Fort Myers family wants TV series' help son's murder case

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For the third time, Fort Myers Police have allowed a TV show to work one of its cold cases.

FMPD said the first two got results. So producers of the TV series, “Cold Justice,” are digging into the murder of a young mother who was shot and killed in 2016.

But another family wonders when detectives will give their son’s murder the same kind of attention.

Watch the video above for the full story by WINK News Reporter Morgan Rynor in Fort Myers, where she spoke to the family.

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