Fan Favorite - "Murder and Meditation"
MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
MrBallen
4.9 • 30.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is a fan favorite. The audio and the story has been remastered for today's episode. |
| 0:06.8 | One September afternoon in 2003, a woman in Tucson, Arizona, heard a knock on her front door, |
| 0:12.3 | and she answered it, and she was surprised to see a Tucson police detective standing on her front |
| 0:16.6 | steps, and even more surprised when he started asking her a bunch of questions about her next-door |
| 0:21.5 | neighbor. Now, the woman tried to be as helpful as she could, but, you know, she just didn't have |
| 0:26.0 | very good answers to this detective's questions. She really didn't know much about her neighbor. |
| 0:30.5 | And so ultimately, the detective gave her his business card and told her to call back if she |
| 0:34.7 | ever heard anything or saw anything or remembered anything unusual about her neighbor. |
| 0:39.5 | Now, this woman didn't expect to ever call this detective back. |
| 0:43.1 | That was until a few days later, when she looked out her window and saw two sweaty men jump out of a van |
| 0:49.0 | and walk up the steps into her neighbor's house. |
| 0:52.3 | And the woman just stood there for several minutes, |
| 0:54.5 | absolutely shocked her heart racing, realizing what she was watching. Moments later, the woman |
| 1:00.7 | picked up that business card and called the detective. But before we get into that story, |
| 1:05.9 | if you're a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in story format, then you come to |
| 1:10.1 | the right podcast because that's all we do and we delivered in story format, then you come to the right podcast |
| 1:11.0 | because that's all we do and we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday. |
| 1:16.3 | So, if that's of interest to you, please secretly attach a harmonica to the front of the follow |
| 1:20.8 | button's car so that everywhere they go, their car whistles. |
| 1:24.6 | Okay, let's get into today's story. |
| 1:56.7 | Music our whistles. Okay, let's get into today's story. On the evening of Wednesday, September 24, 2003, |
| 2:06.6 | 45-year-old Michael Albert Dohaquez laid down flat on his back on his yoga mat in front of a room full of his students at a yoga studio in downtown Tucson, Arizona. The students all followed Michael's lead, laying down for a pose called Shavasana, which signaled the end of a long workout. |
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