The story today is a twisted game of cat and mouse

that makes even the wildest soap operas look like polite disagreements over brunch.

Imagine this.

A cop knocks on the door of Ermolinda Palomo,

a 50-year-old woman who might as well be a character

plucked straight out of a telenovela. The cops got that stern, you know what this is about,

look on his face, and he's about to drop the bomb that he's there to investigate a murder.

Little does she know, he's not talking about one body, but four.

What unraveled inside that house was the kind of tangled web where years of jealousy,

deception, and some seriously unhinged online personas conspired to end in the merciless killing

of an entire family. Yeah, we're diving into a plot involving fake cartel accounts,

a secret lover, and a puppet master who just couldn't stand to lose control of her personal soap opera.

And did I mention that it all starts unraveling because of a guy named Turtle?

To really understand this bloodbath, you've got to go back a few years when Irma Linda started playing a dangerous game with her fiancé, Nathaniel Huey Jr.

Think catfishing, but with an extra dash of paranoia and a side of fake Mexican cartel threats.

It was all fun in games until a secret affair came to light, one that would spiral from a love triangle into a full-blown massacre. So buckle up as we follow the breadcrumbs left by Turtle, an assassin who gives new meeting to working remotely. Welcome to 10-minute murder.

I know you know what's going on and why we're here.

An officer spoke to the person who just opened the door he'd knocked on.

We're investigating a murder.

The woman he was talking to was 50-year-old Irmolinda Palomo.

But what the officer didn't tell her in that initial conversation was that they weren't there to investigate just one murder, but four.

The foundations for those incredibly shocking and

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