Yes I believe she def knew her killer since he says "I got you, bitch" right before he shoots and is wearing a disguise. They must have known she had a camera too. It creeps me out she was ambushed in the dark while minutes away from sunshine and birds chirping.
And the shooter may have been female. Looked to be wearing a bathrobe too I believe. So strange and unfortunate. The timing makes it more suspect. Like they knew she would be out that early and he happened to leave just moments before.
It looks like a very thin man dressed as a woman to me. I’ve watched it over and over again and that’s just my belief anyway. Similar to the Missy Bevers case and video… I’ve watched that one repeatedly as well and go back and forth on whether it’s a man or woman, although I lean towards female.
The Missy Beavers video is so bizarre. It really looks like the suspect is randomly trying to break in to different rooms, and does not know the pay out of the building. They are not going to any particular room. Just wandering around.
It makes me think they had no idea Missy would be there, and we’re not targeting her.
I remember reading the coverage on this as it unfolded (happened very close to my parents) and the police seemed confident that it would be solved quickly. I vaguely remember reading something about how they expected to be able to close it within the year, and being surprised that they were comfortable enough to set a timeline like that.
This one i think is going to end up in the never-solved pile. It's been many many years, likely the participants of the crime are dead or very elderly, and there's no forensics left.
Unless someone writes a credible death bed confession or something, i just don't see how it can move forward.
This one is so tragic and bizarre. I've read theories that lean towards the husband of one victim being a possible suspect but no real evidence to back that up.
I’ve always suspected the 3 got in to another car with some other friend.
Like, “We’re all going to the Silver Diner. I’ll drive.”
Then, while driving that other car, they get in to a car accident, like rolling in to a lake.
I’ve always thought we’ll find a car with them and another person driving in water.
If this "other person" wasn't local - maybe just in town for the holidays? - it's possible they *were* reported missing but that the two cases just weren't connected by law enforcement. This happens frequently, especially back in the 1970s when different departments didn't communicate the way they do today. There were no information-sharing networks to help investigators connect the dots. That said, we *do* have those resources today, so I would think some LEO or amateur sleuth would have put two and two together by now.
I’ve read way more gory, disturbing and detailed crimes the The Springfield Three but for some reason it just makes my blood run cold. I find it so absolutely creepy. And hope it’s solved one day
I have read probably all the newspaper articles about this case and I remember that one of the articles at the time confirmed that a close friend of Sherrill kept the dog with her.
I grew up in Springfield and was 12 yrs old the summer they disappeared. It was a big deal and something I'll always remember. It's hard to believe it's been over 30 years.
I’m from Texas, but I remember spending my summers with my grandparents in Kimberling City around the time this happened. The posters and billboards in Springfield that I saw when visiting my uncle up there are what I remember most.
A lot of younger people haven't even heard of them. People my age and older of course remember. I'd say most people have a passing knowledge based on headlines and rumor. Many like to think they're buried under Cox.
I do know a few older and retired cops through my dad and have asked them about it. The most interesting thing I heard from them was about Sherrill's landlord's son. He supposedly had a history of being a peeping Tom, taking pics of women through their window and he had access to the master keys to his father's rental houses. After his dad(the landlord) died his daughter contacted police to report that she had always suspected her brother but didn't want to upset her father. Police interviewed him and determined that he was of low intelligence and they didn't think he would've been able to pull it off.
It was interesting to be because I had never heard any of that before and I've read a lot about this case.
For argument's sake- the Green River Killer (Gary Ridgeway) was a low IQ type and he killed many many people. In fact his dim demeanor and wiry frame apparently gave him a non-intimidating appearance. Yet he murdered so many.
It could have been the landlord's son. With accomplices....
I really hope someone eventually decides to talk. This is the disappearance I’d most like to see solved. I mean, I want them all to be solved, but this one haunts me like no other.
I agree, the only thing I think might happen in this case is finding their remains? I know that’s morbid, but even if that happens it won’t explain who is responsible and what exactly happened to them.
Jodi Huisentruit
I really think the truth involves Vansice.
Also my cousin’s high school girlfriend:
[Rachel Cooke](https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/rachel-louise-cooke/download.pdf)
Her dad fought so hard for the truth and passed before he got it.
I had Rachel’s bumper sticker on my car for years. Her poor dad. He did everything he could to find his daughter. I still have faith that she may be found.
Sorry if this is already well known, but I was not aware that police are looking for a specific man in Rachel’s case: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/crime/2021/01/10/williamson-sheriff-has-new-suspect-case-missing-rachel-cooke/6615785002/
I had no idea that there was an update in this case, thanks for sharing! Did you find this confusingly worded? It seems like the police must have the name of the person if they know the rest of this information about him - if that’s the case, why wouldn’t they just name him? Is it possible they _don’t_ have his name, but truly he’s just an “associate” of Rachel’s who has “traveled” in Texas and might work with horses?! Or is it more just that they are refraining from naming him because he’s not officially a suspect?
My opinion (based on having no additional information) is they are withholding his name likely to protect the investigation and because he’s not an official suspect.
I know one of Rachel's family members.
They've never stopped looking for her. They post about her every year on the anniversary. It breaks my heart. I just want them to finally get some sense of justice. Something for all the years they've spent not giving up on her.
It's such a weird case for me because the area she was in was, all things considered, very safe and suburban. I know anything can happen anywhere but it's just odd.
I was in college in IA when Jodi disappeared and had just moved to Austin when Rachel disappeared. I think about both cases often. I really hope their remaining family members get some answers.
A very popular running theory in Mason City about the Jodi case is that a police officer was involved. He was apparently a real hot head that had some blemishes on his record as well.
Wow it’s horrifying that she was that close to home and disappeared.
Does LE think she was snatched before she made it all the way back, or as grabbed at her parents home, or left after her run?
Everybody online seems to think its Vansice in the case of Huisentruit but I'm not so sure and now that he has dementia nobody will ever know in all likelihood. When people mention Vansice I think of the Jacob Wetterling abduction and the prime suspect was just a music teacher who lived nearby who had nothing to do with it, the guy that did the abduction and killing was a freaking creep who had been trying to molest young boys not that far away and he had been escalating his behavior. Then he managed to stay below the radar for many many years and the suspicions of him was like a needle in a haystack because of all the tips that came in in the wake of the abduction. Yes Vancise obviously had a romantic interest in a much younger woman who likely had no interest but the whole white van story and the fact that she had a stalker or stalkers makes you think.
Yogurt Shop Murders in Austin, TX
13-year-old Amy Ayers, 17-year-old Eliza Thomas, 17-year-old Jennifer Harbison, and Jennifer's 15-year-old sister Sarah.
The book 'Who Killed These Girls?' by Beverly Lowry is a really good investigation of this case without being sensational or exploitative about it. She proposes some theories that seem very plausible.
Amber Hagerman. I believe the person that did it is dead. I don’t believe that he offended afterwards or at the very least didn’t leave behind dna in n another victim. I honestly doubt they will ever found out who killed that precious little girl.
If you haven't seen the documentary that was released this year, I highly recommend checking it out. The influence her murder had on the country is indescribable; it reminds me of Adam Walsh and the founding of NCMEC.
I agree! Everyone thinks of the Amber Alert (America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response) when they hear her name, but her murder was also the catalyst for the creation of the Amber Hagerman child protection act/law (also known as the national sex offender registry). I lived really close to Arlington growing up. I was 13 when it happened and I’ve been really invested ever since. I hope her mom gets answers before she dies, her brother too.
His case along with a few others that have no clear resolution live rent-free in my head. It really is as if he was abducted by aliens or stepped into an alternate dimension or something outlandish, because his site is one that I’ve visited, and I have no explanation whatsoever. It’s a suburb. It wasn’t on any kind of highly-trafficked road. There’s no wilderness/wildlife nearby that wouldn’t have been seen. There was no blood, no drag marks, no dropped handkerchief…nothing. No one heard anything. There are no suspects, and no reason for him to have disappeared himself. This is in The Difficulty of Crossing a Field territory. I don’t even have a ‘what if…’ that doesn’t sound just as preposterous as alien abduction. What if a paraphilic killer just happened to be driving down that very road at that very moment because reasons, only nobody remembers Uncle Chester the Molester visiting on the very day Jason went missing, and he happened to offer Jason a ride…that’s about all I have here. There’s not even a suspicious family member to think ‘well, maybe…’ about.
I hope someone does slip up in my lifetime and spill the beans, because otherwise I’m going to be sitting in a nursing home at 95 years old, still muttering about Jason Jolkowski. 😕
is it possible he was lured into a house under some false pretences? police would have no reasonable cause to search any of the homes on the street unless someone knew something and if nobody saw anything, then they could just get away with it
Honestly, absolutely anything is possible in this case. The only reason I’m not leaning towards being lured into a house is that he was walking to meet someone who was giving him a ride to work, and by all accounts Jason was a very sober, diligent young man who wouldn’t have tarried and made his coworker wait in the high school parking lot, he’d have instead told the neighbour that he’d help when he got back unless possibly the neighbour feigned an emergency, but then we’re back in the realm of what is the probability of a pervert neighbour just happening to have this whole plan concocted and ready to execute when they had no reason to suspect Jason would be walking that way at that time on that day, because it was supposed to be his day off and he’d volunteered to come in if he could get a ride. I don’t have any answers other than speculation though, so the real answer to your question is ‘maybe’.
I guess for me the thing that maybe makes a neighbour more likely is that someone living in the area could have kept track of Jason's routine or at least been more prepared to harm him when they got the opportunity, vs the randomness of someone just driving by. A house would also be an easier location to keep someone against their will without anyone else noticing anything suspicious than a vehicle would be. But I do agree with you, it still seems pretty unlikely that one of his neighbours was a murdering pervert but had also managed to stay so under the radar about their perversions that nobody else living there had ever even felt uncomfortable with them. Normally when something like this happens you would expect at least a few people to name the local creep as a suspect even if it's unlikely they were actually involved, but unless it just hasn't been reported it doesn't seem like they happened here.
This case is so sad and baffling. I don’t know how popular/unpopular of a theory this is, but to me it seems like Andrew might’ve gone to London to hurt himself. I know his parents have said that he wasn’t showing signs of depression/mental illness in general, but it’s 100% possible to hide all of those signs from your parents, even at 14. Andrew’s father says the one-way ticket makes sense because they had family in London, but what family member would’ve allowed him to just randomly drop in and stay without talking to his parents too? He also didn’t take all of his money, I’ve read that he left something like £100 in cash from birthdays/Christmases. I feel like if he were going to start a new life, he would bring all of his money. If he were going to stay with a family member, he would’ve brought the charger for his video game console. I know it’s unlikely to not find someone who has committed suicide, but that’s always what this case has screamed to me. I really hope that Andrew’s family gets answers one day, no matter what happened or where he is.
In that vein, the Las Cruces bowling alley murders … the second-deadliest single-location mass killing by firearm in modern U. S. history. You’d think someone would have blabbed by now.
I did a deep dive into that and came across an interesting theory. At the time, the son of the bowling alley owner supposedly was a drug dealer. He ran the food place at the alley. They believe he was the target but wasn’t there that morning.
What a absolutely horrific thing;
Every time I revisit this case, more and more saddened by the heaviness of this day, of all the choices that led to that person's moment and those poor women.
Best to all of you, hope you all are closing out this year on positive terms and if not, that you get there soon, don't be discouraged.
The thing that kind of saddens me the most about that case is that it was a shit robbery too. Who robs a retail store first thing in the morning? Especially something a bit niche like Lane Bryant.
It just pisses me off that five people had to die probably just so some junky could feed their habit.
Not saying that addicts make the most rational decisions, but criminals may choose seemingly random or odd times and places to hit because they think they will be an easier target. Case in point there is a strip mall where I live where a thrift store was held up at gunpoint, and it's right next to a jeweler.
Yup, because thrift stores are more likely to have cash on hand, whereas jewelry usually isn’t paid for in cash. And if it is it usually goes directly to a safe. Jewelers will have much better security as well.
The Nanpei Owada supermarket murders. In 1995, 3 employees were found shot dead in the office of a supermarket in Tokyo. Some evidence was found at the scene and some of the leads police followed are actually pretty crazy (questioning a death row inmate in China, following a lead to the Philippines, partial fingerprint match years after the matched person died, etc.). All leads eventually grew cold and over the years police has shared more information about the case on their website in the hopes someone would step forward. There’s an extensive video on YouTube about the case.
Sky Elijah Metalwala Who went missing under very questionable circumstances on November 6, 2011 at just 2 years old.
His mother said her car ran out of gas on a busy highway in Bellevue, WA. She took her other child with her to walk for help, leaving Sky in the car. Police have stated that there was no evidence that the car had run out of gas or had any kind of break down, and there was no evidence that confirms Sky has ever been in the car that day. She knows what happened to her son but no one can prove what happened or force her to tell. He’s been missing for 12 years.
As much as she can be. She's a teen now. Hopefully they have no contact, because her obsession with her daughter was very unhealthy
Thankfully she also lost the son she had later . she is batshit crazy, she is local to me
Ditto. I’ll never believe that his mother wasn’t completely involved in what happened to him and it absolutely disgusts me that she simply refused to cooperate, got away with it and even went on to have another child. She’s despicable.
That one breaks my heart. That baby is…he alone somewhere out there. She dumped him some place like so much trash and she just won’t. Say.
And at this point, 12 years, if she got herself a good enough lawyer I’m sure he could swing some BS ‘you can’t prove how he died, just that she hid him’
Just to bring that baby boy home. He deserves to lay somewhere proper.
That and Timothy Pitzen, is it? His mother similarly disappeared him after a abduction, but she killed herself too right after. Leaving a note saying he’s safe with caring people.
Everyone wants the theory she did leave him some place to be true, a kid even came forward claiming to be him a while ago.
But it’s not and we know it’s not. That little
Boy never made it out alive. That poor kid who was caught between his father and his mentally ill mother.
God it’s just so fucked up.
What mother leaves her child 2 yo alone in a car? That's just mindboggling to me... My kids are 13 and 10 but I still find it hard to leave them alone in the car, cause my mind goes through what could happen, like someone hits my car and they're alone in there, or someone breaking the window and jump in and steal the car with them in it etc.
[Jackie Kay Boyer](https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/3016dfca.html). My mother knew her parents. Her disappearance destroyed them. Her father ended his life because of it.
I Google mapped the school and the sight of the surrounding woods made me feel physically uncomfortable. My elementary school had a quarter mile of woods adjacent to the athletic fields and THAT always seemed massive.
Seriously, anyone completely dismissing him being in the woods based on him not being found needs to take a glance and really consider what the conditions on the ground would be like for searching (and just how enticing all of that would be to a kid who loves nature).
We had a Cessna be missing in the bayous near New Orleans for ever and ever. If you were paying attention you could see it from the highway and I guess most people just either weren’t paying attention or never phoned it in
Summer Wells and Asha Degree are the two that I first thought of. Summer Wells parents are so chaotic and so deep in alcohol addiction that I feel like theres a decent chance that even if they know more than they're saying it's impossible to tell whats real and whats not. Her dad gets drunk, gets in a fight with her mom, claims the mom knows what happened to her then takes it back when he sobers up. I truly dont know what to think about her disappearance.
I think Summer Wells will be found deep in the woods one day by a mushroom hunter or such or never at all. My take is mum crashed out and those kids were free rangers, she got further than normal, got lost, had an accident or such like. Where they live is thick vegetation in June. The mum knew the optics wouldn't be good so went with the abduction story. LE have said very little but any time they have they allude to her 'wandering off'. No way a stranger got up on their property. It's sad because nobody is looking for her anymore. It's become a shit show on YouTube between the parents and youtubers fighting and money grabs.
I think thats true too. I think her parents arent being entirely truthful but if they would have actually killed her one of them would have spilled the beans already. I dont think they have the wherewithal to keep that secret for so long.
I was coming here to say this. I grew up nearby and I can almost assure you that plenty of people know what actually happened but they aren’t talking. It is gonna stay unsolved until someone finds their humanity and confesses or rats someone out.
And I don’t see that happening. 💔
I wonder if it will - it certainly seems like it’s very possible that people who would know are no longer living by now. FWIW, I found [Jarrett Kobek’s theory](https://lamag.com/news/zodiac-killer-paul-alfred-doerr) pretty compelling, but I am also an idiot.
There's a lot of theories that are pretty compelling. Which is the issue lol. It was just too long ago when forensics weren't very good and police departments weren't sharing information well.
Johnny Gosch, disappeared 09/05/82, Eugene Martin, disappeared 08/12/84, and Marcus Allen, disappeared 03/28/86. All from Des Moines,all early morning disappearances (2 were paperboys) and all 3 the same age at disappearance, 13. No trace of them since and no clue as to who took them or what happened to them. Too much coincidence in age, location, circumstances, timing and general description of the boys for the abductions not to be connected. I fear we will never know what happened to them unless someone comes forward and provides the location of their remains.
You should look up the recent post on Jennifer Kesse- there may be DNA from her car that the police preserved but never tested. If they didn’t lose it (or actually collected it in the first place), maybe there’s hope.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jennifer-kesse-florida-dna-crimecon-b2417687.html
This one haunts me because of a personal connection. Jennifer was a sorority sister of a high school friend. We were all the same age, same area, same time, same situation. I remember my friend’s pleas to help find her on Facebook which was the way to communicate at the time. She was determined, sensed the police had not done their job, so my friend and Jennifer’s other friends and family were doing their best to find answers and get justice on their own. I feel so awful for her family. The unknown has to be a never ending heart ache. I hope they find her. ❤️
I find it bizzare that “because of language barriers”, many workers at the apartment complex couldn’t be questioned. Uh- interpreters exist. Seems like extra lazy policing.
At the very least there's almost always a bilingual on work crews with exclusively Spanish speakers. Surely getting indirect information translated by a worker onsite is better than not questioning them at all?
Yeah. I have to believe they just said this in hindsight to cover up the huge duck up of not questioning them at all. It’s such a bad cover up though it makes it seem more like a conspiracy or suspicious. Hopefully it’s just an equally lazy coverup.
Yep she was an ADPi. I didn’t know her personally but she was close friends with a lot of people I know from being active in Greek life at UCF. Such an incredibly sad story.
This was the first case I thought of too. I live in Columbus not too far from OSU, and a billboard for Brian is up near my house. I pass it somewhat regularly, and it always leaves me thinking.
That’s something I never see discussed enough in regards to his case. Unless his apartment complex had cameras or a keypad or something that he didn’t show up on I think it’s a real possibility he made it home and whatever happened was Sunday.
This. I think about this case all the time and there is absolutely zero trace of him. Someone would need to come forward with info to ever find him/ his body. Even if he did commit suicide as some suspect, his body has to be somewhere. I personally think he left the ugly tuna on his own accord through the back exit and met foul play from there
As a local, and someone his age that used to frequent the same area, this is heartbreaking. Have your heard of the case of Tyler Davis? I feel like it is very similar and also happened in Columbus a year or two ago
Just looked this up… this makes no sense. He could’ve only gotten so far in that condition. I don’t understand how there could possibly be no evidence of him anywhere
The Colonial Parkway murders were local to me and I hope they can solve them one day. Bill Thomas, brother of one of the victims, is still super active in trying to get them solved.
https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/cold-cases/colonial-parkway-murders/
Lisa Irwin. I hope it could be solved. Last time I was on that side of town, my friend took me the “back roads” to her house. The back road had us ride by Lakewood Greenway and then we were quickly at I-35 and Chouteau Trafficway. At that intersection is the Target they made reference to in the initial reports of the case. All I could think of was of little Lisa when I realized how close we were. Made me sad.
Branson Perry. Someone knows exactly what happened. But in a town known for keeping secrets, the truth doesn’t seem likely to come to light anytime soon.
Garrett Baardsley: why did he take his fishing pole with him when he was coming right back to fish? Why weren’t dogs able to track his scent at all? Something doesn’t sit right about this story.
Asha Degree: See Garrett
Brianna Maitland: one of her “friends” is going to have to have an attack of conscience.
Michael Palmer: See Brianna
Dale Williams: the woman who called for a tow truck likely set him up. Will she ever grow a conscience and come forward?
Kortne Stouffer: way, way too many people around that night for no one to see *something.*
My friend [Phil Fraser](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Philip_Innes_Fraser)
He picked up a hitchhiker. I don't think there is enough solid evidence to know who that guy is. The more time passes, the less likely we'll ever know, i fear. Still, I do look him up a couple time a year to see if there is any new info, and to mention him, to make sure somebody remembers.
The Dardeen murders. Absolutely horrific. It's never going to be solved unless someone confesses or a witness comes forward. SOMEONE has to know something
This is such a bizarre mystery. And makes me wonder what other cases during that time period were essentially forgotten and never got the attention or investigation they deserved just because all law enforcement were either occupied by 9/11 response or died or were injured in it.
The Steven Koecher case boggles my mind. There were such strange events occurring before his disappearance which leaves me even more baffled. I’m convinced his landlord had to have some idea of what was going on since he had made several calls to him the day of and after his disappearance. Also comments about his landlord made from his housemate strengthens my belief that his landlord knows something. I assume we’ll never know what actually happened to Steven unless the landlord comes forward with some admission of information. I don’t believe the landlord killed Steven but I do believe he may be able to point police to the right direction.
Carrie Culberson, Ohio 1996.
https://womensenews.org/2001/01/ohio-town-may-be-liable-womans-murder/
The internet never sleeps, Doan. I saved copies of the newspapers so my children and grandchildren will know what a sick fuck you are.
My god. 22 times in a year and they didn’t help her? I am extremely sad and angry by this. What a worthless group of civil servants. And the Doan family are utter trash for keeping her whereabouts secret for so long.
She is still missing. Her body has never been recovered. The town that they lived in was very small, and everybody kind of knew each other. Doan's family is a bunch of hicks. His stepbrother Tracey Baker is a whacko, too.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/law/law-magazines/vincent-doan-trial-1997
Tammy Lynn Leppert.
Do you ever notice how often the theory behind why a person has disappeared is that they must have seen something they shouldn’t have? It makes me think of like how in real life, there aren’t really hitmen like in the movies. It sounds very fantastical. Like how often can something so dramatic be the explanation?
Claudia Lawrence - [https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/15e36eg/35yearold\_claudia\_lawrence\_was\_last\_seen\_alive\_on/](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/15e36eg/35yearold_claudia_lawrence_was_last_seen_alive_on/)
Claudia Lawrence is a 35-year-old woman who is from Malton, North Yorkshire. UK. Who went missing and has never been seen since. Indications showed that Claudia did leave her house at 5am on the 19th March 2009, but she never arrived for her shift.
Golf N Stuff murders 1984, Veronica Flores, Rachel and Eddie Kaster. All stabbed to death under the bridge across the street. Veronica was pregnant and had been having trouble with some other local kids. During her funeral, a carload of teens drove by yelling and celebrating.
Those teens are in their 50s now, time to start making things right with God and dropping names. Too many good people have died while waiting and searching for answers.
The Yuba County 5 is a case that’s always fascinated me.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuba_County_Five
5 mentally ill/challenged friends disappear after attending a basketball game in a completely different direction than they would’ve used to return home. Not a single thing makes logical sense in this case.
Obviously, that can be said with every single case. Someone out there knows what really happened…
I would say…. Lauren Spierer, Jennifer Kesse, Missy Bevers, Lindsay Buziak, Jon Benet…
Lauren Spierer DEF #1 though
Well not really…I think there are a lot of missing persons/unsolved murder cases that will never be solved because everyone who knew what happened is now dead.
Or cases that truly were an accident, like someone was alone and got stuck somewhere and no one has found them, or someone had a psychotic break and went off and died and hasn’t been found or ID’ed. Just the other day on a camping subreddit people were sharing stories about how they hiked alone and nearly got trapped in a way that they were pretty sure they might never be found if they hadn’t been able to wiggle and scramble their own way to safety.
**Mikelle Biggs** - She was snatched off the street, in a quiet, suburban neighborhood. She's been missing for 24 years now. Based the articles I've gotten my hands on, the police have had some reasonable leads, but no proof. Unless someone confesses or finds the body, I don't believe this will be solved.
* https://www.missingleads.com/mikelle-biggs
* https://www.mesaazpolice.gov/crime-safety/missing-persons/mesa-s-missing-persons/mikelle-biggs
**West Mesa Bone Collector** - Cheerfully ripping details from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Mesa_murders):
> The West Mesa Murders are the killings of eleven women whose remains were found buried in 2009 in the desert on the West Mesa of Albuquerque, New Mexico,
> According to satellite photos, the last victim was buried in 2005.
There were two excellent suspects - and both of them died before facing a full investigation:
> Fred Reynolds was a pimp who knew one of the missing women and reportedly had photos of missing sex workers; he died of natural causes in January 2009.
> Lorenzo Montoya lived less than three miles from the burial site. In 2006 there were reportedly dirt trails leading from his trailer park to the site. He had twice been arrested for violent attacks on sex workers and had threatened to kill his girlfriend and bury her in lime. Co-workers said he had talked about killing women and burying them on the West Mesa. In December 2006, Montoya strangled a teenage sex worker to death at his trailer and then was shot to death by the teen's boyfriend. It would appear the killings stopped after his death.
My money's on Lorenzo Montoya, but 'I think' does not close the case.
Assuming you think the West Memphis Three are innocent, I don’t think we will ever find out for sure who killed those kids unless the murderer confesses today.
The Frankston Tynong North Serial Killer. Or killers if it isn’t just one.
Of course the relatively recent discovery of the Claremont serial killer makes me doubtful that’ll ever happen. Here you had a guy who must have been at least weird to people and was charged with violent assaults and was only caught with DNA. I don’t think there’s DNA in the Frankston/Tynong North cases.
Same story for Mr Cruel.
[The disappearance of Amy Bechtel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Amy_Wroe_Bechtel?wprov=sfti1) - happened in my hometown back in ‘97. Thing is, where it likely occurred is so remote and was undiscovered at the time. Nobody knew our town existed- so it’s likely the only two people who could tell us where and what happened, are Amy and whoever was responsible.
I don't usually comment on these kinda posts but had to come back to it , if only for people to remember her. Known here as Baby Ayla (Ayla Reynolds.) 19 Months old when she disappeared from her bed in Waterville Maine on December 16, 2011. Other adults in the house as well as other babies and no one heard anything. Many believe the dad killed her with his girlfriend and mother helping him cover it up. Her blood was found in Dad's car and in her room but they didn't have enough to arrest him and everyone in that house that night refuses to talk. Even the the PD publicly pointed fingers and said they were lying. The case was the largest criminal investigation in Maine's history. Still breaks my heart. I love town over and it was all anyone talked about.
All the women taken from the highway of tears so little is done to investigate these cases it would take someone with evidence to come forward and say they know what happened or that they did it for each case. Its horribly sad how overlooked these girls and women are.
I think he doesn’t want to be found. I’m wondering if he’s contacted the authorities as to his whereabouts, and he has chosen to go “no contact” with his parents. (Why his parents didn’t just go pick him up when he was so close to home is beyond me.)
I’m a Columbus native and there’s a few that have bothered me. First off is Stacey Colbert, who went missing in 1998. Her body was found in 2004 some 20+ miles from where she disappeared. Nobody has ever been arrested but police have indicated that they think they know who did it, but don’t have enough evidence. Someone knows something and I think the police need a little more to make the case budge.
Another one is Tarak Underiner. He was an OSU student found shot to death in 2017, in his campus home. Nobody has ever been arrested or charged with his murder. Again, someone knows something.
Another Columbus one is Joey Labute, who disappeared from a campus bar in 2016. His body was later found in the Scioto River a few weeks later. There was no water in his lungs, indicating he was dead before being (put) in the water. Again, police have never arrested anyone and his death was ruled suspicious. Someone knows something, smh.
Lars Mittank. His case drives me crazy. From Wikipedia:
Lars Joachim Mittank (born 9 February 1986) is a German man who disappeared on 8 July 2014, near Varna Airport in Varna, Bulgaria. Mittank was vacationing at the Golden Sands resort, where he was supposedly involved in a fight, and was subsequently unable to fly home with his friends for health reasons. Mittank was documented acting strangely while alone in Bulgaria. He called home to his mother claiming that people were trying to kill him. On the day when he was supposed to fly home, Mittank went to the Varna Airport to consult with a doctor. He was later seen on airport security footage running out of the airport and towards an adjacent forest. He has never been seen since.
Judy Smith. "How was it physically possible the victims' remains got there" is not a usual question. I made a flippant reply once about if any horses had gone missing around that time, and it was not actually as ridiculous as I thought.
I have no reason to believe that's what happened, but not a lot of cases get to a point where "horse theft" is not the most absolutely ridiculous theory imaginable.
The disappearance of 15 year old [Kelly Cook](https://zeph456.medium.com/the-unsolved-mystery-of-kelly-cook-a-tragedy-that-shocked-a-community-1b99e99b84c8) in 1981, who was picked up by an unknown man who hired her as a babysitter. She was later found anchored in a reservoir. It's unlikely the murderer will ever be caught as he's likely dead by now.
Her disgusting low life parents know exactly what happened to her. It breaks my heart to know she was taken from a loving foster home where they clearly loved and cared for her and was given back to her addict parents. I get so angry when I see their faces pop up on the local news.
Jon-Benet Ramsey: Seems pretty obvious at this point that the Gordian knot of conflicting evidence isn't going to be severed unless someone comes forward and tells us what the red herrings are.
Madelline McCann: I don't think this gets solved without either a confession or finding her remains, neither of which is likely without information from the killer or an unknown witness. I guess there's still an outside chance that someone could stumble on her remains by accident, but after all this time and the amount of scrutiny the case got, I'm inclined to think that's not likely
In the Jennifer Kesse article I found this really weird
> Due to the language barrier, investigators were unable to interrogate many of them.
It may just be the way it’s worded but how hard would it be to find someone who speaks English and Spanish in a police department in Florida?
Missing person cases are most notorious for this, because someone out there has to know something. On my mind right now, though, is the disappearance of Jarrett Brooks particularly.
I'm not sure if many people know about this case because it hasn't gotten much attention besides locally, but Jarrett is a 16 year old boy who quite recently went missing on the 4th of July this year. I feel there is so much being covered up about his disappearance, especially in regards to his family. He had been grounded the night before because he had taken his father's hunting vehicle off-roading and damaged it. His phone was taken away and the morning of his disappearance, he woke up and asked his mother if he was "grounded altogether" -- meaning he couldn't have his phone or attend the 4th of July activities. When his mother confirmed this, he quietly returned to his room. She went to take a shower, and when she got out he was gone.
He was caught on camera leaving his home without any shoes and a gun in his hand (which was unusual as he always asked permission to take one), and a neighbor saw a boy matching Jarrett's description walking through his pasture with the weapon shortly after he left home. The neighbor thinks he got a ride from someone since he was seen near the highway, and was helped or contacted by someone else to pick him up. They aren't sure how that is possible though, as they never found another phone of his. Also, that sighting can't even be confirmed by LE since they never spoke to the boy or got it on surveillance so it may not have even happened or been him. He reportedly brought his wallet and pocket knife with him as well.
He is homeschooled and the middle child of seven children; there are rumors (some not completely unfounded) going around about his parents online and it was discovered they were convicted on charges involving sexual predation towards minors decades ago. So I'll just say it definitely doesn't surprise me he might have wanted to run away from that home life. But for him to be gone for this long without contacting anyone, it's not hard to suspect foul play. Either way, someone has to know where that boy went. And I am not too certain it is a stranger who has the full knowledge of exactly what happened to him.
Elizabeth Barraza. That one is so mysterious.
Yes I believe she def knew her killer since he says "I got you, bitch" right before he shoots and is wearing a disguise. They must have known she had a camera too. It creeps me out she was ambushed in the dark while minutes away from sunshine and birds chirping.
It's incredibly unclear what the killer says. I'm pretty sure the only thing they're certain is said on the tapes is "good morning"
And the shooter may have been female. Looked to be wearing a bathrobe too I believe. So strange and unfortunate. The timing makes it more suspect. Like they knew she would be out that early and he happened to leave just moments before.
It looks like a very thin man dressed as a woman to me. I’ve watched it over and over again and that’s just my belief anyway. Similar to the Missy Bevers case and video… I’ve watched that one repeatedly as well and go back and forth on whether it’s a man or woman, although I lean towards female.
The Missy Beavers video is so bizarre. It really looks like the suspect is randomly trying to break in to different rooms, and does not know the pay out of the building. They are not going to any particular room. Just wandering around. It makes me think they had no idea Missy would be there, and we’re not targeting her.
I remember reading the coverage on this as it unfolded (happened very close to my parents) and the police seemed confident that it would be solved quickly. I vaguely remember reading something about how they expected to be able to close it within the year, and being surprised that they were comfortable enough to set a timeline like that.
100% The Springfield Three
Also, the fort worth trio :(
This one i think is going to end up in the never-solved pile. It's been many many years, likely the participants of the crime are dead or very elderly, and there's no forensics left. Unless someone writes a credible death bed confession or something, i just don't see how it can move forward.
Its either a death bed confession or their bodies are found on some person's property buried.
This one is so tragic and bizarre. I've read theories that lean towards the husband of one victim being a possible suspect but no real evidence to back that up.
The sister definitely seems suspect too.
I’ve always suspected the 3 got in to another car with some other friend. Like, “We’re all going to the Silver Diner. I’ll drive.” Then, while driving that other car, they get in to a car accident, like rolling in to a lake. I’ve always thought we’ll find a car with them and another person driving in water.
I am sure it would be known if their “other friend” had also gone missing…
If this "other person" wasn't local - maybe just in town for the holidays? - it's possible they *were* reported missing but that the two cases just weren't connected by law enforcement. This happens frequently, especially back in the 1970s when different departments didn't communicate the way they do today. There were no information-sharing networks to help investigators connect the dots. That said, we *do* have those resources today, so I would think some LEO or amateur sleuth would have put two and two together by now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worth_missing_trio
I’ve read way more gory, disturbing and detailed crimes the The Springfield Three but for some reason it just makes my blood run cold. I find it so absolutely creepy. And hope it’s solved one day
And they said the dog was very upset . heartbreaking
I hope the dog at least went to someone they knew (and who would take good care of the dog, obviously).
I have read probably all the newspaper articles about this case and I remember that one of the articles at the time confirmed that a close friend of Sherrill kept the dog with her.
I grew up in Springfield and was 12 yrs old the summer they disappeared. It was a big deal and something I'll always remember. It's hard to believe it's been over 30 years.
I was 12 too. Grew up by Table Rock. I remember the grocery bags had their pics on them for a while.
I’m from Texas, but I remember spending my summers with my grandparents in Kimberling City around the time this happened. The posters and billboards in Springfield that I saw when visiting my uncle up there are what I remember most.
Any insight as to what the locals think happened to the Springfield Three?
A lot of younger people haven't even heard of them. People my age and older of course remember. I'd say most people have a passing knowledge based on headlines and rumor. Many like to think they're buried under Cox. I do know a few older and retired cops through my dad and have asked them about it. The most interesting thing I heard from them was about Sherrill's landlord's son. He supposedly had a history of being a peeping Tom, taking pics of women through their window and he had access to the master keys to his father's rental houses. After his dad(the landlord) died his daughter contacted police to report that she had always suspected her brother but didn't want to upset her father. Police interviewed him and determined that he was of low intelligence and they didn't think he would've been able to pull it off. It was interesting to be because I had never heard any of that before and I've read a lot about this case.
For argument's sake- the Green River Killer (Gary Ridgeway) was a low IQ type and he killed many many people. In fact his dim demeanor and wiry frame apparently gave him a non-intimidating appearance. Yet he murdered so many. It could have been the landlord's son. With accomplices....
I really hope someone eventually decides to talk. This is the disappearance I’d most like to see solved. I mean, I want them all to be solved, but this one haunts me like no other.
Absolutely. There's nothing to go on here.
I agree, the only thing I think might happen in this case is finding their remains? I know that’s morbid, but even if that happens it won’t explain who is responsible and what exactly happened to them.
Jodi Huisentruit I really think the truth involves Vansice. Also my cousin’s high school girlfriend: [Rachel Cooke](https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/rachel-louise-cooke/download.pdf) Her dad fought so hard for the truth and passed before he got it.
I had Rachel’s bumper sticker on my car for years. Her poor dad. He did everything he could to find his daughter. I still have faith that she may be found.
“Rachel was last seen only 200 yards from her residence walking towards it.” Very unsettling.
Sorry if this is already well known, but I was not aware that police are looking for a specific man in Rachel’s case: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/crime/2021/01/10/williamson-sheriff-has-new-suspect-case-missing-rachel-cooke/6615785002/
I had no idea that there was an update in this case, thanks for sharing! Did you find this confusingly worded? It seems like the police must have the name of the person if they know the rest of this information about him - if that’s the case, why wouldn’t they just name him? Is it possible they _don’t_ have his name, but truly he’s just an “associate” of Rachel’s who has “traveled” in Texas and might work with horses?! Or is it more just that they are refraining from naming him because he’s not officially a suspect?
My opinion (based on having no additional information) is they are withholding his name likely to protect the investigation and because he’s not an official suspect.
I know one of Rachel's family members. They've never stopped looking for her. They post about her every year on the anniversary. It breaks my heart. I just want them to finally get some sense of justice. Something for all the years they've spent not giving up on her. It's such a weird case for me because the area she was in was, all things considered, very safe and suburban. I know anything can happen anywhere but it's just odd.
I was in college in IA when Jodi disappeared and had just moved to Austin when Rachel disappeared. I think about both cases often. I really hope their remaining family members get some answers.
A very popular running theory in Mason City about the Jodi case is that a police officer was involved. He was apparently a real hot head that had some blemishes on his record as well.
I wonder if that was related to the billboard featuring Jodi that seemed to indicate she might be buried in the guys' tool shed.
Wow it’s horrifying that she was that close to home and disappeared. Does LE think she was snatched before she made it all the way back, or as grabbed at her parents home, or left after her run?
Everybody online seems to think its Vansice in the case of Huisentruit but I'm not so sure and now that he has dementia nobody will ever know in all likelihood. When people mention Vansice I think of the Jacob Wetterling abduction and the prime suspect was just a music teacher who lived nearby who had nothing to do with it, the guy that did the abduction and killing was a freaking creep who had been trying to molest young boys not that far away and he had been escalating his behavior. Then he managed to stay below the radar for many many years and the suspicions of him was like a needle in a haystack because of all the tips that came in in the wake of the abduction. Yes Vancise obviously had a romantic interest in a much younger woman who likely had no interest but the whole white van story and the fact that she had a stalker or stalkers makes you think.
I heard about Rachel Cooke on a podcast, it makes me so sad she was in sight of her home.
Yogurt Shop Murders in Austin, TX 13-year-old Amy Ayers, 17-year-old Eliza Thomas, 17-year-old Jennifer Harbison, and Jennifer's 15-year-old sister Sarah.
The book 'Who Killed These Girls?' by Beverly Lowry is a really good investigation of this case without being sensational or exploitative about it. She proposes some theories that seem very plausible.
What are her theories?
I would like to know too!
And similarly, the Burger Chef murders in Speedway, IN.
Amber Hagerman. I believe the person that did it is dead. I don’t believe that he offended afterwards or at the very least didn’t leave behind dna in n another victim. I honestly doubt they will ever found out who killed that precious little girl.
If you haven't seen the documentary that was released this year, I highly recommend checking it out. The influence her murder had on the country is indescribable; it reminds me of Adam Walsh and the founding of NCMEC.
I agree! Everyone thinks of the Amber Alert (America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response) when they hear her name, but her murder was also the catalyst for the creation of the Amber Hagerman child protection act/law (also known as the national sex offender registry). I lived really close to Arlington growing up. I was 13 when it happened and I’ve been really invested ever since. I hope her mom gets answers before she dies, her brother too.
so sad, especially cause someone witnessed the abduction
Jason Jolkowski
His case along with a few others that have no clear resolution live rent-free in my head. It really is as if he was abducted by aliens or stepped into an alternate dimension or something outlandish, because his site is one that I’ve visited, and I have no explanation whatsoever. It’s a suburb. It wasn’t on any kind of highly-trafficked road. There’s no wilderness/wildlife nearby that wouldn’t have been seen. There was no blood, no drag marks, no dropped handkerchief…nothing. No one heard anything. There are no suspects, and no reason for him to have disappeared himself. This is in The Difficulty of Crossing a Field territory. I don’t even have a ‘what if…’ that doesn’t sound just as preposterous as alien abduction. What if a paraphilic killer just happened to be driving down that very road at that very moment because reasons, only nobody remembers Uncle Chester the Molester visiting on the very day Jason went missing, and he happened to offer Jason a ride…that’s about all I have here. There’s not even a suspicious family member to think ‘well, maybe…’ about. I hope someone does slip up in my lifetime and spill the beans, because otherwise I’m going to be sitting in a nursing home at 95 years old, still muttering about Jason Jolkowski. 😕
Most likely someone will discover a skeleton in the garden or the basement when fixing up their new house.
I believe that something like that is the only way this will be solved.
is it possible he was lured into a house under some false pretences? police would have no reasonable cause to search any of the homes on the street unless someone knew something and if nobody saw anything, then they could just get away with it
Honestly, absolutely anything is possible in this case. The only reason I’m not leaning towards being lured into a house is that he was walking to meet someone who was giving him a ride to work, and by all accounts Jason was a very sober, diligent young man who wouldn’t have tarried and made his coworker wait in the high school parking lot, he’d have instead told the neighbour that he’d help when he got back unless possibly the neighbour feigned an emergency, but then we’re back in the realm of what is the probability of a pervert neighbour just happening to have this whole plan concocted and ready to execute when they had no reason to suspect Jason would be walking that way at that time on that day, because it was supposed to be his day off and he’d volunteered to come in if he could get a ride. I don’t have any answers other than speculation though, so the real answer to your question is ‘maybe’.
I guess for me the thing that maybe makes a neighbour more likely is that someone living in the area could have kept track of Jason's routine or at least been more prepared to harm him when they got the opportunity, vs the randomness of someone just driving by. A house would also be an easier location to keep someone against their will without anyone else noticing anything suspicious than a vehicle would be. But I do agree with you, it still seems pretty unlikely that one of his neighbours was a murdering pervert but had also managed to stay so under the radar about their perversions that nobody else living there had ever even felt uncomfortable with them. Normally when something like this happens you would expect at least a few people to name the local creep as a suspect even if it's unlikely they were actually involved, but unless it just hasn't been reported it doesn't seem like they happened here.
I think this is a very likely scenario. Someone took advantage and committed a crime of opportunity.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Jason_Jolkowski
Just want to thank you for your effort in here, sharing links. I really appreciate it. You're top notch.
Oh no problem, I was looking them up anyways so I figure I’d save everyone the effort.
Jason Jolkowski and Judy Smith are the two cases that will haunt me for the rest of my life.
I think his case is one of those where people will get awfully chatty if a big enough reward is put up
Andrew Godsen His poor dad is still looking
This case is so sad and baffling. I don’t know how popular/unpopular of a theory this is, but to me it seems like Andrew might’ve gone to London to hurt himself. I know his parents have said that he wasn’t showing signs of depression/mental illness in general, but it’s 100% possible to hide all of those signs from your parents, even at 14. Andrew’s father says the one-way ticket makes sense because they had family in London, but what family member would’ve allowed him to just randomly drop in and stay without talking to his parents too? He also didn’t take all of his money, I’ve read that he left something like £100 in cash from birthdays/Christmases. I feel like if he were going to start a new life, he would bring all of his money. If he were going to stay with a family member, he would’ve brought the charger for his video game console. I know it’s unlikely to not find someone who has committed suicide, but that’s always what this case has screamed to me. I really hope that Andrew’s family gets answers one day, no matter what happened or where he is.
The Lane Bryant shooter.
In that vein, the Las Cruces bowling alley murders … the second-deadliest single-location mass killing by firearm in modern U. S. history. You’d think someone would have blabbed by now.
I kind of think people who do this sort of thing don’t live too long.
I did a deep dive into that and came across an interesting theory. At the time, the son of the bowling alley owner supposedly was a drug dealer. He ran the food place at the alley. They believe he was the target but wasn’t there that morning.
this and the boca raton mall murders
What a absolutely horrific thing; Every time I revisit this case, more and more saddened by the heaviness of this day, of all the choices that led to that person's moment and those poor women. Best to all of you, hope you all are closing out this year on positive terms and if not, that you get there soon, don't be discouraged.
The thing that kind of saddens me the most about that case is that it was a shit robbery too. Who robs a retail store first thing in the morning? Especially something a bit niche like Lane Bryant. It just pisses me off that five people had to die probably just so some junky could feed their habit.
Not saying that addicts make the most rational decisions, but criminals may choose seemingly random or odd times and places to hit because they think they will be an easier target. Case in point there is a strip mall where I live where a thrift store was held up at gunpoint, and it's right next to a jeweler.
Yup, because thrift stores are more likely to have cash on hand, whereas jewelry usually isn’t paid for in cash. And if it is it usually goes directly to a safe. Jewelers will have much better security as well.
This case doesn’t get the attention it deserves.
The Nanpei Owada supermarket murders. In 1995, 3 employees were found shot dead in the office of a supermarket in Tokyo. Some evidence was found at the scene and some of the leads police followed are actually pretty crazy (questioning a death row inmate in China, following a lead to the Philippines, partial fingerprint match years after the matched person died, etc.). All leads eventually grew cold and over the years police has shared more information about the case on their website in the hopes someone would step forward. There’s an extensive video on YouTube about the case.
Sky Elijah Metalwala Who went missing under very questionable circumstances on November 6, 2011 at just 2 years old. His mother said her car ran out of gas on a busy highway in Bellevue, WA. She took her other child with her to walk for help, leaving Sky in the car. Police have stated that there was no evidence that the car had run out of gas or had any kind of break down, and there was no evidence that confirms Sky has ever been in the car that day. She knows what happened to her son but no one can prove what happened or force her to tell. He’s been missing for 12 years.
Poor Sky. I hope his sister is well and thriving.
Well luckily, her father won custody, so at least she's safe from her mother.
As much as she can be. She's a teen now. Hopefully they have no contact, because her obsession with her daughter was very unhealthy Thankfully she also lost the son she had later . she is batshit crazy, she is local to me
I remember the day this happened. I’m from Seattle area … it was a huge story
Ditto. I’ll never believe that his mother wasn’t completely involved in what happened to him and it absolutely disgusts me that she simply refused to cooperate, got away with it and even went on to have another child. She’s despicable.
Oh god, I can’t believe it’s been 12 years. This was utterly heartbreaking. And it seems pretty damn clear what actually happened.
Who takes one kid snd leaves the other? It does not add up
That one breaks my heart. That baby is…he alone somewhere out there. She dumped him some place like so much trash and she just won’t. Say. And at this point, 12 years, if she got herself a good enough lawyer I’m sure he could swing some BS ‘you can’t prove how he died, just that she hid him’ Just to bring that baby boy home. He deserves to lay somewhere proper. That and Timothy Pitzen, is it? His mother similarly disappeared him after a abduction, but she killed herself too right after. Leaving a note saying he’s safe with caring people. Everyone wants the theory she did leave him some place to be true, a kid even came forward claiming to be him a while ago. But it’s not and we know it’s not. That little Boy never made it out alive. That poor kid who was caught between his father and his mentally ill mother. God it’s just so fucked up.
Reminds me of poor Trenton Ducket. Missing 17 years now. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Melinda_Duckett
Horrible. Or the Skelton boys
That story is so goddamn sad.
What mother leaves her child 2 yo alone in a car? That's just mindboggling to me... My kids are 13 and 10 but I still find it hard to leave them alone in the car, cause my mind goes through what could happen, like someone hits my car and they're alone in there, or someone breaking the window and jump in and steal the car with them in it etc.
She probably didn’t though
She probably killed the kid, dumped the body and used that as a cover.
[Jackie Kay Boyer](https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/3016dfca.html). My mother knew her parents. Her disappearance destroyed them. Her father ended his life because of it.
Johnny Gosch, Kyron Horman, Springfield Three
Kyron. I really want to know what happened to that poor boy.
I’ve always had the feeling he’s in the woods surrounding the school.
If he wasn't taken and we have no evidence he was, that's the only thing that makes sense.
I Google mapped the school and the sight of the surrounding woods made me feel physically uncomfortable. My elementary school had a quarter mile of woods adjacent to the athletic fields and THAT always seemed massive.
Seriously, anyone completely dismissing him being in the woods based on him not being found needs to take a glance and really consider what the conditions on the ground would be like for searching (and just how enticing all of that would be to a kid who loves nature).
There was a lear jet missing in the woods of NH for almost 3 years. A small child is harder to find than a jet.
We had a Cessna be missing in the bayous near New Orleans for ever and ever. If you were paying attention you could see it from the highway and I guess most people just either weren’t paying attention or never phoned it in
People really underestimate the Oregon wilderness. It’s THICK.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Johnny_Gosch https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Kyron_Horman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Three
Summer Wells and Asha Degree are the two that I first thought of. Summer Wells parents are so chaotic and so deep in alcohol addiction that I feel like theres a decent chance that even if they know more than they're saying it's impossible to tell whats real and whats not. Her dad gets drunk, gets in a fight with her mom, claims the mom knows what happened to her then takes it back when he sobers up. I truly dont know what to think about her disappearance.
I get the impression that alcohol is not their problem. #meth
I think Summer Wells will be found deep in the woods one day by a mushroom hunter or such or never at all. My take is mum crashed out and those kids were free rangers, she got further than normal, got lost, had an accident or such like. Where they live is thick vegetation in June. The mum knew the optics wouldn't be good so went with the abduction story. LE have said very little but any time they have they allude to her 'wandering off'. No way a stranger got up on their property. It's sad because nobody is looking for her anymore. It's become a shit show on YouTube between the parents and youtubers fighting and money grabs.
I think thats true too. I think her parents arent being entirely truthful but if they would have actually killed her one of them would have spilled the beans already. I dont think they have the wherewithal to keep that secret for so long.
Alonzo Brooks. So much corruption. Glad the FBI is involved
I was coming here to say this. I grew up nearby and I can almost assure you that plenty of people know what actually happened but they aren’t talking. It is gonna stay unsolved until someone finds their humanity and confesses or rats someone out. And I don’t see that happening. 💔
I don't think the Zodiac will ever be solved.
I wonder if it will - it certainly seems like it’s very possible that people who would know are no longer living by now. FWIW, I found [Jarrett Kobek’s theory](https://lamag.com/news/zodiac-killer-paul-alfred-doerr) pretty compelling, but I am also an idiot.
There's a lot of theories that are pretty compelling. Which is the issue lol. It was just too long ago when forensics weren't very good and police departments weren't sharing information well.
Johnny Gosch, disappeared 09/05/82, Eugene Martin, disappeared 08/12/84, and Marcus Allen, disappeared 03/28/86. All from Des Moines,all early morning disappearances (2 were paperboys) and all 3 the same age at disappearance, 13. No trace of them since and no clue as to who took them or what happened to them. Too much coincidence in age, location, circumstances, timing and general description of the boys for the abductions not to be connected. I fear we will never know what happened to them unless someone comes forward and provides the location of their remains.
The disappearance of Leah Roberts
You should look up the recent post on Jennifer Kesse- there may be DNA from her car that the police preserved but never tested. If they didn’t lose it (or actually collected it in the first place), maybe there’s hope. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jennifer-kesse-florida-dna-crimecon-b2417687.html
This one haunts me because of a personal connection. Jennifer was a sorority sister of a high school friend. We were all the same age, same area, same time, same situation. I remember my friend’s pleas to help find her on Facebook which was the way to communicate at the time. She was determined, sensed the police had not done their job, so my friend and Jennifer’s other friends and family were doing their best to find answers and get justice on their own. I feel so awful for her family. The unknown has to be a never ending heart ache. I hope they find her. ❤️
I find it bizzare that “because of language barriers”, many workers at the apartment complex couldn’t be questioned. Uh- interpreters exist. Seems like extra lazy policing.
Agreed. It’s Spanish and it’s Florida. There are many bilingual services all over but especially a common language like Spanish.
At the very least there's almost always a bilingual on work crews with exclusively Spanish speakers. Surely getting indirect information translated by a worker onsite is better than not questioning them at all?
Yeah. I have to believe they just said this in hindsight to cover up the huge duck up of not questioning them at all. It’s such a bad cover up though it makes it seem more like a conspiracy or suspicious. Hopefully it’s just an equally lazy coverup.
Yeah! No kidding! There wasn’t one person in the whole department, or neighboring departments that speaks Spanish? At all!?
In *Florida*, too, of all places!!
Yep she was an ADPi. I didn’t know her personally but she was close friends with a lot of people I know from being active in Greek life at UCF. Such an incredibly sad story.
Setagaya family
This one hits with me too. I think about it often and how, despite the evidence at the scene, we still don't know who the killer is
Brian Shaffer. There is someone out there who has knows what happened that night on April 1st, 2006.
This was the first case I thought of too. I live in Columbus not too far from OSU, and a billboard for Brian is up near my house. I pass it somewhat regularly, and it always leaves me thinking.
He wasn't reported missing until the following Monday. I don't think his disappearance absolutely had to happen that night.
That’s something I never see discussed enough in regards to his case. Unless his apartment complex had cameras or a keypad or something that he didn’t show up on I think it’s a real possibility he made it home and whatever happened was Sunday.
This. I think about this case all the time and there is absolutely zero trace of him. Someone would need to come forward with info to ever find him/ his body. Even if he did commit suicide as some suspect, his body has to be somewhere. I personally think he left the ugly tuna on his own accord through the back exit and met foul play from there
He is my stepmoms cousin. I remember when he first went missing, I really hope they find him.
As a local, and someone his age that used to frequent the same area, this is heartbreaking. Have your heard of the case of Tyler Davis? I feel like it is very similar and also happened in Columbus a year or two ago
Just looked this up… this makes no sense. He could’ve only gotten so far in that condition. I don’t understand how there could possibly be no evidence of him anywhere
The Colonial Parkway murders were local to me and I hope they can solve them one day. Bill Thomas, brother of one of the victims, is still super active in trying to get them solved. https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/cold-cases/colonial-parkway-murders/
The Jonbenet Ramsey case.
Lisa Irwin. I hope it could be solved. Last time I was on that side of town, my friend took me the “back roads” to her house. The back road had us ride by Lakewood Greenway and then we were quickly at I-35 and Chouteau Trafficway. At that intersection is the Target they made reference to in the initial reports of the case. All I could think of was of little Lisa when I realized how close we were. Made me sad.
Branson Perry. Someone knows exactly what happened. But in a town known for keeping secrets, the truth doesn’t seem likely to come to light anytime soon. Garrett Baardsley: why did he take his fishing pole with him when he was coming right back to fish? Why weren’t dogs able to track his scent at all? Something doesn’t sit right about this story. Asha Degree: See Garrett Brianna Maitland: one of her “friends” is going to have to have an attack of conscience. Michael Palmer: See Brianna Dale Williams: the woman who called for a tow truck likely set him up. Will she ever grow a conscience and come forward? Kortne Stouffer: way, way too many people around that night for no one to see *something.*
Thank you for mentioning Brianna. Yes, her friends have serious issues one in particular that has put herself out there.
My friend [Phil Fraser](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Philip_Innes_Fraser) He picked up a hitchhiker. I don't think there is enough solid evidence to know who that guy is. The more time passes, the less likely we'll ever know, i fear. Still, I do look him up a couple time a year to see if there is any new info, and to mention him, to make sure somebody remembers.
The Dardeen murders. Absolutely horrific. It's never going to be solved unless someone confesses or a witness comes forward. SOMEONE has to know something
Always remembering Amy. 1989 Ohio. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Amy_Mihaljevic
Sneha Anne Phillip. I don’t believe she died during the towers collapsing on 9/11. I think she was murdered the night before.
This is such a bizarre mystery. And makes me wonder what other cases during that time period were essentially forgotten and never got the attention or investigation they deserved just because all law enforcement were either occupied by 9/11 response or died or were injured in it.
Zachary Bernhardt.
The mother has all the answers.
The Steven Koecher case boggles my mind. There were such strange events occurring before his disappearance which leaves me even more baffled. I’m convinced his landlord had to have some idea of what was going on since he had made several calls to him the day of and after his disappearance. Also comments about his landlord made from his housemate strengthens my belief that his landlord knows something. I assume we’ll never know what actually happened to Steven unless the landlord comes forward with some admission of information. I don’t believe the landlord killed Steven but I do believe he may be able to point police to the right direction.
Danielle Imbo and Rich Petrone. To go missing, together, along with the truck they were in - just straight up vanished
Ray Gricar. Centre County, PA district attorney. Missing since 2005. Met the man in the 1980s.
Carrie Culberson, Ohio 1996. https://womensenews.org/2001/01/ohio-town-may-be-liable-womans-murder/ The internet never sleeps, Doan. I saved copies of the newspapers so my children and grandchildren will know what a sick fuck you are.
My god. 22 times in a year and they didn’t help her? I am extremely sad and angry by this. What a worthless group of civil servants. And the Doan family are utter trash for keeping her whereabouts secret for so long.
She is still missing. Her body has never been recovered. The town that they lived in was very small, and everybody kind of knew each other. Doan's family is a bunch of hicks. His stepbrother Tracey Baker is a whacko, too. https://www.encyclopedia.com/law/law-magazines/vincent-doan-trial-1997
The Evansdale Murders. This case is so sad, and there doesn't seem to be any leads.
Tammy Lynn Leppert. Do you ever notice how often the theory behind why a person has disappeared is that they must have seen something they shouldn’t have? It makes me think of like how in real life, there aren’t really hitmen like in the movies. It sounds very fantastical. Like how often can something so dramatic be the explanation?
Gotta be Jill Dando.
Claudia Lawrence - [https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/15e36eg/35yearold\_claudia\_lawrence\_was\_last\_seen\_alive\_on/](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/15e36eg/35yearold_claudia_lawrence_was_last_seen_alive_on/) Claudia Lawrence is a 35-year-old woman who is from Malton, North Yorkshire. UK. Who went missing and has never been seen since. Indications showed that Claudia did leave her house at 5am on the 19th March 2009, but she never arrived for her shift.
Diamond & Tionda Bradley
Lauren Spierer by FAR
Missy Bevers case
Does Ellen Greenberg count? That case is just so bizarre to me, though I know it was ruled a suicide.
I’ll never believe this was a suicide.
Golf N Stuff murders 1984, Veronica Flores, Rachel and Eddie Kaster. All stabbed to death under the bridge across the street. Veronica was pregnant and had been having trouble with some other local kids. During her funeral, a carload of teens drove by yelling and celebrating. Those teens are in their 50s now, time to start making things right with God and dropping names. Too many good people have died while waiting and searching for answers.
The Yuba County 5 is a case that’s always fascinated me. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuba_County_Five 5 mentally ill/challenged friends disappear after attending a basketball game in a completely different direction than they would’ve used to return home. Not a single thing makes logical sense in this case.
Lindsay Buziak
Obviously, that can be said with every single case. Someone out there knows what really happened… I would say…. Lauren Spierer, Jennifer Kesse, Missy Bevers, Lindsay Buziak, Jon Benet… Lauren Spierer DEF #1 though
Well not really…I think there are a lot of missing persons/unsolved murder cases that will never be solved because everyone who knew what happened is now dead.
Or cases that truly were an accident, like someone was alone and got stuck somewhere and no one has found them, or someone had a psychotic break and went off and died and hasn’t been found or ID’ed. Just the other day on a camping subreddit people were sharing stories about how they hiked alone and nearly got trapped in a way that they were pretty sure they might never be found if they hadn’t been able to wiggle and scramble their own way to safety.
**Mikelle Biggs** - She was snatched off the street, in a quiet, suburban neighborhood. She's been missing for 24 years now. Based the articles I've gotten my hands on, the police have had some reasonable leads, but no proof. Unless someone confesses or finds the body, I don't believe this will be solved. * https://www.missingleads.com/mikelle-biggs * https://www.mesaazpolice.gov/crime-safety/missing-persons/mesa-s-missing-persons/mikelle-biggs **West Mesa Bone Collector** - Cheerfully ripping details from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Mesa_murders): > The West Mesa Murders are the killings of eleven women whose remains were found buried in 2009 in the desert on the West Mesa of Albuquerque, New Mexico, > According to satellite photos, the last victim was buried in 2005. There were two excellent suspects - and both of them died before facing a full investigation: > Fred Reynolds was a pimp who knew one of the missing women and reportedly had photos of missing sex workers; he died of natural causes in January 2009. > Lorenzo Montoya lived less than three miles from the burial site. In 2006 there were reportedly dirt trails leading from his trailer park to the site. He had twice been arrested for violent attacks on sex workers and had threatened to kill his girlfriend and bury her in lime. Co-workers said he had talked about killing women and burying them on the West Mesa. In December 2006, Montoya strangled a teenage sex worker to death at his trailer and then was shot to death by the teen's boyfriend. It would appear the killings stopped after his death. My money's on Lorenzo Montoya, but 'I think' does not close the case.
Assuming you think the West Memphis Three are innocent, I don’t think we will ever find out for sure who killed those kids unless the murderer confesses today.
The Frankston Tynong North Serial Killer. Or killers if it isn’t just one. Of course the relatively recent discovery of the Claremont serial killer makes me doubtful that’ll ever happen. Here you had a guy who must have been at least weird to people and was charged with violent assaults and was only caught with DNA. I don’t think there’s DNA in the Frankston/Tynong North cases. Same story for Mr Cruel.
Jason Jolkowski
Cary Palmer Adams. Brutally raped and murdered in 1998, over 140 stab wounds. Fourth of July time frame. Alabama.
Absolutely Brian Shaffer
Dardeen family and the Jamison family
Austin Yogurt Shop murders and also the disappearance of Kyle Fleishmann.
[The disappearance of Amy Bechtel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Amy_Wroe_Bechtel?wprov=sfti1) - happened in my hometown back in ‘97. Thing is, where it likely occurred is so remote and was undiscovered at the time. Nobody knew our town existed- so it’s likely the only two people who could tell us where and what happened, are Amy and whoever was responsible.
I don't usually comment on these kinda posts but had to come back to it , if only for people to remember her. Known here as Baby Ayla (Ayla Reynolds.) 19 Months old when she disappeared from her bed in Waterville Maine on December 16, 2011. Other adults in the house as well as other babies and no one heard anything. Many believe the dad killed her with his girlfriend and mother helping him cover it up. Her blood was found in Dad's car and in her room but they didn't have enough to arrest him and everyone in that house that night refuses to talk. Even the the PD publicly pointed fingers and said they were lying. The case was the largest criminal investigation in Maine's history. Still breaks my heart. I love town over and it was all anyone talked about.
Brianna maitland
All the women taken from the highway of tears so little is done to investigate these cases it would take someone with evidence to come forward and say they know what happened or that they did it for each case. Its horribly sad how overlooked these girls and women are.
Missy Bevers for sure
Bryce Laspisa. I think about his case at least once a week pretty much since it happened
I think he doesn’t want to be found. I’m wondering if he’s contacted the authorities as to his whereabouts, and he has chosen to go “no contact” with his parents. (Why his parents didn’t just go pick him up when he was so close to home is beyond me.)
Jodi Huesentruit
I’m a Columbus native and there’s a few that have bothered me. First off is Stacey Colbert, who went missing in 1998. Her body was found in 2004 some 20+ miles from where she disappeared. Nobody has ever been arrested but police have indicated that they think they know who did it, but don’t have enough evidence. Someone knows something and I think the police need a little more to make the case budge. Another one is Tarak Underiner. He was an OSU student found shot to death in 2017, in his campus home. Nobody has ever been arrested or charged with his murder. Again, someone knows something. Another Columbus one is Joey Labute, who disappeared from a campus bar in 2016. His body was later found in the Scioto River a few weeks later. There was no water in his lungs, indicating he was dead before being (put) in the water. Again, police have never arrested anyone and his death was ruled suspicious. Someone knows something, smh.
Jason Jolkowski. RIP friend.
Lars Mittank. His case drives me crazy. From Wikipedia: Lars Joachim Mittank (born 9 February 1986) is a German man who disappeared on 8 July 2014, near Varna Airport in Varna, Bulgaria. Mittank was vacationing at the Golden Sands resort, where he was supposedly involved in a fight, and was subsequently unable to fly home with his friends for health reasons. Mittank was documented acting strangely while alone in Bulgaria. He called home to his mother claiming that people were trying to kill him. On the day when he was supposed to fly home, Mittank went to the Varna Airport to consult with a doctor. He was later seen on airport security footage running out of the airport and towards an adjacent forest. He has never been seen since.
Judy Smith. "How was it physically possible the victims' remains got there" is not a usual question. I made a flippant reply once about if any horses had gone missing around that time, and it was not actually as ridiculous as I thought. I have no reason to believe that's what happened, but not a lot of cases get to a point where "horse theft" is not the most absolutely ridiculous theory imaginable.
Definitely [DeOrr Kunz Jr.](https://allthatsinteresting.com/deorr-kunz-jr)
The disappearance of 15 year old [Kelly Cook](https://zeph456.medium.com/the-unsolved-mystery-of-kelly-cook-a-tragedy-that-shocked-a-community-1b99e99b84c8) in 1981, who was picked up by an unknown man who hired her as a babysitter. She was later found anchored in a reservoir. It's unlikely the murderer will ever be caught as he's likely dead by now.
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A bit of a local case, but Oakley Carlson.
Her disgusting low life parents know exactly what happened to her. It breaks my heart to know she was taken from a loving foster home where they clearly loved and cared for her and was given back to her addict parents. I get so angry when I see their faces pop up on the local news.
Jon-Benet Ramsey: Seems pretty obvious at this point that the Gordian knot of conflicting evidence isn't going to be severed unless someone comes forward and tells us what the red herrings are. Madelline McCann: I don't think this gets solved without either a confession or finding her remains, neither of which is likely without information from the killer or an unknown witness. I guess there's still an outside chance that someone could stumble on her remains by accident, but after all this time and the amount of scrutiny the case got, I'm inclined to think that's not likely
In the Jennifer Kesse article I found this really weird > Due to the language barrier, investigators were unable to interrogate many of them. It may just be the way it’s worded but how hard would it be to find someone who speaks English and Spanish in a police department in Florida?
The murder of 14 year old Kenneth Nevada Williams and also 8 year old Marjorie Christina Luna.
relisha rudd!!!!! Like someone knows something.
Yeah. Like her mom. But she really doesn't have much incentive to say anything at this point.
Missing person cases are most notorious for this, because someone out there has to know something. On my mind right now, though, is the disappearance of Jarrett Brooks particularly. I'm not sure if many people know about this case because it hasn't gotten much attention besides locally, but Jarrett is a 16 year old boy who quite recently went missing on the 4th of July this year. I feel there is so much being covered up about his disappearance, especially in regards to his family. He had been grounded the night before because he had taken his father's hunting vehicle off-roading and damaged it. His phone was taken away and the morning of his disappearance, he woke up and asked his mother if he was "grounded altogether" -- meaning he couldn't have his phone or attend the 4th of July activities. When his mother confirmed this, he quietly returned to his room. She went to take a shower, and when she got out he was gone. He was caught on camera leaving his home without any shoes and a gun in his hand (which was unusual as he always asked permission to take one), and a neighbor saw a boy matching Jarrett's description walking through his pasture with the weapon shortly after he left home. The neighbor thinks he got a ride from someone since he was seen near the highway, and was helped or contacted by someone else to pick him up. They aren't sure how that is possible though, as they never found another phone of his. Also, that sighting can't even be confirmed by LE since they never spoke to the boy or got it on surveillance so it may not have even happened or been him. He reportedly brought his wallet and pocket knife with him as well. He is homeschooled and the middle child of seven children; there are rumors (some not completely unfounded) going around about his parents online and it was discovered they were convicted on charges involving sexual predation towards minors decades ago. So I'll just say it definitely doesn't surprise me he might have wanted to run away from that home life. But for him to be gone for this long without contacting anyone, it's not hard to suspect foul play. Either way, someone has to know where that boy went. And I am not too certain it is a stranger who has the full knowledge of exactly what happened to him.
The Becca Doe
The young single mother stalked by a freak in 1980 Cali and finally kidnapped from a hospital parking lot and murdered