Police Find Murder Plot Crumpled in Trash?! The Case of Patrick De La Cerda
True Crime with Kendall Rae
Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In February 2018, 25-year-old Patrick De La Cerda was at home when he fell victim to an ambush-style shooting. His fiancée Jessica Devnani’s jealous ex-boyfriend, Gregory Bender, had been sending harassing messages to the couple for months. After a judge had issued a restraining order, the threats stopped… until the morning of the murder. Police followed a tip to check Bender’s home, where they came across a hand drawn map of De La Cerda’s house and notes that Bender himself made on how to carry out the murder. And if that wasn’t enough, he left out ammunition and shell casings that matched those found at the crime scene.
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| 1:00.9 | Thank you. have done to make this possible and for supporting this show while I'm on maternity leave. Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of True Crime with Kendall Ray. |
| 1:05.8 | Thank you so much for joining me today. And if you're new to this show, then welcome. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm so happy to have you here, |
| 1:11.1 | and I hope that you enjoy this episode. Okay, guys, today we're going to be talking about the |
| 1:17.6 | murder of Patrick de Lacerda, who was really at such a peak in his life when everything changed. |
| 1:26.0 | And right off the bat, I just have to say that the heartless |
| 1:28.5 | bonehead who killed him was so unbelievably stupid, but the worst kind of stupid because he was one of |
| 1:34.9 | those people who thought he was a pretty smart cookie. He has a very inflated ego, thinks he's a |
| 1:41.5 | genius, but in reality, he's a burnt-ass ugly cookie who's very, very stupid. |
| 1:48.1 | And we love that on my show, right? Because dummies get caught every time. And I want to just go |
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