S. 20 Ep. 5 Their Kindness Ended Them in a Mass Grave - Zafar Mawani and Guillermo Ortiz

A married couple from Chicago, Illinois moved in 2025 to Mexico City, Mexico. Their goal was to be with Zafar's ailing mother. Needed their home in Mexico City altered, they reached out to a construction company not realizing it was a scam.

Our True Crime Quickie is from San Francisco, California in 2023.

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Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renda

Resources:
https://people.com/chicago-couple-found-slain-mexico-suspicious-encounters-month-before-vanishing-exclusive-12013550
https://people.com/two-missing-americans-id-d-among-four-bodies-found-outside-mexico-city-12008029
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/who-were-zafar-padamsee-mawani-and-guillermo-jafett-hidalgo-ortiz-the-chicago-couple-whose-dream-of-a-new-life-in-mexico-ended-in-tragedy/articleshow/132045594.cms
https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-couple-mexico-mass-grave
https://holrmagazine.com/what-happened-to-zafar-mawani-and-guillermo-hidalgo-ortiz/
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2026/07/01/gay-us-couple-among-four-people-found-dead-in-mexico-mass-grave/
https://people.com/family-speaks-out-after-missing-chicago-man-his-partner-found-in-mass-grave-mexico-12009164
https://transgenderdistrictsf.com/about

https://people.com/san-francisco-sex-worker-guilty-killing-client-wanted-refund-11709597
https://www.ebar.com/story/153590
https://sfstandard.com/2023/12/08/san-francisco-crissy-field-killing-transgender-sex-worker/

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