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Unresolved

Dana Chisholm

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

"She lived two very separate lives. We all think about the small-town girl who comes to the big city, meets predators who prey on her and that leads to her demise. But that is not the case here. Dana was very savvy."

In the early morning hours of 27 February 1995, the parents of 25-year-old Dana Chisholm received a phone call from a man claiming to be an lieutenant with the Metropolitan Police Department. They were told that Dana - living more than 400 miles away from them in Washington D.C. - had been arrested for prostitution.

Hours later, Dana's parents would reach out to the same officer, only to discover that he had not been who he said he was. Fearing that something had happened to their daughter, they'd ask officers with the Metro P.D. to check in on Dana...



Episode researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

Original music created by Micheal Whelan through Amper Music

Unresolved theme song courtesy of Ailsa Traves

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1:10.8

Just after one o'clock in the morning on February 27th, 1995,

1:16.4

Johnny and Jogari Chism received a phone call at their home in Rockhill, South Carolina.

1:22.0

The strange man on the other end of the phone spoke loudly and quickly,

1:26.4

as if he was almost excited to be talking to them. Identifying himself as Lieutenant

1:31.2

Louis Douglas with the Metropolitan Police Department. The man said that he was calling on behalf

1:36.1

of Johnny and Jogari's daughter, Dana, who was 25 years old at the time and living more than

1:41.5

400 miles away in Washington, DC. Through baited breath, the man calling himself Lieutenant

1:47.8

Douglas described how Dana had been arrested for prostitution, during a sting at the Omni hotel

1:53.6

and thought it best for them to know, despite the call making Dana upset while she sat behind bars.

2:00.6

Before hanging up, the man gave Dana's parents a phone number for them to call should they

2:05.0

need to, but said that Dana would call them herself after being arraigned and released in the

2:10.0

morning. Johnny Chism had a hard time believing that the man who had called them in the early

2:14.7

morning hours had been a police officer, simply because of the way he spoke. But Johnny and his

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