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Sacred Scandal

The Family Trips

Sacred Scandal

My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts

Religion, True Crime, Religion & Spirituality

4.4754 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Raul Gonzalez knew one rule: never touch his father’s crocodile-skin briefcase. His mysterious dad, supposedly a Shell Oil executive, traveled constantly. He visited with gifts, taking Raul and his siblings on exotic trips. But questions about his father’s many names and guarded life lingered. A magazine cover revealed a shocking truth about the man he called dad. Raul faced a difficult reality. What other secrets did his father keep hidden in that briefcase?

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.0

On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in the woods

0:13.2

of Knoxville, Tennessee. Since her conviction, Krista has been sitting on death row. How does

0:19.2

someone prove that they deserve to live?

0:21.8

We are starting the recording now.

0:23.7

Please state your first and last name.

0:27.1

Krista Pike.

0:28.8

Listen to Unrestorable Season 2, Proof of Life,

0:32.2

on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:39.7

Malcolm Gladwell here. This season on Revisionous History, we're going back to the spring of

0:44.2

1988 to a town in northwest Alabama where a man committed a crime that would spiral out of

0:50.0

control. And he said, I've been in prison 24, 25 years. That's probably not long enough.

0:55.4

And I didn't kill them. From Revisionous History, this is The Alabama Murders.

1:01.5

Listen to Revisionous History, the Alabama murders on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:15.2

Thank you. or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode.

1:17.2

This episode contains graphic descriptions

1:19.7

of sexual abuse of minors

1:21.7

that can be disturbing to some listeners.

1:35.4

Okay. listeners. Raoul Gonzalez only knew one rule when it came to his dad, never touched the crocodile

1:42.0

skin briefcase.

1:44.5

It was heavy, polished, worn at the edges.

1:49.7

His dad carried it everywhere, on planes, into hotels.

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