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Listen Now: Don’t Cross Kat

2025/3/31
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播音员: 本播客讲述了一个年轻女子失踪的故事,调查指向一位在社交媒体上拥有百万粉丝的网红Kat Torres。Kat Torres通过打造完美生活形象吸引粉丝,承诺提供灵性觉醒,但背后隐藏着操控、控制和人口贩卖的黑暗真相。这个故事基于一个在巴西引起轰动的真实犯罪事件,揭示了野心、控制以及虚假承诺所造成的破坏。 播音员: 对失踪人口案的调查最终揭露了一个利用社交媒体精心策划的操控、胁迫和人口贩卖的阴谋。当影响力转变为控制时,人们为了得到想要的一切,会走多远? 播音员: 本播客深入探讨了Kat Torres及其追随者之间的复杂关系,以及Kat Torres如何利用其影响力来控制和操纵他人。 Wayne Murray: 我是Kat Torres前邻居Wayne Murray。我注意到她的邻居们举止异常,非常漂亮,像超级模特一样。她们从不回应我的问候,行为怪异。有一天,她们突然消失了,房子空了。在她们离开后,我发现她们留下了许多奇怪的东西,包括巫毒娃娃、用于仪式和巫术的物品,以及看起来像是某种束缚工具的皮革项圈和皮板。这些发现让我开始怀疑她们可能从事着一些黑暗和危险的活动。整件事情让我感到非常害怕。

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When a young woman named Patty vanishes without a trace, her best friend launches a desperate search. The trail leads to Kat Torres, a charismatic influencer with millions of followers. Her social media presence showcases a picture-perfect life, and she promises her followers a spiritual awakening. All they have to do is follow her lead. But behind the glamorous posts and inspirational quotes

a sinister truth unravels. From Wondery, Don't Cross Cat is a chilling investigation that asks the question, if an influencer promised you a dream life, what would you sacrifice? Based on the Brazilian true crime saga that captivated a nation, Don't Cross Cat is a story of ambition, control, and the lives destroyed by empty promises.

What starts as an investigation into a missing persons case explodes into a story of manipulation, coercion, and human trafficking, all orchestrated behind a curated social media facade. When influence turns into control, how far would you go to get everything you always wanted? I'm about to play a clip from Don't Cross Cat. Follow Don't Cross Cat on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts.

Excuse me, how are you doing? Doing well. We're journalists from Brazil and we're writing a story about your former neighbors. The biggest news that's ever hit this neighborhood. Probably the only one that will.

I'm not the first Brazilian to set foot in Leander, Texas. And the Brazilian women who came and lived here before me made quite the impression on their neighbors. Wayne Murray lived across the street from them. Wayne says that in Leander, people do two things. Wave to each other and then mind their business. At least Wayne did.

Then, in 2022, that's when these new neighbors moved there, right across the street. They were not terribly friendly. We had this traffic circle, right? So I'd come in, I'd wave to them, they'd never wave back. And there was something else about his new neighbors. Very pretty young woman. They looked like supermodels. Very attractive blonde and a pretty attractive brunette.

Tall, thin, gorgeous, right out of the latest Victoria's Secret fashion show. I mean, I'm super gay, and even I can see it. And it wasn't just having a house full of gorgeous Brazilian women in a nondescript American suburb that was unusual. One day, he just stopped seeing them. The house was empty. The women were gone.

Eventually, a rental company came to clear the house. They put out the girl stuff in the front yard for anyone to take, which was interesting. We got quite a bit of this stuff. We just took the bags. We looked later. I did keep the voodoo dolls. Voodoo dolls? Voodoo dolls. I got three voodoo dolls. May I ask you to take a look at them? Sure. Well, come on in.

One of the women was a social media influencer famous in Brazil with more than a million followers. I was there because, well, I'm kind of an influencer myself, but that was basically an accident. I'm a journalist first, and I've made a name for myself investigating stories in Brazil where things aren't quite what they seem. And that's what brought me to Texas, because the woman who lived there, Cat Torres, is

seemed like she had a picture-perfect life online. Wayne told me the more he looked through the stuff the women left behind, the more questions he had about them. They had an altar in their yard, not a Christian altar. Because she had, I can never pronounce the name of the drug.

Ayahuasca. That's it. That Brazilian drug? Yeah. They had packages of dried herbs, and it has what they're good for. Good for romance, good for this, good for that. Three of them were also good for exorcisms. And that was in all. One thing I found, I still have it, it's a leather collar and like a leather plate in these chains, and there's a handle on it. When I finally buckled it up,

Wayne started to wonder if he had been getting a little carried away. But soon he would see reports of what was really going on in that house, and he would realize that maybe he was right to have been suspicious. Because there was something troubling going on. Something dark. Dangerous, even.

It's a little scary, to be honest.

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