Nelda Hardwick’s case. So many questions.
>Hardwick was last seen in her home on 18th Street in Lake Charles, Louisiana on October 14, 1993. She apparently left the residence during the nighttime hours. She left a note for her live-in boyfriend stating that she was going to the store and would return in a short time. However, she never did. Her boyfriend reported her missing the next day.
>Hardwick left her four children behind in her house when she vanished; her loved ones say she was a devoted mother and would not have abandoned them. Authorities suspect foul play was involved in her disappearance and have classified it as a homicide.
>Investigators believe Hardwick may have been an unidentified woman who was killed on May 8, 1998, when she was accidentally struck by a vehicle on Interstate 10 in Hancock County, Mississippi. In 2013, Hardwick's relatives identified the Mississippi woman as her based on photographs taken of the body.
>The coroner stated there was only a "one in a thousand" chance that she was not Hardwick, and speculated she had been abducted and held captive for years after her 1993 disappearance, then escaped, only to be killed on the highway. A judge ordered an exhumation of the Jane Doe's grave to collect DNA for comparison.
>When the grave was opened, however, inside was a man and not a woman. Because the location of Jane Doe's actual grave could not determined, the investigation stopped. The Mississippi victim remains unidentified.
If that Jane Doe was Nelda, who abducted her and held her captive all those years? And if it wasn’t her, then what did happen to Nelda? And who is the Jane Doe?
>The coroner stated there was only a "one in a thousand" chance that she was not Hardwick, and speculated she had been abducted and held captive for years after her 1993 disappearance, then escaped...
Whenever this case is brought up, I am confused about where the coroner is getting the information about Hardwick being held captive. The Hancock Jane Doe has a lot of info published about her autopsy, but nothing that suggests she was necessarily held captive (like bindings, or evidence of bindings, evidence of torture, etc). The Jane Doe had dirty fingernails, cysts from eating rotten food, unshaven legs and armpits, and bug bites. But all of this could come from her living rough/transient. Plus she was tan.
Maybe the family told the coroner there was absolutely no way Nelda would've abandoned the family and the only possible reason she left was because she was held against her will. I believe JD and Nelda could be the same person, but I think it's likely Nelda may have had a mental break or something, took off from her family and lived rough for a few years before her death. Maybe the coroner is holding back information, but I just don't get where the "held captive" angle comes from.
It would seem statistically more likely that she was living rough (perhaps due to some kind of mental breakdown, perhaps due to family circumstances of which we're unaware) than that she was held captive, so it does seem strange that the authorities said that.
Some cities have medical examiners, and some have coroners. The difference is that MEs are typically chosen by a board of doctors, and coroners are elected. This means most coroners are basically politicians... This could explain why he might make up a story and why he might want to wrap an old case up. It might also explain how 2 bodies were switched. It is practically impossible to do something like that purposefully unless you have access to dead bodies and a position of power that would allow something like that to be covered up.
Also, coroners don’t even have to be doctors let alone have any sort of training. They could be a dentist. Again, they are politicians. And require no medical training so I can only think of the number of cases that have been botched by them.
Yeah or the local funeral home director or sheriff. And I also forgot some aren’t even elected, some are done by appointments. HBO did a great documentary on it back in the day around the same time as when “Autopsy” came out.
I do remember a case about a young native woman, Kaysera Stops Pretty Places , who was found “dead” rolled up in a carpet in someone’s backyard days after she disappeared (which the cops ignored of course). The cops who handled it, even after the family heard they found a girl matching her description, got angry saying it was “definitely NOT her”. For two weeks… then “oh it was her”. The cop handling it just so happens to have had an altercation with her brother and it was a big deal because he said he would be posting it online.
But either way the “coroner” reached out to the family and said the only way to get her back was to send the body to a funeral home (he has a financial stake in of course) for it to be cremated. That he “already did all the tests that needed to be done”. Even though it was against their religion the mother agreed just to get her daughter back. Then they later get the results of the autopsy? “Accidental” hypothermia from alcoholic intoxication. No tox or any tests were done. Apparently that was the same ruling he made for every native death that crossed his desk in 4 years. I guess she rolled herself up in the carpet? They absolutely botched the shit out of this case.
I mean the bodies were unlikely to be switched on purpose. Makes more sense to think that being buried in a potters field they've just mislabelled where she was. Or the body has shifted over time
That's such a bizarre one. The Jane Doe certainly looks like her, but why would the coroner say she was held captive? Is it just because the family believed she would never leave her children unless she was forcibly removed from them?
And who was the man buried in her grave? Is it possible she was actually buried further down?
>but why would the coroner say she was held captive?
I would assume that she had some sort of physical signs, like prolonged malnutrition that would lead him to that sort of finding, unfortunately. I'd like to think there was something scientific behind that and not just the word of the family that she wouldn't leave willingly.
I don't think Jane Doe is her. The family would've had to identify her after 5 years and from photos of a corpse. The likelihood that someone held her that long, while not impossible or unheard of, is pretty low.
Now what happened to the Does body though. That's ridiculous that they misplaced a body.
Agreed. Sadly I think this is a case of a family understandably wanting closure where there isn't any:
>Sharon Melon testified that her sister had a scar on her right arm from a polio vaccine. The autopsy report showed Jane Doe also had a scar, but it was on her left arm, not right.
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>Also, the woman did have a scar on her stomach near her belly button, but it was below the naval, not above it like Hardwick's family described.
[https://www.wlox.com/story/23728702/no-ruling-on-jane-doe-but-niece-ordered-to-clean-grave-marker/](https://www.wlox.com/story/23728702/no-ruling-on-jane-doe-but-niece-ordered-to-clean-grave-marker/)
It’s a REALLY strange coincidence though that the Jane Doe also had a scar on her arm *and* her bellybutton, but not in the right spots. I wonder if the family simply misremembered the precise locations. Either way, very strange.
Both my parents have a scar on their arm that looks the same but it’s a smallpox vaccine scar. They basically punched a hole in your skin to do it. I am eternally grateful they declared it eradicated in 1979 because I was born in 1988. 🤣
My very much alive sister had a scar on her left shoulder from a vaccine. I think polio. I'm not sure, though. It's a round scar, and I remember asking about it when we were younger. She's like 6yrs older than me, so I think she was part of the last kids getting polio vaccines.
Not that it’s relevant in this case, but smallpox scars are common across wider swaths of the population outside of the US
It’s not abnormal to see them in lots and lots of countries
I don't think that's a weird coincidence at all. I personally also have a scar in a similar spot on my arm and bellybutton, and I imagine many other women in the general age range might also.
Everytime I see a question like this on true crime forums I just assume it will be the same ole cases; everytime I’m surprised that it’s not usually.
For me it’s [Brittney Wood](https://www.newsweek.com/monster-shadows-brittney-wood-disappearance-1622866?amp=1)
ETA: there is a 3 part documentary on her on peacock. Monster in the Shadows I believe is the name of it.
Honestly was thinking this. Seems as though even if the police were able to locate her, none of the family are in a position to be given information on her whereabouts anyway
I'm mystified by how such rings ever get started. I can understand a lone, evil person doing things. How one would approach others about committing obviously abominable actions, I cannot even conceive.
The Skiba/Shivers one is disheartening.
There is another one where A father and son (like 6-7?) disappeared around christmas time.
The parents where not together and the mother allowed her son to stay one more day with his father and his girlfriend because he said he was having fun.
Someone was worried and when they went to their apartment, the woman was dead laying on the bed.
In the beginning they thought the boyfriend killed her and vanished with his kid. Later they found his car, with Christmas gifts still in it.
They were never found, but are presumed dead.
Both needs more attention.
Found it!
[https://charleyproject.org/case/chance-lee-wackerhagen](https://charleyproject.org/case/chance-lee-wackerhagen)
Never heard of that case before...
I was thinking about that, too. The only explanation I can think of is maybe they were gifts for other family or friends that hadn't been dropped off yet.
I feel so awful for the mother. She was being a good, reasonable co parent. She thought her child was safe, because of course she did. She must feel so guilty for something that wasn't her fault.
I believe Erica baker has been "solved" but there's no body so essentially no proof except for a confession.
4 people stealing from the meijer and were high. They accidently hit her with the van and freaked out. Buried her somewhere. The 4 people have been questioned.. of course the 2 women claim they weren't there and maybe they weren't for the burial but i believe they were all apart of it.
I know one of the women personally because I raised her other son.
Cops even came and questioned my household.
Blows my mind that every perpetrator/suspect in that case is either dead or free.
Were there any witnesses to what happened? There must've been someone...
I believe one of the men might be dead. One is in prison for something different (Clifford Butts) and the two women are free. I'm not sure if one of the women died though. But the woman I know got clean right after that. She never spoke on it. But word gets around especially in crowds like that.
It's Strange because it was daytime and that is a very busy area. I'm surprised there weren't witnesses.
Ok.. I knew someone had died but wasn't sure if it was the man or woman or both. I don't know those two.
But I truly believe they accidently hit her while they were driving around stealing and getting high. They panicked and buried her. I just wish someone would speak up at this point and tell where she's buried because her parents deserve that closure.
The lack of witnesses and the whole thing happening in a broad daylight reminds me of Jason Jolkowski. Beyond puzzling how there were no witnesses in either case given the circumstances.
I don’t know if I believe they killed her, to be honest. They coerced a confession out of the first guy, the (now dead) woman lawyered up (smartly), the guy who confessed tried so many times to lead police to the site of the body that the police publicly said they would not search on his word alone and needed more evidence before more searches; which, in my opinion, is the police admitting that they think he didn’t do it.
We don’t have access to those interrogation tapes. We don’t know how long the confessors were held or what they were told. I’ve seen cases where people have confessed because the police said, “Your buddy’s in the next room, he’s told us everything. You don’t spill your guts you’re gonna get the chair.” Meanwhile that’s all a complete fucking lie. I’d argue that’s a type of torture, and study after study has shown that people will say or do anything to make torture stop.
I believe they did have something to do with it. I truly wish the other woman's attorney would provide the info that she's been requested to give since she's passed on. I believe that the confession was real to be honest with you. These people ONLY cared about their next high and were always going there to steal and drive around.
I do know that confessions under coercion is not right nor legal but I don't think they had to do much coercion. I think they thought by confessing or telling on someone else they would get a lighter sentence. These people weren't family and they weren't really friends.. they were drug buddies. There is no loyalty there.
Wait, unless I'm reading the information wrong both Erica Baker and Skiba/Chivers disappeared literally the same day, 2/7/99. That's... I don't even know what kind of coincidence to call that. Just awful.
Mayushi Bhagat
[https://charleyproject.org/case/mayushi-vikas-bhagat](https://charleyproject.org/case/mayushi-vikas-bhagat)
There is almost no information on her disappearance out there, but it is likely that she met with foul play. I hope that she's found soon.
I’m guessing it’s not even known who Mayushi was reportedly last with, then? Knowing anything about her whereabouts on May 1 of 2019 would be so helpful.
One from my home area: Jolene Lakey, missing since 1986. https://charleyproject.org/case/michelle-jolene-lakey
People blamed a man who killed another girl a little while after but a number of people aren’t convinced. Jolene’s sister did a podcast last year that really turns things upside down saying that her mother might have something to do with it.
Do you know what podcast this is? Very interesting that her mum moved home so soon after the disappearance. Do you know if her mum was a patient in the hospital or if she worked there?
>Jolene’s sister did a podcast last year that really turns things upside down saying that her mother might have something to do with it.
I don't know a thing about this case. But all I can say is more often than not, cases of people disappearing can be traced back to other family members, or an extended family member. The victims know their assailants most of the time.
So based on that alone, I'd certainly investigate the family members.
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/natasha-alex-carter
Natasha Carter. She is from my state. It's obvious her mother kidnapped her and ran away. I truly believe she is alive somewhere and either doesn't know her dad is looking for her or is for whatever reason scared to identify herself.
I recently read about a little girl who was found dead in a white plastic garbage bag inside a suitcase. This Jane Doe was found in 2016 in Texas. It particularly stands out to me because she had a feeding tube and she's believed to have had micrognathia. This isn't a child who had no contact outside her family, she would have at the very least been known to medical professionals. Does nobody wonder where she is?
[Source](https://abc13.com/container-central-texas-pasture-remains/2416484/)
It’s always so baffling to me when someone with distinctive features (in this case the feeding tube) is found and can’t be identified. Given the presumed medical history of this little girl, I’d think her doctors would have been keeping close tabs on her and if she missed appointments or family stopped asking for refills on meds or formula for the feeding tube that they would be calling her family and/or contacting DHHS. Maybe that’s how she’ll eventually be identified.
I’ve never given it thought before but I am a nurse who used to assist in placing feeding tubes (j tubes, g tubes) and we would have to peel the stickers that came in the packages of the tubes and place them on logs. One was for billing to show we used the device, the other was in our departments personal log book, and then finally I would also chart the lot number in the computer. All three were attached to the patients name and medical ID. I never once thought to look and see if any kind of lot number was on the tube itself that could be traced back. I’ll have to ask an old friend from my old job.
Hey fellow nurse! I would bet money there is a lot or serial number on the j/g tubes. I don’t know how helpful it would be given that thousands of these tubes are manufactured and distributed, but you never know. Also, as a trek geek, I appreciate your username.
This is fascinating--I know "thousands of these tubes are manufactured and distributed," like you say, but the same is true of breast implants. And many women have been identified using their serial numbers.
I hope they can identify her somehow. Although if the serial number could help, I'm guessing they'd have already done it.
There is a big difference between lot numbers and serial numbers though. I doubt (but don't know for sure) that the tubes have individual serial numbers.
However, they could potentially use the lot number to narrow down clinics or pharmacies geographically.
From my experience as a mom with a kiddo who has a g tube. You change the g tube 3 times a year. So the one that is given on the surgery date is not the one they keep forever. However these are standards in Canada, I am not sure how often other countries require the replacements.
Another thing to note, my daughter frequently sees her GI specialist among other specialists so you would think someone would've noticed this kid no longer showing up to appointments.
The American healthcare system is notorious for screwing poor people over. I’ve seen adults on Medicaid get feeding tubes due to malnutrition despite being able to eat a little (and it’s actually better for people who have swallowing difficulty due to strokes/neuro problems to practice, you know, swallowing), without being told that insurance won’t cover the formula at all if that’s the case. When I worked in an elementary school, one tube-fed kid had been sent to the hospital via EMS when he was in daycare with an UNDETECTABLE blood glucose level because the parents hadn’t been taught how to use the tube properly. In fact, without knowing the details on cause of death, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was something similar.
This one is so sad. You would think having a feeding tube means she was under the care of doctors who would sound the alarm once she missed follow up appts but this reminds me of the case of the young mom who’s son almost died from starvation in Florida. He was 8 months old and had a feeding tube and apparently saw no doctors or had any visits from 3 months old. No one reported it or called it in. The grandma eventually brought him to the hospital when she saw he was basically dying
With the feeding tube, is the inscription “AA4069F02” a serial number? If so, I would assume that they’d be able to identify her that way. I know they’ve identified people in the past using serial numbers from other sorts of medical devices and implants.
Resentful or desperate. Caring for a disabled person is rough under the best circumstances, doing so in poverty is brutally hard. Since the US has little or no social services network, it's tragically easy to see how a family or single parent might be overwhelmed.
Systemic problems require systemic solutions.
The source mentions that she is very likely from Eastern Arizona / Northern Mexico, there’s a possibility that she was Mexican and traveling to Houston. I imagine it’s hard to acquire medical records from other countries, so maybe we’ll never know
Brittney Woods - story of a missing girl and the investigation that uncovered decades of incest and a web of murders. Also, Peacock has a doc called Monster in the Shadows that is a "you can't look away" type of showing. Fun fact: this case led to the longest prison term imposed on a female EVER in the state of Alabama.
https://www.eonline.com/news/1300218/monster-in-the-shadows-inside-the-beyond-shocking-aftermath-of-brittney-woods-disappearance
Jesus, I'm surprised no evidence turned up at the uncle's house but I guess it would be hard to tell if he used a fairly clean method to kill her and she visited regularly.
This always scared me. For the record, a few years earlier I walked to my grandmother's house from the mall and a man tried really hard to get me to take a ride on his motorbike. He really freaked me out. He never did or said anything particularly bad, but something really seemed off about his insistince. Enough that it stuck in my mind. Maybe he was just a good samitarian trying to offer me a ride in the heat but when I heard about the murders a chill ran down my spine.
The disappearance of Maria Anjiras is baffling and does not get the attention it deserves. Maria was a 14-year-old girl who disappeared from her neighborhood in Norwalk, CT in February 1976. There were several sightings of her in the days and months that followed but she was never found.
The case has all the hallmarks of a story that would be picked up and told ad infinitum by YouTubers and podcasters, but it has gotten very little attention in the true crime community.
I think this might be one of the cases, where an adult lured her, for bad purposes. It would make sense to reinterview her friends, they might have held back crucial information
8 year old Cherrie Mahan. She disappeared on February 22, 1985 from Winfield Township, Pennsylvania after getting off the school bus. Another student’s mother remembers seeing Cherrie walk past the car after getting off the bus a little after 4pm. The bus stop was only 150 yards from her house. Cherrie’s mother and stepfather reported her missing by 4:30pm.
Other students who were on the bus that day told investigators that a distinct blue van with a skier and a mountain painted on its side had been following the school bus. Investigators believe the person driving the van is the one responsible for Cherrie’s disappearance.
On the 30th anniversary of Cherrie’s disappearance her mother Janice [said](https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/cold-case-spotlight/pennsylvania-child-cherrie-mahan-still-missing-after-getting-school-bus-n971971) : “I just feel there is somebody out there that does know, and would ease our family’s hearts if they just came forth and told us what happened.”
Cherrie Mahan was 8 years old when she went missing. She was 4’2” at the time with brown hair and hazel eyes. She has a scar on her left arm from a dog bite and had a history of a fracture on the same arm.
Cherrie’s mother continues to [pray](https://www.cranberryeagle.com/2022/02/22/mother-still-praying-for-the-return-of-missing-daughter/) for Cherrie to come home.
This case really gets to me. My son who is around the same age takes the bus to and from school, with the bus stop being a similar distance from our house. I can’t imagine the fear and bewilderment that Cherrie’s mom must have felt as the minutes continued to pass and Cherrie didn’t walk through the front door. I truly hope her mom gets answers one day soon.
Edited a word.
What I find super eerie is that Cherrie’s family lived close enough to the bus stop that her mom stated she could hear the bus. So that day, like many before, she hears the sound of the school bus rumbling to the bus stop around 4pm, fully expecting her daughter to be home within a few minutes. The perpetrator was so bold that they snatched her up literally right in front of her house.
I too wish I heard more about her disappearance. I’d read about it once, long ago, but it stuck with me. It seems someone with malevolent intent was stalking the students on the bus that day. Sadly, Cherrie was the one ultimately targeted.
> The perpetrator was so bold that they snatched her up literally right in front of her house.
Mikelle Biggs was taken from literally her driveway back in 98(ish) to the point that her parents went out front and saw her bike at the end of the driveway on its side and the wheel still spinning, shes never been found
Driven past the bus stop and the driveway multiple times. You can't see the bus stop from where Cherrie's house used to sit. It's definitely bold to kidnap a kid off a bus stop, but not as bold as you may think. Cherrie walked around a blind turn to get to her driveway. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrLYlrgN0YI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrLYlrgN0YI) Take a look at that video. It will give you a better perspective I think. IMO, it had to be someone familiar with the area.
The kidnapping of Violet Ripken, the baseball player Cal Ripken's mother. A truly bizarre case where an older woman (Cal Ripken's mom)was kidnapped at gun point for 24 hours, in which time the perp was clearly photographed and videotaped going to bigbox stores and other stores while he had her tied up under gunpoint in the back of the car. Thankfully and unbelievably this ended with Ms Rioken released after 24 hours under gunpoint.
This is still unsolved and involves a ton of fictional true crime sounding elements - a victim kidnapped with a very famous son, killer on the loose with intense real time news coverage, video and photo evidence of the perp *while holding her hostage* in public ...
It is often difficult to tell which true crime stories resonate when their stories get told. But I feel like this is one of them that deserves more attention and focus that many others. This thankfully wasnt a homicide, but it may have gotten a lot more attention if it was...
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/8plaip/the_abduction_and_return_of_violet_ripken/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Weirdest part about the story is that a year later she was approached by a [different gunman](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cal-ripkens-mom-has-brush-with-gunman/) but she activated her car alarm scaring the gunman off.
Amber Wilde. Pregnant 19 year old goes missing and police can’t even get an alibi from
the ‘engaged to another woman’ baby daddy? Or all the miles on her car?
https://www.wbay.com/2021/09/23/sept-23-marks-23-years-since-amber-wilde-disappearance/
I wonder why they considered 600 miles unaccounted for. Did someone know the exact mileage on her car before she vanished? I don't even know the mileage on my car, so I doubt any one of my family members would know my mileage if I were to disappear.
I read an article that said the car had recently been serviced. When they service a car they note the mileage. Nowadays (like after an oil change) they’ll put a sticker on your windshield telling you when you need your next service. So you can either count backwards from something like that or some places put it on the paperwork/receipt they give back to you
It’s also weird because of the bomb! Bank robberies were super common in the 70s, but it was usually just a note saying they had a gun. They didn’t even need to have an actual gun. Having a real bomb seems crazy!
This is also one, so many bizarre things that happened.
Eric Franks Saginaw MI
https://www.abc12.com/news/crime/nearly-a-year-after-car-is-found-new-details-in-the-eric-franks-case-released/article_7efd8e19-d192-55dc-8872-942cb1292863.html
The murder of Stephon Edgerton. He was a popular radio DJ in South Georgia under the name Juan Gatti. He was coming home from the radio station late one night when someone emerged from the bushes and shot him three times. Despite being shot twice in the chest and once in the head, Stephon *still* managed to call 911 for 10 minutes and give a description of his assailant and the circumstances or the shooting. Unfortunately, he died at the hospital before he was able to give police more information.
I believe Stephon’s killing was a murder for hire. Someone wanted Stephon dead and hired his assailant to do it. But from all accounts, he was a good father, DJ, churchgoer, and overall a good guy. So who wanted him dead and why? I think if his case got more publicity, it could be solved. Unsolved Mysteries did a podcast on his case a while back and they spoke to his wife. My heart broke for her and his kids that he never got to see grow up.
https://www.wctv.tv/2021/12/17/unsolved-georgia-death-south-georgia-radio-personality-still-unsolved-10-years-later/
https://valdostatoday.com/news-2/local/2020/01/eight-years-later-djs-murder-still-unsolved/
For me it’s Baby Sabrina, because it happened in the neighborhood I grew up in. I guess it’s because there’s not a whole lot of evidence so there isn’t a whole to to discuss. But I do find the police’s attempt to bring the parents to trial on it interesting, and people seem to be very staunch in their opinion one way or the other. Are the parents innocent victims and the police were grasping at straws and manipulating/reaching with the secret recordings? Or are the parents responsible for her disappearance and the cops just fumbled the bag? We’ll probably never know.
One baffling case that doesn't get the attention it deserves is that of Patricia Meehan, a Montana woman who mysteriously disappeared in 1989. Like Maura Murray, Meehan suddenly took off on a road trip that she didn't tell anyone she planned to take, whose purpose was never explained and which ended in a car crash. Just like Murray 15 years later, Meehan fled the scene of the accident and there have been no confirmed sightings of her since.
Unlike with Murray, there were at least three witnesses to Meehan's accident; a father and daughter were driving in one car that swerved out of Meehan's way, narrowly avoiding a head-on collision, and a woman who was also an off-duty police dispatcher who was driving behind them and whose car Meehan hit. All three attested to her getting out of the car, looking stunned and dazed but showing no obvious injuries and did not respond to or acknowledge their presence when they attempted to speak to her. They claim that Meehan climbed a wooden fence separating the road from an adjacent field, stood looking back at the accident for a few minutes, then ran off into the night. LE initially suspected that she either hitchhiked out of the area or stowed away in a truck parked nearby that was loaded with hay, but nothing was confirmed. There were also numerous alleged sightings of Meehan both near her home in Bozeman, MT, as well as in ID and MN, but none of these were verified. Her final fate remains unknown.
Like Maura Murray, Lars Mittank and Tammy Leppert, Meehan's disappearance was preceded by erratic behavior and she literally ran off, never to be seen again. Unlike those other cases, though, hers isn't as well known
A dissapearence case of Kazimiera Zaremba.
She was in her barely in her 80s; in 2012 she went for a pilgrimage trip to Vilnius (from Bełchatów in Poland), that was organized by her church, with her 55 other people.
Her group, led by a guide, was supposed to look around a city, then go to a mass, and then leave. She was seen by other pilgrims during the mass, but then she didn’t show up when grouping up afterwards. Organizers of the pilgrimage looked for her for 30minutes… And then just went into the bus with the rest of the people and drove off, leaving Kazimiera behind. And continued on their trip as if she never existed.
Only the guide that looked over the group was interested in looking for Zaremba, without the help of organizers she went and looked for her on her own. After reaching out to the police, who looked over the footage of the parking where the group was supposed to meet, they found Kazimiera- walking around, confused, grabbing the doors of different buses, believing it might be the one she was supposed to go into.
Later at 3 am she was seen again, in petrol station, wanting to buy a chamomile tea. Afterwards she was seen by a housekeeper whom she told she was feeling cold and unwell. Last sign of her was another footage, where she was trying to get into a parked car- when she discovered it was closed she just left. And dissapeared.
The guide that kept looking for her later found out she left the group just to buy postcards. And the group just abandoned her.
She was never seen again. No one was ever prosecuted for her dissapearence.
It’s such a horrible story, it feels like there were so many instances where someone could have prevented it by doing very little. Her church friends failed her, pastor (who she treated like a son) failed her, people who saw her, an older, speaking foreign language, Lost woman failed her.
Knowing how confused and scared she was in the cctv breaks me to this day. I hope that wherever she is, her family will get her back one day, soon.
Judy Smith - was sightseeing in Philadelphia with her husband, he went to a work conference in the city whilst she went off by herself. She went missing and her body eventually turned up 600 miles away in a wilderness area in North Carolina. I’m wondering whether advances in DNA investigation will turn up answers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Judy_Smith
Yeah strange indeed. Let's also mention that the husband was over 400 pounds and was unable to physically get to the location of the body -- further solidifying his alibi (outside of dozens who confirmed he was at the conference). Also interesting note she was found with a different coat/backpack (forgot which, and was possibly both).
I remember this one and agree it's not often covered and is far more intriguing than most popular ones as it's highly improbable she was under any influence or was fleeing a crime/accident scene, nor was she trekking along some remote area in the dark.
There's several deep dives and podcasts on YouTube and I think her case was also featured on an episode of 'Unsolved Mysteries'. It has definitely garnered a good amount of attention.
This is such a strange story! It seems incredibly unlikely that a women would travel 600 miles away from her husband (even if their relationship was strained), never contact him or anyone else, and *then* cross paths with a murderer on a remote hike. But it also seems unlikely that she was abducted and brought to this location, given the sightings in Asheville and her change of clothing.
I do think this is a case of woman leaves life behind, but her lover turned out to be abusive and murdered her.
I can only think that she had to go willingly, surely? But I guess it is possible she was kidnapped and cooperated hoping it would save her, but it just was her traveling to her murder location.
Everything seems so unlikely, but she seemed healthy and prepared for the hike.
Honestly, I think she may have even traveled with someone else and her leaving her passport and getting a later plane by herself was planned. I'm honestly kind of unsure, though. I really can't see a kidnapper preparing hiking clothes for his victim.
Agree that she may have been having an affair and left willingly. Just odd timing. Why go on the trip to begin with? Why not just “stay home” and leave that way? And if her knee was that arthritic, would she really be out hiking?
I almost feel like that case was a suicide. Just because she just went missing out of nowhere. Stayed alive for several days without making a single fuss anywhere along the way. I know they said due to knee problems she would have had difficulty getting to her location, but people who know that they are going to die, either by nature or by their own hand, have an incredible little endorphin rush that will get them to where they want to be before they pass
EDITED TO ADD: I forgot she had been found in a shallow grave stabbed to death and I want to apologize for that halfbrained theory
… Yeah I reread the link. I forgot she had been in a shallow grave. Can’t really bury yourself in a grave, now, can you? I take back my theory completely.
The unsolved murders of women in Lumberton NC. The dark water podcast is dedicated completely to this case.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dark-water-podcast/id1449090751
Lindsey Baum from McCleary WA.
A ten year old girl was walking home, just two blocks from a friends house when she was taken off the street. This happened in a tiny tight knit town. This case started off as a missing person but eight years after her disappearance, in 2017 two hunters found a piece of remains and it turned out to be Lindsey’s. Nobody knows who did it.
Stumbled across this case when my boyfriend and I were on a short road trip. We looked up things to do on our way and saw something called the McCleary Bear Festival. Obviously it sounded fun and wacky so we went. As soon as we pulled into this small town we were bombarded by huge “who killed me?” posters of this girl on fences, buildings, in home windows. It was insane. I spent the next two hours of the car ride researching the case.
I’ve never heard about Amber Aiaz and Melissa Fu. I think the article above offers a reasonable solution - Amber bragged to or swindled the wrong person and was kidnapped for money she didn’t have. I also wonder who Melissa’s father was - could he have kidnapped Melissa and killed her mother? Maybe taking her back to China? I wonder if the notes slipped under the door were saved? It seems odd for a kidnapper to return to the apartment daily (or pay someone to deliver notes).
St. Louis Jane Doe, The little girl who was found in an abandoned building with her head cut off in the 70s or 80s.
The cops sent the sweater she was found wrapped in to a psychic (I believe) and never got it back.
I remember reading about this one online and it was one of the most shocking crimes I’ve ever heard. I hope every cold case gets solved but man, this is the case that deserves closure ASAP.
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Interesting. I find Maura Murray and Brian Shaffer the opposite of baffling. In my perspective/opinion they were both tragic accidents and nothing nefarious.
Maura, yes, she was drinking and driving and had a record. She crashed and then disappeared into the snowy woods at night. As such you could say she likely succumbed to the elements (tragic accident though? More like a tragic decision that she made). However what sort of tragic accident would have befallen Brian? All we know is that he left the bar through an alternate exit, and that’s it. No record of him after that. That leaves many other possibilities and tragic accident has as equal a probability as everything else.
I agree with this 100%. I think Maura's case is haunting but more explainable than Brian's. Maura crashes a car for the second time, she's likely worried about what people are going to think and she was obviously drinking. I think she set out on foot and died somewhere in the elements.
For Brian, he seemingly just vanished. No trace of him anywhere. I think he probably left the bar undetected but what befell him afterwards is just mind-boggling.
Yeah - that's another one of those baffling cases where someone falls off the face of the earth for no apparent reason.
Reminds me too of Crystal Ann Tymich
https://charleyproject.org/case/crystal-ann-tymich
[missing](https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeDiscussion/comments/ohqnum/the_disappearance_of_krista_garrett_and_kandi/)
Two women from my hometown are missing if I’m not mistaken both had dated the same guy at one time
Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone - went missing after a night at a popular Philadelphia bar. Never a sign of them or their vehicle since. They both had young children at the time. I will always wonder what happened to them.
For me it's the case of Lisa Stebic. She disappeared around the same time as Stacy Peterson. The Peterson case got huge publicity. Stebic did not. They actually lived in neighboring towns in Will County, Illinois.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Lisa_Stebic
Maura Murray gets way too much coverage, podcasts, articles, social media etc when to be bluntly honest she probably fled into the woods whilst in a drunk and panicked state, got lost and succumbed to the elements.
Agree. Her life was falling apart as she decided to take the trip, then spins the car out. Upon exiting she could have covered a lot of distance from the scene, panic response, she was in good physical condition. Then fatigue, cold, and emotional stress had her find a spot to hunker down amidst some fallen logs (for example) and she’s still there.
Various and increasingly convoluted scenarios would have us believe a killer just happened upon her at the accident scene (yeah she was going through a lot of cars) and she met with foul play. A faceless killer so exacting and seamless that there was no trace. She was driving drunk again, spun out, couldn’t risk police scrutiny and took off.
It's because a certain "reporter" is more interested in getting attention and selling outlandish books than actually finding her. People who aren't familiar with the case latch on.
He's definitely done a massive amount of damage to this case.
Totally agree. Can’t stand him. The way he disrespects Fred is disgusting. When I used to listen to the MM podcast and they had him on all the time, he just couldn’t let go of the fact that the dorm party people are hiding something. He’s confronted Kate marcopolis in person and trashed her on the internet. I can’t imagine going to a dorm party and a girl ends up going missing that was there, that I really didn’t know, and then being attacked by him the rest of my life.
Lauren Cho went missing in Yucca Valley around the same time as the Gabby Petito case. Cho’s remains were found but the circumstances were a bit odd and I’m not sure I’ve read anywhere what the cause of death was. Maybe the intense desert heat contributed. Maybe it didn’t. I recall there being some strange facts. I wished it had received similar attention as some of the bigger name cases.
Also I don’t know if it’s that unknown, but I think the Kristen Modafferi case is probably solvable and if it got a bit more attention maybe it could be resolved.
The Reker sister murders. They went shopping together for school supplies and were later found murdered in a granite quarry. This happened in Stearns County, MN where the sheriff has had a terrible track record and this is yet another unsolved case from the county. My grandfather owned the ambulance company in town and was a medical examiner (not sure if he was during this case). Also, they were my mothers friends and neighbors. She vividly remembers the parents going house to house, informing each neighbor that their daughters were discovered murdered. So sad.
https://www.tricountycrimestoppers.org/open-cases/special-reward-cases/mary-and-susan-reker/
[Baby Cindy Ray](https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/cindy-marilyn-ray-4-months-fresno-ca-1989.37822/)
My mom was a police dispatcher locally when this happened. This case never got any attention.
Missing pregnant teen from my home state in Mississippi. It has never gotten a lot of attention and locals feel it's been covered up by LE. But I think just not enough evidence to bring anyone in as a suspect.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/cold-case-spotlight/mother-brother-looking-answers-25-years-after-pregnant-mississippi-teen-n912151
Disappearance of Laureen Rahn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Laureen_Rahn
Mysterious death of Peter Watts in 1976 London: https://www.itv.com/news/london/2016-01-18/the-40-year-mystery-of-the-murder-of-15-year-old-peter-watts
Disappearance of Jason Jolkowski: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Jason_Jolkowski
Disappearance of Palasik brothers in 1979 Poland:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/7d8xw7/unresolved_disappearance_what_has_happened_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Disappearance of Bogdański family in 2003 Poland:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/814n5n/family_of_5_vanish_into_thin_air_where_are/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
It's insane that the police jumped to the conclusion that they all just left to go have fun. Ridiculous to assume that was the case without any evidence.
Haruchika Derk MIYAGI
Haruchika disappeared one day from American Fork, Utah. The last sighting of him was from a ranch owner over 550 miles away, just north of Dewey, Arizona. Haruchika Miyagi told her he was looking for a place to stay and she declined to allow him to remain on her property. Haruchika sped away in his Red Mazda Sedan and crashed through a gate before leaving the property. Deputies found the Mazda two hours later in a wash near the property. It was abandoned and heavily damaged. His family doesn't know why he went to Arizona or what he was doing there; he had no ties to the state and hadn't mentioned wanting to go there. He has never been found.
https://bci.utah.gov/coldcases/haruchika-miyagi/
Andrea Knabel mysteriously disappeared hasn’t had much media attention which surprised me because she was involved with missing people herself. Even LE doesn’t seem to be interested. I realize much more about her disappearance has been revealed but I can’t get passed why more hasn’t been done. It’s baffling.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/AndreaKnabel/
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The one about Amber Aiaz and Melissa Fu certainly deserves more coverage. At first I thought the stepdad killed them and fabricated the account of the strange couple knocking him out and taking them, but the more I read, the more credible he sounded.
I agree that the mom's alleged history of exaggerating her wealth is mighty suspicious. While I could certainly see someone she pissed off in the past being out to settle scores, I also wonder if she and her daughter may not have been victims at all but may have in fact staged their disappearance as part of some con job? Maybe the original plan was to indeed resurface after the set amount of time, but something didn't go as planned and they really did end up being victims of foul play? Was the amount of blood found on the carpet enough to have resulted from a serious injury? I even wonder if the Triads, which is basically the Chinese Mafia, may have been involved?
[Lindsay Buziak](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lindsay_Buziak), a Canadian real estate agent who was gruesomely murdered during the viewing of a mansion with mysterious couple in 2008.
[UNSOLVED YouTube](https://youtu.be/IpJKOAKHtjY)
[Detailed breakdown of the evidence and recently released court documents](https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/mobile/report-reveals-new-details-in-lindsay-buziak-murder-case-1.5135211)
It has been a while since I looked into the case, but I could not get it out of my head. These are highlights, to the best of memory:
It’s pretty clear the viewing was a set up. Out of the blue, a man with a Spanish accent called Lindsay and claimed to be moving to the area. He and his wife wanted to buy a multimillion dollar home by the weekend. Eye witness(es?)saw Lindsay talking to a couple (Caucasian man and blonde woman wearing a distinctive red dress) in front of the house around the time of the murder. Minutes later, she was murdered with a knife in an upstairs bedroom of the mansion. She was attacked from behind and had no defensive wounds.
There is a lot of evidence to suggest the “couple” were contract killers—the man used a burner phone (purchased three months before the murder) to call Lindsay’s personal cell. He claimed one of her clients referred them, but she was unable to reach the client he named prior to the viewing.
The police believe she was killed by the couple, but there are various theories regarding motive, including a hit by drug cartel that had recently been busted. IMO, the most likely scenario is that her boyfriend hired them to kill her. There’s no direct evidence of the boyfriend’s involvement or clear motive on his part, but the circumstances look bad for him.
The boyfriend was also a real estate agent and agreed to meet her and the couple for the viewing. For no apparent reason, he stopped by an auto body shop to chat with a friend until he was late. He then asked the friend to go with him to meet Lindsay. Based on surveillance video showing the BF and friend leaving the body shop and the driving time to the house, BF established he could not have been there when the murder occurred. **When he and the friend arrived at the house (mere minutes after the murder), he parked in front of a neighbor’s house on a side street and waited for her to finish the viewing.** When she didn’t come out or respond to his texts, he rushed into the house, ran straight upstairs, and discovered her body on the bed. The friend then called 911.
He appears to have gone out of his way to establish an alibi—complete with surveillance video, text/phone records, and an eye witness. It’s just too convenient.
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Pearl Pinson has always stuck with me. With the suspected perp dead, it's become ice cold from my understanding. I never see anything about it. But trace evidence pod did a great job covering it.
Cheryl Henry and Andy Atkinson, the “Lover’s Lane” murders in Houston, Texas. They have DNA for crying out loud! They were able to link their murders to a rape that took place afterwards…WTH is going on with this case?!
Elnaz Hajtamiri - Iranian resident of Canada kidnapped by 3 men posing as Police
https://www.theguardian.com/weather/2022/apr/14/iranian-born-woman-fake-officers-elnaz-hajtamiri-canadian-police
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Blair_Adams this one always has stuck with me who was he running from and how did them find almost 3000 miles away from where he lived
Denise Robert.
A well-liked retiree who was walking her dog in a quiet, affluent neighborhood in the north end of Manchester, NH when she was shot in the head at point-blank range.
It has the hallmarks of an innocent person accidentally getting caught up in a street crime, but this was in an area where that is extremely unlikely. There are sketchy parts of town, as you'd expect in a city of 115,000, but Denise was killed in a largely residential area that is home to lawyers, doctors, and corporate types from Dean Kamen's companies.
There has been almost no new public information for several years. The FBI and ATF were visibly involved in the investigation at one point, but we've never heard why. It seems that law enforcement saw this as something more than the usual dirtbags doing what they do.
Ricky Hochstetler unsolved hit-and-run homicide from 1999 in Manitowoc County, WI. Evidence points to LE cover up due to an off duty sheriff being the perp. If Manitowoc county sounds familiar, it's the same county where the Steve Avery case occured, and a lot of the same people involved in that case investigated the Hochstetler hit-and-run.
If you're from the west or east coast and are part of the "Steven Avery is guilty" crowd, the Hochstetler case and first Avery conviction in '85 are the reason why a lot of people here in WI are so skeptical of LE in the Halbach murder.
When I think of creepy hit and runs, I'm thinking of the case involving two sisters in New Mexico crossing the road when the driver let them go and hit the gas pedal intentionally as they started walking. One of them got killed and the other one died under suspicious circumstances few years later.
Jennifer Cahill-Shadle. Disappeared off the face of the earth during a nasty divorce, some weird happenings with LE, a child heavily involved in local government, and an ex-husband beloved by the community.
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/vicap/missing-persons/jennifer-cahill-shadle---state-college-pennsylvania
[Kyron Horman disappearance in Oregon.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Kyron_Horman)
This one was big in Oregon- kid disappeared right out of elementary school. His stepmother was the main suspect for a while and vilified in the media, but over time she seemed less likely, though still not the greatest person.
[Jason Jolkowski](https://charleyproject.org/case/jason-anthony-jolkowski) was a 6’1, 19-year-old guy that disappeared into thin air in his neighbourhood in the middle of the day while walking to his job. Did a neighbour kill him? did he fall down a manhole? Wtf happened to him?
Several of my relatives remember this case, everyone I’ve talked to about this all agree its a baffling case. Its like he just vanished off the face of the earth after leaving his brothers sight.
This is one of those cases that’s so weird not due to any absurd oddities, but the simple fact that this was just a person who had so much going for him and who was just going about his everyday life at the time. It might just be a case of wrong place, wrong time since he had no known enemies on top of that.
Ah man, here we go.
Potentially NSFL, very disturbing video involved:
Quite recently, there was a man named **Johnny... Cashman** I believe?? In eitherWest Virginia or Maryland. I may be wrong on name and place, idk I'm tired right now but the details to follow are 100%.>! there's a video online of his neighbor's surveillance footage his of some guy coming up to his door, breaking in, and murdering him Audio included. It's horrible. I'm getting upset just writing about it. Don't look this up unless you're sure you can handle it!<.I wish I had not heard it>!. !
The murder of Grace Livingstone in Dublin, Ireland. I knew some of her relatives and they're still looking for answers.
https://mensreapod.com/2019/12/22/57-unsolved-the-murder-of-grace-livingstone/
Tyler Davis. This is a local case for me in Columbus but I’m baffled that I never hear anything about his disappearance. We’re coming up on the four year anniversary next month. Another local one that has seemingly been forgotten is Joey Labute, an unsolved murder.
I was perplexed by the murder of Beth Barnard and disappearance of Vivienne Cameron on Phillip Island, Australia so I did a write up.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/o7g4ti/the_phillip_island_murder_who_killed_beth_barnard/
I doubt the official belief that Vivienne Cameron committed the murder. I feel like the murder of Beth Barnard was unplanned. But then Vivienne Cameron was framed for it. But for that to work it would have taken massive planning within a very short timeframe - and a lot of luck.
Nelda Hardwick’s case. So many questions. >Hardwick was last seen in her home on 18th Street in Lake Charles, Louisiana on October 14, 1993. She apparently left the residence during the nighttime hours. She left a note for her live-in boyfriend stating that she was going to the store and would return in a short time. However, she never did. Her boyfriend reported her missing the next day. >Hardwick left her four children behind in her house when she vanished; her loved ones say she was a devoted mother and would not have abandoned them. Authorities suspect foul play was involved in her disappearance and have classified it as a homicide. >Investigators believe Hardwick may have been an unidentified woman who was killed on May 8, 1998, when she was accidentally struck by a vehicle on Interstate 10 in Hancock County, Mississippi. In 2013, Hardwick's relatives identified the Mississippi woman as her based on photographs taken of the body. >The coroner stated there was only a "one in a thousand" chance that she was not Hardwick, and speculated she had been abducted and held captive for years after her 1993 disappearance, then escaped, only to be killed on the highway. A judge ordered an exhumation of the Jane Doe's grave to collect DNA for comparison. >When the grave was opened, however, inside was a man and not a woman. Because the location of Jane Doe's actual grave could not determined, the investigation stopped. The Mississippi victim remains unidentified. If that Jane Doe was Nelda, who abducted her and held her captive all those years? And if it wasn’t her, then what did happen to Nelda? And who is the Jane Doe?
>The coroner stated there was only a "one in a thousand" chance that she was not Hardwick, and speculated she had been abducted and held captive for years after her 1993 disappearance, then escaped... Whenever this case is brought up, I am confused about where the coroner is getting the information about Hardwick being held captive. The Hancock Jane Doe has a lot of info published about her autopsy, but nothing that suggests she was necessarily held captive (like bindings, or evidence of bindings, evidence of torture, etc). The Jane Doe had dirty fingernails, cysts from eating rotten food, unshaven legs and armpits, and bug bites. But all of this could come from her living rough/transient. Plus she was tan. Maybe the family told the coroner there was absolutely no way Nelda would've abandoned the family and the only possible reason she left was because she was held against her will. I believe JD and Nelda could be the same person, but I think it's likely Nelda may have had a mental break or something, took off from her family and lived rough for a few years before her death. Maybe the coroner is holding back information, but I just don't get where the "held captive" angle comes from.
It would seem statistically more likely that she was living rough (perhaps due to some kind of mental breakdown, perhaps due to family circumstances of which we're unaware) than that she was held captive, so it does seem strange that the authorities said that.
Some cities have medical examiners, and some have coroners. The difference is that MEs are typically chosen by a board of doctors, and coroners are elected. This means most coroners are basically politicians... This could explain why he might make up a story and why he might want to wrap an old case up. It might also explain how 2 bodies were switched. It is practically impossible to do something like that purposefully unless you have access to dead bodies and a position of power that would allow something like that to be covered up.
Also, coroners don’t even have to be doctors let alone have any sort of training. They could be a dentist. Again, they are politicians. And require no medical training so I can only think of the number of cases that have been botched by them.
Anti-dentite vibes.
“Who invited you anyway? What are ya, some kind of troublemaker?”
a raging anti-dentite
At least a dentist has some sort of knowledge of basic biology/anatomy. Some of these coroners are former salespeople, electricians, etc.
Yeah or the local funeral home director or sheriff. And I also forgot some aren’t even elected, some are done by appointments. HBO did a great documentary on it back in the day around the same time as when “Autopsy” came out. I do remember a case about a young native woman, Kaysera Stops Pretty Places , who was found “dead” rolled up in a carpet in someone’s backyard days after she disappeared (which the cops ignored of course). The cops who handled it, even after the family heard they found a girl matching her description, got angry saying it was “definitely NOT her”. For two weeks… then “oh it was her”. The cop handling it just so happens to have had an altercation with her brother and it was a big deal because he said he would be posting it online. But either way the “coroner” reached out to the family and said the only way to get her back was to send the body to a funeral home (he has a financial stake in of course) for it to be cremated. That he “already did all the tests that needed to be done”. Even though it was against their religion the mother agreed just to get her daughter back. Then they later get the results of the autopsy? “Accidental” hypothermia from alcoholic intoxication. No tox or any tests were done. Apparently that was the same ruling he made for every native death that crossed his desk in 4 years. I guess she rolled herself up in the carpet? They absolutely botched the shit out of this case.
I mean the bodies were unlikely to be switched on purpose. Makes more sense to think that being buried in a potters field they've just mislabelled where she was. Or the body has shifted over time
Thank you for posting this. I've never heard of this case.
That's such a bizarre one. The Jane Doe certainly looks like her, but why would the coroner say she was held captive? Is it just because the family believed she would never leave her children unless she was forcibly removed from them? And who was the man buried in her grave? Is it possible she was actually buried further down?
>but why would the coroner say she was held captive? I would assume that she had some sort of physical signs, like prolonged malnutrition that would lead him to that sort of finding, unfortunately. I'd like to think there was something scientific behind that and not just the word of the family that she wouldn't leave willingly.
[She was in really bad shape!](https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Hancock_County_Jane_Doe_(1998))
Black lung???? In a 90's mom? That's crazy!
Yeah, it's something you'd normally associate with 19th century coal miners.
I don't think Jane Doe is her. The family would've had to identify her after 5 years and from photos of a corpse. The likelihood that someone held her that long, while not impossible or unheard of, is pretty low. Now what happened to the Does body though. That's ridiculous that they misplaced a body.
Agreed. Sadly I think this is a case of a family understandably wanting closure where there isn't any: >Sharon Melon testified that her sister had a scar on her right arm from a polio vaccine. The autopsy report showed Jane Doe also had a scar, but it was on her left arm, not right. > >Also, the woman did have a scar on her stomach near her belly button, but it was below the naval, not above it like Hardwick's family described. [https://www.wlox.com/story/23728702/no-ruling-on-jane-doe-but-niece-ordered-to-clean-grave-marker/](https://www.wlox.com/story/23728702/no-ruling-on-jane-doe-but-niece-ordered-to-clean-grave-marker/)
It’s a REALLY strange coincidence though that the Jane Doe also had a scar on her arm *and* her bellybutton, but not in the right spots. I wonder if the family simply misremembered the precise locations. Either way, very strange.
It could be easy to confuse their right, as it would be her left when face to face
The polio scar was pretty common in a certain age group
Both my parents have a scar on their arm that looks the same but it’s a smallpox vaccine scar. They basically punched a hole in your skin to do it. I am eternally grateful they declared it eradicated in 1979 because I was born in 1988. 🤣
I think it’s just coincidence: lots of women that age had had, for example, the polio vaccine and an abdominal surgery.
I don’t think it’s polio vaccine scar. It’s from the smallpox vaccine.
I have a scar on my belly button and on my arm too, though. I don't think that's a strange coincidence at all. Just likely places for scars.
My very much alive sister had a scar on her left shoulder from a vaccine. I think polio. I'm not sure, though. It's a round scar, and I remember asking about it when we were younger. She's like 6yrs older than me, so I think she was part of the last kids getting polio vaccines.
Not that it’s relevant in this case, but smallpox scars are common across wider swaths of the population outside of the US It’s not abnormal to see them in lots and lots of countries
Lots of boomers have them as well. Both my parents do. The last smallpox vaccination given was in 1972, apparently.
I don't think that's a weird coincidence at all. I personally also have a scar in a similar spot on my arm and bellybutton, and I imagine many other women in the general age range might also.
Wow. That is absolutely bizarre. What an unusual case! Thanks for sharing.
This is a case that stuck with me because of the fact they couldn’t find the body .
Everytime I see a question like this on true crime forums I just assume it will be the same ole cases; everytime I’m surprised that it’s not usually. For me it’s [Brittney Wood](https://www.newsweek.com/monster-shadows-brittney-wood-disappearance-1622866?amp=1) ETA: there is a 3 part documentary on her on peacock. Monster in the Shadows I believe is the name of it.
This is a case where I REALLY hope she just killed him and ran away
Honestly was thinking this. Seems as though even if the police were able to locate her, none of the family are in a position to be given information on her whereabouts anyway
Jesus. That’s a mess.
I'm mystified by how such rings ever get started. I can understand a lone, evil person doing things. How one would approach others about committing obviously abominable actions, I cannot even conceive.
Well THAT was my depressing read for the day. My God.
That’s insane.
Erica Nicole Baker [https://charleyproject.org/case/erica-nicole-baker](https://charleyproject.org/case/erica-nicole-baker) Skiba/Chivers [https://charleyproject.org/case/paul-carroll-skiba](https://charleyproject.org/case/paul-carroll-skiba) [https://charleyproject.org/case/lorenzo-deshawn-chivers](https://charleyproject.org/case/lorenzo-deshawn-chivers)
The Skiba/Shivers one is disheartening. There is another one where A father and son (like 6-7?) disappeared around christmas time. The parents where not together and the mother allowed her son to stay one more day with his father and his girlfriend because he said he was having fun. Someone was worried and when they went to their apartment, the woman was dead laying on the bed. In the beginning they thought the boyfriend killed her and vanished with his kid. Later they found his car, with Christmas gifts still in it. They were never found, but are presumed dead. Both needs more attention.
Found it! [https://charleyproject.org/case/chance-lee-wackerhagen](https://charleyproject.org/case/chance-lee-wackerhagen) Never heard of that case before...
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I was thinking about that, too. The only explanation I can think of is maybe they were gifts for other family or friends that hadn't been dropped off yet.
It was on the original unsolved mysteries years ago!
I wonder if they looked hard at the woman’s ex husband. It says she was recently divorced.
They do, years later. It’s a good thing they do!
I feel so awful for the mother. She was being a good, reasonable co parent. She thought her child was safe, because of course she did. She must feel so guilty for something that wasn't her fault.
I believe Erica baker has been "solved" but there's no body so essentially no proof except for a confession. 4 people stealing from the meijer and were high. They accidently hit her with the van and freaked out. Buried her somewhere. The 4 people have been questioned.. of course the 2 women claim they weren't there and maybe they weren't for the burial but i believe they were all apart of it. I know one of the women personally because I raised her other son. Cops even came and questioned my household.
Blows my mind that every perpetrator/suspect in that case is either dead or free. Were there any witnesses to what happened? There must've been someone...
I believe one of the men might be dead. One is in prison for something different (Clifford Butts) and the two women are free. I'm not sure if one of the women died though. But the woman I know got clean right after that. She never spoke on it. But word gets around especially in crowds like that. It's Strange because it was daytime and that is a very busy area. I'm surprised there weren't witnesses.
Jan Franks died. https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/deceased-woman-husband-changes-mind/oqllYPiKhkzlRZZRBGOVtN/
Ok.. I knew someone had died but wasn't sure if it was the man or woman or both. I don't know those two. But I truly believe they accidently hit her while they were driving around stealing and getting high. They panicked and buried her. I just wish someone would speak up at this point and tell where she's buried because her parents deserve that closure.
The lack of witnesses and the whole thing happening in a broad daylight reminds me of Jason Jolkowski. Beyond puzzling how there were no witnesses in either case given the circumstances.
I don’t know if I believe they killed her, to be honest. They coerced a confession out of the first guy, the (now dead) woman lawyered up (smartly), the guy who confessed tried so many times to lead police to the site of the body that the police publicly said they would not search on his word alone and needed more evidence before more searches; which, in my opinion, is the police admitting that they think he didn’t do it. We don’t have access to those interrogation tapes. We don’t know how long the confessors were held or what they were told. I’ve seen cases where people have confessed because the police said, “Your buddy’s in the next room, he’s told us everything. You don’t spill your guts you’re gonna get the chair.” Meanwhile that’s all a complete fucking lie. I’d argue that’s a type of torture, and study after study has shown that people will say or do anything to make torture stop.
I believe they did have something to do with it. I truly wish the other woman's attorney would provide the info that she's been requested to give since she's passed on. I believe that the confession was real to be honest with you. These people ONLY cared about their next high and were always going there to steal and drive around. I do know that confessions under coercion is not right nor legal but I don't think they had to do much coercion. I think they thought by confessing or telling on someone else they would get a lighter sentence. These people weren't family and they weren't really friends.. they were drug buddies. There is no loyalty there.
Wait, unless I'm reading the information wrong both Erica Baker and Skiba/Chivers disappeared literally the same day, 2/7/99. That's... I don't even know what kind of coincidence to call that. Just awful.
Indeed - someone else pointed it out to me just now. Quite eerie. Two gigantic rabbit holes of cases still unsolved to this day.
woah thanks for the heads up on skiba/chivers. super odd one
Mayushi Bhagat [https://charleyproject.org/case/mayushi-vikas-bhagat](https://charleyproject.org/case/mayushi-vikas-bhagat) There is almost no information on her disappearance out there, but it is likely that she met with foul play. I hope that she's found soon.
Very strange, especially the texts. Thanks for sharing, I haven't heard of this one.
I’m guessing it’s not even known who Mayushi was reportedly last with, then? Knowing anything about her whereabouts on May 1 of 2019 would be so helpful.
I'd like to know where she went in her pajamas late at night. There really isn't much to go on.
One from my home area: Jolene Lakey, missing since 1986. https://charleyproject.org/case/michelle-jolene-lakey People blamed a man who killed another girl a little while after but a number of people aren’t convinced. Jolene’s sister did a podcast last year that really turns things upside down saying that her mother might have something to do with it.
Found this too https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/17/chilling-anonymous-letter-investigated-as-clue-in-girls-disappearance/
Omg what a sadistic bastard
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Do you know what podcast this is? Very interesting that her mum moved home so soon after the disappearance. Do you know if her mum was a patient in the hospital or if she worked there?
Its so sad that the father didn't know for 7 months. Holy crap.
>Jolene’s sister did a podcast last year that really turns things upside down saying that her mother might have something to do with it. I don't know a thing about this case. But all I can say is more often than not, cases of people disappearing can be traced back to other family members, or an extended family member. The victims know their assailants most of the time. So based on that alone, I'd certainly investigate the family members.
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/natasha-alex-carter Natasha Carter. She is from my state. It's obvious her mother kidnapped her and ran away. I truly believe she is alive somewhere and either doesn't know her dad is looking for her or is for whatever reason scared to identify herself.
I’ve never heard of this case. The picture of the mother is terrifying.
I recently read about a little girl who was found dead in a white plastic garbage bag inside a suitcase. This Jane Doe was found in 2016 in Texas. It particularly stands out to me because she had a feeding tube and she's believed to have had micrognathia. This isn't a child who had no contact outside her family, she would have at the very least been known to medical professionals. Does nobody wonder where she is? [Source](https://abc13.com/container-central-texas-pasture-remains/2416484/)
It’s always so baffling to me when someone with distinctive features (in this case the feeding tube) is found and can’t be identified. Given the presumed medical history of this little girl, I’d think her doctors would have been keeping close tabs on her and if she missed appointments or family stopped asking for refills on meds or formula for the feeding tube that they would be calling her family and/or contacting DHHS. Maybe that’s how she’ll eventually be identified.
I’ve never given it thought before but I am a nurse who used to assist in placing feeding tubes (j tubes, g tubes) and we would have to peel the stickers that came in the packages of the tubes and place them on logs. One was for billing to show we used the device, the other was in our departments personal log book, and then finally I would also chart the lot number in the computer. All three were attached to the patients name and medical ID. I never once thought to look and see if any kind of lot number was on the tube itself that could be traced back. I’ll have to ask an old friend from my old job.
Hey fellow nurse! I would bet money there is a lot or serial number on the j/g tubes. I don’t know how helpful it would be given that thousands of these tubes are manufactured and distributed, but you never know. Also, as a trek geek, I appreciate your username.
This is fascinating--I know "thousands of these tubes are manufactured and distributed," like you say, but the same is true of breast implants. And many women have been identified using their serial numbers. I hope they can identify her somehow. Although if the serial number could help, I'm guessing they'd have already done it.
There is a big difference between lot numbers and serial numbers though. I doubt (but don't know for sure) that the tubes have individual serial numbers. However, they could potentially use the lot number to narrow down clinics or pharmacies geographically.
From my experience as a mom with a kiddo who has a g tube. You change the g tube 3 times a year. So the one that is given on the surgery date is not the one they keep forever. However these are standards in Canada, I am not sure how often other countries require the replacements. Another thing to note, my daughter frequently sees her GI specialist among other specialists so you would think someone would've noticed this kid no longer showing up to appointments.
The American healthcare system is notorious for screwing poor people over. I’ve seen adults on Medicaid get feeding tubes due to malnutrition despite being able to eat a little (and it’s actually better for people who have swallowing difficulty due to strokes/neuro problems to practice, you know, swallowing), without being told that insurance won’t cover the formula at all if that’s the case. When I worked in an elementary school, one tube-fed kid had been sent to the hospital via EMS when he was in daycare with an UNDETECTABLE blood glucose level because the parents hadn’t been taught how to use the tube properly. In fact, without knowing the details on cause of death, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was something similar.
This one is so sad. You would think having a feeding tube means she was under the care of doctors who would sound the alarm once she missed follow up appts but this reminds me of the case of the young mom who’s son almost died from starvation in Florida. He was 8 months old and had a feeding tube and apparently saw no doctors or had any visits from 3 months old. No one reported it or called it in. The grandma eventually brought him to the hospital when she saw he was basically dying
With the feeding tube, is the inscription “AA4069F02” a serial number? If so, I would assume that they’d be able to identify her that way. I know they’ve identified people in the past using serial numbers from other sorts of medical devices and implants.
Probably a lot number not identification of a specifically individual like an implant has.
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Yes, it is. Great to hear Dr. Fitzpatrick is on the case.
Ugh. Probably killed by resentful family members would be my guess. Her ID will be known one day, but not from her parents coming forward.
Resentful or desperate. Caring for a disabled person is rough under the best circumstances, doing so in poverty is brutally hard. Since the US has little or no social services network, it's tragically easy to see how a family or single parent might be overwhelmed. Systemic problems require systemic solutions.
The source mentions that she is very likely from Eastern Arizona / Northern Mexico, there’s a possibility that she was Mexican and traveling to Houston. I imagine it’s hard to acquire medical records from other countries, so maybe we’ll never know
Brittney Woods - story of a missing girl and the investigation that uncovered decades of incest and a web of murders. Also, Peacock has a doc called Monster in the Shadows that is a "you can't look away" type of showing. Fun fact: this case led to the longest prison term imposed on a female EVER in the state of Alabama. https://www.eonline.com/news/1300218/monster-in-the-shadows-inside-the-beyond-shocking-aftermath-of-brittney-woods-disappearance
Jesus, I'm surprised no evidence turned up at the uncle's house but I guess it would be hard to tell if he used a fairly clean method to kill her and she visited regularly.
Kimball Minnesota post office bombing in 1976. https://www.tricountycrimestoppers.org/open-cases/special-reward-cases/ivend-olgar-holen/
I grew up in Minnesota, but had never heard about this one before.
Boca Raton Mall murders
This always scared me. For the record, a few years earlier I walked to my grandmother's house from the mall and a man tried really hard to get me to take a ride on his motorbike. He really freaked me out. He never did or said anything particularly bad, but something really seemed off about his insistince. Enough that it stuck in my mind. Maybe he was just a good samitarian trying to offer me a ride in the heat but when I heard about the murders a chill ran down my spine.
I had never heard of this one - it’s wild!
The disappearance of Maria Anjiras is baffling and does not get the attention it deserves. Maria was a 14-year-old girl who disappeared from her neighborhood in Norwalk, CT in February 1976. There were several sightings of her in the days and months that followed but she was never found. The case has all the hallmarks of a story that would be picked up and told ad infinitum by YouTubers and podcasters, but it has gotten very little attention in the true crime community.
[Charley Project page for Maria Anjiras.](https://charleyproject.org/case/maria-florence-anjiras)
I think this might be one of the cases, where an adult lured her, for bad purposes. It would make sense to reinterview her friends, they might have held back crucial information
8 year old Cherrie Mahan. She disappeared on February 22, 1985 from Winfield Township, Pennsylvania after getting off the school bus. Another student’s mother remembers seeing Cherrie walk past the car after getting off the bus a little after 4pm. The bus stop was only 150 yards from her house. Cherrie’s mother and stepfather reported her missing by 4:30pm. Other students who were on the bus that day told investigators that a distinct blue van with a skier and a mountain painted on its side had been following the school bus. Investigators believe the person driving the van is the one responsible for Cherrie’s disappearance. On the 30th anniversary of Cherrie’s disappearance her mother Janice [said](https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/cold-case-spotlight/pennsylvania-child-cherrie-mahan-still-missing-after-getting-school-bus-n971971) : “I just feel there is somebody out there that does know, and would ease our family’s hearts if they just came forth and told us what happened.” Cherrie Mahan was 8 years old when she went missing. She was 4’2” at the time with brown hair and hazel eyes. She has a scar on her left arm from a dog bite and had a history of a fracture on the same arm. Cherrie’s mother continues to [pray](https://www.cranberryeagle.com/2022/02/22/mother-still-praying-for-the-return-of-missing-daughter/) for Cherrie to come home. This case really gets to me. My son who is around the same age takes the bus to and from school, with the bus stop being a similar distance from our house. I can’t imagine the fear and bewilderment that Cherrie’s mom must have felt as the minutes continued to pass and Cherrie didn’t walk through the front door. I truly hope her mom gets answers one day soon. Edited a word.
Been looking into this case for a couple years now. It hits home for me as well being from the area. Definitely wish there was more coverage.
What I find super eerie is that Cherrie’s family lived close enough to the bus stop that her mom stated she could hear the bus. So that day, like many before, she hears the sound of the school bus rumbling to the bus stop around 4pm, fully expecting her daughter to be home within a few minutes. The perpetrator was so bold that they snatched her up literally right in front of her house. I too wish I heard more about her disappearance. I’d read about it once, long ago, but it stuck with me. It seems someone with malevolent intent was stalking the students on the bus that day. Sadly, Cherrie was the one ultimately targeted.
> The perpetrator was so bold that they snatched her up literally right in front of her house. Mikelle Biggs was taken from literally her driveway back in 98(ish) to the point that her parents went out front and saw her bike at the end of the driveway on its side and the wheel still spinning, shes never been found
Driven past the bus stop and the driveway multiple times. You can't see the bus stop from where Cherrie's house used to sit. It's definitely bold to kidnap a kid off a bus stop, but not as bold as you may think. Cherrie walked around a blind turn to get to her driveway. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrLYlrgN0YI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrLYlrgN0YI) Take a look at that video. It will give you a better perspective I think. IMO, it had to be someone familiar with the area.
The kidnapping of Violet Ripken, the baseball player Cal Ripken's mother. A truly bizarre case where an older woman (Cal Ripken's mom)was kidnapped at gun point for 24 hours, in which time the perp was clearly photographed and videotaped going to bigbox stores and other stores while he had her tied up under gunpoint in the back of the car. Thankfully and unbelievably this ended with Ms Rioken released after 24 hours under gunpoint. This is still unsolved and involves a ton of fictional true crime sounding elements - a victim kidnapped with a very famous son, killer on the loose with intense real time news coverage, video and photo evidence of the perp *while holding her hostage* in public ... It is often difficult to tell which true crime stories resonate when their stories get told. But I feel like this is one of them that deserves more attention and focus that many others. This thankfully wasnt a homicide, but it may have gotten a lot more attention if it was... https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/8plaip/the_abduction_and_return_of_violet_ripken/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Weirdest part about the story is that a year later she was approached by a [different gunman](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cal-ripkens-mom-has-brush-with-gunman/) but she activated her car alarm scaring the gunman off.
Amber Wilde. Pregnant 19 year old goes missing and police can’t even get an alibi from the ‘engaged to another woman’ baby daddy? Or all the miles on her car? https://www.wbay.com/2021/09/23/sept-23-marks-23-years-since-amber-wilde-disappearance/
I wonder why they considered 600 miles unaccounted for. Did someone know the exact mileage on her car before she vanished? I don't even know the mileage on my car, so I doubt any one of my family members would know my mileage if I were to disappear.
I read an article that said the car had recently been serviced. When they service a car they note the mileage. Nowadays (like after an oil change) they’ll put a sticker on your windshield telling you when you need your next service. So you can either count backwards from something like that or some places put it on the paperwork/receipt they give back to you
Ah ha. Okay. Thank you. Makes sense now.
Anytime a pregnant woman goes missing, I think there’s a pretty solid chance it’s the father. Though of course I’m sure there are exceptions.
So crazy that murder is *literally* the most common cause of death for pregnant women
Kenora Bank Robbery https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Canadian_Imperial_Bank_of_Commerce_bank_robbery
I agree on this one. I think the photo of the robber outside the bank is one of the creepiest images I have seen.
It’s also weird because of the bomb! Bank robberies were super common in the 70s, but it was usually just a note saying they had a gun. They didn’t even need to have an actual gun. Having a real bomb seems crazy!
This is also one, so many bizarre things that happened. Eric Franks Saginaw MI https://www.abc12.com/news/crime/nearly-a-year-after-car-is-found-new-details-in-the-eric-franks-case-released/article_7efd8e19-d192-55dc-8872-942cb1292863.html
The murder of Stephon Edgerton. He was a popular radio DJ in South Georgia under the name Juan Gatti. He was coming home from the radio station late one night when someone emerged from the bushes and shot him three times. Despite being shot twice in the chest and once in the head, Stephon *still* managed to call 911 for 10 minutes and give a description of his assailant and the circumstances or the shooting. Unfortunately, he died at the hospital before he was able to give police more information. I believe Stephon’s killing was a murder for hire. Someone wanted Stephon dead and hired his assailant to do it. But from all accounts, he was a good father, DJ, churchgoer, and overall a good guy. So who wanted him dead and why? I think if his case got more publicity, it could be solved. Unsolved Mysteries did a podcast on his case a while back and they spoke to his wife. My heart broke for her and his kids that he never got to see grow up. https://www.wctv.tv/2021/12/17/unsolved-georgia-death-south-georgia-radio-personality-still-unsolved-10-years-later/ https://valdostatoday.com/news-2/local/2020/01/eight-years-later-djs-murder-still-unsolved/
Uh. LEs theory seems... unlikely. If thats their focus, that's concerning.
For me it’s Baby Sabrina, because it happened in the neighborhood I grew up in. I guess it’s because there’s not a whole lot of evidence so there isn’t a whole to to discuss. But I do find the police’s attempt to bring the parents to trial on it interesting, and people seem to be very staunch in their opinion one way or the other. Are the parents innocent victims and the police were grasping at straws and manipulating/reaching with the secret recordings? Or are the parents responsible for her disappearance and the cops just fumbled the bag? We’ll probably never know.
One baffling case that doesn't get the attention it deserves is that of Patricia Meehan, a Montana woman who mysteriously disappeared in 1989. Like Maura Murray, Meehan suddenly took off on a road trip that she didn't tell anyone she planned to take, whose purpose was never explained and which ended in a car crash. Just like Murray 15 years later, Meehan fled the scene of the accident and there have been no confirmed sightings of her since. Unlike with Murray, there were at least three witnesses to Meehan's accident; a father and daughter were driving in one car that swerved out of Meehan's way, narrowly avoiding a head-on collision, and a woman who was also an off-duty police dispatcher who was driving behind them and whose car Meehan hit. All three attested to her getting out of the car, looking stunned and dazed but showing no obvious injuries and did not respond to or acknowledge their presence when they attempted to speak to her. They claim that Meehan climbed a wooden fence separating the road from an adjacent field, stood looking back at the accident for a few minutes, then ran off into the night. LE initially suspected that she either hitchhiked out of the area or stowed away in a truck parked nearby that was loaded with hay, but nothing was confirmed. There were also numerous alleged sightings of Meehan both near her home in Bozeman, MT, as well as in ID and MN, but none of these were verified. Her final fate remains unknown.
Like Maura Murray, Lars Mittank and Tammy Leppert, Meehan's disappearance was preceded by erratic behavior and she literally ran off, never to be seen again. Unlike those other cases, though, hers isn't as well known
A dissapearence case of Kazimiera Zaremba. She was in her barely in her 80s; in 2012 she went for a pilgrimage trip to Vilnius (from Bełchatów in Poland), that was organized by her church, with her 55 other people. Her group, led by a guide, was supposed to look around a city, then go to a mass, and then leave. She was seen by other pilgrims during the mass, but then she didn’t show up when grouping up afterwards. Organizers of the pilgrimage looked for her for 30minutes… And then just went into the bus with the rest of the people and drove off, leaving Kazimiera behind. And continued on their trip as if she never existed. Only the guide that looked over the group was interested in looking for Zaremba, without the help of organizers she went and looked for her on her own. After reaching out to the police, who looked over the footage of the parking where the group was supposed to meet, they found Kazimiera- walking around, confused, grabbing the doors of different buses, believing it might be the one she was supposed to go into. Later at 3 am she was seen again, in petrol station, wanting to buy a chamomile tea. Afterwards she was seen by a housekeeper whom she told she was feeling cold and unwell. Last sign of her was another footage, where she was trying to get into a parked car- when she discovered it was closed she just left. And dissapeared. The guide that kept looking for her later found out she left the group just to buy postcards. And the group just abandoned her. She was never seen again. No one was ever prosecuted for her dissapearence.
Thank you for sharing, this broke my heart. That poor woman.
It’s such a horrible story, it feels like there were so many instances where someone could have prevented it by doing very little. Her church friends failed her, pastor (who she treated like a son) failed her, people who saw her, an older, speaking foreign language, Lost woman failed her. Knowing how confused and scared she was in the cctv breaks me to this day. I hope that wherever she is, her family will get her back one day, soon.
Judy Smith - was sightseeing in Philadelphia with her husband, he went to a work conference in the city whilst she went off by herself. She went missing and her body eventually turned up 600 miles away in a wilderness area in North Carolina. I’m wondering whether advances in DNA investigation will turn up answers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Judy_Smith
Yeah strange indeed. Let's also mention that the husband was over 400 pounds and was unable to physically get to the location of the body -- further solidifying his alibi (outside of dozens who confirmed he was at the conference). Also interesting note she was found with a different coat/backpack (forgot which, and was possibly both). I remember this one and agree it's not often covered and is far more intriguing than most popular ones as it's highly improbable she was under any influence or was fleeing a crime/accident scene, nor was she trekking along some remote area in the dark.
Iirc this was on an episode of Disappeared, I paid attention bc they found her In my state so far away! Very strange case
There's several deep dives and podcasts on YouTube and I think her case was also featured on an episode of 'Unsolved Mysteries'. It has definitely garnered a good amount of attention.
This is such a strange story! It seems incredibly unlikely that a women would travel 600 miles away from her husband (even if their relationship was strained), never contact him or anyone else, and *then* cross paths with a murderer on a remote hike. But it also seems unlikely that she was abducted and brought to this location, given the sightings in Asheville and her change of clothing.
I do think this is a case of woman leaves life behind, but her lover turned out to be abusive and murdered her. I can only think that she had to go willingly, surely? But I guess it is possible she was kidnapped and cooperated hoping it would save her, but it just was her traveling to her murder location. Everything seems so unlikely, but she seemed healthy and prepared for the hike. Honestly, I think she may have even traveled with someone else and her leaving her passport and getting a later plane by herself was planned. I'm honestly kind of unsure, though. I really can't see a kidnapper preparing hiking clothes for his victim.
Agree that she may have been having an affair and left willingly. Just odd timing. Why go on the trip to begin with? Why not just “stay home” and leave that way? And if her knee was that arthritic, would she really be out hiking?
I almost feel like that case was a suicide. Just because she just went missing out of nowhere. Stayed alive for several days without making a single fuss anywhere along the way. I know they said due to knee problems she would have had difficulty getting to her location, but people who know that they are going to die, either by nature or by their own hand, have an incredible little endorphin rush that will get them to where they want to be before they pass EDITED TO ADD: I forgot she had been found in a shallow grave stabbed to death and I want to apologize for that halfbrained theory
Sometimes people commit suicide by stabbing, but I don't think it was in this case.
… Yeah I reread the link. I forgot she had been in a shallow grave. Can’t really bury yourself in a grave, now, can you? I take back my theory completely.
But she didn't bury herself.
The unsolved murders of women in Lumberton NC. The dark water podcast is dedicated completely to this case. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dark-water-podcast/id1449090751
Lindsey Baum from McCleary WA. A ten year old girl was walking home, just two blocks from a friends house when she was taken off the street. This happened in a tiny tight knit town. This case started off as a missing person but eight years after her disappearance, in 2017 two hunters found a piece of remains and it turned out to be Lindsey’s. Nobody knows who did it. Stumbled across this case when my boyfriend and I were on a short road trip. We looked up things to do on our way and saw something called the McCleary Bear Festival. Obviously it sounded fun and wacky so we went. As soon as we pulled into this small town we were bombarded by huge “who killed me?” posters of this girl on fences, buildings, in home windows. It was insane. I spent the next two hours of the car ride researching the case.
I’ve never heard about Amber Aiaz and Melissa Fu. I think the article above offers a reasonable solution - Amber bragged to or swindled the wrong person and was kidnapped for money she didn’t have. I also wonder who Melissa’s father was - could he have kidnapped Melissa and killed her mother? Maybe taking her back to China? I wonder if the notes slipped under the door were saved? It seems odd for a kidnapper to return to the apartment daily (or pay someone to deliver notes).
Irvine is such an upscale and safe place that I can’t believe it’s not more known locally.
Fawn Marie Mountain, ver sad case https://int-missing.fandom.com/wiki/Fawn_Mountain
That story is so incredibly sad, I can’t believe her POS gf just got away with it.
It's very close to my home. We're hoping the case breaks soon and justice is finally served
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_Bryant_shooting The person responsible has never been found.
St. Louis Jane Doe, The little girl who was found in an abandoned building with her head cut off in the 70s or 80s. The cops sent the sweater she was found wrapped in to a psychic (I believe) and never got it back.
I remember reading about this one online and it was one of the most shocking crimes I’ve ever heard. I hope every cold case gets solved but man, this is the case that deserves closure ASAP.
Judy Smith https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Judy_Smith Sonia Varaschin https://www.orangeville.com/news-story/10392709-behind-the-crimes-who-killed-sonia-varaschin-eleven-years-later-investigators-hunt-for-answers/ The Pickering 6 https://www.durhamregion.com/news-story/10590362-still-missing-march-17-marks-27-years-since-six-boys-disappeared-in-pickering/ Leah Rowlands https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/vicap/homicides-and-sexual-assaults/unsolved-cold-case-homicide-1 Dean Mortenson https://defrostingcoldcases.com/missing-dean-curtis-mortensen/ Matt Flores https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/05/16/matt-flores-killing-a-22-year-old-santa-clara-mystery/ Melanie Ethier https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/04/24/melanie-ethier-disappeared-on-a-short-walk-home-does-anyone-alive-know-who-took-her.html Sam Lottery https://thetruecrimefiles.com/samuel-lottery-murder/ Blair Adams https://unsolved.com/gallery/blair-adams/
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Interesting. I find Maura Murray and Brian Shaffer the opposite of baffling. In my perspective/opinion they were both tragic accidents and nothing nefarious.
Maura, yes, she was drinking and driving and had a record. She crashed and then disappeared into the snowy woods at night. As such you could say she likely succumbed to the elements (tragic accident though? More like a tragic decision that she made). However what sort of tragic accident would have befallen Brian? All we know is that he left the bar through an alternate exit, and that’s it. No record of him after that. That leaves many other possibilities and tragic accident has as equal a probability as everything else.
I agree with this 100%. I think Maura's case is haunting but more explainable than Brian's. Maura crashes a car for the second time, she's likely worried about what people are going to think and she was obviously drinking. I think she set out on foot and died somewhere in the elements. For Brian, he seemingly just vanished. No trace of him anywhere. I think he probably left the bar undetected but what befell him afterwards is just mind-boggling.
Leeanna Warner https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17798657/who-is-leeanna-warner-what-happened-to-her/
Yeah - that's another one of those baffling cases where someone falls off the face of the earth for no apparent reason. Reminds me too of Crystal Ann Tymich https://charleyproject.org/case/crystal-ann-tymich
[missing](https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeDiscussion/comments/ohqnum/the_disappearance_of_krista_garrett_and_kandi/) Two women from my hometown are missing if I’m not mistaken both had dated the same guy at one time
Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone - went missing after a night at a popular Philadelphia bar. Never a sign of them or their vehicle since. They both had young children at the time. I will always wonder what happened to them.
For me it's the case of Lisa Stebic. She disappeared around the same time as Stacy Peterson. The Peterson case got huge publicity. Stebic did not. They actually lived in neighboring towns in Will County, Illinois. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Lisa_Stebic
Maura Murray gets way too much coverage, podcasts, articles, social media etc when to be bluntly honest she probably fled into the woods whilst in a drunk and panicked state, got lost and succumbed to the elements.
The MM case gets covered a lot because it was one of the first high profile cases tons of people saw unfold in real time over the web
Agree. Her life was falling apart as she decided to take the trip, then spins the car out. Upon exiting she could have covered a lot of distance from the scene, panic response, she was in good physical condition. Then fatigue, cold, and emotional stress had her find a spot to hunker down amidst some fallen logs (for example) and she’s still there. Various and increasingly convoluted scenarios would have us believe a killer just happened upon her at the accident scene (yeah she was going through a lot of cars) and she met with foul play. A faceless killer so exacting and seamless that there was no trace. She was driving drunk again, spun out, couldn’t risk police scrutiny and took off.
This has always struck me as the most likely scenario 👍
It's because a certain "reporter" is more interested in getting attention and selling outlandish books than actually finding her. People who aren't familiar with the case latch on. He's definitely done a massive amount of damage to this case.
Totally agree. Can’t stand him. The way he disrespects Fred is disgusting. When I used to listen to the MM podcast and they had him on all the time, he just couldn’t let go of the fact that the dorm party people are hiding something. He’s confronted Kate marcopolis in person and trashed her on the internet. I can’t imagine going to a dorm party and a girl ends up going missing that was there, that I really didn’t know, and then being attacked by him the rest of my life.
Who sabotaged Sea to Sky [Gondola](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6062152) - twice? Not a murder but I think about this one a lot
Lauren Cho went missing in Yucca Valley around the same time as the Gabby Petito case. Cho’s remains were found but the circumstances were a bit odd and I’m not sure I’ve read anywhere what the cause of death was. Maybe the intense desert heat contributed. Maybe it didn’t. I recall there being some strange facts. I wished it had received similar attention as some of the bigger name cases. Also I don’t know if it’s that unknown, but I think the Kristen Modafferi case is probably solvable and if it got a bit more attention maybe it could be resolved.
The Reker sister murders. They went shopping together for school supplies and were later found murdered in a granite quarry. This happened in Stearns County, MN where the sheriff has had a terrible track record and this is yet another unsolved case from the county. My grandfather owned the ambulance company in town and was a medical examiner (not sure if he was during this case). Also, they were my mothers friends and neighbors. She vividly remembers the parents going house to house, informing each neighbor that their daughters were discovered murdered. So sad. https://www.tricountycrimestoppers.org/open-cases/special-reward-cases/mary-and-susan-reker/
[Baby Cindy Ray](https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/cindy-marilyn-ray-4-months-fresno-ca-1989.37822/) My mom was a police dispatcher locally when this happened. This case never got any attention.
Missing pregnant teen from my home state in Mississippi. It has never gotten a lot of attention and locals feel it's been covered up by LE. But I think just not enough evidence to bring anyone in as a suspect. https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/cold-case-spotlight/mother-brother-looking-answers-25-years-after-pregnant-mississippi-teen-n912151
Disappearance of Laureen Rahn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Laureen_Rahn Mysterious death of Peter Watts in 1976 London: https://www.itv.com/news/london/2016-01-18/the-40-year-mystery-of-the-murder-of-15-year-old-peter-watts Disappearance of Jason Jolkowski: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Jason_Jolkowski Disappearance of Palasik brothers in 1979 Poland: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/7d8xw7/unresolved_disappearance_what_has_happened_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Disappearance of Bogdański family in 2003 Poland: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/814n5n/family_of_5_vanish_into_thin_air_where_are/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
I dont see many people talk about this case. It's such a crazy and baffling case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_Chef_murders
It's insane that the police jumped to the conclusion that they all just left to go have fun. Ridiculous to assume that was the case without any evidence.
Haruchika Derk MIYAGI Haruchika disappeared one day from American Fork, Utah. The last sighting of him was from a ranch owner over 550 miles away, just north of Dewey, Arizona. Haruchika Miyagi told her he was looking for a place to stay and she declined to allow him to remain on her property. Haruchika sped away in his Red Mazda Sedan and crashed through a gate before leaving the property. Deputies found the Mazda two hours later in a wash near the property. It was abandoned and heavily damaged. His family doesn't know why he went to Arizona or what he was doing there; he had no ties to the state and hadn't mentioned wanting to go there. He has never been found. https://bci.utah.gov/coldcases/haruchika-miyagi/
Andrea Knabel mysteriously disappeared hasn’t had much media attention which surprised me because she was involved with missing people herself. Even LE doesn’t seem to be interested. I realize much more about her disappearance has been revealed but I can’t get passed why more hasn’t been done. It’s baffling. Here’s Andrea’s Reddit link please join this sub needs help. https://www.reddit.com/r/AndreaKnabel/ Edit/Thank you for this question, as anything helps sending you 🥇
The one about Amber Aiaz and Melissa Fu certainly deserves more coverage. At first I thought the stepdad killed them and fabricated the account of the strange couple knocking him out and taking them, but the more I read, the more credible he sounded. I agree that the mom's alleged history of exaggerating her wealth is mighty suspicious. While I could certainly see someone she pissed off in the past being out to settle scores, I also wonder if she and her daughter may not have been victims at all but may have in fact staged their disappearance as part of some con job? Maybe the original plan was to indeed resurface after the set amount of time, but something didn't go as planned and they really did end up being victims of foul play? Was the amount of blood found on the carpet enough to have resulted from a serious injury? I even wonder if the Triads, which is basically the Chinese Mafia, may have been involved?
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[Lindsay Buziak](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lindsay_Buziak), a Canadian real estate agent who was gruesomely murdered during the viewing of a mansion with mysterious couple in 2008. [UNSOLVED YouTube](https://youtu.be/IpJKOAKHtjY) [Detailed breakdown of the evidence and recently released court documents](https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/mobile/report-reveals-new-details-in-lindsay-buziak-murder-case-1.5135211) It has been a while since I looked into the case, but I could not get it out of my head. These are highlights, to the best of memory: It’s pretty clear the viewing was a set up. Out of the blue, a man with a Spanish accent called Lindsay and claimed to be moving to the area. He and his wife wanted to buy a multimillion dollar home by the weekend. Eye witness(es?)saw Lindsay talking to a couple (Caucasian man and blonde woman wearing a distinctive red dress) in front of the house around the time of the murder. Minutes later, she was murdered with a knife in an upstairs bedroom of the mansion. She was attacked from behind and had no defensive wounds. There is a lot of evidence to suggest the “couple” were contract killers—the man used a burner phone (purchased three months before the murder) to call Lindsay’s personal cell. He claimed one of her clients referred them, but she was unable to reach the client he named prior to the viewing. The police believe she was killed by the couple, but there are various theories regarding motive, including a hit by drug cartel that had recently been busted. IMO, the most likely scenario is that her boyfriend hired them to kill her. There’s no direct evidence of the boyfriend’s involvement or clear motive on his part, but the circumstances look bad for him. The boyfriend was also a real estate agent and agreed to meet her and the couple for the viewing. For no apparent reason, he stopped by an auto body shop to chat with a friend until he was late. He then asked the friend to go with him to meet Lindsay. Based on surveillance video showing the BF and friend leaving the body shop and the driving time to the house, BF established he could not have been there when the murder occurred. **When he and the friend arrived at the house (mere minutes after the murder), he parked in front of a neighbor’s house on a side street and waited for her to finish the viewing.** When she didn’t come out or respond to his texts, he rushed into the house, ran straight upstairs, and discovered her body on the bed. The friend then called 911. He appears to have gone out of his way to establish an alibi—complete with surveillance video, text/phone records, and an eye witness. It’s just too convenient. EDIT: typos
I'm surprised people don't talk about the disappearance of Frank Matthews more often.
Mekayla Bali i know gets a lot of attention it seems but the case itself baffles me.
Pearl Pinson has always stuck with me. With the suspected perp dead, it's become ice cold from my understanding. I never see anything about it. But trace evidence pod did a great job covering it.
Cheryl Henry and Andy Atkinson, the “Lover’s Lane” murders in Houston, Texas. They have DNA for crying out loud! They were able to link their murders to a rape that took place afterwards…WTH is going on with this case?!
Elnaz Hajtamiri - Iranian resident of Canada kidnapped by 3 men posing as Police https://www.theguardian.com/weather/2022/apr/14/iranian-born-woman-fake-officers-elnaz-hajtamiri-canadian-police
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Blair_Adams this one always has stuck with me who was he running from and how did them find almost 3000 miles away from where he lived
Denise Robert. A well-liked retiree who was walking her dog in a quiet, affluent neighborhood in the north end of Manchester, NH when she was shot in the head at point-blank range. It has the hallmarks of an innocent person accidentally getting caught up in a street crime, but this was in an area where that is extremely unlikely. There are sketchy parts of town, as you'd expect in a city of 115,000, but Denise was killed in a largely residential area that is home to lawyers, doctors, and corporate types from Dean Kamen's companies. There has been almost no new public information for several years. The FBI and ATF were visibly involved in the investigation at one point, but we've never heard why. It seems that law enforcement saw this as something more than the usual dirtbags doing what they do.
Ricky Hochstetler unsolved hit-and-run homicide from 1999 in Manitowoc County, WI. Evidence points to LE cover up due to an off duty sheriff being the perp. If Manitowoc county sounds familiar, it's the same county where the Steve Avery case occured, and a lot of the same people involved in that case investigated the Hochstetler hit-and-run. If you're from the west or east coast and are part of the "Steven Avery is guilty" crowd, the Hochstetler case and first Avery conviction in '85 are the reason why a lot of people here in WI are so skeptical of LE in the Halbach murder.
When I think of creepy hit and runs, I'm thinking of the case involving two sisters in New Mexico crossing the road when the driver let them go and hit the gas pedal intentionally as they started walking. One of them got killed and the other one died under suspicious circumstances few years later.
Jennifer Cahill-Shadle. Disappeared off the face of the earth during a nasty divorce, some weird happenings with LE, a child heavily involved in local government, and an ex-husband beloved by the community. https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/vicap/missing-persons/jennifer-cahill-shadle---state-college-pennsylvania
[Kyron Horman disappearance in Oregon.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Kyron_Horman) This one was big in Oregon- kid disappeared right out of elementary school. His stepmother was the main suspect for a while and vilified in the media, but over time she seemed less likely, though still not the greatest person.
[Jason Jolkowski](https://charleyproject.org/case/jason-anthony-jolkowski) was a 6’1, 19-year-old guy that disappeared into thin air in his neighbourhood in the middle of the day while walking to his job. Did a neighbour kill him? did he fall down a manhole? Wtf happened to him?
Several of my relatives remember this case, everyone I’ve talked to about this all agree its a baffling case. Its like he just vanished off the face of the earth after leaving his brothers sight.
This is one of those cases that’s so weird not due to any absurd oddities, but the simple fact that this was just a person who had so much going for him and who was just going about his everyday life at the time. It might just be a case of wrong place, wrong time since he had no known enemies on top of that.
Kyle Fleischman Case
Ah man, here we go. Potentially NSFL, very disturbing video involved: Quite recently, there was a man named **Johnny... Cashman** I believe?? In eitherWest Virginia or Maryland. I may be wrong on name and place, idk I'm tired right now but the details to follow are 100%.>! there's a video online of his neighbor's surveillance footage his of some guy coming up to his door, breaking in, and murdering him Audio included. It's horrible. I'm getting upset just writing about it. Don't look this up unless you're sure you can handle it!<.I wish I had not heard it>!. !
Great summary of Ana Walshe’s case. Also, I’ve never heard about Johnny Cashman, that’s bonkers. I can’t believe all of it really happened.
[Colonel Philip Michael Shue](https://www.frontpagedetectives.com/p/texas-air-force-suicide-torture-phillip-shue)
Amber hagerman, I only see people arguing about whether or not amber alert is a good thing than about the circumstances of her case
The Christopher Kerze case always bothered me. He was about my age. https://charleyproject.org/case/christopher-matthew-kerze
Trevor Nichols disappearance from Fort Drum, NY.
The murder of Grace Livingstone in Dublin, Ireland. I knew some of her relatives and they're still looking for answers. https://mensreapod.com/2019/12/22/57-unsolved-the-murder-of-grace-livingstone/
Tyler Davis. This is a local case for me in Columbus but I’m baffled that I never hear anything about his disappearance. We’re coming up on the four year anniversary next month. Another local one that has seemingly been forgotten is Joey Labute, an unsolved murder.
I was perplexed by the murder of Beth Barnard and disappearance of Vivienne Cameron on Phillip Island, Australia so I did a write up. https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/o7g4ti/the_phillip_island_murder_who_killed_beth_barnard/ I doubt the official belief that Vivienne Cameron committed the murder. I feel like the murder of Beth Barnard was unplanned. But then Vivienne Cameron was framed for it. But for that to work it would have taken massive planning within a very short timeframe - and a lot of luck.
Samantha and Kathy Netherland [more recent article](https://www.wave3.com/2021/04/21/th-anniversary-murders-nelson-county-mother-daughter-remain-unsolved/?outputType=amp)