Past Lives
Forensic Files
HLN
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🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A wealthy American executive was found dead in his car in Mexico. |
| 0:09.8 | It looked like an accident until a forensic anthropologist found evidence of a chilling tale of fraud and deceit. |
| 0:31.3 | I don't know you. tale of fraud and deceit. 34-year-old Madison Rutherford had everything. |
| 0:35.4 | He was ambitious, successful, happily married, and rich. |
| 0:40.5 | He worked as a financial advisor in Connecticut |
| 0:43.4 | with an uncanny ability to make money for his clients. |
| 0:47.5 | He also managed money for his friends, like Brigada Beck. |
| 0:51.4 | I thought, since I am alone in this country, I thought it might be wise. |
| 0:57.1 | If anything would happen to me, I thought I should have him as my executor. |
| 1:03.1 | By all accounts, Madison Rutherford and his wife Rennie lived lavishly and had expensive tastes. |
| 1:14.6 | So it wasn't unusual for Madison to travel outside the United States pursuing his various interests. Madison Rutherford and his wife had a |
| 1:21.8 | pension for various types of animals, including dogs. And part of the reason for supposedly going to Mexico |
| 1:29.4 | was to obtain another exotic dog. |
| 1:35.6 | But a few days later, Mexican police found Rutherford's car |
| 1:40.0 | in a ravine near Monterey. |
| 1:44.6 | It appeared that the car had swerved off the road and caught fire. |
| 1:50.4 | When they got there, the car was burnt beyond recognition. |
| 1:54.0 | Everything was gone, and he opened up the driver door |
| 1:58.1 | and found some bone fragments on the driver's side. |
| 2:03.5 | Inside, investigators found a medic alert pendant and a wristwatch. |
| 2:10.6 | On the back of the watch, barely legible was the inscription to Madison, Love Rennie. |
| 2:19.2 | Also inside the car, the charred remains of a human. |
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