About The Podcast
Who Killed My Mother: The Fefer Case is a bilingual investigative podcast by Ariel Fefer, who returns to Peru to re‑examine the murder of his mother — a case that shocked the country and was told wrong for 20 years.
Through documents, interviews, and personal testimony, Ariel uncovers contradictions, hidden motives, and the truth behind a narrative that never made sense.
About The Host
Ariel Fefer is a Peruvian‑born storyteller and investigative narrator based in the United States. His work focuses on truth‑seeking, media ethics, and reclaiming personal narratives from distortion.
At 17, Ariel lost his mother to a crime that became one of the most controversial cases in Peru. For years, he lived with a version of events that never aligned with the evidence.
In Who Killed My Mother: The Fefer Case, Ariel returns to Peru to confront the past, examine the case with fresh eyes, and tell the story the way it should have been told.
Episode 1 Summary
Episode 1 opens with a cold‑case montage that places the listener inside the moment when an ordinary life becomes a crime scene. Ariel then brings the story home: August 2006, Lima, Peru — the morning he was seventeen and someone knocked on his bedroom door to say, “Your mom isn’t feeling well.”
Within minutes, Ariel discovers his mother, Myriam Fefer, murdered inside their home. No forced entry. Nothing stolen. A violent struggle. And DNA left behind by a man who would later be identified as Alejandro Trujillo Ospina, a Colombian hitman.
But the episode makes one thing clear:
The mystery was never who carried out the murder — it’s who ordered it.
Through vivid narration, Ariel reconstructs the hours leading up to the discovery, the dynamics inside his family, and the life he shared with his mother — a strong, disciplined woman who raised two children largely on her own. He describes their home in San Isidro, the routines of the household, and the complicated family history tied to inheritance, control, and long‑standing tensions.
The episode ends with the moment that changed everything: Ariel trying to save his mother’s life, the arrival of paramedics, and the realization that her death was only the beginning of a much larger, darker story.
Episode 1 sets the emotional and investigative foundation for the season:
a son’s search for the truth, a murder-for-hire, and a question that has remained unanswered for nearly twenty years — who paid the hitman?
Media Contact
Name: Ariel Fefer
Email: Ariel@whokilledmymotherpodcast.com
Website: www.whokilledmymotherpodcast.com
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