Morbid: Episode 477: The Murder of Teresita Basa

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Hey, weirdos, I'm Ash.

And I'm Elena.

And this, right here, what you're listening to in your fucking ear meat, is morbid.

It is morbid.

I'm unhinged today.

Ash is on a space level right now.

But like, I'm not fizzity-fizzity fucked up, I'm just fizzity-fizzity fucked up on life.

On life, on happiness.

On vibes.

On vibes.

Honestly, on hydration.

Yeah.

Me and Elena, Elena and I, are drinking a lot of water where we're trying to hydrate more.

We're manifesting our health and wellness.

Yeah, we drink a lot of coffee, so we gotta balance it out.

Yeah, I know.

I didn't even fucking finish my coffee today.

Whoa, I didn't either.

And I ate a salad.

That was scary.

I know.

I don't know what to say about that.

It was good.

I mean, I put a lot of dressing on it, so it really wasn't even a salad anymore.

But you know what?

Wellness.

Still got the nutrients in there.

Ate the greens.

Whether they were soaked in Parmesan peppercorn or not.

That's the thing.

Yeah.

If you want to eat a salad, eat a fucking salad.

But you want a lot of dressing?

Yeah.

I see a lot of grueys on TikTok being like, now don't put the dressing on it because that

will ruin the purpose of eating a salad.

No.

It doesn't ruin the purpose.

No.

No greens in your belly.

Yeah.

Exactly.

And no, we're not nutritionists.

And no, we're not any of those things.

And I realize that some of you are, woo.

I don't think it's fine to eat whatever you want.

Everybody eat what you want.

You'll be fine.

That's the thing.

We're not giving health advice.

Don't worry.

We're not giving medical advice.

No, no.

I just like my salads with a shit ton of dressing on them.

And I think if that makes you happy, you should do it too, my people.

I am a life coach.

I am not.

I'm just kidding.

I am not.

I just wanted to make sure like we are not given health advice.

That's not medical advice.

That's just like happiness advice.

Nutritional advice.

Put dressing on your salad.

It's great.

But do it.

You have to do it if you want to live long.

It's Friday.

It's Friday.

It's not when you're listening to this.

I think it's probably fucking Monday.

Oh, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

You could.

It'll be like me four or five weeks in the future.

If you told me I'm going to push you off a cliff.

If you don't answer that correctly when this is coming out, I could not answer you.

Can I tell you?

Whoa.

Can I tell you why I thought of you the other day?

Why?

I saw, do you ever see those things on Instagram?

Like if you invite this person to a party and they're late, you win like several million

dollars.

Who do you invite?

Every single time it's like gun to your head and like you have to call this person and

they can't answer.

Yeah.

Or like anything like that.

I'm like, oh, Alayna.

Yeah, me.

Absolutely.

You're like, yeah.

Yes.

But honestly, I am the answer to that question too.

Yeah.

You're the answer to the first question.

And the second, I don't, well, I feel like you're way better at answering.

Yeah.

I wouldn't, I don't think I would feel comfortable calling you if it was, they can't answer.

I feel like, I don't know, she might answer.

That's true.

I'm like a toss up.

Me?

You'd be like, she will absolutely not answer.

No way.

She screens her motherfucking calls.

When you do answer my phone call, it's jarring.

Yeah.

I think it's jarring for everybody involved.

But I don't like phone calls.

Yeah.

But you're reliable in a weird way.

I appreciate that.

I try.

To think that I was like full blown insulting you.

No, it's cool.

Yeah.

It's what we do here.

It's what we do.

We just insult each other.

Fuck you.

You're the worst.

You're the worst.

I hate you.

Everybody's like, what the fuck is going on?

It's like, are you guys all right?

Leave it all in.

Yeah.

Leave it in.

This is the truth.

Mention it all.

What an intro.

I know.

What an intro.

What are you bringing to the table today?

You know what it is.

Sometimes.

I haven't even gotten to it yet.

We're getting there though.

We're getting there though.

I don't care.

We're going to get there.

I care, but.

You know what it is?

We are, you know, we're ahead of ourselves here.

So we're recording, recording, recording.

And we're claiming our power back.

And we're feeling all like, well, right now.

I have a unicorn ponytail.

She does.

So.

That's where we are.

We are.

The scariest thing about this is I'm not kidding.

We are full blown sober as a.

Yes.

As a judge.

So as a shoe.

So as a shoe.

You know.

I mean, actually that's honestly.

Shoes are always so.

I was going to say there's never a time where I have can say

I've seen or heard of a drunk shoe.

You have.

Mikey.

Have you heard of a drunk shoe?

Your shoe.

When you went to that.

Oh my God.

She wasn't drunk.

She was just a bitch.

Yeah.

My shoe.

She was broke.

She was.

Yeah.

She was a broke bitch.

That's what my shoe was.

You got to send that shoe out.

Yeah.

I do have to send that out.

Make an appointment.

I got to get a cobbler.

Fix that shoe.

Are there still cobblers?

Hell yeah.

There are cobblin.

Every day I'm cobblin.

Cobble, cobble, cobble, cobble.

I can't fix my shoe.

I need a cobbler for that.

No.

Honestly, I was going to say you could fix that shoe.

But no one could fix that shoe.

No.

No one could.

We tried all over the place.

It was like.

The entire event did.

I was going to say it was like at an event.

We had to like walk out on stage.

Yeah.

But Alina had long pants on.

And I was like just walk out.

Yeah.

And I was like.

I was like.

I was like.

I was like.

Barefoot and then just don't cross your legs.

When we get out there.

And if I do, I just feel like this is who I am.

I know our shoes.

But no, she walked out there with a broken heel.

It's true.

But going back to the point.

Yeah.

What was the point?

I've never seen a drunk shoe.

Shoes are always pretty sober.

Yeah.

But judges.

I don't know their life.

Like them to be.

Yeah.

They should be.

Of course.

You know, lay down the law.

But even when they go home at night.

They're human.

They're fallible.

Yeah.

And even when they go out to dinner or like to a birthday party.

They're a judge, but like.

Still.

They're getting crazy at birthday.

No one knows what it means, but it's provocative.

You ever been to a birthday party with a judge?

Where are we?

I don't know.

But we're going to find our way back.

Where do we go from here?

Where we go from here is a pretty wild tale.

It's also, it's a sad tale because it involves like a really,

really cool lady who lost her life in a terrible way.

But then she ends up solving her own murder.

Oh, shit.

From beyond.

Beyond.

Beyond.

Beyond.

Beyond.

This is beyond.

So.

Oh, okay.

All right.

Let me get a little more serious.

So now we're going to settle into this tale because this is a wild one.

And I think this is what Dave like loved this one too.

We were.

This is just such a good.

Like the, in the end, when it all comes together, you're like, hell yeah.

Cause she like solved her own shit.

You know, that song that's on Tik Tok right now where it's like.

Yes, exactly.

It's going to be like that.

That's what it is.

It's, it's happy in the end.

Okay.

I like that.

Thank you for setting us up to know that.

No problem.

Just so you can like roll with me here.

Cause there's some really sad parts.

I'll roll with you.

But this is the case of Teresita Bassa, the voice from beyond the grave.

And again, like I said, this is a case.

Where a ghost possibly pointed to her own murderer.

Shit.

Now let's talk about Teresita because Teresita lived a pretty cool life.

She seemed like a really cool lady.

Very kind.

Like just somebody who you wanted to be around.

Oh, Teresita Bassa was born on March 13th, 1929 in Dumaghet City, Philippines.

And she was the only child of Pedro and Socorro Bassa.

So Teresita right off the bat was a very passionate child.

When she liked something, she dove head first into it.

And she took a lot of different interests, a lot of different likings to different things.

Like she was really well rounded, but she really loved music and she loved gardening, especially.

Oh, and her mother had this beautiful and lush garden in the back of their home.

And she showed her everything she knew about taking care of it.

And Teresita's family was actually one of the wealthier on the island at the time.

Swanky.

And this afforded her the tools at her disposal to learn the skills that she was interested in.

She was able to dive into music.

She was able to take time to learn gardening.

And she wanted to learn piano at one point.

I really want to learn how to play piano.

Love the piano.

Yeah.

I want to dive back into the piano really bad.

So her family, of course, wanting to like nourish whatever it is she was interested in,

they had imported a Steinway grand piano from Manila.

And she would sit around this piano and just play for hours.

And she would learn all the classical music like she was amazing at it.

And when she wasn't learning to play classical music on the piano,

she would be sitting in front of their Victrola with a pile of 78 records

absorbing all the latest songs that had made their way to the Philippines.

I love picturing this right now.

Right?

Yes.

She sounds like a cool chick.

She does.

She really does.

And right from the get go too, she was just like music.

She was into shit.

Yeah, she sounds just like a fun time.

Yeah, just sitting there listening to records.

And I'm sure it took a little while for certain songs to get to the Philippines.

So like she was discovering them on a whole different wavelength.

I didn't even think of that.

Yeah, that's cool.

That is cool.

So when the Japanese army invaded the Philippines in 1941,

Dumaghet was used as a critical strategic point.

And at this time, her parents were kind of agonizing over whether they should leave altogether

and flee into the mountain regions to just avoid everything

because many other people had done so.

And ultimately Pedro, her father was persuaded by those in authority to stay

because the local government was kind of on the verge of collapse

and quote, his council would be needed more than ever.

So he was a very influential guy in the government.

Okay, wow.

And the invasion was a profound influence on Teresita who was a teenager at the time.

She had grown up and she was very used to learning English in the classroom

but was now against her decision being forced to learn Japanese in its place.

Oh, wow.

And she was comfortable learning English.

She was now like thrown over to this other thing that she didn't choose.

Right.

And at the same time, this island paradise that she had enjoyed as a child

where she knew everybody, it was like they were in this nice little routine

and it was just easy, easy living kind of thing.

It was now dramatically transformed.

And a lot of Filipinos were forced into service work for the soldiers.

Oh, man.

It was really bad.

A lot of bad stuff happening.

So very drastically different from when she had grown up.

Right.

She's a teenager.

Yeah, that's so hard.

That's such an important time in your life.

Yeah, and for like your home to be changed so dramatically like that.

And that's, I mean, like everything is changing.

Everything.

In you, like as a human.

Yeah.

And part of it.

Now everything around you is changing.

I can't imagine how many to adapt to that.

So by 1947, the island had more or less kind of returned to normal, luckily.

But for Teresita, it was a lot of like trauma and a lot of memories.

There was a lot of violence there that had happened.

A lot of oppression that had happened.

And PTSD going on.

Yeah.

So she was like, it just wasn't the same.

So she made the decision to move to Manila.

And once there, she studied music at St. Scholarus.

I'm going to try to say this.

I'm sorry.

At St. Scholastica's college.

I feel like you did that right.

And eventually she became a very accomplished pianist pianist.

And after her graduation, she ended up moving to London.

Oh, bitch.

And continued her studies in music at the time at the Royal College of Music in London.

Nice.

Now London was very different than where she had grown up.

She had grown up in a tropical climate, a very tight knit community.

Sunlight.

Do you like that?

She was very used to all that.

And it was like a whole new world for Teresita London.

But she loved it.

She loved it.

And whenever she could get away from schoolwork, she would love just exploring the city.

And she loved all the outdoor concerts that would happen and all the different things

that she could go to the museums, all that fun stuff.

That is fun.

So after two years at the Royal College of Music, Teresita graduated with a certificate

in Piano Forte.

Oh.

Yeah.

And she loved being in London.

She loved her time away.

She had a good time.

She met some people.

She did some things.

But she was missing her friends and family in her home.

Okay.

As we all do.

So she had hoped to return back home just for a visit.

But instead, she actually was convinced by her friends to go on a tour of Europe with

them.

Oh, shit.

And she did.

She ended up packing.

Yeah, she ended up visiting Vienna, Salzburg, Paris, other places, like all kinds of cool

places.

That's a dream of mine.

And it was in Paris that Teresita met a rushing composer by the name of Alexander Cherepnin.

I looked up how to say that.

He definitely took a liking to Teresita, but a liking in like a mentor way.

Oh, okay.

I was like, am I going to regret my past statement?

No.

And he was very impressed by how dedicated she was to music, her skills, like just how

varied she was in her musical talents.

And he really believed that she could become a great composer if she continued her studies.

Wow.

What a fucking compliment.

I know, right?

So Cherepnin and his wife actually both taught at DePaul University in Chicago.

Funny that they met them in Paris and invited Teresita to visit them anytime she was in

Chicago.

So it sounds like this was meant to be.

So in the summer of 1957, she was 28 years old and she ended up flying from the Philippines

to Honolulu, Hawaii.

And from there, she traveled a pretty short distance relatively, I suppose, to Bloomington,

Indiana.

It's only like a six-hour flight.

Yeah, there you go.

Insider.

Insider.

And there is where she enrolled in the Foreign Exchange Visitors Program at Indiana University.

During her time there, she made a lot of friends.

She really did well academically.

She had a good time, but she didn't end up finishing her credits completely.

She was actually just a handful of credits shy of completing her graduate studies.

And she ended up relocating to Washington, D.C., out of nowhere.

And I think she was just like bee bopping.

She was just hitting everything.

Bee bopping, baby.

So she relocated to Washington, D.C., and that's where she took a job as a typist with

a family friend.

This family friend was working in the government because remember, her parents are very influential.

They are doing stuff in the Philippines.

And so this was like a connection.

And so she could do this typing job while also continuing to study music at the Library

of Congress.

Oh, yeah.

She is doing everything.

Teresita.

Teresita.

So while she's working and studying in Washington, D.C., she attended a diplomatic reception

like fancy.

And there is where she met Edward O'Meara, who was a Chicago lobbyist, and he took an

immediate liking to Teresita, but in the romantic sense.

And remember, she's like a grown adult at this point.

Yeah, she's a college.

And soon after this first meeting, they started dating and they started spending a ton of time

together.

And then unfortunately, just as the relationship was kind of like taking off, her visa was

set to expire.

No.

And she was required to return to the Philippines before she could apply for U.S. citizenship.

Oh, god damn.

So in 1965, she was 36 at this point, and she returned home to her parents.

And Edward actually came to visit a ton, came to the Philippines to visit.

But during his final trip to Dumaghet, Pedro Bassa, her father, found something out about

Edward O'Meara.

Of course he did.

He works in the government.

Of course he did.

He could not get anything past Pedro.

He found out that Edward had been frequenting one of the city's brothels.

Bitch.

And that ended Teresita and Edward's relationship mighty fast.

Good.

And Pedro was essentially like, I think it's time for you to leave and go home to the USA.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out, or actually maybe you should.

So Teresita was devastated by this.

Because one, it's like she's been duped, and then now she can also never see him again.

Yeah, it's like not only has her relationship ended in this awful way, but now her dreams

of returning to the US are kind of put on hold.

And instead now she decided she was just going to continue pursuing her passion for music.

She started teaching piano at Silamon University, and she was trying to find happiness where

she was in the Philippines.

But no matter how hard she tried, she really couldn't feel comfortable there.

I think she had dealt with a lot of the trauma that was still kind of like soaking into the

ground there with growing up and being a teenager through all that.

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On top of that, that uncomfortability that she was feeling a little bit, she just could

never feel at home again.

It makes sense.

She was also feeling humiliated because she had been basically duped by this slick American

guy.

That was the talk around town.

She had been duped by this stupid American.

Even so, she was excited because her visa ended up being approved.

She was like, you know what?

I'm going to shake this up.

I don't need him.

I don't need him to go to the United States, so she was.

She was able to return to the United States without that asshole.

I was going to say, because there's plenty more for her in the United States than just

that loser.

On December 7th, 1971, 42-year-old Teresa Tabasa returned to the United States.

She had less than $400 in her pocket and a small amount of luggage, and that's all

she had to start a new life.

With help from the Philippines Consulate in Chicago, she was able to find an apartment

on Mozart Street in the city's northwest side.

How fitting.

Yeah, right?

Mozart Street.

She decided she was going to complete her graduate studies at Indiana University, and

in the meantime, she would find more work as a typist during this time.

She just went back to what she knew.

Now Edward O'Meara had really traumatized Teresita, and she was reluctant to even make

new friends.

Yeah, because she.

She didn't trust anyone.

Exactly.

She spent a lot of her time just reading, exploring the city alone.

She decided she loved the city of Chicago, and this is where she wanted to make her home.

Although she had hoped she'd be able to continue her studies and find work as a piano teacher,

it didn't take long for her to figure out that the job market for musicians was kind

of small, a little tough at the time, the competition was fierce, and the schedule really

wasn't great for her, and she wasn't going to be able to make enough money to support

herself in the meantime.

So she enrolled as a student in the Respiratory Therapy Program at the Central YMCA Community

College in September of 1972, and in the late spring of 1974, she graduated from that program,

and she quickly found work as a therapist at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago.

Good for her.

So she's working as a Respiratory Therapist.

She's just rolling with the punches.

She's a badass.

She's like, oh, this won't work.

I can just excel at this other thing, and I'll just get a job here.

She's just killing it.

Yeah.

Nothing can deter her.

Yeah.

She's just like an independent lady.

She doesn't need anybody.

She's going to figure out how to make it work.

Love it.

So she, working at Edgewater, kind of opened up a whole new world of experiences for Teresita.

Her new salary meant that she could find a new apartment, a little larger, and this

one could accommodate a piano.

So in September of 1974, she moved into a big apartment, and this was in the Pine Grove

Apartments, which was a new apartment building, across from Lincoln Park, and she immediately

began looking for a small piano.

And now, with her success in school and the new job and moving into this bigger place,

she had some new confidence, and she started kind of opening up to new friends.

Yeah.

And she was like, you know what?

I'm working with some cool people.

I can hang out with these people.

Not everybody sucks like Edward.

Yeah.

It started making her see that I can live my normal life.

So she became very close with Ruth Loeb, who was one of the hospital administrators.

She became one of her best friends.

And not long after moving into the apartment, she found a very small, but like very reasonably

priced electric organ at a music shop nearby, and she had it put in her apartment.

Now she would play all the time, and then she ended up forming a small music group with

her cousin and a few co-workers.

Oh, that must have been so much fun.

Yeah.

Like, it's so cute.

And they called themselves the Mahogany Five Plus One, and they had five Filipino members.

It was her cousin and a few co-workers, and then a drummer who was like the only white

guy.

Oh my God, I love it.

That's why they called themselves the Mahogany Five Plus One.

That's incredible.

That is Mahogany Five Plus One.

So the name was like a funny play on that.

Yeah.

And the band played like parties and events, like basically whenever they had time outside

of work, they would play at different things.

Hell yeah, Teresita.

Yeah.

So she had a job, an apartment, and a really cool small group of friends, the band happening.

She finally felt like her new life was coming together.

She was feeling comfortable, but she still had a lot of feelings from that heartbreak.

Oh yeah, I mean, of course.

Yeah.

She was still not ready to totally give in to anybody romantically.

She was not feeling dating.

Yeah.

Didn't want to get out there romantically.

Yeah.

In the fall of 1975, she got a letter from a former pen pal of hers, Robert, who was

saying that he would be in Chicago for a convention and would like to take her to dinner.

Okay.

His name was Robert Krause, I believe.

Krause had intended to take her on a date.

That was his intention with this.

It wasn't like, I want to take you to dinner as friends.

He was like, I like you.

Yeah.

And I want to take you to dinner.

I kind of got that vibe.

So he showed up at her apartment to pick her up and she had invited two of her co-workers

with her and the two co-workers said, we kind of look out for her.

I like that.

They were just like, I like that.

I like that.

That bitch moment.

So he was like, all right.

It's like, okay, dokey.

So unfortunately, the fear of getting romantically or emotionally involved with men especially

would be something that you kind of have to deal with her whole life.

She wasn't ready to move on from that.

But fortunately, Teresita never let it get to her and never let it take away anything

from her life.

Good.

She was happy and she was fulfilled regardless.

So truly with the exception of like the small amount of like introvert kind of like hiding

awareness that she had when she first arrived in Chicago, she ended up loving spending time

with friends.

She like loved any opportunity to throw a party.

She was like a social gal.

My kind of girly.

So she really got over it.

I also love that she was like, if you want to be my lover, you got to get with my co-workers,

you know?

So you got to get with my band.

So after what would be her eventual death, because obviously we know how this ends, many

people would say that although she was what they referred to as a straight person, meaning

she didn't drink or use drugs, she always kept beer and good scotch whiskey on hand for

whenever she was entertaining for everyone else.

What a fucking dude.

She's so cool.

Like what a girl.

Like my girl.

Now one of the biggest and most memorable parties that Teresita ever threw was in the

summer of 1976.

Her mother had come to Chicago for a visit and Teresita was so excited to take her mom

around the city, show her all the things that had caused her to just fall in love with that

city.

And she also wanted her mom to meet all of her friends that she'd made, you know?

And especially her co-workers like Ruth Loeb and another new friend who she had been spending

time with at work named Alan Showery.

So it was like a great time, and I love how close she was to her mom, like that her mom

taught her how to garden, they had that bond, and then it's like she just couldn't wait

to show her mom the new city that she loved.

That's really special.

Now at about 3 p.m. the afternoon of February 21st, 1977, Teresita was preparing to leave

the hospital after a long day of work, and she was putting on her coat, getting ready

to leave when her friend Alan, who I just mentioned, Alan Showery.

I didn't like your face when you said Alan.

Yeah, he came into the room and they just kind of chatted and they left together, they

were going to catch the bus together.

They would do that often because the bus went by both their apartments, so they would just

get on the bus together.

Right.

Now on the ride home, Teresita had mentioned to Alan that her television was all fucked

up, and he was like, oh, I can come by tonight and take a look at it and see if I can try

to fix it.

I'm kind of handy.

And she was like, oh, that's great.

And then they kind of discussed the Mahogany Five Plus Ones upcoming show that they had,

and Teresita said that they might be losing their drummer soon.

And so Alan was like, I can play the drums.

Like if you need someone to sit in, I can do that for you.

Minus one plus one.

Exactly.

So Teresita was like, oh, you know what, you can buy a ticket to see us at the show and

then you can decide if you really want to be a part of it.

And at the time, Alan was like, I can't really like, I don't have a lot of extra money, so

I can't really do it.

And before getting off at her stop, she was like, listen, I'm going to set a ticket aside

for you and you can come pick it up later.

What a sweetheart.

So once she'd settled in at home that evening, she called her friend, who was also her band

mate, Dr. John Abella.

And a little after 7 p.m., they were just chatting on the phone.

They discussed the upcoming show.

They talked about ticket sales and how they were going to market it.

And Teresita had also said that her friend, Alan, who he also knew, might be taking, could

take over the drumming seat.

And she was like, oh, it might be a good opportunity for you to hear him play if we can get you

guys all together.

They talked for about 10 minutes and then Teresita apparently excused herself and said

someone's knocking at the door.

And she told, she did tell him she was expecting company and she said someone who might buy

a ticket for the concert.

So at about 7.30 p.m., Teresita got another call and she answered.

And it was her friend and co-worker Ruth Loeb.

And they just kind of chatted for about 20 minutes, very casual chat, just best friends,

besties.

Besties being besties.

Yeah.

And Teresita mentioned that she, quote, had a male visitor and Ruth did hear a male in

the background just kind of chatting, nothing crazy.

But she didn't give Loeb a name before ending the call.

That was the last time that Loeb or anyone else would speak to Teresita Bassa.

So a little after 8.30 p.m., Catherine and Mario Nazzi, I believe it's how you say it,

they were cleaning up after dinner.

They lived on the 15th floor in the Pine Grove apartments where Teresita lived.

I know that's high up.

That is.

Cleaning up and they, you know, not long after turning off the television, they just kind

of like settled in for the evening.

And Mario was like, what does that smell?

And he suddenly smelled burning.

Oh no.

So they were like, what the fuck?

So they all, they ran around their apartment being like, did anything burn or something

left on?

Right.

They couldn't find anything.

And Mario opened the door in the hallway and was immediately overwhelmed with smoke

that was like filling up the floor.

So he screamed for his wife to run out with him and they started running down the hallway

yelling fire and banging on their neighbor's doors to try to get everybody out.

Right.

And as they made their way to the elevator, Mario got, um, he got out of the elevator

on the seventh floor to let the building's janitor know.

His name was, uh, Pedro Lulusa.

Okay.

He was like, I'm sending my wife to the lobby, but like there's a fire.

We got to get everyone out.

Yeah.

Which like badass.

You also shouldn't use the elevator in a fire, right?

Probably not.

Uh, but Chicago firefighters had actually made their way into the hallway at this point

because the fire alarm started going off and they told the men, please leave immediately.

And they had to crawl on their hands and knees, like under the smoke.

It was really thick at this point.

And there's, they were going through trying to make sure everybody was out of all the

different, um, rooms and they entered terraced to bosses apartment and noticed that whatever

the smoke was coming from, it was coming from inside this apartment.

Her apartment was the source.

Not only that, but it was coming from the middle of her bedroom floor, like right next

to the bed.

That's where it seems to be originating.

That's weird.

And it was still burning.

So they used axes and they smashed all the windows, the balcony door in her bedroom and

they just were trying to vent out all the smoke and they were able to put the fire out.

And I think they had to use like the fire hose and two handheld extinguishers.

So it was pretty big.

And once they had cleared it all, the fire Lieutenant Warren Wellin began investigating,

trying to figure out what the fuck was going on here.

And he said, it looked like somebody had attempted to burn the mattress in that bedroom.

And there was a pile of clothes on the floor and it looked like the mattress had been put

on the pile of clothes and then lit on fire.

Weird.

But so he like kicked the smoldering pile and was like, what the fuck is under here?

Like what's going on?

That's when he discovered the nude body of Teresita Bassa and he found a butcher knife

embedded to the wooden handle in the exact center of her chest.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

It was mayhem.

Teresita's apartment appeared to have been completely ransacked.

They immediately thought that this was a rape murder or perhaps a robbery gone wrong and

they thought it was a rape because she was found nude.

Right, of course.

With the clothing and mattresses piled on the body, they thought it was basically set

ablaze to get rid of any evidence.

The fire caused a ton of damage to Teresita's body.

She had burns on both sides of her body and head and little left of her jet black hair

was found.

Now fortunately though, the fire hadn't made its way through the heaviest part of the clothing

pile.

So a lot of her face, torso and upper legs were spared from being burned.

Now Fire Lieutenant Whalen radioed the police because now they had found a body and it was

clearly a murdered body.

And so they called in the body and detectives arrived at the scene pretty quickly.

Now to the more seasoned detectives, the crime scene, particularly especially the pile of

clothes in the center of the floor, it made them think of William Hirons, who is the lipstick

killer.

We haven't covered him yet.

That's actually on my list of cover.

He murdered several women in the mid 1940s and he would leave piles of items at the crime

scene as like his signature.

Oh, weird.

So immediately they were like, whoa, this is wild.

But Hirons had been in prison for decades.

I was just going to say it was no longer the 40s.

So they were like, but they were like, is this a copycat?

Right.

This just is a weird thing to do.

Yeah.

But they were like, I don't know what this is, but it's not good.

So from a quick search of the apartment, detectives were able to identify the victim

from photos and, you know, personal papers and stuff.

And they noted that there were three locks on the door and not one of them had been damaged

or broken at all.

Like whoever the killer was, it was likely that they were led into the apartment by Teresita.

There was no struggle in that sense.

The bedroom though really looked like a robbery had occurred.

Jewelry boxes were open and flung on the floor.

They were overturned.

Tables were pulled out.

The contents of everything was strewn around the room.

It was a mess.

And the living room was kind of in a similar state of disarray.

Like plants, vases, tables were flipped over.

Two televisions were side by side in front of the sofa.

And next to them was her organ.

I'm also like, does she have a downstairs neighbor?

I know.

That's like, what happened here?

Did somebody hear anything?

Now outside the bedroom, they didn't really get a lot of evidence just like aside from

the chaos out there.

But they did find a note.

It was on a memo pad by the phone.

And on it was written in Teresita's handwriting, get tickets for AS.

Right.

Alan Showery.

Right.

So officers, and they saw that and they were like, we should collect that.

I don't know who that is.

So officers started going door to door, interviewing residents on each floor, just trying to learn

something about her.

Like see if anybody heard anything.

Yeah.

About the, about anyone she knew.

And what they found was that she was very private.

Yeah.

She was a private person.

She kind of kept to herself when it came to her neighbors.

Right.

But the neighbors said she was very pleasant.

I just don't know a lot about her.

And the best lead they could find came from the janitor, Pedro.

And he told detectives that he had seen Teresita arguing with someone in the lobby a few weeks

earlier.

He said he was a white guy about 50 years old and he seemed like he'd been drinking.

That's weird.

Unfortunately, he couldn't really hear what they were arguing about because he's like,

I really shouldn't be listening to people's conversations.

Like I wasn't trying to.

We're in the city here.

Yeah.

Like I'm going to leave that alone.

But he said he hadn't seen the man before this and he hadn't seen him since.

Teresita's neighbor across the hall, Bruce Campbell, which I was like, wow, Bruce Campbell.

Evil dead.

Sorry.

You're not picking up what you're putting down.

So Bruce Campbell, her neighbor from across the hall, he said he had seen her with a man

as well.

And she never told him the man's name and she didn't hear it.

She never introduced him or anything.

But Campbell was like fairly certain that the man was a sheet metal worker.

He remembers her saying something about that.

Now Catherine Nazzi, who was the one who had helped alert everybody about the fire, she

gave investigators another lead.

She said she didn't know too much about Teresita personally, but she did recall hearing from

another neighbor a few weeks earlier that Teresita had been attacked or raped or something

like that.

What?

According to Catherine, Teresita apparently had been standing at the door trying to get

her key into the lock and a man in a ski mask grabbed her and attacked her.

What?

But she didn't have any more information about that.

So they asked the building manager, Joyce Kaltman, and Joyce Kaltman remembered another

incident in September of 1974 where they had to have the locks changed after someone broke

into Teresita's apartment and stole some things.

What?

Yeah.

What are you telling me right now?

I'm not sure.

What?

That's the thing.

Like no one had any real information and that was what they told them.

But all that's so sinister.

So two separate instances where somebody broke in and on one of those instances she was raped.

Well, they said the way she said it was that she had been attacked or raped or something

like that.

What we learned is she was not raped.

Okay.

She might have been attacked though.

Yeah.

I mean, Jesus.

Yeah.

Now, the case was assigned to 40-year-old homicide detective Joseph Stahula.

He was on the force for like a decade or more.

Definitely had already made a name for himself as like the guy who gets shit done.

He's not going to quit.

Stahula?

He's not going to go anywhere.

And so initially he, like everyone else, believed this was a rape, murder, arson, robbery

kind of thing, making it very high profile.

You would say.

So once the scene had been secured, Stahula and his partner Lee Burley-Epplin obsessed.

They headed to the apartments to kind of look over the scene.

It was basically how they had been told it would be like very little leads to go on right

off the bat.

But in the kitchen, Stahula found a cutting board out on the counter and there was some

lettuce and half a tomato.

And next to that was a small piece of meat still wrapped in butcher's paper.

Okay.

And now the only thing that was very absent from this scene in the kitchen was a knife

that had been used to cut the vegetables.

And he assumed and was correct that it was the knife that was found protruding from terraced

his chest.

So she had been cooking with it earlier?

Yeah.

Now, other than that, the detectives discovered some, you know, personal papers.

They found her address book with a lot of names and $30 in cash.

And that address book had the names and numbers for like everyone she knew.

So they were like jackpot.

Now as Stahula and Epplin made their way through this address book, they were calling people

trying to get anything they could.

They finally came across the numbers of Ray King and Richard Pazzotti.

Okay.

They were two men who had accompanied Teresita out to dinner with Robert Krause a few years

earlier.

They were the two coworkers that were like, we kind of look out for her.

Oh, shit.

They were the ones that she brought to dinner with the guy who wanted to take her out.

So these are good guys.

Yeah.

And these two men confirmed they came like and were there for this.

They confirmed that Teresita didn't have a boyfriend, not to their knowledge, but that

she like hung out with men.

Like I think they said she liked men for their company.

Yeah.

No, she wasn't romantically involved with anyone.

Right.

And they did say in the months before her murder, she had like seen off and on this man named

Robert Nudson, who was a construction worker in his early fifties, who knows if that was

the guy that they had seen that the neighbors had seen her and the janitor had seen her

arguing with.

Yeah.

They kind of a white guy in his fifties.

Yeah.

Right.

Now the detective's next call was to Ruth Loeb.

That was Teresita's co-worker and closest friend.

Yeah.

Ruth confirmed that she had spoken to Teresita on the night of the murder and that the two

had made plans to have lunch the following day.

I can't imagine having that knowledge, like that your friend got off the phone.

Oh yeah.

And then they got murdered.

Yeah.

Like, oh my God.

And she had told her like I have someone like someone knocked at the door.

She's like, I heard that person come in.

Right.

Like, oh.

And she told detectives that while she was on the phone with her, she heard a male

voice that in the background and she said she couldn't make out what he was saying just

that it was a male voice.

And the best she could tell was that Teresita was, you know, in good spirits, didn't seem

to be in this man's company against her will, didn't seem to be like stressed out or anything.

Very normal conversation, very normal attitude.

And the information from Ruth confirmed the earlier suspicion that Teresita's killer

was likely known to her and was let in voluntarily.

Now going to the autopsy.

On the morning of February 22nd at the morgue, pathologist Dr. Ty Ann began his autopsy of

Teresita's body.

While he was doing the autopsy, Stihola and Eplen, Burley Eplen there, they were waiting

in the corner just watching.

Yeah.

Which pathologists love that.

I got it.

And among the more significant findings was that beneath the skin of her neck, which was

totally charred, the doctor did find bruising on her throat and a fractured larynx, which

indicated that at some point before she died and was lit on fire, she'd been choked.

How do they find out if there's bruising if it's charred skin?

Because they're able to see like the, where there's some like gathering, like pooled.

Okay, okay.

Yeah.

Like underneath the skin.

Exactly.

Oh, I see.

Yep.

Now they determined that the cause of death was a stab wound lacerating the heart and

strangulation.

Wow.

They also noted that Teresita's body showed that she had not been sexually assaulted.

Okay.

So the findings of the autopsy pretty much completely undermined the theory that the

detectives had been building since they first got there.

Oh no.

She hadn't been raped.

Yeah.

She'd simply been undressed and made to look like she was raped to throw the investigation

off.

Yeah.

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So while Stihula and Epplin discuss the autopsy results with the pathologists,

two other detectives went to the home of Robert Knudsen, the guy that she had gone

to, um, she had been seeing us and on a little bit.

And the man, he confirmed that he did know Teresita and that they'd been on a few dates.

But he said on the night of the murder, he hadn't left his house, except for a short

trip to the grocery store.

Yeah.

And they scheduled a polygraph test for him that day.

But apparently the officers let him take a valium before the test, which would make

the results inconclusive, right?

But still, his prints did not match the second set that was found at the scene

that they ended up finding.

I'm just picturing him like, do you guys mind if I take this valium?

And they're like, yeah, that probably won't mess that up at all.

Like what?

So for months, the detectives poured over Teresita's life, that address book.

They talked to everyone she knew.

They chased down every single little pulling thread that they could.

Unfortunately, while they initially would have these like promising leads, they would

all fall apart.

They'd all get ruled out with an interview or a polygraph exam.

And by the spring, all the leads had dried up.

And they were running out of people to interview at this point.

And in the summer after Teresita's murder, things at Edgewater Hospital had kind of

just returned to normalcy at that point.

You know, all the employees just had in the respiratory unit just had to go about

their their lives.

That's really sad because they all loved her a lot.

And yeah, in a 39 year old inhalation therapist at Edgewater named Remi Chua,

she was working there.

She had hardly known Teresita.

They had literally, I think, met each other at orientation.

When Remi was at orientation, they had worked different shifts.

Like they did not hang out.

They didn't know each other very well.

They knew of each other.

Okay.

I think they called each other a nodding acquaintanceship at best.

And I say this because it's strange because Remi's husband and co-workers said

that she became kind of preoccupied with Teresita's life overnight, out of nowhere.

One day in July, Remi was sitting alone in the hospital's break room, just all

alone, and her co-workers are in the hallway.

And they see her almost jump out of her chair and tear out of the room, like

something scared the shit out of her.

And when they looked to see what she had run from, there was nothing there.

Yeah, there was.

And so whatever it was, it scared the shit out of her so badly that she went home.

She wouldn't finish her shift.

Okay.

And so Remi didn't say anything at the time, but later she told her

husband, Dr. Jose Chua, that she said she was sitting alone in the break room.

And she just kind of briefly closed her eyes, like kind of just like resting a

little bit.

And then she opened them and looked up and saw Teresita Bassa standing in front of

her, not moving or speaking, just staring at her.

What the fuck?

And she said she jumped up and ran the fuck out of there.

And she had become obsessed with her life before this happened.

Okay.

Like she had kind of become like very into what had happened and very into like

her and asking people like, you know, like, did you, and it wasn't like she was

asking people like, what did she like?

What was she into?

Kind of thing.

She was almost telling people facts about her that people were like, how do you know

that?

Oh, that's like, why do you know that?

Like you don't know her.

Yeah.

And she was like, yeah, I'm not really sure because I don't know her.

So it sounds like she's an empath.

Now in the days that followed Teresita's appearance to Remi, co-workers remembered

that Remi's personality shifted a lot after this.

They started noticing that she was very chatty when she wasn't very chatty before.

And she would just quote, chatter on about the piano, about classical music,

playing or partying, like throwing parties, all the things that Teresita was into.

So she was possessed.

And Teresita's co-workers were like, this is disturbing.

Like they had all been very close to Teresita.

Probably like pissed them off.

Well, and it seemed like this woman was doing a strange impression of her almost.

Yeah.

So they all actually ended up reporting it to Remi's supervisor, Ted Ellis, and being

like, I think she's being weird.

And but now Remi was feeling ganged up on and kind of harassed by her co-workers

and who were like, what the fuck, dude?

Stop pretending to be Teresita.

So she ended up reporting to Ellis that she believed that it had become a hostile

work environment.

And Ellis tried to de-escalate this whole situation.

She was just like, what is going on?

He's like, what?

But he was just making Remi angrier when he was trying to de-escalate it.

She was like, I'm not doing anything.

Like, I don't understand.

She ended up being terminated that day for gross insubordination.

Oh, man.

So it was it was rough, like obviously getting terminated out of nowhere.

But it was kind of a relief for Remi because she said she was very confused

and anxious at work, like something was different.

And she wasn't feeling comfortable there.

And she said, you know, like people making comments about the Teresita thing

and like claiming that she was impersonating this woman that she hardly

knew, like it was just getting weird there.

So she said, like she was kind of relieved that she was like out of there

because she felt like something, some weird energy.

OK. And I'm sitting here like, what the fuck is going on?

That evening, as she and her husband, Dr.

Jose Chua were relaxing in their living room and she's just kind of like, fuck,

I got fired. Remi kind of drifted off to sleep in a chair.

And then a few minutes later, she stood up very abruptly,

didn't say anything to her husband and just walked into the bedroom.

And that wasn't like her.

Yeah. And when she didn't come back a few minutes later,

like just stayed in the bedroom.

Jose was like, OK, I'm going to check on her.

So he went in there and checked and she was lying on the bed with her eyes wide open.

What? And so he was like, hey, what's wrong?

You OK? But she wouldn't say anything.

So he was like, what the fuck?

Like, are you OK?

And then she started speaking in Tagalog, I believe is how you say it,

which is like their native language.

And she was saying, Mama, Mama, are you there?

Mama. What?

And Jose was very confused.

And he was like, what the fuck?

Because the Chua's also they came from the Philippines and they spoke Tagalog at home.

When you just said that they also came through the Philippines from the Philippines,

my whole body did the warm like they're like, oh, I have I'm covered in chills

because this is the language they spoke at home.

Yeah. And this is the language that Teresita would also know.

And he said the voice coming from his wife was not like her normal speaking voice.

I got to go.

So he said she was speaking a language I understood that we speak at home.

But not in her voice. This was not her voice.

And then he said to Jose's ear, it sounded like there was a slight Spanish accent here.

And then he said, Remy had her eyes fixed on the ceiling.

And she said, I am Teresita Bassa.

Holy shit.

And Dr. Chua was like, oh, fuck.

And he was like, I was very alarmed.

And she kept rambling on in this language about the dead woman, whom she barely knew.

And he tried to get her to snap out of it and just explain what the fuck was going on.

And then she looked at him and said, Dr. Chua, I would like to ask for your help.

And he was like, why are you calling me Dr. Chua?

Like I am your husband.

And he said so he was like, what kind of help?

Yeah. And she responded to stop the person who killed me.

What the fuck?

And he was like, what?

Oh, my God, stop, stop, stop.

In this moment, holy fucking shit.

Jose was like, OK, this has been a tough week for Remy, my wife.

She's having a break. She's gone through some shit.

She saw who she thought was Teresita Bassa in the break room.

People have been shitty to her.

She kind of got ganged up on.

She was like fired from work.

Maybe she's just really stressed and under a lot of anxiety.

And this is like some kind of hallucination or like she's having a bad dream.

She's like maybe having a night terror right now.

So he started walking towards the bathroom

because he was going to get something like a cool class to like calm her.

Yeah. And like, he sounds so sweet.

He does sound like a sweetie.

Yeah, Drew would be like, I have to leave immediately, right?

And this is and Jose, Dr.

Chua is like, I'm going to take care of you.

Like I'm going to get you something to calm you down.

I promise you, Drew would be running down the fucking street at this point.

And he said as he was walking towards the bathroom, she lifted her arm

and gestured to the telephone and said, call the police, please, doctor.

Call the police and tell them who killed me.

I cannot rest until they know.

And Jose was kind of starting to panic at this point

because he's like, I can't call the police right now.

And he was like, I don't know what to tell them.

I don't know what you're saying.

Like, I don't know what's happening right now.

And then Remy suddenly abruptly came to and was very confused why she was in bed

and what the fuck was wrong with her husband, why he was so alarmed.

This is real. This happened.

This happened.

And he explained to her what happened.

He was like, this is what just happened.

And she was like, what?

Like, I have no idea what you're talking about.

Oh, my God, she must have been so scared and he must have been so scared.

And they're like, what?

Like they had not nothing like this had happened to them before.

Usually it doesn't in your life.

It's not like these people are people that are like trying to do this all the time.

Like this was a very random thing.

And the next day, Jose had driven his wife to Edgewater to get her belongings from work.

And they, you know, they came back, they were in the living room

and Remy was talking on the phone and suddenly she hands him the phone abruptly

and says, Teresita wants to come back.

Nope, nope, nope. Oh, my God, what?

And then she walked out of the room in the middle of a phone call.

She literally stopped, handed him the phone, said Teresita wants to come back

and walked into the bedroom.

And so Jose was like, I'm sorry, my wife has to call you back

and ended the phone call and followed her into the bedroom.

And she was laying just as she was the day before on the bed.

Interesting that like she kept going back to her bedroom to lay in the middle of her bed.

Yep. What?

And again, she said, I am Teresita Bassa.

I'd be like, I believe you.

And she said she was murdered by a man named Alan Chowry.

Yeah, I already knew that.

And she said, and she spouted this to him.

She said, he came to fix my television.

He stabbed me, he choked me, and he stole some of my jewelry.

And she said, and then she just urgently requested him,

please go to the police, please go to the police with this.

And she was, he was so confused.

And he was like, I can't go to the police.

I don't have any proof of this.

So I can't call them and say that you are just telling me this ghost of this woman.

Yeah, he's like, I can't tell them that you're telling me this beyond the grave.

Like they will think I he was like, they will think I'm losing it.

Right. I will get in trouble.

Right. And the voice just kept pleading for him to help

and insisting that they could provide proof.

And then they provided proof.

Tell me right now.

They explained every piece of jewelry that he had stolen.

And they said it was a ring that my mother had given me.

It was like another piece of and I'll explain those in a little bit.

But that ring that her mother had given her a year before.

Also, sorry, didn't he work at the hospital with her?

Yeah. So this fucker, like do Remy and Dr.

and Alan and they know him?

Yeah. What?

Yep. Now, as they provided this proof of this is what he took from me,

Remy came to and was again, completely confused what just happened.

And this happened again the following day.

The exact same thing over and over with the voice saying,

I know, like, please call, please provide this proof.

Please tell them that this is what's happening.

So Remy was like when she came to and he told her again that this is you keep

doing this, this is the third day. Yeah.

Remy was like, we got to do something.

It's just going to keep happening.

So Remy called a friend until the friend, the story and this friend

who I guess was connected to the consulate,

they placed a call to the Evanston police and using their connections

were like, this is what I've heard is happening.

Right. They didn't give him the full rundown, I guess.

But they didn't give them the rundown from the grace.

The whole thing.

So the tip about the Chua's was assigned to Detective Floyd McKinney

at the Evanston police. OK.

And he drove to the Chua's home to interview them.

This is absolutely wild.

So they were worried that the detective was not going to take

the story of Teresita Spirit possessing Remy's body and telling them.

I feel like most people feel that way.

Now, remember, if they were looking to get something out of this

and they were looking to like get attention, they would have just said it.

Yeah, they would have been like, wow, she got possessed.

Like this would have been like that thing.

No, they didn't.

They just told McKinney that Remy had received a threatening phone

call from a former co-worker, Alan Chowry,

and that she believed that he could have played part in Teresita's murder

because of how aggressive he was and that he had mentioned something

that made her think. Guys, this is wild.

So they were like, we have to get Alan's name out there

because Teresita is telling us.

Yeah, but we can't tell that Teresita told us this because then they

so they made up a story, which it's like, why would they have done that?

No, they would have just said it if they were trying to get attention.

I like losing it.

So there's no actual evidence to support this at the moment.

And McKinney, the detective, just kind of took the statement, left the house.

Like I'll write it down, I guess.

Yeah, he was like, wow, that's wild.

And back at the station, he reported it to a supervisor.

Like, you know, they have this name.

They got a threatening phone call.

They think it could be connected.

So his supervisor was like and pass this on to Chicago, where the jurisdiction is.

So, you know, they would have to be the ones to conduct this.

So they did.

So Detective McKinney and Evanston was the one who received the tip.

OK.

And they hadn't had any leads in the case since the end of April.

So he was like, awesome, like, we'll just go with this.

And he was not aware of all the specifics.

Obviously, he got that he got that story from it.

Yeah.

But he explained to the people in Chicago

that he had received a tip from this couple in Evanston,

about a man named Alan Showery being involved, possibly in the Bassa murder.

And it was Stihula, obviously, who heard this tip.

And he got the tip and he placed a call to the Chua's the next day.

OK. So now this is Stihula in Chicago,

who is now having to contact the Chua's.

Where did, sorry, where did the Chua's live?

They lived in Evanston, which is just another jurisdiction.

That's why they had to like.

I see.

And apparently they had lived about a half

of a half hour outside of Chicago.

So Stihula had to go, you know, to their address.

He had to go sit down and talk to them.

And he was like, what do you guys know? Right.

Now, at first, they stayed with the story.

They heard of they received a harassing phone call from a man

that Remy believed was Alan Showery. Yeah.

And she explained that Showery worked as what she thought was an orderly

at Edgewater. She was like, I'm not really sure what he does.

There's different reports that he was an orderly

or he was like a respiratory therapist.

OK. But she said he likes to pretend he's a doctor.

He even gets mail addressed to Dr.

Showery. That's something.

Something about the story seemed a little strange to Stihula.

He just had, like, his feeling.

Yeah, his radar was going off.

His senses are tingling. Yeah, yeah.

And he said the Chua's were being a little cagey

and they seemed a little reluctant to talk,

which he thought was weird. Right.

And he was like, this seems kind of just like a prank phone call.

Like, I don't know about this.

And he said every time that Showery's name was brought up,

he could see Jose tense up and become uncomfortable.

Really? So he was like, what's going on?

And he kind of pressed on them a little bit and was like, what do you know?

Like, what's happening here?

And finally, Jose leaned towards him and said, tell me, Mr. Detective,

do you believe in the occult or an exorcism?

Uh-huh. And so he was like, I'm open minded.

OK. And so thank you as explained the events of the previous week, the real events.

They told the detective Jose had asked the voice who killed Teresita

and she had said Alan Showery.

And he said she kept repeating his name over and over and over.

And Joseph said or excuse me, Jose said, he said, he killed me.

He killed me.

He killed me over and over and over.

Then he added credibility to the story because Jose explained that the voice

had said that Showery had taken her jewelry.

And so Shua said, OK.

And he was like, so he didn't even give him the specifics of that yet.

He was like, he took his her jewelry and he was like, all right,

we don't know that yet because people said they didn't think anything was missing

from the scene. Right.

But then he was like, I'm going to test this.

So he goes, did the voice indicate to you that her killer raped her?

And Jose said, oh, no, no, she did not.

She only said that she had been stabbed. Oh, wow.

And Jose also then right after this went into the description of the jewelry

and said that it was a pendant from the Philippines that was taken,

a cocktail ring with a pearl inlay given to Teresita by her mother

a couple of years earlier and also that the I guess that the voice

insisted that this was going to be how they would know the truth.

Like, I guess the voice was literally like, you tell the police this and they'll

know they are going to find these things in Showery's possession.

Yeah, I promise you this.

So he was like, shit.

This is pretty wild.

But like, how are we going to get a search warrant?

That's the thing like this, this, this, whatever.

And he was like, OK, it's weird because in the press,

they had said this was possibly a rape murder robbery.

It was not in the press that she had not been sexually assaulted.

So that was a strange one.

And when he went back to the stations to Hula considered the whole thing,

he didn't know what to make of it.

And like I said, no one had reported that any jewelry was missing from

Teresita's apartment.

And he said they interviewed most, but not all of the co-workers that she worked with.

And no one ever really talked about a man named Alan Showery.

And then he's flipping through the case file and he comes across the memo pad

next to the telephone that was next to the telephone.

Yeah. And it said on that memo pad, get tickets for A.S.

And he was like, huh, Alan Showery.

The fact that she was going to get him free tickets.

And this is what he fucking did to her.

Yeah. Now, fortunately, it turned out that whoever received the call

from the Evanston police earlier in the day, like to take that tip

and pass it on to the detectives, they had already run Showery's name for them.

Which I was like, badass.

Yeah, like ahead of things.

So they had already pulled his full report, his full case file for Stihule.

So he was like, you're an MVP.

You're the real one.

Alan Showery was 30 years old when he started working at Edgewater's Hospital.

Yeah.

He was born and raised in New York City.

He'd studied sociology and psychology at New York University and Utah State

before settling in Chicago around 1969.

So like I said, there's varying reports, whether what his job at the hospital was,

but he did work with Teresita alongside her.

Right.

They didn't seem like they would be likely friends because on paper, they are very different.

Yeah.

He had an arrest record that was like very long, but she probably didn't know that.

That included arrests for burglary in 1967, stolen mail in 1966, theft in 1971.

Two arrests for rape in 1972.

What the fuck was he doing?

Working at a hospital.

Yep.

And both of those rapes were done on Chicago's north side, where Teresita lived.

Now they were, but they were both friendly with each other.

They had very outgoing personalities, the two of them.

They bonded together.

They both loved music.

He was about to be in her band.

I guess they really got along.

Like the two of them were like friends.

Yeah, it sounded like it.

They used to ride the bus together.

In the mid 1970s, he had been living with his German-born girlfriend,

Yonka Kalmach.

She they lived on the city's north side, which was opposite the Chicago Transit Authority.

OK.

So investigators were like, he was not outwardly, obviously a guy that would have

rape or murder on his rap sheet.

They said he was the sort of person that like you could easily come to like.

He had a face that projected, I want to be your friend.

That's scary.

And it took some time to actually track him down.

But once they got him at his apartment and knocked on the door,

he seemed perfectly fine with going down to the station and talking to the detectives.

And before they'd even arrived at the station,

he asked if whatever they wanted to talk about had to do with Teresita Bassa.

They didn't respond.

They just brought him into the interrogation room and immediately read him his rights.

And the detectives explained that they'd been speaking with a lot of his co-workers

at the hospital, and there were some things that were said that kind of led them

to want to talk to Alan.

That's what they let out.

Yeah, they didn't say that Teresita told us you did it.

I hope he did find that out eventually.

Terrace. So Showery claimed that he and Teresita were very good friends,

but he said it was platonic.

He explained they would talk during work.

They would ride the bus home together.

They ate lunch together.

It was very normal co-worker friendship.

Wow.

Now, initially he said that he hadn't seen Teresita outside of work for about six months.

But the detectives decided to bluff a little,

and they told them that they'd found his fingerprints at the apartment.

They had no. Yeah.

And he said there was no way that those were six months old.

So he was like, OK, and then he revised his story.

And that's when he told the detectives that not only had he not not seen her

in six months out of sight of work, he had ridden the bus home

with Teresita on the day that she was murdered.

Right, like that's going to look a little weird, dude.

Yeah. And he told them he'd promised to go to her apartment later that night

to fix her television.

But he said he'd forgotten and instead had gone home

and he had fixed wiring in his own apartment.

Lies. And he assured them that his girlfriend would verify this album.

I bet she would.

Now, they were like, huh, OK.

And they were like, you have a girlfriend.

I wonder if she has new jewelry.

So they said, hmm, I wouldn't have even thought of that.

Yep. And now that they have brought him in for questioning,

they could now search his apartment.

So they went and Yonko was there so they could question her.

And when they told her about the alibi, she was very confused and said,

we don't have any problems with the wiring in here.

And he never did any work on it.

She was just like, fuck that. No, he didn't.

And so they were like, can we look in your jewelry box?

And she was like, absolutely you can. Good for her.

And they didn't really know what they were like looking for quite yet.

But they, you know, they were just like, I don't know.

At this point, they were like, maybe it's in here.

Maybe it's not.

And they eventually they were able to find someone like one of her friends

who could actually look in the jewelry box to and point to see if anything was

recognizable, one of Teresita's friends. Exactly.

And so they found who they found was Richard Pozzotti,

who was one of the two men that went on a date with her.

And he said he didn't see anything that he believed belonged to Teresita.

And they had him come down where Yonka was and look into this thing.

And he was like, yeah, I don't see anything. That's hers.

And then he was leaving the room and he looked over at Yonka and he said,

that ring on her finger is Teresita's.

And Yonka told Yonka told detectives that Alan had given her the ring

as a belated Christmas gift sometime around the end of February.

What the actual fall.

So she said, here you go, take it.

And it was later identified by Teresita's cousin to be the cocktail ring

given to her by her mother. Oh my God, that's disgusting.

He gave that to his girlfriend as a late Christmas gift.

Yeah. And the cousin also looked and was able to look in the box

and identified a jade pendant that was Teresita's.

And remember, her Remy had said there's a jade, there's a pendant.

She said, she said a pendant, a ring and a cocktail ring that belongs to

you and a cocktail ring that belongs to my mother. Yeah, that was my mother.

Right, right, right.

And he said the cousin said there was also two other items in there

that he believed belonged to Teresita as well.

This is so horrific.

Now, after he heard about the jewelry and about his girlfriend denying the alibi,

Showery tried to spin a story about how he bought that jewelry from some guy on the street.

But both detectives just kind of looked at him and were like, really?

Is that really the fucking story you want to go with?

He immediately dropped it and he said, I murdered her.

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According to Alan, he said he did go to terraced as that evening to look

at the television set to fix it for.

But he realized that he needed to get his tools in order to fix it.

So he went back to his apartment a few hours later, around 7 30 p.m.

That's when he was going back to her apartment.

And he said he just decided he was going to rob her.

So he said the reason was he said he had been in the car

and he said he was going to rob her.

What? So he said the reason was he said he had been helping

Teresita obtain citizenship papers and it had on several occasions

driven her to the naturalization office.

And after he would do this, she would always give him a cash tip

of five or ten dollars for just for helping her out.

So he decided to rob her.

So he assumed that she had money in her apartment.

This is why you shouldn't be kind to people.

No, you shouldn't because also she didn't.

She had $30 in her right.

She didn't like she was just doing that out of the.

She just did that to help you.

And yeah, he broke.

So he said at the time of the murder, he was very broke.

He was behind on all his bills.

He was very desperate.

Well, got another job asshole.

And as soon as Teresita closed the door after letting him in,

he grabbed her from behind and gave her a chokehold.

She lost consciousness very quickly.

And he said he laid her down on the floor

and just started ransacking the place for money.

All he found was $30 in cash

and what he thought was expensive looking jewelry.

So once he'd ransacked the place, he went back to the living room.

He picked her up off the floor, carried her into the bedroom,

and he said he didn't know what to do.

So he decided to make it look like rape.

So he took her clothing off, went to the kitchen

and got that knife off the counter that she had used to cut up

the lettuce and the tomato.

And he stabbed her into her sternum.

Holy shit.

According to Alan, he described Teresita

as being subconscious at the time, which I was like, no, incorrect.

You work at a fucking hospital.

And he said she didn't feel anything.

Who the fuck are you to say that?

Yeah, like you don't even know the difference

between unconscious and subconscious.

After. So he said he piled some clothes

on top of her body, dragged the mattress over to her

and set fire to a paper bag that he put on top of the clothing.

And once that was all on fire, he fled the apartment and went back to his.

What a piece of human garbage.

Yeah. Now, during this questioning,

Stihula put in a bunch of control questions to see

if he was telling the truth or if he was just repeating things he had heard in the media.

Yeah, because he wanted to be sure this was an accurate confession

and not somebody going to claim that they were forced into it.

Smart guy.

So Alan accurately described the scene in the apartment,

which wasn't released to the press.

He described what Teresita was wearing.

He said what he'd stolen.

None of that was in the newspapers.

And he also said that he wanted to, quote, make it look like a sex crime

and that he had not sexually assaulted her.

And none of that had been released to the media.

Wow.

So the confession was very genuine.

And, you know, just to be sure, they had him go through it a second time.

And they said he never wavered from that confession.

And so they took him out of the room

and they said, as he went by Yonka, who was standing out there,

he told her that he probably wouldn't be seeing her again for a long time.

I can't even imagine what she said to him.

Yeah, now everything had worked out, it seemed.

And the detectives were really confident

that they had enough to give the district attorney for prosecution.

I mean, they had everything, the stuff.

The only issue is that they weren't sure how to explain

how they'd even made their way to Alan Chowry.

Right.

But there was no way around it.

They had to tell the judge in the jury

that the ghost of Teresita Bassa spoke through Remy Chua

and led them to their killer.

I mean, and the thing is, they may not have been able to explain what happened.

But they were right about every detail. Right.

So it's like, this is going to sound kind of kooky,

but everything is right.

What happened and it led us here.

So the case was assigned to Thomas organ

of the Cook County District Attorney's Office, who would be representing the state.

Yeah.

And at first, organ was a skeptical of the voice from the grave story.

I think so.

And he had no idea how he was going to present this case to a jury.

He said, in my five years as a prosecutor,

handling 70 or so felony cases, I've never run into anything like this.

Also, sorry, is his last name organ?

Yeah. Wow. Yeah, right.

But he he dove into it and he researched it, investigated it.

And he said, they're telling the truth.

Everything in this case just like lines up and like does like spiritually, physically.

Yeah. And he said, he was like, I believe the Chewis.

How can I not?

Yeah, because they didn't even want to tell us to begin with.

That's the thing like that.

And I feel like that gives more credibility.

Yeah, they didn't run out to tell this to anyone. Right. Exactly.

So a pretrial hearing was held in the Circuit Court of Cook County on September 7th, 1978.

And this is when Alan's defense attorney, William Swanno,

he tried to have the charges dismissed because of the unusual circumstances

that preceded his arrest.

It's like, yeah, sure.

But like, why does your client have everything and know everything about her?

Well, and he's claiming that Remy Chua had faked the episodes

because she'd been fired, she was stressed out, she was trying to get attention.

OK. And prosecutor Thomas Orgen argued that the detectives

had pursued a viable lead and found probable cause to arrest Alan Showery.

So the paranormal thing that preceded it

was unusual, but ultimately irrelevant because it led to the truth.

Uh-huh. And the judge agreed. Wow.

And Alan's, yeah.

And Alan Showery was ordered to stand trial for the first degree murder of Teresita Bassa.

Because he planned it on the way over.

Yeah, because he had planned the whole thing.

Alan Showery went on trial January 8th, 1979.

And the media went nuts about this.

Thomas Orgen knew he was fighting a very uphill battle with this, you know,

a lot of his case was resting on a tip from a ghost.

Yeah, you know, that'll be difficult.

But he he fought through, he was undeterred.

In the months since the case had come to him,

he had interviewed the Chua's again and again.

And he said it was, you know, I was trying to get the I knew

they were going to be on the stand.

And he said, also, I was looking for holes in the story.

Right. And he found nothing.

And he said, in front of the jury,

Orgen tried to minimize the supernatural claims and just kind of focus

on the facts of the case, which was a case of murder and robbery

and not ghosts and possession.

So he was like, the reality of the case is that there is evidence

in his possession to say he murdered her.

Yeah. And he was like, I don't want the jury to forget that,

that there is facts here, regardless of how we got here, we got here.

So for the most part, his argument remained much as it had during the pre

trial hearing with Alan Showery had been confronted with undeniable

proof of his involvement and with the jewelry.

Yeah. And on that, he had given an oral and written confession to murdering her.

So that is the facts.

Yeah. And the defense argued that Showery had been arrested

on nothing more than the Chua's unbelievable story of possession

and that Alan had only confessed to spare his girlfriend

from being arrested along with him and giving birth to their children in jail

because apparently she was pregnant. Oh my God, that's horrific.

Now, Remy Chua was in the process.

They said was in the process of being fired from her job.

She had personal problems.

They didn't release what those personal problems were.

Because they probably didn't exist.

But they told the story, the jury that she had just made up this

possession thing, this whole act to get attention.

And sure, anybody hearing that would be like, under normal circumstances,

sure, tell me that she's stressed out.

She lost her job.

There was all this weird shit going on.

Maybe she wants attention.

Sure, why not?

Except that from the start, that she was didn't want to report the whole thing,

even they were reluctant reporters and reluctant witnesses.

They didn't want to talk about any of it.

They were stressed out talking about it.

They were very reluctant and also like cool.

She got fired from her job.

She has all these personal problems.

She made this up.

Then why was the jewelry and the girlfriend's possession?

Why did it pan out?

And why did he know the apartment scene if he hadn't been there?

And how did he know that she hadn't been raped if he wasn't the one to not rape her?

Exactly.

And at no time had the Chewis tried to make money off of or capitalize on this story.

No time.

Right, never.

They had nothing to gain here.

In fact, everyone who knew them and anytime anyone talked to them,

they were like, we really just want to go away.

Like, we don't want to be part of this story anymore.

We don't want to be in the spotlight.

We just want to leave this for you to fix.

And that's it.

Because realistically, I just said they have nothing to gain.

Really, they have everything to lose.

Yeah, they at least I mean, he's a doctor.

Yeah, like people will doubt him if he like made this up.

And you know, she's a respiratory therapist.

Like they have like, you know, they have good jobs.

They have like this wouldn't be a good thing.

They're not trying to be like, you know, they're not running around

to all the media outlets being like, let me tell you my story of possession.

They're like, please don't talk to me.

Right, exactly.

So in their closing arguments, both sides tried to hammer home

those arguments that they've been making the whole time.

The defense kind of focused on the paranormal part,

being like, this is crazy, trying to put in the jury's mind.

This is wild.

Also propping up Showery's claim that he had been coerced into confessing

by because the detectives had threatened to arrest his girlfriend as a necessary.

OK, now Thomas Orgen dismissed any claims of coercion,

saying to the jury that his story might be believable

if it came from a 16 year old boy who might be easily intimidated.

Yeah, exactly.

But they said, Alan Showery is an adult, educated man

with an extensive criminal history.

That's the other thing he's literally done in shit like this before.

And as for the supernatural part about the Chuas, he told them,

it doesn't matter as to guilt or innocence.

What does matter is that the information furnace to police checked out.

And after 13 hours of deliberation,

the jury sent a note to the judge on the afternoon of Friday,

20th January, 26th, saying that they were hopelessly deadlocked.

I would think because can you imagine that 13 hours and they're going back and forth?

And the judge dismissed the jury and a new trial was set for February 14th.

Oh, they needed Ronald.

So February 14th came and went and the judge had to order a continuance,

which got the defense really feeling good because they started getting

confident that they could get an acquittal the second time around.

But on the evening of February 21st, only a few days later,

Alan Showery called his lawyer and asked him to arrange a meeting

with the judge and the district attorney.

The next day, Showery and lawyers from both sides stood in front of the judge.

And Alan Showery against the advice of his attorney pleaded guilty to the murder

of Teresita Bassa.

Do you think Teresita was like appearing to him at this point?

I wonder if she was like, you fucker, I'm going to haunt your ass.

Right.

And he was like, I'm just going to admit this.

Yeah.

The district attorney's office confirmed that they had no plea deal.

They had not offered a deal for this.

Wow.

I feel like he had to have been being haunted.

And honestly, I hope that even after he pled guilty, he continued to be haunted.

That's what I think.

And Showery would not give an explanation for why he decided to do this.

That's what makes me think.

We already know.

Yep.

And his lawyer asked the judge for leniency.

That's all they could do.

And the judge considered everything and the request for leniency and sentenced Alan

Showery to concurrent terms of four to 12 years on armed robbery and arson charges.

What about the murder?

He was never convicted of the murder from what I can tell.

He was convicted of armed robbery and arson.

And that's why he got that sentence.

What?

So I wonder if there was some kind of plea deal that happened by the scenes.

Because it's very confusing.

That doesn't make any fucking sense that they were just like,

yeah, I guess we'll just throw the murder off the table for no fucking reason.

Just no big deal.

But he admitted to it, which is so wild to me.

I wonder if he had information on like another case or like.

Something is out there that we don't know about.

That doesn't make any sense.

And also that pisses me the fuck off.

Because he served the minimum four years of his sentence and was paroled in 1983.

What the actual fuck?

Are you kidding me?

Yep.

He.

Oh my God, Teresita, baby, if you didn't haunt him.

And that is the story of Teresita Bassa.

Four years he served.

Four years he served for that.

What?

I know.

Teresita's the baddest bitch alive and the baddest bitch in the afterlife also.

And good for the Chewis.

For listening to her.

And for like being brave enough to tell a detective when they didn't want to,

that this is what had happened.

That?

And good for Yonka for just being like, sure, come on in and like, no,

I'm not telling you his alibi is correct.

Like no, he did not work on wiring that night.

That's like good for Yonka.

But like damn.

But what do we not know?

Because that doesn't make any sense.

That like in my opinion, it really sucks because justice wasn't served.

No, it really wasn't.

Four years is not.

A sentence for that.

And she like nobody ever went to prison for her murder.

Yeah.

I'm so angry right now.

I am.

I was too.

I was very angry.

Fuck.

There's something that happened in that trial that we that is not public.

That we don't know about.

That definitely is hidden somewhere in the annals of that record.

I just have like a gut feeling that he had information on another.

There had to have been something.

Something like that.

Because that's nothing.

Like because he had to have helped them in some big way.

Yeah.

And that's Dave said the same thing.

He was like, there had to have been some kind of deal that happened that we don't know.

Off the books.

Yeah.

That is infuriating.

Yeah.

What only got the arson and robbery charge.

Honestly, I not only hope that he gets haunted for the rest of his life.

I hope everybody in that deal.

Right.

Involved in that deal also got haunted.

Haunt them.

Teresita.

Teresita.

You know what?

But no, you know what?

If that's what you want to do, go ahead.

But like live your afterlife.

Yeah.

Because you know what?

She said I can't move on until they know that he did it.

So hopefully she just got him to admit it.

Yeah.

And then was like, now I can move on.

Exactly.

I hope she is like playing piano shows in the afterlife,

strumming on her organ.

Hell yeah.

I hope that like men treated her better in the afterlife.

Yeah.

I hope she's hanging out with her parents.

I hope she's just like having fun.

I hope the best.

I hope she's going to London sometimes to hang out and have some fun.

I hope she like quickly dropped by Edwards House just to be like just to scare the shit out of him.

I hope so too.

I would do that.

Yeah.

Hell yeah.

Wow, Teresita, what a wild story.

Yeah.

What an infuriating story.

Truly.

Because the fact that she invited him into her home and was invited him into her band,

like thought he was a friend and that's what he did to her.

That's how much of a friend she considered him.

She was going to have him be in the band.

She trusted him coming into her house to fix this TV.

She was going to comp him tickets.

Like she tipped him every time he drove her somewhere and she didn't actually really have that much money.

And telling like her friends in the band that like, oh, I have this friend,

you know, Alan is going to be in the band.

Yeah, like I want you guys to hear him.

Yeah.

Wow.

I'm so angry right now.

Me too.

Great story though.

Wild story.

Wild story.

And with that being said, we hope you keep listening.

And we hope you keep it weird.

But not as weird as the beginning of the show because we were like wild and.

Yeah.

Keep it as weird as Teresita though.

Keep it as weird as Teresita for sure.

And maybe do keep it so weird that you're just like wild and out in a fun goofy silly way.

Be silly goofy.

Like for what?

Oh, for Teresita.

Yeah, she's a badass.

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