valentines-day-date-spurs-body-dumping-bill/ 21. Erica's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raspberica/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	What is going on True Crime fans? I'm your host Tee.
0:17.1	And I'm your host Daphne.
0:18.7	And you're listening to Going West.
0:20.7	Hello everybody, big thank you to Marina for recommending today's case.
0:26.6	Also, so sorry to be flooding you guys with so much Apple subscriptions talk about our bonus
0:31.4	episodes, but last episode I said that it was already out because I thought it was going
0:35.3	to be by the time the episode aired and it's still not out, but it's because Apple is
0:40.9	currently transferring all of our bonus episodes from Patreon up or over to Apple podcast
0:47.2	subscriptions.
0:48.3	So we just came out with an episode on Andrew Gawstin, which is a crazy case that takes
0:53.4	place in England. It's about a 14 year old boy who got on a train to London and was never
0:58.2	seen again. So crazy story. There's a lot of surveillance footage in that one and a
1:02.2	lot of theories. So if you want to listen to that now, it's over on our Patreon Patreon.com
1:07.1	slash going with podcasts. This week I promise it will be on Apple podcast subscriptions.
1:11.5	Yes, and this will be the last time that we bring this up to you guys for a little bit.
1:16.0	Except for on Friday. I'm going to bring it up again.
1:18.4	Except for on Friday. Sorry, I'm a liar.
1:21.9	Because Friday will be out by then, right?
1:24.4	Yes, it should be.
1:25.4	Then I'll be like, hey, y'all, it's out. It's up.
1:28.4	So anyway, thank you for putting up with all that. And let's talk about this case. This
1:34.2	is a fairly recent one. There's been a lot happening over the years with it. So thank
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dark West Productions, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dark West Productions and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.