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Unsolved Mysteries Episode Nine: The Murders of Fr. Reynaldo Rivera and Fr. John Kerrigan / The Lucky Rock

·1 hr 20 min·5 clips

The cold open starts sideways. A satire disclaimer and age warning barely land before the Prude blurts out pregnancy news, zoo hatred, orangutan worry, palm oil anger, and fossil fuel frustration. Then the recap snaps back into place. The source material gives them a fruit peddler, and that one word becomes a whole argument about bikes, selling fruit, and why English is like this. They cannot leave peddler alone. That small language fight gives the episode its shape: quote the show, question the wording, derail hard, then drag things back with a tired "anyways." The evidence gets ugly fast. A fruit seller finds bloody clothes, and the hosts react less like narrators than people yelling at a screen. Nobody should touch that. They keep circling the woman's calm handling of the clothes, imagining gloves, sticks, napkins, anything besides bare hands on something visibly covered in blood. The bit keeps building. Under it, the disgust is real, because the blood means a body, DNA, and something awful sitting in plain sight. The tone stays unruly. The hosts mock strange choices loudly, but they still let the case feel awful, especially when the jokes hit the physical reality of evidence from inside someone's body. Even the ending wanders. A tangent about lawyer-retainer wine, cheap bottles, fancy bottles, and saving the big one for some future milestone turns into another messy detour before they pull themselves back. That is the engine here. Grim true crime gets filtered through two people who cannot stop arguing with narration, grammar, hygiene, palm oil, zoos, wine, and their own side roads.

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A loose, messy mystery recap with peddler debates, bloody clothes, and long detours.

The episode folds a roadside mystery into a longer talk about language, animal cruelty, and one especially grim stretch involving bloody clothes.

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For when you want a grim mystery recap that still finds time for orangutans, palm oil rage, and blood panic.

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