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enjoy the show. May 19th, 2004, New York City. After leaving her apartment, 21-year-old

Juilliard student Sarah Fox does not return and has found strangle to death in a wooded area at

Inwood Hill Park six days later. Her nude body is posed in a ritualistic fashion and surrounded by

two dozen tulip petals. A suspect named Amitri Shimon eventually pops up on the radar, claiming

that he had visions of Sarah's murder and that she communicates with them from beyond the grave.

However, in spite of a cloud of suspicion surrounding Shimon, no evidence has ever linked them

to the crime. After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest mini-sode of the trail went cold. I'm your host Robyn

Mortar and today I will be covering a very odd cold case, the 2000 form murder of Sarah Fox.

As you probably know, I'm always open to receiving suggestions from listeners of

out mysteries to cover on this podcast and I particularly love it when they send me compelling

cases which I've never even heard of before. Earlier this year, within the same one month period,

I had two separate listeners suggest an unsolved murder I was not familiar with.

They were an email or named Mary Elizabeth and a Twitter follower named Lily,

so thanks for the suggestion you too, because once I delved into this case, there were things about

it which made my jaw drop. The circumstances of Sarah Fox's murder are particularly bizarre,

but the weirdest element of this story is the prime suspect, an eccentric individual named

Demetri Shimon, who has constantly inserted himself into the investigation by claiming he's had

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