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Borderland Crimes

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    Janet Balderrama, 25, was critically wounded in a crash caused by a drunk driver, according to El Paso police. She died on July 15, 2013, leaving behind two children. The woman accused of intoxication...
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    • 5 months ago
    42:07
    Dante Santoni was brutally murdered, days after celebrating his third birthday. He, his mother Connie Villa, 28, along with Villa's longtime partner and Dante's father, Francisco Santoni, 59, were fou...
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    • 7 months ago
    24:33
    The November 5, 2024 election could change who leads the prosecution of the Aug. 3 Cielo Vista Walmart shooting trial. As the Borderland marks the fifth anniversary of the deadliest mass shooting in E...
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    • 9 months ago
    16:49
    An El Paso girl has tried to move past the sexual assault she endured when she was only 5 years old. The girl is now 17, locked in the grinding wheels of the justice system. Edward Alvarado is facing ...
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    • 10 months ago
    25:41
    On May 17, 2024, three murder suspects who all had once faced a capital murder charge formally accepted their sentences as part of a plea agreement. Adam Acosta, Tristan Chilton, and Brandon Olsen ple...
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    • 10 months ago
    30:27
    Kimberly Esparza was walking home with her husband after watching a football game at a bar Sunday night when she was hit by a car and killed. The driver left the scene, and Esparza, a 32-year-old moth...
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    • 1 year ago
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    Jennifer Ann Crecente, 18, was a high school senior and preparing to graduate with honors. On Feb. 15, 2006, she was shot to death by a former boyfriend. Friends and family knew he was controlling, ma...
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    • 1 year ago
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    El Pasoan Maria Luisa Corral was found dead on April 29, 2005. The 20-year-old had been beaten and strangled; her lifeless body was shoved inside a bedroom closet of the Lower Valley home belonging...
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    • 1 year ago
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    ABC-7 anchor and Borderland Crimes podcast producer Stephanie Valle served as a media witness to an execution in Huntsville, TX. On Dec. 4, 2001, the man behind a chilling crime that stunned the El Pa...
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    • 1 year ago
    31:14
    At long last, there is a conclusion in the case centered around a deadly shooting outside an east El Paso bar in the early morning hours of Jan. 29, 2017. The suspected shooter, Moises Galvan, was ar...
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    • 1 year ago
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    Sophia Martinez, 18, headed out to a blind date on Friday, March 10, 2000. But she never made it to the dance club in downtown El Paso. Sophia’s body was found in the desert just north of the city lim...
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    • 2 years ago
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    The peace and quiet in an affluent, historic Central El Paso neighborhood was shattered by gunfire during a violent attack in Nov. 2020. Georgette Kaufmann, a respected state attorney and beloved moth...
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    • 2 years ago
    31:11
    The date between Erika Gaytan and Ricardo Marquez to a concert ended with Gaytan not returning home. Her family immediately believed something terrible happened to the 29-year-old woman; her mother sa...
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    • 2 years ago
    01:02:41
    An Army vet who survived combat in Afghanistan was murdered in El Paso.  Tyler Croke was in the shower at a friend’s apartment when he was ambushed, held at gunpoint, then brutally killed. A total of ...
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    • 3 years ago
    41:08
    In this special episode of Borderland Crimes, ABC-7 talks with one of the survivors of the massacre at Las Cruces Bowl on the 32nd anniversary of the crime. Ida Holguin recounts the morning two men he...
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    • 3 years ago
    10:55
    RJ Franco was shot to death outside of a bar in east El Paso on Jan. 29, 2017. The moments leading up to the shooting, as well as the shooting itself, were caught on surveillance camera and the suspec...
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    • 3 years ago
    33:13
    A little girl got separated from her family during a holiday shopping trip to a busy retail store and seemed to vanish into thin air. Dread settled in for her family and the entire community once surv...
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    • 3 years ago
    01:01:53
    The murder of Robert Rocha, 43, has remained unsolved for nearly three decades. The retired U.S. Navy veteran and father of three daughters was found shot to death at Mesilla Dam outside Las Cruces, N...
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    • 3 years ago
    44:43
    When Gloria Marmolejo, a 54-year-old mom and grandmother, was found dead in the southern New Mexico desert in the summer of 2009, her family pleaded for the community’s help to find whoever murdered h...
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    • 3 years ago
    01:07:06
    An El Paso woman learned a horrible secret about her family: her great-grandfather had been massacred, along with 14 other men and boys, on Jan. 28, 1918. When Arlinda Valencia learned who was to blam...
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    • 4 years ago
    38:00
    In the summer of 1987, a serial killer stalked the streets of El Paso, Texas. The bodies of six teenage girls and young women were found buried in the desert in the northeast outskirts of town. All ha...
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    • 4 years ago
    01:02:16
    On Jan. 26, 2019, Terrance Kinard Jr. was shot outside a house party in Northeast El Paso. The case has gone unsolved despite there likely being many witnesses to the murder of the 20-year-old father ...
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    • 4 years ago
    44:30
    Michelle Grady is one of the dozens of people who was shot on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019, at a Walmart superstore in El Paso, Texas. She survived, but 23 people were killed. The shooter is facing nearly 1...
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    • 4 years ago
    29:14
    In 1995, a woman’s spray-painted body parts, including her severed head, were found across town. Police in El Paso, Texas, didn't know who she was. Investigators made an unprecedented request of local...
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    • 5 years ago
    50:48
    On Feb. 10, 1990, two men shot seven people while robbing a bowling alley in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Four of the victims died. Three of the dead were children, ages 13, 6 and 2. All of the victims wer...
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    • 5 years ago
    50:01
    A college professor was found shot to death on a sidewalk. Detectives learn the victim and his ex-wife were in the midst of a custody battle so bitter, months before his murder she had secretly fled t...
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    • 5 years ago
    48:48
    Marinda Palacios saw her friend, Rick Madrigal, get shot to death by her boyfriend. Leonel Hernandez was convicted of Rick's murder. Months after podcast host Stephanie Valle reached out to Marinda, s...
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    • 5 years ago
    22:49
    A former radio DJ lays dead inside his apartment. Detectives believe his death is connected to a tip about a case of a possible kidnapping and murder. The investigation uncovered a twisted relationshi...
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    • 5 years ago
    47:46
    Welcome to a podcast that’s made for the Borderland, a corner of the U.S. Southwest where Texas, New Mexico and old Mexico meet. This brief episode is a taste of what's to come: in-depth storytelling ...
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    • 5 years ago
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