A NETWORKING TRIPS FOR COLDCASE/MISSING FAMILIES-Driving with Britt on Route 66 visits Chicago 7/7 to 7/13

My 25th Caravan to Catch a Killer tour-Driving with Britt on Route 66 has now added 1000 miles to my 350000 miles through 48 States on 24 previous tours. Contacts in Tulsa, Joplin, Springfield MO, and a great meeting of multiple families in St. Louis (that will now meet as a group) have made the trip rewarding. After such success in the multi-family group meeting in St. Louis , the lack of interaction in the Bloomington/Normal/Springfield area with two events-yesterday 7/5 and today  7/6 of Networking at Panera, had no participants, I have learned this is a hard path and not every city, not every person feels safe to come to the events. I want people to take care of themselves. That is why I keep doing this. 

But as I age, (now 71) I just have one request. I have been doing CARAVANS for 19 years.  350000 miles thru 48 States on 24 previous tours. With as much as I covered, I still will never  reach all the families that a National news show on CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX or any other National coverage would. I live by the pod casts we get but many families do not know of these. National news could help publicize that. There are Coldcase families, missing families and more sitting on the shadows of every city in the USA. When these famous murders and missing get coverage, these millions of families ache in the silence of their stories.

*******Tell them how cold case/missing families travelling this path of unknown when something happens, is, on the 100th anniversary of Route 66,  like the building of Route 66; face with a need for connection, facing roadblocks, trials and tribulations , more loss but resilience that leads them to connect

Lets help them!!! 

National news tell me they have millions of families writing them and they can't tell every story but when multiple write them about the same story, they think it will sell.

SOOOOOOOO Please send just a few sentences to any of the National shows (listed above or you know of). You can find them by searching on FB Instagram X, Youtube and more  

Then ask five of your friends to do so, and ask them to ask five of their friends. National news picks stories they think people are interested in an d often won't do the stories where it is only the family contacting them.

YOU CAN WRITE JUST A FEW SENTENCES.  Are you aware of the mother who has traveled 350000 miles through 48 States on 25 tours, all self funding with four different cars, each wrapped with her murdered daughters picture and Caravan to catch a killer on all sides. While started to help solve her daughters murder, for at least 10 years it has been used to network with cold case / missing families, to help with advocating their cases, telling their stories, helping them find resources, helping them to create their own support network. 

PLEASE HELP !!  WE NEED NATIONAL MEDIA, not just local) NATIONAL MEDIA TO  ABOUT AND WHY THE CARAVAN TO CATCH A KILLER TOUR EXISTS TO HELP ALL COLDCASE/MISSING US FAMILIES TO CONNECT, THIS TIME ON ROUTE 66!!!

 

Caravan to Catch a Killer still in Bloomington/Normal Springfield Illinois area!!!! Meet me and the mission to help local coldcase/Missing

 Meeting today in Normal/Bloomington IL. at 4pm at Panera on Veterans Parkway. Bring your cold case or missing story, bring your story of how you are an advocate. I will be there for two hours. If you can't meet then , come to ---Panera on South Dirksen Parkway Monday at 10am---. We may have your local  channel 20 wanting to talk to families. There is no cost, just time. I travel cross country each year to help cold case families connect, find advocacy, find connection to other families learn about law passage that helps homicide, missing and any type of cold case  survivors. I have traveled over 350000 miles through 48 States, now on 25 tours. This 25th is  called "Driving with Britt on Route 66-Mothers load on the Mother Road because the building of Route66 is a metaphor , a symbol of the building of resilience for cold case families and representative of how after trials, tribulations, loss, hardship and roadblocks, a connection gets made between families hidden in the shadow of the US.

WE HEAD TO CHICAGO ON TUESDAY!!!

Caravan to Catch a Killer tour #25-Driving with Britt on Route 66-Mothers' loads on the Mother Road

 This first week of #drivingwithbrittonroute66 on the 25th Caravan to Catch a Killer tour, has been such a gift. Start off at Tulsa under the Route 66 Span and singing Bridge with local families, then stops in Vinita OK, Joplin, Springfield Missouri and St. Louis. Each stop had gifts whether meeting with families, Advocacy groups and podcasts. St. Louis was the first large Route 66 family meeting of Illinois and Missouri families and WHAT A SHOWING!!! This group has now formed and will have monthly support meetings and develop advocacy. THIS IS WHAT THESE TOURS ARE ABOUT!!!!

On to Springfield/Bloomington Illinois area next for a week and then Chicago. LET ME KNOW IF YOU KNOW MISSING OR COLD CASE FAMILIES ALONG THIS ROUTE (or even elsewhere).

I have now traveled 350000 miles through 48 States with more than 300 local reporters sharing the stories of the girl next door, the boy next door, the man next door, the woman next door hidden in shadows.

Caravan tours started in 2007 as we had hundreds of suspects compared to one DNA profile and not matching. Brittany's case was middle class, in middle America and not a sensational twist and national news did not seem interested so I somehow designed this idea of taking her story cross country. The first ten years  , it was more about seeing if other states had similar cases but as I met more and more cold case families along the routes I realized I needed to help give them voice. Thus for the last ten years I have met families along the route, helping them network, get voice, help pass laws. Yes I am on Route 66 now but in between working I take tours everywhere. Come visit me at Facebook.com/mom.missing.brittany. Let me kn ow your story.

Take a picture, send it to me. I have maps I made and will post on these. YOU ALL HAVE A PLACE IN MY HEART!!!!

Driving with Britt on Route 66--Mothers load on the Mother Road

 First few days on the 25th Caravan to Catch a Killer tour!!! This four to five week phase from Tulsa to Chicago on Route 66 . Meeting, (hopefully) with cold case families-Murder, missing, abducted, etc along the road. I have covered 350000 miles through 48 States on now 25 tours, first only seeking attention to our murder when in the first 5 years we turned over hundreds of suspects with no match to our DNA or other evidence.

Yet, as I traveled I met more and more families impacted by this never ending loss. Thus over the last 10 years, the tours have been more about connecting to other families, giving them voice, helping them create support networks and learning about laws that can help survivors and their cases!!!!

Why Route 66? The building of Route 66 was, at times called the culture of calamity. This was due to the trials and tribulations, roadblocks, losses, how before thee road it was separation of families and during the building, separation of families.

The path of cold case families is similar but it is our connection that brings voices across the US. Contact me here or on Facebook.com/mom.missing.brittany or through therapoet@aol.com. I am also a trauma focused psychologist for more than 35 years way before the loss of Brittany but I still had to go through the loss, the grief, the anger and all the emotions but I knew I had to walk towards it not away. I also knew, though hard, I had to live because of the loss, in honor of the loss and in spite of the loss. 

Everyone I meet on the road has a place in my heart.

In Springfield MO through Friday, then St. Louis and the Chicago area but contact me where ever you are!

20th Anniversary

 I haven't been here in a while because I can't access the full webpage to read messages, can only post. This 20th anniversary is the first anniversary where Brittany has been dead longer than she was alive. Please visit at

 https://www.facebook.com/mom.missing.brittany

until I find a way to fix this website or create a new one. I NEED YOU HELP WITH THAT!!!

23RD CARAVAN TO CATCH A KILLER TOUR TO SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST 9/16 TO 10/22/23

 YES I WANT YOU!!!! TO BE PART OF CARAVAN TO CATCH A KILLER #23 BY LETTING ME BRING YOUR STORY TO LOCAL MEDIA..... More than 4 weeks left to do tour after CRIMECON Orlando. Now in Shreveport 3 days Montgomery 2 days, Orlando rest of the week I will go anywhere South/ SE anywhere for next 4 wks. SEND ME STORIES.

NOW HREVEPORT, THEN MONTGOMERY , THEN ORLANDO CRIMECON & THEN ?????

1ST tour since 7/22!! THIS CARAVAN WILL FOCUS ON GIVING VOICE TO OTHER/YOUR COLDCASE STORIES!. SEND ME YOURS/OTHERS STORY. Because when I contact media as I travel towards each city , I WILL LET MEDIA KNOW LOCAL COLDCASE FAMILES WILL DO STORY WITH ME!!. ( Need contact info so can coordinate,) will zig/zag across S &SE to get your story. So far only commit is Crimecon in Orlando. Possible surprise there.

ON THE ROAD...SADNESS FILLS MY SOUL

TRYIN TO GET VIDEO TO SHOW. NEED HELP . IT ONLY SHOWS LINK

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CARAVAN TO CATCH A KILLER 22 GETS GREAT SEND OFF

I NEED HELP I CAN ONLY POST LINK BUT VIDEO WON'T SHOW. CAN'T SEEM TO FIND EMBEDD. EMAIL ME AT therapoet@aol.com

 https://www.fox23.com/news/caravan-catch-killer-returns-road-after-two-year-pause/GC5XT43PBRH2XC3RCFYYHDFOVA/?fbclid=IwAR2Q-umjamgkocrlS7QpkLt-d3ymivJc_tUeqBSLhsS97Bz3O2REJ4gPbsY

CARAVAN TO CATCH A KILLER TOUR #22 5 WEEKS THRU KY, TENN, VA, DELAWARE, N & S CAROLINA, FLA, ALA, MISS, LOUISIANA ,TEXAS

In Tulsa for the start of my 22nd CARAVAN TO CATCH A KILLER tour. PGA s here also!! Today Channel 6 did a story as did Fox 23 and tomorrow Cahnnel 2. Heaading east to St. Louis, then KY , Tenn., Virginia, Delaware, North and South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabamba, Mississipi, Louisianna and Texas. 5 weeks out. Honk if you see me. If you want to help PLEASE call National News, email, contact on Facebook, Tiktok, or any social media and say where you saw us. I have covered 300000 miles thru 48 States but NAtional news will not do our story, I am told, unless they think other people beyond me are interested.

CALLING ALL NATIONAL COLD CASE INVESTIGATIVE GROUPS

I will be meting with TPD in month or less about their past refusal to allow any cold case vetted national groups to look at our 17 year coldcase. You can call Detective division-918 596-9133 or the Chief's section 918 5969328-or Detective Stiles. Please state you re doing this on your own. They seem to react to my requests asa me just being a mother of a 17 year old cold casae, being unreasonable about alsking for a new set of eyers . I was told by the current detective, "they are actively researching the casae and reviewing old DATA AND DON'T NEED COLD CASE ASSISTANCE.

21ST CARAVAN TO CATCH A KILLER TOUR ACROSS WEST 270000 MILE MISSION OF LOVE-COLORADO, UTAH, NEVAD CALIFORNIA

FIRST CARAVAN SINCE COVID BEGAN- I am out on road. Seeking news stories but realizing with COVID and everything else going on, they may not come and haven't for first week out. And people are rightfully so hesitant to come up. So if you want to help---let your local news know you saw me as soon as you can, what really would help is email National news, message them on their facebook, instagram or twitter page or any of their reporters /anchors where you saw me. AND HONK IF YOU SEE ME SO I KNOW YOUR READ THIS!!! At 66 I am not sure how much longer I can do this and it saddens my heart that we are heading to the 17th year as cold case 10/4/21 AND EMAIL ME AT therapoet@aol.com ABOUT YOUR COLDCASE SO I CAN SHARE IT. Maggie Zingman-mother

THE GIFT THAT KEEPS GIVING-CASEFILE PODCAST

For the last year and more Casefile Podcast out of Australia has given us such gifts. Most recently they funded the whole wrap of my 2nd car. A year after the show and I get weekly contact from listeners!!!!

4th CARAVAN CAR WRAPPED-COST COVERED BY CASEFILE PODCAST IN AUSTRALIA

Oh my heart! Great story and this Wrap was paid for by Casefile Podcast group from Australia-the gift that keeps giving

4th Generation Caravan to Catch a killer Car

nd this wrap was fully funded vy Casefile Podcast from Australia Oh my heart. What a great story

COVID19 and the murder of my 19 year old daughter in 2004-Still unsolved

The COVID has been hard but I m trying to get back to her murder. Two new podcasts will be heard in the next month. CASEFILE from Australia is Next weekend June 13. I will post it here. We had to stop our reward fund push and I had to stop my CARAVAN TO CATCH A KILLER TOURS. I have completed 20 through 250000 miles through 48 states with more than 300 regional reporters sharing our story. Still no National news and now more than ever we need you to write, email, call National news about us. Thinking of getting an RV and wrapping it if hotels are too chancey. As many know, our main DNA profile led us to someone who is most likely not our killer. This was thru CeCe Moore's analysis!!Thus the parabon Phenotype picture of a Caucasian male is no longer valid. It could be anyone. We have to go over all the old evidence and suspects of all races now.



DO YOU KNOW ME? 15 YEAR COLD CASE AND A "WRONG TURN ' IS DEVASTATING

Do you know me? The Girl Next Door, probably not cuz my murder so common. Like many 18-25 year olds, I was raped/suffocated in middle of night in a 2nd story apartment in Tulsa 2004. Mom thought I was at college classes those nights I didn't return calls. Nobody knew I was dead for 3 days, then buried on my 19th birthday October 4th 2004.

 I am one of million cold cases, often not told in National media cuz not exciting (sic), but shared by passionate podcasters, writers and  330 Regional reporters that mom met as she traveled 240000 miles on 20  Caravan to catch a killer tours for the last 13 years.

I know she fears she will die before my case is solved, especially due to recent changes when crime scene DNA used for 15 years was analyzed through GED match type analysis, and suspect most likely not our killer! Email me at therapoet@aol.com about this information.

 Please help. Contact her! Please call national news about her mission . I ride beside her she knows that ! What if this was your daughter?

I AM SCREAMING/CRYING INSIDE.............................

Still reeling from all the news

Devastating news and back to ground zero on 15 year Cold Case

After media blitz in Tulsa last week, multiple discussions with PD, and people nationally I am still trying to deal with this. Copy this link and read story from Channel 6 Tulsa. There are also stories on Channel 8 channel 2 and Fox 23

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157573103299468&id=593909467

MOST DEVASTATING NEWS-DNA PROFILE USED FOR YEARS--NOT OUR KILLER!

I am devastated. After 15 years using a DNA profile from 2 sources that logically seemed our killer, and after we had the Parabon phenotype picture developed, our DNA was analyzed by the best and she found a direct hit. Per protocol, the case was developed to look at him and his DNA obtained in the way it should after there is a hit, and it matched. BUT in the interview with him and two others, it was found, due to airtight alibi, that he couldn't be our killer.

GOD!!!!!!!!!!!This means all suspects we compared our main DNA profile to must be relooked at. This means we do not know if he is Caucasian, African American, Hispanic, Asian etc etc.  IT COULD BE ANYONE! Tulsa Police department c seemed to think it was not important to share much of this information with me like alibi, etc. IF THEY DID I wouldn't have many questions. Past detectives and past head of homicide always shared info with me and told me not to share and I didn't. This current detective treats me as if he doesn't trust me and I have never given him any reason
HOMICDE FAMILIES NEED  INFORMATION, ESPECIALLY LIKE OURS, TO BE SHARED WITH THEM SO THEY CAN UNDERSTAND. ESPECIALLY WHEN A BIG CHANGE OCCURS. OR THEY NEED TO BE TOLD WHY THEY CANNOT HAVE THAT INFORMATION!!! God it is SOOO simple. I have been doing this 15 years and I fully understand  about hurting a case and I train PD and homicide families to understand both sides
Sorry you will have to copy and paste because I can't figure out how to embed this video

https://www.newson6.com/story/40946051/breaking-dna-in-tulsa-teen-murder-case-does-not-belong-to-killer

DEVASTATING NEWS RELATED TO CASE

Thanks to all on the 3 weeks across the northwest. Thanks to stories in Wyoming and Washington and people on the road who acknowledged us. Sadly stories had to sTop about a week ago due to devastating news from Tulsa about case. Can't say yet but will announce. All I can do is drive back as quick as I can. DEVASTATED