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🗓️ 2 March 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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When a Brooklyn teen disappears without a trace, a nightmarish discovery in a subway tunnel turns a missing person report into a homicide investigation. Investigators discover and accuse an alleged serial killer in this episode of Last Seen Alive.
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0:00.0 | When a Brooklyn teen disappears without a trace, a nightmarish discovery in a subway tunnel turns a missing person report into a homicide investigation. |
0:08.9 | Investigators discover and accuse an alleged serial killer in this episode of Last Seen Alive. |
0:34.5 | I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime storyteller by night. |
0:39.7 | And as always, I'm your co. Scott. This is the revisited and enhanced edition of one of our early |
0:45.0 | episodes, which features the Unsolved Case of Rashaun Rizel. The original edition was recorded in |
0:50.4 | 2020, and we've revisited and re-recorded this episode on his case in 2025. |
0:56.3 | As I'm sure those of you who've been listening since the early days of Last Scene Alive have noticed, |
1:00.6 | our production and audio quality have improved significantly over the years. |
1:04.7 | Lately, we've been working on remaking our earlier episodes. |
1:07.9 | When we originally recorded them, we were doing the best we knew how at the time. |
1:11.7 | However, our best wasn't the best, and we've learned a lot since then. We want to honor those victims |
1:16.7 | by telling their stories with the production quality they deserve. So, we've been completely |
1:21.4 | remaking all of our early episodes. I'm talking totally new recordings with any new info or |
1:26.4 | updates included, |
1:31.6 | and we'll be releasing these new episodes on what were previously are off Mondays. |
1:36.6 | So that means that there will be an episode of Last Seen Alive airing every single Monday. |
1:40.8 | It'll alternate between totally new cases we've never covered before, as usual, |
1:44.3 | and revisited and remade episodes on the Mondays in between. |
1:49.5 | Roshan Brazil was last seen alive on February 14, 2005. |
1:54.1 | He was 19 years old at the time and lived in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood. |
1:58.8 | That day, Valentine's Day, was supposed to be a busy one for him, |
2:01.9 | although not in the way you might think when you imagine the holiday. |
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