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Killer Instinct

The Black Widow of Lomita

Killer Instinct

Savannah Brymer & Studio71

Society & Culture, True Crime, News

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On April 26, 2007, Sonia Rios Risken was shot in the back of the head and found dead in her pool. But what should be just a simple murder case is much more complicated than that. Up until her death, Sonia was under investigation for the mysterious deaths of her husbands. Savannah explores this bizarre case and the tense events that ultimately led to Sonia's murder. Why was she considered the Black Widow of Lomita? Listen to find out. If you have any thoughts on this case or any other case, or just want to get in touch with Savannah about the show, email her at killerinstinctpodcast@gmail.com. Follow Savannah on IG: @savannahbrymer Follow Savannah on Twitter: @savannahbrymer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's been 11 years since Bruce Cachera was shot point blank outside of an apartment complex

0:07.1

in New Orleans East, as he searched for an address that doesn't exist.

0:11.7

When he was first killed, Launforts met quickly chalked it all up to him being in the wrong

0:16.1

place at the wrong time.

0:18.3

But I had to ask, is that really what happened?

0:22.2

I'm Dilea DeAmbra, the host of the investigative series Counter-Clock, and for season 5, I'm

0:27.4

digging deeper into Bruce's case than anyone has ever dug before.

0:31.8

The answers may be right in front of us, if we know where to look, or who to look at.

0:44.7

You can binge all 14 episodes of Counter-Clock, season 5, right now, wherever you listen to

0:50.3

podcasts.

0:58.4

Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode of Killer Instinct.

1:04.0

Happy Wednesday, you guys.

1:05.0

I hope you all are having a good week and a really good start to your 2020 thus far.

1:10.2

I am very excited to share today's case with you guys.

1:13.8

It is one that I have never heard of up until doing my research on it, and I'm so interested

1:18.6

to see where your mindset is going to be at at the end of this case.

1:22.8

I do think it's going to be a little bit of a longer one, so I hope you got a little

1:26.7

bit of time to listen.

1:28.7

As you can tell by the title of today's podcast, we are talking about the black widow of

1:33.9

Lomita, otherwise known as Sonia Riskin.

1:37.8

And I know it's already going to be a long case, so I'm not going to bore you with a boring

1:40.7

intro.

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