Black, Brown, & Unsolved

2025 Recap… The Year That Changed Everything

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2025 was not a year I could have planned.

It was a year that grew this platform beyond anything I imagined.

What started as a podcast… became advocacy.

What started as telling stories… became holding systems...

🎄 12 Days of Christmas on Black, Brown, & Unsolved.

This is not an unsolved case… and that’s exactly why it needed to be covered.

In this episode, we examine the case of Armond Langford, a man with a documented history of violent crime who was released early and allowed back into the community… only to go on and commit one of the most terrifying crimes imaginable.

A Louisville mother was kidnapped at knifepoint.

Her...

🎄 Day 11 of the 12 Days of Christmas on Black, Brown, & Unsolved 🤎

A night that started with music, friends, and plans turned deadly for Amiyah Cunningham.

What happened next wasn’t an accident… it was a series of decisions.

And what followed wasn’t justice… it was delay.

In this episode, we walk through the night Amiyah lost her life, the moments after she was hit and dragged, the choices made by the people around her, and ...

🎄 Day 10 of the 12 Days of Christmas on Black, Brown, & Unsolved 🤎

Thirteen-year-old Oscar Omar Hernandez vanished after boarding a train in late March to visit his youth soccer coach… someone his family trusted. His body was found days later in a roadside ditch in Oxnard, California, after he had been reported missing. Prosecutors allege that his coach, 43-year-old Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino, murdered Oscar and dumped h...

🎄 The 12 Days of Christmas on Black, Brown, & Unsolved 🤎

On Christmas Eve, 71-year-old psychologist and educator Barbara Wolf stopped to help someone who appeared stranded on the side of the road in Oxford Township, Michigan.

Helping people wasn’t something she did — it was who she was.

Instead of a routine act of kindness, Barbara Wolf was met with violence. She was shot and later died from her injuries. Her daug...

🎄12 Days of Christmas on Black, Brown, & Unsolved 🤎

On the 8th day of the 12 Days of Christmas, we examine a case that sits in the uncomfortable space between fear and force.

In the early morning hours of May 3, Tyler Chase Butler called police reporting a burglary in progress at his home. What followed left one teenager dead, two families shattered, and a community divided.

This episode breaks down what happened that ...

🎄12 Days of Christmas on Black, Brown, & Unsolved 🤎

In Day 7 of the 12 Days of Christmas on Black, Brown, & Unsolved, I’m sharing one of the most disturbing and emotionally jarring cases I’ve covered.

Shanice Crews disappeared in 2021.

Her family searched.

They waited.

They worried.

Then in 2024, police told them the unthinkable — Shanice had been found dead. An autopsy claimed she died from a drug overdose. The body was badly ...

🎄12 Days of Christmas on Black, Brown, & Unsolved 🤎

In Day 6 of the 12 Days of Christmas, we examine the quiet and unsettling case of Kamron Peter Rondon, a 35-year-old man whose remains were discovered in the mountains of North Carolina… months after his death.

Kamron was never reported missing.

There were no alerts.

No public search.

No urgency… until a hiker found a skull.

In this episode, I walk through what’s known, what ...

🎄 Day 5 of 12 Days of Christmas: Anthonella Contreras Linarez

In Day 5 of the 12 Days of Christmas, I share the story of Anthonella Contreras Linarez, a 30-year-old registered nurse whose life was taken by the person she trusted most.

Anthonella was in the process of leaving her relationship when she got into a car for what she believed would be a simple, calm conversation. She never made it home.

What was first report...

🎄 Day 4 of 12 Days of Christmas: Adriana Smith  

In Day 4 of the 12 Days of Christmas, I cover the tragic case of Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old nurse, mother, and daughter from Georgia.

Adriana sought medical care for severe headaches while nine weeks pregnant. Days later, she was declared brain dead. Instead of being allowed dignity in death, her body was kept on life support for months…  against her family’s wishes,  due to le...

🎄 Day 3 of 12 Days of Christmas: Jacob Pritchett

Eleven-year-old Jacob Pritchett is autistic, nonverbal, and missing from Brownsville, Brooklyn.

Authorities believe Jacob may have been missing for months before child services were alerted. When police and ACS went to his home, Jacob was not there, and his mother denied that he existed… even after being shown his birth certificate.

Neighbors reported not seeing Jacob for wee...

🎄 Day 2 of 12 Days of Christmas: Cecilia “CiCi” Simpson

A simple, everyday interaction should never end in violence.

In this episode of Black, Brown, & Unsolved, we examine the killing of 41-year-old Cecilia “CiCi” Simpson, who was shot and killed outside a Dallas PetSmart following an argument that began earlier that day over a door being held open.

What started as a minor exchange escalated into confrontation, pu...

🎄 Day One of 12 Days of Christmas: Urayoan Rodriguez-Rivera

This is Day One of 12 Days of Christmas on Black, Brown, & Unsolved.

On September 10, 2023, Urayoan Rodriguez-Rivera, 29, called 911 and said he planned to take his own life.

When police arrived, he was still breathing.

What happened next was captured on body-camera footage — and while this case has officially been ruled a suicide, there are questions that remai...

12 Days of Christmas – Intro Description

For the next twelve days, we’re doing something different.

Instead of moving on, we’re staying.

With the cases that still don’t have answers.

With the questions that never made it into the final episode.

With the details that continue to surface long after the headlines fade.

Each day brings a short drop — mini episodes, updates, theories, and conversations that don’t always fi...

🎙️ Episode Description

A Child Having a Child: Where Is Celina Mays?

In December 1996, twelve-year-old Celina Mays went to bed in her Willingboro, New Jersey home and by morning, she was gone. Nearly thirty years later, the silence around her disappearance still echoes. This episode unpacks the timeline, the secrets, and the power that kept an entire community quiet.

You’ll hear from former members, family, and the detective now lead...

⚠️ Lovett “LJ” Moore is STILL missing.

A blind Black man led away from a Sacramento gas station on June 28th… and Sacramento PD has failed his family from day one. 🚨

In this episode of Straight No Chaser 🥃 I sat down with:

👩🏽‍🦱 His sister Shay

👨🏽 His brother Johnny

✊🏽 Advocate & EMPACT founder Leia Shank

💔 And later, his mother Pamela joined too

What you’ll hear is raw, emotional, and heartbreaking 💔 — a family beg...

🚨 33-year-old Lovett “LJ” Moore is missing.

On June 28, 2025, LJ — a blind, disabled man — was last seen on surveillance being led out of a gas station on Arena Blvd in North Natomas. That was 53 days ago… and Sacramento PD still hasn’t brought his family answers.

👁️ LJ lived with vision loss. He had a burn on his leg. He depended on others for support. Yet, the people last seen with him have shown up at his mother’s home...

On Christmas Day 2002, I was with my uncle when I got the news my mom had been shot — eight times — by the man she was married to at the time.

In this episode, I walk you through that day, what I saw when I got to the hospital, and the words my Granny said that still stay with me. I share the moments that shaped how I saw my mom, not just as a victim, but as a survivor.

We’ll talk about the justice system’s response, the wa...

In today’s unfiltered conversation, I sit down with Jackie Rodriguez — the former family spokesperson for Dulce Maria Alavez’s case.

Jackie once stood by Noema Alavez Perez’s side. She helped her face cameras, speak to reporters, and navigate the media storm after Dulce vanished from a Bridgeton, New Jersey park in 2019.

But over time, Jackie started asking hard questions — and getting answers that didn’t sit right.

In ...