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In this episode of 'Missing', Eyewitness News Investigative Reporter Kristin Thorne profiles a young mother, Chelsea Michelle Cobo, who vanished from Brooklyn in 2016.
For almost six years, Chelsea's desperate mother, Rose, has been doing everything she can to find her, uncovering her daughter's darkest secrets, imperiling her own safety to get answers from people who don't want to talk, and holding the NYPD and the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office accountable.
This is the story of a mother's relentless quest to piece together the twisted puzzle of her daughter's disappearance, a woman who is ready to follow the leads wherever they may take her.
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In the new episode of "Missing," Eyewitness News investigative reporter Kristin Thorne examines the disappearance of Corinna Paige Slusser, who went from small-town Pennsylvania cheerleader to sex-trafficked 'hostage' in New York City, where she vanished almost half a decade ago.
According to police, someone reported seeing Slusser leaving the Haven Motel on Woodhaven Boulevard in Rego Park, Queens early one September morning in 2017.
She has never been seen again.
This is the story of a heartbroken mother's determined search for her daughter, along the way confronting dangerous pimps, mysterious extortion attempts, and confounding clues on social media in her quest for answers.
Is Slusser still alive, trapped in a sex-trafficking nightmare?
Her mother, Sabina Tuorto, is hoping this investigation will help her find out what happened to her daughter.
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On Oct. 24, 1978, Ethel Louise Atwell of Newark, went to work on Staten Island and never returned home.
It was dark - around 6 a.m. - when she arrived at her job as a nurse aide at the Staten Island Developmental Center on the grounds of the former Willowbrook State School.
Workers heard the 46-year-old scream from the parking lot. By the time police arrived, Ethel had disappeared, but they found her purse, buttons from her coat, her dentures, and one of her shoes just outside her parked car.
Her keys were found in the woods. Police and volunteers scoured the 300-acre property for days -- her sons looked for her in the woods for months -- but no one found any evidence of Ethel.
In August 1978, only two months before Ethel's disappearance, another nurse was found buried in a shallow grave not far from where Ethel parked her car.
Several children also disappeared from Staten Island in the 1970's and 1980's.
Could Ethel's disappearance be linked to these other cases?
For more than four decades, Ethel's family, including her four sons, has been haunted by the questions of who abducted her and why.
Eyewitness News investigative reporter Kristin Thorne returns to the woods with her family and tries to uncover clues in this terrifying cold case in the latest episode of "Missing."
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The disappearance of Dr. Sneha Anne Philip has never been covered on a podcast - until now.
The basic details of her disappearance - that she was last seen on September 10, 2001 shopping at a department store in lower Manhattan - have been reported.
However, lots of people who have read about her story studied her case, or who knew her have been skeptical about whether she died in the 9/11 attacks.
It was a question from a Redditor on a recent AMA (Ask Me Anything) that Kristin Thorne hosted that got us thinking here at "Missing" about Sneha's case.
In this episode of "Missing," we take a deeper look at Sneha's life and whether it's possible that she did not die in the 9/11 attacks as determined by only the New York courts - not by the NYPD, not by the family's private investigator and not by witnesses.
Did something happen to the 31-year-old doctor the night before the event that changed the course of history?
Is it possible that Sneha is still alive?
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On the morning of March 18, 1999, teenager Leanne Marie Hausberg disappeared into thin air.
The 14-year-old left her family's apartment in Brooklyn and has never been heard from again.
For almost 23 years, Leanne's family has lived with the agony of not knowing what happened to her.
I hope that by bringing their emotional story to the world, people will try to find Leanne or - at the very least - come forward with information they may have about where she went or who she was with when she disappeared.
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Welcome to the 'True Crime NYC' podcast and our series 'Missing' which tells the stories of missing people who never got the coverage they deserved.
Every single victim and every single family deserves justice -- and that's the mission of this series.
It all began on Sept. 13, 2021, the first day Channel 7 Eyewitness News investigative reporter Kristin Thorne covered the disappearance of Gabby Petito and met with her distraught parents on Long Island. The story consumed the next two months of her life.
Throughout this time, she spoke routinely with Gabby's father, Joseph Petito. Most of what they spoke about, she has never reported, but one thing he made clear to her is that he wanted the media to cover other missing people. He said they deserved attention, too, and he was right.
Kristin started to look at databases of missing people and as she scrolled through the hundreds of faces, she thought about not only those people but their families and friends and the ripple effect of pain that is caused when they disappeared.
She thought, "Maybe I can help?"
Now, with the "Missing" series - a part of the 'True Crime NYC' podcast - she is shining a light on victims that might have previously been overlooked in the hopes that the exposure will lead to new clues, and more families and loved ones finding justice.
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