This one probably wont end well, but let’s keep our fingers crossed. 20- year-old Afton Williamson, 18-year-old Kyrstin Gemar and 19-year-old Ashley Neufeld – all three DSU Softball players – went missing while driving in southwestern North Dakota to stargaze Sunday night. A friend called police alerting them to a couple of disturbing phone calls she had received from one of the girls. The calls included “hysterical noises” and the mention of water before the line went dead. The cell phone call came through a tower five miles northwest of Dickinson. All three had cell phones, but they all now go to voicemail. Authorities have searched Patterson Lake along with other bodies of water in the Dickinson area. The girls were in a White 1997 Jeep Cherokee with California License plate 3UBN521. If you have any information on where the girls are or if you see the white Jeep contact the Stark County Sheriffs Department at 456-7610.…
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, New York – The remains of 18-year-old Jennifer Hammond were found in a heavily wooded near the Edinburg/Greenfield town line. Missing since 2003, Hammond was last seen at the Creek and Pines Trailer Park in Ballston Spa selling magazines door-to-door. The teen had a history of running away, but had a bus ticket back to her home state of Colorado. The ticket was never picked up, and her belongings were left in a hotel room. So now that the “where is Hammond” question has been answered, investigators will move on to figuring out how she died. But there may be more to this. Her death shares similarities with another teen found dead in the area — 19-year-old Christina White.…
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Mendota, California - Very little information on this one, but here’s what I got. Alex Christopher Mercado, 4, was reported missing last Friday evening. Alex had been left in the care of an older sibling when he disappeared. About 24 hours after little Alex vanished, his body was found stuffed in the clothes dryer of a neighbor’s home. The body had been placed in the dryer after he was killed. Though police aren’t releasing the cause or manner of death, it is being reported that a 14-year-old boy has been taken into custody and charged with murder. We will update this story as more information is made available. …
Continue ReadingElizabeth Olten Found Dead In Woods; Older Juvenile In Custody
October 22, 2009 at 1:28 pm by Morbid
ST. MARTINS, Missouri – Here we go, another little girl has vanished while walking home. Maybe this will end differently than the Somer Thompson disappearance. At 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten was walking the quarter mile home from a friend’s house in the 600 block of Route D south of St. Martins. She never arrived at her home. The Cole County Sheriff’s Department has issued an Endangered Person Advisory. Olten is a white, 9-year-old female. She is 5′ 2″ and 108 lbs. with brown hair, brown eyes and a fair complexion with physical marks. She was last seen wearing a pink scarf, pink shirt and pink sweater and blue jeans with white sneakers. She was also carrying a cell phone. The sheriff’s department contacted the cell phone provider, AT&T, who “pinged” the cell phone to triangulate its location. AT&T put the cell phone’s location deep in the woods near Elizabeth’s home. The girl’s family members said she is afraid of the woods and the dark.…
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Orange Park, Florida – On Monday afternoon, Somer Thompson, 7, was walking home from Grove Park Elementary with a group of kids that included her twin brother and 10-year-old sister. After getting into an argument with some of the group, she began running home. She has not been seen since. An Amber Alert has since been issued. Thompson is white, 3 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 65 pounds. She has brown hair that was in a pony tail and was wearing a cranberry colored jumpsuit with pink stripes and a black T-shirt underneath. Her backpack is black with pink and white skulls and crossbones. “This is an all-out search,” Sgt. Dan Mahla, of the Clay County Sheriff’s Department said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon. “We are going to keep trying and trying and trying. We have all these resources and we are maximizing them to the max. “She is an endangered missing child. We do suspect foul play.”” …
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Charlottesville, Virginia – Police need the public’s help in trying to find missing Virginia Tech student, Morgan Dana Harrington. She was last seen Saturday night after being separated from friends at the Metallica concert at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville. Harrington went outside before Metallica took the stage for reasons unknown. “Everyone assumed she’d be coming back,” said Amanda Melvin, a friend of Harrington’s. But she didn’t. Harrington’s purse and cellphone were found outside the stadium and her car was still in the parking lot. She was last seen wearing a black T-shirt with “Pantera” written on the front in tan letters, a black mini skirt, black tights and knee-high black boots (RAWR!). She is 5 feet 6 inches tall and about 120 pounds with blond hair and blue eyes. Her parents reported her missing on Sunday. “Being absent and unheard from for this amount of time is really unusual…unheard of from her,” said Morgan’s mother Gil Harrington.. Anyone with more information about Harrington or her whereabouts is asked to contact Virginia State Police at 434-352-3435 or by e-mail at bci-appomattox@vsp.virginia.gov.…
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Boston – I know, he’s not a good looking, white woman. But us guys got to stick together. 24-year-old William Hurley and his friend, Brendan Venti, were at a Thursday night Bruins game when Hurley became tired and decided to go home during an intermission. He called his girlfriend, Claire Mahoney, who offered to pick him up. She was on the phone with him as she drove to TD Garden from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, where she is a student. Hurley was unfamiliar with the area, and did not know where to tell Mahoney he was so he asked a passerby the exact address. Mahoney heard someone yell “99 Nashua St“. Hurley told Mahoney that his cell was about to die and that he would wait for her there. No one has seen him since.…
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OVERLAND PARK, Kansas – I was going to put this up today if she had not been found yet, but looks like I will be putting it up for the opposite reason. Police said they have recovered Keighly Alyea’s body but gave no other details aside from having three men in custody in connection with her death. Alyea, 18, was last seen with her vehicle last Tuesday. Original reports at that time stated she may have been with Jaymes Dean Beebe, 22, and Dustin Brian Hilt, 18. On Sunday, her 1993 green Mazda 626 was located parked unoccupied on the street in the 6200 block of Marty. A third man, Sean Merritt, was questioned. On Monday night police searched two homes, one of them belongs to the relatives of one of the men originally questioned. No other info is being released at this point. The suspects in custody have not been officially named, nor where Alyea’s body was located.…
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Putnam County, FL – Can this case get any weirder? I believe it can. And will. New information is being released that points to the fact that maybe, just maybe, Misty was not in the trailer the night Haleigh disappeared. To some, that would come as no big surprise. On Tuesday, investigators on the case released details of an interview conducted with Hank “Tommy” Croslin Jr., Misty’s 23-year-old brother. Hank, behind bars on unrelated charges of grand theft, allegedly told detectives that he had been to the Cummings’ trailer the night that Haleigh vanished into thin air, under Ronald Cummings’ direction, but nobody answered the door. Why is he coming forward with this information 7 months after the fact? Your guess is as good as mine. …
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Spokane, Washington Situations like this next story are a prime example of the problems I have with the “insanity” plea. Instead of landing their sentence doing hard time in prison, those that are found to fit some state’s criteria of insane end up in a state run mental institution with many more liberties than are already afforded in our penile system today. And that’s saying a lot. Prisoners today don’t have it too bad. Those landed in the loony bin have it better. Plus, they don’t have to fuck for their drugs, the nurses just like give it to them. I think anyone that commits a crime punishable by time in jail has to be a little off their rocker thus rendering the “insanity” plea moot. But Phillip Paul’s performance was stellar and he was sentenced to a mental institution years ago yet he was totally in charge of his faculties enough to escape.…
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New Haven, Conn - I know the news has been all over this one already, but there are two reasons why I am posting this. Obviously, the first being that they have found the body of 24-year-old Annie Le. She was the Yale student who went missing after entering a Yale University laboratory on Tuesday morning. She was never seen leaving the building and now it is known why. Her body was found stuffed behind a wall in the basement of the building. “She hasn’t been positively identified, however, we are assuming that it is her at this time so we are treating it as a homicide investigation,” Reichard said.This comes after investigators found bloody clothing hidden in the ceiling tiles.…
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Hookstown, PA - Wyatt Smitsky, 4, was reported missing at 7:30 Friday evening – he was last seen playing in the yard with his sisters, ages 3 and 6, around 6:30 that evening. It was believed that Wyatt had simply wandered away from home and got lost. Authorities were especially concerned when it was revealed that Wyatt suffered from an congenital heart defect and required medication. Authorities, family, friends, and neighbors searched for Wyatt until 4 a.m. – coming up empty. The search started anew at 11:00 Saturday morning, but was called off a little less than two hours later. Wyatt had been found – face down in a septic tank filled with solid waste. And authorities don’t believe Wyatt accidentally made his way into the tank. The lid on the tank, which is similar to a manhole cover, was way too heavy for Wyatt to maneuver on his own. Besides that, the heavy lid had been moved back into place after the child was placed in the tank. Curious… …
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Putnam County, FL – It’s been almost 7 months since Haleigh Cummings disappeared off the face of the earth. During that time, police have followed up on more than 4,000 leads – Haleigh’s dad, Ronald Cummings, married his 17-year-old girlfriend, Misty Croslin – Haleigh’s 6th birthday has come and gone. On August 18, Haleigh’s birthday, authorities announced they believe Haleigh was kidnapped by someone she knew. As of right now, Haleigh’s father, Ronald Cummings, and bio-mom, Crystal Sheffield, are not considered suspects. Ronald’s wife, however, is raising suspicion. Why? Because the girl couldn’t pass a polygraph test, or any other test, for that matter, to save her damn life. In an effort to clear her name, Misty contacted EquuSearch founder and director Tim Miller, and asked if he would administer a lie detector test. “She said she did not trust the cops and asked me if she could take a lie detector test or something,” Miller said. “I told her that was out of the realm of what we did, but this was something that she felt would be helpful, and so we arranged it.…
Continue ReadingJaycee Dugard, Abducted in 1991, Has Been Found Alive And Well?
August 27, 2009 at 1:40 pm by Morbid
Concord, California – In 1991, 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted by a man and woman in a grey sedan as she walked to catch her Lake Tahoe school bus. Her stepfather could only watch in horror as Jaycee was dragged into the car two blocks away, kicking and screaming. You can read the full details of the abduction at The Charley Project. A massive manhunt ensued, the media rounds made, but she was never heard from again. Police had suspects over the years, including a defrocked priest, but the case of Jaycee Dugard had gone cold. Until yesterday when a 29-year-old woman walked into a police station in Antioch, California, claiming to be the missing girl. …
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DEHLI TOWNSHIP, Ohio - Interesting one out of Ohio with few details. On Saturday John Strutz, 30, reported his wife, Kristan Strutz, 28, missing after he was unable to locate her. He allowed police to search the home where the only things seized were some bottles of bleach. But on Sunday evening he was arrested and charged with tampering with evidence and obstructing official business after police found human remains in or around the home. Police have not released any information about the body but WCPO is reporting that it was of an adult and was significantly dismembered. …
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UNION COUNTY, GA- I didn’t put this one up initially because it sounded so brazen an act that I thought for sure it would have been solved by now. But as some of you have heard or read, Kristi Cornwell, 38, was taking a walk last Tuesday at around 9 p.m. While talking on the phone with her boyfriend she stated a car was pulling up to her. The boyfriend then described sounds of her screaming and sounds that led him to believe she was being kidnapped. Some of her personal items were found at the scene, her cell phone recovered 3 miles away on Friday. 150 registered sex offenders have already been interviewed as well as some ex-husbands. Witnesses reported a white, Suburban-type SUV and a tan or gold Toyota or Nissan compact car in the area at the time of the abduction. Anyone with any information that could help in the case is asked to call the Union County Sheriff’s Office Tip Line at 706-835-2902 or 706-835-2900.
Horry County, South Carolina The community of true crime bloggers, enthusiasts, and authors are coming together in the virtual world with hopes of finding answers to the disappearance of one of our own. William Dale Hudson, 56, has made his name authoring several true crime books including Kiss and Kill
Pueblo, Colorado–Her life started off rough…born behind bars to a drug addicted mother 9 months ago, Iyana Perez had very little chance of growing up in a happy and healthy environment. Her mother, Selena Olsen, who struggles with drug addictions and other criminal activities, has been in and out of jail and/or detox on a fairly regular basis. Iyana’s father, Ted “Chewy” Perez, is a convicted child molester with drug problems and a criminal history of his own. Back in May, Ted allegedly kidnapped Iyana – though he threatened to kill the child, she was found alive and unharmed eight days later. After that nonsense, DCF stepped in and placed Iyana in the care of her grandmother, Snowie Buehler, a recovering addict. Snowie was already caring for Selena’s two older children. Three weeks later, Iyana was found dead in a dumpster. …
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McCleary, WA–McCleary, with a population of 1,550, is a town where most residents feel comfortable allowing their children to play outside until dark. In a town that size, everybody knows everybody and there are very few secrets between neighbors. Needless to say, residents in that tiny town are in shock over the disappearance of 10-year-old Lindsey Baum. Lindsey was visiting a friend’s home Friday evening… her friend’s father, Scott Williams, said he asked Lindsey to go home before it got too dark. “She was here 10, 15 minutes, and then, you know, we said, ‘You should probably get going before it gets dark,’ and that was the last we heard of her,” he said. She was last seen at about 9:15 p.m., as she set off to walk the four blocks to her home…a 10-minute walk. Lindsey never made it home. …
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Hobart, IN- “She was wearing an orange skirt and a tank top with orange and green stripes.” That was what 18-year old Engelico Castillo told the police on the night of June 16, when her 2-year old cousin, Jada Justice, went missing. Castillo said she went to a gas station in Gary and left Jada in her car-seat in the back seat of her unlocked vehicle while she went inside to purchase cigarettes and milk. When she returned, Jada was gone. Panic engulfed the child’s family, police, and surrounding community as they searched for the missing child. Other customers at the gas station told police they saw no one around Castillo’s car that night. Police brought dogs to aid in the search, but found no scent of Jada in the area. Police also sought the assistance of other agencies, including the F.B.I. as well as the U.S. Marshal’s Service. A day after her supposed disappearance, Jada was still missing, despite a massive search that spanned two neighboring cities and lasted more than 18 hours.…
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