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

13 Mar 2025

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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

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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