Episode 254 - Heart Rate Zero - The Murder of Laken Riley
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
You'll hear how Laken's loyal friends and roommates sounded the alarm in a desperate attempt to find their best friend, and how surveillance footage, digital breadcrumbs, and Laken's own final fight for survival would lead investigators to her killer.
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Research & Writing:
Ryan Deininger
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Aiden Wolf
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Obituary
Laken Riley went for a morning jog. Less than 30 minutes later, she was dead.
Timeline: Laken Riley's last moments retraced during trial on Georgia nursing student's murder
Laken Riley murder suspect seen with multiple scratches day after killing: Officers
Suspect accused of killing Laken Riley waives jury in murder trial
FBI director says agency doing all it can to get 'justice' for Laken Riley
Wikipedia
Laken Riley case: Murder suspect was 'hunting' for women on UGA's campus, prosecutor says
Laken Riley 'fought for her life' in 'long and fierce' struggle
Prosecutors share how a smartwatch left clues in the killing of Laken Riley
Laken Riley case: Suspect found guilty by judge in campus killing, sentenced to life
Caring daughter, good friend and devout Christian: Heartbroken loved ones paint portrait of Laken Riley after her killing
Laken Riley murder: Who was Laken Riley, nursing student killed on UGA campus?
Who was Laken Riley, the nursing student found dead on University of Georgia campus? Here's what we know so far
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| 0:33.3 | The The At 8 a.m. on February 22, 2024, a graduate student was taking a shower in her ground floor apartment at the University of Georgia. |
| 1:15.9 | Over the noise of the water, she heard an unfamiliar sound. |
| 1:20.9 | My name is Tejuswitamil Mani Saraswati. I live in a one-bedroom apartment and I live alone there. |
| 1:27.3 | It's on the first floor. |
| 1:28.3 | I was in the shower and I heard somebody trying to open my door. |
| 1:32.3 | Initially I thought it was coming from upstairs, but when I stepped out at the bathroom, |
| 1:37.3 | I noticed that it was coming from my front door. |
| 1:40.3 | She wondered who could possibly be visiting her at such an early hour. |
| 1:46.0 | Stepping out of the shower, she walked to the front door and looked through the peephole. |
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