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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 your host, Ali.
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And it will just be me this week.
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If you are following our Instagram account, you know that last week I got really sick.
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Thank you so much for all the kind comments and support and just understanding that life
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happens and you know, I had to take care of myself and my body and just kind of rest last
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week and I wouldn't have been able to really speak on the podcast at all.
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So I really appreciate your patience and hanging in there with us.
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It will just be me coming to you this week.
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Eli caught what I have and so now he is sick.
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So we're just passing it around here at the Sulkowski household.
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So he should be back joining us next week.
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But until then, I wanted to bring you a new episode.
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We had some wonderful reviews come in too, which was such a boost for my spirit.
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So thank you for the kind reviews.
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I know we are being listened to in road trips right now that people are doing, which is
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so cool.
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So thank you for letting us kind of be a part of your trip, part of your adventure.
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As I'm recording this, we are entering our third year of Cold and Missing.
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And in that time, we've done so much together.
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We've covered so many cases.
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I'm really excited to see what the third year of Cold and Missing will bring.
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And thank you for being here.
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If you've been with us from the beginning, thank you.
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If you just found us recently, thank you.
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It all matters.
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It's all the same.
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So thank you for being here.
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You found it at exactly the right time.
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All that being said, I think we should just go ahead and jump into this week's case.
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So we are on a cold case this week.
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We are going to be covering the cold case of Hasan Rahman.
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This takes place in November of 2017 in Wichita, Kansas.
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But first, a little bit about Hasan.
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Hasan is 26 years old in 2017.
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He had moved to the United States from Bangladesh in 2011 as an international student.
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He was studying mechanical and aerospace engineering at Wichita State.
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He was considered a model citizen and community member.
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He would often help other international students adjust to the USA.
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His friend says, quote, everyone used to know him because of all the possible things he
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could do for a new student.
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Anyone who needed help or any community program, he made people happy, end quote.
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Hasan was also married to a woman named April at this time.
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He acted like a father figure to her children from previous relationships.
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However, his mother, father, and sister were back home in Bangladesh.
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When Hasan was not in school, he had several part-time jobs, but one of them was delivering
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pizza with Pizza Hut.
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Overall, Hafsan was a role model for his community and for other students.
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He would often encourage them when they felt like their courses were impossible.
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He believed in everyone, and he was such a source of support.
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And now, a timeline of events.
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On Saturday, November 25, 2017, Hasan is scheduled to work the busy Saturday night
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at Pizza Hut.
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Not only was it a Saturday night, but it was also the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
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So people are ready to order some pizza.
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Hasan got assigned two deliveries on Saturday night.
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One is at the 1100 block and the other at the 1300 block of North Williamsburg.
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This is in the northeast part of Wichita.
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Hasan grabs the pizzas and heads out for delivery.
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It's unclear exactly how much time passes, but before long, Hasan's coworkers become
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concerned that he hasn't returned from his delivery.
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After some time, a few of his coworkers go out looking for him, maybe to see if he ran
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into car trouble or got into an accident.
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They head to his last two deliveries on North Williamsburg.
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At the last address, the coworkers find some property belonging to Pizza Hut at this location.
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It's unclear exactly what the item is, but his coworkers are sure that Hasan wouldn't
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have forgotten this item.
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They pick it up and bring it back to Pizza Hut.
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Once his coworkers are back at the store, they call police and tell them that it's
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strange for Hasan to be gone this long and it was not like him at all to just leave halfway
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through a shift without telling anyone.
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Police put out a bee on the lookout for Hasan and his car.
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The next morning, Sunday, November 26th, a woman in a neighborhood three miles south
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of Hasan's last delivery is out walking.
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She's on high alert as there was a double murder in the neighborhood the night before.
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A mother, Huong Pham, and her 23-year-old son, Cody Ha, had been murdered the night
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before.
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The woman walking was only three blocks from where the double homicide took place, which
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is still unsolved.
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When at around 11.45 a.m., she notices a car that is parked half-hazardly on the road.
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She decided to check the vehicle out, and when she pops the trunk, she finds Hasan's
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body.
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She calls the police.
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When they arrive, they confirm what the horrified woman already knows, that Hasan is dead in
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the trunk of his own car.
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He had been shot and placed in the trunk.
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Police don't say if he was shot before or after he was placed in the trunk.
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Pretty quickly, police at the scene are able to put together that Hasan and his vehicle
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were reported missing the night before.
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Police start retracing Hasan's movements.
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They interview his last two pizza deliveries, but police do not think that either of those
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orders were involved in the crime.
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Based off of the items his coworker found the night before, they believe that he was
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attacked near the site of his last delivery.
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Then he and his car were moved three miles south of the last delivery spot.
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Those that knew Hasan are shocked by the murder.
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His community said that he had no enemies and no reason that anyone would want to hurt
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him, let alone kill him.
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A few days after the murder, the date isn't clear, but the pizza delivery topper for Hasan's
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car was found abandoned three miles south of where the body and car were found.
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So just to paint a picture of everything in this case, Wichita is laid out on an XY graph,
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it looks like, when you look at a map of it, with the X axis being US Route 400 or Kellogg
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Avenue and the Y axis being Highway 81 or Interstate 35.
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Hasan's deliveries were in the northeast quadrant.
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His body was found three miles south, but still in that same quadrant.
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And then the pizza topper was found three miles south of that, again in that same northeast
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quadrant.
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To me, it appears that whoever is responsible for the crime was headed south to Kellogg
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Avenue, which would have taken them out of town or connect them to the rest of Wichita
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very quickly.
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As police process the car, they are able to determine that nothing is missing from the
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car or from Hasan.
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This baffles police as they thought robbery would be a motive in the murder.
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Lieutenant Todd O'Giles says, quote, we're looking at other pizza delivery robberies
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because this was out of the norm from what we usually have.
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Usually those are handled in a different way.
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They're handled by youngsters who actually call in the pizza delivery and they take the
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pizza in cash.
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This was not one of those.
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This is out of the ordinary and strange.
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We're looking at every angle of what could have happened to why this occurred.
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End quote.
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A week after Hasan had been murdered in December of 2017, the Wichita Bangladeshi Association
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raises funds to try to send Hasan's body back home to Bangladesh to his mother and
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father and friends and family hold a memorial service for him.
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Suvesa Shakbordi spoke at the memorial service and said, quote, he has no enemies.
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I have no idea who would do something like this, but I hope whoever it is will be brought
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to justice.
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He was my best friend.
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I can't imagine life without him.
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He was so close to his dream and it's sad to see it taken away from him.
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End quote.
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April is reeling from the death of her husband.
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She says, quote, it's like a nightmare that you can't wake up from and you know I still
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have some mornings I wake up and there are a couple seconds where I think he's still
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there and then I realize he's not and realize that this is real.
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End quote.
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The next week, still in December of 2017, it's been two weeks since Hasan's murder,
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Pizza Hut offers a $10,000 reward for information leading to arrest in Hasan's murder.
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As 2017 ends and investigators enter 2018, they start to wonder if Hasan's murder is
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connected with the double homicide of Huong Fam and her son, Cody Ha.
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This happened just three blocks away from where Hasan's car was found.
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In this case, they were also shot.
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The homeowners association of the neighborhood meet with police as they're on edge after
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their quiet neighborhood has three murder victims in the same day.
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Police tell them that they are leaning towards that they are related.
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There isn't much detail surrounding Huong and Cody's case.
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What we do know is that Cody, who was 23 years old in 2017, was playing a game online with
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his friends.
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They could all hear each other, but they couldn't see each other.
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Cody's friends were located in Texas and Canada.
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The friends who were playing with Cody said that he went to go answer the door when they
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heard two gunshots very loudly over the headset.
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However, they were surprised and they weren't sure if what they heard was exactly gunshots,
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so they try to call Cody's phone and they can just hear it ring through the headset.
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And about an hour later, they could hear Cody's sister find her brother and mother dead in
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her mother's bedroom.
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According to one of the friends, quote, she was panicking.
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She was on the phone.
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She said she didn't want to touch them.
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She said she didn't feel safe, end quote.
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In 2019, so it's been two years since Hasan's murder and his wife April still wants answers.
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She says, quote, I know somebody has to know something.
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Somebody saw something, heard something, end quote.
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April tries to keep the memory of Hasan alive for her children, but the photos are painful
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reminders that there won't be any new ones.
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That was the last update that I could find.
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So that is really all we know about the murder of Hasan Rahman.
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And for that matter, it's all we know about Huong Pham, and Cody Ha.
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So if you know anything about those murders, please call Wichita Detectives at 316-268-4407.
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So that is the case of Hasan Rahman.
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Just to speak kind of candidly about this case, something that I struggled with was
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I really wanted to do Hasan's case as a full episode and then do Huong and Cody's case
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as their own.
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But unfortunately, there's just not that much information about Huong and Cody's case.
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It's really just what I read in here.
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And police have never officially linked Hasan and Huong and Cody's case.
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They did mention they're leaning towards it, but they've never officially connected it.
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So for me, just kind of reading in between those lines, we know all three of them were
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shot and for police to be leaning towards them being connected, I would think that the
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caliber would have to be pretty similar between the three.
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If it had been completely different guns, different calibers, then maybe they wouldn't
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be so open about saying that they could possibly be related to each other.
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I also wonder if Hasan and Cody, since they were similar in age, if they had any overlap
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of community or if they had ever ran into each other, if there's any links between
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Hasan, Huong, and Cody.
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Was there community overlap?
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Was there a place frequented by both of them where maybe they knew somebody who worked
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there?
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Did their employment ever cross paths?
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I would wonder if police have been able to establish a connection.
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So that's one question.
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If I could sit down with police and get anything answered, I would want to know more about
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this possible connection.
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But kind of shifting the focus back to Hasan's case, one thing that stood out to me was when
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his coworkers went to look for him, they found what's described as property belonging to
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Pizza Hut, which is an interesting way to describe an item found.
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So to me, I would think that this is maybe that pizza bag.
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This is pure speculation on my part, but I've worked in some quick service places like this
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in my life.
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And our uniforms, we don't give those back when we're done.
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Maybe it could be a hat too.
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Sometimes the hats are communal property of Pizza Hut in this case.
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But the places I've worked, whenever you quit, you kept the hat.
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You didn't have to give the hat and the shirt back that you've been working in.
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So outside of those items, thinking about what a pizza delivery guy has with them, that
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bag that they use to keep the pizza hut, I think that could be potentially what was left
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behind because it would be strange for Hasan to just leave that somewhere, to not bring
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it back to the store, not put it in his car immediately.
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And that would remain Pizza Hut's property and something that maybe his coworkers would
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grab and take back.
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Police have said they don't believe that any of the deliveries that night were connected
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with the crime.
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But I would be curious as to what that last pizza delivery said.
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Did they hear anything?
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Had they seen anything that night, any strange cars?
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Had a car pulled up into the driveway and then backed out and turned around that night?
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I would be curious as to what was said from that last delivery spot where police do think
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that Hasan was attacked shortly after the delivery.
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You would think that maybe something was heard.
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I feel like if this happened today, that house would likely have a ring camera, but I don't
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think that was there in 2017.
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There's no mention of that.
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But still, I would be curious if police did look for ring cameras just in the neighborhood
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to see if it caught anything strange.
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Because this is a strange case, as police said.
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Nothing was taken.
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So robbery does not appear to be a motive.
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I'm guessing that all of the money that Hasan had on him when he left the Pizza Hut was
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still there and his wallet was there.
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Police didn't mention any of those things missing.
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So very strange blitz attack.
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For what reason?
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What's the motive here?
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Also, it's curious to me why the topper was removed from the car.
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I don't understand why that was done.
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If you wanted to just take it off, they're typically just magnets, especially the neurons.
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They're just strong magnets that sit on top of the car.
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So even if they wanted to take it off so the car wasn't as noticeable or recognizable,
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you see a Pizza Hut delivery driver in your neighborhood, sure, that's fine.
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But then you see that car still parked in the same way three hours later.
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It might stand out to you a little bit more if it didn't have that topper on it.
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So, yeah, I just wonder if that's the reason it was taken, why it wasn't just left with
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the car, just throw it inside, throw it on the floorboards.
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Yeah, the topper is curious, but it does kind of show the movements from the last delivery
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to where the car was found to where the topper was found.
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It does show that steady south movement towards those major roads.
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And also since the woman who found Hasan's body, since she was able to pop the trunk,
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I think to me that says that the car was unlocked for her to get in and be able to pop it or
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the keys were left outside or in the vehicle.
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They were accessible somehow.
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So I would just be curious if I could sit down and know everything about this case,
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like where the keys found.
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Since police said nothing was taken, does that mean the keys were left with the car
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as well or were those taken?
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Is that something that possibly could link back to Hasan and the murder?
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There's just a lot of questions in this case, and I think the big one is motive.
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Not that robbery should ever be a reason to kill anyone.
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You shouldn't even be robbing people to begin with, in my opinion.
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But it does give you the story of like, oh, this happens because of X.
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But when you take that out of the equation, it's like this was just a random horrific
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blitz attack.
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Hasan had no enemies, no personal vendettas.
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Nobody wanted to hurt him, according to everybody that knew him.
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So why Hasan?
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Why this night?
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Was it an opportunity?
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Wrong place, wrong time?
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If he delivered the pizzas in a different order, would that have changed anything?
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It's really puzzling and it's extraordinarily sad that this hardworking, smart young man
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was so senselessly murdered.
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I really hope that for the future of this case that we're able to get justice for Hasan
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and for his community, this deeply affected the Bangladeshi community in Wichita.
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And I imagine it scared a lot of folks too, especially those international students.
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He was really like a welcoming figure and it was said that he would have students over
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to his house for a nice home cooked meal to help them feel more at home.
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They're thousands of miles away and probably experiencing a bit of culture shock.
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And he was like this rock that was able to steady them and just show them that like,
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yes, you can do this.
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You can adapt.
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You can learn.
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You're going to pass your courses, but you can still have a strong connection to community
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and your culture.
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And he was that person for so many, like so many students talked about how important he
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was in their academic career.
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And it's really unfair that he didn't get to realize his dream fully.
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Like his best friend said, he was so close to his dream and to have it snatched away
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so violently, so senselessly is tragedy.
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It's tragic.
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I do think that this case is solvable.
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I would imagine that there was, you know, DNA swabs, fingerprinting of the car, fingerprinting
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of the topper.
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I want to believe that all of those things were done and they really treated the car
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as a crime scene immediately since it was.
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And you know, eventually we'll be able to track down who did this, be it through DNA.
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I feel like every single week I'm seeing more and more cold cases, old cold cases closed
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because of DNA evidence that they're able to do through, you know, the genetic genealogy
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and figuring out family trees and narrowing it down to just a few people.
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So I really feel that that's how this case will be solved is kind of through that method.
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But it wasn't that long ago.
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And you know, it's kind of a notable time.
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It's, you know, it's the Saturday after Black Friday, 2017, like there's there's a lot
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of like notable things.
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Like if you're visiting family, like for Thanksgiving, you're like, oh, yeah, I was there.
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So hopefully if somebody remembers something that they saw, that they heard, I hope that
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they come forward with that information.
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And the same in Huong and Cody's case, that they're able to see justice and get some more
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coverage on the case.
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But again, if you know anything about the murder of Hasan Rahmsn, Huong Pham or Cody
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Ha, please call Wichita Detectives at 316-268-4407.
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And we'll have pictures of Hasan, Huong and Cody up on our Instagram and our website.
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So if you or someone you love is hard of hearing, you can find the transcripts there.
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And I apologize, my voice is starting to go.
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But you know, when you're sick and then you talk for a long time, your voice isn't quite
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up for it yet.
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But the last thing I'll just say before we go, if you have a second, if you can rate
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It's really wonderful to get your feedback and to hear from you and to start engaging
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It's truly an honor to be a part of your week and to be part of your routine, whether you
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And to bring these cases to you.
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It's an honor to tell these stories.
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I wish I didn't have to.
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I wish there were no cold cases, no missing people, but since there are, it's an honor
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to spend time with them and to research them and to be with them in this way.
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Thank you for being here.
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