Rotten Mango - #240: The Cabo Six - Killing of Shanquella Robinson

Episode Date: February 27, 2023

RM VIDEO PODS HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XXanI2UPYY She sat there listening to the man sitting in front of her. She had trusted him before all of this - but now, he was blubbering about what happened. All 6 of the vacationers would find their way to her house to tell her what happened on their Mexico trip.  All of them had their own version of events, but it wasn’t adding up. How come they all left for Mexico together as “friends,” but they left her daughter, Shanquella, in Mexico? Why was her daughter’s body being held in a foreign coroner’s medical office? Why were these so-called “friends” lying about her daughter’s death?  Who needs enemies when you have friends like these? Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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All Salamondra could do was sit there and listen to this man that was sitting in front of her. This man that had the absolute audacity to step foot inside of their home. At one point in time, she entrusted this man. She let him attend family vacations. He would even come over for family dinners on Sundays. I mean, she knew this man for years. All she could do was sit there listening to him sweating and blubbering in his seat. He would soon walk out and that seat would be occupied by another one of her daughter's friends. It was like clockwork. They would come knocking on her front door with their own little story to tell, until finally all six of the daughter's friends that went on vacation with her sat down and told her their own muddled, inconsistent version of events.

Seven friends had gone on vacation, and only six had come back home. Safe and sound. They had come back days before the vacation was scheduled to end. They each appeared on Solomon Drs. Dior's step without the seventh member of the vacationing group, Solomon Drs. daughter, Shankuela Robinson.

Where was Shankuela? Why did they leave her? They all left for Mexico together. Why did they only come back without her? The seventh member of the group, Shankuela Robinson, she was still in Cabo, Mexico. Her body was being held at a foreign coroner's medical office. She was in a body bag, and all Salamondra could do was try to figure out why these six

individuals, why these so-called friends were lying about her daughter's death. This is like the most infuriating case I've researched in a really long time. Okay, as always, full show notes are being listed at rottenmangopodcast.com. This is an ongoing case. All of this information is to my present knowledge at the date of filming. Of course, there's going to be new developments, new steps being made towards justice. I'm definitely going to be keeping my eyes out on this case just to make sure that justice is served. I hope you guys do the same. So with that being said, let's talk about what happened to

Shen Kuala Robinson. Have you ever walked into a room and you physically feel the energy change? Okay, this is the most unsettling part about this case. Well actually, there is no the most unsettling part. This whole case is unsettling. You walk into a room and you feel like everyone in that room is suddenly behaving differently. As if the energy just changed because you're presence. I mean, when I was younger, I just remember that I would get these gut punch feelings when I walked into a room. It would happen with the same group all the time,

and I just really wanted to fit in with them. And the whole energy would shift, and it seemed like they didn't want me there for a reason, but they were also the ones that invited me in the first place. It's like they're sharing these weird unspoken glances at one another. me there for a reason, but they were also the ones that invited me in the first place. It's like they're sharing these weird unspoken glances at what another. It's like, like, see? Remember what I told you?

And you're like, I don't know what's going on. And it feels like there's nothing you can even do. What are you supposed to do? Confirm them? There's nothing you can say. It's like they were already planning something against you. It's like they were already talking about you. They already made up their minds about you. It is like they were already talking about you. They already made up their minds about you.

It is such a strange niche feeling. Okay, but if you've experienced it, I feel like you can't ever forget it. Well, this video went viral on social media because a woman, Shen Kuehla, went on vacation with her six friends, and I say friends, because they're just vile monsters, okay?

And the energy shift of when she walks into the room with her so-called friends who are all gathered without her in one of the rooms in this crazy Mexican villa, it's just so eerie. So it's her going room by room looking for her friends and she finds them gathered in a room and they're standing around the bed and just the glances, the energy, their body language. It feels like they were talking about her. It feels like they were planning something against her until she had just walked in. This video has been analyzed over and over again. Netizen say it definitely feels like people having a conversation that they don't want you to be a part of.

What they're talking about you? Yes. And it's become over-analyzed because Shankwala would end up dead on this trip. Speculated at the hands of her quote, friends. So let's talk about the first day of Shankuela's vacation. She had just touched down in Mexico, Cabo, and even though she was 25, a successful business woman and entrepreneur, Shankuela called her mom. Not because she needed to. She just didn't want her mom to worry about her.

That's just the type of person that she and Kwella was. She was very caring, very considerate, very responsible. She told her mom, we just got here, don't worry. I'm excited. We're going to stay in the villa. We have a private chef that's cooking us dinner. It'll be so fun. Yeah, just so excited.

I feel like I needed this vacation. And her mom's like, yeah, yeah, go do your thing. Be careful. I love you. Call me tomorrow. Solomon Dr. Hung up. And I think as a mom, it doesn't matter how old your kid is. That's your kid.

Even now I'm in my 20s, every time I'm out of town, every time I'm in New York City, my mom calls me every single day. And she tells me she still gets anxious if I don't pick up the phone right away, if I don't call her back right away. Sometimes she even calls my fiance right after she tells me she still gets anxious if I don't pick up the phone right away if I don't call her back right away sometimes she even calls my fiance right after she calls me I think it's the inescapable life of a mom like I don't think that there's any way to avoid it but theoretically in a perfect world if there was any mom who didn't have to be so concerned

and anxious it was probably Salamandra because Shinkwela was this grown responsible caring intelligent adult. She was kind of the center of the Robinson family. It seemed like they orbited around her. Her mom, Salamandra fell in love and married her husband Bernard Robinson. The couple had been longtime residents of North Carolina. So all of these friends, everyone, their residents of North Carolina that are on vacation in Mexico. They thought that North Carolina was safe. It was a nice place to settle to raise their family. Salamandra had a

daughter from a previous marriage, Quilla Long, and then the couple went on to have their first child together. January 9th, 1997, Shangkuela Robinson was born. And you know those people, just look at them. It doesn't even matter how young they are. Maybe they're in like kindergarten and you're like, I feel like this person's gonna be someone one day. That was Shankwala. That's what everybody says about her. It seems like she was just universally well-loved. I feel like that's something you say to be very nice and respectful, but Shankwala still maintained relationships from Kindergarten. She had friends from freaking Kindergarten. Mind you, the events unfolding take place when she's 25. This is a long, long time away from Kindergarten. She had friends from Fricking Kindergarten. Mind you, the events unfolding take place

when she's 25. This is a long, long time away from Kindergarten. She's still as friends from Kindergarten that have nothing but praise for her. I mean, they've known her for practically her whole life. One of her friends nicknamed her muffin, which I think is so freaking cute. And by all accounts, Shinkwela was adorable.

Like she had these big brown eyes that would just smile every time she smiled. These are that Shen Kuella was so incredibly bubbly and passionate to the point where her optimism was very contagious. One of her friends said that for her birthday, she said, okay, Shen Kuella, I brought you some Dunkin' Donuts, okay?

Like, I brought you some donuts, some birthday, I got you little hot chocolate, and her reaction. Shankuelas reaction to donuts and hot coffee. She said, you would have thought that I bought her the most extravagant gift in the world. She was just so happy. Like she was one of those people.

So after high school, she gets into Winston-Salem State University, which is a branch of UNC, the University of North Carolina. And Winston-Salem is recognized as a historically black university. Some sources say that Shinkwala really blossomed in college, so she's majoring in business. She's surrounded by peers that she could relate to that are lifting her up. She's proud to be a black woman in America, and she wanted to show everyone that she was capable of a lot.

So she uses her degree, she starts opening up these businesses. One was called the exquisite boutique. It was like a woman's fashion clothing line, and she also had exquisite kids. Okay, this is where I think her passion really was. This was like her labor of love. The objective of exquisite kids was to teach and encourage younger generations to fall in love with their natural hair pattern.

So she would go and she would braid these kids' hairs, she would do protective hair styles. And I think for Shinkwela, it was definitely more than just hair. It's said that she bonded with every single person that came in to get their hair braided. There was no doubt that Shinkwela had like this insane work ethic. Insane. It seemed like she just had this like sense of urgency about her. She wanted to get her life started. She wanted to get fulfilled.

She wanted to make a name for herself, which I think is very admirable. People who worked with her said, she was a hard worker. Like no matter what was going on in her life, she always worked. She would work until past midnight to get her job done, and then be back early in the morning doing another person's hair, never complained. Her friend shared a suite. Like, they had rented this little room together to invite all their customers and she said that one of her favorite moments where Shinkwala would bring her French bulldog to work. And every time a customer would walk in the door,

she would have to chase that dog around because that dog is just doing sprints, like just doing the zoomies around. And Shinkwala's like, come here, you know? Those are her favorite moments, so Shinkwala. She's just this full of life person. And she just had this mindset that if anyone was gonna give her the world, it was gonna be herself. Now let's talk about this Mexico trip. While at the university,

Shinkwala met a guy named Khalil Cook. This is the friend that would go on to attend family vacations with the Robinson family. Shinkwala and Kalil were close. There's no indication that there was any sort of romantic relationship. In fact, out of all the seven people involved, at least as of right now, there doesn't seem to be any indication of any romantic ties between the seven. I don't think it matters, but just putting that out there.

So anyway, Shangkuela and Kalil become really, really close friends, and Kalil would be the one to introduce Shangkuela to the rest of the Cabo 6. That's what they're called. Kaleal included. So there's Shenkuela and there's six not friends, and they're called the Cabo 6. So there's, um, are the list of names, so there's like Dejane, there's Winter, Elise, Malik, and Nazir. And this is pretty important.

It seemed like the rest of the group already had an established friendship. So other than Khalil being the one that she was close to, Chiang Kuala didn't know the others that long or that well we can assume. The theory is further strengthened because a ton of Chiang Kuala's close friends, even her mother publicly stated that they only knew of Khalil.

They weren't even familiar with the others. They didn't really hear about them. They weren't like Chiang Kualela wasn't coming home every day. Like, oh, I just met these new friends. I'm gonna go meet them again and again and again. It seemed relatively new. It seems like Khalil invited her to the friendly vacation, which honestly feels like a normal thing to do.

Like, my sister's going to Mexico next month and half the people going are friends she's very close with and the other half are more recent friends. And all that is just to say, this was a very typical vacation. I don't think anyone would have been alarmed. I don't think Shinkuela was like, oh no, this is, these are all new people. So everyone's getting hyped for this trip. They went to this huge luxurious private villa in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. It had multiple rooms, a private chef, a private pool, overlooking the ocean, a jacuzzi.

This is all important later. Shinkwala was so excited. She felt like she deserved this trip. I mean, she had been working so freaking hard, day in day out. She just needed like a little reset. She loved being around great people, and I'm sure it was exciting for her to make new friends and spend time with them and get to know them. Like, she was just such a bubbly person.

She got her hair done the day before the trip and her hair stylist said, you know, we always clicked. She's been my client for years. She's like my little sister and she said she was really excited about her trip to Mexico. She did all the things that we all get so excited for. She's packing for the trip, picking out what clothes to wear. I think that's what's so unsettling about this. It all starts off so innocent and exciting. Now, the trip was to celebrate two of the Cabo Six's birthdays and almost kind of like a Halloween trip to escape the gloom of

North Carolina during Halloween. They head to Mexico October 28th of 2022. Shin Kuehla and five of the Cabo Six would fly out together. So one of the three guys, Nizier, he was going gonna arrive in Mexico the day later on a separate flight. So it's just gonna be six people initially and then the seventh would join. So, Chiang Kuella, the rest of the group, they touched down in Mexico,

checked into Villa Linda 32, and it was incredible. The Villa was big enough to house 12 people, like this place was spacious. It was so bright, airy. I mean, watching through Instagram, you could see a group of loving friends getting ready to have a blast, enjoying each other's night together. You know, the first night that they checked in, Shang-Quel posted on her IG story, and this

would go viral as well. She was the one being recorded. Khalil had taken her phone, recorded her, passed out on the hammock. The flash was on and he was in her face while she was asleep. He just kept saying, we got our first dead body, body, body, body. This was posted around 9pm the first night. Shinkwala was confirmed to have just been asleep in the video and I'm sure at the time it was this lighthearted, humor, humorful video

after the way the events would unfold the next day, the IG story would be ripped to shreds by netizens. It would start to feel rather cryptic, dark foreshadowing almost. I mean, it was clear that they were all having a lot of fun. Now that day, she had already called her mom before that Instagram story was posted. So she's already called her mom before that Instagram story was posted. So she's talking to her mom and she's like, you know what, I'm going to call you tomorrow. That would be the last time she spoke to her mom. So they got to Mexico on the 28th. The morning of the 29th, the group decided to hit the pool. Some say they were skinny dipping, some say they were all changing into their swimwear. It doesn't really matter.

But we saw a very, very small snippet of that morning because Shinkuela posted on social media a casual video of herself looking for her friends in this massive villa. She was going from room to room looking for them and she's saying it doesn't take that long to get naked. Because it, I mean, the assumption, the implication is that they were suspiciously taking a really long time. And again, I'm sure it wasn't suspicious in that moment to her but hindsight is 2020, you know Shankwela walks in room to room. She's like hello

It doesn't take that long to get naked and finally she walks into the final room where all of her friends so-called friends are Clothed and gathered in one of the rooms and When she walks in a lot of netizens believe the energy just It's shifted now. I don't know if I'm reading too much into it I of netizens believe the energy just... It's shifted. Now I don't know if I'm reading too much into it, I don't know about the energy per se, but the body language was interesting, the body language was interesting, and it looked genuinely like they had been plotting something, or that they had been talking about her in that room, together, without her.

She and Kwella seemed excited, though, to get the day started. Maybe she noticed, maybe she didn't, but everyone just kind of had this weird energy to them. We'll later piece together what is believed to have happened after this video was taken. But let's talk about how it unfolded for the Robinson family. Whether you're doing a dance to your favorite artist in the office parking lot, or being guided into Warrior I in the break room before your shift, whether you're running on your Peloton tread at your mom's house while she watches the baby. Or counting your breaths on the subway.

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Okay. So it would be around like 4 p.m. in Mexico, I believe, time difference for the North Carolina. So they thought, okay, well, maybe Shankwala is using Khalil's phone to call us and everything's fine. But no, they picked up and it was Khalil and he seemed remarkably calm. He informed the parents that Shankwala was not feeling well because she had alcohol poisoning.

Of course her parents start freaking out like alcohol poisoning. I mean how much alcohol do you need to drink to get alcohol poisoning? He's calm. He's assuring the robins and that Shankwala is safe. That medical help was on the way. Shankwala's parents trusted Khalil. I mean after all this is the guy that they themselves had gone on family vacations with. Yes, they're freaking out that Shinkwala wasn't feeling well. They're freaking out that she's in a completely different country. They're freaking out that they can't be right next to her, helping her, but maybe.

Maybe they felt a little bit of relief that she had a close friend there to take care of her. A close friend that they knew. He calmed Salamandra down as much as he could. And he promised, you know, like Mr. Robinson, I'm gonna keep an eye out, and I'm gonna keep you updated. That was the first of many calls from Khalil to Shinkwala's parents that day.

One final call would be placed. Khalil's voice was devoid of any emotion, and he stated, Shinkwala was dead. She was gone. In that moment, the Robinson felt like their entire world just shattered. I mean, I can't even imagine the pure shock. What are you talking about? The couple wanted answers, but all Kaleal would do was regurgitate over the phone over and over again that it was alcohol poisoning. Of course the parents are instantly suspicious. It just doesn't sound like Shankwella.

Okay, yes, Shankwella, like everybody else, parties, drinks, she's 25, okay? But she's never been one to drink until the point of being this intoxicated. She was more of an occasional social drinker. She never drank this much, especially away from home. She knew how to handle her alcohol. She was a very responsible adult. This was weird. But everyone just shrugged. All the public was like, well, it kind of makes

sense. You know, it's Coppo, Mexico after all. It's a reputation of being like a crazy party destination. But how is that even a good explanation for a young woman's death? I mean, how could things even change so fast? Yesterday, her daughter was fine, reassuring her that she's having a blast, and she'll call her tomorrow. The next day, she allegedly drank a bit too much, wasn't feeling great, and an hour or two later, she was dead. Like, how does that even make sense? The parents were kept in the dark after those phone calls. Meanwhile, the Cabo 6 would fly home early from Mexico. I think that day. So I think it was the next day, but they came before their trip was supposed to end. I think this is wild. I don't usually, I don't input my opinion,

but and now in no way am I saying that they should have stayed and finished their big party. That's not even what I'm saying, but I imagine if that were me and my friend or even in a quaint tense, passed away, I would wait. I would wait and stay there to help handle things with the parents. If my job and my school allowed, I would stay even after my vacation until the parents could come to Mexico, until someone could make sure that Shankuela's body was safely returned to the United States. I would try to help be the middleman between the parents and the authorities, not that I speak Spanish, but just to get a hold of them,

go down to the station, do all of these things. I wonder if it also has to do with their six of them. You know how the thing used to say when there's more people, less people, or taking actions? The bystander effect or whatever, yes. Yes. I guess that's like a good benefit of the doubt if we're playing devil that advocate, but I think that Khalil should have done something. Like, see this one that was yay. Yeah, I think definitely, but I'm that Khalil should have done something. Like, see this one that was, yeah, yeah.

I think definitely, but I'm just saying. Maybe that's what happened. Maybe that everyone just had the feeling, I was like, okay, why would I stay? Like, what am I doing here? But it's weird because, you know, I understand if their vacation ended, and they're like, it's time to go,

but they started booking new tickets 24 hours into their vacation. Like immediately after it just happened. Yes. Okay, so it's like, oh, let me run away. Yes, it was weird. Like I don't expect anyone to stay after the vacation because maybe they're not close enough with her.

Maybe they have work priorities that they need to get to. Like they get fired. It's more of like an escape. Yes, it feels weird. They want to run away from the trouble. The situation, yes. Which normally you wouldn't do that unless you had something to hide.

If it was genuinely a death by alcohol poisoning, I don't think that I would have left. I would have been incredibly uncomfortable. I think there would have been a lot of trauma and grief to deal with, but that's just, and these are all full grown adults. These are not teenagers. They're about the same age.

Yeah, so it's just... it's weird to me. So they have hazardly packed their bags as well as Shinkuela's bag, went to her parents' doorstep to drop off her clothes that they had just shoved into her suitcase. And one by one, they all visited Shinkuela's grieving parents. They looked into their eyes and they lied about their daughter's death. So they all show up at different times? Yeah, the one part of the story that stayed the same was that she had died of alcohol poisoning,

which of course Salamandra did not believe. The rest of the stories were littered with like mismatching events and inconsistencies. It was strange. When asked who called the doctor, one's like, oh, they made call the doctor. The other one's like, the Villa concierge. Oh, one of us did.

No, it was a neighboring resident from the Villa next door. Okay, well where was Salamandra when the doctor came? One friend is like, she was unconscious on a chair. Another friend said she was on the floor. One of them was like, she was passed out in her room. Oh no, she was passed out on her toilet. It seemed like every minute detail, every single one of them had a completely different answer.

Their general attitude also was just unsettling. Okay, so forget the whole leaving Mexico early, which personally I think is bizarre. From the get-go, the Cabo 6, I don't even want to call them the friends, the Cabo 6. Their behavior was weird once they got back. Okay, I would imagine if you just lost a dear friend, they would rally around the Robinson family, especially Cleole, they would bond with them, share their grief, come over, share fond memories of Shankwelet,

try to help each other through this traumatic time. Genuinely, I might even feel guilt, like maybe we shouldn't have gone on this Mexico trip, like, I feel so bad, you know? There should have been misty-eyed hugs, these warm embraces, these tender words, but there was just something that Solomon Drac could not really pinpoint. Their energy, the whole atmosphere of these people, it was off. It was off-putting.

Call it mother's intuition, but her blood ran cold every time one of the friends came over with a new version of events for her. Honestly, I bet she was feeling like she was going insane. You have this gut feeling, everyone's probably trying to comfort her by saying things like, we're going to get through this together, she's in a better place now. And as a mom, you're like, no, stop saying that. Something weird is going on. Why is everyone just saying these weird things?

Something has happened. I think to really add to this feeling was the fact that Solomon Dr. got an anonymous phone call after the Cabo 6 arrived back in America. The anonymous caller told Solomon Dr. that Shinkwala had been assaulted on the trip, physically assaulted. She had been beaten into submission,

were the words used, and that her death was not accidental. Solomon Dr. didn't know what happened, but she knew one thing for sure. If there was even a 1% chance that her daughter's death was not an accident, she was gonna find out. And that, that was a promise.

Bernard, the father started working tirelessly on the extradition process to get Shenquilla back home. And he kept calling the villa every single day, all day, every day, until finally, he got an English speaker on the phone and the employee picked up and confirmed the family's worst fears. They said to Shenkwella's father, what? Your daughter didn't die of alcohol poisoning.

She died of a broken neck. Oh my gosh. Salamandra wanted to scream at every one of those so-called friends. What did you all do to my child? Shinkuela's body was autopsy, and Salamandra publicly stated that Shinkuela had a blood shot and swollen eye, like a black eye, a not-terred, and her lip was swollen and busted open. That doesn't sound like alcohol poisoning to me. The family knew that something was wrong. They knew that there was something that the Cabo 6 was hiding.

And the worst part is, the Robinson parents were proven right about their suspicions in the most heartbreaking way possible. Bernard, the father, was out searching for grave sites for his only daughter, his entire world, his life, when he got word of a video that was circulating. The video first circulated in communities of Winston-Salem State University, and then eventually it went public. The video is incredibly graphic, the parents have identified Shankwala as the victim in the video, and it seems like the video was recorded by Kaleal, it's from the 29th the day that Shankuela died, and it shows Shankuela naked, vulnerable, and being physically beaten by one of the women on the trip.

It's clear that she's trying to create a physical distance between her and the aggressor, or even trying to calm them down, but it's not working. Shankuela is being punched with a closed fist. She's being slapped, kicked, her head is being need. The woman, the aggressor, which is suspected to be, um, Dejane, flung Shen Kuala to the side where she falls down, clearly disoriented, and she still keeps kicking her. And somebody was recording this. They're all standing there like watching and recording. Watching and recording. These so-called friends. Yeah. I mean, I don't even, like, okay, to call them not friends

is one thing. I don't even know if these are people, like, it's so crazy. Why are they recording? I don't understand that aspect either. It's insane. Yeah, the parents don't get it either. It's just, they're like monsters.

It's suspected that she was naked because remember they were gonna go skinny dipping. I mean, I can't even imagine the vulnerability. So there is a whole theory, but just imagine how out of control she must have felt in that moment. And is everyone closed? Yeah. And the fact that this fight was clearly one-sided is even more heartbreaking and tragic.

Okay. I guess it's not even called a fight. I mean, it was a full blown attack. It was a full blown ambush with spectators, spectators that were supposed to be her friends. Kaleel is heard on the camera saying, Kwala, can you at least fight back? What? And in the most heartbreaking response,

Shankwala responds quietly, no, and she just keeps repeating no. She's just trying to diffuse the situation. Like, it's clear she does not have an angry violent bone in her body and it shows in the video. Another man was seen recording, but none of them did anything to intervene. And it's clear she does not have an angry violent bone in her body and it shows in the video. Another man was seen recording, but none of them did anything to intervene. In fact, the other man is almost inciting for their violence. So nobody did anything.

The speculation is that Shen Kuehlo had gone back to her room to change after she walked in on the other's plotting. Remember the last video, right, the IG video, which she most likely didn't even know at the time that they were plotting anything because these details are so minute, it's something that we can see after hindsight. She goes back to her room, this is the theory. She took off her clothes to go skinny dipping, or maybe she was in the process of putting on her swimwear.

The rest of the group ambushed her. That's kind of what it looks like. They run in, one of the women start assaulting her and the rest watch, or record, or they're just not intervening. They're not splitting anyone up, they're not protecting, they're not trying to mediate. I mean, the whole thing feels like an ambushed, premeditated attack. Maybe the premeditated attack was in the middle of being finished when Shankwala walked in on them. It's like they were plotting this when she walked in. Even her dad said she's not a fighter.

For them to do what they did, it seemed like there was a plot because they couldn't have done this in the US. Speculating that it wasn't even just premeditated in that moment that morning, but her whole invitation to Mexico maybe was premeditated was something like this in mind. Again, this video is so graphic,

it's extremely upsetting, and I would recommend you not watch it, but Shinkwala remains defensive. She does not hit back, she does not fight back, she's naked, she's vulnerable. The Robinson family could only watch the video and weep while they were asking questions. I mean, what are these evil so-called friends? Like, who are these monsters? Why are they doing this to my child?

How could these people watch and not stop this file? Act especially Khalil? I mean, it doesn't even make sense. And what's crazy is that someone recorded it and this incident happened, tragedy happened, and he shared it with people. So it's speculated that maybe he shared it before she passed. Like right when it happened, he might have...

You share something like this. Why are you even taging it? Every layer, if you think about it, just shows how evil of a monster it is. Just every layer, you just think about that. Like if this happened among strangers, it's still evil. But the fact that it's so-called friends, it's just so unsettling.

Allegedly, there is another video that was filmed, and there's no verification that I could find on this. That's like a good source, but allegedly, there's another video of the other woman, Winter Donovan, joining in, brutally beating Shankwala. This has not been released to the public, nor confirmed that this video does exist. But sources say that the authorities and family have seen the video. So I'm not sure. This video thrusts the case into the national spotlight.

Eventually, the FBI and Mexican authorities got involved not because of this video, though, but because this video went viral on social media and there was enough social pressure, truly, that's like the only way to get authorities involved at Seam's these days to make fun of them on social media. And that's what happened. There was public outrage of a possible cover-up

because why was her death being reported as alcohol poisoning? And it wasn't just from the Cabo Six that we're saying it's alcohol poisoning. The family found out through the police reports in Mexico that they listed her cause of death as alcohol poisoning. So they're like, okay, that doesn't even make sense. How could the friends even just come back to the US and resume with their lives?

Clearly something happened. Can they find out the real cost though? Yes, the autopsy reports were released. So the investigation into Shankwela's death was considered a potential femicide. A femicide is how Mexico categorizes murder when the victim is a woman. This, along with the autopsies, the death certificate was released to the family, and it seems like thread by thread, the story starts unraveling. But not even quickly enough for the Robinson family. So this blew the case right open, and now

let's talk about what really happened in Cabo. Shortly after Shankwala posted the life footage on IG of her looking for her friends through the villa because they were supposed to go swimming. Shortly after a police report, now I'm not saying this is true, this is what the police report is saying. A police report from Mexican authorities documented that a doctor was called to the group's villa

for a vacationer who needed medical attention. It said that the call was made by the group's villa for a vacationer who needed medical attention. It said that the call was made by one of the Cabo 6, sometime after 2pm, but a doctor didn't show up until 3pm. I don't know if there's a reason for that, I don't know if that's like a timing thing, I don't know if the doctor was busy, I don't know maybe if one of the Cabo 6 made it seem not like a big deal. For the doctor to show up so they took their time, but it's been emphasized so I just wanted

to point it out. Dr. Carolina Guteras showed up at the villa and she noticed that Shankwala was alive and had no signs of injury. She wrote and I quote, in stable condition but dehydrated, disoriented, verbally unresponsive, unable to communicate and appearing to be intoxicated. But there's no like bruising and marks. She said that Shenkela was trying to talk, but she couldn't form the words to do so. Which, I mean, like imagine how scared she must have felt in that moment, like not knowing why she couldn't speak or not being able to communicate her needs.

Because Dr. Gutierrez couldn't communicate with Shenkela, she tried to talk to her friends to get some background on her condition. The Cobbos VI just reported, oh, she was drinking all day and all day last night. So I think that she's just drunk. Dr. Gutierrez went off on this information and in her exam, she agreed, okay, well, maybe she's most likely suffering from alcohol poisoning. If you think she's just drunk, you wouldn't call a doctor, no?

Yeah, that's true. You would just sleep it up. Exactly. Unless they're throwing up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you think she's just acting drunk or being drunk, you never call a doctor when someone who's just wasted. Yeah, and they're like sleeping it off.

That's true. Or just having trouble blurring their words, they're just drunk. So obviously, they know something is wrong already, but they are not telling her the reason. Okay, I'm just speculating. Yeah, I'm not. I mean, maybe we should be calling doctors in those situations, but that's true. I don't think I've ever, unless I was always told unless someone is vomiting and unconscious when

they're drunk, usually they're sleeping it off, right? So the next step for the doctor was to administer an IV line to rehydrate Shenkella, but according to her reports, she was repeatedly unsuccessful. I mean, this could be for a number of reasons, when you're dehydrated, it's harder to find a vein. According to her reports, she was repeatedly unsuccessful. I mean, this could be for a number of reasons. When you're dehydrated, it's harder to find a vein. Maybe you just have naturally finicky veins. So the doctor is like, hey, I can't get an IV in her.

She's like really dehydrated. I think you guys need to take her to the hospital. It's pretty concerning for Shankuela to have been unconscious for this prolonged period of time. Like, I don't think it's just, if this is alcohol poisoning, something's wrong. The Kabul Six rejected. This is so strange,

but they insisted that they only wanted Sheng Kuala to be treated in the villa. Later, the group would say, no, no, no, we didn't want her to be hospitalized because it would be too expensive. There's so many issues with this statement. I mean, just so many. First of all,

they're staying at a villa that runs upward of some sources say 1300 other say 1600 dollars a night, a thousand, 600 dollars a night. I googled it and I'm not sure because it depends on different areas of Mexico, but the average ER visit in Mexico just to visit costs 30 to 60 US dollars without insurance. Now, I'm sure if you go into intensive care,

I'm sure if there's emergency operations It's different, but just to give you a ballpark and an ER visit in the US without insurance is like a thousand dollars It's a world of a difference. So if you're worried about health insurance It's probably better to go to the ER in Mexico, but they're like no, it's too pricey. So it's just a really weird bizarre statement to make. Later, one of the Cabo Six told the family that it would have been $5,000 to take her to the emergency room.

I don't know if that's calculating an ambulance, but again, that sounds more like US pricing. It just doesn't make sense. And even if it is $5,000, okay, I'm sure the Robinson parents don't mind, but they weren't even given the choice. The Cabo Six made the choice for them. Like, why wouldn't you at least just call her parents and be like, hey, she needs emergency

care, it's gonna be $6,000. We don't have the money. Can you guys pay the money? Just that would have been fine. Especially if a medical doctor is telling your friend that you need to go to the hospital with that friend, it's not even just a random passerby that's like, you should go to the emergency room. Now, I guess the doctor either didn't have the authority or didn't want to, but she decided that she wasn't gonna

Just call an ambulance and have Shenquilla as quoted to the hospital. Maybe there's some sort of liability laws I don't know, but I just thought it was weird that she didn't even though she clearly needed hospitalization. So during this standoff, Khalil made the initial call to tell Salamandra about Shankwala's situation. He used his phone. Khalil told the robins and parents that Shankwala wasn't feeling well. She had alcohol poisoning.

According to reports by Mexican authorities, Dr. Gutierrez was in the villa for over an hour. Shankwala's condition was taking a turn for the worse. The Kabo 6 kept denying medical interventions, kept refusing to take her to the ER, and around 4 p.m., Shankwala suffered a tonic clonic seizure. These types of seizures involve full body,

uncontrollable muscle convulsions. Some people experience a total loss of bodily functions. On top of the seizure, Shankwala was having difficulty breathing. Her heart rate was plummeting, she was gasping for air, and at the young age of 25 years old with no prior conditions that I could find,

she went into cardiac arrest. Dr. Gutierrez now called for emergency services, began CPR, and on the now collapsed body of Shang Kuala Robinson. Wait, did she leave and come back? No. Oh, this is all happened in that one hour? Yeah.

Well, like two it showers. She was there the whole time? Yeah. She watched it happen? Yeah. Yeah, that's another thing. People like, why wouldn't you just call the ambulance yourself if you're a doctor and you know that this person is about to like, this is crazy.

So ambulance has arrived. Paramedics from the villa. They tried everything. CPR, 14 rounds of mechanical CPR, multiple shocks from a defibrillator, five doses of adrenaline. The urgency of the paramedics must have been a stark juxtaposition to the calmness

and the nonchalantness of the Cabo 6 and maybe even Dr. Gutierrez, honestly. Not even 24 hours into her luxury vilification with six people who said, who said they were her friends Just hours after Dr. Gutierrez reported she was stable and un-injured Tranquilla Robinson was declared dead In Cabo St. Lucas, Mexico miles away from her family and home Because she is a US citizen that died on foreign soil, the Mexican police had to report

to him as death. They basically noted the sequence of events that I briefly summarized. They reported a diseased person had died of alcohol poisoning. She died two hours and 45 minutes after the doctor was called to the residence. No observation of internal or external injuries. So the families and netizens would discover this sequence of events documented by Mexican authorities were all in a legit lie. So once Sheikh Kuala was pronounced dead, Khalil called to tell her parents that she was

gone. We went through all the suspicious behaviors of the Kobo-6 when they got back to America, but their lies start unraveling through the reports. The Robinson's obtained the noteworthy English translated copy of Sheikh Kuala's death certificate, as well as her autopsy. It stated that Shankwala was pronounced dead at 3pm, according to the science, according to the medical professionals. The time between injury and death.

Like whatever happened, and when she ultimately died, was 15 minutes. So he's a very, I don't want to say it's short because 15 minutes is so long. Wait, what do you mean 15 minutes? Can you explain that? Something happens that triggers a body to shut down. Whether it's an injury, a traumatic injury, an accident, or something. And then you die within 15 minutes. 15. That's what happened to Shankwala. So, trigger A, 15 minutes later, Shankwala has met.

We don't know the trigger? Well, they said it's either an accident or a traumatic injury. So it seems like some sort of trauma done to her body. It doesn't seem like alcohol poisoning. That's very different from what was just described in the police documents of she was alive for two hours and 45 minutes while the doctor was there before she passed away.

The time of death is completely different. So when the six people in the doctor was standing there, there's something happened in front of them? No, they probably lied. They lied. Is the speculation. What do you mean they lied? They lied to the police.

So was the doctor there or no? Yes, but there's... So the doctor is lying, is what you're saying. Speculations that there must be a reason that she's lying or the police is lying. But I mean, this is the story that Cabo Six is putting out But it doesn't match with the medical reports because her medical reports say her cause of death was listed as a severe spinal cord injury and Atlas luxation

So that's the cause of death that happened and within 15 minutes she passed, but I don't know how that cause of death was Caused so basically an atlas death was caused. So basically an Alice luxation is there's an injury to her spinal cord that's severe enough to cause instability in the atlas part of your spine. That is like the uppermost part of your spine and it's a point of contact between the spine and the skull. This part is filled with neurotransmitters. It's crazy. There's so much stuff in there that is so important and vital to human life. The parents didn't get a call that she was dead until much later.

So they're looking at this autopsy report and they're like, it's saying her time of death is like 3 p.m. That doesn't make sense because we got a call after 3 p.m. and Khalil is like, she's not feeling well. But her time of death is 3 p.m. So this raises a lot of questions.

The Robinson's tried to get in contact with any of the Cabo 6. Anyone that was there to be like, hey, something's not adding up. But suddenly they were radio silent now. The same people that dropped off Shen Kwella's stuff that came to sit with her, nothing. Why would you break into these apartments? For money, for drugs, whatever was in there? Why aren't you afraid of getting caught at doing this? No, who's gonna catch us?

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in the Autosy app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your shows. I'm not a big guy, man, but I love being a dirty mother f***er. Then, November 21st, Mexican authorities published the police report from the account of two police officers and Dr. Gutierrez. The parents received the autopsy reports as well, and just nothing was adding up. I mean, the fact that the autopsy didn't even mention alcohol in the autopsy? Now, mind you, when you do an autopsy, typically you'll do toxicology reports on the side, and those take a little bit of time to come in.

But I mean, there's not even the mention of alcohol. There's not the mention that it could have been alcohol poisoning. There's none of that. So according to the autopsy, she did not die of alcohol poisoning. She died from the spinal cord injury. But there's no mention, again, of the alcohol in her initial autopsy reports. Now she could have been drunk when this happened. She could have been drunk to the point where maybe she was

gonna have alcohol poisoning. It doesn't matter because that wasn't her cause of death. Meanwhile, the police reports stated that she died of a seizure as a result of alcohol poisoning. And the two reports have different timeline of events. The autopsy states that her time of death was at 3 p.m. Then the police reports would be around 6 p.m. The Robinson's were at a loss for words because how could the two reports be so different?

It doesn't even make any sense. I mean, who can you trust if you can't trust the authorities to look into your daughter's death? It was such a shady situation. How could authorities really report that it was all alcohol-induced and that there was no evidence of foul play, but the medical reports stated the exact opposite. Under the part where it says accident or traumatic injury, they wrote yes. And yes, the question is brought up, would things have played out differently on the investigation

side if the victim was not a black woman? We have seen many instances where police sweep murders under the rug when it comes to people of color. Could it be that they thought nobody would care? It happened on foreign soil. Maybe they thought that they could just close the case and not be bothered to investigate. Maybe they could not do their jobs and people wouldn't care. Well, clearly, they were very wrong.

So, of course, the Robinson family and the internet, I mean, personally myself, I think the death certificate, the autopsy reports are more accurate. I mean, you're talking about science, you're talking about medical professionals versus this is just people saying, well, this happened at this time. So with that, with the assault video, it is believed that Shinkwela died at the hands of the Cabo 6, if not one or if not all of them. As all of this starts swirling on the internet, the Cabo 6 have gone radio silent, deleted all of their social media accounts, but Nazir, he's the one that showed up a day late. He arrived in Mexico the day of Shankwala's death, and he's the only one that has publicly spoken out about this.

And he said that once he got to the villa, he noticed Shankwala was not feeling well. So he took her to a quiet room, stroked her hair, and gave her words of affirmations to make herself feel better. But the weird part of this story is that he claimed that he got to the villa at 330. And it's safe to imagine that... The timeline is not adding up then. Exactly. Is he lying to?

Maybe. Maybe she was already dead when he got there, because just the timelines aren't adding up with anyone. So where are we now? 25 days after 25-year-old Shen Kuala died, the Attorney General in Mexico announced an arrest warrant had been issued and approved for the arrest and extradiction of an American citizen.

Now here's the thing with this, okay? The thing is, it's warrant has been issued. That doesn't mean someone was arrested. Now there are rumors that the person has been arrested, but I couldn't see if it was 100% verifiable. We don't even know who. It's speculated that St. Janai, the woman assaulting Shangkwala, because they identified them as the direct aggressor in the case of Shangkwala's death. The name has not been released, but like I said, netizens presume that it's St. Janai. The local

journalists have confirmed that is an American woman that was part of the COP06. If found guilty, this person could be sentenced to 40 to 60 years in prison in Mexico. And right now, we can only speculate if the US will be pursuing additional charges on the rest of the group or on this individual in question. Authorities remain pretty tight-lipped. I mean, traditionally, on a case like this, they all hold responsibility and there should be some types of charge, right?

So it gets really complicated. A former FBI assistant director was asked about this case and why there's no answers and why FBI is being so quiet. And he said, even if this happened in the US, like this homicide happened in the US, the FBI wouldn't be working on this because it's a local case. Typically, a case like this would move rather quickly in the US, like this homicide happened in the US, the FBI wouldn't be working on this because it's a local case. Typically a case like this would move rather quickly in the US. You have video like this, you have witnesses that are available to be interrogated, interviewed, you know, you're going to find all these other forensic evidence, videos, time long,

cell phone peeing, all of that. But with this case being in Mexico, it's a hit or miss when you deal with police down there, when you deal with prosecutors down there. So we have to try and get evidence in our hands before we can actually bring it to the US courts. That's all done through treaties, ribbons, bows, formal papers, requests that go back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. It's painstaking, labor, it's like a bureaucratic process.

And with Mexico involved, it's not just a process in the US, it's two different countries who, you know, sometimes they're not known to work well together. But he does mention that it's important to keep the pressure. This is a former FBI director assistant. He said, when you apply pressure and you pressure the government, you almost embarrass the government, that's when you get things moving.

Here's my understanding of things. If Mexican authorities decide to give up all the evidence and let the US handle it since, it seems like all the involved parties to my knowledge are US citizens, then the US would press whatever charges that they deem fit to whoever they deem fit. But if Mexico decides to hold its own investigation, which it seems like that's the route they're taking, the US can have an investigation of their own, but a lot of it is hoping and waiting, filing paperwork to get some of that evidence transferred in from Mexico. And the US authorities are no white knights in this case either. Don't make it seem like the FBI are like, we're trying our best.

At one point, they released a statement that there was no clear evidence of foul play in this case when there's a literal video of a woman being violently attacked. So I'm just going to say the Robinson family has been let down by both countries' authorities. It's just been so depressing. Like all we can do is just hope that the Robinson family and Shen Kuala get the justice that they deserve. I mean, they've been working every single day to campaign for authorities to act on extradition orders.

But just like the Cabo 6, authorities are radio silent now. There's no additional details on if there have been attempts at extradiction or arrests, which doesn't mean it hasn't happened, but no official reports. The Morschenkwella's mom lets herself feel these emotions, like feel what's happened to her child. She feels like her chest is caving in. But at least she's not alone. She has her daughter.

She has her husband Bernard. And they're angry, like rightfully so. Bernard has vowed to keep fighting until he gets the answers. In interviews with the parents, you can clearly see that they're exhausted. They're tired, they're desperate, they're so sad. They've talked about how social media

and the public have forced the investigation forward. And it seems like the public are the only people that aren't giving up when the police are. They said they still have faith. They're going to find justice. They're not going to rest until they get it. They urge the public to not forget their daughter. Salamandra has told ABC News. I would like for each of them to be sent back to Mexico. Their plan was to come back here thinking they wouldn't be prosecuted. Shinkwala was kind. And I want them to be sent back to Mexico. Their plan was to come back here thinking they wouldn't be prosecuted, Shinkwala was kind, and I want them to remember that for the rest of their lives. We're going to carry on her work. And that is where we are with today's case. I think if everyone keeps an eye out on this case and keeps applying pressure, that's the best route that we have to

ensure justice or some sort of closure and hopefully one day peace for the Robinson family. But that is the highly requested case of Jean-Quelo Robinson. What are your thoughts? And yet, let's just keep the Robinson family in our minds and keep following up because sometimes things get out of the news cycle and the authorities are like,

okay, I think we're in the clear. Please stay safe. And I will see you guys on the Rotten Mango channel next Sunday. Bye.