About Seeking Justice Podcast
About the show…
It’s 2012. Dawn Pasela, a trusting and fierce advocate for justice, has just realized the unimaginable — the prosecutors she works for are hiding evidence to keep innocent people imprisoned for mortgage fraud. She’s threatened to stay silent, but she’s determined to testify against them and do what’s right. She’d never get that chance.
Just as Dawn is supposed to testify, she’s found dead in her apartment under suspicious circumstances.
Now, it’s been over a decade since Dawn mysteriously lost her life.
Over 10 years without law enforcement cooperation, without many eyes, or answers. But, with a fresh take, newfound interest, and a thorough investigation of all angles, can answers be uncovered?
In Season One of Seeking Justice, we look into what happened to Dawn Pasela, chronicled in a real-time weekly YouTube Live investigation with expert guests.
Meet the co-hosts...
Meet the co-hosts...
Dana Poll
Dana Poll is a Georgia-based genealogist and cold case researcher. She was born and raised in Pittsburgh, where she earned a Bachelor’s in Journalism and Communications from Point Park University and a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. She is the Producer and host of the True Crime PI podcast and Associate Producer of The Investigators podcast. Dana discovered her passion for cold case advocacy in 2005, when she began researching missing and unidentified person cases. Her goal then and always will be to help find the missing, give the unidentified back their names, and provide answers to families, who have been forced to carry “the unbearable burden of not knowing.”
When Dana isn’t researching or advocating, she enjoys kayaking and visiting breweries/distilleries with her husband Michael, and their dog, Rebel.
Dana believes there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.
Lexi Kakis
Lexi Kakis is a passionate New York-based case researcher. She received her BA in Communications from Molloy University, where she studied television production and content creation. She has since shifted her focus toward advocating for cold cases. Lexi is the co-host of The Broken System Podcast with Robert Parmer, which focuses on the complexities and flaws of our criminal justice system.
Outside of advocacy, her favorite things include dogs, television, reading, coffee, and live music.
Lexi believes that justice has no expiration.
Andrea Cipriano
Andrea Cipriano is a New York City-based forensic psychologist, journalist, and victim advocate. She graduated with a Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice where she focused on researching and peeling back the criminal mind. Previously, Andrea was a Case Researcher and the Digital Content Specialist at Uncovered, where she wrote for the twice-monthly true crime newsletter, The Citizen Detective. She has appeared in Investigation Discovery’s Crimes Gone Viral, and the upcoming CW anthology series, Crime Nation.
Beyond the justice space, Andrea is a running enthusiast and EDM superfan.
She believes that it’s never too late for justice.