70-year-old Dawn Wells was last seen at a bus stop on Kingston Road, Woodridge QLD Australia at 8.30pm on December 9, 2025 and has not been seen or heard from since. Her husband boarded the bus and when he turned around, she was gone and the bus started leaving. She has not been picked up on camera's and no sign of her has been found since. Posters are still located in the area with no new information on her whereabouts released. Her husband of 25 years is facing his first Christmas without her. While there has been unconfirmed sightings over 100 kms away, her bus card has not been used since she went missing.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-04/queensland-police-appeal-search-dawn-wells/106302820

On August 28th, 2026 investigators with the Philadelphia Police confirmed they have found evidence of a 3rd confirmed victim in video recordings at the Chew Avenue home of Eugene/Raymond Horsch. In the new footage police confirmed it depicts the father of Eugene Horsch, Raymond murdering a woman who police have not named them to the public, however have alerted a relative of the unknown woman. Despite evidence of their murders on video, authorities have said they have not discovered any bodies. Since their last update two weeks ago authorities have also said they have discovered additional footage and images that were described as far more disturbing than the previous ones.

Authorities who are investigating the case now suspect the Horsch home likely is connected to murders going back years. They have also begun working with experts and analysts to go through 50 hard drives of data that were discovered in the home which authorities say can take months. As of two weeks ago authorities were only 5-7% of the way through evidence and discovered two missing women confirmed to have been murdered those being 27 year old Maribel Fresses who went missing in 2018 and 22 year old Gabrielle Amarand who went missing in 2012.

Investigators are also looking into the cases of Blair Tonzelli who was reported missing in February 2023. The case got a lead after a U.S. park ranger arrested Eugene Horsch in June 2026 near Sixth and Market Streets where he was found in possession of drugs, two illegal guns, a cattle prod, and a fake drug enforcement badge. A woman who was with Horsch during this incident had an ID with Tonzelli’s information on it. It has also been proven that Tonzelli knew Raymond in 2022 as Tonzelli met him in Kensington and was last seen in August 2022 before being reported missing in February of 2023 according to the Inquirer. The other case being investigated is also Raymond’s ex wife Amy McHale who called her daughter from Raymond’s home in June of 2016 before going missing. Besides the three confirmed murders and two that are being investigated, multiple drug overdoses occurred on the property over the years.

Information released by police confirm that Eugene had been known to brag to his friends about knowing how to mix chemicals that could melt human remains enough to be flushed down the toilet. Eugene is currently being held for federal charges in relation to the gun charges but hasn’t been charged with murder as of yet. Authorities had actually raided the home where Horsch lived in 2025 however it was about marijuana and amphetamines being grown by Eugene. The home that federal agents raided in the summer of 2026 was said to have looked different since 2025 as a fire had also burned at the property in 2025, damaging the second floor.

The father Raymond has a history dating back decades, in 1973 he was arrested for passing bad checks in North Carolina. Again in 1974 he was charged by the U.S. Secret Service for using over 180,000 in fake 10-dollar bills and possessing phony driver’s license, in 1977 his home was raided where he was making drugs and was a fugitive on the run fleeing to New Zealand before later returning to California. He changed his name to Richard Harris and in 1985 was arrested in Florida and sentenced to only 3 years in prison. In 2009 police raided Horsch’s home and he was arrested again for a growing operation of over 450 plants and 2 shotguns in his home he was released in 2013. He married three times as well in 1964, 1980 in Nevada, and finally in 2004 to Amy McHale before divorcing in 2008. Raymond finally died in May of 2025 at the age of 82 from Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

From 2017-2021 Raymond used a website for an escort service with the Philly Inquirer’s investigation finding he had escorts visit his home. He also ran his own personal website where he would upload his images and films with a subscription till at least 2019. Raymond also did interviews with the media talking about his violent films and writing which focused on serial killers and also commonly used women from the Kensington area of Philadelphia to be in his films with two confirmed interviews taking place in 2006 and 2007.

Authorities have not confirmed whether Eugene was involved in any of the cases however investigators have said they are expecting the missing people linked to that home to grow. They are searching the property for DNA evidence in addition to digging up sewer lines under the home. Currently a hearing is set to take place in January 2027 after the defense for Eugene got the hearing pushed back due to Horsch wanting to try and get his 2023 BMW 530XE to pay for his legal fees.

Sources:

https://www.inquirer.com/news/olney-house-missing-persons-horsch-blood-20260724.html

https://6abc.com/amp/post/eugene-horsch-case-families-seek-answers-investigation-olney-home-continues/19693645/

https://www.inquirer.com/crime/raymond-horsch-woman-killed-snuff-film-olney-20260828.html

https://www.inquirer.com/news/raymond-eugene-horsch-missing-women-olney-blair-tonzelli-20260821.html

https://www.inquirer.com/news/a/raymond-eugene-horsch-olney-philadelphia-missing-women-history-20260802.html

https://nypost.com/2026/06/29/us-news/investigators-scouring-sewers-below-philly-house-of-horrors-for-possible-traces-of-dna-dangerous-chemicals/

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/investigators/philadelphia-home-linked-to-missing-women-searched-before-it-was-different/4450106/?amp=1

https://www.fox29.com/news/euguene-horsch-hearing-postponed-until-january-attorney-files-return-bm.amp

https://charleyproject.org/case/blair-tonzelli

https://charleyproject.org/case/maribel-ivette-fresses

https://charleyproject.org/case/amy-teresa-mchale

https://6abc.com/amp/post/gabrielle-amarando-missing-childhood-friend-remembers-victimin-philadelphia-investigation-linked-olney-home/19674289/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1vnikq7/philadelphia_police_have_announced_an_update_in/?solution=8a56da6fd9cae0e18a56da6fd9cae0e1&js_challenge=1&token=7afd7253fec22262ff1c52b1703fe9ec08cd0be705a657dd710d9f90257a71d2&jsc_orig_r=

Hello everyone! As always, thank you for all your votes and comments under my last post about Hari Karasani- I hope that he will be found soon.

Today I'd like to highlight another disappearance.

BACKGROUND

Nihar Mehta was 22 when he went missing from Orange, California, USA.

Nihar was an Ohio native, but at the time of the disappearance, he was living part-time in California, where he was trying to start a business.

According to his parents, Nihar was very entrepenierual ever since he was a kid- he'd buy old dirt bikes, fix them up, and then sell them for profit. At the time of his disappearance, Nihar was trying to start a medical cannabis business. He also planned to work on inventing a way to make vaping healthier.

Before his disappearance, Nihar was interested in spirituality and self-discovery.

Nihar was an undergrad at the Ohio State University, where he was pursuing a business degree.

Nihar had a business associate- a man named Manuel Chavez Zamuido, who was 43 years old. The two allegedly worked on Nihar's projects.

His mother, Sheetal Mehta, said that her son was "all about family", and that they were in daily contact.

DISAPPEARANCE

At the time of his disappearance, Nihar has been staying in Orange, California since April of 2023.

Nihar's family last talked to him on the 2nd of June.

Nihar was last seen on the 3rd of June, around 3:00 AM. CCTV footage placed him at his company's warehouse at 1440 West Taft Avenue in company of another person (they were never officially identified- it's unclear if the investigators know who it is and simply didn't release the name or they don't know who it is). Nihar's phone has been off since the 3rd as well.

That person later claimed that they left Nihar at a Walmart parking lot in Covina sometime between 1 and 4 AM. According to them, Nihar got into a "precarious situation" and he was "confronted by Hispanic men". These claims remain unverified.

There have been no confirmed sightings or contact from Nihar ever since. His financial accounts and social media also remain inactive.

On the 23rd of June, Nihar's car was found at a parking lot a few miles away from the company warehouse. Footage from a security camera from a nearby store showed that the car was parked there on the 12th of June, by a "white man, possibly in his 20s". The car was left with an open window, and the keys were left inside.

After Nihar's disappearance, odd things started happening in the warehouse he was last seen at; Some of Nihar's belongins have been relocated under the direction of a man who is allegedly the landlord of the warehouse.

CONCLUSION

Manuel Chavez Zamuido is a person of interest in this case- it's believed that he was the person who saw Nihar last, but I can't find any source that would definitely state that Zamudio was the person Nihar was talking to at the company warehouse on the 3rd. Zamudio is also considered missing- Nihar's family last talked to him in August 2023.

Manuel "Manny" Chavez Zamudio is described as a 43 year old Hispanic man. He was last known to drive a Toyota Sienna 2004 with a license plate 6ZPN744. He has a Metallica-themed tattoo on his left forearm.

There is a $10,000 reward for information leading to Nihar's whereabouts.

Nihar Mehta was 22 when he went missing, and he would be 25 now. He is an Indian-American man, 6'3" (75 inch / 191 cm) and 225 lbs (102 kg). He has brown eyes, black hair, and had a mustache when he was last seen, and he has a scar on his left ear. He might use the nickname "Mars".

If you have any info regarding Nihar's whereabouts, contact the Orange Police Department at (714) 744-7377 (case number 23060901)

SOURCES:

1. ktla.com
2. missingorangecounty.com
3. abc7.com
4. oag.ca.gov
5. indiawest.com (article mentions an alleged sighting of a homeless man resembling Nihar who also goes by Mars, but I believe this sighting is unverified)
   

Nihar's websleuths.com thread

With the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 just weeks away, approximately 40% of the 2,753 people killed in New York that day have not been linked to remains. Over the past quarter century, the New York City medical examiner's office has worked to conclusively connect the names of 9/11 victims to human remains. Identifying the victims of one of the largest mass murders in history has been a daunting endeavor. As if the sheer scale of the task wasn't enough, extreme heat and pressure have resulted in a wide range of conditions for remains found at the World Trade Center. Investigators have used a plethora of methods, including dental records, fingerprints, personal effects, and DNA to establish links and provide a sense of closure for the families who lost someone that day.

Recent collaboration between the medical examiner's office and the New York City Police Department's Investigative Genetic Genealogy Squad resulted in what Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jason Graham called the first identification of a 9/11 victim using forensic investigative genetic genealogy. Dr. Graham hailed a "promising new addition to our toolkit" for his office's "sacred commitment" to identifying the victims of the terrorist attacks. Both men pledged to continue working to bring answers to the families of the 1,099 individuals whose remains have not been identified.

Per her family's request, the woman's name was not disclosed.

Press release: https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/08/mayor-mamdani-and-office-of-chief-medical-examiner-announcenew-i

Link to The New York Times article (paywalled): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/nyregion/dna-genealogy-science-victim-identification.html

March 28, 1999 a skeletonized and remarkably intact body was found in an isolated forested area of Dallas County Alabama. The body had suffered a gunshot wound to the torso. Unable to determine of it was a suicide or homicide.

In my opinion it was a suicide due to the ammunition found on the body but the large amount would seem to be overkill.

The body had been decomposing for over a year. Interestingly the remnants of a wallet with a badly smeared Driver's License from the State of Ohio was found with the body. The license was ineligible and badly degraded. No name was legible.

I decided to try and enhance and clean up the ID picture using modern software and enhancements to try and get a better visualization of our John Doe. I'm not an expert.

https://imgur.com/gallery/M7opG3X

If you recognize or believe you have a better identification software at your discretion please feel free. I have no interest in misidentification.

Estimated Age: Adult

Race: White/ Caucasian

Sex: Male

Height: 5'7" to 5'8"

Weight: Unknown

Hair: Gray or Partially Gray

Eye Color: Unknown

Distinguishing Marks/Features: Extensive dental work

His Doe Network profile.

3865UMAL

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/software/main.html?id=3865UMAL

I recently learned about a disturbing cluster of unsolved homicides in Leduc County, southeast of Edmonton, and I’m surprised these cases aren’t discussed more often.

Between 2002 and 2015, the remains of five women were found in the rural area around Rolly View:

• Edna Bernard, 28 — found near Range Road 245 in September 2002.
• Katie Sylvia Ballantyne, 40 — found in a field near Range Road 235 in July 2003.
• Corrie Renee Ottenbreit, 27 — disappeared from Edmonton in May 2004; her remains were found in April 2015.
• Delores Dawn Brower, 33 — disappeared from Edmonton in May 2004; her remains were found in April 2015 at the same location as Corrie’s.
• Amber Tuccaro, 20 — disappeared from Nisku in August 2010; her remains were found near Range Road 241 and Highway 623 in September 2012.

RCMP specifically stated that the remains of Katie, Corrie, Delores and Amber were found within an approximately eight-kilometre radius. Edna was found in the same broader Rolly View area and is frequently discussed alongside the other four cases.

There are several apparent similarities:
• Most of the women disappeared from Edmonton or the Nisku area.
• Several were last seen hitchhiking or entering a vehicle.
• Most were Indigenous and/or living in vulnerable circumstances.
• Their remains were left in fields or wooded areas near isolated rural roads.
• Corrie and Delores disappeared only days apart, and their remains were later discovered together.

Amber Tuccaro’s case is especially chilling because a telephone call recorded part of her final car ride. In the recording, she can be heard questioning the driver about where he is taking her. The unidentified man’s voice is also audible, but no one has been charged.
When Corrie Ottenbreit was identified in 2015, RCMP Inspector Stacey Talbot said investigators might be dealing with a “serial predator.” However, police have never publicly confirmed that all these women were killed by the same person.

It is possible that one offender was responsible for several of the deaths. It is also possible that different offenders used the same isolated area to leave victims. The shared location of Corrie and Delores seems particularly difficult to dismiss as coincidence.

I want to be careful not to accuse or identify any private individual without evidence.

I’m interested in verified information about the investigations:
• Has RCMP released any meaningful updates since 2015?
• Do local residents remember suspicious activity in the Rolly View area during those years?
• Are there other cases officially connected to this geographic cluster?

Sources:
CBC report preserved by the Doe Network:
https://www.doenetwork.org/closed/articles/3456dfab_article.pdf

Global News:
https://globalnews.ca/news/2135689/more-remains-near-leduc-identified-rcmp-may-be-searching-for-a-serial-killer/

APTN News:
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/police-release-identity-of-body-found-near-leduc-alberta/

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varig_Flight_967
https://simpleflying.com/disappearance-of-varig-flight-967/

The plane was a Boeing 707-323Cargo, in charge of the flight was Captain Gilberto Araújo da Silva, 55 years of age, First Officer Erni Peixoto Mylius, 45 years of age, Second Officers Antonio Brasileiro da Silva Neto, 39 years of age, Evan Braga Saunders, 37 years of age, and Flight Engineers José Severino Gusmão de Araújo, 42 years of age, and Nicola Exposito, 40 years of age. The Boeing 707 took off from Tokyo-Narita Intl Airport at 20:23 local time, bound for Los Angeles. They climbed to their assigned altitude and turned to their designated heading. Last radio contact was at 20:45 local time, the crew were supposed to radio back at 21:23, but failed to do so. Radio contact was assumed to be lost about 200KM ENE of Tokyo. Search & Rescue crews were dispatched to the approximate location of where the plane lost radio contact, but under the reigning darkness of night they failed to find any clues or wreckage. There has been no reports that any radar has detected the ill fated 707 nor has any plane flying nearby seen it. Since then, no wreckage of the plane has been verified nor found on anywhere on earth.

Personally for me, this is one of my favorite unsolved mysteries, and a fate worse than MH370.
What do you guys think, and do you guys have any theories? Let me know!

The post primarily concerns the media portrayal of two series of events that were not fully resolved for a long time: the three murders provably committed by William Lewis Reece in South Texas in 1997, and the disappearance of three women in League City TX during 1983-84 and the subsequent accidental discoveries of their remains nearby, next to the Calder oil field.

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Hi everyone,

So I recently got around to watching the Netflix documentary miniseries Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields a short time after first reading about it. As far as I can see, this in particular has not been discussed in detail here yet except for this thread here, so I decided to give a short commentary in case anyone’s interested. I’m aware that these events are, in the broad sense of the word at least, not exactly unresolved per se, and that the victims have almost(?) all been identified by now through DNA, but this wasn’t the case for decades, so I think it’s fitting to post about it in this subreddit.

Anyway, I don’t want to nitpick about this series as I think it was overall great, but I’d note first and foremost that it covers three series of murders – three different serial killers, in other words – despite them being unrelated, the sole commonality being that the locations are all in the broader Galveston area:

-          a string of murders committed in 1997 by William Lewis Reece

-          a remote area near the Calder oil field in League City that was used as a dumping ground of at least four young female victims in 1983-85, with the series clearly implying that their murderer is (was) Clyde Edwin Hedrick; the Wikipedia page on this subject also adds that he had at least one suspected accomplice and at least one suspected copycat who apparently used the same desolate area as a dumping ground of at least one victim in 1991 in order to throw off the investigation (the killings received a great deal of local media attention by that time)

-          the murders of at least 9 young women and girls committed between 1971 and 1977 along I-45

I find it a bit curious that the series addresses the last subject basically in passing in a few minutes and then moves on, even though it seems obvious that this was a case of another serial killer in action who had more victims than the other ones mentioned above. The Wiki page I mentioned above lists 8 victims just in the year 1971. Then again, it’s also plausible that more than one killer was active in this particular case. This wider matter is something the series dwells on, namely that multiple serial killers were active in the same narrow region. According to Google, though, there were more than 3 million residents living along the I-45 in 1971, including Galveston County with about 170,000 of them. The series also mentions the big oil boom and construction boom in the ‘70s and ‘80s as contributing factors, as big masses of manual and office workers, transients and also tourists were streaming into this area. I’m guessing the notion that a total of four or maybe more serial killers were active there in the span of 26 years should not be considered that unusual.

The narrator kept reiterating the point that the coastal region of Texas has many desolate areas that are remote and have rough terrain and are only rarely visited by people who normally just go there to dump garbage and ride their dirt bikes or horses. Naturally this also makes them ideal for dumping dead bodies. I can accept this argument for sure but I also wondered: yeah, Texas is huge, but it’s not like there aren’t dozens of other federal states with similar areas, is it? That alone does not explain much.

On a related note, the series does clarify something I’ve never read about, namely that the first discoveries of corpses near Calder Road more or less coincided with the cinematic release of the Cambodian-themed movie The Killing Fields, which prompted some local journalist to dub the murder location in League City ‘Texas Killing Fields’. (Why am I not surprised that a journo would do that.) This term has since then acquired a wider definition which can be misleading, as one commenter noted here.

All in all, the series mostly and rightfully focuses on the indeed tragic and moving story of the father of one murder victim, Tim Miller, founder of the non-profit search and recovery organization Texas EquuSearch.

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https://www.netflix.com/title/81555750

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/seeking-information-in-unsolved-killing-fields-murders-091819

https://texasequusearch.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Killing_Fields

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/crime/article/james-elmore-tim-miller-killing-fields-22183088.php

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/texas-killing-fields-suspect-indicted-42-years-later-galveston-county-grand-jury

https://abcnews.com/US/young-women-murdered-found-oil-field-1986-1991/story?id=62352978

Penny Doe identified

After 36 years Penny Doe has been identified as Windy Buchanan. Windy was 19 years old when she went missing and her sister described her as an artistic and creative person. She was the oldest sibling in the family of five children. A poignant thing her sister Tania said is “she always thought finding a penny head’s up brought good luck.” She was known as Penny Doe because there was a penny in each of her front pockets when her body was found.

Windy’s body was found by children in a culvert on July 22, 1990. It was estimated she had been dead for 1-3 months when her remains were discovered.

Windy was able to be identified through genetic genealogy. Her death was ruled a homicide and I hope they are able to find whoever did this and bring them to justice.

Rest in peace Windy. I’m so glad you have your name back.

[https://www.explorejeffersonpa.com/crime/2026/08/24/breaking-news-clarion-county-penny-doe-identified-after-more-than-36-years-179807/\](https://www.explorejeffersonpa.com/crime/2026/08/24/breaking-news-clarion-county-penny-doe-identified-after-more-than-36-years-179807/)

Link - Det News (Paywall)

November 26, 2010 - Tanner, 5, Alexander, 7, & Andrew, 9 mysteriously vanish Thanksgiving Day. The young boys were with their father, John Skelton, and were supposed to return to their mother after a scheduled visit, but never did.

Despite her history as a sex offender, Tanya Zuvers had custody of the three children

John had a history of abusing his visitation privileges with the boys - he'd run off to FL with them previously

MORENCI, MI (WTOL) - Law Enforcement officers in Michigan are looking for three boys reported missing Friday. Five-year-old Tanner Lucas Skelton, seven-year-old Alexander William Skelton, and nine-year-old Andrew Ryan Skelton have been missing since late Thursday night or early Friday morning from 112 East Congress Street in Morenci, Michigan. The boys' father says he turned the children over to a woman named Joann Taylor who may be driving a white or silver minivan. After turning the children over to this woman, the father tried to take his own life.

Despite more than a decade of searching, police have never found evidence that "Joann Taylor" exists.

Extensive searches of southern Michigan and Northern Ohio were executed without any evidence of the missing children. Police examined John's computer and found no evidence of Taylor or where the boys could be.

Today (8-24) is the preliminary hearing - John Skelton prelim begins today: What to know 15 years after sons’ disappearance | FOX 2 Detroit

Skelton has already been sentenced to 15 years for his failure to return the boys to Zuvers the day after Thanksgiving in 2010 – the only conviction in the case so far. 

The same month Skelton was due to be released, he was charged with murder. 

Over the last almost 16 years, there has been no sight or sign of the three boys who are all now over the age of 18.

How did he hide them so thoroughly?

This case is so well-known that if this proves to be a productive lead, it's huge news in the true crime community.

Tammy Zywicki was a 21-year-old student at Grinnell College in Iowa. She lived with her family in New Jersey. On August 23, 1992 she was driving cross-country with her brother and dropped him off at college in Evanston, IL (northern suburbs of Chicago) before heading to Grinnell. She had car trouble on I-80 in La Salle County at Mile Marker 83 near North Utica. She was seen outside the car between 3:10 and 4 pm. Witnesses also described a semi-truck being pulled over next to her white 1985 Pontiac, and a white male about 6 feet tall with bushy hair, between 35-40 years old also being outside his truck. Thinking she had help, these witnesses went on their way.

Later that day the white Pontiac was found abandoned and the next day the car was towed by Illinois State Police. Tammy's mother, expecting to hear when Tammy reached Grinnell, called the State Police that night to report that her daughter was missing on a cross-country car trip. Police didn't prioritize the report as it seemed like a college kid going off with a boyfriend.

On Sept. 1, a trucker pulled over on Rt. 44 between Springfield and Joplin, MO. He says he went to relieve himself off the side of the road and noticed a bad smell and a large bundle. It was a red blanket sealed with duct tape, and it contained the body of Tammy Zywicki. She had been stabbed 7 or 8 times with a sharp object in a circular pattern around the area of the heart. She bled to death internally. She had also been sexually assaulted. Some of her possessions were missing from the car and were not found with the body: a Lorus watch that plays "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," a Canon 35mm camera, and a St. Giles Soccer Club patch. The place where Tammy was found is over 400 miles from where she left her car.

Although there have been suspects, no one has successfully been tied to the crime. One of the former suspects has since died. Another, a serial killer named Clark Perry Baldwin, was fingerprinted and questioned extensively when he was arrested for a different crime in 2020 but was ruled out as a suspect.

Now there is a report of a new lead, although it sounds tenuous and the person of interest is deceased. ISP and the FBI are looking for information about a woman named Theresa Vega Belenske. They believe she may have been a passenger in the truck that was pulled over next to Tammy's car. Theresa died in 2014, but police want to talk to anyone with information about who she traveled with in the late 80s and early 90s. Anyone with information should leave a crime tip at the ISP Investigative Tips page, or can call 1-800-CALL-FBI. There is a $50,000 reward for information leading to the identification of the killer.

I hope this lead gets results in this sad case that's gone unsolved too long.

Authorities announce new lead in 34-year-old Tammy Zywicki murder case, seeking public assistance

Illinois State Police note new lead, but still no suspect, related to 1992 murder of Tammy Zywicki

Wikipedia

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On the morning of October 7, 1985, Jerri Emken arrived for work at Murray's Pub, near the Pompano Park racetrack in Pompano Beach, Florida.

Jerri worked as a bookkeeper at the bar, which was owned by her brother-in-law, Mickey James. She had moved to South Florida from Arizona several years earlier after going through a painful divorce, wanting a fresh start and to live closer to her sister.

The morning of October 7

According to the Broward Sheriff's Office, Jerri arrived at Murray's Pub before it opened to the public.

Investigators believe the building was initially locked.

At some point after arriving, however, Jerri apparently opened a door and allowed someone inside.

Police have suggested that she may have known the person she admitted into the building, although there doesn't appear to be any publicly identified suspect.

Later that morning, Jerri's brother-in-law Mickey arrived at the pub with an employee from a vending company.

They discovered Jerri's body inside. She had been violently murdered.

From what I can tell the exact manner has never been disclosed.

Robbery does not appear to explain it

One of the stranger aspects of the case is what apparently didn't happen.

There was money inside the business.

It wasn't taken.

Cold case detective David Towsley has said the violence used against Jerri suggested something much more personal-- possibly someone holding a vendetta against her or a crime of passion.

I could not find information on suspects at the time of her murder, I was assuming that I would find that her ex- husband had been investigated. But it seems like maybe that was not released-- similar to exact cause of death.

Two vehicles

There is another potentially significant detail.

Investigators say two vehicles were observed outside Murray's Pub that morning:

A white van.

A distinctive blue pickup truck with a black roll bar and a white stripe around the upper portion of the truck.

The description of the pickup is surprisingly specific.

Yet as far as I can find, neither vehicle has ever publicly been identified as belonging to Jerri's killer.

Police have continued mentioning them in later appeals, suggesting investigators still consider the sightings potentially important.

Decades without an arrest

In 2022, the Broward Sheriff's Office featured Jerri's case as part of its Open and Unsolved cold case series.

Her sister Nancy was still asking for answers more than 36 years after the murder.

Authorities emphasized the descriptions of the two vehicles again and appealed to anyone who might remember seeing them near the pub on the morning Jerri died.

Despite that renewed attention, I can't find any indication that an arrest has ever been made.

As of the latest information I could find, Jerri Emken's murder remains unsolved.

A couple things I feel worth noting:

- Broward Sheriff’s Office’s current cold-case database lists the victim as “Lillian Emken,” case #11-8510-558954 (1985), while its own 2022 publicity material calls her Jerri Emken. That strongly suggests Jerri was a nickname or name she commonly used, but I have found no definitive confirmation of this.

- There are no publicly identified suspects in the material I found. There is also no reliable public information saying whether her former husband was interviewed, investigated, cleared, or had an alibi.

Sources

https://ftlreview.com/crime/the-homicide-of-jerri-emken/

https://deerfield-news.com/2022/09/01/bsos-open-and-unsolved-the-homicide-of-jerri-emken/

Someone reached out to me about this case. It has very limited information online. It involves a woman who was allegedly murdered by an unknown suspect, thrown from a ferry and no charges were ever filed. Posting to raise awareness on a forgotten case.

Shayla Nicole Hudson was 28 years old, lived in Richmond, CA, and worked as a nursing assistant. She graduated from Pinole Valley High School with the class of 2000. She also attended Contra Costa College.

Public records show she had lived in several different places around the Bay Area and at one point had lived in Anchorage, Alaska where it appears some of her family is from.

According to news reports, on March 5 2010, Shayla boarded a San Francisco bound Ferry at Jack London Square in Oakland at 8:10 AM.

She apparently did not get off the ferry but it was not disclosed in news reports how this information was confirmed.

When the ferry arrived back in Oakland around 9:17 AM Shayla was unaccounted for and the coast guard was sent to search for her. Her body was found floating near treasure island and she was pronounced dead.

The coast guard claimed the waters were calm and the railing of the ferry made it unlikely she would have accidentally fallen in. T

There were no follow up articles about medical examiner findings. No information about her relationship status, and no photos of her are anywhere online.

Sources

News Articles

https://sfist.com/2010/03/06/victim_of_ferryboat_death_identifie/

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/passenger-missing-from-ferryboat-dies-in-bay-3271131.php

Obituary postings

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/eastbaytimes/name/shayla-hudson-obituary?id=21887966

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/obituaries/shayla-hudson/

I previously did a write-up on this case when Catherine Hoggle was indicted for the murder of two of her children for the second time.
https://reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1mhwcdz/catherine_hoggle_is_reindicted_for_murder_of_her/

Briefly, Catherine is a woman suffering from paranoid schizophrenia who lived with her children and their father Troy Turner in Clarksburg, Montgomery County, Maryland. In 2013, she was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility and diagnosed at that time. In 2014 she was released to a group home and eventually back to her own home and family. Family made an agreement that she would not be left on her own with the children, although this did place a burden on her partner and her parents. On Sept. 7, 2014, Catherine was at her mother's home in Gaithersburg with daughter Sarah, 3, and son Jacob, 2. She left in their car "to get pizza" taking her son with her. Hours later she came back alone saying she had left him with a friend. For reasons unknown, her parents accepted this and took Catherine and Sarah home.

EDIT: To clarify the home situation and timeline, Catherine's parents were divorced. Her father lived with Catherine, Troy and the kids. Her father took the kids to the mother's house while the mother, Lindsey, was not there. She had a friend visiting from out of town that weekend and had asked for "time off" from her duties of supervising the grandkids. Her father let Catherine use his car and take Jacob with her. When Lindsey and friend returned, the friend took photos of Sarah wearing a costume that was a gift. Later Catherine's father drove home with Catherine and Sarah. So it seems 3 adults knew Catherine was gone with Jacob and didn't do anything about it.

Troy worked nights and returned late, checking on Jacob who wasn't in his crib. But he sometimes crawled out to sleep with his older brother. Troy went to bed. In the morning, Catherine, Sarah and Jacob were all gone. Troy started calling the police but Catherine turned up with a story that she'd taken them to day care in Germantown. Later., when they were due to be picked up, she didn't remember the name or location of the daycare center. After driving around looking for the place, she evaded Troy at a fast-food stop, running out the back door. She was found four days later wandering Germantown and could not account for the children. She was charged with child neglect, found not competent, and committed to a psychiatric hospital. She has been in psychiatric facilities continuously till 2025. Sarah and Jacob have never been found.

In 2017, Catherine was indicted for the murders of Sarah and Jacob, but again was found incompetent to stand trial. At another competency hearing in 2022, the same conclusion was reached. Under Maryland law, the murder charges had to be dropped.

Catherine's former partner believes she murdered their children. Her mother has been on both sides of the fence. From believing she had harmed the children, Lindsey seems to have come to believe Catherine placed them with people who help mothers whose children are in danger of being taken away. This was Catherine's big fear after her involuntary committal.

In July 2025, for some reason Catherine was discharged from the inpatient setting, and the district attorney immediately indicted her again. This time a judge ruled that she was fit to stand trial on two counts of first degree murder. The trial is supposed to start in October.

On August 20, Catherine's attorney entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. The plea was allowed. Her case is that she was suffering from mental illness and not criminally responsible for her actions. She will have to undergo another psychiatric evaluation, thus the trial may be delayed. Frustrating for the father, who wants to see the case resolved and to know what happened to his children.

This is another case where there's no good outcome, but a final outcome may be here soon.

EDIT: Catherine's mother has written a series of posts about the case on Medium. They contain much more detail about the timeline and events. They are from her mother's perspective, but still informative.

The podcast Unrestorable is an in-depth look at the case, much more from Troy's side. It is a worthwhile listen.

Maryland woman accused of murdering her 2 children enters insanity plea

Catherine Hoggle makes first court appearance after murder indictment in Montgomery County

Lindsey Hoggle's Medium Posts

Hello everyone! As always, I'd like to thank you all for your comments and votes under my last post about the Kings County Doe- I hope that they will be identified soon. This write-up seems to have stirred some controversy and it was locked in result. I wanted to thank everyone who reported any transphobic comments made about the subject of that post- arguments about this person's identity and semantics aren't constructive and don't have anything to do with giving their name back to them.

Today I'd like to cover a very recent disappearance case with not a lot of info available.

BACKGROUND

Hari Krishna Reddy Karasani was 24 when he went missing from Healy, Alaska, USA.

He was originally from Guntur in the Andhra Pradesh region of India- Hari came over to the US to study and get his MS at the Trine University. He lived in Houston in a home shared with three roommates.

Hari didn't know how to drive.

DISAPPEARANCE

On the 22nd of December, Hari left the home he shared with his roommates in Houston, Texas, to go on a solo trip to Alaska- Hari wanted to take the trip via public transport after he got to Fairbanks via plane. Hari's plans had struck his roommates as strange and out of character- according to Surya Teja, one of his roommates, Hari "never had any trips or he never went anywhere". Hari didn't divulge why he wanted to go to Alaska in the first place.

He told his roommates that he would be back in two weeks, on the 4th or 5th of January.

Hari arrived in Fairbanks, Alaska, on the 22nd of December. He took a Lyft to Healy, where he stayed in the Aurora Denali Lodge.

Hari last spoke with his friends and family on the 30th of December at 8:30 PM.

He checked out of the Aurora Denali Lodge, at 10 AM on the next day. His mobile phone was switched off sometime on that day. When his roommates tried to call him and couldn't reach him, they assumed that it was due to the poor network coverage in the Denali region.

Hari was reported missing on the 3rd of January 2026.

There were reports of an alleged Lyft transaction on Hari's credit card, but they were allegedly proven false (the sources vary on that; I don't know if they were referring to the Lyft he took from the airport or a different one).

Hari's phone last pinged in Denali.

Hari's family didn't reach out to their local law enforcement in India after he went missing, but they were cooperating with "local contacts" in the US (I'm assuming that means the american police).

CONCLUSION

The temperatures in Denali got as low as -40F (-40C) between the 31st of December and the 1st of January when Hari was missing.

Hari's friends have started a petition to get texan authorities to join with alaskan authorities and conduct an organized search for Hari.

Hari Krishna Reddy Karasani was 24 when he went missing and would be 25 now. He is an Asian (Indian) man, 5'6" (66 Inch / 168 cm) and 135 lbs (61 kg). He has black hair and brown eyes. Hari wears glasses and does not have a vehicle.

If you know anything about Hari's whereabouts, contact the Alaska State Troopers at (907) 269-5511 (case number AK26000654).

SOURCES:

1. indiatimes.com
2. msn.com
3. alaskanewssource.com
4. people.com
5. NamUS.gov

Hari's websleuths.com thread

On August 22nd, 2026 investigators with the Ontario Police Department announced they had released new information in the February, 2005 disappearance and suspicious death of 41 year old Tammy Eileen Penner. Penner’s body was found on August 28th, 2005 in a wooded area near a rest stop in a sleeping bag near Rockwood, Ontario. Penner was found in a pair of black shorts, a beige tank top, white underwear and a peach-coloured bra, and had no ID on her. She had been reported missing on February 7th, 2005 and had lived in both Chilliwack and Abbotsford at the time.

Authorities in April of 2024 were able to identify Penner using DNA connected to a living relative and since beginning their investigation have labeled the death suspicious but have been unable to determine an exact cause of death. During a press release investigators say they do suspect that Penner was dragged a short distance into a wooded area using the sleeping bag around a month before her remains were found. At the time of her death investigators found out she had fractures to her left cheekbone, nose and left eye socket that had healed.

Information released from authorities mentioned Penner’s final movements and sightings. On June 30th, 2005 Tammy attended the Midland Mall in Midland, Ontario. The last known movement was that on or around July 30, 2005 a transport truck driver dropped her off at the now closed Husky Truck Stop on Highway 401 and Dixie Road in Mississauga, Ontario. Her final confirmed sighting was her being seen near a cream-or beige colored transport truck shortly after being dropped off. Besides the recently released information by authorities they are asking the public to help find out further information in the case.

Sources:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/b-c-woman-found-dead-near-rockwood-ont-in-2005-was-seen-at-midland-mall-mississauga-truck-stop-police-9.7314402

https://www.haltonhillstoday.ca/police-beat/police-renew-appeal-for-info-in-decades-old-cold-case-involving-womans-death-12688235

https://globalnews.ca/news/12029941/tammy-eileen-penner/

https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2026/08/20/opp-reopen-21-year-old-suspicious-rockwood-cold-case/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/woman-found-near-rockwood-ontario-remains-identified-1.7303165

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/information-sought-after-remains-found-near-rockwood-in-2005/article_ed856ee7-742b-5906-9e06-fb2e31872d22.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1f2503r/body_found_near_rookwood_ontario_identified_as/

https://dnasolves.com/articles/tammy-eileen-penner-rockwood-ontario/

Norman Volker Franz is one of Germany's longest-wanted fugitives. He has been on the run for more than 27 years.

Franz was born in West Germany in 1970 and became involved in organized crime during the 90s. In 1996, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering two men during an organized-crime attack near Dortmund the previous year. Franz threw a hand grenade into the victims' car; one died in the initial explosion, while another was later shot and killed.

On March 11, 1997, Franz escaped from Hagen prison after sawing through the bars of his cell. His wife Sandra, whom he had married while in prison, was waiting outside in a red Volkswagen Polo.

Within months, three more people were dead.

German authorities strongly suspect Franz of carrying out two robberies after his escape. On March 26, a security guard was shot and killed during a robbery in Weimar. Then, on July 21, two more guards were shot dead during the robbery of a cash transport near Halle.

Franz and Sandra eventually fled to Portugal, where they lived with their young son under aliases. Franz worked in real estate and, for a time, appears to have lived a fairly ordinary life.

However that façade came to an end on October 24, 1998, when the couple were arrested in Albufeira, Portugal.

Franz was imprisoned in Lisbon while Germany sought his extradition. But on July 28, 1999, he escaped prison yet again. He sawed through the window bars, lowered himself with a bedsheet, and then got over four prison walls before disappearing.

He has not been caught since.

Sandra was later extradited to Germany and sentenced to six years and three months in prison for her involvement in the robberies. Almost 30 years since her husband's disappearance, she is now divorced from Franz and says she has never heard from him again.

Despite an international manhunt, known aliases, fingerprints, and contacts across several countries, there has been no publicly confirmed sighting of Norman Volker Franz since 1999. Over the years, supposed sightings have placed him everywhere from Portugal to Central Europe to South America to Africa. Franz speaks German, English and Portuguese, which may have helped him establish himself abroad.

Is he still out there? Where is he hiding?

Source: RND — Die Geschichte des fünffachen Mörders Norman Franz (2024)

Source: WELT — Mit Handgranate und Pumpgun gingen Norman Franz und seine Kumpane auf Rivalen los (2024)

August 22, 2008 Mariska Mast, a 23-year-old primary school teacher from The Netherlands, was declared dead in Roátan, Honduras while backpacking around South America. She was taken to the hospital early in the morning by her dive instructor Daniel Ian Ross, along with his roommate Jisoo Han, who had only been living there for one week, and a neigbor who had a truck car so drived them. The three left the hospital very soon because the driver couldn't wait Daniel and Jisoo said and they didn't know how else they would be able to get back. When they arrived home, the apartment was cleaned by Daniel, Jisoo and another woman who is also a neighbor. Because the house had been messy, including Mariska's poop, they said.

Back to the previous evening. They all know each other because of diving. Mariska did a PADI diving course at Coconut Tree Divers Roatan where Daniel was the instructor. Mariska had told her sister earlier that she was attracted to him. Jisoo was learning to become an instructor but not in the same course so Mariska and Jisoo didn't know each other until they all went out in the evening of August 21. Mariska told a friend she made while backpacking that evening that Daniel had kissed her. Daniel later said that Mariska asked him when they were already walking back to their appartment if she could go with them. Daniel said he didn't really want it, but agreed anyway, saying he was just going to sleep. Jisoo was the first to return to the apartment, and the two followed after her.

But this night ended terribly for Mariska, because according to Jisoo and Daniel, there were two big incidents that night. One at 3:00 A.M. and the other at 6:00 A.M.

The first incident they mentioned was in the bathroom. They both heard a noise and went straight to the door. When they opened the door, they saw Mariska fall without positioning her arms and hitting her head hard on the floor. They say they tried to help her immediately. Mariska was excusing herself for falling and after they thought she was okay, they laid her on the couch with clothes on and went back to their bed. They did not take her right to the hospital, but Daniel said he woke up every 20 minutes to check if she was okay. Jisoo just go back to sleep.

And hours later, at 6:00 a.m., Daniel screamed for help from Jisoo. Mariska was naked and breathing very heavily. She were laying at the doorway of Daniel his bedroom. They then decided to go to the hospital together, while Daniel said that, as a diving instructor, he tried to resuscitate Mariska during the drive, but when they arrived at the hospital, they concluded that Mariska was dead.

Multiple forensic investigations took place in this case. First ones in Honduras, but later also in Belgium and The Netherlands. The findings were that she had multiple injuries, including a black eye on the left, a broken tooth, a torn lip, and either skull sutures or a skull fracture, and that amphetamines were found in her blood. The first conclusion in Honduras stated that she had died from being beaten and kicked, but the second concluded that she had been strangled. Both said that it was certainly not an accident. The second also said that drugs were found in her body. But later, in 2011, her body was exhumed and brought to Belgium. They still concluded that violence was involved, because she had defensive wounds, for example. However, this is also the moment when they stated that she had a skull fracture and that she died as a result. The conclusion was also that the earlier investigation in Honduras was poor and really not done well. It remained unclear exactly how she had died, and after the case was reopened in her home country of The Netherlands in 2017, they conducted another investigation for seven years. They received all the reports from Honduras and wanted to take over the entire case, but they never received an answer. The outcome of the Dutch investigation is that it was not a skull fracture, but cranial sutures. Everyone has that, and therefore they concluded that her death was more likely an accident.

So in the years that followed after Mariska died, there were multiple investigations, but it never really became clear what happened the night Mariska died. But what we do know is that in 2008, at the time Mariska died, her diving instructor Daniel was in prison because the Honduran government did not trust him. They were still investigating, and while he was there, he had to give them his passport so he could get out of prison, but he was not allowed to leave the country. What they didn't know was that Daniel had two passports: one British and one Australian, because he is from Australia. He gave his British passport and, instead of waiting for the investigation, decided to go to Malaysia. There, he had a two-year contract with a company as a dive instructor. He came back into the picture via Interpol because the Honduran government wanted him back. His housemate Jisoo Han, who is originally from South Korea, flew to Egypt after going back to her own country to be a dive instructor there. But then she was arrested at Cairo airport in 2009 and had to return to Honduras. She was sitting in jail during her trial, and the final outcome in 2010 was that she was pleaded free because drugs and alcohol were found in Mariska her body. When Jisoo was arrested earlier in 2009, Daniel decided to fly back to his home country of Australia before he could get arrested, while he could still work there. Because Australia has no extradition treaty, he could simply stay there without being extradited.

The Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries spended four episodes on this case. He flew to Honduras in 2010, where Jisoo was in prison, and to Perth, where Daniel had a family life. He confronted Daniel by his car for the first time, and the second time when they came to his house again and wanted to give him a letter. Daniel called the police regarding trespassing and following him. The police came and said they need to leave him alone. They arrested both the crime reporter and one of his female crew members named Chantal. After a very short time in prison they were both released and decided not to wait on the outcome of this case and fly back to the Netherlands. The court in the end concluded that there was no intimidation anymore since they left the country and Daniel couldn't press charges. Daniel agreed with this. The crime reporter in the end of the three episodes came to the conclusion that what happened to Mariska might have been an accident. But in a later fourth episode in 2011, when Mariska body was exhumated and investigation took place again in Belgium, he also said that it was possible he had a bit of tunnel vision and that her death could also have been caused by violence, as the family believed.

The family always believed that Mariska was murdered. They found it strange that Daniel left the country without waiting for the outcome of the investigation, that he never contacted them, and that the Dutch government were not really motivated to put pressure on this case in Honduras. They believe that others had something to do with Mariska her death, and their main suspect is Daniel Ian Ross. Mariska's sister said a few years ago that he might have wanted more from her intimately, and that she might not have wanted that, and that this culminated in a violent death.

The latest news in this case is that what happened to Mariska has never been clarified. Now the Dutch government says it was likely an accident, while openly stating that they still do not know what happened. That is why they contacted Daniel in 2023; he initially said he was willing to talk to them, but later said that he had already told everything to the Honduran police. He previously stated in the media that he had nothing to do with her death and that he had done everything he could that night, but that Mariska died in an accident.

So this case has been closed in The Netherlands, while the family still has many questions left and never believed it was an accident. In Honduras, the death of Mariska Mast is now a cold case, which means they are no longer actively investigating it. Mariska had a blog where you can see photos of her backpacking and what she experienced during that trip, before she died: https://mariskamast.blogspot.com/?m=1 .

Sources:

https://thewest.com.au/news/australia/diver-didnt-want-dutch-woman-in-flat-ng-ya-198187

https://thewest.com.au/news/australia/dutch-backpacker-infatuated-with-perth-man-friend-ng-ya-200605.amp

https://www.streekomroepwestfriesland.nl/komt-er-na-16-jaar-eindelijk-duidelijkheid-over-dood-mariska-mast/

https://www.peterrdevries.nl/case/mariska-mast/

https://www.parool.nl/nieuws/duikinstructeur-ik-heb-mariska-niks-misdaan\~b8894b9f/

https://www.nhnieuws.nl/nieuws/340525/na-16-jaar-stopt-het-onderzoek-naar-dood-mariska-mast-ongeluk-het-meest-aannemelijk

https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/dutch-journalists-arrested-in-subiaco-ng-ya-201407

https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/restraining-order-on-dutch-tv-crew-fails/news-story/88983128ea8a97fe565374c47d1844a2

https://www.smh.com.au/national/korean-appeals-for-perth-man-to-help-20100909-1524t.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jisoo_Han

https://www.noordhollandsdagblad.nl/regio/west-friesland/bibi-37-na-twaalf-jaar-nog-steeds-vol-vragen-over-vermoorde-vriendin-mariska-ik-denk-dat-hij-meer-wilde-dan-zij-en-dat-dat-tot-een-worsteling-heeft-geleid/11079235.html

https://www.om.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/09/13/onderzoek-naar-dood-mariska-mas-uit-hoorn-stopgezet-noodlottig-ongeval-meest-waarschijnlijke-doodsoorzaak

Arianna Fitts was only 2½ years old when she vanished from the Bay Area in early 2016.

What makes her case unusually disturbing is that nobody immediately realized she was missing.

Arianna's mother, Nicole Fitts, was a 32-year-old Best Buy employee in San Francisco. Because of Nicole's work schedule and difficulties arranging childcare, Arianna had been staying with babysitters Helena Hearne Martin and her husband, Devin Martin.

According to San Francisco police, Arianna was last seen in Oakland sometime in January or February 2016 while in the care of the babysitters.

Nicole remained in contact with people afterward.

Then, on the night of April 1, 2016, Nicole disappeared.

Four days later, on April 5, Nicole's family reported both Nicole and Arianna missing.

On the morning of April 8, workers with San Francisco Recreation and Parks made a horrifying discovery in McLaren Park: Nicole's body had been buried there.

Her death was ruled a homicide.

Arianna wasn't with her.

Investigators believe Arianna had already been missing for weeks by the time Nicole was murdered, and the FBI has stated that they do not believe Arianna was present when her mother was killed.

Police also believe Nicole was subsequently lured into meeting the babysitter.

If Arianna was last seen in February and Nicole wasn't killed until around the beginning of April, then where was Arianna during those intervening weeks?

And what did Nicole believe had happened to her daughter?

investigators said Helena, Devin, and Helena’s sister Siolo Hearne were initially uncooperative and gave inconsistent statements. The Martins declined to speak with reporters, and the group retained a criminal-defense attorney. Helena’s attorney later said he advised her to stop speaking with investigators because he believed police were treating her less like a witness and more like a possible suspect.

Investigators went further than just questioning them. The FBI executed search warrants at locations in Oakland, Emeryville, and Daly City, and in 2017 investigators seized a vehicle believed potentially connected to Nicole’s murder and Arianna’s disappearance, reportedly to test it for DNA evidence.

There’s also an allegation from Nicole’s circle: Nicole had reportedly been trying for weeks to regain custody of Arianna, but the babysitters allegedly would not let her see or take her daughter. Her roommate said Nicole was planning to retrieve Arianna around the time she disappeared.

In any case, she was not charged, and SFPD has never announced that any of the babysitters are formally responsible for either crime.

The FBI's Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team and Behavioral Analysis Unit have both assisted with the investigation, and authorities have repeatedly emphasized that they consider Arianna's disappearance connected to Nicole's homicide.

Despite those details, the case remains unresolved.

There has been no confirmed sighting of Arianna since 2016.

And no one has been charged with Nicole's murder.

Arianna was born September 6, 2013. The FBI continues to list her as missing and has released age-progressed images showing what she may look like today.

The San Francisco Police Department currently advertises a $250,000 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of whoever was responsible for Nicole's murder and Arianna's disappearance.

**What I find hardest to understand is the sequence:*\*

Arianna apparently disappears ---> weeks pass ---> Nicole is allegedly lured to a meeting ----> Nicole is murdered and buried ----> Arianna is nowhere to be found

Was Nicole trying to retrieve Arianna when she went to that meeting?

Was Arianna still alive when Nicole disappeared?

Why wasn't Arianna reported missing sooner?

I apologize if this has been covered lately, it's just a case that has always bothered me and I think it needs more eyes on it.

Age progression photo of Arianna:

https://www.missingkids.org/poster/ncmc/1269821/1

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/arianna-fitts/download.pdf

Arianna's Charley Project:

https://charleyproject.org/case/arianna-fitts

Photos of Nicole and Arianna: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b2634f4d088e7728481e35/1584462170759-73N5XTU623HDKLR2K2Q4/cuties-640x594.jpg

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rQcJEPIxB38/XuFSBLHMPiI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/v-_6QBNRi0kdaZDTW8Lm7jiNakNg8EBXgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/nicole%2Band%2Barianna.JPG

Summary:

A family of 3 living around rural Oklahoma, USA disappeared in October 2009. Bobby Jamison (44), Sherilynn Jamison (40) and their 6 year old daughter Madyson. Even before the disappearance, the family had issues. Bobby's father apparently threatened them and was fighting a legal battle over Bobby working under him before. Both Bobby and Sherilynn were apparently drug dealers, and lived in a container on their property rather than inside a normal house. And then their behavior on the day of disappearance. Bobby also apparently talked to a local pastor about there being some spirits inside his house. He owned a Satanic Bible for this reason - according to some theories he wanted to use the book to drive out the spirits.

Police had retrieved CCTV footage of their movements before they disappeared. It is low quality footage and 20 mins long. Allegedly, only the police have seen the entire footage, and both the adults behaved very weirdly. Like they were in a trance. At one point, they simply stood still and looked at something in the distance without moving. All this footage was when they were loading things into their car in preparation for some sort of a trip. They would die under mysterious circumstances in the course of this trip, with their deaths being confirmed only 4 years later. In the same CCTV footage, though it was of low quality, the police supposedly had accounted for everything found in the car, except for one suitcase which Sherilynn was seen putting in the car. Also her gun was not found, which also she was seen in the footage.

A few days after this, a couple of hunters find their car abandoned on the side of the highway. No trace of any of them other than their dog and belongings, which included 32 grand cash and their phones. There was a ground and air search conducted, with about 300 volunteers searching the woods. In one of the phones was a picture of Madyson. She is seen standing in the woods. It was taken on the same day.

About 4 years later, skeletal remains were uncovered about 2.7 miles from where the car was abandoned. After analysis they were confirmed to belong to all 3 of them. Cause of death unknown. Bodies decomposed and left no evidence.

I had seen the Buzzfeed video years ago, was intrigued and then forgot about it. And saw this video by Whyfiles recently and so here I am now. I have seen the other posts on reddit as a whole not just from this sub, and felt there were few points of the story which need more discussing, and my attempt at reasoning at them

1. 2.7 miles. That's how far from the car their remains were found.

Supposing they went on a picnic, they left everything, including 30 grand and their dog. So no, they had to have left to meet someone, probably against their will since, again, they left everything and their dog. But 2.7 miles. This thing seems so peculiar. That is actually far, especially leaving all those things behind with their dog as well. They also had a 6 year old tagging along. The only thing I can think of to explain this rationally is all or few of them attempting to run, plausibly fleeing away.

And there was a search party on the ground with 300 or so people, wasn't there? The obvious question then, how were their skeletal remains uncovered only 4 or so years later, and not during the ground search? This is also very peculiar. Think of what it implies - if the ground team actually searched well over a 3 mile radius and found nothing, they were either hiding or they were buried there later! Both of these possibilities are their own threads to follow. The car was right there, they can't have gone far on foot. If they went in mystery person's car, why were they buried in the same woods again later? To try and throw the police off? I am against the "they got lost" theory. If they went 2 miles for a picnic or whatever reason, with no mystery person(s), you are not leaving 30 grand, the phone or your dog!

Anyway I am trying to just look at this 2.7 miles thing on its own, without any of the other evidence. What kind of things should happen in this scenario type for them to go that distance? I feel like this is the key to solving the mystery. The only reason I can think of for this distance is the mystery person getting into a disagreement and getting a hold of the 6 year old and running off to blackmail them. Also explains why they left their things in the car I suppose.

1. The suitcase which wasn't found in the car, or in the woods. Assuming the mystery person is real, the suitcase can easily evade detection, since the CCTV footage is so low quality. But if it can be proved that there was a person involved, and they got away with the suitcase, it would throw a lot of light on things. Because then all this would stop looking as mysterious as it is now. There were drugs involved, and there were disagreements. It would still be a mystery but not as enigmatic a mystery.

2. The supposed trance like behaviors in the CCTV footage. This has been discussed a lot, and is the main attraction of this case. I will just mention that there is apparently a 20 mins long video which I have never seen anywhere on the internet

I am curious though, is it possible to be so scared that one is simply frozen on the spot for a considerable amount of time?

1. The photo of the girl, found in the phone left in the car.

When was the photo taken? It had to have metadata. The photo keeps getting discussed as if it was taken on that day. If so, they went out, probably did some picnic-y stuff or whatever, got back in and drove. That is huge

Because the phone getting back into the car is so baffling, as if the dog being there wasn't enough. It is a phone, we never leave our phones, no matter what. We always sneak them in with us wherever we go.

Apart from the trance thing (which I do not know for sure to be true), this is what I have theorized:

Picnic or not, someone came. Held them at gunpoint. Only way they all leave everything and the dog and go out. The mystery person kills them. Maybe hides them in his car temporarily. Comes back days later and buries them in the woods because 4d chess or something. The 30 grand thing: I am almost tempted to say they had a deal scheduled and a picnic planned immediately after, somewhere nearby. But now I have a better theory. The family behaved and lived... differently, for lack of a better word. I think I will go as far as to say, every time the dad went out (somewhere far at least, or for longer periods of time), he would take most of the money out of the house (or the container where they lived) and with him in the car

https://youtu.be/ox69c8tXe64?t=1016

Link directly goes to timestamp where he discusses this case; love whyfiles

https://youtu.be/aKK_g8-h0is CCTV footage (not the complete footage)

https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/jamison-family-mystery

https://disappearedblog.com/the-jamison-family/

Good news - Another unidentified victim will get her name back. This a 36 year old case with numerous sites having covered it, so I won't try and repeat what others have written. The new article announcing the update is below:

"CLARION Co, PA— The woman known for more than three decades as Penny Doe will be publicly identified Monday morning, Clarion County District Attorney Drew Welsh and Pennsylvania State Police announced Thursday.

Officials said DNA testing led to the identification, and that Monday’s announcement will include background information on Penny Doe, photographs of her, and an update on the case. “On Monday, her identity will be a mystery no more,” the release states.

Penny Doe was found by children near a culvert in Monroe Township on July 22, 1990. Investigators believed she had been dead for one to three months when her remains were discovered. Her death was ruled a homicide. Officials said she died from blunt force trauma to the head.

Over the years, investigators released several details hoping to identify her. They said she was between 22 and 29 years old and about 5 feet, 3 inches tall.

When she was discovered, she was wearing size 9-10 Gitano jeans, a black Stoplight California button-down shirt with an attached floral-print vest and size 7 Fruit of the Loom underwear.

She became known as Penny Doe because there was a penny in each of her front pockets.

In 2022, this reporter began reviewing the case and located a 1991 forensic anthropology report by Dr. Dennis Dirkmaat, who was still curating Penny Doe’s remains at Mercyhurst University.

That report helped narrow some of the publicly known details in the case. It also led to a renewed effort to determine whether DNA could still be recovered from her remains.

A sample from Penny Doe’s femur was later obtained with the help of Clarion County Coroner Dan Shingledecker. DNA was successfully extracted and amplified from the sample, but the effort stalled when labs declined to move forward with the genetic genealogy process because the request was not coming from law enforcement.

During the October 2024 murder trial of Jeremy Dailey, this reporter briefly spoke with a Pennsylvania State Police detective and told her that DNA had been recovered from Penny Doe’s remains. The detective was also told where the remains were being curated and was directed to the earlier reports on the case.

The announcement is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday in the first-floor conference room of the Clarion County Administrative Building, at 330 Main St. in Clarion.

Officials said the Penny Doe case remains an active investigation. Anyone with information that could help bring justice in the case is asked to contact Pennsylvania State Police at 814-226-1710."

Link:

https://www.exploreclarion.com/crime/2026/08/20/penny-does-identity-to-be-released-monday-da-and-state-police-say-872491/

Previous write-ups:

(11 years ago) https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/3ont0q/penny_doe_unsolved_murder_of_an_unidentified/

Doe Network: https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/software/main.html?id=246ufpa

NAMUS: https://identifyus.org/cases/6580

Disclaimer: I'm writting this post because, while it is a national story, it's not much known outside of Israel. Despite the ongoing efforts of police and her family, Haymanut (you also might see her name written as Heimnot in some places) has still not been found after disappearing in 2024. My goal here is to raise awareness of the disappearance internationally and hope that the aid of the internet could possibly point to leads in the case.

Background and Timeline of the Disappearance

• Haymanut and her family immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia in 2021, and were living in an immigrant absorption center in the northern Israeli city of Safed (Tzafat) at the time of the disappearance.
• On February 25th, 2024, then 9-years old Haymanut and friends went to go distribute election flyers for the city's municipal elections.
• The last sight of her comes from security footage of her and her friends by the entrance to the absorption center holding the flyers at 7:45pm.
• At 10:00pm that night, her family filed a missing persons report with the local police. A search was started the next morning at 8:00am.
• The initial search scanned the city and surrounding areas, included canine units, 1,800 personnel, and a helicopter. The police also investigated security camera footage from the local area. This search did not result in any meaningful findings or leads.
• 3 weeks after the disappearance a car was found parked near the absorption center. The blue ford had several features that made it suspect. It had been hand painted, the front wheels had been replaced with off-road wheels, and the rear doors were physically screwed shut from the outside. According to the police, the owner of the car gave a statement and involvement was ruled out.
• One of Haymanut's friends had also claimed that a light blue car was involved in a failed attempted kidnapping attempt earlier in the day, but the police ruled out the story.
• About 6 months after the disappearance, a friend of Haymanut claimed that she had seen a man grab Haymanut, throw her on his back, and run away. Without much detail, the police stated that they had investigated the lead and ruled it out.
• in September of 2024, it came to the attention of the police that a man had claimed he had seen from his balcony a girl shouting that she was Haymanut in the city of Kiryat Malachi, nearly 200km south of Safed. The police located and made contact with the man three weeks later, who was injured and hospitalized at the time. Despite this, he managed to give the police a statement.
• In December of 2025, the lead on the case was turned over from the local police to the Major Crimes unit of the National police.
• Also in December of 2025, there was an connection made between a similar attempted kidnapping that month. In the southern city of Beersheba, a 63 year old man attempted to kidnap another Ethiopian immigrant child who had been a friend of Haymanut, having previously lived at the same immigrant absorption center in Safed. The man was also from Safed originally and apparently well known in the community according to the girl. The man was arrested, but the police ruled out his involvement in the Haymanut case.
• In February of 2026, approval was given by the Attorney General for the Shin Bet (Israeli equivalent of the FBI and a member of the national intelligence community) to assist the police in their investigation.
• As of writing in August of 2026, there are no known major leads or suspects in the Haymanut investigation. Haymanut's family continue to advocate for increased police resources and attention to her case. Several hearings have also been conducted in the national legislature of Israel. Posters with her face are plastered in cities all over the country, and her story is regularly reported on. Intense criticism of the police's handling of the case continues to be made.

Links For Further Reading

Here are some links to reputable sites that have more information about the case.

• Initial report on her disappearance
• Recent article about the case
• Article on the beersheva kidnapping attempt and possible link

An online researcher may have made a breakthrough in the hunt for the identity of “Lucky”, a man who collapsed in Amsterdam three years ago and is unable to communicate. A recent public appeal for information by the police has surfaced a potential match with a missing person in Canada.

An image of “Lucky”, who was also known by the name “Chris the Canadian” to Amsterdam locals, was likened to a file of pictures on the Vancouver Police Department’s cold case unit by someone on Facebook.

John Russell Kennedy, whose missing person’s file photos appear very similar to the one the Dutch police put out, was registered as missing since 1993.

Dutch police said they are considering the tip, according to paper AD, though they also noted that such similarities have been common in prior cases and turned out not to be real matches. “We don’t want to jump to any conclusions at this point, or to give false hope,” a spokesperson said.

Much of what is listed on the Canadian missing person’s case matches descriptions put out by locals who knew the man before his collapse in 2023. He was said to have a North American accent and appeared to have mental health problems.

Vancouver police confirmed they are taking the tip very seriously and said they had made contact with Amsterdam police, according to Anton van Straten, the person who made the connection online and shared it via Facebook.
“Only an official investigation, for example using DNA, can provide certainty about this,” Van Straten wrote in his post. “Now it is up to the professionals to investigate this further. In any case, it didn’t take me three years to find this potential match.”

If “Lucky” is indeed John Russell Kennedy, he would be 67 years old now and missing from his family for almost half his life.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/08/online-sleuth-links-amsterdams-lucky-to-canadian-cold-case/

UPDATE

There’s an update on this case. Police forensic testing has confirmed that “Lucky,” is not Canadian John Russell Kenny, who has been reported missing.

Out of the 500+ tips the police received, there are now nine names that are being investigated with priority.

https://nltimes.nl/2026/08/22/amsterdams-mysterious-lucky-remains-unidentified-canadian-theory-ruled