Latin American true crime, told without polish.
Suspiria: A True Crime Podcast covers Latin American true crime through cases such as Colonia Hospital, Sandra Gomide, Bus 174, and Candelária. The tone moves from pop-culture chatter and singing into stark accounts of violence, neglect, investigation, and aftermath.
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Suspiria: A True Crime Podcast is a Latin American true-crime show with a blunt, conversational engine. Its recent run moves across cases named Colonia Hospital, Ana Carolina López "La Psicópata Adolescente de Chihuahua", Sandra Gomide, Carlos Andrés González Zabala "El Niño Mariachi", Raoni and Glauco Villas Boas, Bus 174, Candelária, and Jenni Rivera - With Sam!. The subject range is broad, but the connective tissue is clear: violence, public tragedy, institutional failure, family grief, investigation, and the strange details that make real cases feel almost impossible to accept. The show can begin sideways. Songs, jokes, recording mishaps, pop-culture tangents, and personal asides are part of the texture. Then the story lands hard. Colonia Hospital brings accounts of hunger, untreated disease, cold, mass graves, and people crushed while trying to keep warm. Other excerpts include burned bodies, missing children, crime-scene response, a hostage crisis, and the weight of events tied to Candelária. The show does not keep a solemn mask on at all times. That is part of its identity. It lets informal banter coexist with horror, often calling attention to how awful the information is while still continuing through the case. The rhythm can feel messy in a human way: a laugh, a correction, a side comment, then a detail that stops the room cold. It is not built for listeners who want detached narration only. It is better suited to someone comfortable with personality-forward true crime, especially when the material comes from Latin American contexts represented in the episode list. The show’s edge is not shock for its own sake. It comes from the contrast between casual friendship on mic and cases that involve real cruelty, grief, and social neglect. Suspiria gives listeners grim stories with cultural texture, rough humor, and an unmistakably informal voice.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants Latin American true-crime cases with a conversational, personality-forward presentation. Best for someone comfortable with abrupt shifts between jokes, songs, and very grim material.
What sets it apart: Suspiria stands apart through its contrast: informal banter, music-adjacent openings, and personal reactions sit beside accounts of institutional abuse, homicide, massacres, and public crises. The show feels less like a scripted dossier and more like a case being processed aloud.
Hosted by Carol and Stephanie, Suspiria is a true crime podcast that focuses on crimes in Latin America. Born and raised in Brazil, the hosts shed light on cases that go unnoticed by many but that have been imprinted in the memories of many Latines.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grim hospital history is made painfully concrete through cold, overcrowding, mass graves, and segregated cemeteries.
Carol and Stephanie revisit a hospital history defined by cold, hunger, untreated disease, and overcrowding, where survival could depend on where a patient managed to sleep. People piled together for warmth, and those trapped underneath could be crushed by the weight above them.
A grim case where forensic detail meets dark banter and wedding plans.
Ana's case lands hardest in the gap between brutality and routine. Her father is called into the kitchen to cut fruit before Jose strangles him with a cable; afterward, the bodies are injected with chlorine and insecticide, and a car is left in an abandoned lot, soaked with…
Pimenta's attempted remake of Sandra Gomide emerges through a newspaper-funded European trip, altered styling, and the pressure to perform a different image.
Sandra Gomide's shifting presentation gives the episode a clear way to study how Pimenta tried to recast her public image. Carol and Stephanie follow that change through the newspaper-funded first-class trip to Rome, the stops in England and France, the museums, shopping, silk…
A mother's search for Carlos ends at a grave, shifting the case toward two boys from his school.
Carlos Andres Gonzalez Zabala's death is presented through a search that becomes Jenny's worst confirmation. She follows a group to a grave, cries that they killed her boy, and recognizes part of his face and school uniform in the dirt.
A fast-moving true crime episode about ayahuasca, religious revelation, and Cadu's search for authority before buying a gun.
Suspiria follows Cadu through a startling chain of events after ayahuasca use, as he allegedly comes to believe his brother is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.
Suspiria: A True Crime Podcast covers Colonia Hospital in Barbacena, Minas Gerais, and describes it as the site of more than 60,000 deaths.
Suspiria: A True Crime Podcast covers Ana Carolina López Enríquez, a 17-year-old adopted in Chihuahua by María Albertina Enríquez Oregón and Enfren López Tarango.
Suspiria: A True Crime Podcast covers the murder of journalist Sandra Gomide and frames it as a Brazilian case of feminicide and impunity.
Suspiria centers Carlos Andres Gonzalez Zabala, the 14-year-old Colombian singer known as El Nino Mariachi, and opens on the promise that he would buy his mother a house.
Suspiria: A True Crime Podcast's "Raoni and Glauco Villas-Boas" covers the double murder of cartoonist Glauco Villas-Boas and his son Raoni at their Osasco, Sao Paulo property.
Friedrich Ritter and Dora Strauch moved to Floreana in 1929 seeking isolation, but their island life changed when Heinz and Margaret Whitmer arrived in 1932.
Stephanie and Carol revisit the 1973 abduction and murder of seven-year-old Ana Lídia Braga in Brasília.
In “The Crime of Gallo Street,” Suspiria recounts the 1914 stabbing of Buenos Aires accountant Frank Livingston.
Suspiria's hosts Carol and Stephanie cover José Augusto do Amaral, born August 15, 1871 in Minas Gerais and often called Brazil's first serial killer.
Suspiria: A True Crime Podcast covers Zuzu Angel, the Brazilian designer whose son Stuart Angel Jones, a student leader in the MR8 guerrilla group, was arrested on April 14, 1971.
Suspiria's "Perón's Hands" covers the 1987 theft of Juan Perón's hands from his tomb at Chacarita Cemetery, which prompted an anonymous letter demanding $8 million from the Justicialista Party.
The hosts banter about a co-host's absence and her resemblance to actress Halle Bailey before presumably discussing a true crime case.
The hosts introduce the bus 174 hostage crisis case in Brazil, part of a true crime series focusing on Latin American crimes.
Hosts Carol and Stephanie discuss a 1993 crime case in Latin America with comedic banter.
The hosts chat informally before recording an episode about a Latin American crime case.