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A winner of three Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards. El Paso, Texas is one of America’s safest cities. But it’s not immune to crime. This podcast by ABC-7 anchor Stephanie Valle dives deep into stories that grip the Borderland community with details that rarely make the news - but deserve to be heard.
A plea deal lands, and you're still with the family calculating when parole could reopen the wound.
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A fatal crash leads to an eight-year search and a contested path through the courts.
Borderland Crimes follows the search for Desiree Scaff after a crash killed 25-year-old Janet Valderrama. Police said Scaff had been drunk when she hit the vehicle carrying Janet and her best friend, and the episode traces what happened after Scaff pleaded guilty to intoxication…
A family's memories give a 30-year-old East El Paso cold case its human center.
Borderland Crimes returns to the 1994 East El Paso murders of Connie Villa, her three-year-old son Dante Santoni, and Francisco Santoni, keeping its focus on the Villa family's long wait for answers and a trial.
An eight-year delay becomes a measured look at how court calendars can keep a young accuser in limbo.
An eight-year wait gives this Borderland Crimes episode its shape. A girl from El Paso, now older and still carrying childhood trauma, wants to testify against the man she and other young girls accused of appalling acts.
A family's long wait for justice ends in guilty pleas, but the sentence still leaves hard years and parole hearings ahead.
A grieving mother finally faces her son's killers after more than seven years, but the guilty pleas bring only a limited kind of closure for the Croke family.
A daughter revisits her mother's unresolved death through a sparse police report and the questions still surrounding it.
Kimberly Esparza's death anchors this single-episode review of a daughter's search for answers. More than 12 years after Esparza was struck and killed while walking home, Brianna returns to the night she spoke with her mother 20 minutes before the collision and works through the…
New England cold cases, carefully told.
Cold cases kept in public view.
Folklore, cryptids, and cautious wonder.
One reads the case notes, one hears them fresh.
Borderland Crimes' "Woman on the Run: The Search for Desiree Scaff" follows Janet Valderrama's 2013 death in El Paso and the eight-year search for the driver, Desiree Scaff.
Borderland Crimes revisits the 1994 East El Paso triple homicide of Connie Villa, her three-year-old son Dante Santoni, and Francisco Santoni, a case that stayed cold for decades.
Borderland Crimes follows C.D., an El Paso woman who says abuse began when she was five in 2012 and whose wait for trial has stretched to age 17.
Borderland Crimes tracks Tyler Croke's May 17, 2024 sentencing update in El Paso, seven years after he was killed at age 23.
Borderland Crimes examines the unsolved 2011 hit-and-run death of 32-year-old Kimberly Esparza in El Paso through reporting by Stephanie Valle and interviews with Kimberly's daughter, Brianna Sanchez.
Jennifer Crescente was 18 when her former boyfriend, Justin Crabb, shot and killed her near Austin on February 15, 2006.
Borderland Crimes examines the 2005 killing of 20-year-old Maria “Mary” Corral by her boyfriend Richard Flores in El Paso.
Borderland Crimes reporter Stephanie Valle recounts witnessing David Renteria's November 16, 2023 execution for the 2001 killing of five-year-old Alexandra Flores in El Paso.
A mother recounts her son's unsolved murder in El Paso, with police still searching for the shooter.
This episode examines the 2019 Cielo Vista Walmart massacre in El Paso, featuring survivor accounts and the ongoing legal case.
A deep dive into a 1995 murder and dismemberment case in El Paso, solved through unprecedented police-media collaboration.
This episode investigates the 1990 Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre, one of America's largest unsolved mass shootings.