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Deadly Mirage - Ep. 1: Death in the High Desert

Thu, 13 Mar 2025

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Rob Limon’s close-knit group of friends is shattered when he is shot to death at work. Did the killing have something to do with his job, or something closer to home? This episode originally published on December 3, 2024.

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What happened to Rob Limon in the high desert?

3.257 - 24.194 Josh Mankiewicz

The body lay on the shop floor, the man's shaven head leaning against the front left tire of a service truck. There was a dime-sized hole in his chin and a pool of blood slowly congealing on the concrete floor. Scarlet stained the front of his shirt, which was stiffening in the dry desert air.

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26.28 - 58.559 Josh Mankiewicz

A few feet away lay a bullet and a line of broken fluorescent glass, white and powdery, like a line of drugs. For more than an hour, silence hung over this scene of death and disorder. A quiet broken only by the occasional sound of a big diesel rig out on the highway. Then shortly before 7 p.m., a man scheduled to work second shift walked in. And that silence was replaced by screams.

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59.64 - 64.602 Narrator

This is the story of what happened that afternoon in 2014 and why. But it's also about much more.

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83.976 - 87.458 Josh Mankiewicz

It's about long shadows cast by old sins.

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88.379 - 94.843 Michael Fleeman

It starts as a Playboy Channel fantasy, but this is real life and there are real complications.

96.004 - 103.329 Josh Mankiewicz

It's about the pairings of flawed souls, unholy alliances that spiraled out of control.

103.349 - 112.996 Unidentified Speaker (Brief Interjection)

It had everything. It had sex, religion, the seemingly perfect, beautiful family that had all these secrets.

113.567 - 120.07 Josh Mankiewicz

It's about faith and faithlessness, murder, and the thrill of moral escapism.

120.09 - 124.113 Unidentified Speaker (Brief Interjection)

God's given us a purpose, and he's given us a chance with that purpose.

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