The mother of a missing Brooklyn woman whose Unsolved disappearances of 2016 Having raised suspicions of trafficking and foul play, she is set to launch a networking app that she hopes can save other families from the trauma she has endured over the past eight years.
Chelsea Cobo was 22 years old when she was last seen in Sunset Park on May 6, 2016. She had a 10-month-old son, but recently she’d been hanging out with a new crowd, a group she’d met months earlier during a questionable hospital stay. , according to her adoptive mother, Rose Cobo.
Rose Cobo, who raised her adopted daughter when she was just over a year old, told Fox News Digital that the new group considered her suspicious. She said the group introduced the young mother to serious drugs. Recognizing a problem, Chelsea checked into rehab, he said. Then she checked out and never came home.
Police and prosecutors interviewed numerous witnesses, conducted searches, and examined surveillance video, but the case remains unsolved.
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A photo of Chelsea Cobow and her son is displayed at the Hamptons Whodunit conference in East Hampton, New York on April 14, 2024. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
Rose Cobo said she had doubts about her daughter trafficking or worse, The day after she last spoke to Chelsea, a strange man at the hospital, whom her daughter had recently begun seeing, left her an ominous voicemail, claiming that he had abandoned Chelsea and that she had no plans to contact him. Also has “nothing to do” with anything else. It can be possible.
He told Fox News Digital this week that just discussing the painful conversation makes him uncomfortable.
“I’ll never get used to it,” she said. “It totally freaks me out. It’s taken the wind out of me.”
“I’ll never get used to it. It just makes me nervous. It freaks me out.”
Over the years, the adoptive mother has striven for answers, raised awareness and even interviewed witnesses herself, sharing her findings on social media and with journalists. Now she’s hoping for that experience, and the new app is here 911missingWhich she is pursuing with the families of other missing people, in hopes it may help provide answers to her daughter’s case and to other families.
Rose Cobo speaks during the Hamptons Whodunit Conference on April 14, 2024 in East Hampton, New York. Cobo continues to advocate for her daughter Chelsea after her 2016 disappearance in Brooklyn. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
“I believe that maybe someday someone will pick it up and put the pieces together and maybe figure out how Chelsea went missing,” Rose Cobo told Fox News Digital.
A persistent problem he has faced, he said, is that detectives on the case have kept him in the dark about what is going on. So at one point, she went to talk to a witness herself, and encountered the man who lives in the house where her daughter was last seen.
Audio of the conversation first aired on the ABC and Hulu documentary “Missing: Chelsea Michelle Cobo,” Rose Cobo knocked on the door of the townhouse and bluntly asked a man inside if her daughter was alive or dead.
“I was telling the police,” the invisible man replied. “The police know she’s gone. How come you don’t know she’s gone?”
Rose Cobo wears a pin featuring her daughter Chelsea before speaking at the Hamptons Whodunit Conference on April 14, 2024 in East Hampton, New York. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
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“she’s gone?” Rose Cobo replied, shock evident in her voice. “she’s gone?”
The NYPD declined to comment on the witness’ claim.
The screening of the documentary brought tears to many eyes in the audience at the East Hampton Library during the Whodunit of the Hamptons convention in East Hampton. New York, this month. A woman walked away hiding her face behind her fingers. A friend placed his hand on Kobo’s back.
During a later panel discussion, Rose Cobo raised the issue of privacy surrounding the case and lamented that more people in the Sunset Park neighborhood, where her daughter was last seen, were checking their surveillance cameras for evidence in the case. Would not have been asked to do.
Chelsea Cobo’s son is pictured next to her missing person flyer at the Hamptons Whodunit conference in East Hampton, New York on April 14, 2024. Cobo’s mother, Rose, continues to advocate for her daughter after her 2016 disappearance in Brooklyn. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
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This is where they hope the app will help faster connect businesses and homeowners, amateur web detectives, investigators and other citizens with information about disappearances.
“It’s not just where you are, it will travel with you,” she said, “Hypothetically, you’re going to Colorado. You’re there, and you just want to know what’s going on in the neighborhood. You can set it to mile radius, five mile radius, 250 mile radius.”
