Episode 279: Shemika Cosey

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

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🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Shemika Cosey was 16-years-old girl when she vanished from Berkeley, Missouri on December 28, 2008, between 1:30 and 8:30 a.m. It was at her aunt's residence, where she had spent the night with her cousin, that she was last seen. Despite the absence of evident foul play, Shemika’s family is convinced that someone is responsible for her disappearance. They firmly believe that something must have happened to her, as she would not have stayed missing for such an extended period without some kind of issue arising. The family is haunted by questions: Did she leave with an alleged older guy? Was she trafficked? Did she suffer harm due to information she had confided in an alleged boyfriend? Anyone in possession of information about Shemika’s disappearance is urged to reach out to the Berkeley Police Department at (314)-524-3311, or alternatively, contact NCMEC at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678).

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0:00.0	What's up you guys? I'm Andrea and I'm Haley and you're listening to Inhuman a
0:06.7	True Crime podcast. I'm going to do. Welcome back everybody. Before we get started with today's case, I wanted to just share a little update in a case that we covered on our
0:34.9	Patreon back in July which is the Gary Ridgeway aka the Green River
0:41.0	killer. There's an update?
0:44.0	Yeah, so basically earlier this week the last known remains tied to his murders were identified
0:52.0	thanks to a lab in Texas. So initially the bones were named
0:59.0	bones 20 when they were discovered in 2003 because at that time investigators were unable to confirm their identity.
1:07.0	Right. But according to the Kings County Sheriff's Office, the remains belonged to 16-year-old Tammy Liles, who
1:16.7	disappeared from Seattle in 1983. Oh my God. So she was later identified as a victim of Ridgways in 1988 after a separate series of remains was traced to her.
1:31.0	So they had her, like some of her remains, but these remains were for whatever reason,
1:36.6	unable to be tied to her probably because it was 2003, you know, the 80s and then 2003 so right science wasn't as advanced as it is today
1:47.2	But wow that's crazy so it's not another victim that they hadn't already connected to him. Right, but they did think that it was initially, but now they have confirmed that it was someone that they already, you know, knew that was a victim of his.
2:00.0	Wow, okay. Now all 49 victims have been found and identified and hopefully that you know they can all each rest peacefully.
2:12.0	Yeah, wow, that is easy.
2:15.0	I know.
2:16.0	It's like, it's obviously bittersweet because someone lost their life,
2:20.0	but it is, it's, I'm glad that it wasn't an additional victim that they were able to tie it to someone who had already been identified as one of his victims.
2:28.0	Because you know just that unknowing of is there another victim could there possibly be another
2:34.6	victim which they suspect he had more than 49 victims to begin with but there's just not any
2:42.0	evidence to support that aside from the evidence that they have of the
2:45.8	49 victims. So I just wanted to share that because you know that is a big case.
2:52.6	I know I didn't cover it here.
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