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 | Nov 20, 2024 | Episode, Northeast Cold Cases, Rhode Island Cold Case
Nineteen-year-old John Phillips was found dead and surrounded by dozens of weapons in a Rhode Island parking lot on October 28, 1986. His death was ruled a suicide, and for 15 years, the case was considered closed. But in 2001, after taking a closer look at the case...
by Ashley Flowers | Jul 24, 2024 | Episode, Northeast Cold Cases, Washington D.C. Cold Case
I’ve been telling victims’ stories for 6½ years now. I’ve been a consumer of them for even longer. And in all that time, few stories have haunted me the way Dana’s has. Her killer was bold, so confident police would never catch him, that he taunted them. And for...
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...