88. Indifference: The Murder of Romona Moore
It wasn’t like 21-year-old Romona Moore to run off. Nobody knew that better than her mom, Ellie Carmichael.
In April of 2003, Romona left the Brooklyn home she shared with her mother and said she was heading to Burger King to grab dinner. She never returned.
It took days of pleading for Ellie to get the NYPD to take Romona’s disappearance seriously. By the time detectives began looking, it was too late. Romona had endured days of torture, before being discarded like trash.
This case unfolds with a series of abductions, allegations of racial bias against the NYPD, intense manhunts, and a daring attempted courtroom escape. It also raises the proposal of new legislation in response to these events. This is Romona’s story.
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Method & Madness is researched, written, hosted, & produced by Dawn
Music by Tymur Khakimov from Pixabay
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Sources for this Episode:
Two Defendants, Two Juries and Horrors Spoken Twice - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/709283464/?match=1&terms=Romona%20Moore
Mar 10, 2003, page 7 - Newsday at Newspapers.com
Detective Patrick H. Rafferty, New York City Police Department, New York (odmp.org)
NYPD 24/7 Episode 4
Police Defend Differences In Searches For 2 Women - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Worlds Apart, Two Detectives Worked and Died Together - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
People v Hendrix (2009 NY Slip Op 05153) (nycourts.gov)
College Student's Killers Are Sentenced to Life in Prison - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
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