On July 30, 2006, 34-year-old Allison Jackson Foy is last seen in Wilmington, North Carolina leaving the Junction Billiards Sports Bar where she spent the night drinking with a friend. The bartender calls a cab for Allison and the cab driver shows up at the pub around 2:00 am. Foy never returns home and has not been heard from since. In April 2008, two years after she originally went missing, Allison’s body was found in a ravine on a road called Carolina Beach Road. In this episode of Zone 7, Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum, talks with Lisa Valentino, sister of homicide victim Allison Foy and Monica Caison, founder of The CUE Center for Missing Persons. Monica details how The CUE was started, her mission behind helping families, the importance of trusting ‘street people’, and The CODIS database. Show Notes: • [0:00] Welcome back to Zone 7, episode two regarding the unsolved case of Allison Foy. Sheryl McCollum introduces Monica Caison to the listeners • [5:43] Question: Tell us about the Cue Center • ? How it was started and what is it all about? • [8:50] If you’re interested in volunteering with the Cue Center check out website https://ncmissingpersons.org/about/ • for further information • [8:52] Question: Monica, Do you have any idea how many searches you have been on? • [10:32] Question: When you first met with Lisa, Allison’s sister, did you have a plan in your head or were you just ready to get out there and start searching? • [18:08] Monica recalls stories of families grieving at memorial sights • [27:14] CODIS • database • [30:19] “It’s the squeaky wheel that gets the oil.” • -Former Chief of Wilmington Police, Ralph Evangelist • [29:02] “This is not an unsolved case. It's an unproven case.” • [35:03] Thanks for listening to another episode! If you’re loving the show and want to help grow the show, please head over to Itunes and leave a rating and review! How to Leave an Apple Podcast Review: • First, Open the podcast app on your iPhone, Mac, or iPad. Then, hit the “Search” tab at the bottom right-hand corner of the page and search for Zone 7. Select the podcast, scroll down to find the subheading “Ratings & Reviews”. and select “Write a Review.” Next, select the number of stars you’d like to leave. Please choose 5 stars! Using the text box which says “Title,” write a title for your review. Then in the text box, write the review itself. The review can be up to 300 words long, but doesn’t need to be much more than: “Love the show! Thanks!” or Once you’re done select “Send” in the upper right-hand corner. --- Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice. Sheryl is also the founder and director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, a collaboration between universities and colleges that brings researchers, practitioners, students and the criminal justice community together to advance techniques in solving cold cases and assist families and law enforcement with solvability factors for unsolved homicides, missing persons, and kidnapping cases. You can connect and learn more about Sheryl’s work by visiting the CCIRI website https://coldcasecrimes.org Social Links: Email: [email protected] Twitter • : @ColdCaseTips Facebook: @sheryl.mccollum

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.