It's Always the Husband/ Partner/ Ex | Irene Gakwa, Karina Castro & Maya Millete

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🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime, 47,000 women and girls worldwide were killed by their intimate partners or other family members in 2020. This means that, on average, a woman or girl is killed by someone in her own family every 11 minutes.

In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss the cases of three women who were likely murdered by their partners.

Irene Gakwa met her boyfriend Nathan Hightman on Craigslist. The two had an on-again, off-again relationship and Irene’s family did not know that the two were still living together in February 2022. Irene spoke to her family in Kenya in late February this year and has not been seen again. The day after she vanished, Nathan purchased a 55 gallon drum and was seen burning something in it. He is not cooperating with police.
Karina Castro had a fight over Snapchat in September 2022 with her estranged, violent partner Rafa Solano. She threatened to tell everyone about Rafa’s sexual relationships. The following day, Rafa turned up to Karina’s home with a samurai sword. He beheaded her in the street outside her apartment, while her two young children were just feet away.
Maya Millete and her husband Larry had been having marriage troubles in early 2021. Maya was planning to separate from him and had consulted an attorney. When Maya’s family could not get in touch with her, they went to her home and forced Larry to open the door to the room where he said Maya was. Not surprisingly, the room was empty and Maya has not been seen since. On the night of her disappearance, many loud gunshots were heard by neighbors. Larry has since been arrested and charged with Maya’s murder – her remains have not been recovered. Maya’s disappearance is a strange one that involves witchcraft and hexes that were initiated by Larry in an attempt to control her.

You can check out our blogs for these cases at http://TrueCrimeSocietyBlog.com

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0:00.0	The True Crime Society podcast contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:05.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:23.5	What's up guys? Welcome to another episode of True Crime Society podcast with Stephanie and Olivia.
0:28.7	It's Thursday, September 22nd right now. We are here. We're ready to go. It's a little chilly out
0:37.2	for the weather. It rained today for the first time. Well, I guess it's raining a few times on
0:41.6	it off, but I think we're still in a drought. But tomorrow, I think today's the first day of fall
0:45.6	here. And it's finally starting to feel chilly, which is nice. Nice change for you guys. Yeah.
0:52.6	It's still raining here. I feel like it's always raining. At least it's getting warmer, which is nice.
0:58.7	It's like light jacket weather now, not big coat weather. This weekend, I'm going like three hours
1:05.6	upstate to our friend's cabin. And I was looking at the weather and the low is going to be like
1:11.8	30 something degrees. That's like freezing. It's winter. It's so cold.
1:16.1	It's so nice to rug up and that's the one good thing about when it is really, really cold.
1:20.4	At least you're always prepared for it. And it's so nice to be cozy. Yeah, I'm excited. We're like
1:25.2	cozy clothes. But it's like a cabin, but it's like a house. It's not like a cabin with no electricity.
1:33.6	I guess there's not a lot of cell phone service or anything up there. But I'm starting to feel like
1:39.2	a real old person, because I've been thinking about stuff to bring for days. And now I'm starting
1:43.9	to have anxiety. Like, what if there's not any good snacks or like, what if my tummy hurts? And
1:51.2	like, I forgot to bring Tom's or what if like, I'm really tired and I want to go to bed,
1:55.3	but everyone else wants to stay up. And then they think I'm lame.
1:59.6	Well, they think you could worry about. Yeah, I feel like I'm like, what if the bed is in
2:03.3	comfort? You're like, what if I'm hot? Because like, I hate being hot when I sleep.
2:08.1	You'll be fine. You will enjoy it. You'll get up there and it'll be a great time.
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