Inside a Killer's Gamble: The Interview with Mario Garcia | My Life of Crime
Go deeper into the 48 Hours episode "The Search for Christie Wilson” in this special presentation of My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty. In this episode, Moriarty sits down face-to-face with killer Mario Garcia in prison after he is charged and convicted for the murder of Christie Wilson. Even with a unanimous jury convicting him, he still insists on his innocence. Listen and follow My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Wednesday.
- Duration
- 30m
- Broadcast on
- 09 Nov 2022
- Audio Format
- other
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It's Erin Moriarty, and we have a special episode for you today from my original podcast, My Life of Crime. I'm taking you inside true crime investigations like no one else, taking on killers and those accused of crimes. Here's an all-new episode of My Life of Crime that takes you deeper into the search for Kristy Wilson, "Follow along as I go beyond the scene of each crime, behind prism walls, and into the killers' inner thoughts. It's all on this season of My Life of Crime." "Well, my name is Marty Garcia, I'm in plastic county jail, and I am in jail because I have been accused of the disappearance of Kristy Wilson. Has it sunk in that you may spend the rest of your life in prison?" "Oh, it has been. I have had the feeling I have gone through all the human emotions of anxiety, been afraid, been concerned for my family, and most of all, wondering what's going to happen to my family. I have lost everything. I have lost, and I'm close to losing my house. I lost my job. I lost my car, my truck, my boat, but aside from all the physical possessions, I still have my family. I still have my sons. I still have my wife who loves me and supports me and encourages me to go to the next step, along with my mother. I'm still fortunate to have my mother lived at 76, 77 years of age, and I still have them." "I'm Erin Moriarty, 48 Hours, and this is My Life of Crime. It's not very often that you get a chance to sit down to talk with a killer. It can be a tent, sometimes even hostile, experience, and that's what I went through in January 2007, when I sat across from a man by the name of Mario Garcia inside the Placer County, California jail. Garcia, who was then in his mid-50s, had been convicted of the murder of 27-year-old Christi Wilson." "Do you know what happened to Christi Wilson?" "I have gone through my mind playing all the different scenarios when I walked out of the casino, and I can't figure out what happened, where she went after that. She did not get in my car. She did not drive out of the parking lot at Thunder Valley Casino with me." If you listened to our last episode on the case of Christi Wilson, then you already know that Garcia was the last one scene with Christi, when she disappeared from a California casino on October 5th, 2005. Garcia was charged and convicted of murder, even though Christi's body had not been recovered. There was a lot of circumstantial evidence that pointed at Garcia, but without a body, not a lot of physical evidence. Prosecutors believe that Garcia was a cold-blooded killer with a history of hurting women. Someone who deliberately withheld what he did with Christi's body to continue to cause pain for her family. Now in part two, you'll get insight into the mind of a killer, because it's Mario Garcia's turn to talk. "I'm just going to ask you straight out. Did you kill Christi Wilson?"
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Go deeper into the 48 Hours episode "The Search for Christie Wilson” in this special presentation of My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty. In this episode, Moriarty sits down face-to-face with killer Mario Garcia in prison after he is charged and convicted for the murder of Christie Wilson. Even with a unanimous jury convicting him, he still insists on his innocence. Listen and follow My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Wednesday.