Every Town - Listen Now: Season 2 of PROOF

Episode Date: January 17, 2024

The second season of PROOF: Murder at the Warehouse takes Susan Simpson and Jacinda Davis to Manteca, CA where they reinvestigate the murder of 18-year-old Renee Ramos. On June 5, 2000, Ramos’ body was found buried under a pile of debris inside the shell of a new Home Depot building. Despite tips hinting at alternate suspects - tips that were ignored until now - Renee’s boyfriend, 18-year-old skateboarder Jake Silva, and Ty Lopes, the 33-year-old uncle of one of Jake's close friends were arrested for her murder. The questionable testimony of a 14-year-old boy was the key evidence used to convict them both to life in prison. Ty Lopes was killed in prison in 2011. Twenty-three years after Renee Ramos was murdered, Jake Silva remains in prison and maintains he is innocent. In season two of PROOF: Murder at the Warehouse, Susan and Jacinda travel the streets of Manteca, reinvestigating the case against Jake and Ty – and in the process uncover long-overlooked evidence about what really happened to Renee. Follow the case as Susan and Jacinda uncover long overlooked evidence about what really happened to Renee by listening to PROOF: Murder at the Warehouse wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey guys, it's Andrew, because I know you're always on the lookout for new and cool content to listen to. Today, I wanted to share a special clip from the highly anticipated second season of the hit podcast, Proof, that I know you really like. Proof is an investigative true crime podcast co-hosted by Susan Simpson of Undisclosed and Jacinda Davis of Evil Lives Here. Their first season was intense, and in Proof, Season 1, Susan and Jacinda investigated a case to down in Rome, Georgia, that they uncovered powerful new evidence that rapidly led to the release of two innocent men who as teenagers have been falsely convicted

of a fictitious conspiracy to murder a friend. Daryl Lee Clark and Kane Joshua's story were sentenced to life in prison for the murder of their friend Brian Bowling when they were just 18 years old. 25 years later, on December 8th of 2022, Clark and Story were finally freed based on evidence unearthed by proof which is insane.

And now the second season of proof, murder at the warehouse, take Susan and Jacinda to Manteca, California, where they reinvestigate the murder of 18-year-old Renee Ramos. On June 5th of 2000, Ramos's body was found buried under a pile of debris inside the shell of a new Home Depot building. Despite tips hinting at alternate suspects, tips that were ignored until now, Renee's boyfriend, 18-year-old skateboarder Jake Silva, and Ty Lopez, the 33-year-old uncle of one of Jake's close friends, were arrested for the murder.

The questionable testimony of a 14-year-old boy was the key evidence used to convict them bolt to life in prison. I'm about to play a clip from Proof, murder at the warehouse. And if you get hooked on the story like I did, don't forget to subscribe to Proof, wherever you get your podcast to follow the case as Susan and Jacinda uncover long, overlooked evidence about what really happened to Renee. Hope you guys enjoy it. This is the missing poster that I made the night that I found out that she was missing. And I just remember we drove all over the place. We were just putting them everywhere.

It was June of 2000 in the small town of Antica in California's Central Valley. Amber was just finishing up her junior year of high school, and she was looking forward to a summer of hanging out with her friends, including her best friend, 18-year-old Renee Ramos. Then that Friday, the phone rang. It was Renee's mother. That was like the first thing that Donna said when she called me. She said, Jake says Renee's missing.

He doesn't know where she is at. Jake Silva, also 18 years old, was Renee's boyfriend of nearly a year. Jake and Renee were basically always together 24-7. As soon as Donna said that Jake couldn't find her, That's when I thought something was not right. That's when Amber started making the posters. In big bubble letters, she'd written the word missing above a smiling photo of Renee. What is the bottom paragraph say there?

It says, Our Renee has been missing since Monday morning, Memorial Day. We miss every bit of our little Valley girl. We hope she comes home as the same. beautiful young woman, we remember her as. That weekend, Renee's friends posted flyers all around the town, asking everyone they saw if they'd seen Renee. No one had. Renee's friend Lori remembers being worried, but not panicked when she found out that no one

knew where Renee was. In my mind, she had just been missing. Because it doesn't happen in this town, you know? Right. I was just concerned. I don't think I wanted to think the worst. So it was more like, I feel like she might have been hiding somewhere, but, you know, if she wasn't. Renee's friends and family kept hoping and expecting that she'd turn up, but she didn't.

And then on Monday morning, their worst fears were confirmed. How'd she found out that something had happened? My mom called me and said, Lori, the police found a body of a girl, and they think that it's Renee. Like, they're pretty sure it's Renee. and I just remember crying. Three people were arrested for the rape and murder of Renee Ramos. One of them was her boyfriend, Jake Silva. But until recently, Renee's friends hadn't known

there might be reasons to question whether Jake and his co-defendants had actually committed the crimes they were accused of. That's why I'm so confused about everything because I was so young when all this information hit me. And then, of course, you were trying to move on with your life later on. So I didn't understand anything that was being told to me because it didn't make sense. How am I supposed to make sense of this?

Right. I just had to accept what came out of it. But I do remember always just being confused about it. All the evidence and everything that was brought up to the surface. I literally remember asking myself, so what really happened? What is the actual truth? This whole time we just believed what we were told. If evidence proves different, it's definitely going to be upsetting.

If that's the case. If he didn't do it, who did? Right. That needs to be found who did.