When intimate images of R&B singer Teairra Marí were leaked online, 30 million people watched her trauma become entertainment. She fought back in court—but the system had other plans. This is the story of revenge porn, power, and what happens when Black women seek justice.

Twenty-year-old Jade 'Sage' McKissic was a University of Houston junior with everything to live for—orientation team leader, strategic communications student, beloved daughter and friend. On September 11, 2025, she walked a familiar route from Third Ward bars toward campus, stopping at a gas station for a slushie before disappearing into the darkness near Brays Bayou. Four days later, the water gave her back. Police found no signs of trauma, but her family demands answers that go deeper than "no immediate foul play."

This episode examines the dangerous intersection of student life and urban geography, where late-night corridors become crime scenes and surveillance cameras capture everything except the truth. With at least thirteen bodies recovered from Houston's bayous in 2025, we explore whether Jade's death is an isolated tragedy or part of a larger pattern the city refuses to acknowledge. We center her story—not the speculation, not the fear—but the life of a young Black woman whose walk home became a family's worst nightmare and a campus community's wake-up call about safety after midnight.

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.