Charlotte Fimiano /// Part 1 /// 698 | Forensic Files

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[Music] [Music] a violent murder takes place in a large home that sat empty and silent
the home is located at the very end of a quiet street a road that sees no through traffic
in fact the road here in this case officially titled Lane to give it that certain neighborhood charm
dead ends and then splits off into two long driveways at the end of Chelsea Lane if one were
to go to the left they would travel a driveway that extends approximately 500 feet
and then you would be standing right in front of 2149 Chelsea Lane if one were to go right instead of left
well then you would travel a driveway that extends approximately 200 or so feet up the driveway and now you are
standing in front of 2147 Chelsea Lane inside of this single family four bedroom home
a successful woman and mother at the very top of her game was murdered there as The Story Goes
she was there on that rainy day to meet a prospective client that opportunity sadly turned into the
woman's tragic demise instead of Landing a buyer for the home that sat quiet and empty
the successful saleswoman met her death [Music] in the middle of a secluded neighborhood
in an area where at the time crime consisted of traffic violations and child Pranksters
was the killer someone she knew or a complete stranger the killer remains unknown more than 25
years later some of the very important details in this case remain a mystery as well
unknown to all of us all of these years later a realtor was found shot and strangled
and throughout most of the investigation the authorities were almost as mysterious as the murder itself
refusing to divulge the time of death the caliber of gun used and the important details that their
investigation would uncover was it necessary to keep this information Secret over 25 years later and where the case
sits today is firmly in the unsolved and open filing cabinet she was killed on a rainy work day
on that Thursday afternoon by someone out there and for reasons that remain unknown as well
it was not about looking at the home it was not about contemplating one of life's biggest purchases
it was what turned into preventing a lovely lady from going home that day why was the motive
from everything that I can see this is a cold case and as our long time listeners
know all too well cold cases present many investigative challenges there is no perfect investigation
regardless of the jurisdiction or the law enforcement entity conducting the investigation
but as we all know there is no perfect murder and this murder certainly is not the
exception to that rule during the course of a murder investigation means and opportunity are often easily
determined the motive for murder is more elusive means an opportunity are some of the
best dividing factors when separating the suspects from all other possibilities in this case I believe the motive could
separate the prime suspect from all others this is the still unsolved homicide case
of Charlotte fimiano and this is true crime garage [Music] yes [Music] [Music] as the morning cold newspaper put it it
didn't matter that the house on Chelsea Lane stands in the middle of a secluded neighborhood
in a location where crime is akin to speeding citations and vandalism rather than murder but forty-year-old Charlotte
fimiano was killed there anyway this is in the Hellertown lower Saucon Township area of Pennsylvania
so not terribly far from New Jersey and just east of Allentown and Bethlehem two
larger cities in Pennsylvania murder that took place on Thursday September 11 1997.
the cold case that is very solvable in my opinion and you know how much we love to be able to put those words together
such close proximity Charlotte fimiano was born Charlotte Christie Edinger in 1957 to parents
Donald and Anna May Ettinger at the time of the murder in 1997. Charlotte was married and was the mother of one
her husband is Christian fimiano and her daughter is Christy Everett fimiano her
daughter Christy is older she's grown up she's a senior in college still living at home with Mom and her stepdad who
from my understanding raised her as his own in 1997 Charlotte was a very successful
realtor in fact she had been quite successful in this line of work pretty much from the time that she started in
the business she worked for Weichert Realtors in Bethlehem for about 10 years and I do want to give a little bit of
clarification here Captain Weichert is a larger company they have several offices
in fact she worked at the Easton office for many years before transferring to Bethlehem to that location where she had
only been for about a year year and a half prior to the murder so she worked for Weichert for about 10 years and then
as said only about a year and a half at the Bethlehem office she was a member of
their million dollar sales Club a repeat member I think that's a an annual club or annual award that they give out
in 1990 Charlotte was named Woman of the Year by the American Business women's Association Starburst chapter now an
overview of the case is pretty much the same as the information that was released in the early goings of this
investigation early on the information was coming out from primarily three sources
the corner a detective and a fellow realtor so let's go through the overview and
include all of the known early information and after that we will see if we can add some additional details
there are some very interesting theories here and while we don't have any publicly named suspects I think we will
be able to conjure up a few to discuss and see if the puzzle pieces fit early on law enforcement was very tight-lipped
on what they were sharing with the public in this investigation it makes you wonder what they were finding out
and when they were finding it out because they would start to release some other information as this investigation
would drag on but let's go to the beginning okay so one of the more well-known headlines here in this case is from a
Saturday September 13 1997 newspaper the morning call out of Allentown Pennsylvania the headline reads
Bethlehem realtor found slain in lower Saucon home for sale immediately one's mine starts to fill in the blanks this
information is from the Northampton County coroner Zachary LASIK telling us that the realtor Charlotte
femiano age 40 who lived on Allen Street in Bethlehem Township died from a gunshot wound to the head and
strangulation he very quickly ruled the death a homicide however he would not release
the suspected time of death or the caliber of gun used in the murder Charlotte's body was found just after 7
10 a.m on Friday February 12th the police also would not confirm nor comment if Charlotte went to the
property to meet a client or a prospective buyer later we would get some better clarification as to what
their investigative efforts would uncover but as anyone can understand in the early stages the detectives are
going to be looking to see if they can confirm who was the last person she was with
why was she there and who was she meeting with and here they don't want to show their hand right this is a
Pennsylvania State Police Case by the way a state police investigation they may not want the person to know
that they are able to identify or have a lead on who that person may be that she
was going to meet so that's why you keep that Secret the manager of the weiker office where
Charlotte worked out of did talk to the newspaper as well so this is the manager her name is Marcy
Carter she fills in some more details from which we learned that Charlotte femiano was reported missing right
around midnight on Thursday remember the body was recovered the following morning
Friday after 7 A.M and the newspaper that is giving out the first details of the case is from that Saturday September
13th her co-workers describe Charlotte as Plucky and aggressive the manager of the
weiker office Marcy Carter says quote everyone is so sad and that Charlotte was well loved and the real estate firm
is offering one hundred thousand dollars a one hundred thousand dollar reward for
information leading to an arrest and conviction of the person responsible for Charlotte's death
Marcy tells the newspaper that Charlotte's husband Christian was the one to report her missing around
midnight on Thursday the night before her body was found the home where she was found was listed
for sale and was vacant at the time now it said the police were not going to comment on if Charlotte went to the home
to show the place to a prospective buyer and Marcy very wisely did not want to jam up their investigation
so she didn't comment on that either however the newspaper reporters Kathleen Parrish Denise Seaman and Phil Boyle
were doing some dogged investigative work themselves and discovered that the Lehigh Valley board of realtors left
voicemail messages for area members one to inform them of Charlotte's murder and
two to warn them warning them to be extra careful when showing properties so law enforcement is being very
tight-lipped to the public but then we have these Realtors coming out saying hey hey we have to be careful because we
don't know if this is going to be a repeat event if this is somebody targeting real estate agents so let's
let's dive into a couple events on the timeline yeah before we get into the crime scene details I think
there's some important times to highlight on this timeline remember around midnight on Thursday September 11
Christian fimiano reports his wife Charlotte missing to the authorities at 7 10 a.m on Friday her body is found at
the for sale residence 2147 Chelsea Lane there was a news conference with members
of the State Police that same Friday night at this conference the police stated that Charlotte was reported missing when
she failed to return home from work they also stated that that what they would refer to as an anonymous 9-1-1 call
came in Friday morning directing police to the 2147 Chelsea Lane property they go out there immediately after
getting this 9-1-1 call in fact there's indicators that the police were at the property in about 10 minutes time after
receiving that call there they find Charlotte's vehicle parked in the driveway the body is then discovered inside the
home the body is then removed from the scene at 11 30 a.m taken to Easton Hospital where the autopsy was conducted
later we're going to learn that Charlotte was shot twice and strangled and it was ligature strangulation
meaning that she was strangled with an object not someone's hands right at the time police would not say what room in
the house that the body was found and from my understanding Captain there's been some speculation thrown out there
and there's been a source at least one source says that she was found at the top of a stairs
I was trying to figure out if this home had a basement or not because top of the
stairs could mean second floor or ground level I want to be straight up here that
that's not information that we've been able to confirm and it's also information that I don't believe has
been publicly released by the police themselves and he said there's gunshot wounds and and strangulation do we know
if she was strangled and and then shot or shot then strangled we don't but when we get to our speculation to our
suspects and to our theories portion I'm gonna I'm gonna have some comments on and thoughts on that those actions that
that we know did take place well we know you're never short of comments so police
are saying that she's shot twice manual strangulation at the time again they won't say what room inside the home that
the body was found they will not comment on the condition of the body the caliber
of gun that was used or what was used to strangle her and would not comment on possible suspects they did say that
police recovered some of Charlotte's personal items at the residence and did not know if anything was missing at this
time they did say that they set up a command post at a nearby driveway they line the streets of the neighborhood
with cop cars blocked off a two-block area of the neighborhood searched the neighborhood especially all wooded areas
near the home maintained that post until late in the afternoon and recovered no weapon
the state police captain Theodore kohuth said police do not have a motive for the
murder now this is this is all very interesting here to me Captain because not only are they keeping it
tight-lipped but what we do know what we can decipher from what they are saying is that
they recovered no weapon so one we know that they were searching the area they're very likely were searching
for the gun itself wondering if maybe somebody ditched the gun tossed the gun on their way out of the neighborhood or
if the killer lives in the neighborhood on a retreat back to their own residence
and there's two weapons that we're looking for or law enforcement is looking for one a gun and two
some object that would be used for this triangulation and we always talk so much here in the
garage about transfer Theory and transfer Theory to me it's not a theory it's a real thing and it's a very
investing very great investigative tool transfer theory is the simple thought that a killer likely leaves something at
a crime scene knowingly or unknowingly and the killer also will take something from the crime scene with him or her
knowingly or unknowingly this can be any form of physical evidence could be a weapon
what have you what what's really interesting to me here when we talk about this of course they're going to be
searching the wooded area for a gun of course they're going to be searching the neighborhood for the gun but as you
bring up Captain ligature strangulation we know that she was strangled with an item a rope a cord a wire what have you
this makes me really wonder if that item came from inside the home or they had reason to believe that that item would
have come from inside of the home one obvious sign of that to police would be if somebody used a phone wire or phone
cord taken from one of the phones inside the murder house and out of the two weapons being left to me I would think
it's more likely that you would leave the weapon that was used as a strangulation device because
that possibly wouldn't have as many ties back to that individual as much like how
firearm wood yeah especially if that item came from inside the home again they could have recovered that item from
inside the home and just flat out lie to the newspapers I don't believe that to be the case here and we can go through
that more when we get to the suspects but again think about this scenario it's it's a vacant home it's sat vacant for
some time and she is there and I know that we're saying early on that police won't say the firm that she worked for
won't say that she was there to meet a potential client or if she was meeting somebody she knew or didn't know
that's all well and good but you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out that she's in the business of selling
homes this home is for sale and we know at least one other person was there with her
because the killer was there with her so it's not much of a leap early on and later we would in fact learn that that
was the case that she was there under the ruse of showing the home to a prospective buyer a lot more details to
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the thing one key player in this murder investigation of course is going to be the crime scene the murder house the the
home that was listed for sale and to me this is what is so intriguing about this
case this is one of those added elements that you don't get in other murder investigations right the home does not
belong to the person that was killed there and as far as we can see I don't think
there's any reason to believe that the home belonged to the person that owned it or the the killer own the home it
that would seem like a pretty quick fix for law enforcement to solve this case and here we sit 25 more than 25 years
later with an unsolved case so let's go through that key item here that home and
what we do know about that home so this house was owned by Gary Peters and he is from my understanding or was
at the time a successful dentist that lived in a neighboring City or not too terribly far away from where this home
was uh I don't know why they moved out of the home from everything I could see this is a was a beautiful home but you
know people people go through separations maybe he wanted to live closer to his practice uh there's any
number of reasons why this individual or his family would have moved out of the home but obviously if you're in law
enforcement you have to vet anybody that owns the home correct because one they they would have access to the home into
the property right and so you're you're looking for a suspect here and you're also going to be going through what you
find on your victim in her car or inside that residence that she brought with her
to help lead you to a suspect and we'll get into some of that here in a minute we do know per police they did say we
did recover some of her belongings inside the residence and we did find her vehicle parked in the driveway out front
of the home now one thing we need to be very clear here on and we talked about this a
little bit in the trailer today is this house is very secluded we did talk about
it being in a neighborhood but it's kind of On The Fringe of that neighborhood and this would be an ideal place for
many people to live because you at this location in 1997 and if you look up this
on any map app you will still see this today this home and property offers the feel of like country living secluded
Retreat country type living but you would have all the amenities of living in a city
you know you're nearby all of your places to work it would be a short commute to schools or to to work but you
would also feel like you're kind of out in the middle of nowhere so the properties actually I I seen it listed
multiple different ways and that is because we talk about the house being vacant
it had been listed from as far as I could see starting in January of 1997. Charlotte fibiano is killed in this home
in September of 1997. and the home the listing would typically run in the Sunday newspaper and it would
give a price and a description and it had run fairly regularly during the months that it was for sale
and some of the listings would say over three acres well the the closest I get could get to an exact
specifications on the the dimensions of this property several of the listings say 3.5 acre lot
and several say 3.6 acre lots so you can tell from that that you have this country feel living but with all
the amenities of the city the other thing too is the positioning of this property on the road itself as
we talked about in the trailer you would have to go one would have to go to the dead end
of Chelsea lane and then from there it splits off into two driveways and both of these driveways are not only lengthy
but they're leading to large properties so the one of the best listings that I could find it's a little short here but
um it said that this home had a indoor Jacuzzi or hot tub several fireplaces has a great view again over three acres
lot it was listed this is another interesting little tidbit here Captain this home was listed with Weichert
Realtors but it's not listed by Charlotte femiano she's not the listing agent right in 1997 Sharon Adams is the
listing agent who also works for Weichert Realtors yeah so I don't know a ton about the real estate business or
being a real estate agent but if you're the listing agent you're responsible obviously for the contracts for staging
the house if it's going to be staged for the photographs that are taken it be enlisted and the details in which
it's listed so as far as what Charlotte is doing is mainly she's just going to be showing that to clients yeah so it's
very common for to have two people both parties represented the the seller is often represented by a realtor unless
it's a fsbo right for sale by owner or and you also have the buyer who is typically
represented by a realtor now if you are a first-time homebuyer do not know much about the housing market and you are
looking for a home and you're thinking well I'll just go It Alone no get a realtor because you as
the buyer do not pay any commissions to the realtor the seller always pays the commissions
so you get free advice free advisory uh on your big decision on on making one of
the biggest purchases of your life so right but what's weird here and and I think a lot of people are going to latch
onto this rather quickly could we have a scenario where the listing agent gets upset
with Charlotte for showing her listed property right the the listing agent would get
100 commission 100 of the commission if the buyer is not represented by a realtor
it does cut into their money however they don't lose the commission they split the commission with the buying
with the buyer's realtor so back in 1997 you know commissions have changed over the decades I don't
know what they would have been in this area in 1997 I'm guessing what was popular
here in the late 90s was between like a four and six percent commission right so
if you're splitting that two ways it's it's two each two and a half each three each somewhere in that neighborhood
so this property as said was listed for approximately eight to nine months before the murder takes place it was
eventually sold even after the murder I don't recall when but they did drop the price over the course of that time
period that it sat and did not sell it was originally the first price that I could find listed here Captain was for
279 thousand dollars and at the time of the murder it was listed at a selling price of 259
000 now why is that important because again we are talking about people's livelihoods people that are in the
business of working off of commission and so it is important to know that this at the time in 1997 in this area this is
considered to be a higher end property to have as a listing also higher end property to be showing
to a potential buyer yeah I understand that but it's not like you're cutting out their commission completely so it
just seems like a kind of a weak motive to be looking at the listing agent as a possible suspect and I think that this
case is rather complicated and I think that the part of the complications involved in this case is
again going back to the motive motive is Elusive and many of these investigations in fact there's often
times where a case will go to trial and you will get a conviction and still nobody is certain of what the exact
motive was here in this case I really believe that if you could figure out the motive then
you could separate your Prime Suspect from all these other people that are just kind of jamming up your
investigation right the the listing agent is somebody you should look at why they would have reason to cut somebody
out but like you said it's not a it's not you don't have to make much of a leap to
get to the listing agent and to start looking at that person yeah I think it like I said it's a very weak motive and
you have to look at the owner of the property because they have access so the same goes for the listing agent because
they have access to the property as well the other thing we should keep in mind as well is that really truly because the
property is listed with with her real estate firm anybody that works for that real estate firm would
have access to that home right into that property now we do know that you know today often you will see the lock boxes
on the the doors that will you punch in a code and every realtor has a very specific unique code to get that key out
and unlock the the home in this case from my understanding I don't know if there was a lock box but
what I do know is that at the real estate office where they worked there was a key there
and this is interesting so this is how we're going to we got to start filling in some of the blanks here because
there's some really interesting phone calls that take place and it would take a very long time for police to release
this information and in fact some of the information ends up coming out from her
real estate office so at the time there's approximately a little more than 50 people that work at this office it's
located about five and a half to six miles away from the listed property what they did back then and I'm sure this is
fairly common in different lines of work where you're primarily paid in commissions
what they did was they would have a rotation where you would get the you would be the
person that would be assigned the cold calls right so what this is is calls that would come in or people that would
potential clients that would drop into the the building unannounced with no appointment scheduled
and from my understanding Captain they actually had two agents that would do this task for a one for
one week period to many that have never worked in in a line of work where you're
paid solely on commission you would think oh well this is annoying busy work who would want to do that you'd want to
keep all of your appointments well I think that's why they would assign two agents so that if you did have some
appointments you could keep them and make arrangements with the other agents so that there was always somebody to
answer the phone and also really somebody to greet any walk-ins that they may have and in fact if you work on
commissions you you want to catch this task periodically because this is an opportunity for you to get new clients
by them just calling in or just walking into the office so for my understanding Captain
Charlotte and another agent were put on this task for that week now remember we know the murder takes
place on a Thursday and the bodies found on a Friday it's been reported that the appointment if
you want to let's call it an appointment but it's kind of a happened it's kind of a last minute appointment
right she catches this appointment by answering the phone that week so she's answering the phone for the office
that week a call comes in the day before the murder and I hate I'm gonna I'm gonna be straight up with everybody
right now because I think there's some devil in the details here and the problem is the details are a little
shaky right and part of that is because police have not released information and
still haven't all these years later the the details that are shaky is that one it seems across the board everybody
agrees that the call came in the day before somebody called and said hey I want to see this property I could be
there tomorrow at 1pm that's the way that it's reported most of the time we're going to dive into that a little
bit more but let's stick with that for now okay Wednesday Charlotte receives a cold call
she writes down this individual's name writes down the property and agrees to meet them there at 1 pm on Thursday okay
I have a question yes sir so when she is getting this call is this coming into her own private line or like a line
that's dedicated towards her or is it just coming in to the real estate company and she's just happened to be
the one that answered the phone all indicators are was that this was not a call that where somebody asked for
Charlotte femiano or that somebody was calling her direct line every every Source says that she was
working these cold calls along with another agent and that's how this appointment was set up
yeah because if you want to Target Charlotte right I'd go well what listings does Charlotte have I'll
set up a appointment to see one of those houses so I can make sure I'm getting my
target I think there's evidence to show that that possibly the person didn't care who showed up to show them the
house right and here here's the other problem with this information okay this I believe this information to be good
information the problem is it's not detailed enough again the devil is always in the details right
the information is that she catches this cold call that comes in and she agrees to meet an
individual the following day at 1 pm out at this property and the thing here though is when you
start looking at source information the sources report this differently several sources state that the caller a
male caller called asking to see a secluded vacant property now we don't know the details of that conversation
and I don't believe for a second that that conversation was one or two sentences long I think this was probably
a lengthier conversation because a good salesperson and which what do we know about Charlotte she was a great
salesperson is going to try to get as much information from the potential buyer their potential client as possible and
so we don't know the details of that conversation but again several sources are saying that the male caller asked to
see a vacant secluded property okay so some of them crazy doesn't seem to me that this killer
choosing his victim but he's choosing the location the location seems to be more important
while that could also go along with the other the other source information the other source information is very
different to me it says that the mail caller was asking specifically about this property right 2147
Chelsea Lane but to me Captain those are two very different conversations right if if somebody calls and says I want to
look at 2147 Chelsea Lane that means they are aware of a couple things they're aware of the property
and they're aware that it's for sale and in this case we now know that there's a
murder there then they also knew that it was vacant now this doesn't mean that anybody has
to have a great knowledge of this real estate company their firm in their listings I mean they could have just
seen this property in the newspaper on a Sunday and decided to drive out there and go yeah that that the paper says
it's vacant and that looks pretty secluded right so it could be a complete stranger and you're right it could be
somebody that's not targeting Charlotte at all just targeting female realtor but the problem here is
again the other source information saying that the mail caller asked to see a vacant
secluded property which sounds very nefarious right it sounds like why wouldn't Charlotte pick up on oh this is
probably not a great appointment to take I have a male caller who wants to see a
vacant secluded property it's the conversation the the caller likely would never have
called up and said yo I want to see a vacant empty secluded property that probably had a conversation where the
the it's a ruse where the caller says you know I'm looking for something that's kind of out of the way I don't like to
be in a busy neighborhood um I also want something that I can move into right away also means vacant right
right um so that that seems like a much less nefarious conversation again I don't have any I don't fault any
of this Source material because a lot of it's coming from newspapers and and very
good newspapers at that but it's reported two different ways and I think that to me anyway I think that that separates
some of the theories and some of the possibilities in the case if perpetrator was calling specifically about a
property and giving the address versus oh this is what I'm kind of looking for and she she would have pointed out she
would have known about this property it's listed with her firm right she may have suggested it
so that's a little bit tricky so we have that phone call that takes place everything says that that phone call
takes place on Wednesday we don't know what details police were able to decipher from the notes that she took
from that phone call other than they have said that they did have a name in her appointment book
and it sounds to me like they've confirmed that that is a fictitious name now that's Wednesday
so Thursday she goes out and shows the property and again the appointment is for 1pm this is information that has
come from the real estate firm and I believe later police have confirmed this but I I want to get into
why I have a problem with the timeline too especially on this Thursday now some more details here captain that
are are very interesting Christian femiano and his wife Charlotte femiano obviously they live together but
remember the daughter lives there as well Christy lives there and from my understanding at this point
starting in August of that year her boyfriend lives with them Christy is a senior in
college so she's grown Christian works at not so typical work schedule he works 10 hour days around six or
seven pm on Thursday the day in question Christy the daughter calls her stepfather Christian at work
and says you know it's 6 30 at 7 p.m mom's not home yet this is a little weird usually she's home by now and from
my understanding while this woman stayed very busy with her work and she was an extreme professional and extremely good
at her sales job she was also very much a creature of habit once her work day was done she was
an at-home person she was a home buyer yeah you can work hard and play hard and you can also not play hard and just
sit at home yeah but the playing hard could be uh work hard relax hard that's right so Christian says to Christy on
the phone you know I understand your concern but also keep in mind when when you work in
the sales business if you want to be really good at it your schedule is whatever your client's
schedule is if a potential buyer can only go and look at a home at 7 pm on a Thursday
well if you want to be successful you better take that 7 P.M appointment and Christian and Charlotte have been
together for well over a decade I think they got married in in the early 80s like 80 81
and so this is 1997. he says to Chrissy you know she's probably just out on a late appointment
showing a house to potential buyer or maybe she's taking a listing I'm sure it's nothing and I'm sure she'll be home
soon okay so that phone call ends Christian gets home from work after a little after 11 30. this is why the
missing persons report comes in so late he gets home and his stepdaughter Christy's like she's still not here okay
now Christian's concerned so he calls into police just before midnight shortly after arriving home hey my wife is
missing and an interesting thing too about this line of work Realtors are not like
completely unknown in their towns right you you're used to sometimes you'll see their their face
and name on their listings on the signs in front of the properties and it's not uncommon too to see their names and
faces on billboards yeah or in the newspaper in the newspaper exactly so yeah yeah or on urinal cakes my favorite
we have this person who's now missing she's Officially Missing reported missing so by her family
I found this detail to be very strange because you know that I love the anytime that there's a communication from a
killer or Anonymous person to the media or to law enforcement remember it's reported that an anonymous call comes in
to 9-1-1 on Friday morning that leads them to that property where they ultimately find her car and then her
body that call actually while it's listed as Anonymous in the newspapers I think they
may have done this for safety concerns that 9-1-1 call actually came from her husband
so what he does Captain is very early Friday morning he starts calling her office and other people that she worked
with and he's like look she didn't come home last night I reported her missing we think that this might be work related
and whoever gets the office rather early they're able to determine a couple things
one that the key for 2147 Chelsea Lane is still gone from their keyboard and two
it was Charlotte femiano that was scheduled to show that property I have a question do you know if there was other
properties that were pulled to show this individual or was it just this house because sometimes when you're looking
for a house the real estate agent will take you to multiple properties from my understanding this was the only property
that she was showing to this caller so police armed with this information they now drive out to that property and
immediately again they find her vehicle then they find her dead inside those all
those phone calls are very important it shows some movement and communication and an appointment set up by the likely
killer right the the person that called and set up the appointment doesn't 100 have to be the killer but would seem to
be the most likely of persons to be responsible for the murder [Music] [Music] I want to thank each and every one of
you for joining us here in the garage and until tomorrow be good be kind and don't litter
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A violent murder takes place in a home that sat vacant and silent at the dead end of Chelsea Lane. The home was listed for sale with a local realty company. One of the companies’ realtors Charlotte Fimiano drove out to the location and was killed there. Was the killer someone she knew? Or could this be a thrill killer? Run into the Garage for a couple of cold ones and listen to this True Crime story. Find out why Nic calls this “one of the most frustrating cases” that the boys have reviewed.

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Brief Summary

Charlotte Fimiano, a realtor, was murdered in 1997; her case remains unsolved with several theories discussed about potential suspects.

Key points

The Murder of Charlotte Fimiano. A successful realtor is found murdered in a quiet neighborhood, leaving many questions unanswered.
A Cold Case Mystery. Charlotte Fimiano's murder remains unsolved, with key details still a mystery.
The Murder House Mystery. The investigation centers around a home that doesn't belong to the victim or the killer.
Real Estate Intrigue. Charlotte Femiano's role as a realtor complicates the investigation into her murder.
Missing Person Report. Christian reports his wife missing after she doesn't return home from work.
Anonymous 9-1-1 Call. An anonymous call leads police to find the missing woman's car and body.

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