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True Crime News: The Podcast

Zuzu Verk, Teresa Sievers, Pravin Varughese, Cassie Barker cases

True Crime News: The Podcast

True Crime News

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this week's True Crime Daily Podcast, we cover updates to cases in Texas, Florida, Illinois and Mississippi. A college student goes missing and is later found dead in the Texas desert. A holistic doctor in Florida is brutally murdered in her kitchen. An Illinois man is found dead and stories don't add up. A former police officer gets prison after her daughter dies in her hot patrol car while mom slept in a coworker's home.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A note of warning. This podcast explores graphic and disturbing stories and includes strong language. It therefore may not be suitable for our young listeners or other folks who may find it disturbing.

0:10.0

So we've covered a lot of true crime stories in depth over the years, which you can check out on true crime daily.com for videos and updates, but some of these cases, unfortunately, never reach any resolution or justice. And justice is often very slow. So we want to

0:25.0

bring you some updates to some of the big cases as they develop.

0:29.2

We have a development in the West Texas case of Zuzu Verk, who went missing in October of 2016.

0:36.5

She was a college student there.

0:39.4

Her boyfriend Robert Fabian had been arrested in that case.

0:43.3

He was a suspect.

0:45.0

His friend, Chris Estrada, was eventually arrested as well as an alleged accomplice.

0:52.6

Caldwell County jury this week, excuse me, in May, convicted Robert Fabian of murdering

0:58.9

Zuzu Verk 21 years old and tampering with physical evidence on May 8th, 2019.

1:06.6

The same jury sentenced Fabian to life in prison the next day.

1:10.6

Fabian has also been sentenced to 20 years on the tampering charge.

1:13.4

He will be eligible for parole after 30 years.

1:16.3

His friend Chris Estrada told the court that Fabian confessed to choking Zuzu after their

1:21.9

dinner date. Further stated that Fabian asked him to

1:24.7

help dispose of her body. Strata ultimately told the court that he had decided.

1:28.9

He declined to help Fabian move Zuzu's body, but he would not turn him in.

1:33.0

Yeah, and if you remember this case, this is the one where the Fabian had invited his friend to come over and paint, this was the sort of alibi or the story, to paint a table.

1:50.0

And at 4 o'clock in the morning, which was not something that you do.

1:54.4

Police say that Robert called you twice

1:57.6

3.15 a.m.

1:59.7

on October 12th.

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