Welcome to the site. I’m so glad you’re here.

There’s nearly 340,000 unsolved cold cases in the United States. Approximately 31,376 of those cases are in Illinois. Not a lot of people are doing anything about it and I’m trying to change that.

When I was in high school, I dug around into an unsolved 1994 murder that took place just half a mile from my home. As a result, the case magically reopened and police ended up making an arrest that turned into a conviction. I like to think I had a small part in securing justice for the family of David Cherrick. Fast forward to 2020, I was in graduate school taking an investigative journalism class when I stumbled upon a cold case from 1975 about a girl named Carol Rofstad. She was a student at Illinois State University, and was found bludgeoned outside her sorority house less than two miles from where I lived in college.

I couldn’t let it go. With the help of Genuine Human Productions and Radio Misfits, I turned Carol’s case into the Carol’s Last Christmas podcast. Together with my aunt, Demetria Kalodimos, who runs Genuine Human Productions, and our partner in crime, retired Chicago homicide detective, George Seibel, we’ve been investigating Carol’s case for four years now. I’m also writing the book.

The amount of failures and misconduct associated with the investigation into Carol Rofstad’s murder is so unbelievable it sounds fictional. This keeps me up at night. It’s bizarre and ironic to discover how the governmental agencies that are in place to secure justice for the victim are actually propelling the injustice that contributes to cases going cold.

Most of these cases are decades old and while agencies claim to lack the resources to solve them, I continue to prove them wrong. I somehow manage to make more progress with fewer resources from taxpayers at my disposal. I’m tired of the excuses. This simply won’t do.

By popular demand, my goal has evolved beyond Carol’s case. These cases have found a way of finding me and I just can’t turn my head the other way. I’ll be expanding my scope by taking on other cold cases to investigate with or without the help of the police. Because someone HAS to do it.

This involves interviewing sources, filing Freedom of Information Act requests, tracking down family members or living relatives of victims, traveling, researching, and so much more. I report my findings to my followers and search for the truth. All on my own dime. I’m a writer by nature, an independent investigative journalist by choice, a paralegal to pay the bills and an advocate at heart.

I’ll leave you with this…

Words matter. Stories count. The truth is out there and is worth knowing. It’s just too important.

If you have a story that needs telling, or know of a cold case that could use an extra set of hands, please reach out.

Yours truly,

Ally Daskalopoulos.