The mother of a missing Brooklyn woman whose 2016 unsolved disappearance sparked suspicions of human trafficking and foul play is preparing to launch a networking app in hopes of helping other families recover from the trauma they’ve endured over the past eight years. is completed.
Chelsea Cobo was 22 years old when she was last seen in Sunset Park on May 6, 2016. She had her 10-month-old son with her recently, and she was playing with a creepy new crowd. The group was the one she had met a few months earlier during a suspicious hospitalization. said her adoptive mother, Rose Cobo.
Rose Cobo, who has raised her adopted daughter since she was just over a year old, told Fox News Digital that she felt the new group was suspicious. She said the group introduced young mothers to serious drugs. Recognizing the problem, Chelsea entered a rehab facility, she said. Then she checked out and never came back to her house.
Police and prosecutors have interviewed numerous witnesses, conducted an investigation, and reviewed surveillance video, but the case remains unsolved.
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A photo of Chelsea Cobo and her son on display at the Hamptons Whodunnit Conference on April 14, 2024 in East Hampton, New York. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
Rose Cobo said she suspected her daughter had been trafficked or worse. The day after she last spoke to Chelsea, a strange man from the hospital, whom her daughter had recently started dating, claims to have dropped Chelsea off and has “not done anything” other than that creepy I left her a voicemail. may occur.
She told Fox News Digital this week that just discussing the harrowing conversation makes her uncomfortable.
“You never get used to it,” she said. “It knocked me out. It knocked the wind out of me.”
“You’ll never get used to it. You’ll just pass out. You’ll feel the wind.”
For years, the adoptive mother has sought answers, raised awareness and even interviewed witnesses herself, sharing her findings on social media and with reporters. Now she wants that experience and a new app called. 911 missingHer work with other missing person families could help bring answers to her daughter’s case and to other families.
Rose Cobo speaks at the Hamptons Whodunnit Conference on April 14, 2024 in East Hampton, New York. Cobo continues to advocate for her daughter Chelsea, who disappeared in Brooklyn in 2016. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
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“I believe that one day someone might pick it up and put the pieces together and figure out how Chelsea went missing,” Rose Cobo told Fox News Digital.
One of the persistent problems she faces, she said, is that the detectives working the case continue to keep her in the dark about what’s going on. So at one point, she went to talk to one of the witnesses and was confronted by a man who lived in the house where her daughter was last seen.
Audio of the conversation, which was first aired in the ABC and Hulu documentary, says:Missing: Chelsea Michelle CoboRose Cobo knocked on the door of her townhouse and bluntly asked the man inside if her daughter was alive or dead.
“I told the police,” the unseen man replied. “The police know she’s gone. How come they don’t know she’s gone?”
Rose Cobo wears a pin with a photo of her daughter Chelsea before speaking at the Hamptons Whodunnit Conference on April 14, 2024 in East Hampton, New York. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
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“She’s gone?” Rose Cobo answered, clearly shocked. “She passed away?”
The NYPD declined to comment on the witness’ claims.
Many people shed tears at a screening of the documentary at the East Hampton Library during the Hampton Whodunnit conference in East Hampton, New York, this month. One woman covered her face with her fingers and walked away. Her friend put her hand on Kobo’s back.
In a panel discussion afterward, Rose Cobo questioned the confidentiality of the case, saying no one in the Sunset Park neighborhood where her daughter was last seen was asked to check surveillance cameras for evidence of the incident. He lamented that the number of people living in Japan is increasing.
Chelsea Cobo’s son is pictured next to a missing persons flyer at the Hamptons Whodunnit Conference in East Hampton, New York on April 14, 2024. Cobo’s mother, Rose, continues to advocate for her daughter after she disappeared in Brooklyn in 2016. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
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She hopes the app will help businesses, homeowners, amateur web sleuths, investigators and other members of the public quickly connect information about disappearances.
“It’s not just where you are, it travels with you,” she said. 1 mile radius, 5 mile radius, 250 mile radius. ”
