Aug 19 2024 42 mins
In Episode #14 of Detective Story, we invite you to join Mike Hammond, Chris Kafcas and special guest Retired Chicago Homicide Detective Bob Rodriguez to discuss the case of Elizabeth Veloz.
On the night of 26 July 1992, 27 year old East Side of Chicago native, Elizabeth Veloz, went out with friends. She left a bar with three male, hispanic men very late into the morning. Reports of their travels are unclear and the three men have been inconsistent in their accounts. What is known is Elizabeth did not make it home that night and has not been seen or heard from to this day. The men claimed that they drove Elizabeth to a remote area of East Chicago, Indiana where she either demanded to be let out, or was forced out of the vehicle near the corners of Washington and Block streets.
By the very next day Elizabeth's family had concerns. It was completely unlike her to stay away for any amount of time without contact. Days, weeks, months and years passed with no word or location of Elizabeth or her body. Her family never gave up hope, consistently calling the police and the FBI for help. In the mid 2000's an FBI agent picked up the case and reached out to the Chicago Police Department for assistance and was connected with Detective Bob "Bobby" Rodriguez of the Chicago Police Cold Case Homicide Unit. They began to investigate the case as though it was a new caper. Even after the FBI Agent was transferred to Washington DC, Detective Rodriguez continued to work with Elizabeth's family to try and get to the truth.
One day he was called by Elizabeth's niece asking him to come to their family home as soon as possible. Bobby, believing the family might have gotten a call or some other break in the case, hustled to their home. What he discovered however, has left an emotional mark on him that you will clearly hear. Elizabeth's mother, Irene Veloz, was in a hospice bed in the family den, disease racking her thin frame, she was clearly very near the end of her time. Instead of being bitter, angry and afraid that justice and answers would allude her until the end she instead asked Bobby to hold her hand. He did, and she thanked him for his work, for not forgetting Elizabeth and for keeping the family informed. Before he left that day Bob Rodriguez made a promise to Irene Veloz. Irene died a few days later. That promise to Irene and the Veloz family was that, as long as he walked the earth, he would not forget Elizabeth and do everything in his power to locate her.
We are proud to have Bobby on the show and have eve
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