A Colorado cold case that has stumped detectives for over a decade is getting fresh attention with the release of a new podcast hosted by the department working to solve the murder.
Chelsea Yasser, 21, was brutally murdered in an Aurora parking lot just before 10 p.m. on May 15, 2016 â just weeks after she moved to the area from Arizona.
Officers with the Aurora Police Department were initially dispatched to the scene after a caller reported finding a woman lying in the parking lot of a Burlington Coat Factory.
When police arrived, they found Yasser suffering from multiple stab wounds and subsequently transported her to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Despite Yassers murder being captured on grainy surveillance footage, the news of her killing barely made headlines.
“If you didn’t pick up the paper or if you werent watching the news that day, you might not know anything about this case,” Joe Moylan, a public information officer for the Aurora Police Department, told Fox News Digital.
According to police, a surveillance camera captured the moment a maroon van drove up and pulled Yasser inside.
“Chelsea was stabbed to death multiple times inside the minivan,” cold case detective Jason McDonald told Fox News Digital. “And she was able to get out and stumble over the curb of the business where this occurred, where she succumbed to her injuries.”
Despite the fact that the murder was caught on camera, McDonald said authorities have hit a brick wall due to the quality of the footage, which made it impossible to make out the vehicles license plate.
“Its kind of unique that the murder itself was on video, but we just havent been able to identify who the driver of the minivan was or the minivan itself,” McDonald said.
Authorities immediately began investigating Yassers murder, but ultimately the case went cold after several months due to a lack of evidence and leads â until now.
“We’re 10 years in. We have a few more investigative leads that we’re pursuing, and we’re working with DNA yet again to see what we can come up with,” McDonald said, adding, “The department is kind of going outside the box and reaching a public that we may not normally reach out to, which is the podcast community.”
The department combed through multiple cold cases before landing on Yassers story, and ultimately decided her murder would be the one to spotlight in its debut podcast, titled “The White Whale â The Chelsea Yasser Story.”
“There’s about a 30 minute window where we just don’t know what occurred. So, it’s a pretty tight timeline,” Moylan said. “We think that there’s somebody out there that knows who this person is.”
The first installment of the five-episode series was released Monday, with the show set to dive into details surrounding Yassers murder and the subsequent investigation into her killing, with investigators revealing more information than ever before regarding the case.
“Our major crime and homicide unit has given us a lot more leeway to try to tell a fuller story than we might traditionally do with a more recent case,” Moylan told Fox News Digital. “So I think just through the storytelling and getting to know who Chelsea was, talking about what happened the day of and then wh
