by Ashley Flowers | Dec 18, 2024 | Connecticut Cold Case, Episode, Northeast Cold Cases
When 32-year-old Javed Akhtar was fatally shot outside his convenience store in East Windsor, Connecticut, on a cold winter night in 2007, his wife, their two young children, and a community of loyal customers were desperate for answers. Police soon found the murder...
by Ashley Flowers | Nov 27, 2024 | Connecticut Cold Case, Episode, Northeast Cold Cases
There had been many times that Mark Marino hugged his oldest son goodbye and feared he might never see him again. After all, Dominic was an Air Force vet who’d been deployed overseas more than a few times. But this wasn’t one of those moments. 30-year-old Dominic was...
by Ashley Flowers | Jul 3, 2024 | Connecticut Cold Case, Episode, Northeast Cold Cases
If you look at a picture of 25-year-old Domaine Richards, one thing stands out – his smile. A smile that could be infectious, but all the light Domaine had to bring to the world was taken away in November of 2007, and almost 17 years later, while police have at least...
by Ashley Flowers | Jun 5, 2024 | Connecticut Cold Case, Episode, Northeast Cold Cases
Linda “Lulu Ree” Ceasar’s story is not all that different from so many others. She was a victim of her circumstances, and then she was a victim again when, in the summer of 1983, her life was taken in the most brutal of ways. Over 40 years later, the...
by Ashley Flowers | Apr 10, 2024 | Connecticut Cold Case, Episode, Northeast Cold Cases
When Twana Smith’s body was discovered behind an abandoned building in Hartford in October 1997, she joined a growing list of the city’s vulnerable locals who fell victim to violent predators. And for decades, her case sat unsolved, gathering dust… even as detectives...
by Ashley Flowers | Aug 30, 2023 | Connecticut Cold Case, Episode, Northeast Cold Cases
In 1996, 34-year-old Diane was preparing to welcome her fourth child when one spring day she was ambushed and brutally murdered in the privacy of her own home. The investigation into her slaying was quick to go cold, but a recent breakthrough in the case has police...
