Cold Case MHS: Monsters and Demons · Randy Hubbard

Season 4: Episode 9 - Beauty Lost - Murder of Stacey Colbert

January 16, 2025·31 min

Cold Case MHS presents the 1998 disappearance and murder of Stacey Colbert, a recent Ohio State graduate found partially six years later in a Delaware County farm field. Through student research team presentation, the episode reconstructs her final evening packing for a New York business trip, the evidence of sudden violent removal from her apartment, police investigation hampered by 1990s communication limitations, and the eventual forensic discovery. Key tensions include the pizza delivery worker's observation she wasn't alone, neighbor testimony of screams that went unreported, and the six-year gap between disappearance and skeletal discovery complicating forensic analysis.

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A careful student-led cold case that keeps Stacey Colbert centered while staying focused on what the record does and does not show.

Cold Case MHS: Monsters and Demons follows Stacey Colbert's case through victimology, from her return home around 6 p.m. to the point where the investigation becomes a murder case.

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You want a calm, student-led cold case with real-world context.

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