Hello listeners, I'm your host Amara, and this is Black Girl God, a true crime podcast.

On this episode of Black Girl God, we tell the story of Charlene Rosman, a 23-year-old woman from

Everett, Massachusetts. On April 7, 2009, Charlene was reported missing after she did not come home from work.

Six days later, Charlene's body was found in her father's car. She had been shot to death.

Twelve years later, Charlene's family meets closure and injustice. This is Charlene's story.

This big story came to me from the victim's sister Rosalie. Now this was the third time that I received

a request from someone asking me to cover the story of their sister or friend.

And I honestly never imagined when I started this podcast that I would hear from people asking me

to cover cases of their loved ones, but I am forever grateful that people want me to tell their story.

But it's also important for me as a true crime podcast host. It's so easy as a consumer of true

crime to forget that these stories are not just entertainment. They're not fiction. But with so

much true crime out there, it's easy to become desensitized to murder, to missing people.

And it's important that you don't. It's important that I don't. It's easy for me to write these

stories and forget that these are real people. They were more than articles and still images.

They were mothers. They were daughters. They were sisters. And that is something that I never

want to forget. I try to tell these stories with the intent to bring awareness about these cases,

even the ones that are solved. But I keep in mind the fact that these were real people whose families

or friends may be listening. So thank you Rosalie. Thank you for reaching out to me and asking me

to cover your sister's story. I hope that this can help in any way to bring you and your parents

justice to Charlene. A Rosie did an episode about her sister's murder on her own podcast,

which is called The Rosie Perspective. And I'm going to include a link to her episode in this week's

show notes. So please go and listen. In April 2009, Charlene Rosman was living in Everett,

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