Evidence Locker True Crime

Eva Bourseau, 23, was murdered in her Toulouse apartment on 26 July 2015 by two students, Taha Mrani Alaoui and Zakariya Banouni, over a drug debt. Her body was submerged in hydrochloric acid in a plastic trunk — a method inspired by the TV series Breaking Bad. Discovered by firefighters after her mother raised the alarm, the case shocked France and made international headlines. After a 15-day trial at the Cour d'Assises de Haute-Garonne in December 2018, Taha was sentenced to 30 years and Zakariya to 25 years. The case remains one of France's most disturbing student crime cases.
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Couilleau, Pierre-Yves (Prosecutor). Indictment press statement
Wikipedia
Articles
In Breaking Bad-inspired killing, French students tried to dissolve victim's body in acid 
Breaking Bad copycat murder spurs arrests in France
Breaking Bad-inspired killers of French student
French students dissolve body in acid after killing girl in Breaking Bad murder plot 
French students tried to dissolve body of murder victim in acid 
French Drug Dealers Reportedly Commit Gruesome, Breaking Bad-Inspired Crime 
French Breaking Bad Murderers Were Inspired by TV Show 
Meurtre d'Eva Bourseau: elle aurait certainement eu une vie intéressante 
Meurtre d'Eva Bourseau: Comment la personne que je connais a pu en arriver là? 
Costa, Élise. 'Meurtre d'Eva Bourseau: Quand tout sera fini, chacun va rentrer chez soi et moi, je serai toujours là 
30 ans et 25 ans de réclusion pour les meurtriers d'Eva Bourseau 
Procès des meurtriers présumés d'Eva Bourseau : trajectoire fatale de deux étudiants brillants 
Eva Bourseau était solaire, elle avait la joie de vivre 
Affaire Eva Bourseau : dettes, drogue et Breaking Bad
5 éléments pour comprendre l'affaire Eva Bourseau
La perpétuité et 30 ans de prison requis contre les meurtriers d'Eva Bourseau 
Eva Bourseau, 25 et 30 ans de prison pour ses meurtriers 
La justice refuse d'indemniser en totalité les parents d'Eva Bourseau 

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Narrated by Noel Vinson
Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler
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On August 2, 2006, Washington D.C. attorney Robert Eric Wone was stabbed to death inside the Dupont Circle townhouse of his college friend Joseph Price. Three housemates – Price, Victor Zaborsky, and Dylan Ward – were home at the time. Evidence suggested the crime scene had been staged, and that Wone had been drugged and sexually assaulted before his death. All three men were acquitted of obstruction of justice charges in 2010. A civil wrongful death suit was settled in 2011. No one has ever been charged with Wone's murder. The case remains unsolved.
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WhoMurderedRobertWone.com
Robert Wone Murder Mystery 
Robert Wone
Wikipedia
Articles
Robert Wone: Life, Death, and Love
A Murder Mystery on Swann Street
Tribe Family Remembers Robert Wone '96

Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe
Narrated by Noel Vinson
Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler
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On New Year's Eve 1998, fifteen-year-old Kirsty Bentley vanished while walking her Labrador, Abby, near the Ashburton River in Canterbury, New Zealand. Seventeen days later, her body was found hidden in dense scrub at Camp Gully, Rakaia Gorge, 40 kilometres away. She had been killed by a single blow of blunt force trauma to the head. Despite decades of investigation under Operation Kirsty, hundreds of suspects interviewed, a 2016 coroner's inquest, and a $100,000 reward offered in 2022, no one has ever been charged. New Zealand's most haunting cold case murder remains unsolved.
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Wikipedia
New Zealand Police: Hot Spot: Op Kirsty  
Articles
Killer Blow: the Kirsty Bentley mystery  
New evidence in cold case murder
The curious case of Kirsty Bentley’s murder
DNA could crack open Kirsty Bentley cold case
Kirsty Bentley murder: Police offer $100,000 reward
Kirsty Bentley cold case narrows to 10 suspects  
Brother John Bentley speaks on Ashburton cold case  
Teen’s killing still unsolved after 18 years (coroner inquest, 2016)
Lawyer sounds warning over $100,000 Kirsty Bentley murder reward

Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe
Narrated by Noel Vinson
Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler
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In 1895, a Swedish man named Adolf Beck was stopped on a London street by a woman who accused him of swindling her out of her jewellery. Police quickly connected him to a string of similar frauds — and to a man named John Smith, convicted of identical crimes in 1877. Over a dozen victims picked Beck out of line-ups. He was convicted at the Old Bailey and sentenced to seven years' hard labour. The problem: he wasn't John Smith. He wasn't any of it. Eight years later, still protesting his innocence, Beck was convicted again — for the exact same type of fraud. Only when the real culprit was arrested mid-crime did the truth finally surface. We explore how a face so ordinary it could belong to anyone sent an innocent man to prison twice, and what the case of Émilie Sagée tells us about the ancient human terror of the double.
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Resources
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Wikipedia - Adolf Beck
Wikipedia - Émilie Sagée
LawTeacher
Articles
Old Bailey Proceedings Online
Crime Library
Forensic Psychology – eyewitness testimony

Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe
Narrated by Noel Vinson
Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler
Background track: Doblado Studios: https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios
This True Crime Podcast was researched using open-source or archival materials.

In November 2008, 23-year-old Christine Lindsey Walters left her hotel room in Eureka, California, in her pyjamas, to collect identity documents from a nearby copy centre. She was trying to get home to Wisconsin. She never made it.
A junior studying botany and ethnobotany at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, Christine had come to Humboldt County for a planned three-week holiday. She stayed, drawn to the area's natural beauty and a spiritual community. One week before she vanished, she participated in an illegal ayahuasca ceremony. Days later, she was found naked and covered in briar scratches on a stranger's doorstep, speaking of demons. She tested negative for drugs, was discharged, and began making plans to fly home. She was last seen on November 14, walking away from a copy centre on I Street, Eureka. Her belongings and untouched bank funds were later recovered. She has never been found.
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Resources
Web
The Charley Project
NamUs
Facebook
Articles
Missing Women: Humboldt Mystery
Lauth Investigations International — Christine Walters
True Crime Society - Christine Lindsey Walters
Missing People in America — Christine Walters
Websleuths Forum — "CA: Christine Walters, 23, Arcata, 14 Nov 2008."

Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe
Narrated by Noel Vinson
Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler
Background track: Doblado Studios: https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios

This True Crime Podcast was researched using open-source or archival materials.