How did you spend your weekend, watching true crime documentaries on Netflix or just chilling?" Well, Selena Gomez was quietly at work at CrimeCon Chicago, along with other amateur detectives working to solve real-life cold cases. Gomez and her mother, Mandy Teefey, attended the convention's CrowdSolve event, CrimeCon confirmed today on Instagram, sharing a photo of Gomez hard at work.

"It was an honor to host @selenagomez and her mother @mandyteefey at CrowdSolve this weekend," CrimeCon wrote." They are the perfect detectives . ️. ️ and along with hundreds of others, helped bring peace to the Sova family"

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Gomez also shared that she was at CrimeCon Chicago and shared a photo of her and her mother in Chicago. 'My mom and I are tourists. 'We take great pictures. And we went to CrimeCon. I love Chicago and beans." [The unsolved mud case of Kurt Sova (opens in new tab), who disappeared the night of October 23, 1981, while out partying in Cleveland's Newburgh Heights suburb. His body was found five days later in a nearby ravine.

According to the CrimeCon Chicago site (opens in new tab), Gomez and the other participants worked to "solve a real cold case, chosen specifically for this event." Under the guidance of lead investigator, retired U.S. Marshal Art Roderick, law enforcement, and selected experts, we will tackle facts, case files, and critical unsolved issues. This is not a TV drama that can be neatly summed up in 60 minutes, but real life with all the complications, miscalculations, red flags, and frustrating obstacles that law enforcement agencies face daily in their investigations."

Sova's brother Kevin attended the weekend (opens in new tab), which was thoroughly documented on CrimeCon's Instagram. He was so impressed by the activities of the convention participants that he explained how he got involved in the convention in a blog post on the CrimeCon site (opens in new tab). (The findings of the CrowdSolve participants were submitted to the Newburgh Heights Police Department.)

Thirty-eight years later, I received a phone call out of the blue: "Mr. Buckwheat, this is Chief Majoy of the Newburgh Heights Police Department. My brother Kenny was always getting into trouble, so I thought he was calling me because of something he had done. But he wanted to talk about Kurt. We had a short conversation. I wanted to hang up. I wasn't ready to deal with that. My wife convinced me to give him a chance. Later I told him I would come in and talk to him and he told me about Cloud Solve. He had done a lot of research on Cloudsolve and was convinced it could help. I left his office feeling very optimistic. My feelings for Kurt, which I had sealed for years, came back to me. I knew they were serious about helping his case. When his brother Kenny died, he had been dead in the house for ten days. I wanted to set the whole house on fire. There was nothing in the house. Kenny had sold everything he could get his hands on, and through the clutter I found several boxes of papers, news clippings, and notes in Mom's old closet that she had kept about Kurt's case. I took them and left the rest to the drug dealers and copper salvagers. When I went to see Chief Majoy a year and a half later, I took some of the boxes with me. His eyes lit up as if he had won the lottery. I told him to take them all. I felt like I was getting energy from my mother above me, and I felt like all the things she had done had finally paid off. Now I wish my mom was sitting here instead of me. She is the one who deserves to be treated the way Cloud Solve and Chief Majoy are treating me. She never let it go. Eventually, everyone gave up on her. Kurt died in Newberg. We lived in Cleveland; there was always a conflict between the two jurisdictions, and no one wanted to talk about it. I told my mother over and over again." Mom, give it up. No one cares about the cart." Now I know that hundreds of people, total strangers, have it in their hearts to do something. To do something like this in the future. These people have nothing but optimism that they can help, and you can see it in their eyes that they want to help the families of strangers. How can you not encourage that.

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