When a case goes cold, one can not imagine a family’s grief when first accepting that their loved one is gone, but now topple that with having no answers at all.  One would hope that the search would never end until the answers came, but this is not always the case.  As of late, many people have been getting more and more involved with helping solve cold cases.

On Sunday July 12th, 2015, NJ Transit Train number 4693 was heading from Philadelphia to Atlantic City at 9:50 pm.  With about 40 passengers and crew on board, the train passed under the Tilton Road bridge in Galloway Twp NJ.  It was 11:12 pm at Mile Marker 45 when 18 year old Tiffany Valiante was struck by the traveling train. The NJ Transit police deemed Tiffany’s death a suicide without any formal investigation into the facts surrounding her disappearance.  This twisted and confusing case will leave you with more questions and going down even more rabbit holes than ever before.

Missing and Indigenous women go unreported everyday.  On Thursday, February 2—Aielah, her sister Kyla and brother, Tim headed to the Pine Center Mall. Aielah and her sister ran into some friends at the mall and the group decided to get together later that evening. Tim opted out and the girls went alone. At some point, Aielah and her sister were separated and went different ways. When her sister, Kyla arrived home early the next morning, she didn’t find her sister at home. A little panic set in and on Friday morning, her mother went to the police to file a missing person’s report. The police told her to wait 78 hours to see if Aielah would show up, and if she didn’t —then she could come back again and file a report.On February 10, almost a week after she was last seen at the mall, a witness alerted police to seeing something in a ditch alongside Highway 16.  When police went to investigate, they discovered the body of a young woman in the ditch. The body was identified as that of Aielah Auger. Police determined that Aielah had died from blunt force trauma to the head and her death has yet to be solved.

Sometimes evil lurks in the most unexpected places.  In a setting where you or your family members should be given the utmost care and special attention, no one should ever be questioning an untimely and suspicious death. No one could predict the horror that was about to unfold as a result of predators lurking among them.

Sometimes the quests we set out to achieve take us on a journey we never expected. A chance encounter can potentially change the course of our lives and set us in a new direction where we are utilized and needed.  Today’s guests illustrate just how the course of a person’s life can take on new meaning.  Not only are they doing humanitarian work, but they were recently featured in the Netflix documentary, “The Times Square Killer,”  where convicted serial killer, Richard Cottingham’s known crimes are uncovered.  Cottingham has admitted to 11 murders, but he has stated that he has committed well over 85 and under 100, that have yet to be solved.  Suspect Zero welcomes, Jennifer Weiss and Peter Vronsky.

Jillian Fuller was only 28 years old when she died. She was last seen leaving the Fraser Arms Hotel at half past midnight and headed downstairs to the Rock Cellar Pub between 1:30 and 1:40 a.m., just hours before her death.

Today’s podcast will focus on Robert Christian Hansen a.k.a. "The Butcher Baker,” who was an Alaskan hunter, arsonist, serial rapist, and later serial killer who abducted prostitutes and hunted them in the wilderness in the early 1980s.

Suspect Zero  discusses The Balcony Strangler with guest, Vanessa Brown, author of the book, “The Forest City Killer.

Suspect Zero invites special guest, Vanessa Brown, author of the book, “The Forest City Killer.

Author, Nikita Breznikov, recalls his memories of The Son of Sam and offers his perspective on the Berkowitz killings.  On August 10, 1977, Berkowitz was taken into custody and later charged with eight shootings. When he first confessed to them all, he said that he had been carrying out the instructions of a demon who had taken the guise of his neighbor, "Sam's" black dog.  He was given six consecutive life terms in state prison with the chance of release after 25 years after being determined to be mentally fit to stand trial and plead guilty to second-degree murder.  Later, he acknowledged that the tale of the dog and the devil was a fabrication.

Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were found in swamps and canals surrounding  Jennings, Louisiana. Most of the bodies were found in such a state of decomposition as to make the actual cause of death difficult to determine.

Suspect Zero  analyze Jack Unterweger, an Austrian serial killer who murdered Margaret Schafer in what appeared to be an isolated murder.  He was convicted in 1974 and was serving a life sentence when he once again used his manipulation to his advantage. He wasn’t finished with what he started and many would regret ever believing the mastermind behind this reign of terror.

Suspect Zero take a deep look into the Monster of Florence. Between 1974 and 1985, seven couples were murdered while having sex in parked cars in the hills of Florence, Italy.

Suspect Zero  discuss David Parker Ray, AKA, “The Toy Box Killer."   Ray soundproofed a truck trailer which he called his "toy box", and equipped it with items used for sexual torture. He would kidnap between five and six girls a year, holding each of them captive for around three to four months. During this period he would sexually abuse his victims, sometimes involving his dog or his wife (who participated willingly in her husband's crimes), and often torture them with surgical instruments. Then Ray would either kill his victims or drug them with barbiturates in an attempt to erase their memories of what had happened before abandoning them by the side of the road.

Suspect Zero  welcomes special guest, John Allore.  Since 2002, Theresa's brother, John Allore – whose podcast, Who Killed Theresa?– has continued the investigation, identifying 14 other unsolved murders from 1975 to 1981 which he believes may be connected. Beginning in 2018, John Allore started to focus on other Quebec cases from the 1970s through the present era, cases that further suggest systemic failures in how investigations are carried out.  They also talk about Luc Gregoire, a Canadian serial killer, who looks to be a viable suspect.

Suspect Zero takes a closer and more detailed look at The Chicago Millennium Strangler(s),  Whose victims, predominantly African-American and Hispanic women and teens between the ages of 18 and 58 and were strangled and left in abandoned buildings, alleys, garbage bins, parks and snowdrifts. There is much speculation around three separate serial killers who have been operating in Chicago since at least 2001.

Suspect Zero  looks into the lesser known case of Michael Scott Magliolo, a nomad who would hitch rides with truckers to carry out his “quests” around Nashville, Ohio, and quite possibly other places that we are unaware of.

Suspect Zero will visit the 1972 cold case of Jeannette DePalma who went missing from her Springfield, NJ home.  Law enforcement authorities have denied that her murder was a result of Satanic rituals.  Further controversy was aroused when it was discovered that the body had been found on a cliff known to locals for several decades as, "The Devil's Teeth".

Suspect Zero will be discussing at the case of Mike DeBardeleben, a convicted kidnapper, rapist, counterfeiter, and suspected serial killer, who became known as the "mall passer" due to his practice of passing counterfeit bills in shopping malls bordering interstate highways across the United States.

Suspect Zero invites their students to take a look into the unsolved case of Susie Streeter, Stacy McCall, and Sheryl Levitt, “The Springfield Three,” who went missing on June 7, 1992, in Springfield, MO. Their bodies have yet to been found and brought home to their families.  Join us in helping solve this case!