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Taking Two Lives - October 6 2020 - Daily True Crime

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

October 6th: Annette Morales-Rodriguez Kills (2011) For some women, the inability to have a child is a fate worse than death. On October 6th 2011, a woman desperate for a child, a son, would do something truly horrible in her quest to start a family with her boyfriend. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Information for this episode collected from: Murderpedia, ABC News, Washington Times Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the Silver Lake section of...

0:04.0

We have a electricity line.

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...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

0:09.0

For some women, the inability to have a child is a fate worse than death.

0:16.0

On October 6, 2011, a woman desperate for a child, a son, would do something truly horrible in the

0:23.7

quest to start a family with her boyfriend.

0:26.4

So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a

0:31.0

morning cup of murder.

0:36.5

Annette Morales Rodriguez, 34-year-old mother of three from Milwaukee, was desperate to give

0:42.5

her boyfriend the son he always wanted. But for whatever reason, according to Annette, she could

0:48.5

not stay pregnant. And by 2011, had already faked two miscarriages and was in the process of faking a third pregnancy.

0:57.2

She didn't have the heart to tell her boyfriend a third time that she had lost their baby

1:01.3

and thought that if this kept up, her lies would eventually catch up to her.

1:06.6

So she came up with a plan.

1:08.8

And this plan didn't involve coming clean.

1:12.1

Instead, it involved trolling the streets for two weeks,

1:15.2

looking for a pregnant woman she could abduct and attempt to pass the baby off as her own.

1:20.5

And on October 6, 2011, she found the perfect woman walking near a non-profit organization

1:27.0

that provided Hispanics

1:28.6

with social services. The woman was 23-year-old Martiza Ramirez Cruz, whose family had moved

1:35.2

to Wisconsin from Puerto Rico just two years before, was also a mother of three, and was

1:40.8

40 weeks pregnant. Annette offered the very pregnant woman a ride home, and she willingly

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