In September 2025, Reading, Pennsylvania became the scene of one of the most horrific family annihilation in recent memory. Three bodies.Three locations. One devil's work.

Geraldina Peguero Mancebo was a 31-year-old Dominican immigrant trying to keep her family afloat in one of America's poorest cities.Working a warehouse job while supporting four children, she made a choice that millions of desperate women make every day—she accepted financial help from an older man who wanted something in return.

Jose Luis Rodriguez was 61 years old. Thirty years her senior. He rented her an apartment. He gave her money. And he believed that money bought him ownership of her life.

When Geraldina refused to leave her husband, Rodriguez's"generosity" revealed itself as something far more sinister. Within 48 hours, he would execute her husband Junior with a shot to the back of the head, murder Geraldina the same way while she held their baby, and throw one-year-old Jeyden face down into a muddy pond—alive—leaving him to drown.

The autopsy would later confirm mud in the baby's lungs. Hewas conscious. He struggled. He drowned.

This is the story of what happens when male entitlement meets financial desperation. When a woman's "no" becomes a death sentence. When poverty forces impossible choices that end in tragedy.

This is a story about the hidden dangers of sugar daddy culture, the systems that fail women of color, and three orphaned children left behind to make sense of the senseless.

Content Warning: This episode contains detailed descriptions of violence against women and children, murder, and drowning.Listener discretion is strongly advised.

Resources:

• National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233
• National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673
• Financial Abuse Resources: www.nnedv.org/content/about-financial-abuse

No Tears For Black Girls tells these stories because silence protects predators. We tell them because Black and brown women's lives matter. We tell them because there should be tears—and action—for every woman whose survival choices lead to tragedy.

Thanks for tuning back in to "No Tears For Black Girls." Samantha Paul here, and do I have a treat for y'all today! We're diving deep into J.C. Reedburg's latest masterpiece, "No Tears For Black Girls: Prison Pimp'd," available now for free on Amazon Kindle. But act fast, 'cause after today, it's Kindle exclusive. As always, we've switched up some deets to keep things on the DL, but trust, this story is as real as it gets.

Picture this: Gwinnett County, Georgia, just a stone's throw from the A. Inside Phillips State, it ain't about how hard you can throw a punch, but how slick you can play the game. And Dejuan Rivers? This man's got manipulation down to a science. From his tiny cell, he's pulling the strings on a criminal empire that stretches way past the barbed wire.

With nothing but smooth words, black market smokes, and a PhD in mind games, Dejuan's got a whole crew of desperate women wrapped around his finger. Sandra's sending money orders, Keisha's wiring cash no questions asked, Patricia's smuggling in burners, and Valerie's begging him to find her missing kid. They each think they're his one and only, but the gag is, they don't even know about each other.

It's a fragile operation, and when the ladies start getting too curious and the COs start sniffing around, Dejuan's world is on the verge of imploding. In a place where every move is calculated and trust can get you killed, one wrong step could send everything he's built tumbling down like a house of cards.

Tonya Walker, a 51-year-old Black mother, vanished in Sacramento on November 2, 2023. Her family searched for seven months to learn her body lay unclaimed at Mercy Hospital, where she’d died of cardiac arrest. The hospital delayed her death certificate by five months and stored her at an off-site morgue that allegedly harvested her organs without consent. Similar cases of missing Black bodies have emerged, fueling accusations of systemic neglect, organ trafficking, and medical racism.