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Unsolved Mysteries

The Cold-Blooded Murder of Chelsea Small

Unsolved Mysteries

Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. + Audacy

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On November 12, 2013, Chelsea Small, 30, agrees to trade shifts with another co-worker at Advance America Cash Advance. Around noon, a man enters and guns down Chelsea, who is working behind her desk. Was Chelsea targeted? Was this a random killing? Or could this be a case of mistaken identity? Security footage and spent shell casings are among the clues to the murderer’s identity, but Chelsea’s killer has yet to be brought to justice. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

He was going to kill her no matter what.

0:07.6

She buzzed them in and he shot her just one, two, three.

0:15.0

That's how just cold it was.

0:17.9

I can't even wrap my head around it.

0:21.5

It's just pure evil.

0:23.2

Honestly, I don't see how it could be anything other than just pure evil.

0:35.6

It's November 12, 2013.

0:38.2

At 12.01pm, 15 miles south of Detroit, Michigan, police in the small city of Taylor respond to

0:45.2

a silent alarm triggered at a payday lending business.

0:48.8

They arrive to find the door locked, no sign of a crime and progress, but no one seems

0:54.0

to be inside.

0:56.0

Officers break the glass door to enter, and behind the counter they find the clerk, a

1:00.6

30-year-old single mother of two, lifeless on the floor, with bullet holes in her chest

1:06.3

and head.

1:07.8

The killer has vanished without a trace.

1:21.3

I'm Steve French, and this is Unsolved Mysteries, the cold-blooded murder of Chelsea Small.

1:38.5

Chelsea is a very outgoing person.

1:42.3

She's a beautiful person.

1:45.0

We believe in the spiritual context that she's still here.

1:50.0

We're not in the physical form, but she's still here.

1:54.8

Debbie Cayman is Chelsea Small's mother.

1:57.7

Chelsea was the oldest of her two daughters, and they had an especially close bond.

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