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Speaker 1: Before we jump in, we must warn you this episode

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Speaker 1: contains explicit content, such as sexual abuse that may be

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Speaker 1: disturbing to some people. Listener discretion is advised. Also, if

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Speaker 1: this is the first time you are listening to Sacred Scandal,

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Speaker 1: everything will make a lot more sense if you start

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Speaker 1: with episode one. Night has just fallen on November third,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty in Gua Lajara, Mexico, and Silvia Rosco, a

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Speaker 1: for her family. Sevia lived in Hermosa Provincia just to

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Speaker 1: its neon floodlights bathe her house in purple, blue and

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Speaker 1: yellow Ermosa Provincia is a close knit community where only

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Speaker 1: stop the arm stranger that barged into Sybia's kitchen. The

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Speaker 1: man shot her four times with nine millimere bullets, then

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Speaker 2: In front of the people of her mother, in front

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Speaker 1: This is royled Silva, a former deacon of the church.

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Speaker 1: Syba was killed in front of her siblings, her mother,

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Speaker 2: In front of the witnesses around the Colonial Massa Provincia

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Speaker 1: with people, officially, nobody seems to know who Cyba's killer.

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Speaker 2: It might be ask for a copy of the denouncers

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Speaker 1: Who el knows this because he went to Hallisko's District

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you because we went to investigate. Can we

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Speaker 2: have a copy of the denounce or the declarations? No,

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Speaker 2: the case is closed.

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Speaker 1: Almost three years later, Seba's killer remains at large, but

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Speaker 1: theories abound as to who might have ordered a hit

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Speaker 1: and what someone might have wanted her dead. I'm Robert

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Speaker 1: de Garza and you're listening to Sacred Scandal season two.

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Speaker 1: This is episode five. Silence of the Land. The neighborhood

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Speaker 1: of her Mosa Provincia, the fable city that lldm's first

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Speaker 1: apostle founded way back in the nineteen fifties, is like

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Speaker 1: the rest of Alajara, El Moosa Province is quaint and orderly,

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Speaker 1: a small, working class neighborhood of about five thousand people

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Speaker 1: that's totally self contained. It has its own schools, a

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Speaker 1: belongs to and believes in ell DM. We sent her correspondent,

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Speaker 1: Florenzia Flores to interview its residence, and all of them

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Speaker 3: With come most Amuitter and Quillolo Migno.

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Speaker 1: He indifferent, A woman named Maggie says it's nice and quiet.

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Speaker 1: Other places in Guaalajara are more dangerous, but here it's

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Speaker 1: more secure and peaceful, she says. Another man we spoke

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Speaker 1: I think he would never think to do in other

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Speaker 2: Aquila Provincia, Aula Unona, La Cinquo, Lamaiana, in Oleon Tons,

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Speaker 2: las Quature, Lamaiana Ivmosal Temples, Saviano.

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Speaker 1: Another man talks about the harmony of the neighborhood, saying,

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Speaker 1: We're a community.

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Speaker 4: Luardun day much armonia, tololos, ermanos, passan nosa yuramos and

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Speaker 1: Entitl nit ter Mossa Provincia. Everyone watches everyone else. A

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Speaker 1: block from Sibia's residence is the Casa Grande, where the

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Speaker 4: Ola Migos Carlos and rees.

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Speaker 1: This is with Carlos Reyes, a YouTuber and former l

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Speaker 4: Then Estadia or the Statar de vea com partim video

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Speaker 4: constelles Pa Personas caestaa bi segondel Casto de Sibia.

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Speaker 1: There is a huge community of people online who talk

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Speaker 1: has fifty three thousand subscribers, and this video of him

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Speaker 4: Sevidentia phisica in i Loel Prestaky por quayose kel Membros

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Speaker 4: Lord Lider Last Run.

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Speaker 1: The video is black and white. There is no sound.

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Speaker 1: The camera is nestled behind some leaves, but you can

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Speaker 1: clearly see the street outside Civa's house. The video is

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Speaker 1: time stamped November third, twenty twenty. There are two people

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Speaker 1: The street is calm, then a flurry of activity. Louis

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Speaker 4: Corindo a qui tank corindo purquestan corrindo esteva kami ona korremia.

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Speaker 1: We see people running, he says. They are getting out

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Speaker 4: Or what illego passaes to those autos or no blancos

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Speaker 1: Louis points out two moving cars, first a white one

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Speaker 1: neighbors rushing in to see what happened. As the cars

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Speaker 4: Person personas or yer on algo on mirar cosas.

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Speaker 1: Seven, the people who were there. Louis says, all of

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Speaker 1: these people hurt something, saw something, that's why they're running.

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Speaker 1: They're walking and then they start running. What did you hear?

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Speaker 4: Louise asks, cares the ken sons altos kens altos.

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Speaker 1: What happened? And whose cars are these? Does anyone recognize

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Speaker 4: Youa Mexico, and it's a skuys that are Mosa Provincia,

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Speaker 1: He ends the video with a plea to those who

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Speaker 1: still live in Ramasa Provincia. I don't know, my friends,

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Speaker 1: what's happening there in Mexico, in the streets of Armaza Provincia.

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Speaker 1: I don't live there anymore. I don't know the place

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Speaker 1: those who are watching this video or those who can

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Speaker 4: Sperd alas persona, do you live in Dia.

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Speaker 1: When Sibia's murder happened, there were numerous witnesses. Her family

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Speaker 1: what appeared to be their cars, fleeing the scene. And

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Speaker 1: Shortly after Sibia's death, LEDM posted a video on their

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Speaker 1: official Facebook page. The English title translates to pronouncements regarding

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Speaker 1: the femicide of Sibia or Rosco.

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Speaker 5: Allegria Buenas, then too Sitola in Las Alida.

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Speaker 1: The video shows four women sitting at a long conference table.

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Speaker 1: Behind them is a perfectly framed view of the Grand Temple.

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Speaker 1: All are wearing ld m's modest clothes, little to no makeup,

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Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty and COVID is still raging. Each woman

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Speaker 5: Were nastas av la masprofunga in thegnaccher.

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Speaker 1: The first three speak about the church, but how ELDM

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Speaker 1: works to promote gender equality and how the safest place

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Speaker 1: for women believers is in the sisterhood of the church, the.

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Speaker 5: Vista el maes professor La.

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Speaker 1: The last woman to speak is Sibia's mother, Dalila ares.

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Speaker 5: Mi nombres levanto paral sarmi bos.

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Speaker 1: In dark sunglasses with her hair slicked back. Delila says

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Speaker 5: Linias scritas, madre telaforma masquerel in Masco Barde the politicister

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Speaker 5: and diamartes in Torona casso casa.

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Speaker 1: She says, I don't have any written lines. I have

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Speaker 1: the soft voice of a three year old boy whose

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Speaker 1: they truspassed into my house, into my kitchen and gone

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Speaker 5: Jovi cuomo esta persona persona.

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Speaker 1: I saw how that person, if you can call them

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Speaker 1: I demand the authorities do their job. Dalida goes on

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Speaker 5: Do you see whoes.

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Speaker 1: Jo solo pidok the lord. There's raw pain in Dalila's voice.

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Speaker 1: She lists the politicians she's spoken with, all of whom

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Speaker 5: Youes Al Senor Alfaro.

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Speaker 1: But one months later, Oil Silva went to the district

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Speaker 1: it seems very much as dead as sibia Rosco. As

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Speaker 1: we know from Moyses Padilla's case against the church in

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Speaker 1: episode two, it's not uncommon for evidence to go missing

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Speaker 1: or paperwork to get lost when it's related to lldm's wrongdoings.

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Speaker 1: Oil says he had a friend who used to do

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I had a friend that wished to be the

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Speaker 2: lawyer of Samuel, one of the lawyers, and I knew

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Speaker 2: he went in Mexico wa Allajara. He went to the judge,

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Speaker 2: you know, with the judges and where all the paperwork

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Speaker 2: is done, pay the employees, and bring disappeared the copies everything.

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Speaker 1: Paying off authorities to make sure paperwork goes missing is

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Speaker 1: not the only method l l DM has to make

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Speaker 1: its problems go away. The church has carefully cultivated deep

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they have a salary in the pay roll of

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Speaker 2: the state police.

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Speaker 1: Earlier in this episode we mentioned the apostle has armed

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Speaker 2: There was two levels there in Guadalajara. The first one

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Speaker 2: and the Casa Grande and they were always a minimum

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Speaker 1: But Royle says there are two levels of armed guards

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Speaker 2: And there was another one that was like a civil

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Speaker 1: So we know there's two levels of guards, one that

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Speaker 1: Sibioosco social media reads nuncayil cielo porkenos como In English,

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Speaker 1: it means I'll never get to heaven because I don't

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Speaker 1: We've met him before. He's the man you heard last episode,

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Speaker 1: Cilem is ld m's official spokesperson. His main responsibilities are

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Speaker 1: Here he is defending Nasson's innocence on Millenniu.

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Speaker 8: Like lesla luzer Mundo kine plena Confianza and naves and

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Speaker 1: Selim Garcia is the rumored father of Sebia's three year

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Speaker 1: In the class, Seleem was fifteen years Sibia senior and

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Speaker 1: By the way, this is hoile again. We heard him

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Speaker 1: He was close to Sybia and her family. Oil and

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Speaker 1: Sybia come from a multi generational Ledm family, a family

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Speaker 1: it's inner workings better than most. They were very close

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Speaker 2: But this girl was also a helper for Samuel in

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Speaker 2: This lady had a lot of knowledge of the you know,

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Speaker 2: It was a demonstration of power. You put an example

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Speaker 1: Coyle's theory has to do with the crucial timing of

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