"We were honored to host @selenagomez and her mom @mandyteefey at CrowdSolve this weekend," CrimeCon wrote. "They were perfect detectives 🕵️🕵️ who, alongside, many others, helped bring peace to the Sova family."
Gomez also shared she was at CrimeCon Chicago, sharing photos of her and her mom in Chicago. "Momma and that I being tourists," Gomez wrote. "We take great pictures. OH and that we visited CrimeCon! Love you Chicago and therefore the bean."
What case was Gomez helping to solve? The unsolved murder of Kurt Sova, who disappeared the night of October 23, 1981, when he visited a celebration in Cleveland's Newburgh Heights suburbs. His body was found five days later during a nearby ravine.
According to CrimeCon Chicago's site, Gomez and other participants worked "to solve a true cold case that has been specifically chosen for this event. Guided by our Chief Investigator, retired U.S. Marshal Art Roderick, enforcement, and our hand-picked experts, we’ll run through the facts, the case file, and therefore the key questions that remain unanswered. this is not a made-for-TV drama which will wrap-up neatly in 60 minutes—this is the real world, complete with all of the complexities, false-starts, red-herrings, and frustrating roadblocks that enforcement deals with a day in their investigations."
Sova's brother Kevin was involved within the weekend, which was thoroughly documented on CrimeCon's Instagram. He was moved by the work of the convention's attendees and explained how he got involved in the event during a blog post on CrimeCon's site. (CrowdSolve participants' findings were presented to the Newburgh Heights local department .)
He explained a policeman connected him with CrimeCon:
Thirty-eight years later, I got a call out of the blue: “Mr. Sova, this is often Chief Majoy with the Newburgh Heights local department .” I assumed he was contacting me about something my brother Kenny had done because he was always in and out of trouble. But he wanted to speak about Kurt. We had a brief conversation. I wanted to urge off the phone. I wasn’t able to affect it. My wife convinced me to offer him an opportunity.
I told him later that I might are available and ask him and he told me about CrowdSolve. He had done his homework thereon and was confident it could help. I left his office very optimistic. It mentioned feelings about Kurt that I had stuffed away for years. It showed me that they were serious about trying to assist his case.
When my brother Kenny died, he was dead inside our family home for ten days. I wanted to line the entire house ablaze. There was nothing within the house I wanted anything to try to to with. Kenny had sold everything he could get his hands on, but among the mess, in Mom’s old closet, I found boxes and boxes of documents, news clippings, and notes that Mom had kept on Kurt’s case. I took those and left the remainder of it to the dope dealers and copper salvagers.
Two and a half years later, once I visited to meet with Chief Majoy, I took a number of the boxes with me. His eyes lit up like he had just hit the lottery. I told him to require it all. I felt like I used to be getting energy from my Mom above which all she had done had finally paid off.
I wish immediately that my Mom was sitting here rather than me. She’s the one who deserves to be treated the way CrowdSolve and Chief Majoy are treating me. She never abandoning. Eventually, everyone gave abreast of her. Kurt died in Newburgh. We lived in Cleveland. There was always conflict between the 2 jurisdictions. Nobody wanted to speak about it. I told her numerous times “Mom, provides it up, nobody cares about this anymore. Nobody cares about Kurt.”
Now I do know that many people—complete strangers—have it in their hearts to try to something. It’s how to try to do this stuff within the future. These people are nothing but optimistic about their ability to assist and you'll see it in their eyes that they need to assist a complete stranger’s family. How does one not encourage that?
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