Hey guys, Melissa here. We are replaying the episode on the Jokul murders. This is an episode we

released back in 2023. It's about a quadruple murder out on the high seas in the Caribbean.

And this is one of those stories that obviously no murder ever needs to happen. But as you

listen to this story, it just is so heartbreaking how this could have happened. And so we hope you enjoy this episode. In the meantime, if you have not, please subscribe to our YouTube page, YouTube.com slash moms and mysteries podcast. Or of course, you can find us on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your podcast.

We have a brand new episode out next Tuesday and then next Thursday as well. We'll see you then.

All right. So we'll get right into the story for this week. Melissa and I both agree that this is one of the craziest stories that maybe we've ever covered.

Yeah, there's really a lot to it. So although it does sound kind of crazy to think about,

piracy is actually a real thing that exists in the modern world. And I'm talking about like real pirates, right? And so pirate jokes might be funny, but real piracy isn't really much of a

laughing matter. It's actually pretty serious. Here in the U.S., we're not really in a part of

the world that sees a huge amount of crime at sea. You can find pirates sailing in parts of the Caribbean, but for the most part, the heavily pirate-infested waters of the world are located in places such as the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. And then the waters surrounding Indonesia and Somalia are deemed extremely dangerous. According to the

Maritime Bureau, piracy attacks happened by the hundreds each year with these attacks being carried

out for the cargo that the ships are carrying. Pirates will also attempt to attack cruise ships and sailboats

due to the lucrative cargo that can be on board, which I never, it literally has never occurred to me that you would

be at risk of a pirate attack on a cruise ship. So that's just another reason I don't want to go

on a cruise now ever again. But I feel like numbers wise, you're doing pretty good. There are so

many freaking people on a cruise versus how many people are in a small boat, but still, the idea is terrifying.

Yeah. So smaller vessels aren't typically known for being attacked by pirates because they are

obviously not caring very much, if anything, of value. But in today's story, two men named

Kirby Archer and Guillermo Zarabozo claimed that they had been on board a charter boat from Miami to the Bahamas when they were attacked by Cuban pirates.

As Florida residents, the idea to charter a boat or to take some type of boating tour or excursion is really pretty common.

People here do it all the time for different reasons.

There's many ways to charter a boat. Sometimes you can get a crew to man the boat for you, or sometimes you're your own captain,

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