The Rosenberg Case: A Tale of Murder, Corruption, and Conspiracy in Guatemala

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The Aftermath | 10 Dec 20, 2022

What effect did the bizarre denouement of the Rosenberg affair have on those connected to the case? We end with an examination of the enduring popularity and power of conspiracy theories in the digital age.

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Featuring Oscar Isaac as Rodrigo Rosenberg

Written and Narrated by: Edgar Castillo

Produced by: Jason Seagraves

Executive Producer: Oscar Isaac, Dana Brunetti, Keegan Rosenberger, and Edgar Castillo

Sound Editor, Mixer and Post Production Supervisor: Revision Sound - Josh Ewing

Music by: Soundstripe

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The Other Truth | 9 Dec 13, 2022

A revelatory alternative theory of who killed Rodrigo Rosenberg is examined...

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Featuring Oscar Isaac as Rodrigo Rosenberg

Written and Narrated by: Edgar Castillo

Produced by: Jason Seagraves

Executive Producer: Oscar Isaac, Dana Brunetti, Keegan Rosenberger, and Edgar Castillo

Sound Editor, Mixer and Post Production Supervisor: Revision Sound - Josh Ewing

Music by: Soundstripe

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Interviews:

Daniel Haering - Daniel is the Director of the IK International Research Center at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín. He also is a professor at the Institute of Political Studies and International Relations at UFM, where he teaches International Security Studies, Political and Social Violence and Populisms. His current research focuses on Guatemala’s political system and the impact of organized crime in rural areas, with special attention on drug-trafficking organizations.

Italo Antoniotti - Italo is currently the Director of Institutional Relations for Fedecocagua, the Guatemalan association of independent coffee producers, a position he also held back in 2009, when he also got swept up into the Rosenberg affair. He is a Latin American expert in corporate fundraising and political communications. With extensive experience in government affairs and broadcast journalism as a correspondent for NBC, CNN, and Televisa, Italo Antoniotti is a frequent lecturer on topics ranging from fundraising and media relations to interview techniques and earned media strategy.

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The Labyrinth | 8 Dec 06, 2022

In the wake of Carlos Castresana’s press conference, doubt is cast on the official version of events. Was there a bigger conspiracy at play? Who really killed Rodrigo Rosenberg?

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Featuring Oscar Isaac as Rodrigo Rosenberg

Written and Narrated by: Edgar Castillo

Produced by: Jason Seagraves

Executive Producer: Oscar Isaac, Dana Brunetti, Keegan Rosenberger, and Edgar Castillo

Sound Editor, Mixer and Post Production Supervisor: Revision Sound - Josh Ewing

Music by: Soundstripe

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The Perfect Murder | 7 Nov 29, 2022

In a highly anticipated press conference, Carlos Castresana presents his findings to the world. Also, an interview with the man alleged to have hired and paid the gang of killers responsible for Rodrigo Rosenberg’s assassination.

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Featuring Oscar Isaac as Rodrigo Rosenberg

Written and Narrated by: Edgar Castillo

Produced by: Jason Seagraves

Executive Producer: Oscar Isaac, Dana Brunetti, Keegan Rosenberger, and Edgar Castillo

Sound Editor, Mixer and Post Production Supervisor: Revision Sound - Josh Ewing

Music by: Soundstripe

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Interview:

Francisco Valdés Paiz

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The Truth | 6 Nov 22, 2022

Carlos Castresana’s team learns of the involvement of an “inside man” pulling the strings from the shadows. The identity of this inside man blows the case wide open.

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Featuring Oscar Isaac as Rodrigo Rosenberg

Written and Narrated by: Edgar Castillo

Produced by: Jason Seagraves

Executive Producer: Oscar Isaac, Dana Brunetti, Keegan Rosenberger, and Edgar Castillo

Sound Editor, Mixer and Post Production Supervisor: Revision Sound - Josh Ewing

Music by: Soundstripe

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Interviews:

Roberto Izurieta - Roberto is the Director of Latin American Projects for the Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Izurieta has written many articles and he is the author of two books. From 1998-2000, he was the Communications Director for the President of Ecuador. Since then, Izurieta has worked on several political campaigns in Latin America, and Spain, including in México, Ecuador, Perú, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic. He has advised President Alejandro Toledo of Perú, President Vicente Fox of Mexico and President Alvaro Colom of Guatemala. He is a political commentator for CNN en Espanol.

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The Affair | 5 Nov 15, 2022

The investigation unearths a bombshell revelation. The contract killers are captured and upon questioning reveal the identities of who hired them — two brothers with a surprising connection to Rodrigo Rosenberg.

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Featuring Oscar Isaac as Rodrigo Rosenberg

Written and Narrated by: Edgar Castillo

Produced by: Jason Seagraves

Executive Producer: Oscar Isaac, Dana Brunetti, Keegan Rosenberger, and Edgar Castillo

Sound Editor, Mixer and Post Production Supervisor: Revision Sound - Josh Ewing

Music by: Soundstripe

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The One-Eyed King | 4 Nov 08, 2022

Carlos Castresana and his team at CICIG find and surveil the gang of contract killers hired to murder Rodrigo Rosenberg. As the investigation continues and protests swell, President Alvaro Colom, and the Guatemalan government, reach a breaking point.

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Featuring Oscar Isaac as Rodrigo Rosenberg

Written and Narrated by: Edgar Castillo

Produced by: Jason Seagraves

Executive Producer: Oscar Isaac, Dana Brunetti, Keegan Rosenberger, and Edgar Castillo

Sound Editor, Mixer and Post Production Supervisor: Revision Sound - Josh Ewing

Music by: Soundstripe

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Interviews:

Steven Dudley - Steven is the co-founder and co-director of InSight Crime, a think tank focused on organized crime in the Americas, and a senior fellow at American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies in Washington, DC. In September, Dudley published his second book, MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang(HarperCollins), which in 2019 won the Lukas Prize for work-in-progress.

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The Little Office | 3 Nov 01, 2022

The men behind the filming of the Rosenberg video are unmasked and Carlos Castresana, a Spanish prosecutor, is put in charge of investigating the murder of Rodrigo Rosenberg.

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Featuring Oscar Isaac as Rodrigo Rosenberg

Written and Narrated by: Edgar Castillo

Produced by: Jason Seagraves

Executive Producer: Oscar Isaac, Dana Brunetti, Keegan Rosenberger, and Edgar Castillo

Sound Editor, Mixer and Post Production Supervisor: Revision Sound - Josh Ewing

Music by: Soundstripe

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Interviews:

Roberto Izurieta - Roberto is the Director of Latin American Projects for the Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Izurieta has written many articles and he is the author of two books. From 1998-2000, he was the Communications Director for the President of Ecuador. Since then, Izurieta has worked on several political campaigns in Latin America, and Spain, including in México, Ecuador, Perú, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic. He has advised President Alejandro Toledo of Perú, President Vicente Fox of Mexico and President Alvaro Colom of Guatemala. He is a political commentator for CNN en Espanol.

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The Video | 2 Oct 25, 2022

After Rodrigo Rosenberg is killed by assassins, a video is released, on YouTube, wherein Rosenberg predicts his own assassination and names the President of Guatemala as the man behind the crime. The accusation sets a national scandal in motion.

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Featuring Oscar Isaac as Rodrigo Rosenberg

Written and Narrated by: Edgar Castillo

Produced by: Jason Seagraves

Executive Producer: Oscar Isaac, Dana Brunetti, Keegan Rosenberger, and Edgar Castillo

Sound Editor, Mixer and Post Production Supervisor: Revision Sound - Josh Ewing

Music by: Soundstripe

Additional recording by: Zach McNees

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The Lawyer | 1 Oct 25, 2022

In 2009, a Guatemalan businessman named Khalil Musa and his daughter Marjorie are brutally gunned down while stopped at an intersection. Musa’s lawyer, Rodrigo Rosenberg, pursues an investigation of the crime that unravels a vast conspiracy and leads to his own murder.

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Featuring Oscar Isaac as Rodrigo Rosenberg

Written and Narrated by: Edgar Castillo

Produced by: Jason Seagraves

Executive Producer: Oscar Isaac, Dana Brunetti, Keegan Rosenberger, and Edgar Castillo

Sound Editor, Mixer and Post Production Supervisor: Revision Sound - Josh Ewing

Music by: Soundstripe

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Interviews:

Dr. Edgar Castillo-Armas, MD

Steven Dudley - the co-founder and co-director of InSight Crime, a think tank focused on organized crime in the Americas, and a senior fellow at American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies in Washington, DC. In September, Dudley published his second book, MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang(HarperCollins), which in 2019 won the Lukas Prize for work-in-progress.

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Introducing - The Rosenberg Case: A Tale of Murder, Corruption and Conspiracy in Guatemala Oct 18, 2022

From Cavalry Audio and Executive Producer OSCAR ISAAC comes a new true crime podcast... THE ROSENBERG CASE: A TALE OF MURDER, CORRUPTION AND CONSPIRACY IN GUATEMALA.

Join writer and narrator, EDGAR CASTILLO, a first generation Guatemalan American as he explores the true story of the bizarre assassination of Rodrigo Rosenberg — an influential Guatemalan lawyer who was gunned down while on his Sunday morning bike ride in May of 2009. At his funeral, he posthumously released a YouTube video that declared, “If you’re seeing this video, it means that I've been murdered by President Alvaro Colom,” Guatemala's sitting President. The video unleashed a major political upheaval and one of the most unpredictable murder investigations in history.

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The Rosenberg Case: A Tale of Murder, Corruption, and Conspiracy in Guatemala

Welcome to the Justice Team Network. The ultimate community for lawyers and legal enthusiasts.

What effect did the bizarre denouement of the Rosenberg affair have on those connected to the case? We end with an examination of the enduring popularity and power of conspiracy theories in the digital age.

A revelatory alternative theory of who killed Rodrigo Rosenberg is examined...

In the wake of Carlos Castresana’s press conference, doubt is cast on the official version of events. Was there a bigger conspiracy at play? Who really killed Rodrigo Rosenberg?

Carlos Castresana’s team learns of the involvement of an “inside man” pulling the strings from the shadows. The identity of this inside man blows the case wide open.

The investigation unearths a bombshell revelation. The contract killers are captured and upon questioning reveal the identities of who hired them — two brothers with a surprising connection to Rodrigo Rosenberg.

Carlos Castresana and his team at CICIG find and surveil the gang of contract killers hired to murder Rodrigo Rosenberg. As the investigation continues and protests swell, President Alvaro Colom, and the Guatemalan government, reach a breaking point.

The men behind the filming of the Rosenberg video are unmasked and Carlos Castresana, a Spanish prosecutor, is put in charge of investigating the murder of Rodrigo Rosenberg.

After Rodrigo Rosenberg is killed by assassins, a video is released, on YouTube, wherein Rosenberg predicts his own assassination and names the President of Guatemala as the man behind the crime. The accusation sets a national scandal in motion.

In 2009, a Guatemalan businessman named Khalil Musa and his daughter Marjorie are brutally gunned down while stopped at an intersection. Musa’s lawyer, Rodrigo Rosenberg, pursues an investigation of the crime that unravels a vast conspiracy and leads to his own murder.

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