The Trail Went Cold - Episode 336 - Omar Laparra

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

May 30, 2009. Miami, Florida. While spending the evening partying at a nightclub, 21-year old Omar Laparra becomes very intoxicated and after leaving the club at closing time, he never returns home. Three days later, Omar’s dismembered remains are found in multiple garbage bags on the shores of Biscayne Bay. Investigators look into a number of different leads, including an individual who used Omar’s stolen cell phone following his disappearance and an eyewitness sighting of Omar’s unconscious body being placed into a vehicle by two unidentified men, but the crime is never solved. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the gruesome murder of Omar Lappara, one of our two featured cases in which a dismembered victim was found in Miami’s Biscayne Bay. Our second case covers the 1985 murder of 27-year old Nilsa Padilla and subsequent disappearance of her two-year old daughter, Alicia Padilla. Special thanks to listener Maria Chachere for narrating the opening of this week’s episode. If you have any information about the murder of Omar Lappara, please contact the Miami-Dade & The Florida Keys Crime Stoppers Tipline at (305) 471-TIPS (8477). If you have any information about the disappearance about the current whereabouts of Jorge Walter Nunez, the disappearance of Alicia Padilla or the identity of “Tommy Torso”, please contact the Miami-Dade & Police Department at (305) 471-2400. Additional Reading: “The First 48” Episode: Body of Evidence https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-canadian-porn-actor-linked-unsolved-miami-murder/story?id=16536675 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/miami-police-investigate-magnotta-in-cold-case-1.1145625 https://www.newspapers.com/image/658016675/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/658223081/ https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/south-florida-womans-remains-identified-decades-after-she-was-murdered-and-dismembered/1919038/ https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-cold-case-murder-solved-with-recovered-memories-6392020?showFullText=true https://charleyproject.org/case/alicia-guzman-padilla http://www.doenetwork.org/hot/hotcase2348.html https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/3023umfl.html “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon. Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. “The Trail Went Cold” is doing a weekly livestream show on Vokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. “The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon” at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida on September 22-24, 2023. To get a 10 % discount on the purchase of tickets to the event, please use our specialized promo code, “COLD23”, by visiting https://www.crimecon.com. “The Trail Went Cold” will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Austin, Texas on August 25-27, 2023. To get a 15 % discount on the purchase of tickets, please our specialized promo code, “TRAIL”, by visiting https://truecrimepodcastfestival.com. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	May 30th 2009, Miami, Florida.
0:03.3	While spending the night partying at a nightclub,
0:06.1	21 year old Omar Lopara becomes very intoxicated
0:10.7	and never returns home.
0:12.3	Three days later, Omar's dismembered remains are found in
0:16.9	multiple garbage bags on the shores of Biscayne Bay. Investigators look into a
0:22.1	number of different leads, including an individual who used
0:25.7	Omar cell phone following his disappearance and an eyewitness sighting of Omar's unconscious body being placed into a vehicle by two unidentified men, but his
0:37.6	murder is never solved.
0:40.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, well, uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, it's all. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold. I'm your host Robin Warder and this week
1:25.2	we're going to be exploring a very brutal and disturbing crime the 2009
1:30.2	murder of Omar Lappara.
1:33.2	That voice you just heard narrating our intro was Maria Sassary, the latest winner of our most recent
1:38.7	Trail went cold listener voiceover contest, so thank you very much Maria. This is a recurring
1:44.0	monthly contest which we've been carrying on for nearly six years now so if you'd
1:48.1	like to enter and haven't already done so I will be providing instructions
1:52.1	near the end of this episode.
1:54.0	Anyway, the murder of Omar LaPara was the case that Maria suggested I cover when she
1:58.7	originally entered this contest, and it is definitely one of the more violent and senseless murders we've ever covered on this podcast.
2:06.0	Omar La Parra was a Guatemalan national living in Miami who went missing after partying at a nightclub,
2:12.0	and a few days later, plastic bags containing
2:15.4	Omar's dismembered remains would be discovered on the shores of Biscayne Bay. The case wound up receiving national coverage when it was featured on an episode of the True Crime TV series, the first 48, and it showed detectives turning up a very promising lead, when a potential suspect was caught using Omar's cell phone after he went missing.
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