Introducing: Why Can't We Talk About Amanda's Mom?

On a rainy Sunday in November 1993, a man discovers the body of a woman on the side of a service road next to Interstate 10 in Mobile, Alabama.

She's face down in the grass, nude and decapitated.

The police identify her as Maria Martinez, but days later, when her body is retrieved by her family, she leaves under a different name, Renee Bergeron.

To this day, almost 30 years later, Renee's brutal murder remains unsolved.

My name is Sarah Kalen, and I'm an investigator with nearly 25 years of experience.

In this series, you'll follow me in real time as I investigate the murder of Renee Bergeron.

There was no family beating down the door screaming, solve my daughter's murder.

You'll hear interviews with key witnesses and suspects.

Do you have any knowledge of how Maria came to be dead?

I can't imagine her.

I still

just don't seem like she's dead to me.

This is hard for me to.

I hope y'all aren't seriously thinking he had anything to do with this.

Nobody in this world has ever seen me touch my finger on a nae's finger.

You'll hear perspectives from leading criminal psychology experts.

You cannot assume that the victim is a stranger to the offender, but that person may well have been watching and surveilling the victim for a while.

Who was the real Renee Bergeron?

And why was her life cut so tragically short?

But I said, you got to remember that girl is somebody's daughter.

She was somebody's mother, and she was somebody's sister.

Why can't we talk about what happened to my mom?

Join me, Sarah Kalin, in my investigation and listen to Why Can't We Talk About Amanda's Mom, wherever you get your podcasts.