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Woman claiming to be mom of girl killed by adoptive parents calls in; murder on cruise

True Crime News: The Podcast

True Crime News

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A woman claiming to be the biological mother of a girl whose skeletal remains were found in her adoptive parents' house calls in. She is pleading to get the girl's remains to lay her to rest. The adoptive parents have been arrested and face child abuse charges. Three other kids have been removed from the home. Plus, a Utah man pleads guilty to killing his wife on a cruise ship while their kids listened. And guest Luis Bolaños discusses the unsolved murder of Ramon Diaz.

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0:00.0

A word of warning. This podcast explores graphic and disturbing stories and includes some strong language.

0:06.3

It therefore may not be suitable for our young listeners or other folks who may find it disturbing. Hello and welcome to True Crime Daily, the podcast covering high profile and

0:21.2

under the radar cases from across the country every week.

0:24.3

We are recording this on February 12th, 2020.

0:28.0

I'm Anna Garcia and joining me today is Louis Balagnos, who happens to also be a friend of mine, but that's not why you should be impressed.

0:36.0

Louis has worked for more than 30 years in law enforcement and he specializes when he was a cop in major narcotics and high profile homicide investigations and

0:46.8

once you retired from the Sheriff's Department you started work as a

0:52.1

private investigator and you have your own company called get bit

0:56.7

Investigations. Tell us more about your company. That's it. That's it.

1:01.5

Well, just a little background. I have over 30 years of

1:06.0

investigative experience. 22 of those years with the Riverside County

1:09.8

Sheriff's Department and the Riverside County DA's office.

1:14.7

I specialized, like you said, in homicides

1:16.6

in Major iconic investigations.

1:18.5

And I was farmed out the FBI and DEA

1:20.3

to do special programs and investigations with them. So that's what I did on the

1:25.9

prosecution side. Somehow in the last 10 years when I retired 10 years ago I've

1:32.0

kind of morphed into I don't know what it is I do exactly.

1:35.6

You do everything, Lewis.

1:37.3

It's a little strange, but, but, you know, we've become a voice for victims in families on cases that for some reason have stalled

1:47.8

Either they should be prosecuted and they're not for some reason

1:51.2

Whether it's intentional or because somebody

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