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Layers of Suspicion: The Tragic Case of Delcia Mejia and the Black Metal Chaos
Can a school altercation lead to tragedy, or is there more beneath the surface? Join us as we unravel the heart-wrenching mystery of Delcia Mejia, a vibrant 16-year-old whose life ended too soon under baffling circumstances. Her stepfather Raul's perplexing behavior and sudden relocation to California add layers of suspicion to this already tangled case. As Delcia’s mother tirelessly seeks justice for her daughter, we confront the challenging dynamics of school policies and the daunting pursuit of justice with scant evidence. Delcia's story is a haunting reminder of pain and perseverance, and we honor her memory by confronting the unanswered questions that remain.
Switching gears, we delve into the chaotic underbelly of the early 1990s black metal scene, a world dominated by figures like Euronymous of Mayhem and Faust of Emperor. Faust's chilling confession of murder and the subsequent betrayal by the Black Circle exposes the dark and unpredictable nature of this subculture. With Euronymous's shocking murder by his bandmate Varg Vikernes, the narrative takes another turbulent turn, emphasizing the ideological clashes and personal vendettas that led to the collapse of this notorious group. Unpacking the philosophy and chaos that defined the black metal era, we explore how loyalty and allegiance crumbled under the weight of self-preservation.
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Speaker 4:Murder and Mimosas a true crime podcast brought to you by a mother and daughter duo.
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Speaker 4:Welcome back. I'm Shannon and I'm Danica and this is Murder and Mimosis. And today we have a story that justice may be a little overdue but we'll let you decide that but there were police that just didn't stop and justice did finally prevail. So in this story we have Delcia Mejia, and she was a beautiful girl that recently had her 16th birthday. She lived with her mother, also named Delcia, as well as her stepfather, raul Matia, at Colonial Acres Mobile Home Park in Miami, florida. Valcia was an all-around good kid. She was a good student. Until a few days before she was murdered, she had never been in trouble. She had just recently gotten suspended for getting in a fight at school, but apparently she was not the instigator. She was jumped by two girls at school.
Speaker 3:Wait, why is she suspended, though, if she didn't start the fight? So?
Speaker 4:the school had a zero tolerance policy on fighting. So, no matter what, you get suspended. So you get your butt kicked and get suspended at the same time Talk about a bad day.
Speaker 4:Pretty much. I don't agree with that, but I mean, I guess I get it. But she loved true crime and detective shows and was undecided if she wanted to be a police detective or a flight attendant and see the world. I mean, who knows, maybe she could have done both. So Delcia's parents had immigrated from Honduras and she had always lived in the States. She was watching TV when her mother and stepfather went to bed around 11 that night on September 16, 2004. Her mother left their home that morning around 5.30. She didn't check in on Delcia because she didn't want to risk waking her. Raul was said to leave the house around 7.45 that morning and then he returned around 918 that morning and discovered Delcia.
Speaker 3:Did he work and where did he go that morning? Also, what made him check in on her? Also, 918 is a very specific time.
Speaker 4:It is. Yeah, I have lots of questions too. He did work, he was a nurse there in Florida and, as for that morning, I could not find where he went that morning and why he came back a few hours later, and I couldn't find out what made him check in on her either. So sorry, like I said, I have questions too, but couldn't find everything I wanted answers to either. So he calls 911 and he's heard saying we need someone to come here.
Speaker 4:My daughter my daughter, my daughter. Somebody killed my daughter. Police are dispatched to the trailer and they see Delcia has her neck slashed. They noticed that Raul has some scratches to his hands and fingers and they ask him what happened. He says he was hysterical when he found Delcia and ran into her dresser and fell to the floor. They bring him in for questioning and he says that he and Delcia have a pretty strange relationship. Not only did police question those at school, but they canvassed the trailer park and talked to people that live there. And I want to read this quote from a teen boy Francisco.
Speaker 1:She was a smart girl and she would have fought back. Whoever hurt her is probably walking around with scratches and bruises.
Speaker 3:I love that. She sounds like a fighter and the only one we know of with scratches, and such is her stepfather. Is he arrested for this?
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Speaker 3:She contemplates suicide and begs for help to keep this case alive any way she can as a mother, I can't even imagine a pain greater than losing your child, because your child should never be the one in the casket being buried, like you never expect to outlive your kid. But the even more guilt that would probably be piled on is if you suspect your ex of being the one that murdered her because you brought them into your lives and the anger that he's out there just living a free life like starting a whole new family. There has to be so many emotions wrapped up in what she's feeling right.
Speaker 4:And not to mention, she most likely thought coming from Honduras would give them a better life. And then she gets this. Yeah, there's a lot to unpack there for her. So of course the ME ruled this a homicide and they did find DNA under her nails, but didn't have a match to it.
Speaker 3:Okay, what about a murder weapon? Was that found, or was there any like evidence to point to what it would?
Speaker 4:be. No, not that I could find the case goes cold, but Miami Dade doesn't forget this case and Delcia doesn't let them. And in 2020, with new advances in DNA they decide to test the DNA again.
Speaker 3:I know we do this. We do a lot of cases from a long time ago, but 20, was it 2004? Doesn't sound like we didn't have the technology then that we do in 2020. I mean, is that just me?
Speaker 4:No, that's crossed my mind too. But we do see it advance all the time and they do come back with a hit. Of course it's Raul Mata after 16 years which was the age she was when she died and they have something to go on. Now they arrest Raul and he's awaiting extradition to Florida from California. His new wife doesn't believe this at all. She says he's worked as a nurse for the community for 15 years there in California. They have a life together. His neighbors can't imagine this either. But while waiting extradition, ryle took his own life in jail.
Speaker 3:I'm not saying it never happens, but I feel like that's not something you usually do. When you're innocent, you want to go to court and prove your innocence, not take your own life in jail.
Speaker 4:That's my thoughts too. But Delcia and her family, I mean, did they get justice? I don't know. I guess each of us can decide that for ourselves.
Speaker 3:Now I know y'all didn't think we were going to leave you with a nine-minute episode. Clearly you can see this goes on longer. While that was all we had for that case, we do have another doozy of a case we're going to talk about. So today you get a two-for-one deal BO of a case we're going to talk about.
Speaker 4:So today you get a two for one deal. Bogo, yeah, okay, you don't buy anything, but still.
Speaker 3:No LOGO. Listen one, get one. Okay, that works, okay. So, shannon, you know that I am, when it comes to cults, I have this super weird fascination, right, I do, it's so weird, yeah. And today we're going to talk about I don't know if you can call it a cult, but I feel like it's very cult-y.
Speaker 4:But to start, have you ever heard of black metal music or black metal bands? I don't know if you're talking about like the heavy metal back in my day. That's all I can really think of. I don't think they were ever called black metal, so I guess no.
Speaker 3:So heavy metal is like not as hardcore as black metal is, from what I understood when I was researching. So I think it came to the US but it wasn't like a major thing like heavy metal was. But there was a major wave of it in Norway in the mid-90s and they went all out with like the satanic lyrics and not like that. You know, play your record backwards and this was like very satanic lyrics. They would do this corpse, body painting and there were images of burned churches and so like it was dark.
Speaker 4:Okay, so this kind of reminds me remember when we volunteered at that haunted house and there was some like really freaky music playing in the background. It kind of reminds me of that, because I left there that night like oh my gosh, this music's like really messing with my head. Do you remember that?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it could have been black metal. They're very strange, they're very strange. So there are some pretty like high profile members of this scene Not high profile to us, because they were high profile in like the black metal community and they were referred to as the Black Circle, and that's who we're going to be focusing on today. The Black Circle is very cultish. So the beginning of the crime wave that stemmed from the Black Circle started on June 6th of 1992, when a church in Bergen, norway, was burned to the ground. By the end of that year, seven other churches would be burned down as well. The last one, only the last one of that year took place on Christmas Day and a firefighter's life ended up being taken along with it.
Speaker 4:That's like some bad juju. All of that Burn a church on Christmas Day and kill somebody, that's just.
Speaker 3:But for them that's what they're very satanic, you're right, you're right. So during these arsons, a few of the black circle members were convicted and there were quite a few others that were suspected of being a part of it, and by 1996, a total of over 50 churches had either by the Black Circle or by, like major fans of the black metal scene.
Speaker 4:That's crazy. I mean, I know some people are really into their music, but to burn down a place because you're a fan is really insane to me. Yes.
Speaker 3:So let's talk about a few of the members of the Black Circle, the ringleader of this cult'm calling the cult as we listen. You can tell me in the comments or whatever if you don't think it's cult, but I feel very heavily that. It's like you have a phd in cults right well, if it's the phd that one uh expert got in the west Memphis. Three case then I do I have that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I got me a PhD. I'll write it on paper for you. When we get done, you can just mail it to me.
Speaker 3:So the ringleader of this cult was Euronymous, or at least that was his stage name. He was the guitarist and the songwriter for the band Mayhem and he felt like that he should call the shots in the group of, like the black metal fans and the black metal scene and he really shaped like the whole scene because he decided what was in or out, basically what was allowed within the scene, and he publicly professed his belief in theistic Satanism so what does that mean?
Speaker 4:exactly?
Speaker 3:what encompasses a variety of related beliefs honoring a figure addressed to satan or associated with satan. In contrast to southern other, like you know, christianity we have different, like pockets right, like you, baptist, or you could be better right. So there's also the same thing with satanism. Um, with this one, um, the levian satanism is kind of like the baptist to the methodist of the of the theastic.
Speaker 4:Okay, I, I never knew that. I thought there was just satanist and that was. Yeah, I know I learned a lot doing this.
Speaker 3:So the Levian Satanism is like they're atheists and they kind of consider Satan like a symbol for their faith, but like they don't really think Satan is an actual being, but with the theistic which he doesanism, like they believe satan's real. So because of this he demands that bands in the black metal scene had to like profess their devotion to satan, or they basically weren't black metal, they were like heavy yeah, so very mean girls, if you will vibes right, like you can't sit with us, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so we're going to come back to Euronymous, but let's kind of switch gears real quick and talk about the drummer for the band, emperor, as he's also part of the Black Circle and his stage name is Faust. Just FYI, I'm going to use everybody's stage names because even those are hard, but their real names are even harder, unless they go by their stage names a lot in a lot of the research. I did so on the night of August 21st of 1992, he was walking through Olympic Park, which is like, apparently well known as like a cruising spot well known as like a cruising spot, and this gentleman named mania not a stage name because he's not part of the black circle came up to faust and he propositioned him for sex. Faust agreed and the two walked off to like the nearby woods in that area and, instead of sex, faust stabbed mania 37 times with a small knife and it was said that there was no like knife wound that caused his like fatal injuries that he bled out because he was stabbed so many times.
Speaker 4:Oh my, but I do always hear that, like after so many stab wounds, or even sometimes the first, when you're in shock and you don't feel all those. Let's hope that's what happened, because 37.
Speaker 3:So that is a lot. As if that wasn't bad enough, he then kicked him over the head repeatedly. It would take an entire, almost an entire year before he was arrested, but in the meantime Faust did confess his crimes to some of his buddies in the black circle. Faust did confess his crimes to some of his buddies in the Black Circle, one of them being Danny Filth again stage name from the band Cradle of Filth while they were touring together through the UK in December of 1993. After this raging party that they attended in Liverpool, Faust told Filth of what he had done, but Filth said he just dismissed it as a load of crap. However, when the arrest and the sentence finally happened in 1994, Filth felt like he was an accomplice after the fact because he had knowledge and he didn't go to authorities. Faust was again arrested almost a year after the murder.
Speaker 4:So how did they know it was Faust? I mean, did they find evidence that pointed to him?
Speaker 3:No, it turns out that Filth wasn't the only one that Faust went labbing to within the Black Circle about his murderous night. About a year after the murder, some other Black Circle members were arrested and they actually ratted on Faust for the murder, which doesn't feel very like. You know culty right? It's very odd how it's almost like they're so culty they really just don't care about each other yeah, like they want to all be part of this group, but like the deaths of others and like it's like they just don't care.
Speaker 4:I mean, do you really want to be so-called friends with somebody who's killing people and they tell you about it like it's a game?
Speaker 3:They're pledging to Satan. It feels like burning down churches.
Speaker 4:You're right yeah.
Speaker 3:You would feel like it kind of feels like, like you're a really cool man, yeah, which I feel is like maybe why he bragged to the black.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but he wasn't getting any of that feedback. He was wanting Right.
Speaker 3:Well, and I think they're trying to get themselves out of trouble. I think they want to get themselves out of trouble, like. I understand that they have this persona and image, but let's be real, these are a bunch of band guys. None of them want to spend time in prison. Yeah, nobody wants that. So of course they're willing to flip on him.
Speaker 4:And so he confessed and he was sentenced to 14 years, okay, so he would have been released around like what's around 2008.
Speaker 3:He would have been if he had served his full term, but he was actually released five years early, in 2003, for good behavior.
Speaker 4:Okay, so in 1993 and in 1994, it seems, many of the Black Circle were being arrested for arson and murder. Is that what disbanded this whole band of misfits, if you will.
Speaker 3:I love how many times you use band when you're talking about bands. Not quite so. We talked about Euronymous, who was this self-proclaimed leader of this cult group. On August 10th of 1993, he was found murdered in his apartment in Oslo and he had been stabbed 23 times.
Speaker 4:Ooh, this sounds oddly familiar to the murder of Faust committed.
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Speaker 3:It does, but it actually wasn't him at all. So at first investigators believe this murder was a direct correlation to the beef that Euronymous had with the Swedish black metal scene Because, remember, he's in Norway, so like that's their you know rival. So they think that it has something to do with that and someone came after him from there. However, it would actually be someone much closer to euronymous. That would be his demise. His own friend and a fellow member of the dark circle, varg varganess, is the names are killing me.
Speaker 3:Are the one? Is the one His names are killing me? Is the one who killed him? They're going to get worse, oh Lordy. So Varg and Euronymous were bandmates and partners in burning down many churches.
Speaker 4:Why kill? What sounds like this is I mean, I don't get this To your best friend, Well that kind of depends on who you ask.
Speaker 3:The motive is muddy, mean, I don't get this with to your best friend. Well, that kind of depends on who you ask. The motive is muddy, um, and it's kind of different from person to person. So some think that it was like a political move because Varg and Euronymous didn't necessarily have the same beliefs. So we know Euronymous was a satanist, varg believed something similar, but Varg was also a neo-Nazi and extremely racist and Euronymous didn't quite hold the same beliefs, so somehow he was actually less of a bad guy than Varg was, which is crazy. To talk about Satanism, I think one's less bad than the other.
Speaker 4:Honestly, if you really look at, I mean not these, but most satanic beliefs really don't harm people, or they do.
Speaker 2:They don't burn down churches and murder.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean they worship Satan, but they don't even do harm to anybody.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm pretty sure one of the things in like the Leveean Satanism, where Satan is more of like a symbol, like a lot of things, is to do no harm and like it's kind of like just find your peace. It's almost hippie like yeah, I mean I.
Speaker 4:That's what I gathered from the satanic bible that I attempted to read.
Speaker 3:Those are people you read that.
Speaker 4:Anyway, I have to. You got to know all of everything if you want to make an educated decision. Yes, that's true.
Speaker 3:So some people think that because Euronymous was like the head guy but he didn't believe in the same extremely racist thoughts and beliefs as Varg, that Varg took him out and was hoping to be kind of like the new leader of the group and could continue to push his very racist beliefs. However, varg originally claimed when he was arrested that the murder was self-defense. However, a lot of people really doubt that claim.
Speaker 4:It's kind of hard to be self-defense when you stab somebody that many times yeah, 23 is a lot.
Speaker 3:So blackthorn again stage name was also at the apartment during the murder, but he was. It's hard to tell. Some say he was in the attic smoking and some say he was outside smoking. Outside smoking makes more sense to me, but yeah, um, but he didn't really have a lot to say about the self-defense theory or really any theory. However, varg did try to use him as an alibi and he would end up being the one to crack and tell authorities about varg again. There is apparently no loyalty among black yeah members, dark Circle members, dark Circle, whatever it is, there's no honor there. Dark Circle, black Metal yeah, is it? Yeah, you're right. I've said Dark and Black so many times that I don't even know.
Speaker 4:No, it's Black Circle, Black Metal.
Speaker 3:Black.
Speaker 1:Circle Black.
Speaker 3:Metal. Is this Black Circle? No, no, black circle, black metal, black circle, black metal. This is black circle.
Speaker 4:No, no, black metal, dark circle.
Speaker 3:No, it's definitely black circle.
Speaker 4:No, you've.
Speaker 3:Okay, anywho, not important really, okay, but he was the one that cracked and he told the authorities that Warg did it. Neuro I'm sorry, necro butcher, also state your name had a theory of his own. He felt that varg went after euronymous because of the death threats that euronymous had been sending to varg, because he thought varg was the reason the popularity in black metal was declining it definitely wasn't from the crazy things they were doing or that it seems like another fad.
Speaker 3:Well, necroputure even claimed later that he had intended to kill Euronymous himself, but Varg just beat him to it Again. No honor, real pals here. Yeah. Well, we may never know the true reason that varg like. Why varg did it? He was arrested and he was convicted in 1994, along with additional convictions of arson and possessing 330 pounds of explosive.
Speaker 4:wow, he sounds like a really great dude, okay.
Speaker 3:So he was sentenced to 21 years, which, oddly enough, is the maximum sentence you can get in Norway. Oh wow, I didn't know that. Yeah, so he was released in 2009, though he could have gotten out early, as early as 2006.
Speaker 4:So what happened to change it in 2009?
Speaker 3:Well, obviously, keep in mind that Norway prison is nothing like the US prisons because, well, I mean, the max is 21 years, so we know it's not the same. But Varg failed to return to prison after a short release, which is apparently common for them to get, like weekend passes in Norway prisons, so he didn't return after his pass. He actually was located driving a stolen vehicle in Oslo and threatening a family, and he made the claim that he escaped because someone wanted to kill him. Yeah, I mean, it is prison.
Speaker 4:Well then, he had to stay in until 2009 so I guess they didn't make good on their, their threat.
Speaker 3:No part of me wonders if he's like mentally unwell maybe. So anyway, he does, you know, eventually get released from prison, and since then he's released some records, some questionable books, at least from the excerpts and the reviews that I've read, because I definitely did not read any of his books, but the reviews and the things like that I even watched like a youtube review. They're not great. And he has also been arrested, with his wife Arrested for what? For allegedly planning another murder. However, he was exonerated. He did have to pay a fine, though, and he received six months probation for inciting hatred and disseminating racist and anti-Semitic material.
Speaker 4:Sounds like a really great guy. I know that prison isn't like the US, but he does sound like he needs some kind of mental help if he isn't in prison.
Speaker 3:I agree. He seems to spew hate, including towards a movie that was based off him, which I thought was a little comical Euronymous and the Black Circle. There was a movie based off all of that and he said it was quote trash without ever watching it at all, because the actor who played him, emery Cohen, has a Jewish ancestry and we know he hates Jewish people.
Speaker 4:So I don't know if they did that on purpose, but I really hope they did. I mean just to spot him for being such an awful person. Are there any of these black metal bands? Still a thing.
Speaker 3:While the Black Circle may have died, some of the bands are still alive and thriving, including Euronymous's own band, Mayhem, While he obviously is not a part of the band any longer. Necro Butcher and Hellhammer, who were two of the original members, are still a part of the band, at least as of August of last year. So it seems they're still rocking on, but they don't seem to have the same leader, which is why the Black Circle has died and the church arson seems to have, you know, gone down a lot.
Speaker 4:Well, at least there's a plus there.
Speaker 3:Yes, so those are our two very interesting cases, very different, but you tell us what you think. Do you think that the Black Circle was a cult? Because the whole thing gave me cult vibes we always recommend more bubbly and less oj cheers.
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