370: The Disappearance of Madalina Cojocari (Unsolved)

Killer Queens: A True Crime Podcast

True Crime, Comedy

4.4 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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On December 15th, 2022, Diana Cojocari arrived for a scheduled meeting at her daughter’s middle school with the guidance counselor in Cornelius, North Carolina. Her 11-year-old daughter, Madalina, hadn’t been to school in more than 3 weeks. Diana had promised to bring Madalina with her to the meeting, but she came alone. It didn’t take long for school officials to realize that something was wrong. Madalina was missing, and her mother and stepfather never reported her disappearance to police until that day at the school. What followed has been an investigation littered with inconsistent timelines, conflicting statements, and strange behavior, none of which have led to Madalina’s whereabouts. Law enforcement continues to search for the now-teenager, fully believing that she could possibly still be alive. Want access to our first 45 episodes? Grab em here! We've made them available for free to anyone who signs up! Remember, these episodes were recorded when we had no idea what we were doing, so just keep that in mind. The audio isn't the quality we would want to put out now, but the cases are on point! Visit killerqueens.link/og to download and binge all the archived episodes today! Hang with us: Follow Us on Instagram Like Us on Facebook Join our Case Discussion Group on Facebook Get Killer Queens Merch Bonus Episodes Support Our AMAZING Sponsors: Smalls: For a limited time only, get 35% off plus an additional 50% off your first order when you head to Smalls.com and use code QUEENS. SelectQuote: Get the right life insurance for YOU, for LESS, at selectquote.com/queens. Remi: Go to shopremi.com/QUEENS and use code QUEENS at checkout for 50% off. © 2025 Killer Queens Podcast. All Rights Reserved Audio Production by Wayfare Recording Music provided by Steven Tobi Logo designed by Sloane Williams of The Sophisticated Crayon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On December 15, 2022, Diana Kojikari arrived for a scheduled meeting at her daughter's middle school with the guidance counselor in Cornelius, North Carolina.
0:10.7	Her 11-year-old daughter, Madalina, hadn't been to school in more than three weeks.
0:14.7	Diana had promised to bring Madalina with her to the meeting, but she came alone.
0:22.2	But does that sound like Lori Vallow DeBell?
0:24.7	It didn't take long for school officials to realize that something was very wrong.
0:28.5	Madalina was missing and her mother and stepfather never reported her disappearance to police until that day at the school.
0:36.4	What followed has been an investigation littered
0:39.1	with inconsistent timelines, conflicting statements, and strange behavior, none of which
0:44.3	have led to Madalina's whereabouts. Law enforcement continues to search for the now teenager,
0:49.4	fully believing that she could possibly still be alive. And I will say just for those who have a really,
0:56.9	really hard time with child cases,
0:59.5	I do as well.
1:00.6	It really is entirely possible that she's alive
1:03.6	and she's just living somewhere else at the direction of her mother.
1:19.8	Music the direction of her mother. Hey guys. Welcome back to Killer Queens. I'm Torella and I've got a disappearance for you today.
1:26.5	This one is, I'm going to go with strange,
1:31.2	very strange. First, though, I want to give a hey girl, thanks to Madison for writing this one up.
1:38.2	Thank you so much. And of course, I just want to let you know that if you're new here or if you've been here a while and you want to find some ways to support the show, we've got lots of options. We have two bonus episodes a week over on our Patreon. So go check that out. Patreon.com slash killer queens pod. That helps keep the lights on around here without the support from our patrons. I simply could
2:05.0	not do this. I couldn't make any more episodes. And definitely working on bringing Nikita on more
2:11.9	episodes, which we need to ramp up the financials to do that. In the meantime, if you are unable to support the show financially,
2:20.5	ain't no thing. There's lots of ways to support the show. If you like it, like tell somebody about it,
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