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Felonious Florida

Wondery | Sun Sentinel

Crime Story, Documentary, Exhibit C, History, Murder Documentaries, Florida, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Nobody knows when 16-year-old Marina Ralph entered room 334 of an Extended Stay hotel in Florida, or what happened to her while there. What we do know is that Marina was terrified of something. The only person who might have known what happened to her was a friend she met at school — but now, both girls are dead.

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NOTE: This episode was updated on Jan. 6, 2023, to reflect new developments in the case of Barbara Lechler's granddaughter, Ivy.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Flonious Florida Add Free on Amazon Music.
0:05.1	Download the app today.
0:08.3	This episode contains graphic language and descriptions of events that some listeners
0:11.8	may find disturbing.
0:13.9	It's late September day in 2019, outside an extended stay premiered
0:27.0	in the city of Florida.
0:29.8	The hotel is on West McNadden Road, just off in her state 95, in a rougher part of
0:34.8	the city.
0:36.3	That Monday evening, a black sports car pulls into the hotel parking lot and drives past
0:41.0	the entrance.
0:42.4	It makes a U-turn and circles back, stopping in front of the lobby doors.
0:47.5	A woman gets out of the passenger's side and walks to the registration desk.
0:52.2	She rents two rooms, 326 and 334 for five nights each.
0:58.3	She uses a Pennsylvania driver's license and a credit card.
1:01.8	It's discovered later that both were stolen and she has no luggage.
1:08.2	A few days later, a hotel manager reports suspicious activity.
1:12.7	Two men, neither of them registered guests, were going back and forth between the two
1:16.8	rooms at odd hours.
1:20.0	Then at 10 a.m. on Friday, four days after the check-in, a call comes into 911 from a young
1:26.0	woman.
1:27.0	I don't think she's breathing.
1:30.0	I think she overdosed.
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