Cold and Missing: 2024 Case Updates

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The views and opinions expressed in Cold and Missing are exclusively those of the hosts.

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All parties mentioned are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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Cold and Missing also contains adult themes and languages.

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Listener discretion is advised.

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I'm your host, Ali McLaughlin-Sulkowski.

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And I'm your co-host, Eli Sulkowski.

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And this is Cold and Missing, where we cover cold cases and missing person cases.

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Hello everyone and welcome back to Cold and Missing.

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I'm Ali.

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And I'm Eli.

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Welcome back everyone.

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It is the end of the year, end of 2024.

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Christmas just passed as of uploading this episode and we're rounding the corner to

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New Year's.

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Yeah, so as this year comes to a close, we're going to be navigating this episode just a

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little differently.

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Yeah, we thought it might be nice at the end of the year to just go back and just talk

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about any updates of any of the cases that we have covered on the podcast because there

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has been some movement, arrests, convictions on some of the cases that we've covered here

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since the beginning of Cold and Missing.

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So it might be nice just to recap everything and close the year out that way.

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More importantly than anything, it gives us a chance here at Cold and Missing, Ali and

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I, a chance to really emphasize why Cold and Missing is here.

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And it's to do exactly what we're doing in this episode today.

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Yes, we love to cover cold and missing cases, especially those that have, you know, lived

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underrepresented for far too long.

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But this gives us another chance to emphasize to our listeners as well, go back and listen

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to the cases that have had updates, check to see if other podcasts have covered cases,

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maybe even more in depth.

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And it gives you a chance to search for these people, another go around.

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Yeah, we always want to help bring answers to the family, bring justice, close these

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cases out.

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So, you know, us doing this recap is really a way to just like honor that part of the

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mission as well of Cold and Missing.

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And with that, I think we can move into episode 113 where Ali provides us with some updates.

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And just as a quick content warning at the top, there will be some brief mentions of

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sexual assault.

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So some of these updates will just be quick little quips, just some small things that

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have been happening on the case, but other ones have had some pretty substantial movements.

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So the first one we're going to be talking about is from episode two, which was Tionda

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and Diamond Bradley.

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So just as a quick recap, they were 10 and two at the time of their disappearance in

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2001.

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They had disappeared from their apartment in Chicago, Illinois.

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There was a note left by Tionda saying that they were going to a park to play and then

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to the store, but the girls have never been found.

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In 2023, there was a woman in Texas who came forward saying that she thought that she could

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be Diamond Bradley.

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The FBI did do a DNA test and according to the family, it was not a match.

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So they are still searching for what happened to Tionda and Diamond.

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The family still hold vigils every single year, so they are actively trying to keep

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this case in the media.

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The next update is from episode three and this is the case of Trevelle Henley.

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Trevelle was 15 years old when he went missing in Columbus, Ohio under mysterious circumstances.

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His case kind of went viral on social media when a woman on TikTok in Columbus, Ohio was

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like doing some work in her yard and she found a rug that had been rolled up and buried in

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her yard, so she put it up on TikTok and it kind of caused this big sensation and so she

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called police who did investigate it and there was no body.

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Nothing really nefarious seems to be coming from the rug, though I think they are still

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doing some DNA testing from what I could find or just general testing on it, not DNA, just

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general testing to make sure there is no DNA or evidence on it.

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But when that whole thing went viral, Trevelle's case was really linked to it and thought that

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maybe this could be related to him, so his case was brought up a lot.

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Unfortunately there were no new leads or anything, but I thought this was kind of an interesting

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development and a way for somebody's missing person case to get out there.

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His case is still open.

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Moving right along, our next update is episode nine and this was the murder of Abby Williams

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and Libby German in Delphi, Indiana.

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Richard Allen was arrested, we've covered this on the podcast, and he did go to trial

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recently and was found guilty.

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He has been sentenced to 130 years for the murder of Abby and Libby and now this case

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is considered closed.

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In episode 15, this is about Betty Rolfe.

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She was 60 years old in 1988 and was walking to work when she was assaulted and murdered.

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Gene Mayer was arrested in the murder and assault of Betty.

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He was found guilty at trial and was sentenced to life in prison with a chance at parole

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in 34 years.

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Since he is 68 years old in 2024, he will likely die in prison before he is eligible

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for parole, but that case is also considered closed.

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The next update is from episode 33, which is Dorien Thomas.

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Dorian was nine years old in 1998 when he went missing.

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He was riding his bike to go get a snack from a nearby gas station in Amarillo, Texas.

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In 2024, the Amarillo Police Department got a tip that remains could be found near Smelter

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Road and Hastings Avenue.

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When police arrived and searched the area, they did end up finding bones.

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Police initially thought that this could be Dorien.

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Unfortunately, the bones turned out to be animal bones, so we are still searching for

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what happened to Dorien Thomas.

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His case is still open.

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In episode 35, we covered Teekah Lewis's case.

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Teekah went missing when she was only two years old from a bowling alley in Tacoma, Washington

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in 1999.

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In August of 2024, a woman who resembled Teekah’s age-progress photo was seen at a Home Depot

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asking to use the bathroom near Tacoma, Washington.

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Teekah’s uncle worked at the home depot and saw the girl and alerted the family.

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Teekah’s family are pushing the police to investigate, but there have been no updates from them as

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far as if they looked into this or not.

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But the family is pushing for the police to work more on the case.

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Her case is still open.

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In episode 37, Jason Cannon was two years old when he went missing in 1982.

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He was playing in his front yard and his mom went to go get a jacket for him, and when she

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returned he was gone.

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In April of 2024, police announced that they reopened the case and are asking for the public's

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help in solving what happened to him.

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Jason's case is still open.

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The next update is from episode 40, Lina Sadar Khil.

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She was three years old when she went missing from the playground at her apartment complex

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when she was playing with other children in 2021.

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Police say they remain committed to her case.

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Quote, after nearly three years investigating the disappearance of Lina Khil, the San Antonio

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Police Department remains committed to following up on and investigating every lead that we

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receive.

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SAPD continues to use all tools available, including working with our partners at the

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FBI to investigate all leads.

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SAPD would like to take the opportunity to ask anyone with information on Lena's disappearance

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and or whereabouts to please call the police at 210-207-7660.

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End quote.

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Her case is still open.

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Our next update comes from episode 61.

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In this episode we covered the cold case of Sigrid Stevenson.

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Sigrid was found brutally murdered in her college's theater right before classes were

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set to begin again in the fall of 1977.

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Sigrid's case was featured on the most recent season of Netflix's Unsolved Mysteries, and

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the New Jersey Cold Case Squad in September of 2024 announced that they were reopening

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the case.

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So hopefully we'll see something in the future on Sigrid's case, but her case is still open.

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In episode 67 we covered the murder of Jenny Lin.

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She was found murdered after coming home from school in 1994.

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She was only 14 years old.

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Police say they have uploaded DNA to public DNA sites, hoping to use genetic genealogy

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to solve the case.

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Police say, quote, we definitely have DNA that we can work with, but at this point in

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time we just don't have anything to match it with.

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Our investigators are in touch with people who are developing new processes as far as

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forensically and those efforts are ongoing.

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And then our last update comes from episode 78, where we covered the cold case of Carmen

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Van Huss.

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Carmen was found brutally murdered in her apartment in Indianapolis in 1993.

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Police have been able to find a DNA match to Dana Shepard, who was arrested in June

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of 2024 for the murder of Carmen.

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The family is very grateful to be getting answers in her case.

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But that is all we have for our 2024 updates.

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While I know you and I doing this podcast, that we didn't find the answers to questions

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for any of these cases, but it feels very special to know some of these people in the

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way that you have brought them to us and that some of these families have answers and any

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kind of peace that you can have when experiencing loss like this.

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We are always grateful to see any movement on cases and especially three cases, you know,

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have had arrests, two of them are completely solved.

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People are in jail serving time for what they did.

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And in one of the cases, you know, we have an arrest and so that is working its way through

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the criminal justice system.

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And of course, you are innocent until proven guilty, but it's very exciting to see movement

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and arrests on these cold cases, especially ones that are several decades old.

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It just gives so much hope to so many families who are waiting answers out there.

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And all of these cases can be found on our website, www.coldandmissing.com.

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We have transcripts.

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We can sort it by states and categories.

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So if you're looking for more cold and missing, if you're looking for these cases specifically

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that we cover today, you can go find it there.

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We also have an Instagram.

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While I'm the co-host, I also do the graphic design work for cold and missing.

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Our Instagram is at cold and missing.

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And if you follow the grid, that's another great way to visually see the cases that we've

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covered with some more specifics about details that Ali breaks down when she is reporting

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on the timeline.

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And then thank you to everyone who's rated and reviewed us this past year.

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It means so much to us to read them on Apple podcast or on our website, again, www.coldandmissing.com.

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And also on all the other podcast platforms, you know, I periodically check in and just

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like see where we're at and I see you liking, five starring, reviewing.

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I realized Spotify very recently, you're allowed to leave comments on episodes and I see people

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chatting there.

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So thank you so much for all of that interaction on the YouTube, on the Instagram.

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It's so cool to see you guys like talking and chatting about these cases.

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And I'm trying to figure out how to get a Spotify to like comment back, but we'll get

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there eventually.

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And as we move into 2025, Ali and I are both brainstorming ways to speak and engage with

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people who are engaging with our podcasts, specifically in the comment section.

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And even more importantly, people who are emailing us to bring cases to our attention

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or fact checking us on cases that we've covered before.

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We would really love for 2025 to open more doors of communication with our listeners

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and hopefully we can bring you more content and overall just engage with you all more.

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Yeah, for 2025, you know, we're full steam ahead.

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We're going to keep covering cold cases and missing people that need closure, that need

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justice.

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We are actively talking with families and working with families to cover their loved

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ones cases.

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So we're going to keep bringing you new episodes in the new year.

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Thank you so much for listening to Cold and Missing.

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I'm your host Ali.

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And I'm your co-host Eli.

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Have a good week and stay safe y'all.

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Stay safe y'all.