Introducing - Season 2 of PROOF: Murder at the Warehouse

The second season of PROOF: Murder at the Warehouse takes Susan Simpson and Jacinda Davis to Manteca, CA where they reinvestigate the murder of 18-year-old Renee Ramos. On June 5, 2000, Ramos’ body was found buried under a pile of debris inside the shell of a new Home Depot building. Despite tips hinting at alternate suspects - tips that were ignored until now - Renee’s boyfriend, 18-year-old skateboarder Jake Silva, and Ty Lopes, the 33-year-old uncle of one of Jake's close friends were arrested for her murder. The questionable testimony of a 14-year-old boy was the key evidence used to convict them both to life in prison.

Ty Lopes was killed in prison in 2011. Twenty-three years after Renee Ramos was murdered, Jake Silva remains in prison and maintains he is innocent. In season two of PROOF: Murder at the Warehouse, Susan and Jacinda travel the streets of Manteca, reinvestigating the case against Jake and Ty – and in the process uncover long-overlooked evidence about what really happened to Renee.

Follow the case as Susan and Jacinda uncover long overlooked evidence about what really happened to Renee by listening to PROOF: Murder at the Warehouse wherever you get your podcasts.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey everyone, it's me Jason Flauhman. Today we're gonna have
a special clip from the highly I mean, I've been
highly anticipating it, so I'm gonna say highly anticipated second
season of one of my favorite podcasts, Proof. I mean
I binge that first season, and I think you're really
gonna love it. Proof is an investigative true crime podcast

(00:26):
co hosted by Susan Simpson of Undisclosed and just Senda
Davis of Evil Lives Here. Now I'm gonna play a
clip from the second season of Proof, Murder at the Warehouse.
Don't forget to subscribe to Proof wherever you get your podcasts,
so you can follow the case as Susan and just
send a uncover long, overnooked and ignored evidence about what
really happened to the victim in this case.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
This is the missing poster that I made the night
that I found out that she was missing, and I
just turned my where.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
We drove all over the place.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
We were just putting them everywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
It was June of two thousand and the small town
of Montica in California's Central Valley. Amber was just finishing
up her junior year of high school and she was
looking forward to a summer of hanging out with her friends,
including her best friend, eighteen year old Renee Ramus. Then
that Friday, the phone rang. It was Renee's mother.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
That was like the first thing that Donna said when
she called me. She said, Jake says Renee is missing.
He doesn't know where she is at.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Jake Silva, also eighteen years old, was Renee's boyfriend of
nearly a year. Jake and Renee were basically always together
at twenty four to seven.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
As soon as Donna said that Jake couldn't hide her,
That's when I thought.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Something was not right. That's when Amber started making the posters.
In big bubble letters. She'd written the word missing above
a smiling photo of Renee. The bottom paragraphs either.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
It says, our Renee has been missing since Monday morning,
Memorial Day. We miss every bit of our little valley girl.
We hope she comes home as the same beautiful young
woman we remember her as.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
That weekend, Renee's friends posted flyers all around the town
asking everyone they saw if they'd seen Renee. No one had.
Renee's friend Laurie remembers being worried but not panicked when
she found out that no one knew where Renee was.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
In my mind, she had just been missing, because it
doesn't happen in this town ATA, right.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
I was just concerned.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
I don't think I wanted to think the worst, So
it was more like, I feel like she might have
been hiding somewhere, but you know, if she wasn't.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Rene's friends and family kept hoping and expecting that she'd
turn up, but she didn't, and then on Monday morning,
their worst fears were confirmed. How'd you find out this?
Say it happened?

Speaker 5 (03:06):
My mom called me and said, Laurie, the police found
the body of a girl, and they think that it's Renee,
Like they're pretty sure it's Renee, And I just remember crying.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Three people were arrested for the rape and murder of
Renee Remus. One of them was her boyfriend, Jake Silva,
but until recently, Renee's friends had it known there might
be reasons to question whether Jake and his co defendants
had actually committed the crimes they were accused of.

Speaker 6 (03:37):
That's why I'm so confused about everything, because I was
so young when all this information hit me. And then
of course she tried to move on with your life
later on. So I didn't understand anything that was being
told to me because it didn't make sense. But like,
how am I supposed to make sense of this?

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Right?

Speaker 5 (03:51):
I just had to accept what came out of it.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
But I do remember always just being confused about it,
all the evidence and everything that was brought up to
the surface. I literally remember asking myself, so, what really happened?

Speaker 2 (04:06):
What is the actual truth? This whole time we just
believed what we were told.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
This evidence proved different. It's definitely gonna be upsetting.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
If that's the case.

Speaker 6 (04:16):
If he didn't do it, who did right?

Speaker 4 (04:19):
That needs to be found.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
Who did