Still Unsolved: Donna Anthony Fisher

Murder, She Told

Kristen Seavey

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

1986 - Cranston, Rhode Island. December 5th, 1986 was a normal day for 18-year-old Bobby Fisher. It wasn’t until his neighbor pulled up at his work with an alarming message that his world was turned upside down: there was something wrong with his mother, Donna. Donna Anthony Fisher had been found unconscious from what appeared to be a medical event in her bedroom in Cranston, Rhode Island. A few days later on her 39th birthday, Donna passed away. But things took a turn when an autopsy revealed that Donna’s cause of death wasn’t an aneurysm like everyone thought, it was strangulation. Donna had been murdered. No charges has ever been made in Donna’s case, but that doesn’t mean it’s collecting dust. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Hear Donna’s story told through her son, Bobby, and walk through the case from the eyes of an investigator with the current detective, Robert Santagata. If there’s one thing they both want, it’s for this case to be solved. If you have any information about the murder of Donna Fisher, please contact the Cranson RI Police Dept at (401) 942-2211. Detailed sources can be found on murdershetold.com Connect on Instagram @murdershetoldpodcast Support the show here It’s MST’s birthday! Help celebrate by leaving a review and sharing on social media! Left a review? Grab your free sticker! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Murder She Told, true crime stories from Maine, New England and small town USA.
0:18.8	I'm Kristen Ceevy.
0:20.6	You can connect with a show at MurderSheTold.com or on Instagram at MurderSheToldPodcast.
0:31.0	Donna Faye Anthony was 21 years old when she had her one and only child with a man named Robert Cooley.
0:40.0	Young and in love, they left Rhode Island for Colorado.
0:44.0	She lived with him and their baby boy, but in 1971, after a tumultuous, three years of abuse and alcoholism,
0:52.0	she left Robert suddenly and definitively.
0:55.0	My true father was a complete jerk and she left him when I was at a very young age.
1:01.0	She moved back to Rhode Island and, you know, started to do her best to support both me and her at the same time.
1:08.0	That was Bobby, her only son.
1:11.0	When he was old enough to understand, his mother explained her fear that his dad might show up one day and take him away.
1:18.0	But fortunately, that day never came.
1:21.0	From the time Bobby was three until about 11 years old, he was just him and his mom.
1:26.0	Growing up, we had the typical single parent apartment with Cinderblock and wood plank entertainment center, you know, milk crates for storage bins.
1:40.0	And I think if she had found one of those big electrical wire spools that would have been outtable.
1:47.0	Bobby and his mom supported one another.
1:49.0	I could also talk to her like a friend.
1:53.0	You know, that was the most important thing to me.
1:55.0	That's what I take away the most.
1:57.0	She was always there for me.
1:58.0	She always understood and could talk to me about both.
2:01.0	It was great.
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