The Handyman // 023

67-year old retired Santa Fe Librarian Elvira Segura’s car is found abandoned in a pecan orchard 300 miles South of her home in Las Cruces, NM. After a police welfare check turns up her badly decomposed body, the hunt is on for her now missing live-in handyman, Robert Mondrian-Powell. In what initially seemed an open and shut case, complications quickly arose in one of New Mexico’s most bizarre and controversial murder cases. 

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Written/Audio Sources: 

• New Mexico State Police Public Data Request

• Lawyers didn’t know accused killer died while case on appeal

• Judge upholds dismissal in Mondrian-Powell case, details prosecution missteps

• Judge drops murder case, citing speedy trial violation

• One More Try - Prosecutor asks judge to rethink murder-case dismissal

• State wants second chance in Nambé murder case judge tossed

• Video: Robert Mondrian-Powell’s full confession in a 2016 Nambe murder

• Confession of a dead man

• Criminal Complaint

• Turnover not an excuse in murder case

• Judge upholds dismissal of murder charge in librarian’s death

• Man accused in Nambe woman’s murder asks for preliminary hearing

• Key witness in 2016 murder case may not testify

Music & Sound Effect Sources

• Opening Track: “Cataclysm” by Dream Cave

• Closing Track: “South is That Way” by Lofive

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