As of October 6, I am the new moderator for r/ColdCaseFiles. I see that we currently have 322 members subscribed and I am hoping we can make that number grow in the upcoming months.

Some things about me that we need to get out of the way first, for one I am ESL (English Second Language) and as y'all can already tell my grammar could use a lot of improvement. Two, I have never been a mod before and I'm still trying to figure things out so please be patient with me.

There are a few requests I want to make before we continue,

1. I need experienced mods to help me, I would appreciate having someone that can spell check and polish my posts. I think four extra mods would be suitable for the time being. I'm currently having issues with getting the subreddit off of restricted mode so advice would also be appreciated in the comments.

2. We need a banner and a Snoo! I think sometime in the near future I will make a more refined post asking for banner and Snoo entries so be on the lookout if you have any art you want to submit.

3. We need to establish norms, expectations, and rules. If anyone has any ideas or would like to see some rules implemented please let me know in the comments below.

Please be respectful and let's try to have a nice discussion.

Edit: We have found the perfect mods for this subreddit. Keep an eye out in the future for any more mod requests.

Personally the episode that unnerved me the most was the S3E7 episode "The Green River Killer." I recently moved to the PNW and Green River is one of my favorite drinking spots, it was alarming to stumble upon this episode since I had no idea of the river's and area's morbid history.

edit: was not is

News Article (Turn to 10, Parker Gavigan): https://turnto10.com/i-team/nbc-10-i-team-was-it-a-seizure-or-murder

Catch my Killer Podcast (ep 115, Dec 26, 2021):

https://www.catchmykiller.com/episode-115-shawn-obrien/

Danelle Hallan (YouTube - 1/22/22)

Shawn O'Brien | Family searches for the TRUTH 15 years after mysterious "medical incident"

Dark Downeast, Kylie Low, Jan 31, 2022

https://player.captivate.fm/episode/7e7dc2f3-aa33-4ece-8ac4-56c33cc457b6?t=0

True Crime Odyssey

Murder She Told, 08/2023: blog and parts 1+2

My dad was found in his basement apartment where he was living in Cranston, Rhode Island. He was 34 years old. Initial reports state 911 was called for a medical call, specifically a report of a male having a seizure. Admittedly, seizures were not uncommon for my father but the scene proved it was more than just that.

Shawn O'Brien worked on Friday, 7/21/06. Around 5:30 pm his girlfriend and their daughter visited the apartment with plans to visit a local festival that night. Plans changed as his daughter had a headache. Shawn told his girlfriend to drop him off at Billy's Frosted Mug, a local bar, because he didn't want to be home that night. Shawn's upstairs neighbor and 'landlord' (the apartment was sublet through him), Armand Rouleau and his girlfriend Lynn Hallal were home. Shawn reported he didn't want to be home with Lynn as she had threatened him previously and tensions were running high. Around 6pm Shawn calls his sister Erin to see if she was around to hang out but with no answer, he was dropped off at Billy's Frosted Mug alone around 6:10 pm.

Shawn was supposed to report to work around 7-8 am the next morning. He never showed. Around 6pm his sister, Karen, went by the apartment. When she arrived Armand allegedly ran outside and yelled "come in quick, Shawn's been in a seizure for over an hour." Karen calls 911 and reports Shawn in a seizure with blood pooling under his head. Shawn was found laying on the floor, on his stomach, with his feet facing the door. A large pool of blood was found under his head coming from a head wound. The mattress was covered with large blood stains. Cranston Police note that the scene is orderly and there are no visible injuries. It is not sealed as a crime scene.

He is brought to RI Hospital where medical treatment begins. Doctors know right away that this is not a seizure but the result of foul play. However, no doctors contact the police department. Shawn's family reach out to police on three separate instances in an effort to seal the apartment for evidence. The apartment is not sealed.

Shawn has brain swelling from blunt force trauma to his head. He has multiple cuts, abrasions, and bruises. He ultimately passes away from the head trauma on Tuesday, 7/25/06.

When his girlfriend and sister go to the apartment to retrieve some of his belongings, they note additional blood stains that have been covered by various objects. They note blood on the floors, walls, doors, dining room chairs, bureaus, pillows, and blankets. Armand is present and reports "no one came in, no one came out". His nephew, John Rouleau, reports "Armand didn't have any problems with Shawn." The police return to the scene and it is sealed on Wednesday, 7/26/06.

When police arrive to seal the scene and begin initial questioning, Armand refuses to talk and requests a lawyer. When questioned about the marks on his face, his girlfriend Lynn admits to getting into an argument and striking him on the previous Friday. She is arrested and charged for this.

Police take extensive amounts of evidence and conduct countless interviews but no progress is made. By their own admission, the police believe Armand and Lynn to be the two prime suspects but without any new evidence or the willingness to cooperate, the case is reaching a dead end.

So I've been binging the show on Netflix and recently the episodes have been making me so angry and disgusted. Like, yeah they always made me a bit sad because a life had been snuffed out but now I'm getting worked up. I don't know what season I'm in but I've recently been hit with the young Mexican-American woman killed by a priest in 1960 that the church covered up, they young black man who had the confederate flag stabbed into his chest and was left to die in a field after being dragged behind a truck- also a case abandoned by authorities! The young mom you was just looking for fun on New Year's killed because she she wouldn't give the guy more sex, the teenager brutally beaten in her grandparents home and the whole town, police included, zeroed in on her 13 year old sister! What the actual fuck is wrong with people and why are people acting like insanity is some modern invention?!

This case messed me up and how the mother got away with it for so long is just crazy

In 1982 woman was strangled, stuffed into a sleeping bag, and a concrete block tied around her. A set of her clothes and her car found at the husband's home. His only alibi he coerced from his five year old daughter who was actually later proved to be with the babysitter. Alison Galvani family is pleading for help in getting the case of her mother's murder reopened. Within the pages presented in this post are many important facts, but there is also a binder containing 305 pages of reports, eye witness accounts, diary entries, interviews, photos, autopsy, newspaper articles, affidavits and notes. This binder could be made available to serious media.

LA Times Article - Los Angeles Times Article

Alison Galvani, now a Yale professor who lives in Connecticut with her husband and her three children, is trying to persuade San Francisco prosecutors to charge her father in the 1982 killing of her mother.

Alison Galvani - Alison Galvani - My Father's Alibi YouTube Channel

Leslie B. - Leslie B. - Justice For Nancy Parts 1-8

Gray Huges Investigates - Gray Huges Investigates - Justice for Nancy Galvani

> FBI: Based on extensive research into intimate partner homicide, profiles of husbands who kill their wives often reveal a history of domestic violence, controlling behavior, and a sense of entitlement.

> In the US, studies show that women face the highest risk of homicide by an intimate partner during or after a divorce or separation. Data shows that between 65% and 80% of female intimate partner homicide victims had a history of being abused by the person who killed them.

> Abusers seek custody: Studies suggest that two-thirds of contested custody cases likely involve domestic violence, and abusive fathers are more than twice as likely as non-abusive fathers to seek sole custody.

> Separation: The period when a partner attempts to leave is often the most dangerous time. The perpetrator may act out of a fear of abandonment or loss of control. Research indicates that many femicides occur within a year of separation.

I’m so glad I found this sub. Does anybody know where I can find the original episodes of Cold Case Files & City Confidential? I would love you forever if you tell me. I’ve watched the YouTube ones 14,000 times. I will pay! Thank you !

I research a lot of different mysteries, coldcases etc... and one that always stuck with me was the Tylenol murders

The fact that they never caught anyone for these murders always seemed odd too me, as in my opinion it seemed that James Lewis was the culprit.

He ended up going to prison for the extortion letter but to me he was clearly a very dangerous person.

He also was accused of killer some else and later a rape charge was brought against him.

Personally I think he was the Tylenol murder but they could never make it stick.

Would love to know what others think?

https://youtu.be/jdeRXnaXv6w?si=SSkFyjMl5m2OX9Ho

Jonathan Hoang is an endangered adult with autism currently missing in Arlington, Washington. The sheriff’s office has publicly mishandled the case, and the family needs any help they can get. I'm linking a Reddit post that another community member has shared, but they have a Facebook page going for him as well.

Jonathan has been missing since March 30, when he left his home in the night. He was last seen going to bed. Surveillance footage does not show him walking in the neighborhood, and law enforcement has concluded he is not deceased or alive in the immediate vicinity. They believe he may have been taken or coerced into leaving. Jonathan is verbal and can tell you the names of his family members (his sister, Irene, is spearheading the search for him). The family has hired a private investigator due to the sheriffs office mishandling of the case.

https://people.com/man-with-autism-who-left-home-without-jacket-or-phone-missing-11712897

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1k0917m/jonathan_hoangmissing/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Diana Ramos grandson opens up disclosing new details including that a blouse instead of sock was stuffed down her throat, that her cellphone was pinged elsewhere in the city, and detectives did not ask her family questions.

One of the eeriest cases in American history — the Sodder family Christmas Eve fire of 1945 in West Virginia. A fire destroyed their home. The parents and 4 kids escaped. 5 children were never found.

No bodies, no bones, nothing. Officials said they died in the fire, but the evidence says otherwise.

Suspicious Details:

The phone line was cut, not burned.

The ladder had been moved from its spot.

The trucks wouldn’t start.

The fire shouldn’t have destroyed all remains.

The family received strange letters and possible sightings of the kids for years after.

Was it arson? A kidnapping? A cover-up? The family even put up a billboard begging for answers. What do you think happened to the Sodder children?

https://youtu.be/6aWby3wUX9Q?si=FcfGNJB0bDWsXGsC

Identification of body found in wall is from 1800s

Each month, the Virginia Counties blog features a different unsolved murder or disappearance. This month, see https://virginiacounties.blog/find-the-extraordinary-in-bland-county/ for details about the September 1983 double homicide of Steven Shinault and Darren Walker. These young men were found shot to death at the Exxon station where they worked. Without witnesses or cameras investigators did not have much to go on and the case soon went cold.

Oopsies!! Lol.. At first, I was confused bc they were talking about her boyfriend but one was blurred and the other wasn’t. Figured maybe it was a different guy. Then later on I see that the same pic is blurred and I was like oop. Never seen that before. I wonder what kind of repercussions can come from this. Either they couldn’t reach him or his family or he explicitly said he didn’t want to be shown. Wonder if he or his family saw it.

I like to research coldcases and other strange cases. Anyway recently I came across a cold case in Chicago involving the disappearance of women that all look very similar to each other.

Here's a brief view:

Chicago has long been a city of shadows—rumors, cold cases, and unexplained disappearances. But few mysteries have chilled residents as deeply as the unsettling pattern involving multiple blonde women who vanished without a trace. Coincidence… or something far more disturbing?

What i found was actually quite surprising how people can just disappear and go unnoticed and how the police can sometimes ultimately fail the public.

Would love to know if anyone.else has ever come across this coldcase.

I always put what I find into videos and ive included it here there is absolutely no obligation to click the link as I know it can annoy some people on reddit I am more then happy to discuss it further here.

https://youtu.be/iMzI2fQ69K0?si=4cFgORceNqVqo2EZ

I remember it was a young boy (between 9&12) going missing, the mother knew that he'd not Runaway, but guess what? No surprises,. Yep, the Po Po decided he'd runaway& he turns up murdered. I just remember the complete and total police incompetence. It was a total example of a "country" sheriff being just that...he is probably the reason the stereotype kept on going. I want to watch again just to remind myself and share... because it's hard to explain just how piss poor the investigation of the missing boy was.

If anyone remembers, I've tried Google and got nowhere. Thanks!