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let's talk some true [Music] crime early on into the murder invest tigation of Charlotte Fano the
authorities were looking into another unsolved homicide now oddly enough Captain this one took place three years
prior and hundreds of miles away this is the still unsolved murder of Sherry L Lewis a realtor from decar Illinois who
was murdered on August 5th 1994 and a brief overview of that case is as follows on August 5th 199 4 30-year-old
Sherry L Lewis of decar Illinois she's a realtor she was found deceased in a mon
County residence that was for sale which she had an appointment to show this home
sher's case has been reexamined and thoroughly investigated by mon County Sheriff's Office under former mon County
Sheriff Buffett assisted by special homicide investigator John Scag Skelly wag this is from the justice for Sher
Lewis Facebook page they say their full investigative report containing overwhelming evidence solving her brutal
murder has been in the hands of mon County State's Attorney's Office since May of
2018 former mon County State's Attorney J Scott failed to bring Justice for Sheri Lewis this is they're trying to
Rally here and try to get support to finally take this thing to trial if the evidence warrants that so I'm bringing
this up because it is all a part of the Charlotte Fano case this is something that they reference and that police
looked into now I don't know who reached out to who right I don't know if decar Illinois reached out to the state police
in Pennsylvania or if the State Police in Pennsylvania reached out to mon County and Illinois but we do know that
they were talking and they were examining the details of both cases what we would be told after a few months
they're not saying that they're ruling out the possibility that the two could be connected what they do say is we
didn't find any direct connections from one to the other I think in this episode
captain and I'm reluctant to say this because I I'm hesitant because I hate to go down these roads say it come on say
it I think you're going to hear me say two things in this episode that you've never heard me say in almost 700
episodes of True Crime garage that you appreciate my work and my effort I say that all the time you just you just hit
the stop button uh and and erase it in the editing process and the people think I hate you so but here what's weird to
me Captain I never think that these cases I I think maybe in the alphabet murders case that we talked about that
that might be the only other time that I was like yeah these two cases that are hundreds of miles away and years apart
might be connected I almost never say that because I never believe it and guess what it's because the number
numbers don't pan out it's almost never true yeah statistically it's it's very low but this this case is strange
because you were pointing something you know off mic before is if you Google search images of either one of these
victims they look very similar ex that's exactly right and here here's the weird
thing like the only reason why this rattled me a little bit I I don't think that they're connected I want to say
that but there's one stunning fact that that is of course my opinion but I can't get over it when I
was is it a fact or opinion it's a opinionated fact damn it the the thing is though when I was first reviewing
Charlotte Fan's case I saw a picture of Sher L Lewis but it wasn't labeled and I
just made the assumption that it was a picture of her from maybe 10 or 12 years years earlier prior to the her murder
and then when I looked up Sherelle Lewis just Google image like you said the first picture that came up I thought
well they got it wrong that's just an old picture of Charlotte Fano and sure enough I click on a couple websites and
very quickly realized no that is a picture of Sher Lewis to me they look very similar yeah Charlotte looks like
she could be Sherry's mother so Sherry's 30 years old when she's killed and char
is 40 when she's killed and again I I mean not exactly spot-on but at first glance it was enough for me to think
that the Sherry Lewis picture was a picture of Charlotte when she was 28 or 30 years old for me it's got me a little
rattled because I can't get over the fact that they were both working in the same line of work the same title job
title they look very similar and that they were both showing a home that they hadn't appointment now Sherry was beaten
and strangled and then we know in Charlotte's case it was a gun in ligature strangulation I don't know enough
details of the Sher Lewis case to 100% say that I think that they're connected my gut tells me that they're not but we
do know that police looked at it we do know that they did say they couldn't find any direct connection between the
two now if you go to that Justice for Sherry Lewis Facebook page you're also going to find
at least one or two other realtors that were killed uh there's one from 1984 oddly enough September 11 1984
which would be exactly 13 years before Charlotte Fano was killed so just some very weird strange things with this case
and I've got to tell you captain on the surface this case to me was very intriguing
but there's this case is very fascinating and I hate to say that because there are people
that are are related and loved Charlotte and were great friends with her and I hate that they would hear or
have to hear some schmuck in a garage yeah pencil dick that's a beer and a half deep say this case is fascinating
you know but but I feel okay to say it here in this case because oddly enough I reviewing material and found a detective
that was working on this case and he said those exact words all right so two wrongs make a right that's really stuck
with me in this case because I told you I told you when I arrived at the garage today I will be happy to be done with
these episodes because this case is is really messed with me over the past 3 to four days there's something very funny
about this case that I can't quite put my finger on and I I feel like it's just one piece of the puzzle that's that's
just missing that's that would put this whole thing together there's something very strange about this Charlotte Fano
case that's that's really got me shook can I can I say a thought that I had without you uh putting me in the old
pervert Roundup crew sure but the one one of the things that kind of stuck out to me in this is
because we don't know if she was targeted or if it was just this location was targeted and I would or I hate to
interrupt yeah you hate that but keep in mind we don't know if either were targeted right right but continue I'm
sorry but we do know because of the call into the real estate company we we don't
know if there was multiple calls that day from that number I I would think that's something that law enforcement
would want to look up because what if this killer calls and a and a mail answers the phone and then they talk for
a little bit but make no appointment and then call back and what if there was evidence that they kept calling back
until they got a female Victim Because what do we know about crimes and Killers they're a lot of the crimes are sexually
motivated and so that would seem a little strange as far as like this whole realtor
scenario and this is where I don't want people going wow that Captain he's one pervert but
uh I'm going to shift this a little bit pornography there's a real estate agent category in
pornography so I just don't think it's that far of a stretch for again a sexually motivated crime for
somebody to be watching this category and then developing a a or fantasy does that does
that make any sense yeah I mean obviously here here's the thing I I shouldn't say Obviously it makes total
sense to me because what we've seen time and time again especially with serial offenders is that sex and violence is
all wrapped up into one ugly package for them right and a lot of them will use pornographic materials to kind of keep
those urges at Bay and so yes it it to me makes complete and total sense I am very glad that you started to go down
this road what I wanted to point out here is you love looking at porn the facts okay we're going to get into a lot
of opinion stuff a lot of theories a lot of speculation here and there's a lot of
it in this case and I think that is in part why the detective even States this is such a fascinating case but when you
break it down in it's simplest of forms what do we know what do we know about the
killer we know only two things in my opinion a they were looking for a victim they called and made an appointment and
were looking for a victim now you can throw in some variables there where they targeting Charlotte when they called
right or were they just hoping for as you said a female realtor victim then you go okay
location the location seems to be important well it might not this location itself could have been targeted
or not targeted we don't know because we don't know the details of that conversation between Charlotte and the
person that she had on the phone well let's just be clear on something and maybe you can clear this up for me and
the listening the beautiful listeners like I like to say a fictitious name was given correct I'm
assuming that we know whether that was a male name that was given or a female name my guess is that it has to be a
male name from my understanding the name's never been released but what we do know is that Charlotte
did tell at least one other person that she worked with that she had this appointment with and it was a male
caller so for him to give a a female name would seem to be a a little bit of uh uh of an indicator of maybe I
shouldn't go on this appointment or take this call seriously but back to what do
we know we do know that the regardless if she was targeted or not we know that the killer was looking for a victim with
that phone call number one and number two is it's a premeditated murder a gun was used in this
homicide and is not recovered at the scene so it didn't come from the vacant home he likely didn't pull it off of
Charlotte in some kind of scuffle the this killer was looking for a victim and arrived on the scene prepared and ready
to kill right but I also just want to be clear so just because we have a male caller doesn't necessarily mean that we
have a male killer correct correct and and that's why I that's why I wanted to go down that road in the last episode to
point out very clearly that while it stands to reason that the most likely perpetrator of this homicide is
that caller who arranged that meeting it's not out of the realm of complete possibility that that the
person that called is not the person that killed right somebody could have set up this Arrangement and then she
arrives and she's either ambushed or there's a sneak attack by somebody she she did not anticipate of seeing there
at that home and that person then killed her and I think that's why in part this
case is so fascinating because there's so much of the speculation that can lead you to very certain theories but there
but everything's very open-ended with this case it leaves the possibilities very open in this case now I want to get
into Circle back to the phone calls because ring ring ring many sources tell us one thing and only one that I could
find tells us a further detail on that item right so we talked about this Arrangement was made the day prior the
day before the murder we would later learn police would eventually come off in in the corner or eventually come off
and narrow down that window of time in question for us the time of death which is so important and key to any
investigation because that goes to means and opportunity right and we said during
the trailer that means and opportunity are the are the very best tools deciding factors to separate a good suspect from
anybody else who actually was unaccounted for for during the time of death right now they narrowed down the
time of death and later released it to be first they were saying 1 to 4: p.m. and that I think the police may
have been forced to kind of show their hand on this one because what happened Captain was two weeks after the murder
she's murdered on a Thursday on a Thursday Two Weeks Later police set up a bunch of road blocks in that
neighborhood and surrounding that neighborhood and they were stopping all passer buyers and asking them if they
regularly travel in this area if if they happen to be there two weeks prior between the hours of 1 and 4:00
p.m. and so these people were later interviewed by news stations and they're like you know what the what were the
police asking you well here you know they're asking me this that and the other thing but they wanted to know if I
was here two Thursdays ago between 1: and 400 p.m. so that kind of shows you right away that they've already honed in
on that that time period that three-h hour window 1 to 400 p.m. the police and then later the police come out and say
the time of death the suspected time of death is between 1 and 300 p.m. so they got a 2hour
window that killer had to get into area and out of that area and she was killed sometime between 1 and
3 now another thing that we would later learn several sources come out months later that say Charlotte went out to
that appointment and then returned to the office and told several people that she worked with that she got stood up
that the male caller that made the appointment never arrived and she got tired of waiting around and came back to
the office right right what happens then is once she's back at the office phone rings wing wing she takes the call hello
it's the person she had the appointment with saying oh I got I got tied up I couldn't make it to the appointment I
was running late could could we still go and see the house well again though this
is also kind of a remote area is it possible that the killer went to find the house and just couldn't find the
house well again we don't know the details of that and and there are several people in their reports that
that have said over the years well she was a real go-getter she wouldn't turn down the opportunity to show a house and
sell the house yeah that's true I get that but let's take it a step further she's been doing this for like 15 16
years I'm sure it's not the first time that somebody has called and said I got tied up in a meeting I I got caught in
traffic I uh my kids suck and I couldn't leave the house um you know so she's probably had several times that somebody
didn't show or was running late and so this probably didn't didn't set her off didn't raise any flags for Charlotte and
she tells a couple people this at the office and then she goes out and meets she goes to that that appointment back
at the house on Chelsea Lane and we do know that she's killed there here's here's some of the details that that
really set me off in this case captain and I kept harping on this yesterday the devil's in the details the problem with
these details is it's said time and time time again she went for a 1:00 appointment and then she was killed and
we do know the time in question the suspected time of death is between 1 and 300
p.m what was the original Arrangement if if he calls and says I couldn't make it
and could we could we still go see the house and the people at the office are saying well she left at 1:00 and she had
a 1:00 appointment what was the original Arrangement was it for 11:00 a.m. or noon and he didn't make it or was the
appointment always for one and she actually came back and then left after 1:00 which doesn't seem to stand a
reason because if people saw her alive at 1:00 or 1:15 or 1:30 then your suspected time of death wouldn't be
between 1 and 3 exactly and the reason why I'm focusing in on this so much and why this pisses me off that we do not
know this detail and you know what there are people out there that know this detail clarification please because her
husband who would be ruled out as far as police say because it's about 3 or 4 months into the investigation there's a
newspaper headline comes out that the police have eliminated have ruled out husband in realtor's death they rule him
out why did they rule him out he has an alibi did some digging Christian's work schedule he worked 10-hour days he had a
20 to 30 minute commute to his job his his schedule was 1: p.m. to 11:00 p.m. makes a lot of sense and we know that
there are other things backing up that information because what he gets home after 11:00 p.m. he gets home a little
after 11:30 talks to his his daughter calls in that his wife is missing the reason why that time period is so
important to me and what the original appointment was for what time it was for was because even though police say that
they have moved on from the family that they have ruled out the husband they tell us they're ruling out the husband
because they can confirm 100% that he was at work between 10000 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. on that Thursday and had a 20 to 30
minute commute both ways if someone and I've I never say this on True Crime garage if someone were to set up a hit
and it were to be a husband to take out his wife what time am I scheduling it for when I'm at work when I'm accounted
for when I'm going to have dozens of people tell you nope I didn't kill my wife because they all saw me hanging out
there they all saw me working there the reason why I think that this detail is so important is because if it
was a in fact a hit that was arranged by the husband it would it would fall in line
with some of the details we do know about the case Charlotte wouldn't may not recognize the voice of the person he
hired especially if she doesn't know who the person is that he he hired but two if the caller on Wednesday originally
scheduled the appointment for one one it it drives me mad to to sit there and think that it's happen stance that
this appointment is scheduled for a time that this dude's also scheduled to be at work I'm not saying that that the
two can't both have happened I'm saying it it leads me to believe and I've never
said on the show before that I think that there's a hit I think that this case is a hit I think that I think the
most two plausible things to me are either a a complete freaking stranger killed this woman right and I think if
that's the case they may never solve this case most likely not they have been so
tight lipped about some things I think that that police think they have an idea of what actually happened here mhm and
so let's take this a few steps further well there's I'm not saying that it is concrete evidence but sometimes that's
why law enforcement is very tight lipped about things is because there's certain
pieces of evidence that they they know can't get out because it would basically crumble their whole case against a
certain individual and if they're hoping to let's say they they wanted to follow
the husband to see if he could lead them to the killer or if they wanted to tap his phone or uh surveil this
guy what better way to get him to act to lead you to the killer than to publicly
say well we ruled him out we ruled him out because we confirmed 100% that he was at work that day during the time in
question yeah because just because they roll you out to a public you know newspaper or
whatever or even tell him to his face we ruled you out the police are allowed to
lie during an investigation well not only that they're ruling him out as the killer they're not ruling him out as
being involved in the homicide exactly ruling him out as the actual killer but also law enforcement is not the only
tight lip organization quote unquote in in this case sometimes you have a case where look at
Deli very tight lipped law enforcement very vocal family trying to get the word out uh trying to get information
coming in this one tight lipped law enforcement and it seems like the family was pretty
tight lipped as well yeah and and we need to be completely Fair here because they could the family meaning her
daughter and her husband they could have been tight lipped and shy away from the cameras or
the newspapers just at a pure Devastation their world is completely turned upside down they're completely
heartbroken and that's why they didn't do so much talking to the media and one thing that does make me
doubt this husband being involved a little bit is the the fact that we do know and I had to do a good amount of
digging to figure this out that the husband was the one that actually called 911 the following morning and that led
to her body being found now it also wouldn't be the first time that somebody would lead police to a body of somebody
that they've killed well cuz it'd be pretty susp icious your wife doesn't come home in the morning you s and do
nothing yeah in the morning you're like well I I guess she just didn't come home
last night guess I don't have to make as much coffee in the morning yeah let's get back to the other possibility that I
don't think we can rule out either is the complete stranger possibility stranger danger somebody cold calls this
realtor office looking for a victim and needs a secluded vacant ready to move into home to carry out their the dirty
deed of of homicide D dirt cheap one thing that that for me pointed away from a complete stranger is one the motive
yes it could be a Thrill Kill but many of these thrill kills are sexually motivated there's a sexual component to
them now one detail that has been released is that Charlotte was not only found fully clothed but still wearing
her coat her jacket so that may suggest to many that there was no sexual component to the
case but I'm I'm going to throw a a wrench into everything that that most people believe about homicides when they
try to look at a crime scene and please allow me Captain to talk out of both sides of my face at the same time
normally do but this comes from a very well resected detective and somebody that we've talked about on the show
before Joe Kennedy he says be careful and do not assume there is a close personal relationship between
the suspect and victim based on evidence of Overkill example excessive stab wounds extensive blood force trauma
Etc at the crime scene if ligatures and restraining devices are present there was likely a sexual component to the
murder this should be considered before exploring other motives unless it is obvious another crime gone bad robbery
burglary home invasion or the victim was restrained so the primary crime could be
completed okay so that's that's interesting to to observe here because there is somewhat of Overkill involved
in this case we mentioned ligature strangulation we mentioned The Gunshot she was actually shot twice once in the
back of the head and once in the face just below the left eye what what Kennedy is pointing out here is that
just that act of strangulation ligature strangulation may even though our victims found completely
clothed could still have a sexual component to it so with that with that possible sexual component I don't think
that we can completely rule out the idea of a complete stranger a complete pervert stranger carrying out this
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it's getting hot here in the garage colonel in the hot tub Colonel's getting angry and worked up here now no this is
a it's these are difficult because again a setup job for who for um a hired killer or just let's have a mail
call but who's waiting there for her her husband yeah I I would think he couldn't
he couldn't have been there we we know that to be fact right we know 100% he was at work at the time that she was
murdered right right but I was just trying to point out like I have a male caller and then a female real estate
agent that has some kind of beef with her I would think because this is such a possibility that there would be some
rumors of possible infidelity in in her relationship and Charlotte's relationship with her
husband so I did catch some wind of those rumors um I but none of that comes from any of the newspapers or any of
what I would consider to be trusted sources none of it ever comes from police um from my understanding that
those rumors might have been office talk office gossip um there there are people that
expand on that a little bit that say that he suspected her of having an affair and she was adamant that she was
not having an affair there are other people that say that the office gossip was that she might have been
romantically seeing a client or maybe another agent I mean if you were to have an affair this would be uh a line of
work that would would complement hiding that from your spouse right we've all seen American Beauty yeah You' be doing
it in every house all over the City okay maybe you would be pervert Roundup but here and and and who knows maybe there
is some truth to those rumors but maybe there's not again I don't I wouldn't say
that any of those rumors are coming from trusted sources a quick way to push somebody into having an affair is
constantly accuse them of having an affair when they're not having an affair well there's some weird again
there's a lot of weird stuff about this case and I haven't got to the weirdest of it all the but the one weird thing
too is the the couple the fanos had just moved into what was kind of like a life
goal for them they they had moved into a new home six weeks or eight weeks before
she's killed they bought a piece of land and had a home a custom home built on that piece of land and they had her
daughter his stepdaughter again I want to be very clear about this the there's no indication that this guy was a bad
husband or a bad stepfather and I know that I said well maybe he ordered a hit on his wife yeah I get it but everything
that I've seen and review what is it but listen for a second I want that's what I'm going out of my way to point this
out because I'm saying that there are details of the case that lead you to that theory time and time again there's
nothing in his personality that leads you to that theory his personality from my understanding Captain this man passed
away in 200 4 and maintained a very close relationship with his stepdaughter up until the day he
died and not only close relationship keep in mind she and her I believe it was even her fiance was living with the
fanos at the time of Charlotte's death right and I believe that his stepdaughter and fiance then turned
husband lived with him for several years after Charlotte was murdered and look this guy was a successful guy so he he's
no dummy and but and I say that because when your wife is murdered of course law enforcement is going to look
at you you should expect that I think it's the ones that fight that and it doesn't seem like this individual fought
that at all it seems like in every turn that the family was cooperative with law
enforce forcement when law enforcement is tight lipped you're going to get more rumors and more speculation that just
happens in these cases and every thing that police said along the way is that the
family was extremely Cooperative with their investigation and I believe he's the only individual the husband is the
only individual that they cleared publicly correct now here's here's the weirdest and strangest of the det dets
and the this is what circles back to what I was talking about earlier the fact that we have several
people come forward very trusted sources saying that Charlotte returned to the office then received another phone call
and then went back to the property now to be clear if she was running around on her
husband she may not have been at that property in the first place and these calls could be there could be a a more
mysterious element to them maybe she's lying about her whereabouts maybe she's lying about who she talked to her
comings and goings right that would stand to reason if she is having a secret affair but let's push that
completely aside and go down this road there is a source out there that says and I'm throwing out a buy or
beware here on this on this information but I also don't have any even though I've not been able to confirm it double
triple check it I don't really have any reason to doubt the information either or the source the information is that
now we have two phone calls that police were going to be concerned about the one
setting up the appointment for the next day which would be the day of the murder
and then the one that she receives when she returns saying well that person stood me up never showed up at the
meeting I I came back and then gets another phone call and goes back out this Source says that police
attempted to locate where those calls came from and that they could not determine
the source of the first call but they did the second call now this is going to be pretty
simple when I lay it out for you the second call they traced it back to a pay phone at a local
mall and it's my understanding that in 1997 where this phone was pay phone it was across the
street within viewing distance of the real estate office that Charlotte worked at now that's strange are going through
all these other previous homicide cases that we've covered we can we can fill in
some of the blanks for you here if you've not listened to all 690 episodes of our wonderful garage
coverage we know that that these are not cell phones you know nowadays we talk about DNA solving murder cases cell
phones are solving just as many murder cases if not more than DNA that's because the phone can track
you they can track the victim they can trace the victim they can trace the communications with the victim with the
in some cases with the murderer 1997 not so many cell phones out there but what they can determine is
we know back then that they could easily find a location of a call if there was if there was billing involved if it was
not going to be a free call well the pay phone obviously is not a free call somebody somebody dropped a quarter into
the slot and called the real estate office spoke to Charlotte and said you know what I was running late and
according to that Source it came from that pay phone at that mall across the street from the real estate office the
first call they couldn't track it why because it probably came from a resid location in that same area code where
there was no long dist calling needed so for me there there is added problems with that that situation Lear
know how to speak please because when we look at these cases don't we usually try
to determine when we have an unknown perpetrator we try to apply the evidence and the facts as they were to see and
get gather if if we can get some insights into the Killer and if they have any criminal
sophistication to me this at first at first glance I thought this is potentially showing some signs of
criminal sophistication however I think I think there's two sides to that coin Captain I think with
this situation you one could go you know what I don't know any better I don't know if they can track that call
yesterday to my house but what I do know is there's probably if they can if they can track
calls let's make it let's not show up to the appointment and let's make a second
call from somewhere else and then that way if at least if they trace the first call to me at the very least that
they're going to have another call with another appointment that moves them they can't
completely hone in on me because there's another call with another appointment so it it's a weird situation
where it could be a a default reaction to oh [ __ ] I used my home phone number to call this
lady or it could be uh I know what I'm doing and let's make a a second call this case again is all screwy and
and all funny and fascinating and weird you reference red light case this is a bang my head against the desk
case yeah because on there's so many possibilities there's roads that lead you to a stranger there's roads that
lead you to a competitor that may have wanted to off her because she's so successful taking business from them and
then there's roads that lead you back to her husband or if she is having an affair maybe to the person she's having
an affair with yeah let's just go through this very slowly a guy has a fantasy of killing a
woman he finds a remote location he calls he meets her out there he kills her or there's a female hey she's having
an affair with this lady's husband she has a male call the woman meets her out there kills her or hires a hit the
husband hires a hit and has the killer call or like you said she's having an affair and the guy the the phone call in
general was a phony phone call and she knew it was a phony phone call I mean there's so many
possibilities I think because of the strangulation and the shots it's almost like the shots were like to make sure
that she was dead well a couple thoughts that I have on if it were if she were targeted or not right because if it was
a stranger then you would believe that that she's probably not targeted if it were a perfect stranger she's probably
not targeted but then again how perfect could The Stranger be they weren't able to trace the first call so that came
within her area code but but here's the thing if if somebody wanted to Target her but make
it look like she wasn't targeted somebody that knew her schedule or had a general feel for how that op
that operation the the office operated where they put people on the phones on a rotation to take these cold calls and to
take the walk-ins somebody M may know that information especially somebody she works with I'd like to know too if
especially her husband I'd like to know if there was any male walk-ins that day because what go ahead I'm sorry I
was going to say because you know most of the time the the killer has a a vision of their victim and so by that by
the calls being traced back to a pay phone that's really close to their office it make some sense I'm I'm just
going to go in the office and see which girls are working today and okay okay well this one will
do well there's a pay phone across the street I'll go make the call and set the appointment
there they're not going to assume that it's the same person why would I why would why wouldn't I just made the
appointment why I was there well because I don't want that appointment traced back to me so I wonder if there's any
walk-ins that day there's a couple things that I want to know and I think that the police probably know the answer
to at least one of of these questions I do know that her husband for in 1997 I do know that he did own a cell phone
which is not common in 1997 now we do know that they traced the one call that came in via the pay phone or or at least
that Source tells us that they did I wonder all of those calls on his cell phone would have been
build did they did they do a background check on his call log for that cell phone right that would be interesting I
don't care so much about the Walkins I understand why you you would want to know and other people would want to know
here's what I want to know we know that two people were Manning the phones that week if you were to Target Charlotte
right if I'm setting up a hit here's what I need I need my Hitman to arrange a meeting with my target with my
hit but I want to muddy the waters and make and not create a trail from the Target to my Hitman to me right how
could I do that well if I have an understanding of how that office operates that works right away the
people that would have that knowledge would be people that work there or people close to people that
work there and her husband so if I know that my target is going to be one of two people manning
the phones that week is it as simple as having my Hitman call and go you because here's here's
typically what happens especially look customer service ain't what it used to be my friend I don't care who you are
but or where you're from it ain't what it used to be but back in the day 1997 I can G I would wager a Franklin you love
it when I wager Franklin I'm down like 900 Franklin now yeah I wager a Franklin that
1997 90% of the time when somebody answers a call at that real estate office for these cold calls when they're
put on the desk that week you go uh thank you for calling True Crime garage real estate office this is the Chrispy
Colonel how may I direct your call this is a crispy Colonel how can I help you and guess what if your target is
Charlotte all your Hitman has to do if she doesn't pick up the phone is click click as soon as that other lady
who's answering the phones or some guy that might have answered the phone that day if it's a guy's voice easy hang up
that's not your target if someone picks up the phone says this is Sharon how can
I help you well Sharon's not your target click and you call back later you got a
5050 shot of getting Charlotte on the phone if you know the operations of that office for that
week I I cannot get past the fact that I I don't know who hired the hit I think this was absolutely a hit I don't think
it was a stranger crime I think that there's too many connecting factors I think that the that the
stranger would have to know too much and the reason why I think it's a hit is I think that Charlotte was too smart that
I think she would have recognized you know how someone from her office calls how do they disguise their voice
there 50 people in that office yeah you're not going to maybe know everyone's voice on the phone but it but
it it seems unlikely and here's why I say hit too they say and we hear this all the
time in homicides but here especially in this in this case gunshot wounds ligature strangulation and often
times the coroner will tell us both could have caused the death well both could have caused the death but
both didn't cause the death one of them caused the death and guess guess what is the absolute weapon
most of the time a gun the gun caused her death I think this shows signs of a hit because I
think that the guy showed up with the intention of going to a secluded place in a vacant house one on1 and when he
confirmed that she was there by herself he went in for the kill with the strangulation and what do we know and
what have we said hundred times on the show Killers have told us it is surprisingly difficult at times to
strangle someone to death she could have come too and he decided I don't care if
this gets loud I got to make sure that I do what I was sent here to do and I think that that's when the gun come came
into play yeah or even so it's uh strangulation first and then the like I said before the gunshots are just to make
sure that there's no chance that she's surviving the strangulation and sometimes we like to give a little
homework out there if anybody can find like a a a real true very good source that that backs up the information that
police and we're talking I want this from like a a local newspaper a statement coming from the
the police the investigating agency a detective or the state police saying we traced that second call to a pay phone
because if that information is incorrect that changes that's a game Cher right there so if anybody can can send us a
link to that hit us up on Twitter Instagram or put it on our blog on true Crim garage.com that's information that we
need to know this case is is incredibly interesting there's a a lot of a lot of problems and a lot of puzzle pieces
missing from this case we want to hear what you think and what your thoughts are we also want to remind you that
there is still a reward wward for information in this case now we talked about the real estate
office offering up 100 Grand back in the day that from my understanding that reward is no longer available I mean it
was 26 years ago but from what I could find here Captain this is uh dated December 16
2021 the Pennsylvania State Police continues their investigation into the homicide of 40-year-old
Charlotte fan Charlotte Fano an agent with wer Realtors failed to return home after
showing a home to an unknown client on September 11 1997 it was determined that her last destination was a vacant home
for sale at 2147 Chelsea Lane heler toown lower sockum Township Northampton County Law Enforcement discovered her
body in the vacant home during the early morning hours of 92 19 1997 Charlotte had been strangled
and shot to death anyone with information on this case is asked to anonymously contact the Pennsylvania
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Charlotte Fimiano /// Part 2

Original Release Date: 9-13-23

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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 Fano's unsolved murder is examined alongside Sherry L. Lewis's case, exploring potential connections and investigative challenges.

Key points

The Unsolved Murder of Sherry L. Lewis. Exploring the unsolved case of Sherry L. Lewis, a realtor murdered in 1994.
Connections Between Cases. Discussion on the potential connections between Charlotte Fano's and Sherry Lewis's murders.
The Husband's Alibi. He was confirmed to be at work during the murder, raising questions about his involvement.
Rumors of Infidelity. Gossip suggests Charlotte may have been having an affair, complicating the investigation.
The Mysterious Phone Calls. Charlotte received two phone calls before her murder, one traced to a pay phone nearby.
The Case of Charlotte Fano. Charlotte Fano, a real estate agent, was found dead in 1997 under suspicious circumstances. Was it a hit?

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