Transcript
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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 I'm your co-host, Eli.
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Welcome to episode 65.
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Is it 65?
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It is.
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Wow.
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I've heard a little bit about, well I've heard you react to what you've been learning about
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this cold case.
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So I'm looking forward to everyone getting to hear about it, including me.
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So should we just go ahead and dive into it?
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Let's do it.
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So today I have for y'all a cold case.
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And just as a bit of a content warning, there are some brief mentions of sexual assault
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in this case.
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Today we are talking about the cold case of Jimmy Blakeley.
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And this takes place in Hartford County, Maryland in April of 1990.
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But first, a little bit about Jimmy.
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Jimmy is 17 years old in 1990.
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He was born May 18, 1972, and he would be 51 years old today.
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He's described as a quiet and shy young man, but once you took the time to get to know
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him, he opened up and was really funny.
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He collected model cars and had ambitions to become a chef and possibly own his own
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restaurant.
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His father, James Blakeley, says quote, from a tycoon up, he loved to cook, end quote.
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Jimmy had dropped out of high school about a year and a half before.
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He didn't start school until he was eight years old.
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So he was much older and bigger than the kids in his grade.
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He planned to get his GED and then attend a cooking college.
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Jimmy had only attended Christian schools and he was a very devout churchgoer.
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He lived with his grandparents in Level, Maryland, a rural community located in Hartford
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County.
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Jimmy also appeared to be part of the LGBT community.
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He had recently started to hang out and make friends with other gay men in the area.
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Since he came from a very religious family, it does not appear that he was out to anyone
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in his life.
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And now a timeline of events.
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On Sunday, April 1st, 1990, Jimmy's working at a Shell gas station and Deli in Conowingo,
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Maryland.
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He drives there in his brand new 1985 blue Chevrolet Cavalier, which he had just bought
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three days before.
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It's unclear what time Jimmy gets to work, but we know that he's working the closing
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shift that evening.
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And around 10 p.m., he calls his parents to say that he's on his way to their house.
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The Shell station closes at 10 p.m. so Jimmy hops in his blue Cavalier and drives off.
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Instead of going straight to his parents' house, he makes a stop at U.S. Books, an adult
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bookstore frequented by the gay community.
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He's seen there around 11 p.m.
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Jimmy eventually leaves the bookstore with a man.
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The next day, Monday, April 2nd, the body of Jimmy is found by a fisherman at around
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10 20 a.m.
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He's found on a secluded dirt road about 150 yards from Emerton Road near Otter Point
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Creek.
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Jimmy was still wearing his Shell uniform, but his shirt had been unbuttoned and his
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pants were partially pulled down.
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Jimmy had been stabbed once in the heart.
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There were no other marks on his body besides the stab wound.
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Police begin to investigate the scene.
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They are unable to find a weapon, but police do believe that Jimmy was killed where he
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was found.
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Later that day, police find Jimmy's 1985 blue Chevy Cavalier about two miles away at
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the adult bookstore where Jimmy was last seen.
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Once the car is recovered, police believe that Jimmy was killed while standing in front
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of his car since blood splatter is found on the hood of the car, but no other blood evidence
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is found anywhere else in or on the car.
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Police find no clues inside the car that would give them a lead on who the suspect is.
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Police get to work trying to find a motive for the murder.
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The next day, Tuesday, April 3rd, police have no suspects in the case, but officially call
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the time frame from the murder from between 10 p.m. on April 1st when Jimmy left the Shell
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station and 10 30 a.m. Monday morning when his body was found.
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Police at this point do not know if Jimmy was abducted or went willingly with his murderer.
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The news of the murder comes as a shock to his family and friends.
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Jimmy's classmates from the school he attended, Bethel Christian Academy, are deeply saddened
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by the news.
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One of his teachers, Millie Flosser, says, quote, unless he made some drastic changes
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since he left, he is a very easygoing, well-mannered boy who comes from a close-knit, very religious
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family.
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He was a little shy and you had to approach him first, but he was very friendly, end quote.
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On Wednesday, April 4th, this is just two days since Jimmy's body was found, police
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asked the public for help in the investigation and if they know anything about Jimmy's
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whereabouts between Sunday night and Monday morning to call the police as investigators
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are trying to retrace Jimmy's steps.
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Police have ruled out robbery as a motive.
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Jimmy was found still wearing his gold necklace and a ring and other jewelry were found undisturbed.
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There were no drugs or alcohol found at the scene.
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The family is at a loss as to why he was in that area, which was the opposite direction
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from his home.
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I personally chalk this up to the fact that he was probably not telling his very religious
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family that he was going to an adult bookstore, let alone a queer bookstore.
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On Friday, April 6th, 1990, just four days after his body was found, Jimmy is laid to
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rest at Hartford Memorial Gardens.
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Bethel Academy cancels classes for the day so students can't attend the funeral service.
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Police continue to investigate and talk to family and friends of Jimmy to see if they
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can find any additional leads.
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Media reports initially said that sexual assault was suspected, but police now walk that statement
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back.
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On Tuesday, April 10th, it's been eight days since Jimmy's body was found and police
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say that they received lab results back that show that Jimmy was not sexually assaulted.
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Police believe that him being partially undressed could have been done to throw the police off.
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Police continue to interview family and friends, but are also chasing down leads that have
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been called in by the public.
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However, nothing leads to a suspect and all the tips end up being dead ends.
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The next update comes Tuesday, September 25th, 1990, so it's been over five months since
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Jimmy was found stabbed, and police release a statement.
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Police confirm that on April 1st, Jimmy was at the adult bookstore, US Books.
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One of the statement reads, and just as a side note, they refer to Jimmy as James throughout
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the statement, but he went by Jimmy so that's why I'm calling him Jimmy throughout the
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podcast.
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Quote, the adult bookstore had a large number of patrons, one of which included James's
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killer.
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Someone had to see this individual and probably approached by him.
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It is hoped that anyone who came into contact in any manner with someone late Sunday night,
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April 1st, or early Monday morning, April 2nd, 1990, would please come forward.
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The killer has most likely been in the bookstore on previous occasions.
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James and his eventual killer left the adult bookstore in James's vehicle.
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James was then murdered at the Otter Creek location and his vehicle driven back to the
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side of the bookstore building parking lot by the killer.
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Police believe that the killer is a local resident and is familiar with the area of
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the crime.
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Maryland State Police are requesting the help of the public on this case.
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This cold-blooded murder must be solved.
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This was an act of a coward, without question.
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Information developed through the investigation indicates that James Blakeley had become acquainted
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with members of the gay community that frequented the adult bookstore.
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Investigators believe that until identified and apprehended, this killer poses a danger
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to the patrons of the adult bookstores in the area.
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End quote.
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Police hang a flyer with this statement at all of the adult bookstores in the area hoping
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that it will drum up new leads.
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But by mid-October, police say they have not received any new tips on Jimmy's murder.
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On March 23rd, 1991, approaching one year of Jimmy's murder, police are desperate
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for a lead.
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They conduct a raid at U.S. Books.
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Police say they had been going undercover for three months.
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There are still laws on the books in Maryland that essentially made being gay illegal, and
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horrifyingly, police arrest nine people during their raid.
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The nine people arrested are named and shamed in the newspaper.
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One person is simply arrested for removing the label from his AZT medication, a medication
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used in the 90s to combat HIV and AIDS.
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No leads in Jimmy's murder resulted from this raid.
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And just as a side note, police raids on gay bookstores is actually still a practice in
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Maryland, specifically Hartford County where this case takes place.
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The last raid happened May 20th, 2021 in Hartford County.
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The next update in the case comes May 1st, 1992.
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So it's been over two years since Jimmy's murder, and a week before what should have
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been his 20th birthday.
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Jimmy's parents sit down for an interview with the local paper.
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They're heartbroken over the murder of their son and think about him often.
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Jimmy's father, James, says, quote, we are not out for revenge.
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We want to look at it in the reverse.
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I think that justice will take care of itself.
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We're really not out for revenge.
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We're not up in arms.
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We just want to know what happened to our son so we can put it to rest, end quote.
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The police say the case is still active, but at this point, most of the leads come from
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Jimmy's father.
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James and Trooper Raymond D'Amico, who is the investigator on the case, talk weekly.
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James tells him things he overhears, things he comes across in Jimmy's belongings, or
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just thoughts he has on the case.
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James says, quote, I'm trying to tell him everything I can so he can find the person,
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end quote.
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Trooper D'Amico does acknowledge that the passing of time has made the case more difficult.
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He says, quote, as time passes, it does get worse to solve.
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We're just hoping for a lucky lead to come through so we can solve this one, end quote.
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And that is the last update that I could find on Jimmy Blakeley's murder.
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So if you know anything about the murder of Jimmy Blakeley in April of 1990, please call
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the Maryland State Police Criminal Enforcement Division at 410-694-4700.
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And the sources for the timeline today come from Carroll County Times, The News Journal,
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The Evening Sun, The Baltimore Sun, and The Aegis.
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So that is the case of Jimmy Blakeley.
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Thank you for bringing his name to our podcast.
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My initial reaction was just like, what a shame, because he was a kid.
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He was 17, right?
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, every part of me is like, that's not right, you know?
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No one's supposed to go that way.
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So at that age and the circumstance, it's just all devastating.
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Yeah, and I think that's actually something that was not talked about, but in 2023, I'm
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like, this is a 17-year-old that was probably killed by an adult.
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Yeah, even listening to the case, I had to remind myself, this is a child.
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This is a child.
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He was a child.
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I mostly just have reactions at this point.
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I'm feeling some feelings of anger and frustration.
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To me, it seems like this was a queer person, gay person whose life was just ignored.
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It does seem that once police kind of get this news that maybe Jimmy was gay or queer
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or just questioning his own sexuality and exploring that, it does seem like the case
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veered off and became more about raiding these queer bookstores.
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I read a lot of stories about raids happening, not only at the bookstore that Jimmy was
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last seen at, but also other bookstores in the area and legislation trying to get passed
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to shut these down permanently to the point where I was finding raids in 2021 still happening.
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I don't know what's happening in Maryland, but I was like, that's fucked up, quite frankly.
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Who are you protecting and serving?
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No, you're just on a punishment raid.
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Protect and serve?
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Who?
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Who?
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No, that's not what they were doing.
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It was homophobia and everything you said.
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I'm just really grateful that you brought this story to us.
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Do you have more comments you'd like to share with us?
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Well, for me, I just can't help but think that maybe whoever left with him that night
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was somebody who had something to lose.
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So maybe this is somebody who had a family at home, like a wife and children.
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Maybe this was somebody in power.
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This is all speculation, obviously, I don't know.
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But the fact that Jimmy was stabbed in the heart just seems so cruel and so personal
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that I can't help but think that something went horribly wrong and somebody had something
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to lose and they needed to make sure that Jimmy never talked.
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That's kind of what I think about this case.
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But again, it's just like wild speculation.
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So I'll rein it in.
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But I have a lot of questions about this case too.
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I can't help but wonder if we were to go back and look at what evidence, if any evidence
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was really collected in this case, what we might be able to get with DNA today.
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A murder weapon was never found, at least that we know of, but if police still have
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his car, which had the blood spatter on it, I can't help but think, were their fingerprints
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able to be lifted from the steering wheel?
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Because we know the killer drove back.
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Touch DNA is something that we can collect to this day.
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Sometimes it's degraded, but we have seen cases where that has happened.
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So I just can't help but wonder, even his clothing, the buttons on his shirt, were those
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ever swabbed for DNA?
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Yeah, I would want to know what evidence the police have and if there's anything that can
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be retested with the advancement of science to possibly get a DNA hit or get a match or
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get a fingerprint or something to point us in the direction because the suspect has never
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been named in this case.
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Yeah, my mind is just kind of, I think, swimming, you know, it's trying to fill in the blanks,
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which is, I think, a natural inclination when looking at cases like these because this case
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is so in the dark, you know.
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Learning about Jimmy is newer to me, so I think I'm, you know, my mind is catching up
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alongside you.
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But yeah, the questions you brought up, I'm like, yes, yes, like, I can't imagine the
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desire that this family had to have answers because I really, really want them.
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Yeah, it's a kind of pain that I hope to just never understand, you know.
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Yeah, thank you again for bringing this here.
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And fucked up, fucked up what's going on in Maryland, that that's still happening, right?
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Yeah.
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And if you're new here, Eli and I, we're not just like talking out of our ass.
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We are part of the LGBT community and are.
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Yes, I am a proud queer trans man.
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And I am a proud queer woman.
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So this does hit home to us in a different way where this Jimmy feels like part of our
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family, part of our community.
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And I.
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Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off, but we've seen interactions like these now, not with
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like resulting in death, but the us, our friends, the way we have been treated by, unfortunately,
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a lot of people in law enforcement.
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Like the track record is not great.
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Yeah, of course I'm amped up.
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It's a life loss.
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It's someone who should be alive right now.
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Yeah, I can't help but feel like so protective over him, you know, because he was, you know,
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he was a few weeks away from his 18th birthday, but he was still just a kid, like starting
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his life and like possibly discovering who he was and his community.
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And someone took advantage of how the queer community had to operate in the dark and in
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the shadows because people couldn't be out and proud like they are today.
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Like it's like if he had just been given a chance to be himself.
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I mentioned this earlier, but I really hope that this case is reopened by a cold case
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unit that the evidence that was collected, if it was collected, is really thoroughly
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searched and that Jimmy can get justice for what happened to him.
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I want it for every case we talk about.
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I want every missing person to be found and I want every murdered person to have justice
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and for their loved ones to have answers.
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But it always hits a little extra hard when it's a kid that never got to really fulfill
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their life.
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And what have we missed out on because Jimmy never got to really fulfill his potential
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in this life and contribute to whatever he wanted to do.
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He wanted to be a chef.
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Like what have we missed out on as a society?
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The gift of his soul and spirit and energy and yeah.
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Like what if he was the next famous chef or restaurateur and what have we missed out?
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We've missed out on his delicious meals, his creative minds.
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It's a loss for everybody and I really, really hope this case gets attention in the future
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from investigators.
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But again, if you know anything about the murder of Jimmy Blakeley in April of 1990,
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please call the Maryland State Police Criminal Enforcement Division at 410-694-4700.
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And we will be posting pictures of Jimmy on our Instagram.
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So again, if you're not following us, check us out at Cold and Missing.
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We should pop right up.
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And you can also look at our website www.coldandmissing.com where there will also be transcripts and links
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to our YouTube videos.
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If you're a YouTube person, you can subscribe and follow us there as well.
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There's lots of great conversation happening in the comments over there.
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And if you are passionate about the missing and murdered cases that we cover here and
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want to advocate for them, one really easy free way to do that is to leave us a review
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But especially if you're an Apple podcast, leaving us a written review really helps people
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find us and for people to join in and listen.
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So if you could take a minute and do that, it not only helps us, but it helps elevate
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these cases to people who have never heard of them.
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And we can get Jimmy's name out there to even more people.
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So if you've already done that, thank you so much.
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If you haven't yet, I hope you find some time coming up soon to do that.
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But that's all I have.
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Have a good week and stay safe, y'all.
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Stay safe, y'all.
