It is time for December patron birthday shoutouts and I want to say a very happy birthday to my December patrons.

Happy birthday to Alyssa, Allison, Elise, Shashi, Heather, Lori, Noel, Jack, Maria, Kilagram Jam, Carolyn, Renata, Camilla, and

Aaron from the Generation Y podcast.

Here's to another year of chasing dreams,

creating memories, and embracing the journey ahead. From me to you I want to wish you

a happy birthday. A couple moved to an uninhabited island in the Galapagos, but they wouldn't be alone forever.

When more settlers arrived, tensions rose and left us with multiple mysteries nearly 90 years

later.

I'm Charlie and welcome to Crime Lines.

Welcome to Crime Lines.

Today's 12 days of Crime Lines episode.

Today my kids are home and they're doing construction on our street so this should be a really fun recording session. The case today is one that I learned

about years ago when I watched a documentary from 2013 called The Galapagos Affair.

I wrote about it for the podcast Rusty Hinges, so if you've listened to that show,

you've definitely heard the lighter version of this case. I don't do topics this old on crime lines, so I hope no one minds me sneaking in one every year or so.

This isn't really one of those historic unsolved cases that has any hope of being solved due to the circumstances

we'll get into it but it is an interesting look at human motivations.

As such we are primarily going to talk about the backgrounds of everyone that we have information for.

To set up what happened and why we need to start with a German man named Dr. Friedrich Ritter. Friedrich was born in about 1886. I told you this was

historic and he grew up in a small town near Germany's Black Forest. He had a

very comfortable upbringing and he was a studious child

eventually going to medical school. When he was 20 he married Mila Clark who some

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