Jul 29, 2026 · 13 min · 11 segments
After another incredible year, Jonathan takes a moment to reflect on the impact of the show, thank listeners for their continued support, and share what's next for the show. In this special update…
Now, we've helped so many families with so many cases, and as much as I wish cases progress at a lightning speed, unfortunately, they don't.
Now, we helped so many law enforcement, you know, departments, whether sheriff's departments, police departments, whatever it is, but we also helped the family, and I wanna talk about how I went from working on cases in the United States to international cold cases and what that process has been, because it's been kind of a different type of process, at least for me working with these police departments in other countries.
Granted, it hasn't been a bunch of different countries, but it's definitely enough for me to be able to speak about it.
I think when you go into this, before I get into it, I think you go into this stuff not knowing, you know, with language barriers.
That's a huge thing that I've been facing, and how the departments and the detectives on these cases operate and if they truly, like, want a medium's help, right? And what I can tell you is that in other countries they are very open.
Now, granted, in the United States they are too, but, you know, I just never...
So some of these cases that I've been doing that are considered, which, not considered, but they are the international cold case, I've been getting a lot and, like I kinda mentioned to you before, the biggest hurdle that I'm currently facing is the language barrier.
So, like, when I try to record, it's become quite an issue, and I'll explain to you why.
Because it's the family, the law enforcement, and kind of like what you can call an interpreter.
They're, they work with law enforcement, but they're like the interpreter so that, like, as I say one sentence, you pause and wait, and it becomes a little chaotic when it comes to editing because then things won't kind of line up or make sense.
Now, we've helped so many families with so many cases, and as much as I wish cases progress at a lightning speed, unfortunately, they don't.
Now, we helped so many law enforcement, you know, departments, whether sheriff's departments, police departments, whatever it is, but we also helped the family, and I wanna talk about how I went from working on cases in the United States to international cold cases and what that process has been, because it's been kind of a different type of process, at least for me working with these police departments in other countries.
Granted, it hasn't been a bunch of different countries, but it's definitely enough for me to be able to speak about it.
I think when you go into this, before I get into it, I think you go into this stuff not knowing, you know, with language barriers.
That's a huge thing that I've been facing, and how the departments and the detectives on these cases operate and if they truly, like, want a medium's help, right? And what I can tell you is that in other countries they are very open.
Now, granted, in the United States they are too, but, you know, I just never...
So some of these cases that I've been doing that are considered, which, not considered, but they are the international cold case, I've been getting a lot and, like I kinda mentioned to you before, the biggest hurdle that I'm currently facing is the language barrier.
So, like, when I try to record, it's become quite an issue, and I'll explain to you why.
Because it's the family, the law enforcement, and kind of like what you can call an interpreter.
They're, they work with law enforcement, but they're like the interpreter so that, like, as I say one sentence, you pause and wait, and it becomes a little chaotic when it comes to editing because then things won't kind of line up or make sense.
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