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Last Seen Alive

Unsolved Homicide: Rashawn Brazell (Revisited)

Last Seen Alive

Studio 222

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.2773 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

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.

If you have any information about Rashawn Brazell’s death, or any other potential victims of Govan’s, please call the NYPD Crime Stoppers’ tipline at 1-800-577-TIPS. Or, if you prefer, you can submit a tip online at www.crimestoppers.nypdonline.org Either way, your tip can remain anonymous.

See photos from this episode and check out the sources we used to research it here:  

https://lastseenalivepodcast.com/2020/03/02/unsolved-homicide-rashawn-brazell/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:01.0

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0:28.7

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0:29.8

C details.

0:30.4

When a Brooklyn teen disappears without a trace, a nightmarish discovery in a subway tunnel

0:35.0

turns a missing person report into a homicide investigation.

0:39.1

Investigators discover and accuse an alleged serial killer in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

1:09.3

Music Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive. I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime storyteller by night.

1:15.2

And as always, I'm your co. Scott. This is the revisited and enhanced edition of one of our early episodes, which features the unsolved case of Rashaun Rizel. The original edition was recorded in

1:20.6

2020, and we've revisited and re-recorded this episode on his case in 2025.

1:26.5

As I'm sure those of you who've been listening since the early

1:28.9

days of Last Scene Alive have noticed our production and audio quality have improved

1:32.8

significantly over the years. Lately, we've been working on remaking our earlier episodes. When we

1:38.4

originally recorded them, we were doing the best we knew how at the time. However, our best wasn't

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