14 episodes
Lost In Panama Opportunist
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- True Crime
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4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
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In 2014, Dutch friends Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers disappeared while hiking a jungle trail in Panama. Two months later, investigators found their remains, as well as a backpack with a digital camera filled with photos that hinted at a darker story. What happened to Kris and Lisanne? In this investigative series, journalists Mariana Atencio and Jeremy Kryt retrace the last steps of the doomed women. Their search for the truth immerses them in eight years’ worth of conflicting evidence, testimonies, and rumors, as on-the-ground witnesses in Panama come forward for the first time. This explosive new evidence sets off a real-time race to reopen the case, and finally get justice for Kris and Lisanne.
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1 of 7: El Pianista (The Pianist)
Mariana and Jeremy arrive in Boquete, and retrace Kris and Lisanne's steps up the Pianista trail.
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2 of 7: La Búsqueda (The Search)
When Kris and Lisanne don't show up for a scheduled tour, they're reported missing. Then what?
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3 of 7: Rio Culebra (Serpent River)
Mariana and Jeremy journey deep into the jungle, to the possible location of the mysterious night photos.
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4 of 7: Los Restos (The Remains)
What do the bones say about how Kris and Lisanne could have died, and whether it was a murder or an accident?
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5 of 7: Cinco Muertos (Five Dead)
The tour guide Feliciano must know more than he's saying... right? Plus, whispers around Boquete of more related deaths.
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6 of 7: En la Casa de Cuervo (In the House of the Crow)
A grieving mother says her son was killed to silence him. What did he know about the deaths of Kris and Lisanne?
Customer Reviews
Lost for words
This podcast is excellent.. Mariana is captivating! her voice and accent as a Latina journalist it’s a breath of fresh air .. mas por favor, muchas gracias
Overly dramatic with a biased investigation
The overall mystery is intriguing but they just use that to catch your attention and go off on their own wild goose chase of assumptions and speculation. If I was Feliciano I also would not have wanted to talk to these guys and I didn’t think there was anything in his involvement that made him as guilty as she treated him, to the extent that she says she’s too scared to be alone with him and he MUST have something to do with the disappearance. Maybe he’s involved in the case because it’s a small jungle town and he’s a big character there? Maybe he doesn’t want locals to talk to media and speculate about foul play because his livelihood is tourism and rumors of the area being dangerous to tourists and him being a murderer will destroy that? It’s borderline defamation and setting up a “sting” operation to corner a person who doesn’t want to talk to reporters and hasn’t done anything wrong IS wrong. Also the “kill” email, if not planted by the podcasters themselves, was wildly dramatized. Immediate thinking “death threat” is so dramatic AND once again assuming it’s Feliciano.
I’m not sure what the point of this was
You learn nothing new about the case - just hear a ton of speculation that makes no sense. I spent hours going down a false trail about two missing white women only to be encouraged to spend my resources to find missing indigenous women in the same region - not sure why couldn’t have used their resources to help a case that actually could be solved….