In the spring of 1998, the quiet town of Donna, Texas, was shaken by a murder so brutal it blurred the line between superstition and sanity. A twelve-year-old boy vanished into the night—and when his killer confessed, he claimed the wind had told him to.

From the team at Echoes of 956, this episode unearths the true story behind one of the Rio Grande Valley’s darkest legends: the case of Pablo Lucio Vasquez, the man newspapers called The Vampire Killer of Donna.

Through court records, interviews, and the Valley’s own folklore, this haunting narrative explores not just the crime—but what it revealed about faith, fear, and the shadows that move within our own communities.

🕯️ A true crime story of madness, myth, and memory—told where the wind still remembers.