A Cold Case. Is Not a Closed Case

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Phylicia Simone Barnes a 16 year old high school student from North Carolina disappears while visiting family in Baltimore during the Christmas break. Her body was recovered in the Susquehanna River on April 20, 2011, following a series of searches and national media coverage from various outlets, including The Today Show. The investigation into her death, was ruled a homicide.

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The Show
File 13 is a True Crime Podcast dedicated to the unsolved murders in Black America. 50% of murders in American cities do not lead to an arrest at all. But according to an article in the Washington Post: Entitled "An Unequal Justice”, killings of black people lead to arrests less often than when victims are white". In the past decade, police in 52 of the nation’s largest cities have failed to make an arrest in nearly 26,000 killings, according to a Washington Post analysis of homicide arrest data. In more than 18,600 of those cases, the victim was black. Black victims, who accounted for the majority of homicides, were the least likely of any racial group to have their killings result in an arrest, The Post found. While police arrested someone in 63 percent of the killings of white victims, they did so in just 47 percent of those with black victims.

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Kawame
Executive Producer & Host
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BAM
Senior Producer & Host
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Raven Clark - Gross
Head of Research
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Jessica Hollis - Summers
Fact-Checking & Research
Ronald Sapiano
Sound Design
Corey Scott, Medinah Smith, Lisa Watters, Cocoa Rayne
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