True Crime Podcast 2026 - Police Interrogations, 911 Calls and True Police Stories Podcast · True Crime Podcast 2025

Killer Family Thinks They Can Outsmart Police About Wife's Dismemberment

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Diane says she smelled 'something that smelled like death' after hearing family activity inside the house.

1. True Crime Podcast 2026 centers on the investigation into Nicole Montapo's disappearance and the Rivera household around it. 2. The episode uses law-enforcement interviews with a sworn investigator, tenant Diane Dean, and Wanda Rivera to show how detectives built the case. 3. The core question is how investigators tracked the timeline, the household relationships, and the evidence around Nicole's last known movements. 4. A state-attorney investigator says he has worked since April 2013 and spent 23 years with the Atlanta Police Department, the last nine in homicide. 5. He says he was briefed on Wednesday the 23rd after S.A. Moffitt and victim advocate Lisa Reynoso reported that Nicole Montapo might be missing. 6. He links the concern to Nicole missing work and not picking up the child from school. 7. He says he found Nicole's address, coordinated with St. Cloud, and contacted a school liaison named Ms. Lane. 8. The school side confirmed that the mother had missed a meeting and that the child had been picked up by the grandfather. 9. He then checked whether deputies had already done a welfare check and learned that a deputy named Deacon had gone to the home the night before and that morning. 10. When a deputy reported not seeing the child, the investigator says GPS information made the situation more concerning. 11. Diane Dean says she rented one bedroom in the Rivera home and shared a bathroom with another boarder named Elsie. 12. She identifies Wanda and Angel Rivera as the owners and says Nicholas, Chris, and the grandson Elijah were also living there in different rooms or spaces. 13. She describes the household as 'hot and cold' with 'constant confrontations' among everyone in the home. 14. Diane says Nicole was friendly when she visited and that she last saw her about two weekends earlier at the breakfast bar while Nicole ate with Chris and Elijah. 15. She says she saw Nicole and Chris act like a couple, including holding and kissing, and she says Nicole sometimes spent nights in the RV. 16. Diane says that on Monday Elijah was home early after being told he had a doctor's appointment, and later Wanda argued with him about not going to the shop because of heavy equipment. 17. She says she saw a bulldozer being loaded onto a transport trailer and later heard a smell in the house that she described as smelling 'like death.' 18. Wanda Rivera's interview begins with requests to call her pastor, questions about whether she should speak without counsel, and a discussion of Baptist and Pentecostal church background. 19. Listeners interested in police interrogations, witness timelines, and family-household dynamics around a missing-person case will get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners wanting a lighter, less procedural, or less interview-driven episode may want to skip it.

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