RE-RELEASE: The Truth About Gabriela Rico Jimenez

**Discussion begins at 2:45**

This week we are re-releasing a listener favorite from season 1, in which we did a deep dive into one of the strangest viral moments of the late 2000s.  On August 4, 2009, cameras caught a young woman named Gabriela Rico Jiménez outside a luxury hotel in Mexico, accusing high-profile figures of kidnapping, murder, and even cannibalism.  Police led her away on live television, and then she vanished from the public eye entirely.  Did Gabriela stumble too close to something powerful?  Or is this another case where rumor overtook reality? 

Transcript

Hey, guys.
What's up, foil heads?
What's been going on, guys?
What's been going on, Tanner?
Tanner got banished to the basement today. Yeah, he was in trouble.
I'll tell you what's been going on today. A bird pooped on me.
Oh, yeah.
And neither one of you really even responded to my text.
I have no excuse, I was hungover. That's good luck.
And I think it might also mean that we are making too much noise.
Oh, birds. They're trying to shut our... Birds are all over my Instagram right now.
They're trying to track me.
I've been birdwatching lately.
Yeah, or are you the birdwatching you?
Birdwatching goes two ways.
I never thought of them of looking back. We think they human watch. Oh, definitely.
Oh my God.
So is it time for our drink check?
Drink check.
So today, guys, we are having margaritas.
Margaritas.
Can we cheers, guys? Do you guys know why margaritas are our drink tonight?
Margaritaville.
As our story takes place in Mexico. Mexico.
Apacados from Mexico.
According to Jose Cuervo, margaritas were invented by a Mexican bartender in honor of Mexican showgirl Rita De La Rosa. So this margarita we made with some stirring margarita mix. It's like all natural.
Tastes good, doesn't it, Kait?
Love the wine.
And so we did stirring in Casa Amigos because there's a little Illuminati overlap in the story. And you know who else is an alleged Illuminati member?
Jose Cuervo.
George Clooney.
Of Assa.
You know who helped found Casa Amigos tequila? George Clooney. No.
He's not even Mexican.
You know what? I've shared birthday with George Clooney. I shared birthday with Johnny Knoxville.
Jackass was a family movie series for us.
Before or after the human centipede?
Before and after, because there was more that were released.
Are you guys ready to get into it?
Heck yeah.
On August 4th, 2009, a local news channel in Mexico aired footage of a tall young woman.
2:46
Model's Public Accusations
The clip showed Mexican model Gabriela Rico Jiménez. Jiménez.
Jiménez. Yeah, Italian. She sounds Italian to me.
The model was in front of a luxury hotel making accusations toward young, powerful people, including kidnapping, murder, and cannibalism.
In the clip, she is seen being escorted away by police officers, but she has not been seen or heard from since. Did the Illuminati murder her and cover it up to protect themselves? Yes.
We're going to talk about it.
Yeah. She got sex trafficked. Oh, yeah, human trafficking makes sense to me, but does the Illuminati play a part in human trafficking?
Well, who does?
P. Diddy.
Allegedly, P.
Diddy.
I thought that was proven. They found women in his house. I don't think he's gone through traffic.
Not even just women.
Oh.
So pretty much, I'm gonna show this video to you guys.
Okay. But this passerby is walking by this kind of high-end hotel called the Fiesta Inn in Monterrey, Mexico. And there's this woman in a ripped t-shirt that reads, Yum Yum.
It's just in every story, it's like it mentions that the t-shirt is Yum Yum.
Gabriela Rico Jimenez stuck out to him in his memory or something. Yum Yum sauce. I don't know what Yum Yum sauce is.
Oh, it's a Japanese sauce, right?
The Japanese, like the white sauce.
It's good. I've eaten it.
So the woman is in a ripped t-shirt that reads, Yum Yum and jean shorts, and she's ranting about being imprisoned by young, powerful people. Oh. So I'm gonna have you guys watch the video.
Okay.
And you guys tell the people what you're seeing.
I love doing this.
Good evening, guys.
4:28
Video Dissection
It is in Spanish with English subtitles.
Colleen's gonna be able to understand. Maybe. But after you guys kind of describe this video for the people, we'll also post this online, and then I'm going to dissect what she says.
If you want, I can describe it in Spanish too.
She said she was gonna describe it in Spanish too. Yeah. She looks very upset.
She sounds traumatized. Yeah. You had to take a picture of them!
Turn around!
Let's see you guys.
So she was wearing a Young Yum shirt. Oh, that is... She's shorts.
Yeah. She, like Kait said, she's hysterically screaming, and she seems so upset. I kind of believe what she's saying, because she's that emotional about it.
Yeah, it's... She seems traumatized. Well, and it's like, it could go two ways, right?
Like, she is either completely, like, manic, and having, like, schizoid ideas. I don't think she's giving that, though. She could.
Yeah. Yeah, you can't rule it out. You can't rule it out.
Because with no context, you'd be like, this lady's crazy. Yeah. But, like, yeah, she's hysterical.
She's yelling about, like...
She's saying that she was, like, locked up for a year, and she was seeing them, like, eat people. And we'll get into exactly what she's saying, but that's what...
She's hysterical.
Yeah.
She's screaming. She mentioned Mickey Mouse, which I thought was funny.
And Queen Elizabeth.
And Queen Elizabeth.
And then, like, a police officer rolled up and took her away, right?
Right, yeah. And then, allegedly, she disappeared.
That's the last we've ever seen of her.
Oh, my gosh.
Again, this is... We've posted it. It's all in Spanish.
But I am going to... We're going to dissect what she says here. Gabriela starts with this.
She says, the English interpretation is, I wanted my freedom. Monterey freed me, but it cost me a lot of work. Again, she's in Monterey, Mexico right now.
I was in Mexico City for a year and four months. All of this began in mid 2001. I barely remember.
They were young and powerful and they killed them. I've been knocking on doors. What I wanted was my freedom.
I want my freedom. Carlos Slim knew about this. I want my freedom.
It hurts my soul. And they took him away. So let's pause there for a moment.
And let me tell you about Carlos Slim. Great question, Colleen.
So Carlos Slim, Dominique, he was a Mexican businessman who was listed as the richest person in the world, according to Forbes, from 2010 to 2013, which is like right before this, or right after this happens.
Yeah.
So as of now, he is worth over $95 billion.
Whoa.
And so what people were saying, when you look on, when you find these TikToks, and when you look online, they allege that Jiménez, who was apparently a Mexican model, had been linked to one of Carlos' sons, who was also named Carlos.
And that guy is chairman of the board of his father's conglomerate. So she's dating this really wealthy man who is the son of the richest man in the world for a period of time. And we know that could mean he's part of the Illuminati, right?
100%.
So that's who she's referencing there, when she says, Carlos Slim knew about this, I want my freedom, it hurts my soul.
And they took him away. So then the police show up on the scene and they approach Gabriela, leave me alone.
8:11
Illuminati Connections
They have already taken me to the police station. And there they told me that they knew nothing. They took me to the general hospital and Gabriela points to an officer.
You, you were there, you killed Mourinho. So, who's Mourinho? Mourinho was a politician who was leading a campaign against drug cartels and he had died the year prior when his private plane crashed in Mexico City.
There were 16 fatalities, all nine people on board, and then seven people on the ground died. He was only 37 years old. So the crash was suspicious and actually the US had investigated it.
They sent the black boxes to the United States to determine the cause of the accident. And they said that it was probably due to turbulence. Again, we have another like very famous politician that she's claiming someone killed.
And then she says, they ate humans.
Now that I believe, I actually do.
And she says, they told me, who did they kill? The Queen of England, the Queen of Germany? Did they kill the princesses and Mickey Mouse?
It was also him, and she points to the other officer. So people have kind of mixed interpretations online about this, because they're like, why is she referencing the Queen of England, the Queen of Germany, and princesses and Mickey Mouse?
Are they part of the Illuminati? But I think what she's saying is that when she went to the police, they didn't take her seriously. And they're like, oh yeah, did they kill the same people?
Did they also kill the Queen of England? But you really do want to dissect that. These are all people who have been associated with the Illuminati.
It's a little bit too suspicious.
Again, the Queen Elizabeth we talked about last week is allegedly a descendant of the reptile humanoids and is a leader of the cloning center of Buckingham Palace.
Right.
Yeah, right.
Colleen found that a little hard to believe. That one.
That one was hard for me.
I feel like if Colleen's not buying it, it's probably not right.
Yeah.
The Queen of Germany, because Germany is where the Illuminati was founded, so there's a little association.
Do we think that it was random? Hitler was a part of the Illuminati? Hitler was trying to create a new world order.
Yeah. I'm like, he kind of has. It's giving.
And then when she said, are they killing princesses?
Well, there are some people who claim that the Illuminati killed Princess Diana. Yeah.
The reptiles did it.
And then Mickey Mouse. I'm trying to really figure out the Disney-Illuminati correlation. Do you know it?
Walt Disney has a lot of conspiracy.
Yes. Walt Disney was a shady guy. And Disney itself with the amount of connections the company has, like how many things they actually own, if you look it up, it's absurd.
So I would 100% believe that Disney is involved in some form of order like that.
I took one screenshot for you two to look at here. But there's a lot online about looking at old like Mickey Mouse Club videos and stuff like that. And there's like weird Illuminati logo.
Paraphernalia.
Well, and you know, like there's like a layer C that like... M-I-C-K-E-Y M-I-U-L-C.
No, like the classic Mickey cartoons.
Oh, like the Steamboat Willie.
This picture that someone posted on TikTok, there's all of... They're like in the store that's selling Disney stuff and everything is like Mickey Mouse doing the triangle. And it's like on all of the...
Wait a second, I want to stop.
Oh my God. He is doing that.
But that's kind of some creepy Mickey Mouse stuff, right? That is creepy.
I believe Mickey is frozen. Mickey? Or are you talking about Walt?
Walt is frozen. One in the same. I mean, just because he's frozen doesn't mean he's gonna come back.
Let it go.
Okay, then she says, What? Nothing is going to come here. The people where you come from are crazy.
They killed a lot of people. Death to that kind of human. Go away.
They ate humans. Disgusting. They ate humans.
I wasn't aware of anything of the murders, yes, but they ate humans. Humans, they smell like human flesh. Then the female officer approaches Gabriela.
She says, You are not going to take me until this is clarified. You already took me there.
Let me go.
The female officer grabs struggling Gabriela and takes her to an armored vehicle. And then again, allegedly, she's never seen again.
And so the backstory, as I mentioned briefly, is that she was this runway model who had worked in Mexico, Paris and New York City and had been featured in the Mexican Cosmopolitan.
But if you go online, there's no evidence of her on the internet in reference to her modeling career. So people are like, they erased her. They went back and they erased all references to her.
Oh my god.
And if you click on some of the, like there's links on blogs and stuff, and when you click on them, they're broken.
Oh my god.
Big tech.
In 2015, a Spanish blog called The Black Manic published the testimony of a law student who claimed that he had met her during this whole event, and that is, he's a lawyer. So he was in the jail where Jiménez was taken out.
I don't know if he was a student or actually a lawyer or what. He says that he saw her, she looked distraught. When he went over to check on her, she said, we are already dead, we were theirs.
What does that mean?
Oh my gosh, she's got split personality disorder. How old was she at this time?
Did I say she was 21?
Oh, it's good to have a little bit of a psychotic breakdown again, like the twins.
Twenty minutes after her arrival, a few tall well-dressed guys arrived and took her away. This anonymous author claimed that he said to these men, she needs mental health, where are you taking her?
And that they said, none of your business, before asking what Jimenez had told the stranger.
The following day, the author reported to the higher-ups of the ministry and told them that the family was looking for information, but there were no records, like there was no documentation that she even had come into the police station.
Oh, wow. My God. And I believe that this is the Mexican government.
It's very, any, it's all corrupt. Yeah, very hush hush. Yeah.
And so when he called the next day, when he's like, hey, our family, like, there's people looking for information and I see no documentation.
And they said, really? If she doesn't exist, then she never existed and you don't work here.
Oh my God.
What? So I'm kind of dubious about this whole story. This guy, like, waits until 2015.
Six years later, and he comes out on this blog anonymously and is like, oh yeah, I met her. Like, I think I don't really put any stock in this story.
And another theory is that she was taken just over the border to a cement factory owned by Carlos Slim Dominique, because he owned this cement factory in Arizona.
Stop. Did she get thrown into cement? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
And like, she was ground burnt, you know what I mean? Like, cremated, powdered, put into cement. Or she was just buried in cement.
That's what they're alleging, that like this richest man in the world, who she had just made accusations toward, happens to own this cement plant just across the border from Mexico.
And yeah, did they like...
It's like in Dexter. Did you guys ever watch... Did you guys watch season 2 of Dex season 2?
Yeah, there's like, so either season 2 or season 3, he meets like the guy from Harry and the Hendersons. Or maybe it's season 4, I don't know.
He meets the guy from Harry and the Hendersons and he like realizes that the guy is like a serial killer, but he has like a family and he's like normal. And like Dexter's like, oh, I can do this. I can have a family and be normal.
That guy does Habitat for Humanity and he like, when he kills his victims, he builds them into the houses. That's so disturbing. Yeah.
And then there's also theories, was she under control?
Like had she escaped from like MK Ultrad?
Oh. Under control from her. She does sound, I don't know, she's counting mentally ill.
Yeah, she sounds like she's having like a schizophrenic, psychotic break.
Again, this is all over TikTok, the story, and it's blowing up, and people are like, this girl just left an Illuminati party, and she's ranting, and again, she's like this famous model, and that's the story.
These articles that you find online are all reporting her as this like former model with like these, all these different appearances. And Scare Theater is like, how do we know she was even a model?
Like maybe she was just like a random person, a random person going through a men TV. The initial news footage says that she had been arrested earlier in the day before for causing a similar disturbance, and then was released a few hours later.
Oh, that kind of falls along.
That's messed up.
Yeah. But that, I mean, she said you were there. Yeah, that makes sense.
So she's like, yes, and you just kicked me out.
But also like, it's messed up that they let it go. Yeah, this girl some help, right? Apparently, they like investigated her accusations.
Aren't the Mexican police like very not grateful?
Yeah.
And so they're like, you know, this if you actually go back, the whole reason we even know her name is because she had been arrested and so when this video releases to the news, they know her name, they say her name, Gabriela Jiménez, and there's no
reference to her being a model or anything like that. Like we think that when the story went on TikTok, it may be just false information. Like it's like, here's a tall thin girl in Mexico.
And so now they're just like, and people are assuming or whatever. People are just like jumping on the story.
And then the reason that we can't find any evidence of her being a model is not because somebody went in and erased the internet, wiped the internet. It's because like it wasn't true to begin with.
Oh.
It's kind of interesting how misinformation can just like perpetuate.
Or is that just what they want us to believe?
Well, that's what the consumers can say.
So anyway, the same Scare Theater, they did some research and they found this article in 2017 that said a 29 year old woman identified as Gabriela Rico Jiménez was seized because she did not remember where her house was.
She was turned over to Department of Social Work. There was a photo in the article, which I'll show you guys in a second. And this article says that she was turned over to the Department of Social Work.
This tracks with the timeline of like her being 21 in that initial story. And then in this news article in 2017, being 29. And so here's the photo of the girl that pops up.
And you guys tell me. If that looks like her.
Yeah. Oh yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
She just looks a little filled out.
Filled out. Yeah. I don't like that actually he did the guy.
This was a really great YouTube video, but he did say maybe she's just like let herself go. And I didn't love that. No.
Not love that.
No.
But otherwise I thought it was a very well done. So he says, he's like, I think this could be her. Here's like a kind of a more front on front, but you guys seem like you're buying.
Yeah.
That's her. Oh yeah. That's her.
So he says, he got the software, facial recognition software, that is supposed to be 98.8 percent accurate.
You mean AI?
Yeah, I guess.
But this facial analysis determined with a quote, very high probability that these are the same people. Now, again, if you still want to live and die on this TikTok, you could argue as Colleen was, that who's to say this wasn't a planted story.
Yeah.
With a planted AI photo to get people off the theory.
But I think he's, I mean, I believe in when he links to the original news article, and he's like all these things that they're saying about her, like having left this party and making accusations because of Illuminati, and being a model, and none of
that was ever said in the initial story. And you would think that if the news, it's unclear why the news even shared this video. She was just a nobody who was losing her mind, and someone took a video.
Was she really dating that guy?
So I don't think so. I think it was all theory. It's like that was all just stuff that was perpetuated by social media and the story.
Whoa.
That's crazy. So I could see that happening. Yeah, I mean, definitely.
Some things, you constantly have to fact check what you see on social media. Megan sent me something the other day, and I was like, really? And I had to fact check it.
It was true.
Well, actually, I will argue that usually I send things to Kait, and I say, I'm like, this is why my mind, and then I'll be like, Kait, can you fact check this? And then she'll be like, I'm going down the rabbit hole.
But actually, almost always, you've come back and been like, oh my god, it's real. But when I send you stuff, I do always preface with Kait.
The one thing that wasn't real that we sent each other was the conjoined twins, that Twitter screenshot, you know what I'm talking about?
Oh, I think Kait was like, do we think this is real?
Oh yeah.
And I was like, no.
No, and it was totally fake.
Yeah, it was totally fake. It's like the conjoined twins who, well, the one conjoined twin. It was like a fake Twitter.
Yeah, that was my question, is this real?
Yeah, but I think you were skeptical, but I was like, no, I don't think it's real.
No, Stephanie thought it was real.
Oh yeah. Yeah, Stephanie thought it was real.
I did find something on Reddit, so I know that's not a great source, but this is, again, we're Conspiracy Theory Podcast.
21:01
Psychiatric Facility and Tunnels
Reddit is an often used source. And they said that Gabriela Rico Jiménez, the woman who was arrested outside a hotel in Monterey, was helped by DIF.
Police of Monterey, and after she was detained in jail by the regional police, was sent to the psychiatric center of the Buenos Aires colony, where she will stay indefinitely while she receives help and can be well cared for.
But there's a whole conspiracy theory about that, so stand by.
Oh. Oh, don't know.
And then we've mentioned, again, that all the TikToks and everything are like, yeah, she's like, you know, she was at this Illuminati party and she is telling everyone about the Illuminati.
And again, they cite those things I mentioned, like why did she reference the British monarchy, Disney, you know, all of that? I think those were kind of stretched connections, right? Right.
And I think she was just saying that like these people didn't take me seriously. There is also a rumor, I bet you Colleen knows about this.
Oh, God.
About Prince Philip. Vampires? Previous husband.
That is your theory that he might be a vampire.
Yeah, heard that one.
That he once said, quote, cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.
Oh my God.
So there are people that believe like, oh yeah, that they really are a vampire.
Yeah. Right. I mean, I definitely believe there are people out there eating people.
It's so. It's disgusting.
So just like the one last thing that I do want to mention though, is that when you go, if you believe this article on Reddit, there's also like a whole subreddit about the fact that I, and I did like fact check this and it's out there and you can see
it, that if she went to the psychiatric center in Buenos Aires and they went down to like, well, there's only two and they figured out which one it would be. And that particular facility was supposed to shut down because of funding and then it
Miraculously.
Yeah.
And there are tunnels underneath the psychiatric facility. Oh, of course. You can go online and you can like, see the pictures.
I think I posted some pictures on the website.
No.
Um, and so like, if this truly is the Illuminati, wouldn't that be a great cover?
Oh, my God.
Staggered at a psychiatric community and then they'll like, you know, sneak in through the tunnels and I don't know, just like tunnels are always involved in these.
There's always tunnels. That's so crazy to me. I still think about the tunnels in Montauk.
What was in there? Why did they fill them in?
And why when people went back, could they like, feel, hear things happen?
Is there history of these tunnels at this place? Like, do we have any sort of info about them?
Let me pull up the website. So there's like two kilometers of underground passageways. And so people are like, they don't really know what they were used for.
Perhaps it was like the drainage system from the 1700s. And then there's also...
Did you guys think that the underground railroad was actually underground? No, it's not.
I know.
Did you think it? No. No, because it's runs through Woburn.
I thought it was underground for a long time. It's like all canals.
It's rivers. I don't think so.
I thought... I did not understand. That gives southern...
Well, this I thought...
This was probably the education.
But I watched the TikTok.
I thought it was fascinating. I thought this would be more interesting. You guys jumped right to, she's having a mental break.
And... I would like to get one out of it.
Because again, if you refer back to the twins episode where we talk about psychotic breaks, they always happen at that age, like in their 20s. So that checks out the fact that she looks like that picture.
So she's probably is just a normal person and not an actual model. But at the same time...
I mean, I think we've debunked this one. I think I'll agree. It was just like an unfortunate girl having a break.
The true conspiracy theorists will argue that that's what we're supposed to believe. But that's what I'm betting on. I just think it's really interesting how, again, this has been a widely shared.
I can't believe you haven't seen this actually, Colleen. No, I actually have. But it's just been a widely shared video and how the story everyone is just like, oh my God, did you see the video of the model who went missing after she outed Imanati?
It's like none of the facts are even true. It's just like someone made up the story and it just got perpetuated on social media. Yeah, and now that's truth.
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Number neighbor, that's your phone number, except the last digit is either up one or down one. Oh yeah, that would be like a bomb for me. Then Colleen can read your comment or email in a funny accent.
Okay, any of the spots?
No, I do think it's interesting that social media can be like this game of telephone.
It can change for yourself.
And again, it kind of links into the bird episode too. I love that.
I love the bird episode. Bird, bird, bird, bird is the bird.
But we didn't get any much Spanish from you on this episode.
No, pues es verdad.
Do you just want to say goodbye to the people for us then?
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Hasta martes.
Hasta luego.
Hasta luego. Amigas.
I'm gonna say until Tuesday, or see you Tuesday, okay.
See you next Tuesday. Hasta luego.
Hasta luego. Adiós, chico.
Ay, ay.