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Speaker 1: Murder in Miami is a production of iHeartRadio. What follows

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Speaker 1: is a particularly gruesome tale of a gory cartel murder,

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Speaker 1: as told by one of Phil Stafford's former girlfriends during

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Speaker 1: his early days in Miami, Ruth, who also worked for

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Speaker 1: the Miami News.

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Speaker 2: My favorite cocaine murder I shouldn't say favorite, but anyway,

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Speaker 2: it was the cocaine cartels. The way they murdered people.

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Speaker 2: They put them on their knees, tied their hands behind

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Speaker 2: their back, and shot them in the back of the head,

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Speaker 2: right and they killed quote, everybody that was home over

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Speaker 2: two years old. But one of them was in Kendall,

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Speaker 2: which was a pseudo shishi area. You know, it was

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Speaker 2: upper middle class and middle class people that lived out there,

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Speaker 2: and they went in that apartment and killed everybody was home,

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Speaker 2: except the woman that lived there that wrapped a towel

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Speaker 2: around her neck and put the other end into the

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Speaker 2: garbage disposal in the sink and turned it on and

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Speaker 2: literally hung her from her sink. And I always wondered,

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Speaker 2: what did she do that required that special attention, you know?

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Speaker 1: Goodness, Yeah, because.

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Speaker 2: Generally they just shot everybody and left. That was just

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Speaker 2: the way it was then. With the cocaine cowboys, you

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Speaker 2: had to be careful what areas you went into, not

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Speaker 2: because they would be after you, but you didn't want

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Speaker 2: to get hit. And the crossfire, you know, wow, because

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Speaker 2: they just it's unbelievable how many people they murdered during

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Speaker 2: that time.

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