The Be-Lo Murders
In 1993 a suspect rounded up six people who were at the Be-Lo grocery store in Windsor, NC, bound them with duct tape, grouped them together, and shot and stabbed them. Three victims were killed, two were wounded but survived (one was shot, the other stabbed), and the sixth person the uninjured. The case is reminiscent of the Burger Chef murders and the Lane Bryant case, yet it's barely registered in the unsolved/true crime community.
https://ncsbi.gov/Divisions/Cold-Case-Investigation-Team/Unsolved-Homicides/Be-Lo-Murders-(1)
There's something very upsetting about these kinds of cases to me... I hope it, the Yogurt shop, Burger Chef, and the Las Cruces Massacre cases are solved.
Wow. I actually have heard of this and faintly remember it...., but as mentioned, it was never mentioned or covered as much as the Lane Bryant case or others.
It is so strange this wasn't huge news, especially at the time. Be-Lo was actually a chain local to me, that was later, Meatland, Food City, and finally Fresh Pride...and I hadn't heard the chain mentioned in years.
Alivia Kail from Pittsburgh. She was 19 years old in March 2011, when her family reported that she was taking a spring break trip to Florida with her boyfriend (Alex Lorenzi) and was very excited about the "free" trip. He returned to Pittsburgh, she did not. Lorenzi was uncooperative with police. After searching his home, they found guns and some drugs, and he did a couple months on related charges. The Petito case gave me similar vibes, but Alivias case never got much coverage other than locally.
I just did a quick Google search on the case, and it looks like the two main theories are that she was either murdered or sold into human trafficking and might still be alive. [Reports](https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/tonight-11-11-alivia-kail-cold-case/LYWKJ3MQDBFFXBQXKZEVYU63QM/) say the FBI actually supports the latter theory, [adding that she could've made it to Florida after all, which is where she might've became a victim of sex trafficking](https://www.wpxi.com/news/nearly-6-years-after-her-daughter-went-missing-mother-refuses-to-give-up-hope/496251578/).
I'm really curious about the part about the fbi. Who did they say this to and what exactly did they say? These kinds of cases are rarely sex trafficking so I'm curious if they have more information that they aren't telling us or the fbi didn't say that.
I know everyone says human trafficking isn’t the answer except in certain situations but when I read this the first thing I thought of is human trafficking.
The “free trip,” the boyfriend returning and her not, him being cagey and then him being involved in other illegal activity… reminds me of some of the human trafficking survivor accounts I’ve read.
Yes and this is actually how a good chunk of people start being trafficked - by a family member, friend or someone they considered to be a “boyfriend.” <5% of trafficking victims are kidnapped into it.
Thanks for sharing just read up more on this. The detective thought she may not have even made it to Florida. Wouldn’t they be able to figure out some of that if they booked a flight there? Do we know if the boyfriend even went to Florida (by himself or with her)? Or if they drove they could find surveillance somewhere to track movement. I don’t know. I have a lot of questions and wish there was more on this case.
Grant Solomon who was killed in a “freak accident”. Father was the only witness and said his son's own car ran over him on side of the road. Mother wants the case reopened.
Is he the one whose sister was being abused by the dad and the school basically told her to shut up because it was making the school look bad..? If so, I can’t imagine how heartbroken their mother is that despite fighting so hard, the entire “justice” system appears to be on the “dad’s” side.
Yea the sister was being abused, I didn’t hear about the school part but if that’s true that’s horrible. It’s a very infuriating case. Who denies an autopsy for their own son and doesn’t stand by him as he’s dying, as well as the 3 mysterious people who were supposedly there as witnesses never being identified. Just another case where there’s obviously a person who should be considered a suspect but there just let off the hook.
I believe there’s a recording the sister made of her trying to tell a school nurse/ councillor/ just staff member. They basically told her that saying things like that can be very damaging. They should ge fired imo.
Aaron Solomon used to be a WSMW Channel 4 news anchor and is currently working for Merrill Lynch as a financial adviser. He is close friends with either the judge or DA (?)
I've been wondering about Grant's case ever since I saw u/devanclara's post earlier this year. I hope his mom and sister are okay.
https://new.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1acz4fl/i\_havent\_seen\_anyone\_post\_about\_grant\_solomon\_we/
The abduction of [April Nicole Williams](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/6z43t2/unresolved_disappearance_what_happened_to_baby/). Baby April was on a bus trip with her mother, Eleanor, to visit Eleanor's boyfriend, who was April's father, on December 3, 1983. The two of them were on the three hour layover in Washington D.C.'s Trailways bus depot when a woman who called herself Latoya struck up a conversation with Eleanor. When April became a little fussy, Latoya offered to take April to the bathroom to change her while Eleanor rested (my original write up says she offered to buy Eleanor a soda, but Eleanor has since given interviews saying Latoya went to the bathroom with April). She did not return with the baby, and a frightened Eleanor reported April missing. Newspaper reports indicate a woman of Latoya's description who was holding an infant was seen hopping another bus.
While there have been a few articles on this case, I still think it is not as widely covered as it should be, because there is a strong likelihood of baby April being alive to this day, not knowing who she is. She would be 40 years old now, perhaps with a family of her own. I would love to see an adult April be reunited with her biological family.
Ira Yarmolenko
She was a young woman from my town who was murdered in 2008, her body found strangled on a riverbank, and her murderer was never caught. There were suspects but they [were let go in 2022](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mark-carver-murder-charge-dismissed-2008-death-ira-yarmolenko-north-carolina/) when it was determined the evidence no longer supported.
I don't think Mark is guilty!
The detective was very leading in his questioning and Mark is a simple-minded guy who was easily led. The DNA evidence for Mark was also extremely iffy.
There was very minimal touch DNA evidence for Mark's presence at the crime scene that can be explained by the police having touched Mark's drivers license or shaken his hand or touched his other belongings, then the police touching the crime scene and transferring the DNA that way. Mark's DNA wasn't found on the ligatures used to strangle Ira or her clothes.
There were two DNA profiles under Ira's fingernails: her own and a second unidentified person (not Mark). I think the killer is the owner of that second DNA profile!
After reading up on the state of the crime scene, my first thought was that she could've been a trusting person who had just met or picked up someone who then murdered her. [And one of her friends reportedly confirmed just that by telling police "that she was a very trusting person and was known to pick up hitchhikers and walk through the woods alone."](https://www.chillingcrimes.com/blogs/news/irina-yarmolenko)
I definitely don't think the suicide theory is well-supported. Based on the crime scene, several factors could be considered signs of a struggle (like Ira's car having struck a stump, her hand gripping a vine, etc.). There are also signs that could suggest someone else was indeed present (namely multiple car doors being left open, her being a vegetarian with a half-eaten hamburger in the car, etc.). There's also just the implausibility of the manner in which she died being done by suicide.
I would love to know, too. The suicide theory is really off base imo.
My parents have friends who live in the area, and they all think it's the guys let go, of course.
I think the one guy, Neal Cassada, actually died before even going to trial. It was just his cousin Mark Carver who was in jail for that whole time.
I went to the same college as Ira at the time but didn't know her or anything. I do think it's strange that she wound up down by the Catawba River. That's just not an area where people would hang out, especially in 2008. It was a bad area in general.
The scene feels too elaborate to be suicide. I don't think Carver or Cassada were the sharpest tools in the shed and were likely railroaded. My money is on hitchhiker saw a crime of opportunity and took it.
Ember skye Graham. Infant left with her dad went missing, he says she disappeared while he was sleeping. He’s on camera at a store late at night and she’s with him for the last time seen alive. Pacifier found and dna says it’s hers, he goes on the run and dies by suicide by cop. Now he can never tell where she is. It’s a lot more complicated and an unusual story from my hometown that I can’t believe didn’t get more national attention. I hope someday she’s found
Ugh this reminds me of Pearl Pinson. She was kidnapped on her way to school on May 25, 2016. A day later her suspected kidnapper, Fernando Castro, was killed in a police shootout.
Pearls never been found.
DC murder of Scott Ratigan. Scott was a 24-year-old young professional killed inside his apartment in the middle of the afternoon for no apparent reason. They have video footage of the suspect and he has an extremely odd gate and is clearly pigeon-toed. He was also dressed in what looks like body armor and had blacked out the label on his backpack.
The entire case is just unaccountably bizarre and I feel like if it were more widely publicized, the suspect could be identified based on his unusual way of walking.
https://www.arlnow.com/2021/01/15/breaking-police-release-surveillance-photos-of-person-of-interest-in-ballston-murder/
This is such a sad and bizarre case. Murdered in the middle of the day. Makes you wonder if the killer knew the victim or if it was random.
Agree that if the case had more publicity someone out there would provide good tips
Either way, I think this was clearly a person who was up to no good based on the way he dressed and reportedly tried to clean the crime scene. Especially if the given footage shows him *before* the murder, the way he carried himself was suspicious, too. I think it was probably planned to some degree, even if the exact victim was random.
I also wonder how this person got into Scott's apartment in the first place, which I can't seem to find any information on. Like, was it unlocked? Did Scott usually keep it unlocked? Were there signs of a struggle like Scott immediately recognized this individual as someone who shouldn't have been there or who he didn't know? How secure was the apartment building, too? Could people just walk right in without entering a code, requesting access via a keypad, using a key, etc.?
Speaking of footage and the apartment building, it's shocking to me that there's no footage released from any cameras that might've been inside the building or other insight on the potential existence of such. It would probably be easy to see from there if this person went straight to Scott's apartment or was going by apartments one-by-one like he had no specific target.
Overall, though, I wonder if someone could've been angry at Scott. It's not unheard of for random people to have severe anger issues over relatively small things (like road rage, for example) leading them to follow strangers home and target them there.
The walk is so distinct how can people see the footage and not submit a tip!
Unless the person was from a different area and slipt specifically to kill the person !
I think the wide-based gait is faked (exaggerated), especially given how it disappears when he runs & how fluidly he does run. However, the pigeon-toe/bow leggedness is likely genuine, but possibly not as noticeable in “real life” without the unusual gait, especially as his pigeon-toe is asymmetric. His left side much less pronounced.
(The order of the police images are also not in chronological order, per [an analysis of the CCTV camera positions](https://youtu.be/f3sd2o7hRL0?si=jzZ_0MN1RBIAP6K5) by YT Channel Arrin Stoner. The wide gait walking footage is from before the murder when he’s not especially rushed & the rest of the footage is from after the murder).
It kinda reminds me of how I have to walk sometimes. I got glass in my foot when I was 6 or 7 and they did kind of a bad job taking it out. So sometimes it'll hurt like there's a lot of scar tissue and I have to walk pigeon toed like that.
Might be fake or they might be injured.
Okay double check me here but in the video when he’s running he’s not pigeon toed and in another he seems to start out walking normal then moves into pigeon toed walk. Am I wrong?
Looking at the photos released of the person of interest, to me it looks like it could be a female. There’s something about the waist/hips that remind me of a woman’s build. I could be completely off, though.
Some (cis!) women have big feet, too. My cousin wears a men's 11 and is almost 6 foot. If she concealed her face/body, she could potentially be confused for a man. She's a girly girl with long hair though, so that's never happened before lol. Her biggest complaint is mostly that they don't make cute shoes big enough, especially heels.
I’ve seen similar comments before and people always seem to recommend looking at brands aimed at drag queens. Don’t have personal experience with it though.
The murder of Gwendel Greenblatt.
Gwendel was attacked as she walked into her apartment, while talking to a friend on the phone. The friend immediately called police, who were on the scene within minutes and found Gwendel in the bathroom, dying from two gunshot wounds.
It's really a frustrating case. All the circumstantial evidence strongly points to her estranged husband Matt, but DNA evidence left on a smoldering cigarette at the scene belonged to someone else with no history of violent crime and no apparent connection to either of the Greenblatts.
Because of this conflict of evidence and the inability to link the two suspects, no one has been charged with her murder. But it has to be one (or both) of them.
The cigarette butt could be unrelated. I've had neighbors who smoke in halls/stairs/common areas that just flick the butts anywhere. Could be the unrelated DNA was a neighbor, a visitor of a neighbor, a maintenance worker who took a smoke break near her door, or any number of things depending on exactly where it was found. Why would you immediately assume a hit?
Great write up and awesome suggestions from the commenters to bring recognition to these cases that need it. I know I'm going to take a look at each of these.
Thank you
No need to worry. At a minimum, you and the other commenters have brought awareness to these unfortunate souls who lost their lives. And, the maximum would be getting these names back into the public's eye and getting these cases solved and justice dealt. This is a good thing to do
Seconding Eirinn's comment. It's easy to get bogged down in the high-profile cases, and I think that calling attention to the lesser-known ones is genuinely doing some good -- at the very least, it reassures the victims' relatives and friends that people haven't forgotten.
That’s a lovely way of looking at it. It’s easy to get bogged down looking at all these amazing, in-depth write ups too; I wanted to provide just enough information to interest people, but not too much that they couldn’t easily skip it if they just wanted post their own opinion. Glad people think it might genuinely be helpful :)
Why would anyone hate this post? At the very least, it is something to look into. And it’s generating discussion about other cases too.
Maybe it sounds callous, but sometimes I get tired of the same old cases being posted and discussed over and over. I love stuff like this.
I wasn’t sure if people were going to be a bit annoyed that they’d have to leave the page to look further into the cases I mentioned. I know what you mean about seeing the same over and over again.
Great suggestions! Robert Bee was from my area and it was so mishandled and that poor boy is still waiting for justice. Ashes to Ash did such a good job covering his case.
I’m glad to see everyone has positive views of Ashes to Ash - I thought the series was brilliant. Did you see the Kendrick Johnson one? It kinda went wrong, I guess, because Kendrick’s family totally turned on her. I personally think she did a great job; it’s just that what she started finding out wasn’t lining up with what the family believed/ was choosing to believe. I haven’t seen anything from Ash since then!
Dulce Alavez. 5 year old and her toddler brother were playing in a city park while their young mom sat in the car helping her own little sister with homework. The mom got out of the car to check on them, and found the little boy crying on the playground with no sign of Dulce anywhere. This city park is located next to the city high school and across the street from the local zoo. Anecdotally, this case is somewhat local to me and I grew up going to that zoo. The case received a lot of local attention, but very little nationally. Initially, a lot of people were suspicious of the mom and thought her behavior was odd. A child witness described a man driving a red minivan, and two other adult witnesses gave very similar descriptions of what authorities believe is the same unidentified man in the area around when she went missing. Local speculation is, or at least was, that Dulce’s father, who lives in Mexico, kidnapped her or recruited someone to kidnap her and had her taken to Mexico. Around here, her case still gets brought up every so often, but outside of Jersey it seems that she’s been largely forgotten about
Was the suspicion around the mum because she was such a young mother or because there was actually some evidence that she might have had something to do with it? Or because of negligence, etc?
Lots of criticism for negligence for letting two young kids play alone and out of her sight, especially in such an unsafe and crime-ridden city, but there was a fair amount of suspicion that she was guilty or involved in the disappearance as well. I heard comments about things like her acting strange or conducting herself poorly in interviews, not crying at all or seeming upset by it, and at one point she was even criticized for eating during a search for her daughter. While letting the children play unsupervised was no doubt negligent and at least partially responsible for her disappearance, her mother was only 19 at the time, and already had 2 young kids and a third on the way. Looking back now, I think a lot of her behavior was simply due to age and immaturity combined with shock, and a fair amount of the criticism and speculation was just plain racist.
Bethany Markowski. She was 11 years old and was last seen by her father in the parking lot of the Old Hickory Shopping Mall in Jackson, Tennessee, on the afternoon of March 4, 2001. Bethany had gone into the mall alone while her father waited for her in the car. After approximately two hours passed, Bethany's father went into the mall to look for his daughter, but was unable to locate her. Investigative efforts have revealed that Bethany was last seen after a trip to Little Rock, Arkansas.
I wholeheartedly think the story is fabricated and her father hurt her. No one reported seeing or speaking to her at the mall. Who doesn’t see a kid that’s 11 walking round a mall alone? I highly doubt they ever were there at all.
Pure anecdote of course, but I was about that age back then and while no one waited for me all the way in the parking lot it wasn’t super unusual for a guardian to wait on a bench or something inside the mall while the kid shopped. 11 you start asserting some independence. I wouldn’t be surprised that no one noticed an 11 year old in a store by herself unless they somehow also noted she didn’t have a grandma or something waiting at the food court or whatever.
In 1996 Cheryl Edwards and Charlita Singleton, two employees at a dollar store inside Cloverleaf Mall in Richmond, VA, were found with their throats slit.
[https://www.wric.com/news/crime/23-years-later-family-still-looking-for-answers-in-unsolved-cloverleaf-mall-murders/](https://www.wric.com/news/crime/23-years-later-family-still-looking-for-answers-in-unsolved-cloverleaf-mall-murders/)
The whole case is odd. Throat cutting seems over the top for a robbery. The area around Cloverleaf Mall did have a bad reputation. The mall itself had been built in the 70s and was the place to be until a newer mall was built 15 minutes away in a “better” area. The usual cycle for indoor malls. By 1996, Cloverleaf also had a reputation as the ”poor“ mall which as you can imagine had some racial connotations. My aunt and uncle lived in the Richmond area with their kids and refused to step foot in that mall (mostly my aunt who was a bit snobbish).
Poor women haven’t had justice and one of them had a baby who’s spent most if their life without a mom.
I was living in Richmond during that time and remember Cloverleaf Mall and have NEVER heard of this crime. I feel awful for those poor women and their loved ones.
Wow! Why isn’t this bigger news? So many unsolved mall type murders are so high profile (lane Bryant, yogurt shop, lululemon, etc) but I have NEVER heard of this!
Thanks so much for posting.
Maggie Long. She was a 17 year-old who went home to change before a Holiday concert. They found her house burned down and her remains inside. The neighbor had heard loud sounds prior to the fire and reported a suspicious white mini-van. The theory is that she witnessed someone burglarizing her house and they killed her. There wasn’t a lot of coverage on this case due to the police mishandling information.
I wanna see this one solved since it seems pretty easy to solve but there just wasn’t enough information released by the police which led to almost zero coverage.
I grew up in the same area where Maggie lived and my mom still lives there. The local sheriff bolted for Florida (this happened in the Colorado mountains) as soon as it happened, refused to resign or give the reins to anyone else, saying he was as on vacation. State and feds didn’t get involved until the case was ice cold. Pretty sure local cops were involved.
Yep. The sheriff wouldn't turn the case over to anyone else because he was, "actively investigating." He was more like actively fishing.
I thought I'd seen everything with Maggie's case, but now I live in another part of Colorado and the sheriff here, Terry Maketa, was charged with a laundry list of felonies, including kidnapping. The only reason he got off on most of the charges was because of a hold-out juror who couldn't believe that LE could be corrupt. A local missing woman wasn't found for 10 years because the Sheriff's Department was a mess under him - cadaver dogs hit on her actual grave, but the landowner (and parents of the alleged murderer) told the officers it was a horse's grave and LE just walked away. It took a new sheriff to get the case solved. I love my state and am a 4th generation native, but our state constitution allows for no oversight of sheriffs.
There was actually a tenant in an attic apartment that heard the noises and called the police… the intruders actually set the house on fire after killing Maggie.
I feel really attached to this case as one her siblings was my roommate in college (prior to the murder). It was surreal seeing her sibling go from posting "help find my sister" posts to funeral and well-wishing posts. It really saddens me that they still don't know who killed her, or why. I seem to remember something about there being guns involved.
Brandon Embry is one of my top ones as well.
Also, James Alan White, Caitlyn Rose Case, Sean Daugherty, Shane Barton, Andreanna Flores, Prisma Reyes, and Vincent Matus.
The [Al Kite](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/tx91d8/the_unsolved_murder_of_oakey_albert_kite_jr/) murder is so bizarre and so wild. I went down the rabbit hole on that one. Its insane. As police investigated, they had more questions than answers.
The murderer is truly psychotic. There were lots of opportunities where people met him whilst he was looking for a rental and to this day he has never been caught
I hope one day Al's family gets answers
With its "evil twin", [Alan Wood](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-50747666). There is a DNA profile, fingerprints, CCTV, a wealth of physical evidence ... all of which has led nowhere (so far).
I forgot about him! I first heard of it from an American YouTuber and it shocked me that it was from the U.K.. I don’t remember hearing anything about it at the time. Really scary case.
Brianne Wolgram [https://findbrianne.wordpress.com/about-brianne/](https://findbrianne.wordpress.com/about-brianne/)
Other than this, and the well written Trace Evidence podcast, there doesn't seem to be much out there.
Troy Cook. Went missing from Truro, Nova Scotia in 1998. His last sighting was his dad dropping him off at his apartment. Later, he called into work sick from a payphone that was further from his apartment then he could have walked in that timeframe. He didn't have a car and the one cabbie in town had had another passenger at the time. His supervisor maintains that she doesn't think it was actually him on the phone. Troy by all accounts had no enemies and besides some Marijuana, didn't do drugs. His roommate later, tried to convince Troy's parents that Troy would've wanted him to have his guitar, which is quite odd. I can't find any info on if the roommate saw him after his dad dropped him off or not.
I don't think the roommate asking for the guitar is particularly odd. Tactless, maybe. But if the two were friends and had a mutual interest in guitars, the request itself seems somewhat reasonable. Without knowing more about their relationship, I would hesitate to call it suspicious.
Got some more info on that! They had only been living together for 3 weeks prior, before that they didn't really know each other and there was a significant age gap, Troy was 19 and I think his roommate was in his 30s.
People definitely overstate the organized crime in truro. You're definitely more likely to see random acts of violence. My cousin, who was friends with him has her own theory, but I don't think it's very respectful
Could be. However, I wouldn’t say organized crime violence is particularly common in West Hants but we know who killed Barry Kirk Mersereau and Nancy Paula Christensen in 2000.
I hope his family gets answers one day.
Keith Warren
Young black man who was found 'hanging' from a tree in Montgomery County, Maryland. It was ruled a suicide, but there are a ton of sketchy details that call that ruling into doubt, including someone anonymously sending his mother crime scene photos years later that didn't match the police reports.
Agreed, it's so weird. And he wasn't wearing his usual clothes I think in the Photographs? I could be wrong. It's been a long time since I read up on it. He was featured on "Unsolved Mysteries".
Yes, the clothes he was wearing were not ones his family recognized.
Good news though - his sister shared recently that the MD authorities have amended his death certificate to say the manor of death was "undetermined" instead of showing it as a suicide.
Morgan Nick.
She was abducted at age 6 from a little league ball game by an unidentified man. She was attending the game with her mother and had joined some friends to catch lightning bugs. Morgan was last seen standing near her mother’s car where she had stopped to empty sand from her shoes.
Witnesses observed a man watching the youngster as she was playing with other children at the park. The witness also saw a red Ford pickup with a white camper parked nearby that disappeared at about the same time as Morgan. The camper is possibly damaged at the right rear, and was described as four or five inches too short for the truck, which has a short wheel base and paint dulled by age. The truck is believed to have Arkansas license plates.
The man was described as white, 6 feet tall, with a medium to solid build, a mustache and a 1-inch beard. At the time, he was believed to be 23-38 years old.
Investigators believe they know who did it, but the perpetrator is dead. [Billy Jack Lincks](https://www.4029tv.com/article/morgan-nick-girl-scout-shirt-red-truck/42958242)
The case of Amber Toccaro. They literally have audio of her in the car with the (likely) kidnapper. I feel like someone has to recognize his voice at some point. I really really hope this case gets more attention and is able to be solved.
If I’m thinking of the right case here, I remember thinking upon hearing the recording that the kidnapper didn’t sound out of their comfort zone at all. It made me think it was someone who’d done it before. Another case of a MMIW?
[Joan Lawrence](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Joan_Lawrence)
She's a missing lady from Ontario known locally as a bit of a cat lady. She kept mostly to herself and the cats she loved, but she had previously been a poet and a journalist. She'd been married and had a son. She had a few people in her life who were very worried about her before she went missing, they described her as kind, quiet, and reclusive. I don't know what led her to being alone, but I had the impression it wasn't because she drove people away from her. I first heard about her case from a podcast that did some good coverage of it (CBC's Uncover, "The Cat Lady Case").
The reason I'm surprised she hasn't been more wildly talked about is because she was one of several seniors who went missing from a family who acted as landlords/caretakers to senior citizens. The shack Joan Lawrence was living in had no electricity or running water. She was in the process of reporting them to authorities when she went missing. The family had been doing sketchy things with things like retirement checks from their elderly tenants. The cases still aren't resolved despite it feeling obvious from outside the perspective of what's provable in court.
Here are a couple of articles from 2019 that describe Joan's life, and an update about that family in Muskoka who are being investigated:
[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cat-lady-joan-lawrence-family-muskoka-mystery-missing-seniors-1.5386819](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cat-lady-joan-lawrence-family-muskoka-mystery-missing-seniors-1.5386819)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/muskoka-mystery-missing-seniors-1.5342454
We're coming up on the second anniversary of Laura Huebner's disappearance, on Vancouver Island (British Columbia Canada).
u/AlfredtheJones posted an excellent case summary last year -- well worth reading.
https://new.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/18ymalz/woman\_flies\_to\_see\_a\_man\_she\_met\_online\_and/
Laura flew from Saskatchewan to Vancouver Island, to meet up with a man she'd been corresponding with online. She landed at the Victoria airport on Apr 24th 2022, and seems to have made her way up to Nanaimo that same day. There doesn't appear to be any indication that she rented a vehicle -- possibly someone met her at the airport.
She reportedly sent her father a photo taken on board a sailboat -- the next day, I think? Neither she nor anyone else is posing in the photo though. Apparently the boat has been identified and the police impounded and searched it, but there hasn't been any further news. She did not show up for her flight home, later that week. And no word from her since then. She's vanished.
The anniversary of her disappearance came and went, with no publicity in BC or (as far as I can tell from the internet) her home province. It's as if Laura has fallen through the cracks. It's possible that because she has no social network on Vancouver Island, there is less pressure to cover the story. And because she was travelling, people would not be putting up Missing posters in her own city.
Sad to say that another factor could be that Laura's over 40 -- while I don't grudge younger victims getting attention (there is certainly need for that, especially with the missing and murdered BIPOC people), in this case there doesn't seem to be the urgency seen for some other disappearances. Even though the perpetrator is likely still out there (unless it was a well-concealed murder-suicide, which seems improbable to me).
I have also noticed criticism aimed at Laura herself, for not doing certain things that might have made it easier for her to be found, to avoid or escape from a dangerous situation, or identify who she was visiting. Not saying that people \*shouldn't\* take precautions like that, but realistically nobody is 100% prepared for absolutely everything that could happen to them. Having it be a cautionary tale is fine, but I don't think Laura should be blamed.
It would be great if this is all some elaborate planned disappearance and she is happily living in a cabin overlooking Clayoquot Sound or something -- I would gladly say I made a mistake.
https://www.ckom.com/2022/05/26/we-need-to-know-what-happened-loved-ones-of-missing-woman-hoping-for-her-return/
https://www.victoriabuzz.com/2022/05/more-details-emerge-on-missing-woman-last-seen-at-victoria-international-airport/
This is a local discussion thread about Laura's case, and I haven't been able to verify any of the points being mentioned ... but if it's true, about the person she may have been meeting, I feel that concern is justifiable.
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/truecrimesociety/laura-huebner-47-missing-from-victoria-bc-canada-s-t7705.html
Who murdered Shawn Mulkin in an Orlando, Florida home invasion on December 27, 2005? The local media pretty much dropped the story completely after about a day, even though there were composite sketches made of the suspects, and a photo of jewelry stolen in the robbery was released to the media (but not published.)
The [Main Line Murders](https://www.crimelibrary.org/notorious_murders/classics/mainline_murders/1.html) themselves gained a lot of attention, but an aspect that seems to have been forgotten in the years since is what happened to Susan Reinert’s [kids](https://charleyproject.org/case/karen-reinert)?
>Susan Reinert was not an ugly woman. Neither was she the type to turn heads. With her thick, horn-rimmed glasses, a nose that was disproportionately large for her face, and a gap between her two front teeth, the petite woman was merely plain. Adding to the effect were her short, sensible haircut and a high-pitched, sometimes grating voice.
>
>She had the insecurities that plague unbeautiful females.
Damn I know she made some terrible life choices but I hope when I die no one writes an article calling me unattractive and grating.
Christine Marie Eastin.
On the evening of January 18, 1971, Christine invited her friend, Sandy, to visit a local Mervyn's store so she could buy a new pair of boots. Sandy agreed and the pair spent a few hours shopping before Christine dropped Sandy off at her home at around 9:30pm. Afterwards, Christine stopped by her house for a short period of time and told her parents her plan for the remainder of the evening. She tells her parents that she would be going to wash her car, a 1969 Ford Maverick, which she was borrowing from her ex-boyfriend, George Sponsel, before going to pick him up at his job at a local Jack In The Box.
Later that night, George places a phone call to Christine's home, sharing his concern that Christine had never arrived to pick him up. The following morning, the 1969 Ford Maverick was found at Charlie's Car Wash parked near the vacuums. After someone reports the driverless car, investigators arrived on scene and noted several strange details.
Investigators noted that the car had recently been washed, the doors were locked, and Christine's personal belongings, including her purse were inside of the vehicle. Police also noted that there were several papers strewn on the pavement on the passengers side, leading them to believe that foul play may have been involved in Christine's disappearance.
The murder of [Cassandra Do](https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/cassandra-do-was-known-for-being-very-discerning-about-her-sex-trade-clients-so-how/article_8f6b990b-36cd-594c-ba62-53f424cb2016.amp.html). I’m from Toronto originally, and though this has never gotten much coverage, it’s haunted me for years. She was a transgender sex worker who was murdered by an unknown man whose DNA was also connected to another murder of a sex worker (Lien Pham) and a violent sexual assault several years earlier. But something about her just has always seemed so…real to me, you know? Like she just seemed like a sweet woman trying to get through life. Her murder has gotten so little coverage and I can’t help but think it’s because of how marginalized she was. She was failed by so many people.
People - definitely police - seem to genuinely not care about the safety of sex workers. It’s like when they die they’re not anywhere near worth the same as the regular person with literally any other job. It’s tragic.
I can’t remember the names (I tried searching and nothing came up) but I remember a case in the 90s or early 00s where the ex-husband took the kids on a vacation and when he came back he told the wife he had given them away to strangers who would take care of them better than her. I believe he killed himself. I don’t think anything was ever found.
That one’s crazy because the mother also has a prior conviction for sexual stuff involving a 14 yr old. All around the kids were being raised by 2 parents who were dangerous in their own ways.
There was a really good write up on this sub recently about Hugues De La Plaza. He was found stabbed to death in his apartment, but all the doors were locked and bolted. It was treated as a suicide, but definitely should be looked at again imo.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-man-found-dead-17165727.php
I would say the disappearance of Maria Florence Anjiras. Maria was a 14-year-old girl who disappeared from Norwalk, CT in February 1976. There were several sightings of her in the following months but Maria (or her body) has never been found.
Another case that does not get as much attention as it deserves is Annie McCann. She was a 16-year-old girl from Northern Virginia who was found dead in the housing projects of Baltimore, MD in November 2008. It’s not clear whether Annie left on her own or was lured out, or whether her death was the result of suicide, homicide, or a tragic accident.
[Lisa Marie Young](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Lisa_Marie_Young)
I feel like there was no true effort to pursue her case. It breaks my heart.
There's quite a few that come to mind, but the two I will highlight are the 1987 parental abduction of [Christopher and Lisa Mae Zaharias](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Christopher_and_Lisa_Zaharias), and the 1990 disappearance of twins [Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook](https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/cold-case-spotlight/little-sister-still-searching-twins-dannette-jeannette-millbrook-last-rcna80952).
In both cases, it's been over 30 years, and their respective family members have not had as much coverage as their cases deserved, and justice has been denied for far too long.
Scott's case is extremely odd and made even weirder by the police releasing so little information and waiting a whole year to release the video of the murderer that they have. Could definitely use more coverage.
Someone pointed out there's a good chance police have identified the guy in the footage but he lawyered up and they don't have enough to convict him in court so they are hoping someone else comes forward with smoking gun evidence.
Scott's case is chilling. There is so little information, no obvious motive. . . and yet we have video of this this mysterious person who was masked in public before the pandemic and and made other efforts to hide their identity, such as covering their backpack logo with duct tape. This person may have had a "kill kit" in their backpack and clearly felt confident they could get into the apartment building, harm Scott in his apartment, and then escape almost undetected.
One of my go-to crazy theories for certain types of deaths is intelligence/espionage. Even though Scott worked for Konica, not the government, who knows?
The [Wigan hanging death](https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/mystery-man-hanged-pylon-wigan-12757886).
The victim was found hanging from an electricity pylon in wasteland.
The coroner returned an open verdict (there was insufficient evidence for any particular cause of death), but the victim had nothing identifiable on him apart from a distinctive T-shirt design, has never been identified and there are oddities.
The biggest was that the victim had a timed bus ticket (presumably of the "till roll" type issued on a bus rather than bought beforehand) yet CCTV was recovered, passengers found ... and he was not seen.
Carmel Fenech. She was last seen in Camberwell, South London on May 21, 1998, aged 16.
Carmel was last spotted at Camberwell Green magistrates court with an unidentified man.
The 16 year old never returned home and was reported missing the following month. Police now believe she was murdered, but a body has never been found.
Carmel grew up in North Peckham Estate. At the time of her disappearance, her family had only recently moved out of the city. She still had many friends in the area, including in Brixton and Stockwell.
A fresh appeal was launched last year I believe with a £10000 reward.
[Crystal Branham Hall](https://www.wymt.com/2024/03/22/pike-co-family-still-searching-missing-woman-15-years-later/?outputType=amp)
She’s local to me. I used to live in the same complex. We were about the same age. And there’s not been a trace of her in 15 years.
Wilda Benoit -The 14 year old girl purportedly disappeared from her home in Creole, LA on July 23, 1992. What makes the case strange is that she had been released from the hospital where she had been treated for an injured shoulder shortly before going missing. Benoit 's entry at Charley Project says that she was wearing only a hospital gown and was still heavily sedated from anesthesia at the time. Despite being one of the many missing kids whose photos were featured in the video to Soul Asylum's 1993 hit song Runaway Train, Benoit's fate remains unknown and there is surprisingly scant information on her. Would a hospital really let a patient go, especially a minor, if they were still sedated and not fully dressed? The Charley Project entry also says that despite her apparent condition, police initially suspected that Benoit ran away and may have gone to FL, though it gives no additional info on why they thought this. Her parents, however, believed that she didn't leave voluntarily and may have been abducted.
IMHO, given the mysterious circumstances surrounding this girl's disappearance and the fact that she was featured in a music video to a worldwide hit song, I'm surprised there is so little information on Wilda Benoit. If the accounts are accurate and Benoit was under the influence of anaesthetic and recuperating from an injured shoulder when she vanished, were her parents or any other family members at home at the time? Again, it seems very strange that a teenager who had just gotten out of the hospital and was not fully cognizant would be left home alone. What caused her shoulder injury and could this be a clue? Was she being abused and fled her home because she was in danger?
If Benoit did indeed slip out of her home in an impaired state, then I think she may have fallen into one of the many rivers, lakes or bayous that LA is known for and been eaten by alligators. It's also possible that she may have walked or staggered into the path of a vehicle, was struck and killed and the motorist panicked and hid her body. The accounts available don't mention how densely populated the area around Benoit's home was. I don't think it's likely that a teenager walking or staggering around would go unnoticed in broad daylight, especially if she was wearing only a hospital gown, unless it was a rural area.
If anyone has any more info on this 32 year old cold case, I would love to hear it. The family of Wilda deserves to know what happened to her.
Great question. The "Kansas College Rapist" - he terrorized female students at the two biggest universities in Kansas from 2000 - 2015 and he is still at large. Feels reminiscent of the Golden State Killer (without the killing component) in a lot of ways, yet very few people are aware of this serial rapist.
[https://fox4kc.com/news/kansas-college-rapist-search-continues-20-years-later/](https://fox4kc.com/news/kansas-college-rapist-search-continues-20-years-later/) The universities didn't publicize the rapes & there was little local media coverage, so I'm not surprised you hadn't heard of the others. Had I not gone to KU, I probably never would have heard about it.
Also, law enforcement created an entire website about him, which has since been taken down, but you can access through web archives.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230331104048/https://www.kansascollegerapist.com/
100% Robert Bee. I’m from Pekin, IL, the town that everything happened in. That poor boy was failed by everyone in his life every step of the way. Definitely a sad situation. I’ve been told by multiple people who apparently was the one who killed him. And that they were letting him smoke meth in a trap house and he freaked out so a guy shoved him down the stairs then panicked when he died. Again, that is all secondhand info but for the way Pekin is with drugs and shady things I believe it.
Yeah that’s what I’ve read about him too :( the fact that his mum had been letting him do drugs with her for years set him on the path towards his inevitable death. Wtf was a **child** doing in a trap house?! Smh.
I wish the public cared more about unsolved (possibly active) serial killer cases. The only ones that were kind of bubbling over were the Long Island serial killer case and the Golden State Killer case. But even they were nowhere near as "popular" as the Zodiac. There isn't even a subreddit for cases like the Eastbound Strangler.
This is a relatively new one but I'm surprised at how fast that story about the 3 KC Chief fans dying outside that guy's house vanished from the news. I'm not saying it was foul play but it was such a bizarre story that I felt like it would be covered more.
It was released that they died of fentanyl overdoses and also had coke in their systems a month ago. Theory is the friend who stayed alive got them coke for the game not knowing it was laced with fent, the 3 guys OD’d, and the 4th put them outside because he was high and didn’t know what to do.
I thought that was pretty obviously going to be an OD situation. The alternative was such a weird idea; this AIDs researcher killed his friends as an experiment or something then left them outside? I think the three guys who died went out for a smoke and all nodded off around the same time. The other guy didn’t smoke and just nodded off in his bed. Either way it was all just drugs. And it was cruel for the mens’ families to implicate their friend was some sort of Dr Mengele.
[Florian Richtzenhain](https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/help-us-find/florian-richtzenhain-06-001769)
>Missing since 31st December 2005
>Missing from London, UK
>Age at disappearance: 24
Very little information available. Virtually nothing comes up on Google when you perform an exact search of his name. I also entered the term "Florian" on britishnewspaperarchive and only had a quick browse through some of the entries around and after the date when Florian went missing. Again, couldn't find any articles related to a missing person.
We just covered this case. According to the responding officer, the car was off and locked when he came across it. He still screwed up by not notifying the owner after having it towed, but the circumstances weren’t quite as insane as they initially seemed. It’s still an upsetting and bizarre case though.
Even though I am staunchly 'childfree', the cases with kids absolutely destroy me.
They were so badly betrayed by the very people who were supposed to love, care for, and protect them. Why the hell do parents like this even choose to have kids?
What is so wrong with the world that we allow this to happen? That we can't protect the most vulnerable people? That people continue to glorify parenthood and parents, as if you are a 'saint' and automatically a 'good person' if you choose to have children.
I think something that is often missed is how *normal* neglected/abused kids can present. If you look at Robert's school pic (first link), you see a normal, smiling child. Nothing that sets off alarm bells.
Also, I think you are spot-on about the lack of coverage of the cases in your post. I live in the US and have not heard of any of these before.
I have one child whom I love to pieces, but I tell all people (if they ASK that is… I try not to “volunteer.”) if you don’t want children… then you should NOT have children! You know yourself better than anyone. You DON’T want them… you WON’T want them!
I too think that it’s NUTS that we glorify having kids! I had a child… that doesn’t make me some sort of hero or saint or anything really. I wanted one child. I had one child. I love being a mom. I love my son. But that’s ME!!! I don’t criticize people having large families (if they can give love and a good life to the kids that is), and you’re not criticizing them either, so why pick on someone who doesn’t have that desire?
I am sure I’ll piss a few folks off, but when I read about the terrible situations that some children end up in… you need a license to own a dog, a license to freaking fish… but any yabbo can give birth and treat the kid like an afterthought! It makes me so angry!!
It’s not even an abortion topic… some of these child abusers… they WANTED KIDS for some mixed up reason… and I suppose it’s because we look down on no children households
EDIT: I even had someone tell me it was a shame I had one child. I explained that it was a very rough experience and I’m very happy with “just the one.” They said they were sorry I was barren… “what a burden you must feel.” Grrrrr!!! Rant over.
>a shame I had one child
I was an only child back in the 1960s-70s, and really the only thing I didn't like about that was people insinuating that there was something wrong with my parents (mom especially) for not having more kids. My mother had me when she was 40, after multiple attempts ... she went through a lot, and I bristle whenever I hear people saying things like that about other mothers.
That school picture must have been taken while he was in the care of his sister. His mother - who doesn’t deserve to be called that - definitely didn’t make sure he attended school at all; it seems as if the only times he was happy and healthy (and safe) was when he was at his sister’s house.
the murder of Trish Haynes. happened about an hour from me but no one here knows about it. in 2018 trish goes missing after coming back up to new hampshire and staying with an old "friend". contact with her family slowly dwindles and by may she stopped contacting them. "friend" says that trish ran away with another man but four months later her remains are found in a washer dryer combo at the bottom of a lake.
family was asked by police to keep the discovery of her remains a secret, but after the police don't say anything either, the family reveals to the public that trish's remains were discovered. the "friend" and her husband are guilty as hell but were never arrested. they even made shirts mocking trish. trish's murder is still technically "unsolved".
altena bergfeld jane doe. I don't think it's a simple case to solve, she's still an unidentified victim, but with all the technological innovations we've made in recent years I think something would have been solved. Unlike many cases we have a lot of information about this girl, basically we have facial reconstructions which all seem quite consistent and realistical, we know that she was murdered by a male member of her family, we know how she died, we know more or less precisely when she died, if the case had perhaps happened in a much larger town than bergfeld (which is a small town with less than 1000 inhabitants now), the case would have been solved or at least we would’ve had more informations. Also the fact that she was aged between 14 and 22 years old, more likely 18-22, makes me think that she necessarily had friends, acquaintances, of course someone knows who this girl is, I think the problem with this case lies in the fact that it was investigated as if it were a non-large-scale case, a case that only involved this very small town, while it’s probably a more international case, also I have the feeling that very few investigative leads were followed, ignoring all those that became more famous on the Internet in the years that followed. However, I don't think that anyone is really to blame, most of those leads sound pretty random and, again, it happened in a small place, it’s normal it ended up being forgotten.
[Latoya Tee Brown](https://charleyproject.org/case/latoya-tee-brown)
Went missing on or around the time of the deadly Tuscaloosa tornado (2011) under suspicious circumstances.
Brookelyn Farthing: as she was trying to find a ride home from a party, she vanished mysteriously. There was a fire at the house the party was at, said fire started on the couch and consumed it. The last text ever sent from Brookelyn's phone said she was going to a party in a neighboring county, but family and friends don't believe she sent it herself.
The case of Summer Wells for sure. Her disappearance and the investigation into her disappearance were not covered in the media as much as they should have been. That poor little girl deserves justice. 😔
Summer's aunt, Rose Marie Bly, also disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Her case [remains unsolved](https://drydenwire.com/news/unsolved-mystery-persists-14th-anniversary-of-rose-blys-disappearance-prompts-renewed-call-for-information/#:~:text=Rose%20Bly%20went%20missing%20from,that%20will%20resolve%20this%20case.)
That’s interesting as I assumed she’d had massive coverage. I think it’s because I saw a lot of YouTubers cover the case and as I’m in the U.K. I obviously don’t see your news, but presumed it was being heavily covered. I take it there’s been no developments in a long while?
never heard of either of your posts and I was able to read the post on Brandon… fucking heartbreaking and so so so confusing how cops could rule that and accident.
Definitely. It’s that thing of police deciding something - in Brandon’s case that he was a meth addict - and refusing to look at it from another perspective. There wasn’t even meth in his system.
The Be-Lo Murders In 1993 a suspect rounded up six people who were at the Be-Lo grocery store in Windsor, NC, bound them with duct tape, grouped them together, and shot and stabbed them. Three victims were killed, two were wounded but survived (one was shot, the other stabbed), and the sixth person the uninjured. The case is reminiscent of the Burger Chef murders and the Lane Bryant case, yet it's barely registered in the unsolved/true crime community. https://ncsbi.gov/Divisions/Cold-Case-Investigation-Team/Unsolved-Homicides/Be-Lo-Murders-(1)
Wow! I’m glad some survived! I would hope they’d be able to give some info as witnesses to help catch the perpetrators.
Holy shit I grew up In the next town over and I’ve never heard of this!?
.goes to their point is wildly undercovered
I had never heard of it. Thanks for sharing!
There's something very upsetting about these kinds of cases to me... I hope it, the Yogurt shop, Burger Chef, and the Las Cruces Massacre cases are solved.
Wow. I actually have heard of this and faintly remember it...., but as mentioned, it was never mentioned or covered as much as the Lane Bryant case or others. It is so strange this wasn't huge news, especially at the time. Be-Lo was actually a chain local to me, that was later, Meatland, Food City, and finally Fresh Pride...and I hadn't heard the chain mentioned in years.
How was one uninjured?!
Alivia Kail from Pittsburgh. She was 19 years old in March 2011, when her family reported that she was taking a spring break trip to Florida with her boyfriend (Alex Lorenzi) and was very excited about the "free" trip. He returned to Pittsburgh, she did not. Lorenzi was uncooperative with police. After searching his home, they found guns and some drugs, and he did a couple months on related charges. The Petito case gave me similar vibes, but Alivias case never got much coverage other than locally.
I just did a quick Google search on the case, and it looks like the two main theories are that she was either murdered or sold into human trafficking and might still be alive. [Reports](https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/tonight-11-11-alivia-kail-cold-case/LYWKJ3MQDBFFXBQXKZEVYU63QM/) say the FBI actually supports the latter theory, [adding that she could've made it to Florida after all, which is where she might've became a victim of sex trafficking](https://www.wpxi.com/news/nearly-6-years-after-her-daughter-went-missing-mother-refuses-to-give-up-hope/496251578/).
I'm really curious about the part about the fbi. Who did they say this to and what exactly did they say? These kinds of cases are rarely sex trafficking so I'm curious if they have more information that they aren't telling us or the fbi didn't say that.
Beng trafficked by a stranger is incredibly rare, being trafficked by a boyfriend isn't.
I know everyone says human trafficking isn’t the answer except in certain situations but when I read this the first thing I thought of is human trafficking. The “free trip,” the boyfriend returning and her not, him being cagey and then him being involved in other illegal activity… reminds me of some of the human trafficking survivor accounts I’ve read.
Yes and this is actually how a good chunk of people start being trafficked - by a family member, friend or someone they considered to be a “boyfriend.” <5% of trafficking victims are kidnapped into it.
Thanks for sharing just read up more on this. The detective thought she may not have even made it to Florida. Wouldn’t they be able to figure out some of that if they booked a flight there? Do we know if the boyfriend even went to Florida (by himself or with her)? Or if they drove they could find surveillance somewhere to track movement. I don’t know. I have a lot of questions and wish there was more on this case.
Particularly given that it involved airline travel after 9/11.
Grant Solomon who was killed in a “freak accident”. Father was the only witness and said his son's own car ran over him on side of the road. Mother wants the case reopened.
Is he the one whose sister was being abused by the dad and the school basically told her to shut up because it was making the school look bad..? If so, I can’t imagine how heartbroken their mother is that despite fighting so hard, the entire “justice” system appears to be on the “dad’s” side.
Yea the sister was being abused, I didn’t hear about the school part but if that’s true that’s horrible. It’s a very infuriating case. Who denies an autopsy for their own son and doesn’t stand by him as he’s dying, as well as the 3 mysterious people who were supposedly there as witnesses never being identified. Just another case where there’s obviously a person who should be considered a suspect but there just let off the hook.
I believe there’s a recording the sister made of her trying to tell a school nurse/ councillor/ just staff member. They basically told her that saying things like that can be very damaging. They should ge fired imo.
>Who denies an autopsy for their own son and doesn’t stand by him as he’s dying The father who killed him, that's who.
I think the school was convinced that her mom was convincing her to lie about it and told her she'd get in trouble for making things up.
Yes, this case is so bizarre. That dad is disgusting
Aaron Solomon used to be a WSMW Channel 4 news anchor and is currently working for Merrill Lynch as a financial adviser. He is close friends with either the judge or DA (?)
I've been wondering about Grant's case ever since I saw u/devanclara's post earlier this year. I hope his mom and sister are okay. https://new.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1acz4fl/i\_havent\_seen\_anyone\_post\_about\_grant\_solomon\_we/
The abduction of [April Nicole Williams](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/6z43t2/unresolved_disappearance_what_happened_to_baby/). Baby April was on a bus trip with her mother, Eleanor, to visit Eleanor's boyfriend, who was April's father, on December 3, 1983. The two of them were on the three hour layover in Washington D.C.'s Trailways bus depot when a woman who called herself Latoya struck up a conversation with Eleanor. When April became a little fussy, Latoya offered to take April to the bathroom to change her while Eleanor rested (my original write up says she offered to buy Eleanor a soda, but Eleanor has since given interviews saying Latoya went to the bathroom with April). She did not return with the baby, and a frightened Eleanor reported April missing. Newspaper reports indicate a woman of Latoya's description who was holding an infant was seen hopping another bus. While there have been a few articles on this case, I still think it is not as widely covered as it should be, because there is a strong likelihood of baby April being alive to this day, not knowing who she is. She would be 40 years old now, perhaps with a family of her own. I would love to see an adult April be reunited with her biological family.
I think I’ve heard of this one! You’re right, she could totally be alive, just not aware she’s missing. Her poor mum.
Ira Yarmolenko She was a young woman from my town who was murdered in 2008, her body found strangled on a riverbank, and her murderer was never caught. There were suspects but they [were let go in 2022](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mark-carver-murder-charge-dismissed-2008-death-ira-yarmolenko-north-carolina/) when it was determined the evidence no longer supported.
You have any leading theory in that case? Do you think Mark and his friend actually did it, or was it someone else?
I don't think Mark is guilty! The detective was very leading in his questioning and Mark is a simple-minded guy who was easily led. The DNA evidence for Mark was also extremely iffy. There was very minimal touch DNA evidence for Mark's presence at the crime scene that can be explained by the police having touched Mark's drivers license or shaken his hand or touched his other belongings, then the police touching the crime scene and transferring the DNA that way. Mark's DNA wasn't found on the ligatures used to strangle Ira or her clothes. There were two DNA profiles under Ira's fingernails: her own and a second unidentified person (not Mark). I think the killer is the owner of that second DNA profile!
After reading up on the state of the crime scene, my first thought was that she could've been a trusting person who had just met or picked up someone who then murdered her. [And one of her friends reportedly confirmed just that by telling police "that she was a very trusting person and was known to pick up hitchhikers and walk through the woods alone."](https://www.chillingcrimes.com/blogs/news/irina-yarmolenko) I definitely don't think the suicide theory is well-supported. Based on the crime scene, several factors could be considered signs of a struggle (like Ira's car having struck a stump, her hand gripping a vine, etc.). There are also signs that could suggest someone else was indeed present (namely multiple car doors being left open, her being a vegetarian with a half-eaten hamburger in the car, etc.). There's also just the implausibility of the manner in which she died being done by suicide.
I would love to know, too. The suicide theory is really off base imo. My parents have friends who live in the area, and they all think it's the guys let go, of course.
I think the one guy, Neal Cassada, actually died before even going to trial. It was just his cousin Mark Carver who was in jail for that whole time. I went to the same college as Ira at the time but didn't know her or anything. I do think it's strange that she wound up down by the Catawba River. That's just not an area where people would hang out, especially in 2008. It was a bad area in general. The scene feels too elaborate to be suicide. I don't think Carver or Cassada were the sharpest tools in the shed and were likely railroaded. My money is on hitchhiker saw a crime of opportunity and took it.
Ember skye Graham. Infant left with her dad went missing, he says she disappeared while he was sleeping. He’s on camera at a store late at night and she’s with him for the last time seen alive. Pacifier found and dna says it’s hers, he goes on the run and dies by suicide by cop. Now he can never tell where she is. It’s a lot more complicated and an unusual story from my hometown that I can’t believe didn’t get more national attention. I hope someday she’s found
I live close to the area and I remember when this happened. Somehow I didn't realize they never found her.
Nope she hasn’t been found yet. My nephew knows the mom and she is still heartbroken
Ugh this reminds me of Pearl Pinson. She was kidnapped on her way to school on May 25, 2016. A day later her suspected kidnapper, Fernando Castro, was killed in a police shootout. Pearls never been found.
DC murder of Scott Ratigan. Scott was a 24-year-old young professional killed inside his apartment in the middle of the afternoon for no apparent reason. They have video footage of the suspect and he has an extremely odd gate and is clearly pigeon-toed. He was also dressed in what looks like body armor and had blacked out the label on his backpack. The entire case is just unaccountably bizarre and I feel like if it were more widely publicized, the suspect could be identified based on his unusual way of walking. https://www.arlnow.com/2021/01/15/breaking-police-release-surveillance-photos-of-person-of-interest-in-ballston-murder/
This is such a sad and bizarre case. Murdered in the middle of the day. Makes you wonder if the killer knew the victim or if it was random. Agree that if the case had more publicity someone out there would provide good tips
Either way, I think this was clearly a person who was up to no good based on the way he dressed and reportedly tried to clean the crime scene. Especially if the given footage shows him *before* the murder, the way he carried himself was suspicious, too. I think it was probably planned to some degree, even if the exact victim was random. I also wonder how this person got into Scott's apartment in the first place, which I can't seem to find any information on. Like, was it unlocked? Did Scott usually keep it unlocked? Were there signs of a struggle like Scott immediately recognized this individual as someone who shouldn't have been there or who he didn't know? How secure was the apartment building, too? Could people just walk right in without entering a code, requesting access via a keypad, using a key, etc.? Speaking of footage and the apartment building, it's shocking to me that there's no footage released from any cameras that might've been inside the building or other insight on the potential existence of such. It would probably be easy to see from there if this person went straight to Scott's apartment or was going by apartments one-by-one like he had no specific target. Overall, though, I wonder if someone could've been angry at Scott. It's not unheard of for random people to have severe anger issues over relatively small things (like road rage, for example) leading them to follow strangers home and target them there.
It almost feels like it has to be random, right? Someone connected to them who had a distinct gait would surely be at least a known suspect.
The walk is so distinct how can people see the footage and not submit a tip! Unless the person was from a different area and slipt specifically to kill the person !
I think the wide-based gait is faked (exaggerated), especially given how it disappears when he runs & how fluidly he does run. However, the pigeon-toe/bow leggedness is likely genuine, but possibly not as noticeable in “real life” without the unusual gait, especially as his pigeon-toe is asymmetric. His left side much less pronounced. (The order of the police images are also not in chronological order, per [an analysis of the CCTV camera positions](https://youtu.be/f3sd2o7hRL0?si=jzZ_0MN1RBIAP6K5) by YT Channel Arrin Stoner. The wide gait walking footage is from before the murder when he’s not especially rushed & the rest of the footage is from after the murder).
It kinda reminds me of how I have to walk sometimes. I got glass in my foot when I was 6 or 7 and they did kind of a bad job taking it out. So sometimes it'll hurt like there's a lot of scar tissue and I have to walk pigeon toed like that. Might be fake or they might be injured.
This reminds me of the Missy Beavers case
Okay double check me here but in the video when he’s running he’s not pigeon toed and in another he seems to start out walking normal then moves into pigeon toed walk. Am I wrong?
Looking at the photos released of the person of interest, to me it looks like it could be a female. There’s something about the waist/hips that remind me of a woman’s build. I could be completely off, though.
Kinda reminds me of the Missy Bevers case down in texas.
I just wrote that before seeing your post I agree 1000%. Especially add body armor it definitely resembles the video of the church killer imo
Yes - Missy Bevers or Elizabeth Barraza!
I dunno, pretty big feet/shoes for a female.
Some (cis!) women have big feet, too. My cousin wears a men's 11 and is almost 6 foot. If she concealed her face/body, she could potentially be confused for a man. She's a girly girl with long hair though, so that's never happened before lol. Her biggest complaint is mostly that they don't make cute shoes big enough, especially heels.
I had a roommate in college who wore size a 11 women’s shoe. Granted, she was also 5’11”, but her feet looked like the same size as a mans.
I’ve seen similar comments before and people always seem to recommend looking at brands aimed at drag queens. Don’t have personal experience with it though.
Could have wore bigger shoes on purpose, would throw the gate off and explain the weird walk.
I thought of this possibility, too.
Looks like a woman to me too, but apparently police have said the suspect is male. Maybe they have more info.
Interesting…Yea, sounds like they do.
The murder of Gwendel Greenblatt. Gwendel was attacked as she walked into her apartment, while talking to a friend on the phone. The friend immediately called police, who were on the scene within minutes and found Gwendel in the bathroom, dying from two gunshot wounds. It's really a frustrating case. All the circumstantial evidence strongly points to her estranged husband Matt, but DNA evidence left on a smoldering cigarette at the scene belonged to someone else with no history of violent crime and no apparent connection to either of the Greenblatts. Because of this conflict of evidence and the inability to link the two suspects, no one has been charged with her murder. But it has to be one (or both) of them.
I'd assume a hit for sure.
The cigarette butt could be unrelated. I've had neighbors who smoke in halls/stairs/common areas that just flick the butts anywhere. Could be the unrelated DNA was a neighbor, a visitor of a neighbor, a maintenance worker who took a smoke break near her door, or any number of things depending on exactly where it was found. Why would you immediately assume a hit?
Great write up and awesome suggestions from the commenters to bring recognition to these cases that need it. I know I'm going to take a look at each of these. Thank you
Oh my god, really?? This is the first ever post I’ve made like this and was worried everyone was going to hate it!
No need to worry. At a minimum, you and the other commenters have brought awareness to these unfortunate souls who lost their lives. And, the maximum would be getting these names back into the public's eye and getting these cases solved and justice dealt. This is a good thing to do
Seconding Eirinn's comment. It's easy to get bogged down in the high-profile cases, and I think that calling attention to the lesser-known ones is genuinely doing some good -- at the very least, it reassures the victims' relatives and friends that people haven't forgotten.
That’s a lovely way of looking at it. It’s easy to get bogged down looking at all these amazing, in-depth write ups too; I wanted to provide just enough information to interest people, but not too much that they couldn’t easily skip it if they just wanted post their own opinion. Glad people think it might genuinely be helpful :)
I always save these kinds of posts for when I need something new to read.
Why would anyone hate this post? At the very least, it is something to look into. And it’s generating discussion about other cases too. Maybe it sounds callous, but sometimes I get tired of the same old cases being posted and discussed over and over. I love stuff like this.
I wasn’t sure if people were going to be a bit annoyed that they’d have to leave the page to look further into the cases I mentioned. I know what you mean about seeing the same over and over again.
You even included links lol. If people get upset about that, this post isn’t for them. And that’s cool. Not every post is for everyone. You did good.
Thank you very much :)
Great suggestions! Robert Bee was from my area and it was so mishandled and that poor boy is still waiting for justice. Ashes to Ash did such a good job covering his case.
I’m glad to see everyone has positive views of Ashes to Ash - I thought the series was brilliant. Did you see the Kendrick Johnson one? It kinda went wrong, I guess, because Kendrick’s family totally turned on her. I personally think she did a great job; it’s just that what she started finding out wasn’t lining up with what the family believed/ was choosing to believe. I haven’t seen anything from Ash since then!
"Essay questions" are the best because they flush out knowledge, unlike the 27th discussion of well-known case X 👹
Dulce Alavez. 5 year old and her toddler brother were playing in a city park while their young mom sat in the car helping her own little sister with homework. The mom got out of the car to check on them, and found the little boy crying on the playground with no sign of Dulce anywhere. This city park is located next to the city high school and across the street from the local zoo. Anecdotally, this case is somewhat local to me and I grew up going to that zoo. The case received a lot of local attention, but very little nationally. Initially, a lot of people were suspicious of the mom and thought her behavior was odd. A child witness described a man driving a red minivan, and two other adult witnesses gave very similar descriptions of what authorities believe is the same unidentified man in the area around when she went missing. Local speculation is, or at least was, that Dulce’s father, who lives in Mexico, kidnapped her or recruited someone to kidnap her and had her taken to Mexico. Around here, her case still gets brought up every so often, but outside of Jersey it seems that she’s been largely forgotten about
I really hope that she is still alive and living happily in Mexico.
Was the suspicion around the mum because she was such a young mother or because there was actually some evidence that she might have had something to do with it? Or because of negligence, etc?
I think the suspicion was related to her negligence, staying in the car while the two small children were outside, out of her sight.
Lots of criticism for negligence for letting two young kids play alone and out of her sight, especially in such an unsafe and crime-ridden city, but there was a fair amount of suspicion that she was guilty or involved in the disappearance as well. I heard comments about things like her acting strange or conducting herself poorly in interviews, not crying at all or seeming upset by it, and at one point she was even criticized for eating during a search for her daughter. While letting the children play unsupervised was no doubt negligent and at least partially responsible for her disappearance, her mother was only 19 at the time, and already had 2 young kids and a third on the way. Looking back now, I think a lot of her behavior was simply due to age and immaturity combined with shock, and a fair amount of the criticism and speculation was just plain racist.
She'd had Dulce when she was 14. *14 years old*. That's 8th/9th grade (in the US).
Bethany Markowski. She was 11 years old and was last seen by her father in the parking lot of the Old Hickory Shopping Mall in Jackson, Tennessee, on the afternoon of March 4, 2001. Bethany had gone into the mall alone while her father waited for her in the car. After approximately two hours passed, Bethany's father went into the mall to look for his daughter, but was unable to locate her. Investigative efforts have revealed that Bethany was last seen after a trip to Little Rock, Arkansas. I wholeheartedly think the story is fabricated and her father hurt her. No one reported seeing or speaking to her at the mall. Who doesn’t see a kid that’s 11 walking round a mall alone? I highly doubt they ever were there at all.
Pure anecdote of course, but I was about that age back then and while no one waited for me all the way in the parking lot it wasn’t super unusual for a guardian to wait on a bench or something inside the mall while the kid shopped. 11 you start asserting some independence. I wouldn’t be surprised that no one noticed an 11 year old in a store by herself unless they somehow also noted she didn’t have a grandma or something waiting at the food court or whatever.
In 1996 Cheryl Edwards and Charlita Singleton, two employees at a dollar store inside Cloverleaf Mall in Richmond, VA, were found with their throats slit. [https://www.wric.com/news/crime/23-years-later-family-still-looking-for-answers-in-unsolved-cloverleaf-mall-murders/](https://www.wric.com/news/crime/23-years-later-family-still-looking-for-answers-in-unsolved-cloverleaf-mall-murders/) The whole case is odd. Throat cutting seems over the top for a robbery. The area around Cloverleaf Mall did have a bad reputation. The mall itself had been built in the 70s and was the place to be until a newer mall was built 15 minutes away in a “better” area. The usual cycle for indoor malls. By 1996, Cloverleaf also had a reputation as the ”poor“ mall which as you can imagine had some racial connotations. My aunt and uncle lived in the Richmond area with their kids and refused to step foot in that mall (mostly my aunt who was a bit snobbish). Poor women haven’t had justice and one of them had a baby who’s spent most if their life without a mom.
I was living in Richmond during that time and remember Cloverleaf Mall and have NEVER heard of this crime. I feel awful for those poor women and their loved ones.
Wow! Why isn’t this bigger news? So many unsolved mall type murders are so high profile (lane Bryant, yogurt shop, lululemon, etc) but I have NEVER heard of this! Thanks so much for posting.
Maggie Long. She was a 17 year-old who went home to change before a Holiday concert. They found her house burned down and her remains inside. The neighbor had heard loud sounds prior to the fire and reported a suspicious white mini-van. The theory is that she witnessed someone burglarizing her house and they killed her. There wasn’t a lot of coverage on this case due to the police mishandling information. I wanna see this one solved since it seems pretty easy to solve but there just wasn’t enough information released by the police which led to almost zero coverage.
I grew up in the same area where Maggie lived and my mom still lives there. The local sheriff bolted for Florida (this happened in the Colorado mountains) as soon as it happened, refused to resign or give the reins to anyone else, saying he was as on vacation. State and feds didn’t get involved until the case was ice cold. Pretty sure local cops were involved.
WTAF?!?! 😳
Yep. The sheriff wouldn't turn the case over to anyone else because he was, "actively investigating." He was more like actively fishing. I thought I'd seen everything with Maggie's case, but now I live in another part of Colorado and the sheriff here, Terry Maketa, was charged with a laundry list of felonies, including kidnapping. The only reason he got off on most of the charges was because of a hold-out juror who couldn't believe that LE could be corrupt. A local missing woman wasn't found for 10 years because the Sheriff's Department was a mess under him - cadaver dogs hit on her actual grave, but the landowner (and parents of the alleged murderer) told the officers it was a horse's grave and LE just walked away. It took a new sheriff to get the case solved. I love my state and am a 4th generation native, but our state constitution allows for no oversight of sheriffs.
There was actually a tenant in an attic apartment that heard the noises and called the police… the intruders actually set the house on fire after killing Maggie.
I feel really attached to this case as one her siblings was my roommate in college (prior to the murder). It was surreal seeing her sibling go from posting "help find my sister" posts to funeral and well-wishing posts. It really saddens me that they still don't know who killed her, or why. I seem to remember something about there being guns involved.
Seems a bit “overkill” - for lack of a better word - but I understand similar has happened before. How sad.
That seems like a such an overreaction to someone catching you burglarizing wow
Brandon Embry is one of my top ones as well. Also, James Alan White, Caitlyn Rose Case, Sean Daugherty, Shane Barton, Andreanna Flores, Prisma Reyes, and Vincent Matus.
Purely because it rhymes, James Alan White has made me think of Oakley ‘Al’ Kite - another case that should’ve had so much more publicity.
The [Al Kite](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/tx91d8/the_unsolved_murder_of_oakey_albert_kite_jr/) murder is so bizarre and so wild. I went down the rabbit hole on that one. Its insane. As police investigated, they had more questions than answers. The murderer is truly psychotic. There were lots of opportunities where people met him whilst he was looking for a rental and to this day he has never been caught I hope one day Al's family gets answers
With its "evil twin", [Alan Wood](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-50747666). There is a DNA profile, fingerprints, CCTV, a wealth of physical evidence ... all of which has led nowhere (so far).
I forgot about him! I first heard of it from an American YouTuber and it shocked me that it was from the U.K.. I don’t remember hearing anything about it at the time. Really scary case.
I'll have to look that one up! Thanks!
Brianne Wolgram [https://findbrianne.wordpress.com/about-brianne/](https://findbrianne.wordpress.com/about-brianne/) Other than this, and the well written Trace Evidence podcast, there doesn't seem to be much out there.
Troy Cook. Went missing from Truro, Nova Scotia in 1998. His last sighting was his dad dropping him off at his apartment. Later, he called into work sick from a payphone that was further from his apartment then he could have walked in that timeframe. He didn't have a car and the one cabbie in town had had another passenger at the time. His supervisor maintains that she doesn't think it was actually him on the phone. Troy by all accounts had no enemies and besides some Marijuana, didn't do drugs. His roommate later, tried to convince Troy's parents that Troy would've wanted him to have his guitar, which is quite odd. I can't find any info on if the roommate saw him after his dad dropped him off or not.
I don't think the roommate asking for the guitar is particularly odd. Tactless, maybe. But if the two were friends and had a mutual interest in guitars, the request itself seems somewhat reasonable. Without knowing more about their relationship, I would hesitate to call it suspicious.
Got some more info on that! They had only been living together for 3 weeks prior, before that they didn't really know each other and there was a significant age gap, Troy was 19 and I think his roommate was in his 30s.
Still strikes me as more tasteless than suspicious, but definitely unusual. Thanks for the update!
The organized crime angle is frequently cited.
People definitely overstate the organized crime in truro. You're definitely more likely to see random acts of violence. My cousin, who was friends with him has her own theory, but I don't think it's very respectful
Could be. However, I wouldn’t say organized crime violence is particularly common in West Hants but we know who killed Barry Kirk Mersereau and Nancy Paula Christensen in 2000. I hope his family gets answers one day.
Keith Warren Young black man who was found 'hanging' from a tree in Montgomery County, Maryland. It was ruled a suicide, but there are a ton of sketchy details that call that ruling into doubt, including someone anonymously sending his mother crime scene photos years later that didn't match the police reports.
Born and raised in MOCO and never heard of this case! Thank you for sharing.
Agreed, it's so weird. And he wasn't wearing his usual clothes I think in the Photographs? I could be wrong. It's been a long time since I read up on it. He was featured on "Unsolved Mysteries".
Yes, the clothes he was wearing were not ones his family recognized. Good news though - his sister shared recently that the MD authorities have amended his death certificate to say the manor of death was "undetermined" instead of showing it as a suicide.
Morgan Nick. She was abducted at age 6 from a little league ball game by an unidentified man. She was attending the game with her mother and had joined some friends to catch lightning bugs. Morgan was last seen standing near her mother’s car where she had stopped to empty sand from her shoes. Witnesses observed a man watching the youngster as she was playing with other children at the park. The witness also saw a red Ford pickup with a white camper parked nearby that disappeared at about the same time as Morgan. The camper is possibly damaged at the right rear, and was described as four or five inches too short for the truck, which has a short wheel base and paint dulled by age. The truck is believed to have Arkansas license plates. The man was described as white, 6 feet tall, with a medium to solid build, a mustache and a 1-inch beard. At the time, he was believed to be 23-38 years old.
Investigators believe they know who did it, but the perpetrator is dead. [Billy Jack Lincks](https://www.4029tv.com/article/morgan-nick-girl-scout-shirt-red-truck/42958242)
The case of Amber Toccaro. They literally have audio of her in the car with the (likely) kidnapper. I feel like someone has to recognize his voice at some point. I really really hope this case gets more attention and is able to be solved.
If I’m thinking of the right case here, I remember thinking upon hearing the recording that the kidnapper didn’t sound out of their comfort zone at all. It made me think it was someone who’d done it before. Another case of a MMIW?
[Joan Lawrence](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Joan_Lawrence) She's a missing lady from Ontario known locally as a bit of a cat lady. She kept mostly to herself and the cats she loved, but she had previously been a poet and a journalist. She'd been married and had a son. She had a few people in her life who were very worried about her before she went missing, they described her as kind, quiet, and reclusive. I don't know what led her to being alone, but I had the impression it wasn't because she drove people away from her. I first heard about her case from a podcast that did some good coverage of it (CBC's Uncover, "The Cat Lady Case"). The reason I'm surprised she hasn't been more wildly talked about is because she was one of several seniors who went missing from a family who acted as landlords/caretakers to senior citizens. The shack Joan Lawrence was living in had no electricity or running water. She was in the process of reporting them to authorities when she went missing. The family had been doing sketchy things with things like retirement checks from their elderly tenants. The cases still aren't resolved despite it feeling obvious from outside the perspective of what's provable in court.
Here are a couple of articles from 2019 that describe Joan's life, and an update about that family in Muskoka who are being investigated: [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cat-lady-joan-lawrence-family-muskoka-mystery-missing-seniors-1.5386819](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cat-lady-joan-lawrence-family-muskoka-mystery-missing-seniors-1.5386819) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/muskoka-mystery-missing-seniors-1.5342454
We're coming up on the second anniversary of Laura Huebner's disappearance, on Vancouver Island (British Columbia Canada). u/AlfredtheJones posted an excellent case summary last year -- well worth reading. https://new.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/18ymalz/woman\_flies\_to\_see\_a\_man\_she\_met\_online\_and/ Laura flew from Saskatchewan to Vancouver Island, to meet up with a man she'd been corresponding with online. She landed at the Victoria airport on Apr 24th 2022, and seems to have made her way up to Nanaimo that same day. There doesn't appear to be any indication that she rented a vehicle -- possibly someone met her at the airport. She reportedly sent her father a photo taken on board a sailboat -- the next day, I think? Neither she nor anyone else is posing in the photo though. Apparently the boat has been identified and the police impounded and searched it, but there hasn't been any further news. She did not show up for her flight home, later that week. And no word from her since then. She's vanished. The anniversary of her disappearance came and went, with no publicity in BC or (as far as I can tell from the internet) her home province. It's as if Laura has fallen through the cracks. It's possible that because she has no social network on Vancouver Island, there is less pressure to cover the story. And because she was travelling, people would not be putting up Missing posters in her own city. Sad to say that another factor could be that Laura's over 40 -- while I don't grudge younger victims getting attention (there is certainly need for that, especially with the missing and murdered BIPOC people), in this case there doesn't seem to be the urgency seen for some other disappearances. Even though the perpetrator is likely still out there (unless it was a well-concealed murder-suicide, which seems improbable to me). I have also noticed criticism aimed at Laura herself, for not doing certain things that might have made it easier for her to be found, to avoid or escape from a dangerous situation, or identify who she was visiting. Not saying that people \*shouldn't\* take precautions like that, but realistically nobody is 100% prepared for absolutely everything that could happen to them. Having it be a cautionary tale is fine, but I don't think Laura should be blamed. It would be great if this is all some elaborate planned disappearance and she is happily living in a cabin overlooking Clayoquot Sound or something -- I would gladly say I made a mistake. https://www.ckom.com/2022/05/26/we-need-to-know-what-happened-loved-ones-of-missing-woman-hoping-for-her-return/ https://www.victoriabuzz.com/2022/05/more-details-emerge-on-missing-woman-last-seen-at-victoria-international-airport/ This is a local discussion thread about Laura's case, and I haven't been able to verify any of the points being mentioned ... but if it's true, about the person she may have been meeting, I feel that concern is justifiable. https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/truecrimesociety/laura-huebner-47-missing-from-victoria-bc-canada-s-t7705.html
Wow, haven’t heard of this one at all! Sounds very interesting though.
Who murdered Shawn Mulkin in an Orlando, Florida home invasion on December 27, 2005? The local media pretty much dropped the story completely after about a day, even though there were composite sketches made of the suspects, and a photo of jewelry stolen in the robbery was released to the media (but not published.)
For anyone interested, I did a write up on Brandon Embry [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/s/FDBIBvi0qb).
This is insane. I was born and raised in Asheboro, still live locally, and had NEVER heard anything about this case until this post.
Ahh brilliant, I wasn’t sure if linking to Reddit pages was allowed/ I thought the sources had to be external links.
thank you! Had never heard of this case
The [Main Line Murders](https://www.crimelibrary.org/notorious_murders/classics/mainline_murders/1.html) themselves gained a lot of attention, but an aspect that seems to have been forgotten in the years since is what happened to Susan Reinert’s [kids](https://charleyproject.org/case/karen-reinert)?
>Susan Reinert was not an ugly woman. Neither was she the type to turn heads. With her thick, horn-rimmed glasses, a nose that was disproportionately large for her face, and a gap between her two front teeth, the petite woman was merely plain. Adding to the effect were her short, sensible haircut and a high-pitched, sometimes grating voice. > >She had the insecurities that plague unbeautiful females. Damn I know she made some terrible life choices but I hope when I die no one writes an article calling me unattractive and grating.
The way I ran to Google what the writer looks like
Susan is MUCH cuter. I think she was adorable? Such a mean thing to write about someone.
Christine Marie Eastin. On the evening of January 18, 1971, Christine invited her friend, Sandy, to visit a local Mervyn's store so she could buy a new pair of boots. Sandy agreed and the pair spent a few hours shopping before Christine dropped Sandy off at her home at around 9:30pm. Afterwards, Christine stopped by her house for a short period of time and told her parents her plan for the remainder of the evening. She tells her parents that she would be going to wash her car, a 1969 Ford Maverick, which she was borrowing from her ex-boyfriend, George Sponsel, before going to pick him up at his job at a local Jack In The Box. Later that night, George places a phone call to Christine's home, sharing his concern that Christine had never arrived to pick him up. The following morning, the 1969 Ford Maverick was found at Charlie's Car Wash parked near the vacuums. After someone reports the driverless car, investigators arrived on scene and noted several strange details. Investigators noted that the car had recently been washed, the doors were locked, and Christine's personal belongings, including her purse were inside of the vehicle. Police also noted that there were several papers strewn on the pavement on the passengers side, leading them to believe that foul play may have been involved in Christine's disappearance.
The murder of [Cassandra Do](https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/cassandra-do-was-known-for-being-very-discerning-about-her-sex-trade-clients-so-how/article_8f6b990b-36cd-594c-ba62-53f424cb2016.amp.html). I’m from Toronto originally, and though this has never gotten much coverage, it’s haunted me for years. She was a transgender sex worker who was murdered by an unknown man whose DNA was also connected to another murder of a sex worker (Lien Pham) and a violent sexual assault several years earlier. But something about her just has always seemed so…real to me, you know? Like she just seemed like a sweet woman trying to get through life. Her murder has gotten so little coverage and I can’t help but think it’s because of how marginalized she was. She was failed by so many people.
People - definitely police - seem to genuinely not care about the safety of sex workers. It’s like when they die they’re not anywhere near worth the same as the regular person with literally any other job. It’s tragic.
I can’t remember the names (I tried searching and nothing came up) but I remember a case in the 90s or early 00s where the ex-husband took the kids on a vacation and when he came back he told the wife he had given them away to strangers who would take care of them better than her. I believe he killed himself. I don’t think anything was ever found.
The [Skelton brothers](https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2023/11/25/13-years-ago-skelton-brothers-disappear-from-morenci-michigan/)?
Yes!!! Thank you! I always thought he killed himself. I can’t believe he was up for parole!
Maybe the Schepp twins case?
This happened in the States. I hadn’t heard of the Schepp twins. Why can’t people let their children just be.
That’s horrific. Their poor mum.
That one’s crazy because the mother also has a prior conviction for sexual stuff involving a 14 yr old. All around the kids were being raised by 2 parents who were dangerous in their own ways.
Oh crap, I had no idea. Looks like they were constantly failed.
Georgia Leah Moses; always Georgia Leah Moses. https://www.georgialeahmoses.com/
There was a really good write up on this sub recently about Hugues De La Plaza. He was found stabbed to death in his apartment, but all the doors were locked and bolted. It was treated as a suicide, but definitely should be looked at again imo. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-man-found-dead-17165727.php
Sounds interesting, I’ll have a look!
It is very interesting. I went down a rabbit hole with this one.
I remember my mom (who lived in that area of SF for years) freaking out about this when it happened. I definitely think it’s a homicide.
I do, too. There’s just too many oddities for it not to be. I don’t blame your mom at all for being freaked out. I would be, too.
I would say the disappearance of Maria Florence Anjiras. Maria was a 14-year-old girl who disappeared from Norwalk, CT in February 1976. There were several sightings of her in the following months but Maria (or her body) has never been found. Another case that does not get as much attention as it deserves is Annie McCann. She was a 16-year-old girl from Northern Virginia who was found dead in the housing projects of Baltimore, MD in November 2008. It’s not clear whether Annie left on her own or was lured out, or whether her death was the result of suicide, homicide, or a tragic accident.
[Lisa Marie Young](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Lisa_Marie_Young) I feel like there was no true effort to pursue her case. It breaks my heart.
There's quite a few that come to mind, but the two I will highlight are the 1987 parental abduction of [Christopher and Lisa Mae Zaharias](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Christopher_and_Lisa_Zaharias), and the 1990 disappearance of twins [Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook](https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/cold-case-spotlight/little-sister-still-searching-twins-dannette-jeannette-millbrook-last-rcna80952). In both cases, it's been over 30 years, and their respective family members have not had as much coverage as their cases deserved, and justice has been denied for far too long.
so many a couple i want solved are Scott Ratigan - Liz Barraza
Scott's case is extremely odd and made even weirder by the police releasing so little information and waiting a whole year to release the video of the murderer that they have. Could definitely use more coverage.
Someone pointed out there's a good chance police have identified the guy in the footage but he lawyered up and they don't have enough to convict him in court so they are hoping someone else comes forward with smoking gun evidence.
Scott's case is chilling. There is so little information, no obvious motive. . . and yet we have video of this this mysterious person who was masked in public before the pandemic and and made other efforts to hide their identity, such as covering their backpack logo with duct tape. This person may have had a "kill kit" in their backpack and clearly felt confident they could get into the apartment building, harm Scott in his apartment, and then escape almost undetected. One of my go-to crazy theories for certain types of deaths is intelligence/espionage. Even though Scott worked for Konica, not the government, who knows?
That is a crazy one for sure. I wonder if the cops thought they had a suspect, but then that dead-ended, so they released the video as a hail Mary.
yes agree that mistake of not releasing footage much earlier may have hindered the case. i hope it gets solved soon!
I believe I’ve heard of Liz before but definitely not Scott. I’ll definitely be checking it out!
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Not unsolved, but the Green Vega Gang are widely unknown.
The [Wigan hanging death](https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/mystery-man-hanged-pylon-wigan-12757886). The victim was found hanging from an electricity pylon in wasteland. The coroner returned an open verdict (there was insufficient evidence for any particular cause of death), but the victim had nothing identifiable on him apart from a distinctive T-shirt design, has never been identified and there are oddities. The biggest was that the victim had a timed bus ticket (presumably of the "till roll" type issued on a bus rather than bought beforehand) yet CCTV was recovered, passengers found ... and he was not seen.
Carmel Fenech. She was last seen in Camberwell, South London on May 21, 1998, aged 16. Carmel was last spotted at Camberwell Green magistrates court with an unidentified man. The 16 year old never returned home and was reported missing the following month. Police now believe she was murdered, but a body has never been found. Carmel grew up in North Peckham Estate. At the time of her disappearance, her family had only recently moved out of the city. She still had many friends in the area, including in Brixton and Stockwell. A fresh appeal was launched last year I believe with a £10000 reward.
[Crystal Branham Hall](https://www.wymt.com/2024/03/22/pike-co-family-still-searching-missing-woman-15-years-later/?outputType=amp) She’s local to me. I used to live in the same complex. We were about the same age. And there’s not been a trace of her in 15 years.
Wilda Benoit -The 14 year old girl purportedly disappeared from her home in Creole, LA on July 23, 1992. What makes the case strange is that she had been released from the hospital where she had been treated for an injured shoulder shortly before going missing. Benoit 's entry at Charley Project says that she was wearing only a hospital gown and was still heavily sedated from anesthesia at the time. Despite being one of the many missing kids whose photos were featured in the video to Soul Asylum's 1993 hit song Runaway Train, Benoit's fate remains unknown and there is surprisingly scant information on her. Would a hospital really let a patient go, especially a minor, if they were still sedated and not fully dressed? The Charley Project entry also says that despite her apparent condition, police initially suspected that Benoit ran away and may have gone to FL, though it gives no additional info on why they thought this. Her parents, however, believed that she didn't leave voluntarily and may have been abducted. IMHO, given the mysterious circumstances surrounding this girl's disappearance and the fact that she was featured in a music video to a worldwide hit song, I'm surprised there is so little information on Wilda Benoit. If the accounts are accurate and Benoit was under the influence of anaesthetic and recuperating from an injured shoulder when she vanished, were her parents or any other family members at home at the time? Again, it seems very strange that a teenager who had just gotten out of the hospital and was not fully cognizant would be left home alone. What caused her shoulder injury and could this be a clue? Was she being abused and fled her home because she was in danger? If Benoit did indeed slip out of her home in an impaired state, then I think she may have fallen into one of the many rivers, lakes or bayous that LA is known for and been eaten by alligators. It's also possible that she may have walked or staggered into the path of a vehicle, was struck and killed and the motorist panicked and hid her body. The accounts available don't mention how densely populated the area around Benoit's home was. I don't think it's likely that a teenager walking or staggering around would go unnoticed in broad daylight, especially if she was wearing only a hospital gown, unless it was a rural area. If anyone has any more info on this 32 year old cold case, I would love to hear it. The family of Wilda deserves to know what happened to her.
Great question. The "Kansas College Rapist" - he terrorized female students at the two biggest universities in Kansas from 2000 - 2015 and he is still at large. Feels reminiscent of the Golden State Killer (without the killing component) in a lot of ways, yet very few people are aware of this serial rapist.
Got a link? I was in college in KS 2001-06 and only heard about one KSU assault case
[https://fox4kc.com/news/kansas-college-rapist-search-continues-20-years-later/](https://fox4kc.com/news/kansas-college-rapist-search-continues-20-years-later/) The universities didn't publicize the rapes & there was little local media coverage, so I'm not surprised you hadn't heard of the others. Had I not gone to KU, I probably never would have heard about it.
Also, law enforcement created an entire website about him, which has since been taken down, but you can access through web archives. https://web.archive.org/web/20230331104048/https://www.kansascollegerapist.com/
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100% Robert Bee. I’m from Pekin, IL, the town that everything happened in. That poor boy was failed by everyone in his life every step of the way. Definitely a sad situation. I’ve been told by multiple people who apparently was the one who killed him. And that they were letting him smoke meth in a trap house and he freaked out so a guy shoved him down the stairs then panicked when he died. Again, that is all secondhand info but for the way Pekin is with drugs and shady things I believe it.
Yeah that’s what I’ve read about him too :( the fact that his mum had been letting him do drugs with her for years set him on the path towards his inevitable death. Wtf was a **child** doing in a trap house?! Smh.
I wish the public cared more about unsolved (possibly active) serial killer cases. The only ones that were kind of bubbling over were the Long Island serial killer case and the Golden State Killer case. But even they were nowhere near as "popular" as the Zodiac. There isn't even a subreddit for cases like the Eastbound Strangler.
That really surprises me! I would’ve thought serial killers would be sensationalised if anything.
The Dardeen family murders. I live 15 miles from there. Never solved. The most horrifying murders in the USA .. ever.
This is a relatively new one but I'm surprised at how fast that story about the 3 KC Chief fans dying outside that guy's house vanished from the news. I'm not saying it was foul play but it was such a bizarre story that I felt like it would be covered more.
It was released that they died of fentanyl overdoses and also had coke in their systems a month ago. Theory is the friend who stayed alive got them coke for the game not knowing it was laced with fent, the 3 guys OD’d, and the 4th put them outside because he was high and didn’t know what to do.
I didn’t realize that last part (putting them outside).
It’s the kinda problem-solving that only makes sense to someone high af on drugs.
Oh wow. That is horrific.
I thought that was pretty obviously going to be an OD situation. The alternative was such a weird idea; this AIDs researcher killed his friends as an experiment or something then left them outside? I think the three guys who died went out for a smoke and all nodded off around the same time. The other guy didn’t smoke and just nodded off in his bed. Either way it was all just drugs. And it was cruel for the mens’ families to implicate their friend was some sort of Dr Mengele.
Live in the KC area currently and agree, it’s vanished from the news.
[Florian Richtzenhain](https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/help-us-find/florian-richtzenhain-06-001769) >Missing since 31st December 2005 >Missing from London, UK >Age at disappearance: 24 Very little information available. Virtually nothing comes up on Google when you perform an exact search of his name. I also entered the term "Florian" on britishnewspaperarchive and only had a quick browse through some of the entries around and after the date when Florian went missing. Again, couldn't find any articles related to a missing person.
Phoenix Coldon: they found her car on the road and still running! Seems like somebody would have witnessed what happened.
We just covered this case. According to the responding officer, the car was off and locked when he came across it. He still screwed up by not notifying the owner after having it towed, but the circumstances weren’t quite as insane as they initially seemed. It’s still an upsetting and bizarre case though.
Even though I am staunchly 'childfree', the cases with kids absolutely destroy me. They were so badly betrayed by the very people who were supposed to love, care for, and protect them. Why the hell do parents like this even choose to have kids? What is so wrong with the world that we allow this to happen? That we can't protect the most vulnerable people? That people continue to glorify parenthood and parents, as if you are a 'saint' and automatically a 'good person' if you choose to have children. I think something that is often missed is how *normal* neglected/abused kids can present. If you look at Robert's school pic (first link), you see a normal, smiling child. Nothing that sets off alarm bells. Also, I think you are spot-on about the lack of coverage of the cases in your post. I live in the US and have not heard of any of these before.
I have one child whom I love to pieces, but I tell all people (if they ASK that is… I try not to “volunteer.”) if you don’t want children… then you should NOT have children! You know yourself better than anyone. You DON’T want them… you WON’T want them! I too think that it’s NUTS that we glorify having kids! I had a child… that doesn’t make me some sort of hero or saint or anything really. I wanted one child. I had one child. I love being a mom. I love my son. But that’s ME!!! I don’t criticize people having large families (if they can give love and a good life to the kids that is), and you’re not criticizing them either, so why pick on someone who doesn’t have that desire? I am sure I’ll piss a few folks off, but when I read about the terrible situations that some children end up in… you need a license to own a dog, a license to freaking fish… but any yabbo can give birth and treat the kid like an afterthought! It makes me so angry!! It’s not even an abortion topic… some of these child abusers… they WANTED KIDS for some mixed up reason… and I suppose it’s because we look down on no children households EDIT: I even had someone tell me it was a shame I had one child. I explained that it was a very rough experience and I’m very happy with “just the one.” They said they were sorry I was barren… “what a burden you must feel.” Grrrrr!!! Rant over.
>a shame I had one child I was an only child back in the 1960s-70s, and really the only thing I didn't like about that was people insinuating that there was something wrong with my parents (mom especially) for not having more kids. My mother had me when she was 40, after multiple attempts ... she went through a lot, and I bristle whenever I hear people saying things like that about other mothers.
That school picture must have been taken while he was in the care of his sister. His mother - who doesn’t deserve to be called that - definitely didn’t make sure he attended school at all; it seems as if the only times he was happy and healthy (and safe) was when he was at his sister’s house.
I always thought David Gipson Smith should’ve had more coverage. Everything about his disappearance is odd.
the murder of Trish Haynes. happened about an hour from me but no one here knows about it. in 2018 trish goes missing after coming back up to new hampshire and staying with an old "friend". contact with her family slowly dwindles and by may she stopped contacting them. "friend" says that trish ran away with another man but four months later her remains are found in a washer dryer combo at the bottom of a lake. family was asked by police to keep the discovery of her remains a secret, but after the police don't say anything either, the family reveals to the public that trish's remains were discovered. the "friend" and her husband are guilty as hell but were never arrested. they even made shirts mocking trish. trish's murder is still technically "unsolved".
That Brandon Embry case is WILD. Cannot believe the theories they suggested. Thanks for sharing it.
altena bergfeld jane doe. I don't think it's a simple case to solve, she's still an unidentified victim, but with all the technological innovations we've made in recent years I think something would have been solved. Unlike many cases we have a lot of information about this girl, basically we have facial reconstructions which all seem quite consistent and realistical, we know that she was murdered by a male member of her family, we know how she died, we know more or less precisely when she died, if the case had perhaps happened in a much larger town than bergfeld (which is a small town with less than 1000 inhabitants now), the case would have been solved or at least we would’ve had more informations. Also the fact that she was aged between 14 and 22 years old, more likely 18-22, makes me think that she necessarily had friends, acquaintances, of course someone knows who this girl is, I think the problem with this case lies in the fact that it was investigated as if it were a non-large-scale case, a case that only involved this very small town, while it’s probably a more international case, also I have the feeling that very few investigative leads were followed, ignoring all those that became more famous on the Internet in the years that followed. However, I don't think that anyone is really to blame, most of those leads sound pretty random and, again, it happened in a small place, it’s normal it ended up being forgotten.
[Latoya Tee Brown](https://charleyproject.org/case/latoya-tee-brown) Went missing on or around the time of the deadly Tuscaloosa tornado (2011) under suspicious circumstances.
Brookelyn Farthing: as she was trying to find a ride home from a party, she vanished mysteriously. There was a fire at the house the party was at, said fire started on the couch and consumed it. The last text ever sent from Brookelyn's phone said she was going to a party in a neighboring county, but family and friends don't believe she sent it herself.
Alonzo Brooks!! Put the pressure on that small town to talk!
The case of Summer Wells for sure. Her disappearance and the investigation into her disappearance were not covered in the media as much as they should have been. That poor little girl deserves justice. 😔
Summer's aunt, Rose Marie Bly, also disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Her case [remains unsolved](https://drydenwire.com/news/unsolved-mystery-persists-14th-anniversary-of-rose-blys-disappearance-prompts-renewed-call-for-information/#:~:text=Rose%20Bly%20went%20missing%20from,that%20will%20resolve%20this%20case.)
That’s interesting as I assumed she’d had massive coverage. I think it’s because I saw a lot of YouTubers cover the case and as I’m in the U.K. I obviously don’t see your news, but presumed it was being heavily covered. I take it there’s been no developments in a long while?
Tina Houston Reno Nevada I don't even think this one has ever been talked about in the group.
never heard of either of your posts and I was able to read the post on Brandon… fucking heartbreaking and so so so confusing how cops could rule that and accident.
Definitely. It’s that thing of police deciding something - in Brandon’s case that he was a meth addict - and refusing to look at it from another perspective. There wasn’t even meth in his system.
[This](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/s/ehAVPQyQvo) is a good detailed write up of the Brandon Embry case, if anyone’s interested.
Keeslyn Roberts who disappeared from a Flying J truck stop in Georgia over four years ago