Milagros Nieves (3 of Clubs, Connecticut)
6/10/202635 min
Our card this week is Milagros Nieves, the 3 of Clubs from Connecticut.
For more than three decades, the family of Milagros Nieves never talked about her murder. She’d been stabbed 33 times in the presence of her beloved baby granddaughter. The violence of it, the brutality of it, was too much for her family to relive. But when our team at The Deck started looking into Milagros’ case, they uncovered information that would leave everyone, including investigators, with even more questions.
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First 90 secondsAshley Flowers· Host0:00
Just after opening on a cold Saturday in February, someone entered the Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park, Illinois, and over the course of just about 40 minutes enacted a brutal crime, killing five of the six women inside. Despite a detailed suspect sketch from the survivor, despite the fact that 911 was called while he was still in the store, and despite the fact that police were on the scene within minutes, the killer got away. But when I got into this story, it got so much bigger than I ever thought it could have. The case got so big that I needed help, so I brought in the best investigative journalist I know, Delia D'Ambra. And on her newest season of Counterclock, she is ready to fill you in on her years-long investigation into the Lane Bryant murders and the suspect that it led her to. Listen to season eight of Counterclock wherever you get your podcasts. Our card this week is Milagros Nieves, the three of clubs from Connecticut. The first homicide that a police officer is called to gets burned into their brain forever. For then-officer Frank Papalucha of the Bridgeport Police Department, this case was his first.
Frank Papalucha· Guest1:20
People always wanna know, "What is like the worst thing you ever saw in your whole career?" And this is it. This is the one case that