Cartel in the Kitchen - B2

Bonus 2: Phil's former girlfriend Ruth shares the strangest murder she remembers from her days as a newspaper reporter in early 80s Miami.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Murder in Miami is a production of iHeartRadio. What follows
is a particularly gruesome tale of a gory cartel murder,
as told by one of Phil Stafford's former girlfriends during
his early days in Miami, Ruth, who also worked for
the Miami News.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
My favorite cocaine murder I shouldn't say favorite, but anyway,
it was the cocaine cartels. The way they murdered people.
They put them on their knees, tied their hands behind
their back, and shot them in the back of the head,
right and they killed quote, everybody that was home over

(00:46):
two years old. But one of them was in Kendall,
which was a pseudo shishi area. You know, it was
upper middle class and middle class people that lived out there,
and they went in that apartment and killed everybody was home,
except the woman that lived there that wrapped a towel

(01:08):
around her neck and put the other end into the
garbage disposal in the sink and turned it on and
literally hung her from her sink. And I always wondered,
what did she do that required that special attention, you know?

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Goodness, Yeah, because.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Generally they just shot everybody and left. That was just
the way it was then. With the cocaine cowboys, you
had to be careful what areas you went into, not
because they would be after you, but you didn't want
to get hit. And the crossfire, you know, wow, because
they just it's unbelievable how many people they murdered during

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that time.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
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