S3|E2: San Bernardo

Gone South

Audacy Podcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to Gone South, the sign cutter. New episodes premiere weekly, but you can listen to the entire
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0:47.8	Before she passed away, I went to this house by Lafayette and that's where Melissa would hang around.
0:54.5	Some of the girls didn't like me for some reason that I was always nice dressed up with money, you know?
1:02.9	So I go into the dope house and the trap house and Melissa's there. And Melissa was always very kind.
1:09.6	She's like, hey Karen, what are you doing girl? Stuff like that, right? So these are the girls come and
1:15.3	they start jumping me. It was like five girls. Nobody did anything, not even the owner of the house.
1:21.4	Like, he just let other girls jump me, right? The only one that jumped in was Melissa.
1:28.8	And Melissa was like, hey, just leave her alone. What are you all doing this and that?
1:33.5	She stopped the people like that were jumping me. Okay, so that happened two, three days later.
1:40.9	They found her dead.
1:43.5	This is a woman I'll refer to as Karen. She met Melissa Ramirez in early 2018 when the two were
1:49.4	living on San Bernardo Avenue. Karen was addicted to heroin at the time and she had turned to sex
1:54.8	work to afford her drug habit, which often exceeded $200 a day. Karen wasn't close to many other
2:01.0	sex workers, but she said everyone liked Melissa. If she would see you like sitting down and I'll say
2:07.4	she would, hey, come on, come on, let's go make money. Or I know where to get money. Right now you
2:11.6	all get your fix. She was that kind of person. And a lot of people liked her because she wasn't
2:17.2	getting into your business and you know, messing up your day. No, she wasn't like that. She would
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