Double Murder on the Fifth Floor

Unsolved Mysteries

Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. + Audacy

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Just before Mother’s Day 2018, 62-year-old Ana Del Valle is found in her Brooklyn apartment with her hands bound and a gunshot wound in her head. A few days later, her next-door neighbor Basil Gray, 54, is also discovered dead inside his apartment with multiple gunshot wounds. Police say the same gun was used in both murders, but who killed the neighbors and what was the motive? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's blood around my mom.
0:08.5	But my first reaction was like she fell, you know, she hit her head.
0:12.4	I'm like, what's wrong, you know, not realizing this happened hours ago.
0:19.5	She wasn't breathing or anything.
0:21.2	And I was understanding, you know, why?
0:25.5	Because they weren't registered, you know, I was just seeing them, but I wasn't understanding
0:31.4	what was going on.
0:33.4	Why my mom was tied up or, you know, what happened?
0:36.8	I shouldn't know what happened, but it was my mom, you know.
0:49.2	Situated in a working class Brooklyn neighborhood is a group of eight brick apartment buildings
0:54.2	known as the Bushwick houses.
0:56.2	The 1,220-unit complex was built by New York City's housing authority and provides much
1:01.8	needed affordable housing for many families in the area.
1:05.1	Unfortunately, Bushwick also has a reputation for attracting more than its fair share of
1:10.0	criminal activity.
1:11.7	In May of 2018, on Mother's Day weekend, a brutal double homicide claimed the lives of two
1:17.6	innocent and unlikely victims, neighbors in the same building.
1:23.0	These are convinced someone in the community has information that can bring the killers
1:26.7	to justice, but so far, no one has been willing to come forward.
1:38.3	I'm Steve French and this is Unsolved Mysteries, double murder on the 5th floor.
1:53.6	On May 11, 2018, Maria is just getting off work from her job at Brooklyn Hospital, where
1:59.4	she works the 9-5 shift.
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