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Introducing: Girl On Gore

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Coming 7/28/2025 Let's Get Gory Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Email: psychopediapod@gmail.com Website: www.psychopediapodcast.com 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

EP133: TikTok Execution: Killed On Camera

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Join our Patreon family to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Also gain exclusive access to BTS, bonus true crime episodes, a private group chat, merch discounts, and much more! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod On May 13, 2025, 22-year-old influencer Valeria Márquez was executed on TikTok livestream — shot point-blank by a man disguised as a delivery driver inside her own beauty salon in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico. Viewers watched in horror as she clutched her chest and stomach before collapsing, still holding a stuffed animal as she perished on camera. Horrifyingly, the video footage went viral, and the calculated nature of the hit left Mexico (and the rest of the world) stunned. Investigators are continuing to explore whether the murder was cartel-related, a personal betrayal, or both. Rumors point to a possible setup by an employee or even Valeria’s best friend, who allegedly urged Valeria to stay at the salon just as the killer arrived. The most widespread theory, however, ties Valeria’s death to her ex-boyfriend, Ricardo Ruiz Velazco (aka “Doble R”), a high-ranking member of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) cartel. One thing is certain: her execution was not random. Valeria’s murder now stands as a devastating emblem of Mexico’s brutal crossroads - where femicide, cartel violence, and institutional failure collide with devastating consequences. Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Email: psychopediapod@gmail.com Website: www.psychopediapodcast.com 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

EP132: Missing and Murdered: The Highway of Tears

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Join our Patreon family to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Also gain exclusive access to BTS, bonus true crime episodes, a private group chat, merch discounts, and much more! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod The Highway of Tears, a desolate stretch of road in British Columbia, Canada, is infamous for its gruesome history of disappearances and murders. Over the past few decades, at least 40 women and girls—mostly Indigenous—have vanished or been found dead along this remote, unforgiving route, which winds through vast, isolated wilderness. This highway has become a chilling emblem of systemic neglect, where victims’ cries for justice have been ignored, their lives reduced to little more than statistics. Many of these women and girls, often hitchhiking, traveling alone, or living in vulnerable circumstances, were treated as expendable in a place where predatory killers lurk undetected. Despite years of investigations, the full extent of the violence remains buried, and the Highway of Tears stands as a brutal reminder of how easily society discards those it deems unworthy, their stories lost to a road that refuses to forget. Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Email: psychopediapod@gmail.com Website: www.psychopediapodcast.com 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

EP131: Tiger King: Lions and Tigers and Mullets, Oh My!

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Join our Patreon family to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Also gain exclusive access to BTS, bonus episodes, a private group chat, merch discounts, and much more! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod Joe Exotic, the self-proclaimed “Tiger King,” built his corrupt empire on cruelty, deception, and manipulation. Behind the mullet and over-the-top persona was a man consumed by narcissism and an insatiable need for control. He exploited/abused/killed exotic animals for profit, crossbred big cats, and subjected countless innocent creatures to horrific conditions. And Joe’s reign of chaos didn’t stop with animals, as his disastrous personal life mirrored his empire: riddled with fraud, fueled by toxic love triangles that veered into perversion, and propped up by desperate grabs for power at any cost. At the heart of it all was Joe’s obsession with fame and dominance - he used anyone, anything, to feed his ego. Because in reality, the so-called “Tiger King” wasn’t a ruler; he was a reckless, delusional clown whose need for control led him to exploit, destroy, and ultimately self-destruct. Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Email: psychopediapod@gmail.com Website: www.psychopediapodcast.com 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