18 | Tair Rada: Unsolved and Unjust

Prash's Murder Map: True Crime Podcast

A school should be a place of learning, somewhere you feel safe. But in 2006, a 13-year-old girl in Israel went to the bathroom and never came back. Is the right man behind bars, or is there a second victim in this tangled case?
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Please note: since this episode was created in 2020 there have been new developments in the case and Roman Zadorov is now a free man as of 2023.
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Credits:Research, writing, narration and audio editing by Prash
Thanks to JP and Simon for providing the voice overs
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