Hi Everyone!

This is my first write-up of any kind of unresolved mystery, on any platform, so I apologize for any formatting errors and my storytelling ability. Today I would like to hear your thoughts on the very mysterious death of Noah Presgrove, a 19 year old from Comanche Oklahoma. I have tried to be as thorough as possible with the details, but there is a great deal of conflicting information in the news reports, so I primarily used facts stated by Noah's family in interviews. With that said, let's begin...

Noah Presgrove was a handsome, athletic 19 year old from Comanche Oklahoma, which is located just south of Oklahoma City in the middle of the state. Noah had recently graduated high school in the spring of 2023 and was waiting for his cousin to do the same the following year so they both could enlist in the Marine Corp together and serve our country. By all accounts Noah was a ladies man, standing at 6'2" with an athletic build, in high school he was a 4-sport athlete with American Football and Wrestling among them. His family also says he was adventurous, kind and very much a jokester who would happily play pranks on his family. Last Labor Day weekend, the first weekend of September 2023, Noah was deciding between attending Rocklahoma, an annual 3-day hard rock and metal festival held in Pryor, Oklahoma, with family members or attending a 4-day Labor Day weekend bash/22nd birthday party of a friend. Noah considered going to Rocklahoma, but changed his mind when the family members he'd be attending with said they didn't think it was a good idea for Noah's 16 year old friend to join them there, since they didn't know this friend's family and Rocklahoma is big for consuming alcohol. With that, everyone went their own way to celebrate the holiday weekend.

The Labor Day/Birthday party was for a female friend of Noah's who was turning 22. It had been advertised on Snapchat, even containing the address, so quite a few people were expected to attend. Noah drove himself to the party on Saturday and by all accounts enjoyed himself. He did text his family member who was at Rocklahoma and express regret at not going with them, but it doesn't appear that this put too much of a damper on his attitude at the house party. After spending Saturday at the birthday girl's house, Noah returned home Sunday, probably to freshen up and take care of any outstanding errands or just check in with his grandmother, with whom he lived. Also, Noah's car was leaking from the oil pan, so it sounds like part of the reason to return home was to leave it there so he wouldn't have to worry about it. There are two stories about what happened next: The first is that one of Noah's friends picked him up from his house on Sunday, but took him to a truck stop so he could grab some food from the Sonic there. Oddly, the friend who took him there says he left him there and Noah was then given a ride to the party by the birthday girl, who had to come pick him up. The other story is that his best friend picked him up from his house and took him directly to the party, leaving him in the driveway. Either way, Noah was back at the party on Sunday and according to those present, was very much enjoying himself. There were videos from the party showing Noah and his friends doing "guy things" like the Slap Game, where two people try to slap each other across the face as hard as they can. Just "macho" drunken teenage guy things. There was also video from the party of the guests playing "classic" party games such as beer pong.

With all the drinking going on, some issues were bound to arise. A confrontation happened between Noah and his best friend. Noah had been in a corner with his best friend's girlfriend and apparently they had their backs to everyone else while talking. The best friend took exception to this and an argument ensued. Luckily, it did not become physical and they made up shortly after, but this event with the best friend and his girlfriend is important for later. A second confrontation occurred between Noah and a 16 year old guest that did become physical. The 16 year old accused Noah of hiding his phone, although the reasons why he thought Noah did it have not been stated. During the argument the kid "fishhooked" Noah and Noah returned the favor by biting his finger. It seems like the other people there were able to diffuse the situation and the kid's phone was found underneath another guest who was sleeping on a couch. As the day went on, things continued to become crazier as the people at the party drank more and more. At one point girls at the party started signing their names on Noah's torso and buttocks, writing things such as "Noah's hot!" and drawing a cartoon penis on his rear-end. Noah and the best friend he had the argument with even drove a John Deere "Gator" UTV "Side by Side" around the property, but stopped when Noah scrapped his hand almost flipping it over. Some people even say that Noah was tossed from the UTV, but he was checked out by a nurse at the party and she said he had nothing to worry about. Another event worth mentioning is that the birthday girl seemed to have a crush on Noah. Noah realized this, or was told this, and while talking to her about it called her a "fat, nasty b*tch". I assume that they were close friends and this is just a drunken teen being a drunken teen. An odd thing to mention is that this girl's mother, who also lives in the home, had told Noah's family that she believed Noah wanted her sexually. Whether this is true or not, I have no clue, but it seems a very weird thing to say to the family of a 19 year old your daughter is friends with.

So here's where the mystery comes in. Early Monday morning (September 4th, 2023), after 2:00am, the guests say that Noah was upset about something and that it might have had to do with sleeping in either the birthday girl's or her mother's bed. One of them either heard, or saw, Noah attempting to sleep in their bed and demanded that he go on the floor. This apparently upset Noah so much that he said he needed to go out for a walk, completely drunk, very early in the morning. The guests say Noah was wearing his best friend's shorts (we'll get to his clothes later) and could only find one of his shoes, so he grabbed another shoe lying around the house and took off out the front door. The house had a 1/2 mile long driveway that then went out to US-81, a major North-South highway that runs for 1,200+ miles through the central US. At 3:41am, a friend of Noah's posted a weird Snapchat: a photo of a girl at the party smiling, with the caption "well, Noah's missing". This was the last Snapchat posted by any of the partygoers after days of constant videos and pics. Around 5:00am, a semi-truck driving along US-81 saw something he believed to be a body lying on the shoulder of the road. After driving past, he became concerned and turned around to confirm what he saw. By the time he got back, two other vehicles had stopped in front of the lifeless body of Noah on the shoulder. He was completely naked wearing only 2 mismatched shoes and curled up in a fetal position. He appeared to have blunt force trauma to the back of his head. He had small scrapes on his left shoulder and left hip and his fingertips on both hands were reported as being "shredded", down to the bone. Noah's front top and bottom teeth had also been knocked out and they were found scattered at the scene. There was no blood found at the scene, other than a small amount around Noah's injuries. Very concerning was the fact that there was no writing on his body anywhere. Not on his torso and not on his buttocks. The shorts Noah was wearing were found folded up next him. The people at the party said "They must've been knocked off when he was hit.", which obviously does not make sense.

Around 6:00am, with the police already notified by the people who found Noah, all Snapchat's/social media from people at the party was deleted. His friends and acquaintances at the party say they have no idea what led up to his death and they were unaware of it. The police did not search the house because they said: "Noah wasn't found there.". They did eventually conduct a "mass" interview with all the partygoers. During this interview, Noah's best friend's girlfriend, the one that led to his first confrontation, told police she had never met Noah. She had wiped her phone so completely that even her boyfriend's number had been deleted. When the guests were asked about Noah being naked, the girls said they gave Noah a "shower", but Noah's mental state at the time, whether mildly drunk or completely inebriated, has been an area of dispute among the guests. Some say he was joking around and being himself while being showered, other accounts state that he was barely conscious. Noah's clothing he wore to the party that night has never been located. Police were told that after Noah showered his clothes were dirty, so he wore his friend's shorts. There is a rumor that his best friend's father found Noah's shirt from the party, which was then cut-up and distributed to the party attendees as a "memento". In addition to this event with his shirt, there is also information that his best friend's father had some of Noah's teeth in his pocket. He stated he "accidentally" picked them up from the crime scene. It's worth stating that this particular individual has been on Noah's family's Facebook memorial page for months, arguing with others on there. Just very odd behavior from an adult father who's son's best friend died mysteriously. But, on this same topic, NONE of the partygoers or their families have ever visited Noah's family to express their condolences. Never once.

Since Noah's friends and others at the party said they didn't know what happened, the police had their work cut out for them. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol obtained a "geofence" warrant covering a 1-1/2 mile radius around the party house. What they found was a bit disturbing. Around the time it is believed Noah died, 2 phones were traced as having left the house, heading to the location of his body. After briefly staying there, the two phones returned to the house. People at the party told a private investigator hired by Noah's family that they went out looking for Noah in the UTV/Gator that Noah and his friend had been on earlier. If they had really done this, they would have found him since the phones were at the spot Noah was found. It has not been released who exactly this was. Also revealed when police searched phones was a video of the birthday girl and her sister on their front porch, screaming at each other about Noah leaving the party. It is believed that this could be relevant. The Texas Rangers also became involved, due to the fact that two men at the party were from Texas. It is not known if these men are persons of interest. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol also quietly issued a warrant for a "black pick-up truck" believed to have been used to dump his body, but it is unknown why they are looking for this particular vehicle. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol has unequivocally stated that this was 100% NOT a hit-and-run. They have now also said that this is NOT a murder investigation. The Medical Examiner's report released on Monday, May 13th 2024 stated that Noah died from "Multiple Blunt Force injuries", but list the manner in which this happened as "unknown". His report also detailed extensive injuries to the teen's upper body, including 10 broken ribs, serious skull, neck, and spine fractures, internal bleeding, brain and organ damage, and cuts and grazes all over his body. The autopsy also revealed air in both his cranial cavity and spinal cord, extremely rare conditions only caused by massive head trauma. The family has heard rumors that a golf club from the set in his best friend's truck may have been involved, but nothing else has come of this.

The family has engaged with a private investigator, who did uncover previously unknown information, and gave that to the police. They have also said that there is much more which has not been publicly released and that the search of the phones did uncover good information. Also according to the family, some evidence has been covered-up or lost and that the day after the party, the birthday girl's house and property reeked of bleach. Despite this, his family says good things are going on behind the scenes.

So, with all of the above information, it doesn't seem to be a stretch to say that someone from the party knows something. It is my personal belief that this case will be resolved, but I think three things will have to happen: Time, Pressure and Guilt. At some point in the future, someone from the party will feel guilty, or media pressure will get to them and they will talk. Unfortunately, it may take some time unless the police uncover new evidence sooner. Thank you very much for reading this, but please let me know your thoughts on this case and feel free to ask questions.

Sources:

Podcast (Interview w/ Noah's family): https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jimny-carpenter/episodes/The-Suspicious-Murder-Of-Noah-Presgrove-Part-1-e2dchac

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13421341/Oklahoma-teen-Noah-Presgrove-beaten-death-gang-doctor-claims.html

https://kfor.com/news/local/m-e-releases-more-details-in-19-year-olds-death/

https://www.foxnews.com/us/oklahoma-teen-military-hopefuls-family-cant-imagine-was-murdered-offers-theory-about-last-hours

Hello everyone! As always, thank you for your upvotes and comments on my last post about the Sussex County Jane Doe- I hope that her identity will be given back to her soon.

Today I'd like to highlight a Doe case from a neighbouring state.

TRIGGER WARNING: This case involves a young child (3-5) whose body was found in a gruesome state. There are no graphic images for this case, but there will be descriptions and speculation, so proceed at your own risk.

DISCOVERY

On the 5th of February, a 47-year old nurse, Cecilia Davis, has been walking her dog with a friend at Rockaway Beach (specifically near Beach 112th Street) in New York City, New York, USA, around 4:55 PM. When she was collecting seashells, she noticed a bedsheet with a pattern of letters and Disney characters Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck, which was tangled in seaweed, tattered and mixed in with debris and horseshoe crabs. Intrigued, she came closer, only to discover that a body of a young child was wrapped in the fabric- she called out "This is a child!" to her friend, after which the two women called the authorities. The boy was nicknamed "John Valentine" as the investigators tried to find his identity.

When Davis managed to catch a glimpse of the body from shoulders down when she found the bundle, she assumed that the child was a girl, about a year old, whose skin had the color of "aged yellow foam"- after a proper medical examination, it turned out that it was actually a boy, and aged 3-5 at that. One of the child's knees was bent, with his foot tucked under his body.

The boy was determined to be white and/or Hispanic. He was 3'0" (36 inch / 91 cm), and his weight couldn't be estimated. He had brown, slightly wavy hair, and his eye color was unknown. His foot was size children's 5. Several bones in his torso were broken- I'm not sure, however, if it happened post-mortem or if it could've been a sign of abuse in life (but I have to say, it would be quite likely that he was abused). The body was headless, but it wasn't cut off- it likely detached during the decomposition and got washed away and eaten by marine life. His cause of death is unknown.

The sheet John was found in was called a "blanket", but it would appear that it is actually a crib sheet. The pattern could've been dated back to the 70s, so there's a possibility that it was a hand-me-down or thrifted. It was also mass-produced, so tracking it down was impossible. The body and the sheet were found inside a duffle bag, which was described as "yellow plasticized canvas duffle bag with one side pocket with a snap enclosure. There are multiple grommets for top closure of the duffle bag. No string is present. The bottom of the duffle bag is made of a heavy white canvas. There are 2 approximately 2” wide canvas straps attached to and surrounding the duffle bag. The duffle bag is approximately 30” tall with a top circumference of 34”. The side pocket measures 10 inches wide and 8 inches tall". It was also described as "nautical-style" and was wrapped with duct tape, and might've had a drawstring on top at some point. No known photos of the bag are available, but there are ones of the crib sheet. I'm assuming that the bag must've opened in the water or deteriorated enough to open, revealing the contents.

Due to a lack of leads, police theorized that the boy might've been thrown into the ocean from a boat or overseas and washed up in New York. A local on websleuths theorizes that the child might've been dropped from Atlantic Beach Bridge by Beach 2nd St and taken to Beach 112th St- Apparently, a lot of people drown in the area, and their bodies are taken up to 169th St (Marine Parkway Bridge).

CONCLUSION

Discovering the body of John Valentine has impacted everyone involved. The precinct involved in the investigation collected funds to sponsor the boy's funeral, so that he wouldn't wind up in a Potter's Field. The Children of Hope Foundation also contributed, and now John is resting at the Cemetery of the Holy Rood in Westbury, L.I, in a section called Island of Hope, with (at the time) 80 infants who have been found abandoned or murdered by their mothers at birth. John was one of the older children buried there.

Cecilia Davis, the woman who found John's body at the beach, has passed away from cancer sometime before 2013. According to her sister-in-law, Emilia Arvai, it has impacted Cecilia twice as much, as she wasn't able to have children. She was allegedly never the same after that incident. According to Arvai, Davis would say "How could someone be so cruel to throw a baby away like that when there’s people around the world who can’t have a baby. (...) There’s a million people who would take that baby."

I think that it's pretty much a given that some kind of violence was involved in this case- why else would someone throw away the body of a child? John wasn't an infant or a newborn, he was as old as five, so it wasn't a case of post-partum psychosis or someone giving birth unexpectedly and panicking. The broken bones made my eyebrow raise- if he really was thrown into the water from a high place like a bridge, then I can see bones breaking on impact, but they could've also been a result of physical abuse; We don't really know much about this detail. It's unfortunate that John's head wasn't recovered- it would probably tell us more about him, maybe a bust or a sketch could've been made and circulated and maybe someone would recognize him.

People on websleuths speculated that John might've been Jesus Alvarado Martinez, a four year old who was probably abducted by his father after he killed his mother in Texas in October of 2004. The age and ethnicity fit, as does height, plus Jesus vanished shortly before John was discovered. There is a lot of distance between Texas and New Jersey, but it is technically possible that Jesus' father could get there in the few months between October and February.

There are no dentals available of John (of course), no fingerprints (which might've been erased due to prolonged exposure to water and decomposition) and, suprisingly, no DNA. This case is relatively recent (forensic development-wise)- I'm suprised that no DNA was taken. Perhaps the investigators expected that it will be solved soon? Still, there are good news- thanks to the department's care over the boy, he was buried (and not cremated), and we even know where he is. Digging up the coffin, taking a sample and performing genetic genealogy on it seems to be very possible, and only needing the funds and public interest to re-open the case. I think that if someone like Othram will take the case in, John being identified is a case of "when" and not "if". I have high hopes for young John Valentine getting his name back at some time in the future and, hopefully, that justice will be served to anyone who took his life and discarded his body in the ocean almost 20 years ago.

If you believe you have any info about John Valentine's case, contact the Office of Chief Medical Examiner New York City at (212) 447-2030 (case number Q05-00731).

SORCES:

1. NamUS.gov (includes photos of the crib sheet)
2. doenetwork.org
3. nydailynews.com (paywalled)

John Valentine's websleuths.com thread

Eva Brennan was a 39 year old Irish woman who vanished after leaving her parents home in Dublin on Sunday 25th July 1993. Despite vanishing exactly 4 months after Annie McCarrick, her case received almost no police or media attention which her family feels drastically affected the investigation.

Eva was single and lived alone in a one bedroom apartment in the upmarket South Dublin suburb of Rathgar. She stood at 5'7 and wore her hair short, looking much younger than 39. According to her family and friends, she "appeared 10 years younger than her actual age". She was also described as being a "creature of habit and enjoyed a quiet life based on routine". Sunday the 25th started off normally; Eva went to mass at St Joseph's Parish Terenure and then walked to her parents home in Rathgar via Templeouge Road, arriving at approximately 1pm. Eva reportedly visited her parents almost every single day and this was no exception. This particular Sunday was a bank holiday and the entire family had come together to have dinner. However, before dinner could start, Eva and her siblings had an argument over the food being served. Although a small and seemingly insignificant argument, Eva promptly decided to leave her parents home afterwards. She was last seen leaving her parents home in Rathdown Park.

By the time Tuesday 27th came around, Eva's family was starting to get worried. They hadn't heard anything from her since Sunday which was extremely uncharacteristic of her. They would normally speak to or see her daily so they knew something was wrong. Her father, David Brennan, called round to her apartment in Maddison House but didn't get any reply. Increasingly concerned, he returned with a barman from the pub he owned and they broke a window to gain entry. Upon entering the property, he observed how clean and tidy everything was, with nothing out of place and no sign of a struggle. He also stated that the coat she had been wearing on Sunday was found in her apartment so she definitely made it home that day. However, her handbag, keys and money weren't present. The pink tracksuit that she'd been wearing on Sunday couldn't be accounted for either. Her father reported her missing later that same day.

Despite Eva's disappearance being mere months apart from Annie McCarrick's, the Garda didn't seem to take her family's report particularly seriously and simply told them that Eva was over 21 years of age and that they didn't think her disappearance was the result of foul play. Even when her family told Gardaí that Eva suffered from depression, they simply suggested that she had committed suicide and didn't look at the case further. Eva's family dispute this theory as she was a devout catholic and she left no suicide note or anything similar to suggest she had intention. Frustrated at the Garda's lack of interest in the case, David Brennan used his political influence through the FF party to enlist the help of Albert Reynolds, the Irish head of state, in getting authorities to investigate properly. Gardaí eventually began to look into the case more seriously but by this point, Eva had been missing for over a month and a forensic examination of her apartment revealed nothing. It's unknown what time Eva arrived at her apartment on the Sunday and left again but what's baffling is that there wasn't a single sighting of her by anyone on the way home. She would have walked along several very busy streets that were lined with restaurants and cafés and it was a warm summer's day. In addition, Eva's father was a successful businessman who owned several pubs and was involved politically so him and his family were very well known in that area. Despite this, not a single sighting of Eva was reported that day.

It has been almost 31 years since Eva vanished and not a single trace of her has ever been found. It's still unclear why she wasn't seen walking home, where she went after returning to her apartment and if her disappearance was the result of foul play or, as originally stated, suicide. In addition, a look into Eva's background found no boyfriends or romantic partners that could have been involved. Alan Bailey, the former sergeant detective of the Garda's cold case unit and national coordinator of Operation Trace stated "I always considered Eva to be one of the forgotten missing persons. If you ask anybody who disappeared in 1993, they'll always mention Annie, but Eva seems to have been forgotten". Garda have confirmed that Eva's case is still active today and they have issued a new public appeal for any information that could be relevant. However, unless new information comes to light, Eva remains missing with not a single trace of her since 1993.

Sources: https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2023/0724/1396270-missing-eva-brennan/

https://www.irelandsvanishingtriangle.com/general-5

Between 1974 and 1975, there was a local man in San Francisco who would dump his victims bodies in Golden Gate Park and Ocean Beach. He became "The Doodler", as one of his last surviving victims said told him that he was a "cartoonist" who doodled during their late night dinner. The surviving victim met the Doodler at a truck stop diner near Market and Church after the bar closed in July of 1975. The victim told police, that the serial killer was in art school and learning to training to be a cartoonist. It has been noted that many, if not all, of his victims - both deceased and surviving - are gay men.

The attacks on two gay men happened at the Fox Plaza Apartments in July of 1975 in two weeks of each other. Both men lived on the same floor, but they didn't know each other. The last known survivor met the Doodler at the truck stop mentioned after last call at 2AM on Market and Church street.

Once the first sketch was released of the Doodler in October of 1975, there was a call from a anonymous woman - she gave a name and a license plate number possibly belonging to the Doodler. The police are looking for the woman who called SFPD in October of 1975 to step forward, as they want to speak to this person. The name she gave to SFPD has been their prime suspect, even as late as 2023.

SFPD have stated that if any surviving victims of the Doodler to "step forward", as they can be the missing link to solve this mystery, however, because of previous prejudices of that time, for fear of being possibly being outed as gay, as it's possible the victims now have families of their own, married to either their partners or possibly still believing in the social stigma of times gone by. It should be noted, that the fear in the LGBTQ+ community during that time, people that belonged in that community didn't come forward due to fear of social stigma and/or career lost for being gay, queer, bisexual, trans, etc....There have been long standing rumors that one surviving victim of the Doodler was a high ranking representative in government at that time, but it is hard to tell without them coming forward.

That said, if you or anyone you know has any information that can lead to the identity and arrest of the Doodler, you are urged to call the Cold Case Investigators Tom Newland at 415-553-1144, Dominic Celaya at 415 553-9856, Daniel Dedet at 415 553-1450, or Daniel Cunningham at 415 553-9515.

Sources, Doodler: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/doodler-serial-killer-suspect-sketch-age-progression-san-francisco-cold-case/

Reward, Dooler: https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/reward-to-catch-doodler-serial-killer-increased-by-san-francisco-police/

I know this case has been covered in a few other subreddits not long ago, but I don't think it's been covered here in a long time, so I thought I'd post it, as it has always intrigued me. Everyone always points out the most obvious suspect, but I was curious if anyone had any alternate theories to this strange unsolved case. This is my first write-up.

Reed Taylor Jeppson was one of 11 children in a large Mormon family in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he was born and spent his life until his disappearance at 15 years old. According to The Charley Project, he was 5'6 and 140 - 150 pounds at the time of his disappearance. He was a good student, and an Eagle Scout and paperboy. He was last seen in Salt Lake City on the afternoon of October 12, 1964, a Sunday, shortly after his family had returned home from church. He lived near Emigration Canyon, near 1400 South and 3000 East, and kept his dogs about 200 feet from his house. He told his sister he was going to feed his two dogs and take them for a walk, and would be back within half an hour, in time for lunch.

Reed had two German Shorthaired Pointers, whom he enjoyed training to hunt birds. A friend saw Reed walking the two dogs near the old St. Mary-of-the-Wasatch building, near Wasatch Boulevard, at around 1:00 p.m. This is the last known sighting of Reed. When Reed had been missing close to 12 hours, his family filed a missing person report with the Salt Lake City PD, and the search for the boy began.

An exhaustive search was performed in and around SLC, as well as the foothills, but neither Reed nor his dogs were ever located. An interesting detail I never knew the first time I read about this case was that Reed was carrying $60 with him, today's equivalent of $582, which he'd earned as a paperboy. However, there is only one source I can find that gives that information. There was also a lead suggesting Reed may have traveled to Missouri to visit a girl he'd met while working on a ranch one summer. However, this lead seems to have gone nowhere. At one point, one of Reed’s friends, who lived in their neighborhood, implicated Jon, Reed's older brother, in Reed’s disappearance. However, this lead also seems to have gone nowhere.

The Jeppson family strongly believed Reed was abducted, despite no evidence of foul play ever being found. The most viable suspect seems to be the "known pedophile" whose land connected to the Jeppson's backyard. He was a doctor who supposedly had a history of sexually abusing his teenage male patients. In the police report, the following conversation took place between the man and investigators:

Man: “I’ll tell you one thing, I would appreciate your finding out who killed him.”

Officer: “How do you know Reed was killed instead of running away? Most of the gossip said Reed was a runaway.”

Man: “Well, I know that [with] this length of time, they’re never gonna find out.”

According to the report, the man chuckled after saying this.

In 1966, the case was officially closed. Sadly, Reed’s father ended his own life on December 18th, 1965, barely more than a year after his son disappeared. Reed's mother and many of his siblings passed away in the years that followed. However, it should be noted that Reed's case was reopened in 2010. In 2012, the police received a tip from a couple who found animal bones on their property, which had previously belonged to the doctor. The bones were dismembered and wrapped in plastic bags. The couple could only provide pictures of the bones since they'd already discarded them. A surviving sister of Reed's says she believes they are the bones of the missing dogs.

"Somebody out there in the community knows something about this case,” Detective Cody Loughy of Salt Lake City PD has said.

https://charleyproject.org/case/reed-taylor-jeppson

https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/The-Strange-Disappearance-of-Reed-Jeppson-Vanished-While-Walking-His-Dogs

Earlier today, prosecutors announced that they have identified 71-year-old Stephen Paul Gale as a suspect in the rapes of two women that occurred at a clothing store in Framingham, Massachusetts, shortly after Christmas 1989. Gale has been indicted on four counts of aggravated rape, two counts of kidnapping, and one count of robbery. However, no one knows where he is.

This case was previously profiled on "Unsolved Mysteries" in 1990. The rapes occurred on the morning of December 27, 1989, at a women's clothing store in a shopping mall along Route 9 in Framingham. As the two female employees (then 18 and 29) prepared to open the store, the rapist came in and forced them to the back of the store at gunpoint. He made one of the employees give him the money from the safe, along with money from the cash register and her purse. He then raped both women in an office. After that, he escaped through the front door while the women went out the back door to get help.

Investigators connected the rape at the clothing store to several others in the Boston area. However, for years, they were unable to identify a suspect. Then, in 2022, they asked Parabon NanoLabs for help. The company used genetic genealogy to identify Gale as the suspected rapist based on DNA collected from the Framingham victims.

Investigators across the United States tried to help locate Gale but were unsuccessful. He was last seen at a family gathering in 2007. He was last known to be living in Los Angeles, California, and Las Vegas, Nevada. He has ties to Phoenix, Arizona, Texas, Utah, and Florida. He has used the names Stephen Pisarcik, John Rossi, Paul Costa, Paul DeRosa, Paul DiCarli, Paul Joseph DeCarlo, Steve Miner, Paul Williams, and Paul Ptaszynski.

Edit: The U.S. Marshal's is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to Gale's arrest. He reportedly has ties to organized crime. He is described as 5'11" tall and about 200 pounds.

Links:

Suspect identified decades after rape at Framingham clothing store, DA says

Rapist in 1989 Framingham clothing store attack IDed, wanted for arrest

The Boston Rapist case on Unsolved Mysteries Wiki

Authorities searching for man accused of raping 2 workers at gunpoint inside Framingham store

Nineteen years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the storm remains one of the deadliest hurricanes in United States history. Though the death toll remains uncertain, at least 1,300 lives were lost as a result of the tragedy, with dozens more still missing.

One of those lives was an unidentified woman, nicknamed Jane Love by locals, who was found a week after the storm passed between the foundations of two wrecked houses in St. Martin, Mississippi*. She wore a University of Michigan t-shirt over black pants and had pierced ears. Jane Love was determined to be a middle-aged woman, likely Black. In the chaos of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Jane was unable to be reunited with her family. When the woman, along with another unidentified man, went unclaimed for months after the hurricane, a local funeral home donated caskets for the two to have a dignified burial, side by side in a municipal cemetery. Sheriff's Deputies stood in place of pallbearers, while a Baptist minister recited prayers at their funeral.

Today, almost two decades later, Jane Love has been identified through genetic genealogy as Tonette Waltman Jackson.

Tonette, a forty-five-year-old Black woman living in Biloxi, believed she and her husband could ride out the storm despite their home being only a mile from the Gulf of Mexico. The couple's children took shelter further inland, though Tonette and her husband were determined to remain in their home. After all, Tonette reasoned, the government went door-to-door telling people to evacuate for their safety during past disasters that put them in danger, so if nobody showed up, it was safe to stay.

Their daughter Mary begged and pleaded with her parents to seek refuge in a safer place, knowing that her father couldn't swim. Tonette brushed it off, joking that she would save him if she had to. The pair boarded up their windows and hunkered down until the worst passed.

Unfortunately, despite surviving the hurricane, Tonette and her husband were caught in the storm surge, which dumped tons of water onto the Gulf Coast, wrecking everything in its path. Floodwater rushed into the house and the couple had to break a hole through the ceiling into their attic to escape the rising deluge, which kept on rising. Praying for their safety, they grasped onto the attic's rafters, though those soon broke apart under pressure, soon followed by the entire house giving way, described later as 'breaking in half'. Without solid ground to stand on, Tonette fell into the rushing water, while her husband managed to grab hold of a sturdy tree branch. He grabbed her by the wrist with his other hand, fighting the force of the water. Tonette let go of his hand and told him to take care of their family, before being washed away into Biloxi Bay, never to be seen again.

Her husband Hardy Jackson's heartwrenching testimony of losing her to the storm during a live interview with reporter Jennifer Mayerle was viewed by millions nationwide, encapsulating the death and suffering Hurricane Katrina wrought upon the Gulf Coast. Moved by the video of Jackson, soul musician Frankie Beverly donated a house in Atlanta, Georgia to the family, who had been living with relatives at the time.

Hardy passed away in 2013, though not before seeing their grandsons be the first in their family to graduate high school. It is unclear how Tonette was not matched to Jane Love sooner.

*The Doe Network lists her as having been found in Ocean Springs, a neighboring town, but LeMoyne Boulevard is definitely in St. Martin.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/wccos-jennifer-mayerle-shares-unforgettable-story-of-katrina-survivor/https://dnasolves.com/articles/tonette-waltman-jackson-mississippi/

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/HurricaneKatrina/story?id=1093853

https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/08/28/no-one-knows-how-many-people-died-in-katrina

https://www.weather.gov/mob/katrina

https://justicebeserved.blogspot.com/2009/09/list-of-victims-of-katrina-may-they-be.html

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1256ufms.html

https://www.telegram.com/story/news/state/2006/02/03/two-unidentified-victims-katrina-buried/53133330007/

Fiona Sinnott was a 19 year old Irish woman who vanished after a night out in County Wexford on February 8th 1998. At the time of her disappearance, Fiona was a single mother to an 11 month old daughter, Emma.

The night of Sunday 8th started off normally and Fiona spent it socialising with her friends at Butler's Pub in Broadway, County Wexford which also happened to be close to her home. Her friends Nora, Joan and Martina all described Fiona as being in good spirts that night but did state that she kept complaining of a bad pain in her arm. Her friends and Garda later considered that this could have been related to a past relationship she had broken off. Fiona had suffered immense physical abuse at the hands of a former boyfriend and had hospitalised herself after being violently attacked on numerous occasions. Her injuries had included bruises to her face, bites to her legs, being beaten about the head and back and even a fractured jaw. She had confided in close friends details about these attacks but never filed any complaints against the perpetrator. Despite this pain in her arm, however, Fiona seemed to be in good form and enjoyed a good night out with her friends. At one point, she called her brother Séamus and asked him to come down to the pub but he declined as he was tired after a long day at work. He later stated that he wondered if something had happened to Fiona while at the pub and had she contacted him as a way of seeking help. Either way, this was the last contact Fiona had with her family. At around midnight, Fiona decided to return home as the pain in her arm was causing her great discomfort. She supposedly asked her ex-boyfriend, a man by the name of Seán Carroll, if he could walk her home. Carroll was the father of Fiona's child and although their relationship had ended, they allegedly remained on good terms. He had been drinking alone at the premises and willingly agreed to walk her back to her home, which wasn't far from the pub. They left together shortly after midnight.

Fiona wasn't reported missing until February 18th, 9 days after she was last seen leaving the pub. Her family hadn't reported her missing sooner as she reportedly had a habit of traversing the country to visit people and would sometimes be without contact for several days at a time. However, after 9 days of silence, her family knew something was terribly wrong, especially as she hadn't contacted Sean's family, with whom she had a childcare arrangement, to collect her daughter. Her father, Pat, then filed a missing persons report. Seán was the first to be interviewed as he was the last person to see Fiona. He told Gardaí that he and Fiona had walked back to her home slowly as her pain was causing her immense discomfort. Upon entering her property, he offered her coffee but she declined and went immediately to bed. He slept on the sofa that night while she went to sleep in the upstairs bedroom. He awoke at 9am and went into Fiona's room where he woke her up and she had told him that she would be visiting the doctors in Bridgetown to see about her arm. Seán gave her some money and then left the house as his mother had arrived to collect him. She drove him home to Coddstown, two miles west of Broadway. He stated that when he left, Fiona was awake and sitting up in bed.

When Garda began to investigate Fiona's house in the hopes of finding clues, they were met with an unusual sight. According to a Gardaí officer, "Her house was immaculately cleaned, almost spotless. This was unusual for Fiona, especially as she had been suffering from arm pain before she disappeared. Her family told us that she was not house proud and she would have always had some mess lying around. Because of this, we don't believe Fiona tidied the house. We searched everywhere for clues but found nothing- everything had been painstakingly cleaned". Fiona's landlord also stated that because of her young daughter, anytime he went to visit the house it "always had bits and bobs scattered around". Fiona's neighbour's reported that in the days after her disappearance, numerous black bin bags appeared outside of her house. However, these had vanished by the time she was reported missing. Several weeks after her disappearance, a local farmer came forward to Garda and stated that while he had been tending to his cattle, he stumbled upon numerous bin bags dumped on his property and that when he opened them, he found numerous letters and documents addressed to Fiona Sinnott. Regretfully, he was unaware of her disappearance at the time and had burned the bags as he believed it to be the result of fly tipping, something that was a big problem then.

As of today, 26 years later, no trace of Fiona has ever been found. However, in 2005 her case was upgraded to a murder enquiry. Shockingly, when her family attempted to erect a memorial plaque in 2008 close to the pub where she was last seen, it was destroyed the night before being unveiled and a second plaque was also destroyed a few months later. However, a third plaque remains to this day down by the harbour. Despite these setbacks, her family have not given up hope of finding her and bringing her home. They have stated that they know exactly who killed her but that the perpetrator now resides in mainland Europe. Garda have also stated they have a person of interest but, as the family stated, they no longer live in Ireland. According to Fiona's family in their most recent Facebook update, she was "terrified" of Seán after their turbulent relationship and would never have asked him to walk her home. They believe he followed her out of the pub without being asked, contrary to the original version of events. He also reportedly told her landlord multiple times that she was in London just after her disappearance, which was quickly disproven. In addition, a woman's scream was heard at around 12:30am in the Kisha Cross area, roughly halfway back to Fiona's home. Finally, Seán had told Fiona's family that he had slept on the sofa, which is odd as she had a spare bedroom that he could have used. He also claimed that he slept on the chaise lounge which makes no sense as it was only 3 feet long. Although this information is telling, no convictions have been made and Fiona's remains have never been found. Until this happens, her family will not receive the peace and closure they deserve and their nightmare only continues.

Sources: https://m.sundayworld.com/news/irish-news/gardai-say-people-know-what-happened-to-fiona-sinnott-last-seen-25-years-ago-today/1754438002.html

https://www.irelandsvanishingtriangle.com/fiona-sinnott

'Missing' by Barry Cummins

The Freeway Phantom case is one of the most infamous unsolved serial murder cases in Washington DC history. Six young Black girls were brutally murdered and dumped on the side of the highway.

This new reporting suggests that there was a car crash at the scene of one of the murders that could have revealed to a case-solving lead. According to the report, there were two knives in the cars, one of them covered in blood or red paint, as well as notebooks and a map that seemed to indicate that the victim was being stalked. Sadly, she was the only victim who looked like she attempted to fight back and she was stabbed.

It’s a stunning finding in a long cold case. I’m curious if this could lead to it being revisited. They say the evidence like DNA samples is missing too—but maybe it’s hiding in some evidence room somewhere? It just seems like if the serial killer was this prolific they should have been able to link all the evidence together.

Now the report that potentially led to the killer has gone missing. Maddening.

https://t.co/2tkWv6LCx0

Rebecca Kathleen Reid (Becky) was a 37 year old wife to Dearld Reid and their son was 13 years old in 1997. She had been a graduate of Thurston High School and was described as bubbly and outgoing.

To make ends meet Becky worked at a convenience station located on Highway 99 in Eugene Oregon. At the time the name of the convenience center was the Grocery Cart, and Becky was a manager there.

On January 27th (Superbowl Sunday)at around 1a.m. Becky was doing her closing routine. Probably sweeping and mopping and about to possibly count down her till. From piecing together a couple different descriptions there was either one witness in the store, or a witness just outside the store collecting beer bottles (or possibly both?) that witnessed a man abduct Becky from the store at knifepoint and force her into his vehicle where he drove off with her. She has never been seen again. There is a sketch of the suspect in The Charley Project link.

The suspect was described as a white male late 20s to mid 30s, 5 ft 9 and 165-185 lbs. In 1997 he had shoulder length brown hair and a mustache with face stubble. His vehicle is described as a 70's or early 80s compact or midsize pickup truck with a white canopy. The truck itself was white or light in color and there was a horizontal stripe about 8 inches wide on the driver side door. It was not an extended cab. Neither the suspect or the vehicle were ever truly identified or found.

A month after Becky disappeared a man attempted to abduct another woman from a nearby grocery store at knife point. That woman escaped and a suspect was captured and arrested but when investigators tried to link that man with Reid's case they could not. So he was never named as a suspect.

Dearld Reid was cleared fairly early on. He and his son and the rest of Becky's family like her sister Chris watched days of Rebecca missing turn from days to weeks to months and then, years. With no answers after all this time.

Authorities believe the man was attempting to rob the store at the time that he abducted Becky. But I haven't found any information on whether he actually robbed the place. And if so why take Becky? Could she identify him? Was it someone she knew? Or was abducting a woman more of the motive than robbery?

This case puts me in mind of a couple others across the United States where women are abducted from their late night gas station jobs. I myself worked the same type of jobs in my early 20's.

Besides the fact that Becky was walked out at knife point I have not heard a lot of description of what the eyewitnesses saw just prior to the abduction.

I'm sure Becky's son still wants answers. Someone stole his mother away in 1997 and whatever the motive it robbed a family of a wife, mother, sister, and daughter.

https://charleyproject.org/case/rebecca-kathleen-reid

https://kval.com/news/local/rebecca-reid-cold-case

https://www.wdam.com/video/2023/04/13/cold-case-debrief-wlox-investigates-disappearance-rebecca-reid/

The Eugene Police Department is investigating at 541-682-8888 or 541-682-5835 as well as the FBI at 202-324-3000.

(Initial case post done by another Redditor)

Recording an open verdict on the case, State Coroner Adam Nakhoda said that the identity of the man who died of coronary artery disease and an enlarged heart in his Geylang Bahru flat on 5 Aug 2022, remains unknown.

What is known about this man?

It has been established previously that the name “Abdul Rahman Bin Majid” was not the real identity of the deceased man and the name was likely to have been stolen at some point, since the real Mr Abdul Rahman was revealed to have been residing at an assisted care facility in Buangkok since 1994 following a chronic schizophrenia diagnosis

The State Coroner also noted that Mdm Seri and Mr Iskandar (the deceased's wife and son respectively) have stated that they did not know or see the real Mr Abdul Rahman before. Mr Abdul Rahman had also previously indicated he did not recall the deceased man, although his schizophrenia prevented him from providing further details

Reasons for the identity theft remain unclear, with the following comments from the State Coroner:

“Why the deceased chose to use the name “Abdul Rahman Bin Majid” and the NRIC (National Registration Identity Card) number is unclear and to try to formulate reasons in the absence of evidence would be speculative."

Additionally, 3 of the deceased man's sons (Mr Iskandar, Mr Baharuddin and Mr Razef) had all highlighted that their father (the deceased) did not seek medical attention at either clinics or hospitals, did not speak of his relatives, and that they had always known their father as “Abdul Rahman Bin Majid”

An old construction pass and a bank card was found in the unit, both of which had the name “Abdul Rahman Bin Majid”, or its shorter form, printed on them

The pass also bore the identity card number that the man had assumed as his own

Did taking fingerprints help?

While fingerprints were taken from both the real Mr Abdul Rahman and the deceased man, they only helped to confirm the previously-mentioned fact that the identity was stolen, without giving any further clues to the deceased man's identity. The fingerprints taken from the real Mr Abdul Rahman matched the ones linked to his identity card, while those taken from the dead man could not be found in the local database

With the local database being a dead end, the fingerprints were sent to Malaysian and Indonesian authorities for comparison with their national databases, however both jurisdictions replied that there was no match in their databases either

The fingerprints were also sent to Thai authorities for comparison on Aug 15, 2023, but as of 8 May 2024, the Thai authorities had not replied despite multiple reminders

The State Coroner added on the possibility of the case being reopened should there be fresh information from the Thai authorities

“If a reply is subsequently received which positively identifies the deceased, this case will be reopened.”

Possible answers?

However, there was some indication from one of the deceased's sons, Mr Farizal, that their father had come to Singapore from Malaysia

The deceased also had a close friend from Malaysia. This friend had addressed the deceased as “Kassim”, with Mr Razef recalling that he was last seen during Hari Raya in 2019

In addition, several other individuals, including Mdm Seri’s younger sister, had told investigators that her family also addressed the deceased as “Kassim”

“As such, it was possible that the deceased’s real name was Kassim... Without a valid name or NRIC number, the deceased would not have been able to avail himself of services, including medical treatment at polyclinics or restructured hospitals.” the State Coroner commented

The State Coroner also noted that the deceased had been suffering from chronic illnesses but they remained undiagnosed as he was unable to seek medical attention

Sources

Identity of man found dead at home still a mystery even to his sons after coroner’s inquiry

It's pretty well-established that law enforcement doesn't share every single detail of an unsolved crime to the general public. Sometimes they hold back huge breakthroughs because they're working on building a case.

Which specific case do you think they're "holding back" huge information on?

I've been on a deep-dive of Asha Degree's disappearance and I am convinced law enforcement knows a LOT more than they're sharing.

I was initially drawn to this case because - outside of the obvious mystery of a 9 year-old walking along the side of the highway in the middle of the night - I was intrigued by the fact that the Degree parents weren't suspects...at all. They were the last to see her, they have an alibi that involves one of them leaving the house in the middle of the night, and the only way to confirm their alibi was with each other. And yet investigators (local police, state police, and the FBI) have never even so much as hinted to suspecting the parents. They've been treated as allies since the very beginning of the investigation. And let's be very real here - there's no way two working-class black parents in a Good Ol' Boys town in the South wouldn't be thrown under the bus if there wasn't a way to.

I think investigators have concrete evidence that Asha planned to leave the house that day of her own free-will and investigators have solid proof of this.

Asha's mom: “Us and the FBI and the police, [the] one thing we can agree on even after 10 years is that she willfully walked out” 2010

Asha's mom: "The FBI, the police department and myself agree that she went out of my house of her own free will. She went out of one of my two doors, I don’t know which one, but she left of her own free will." 2015

Asha's mom: "I honestly believe she walked out one of these doors on her own free will and after that somebody, once she walked down that road, somebody picked her up." 2018

Hey everyone, i know this topic has kind of been exhausted, but i just finished there’s something wrong with aunt diane, and let me say, it was devastating and incredibly hard to watch. also, the photos of her body were not necessary, especially for that long, and were really upsetting and kind of disrespectful to the dead (?) she did kill 7 people, so idk.

1. just to get this out of the way—diane was clearly a closet alcoholic. was it to deal with her husband? the stresses of basically raising 3 kids? her routine getting thrown off? honestly i’m not sure, however, i do have a personal theory.

1A. Personally, i know a lot of people say that diane’s behavior was uncharacteristic for an alcoholic, but isn’t that EXACTLY what you would expect from an alcoholic who was thrown off their normal routine?? she and her husband worked opposite schedules, so it was probably a lot easier to hide her drinking. that weekend? not so much. idk if it was a hair of the dog thing, or if she was playing catch up, but i think we can all agree she was drinking to ease something.
2. the timeline is what really does throw me off. a 35 minute drive that took 4 hours?? there’s lots of holes between phone calls and where she was spotted. in my opinion, her smoking or taking an edible was likely at the mcdonald’s, hiding it in the OJ, for whatever reason. she also may have thrown up an edible on the side of the road, which could explain no stomach contents. i can speak from personal experience that edibles hit different than smoking, they would have found some sort of paraphernalia in the car, so she likely had it hit her like a fucking brick right before she went on the highly for that 2 mile stretch. all the other time holes, i’m not sure. maybe she tried to sober up, maybe went somewhere else, did she buy an edible? i have no idea. 3. whatever was said on that last phone call is key whether it was an accident or murder suicide. i don’t want to assume, and the brother she talked to last lost all three children, so im not going to say what was said or i think was said. it probably pissed her off to the extent that she drove so determined. maybe she had tunnel vision down the highway: “i need to get home so no one finds out. i will stay in the slow lane and go until i see this exit” and then boom doesn’t register a car. i also see a scenario where she throws the phone on the rail, jumps in the front seat, chugs the equivalent of 10 shots and then crashes. 10 un digested shots is significant. and the bottle being found in the passenger seat. she wasn’t hiding it well, or she was just pounding away as she drove.
4. her husbands a real piece of shit. i think she acted like a man-child and resented his wife more for leaving him the pieces to pick up rather than killing his child and nieces. i also think he knows more than he is saying. did he know diane drank? idk. but i do think he knew she wasn’t well to drive, and left her anyway so he didn’t have to deal with the kids.
5. does any one have sources on what people in her work circle said? i can’t find much, but i have a feeling they would be more in tune of her life because they are not in her close social net, so she can let her guard down.
6. i feel so much for those children. i also think they were not wearing car seats correct? diane fell out of the car, and the kids were in a pile? that could either be her negligence or purposeful. i’m not sure. whatever it was, i hope those children died quickly and didn’t know it was coming. i hope they rest in peace.
7. the accident photos broke my heart. seeing the man hanging out of the car. i can’t even imagine what they must have experienced. i wish well for bryan. he would be my age today, and i was always wonder if he went to college, or if we’ve ever crossed paths.

please pick this apart. i missed so many details, but im a little bit high right now and dumping my thoughts.

i dont hate diane. i think she had an illness and was in such a perfectionist mindset that asking for help was unfathomable. i understand. i had to black out and almost die before i got help for my ED. hiding it isn’t as hard as you guys thinks. i hope they all rest in peace, and i sincerely hope that diane did not mean the harm she caused. ❤️

wiki link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Taconic_State_Parkway_crash

another of her: https://allthatsinteresting.com/diane-schuler

here is, in my opinion, one of the best write-ups included.

This is a case with very limited public information; overall, it seems very straightforward, and yet still remains cold after 30 years. Most information comes from spread-out newspapers and articles spanning from the 1994-2024, so I would like to condense it all into one big summary to bring more attention to the case.

Background

Evelyn Louise Pack was born on April 25, 1956 in South Shore, Kentucky. She was known as “Evalou” by most people in her life. Sadly, not much can be found about her upbringing or the life she eventually lived. She married her first husband and had one child with him. Then, she later remarried her second husband and became “Evelyn Fleck”.

Her second husband’s name is not public information. Evelyn and her husband were not divorced, but they were separated at the time of her death. They had separated only 5 days before her death. According to the Daily Independent, “Close friends revealed the relationship was turbulent at best, with some even alleging abuse” (2024). According to the report, when investigators attempted to reach out to him in 2017, he had since remarried and relocated to the Philippines.

The crime

On January 21st, 1994, a neighbor who was walking their dog discovered the nude body of 37-year-old Evelyn Fleck in her own backyard in South Shore, Kentucky. Her body was partially buried in recent snowfall and concealed by an overturned, old refrigerator that was placed on top of her body. She also had a lawn chair on top of her body.

It is important to note that on January 16th-18th, 1994, there was a historic snowstorm in the state of Kentucky, and freezing temperatures soon followed behind. Towns not even an hour from South Shore received up to 28 inches of snowfall. The day Evelyn’s body was found, the temperature had a high of 22 degrees Fahrenheit and a low of -2 degrees Fahrenheit. Needless to say, her body was well-preserved in these cold temperatures. At first, police believed she had frozen to death, but this was soon proven to not be the case.

Evelyn is believed to have been killed in her bed in the evening or night of January 20th, 1994. Police say that crime scene photos showed no signs of forced entry, and that she was likely dragged from her bed to the backyard. The back door was left wide open, which initially tipped off the neighbor that found her. Her body showed signs of strangulation, and she had bruises on her thighs, neck, and shoulders. She even had scrapes on her feet.

Despite being nude, it is not noted whether or not sexual assault may have played a factor in this murder.

Suspects

According to the Daily Independent, the suspect list consists of 3 people in total, but the one with the most abundant information on them is Evelyn’s estranged husband.

Fleck’s husband’s interviews revealed that he kept changing details about his whereabouts on January 20th until he ultimately stopped communicating with the police entirely.

His original statement to investigators was that he was not at Evelyn’s house the night of the 20th. He said that he left Evelyn’s house after 3 p.m. on the 20th, after shoveling snow and dropping off groceries. He then worked late into the night on a vehicle before sleeping at his mother’s house.

He later changed his story so that he didn’t leave her house until 8:00 p.m., when he left to find somewhere else to stay. This story puts him in the timeframe of Evelyn’s murder.

On January 21st, he called Evelyn’s home 3 times with no response, until a paramedic finally picked up and told Evelyn’s husband that his wife was dead.

According to the Daily Independent, the other two suspects were two men who gave her a ride to her home on January 20th. No other information could be found on them.

Conclusion

It has been 30 years since Evelyn’s death, and there has still been no arrests made. Shane Goodall, the Kentucky State Police's public relations officer, strongly believes this case is solvable in the year 2024, with the abundance of new technology. He believes an arrest will eventually be made.

Her family has been working to get justice for Evelyn’s death since 1994. Sadly, her father passed away in 2009, and her mother passed away in 2019. Both never got justice for their daughter's murder.

People who believe they have information relating to Evelyn Fleck's murder should call the Ashland Kentucky Police Department at (606) 385-3273. If they want to remain anonymous they should call Silent Witness at (606)385-3127.

Sources:

https://www.dailyindependent.com/news/murder-unsolved-for-30-years-not-cold/article_1136c4b4-b71a-11ee-9f95-8fb151fa67a2.html

(The article above with no paywall: https://www.aol.com/murder-unsolved-30-years-not-045900513.html)

https://www.dailyindependent.com/news/local_news/ksp-seeks-public-s-help-with-cold-cases/article_4d67e12d-863c-51ca-81b0-281342968231.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155016249/evelyn-louise-fleck

@project_cold_cases on instagram

Newspapers: https://books.google.com/books?id=XBobAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA2&dq=evelyn+fleck+kentucky&article_id=4092,2450412&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiVz9TGoomGAxUhkokEHWM1DIYQ6AF6BAgNEAM

https://books.google.com/books?id=HGhKAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA28&dq=evelyn+fleck+kentucky&article_id=6498,4795043&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiVz9TGoomGAxUhkokEHWM1DIYQ6AF6BAgGEAM

https://books.google.com/books?id=WcVQAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA4&dq=evelyn+fleck+kentucky&article_id=1377,2122949&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiVz9TGoomGAxUhkokEHWM1DIYQ6AF6BAgKEAM

Salem County John Doe (New Jersey, 1979) – Genetic Genealogy Testing after Forty-Five Year Mystery

Sometime during the winter of 1978 to 1979, along a rural dirt road, a young man was shot in the face and partially buried in the woods in Quinton Township, New Jersey. Though his body was covered with brush and logs, his left arm and left hip remained exposed, waiting to be discovered. Approximately six months after his death, police were called to the scene by a local resident on the afternoon of June 3, 1979. The man’s body underwent an autopsy, and newspapers featured descriptions of his unfortunate demise and deserted belongings. A facial reconstruction was painstakingly created and distributed, but the man’s identity has remained a mystery for nearly 45 years. Researchers and students at the Ramapo College of New Jersey’s Investigative Genetic Genealogy department have begun analysis of the man’s DNA in the hopes of bringing answers.

Sources differ on the level of trauma inflicted on this John Doe. Some papers indicate that he was shot in the left eye with a “small caliber” or “.22 caliber” bullet, while another suggests that his face was “completed obliterated, apparently by a shotgun blast”. Despite the undeniably poor condition of the remains, police determined the man to be between white, 18-22 years of age, approximately 5’8” tall, and 150 pounds prior to his death. He had straight, medium brown hair, that was 4-6 inches long. He had the following clothing and accessories with him:

• White Madewell brand painters’ pants (without bib) • Brief underwear • Dark blue Lee brand jacker (size small), adorned with a 1” gold colored metal letter ‘R’ on the right and a quarter-inch gold colored cross on the left jacket breast pockets • Michelangelo brand heavy knit V-neck sweater, dark blue or black yoke and sleeves with white body and large buttons no • Red plaid Cotton Poppy brand Indian style print shirt • T-shirt (size 34/36S) • Black Pro Ked brand sneakers (size 8) • Yellow metal 17-inch spiral twist chain necklace • Gray metal 14½-inch chain necklace with decorative gray metal horn ornament (possibly an Italian good luck charm) • Pack of Marlboro cigarettes with the words “Meth” and “Weed” written along one side with some artwork, and the words “Joints” and “Pot” written on the other side • A matchbook decorated with a gold Tolz Realty Co. advertisement

Sources: No

1. Unidentified Wiki: Salem County John Doe (1979)
2. NamUS: Unidentified Person/NamUS #UP1526
3. June 3, 1979, Press of Atlantic City (New Jersey): “Shotgun Murder is Probed”
4. June 15, 1979: Courier-Post (Camden, New Jersey): “Police request help to identify victim”
5. June 22, 1979, Press of Atlantic City (New Jersey): “ID on Body Of Slain Man Sought”
6. Ramapo College of New Jersey: Cases in Progress

From the DNA Doe Project:

"Madison, WI – After more than 34 years, authorities have successfully identified Dane County Chimney Doe as Ronnie Joe Kirk, originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Kirk’s last known ties were in Madison, Wisconsin. The identification was made possible through the collaborative efforts of law enforcement, forensic experts, and the DNA Doe Project, employing investigative genetic genealogy.

On September 3, 1989 the owners of the Good ‘n Loud Music store on University Avenue in Madison, Wisconsin discovered a skull visible through a pipe connecting the boiler to the chimney. Further investigation by authorities revealed a complete human skeleton. The skeleton was wearing what was thought to be feminine clothing and wore an iron cross necklace, but no identification was found. During the forensic autopsy the remains were determined to be that of a White/Caucasian genetic male, 18-35 years old, and about 5’ 7″ tall. There was no way the person could have gotten into the pipe from within the building.

In December, 2019, detective Lindsey Ludden with the City of Madison Police Department, brought the case to the DNA Doe Project to try a new investigative method using DNA from the remains. It would take more than two years to develop a DNA profile that could be used for investigative genetic genealogy. Astrea Forensics Laboratory of Santa Cruz, California, was able to get enough DNA from rootless hair to develop the profile, an innovation that has now been used to resolve numerous cases. 

The DNA Doe Project utilizes cutting-edge techniques to analyze DNA samples and build family trees, helping law enforcement solve Jane and John Doe cases of unidentified individuals. In Kirk’s case, the project’s expertise shed light on his origins and paved the way for closure in a long-standing mystery. Ronnie Joe Kirk, who had been adopted, presented a unique challenge in tracing his familial connections. The DNA Doe Project, a nonprofit organization specializing in using genetic genealogy to identify unknown persons, played a crucial role in unraveling Kirk’s family history. This innovative approach allowed investigators to break through the barriers presented by Kirk’s adoption and piece together the puzzle of his identity.

“This was such a unique case with adoption, and multiple generations of different marriages, despite having a relatively close DNA relative match in the family,” said Team Leader Gwen Knapp. “The shrewd genealogy work done by my team was amazing to tease out the various relationships. We’re so excited that we can give Ronnie Kirk his name back and hope his family has some closure for Ronnie being missing for so long.”

“People are going to speculate about the so-called dress, and we feel that it was mislabelled as such since we have found no further evidence to suggest Ronnie ever identified as anything other than male,” added Co-Team Leader Megan Pasika.

The DNA Doe Project is grateful to the groups and individuals who helped solve this case: the Madison Police Department, who entrusted the case to the DNA Doe Project; Anthony Redgrave and members of the Trans Doe Task Force who helped bring the case to DDP, Astrea Forensics for extraction and sequencing of DNA from rootless hair, including additional pro-bono work provided under an NIJ grant to Arc-Bio; Kevin Lord for bioinformatics; GEDmatch Pro and FTDNA for providing their databases; our generous donors who joined our mission and contributed to this case; and DDP’s dedicated teams of volunteer investigative genetic genealogists who work tirelessly to bring all our Jane and John Does home."

https://dnadoeproject.org/case/dane-co-chimney-doe-1989/

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When then 25-year-old Edrick Lamont Faust stabbed a man in the neck on Baxter Street one late night in Athens, Georgia, it was less than a month after he allegedly murdered Tara Baker in her Athens apartment on January 19, 2001. Like the earlier victim, Tara had been stabbed in the neck, but also beaten, strangled, and sexually assaulted. Her laptop was stolen and her apartment set on fire as perhaps an attempt by the killer to conceal her brutal murder. Unfortunately, Faust would only serve a mere year in prison for the Baxter street stabbing while investigators began a decades-long hunt to try to find the person who killed the vibrant 23-year-old University of Georgia law student. In the ensuing years, Faust went on to rack up an extensive criminal record that includes crimes involving drugs, weapons and violence. According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, he served four different prison terms beginning in 2001. Now 48, Faust stands accused of Baker’s killing, charged with murder, arson, aggravated assault, aggravated sodomy and using a knife during the commission of a crime. Authorities have yet to disclose how the Baker case was finally cracked.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/11/us/tara-louise-baker-georgia-murder-arrest/index.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/edrick-faust-charged-murder-tara-baker-university-of-georgia-law/

https://classiccitycrimepodcast.com/tarabaker

I was looking through the Namus website and I came across a John Doe found on February 17, 2004 in Dulzura, San Diego county, California.

He is believed to be 30 years old and to be at the location he was found for about a yea. He has not been identified for 20 years now, despite have some items with him that could help find who he was.

I became interested in his case because of a picture found with him. It is a the picture of a woman who looks exactly like me 20 years ago, everything matches, my age, clothes, even the street looks familiar. I don't know if I knew him. There were a lot of people and friends in my life when I was 23.

In the early 2000's I lived in Bakersfield, California, and traveled a lot to San Fernando Valley, California, both are close to Castaic, California. In his personal belongings there is the following information a partial address in Castaic, a phone number with out an area code, a partial address in Mexico, and a last name.

Please take a look at his Namus page to see if you can recognize anything. His Namus ID is #UP55722.

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/55722/details

Zachary Porter is described as a loving father, son and grandson. He was a single father to a then 5 year old son in 2013 and was living in McMinnville Oregon. He was reported as the primary caregiver to his mom and grandmother. He and his son resided with Zachary's parents. He has just turned 25 years old 6 days before he vanished.

Around 11a.m. on July 23rd of 2013 Zachary informed his family he had sold his motorcycle. He let them know he would drive the bike to North Bend and that the buyer would drive him back home to McMinnville, which was around a 3 hour drive. Zachary's family never saw him again.

At some point on the 23rd family received text messages stating he'd sold the bike and was on his way back home. In retrospect family does not believe Zachary sent any of those messages. The style of text was with a bunch of exaggerated "dot-dot-dots" throughout the texts and Zachary didn't text that way.

Sometime after Zachary's loved ones had reported him missing and authorities had contacted the buyer, the buyer stated that he did not give Zachary a ride home from North Bend. The buyer reports Zachary told him a friend would be picking him up and presumably the buyer dropped him off at the Myrtlewood factory, to wait for this unknown friend to drive him back to North Bend. This friend has never been identified and according to family Zachary had tried to secure a ride home from the motorcycle sale and did not have any success. It was at that point he had told the family the buyer would be driving him back home. Authorities did confirm the buyer was in possession of the bike so Zachary had made it to North Bend, but after that nothing.

There is a lot of articles on this case out there. In one of the articles I read it is stated that Zachary had a brief history with the buyer before. Apparently initially Zachary traded a BMW car for the motorcycle. A while later the buyer contacted him and let him know he could purchase the motorcycle back. This seems to be how the initial sale and meeting was set up. Though the buyer has been named a person of interest, no suspects have been publicly named.

Zachary's family still ache for answers in this case. His mother Rebecca and father Myron believe he did come to harm. They want his remains. They want answers to give Zachary's growing son who's father has been missing for almost 11 years.

Some theories think perhaps Zachary tried to hitchhike home and this may be where he ran into trouble. But his loved ones really have no answer on his whereabouts after 11 a.m. on July the 23rd 2013.

Zachary is among 11 missing indigenous people in Oregon.

https://charleyproject.org/case/zachary-bashir-porter

https://www.google.com/amp/s/kcby.com/amp/news/local/man-who-vanished-in-north-bend-in-2013-among-11-missing-indigenous-people-in-oregon

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/cold-case-spotlight/cold-case-spotlight-zachary-porter-n293206

The Coos County Sheriff's Office is investigating 541-396-3121

I'm from Ireland and I think the strangest one here is the disappearance of Trevor Deely in 2000. He attended a work Christmas party, was seen on CCTV entering his work place at around 3:30am. He was captured leaving his office at around 4am and then for the last time at 4:15am on a CCTV camera near an AIB bank on the corner of Baggot street bridge. He was never seen again and almost 24 years on, no trace of him has ever been found. A hooded figure who was spotted on camera outside his workplace has never been identified and considered by many to be a possible suspect. The Peter Bergmann John Doe case in Sligo is also a bit unusual. Unidentified man who went by the alias of Peter Bergmann arrived at the Sligo city hotel in June 2009. He was seen behaving strangely over several days, leaving the hotel multiple times with a purple bag filled with unknown items. Several days after arriving in Sligo, his partially dressed body was found on the beach at Rosses point. An autopsy found that he was terminally ill with two different types of cancer and heart disease. Despite extensive investigation, his true identity, motives and even how he arrived in Ireland have never been solved.

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/12/09/man-walking-behind-trevor-deely-on-night-of-disappearance-had-already-made-garda-statement/

Introduction

Douglassville, Texas. A tiny Texas town in Cass County with an estimation of about 230 people—located about 40 minutes North from Texarkana. Around 9pm on Friday, July 29, 2022, 3 young sisters, Zi’Ariel Robinson-Oliver (9), A’Miyah Hughes (8), and Te’Mari Robinson-Oliver (5), were reported missing to the Cass County Sheriff by their mother Shommaonique Oliver-Wickerson, who happened to be at work at the time. While working, 31 year old cousin to Shommaonique, Paris Propps, was responsible to care for the girls and their 3 other siblings. Propps had been living with Shommaonique and the 6 children for about 2 years.

Timeline and Investigation

Neighbor Josephine Webster shared in her witness statement that as she was driving home around 9:30pm that evening, she was approached by a man who’d been living with Shommaonique and the children. That man was no other than Paris Propps. According to Josephine, Propps used her house phone to call Shommaonique, informing her that the girls hadn’t “showed up.” Will notate here that Josephine also told investigators that Propps was “wet” during this interaction. “It looked like it went all the way down, not sweat—it looked like water.”

Not long after the 3 were reported missing, search efforts from Texas Parks and Wildlife, Fire Rescue, and volunteer locals began in an effort to locate the girls before any further time had passed. Unfortunately, hope would be short lived when the children were found deceased, in a private pond about 200 yards away from their home around 3am the following morning by the Bowie County dive team. Additionally, one pink and purple bicycle, a single pair of shoes, and muddy footprints were found near the scene. However, I’m unable to confirm if any piece of evidence located belongs to either sibling, nor how difficult or easy it would’ve been for the girls to gain access to the pond on their own.

Initially, the girls deaths were reported as accidental drownings—“Officials cannot confirm if the girls frequently play at the pond…or if the children knew how to swim.” Lieutenant Game Warden Jason Jones stated. “That is unknown, whether they were swimmers or not.”

An autopsy was performed on the girls on August 4, 2022, however it wasn’t until several months later on March 23, 2023, Cass County DA Courtney Shelton released a statement stating that “Autopsy reports concluded the manner of death for all 3 girls is homicide, indicating evidence of strangulation. The girls also suffered lacerations to their faces.”

The time lapse between officials leading the general public and media to believe that the girls drowned, to months later confirming that they were instead killed, is something that left Shommaonique and her family feeling uneasy and uncertain of how exactly this investigation has been handled from the start. “This investigation should not be considered a cold case,” Sergeant Ethan Sartor, public information officer for the Texas Department of Public Safety stated. “It’s still active and open.”

Conclusion

No arrests have been made in deaths of Zi’Ariel, A’Miyah, and Te’Mari as of today, and very little updates about the case have been made public at this time. Eventually, Cass County officials turned over the investigation to The Texas Rangers for further handling.

To provide any tips or helpful information to authorities, please contact Texas Ranger Josh Mason at (903) 255-5727 or Cass County Sheriff Larry Rowe at (903) 756-7511.

Sources

Texarkana Gazette

KSLA News

Revolt

Backstory: in Omaha Nebraska on July 19th 2001, Sherman left the house he was staying at for a job interview in the downtown area, which he went to. He never returned to the house he had been staying at in the 3600 block of Bedford Ave.

He is still listed as missing in the Omaha CrimeStopper website. However, a WebSluth/Reddit User claimed to have "found" Sherman alive via Facebook a few years ago, and allegedly the Omaha police confirmed this to that redditor.

I came across this whole mess during my research into the Jason Jolkowsky disappearance. Sherman's name came up in a coincidence connection due to disappearance occuring in similar areas of town roughly a month apart.

Based on my research, I have serious doubts on the validity of the claim by the person who allegedly found Sherman alive, and I don't know who to discuss it with.

The "finder" describes a brief account of how they found Sherman. However, when I tried to do the exact method, I could not replicate it as presented. When I finally did find the FB account that the Finder believed to be Sherman, too many inconsistencies arose.

1. name isn't the same. Finder said this was due to the missing person report using the wrong name. Sherman is a potential middle name and not a last name for the FB person.

2. The FB profile mentions events from 2001, but there's nothing hinting at being in Omaha to find work at all, or even suggested they were even here. When the Finder contacted FB person, he never said he was ever in Omaha.

3. the locations which the FB profile lists around 2001, a city worked in and a highschool graduated from class of 2001, are in a different state 5 hours away from Omaha.

4. the birth date does match (Edit, I used an Age on this date calculator and it told me the wrong age. So this is cleared up)

5. physical appearance. Sherman's missing person report says he has blonde hair and blue eyes. The person found on FB has dark hair and brown/hazel eyes.

6. The FB person says they had "been found within days" by the OPD Cold Case dept after his parents made some type of police inquiry while in his 20s. This is in no way verifiable.

7. The OPD crimestopper site updated Sherman's entry sometime in 2013 to reflect current age, which would be 31. I highly doubt that if OPD found the FB person "in days" in his 20s, someone would update the crimestopper entry when Sherman was in his 30s.

Everything screams that the person found on FB is not, in fact, the same Samuel Sherman who was reported missing in Omaha. No one could find anything on him, even pictures. No news outlets reported on Sherman, no family or friends made statements. I believe Sherman is still missing and deserves to have someone voice it. I don't know how to do that.

http://www.omahacrimestoppers.org/sitemenu.aspx?ID=642&P=missing

Sherman's entry in the crimstopper site.

Ciara Breen was a 17 year old Irish woman who vanished from her home in Dundalk, County Louth in the winter of 1997. Ciara was last seen by her mother, Bernadette, at 12:25am at their home in the Bachelor's Walk area. The evening that Ciara went missing was just a normal Thursday night with nothing out of the ordinary. Ciara and her mother had dinner at the Roma restaurant on Park Street in Dundalk and then went home to watch the film 'Bad Boys'. It is believed that after going to bed, Ciara snuck out of her house to meet someone, possibly a prearranged meeting. Ciara's mother first noticed she was missing at around 2am when she went in to check on her. Bernadette told the show Crimecall in a later statement, "I got up at 2am to go to the toilet and I looked in her bedroom and she wasn't there. She didn't take any money or clothes with her. It is as if she went to meet somebody and did not come back"

An examination of Ciara's home by Garda revealed that a ground floor window adjacent to the road was left unlocked, having been opened from within. This would suggest that she had intended to return later that morning and the fact that it was adjacent to the road would indicate whoever she was meeting had a car. Further investigation by Gardaí revealed, from information provided by Ciara's friends, that in the days leading up her disappearance she had been in contact with an older man, over twice her age. In fact, this same man had previously been chased from Ciara's front garden by her mother after she spotted him speaking with Ciara and overheard him asking her "If she was going with anybody". Bernadette told him to get lost and that he was "much too old" for her daughter. Ciara's friends also told Garda that the man had been sitting in a fast food restaurant, just staring at Ciara and her friends a few days before she vanished. This was not the first time they had encountered him either, as he had approached Ciara's friends in the past and they widely regarded him as "a creep". The teenagers also told Garda that while at the fast food restaurant, Ciara was seen talking to him and it was allegedly overheard that he asked her "if he could see her later" to which she was heard stating "I'll sneak out when my mother goes to bed". Ciara's friends stated that she would frequently sneak out of her house to meet people. Garda have interviewed them again but their story has remained the same since 1997 and there is little reason to doubt their version of events.

Ciara had fairly normal teenage issues growing up but this had mostly settled down by 1996. She had run away to Northern Ireland at one stage but returned of her own accord a few days later with a friend. By the time she vanished, she had enrolled in a local education centre in the hopes of developing skills which would help with future employment. Ciara's tutor, a woman by the name of Rosaline Bishop, described her as "Shy and not streetwise but not gullible. She also had a trusting nature". These traits could have made her an easy target for an older predator and Garda disturbingly learned that a paedophile group had been operating in the area at the time. It is widely believed that Ciara came to harm at the hands of someone who lived locally, as a stranger grooming teenagers would have stood out in the community and there were no reports or sightings of anyone who was unknown or behaving strangely.

In 2017, a 55 year old man by the name of Liam Mullen, passed away in police custody from an overdose after being arrested for a drink driving offence. It was revealed after his death, however, that he was the chief suspect in Ciara's disappearance. He had also lived in the Bachelor's Walk area at the time of her disappearance and would have been 35 in 1997 when Ciara vanished- twice her age as reported by Ciara's friends and mother. Mullen was arrested twice in relation to her disappearance, once in 1999 and again in 2015 but was never charged. However, it was allegedly reported that had Ciara's body been found, he would have been charged with her murder.

As of today, no trace of Ciara has ever been found and nobody has ever been charged with her disappearance. Sadly, Ciara's mother passed away in June 2018 without ever getting any answers. Ciara was a young and trusting woman, who had her life cut short by someone who preyed on her kindly nature and took advantage of her in the worst way possible. She deserved so much better and it's hoped that her body will someday be found and laid to rest alongside her mother.

Sources: https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/former-garda-investigating-ciara-breens-32582425

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/mother-of-missing-teenager-ciara-breen-dies-1.3547331

https://www.irelandsvanishingtriangle.com/ciara-breen

Leroy Drieth was born on January 16, 1950 to parents Henry and Frieda. He was the oldest of four siblings and lived in Colorado. Leroy had been dating a girl named Patty (no last name is given for Patty or her family) and they had recently become engaged.

On May 30, 1968, Leroy went to a party held at Patty's family home. There are little details about what happened at the party, but sometime in the afternoon Leroy left the party. According to Unsolved Mysteries: "A block and a half away, he was found semi-conscious behind the wheel of his car, which had crashed into a tree." Unfortunately, Leroy's father and brother were the first on the scene of the accident. Soon curious people began to appear on the scene as well.

When emergency crews arrived on scene, one of the people who'd congregated to see what was happening stated that Leroy and Patty's family had gotten into an argument. According to this person (who hasn't been identified) Leroy also said that he was going to kill himself. When the local coroner heard about this comment, he decided that an autopsy was not necessary and ruled the death an "auto suicide." After this, there does not seem to be an investigation conducted in Leroy's death.

Leroy's parents were wary of the suicide ruling. When his mother Frieda went to the DA's office to ask them to investigate, she was rudely told that she was just a grieving mother. Frieda recalled in Unsolved Mysteries that she was told to "get over it," and move on with her life. Leroy's younger sister Vicky was eleven at the time of his death, and also never believed he killed himself. But due to the rude treatment the family received by the authorities, Leroy's death wasn't really discussed over the next 20 years.

By 1988, Vicky was an adult and ready to find out what happened to Leroy. When Vicky visited the Boulder County Coroner's Office to look at Leroy's file, she discovered that they were also suspicious of Leroy's death. The person Vicky spoke to stated in the state of Colorado there had only been three "auto suicides" reported (one of them Leroy's) and the other two had been investigated for months. Leroy's file only had three pages in it, meaning that it had barely been investigated. This information caused Vicky to investigate on her own.

Vicky began to interview neighbors of Patty's family at the time of Leroy's death. Many of them remembered the party and that Leroy got into an argument with the family about him dating Patty. Apparently Patty and her family are Hispanic, so it may have been a racial argument. Neighbors also recalled that there was drinking at the party, which may have had something to do with the fight. However, when Vicky spoke to the son of the former coroner who said Leroy committed suicide, he told her that his father made the correct ruling and did "everything to help the case."

With this, Vicky decided it was time to talk to Patty. She put a message in the local newspaper asking Patty to contact her. Patty did contact Vicky, and the two met to discuss the events. Vicky asked Patty if Leroy ever said he was going to kill himself, Patty said that Leroy never actually said that. But it seemed like Patty didn't really want to discuss the death anymore than that. On the episode of Unsolved Mysteries, Patty former sister in law Carolyn was interviewed. Carolyn stated what Vicky had been hearing: there was some kind of racial argument that was probably caused by drinking at the party.

In 1993, Henry and Frieda Drieth agreed to have Leroy's body exhumed. The coroner found two cuts on Leroy's neck: one was a stab wound and the other was a slash. Due to the discovery of these new injuries, the cause of death was changed from auto suicide to undetermined. Vicky and Leroy's parents are convinced that Patty and her family know something.

Unsolved Mysteries episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnRZPr8omZg&t=1299s

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Leroy_Drieth

https://www.9news.com/article/news/investigations/blame/foul-play-investigated-in-deaths-years-later/73-409298773

https://medium.com/crimes-in-progress/leroy-dierth-death-by-car-crash-and-birth-of-a-novel-d70f5ea5094a

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39910846/leroy-drieth

https://gazette.com/news/families-search-for-answers-decades-after-loved-ones-deaths/article_b95ac84e-82d9-5ac6-bcc8-70f26867b636.html

Background:

Eves Family moved from New South Wales to to the State of Tasmania , which is approximately 250 Kilometres (155 Miles) from the Australian Mainland, to a remote town called Fitzgerald. Her family made this move in January of 1989, in an attempt to seek peace and quiet from the busy lifestyle they were accustomed to in New South Wales. Eve was described by family and friends as quiet and shy girl, who would often avoid social interaction with new people. This description was contradicted by the former detective investigator in her case, Colin Riley, who described her as being outgoing and partaking in risk-taking behaviour. Eves old school friend stated that Eve was often subject to bullying and harassment by her peers at school. Eves family felt safe in the area that they lived in and rarely felt the need to lock their doors, as her brother, Jacob Askew, stated in an interview with ABC news. She was caught with cigarettes in her bag shortly before her disappearance, which led her parents to ground her, despite Eve denying that she smokes cigarettes, her diary entries suggesting otherwise. Eves brother (Jacob) stated that this was the only instance he'd known of where Eve had acted out and is unsure of where the description of "risk-taking behaviour" has stemmed from.

Disappearance:

Eve was last sighted on or around November 16, 1991. The night Eve disappeared was described as a normal night. Her parents were out, leaving her at home with her two brothers. Her brothers were watching television whilst Eve resided in her room, listening to music. Her brothers saw her occasionally throughout the night and described her as being in a good mood. Eves parents arrived home, and went to sleep without checking on the kids, assuming that they were all asleep in their rooms. It wasn't until the next morning that it was discovered she was missing. There were no signs of a struggle or violence, which led into belief that she had run away. Shortly after her disappearance, law enforcement received reported sightings from members of the public within the Tasmania area, Hobart, the states capital, being one of them, but none of these sightings have been verified. At the time of Eve’s disappearance she was described as being 157cm tall, of slim build, with red hair and a pale complexion with freckles on her face. When reported as missing, her family stated that she was last seen wearing a tracksuit.

Investigation:

There seems to be no information on when the case was initially closed, but it was re-opened in 2001.

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A tip off, led police back to the family home, excavating the grounds surrounding it, in an effort to find Eves remains. Nothing came of this. This tip off came from a man who was in police custody at the time. He was brought to the property during the excavation process to assist police. There were reports that the man may have been involved in Eves Disappearance. Police did not confirm any of these reports.

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After the investigation at the family property, Eves case was passed onto (former) Detective Inspector, Colin Riley (mentioned previously describing Eve as outgoing and risk-taking). He re-opened the investigation again in 2012. (Unable to find info of when it was closed between 2001 and 2012). Detective Colin stated that the re-opening of this investigation in 2012 sparked many investigative initiatives, including listening devices, and the digging up of suspected grave sights.

During this time period, the police seized a property on Gordan River road in Karanja, a 20 minute drive from Eves family home. The property seized was previously owned by a man who was known to have befriended Eve in the months prior to her disappearance. When Detective Colin Riley was asked if Eve had met up with this man prior to her disappearance, he stated that he "Can't recall".

The police also seized another isolated property belonging to the same man, the particular focus being a septic tank. Police searched the land underneath this tank. Detective Colin in a statement concerning the property investigated, said this "We've detected things that we believe can possibly be used as evidence in court". Despite this statement, nothing seems to have come of this. When asked, Detective Colin was able to confirm that this man was / is a person of interest in the case. The man was arrested and later released without being charged.

Theories:

Despite some speculation online and through the media, there seems to be only one popular theory, being that Eve Askew was met with foul play. It's likely that the person/persons responsible for Eve Askew's disappearance was someone known to her. Perpetrators often prey on and take advantage of children like Eve who are shy, quiet, outcasted. Eves old school friend, when interviewed, suggested that she may of been relying on a person of interest to help her runaway from home, and that this person may have deceived Eve into thinking that they were helping her, and that they were doing so in an effort to take advantage of her.

Tasmania is surrounded by lush bush area (the wilderness) and it's been speculated that she may have gotten lost / injured in the night, but this seems unlikely as her family stated that she was an experienced bush walker. There also doesn’t seem to be evidence to indicate this.

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Authorities have not made public comment on whether or not Eves parents are people of interest in her case but they did state that they'd found no evidence to suggest they were, and that Eve has likely disappeared for a different reason.

Conclusion:

Despite all enquiries and investigations by authorities, Eve's whereabouts are still unknown to this day. Tragically, Eves parents died in a car accident 5 years after her disappearance. They died not knowing what happened to their daughter. Eves brother, Jacob Askew is very vocal about his sisters disappearance and is advocating for justice to be bought to her case. There's currently a 500 000 dollar reward being offered by Tasmanian Police for information relating to her disappearance and suspected murder.

Sources for this write-up:

https://www.police.tas.gov.au/news-events/media-releases/investigation-in-relation-to-eve-askew/

(Also some of the info on her case on the Tas Gov page is a bit outdated so proceed with that in mind)

https://youtu.be/pr7Koqr6B98?si=8Mckw1EfbgHZRxah

OP Notes:

This is my first ever write-up I've done on here and I'm keen to do more so feel free to leave any criticisms down below as I'd love to improve. If you feel I've left anything out, please feel free to comment it as I know there's always little bits of info about these cases hiding in the cracks and crevices. Authorities seems to be very secretive about the information that they've garnered on this case so I tried to include as much as I could. I also highly recommend watching the YouTube video I've linked in the sources. Very Informative.

Myra Ramey, born in 1973, is around 5'9, between 125-160 pounds, with blond hair and brown eyes. Her natural hair color is brown, she has pierced ears a faded laser treated tattoo on her left ankle and a scar on her left knee. She was wearing gray leggings, a gray hoodie, a blue or gray shirt and pink shoes. She was last seen by her boyfriend, Larry, in the early hours of September 6th 2020. She was reported missing by family members late evening September 6th after Myra's cousin came by her mothers house who lived next door to Myra asking if she knew where she was because she hadn't come home that morning. That evening her family knocked on friends and neighbors doors to see if anyone knew anything. After nothing turned up they reported her missing with the police. In her boyfriends statement to the police he said they had left another couples house 10-15 minutes prior and were heading home. Between 2:30 and 4 am the two got into a heated argument and Myra exited the vehicle near Duty Free Will Baptist Church in the Indian Creek Road area on Helen Henderson Highway, walking in the opposite direction as he drove off. The couple they were visiting gave statements that she left there safely. She was never seen or heard from since. Larry, told police that she had grabbed his phone instead hers when exiting the car saying she "was likely under the influence of drugs." Police were unable to get anything off of the phone that would help to locate Ramey and the cellphone company reported no activity since her disappearance. K9s and search and rescue teams have turned up nothing. The area is very rural with few homes, stores, and no cell service. . Early in the investigation, investigators believed Ramey may have gone to confront another person she had a disagreement with. that person, the couple she had visited before, and Larry were all persons of interest initially. That person of interest later moved to Oregon and passed away. Police are still keeping tabs on the other 3 persons of interest according to an article written Jan 2022. So far searches and leads have turned up nothing but investigators still hold out hope.

Sources: https://charleyproject.org/case/myra-gertrude-ramey

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/4070dfva.html

https://swvatoday.com/article_8354b814-5bac-11ed-8f4c-872a677292bb.html

Hi everyone,

this is another case where there is barely any information and the information that we do have is quite conflicting. I'll summarize everything as best as I can. I'm trying to post as many cases involving foster care and/or adoption as possible so we can help these missing children's' cases get the exposure they need. This is another sad case involving a very young child that wasn't discovered missing until years after the fact, similar to Blake and London Deven.

Eriel Mack-Mariscal was born on 10/24/2018 in Nevada. Shortly after her birth, a woman who was not her biological mother filed for guardianship which was granted by a family court in Reno, Nevada. The woman then took the child to New Orleans with her but never filed the guardianship paperwork there as instructed. Officials say the woman did not respond to any requests by the family court in Nevada.

Eriel was last seen when she was taken to the Children's Hospital & Care Center in New Orleans on 07/30/2019. She was treated for a fracture in her upper left arm - the only available picture of her was taken that same day.

In 2021, the Washoe County Family Court in Reno again contacted the guardian and instructed her to file the guardianship paperwork. Again, the woman did not file the paperwork. The family court then hired an investigator who interviewed the guardian and other family members who all claimed they had "no knowledge of the whereabouts of the missing child".

Some sources say Eriel's original guardian passed away in 2020, which contradicts the information supplied by the investigator who interviewed family members in 2021. However, they did not specify whether this was the same woman who originally filed for guardianship or if this was another person who identified themselves as Eriel's guardian. A user on websleuths says that guardianship was transferred to someone else after the first guardian passed away.

Eriel was officially reported missing on 12/09/2021.

There are some discrepancies in the various articles about this case, some sources state Eriel would now be 8 years old and others state she would be 5.

Sources:

https://www.wwltv.com/video/news/crime/help-find-eriel-lynette-mack-mariscal/289-2aed9ece-3b87-4d0d-b4fd-19279c8e6437

https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/la-eriel-mack-mariscal-8-critical-missing-her-family-doesnt-know-who-took-her-after-her-guardian-died-in-2020-not-seen-since-then-new-orleans.712125/

https://charleyproject.org/case/eriel-lynette-mack-mariscal

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/crime/new-orleans-missing-girl-nopd-eriel-mack-mariscal-three-years/289-5ce31882-68f6-43a5-8b09-7d82d4240928

What do you think happened to Eriel?

In April of 1975, DW Kyle, a rural Arizona farmer, was transporting a truckload of hogs down Interstate 40 when one of the animals broke loose from his truck near the small town of Winslow. Kyle took off after his hog through the desert, but instead of finding the animal, he discovered something much worse: the body of a man, lying dead on the ground about a mile north of the interstate. The body, mostly skeletonized, still wore the remains of a polyester polo shirt and a pair of men's boxer shirts. No other clothing was found at the scene.

After being sent for examination at nearby Flagstaff's Northern Arizona Museum, the remains were determined to belong to a young. tall white man, likely between twenty-five and thirty years old when he passed away under inconclusive circumstances. No identification could be made at the time, despite John Doe's extensive dental work. Fingerprint records were taken from Doe's mummified right hand, though a lack of a centralized database at the time made them less than useful as a method of identification.

Despite a handful of leads, investigators were unable to identify John Doe after almost half a century and decided to pivot toward genetic genealogy in hopes of matching the man to his name. Coconino County Sheriff’s officials contacted an unnamed company to sequence his DNA in August 2023. In a matter of months, John Doe was finally reunited with his identity: Gerald Francis Long, a Vietnam War veteran from Minnesota. Long had last been in touch with his family in October 1972, just seven months after his return from Vietnam, and told them that he was headed out west. Long, who would have been twenty-four at the time his remains were discovered, was never heard from again. It is unknown why he was in Arizona. His death remains under investigation.

https://apnews.com/article/human-remains-identified-arizona-flagstaff-minnesota-c5459b378d37842b8b05189e8be69ae0

https://doenetwork.org/cases/3521umaz.html

https://www.azfamily.com/2024/05/08/remains-found-nearly-50-years-ago-arizona-identified-vietnam-veteran-minnesota/

Kelley Howard was a mother to an adult son in 2009 and she was 41 years old. She was described as friendly and professional, and she loved her family. She had been married to Boyd Howard for 8 years at this time. They lived together in Pell City Alabama.

Kelley had been a dental hygienist at Riverside Family Dentistry located at the time on Highway 78 in Riverside Alabama and she'd worked there for 6 years. She was employed under a Dr. Rick Mitchell. According to interviews the last time anyone saw Kelley Howard was when she left work on June 2, 2009 reportedly around 1 p.m.

I'm not exactly sure when she was reported missing, but I suspect it was on the same day when she had not come home from work. Her car was also found that day still parked at Riverside Family Dentistry. All of Kelley's personal belongings (purse, phone, wallet, credit cards) were missing as well. Strangely however, Kelley's keys were found "in a plastic bag lying in some weeds at Family Dentistry".

According to Dr. Rick Mitchell on June 1st, the day before Kelley vanished she'd asked to take off 3 days from work. Dr. Mitchell claims Kelley said she'd like to take a short vacation. Reportedly Kelley's husband, Boyd was unaware of this.

Kelley's family ultimately had her legally declared dead in 2014. No real answers have come forward. I did see an article where police have a suspect but they are not named at this time.

It does however seem her family strongly believes Dr. Mitchell and Family Dentistry had something to do with Kelley vanishing. They believe her disappearance was connected to criminal activity at the workplace. 2 years after Kelly vanished her employer was indicted for fraud, identity theft, as well as money laundering. Her family suspect maybe she came to harm when she'd found out about the criminal activity. However there is currently no concrete proof that there is a connection, and Kelley remains missing and her case is unsolved.

I hope her loved ones get answers someday, and I hope if someone caused her harm they find the proof they need to prosecute.

If you have any information that can help assist in this case contact the Riverside Police Department at 205-338-7692 or the St. Clair County Sheriff's Office at 205-884-3333

https://charleyproject.org/case/kelley-louise-howard

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc3340.com/amp/news/local/riverside-kelley-howard-missing-st-clair-county-missing-person-cases-unsolved-unanswered-questions

https://www.annistonstar.com/the_daily_home/kelley-louise-howard-declared-dead/article_5e39a2a0-28e4-11e4-9f92-001a4bcf887a.html