The Price of Survival: When a Sugar Daddy's Money Turned to Murder
In September 2025, Reading, Pennsylvania became the scene of one of the most horrific family annihilation in recent memory. Three bodies.Three locations. One devil's work.
Geraldina Peguero Mancebo was a 31-year-old Dominican immigrant trying to keep her family afloat in one of America's poorest cities.Working a warehouse job while supporting four children, she made a choice that millions of desperate women make every day—she accepted financial help from an older man who wanted something in return.
Jose Luis Rodriguez was 61 years old. Thirty years her senior. He rented her an apartment. He gave her money. And he believed that money bought him ownership of her life.
When Geraldina refused to leave her husband, Rodriguez's"generosity" revealed itself as something far more sinister. Within 48 hours, he would execute her husband Junior with a shot to the back of the head, murder Geraldina the same way while she held their baby, and throw one-year-old Jeyden face down into a muddy pond—alive—leaving him to drown.
The autopsy would later confirm mud in the baby's lungs. Hewas conscious. He struggled. He drowned.
This is the story of what happens when male entitlement meets financial desperation. When a woman's "no" becomes a death sentence. When poverty forces impossible choices that end in tragedy.
This is a story about the hidden dangers of sugar daddy culture, the systems that fail women of color, and three orphaned children left behind to make sense of the senseless.
Content Warning: This episode contains detailed descriptions of violence against women and children, murder, and drowning.Listener discretion is strongly advised.
Resources:
- National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233
- National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673
- Financial Abuse Resources: www.nnedv.org/content/about-financial-abuse
No Tears For Black Girls tells these stories because silence protects predators. We tell them because Black and brown women's lives matter. We tell them because there should be tears—and action—for every woman whose survival choices lead to tragedy.
CREDITS:
Created, Written, & Produced by John Reedburg
Hosted & Narrated by Samantha Paul
Production Company: John Reedburg Media
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