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The Suitcase Murders: The Hunt for Yustin Moscara · Murder Files Unsealed

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Speaker 1: Picture this, and I want you to really put yourself
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in this exact environment. Okay, it's just after eleven PM
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on a deeply dark, really cold night in Bristol, and
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we are standing right on the edge of the city's
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most famous, most imposing architectural landmark, the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow, Yeah, that's a dramatic spot.
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Speaker 1: It really is. It is late, the wind is likely
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just whipping off the Avon gorge below, and the security
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CCTV cameras that line the structure are just quietly.
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Speaker 2: Rolling, which is standard for a bridge like that.
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Speaker 1: Exactly, and they are capturing what, at first casual glance
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just looks like, in unlikely maybe a lost tourist. There
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is a man dressed entirely in dark clothing, wearing a
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hat pulled down tight to like deliberately obscure.
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Speaker 2: His face suspicious right off the bat right.
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Speaker 1: And he is visibly, like physically struggling. He is dragging
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this exceptionally large, super heavy, red plastic suitcase along the pavement. Jeez,
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you could almost hear the agonizing scrape of it. I mean,
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it looks completely.
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Speaker 2: Exhausting, and that's not exactly typical luggage for a midnight stroll,
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not at.
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Speaker 1: All, and just a few meters away, carelessly abandoned in
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a small layby on the coroach to the bridge, sits
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a second piece of luggage, a large silver trunk.
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Speaker 2: It is an incredibly jarring, almost cinematic visual, isn't it.
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It really is, because when you're out that late at
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night on a massive suspension bridge, the acoustics are unique.
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Oh true, every single sound carries and echoes off the
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stone work and you know, the metal cables. The scraping
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of those cheap plastic wheels against the haartch concrete would
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have been echoing into the night.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, like nails on a chalkboard.
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Speaker 2: Exactly. It is the kind of scene that immediately signals
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to your brain that something is fundamentally out of place.
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Speaker 1: Exactly. The human brain is just wired to detect anomalies,
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and this is a massive red flags for sure. And
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the brig staff, you know, whose actual job it is
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to monitor these exact anomals, they actually notice him.
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Speaker 2: Well, thank goodness for that, right.
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Speaker 1: They don't just watch on the cameras. They physically walk over.
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They stop him, and they engage, They confront him. Yeah,
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they question him directly. They ask the most basic question
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you would ask in that scenario, which is, what are
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you doing? What on earth is in the case?
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Speaker 2: And what does he say?
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Speaker 1: This man casually claims that the red suitcase is just
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full of car parts. He says he's trying.
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Speaker 2: To sell them, which I mean, if you pause and analyze,
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it is a fascinating psychological defense. How so well, it
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is a perfectly mundane, if slightly odd excuse. It relies
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on the inherent awkwardness of social confrontation.
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Speaker 1: Oh like, people don't want to push back, right.
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Speaker 2: He is betting that the bridge staff will just accept
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this weird, slightly implausible story about car parts, because you know,
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confronting a stranger at midnight is uncomfortable.
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Speaker 1: Right. But I'm thinking, if you are carrying heavy car
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parts to sell, why are you dragging them across a
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pedestrian walkway on a suspension bridge midnight?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the logistics don't pan out.
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Speaker 1: Who are you selling them to? Like the trolls under
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the bridge? It makes absolutely zero logical sense.
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Speaker 2: It makes no sense at all, But in his highly
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elevated state of panic, it was literally the only lie
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his brain could generate, and ironically it almost works for
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a fleeting second until the physical reality of what he
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is doing starts to completely betray him.
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Speaker 1: Because things escalate so quickly from that interaction. Just minutes later,
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he starts to try and move the red case again.
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Speaker 2: He's still trying to get away.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's straining, and a passing cyclist, just a regular
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person out for a late night ride, sees him struggling
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and kindly stops to offer help. Yeah, but as the
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cyclist gets close, he notices something horrifying. You know how
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those hard shell suitcases have four little spinner.
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Speaker 2: Wheels, Yeah, standard luggage.
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Speaker 1: Well, two of the four wheels on this red suitcase
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are completely broken off from the sheer crushing weight of
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what is inside.
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Speaker 2: That's incredibly heavy, and.
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Speaker 1: There's a range thick, dark red fluid actively leaking out
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of the bottom, just pooling on.
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Speaker 2: The concrete, which completely and violently shifts the atmosphere of
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this encounter rightly goes from slightly strange guy with a
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heavy bag to an immediately alarming, high threat situation. You
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can't ignore that, No, the visual of the leaking fluid
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is impossible to explain away with a comment about car parts.
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Speaker 1: Right, and here is where it gets incredibly tense. The cyclist,
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who happens to be multilingual, actually speaks to the man
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in Spanish, asking him to open the case.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. The man completely refuses, starts to aggressively walk away,
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and then, realizing the gig is up, suddenly breaks into
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a sprint.
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Speaker 2: He just runs.
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Speaker 1: He runs. The cyclist, who, by the way, I think
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we have to acknowledge, is incredibly brave, actually chases him.
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Speaker 2: That is brave, right.
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Speaker 1: He pulls out his phone to record the encounter while
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he's running. Yea. As he's chasing him, yelling in Spanish,
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the stranger turns back and replies with this absolute chilling,
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non sen sequitor line.
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Speaker 2: What did he say?
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Speaker 1: He says, quote, my boss is really bad.
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Speaker 2: That is so bizarre.
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Speaker 1: Then the man lunges yeah, tries to snatch the cyclist
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phone to destroy the evidence, fails, and just vanishes into
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the pitch black darkness.
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Speaker 2: Of the night, leaving the bags behind.
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Speaker 1: Yes, leaving both the leaking red suitcase and the abandoned
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silver trunk behind on the bridge.
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Speaker 2: The phrase my boss is really bad is something we're
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gonna need to dissect later, definitely, because it offers a
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very bizarre window into a fracturing mine. But in that
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immediate moment on the bridge, the cyclists and the staff
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do exactly what they should.
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Speaker 1: They call the cops.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, they call the police. The authorities arrive at the
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bridge within ten minutes of that emergency call, fast response.
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The bridge is locked down, the yellow caution tape goes up,
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the floodlights are turned on, and the officers cautiously approach
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these abandoned cases.
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Speaker 1: I can't even imagine being those cops, right.
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Speaker 2: And what they found inside is the kind of grim
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world tilting discovery that haunts a seasoned investigator the rest
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of their natural life. When they carefully unzipped the red
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suitcase and pried open the silver trunk, they did not
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find car parts. No, they found the dismembered torsos of
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two adult men. Oh my god, but just the torsos,
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no heads, no hands, no feet.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's unpack this because today, in this deep dive,
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you and I are going to explore one of the
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most harrowing, brutal, and frankly psychologically baffling double murders in
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modern history.
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Speaker 2: It really is an unbelievable case.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, our mission here is to look at how a
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cold blooded highly calculated financial motive which was totally masked
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by a very unusual, very specific domestic relationship, led to
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a horrific crime. And we're going to examine how a
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series of utterly bizarre, completely illogical decisions by the killer
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ultimately brought him to justice.
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Speaker 2: Mistakes he made are just staggers.
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Speaker 1: We are going to track every digital footprint, we're going
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to analyze every chaotic post crime movement, and we're going
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to try to understand how what was supposed to be
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the perfect crime completely unraveled into an absolute circus of absurdity.
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Speaker 2: It is a profound tragedy that requires a very careful,
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methodical examination. Absolutely to truly understand how those two suitcases
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ended up on a bridge in Bristol, we have to
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start by completely leaving that midnight scene.
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Speaker 1: We have to go back.
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Speaker 2: We need to travel over one hundred miles east back
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to West London to look at the lives of the
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two victims. Okay, we have to understand who they were,
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because their lives, their immense, open hearted generosity, and their
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profound trust in the completely wrong person are the foundational
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elements of this entire devastating sequence of events.
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Speaker 1: So let's introduce you to the victims. Imagine a nice
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comfortable home at nine Scotts Road in Shepherd's Bush, which
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is a bustling, vibrant area of West London.
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Speaker 2: Very lively area.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is where Paul Longworth and Albert Alonzo lived.
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Let's start with Paul. He was seventy one years old
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and he had recently retired. Okay, by all accounts from
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the local community, from the source material we have, he
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was an absolute gentleman.
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Speaker 2: Everyone loved him.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Neighbors described him as this gentle, bubbly, incredibly friendly
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guy who was a total fixture at his local pubs.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's sweet.
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Speaker 1: He actually had his own personal poolque kept behind the bar.
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Speaker 2: You know you're a regular when you have your own queue.
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Speaker 1: Right. He got on with everyone. He bought people drinks
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and people just universally liked them. He was the kind
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of guy you'd see smiling and waving out the window
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on a sunny afternoon.
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Speaker 2: He was a real pillar of his little community.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And then you have his partner, Albert Alonso, who was
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a bit younger. At sixty two. Albert worked as a
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lifeguard at a local health club. He was described as
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being a bit more outgoing than Paul, perhaps a bit
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more energetic, right. But the crucial thing for you to
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understand is that they were deeply intricately intertwined. They had
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known each other since they were very young.
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Speaker 1: Men, decades together.
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Speaker 2: Exactly. What's fascinating here is their shared background. Both of
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them had grown up in the foster care system.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, I didn't realize that. Yeah, that changes the
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whole dynamic of how they might view chosen family.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, when you don't have that large, traditional biological family
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circle to fall back on, the bonds you create with
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the people you choose become your entire universe.
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Speaker 1: They relied entirely on each other.
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Speaker 2: That shared experience of navigating the world without a safety
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net really bonded them. They eventually formed a civil partnership,
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committing to each other legally and emotionally.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Friends simply described them as soulmates. They were best friends.
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They were quite literally each other's rocks in the world.
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Their entire lives were built around supporting one another.
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Speaker 1: But as with any relationship that spans decades, things evolve,
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of course. Inside that incredibly solid, loving, foundational partnership, it
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was a hidden dynamic This is key, and this is
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where we have to treade carefully but honestly, because it
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is the absolute crucial catalyst for everything that follows. Albert
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had a secret life.
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Speaker 2: Well secret to the public maybe right.
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Speaker 1: Maybe not secret from Paul, but the secret passion. Albert
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was heavily involved in the world of extreme sex right.
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He had very specific desires where he liked to be dominated,
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he liked to be degraded, and he specifically liked to
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film these highly intimate, aggressive encounters and post them online
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on specialized niche websites.
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Speaker 2: Which to the outside observer might seem like a massive
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red flag, right, yeah, definitely, or a point of critical
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conflict in a marriage or a civil partnership. Most people
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would assume that would tear a couple apart.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds like a deal breaker for.
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Speaker 2: Most, But if we connect this to the bigger picture
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of their relationship, we see an incredible, almost radical pragmatism.
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Speaker 1: Pragmatism how so because honestly, to a lot of people listening,
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that sounds like a recipe for jealousy or a complete
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breakdown of trust.
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Speaker 2: It does, but you have to look at the specifics.
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Paul was seventy one years old.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: He was in this relationship for the deep companionship, the
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shared history, the safety of knowing someone entirely Okay, The
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investigative sources make it very clear that Paul knew absolutely
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everything about Albert's dark desires.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't hiding it from him, not at all.
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Speaker 2: But Paul just didn't want anything to do with them.
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He wasn't interested in extreme sex. He just wanted to
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play pool and enjoy his retirement. Good for him, and
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remarkably he completely unconditionally accepted Albert seeking that extreme sexual
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activity elsewhere. It was mutually agreed upon, stable accommodation. It
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was a foundation of love that was secure enough to
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accommodate these very dark, specific desires.
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Speaker 1: So what does this all mean for our timeline. It
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means Albert is out there, actively navigating the digital world,
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engaging with creators and providers who specifically cater to this
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extreme niche right, And that is exactly how, in the
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vast expanse of the Internet, he crosses paths with a
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man named Yustin Moscara.
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Speaker 2: The Killer.
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Speaker 1: Let me introduce you to the Killer. Moscara is a
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thirty four year old ex military construt production worker from Columbia. Okay, Now,
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on paper, if you look at a snapshot of his
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life in Columbia, he appears to have a very traditional
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stable setup. He is married, he has a wife, and
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he has two young children.
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Speaker 2: A family man, right.
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Speaker 1: But apparently construction work in Columbia doesn't pay all the
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bills because Mouscarra has a lucrative side hustle. He supplements
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his income by making and posting highly graphic, extreme pornographic
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videos online.
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Speaker 2: And he doesn't just post them for free. I mean
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he charges people to view them. It's a business exactly.
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He operates as a business. He provides a specific, tailored
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service for a specific clientele, and Albert was one of
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his most dedicated customers.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Over the course of several years, this wasn't a brief fling.
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Albert continuously messaged Moscera and sent him thousands of pounds
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just for the videos. He paid to view these films,
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and he set money to help pay Muscarra's household bills
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in Columbia.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow.
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Speaker 2: Because Albert's ultimate fantasy was to be videoed have this
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extreme sex, Moscaro was essentially auditioning through his digital content
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as the ultimate dominant provider for Albert's specific needs. Okay,
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I see, for years it was a purely digital, purely
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transactional relationship.
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Speaker 1: I have to push back here, or at least offer
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an analogy to try and make sense of this for
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you listening, Sure, this feels exactly like intentionally inviting a
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trojan horse right into your living room. Yeah, you have
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this digital, completely compartmentalized relationship. It's behind a screen. You
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turn the computer off and the person is gone. Right,
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How on earth does that boundary get crossed? How do
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you go from paying a guy's electric bill on the
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internet to flying him across the world to physically live
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in your house with your tired partner.
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Speaker 2: It's a great question, and it speaks to the classic
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escalation of perceived intimacy that happens online.
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Speaker 1: Perceived intimacy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, when you interact with someone digitally over a span
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of years, especially in a context that involves highly intimate,
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taboo or vulnerable subjects, a massive false sense of trust develops.
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Speaker 1: You feel like they're a real.
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Speaker 2: Friend, You feel like you know them because you share secrets.
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So in March of twenty twenty four, this purely digital
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relationship crossed over into the physical world. Okay, Albert, Paul
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and Moscara went on a luxury trio holiday together in Colombia.
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Speaker 1: Wait, all three of them. Paul went to.
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Speaker 2: Yes, all three of them wow, which again speaks to
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Paul's incredible acceptance of Albert's life. And apparently that trip
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went well enough that they felt entirely comfortable with Moscerra.
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I guess so, because just three months later, in June
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twenty twenty four, Albert brings Mouscara over to the UK.
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Speaker 1: To live with them at nine Scott's Road.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, they opened their home to him. The sources show
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they were playing the ultimate tour guides.
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Speaker 1: Like showing him around London.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. They took him on day trips to Brighton, walking
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along the pier, showing him the sites.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Albert even went out of his way to enroll Moscera
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in a local college course to learn English.
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Speaker 1: That's incredibly generous.
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Speaker 2: They weren't treating him like a hired sex worker. That
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were treating him like an extended family member. They were
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actively investing in his future, trying to give him a
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wonderful experience in the.
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Speaker 1: UK, which just breaks my heart knowing what's coming. It
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really does because while Paul and Albert are busy playing
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the gracious, welcoming hosts, Moscara is quietly methodically laying the
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groundwork for something incredibly sinister under their roof. Right, and
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the digital breadcrumbs he leaves behind while he is living
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under their roof are staggering. What was he doing while
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they're taking him out for ice cream and brighton and
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buying him English textbooks. Mouscara is sitting on his phone
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and his laptop doing some very specific research. And what
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is he researching? He is looking up the exact property
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value of nine Scott's Road on UK real estate websites
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oh Man, and simultaneously he is searching for high end
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property values back in Medellan, Columbia.
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Speaker 2: And this, right here is the pivot point of the
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entire case that has to be This raises the most
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important question about motive. This wasn't a sudden crime of passion.
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This wasn't a sexual encounter that accidentally went too far,
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which happens in the extreme sex world.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that happens.
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Speaker 2: The digital forensics paint a picture of cold, calculating predatory premeditation, absolutely,
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because the most shilling detail is this weeks before the
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murders even occurred, Moscara managed to obtain a highly sensitive
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hidden file directly from Albert's hard drive.
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Speaker 1: But how does he even do that? Is this some
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sort of master hacker.
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Speaker 2: He didn't need to be a hacker. He was an
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insider threat. Oh he lived in the house. When you
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live with someone, especially someone who trusts you completely, they
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leave their laptop open on the kitchen counter when they
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go to make a cup of tea, or they don't
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lock their phone exactly. They might ask you to look
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something up for them. They might have their passwords auto saved,
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so easy. Moscarra used that proximity and that manufactured trust
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to rummage through Albert's digital life, and he found a jackpot.
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Speaker 1: What was in the file?
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Speaker 2: He found a file containing all of Albert's personal banking IDs,
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account numbers, and log in details.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, he was.
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Speaker 2: Quietly setting up the infrastructure to completely drain their accounts
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and steal their entire lives.
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Speaker 1: It's just so chilling to think about that dynamic in
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a house. Yeah, you know, you think you're safe.
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Speaker 2: You're sleeping right down the hall from him.
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Speaker 1: And there's this one anecdote from the source material that
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really stopped me in my tracks when I read it.
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Speaker 2: Which one.
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Speaker 1: A neighbor of Paul and Alberts was interviewed by the police,
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and they vividly recalled a specific moment they saw the
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three men, Paul, Albert, and mos Scerra walking together down
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the street outside the home, just shortly before the murders. Okay,
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the neighbor didn't know who Moscaro was. They just noted
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him as a tall, quiet gentleman walking between the two partners. Paul,
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being his usual bubbly extroverted self, smiled and said a
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bright hello to the neighbor. It was an entirely mundane,
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sunny afternoon interaction.
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Speaker 2: Normal day.
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Speaker 1: But then in the interview, the neighbor expresses this haunting realization.
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They state how profoundly sad it makes them feel, knowing
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that they were quite possibly the last person on earth
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to see Paul and Albert alive, happy, and completely oblivious
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to the monster walking between them.
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Speaker 2: That anecdote perfectly encapsulates the absolute terrifying deception at play here,
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collly to the outside world, to the neighbor on the street,
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and most tragically, to Paul and Albert themselves. Everything seemed
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entirely normal, But underneath that pleasant veneer of a friendly
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visit and a shared walk, Mosquerra was actively executing a financial.
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Speaker 1: Extraction plot, just biding his time.
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Speaker 2: He had identified a couple with significant assets, he had
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gained their absolute, unconditional trust over years, he had surreptitiously
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accessed their deepest financial secrets, and he was now simply
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waiting for the optimal moment.
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Speaker 1: To strike, which brings us to the execution of that plot.
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It happens on a single or ordinary Monday, July eighth,
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twenty twenty four. Okay, this is the day the meticulous
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planning culminates into an absolute nightmare. And we're going to
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walk you through the precise timeline of this day because
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it plays out like a split screen in a psychological thriller.
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Speaker 2: It really does.
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Speaker 1: Let's start in the early morning. Albert leaves the flat early,
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heading off for his scheduled shift at the health.
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Speaker 2: Club to go lifeguard.
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Speaker 1: Right, Paul, who is retired, is left at home, just
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enjoying a relaxed, quiet Monday morning. In fact, street facing
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CCTV captures Paul happily chatting out of his front window
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with a neighbor who is standing down on the pavement below.
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Speaker 2: Just a normal morning.
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Speaker 1: It's a gorgeous, innocuous, everyday interaction between friends.
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Speaker 2: But if we look at what the digital forensics tell
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us is happening simultaneously on the other side of that
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split screen, the contrast is horrifying.
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Speaker 1: What's he doing?
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Speaker 2: While Paul is having that friendly, warm chat at the window,
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just one room away inside the flat, Mosquera is on
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his devices actively plotting the logistics of death. Oh my god,
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the digital timestamps from his Internet router from that exact
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morning show moscera browsing Facebook marketplace looking for what he
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is searching specifically for a large chest freezer, a freezer,
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and even more disturbingly, he opens up YouTube and types
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a search query in Spanish. He searches quote where on
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the head is a knock fatal?
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Speaker 1: I mean, stop and think about that for a second.
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He is literally crowdsourcing murder techniques on YouTube, looking for
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the most efficient way to cave a man's skull in,
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while his intended victim is happily chatting with a neighbor
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on the other side of the wall. Yeah, it is
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sociopathic efficiency. And then about an hour later, that same
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external street CCTV camera catches Moscarra standing at the very
20:45
same window Paul was just looking out of.
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Speaker 2: OHK.
20:47
Speaker 1: Moscire reaches up and he deliberately draws the heavy curtains shut,
20:51
and the camera shows they stay shut for thirty minutes.
20:54
Speaker 2: Wow.
20:55
Speaker 1: The investigation notes tell us that during those thirty minutes,
20:57
Paul Longworth would take his last breaths, never see the
21:00
light of day.
21:01
Speaker 2: Again inside that darkened room. The attack is sudden, unprovoked,
21:05
and brutally violent. Moscera attacks seventy one year old Paul
21:09
with a hammer and he aims specifically for the head,
21:13
executing exactly what his morbid YouTube search had instructed him
21:17
to do. Jesus, But here is something crucial. Paul didn't
21:21
just submit to this. The pathologists report at the trial
21:23
showed severe, deep defensive injuries on Paul's hands and.
21:27
Speaker 1: Forearms, meaning he fought back.
21:29
Speaker 2: He fought desperately for his life. He saw the hammer coming,
21:32
he put his hands up. He tried to fend off
21:34
the blows of a man half his age with military training,
21:38
but ultimately the sheer force was too much. His skull
21:42
was repeatedly smashed and he was killed right there in his.
21:45
Speaker 1: Own home, and what Moscare does next is just so
21:49
incredibly clinical. You would think someone who just committed a frantic,
21:52
bloody hammer attack would be in shock, right, do you hope?
21:55
So panting, pacing, panicking. No, he takes Paul's lifeless body
22:00
and simply shoves it under the bed to hide it well,
22:02
like an object. Yeah, he doesn't panic. He sits down
22:05
at his laptop, wiping the blood off his hands, and
22:08
he casually googles how long it takes for a human
22:10
corpse to decompose. Unbelievable, And then he opens another tab
22:15
and checks the status of his return flight ticket to Columbia.
22:18
It is literally business as usual for him.
22:20
Speaker 2: A checklist.
22:21
Speaker 1: It's a to do list. Yeah, kill Paul, check decomposition, check.
22:25
Speaker 2: Flight, which highlights the absolute chilling depatchment of a true sociopath. Seriously,
22:31
he has just bludgeoned an innocent elderly man to death,
22:34
a man who gave him a place to stay, who
22:37
bought him meals. He's shoved him under a bed like
22:39
an old suitcase, and he's now calmly dealing with the
22:42
mundane logistics of his travel itinerary.
22:44
Speaker 1: It's terrified, but his work wasn't.
22:46
Speaker 2: Done because remember the motive, he needed Albert's money, right,
22:49
and for that he needed Albert out of the way too.
22:51
Speaker 1: Right, So we moved to the evening of that exact
22:54
same day, sometime between four and eight pm, Albert comes
22:58
home from his long shift at the Okay and what
23:01
happens next is mind boggling. They actually leave the flat
23:04
and go out to a local pub to get beers together.
23:06
Wait what, yes, imagine the sheer icy nerve of Moscerra.
23:12
He is sitting there in a crowded pub, clinking glasses
23:16
and drinking a beer with Albert, making small.
23:17
Speaker 2: Talk, knowing Paul is dead under the bed.
23:21
Speaker 1: Knowing with absolute certainty that Albert's partner of decades is
23:24
currently lying dead, covered in blood under the bed back
23:28
at their flat.
23:29
Speaker 2: That is just sick.
23:29
Speaker 1: They finish their drinks and they head back home and
23:32
remember Albert's specific passion the extreme sex and filming end. Yeah,
23:38
Albert decides to set up a video camera in the
23:41
bedroom for an erotic session with Moscera. Albert is completely
23:45
unaware that Paul's lifeless body is hidden just feet away
23:49
from where he is placing the tripod.
23:50
Speaker 2: This is where the case transitions from a calculated murder
23:53
plot into something almost unimaginably dark and surreal. Right because
23:57
that camera, which was meticulously set up by Albert to
24:00
record sexual pleasure and fulfillment, ends up capturing high definition
24:04
footage of his own brutal murder.
24:06
Speaker 1: It's horrific.
24:07
Speaker 2: During their intimate, intense sexual encounter, Muscerra breaks the script.
24:11
He secretly brings a lethal knife into the camera frame nowhere.
24:15
In one moment, they are engaging in the consensual, extreme
24:18
acts that Albert had paid for, and in the next
24:20
fraction of a second, the dynamic violently flips. He attacks him,
24:24
muscare turns on him. He stabs Albert repeatedly with extreme
24:29
force in the chest and torso, and then blutally slits
24:33
his throat.
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Speaker 1: The source material is very clear and very clinical about
24:36
the sheer brutality of this video. We obviously aren't going
24:40
to describe every frame, but Albert fought back incredibly hard
24:44
licks Paul. Just like Paul, his hands had multiple deep
24:47
defensive lacerations as he desperately tried to grab the blade
24:51
and save himself. Wow, you can actually hear him on
24:54
his own recording fighting for his life. Gasping and eventually
24:58
taking his last breath.
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Speaker 2: Is heavy.
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Speaker 1: But the thing that truly made my blood run cold
25:03
when I read the case files, the thing I just
25:05
cannot wrap my normal human brain around, is the psychological
25:09
break that Musca exhibits next the reaction. Albert is lying
25:12
there on the bedroom floor, actively bleeding out, taking his
25:15
final gurgling breaths, and Muscarra stands over him and does
25:18
a song and a dance.
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Speaker 2: Yes, a literal physical dance. I can't even The lead
25:22
investigator who was forced to review that tape in evidence
25:26
described it as one of the most harrowing, disturbing things
25:28
he had ever witnessed in his entire career. I bet
25:31
Moscara literally revels in the kill, doing a little dance
25:35
while a man you just butchered dies at your feet
25:38
is a demonstration of complete, unadulterated absence of human empathy.
25:43
Speaker 1: It's not human.
25:44
Speaker 2: He isn't acting out of a crime of passion or
25:46
sudden rage. He's acting out of predatory triumph. He is
25:50
celebrating his perceived victory.
25:52
Speaker 1: But the triumph is so short lived because it is
25:54
immediately replaced by cold, hard greed.
25:57
Speaker 2: Right back to the plan.
25:58
Speaker 1: The bizarre victory dance ends, and Mosquera's demeanor snaps back
26:02
to business. He walks straight over to Albert's computer, casually
26:06
stepping over Albert's bluing body, and he starts frantically typing,
26:10
going for the money. He is trying to log into
26:11
those bank accounts he stole the ideas four weeks ago.
26:14
He's trying to initiate the massive, life changing financial transfers
26:17
he planned. This is the payoff. This is what the
26:20
two murders were for.
26:21
Speaker 2: But this is exactly where the grand sociopathic master plan
26:24
hits its first major catastrophic snag. What happens the transfers fail?
26:29
Speaker 1: Wait? Why if he has the passwords and the account numbers,
26:33
shouldn't the money just move? How does the bank know
26:36
it's not Albert?
26:37
Speaker 2: It is a great question, and it comes down to
26:40
modern banking security protocols, specifically behavioral biometrics and velocity limits biometrics.
26:45
Banks don't just look at passwords anymore. They look at
26:48
the IP address, the time of day, the speed of typing,
26:51
and most importantly, the sudden request to move massive amounts
26:55
of wealth to offshore or unusual accounts in a single attempt.
26:59
Speaker 1: Oh, like a giant red flag for the algorithm, it.
27:01
Speaker 2: Triggers an automatic fraud lock. The system essentially says, this
27:05
is completely out of character for Albert Alonzo, and it
27:08
freezes the transaction.
27:09
Speaker 1: Wow.
27:10
Speaker 2: Security protocols or perhaps just muscera fat fingering. The incorrect
27:14
inputs in his adrenaline state completely stop the money from moving.
27:17
Speaker 1: So what does this supposedly calculating master planner killer do
27:21
he realizes he's locked out, Yeah, he simply leaves the
27:24
bloodsiak flat, walks down the street to a local ATM
27:28
and withdraws a paltry few hundred pounds in cash.
27:31
Speaker 2: Which is such a microscopic, almost insulting, fraction of the
27:34
life savings he was aiming for.
27:36
Speaker 1: Exactly and this moment, this failed transfer, is exactly where
27:41
the narrative pivots.
27:42
Speaker 2: Everything changes here.
27:43
Speaker 1: Moscara has successfully committed the murders, but the payoff failed. Yeah,
27:47
and because the core objective failed, his post crime behavior
27:51
begins to spiral into absolute chaotic absurdity.
27:55
Speaker 2: He loses it.
27:56
Speaker 1: He starts making choices that make zero logical sense. Look
28:00
at the morning after, remember that Facebook marketplace search or
28:03
the freezer he actually takes delivery of that chess freezer
28:06
he ordered. He wheels this massive appliance into the narrow
28:10
hallway of the flat, and then he never plugs it in.
28:13
Speaker 2: It completely defies all rational logic. Let's analyze the steps here.
28:17
He purchases a freezer specifically to preserve human remains and
28:21
to mitigate the inevitable smell of decomposition, which remember, he
28:25
had just logically googled the day before. He then takes
28:28
the incredibly gruesome, physically demanding step of dismembering his victims.
28:34
He meticulously places the heads, hands and feet of both
28:37
Paul and Albert inside this freezer to hide the evidence,
28:41
but he fails to take the one second required to
28:43
plug the cord into the wall socket, rendering the entire horrifying,
28:47
time consuming exercise completely and utterly pointless.
28:50
Speaker 1: Why I mean, is he just stupid yep? Or is
28:53
there something else happening to his brain.
28:55
Speaker 2: It's not necessarily stupidity, It is severe cognitive overload.
29:00
Speaker 1: Okay.
29:00
Speaker 2: Explain that what we're seeing is the psychological mechanism of
29:03
a planner completely crashing when a human being, even a sociopath,
29:08
commits a highly stressful act like double murder. Their body
29:12
is flooded with adrenaline and cortisol. Right, if their plan succeeds,
29:15
they might regulate. But his plan failed. He didn't get
29:18
the money. Now he is stuck in a house with
29:21
two bodies, and the reality of his situation is crushing
29:24
his executive function.
29:25
Speaker 1: He's freaking out.
29:26
Speaker 2: His brain's logic circuits are literally frying under the stress.
29:30
He is engaging in magical thinking, the idea that simply
29:34
putting the parts in a box labeled freezer solves the
29:37
problem forgetting the actual physics of needing electricity.
29:41
Speaker 1: And his magical thinking gets so much weirder. How So,
29:45
he now has two heavy, decomposing torsos that he has
29:49
packed into a red plastic suitcase and a large silver trunk.
29:53
The silver trunk, by the way, is literally just a
29:55
standard piece of travel.
29:56
Speaker 2: Luggage, very conspicuous.
29:57
Speaker 1: He gets on his phone and he mess sages Anne,
30:00
who advertises locally with a red van negotiating a lift
30:04
a man with a van. He's utilizing the informal gig
30:07
economy to avoid a paper trail. He asked the van
30:10
driver to take him and his heavy luggage down south
30:12
of Brighton.
30:12
Speaker 2: Okay, Brighton.
30:13
Speaker 1: They agree on a cash price of two hundred pounds.
30:16
But later that night, while Moscerra is sitting in a
30:18
bar drinking and stewing on a situation, he abruptly changes
30:21
the destination right. He messages the driver and says, actually,
30:24
I don't want to go to Brighton. I want to
30:26
go to Clifton in Bristol.
30:28
Speaker 2: And here is the profound question that absolutely plagued the
30:32
lead investigator on this case. Yeah, why why do this?
30:37
If we look at the objective facts of his situation,
30:40
Moscara is sitting in a locked flat with two dead bodies.
30:44
No one is coming home, No one else lives there,
30:46
no one is coming home from work to discover them.
30:48
He has a pre booked flight to Columbia.
30:51
Speaker 1: Exactly.
30:51
Speaker 2: He could have just wiped his fingerprints off the doorknobs,
30:54
locked the front door, taken a quiet cab. Did he
30:57
throw airport and flown home. That's what I'm saying, have
31:00
been safely back in South America before anyone even realized
31:03
Paul and Albert were missing from the pub or the gym. Yes,
31:06
it would have been, from an investigative standpoint, an incredibly
31:09
difficult cold case to resolve quickly, because the prime suspect
31:14
would be in a non extradition scenario before the bodies
31:17
were even found.
31:17
Speaker 1: Exactly that is what drives me crazy about this. Why
31:21
take the immense risk of dismembering them, Why pack them
31:24
in incredibly heavy, unwieldy suitcases that you can barely lift
31:28
and drag them around? And most importantly, why pay a
31:31
guy in a van two hundred pounds to drive you
31:34
completely across the country to a city of absolutely no
31:37
connection to.
31:38
Speaker 2: The police looked deeply into this, They found zero links
31:42
between Moscara and Bristol. He had never visited there, He
31:46
didn't know a single soul there.
31:47
Speaker 1: Wow.
31:48
Speaker 2: So, when he was eventually caught and he was asked
31:50
on the stand in court why he chose Bristol over Brighton,
31:53
what was his reason?
31:54
Speaker 1: You're not going to believe this. His justification was utterly,
31:58
laughably absurd. He storied it under oath that Bristol was
32:01
quote simply another place that began with B.
32:05
Speaker 2: You have got to be kidding me, another place that
32:07
began with B, like Brighton.
32:09
Speaker 1: Precisely, Brighton starts with B, Bristol starts with B.
32:12
Speaker 2: Take me there, what this shows us is how a
32:14
meticulous planner regresses into pure panic.
32:17
Speaker 1: Right.
32:17
Speaker 2: He researched property values, He carefully stole bank logins, he
32:21
researched fatal head trauma. But once the murders were committed
32:25
and the initial financial reward vanished, his logic collapsed.
32:29
Speaker 1: It just broke down.
32:30
Speaker 2: He thought that physically moving the bodies far away from
32:32
the crime scene would magically disconnect him from the crime itself.
32:36
Speaker 1: Out of sight, out of mind.
32:37
Speaker 2: He completely failed to realize that dragging dismembered bodies across
32:41
the country in leaking suitcases is exponentially riskier than just
32:45
leaving them hidden in a locked private apartment.
32:48
Speaker 1: And the dark cosmic irony of this panic decision making
32:51
is incredible. Let's follow him on this doom journey to Bristol, Okay.
32:55
It's the evening of July ninth. At exactly seven thirty pm.
33:00
The red van pulls up outside nine Scott's Road in London.
33:03
Speaker 2: The gig driver.
33:04
Speaker 1: Moscara strains and loads this incredibly heavy silver trunk and
33:08
the red suitcase into the back. They drive down the
33:10
M four motorway for hours, and around ten thirty pm,
33:13
Moscuerra is dropped off in Clifton in Bristol. Right. For
33:17
those who don't know, Clifton is a very affluent, picturesque,
33:20
quiet suburb of Bristol. It's the last place you'd expect
33:23
a grizzly scene.
33:24
Speaker 2: And almost immediately his improvised plan completely falls apart.
33:27
Speaker 1: Yes it does.
33:28
Speaker 2: He is physically struggling with these incredibly heavy, leaking suitcases
33:32
on the pavement, and he happens to be spotted near
33:34
a popular local pub called the Mall by a father
33:37
and son, Roger and Giles Malone, who are just enjoying
33:40
a night out.
33:41
Speaker 1: I love this specific detail because it is just so
33:43
profoundly British. It is the absolute mundane colliding head on
33:48
with pure evil. Giles Malone is just standing there by
33:53
a level crossing, looking at his phone, waiting for his
33:56
uber to arrive, just a normal guy. He looks up
33:58
and sees this tall guy in dark clothing, sweating profusely,
34:02
grunting and straining with these massive bags, and Giles just
34:07
trying to be friendly and make a bit of a
34:08
cheeky joke to break the ice, literally looks at Moscar
34:11
and says that looks heavy, mate, what have you gotten
34:13
there a body.
34:14
Speaker 2: Can you even begin to imagine the internal physiological panic
34:18
Mouscara must have felt in that exact microsecond.
34:21
Speaker 1: His heart must have stopped.
34:22
Speaker 2: The sheer astronomical coincidence of a total stranger jokingly calling
34:27
out his exact horrific, closely guarded secret to his face.
34:31
Speaker 1: It is insane, and Moscara is so incredibly rattled by
34:36
this joke his brain short circuits.
34:38
Speaker 2: What does he do?
34:39
Speaker 1: When Giles's uber finally pulls up, moscare actually tries to
34:43
steal it.
34:44
Speaker 2: You're joking?
34:45
Speaker 1: No, He tries to load his bloody bags into Giles' car.
34:48
Giles has to physically block him and say, excuse me, mate,
34:51
that's my Uber. You'll have to get your own. So awkward,
34:54
but Moscara is left standing on the curb, panicking. Forced
34:58
to hail a random different taxi that happens to drive by.
35:02
He gets a camp. He loads the leaking, broken bags
35:05
into this new taxi and tells the driver to just drive.
35:08
He points in toward the Clifton Suspension Bridge, which of
35:10
course brings us full circle right back to our opening scene.
35:13
Speaker 2: Right He's dropped off at the entrance to the bridge.
35:15
The taxi driver actually notices the red fluid pooling in
35:19
his trunk, which Moscara quickly lies and claims is just
35:22
leaking car oil. And then the encounters with the bridge
35:25
staff and the brave cyclist happens.
35:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, the cyclist with the phone.
35:28
Speaker 2: Moscara realizes he is surrounded, abandons the bags, and flees into.
35:32
Speaker 1: The night, into the woods.
35:34
Speaker 2: But here's the thing. Because of his mounting panic and
35:37
his sheer sloppiness, he hands the police exactly what they
35:41
need to break the case wide open in record time.
35:44
Speaker 1: This is where we get into what investigators call the
35:46
golden nuggets of the.
35:47
Speaker 2: Case, the clues.
35:48
Speaker 1: The police open the abandoned bags on the bridge, they
35:51
find the human remains, and they are instantly in a
35:54
race against time. They're looking for a primary crime scene
35:58
and an identity for the victims, and Mosquerra basically left
36:03
them a neon sign pointing to the answer.
36:05
Speaker 2: He practically handed it to them.
36:07
Speaker 1: The silver trunk sitting right there under the bridge floodlights
36:11
literally still had a standard luggage address label securely attached
36:15
to the handle.
36:16
Speaker 2: You've got to be kidding me, what I say?
36:18
Speaker 1: Printed clear as day nine Scott's Road in London.
36:21
Speaker 2: It is the ultimate catastrophic amateur mistake.
36:24
Speaker 1: It really is.
36:25
Speaker 2: He was so focused on the heavy lifting he forgot
36:28
to remove the tag. That one little label changes the
36:31
entire trajectory of a murder investigation.
36:33
Speaker 1: It skips months of work.
36:34
Speaker 2: Instead of spending weeks trying to identify the DNA of
36:37
two torsos, the police instantly have a specific residential address
36:42
to target. Furthermore, the local intelligence unit in Bristol gets
36:46
a crucial call. A resident in Clifton who had seen
36:50
the news about the bridge calls in and reports that
36:52
they noticed a very dusty red van dropping off a
36:56
man matching the suspects description with two large suitcases the
37:00
night before.
37:01
Speaker 1: So the police don't just have an address, they have
37:03
a vehicle. Right, They go to the traffic cameras, they
37:06
run the ANPR, the automatic number plate recognition, and they
37:10
track the license plate of that dusty red van.
37:12
Speaker 2: Incredible police work.
37:14
Speaker 1: Within hours of the discovery on the bridge, detectives are
37:17
sitting down in an interview room with the driver of
37:19
that van. Wow. And the driver is completely cooperative. He
37:22
has no idea what he was transporting. He said, yeah,
37:25
I picked up a guy from Scott's Road last night
37:26
and he paid me two hundred pounds cash, took him
37:28
to Bristol.
37:29
Speaker 2: He's just trying to make a living.
37:30
Speaker 1: And the driver goes a step further. He gives the
37:33
police Moscerra's personal cell phone number that he used to
37:36
book the trip, and he actually shows them a WhatsApp
37:39
photograph of Moscerra which perfectly undeniably matches the CCTV images
37:45
of the suspect running away from the cyclist on the bridge.
37:48
Speaker 2: So consider how fast.
37:49
Speaker 1: This moved, Yeah, super fast.
37:51
Speaker 2: Within twenty four hours, the police have a suspects name,
37:54
a crystal clear photo, an active phone number and a
37:57
primary crime scene location, unprecedented. Armed with this, they execute
38:01
a high risk search warrant at nine Scott's Road in London,
38:05
and the veteran officers who breached the door and walked
38:08
into that flat were confronted with an absolute floodbath.
38:11
Speaker 1: The flat was destroyed, the.
38:12
Speaker 2: Home, which was once a place of warmth and community,
38:15
was heavily bloodstained. But the most shocking discovery wasn't in
38:18
the bedroom. It was right there in the narrow hallway
38:21
the freezer, the brand new, completely unplugged freezer. Officers tentatively
38:26
open the lid and find the heads, hands and feet
38:28
of Paul Longworth and Albert Alonzo.
38:31
Speaker 1: God, that's horrific.
38:32
Speaker 2: The absolute visceral horror of that moment for the responding
38:36
officers cannot be overstated. It's the kind of thing that
38:39
requires trauma counseling without a doubt, and the ripple effect
38:42
on the local community when the news broke was immediate
38:45
and profound.
38:47
Speaker 1: People were crushed.
38:48
Speaker 2: This was a beloved, harmless, elderly gay couple. Neighbors were
38:53
out on the street leaving mountains of flowers. They were
38:55
completely devastated, crying in each other's arms.
38:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, the neighbor in the pub werecalled to reporters.
39:01
Speaker 2: The pure sickening shock of realizing that the bubbly, friendly
39:04
man they always saw smiling at the pub was now
39:07
a victim of this grotesque, medieval level crime.
39:11
Speaker 1: While London is in deep mourning, Bristol is in full lockdown.
39:14
Speaker 2: Mode the manhunt.
39:16
Speaker 1: We are now in the middle of a massive, heavily
39:19
armed man hunt. It's July ninth, and Moscera has vanished
39:23
into the landscape.
39:24
Speaker 2: Where did he go?
39:25
Speaker 1: The police are desperately trying to track his phone but
39:28
for days it is completely dead. It's off the network.
39:31
Investigators suspect he didn't get far. They analyzed the geography
39:34
around the bridge and believe he spent those days hiding
39:37
out in the Leewoods area, which is a very dense,
39:40
sprawling woodland right on the North Somerset side of the
39:43
suspension bridge.
39:44
Speaker 2: He is effectively living like a feral animal in the woods. Yeah,
39:48
he is cold, he is hungry, and he knows his
39:51
face is plastered across every single news channel, newspaper, and
39:55
social media feed in the country.
39:56
Speaker 1: It has to be terrified.
39:57
Speaker 2: This game of Canton mouse goes on for five of
40:00
agonizing days. The police are flying helicopters with thermal imaging,
40:04
but the canopy is thick, hard to spot him. But then,
40:07
on July thirteenth, his luck and perhaps his physical ability
40:11
to tolerate the elements in hunger finally runs out. Just
40:14
after midnight, five days after the murders, he makes a
40:17
fatal error. He turns his phone back on.
40:20
Speaker 1: The moment he hits that power button, the phone simcard
40:23
sends a handshake signal and it pings the local cell
40:26
towers exactly.
40:28
Speaker 2: Even if you don't make a call. Your phone connects
40:30
to the nearest tower to establish a network presence, so
40:33
the cops see it immediately and the police intelligence team,
40:37
who had been staring at a silent screen for five days,
40:41
immediately pinpoint that signal boom. Using triangulation from multiple towers,
40:47
they see he is moving in the Hotwells area of Bristol,
40:50
down near the water. They track his movements and see
40:54
he is visiting a place called the Red Box Pizza
40:56
on Hotwell Road.
40:58
Speaker 1: You know it is almost pathetic, five five days of
41:00
hiding in a damp forest committing the crime of the century.
41:03
The guy just wanted a hot slice of pizza.
41:05
Speaker 2: He was starving.
41:07
Speaker 1: But the police are smart here. They don't just rush
41:09
the pizza shop with sirens blaring, which you could cause
41:12
a hostage situation.
41:14
Speaker 2: Right dangerous.
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Speaker 1: They anticipate his next logical move. They ask themselves, Okay,
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it's midnight on a Saturday. He's hungry, but he doesn't
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know the city. He knows we are aggressively hunting him.
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Where is he ultimately trying to go.
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Speaker 2: A transport hub? They figure correctly that he's making a
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desperate break for a train to get back to London
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or trying to find a route to an airport to
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catch that flight to Columbia to escape. So instead of
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chasing his exact footsteps, they leap frog him. They flood
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the entire area around Bristol temple Meads train station with
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plane clothes and armed officers, and sure enough they find him.
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Speaker 1: And the state they find him in is just the
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absolute antithesis of a criminal mastermind.
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Speaker 2: What did he look like?
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Speaker 1: It is almost pathetic. He is apprehended simply sitting on
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a bench outside the station, staring blankly, and he's entirely
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missing one shoe.
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Speaker 2: One shoe.
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Speaker 1: Police believe he actually lost it while frantically sprinting away
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from the cyclist on the bridge five days earlier, and
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he's just been walking around with one shoe ever since.
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Speaker 2: That is sad.
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Speaker 1: Armed officers swarm him. The police bodycam footage of this
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arrest was released and it is intense. They throw him
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on the ground, secure his hands and coughs, sit him
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up against the wall, and start reading him.
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Speaker 2: His rights standard procedure.
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Speaker 1: The officer clearly says, you are under arrest on suspicion
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of double murder. Do you understand?
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Speaker 2: And Moscerra, staring at the officer simply replies.
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Speaker 1: No, right, total denial. And then the officer asks the
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most basic identifying question. He says, what's her name? Mate?
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Speaker 2: And what does he say?
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Speaker 1: And this guy who just butchered two men in cold
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blood packed them in bags and carry their parts across
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the country looks at the cop and lies with the
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absolute lamest, most low effort fake name ever recorded. What
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is it? He stammers, pauses and says, jote, jote Moscerra,
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jop Moscuerra.
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Speaker 2: It is the final pathetic attempt of a fractured mind
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to evade reality.
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Speaker 1: He couldn't even think of a fake.
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Speaker 2: Last name, he can't even invent a new surname. But
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reality catches up very quickly when the cuffs click shut absolutely.
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The physical capture sets the stage for the final reckoning
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in the courtroom, where Moscera, facing insurmountable evidence, attempts one last,
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incredibly desperate offensive manipulation of the truth.
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Speaker 1: Fast forward almost a year June thirtieth, twenty twenty five,
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we are at the highly secure Wood Crown Court in
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London for the trial. Moscerra is formally charged with the
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double mutter of Paul Longworth and Albert Alonzo, and during
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this trial, the jury is forced to watch that harrowing
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high definition video of Albert's murder.
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Speaker 2: Which is a point of profound, almost Shakespearean tragic irony.
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It really is Albert's specific niche pensant for recording his
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extreme sexual encounters, the very desire that brought Moscita into
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his life and funded him for years, provided the irrefu sutable,
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undeniable evidence of his own murder.
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Speaker 1: It's all on tape.
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Speaker 2: The prosecution didn't have to rely purely on circumstantial forensics,
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blood spatter analysis or cell tower pangs. They had a
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crystal clear video of the perpetrator committing the physical act. Yeah,
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it is a prosecutor's dream and a defense attorney's nightmare.
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Speaker 1: Faced with a video of himself committing the crime, you
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would think a rational defense attorney would advise him to
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just plead guilty, throw himself on the mercy of the court,
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and avoid a lengthy trial take a plea. But no,
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Moscaria takes the stand in his own defense and spins
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this wild, deeply offensive, highly elaborate narrative.
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Speaker 2: What does he claim?
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Speaker 1: He claims that he was basically a hostage in that house,
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He tells the jury with a straight face that he
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was violently raped every single day by Albert.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow.
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Speaker 1: He claims Albert threatened to send cartel members to have
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his wife and children in Columbia killed if he ever
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tried to leave.
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Speaker 2: That's a massive escalation and.
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Speaker 1: The most egregious, despicable lie of all. He claims it
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was actually Albert who brutally murdered the seventy one year
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old Paul, and that he Masquera only killed Albert in
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self defense after quote losing control upon discovering Paul's body
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under the bed.
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Speaker 2: What you were describing as a text book psychological darvaux tactic?
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Speaker 1: Darvau what's that?
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Speaker 2: Which stands for deny attack and reverse victim and offender?
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It is common in abusers.
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Speaker 1: Well, that makes sense, But, as the.
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Speaker 2: Lead investigator pointed out forcefully during testimony, there was absolutely
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zero evidence to support any of these wild claims. None,
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not a shred, not in the digital footprint, not in
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the thousands of WhatsApp communications between them, not in the
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physical forensic evidence at the scene.
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Speaker 1: It was all a lie.
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Speaker 2: The entire plot was proven to be motivated purely by money,
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driven by cold blooded calculating greed.
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Speaker 1: And thankfully the jury saw right through his lies immediately.
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It takes them just five hours and three minutes of
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deliberation to return to the courtroom.
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Speaker 2: That is very fast.
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Speaker 1: They unanimously find Yes and Moscara guilty of double murder.
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The sheer swiftness of that verdict for a double murdered
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trial with a complex defense narrative is a testament to
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how utterly transparent and pathetic his lies truly were.
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Speaker 2: Which brings us to sentencing day a Cobra twenty fourth,
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twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: What happened?
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Speaker 2: The judge does not hold back an ounce of severity.
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He sentences Muscara to life imprisonment. He sets the minimum term,
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the absolute minimum amount of time he must serve before
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he can even be considered for release by a parole board,
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at forty two years, to be served concurrently for both murders.
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Speaker 1: Wow forty two years.
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Speaker 2: The judge looks directly at Moscara and makes it explicitly clear,
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noting that forty two years is just the baseline minimum,
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and that due to his extreme lack of remorse, he
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may never be deemed safe enough to be set free
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into society again. He won't even be eligible for a
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preliminary parole board review until he is seventy five years old.
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Speaker 1: The justice system do its job. They took an exceptionally evil, manipulative,
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and dangerous offender off the streets, likely for the rest
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of his natural life. Right as Scare is led away
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from the dock to begin that massive sentence, he leaves
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the court, the victims' families, and the press with one final,
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deeply chilling image.
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Speaker 2: What did he do?
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Speaker 1: He's wearing a standard green prison jumper, he is heavily
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flanked by six burly prison guards, and as he turns
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to leave the room, looking at the gallery, he gives
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the court a quote huge smile.
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Speaker 2: That smile is the ultimate confirmation of his deep seated pathology.
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Speaker 1: This is disgusting.
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Speaker 2: It is a total refusal to show remorse. It is
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a final arrogant performance of defiance from a man who
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completely lacks the basic neurological capacity for human empathy. He
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smiled because in his twisted mind, he was still the
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main character of the story.
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Speaker 1: It really is sickening. It just makes your blood run
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cold to imagine looking into those smiling eyes.
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Speaker 2: I can't even imagine.
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Speaker 1: As we wrap up this incredibly heavy deep dive, we
47:50
have to take a moment to reflect on the immense
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tragedy of this case. Definitely, you have Paul and Albert,
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two men who had overcome the significant hardships of growing
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up in the FOSS system without families, to build a beautiful, stable,
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loving life together in London.
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Speaker 2: That built a life.
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Speaker 1: They were so incredibly generous with their time in their resources.
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They literally opened their home, their wallets, and their lives
48:16
to a stranger, genuinely hoping to help him learn English
48:20
and experience a new country, only to become the victims
48:23
of an unfathomable predatory betrayal.
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Speaker 2: Their beautiful generosity was completely weaponized against them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was used against them.
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Speaker 2: It is the saddest part of the story. But as
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we look at the totality of this case from an
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analytical perspective, I want to leave you the listener with
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a final lingering thought to mull over.
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Speaker 1: Okay, lay it on us.
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Speaker 2: We spent a lot of time talking about how illogical
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and chaotic Moscara's cover up was. Let's play it a hypothetical, Okay,
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if he had never gone on Facebook marketplace to buy
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that freezer, he failed to plug in.
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Speaker 1: If he hadn't.
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Speaker 2: Decided to pack the heavy bodies into broken suitcases. Oh one, Yeah,
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he hadn't panicked and paid two hundred pounds to change
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his van route to quote another place that starts with
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B and had simply walked out the front door, taken
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a quiet taxi to Heathrow Airport, and boarded his pre
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booked flight to Columbia. He might have actually gotten away
49:15
with the perfect crime.
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Speaker 1: He really might have. He would have been thousands of
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miles away before anyone even.
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Speaker 2: Checked the house exactly, And it begs a fascinating, deeply
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psychological question about the nature of criminals. What's that did
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some dark, twisted part of his subconscious actually desire the
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grand public theater of the Clifton Suspension Bridge to showcase
49:37
his horrific act to the.
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Speaker 1: World like he wanted to be caught?
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Speaker 2: Did he want to be caught? Or does the absolute
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chaotic collapse of his logic, the unplugged freezer, the joke
49:47
with the uber passenger, the luggage tag left on the
49:50
trunk prove that true criminal masterminds are mostly a myth
49:53
invented by Hollywood.
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Speaker 1: That's a great point.
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Speaker 2: That in the end, no matter how much they plan,
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they are ultimately undone by their own arrogance, their inability
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to handle physiological panic, and their sheer mundane stupidity.
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Speaker 1: That is exactly the kind of question that keeps you
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up at night staring at the ceiling. It really is,
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and it all leads back to that freezing bridge, that
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leaking red suitcase, and a random midnight encounter with a
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cyclist that cracked open a living nightmare. Thank you for
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joining us on this deep dive. Keep questioning the narratives
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behind the headlines, stay curious, lock your digital doors, and
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we'll catch you on the next one.