Seeking Closure: Lee County's Cold Cases

Seeking Closure: Lee County's Cold Cases

There are thousands of cases that are unsolved in the State of Florida. In Lee County we take these cases very seriously. Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno has launched this Podcast to give you the listener an inside look at some of Lee County Florida's Cold Cases. Inside these stories you will hear witness statements from the time of the crime, original 911 calls and never heard before interviews with some of the detectives that worked these cases. You never know you might hold the key or fact that will close these cases and help get the family closure and victims justice. This is Seeking Closure: Lee County's Cold Cases.

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March 12, 2025 41 mins

On January 28, 2018, the Lee County Sheriff’s responded to a report of a just occurred shooting in Lehigh Acres, Florida.  Upon arrival on scene, deputies discovered 21-year-old Javaris Wilson shot to death in the doorway of his family’s home. Further investigation Javaris was ambushed when he opened his front door.

 

Javris was on the couch with his fiancé and friend moments before the shooting when he got a call, went to the door, ...

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In 2017, the Lee County Sheriff’s responded to a report of a just occurred shooting in Lehigh Acres, Florida.  Upon arrival on scene, deputies discovered 22 year old Samuel Jones and 18  year old Eric Young both shot while playing video games with friends. Further investigation revealed they were victims of a targeted shooting in the late hours of the night.  

 

Both of these young men were victims of this homicide with so many other...

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October 25, 2024 37 mins

On June 20, 2017 the Lee County Sheriff’s responded to a report of two deceased individuals in a house on 3rd StreetWest in Lehigh Acres Florida. Upon arrival deputies would discover 22 year old Brian Keith Patterson Jr. and 27 year old Shantrese Gracia shot to death inside Brian’s home.  Brian Patterson Sr. discovered the bodies when he went to the home to let the dogs out. 

 

Shantrese was a daughter, sister, and single mother, Bri...

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August 15, 2024 48 mins

On March 23, 1996, the Lee County Sheriff’s responded to a report of a shooting in San Carlos Park, Florida.  Upon arrival on scene, deputies discovered 28 year old Steven Zinzow with one fatal gun shot to the chest in front of his girlfriend’s home. Further investigation revealed Steven was killed trying to stop a would be intruder in the early morning hours.  

 

Steven was with his girlfriend Kimberly and her two young children at ...

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August 7, 2024 43 mins

On April 21, 2018, the Lee County Sheriff’s responded to a report of a just occurred shooting in Bonita Springs, Florida.  Upon arrival on scene, deputies discovered 25 year old Destiney Bocanegra shot to death outside of a friend’s home. Further investigation revealed she was a victim of a drive-by shooting in the late hours of the night.  

 

Destiney was pregnant at the time of her death, and was the mother of a small child. Unfort...

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April 18, 2024 100 mins

On February 8, 2017, the Lee County Sheriff’s responded to a shooting along Hancock Bridge Parkway in North Fort Myers, Florida. After several calls to 911, deputies discovered 32 year old Eric Duff shot to death inside his own home. This was a drug deal gone wrong during the early morning hours. 

 

Eric was a son, brother, and father of a now six year old child.  He was no stranger to law enforcement, and involved in drugs. Investig...

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February 16, 2024 35 mins

On December 10, 2018 the Lee County Sheriff’s responded to a a body laying the driveway of a house on Quentin Ave in Lehigh Acres Florida. Upon arrival deputies would discover 39 year old Trenesa Roberts shot to death in the driveway of her home. She was on her way to work at the Bus Depot for the Lee County Schools when someone ambushed her in early morning hours of December 10th. 


 
 


She was a daughter, sister, and s...

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November 24, 2023 23 mins

On October 7, 1995, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office recovered a female body in the water near York Island, south of St. James City, off the southern tip of Pine Island, Florida. The woman was wearing a maroon/red V-neck pullover scrub top with the words, “Charleston S.C. V.A. Hospital,” on the back. She was also wearing a yellow metal ring with a 2mm ivory colored stone, a lightweight metal bracelet, and a white metal watch on her ...

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October 3, 2023 64 mins

Just after Valentine’s Day in 2010, Lee County Sheriff’s office deputies received a call from a mother wanting to do a welfare check on her 37 year-old daughter, Dawn Lofton. 

 

A few months later, her fear would turn to reality, as Dawn Lofton’s remains were located in a wooded area off of State Road 82. Dawn was last seen at her boyfriend’s house on Penny Drive in North Fort Myers.

 

Lofton’s killer is still among us and someone may ...

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August 14, 2023 28 mins

On the early morning of July 2, 2017, 51 year old Alice Dorton, a white female from Lehigh Acres, got into a white Ford SUV and was never heard from again. Alice Dorton was a transient by choice, but had a few romantic live-in relationships. Alice has family that lived in Florida at the time of her disappearance. Her daughter has never given up hope on finding out what happened to her mom on that early summer morning.

 

Listen to Ali...

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June 20, 2023 27 mins

🎧SEEKING CLOSURE EPISODE 7 🎧

 

A LEE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE PODCAST

 

On January 20, 2000, Lee County Sheriff's Office Deputies were on routine patrol of an area called Moon Lake when they discovered a partially mummified body. That body was 36 year-old Bonita Springs resident Denise Long. Denise's body had multiple stab wounds and showed signs being badly beaten.

 

Denise long had a history of drug abuse and was last seen i...

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April 28, 2023 42 mins

On Friday, November 1, 2013, at approximately 3:58 am, the Lee County Sheriff's Office received a call via the 9-1-1 operator in reference to the possible shooting.  The caller advised he had been shot and they were still out there, the caller disconnected. The location of the incident was in Lehigh Acres, Lee County, Florida.  Deputies were dispatched to the scene.   

 

Deputies arrives on the scene and noticed two victims, one...

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In this episode we will talk about the mysterious disappearance of Keri Anne Cefarelli. Keri Anne was a resident of North Fort Myers, Florida, and went missing on January 5, 2017. Despite extensive searches and investigations, there have been no concrete leads or clues to her whereabouts.

We will delve into the details of Keri Anne's disappearance and examine the leads of the Lee County Sheriff's Office Major Cri...

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February 5, 2023 45 mins

On February 5, 2015 members of the Tice Fire Department and Central District Deputies responded to a trailer fire located  in the Tice area of Fort Myers. Fire Department personnel met with the complainant Peter Matthew Albritton, who resided in the trailer with Donna Chatterton. Albritton claimed Chatterton was not in the trailer when he returned home earlier nor could he confirm if she was in the trailer when the fire occurred.

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October 21, 2022 33 mins

  On August 15, 2013, at approximately 12:26 p.m., a man reported that he had observed what he believed to be human remains in the area of Leah Court & Meadow Road, Lehigh Acres, Florida. The man was an employee of the Lee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC). Lee  County Deputy Leslie Green responded and confirmed that the body of a deceased white male lay on the roadway inside Leah Court, an undeveloped cul-de-sac in a wooded a...

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June 29, 2022 22 mins

On or about September 13, 2002 at approximately 4:27 p.m., the Lee County Sheriff's Office received a 911 emergency medical request call in reference to a female found lying on the 4loor in a rear bedroom, unresponsive and bleeding from a gapping laceration to her neck. The female victim also had a coaxial cable wrapped around her neck. The incident occurred at 350 Louise Ave. in Ft. Myers, Lee County, Florida.


Deputies we...

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October 14, 2021 32 mins

It was the fall of 1993 in Southwest Florida. The warm nights were getting shorter and shorter and the reality of what actually unfolded on the night of October 16th would haunt this Florida town for decades to come. 

Fire department officials were dispatched to a vehicle on fire in Lehigh Acres. They would find 30-year-old David Comparetto dead. He was murdered under extremely suspicious circumstances.

David was a single man who gre...

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