District Attorney Ben David | Allison Foy's Murder, Part 3

S2 E3

Podcast Title: District Attorney Ben David Speaks 

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, 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 the District Attorney, Ben David, on his experience with the cases of Allison Foy, and “Angela”.  He goes into extensive detail about Michelle’s success story regarding the same suspect in Allison's Foy’s and Angela’s case, and why it took old school police work to do the job. Ultimately, DA Ben David gives much detail as to why it’s easy to point the finger at who isn’t doing their job…but it takes just enough evidence to prove without a reasonable doubt. 

Shownotes: 

[0:00] Welcome back to Zone 7, episode three regarding the unsolved case of Allison Foy. 

[3:25] Sheryl McCollum gives the listeners a recap of Allison and Angela’s unsolved cases 

[4:24] Sheryl introduces District Attorney, Ben David to the listeners

[4:00] “Your victim today is your suspect, Tomorrow. And your suspect today is your victim, Tomorrow.” John Cross

[7:19] Question: Can you walk me through when you first learned about Allison and Angela and how you started piecing it together and what you thought immediately?

[8:18] DA Ben David details out another case involving the only suspect, Timothy Ioni and a woman named Sonya (name has been changed for this episode)

[9:24] Adverse Childhood Experiences[

[12:35] What is the Al Capone Method? 

[14:09] Once Ben David knew what was going on with Timothy Ioni, what were his first action steps?

[16:52] DA Ben David tells about the break in the case with suspect Timothy Ioni, and the story of 24 year old Michelle

[21:42] The Survivors Act

[23:18] “That is old school, boots on the ground, hands on every piece of evidence, type of police work that is just extraordinary.” Sheryl McCollum

[24:23] What is Y-STR testing?

[39:09] Question: Can you tell us about the verdict in Michelle’s case?

[40:27] “I've done my best to raise my two boys and get on with my life, he took a piece of me in those woods that I can't give to anyone else anymore.”  Michelle

[47:58] “You alone can make the difference in solving a case or getting justice for the victim.” Alice, The Prosecutor's Podcast 

[48:17] I'm Cheryl McCollum, and this is Zone 7

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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

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