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The mother of a missing Brooklyn female whose unsolved 2016 disappearance has prompted suspicions of trafficking and foul play is poised to motorboat a networking app that she hopes tin spare different families from nan trauma she's endured complete nan past 8 years.
Chelsea Cobo was 22 erstwhile she was past seen successful Sunset Park connected May 6, 2016. She had a 10-month-old boy but had precocious been hanging retired pinch a sketchy caller crowd, a group she met during a dubious infirmary enactment months earlier, according to her adoptive mother, Rose Cobo.
Rose Cobo, who raised her adoptive girl since she was conscionable complete a twelvemonth old, told Fox News Digital nan caller group struck her arsenic suspicious. She said nan group introduced nan young mother to superior drugs. Recognizing a problem, Chelsea checked into rehab, she said. Then she checked retired and ne'er came home.
Police and prosecutors interviewed galore witnesses, conducted searches and scoured done surveillance videos, but nan lawsuit remains unsolved.
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A photograph of Chelsea Cobo and her boy is displayed astatine nan Hamptons Whodunit Conference successful East Hampton, New York, connected April 14, 2024. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
Rose Cobo said she suspected her girl had been trafficked aliases worse. The time aft she past said pinch Chelsea, a unusual man from nan hospital, who her girl had only precocious begun seeing, near her an ominous voicemail, claiming to person dropped Chelsea disconnected and that he had "nothing to do" pinch thing other that mightiness happen.
She told Fox News Digital this week that conscionable discussing nan harrowing speech makes her uncomfortable.
"I'll ne'er get utilized to it," she said. "It conscionable knocks maine out. It took nan upwind retired of me."
"I'll ne'er get utilized to it. It conscionable knocks maine out. It took nan upwind retired of me."
— Rose CoboOver nan years, nan adoptive mother has pushed for answers, raised consciousness and moreover interviewed witnesses connected her own, sharing her findings connected societal media and pinch reporters. Now she's hoping that experience, and nan caller app called 911Missing, which she is pushing pinch nan families of different missing people, tin thief supply answers successful her daughter's lawsuit and to different families.
Rose Cobo speaks during nan Hamptons Whodunit Conference successful East Hampton, New York, connected April 14, 2024. Cobo continues to advocator for her daughter, Chelsea, aft her 2016 disappearance successful Brooklyn. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
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"I judge possibly personification someday will prime it up and put nan pieces together and possibly fig retired really Chelsea went missing," Rose Cobo told Fox News Digital.
One persistent problem she's faced, she said, is detectives connected nan lawsuit person kept her successful nan acheronian astir what's going on. So astatine 1 point, she went to speak pinch 1 of nan witnesses herself, confronting a man who lives astatine nan location wherever her girl was past seen.
In audio of nan speech first aired connected nan ABC and Hulu documentary "Missing: Chelsea Michelle Cobo," Rose Cobo knocked connected nan doorway astatine nan townhouse and bluntly asked a man wrong if her girl was live aliases dead.
"I been telling nan police," nan unseen man replied. "Police cognize she’s gone. How travel you don’t cognize she’s gone?"
Rose Cobo wears a pin pinch a image of her daughter, Chelsea, earlier speaking astatine nan Hamptons Whodunit Conference successful East Hampton, New York, connected April 14, 2024. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
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"She's gone?" Rose Cobo replied, nan daze successful her sound apparent. "She's gone?"
The NYPD declined to remark connected nan witness's claim.
A screening of nan documentary brought galore group to tears successful an assemblage astatine nan East Hampton Library during nan Hampton's Whodunit convention successful East Hampton, New York, this month. One female near pinch her look hidden down her fingers. A friend placed her manus connected Cobo's back.
During a sheet chat afterward, Rose Cobo took rumor pinch secrecy surrounding nan lawsuit and lamented that much group successful nan Sunset Park neighborhood, wherever her girl was past seen, whitethorn not person been asked to cheque their surveillance cameras for grounds successful nan case.
Chelsea Cobo’s boy is pictured adjacent to her missing-person flier astatine nan Hamptons Whodunit Conference successful East Hampton, New York, connected April 14, 2024. Cobo’s mother, Rose, continues to advocator for her girl aft her 2016 disappearance successful Brooklyn. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
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That's wherever she hopes nan app will thief by quickly connecting businesses and homeowners, amateur web sleuths, investigators and different citizens pinch accusation astir a disappearance.
"It's not only wherever you are, it will recreation pinch you," she said "Hypothetically, you're going to Colorado. You're there, and you conscionable want to get what's happening successful nan neighborhood. You could group it successful a mile radius, a five-mile radius, a 250-mile radius."
