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Cold Case Files

The Shopping Cart Killer

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

New York denizen Arohn Kee is a lesser known serial killer, but no less odious. He preyed on teenage girls in Harlem.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following episode contains intensely disturbing accounts of violence.

0:04.9

Listener discretion is advised.

0:11.5

What he would do is take the body and put it in a black plastic bag and then put the bag

0:17.0

inside of a shopping cart.

0:19.8

And then he would just walk around the neighborhood until he found whatever building it was that

0:24.7

was going to suit his purpose that day.

0:27.6

That's how Rashida got into 1345 Fifth Avenue.

0:30.9

That's how Johalas got to the roof of 218 East 104.

0:36.0

It's January 24, 1991. In New York City, a man walks his dog on a footpath alongside

0:42.9

rush hour traffic on the FDR drive. Up ahead, a shadow slips across the path and disappears

0:49.8

under a footbridge. As the man and his dog approach, they discover the body of a young Hispanic girl.

0:57.0

Detective Gary Dugan is one of the first to arrive on the scene.

1:02.0

It was probably about 13 degrees. The wind was whipping up.

1:07.0

And her jacket was opened. Her hands were at her side, and we couldn't quite tell exactly

1:16.1

what had killed her at that time.

1:19.1

An ambulance tech at the scene leans in to inspect the girl's body and lifts her sweater.

1:24.8

There was a stab wound in the center of her chest, and a further examination revealed that she had a ligature around her sweater. There was a stab wound in the center of her chest and further examination revealed that

1:30.3

she had a ligature around her neck.

1:32.3

And it was hardly any blood coming from the stair wound.

1:37.3

The lack of blood tells Dugin he's most likely looking at a body dump and that his

1:42.8

Jane Doe was actually killed in another location.

1:46.0

I guess we were there probably about 45 minutes when we heard that there was a female at the 23rd

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