MURDERED: Derek Rosa | Springfield, MA 2019
Obscura: A True Crime Podcast
Justin Drown
4.6 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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The darkness that enveloped Derek Rosa in Springfield shatters a mother's joy into pieces of forgotten dreams.
Derek Rosa, a budding rapper, dreamed of stardom. But in September 2019, a murder sundered his life from dreams of positivity.
Following Derek's untimely death, investigators uncovered a tangled web of grievances obscured by the veneer of artistry. Real 911 calls and surveillance footage delivered chilling testament to lives lost in silence, families fractured by violence.
This episode strips illusion bare, exposing chilling dialogues that paint a portrait of volatility beneath everyday life; mothers caught in grief, justice entangled in courtroom drama.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name's Jack Luna, and I host the podcast Dark Topic, where I've been covering some of the world's darkest stories in a unique way since 2016, |
| 0:11.0 | and I guess there's a lot I could say to woo you to come listen to my podcast, but I'll just say about our topic that some people seem to like it and maybe you will too. So search for a dark topic, wherever you listen. |
| 0:27.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:29.8 | Welcome listener. I'm glad you're here. Take a seat next to the fire. I'm going to be. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, Hi, Lea, Florida, October 12, 2023. Derek Rosa is 13 years old. He's in eighth grader and receives straight A's. |
| 1:45.0 | At 11.30 p.m. on a Thursday night Derek calls 911. Excuse me. I can be to speak English. |
| 1:54.0 | I speak English. |
| 1:57.0 | I speak English. |
| 1:58.0 | How can I help you? |
| 2:00.0 | Could you bring the police over here where I live? |
| 2:04.0 | What is your address? |
| 2:06.0 | I don't know my address. |
| 2:08.0 | Are you by yourself with your mom? |
| 2:11.0 | Yeah, no. My baby sister's here to sleep clean. |
| 2:15.0 | She could kill your mom. |
| 2:17.0 | Okay, where is that knife right now? |
| 2:19.0 | I put it. Let me check. |
| 2:22.0 | Wait. I put it on the floor inside of the way |
| 2:25.0 | The knife in question. I put it on the floor inside of the |
| 2:29.0 | well, no what is it I can't find a knife. |
| 2:33.4 | The knife in question is a pink knife with a silver tip on the handle. |
| 2:38.6 | I was able to track the exact knife down at Walmart. |
| 2:42.2 | It's a large kitchen knife you'd use to cut chicken. The knife would later |
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