THE SELF-SOLVING MURDER OF TERESA SILVA: Inspired By a True Crime Case #MurderNoir

Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

Darren Marlar

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The dead don't usually testify at their own murder trials, but in the smoke-stained alleys of Chicago, I learned that some victims refuse to let their killers walk free — even from beyond the grave.

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THE TRUE CRIME CASE THIS STORY IS BASED ON: In 1977, Teresita Basa, a 48-year-old respiratory therapist in Chicago, was found murdered in her burned-out apartment. Months later, police received a bizarre tip from a man claiming his wife, Remy Chua — who had briefly worked with Basa — was channeling messages from Basa’s ghost during trances. According to the spirit, she had been murdered by a coworker named Allan Showery, who then staged the scene and stole her jewelry. Investigators followed the supernatural lead and discovered many details matched real evidence. Showery’s girlfriend even confirmed he had given her Basa’s jewelry. Confronted with mounting proof, Showery confessed to the crime. Despite the strange nature of the case, Teresita Basa became known as “the woman who solved her own murder from beyond the grave.

ORIGINAL CASE SOURCES…
https://www.ranker.com/list/teresita-basa-case/patrick-thornton
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Originally aired: June 10, 2025

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0:00.0	Wake up! The Jones is a redo in their garden! Love that porcelain paven and all that fencing.
0:05.4	I knew it. They've been with their landscaper to Jusen.
0:07.9	A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba! Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that.
0:14.2	For materials, tool hire, timber and paving. Don't waste time. Duason's got the lot.
0:19.0	Like Teralis porcelain paving from only 22 pounds per square meter.
0:22.4	Love it.
0:23.1	All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%.
0:25.9	So now you can keep up with the Joneses.
0:28.0	And the Evanses.
0:29.2	And the Bertels.
0:31.9	The February wind cut through the city like a razor blade through silk.
0:37.0	And I had the feeling this case would cut just as deep.
0:41.7	It started with smoke, always does in this business.
0:45.3	Smoke and mirrors.
0:47.0	Smoke and fire.
0:48.7	Smoke that rises from the ashes of lives cut short.
0:53.1	The boys from Engine Company 47 in Chicago
0:55.8	had responded to a call on Maple Heights Avenue,
0:59.6	15th floor of one of those concrete tombstones
1:02.8	they call apartment buildings.
1:05.1	What they found in Unit 15b
1:07.3	would haunt them longer than the stench of charred fabric.
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