
Sara Goldenberg
Investigative Reporter at WOIO-TV (Cleveland, OH)
Investigative Reporter. Host & Producer of Unidentified series, John & Jane Doe cases. True crime podcast co-host. Stops in OH-AZ-OK-CO.
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2 days ago |
cleveland19.com | Sara Goldenberg
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - There has now been a break in a John Doe case 19 Investigates has been covering since the beginning. Finally, a local family has answers about what happened to their missing loved one. For a year and a half, the identity of a young man hit by a train in Brooklyn remained a mystery. 19 Investigates looked into how investigators found his identity. Clues led to not far from where he was found. This was Cuyahoga County’s most recent John Doe case until now.
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3 days ago |
cleveland19.com | Sara Goldenberg
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A warning, you may find this story disturbing. Children and teens have been self-harming, even setting themselves on fire in some instances, following directions online from a network of violent extremists called “764.” Then these predators are demanding the victims send them photos and videos of it all. 19 Investigates spoke with the FBI about what parents need to know and what they’re seeing right here in northeast Ohio.
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1 week ago |
cleveland19.com | Sara Goldenberg
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - This week marked 12 years without answers for the family of a woman brutally murdered in Cleveland. Who killed Ashley Leszyeski? 19 Investigates first brought you her case six months ago. We continue to check for updates in the investigation. More than a decade later, the pain hasn’t faded for her family. “It just hurts me that, like, life could have been so different if she was still here,” said Ashley’s sister, Heather Leszyeski.
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1 week ago |
cleveland19.com | Sara Goldenberg
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Governor Mike DeWine asked the U.S. Attorney General for help to improve missing persons investigations in Ohio. This week, he alerted their office to an issue he said impacts how quickly and efficiently law enforcement can investigate these cases and find loved ones. 19 Investigates got a copy of the letter he sent in response to one of the recommendations that came out from the Governor’s Ohio Missing Persons Working Group this Tuesday. In the letter, Gov.
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1 week ago |
cleveland19.com | Sara Goldenberg
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A U.S. Coast Guard veteran accused of shooting and killing a Northeast Ohio man in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park has taken a plea deal less than a week before the case was set to go to trial. Chelsea Perkins, 35, pleaded guilty to second degree murder and using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. Murder in a national park Prosecutors said Perkins traveled from out of state to meet the victim before killing him and trying to cover up her tracks.
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UNSOLVED: Where are Melvin & Florence Shoemaker? Melvin, 71, has been missing since 1994. Florence, 76, has been missing since 2003. Detectives are teaming up to try new methods to solve these cold cases. #coldcases #unsolved #ohio WATCH HERE: https://t.co/bTstrpMM8D https://t.co/62sFDsjRps

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