A family's peace | Part III

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True Crime, Missing, Mystery, Boston, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On a sunny Saturday in 2016, Benine Timothee left her house to visit a friend who lived close by and never returned. She had lived in the United States for only three months when she was shot and killed outside a corner store in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood. No arrests have been made, and there are no suspects in the case.

This is the third and final episode of our three-part series, A Family's Peace, reported by independent investigative journalist Shannon Dooling.

Benine's homicide is still unsolved, and Boston police haven't offered updates to her family in years. In Part III, Shannon talks to the Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney to get the insider scoop on how unsolved homicide cases are handled. Feeling left behind, Andre, Benine's widower, continues to search for answers and workarounds that don't involve law enforcement.

Finally, we hear from Benine's children, Jephte and Nelissa, about how much their lives have changed since their mother's death, and how the family goes on living, with or without closure.

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0:00.0	WBWR podcasts, Boston.
0:09.6	Life has changed a lot for the Timothy family over the last six years.
0:13.5	Andre, his son Jeff D, and his daughter Nellissa have found ways to adapt since losing
0:18.7	their mom and wife, Benine.
0:21.4	But still, life is somehow measured in the before and the after.
0:28.2	Benine was shot and killed in 2016, walking down a busy street in Boston on a Saturday afternoon.
0:35.4	Police have made no arrests.
0:37.3	There are no suspects.
0:39.1	There's just this void.
0:43.4	We're not going to find out who killed Benine.
0:46.4	There's no closure right now.
0:49.0	But this story isn't about getting closure.
0:52.4	It's about living without it.
0:54.2	Because when my mom passed away, I feel like half of me was just gone too.
0:59.8	And I don't think there's any part, like anything I can feel this part.
1:04.8	I feel like I'm just going to be like this empty person, half empty.
1:12.2	And what I'm coming to understand is that Jeff D and his family are not alone in feeling
1:17.2	this emptiness, this gap.
1:19.7	In a space where you're at once tied to the past while still trying to create a future.
1:25.6	Because sometimes it feels like the law enforcement system is set up so that families of unsolved
1:30.9	homicide victims, like Benine, can't help but feel forgotten.
1:37.2	Especially for a family new to the US, like the Timothy's.
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