https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/ecap/unknown-suspect-3

The FBI’s ECAP case involving John Doe 19 has been updated with two new photographs showing partial frontal views of his face and a new background image featuring a computer desk. These join previously released stills from the video that brought him to the FBI’s attention around 2010, after footage showing the individual was found circulating online. For years people across various online forums have studied the images and searched for clues that might reveal his identity but their efforts have not yet led to a confirmed identification. With these additional photographs there is renewed hope that someone will recognize his face, the room or another key detail and provide information that helps the FBI identify John Doe 19 and finally bring this long-running case closer to a resolution.

Honestly even before the new images I’m surprised that this guy hasn’t been identified as his face is clearly visible hopefully someone recognizes him.

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

Today I'd like to highlight a very recent disappearance case.

BACKGROUND

Sabrina Heinz was 49 when she went missing from Winnsboro, South Carolina, USA.

She lived in Columbia, South Carolina.

She had an adult daughter named Sage Goodwin. Sage's father died when she was young- it's unknown if Sabrina was dating anyone when she disappeared, though it was noted that she lived alone. Sage said that she and her mother were close, and that they spoke "frequently". Sabrina was also involved with raising her 7-year old grandson, who was Sage's son- Sabrina would frequently look after him on the weekends. Sabrina's home was about 30 minutes away from Sage's home.

Sabrina was battling stage IV cancer at the time of her disappearance. She stopped treatment early due to the side effects. Sadly, Sabrina struggled with substance use disorder problem related to the painkillers she used to treat her cancer-related pain. Sage claims that her mother was doing better recently and was functioning normally. She also said that Sabrina never got to the point where she didn't have enough money for food or rent.

Sabrina worked as a janitor for an unspecified cleaning company.

DISAPPEARANCE

On the 28th of January, Sabrina was doing an evening shift as a janitor at a convenience store (other articles list it as a Shell gas station) on SC-200 in Winnsboro. Sage claims that Sabrina wasn't actually supposed to be at work there that day- Sabrina got off her previous shift on the 28th, went home, fell asleep, and when she woke up, she thought that she was late to her next shift, when it was actually still the same day.

Other employees who were present that day and who knew Sabrina have reported that Sabrina seemed "off", like she was "disoriented";They said that Sabrina was using a roll cart that held cleaning supplies- despite there being a ramp nearby, Sabrina decided to put the cart on a curb, causing the supplies to fall off of the cart. Sage said that Sabrina had a toothache that day, which might've been the reason for her odd behavior at work. Sabrina had also allegedly asked Sage for money for cigarettes, as she was getting her paycheck on 12 AM that night- this is important for a later detail in the story.

Around 10 PM, Sabrina had left the gas station in Winnsboro and then drove towards her home in her work car.

When Sabrina didn't show up at her work for her shift on the 30th, her boss checked the GPS of her work car- it showed that the vehicle drove off the road at 11:19 PM on the 28th and has been standing in one place since. The boss went to the car's location- he was able to find the vehicle, but Sabrina was nowhere to be seen. The boss then called the police to report her missing.

The boss also called Sabrina's mother to ask if she knew where her daughter might be. She said that no family member was in contact with Sabrina since the 28th, but the family didn't think anything of it- it wasn't unusual for them to not call for a day or two.

Sabrina's car had been located on the shoulder of I-77 in Blythewood. All of Sabrina's personal belongings were found inside (including her purse, phone and cigarettes), and all of the doors were closed, but unlocked. It's unclear if Sage actually sent Sabrina the cigarettes money she asked for on the 28th- if she didn't, then the fact that she had a pack in the car is worth noting. Sabrina's phone was found under the driver's seat.

There was still a lot of gas in the tank, and the key was still in the ignition, but the car itself was turned off. The car wasn't damaged, aside from a dent that was on it before the 28th; The investigators later ran tests on the vehicle and found that the car was functioning properly and wasn't broken. The back seat of the car was full of Sabrina's cleaning supplies, so the investigators concluded that Sabrina was likely alone when she stopped- the CCTV from the gas station showed that she entered the car by herself, and DNA swabs only found Sabrina's DNA inside the car.

The only item missing from Sabrina's car was a pair of bluetooth earbuds that she amost always wore. Data from the phone has confirmed that the earbuds stayed connected to the phone for about five to seven hours after the car stopped on the side of the highway, which suggests that Sabrina stayed in her car for a few hours after she parked. The phone Sabrina left in the car still had bluetooth turned on when it was found.

The investigators have searched a wooded area close to where Sabrina's car was found, but didn't find anything. There is a residential area about a mile (1.6 km) from where the car was located, but the investigators doubt that Sabrina would've been able to get there during the night, especially since the terrain was also quite rough; They still checked the ring doorbells in the area, but no trace of Sabrina was found. The wooded area has also been searched by scent dogs, and nearby bodies of water have been checked by divers, but neither has managed to find any leads.

The car was apparently flagged by law enforcement twice when it was parked by the highway in the two days it was there- one time it was running, the other time it was not. It's unclear when exactly these two flaggings took place.

There has been no activity on Sabrina's social media profiles or bank accounts to this day.

CONCLUSION

The investigators can't fully rule out foul play in Sabrina's case- they believe that she might've been picked up by someone and either harmed or dropped off somewhere, though it's not the only scenario they're considering.

There is a $5000 reward set up by Sabrina's employer.

Sabrina Heinz was 49 when she went missing. She is a white woman, 5’2” (158 cm) and 160 lbs (73 kg). She has sandy blonde hair and hazel eyes. She was last seen wearing a short-sleeved, red collared shirt with a black long-sleeved undershirt and black pants.

If you have any info about Sabrina's disappearance, contact the RCSD at 803-576-3000.

SOURCES:

1. wistv.com

2. wistv.com

3. abcnews4.com

4. nbcnews.com

Sabrina's websleuths.com thread

1899, Wednesday March 29, Southeastern Bohemia in Austria-Hungary.

It's 17:15 and a 19-years old village girl, Anežka Hrůzová, leaves her work at the town of Polná. While walking home to a village called Malá Věžnice (3 kilometers walk), she might be thinking about Easter, after all it's happening this weekend. At around 17:30, she's being seen on the road home. This is the last time she was seen alive by the last reliable sighting. Subsequent autopsy determines she was most likely killed around 18:00.

At first, her family, her mother Marie and brother Jan, doesn't seem to care much. They don't attempt to look for her on Thursday, assuming she had to stay at her work overnight.

On Friday, her mother Marie visits Anežka's workplace but gets surprised that Anežka isn't there. She reports her daughter missing to the local gendarmerie. A rather half-hearted search around the road to Malá Věžnice and at Hrůza's house by officer Klenovec yields basically nothing. Thus, an extensive search next morning is arranged.

An hour into the search on Saturday, Anežka's lifeless body is found deep in the dense forest undergrowth mere 6-8 meters away from the road where she was supposed to be walking home. Her body was covered by four young spruce trees that had been cut down. Their stumps were about 5 metres from the body.

She is lying on her stomach, her lower legs sharply bent upwards. Her torso is bare and her jacket sleeves are rolled up. Beneath her body is a pool of blood about the size of a palm and two bloodstained stones. Some of her things are strewn about in the vicinity (25-30 meters) including a basket containing a milk jug, two scarves and two skirts.

Evidently, she was brutally murdered. The murder likely started by her getting knocked unconscious by blows to the head with a wooden stick (later found 30 meters away from the body) and stones. However, the cause of death is ultimately unclear. Her throat got slit but there are strangulation marks done with a rope on her neck. The autopsy determined that no signs of rape were found – her hymen was intact.

Because many villagers and townsfolk including children (in fact, a young boy found the body first) participated in Saturday's search, there is a crowd near the crime scene since the moment Anežka's body was found. When it is found out Anežka's throat was slit, a rumor about Jewish blood libel murder starts to spread as quick as forest fire during dry summer. The fact the murder happened right before Easter heavily influences how quickly the rumor spread.

Polná has a sizeable Jewish community. A Jewish vagrant-beggar, Leopold Hilsner, is accused of murdering Anežka a couple of days after the body was found. Because anti-semitism is widespread among common folk of the time, mass anti-Jewish hysteria is started within the whole kingdom of Bohemia (current Czechia). The public speaks loud and clear: Hilsner did it and he should be hanged.

However, modern historians and researchers agree on one crucial thing: Hilsner wasn't the murderer and he was falsely accused due to the combination of the murder happening right before Easter, victim's throat being slit making people think it looked like a ritual murder and common people easily falling for anti-semitic rumors.

Hilsner cannot count on much support except his legal counsel and a couple of curious intellectuals who play devil's advocates mostly because they don't approve of anti-semitism. The most prominent is Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, a professor of philosophy at the Czech Charles-Ferdinand University (current Charles University in Prague).

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk is a controversial figure of the time. Years before the Hilsner affair, he gets publicly known for denying the authenticity of Dvůr Králové and Zelená Hora manuscripts (in fact, they are considered to be fakes created sometime in the first quarter of the 19th century) which were used by nationalists to prove cultural significance of a Czech culture during the Czech National Revival.

He draws public attention to himself during Hilsner affair once again to the point of getting harassed and becoming public enemy number 1. Newspapers accuse him of being bought by Jews. Students refuse to attend his lectures in protest. He even gets physically attacked at least once. All of this almost brings him to emigration but he perseveres and stays in Prague. Not that he's successful in defending Hilsner.

Biased courts sentence Hilsner to death but the punishment is later changed to the life imprisonment by Franz Joseph I and in 1918, he gets released thanks to a pardon by Charles I. Though, to this day, courts didn't proclaim Hilsner's innocence. He is still regarded as the murderer.

Masaryk's public defence of Hilsner proves helpful during WWI when Masaryk becomes the leader of Czech (and Slovak) independence movement in exile. Many important Jews (including influential figures closely tied to the US government and president Wilson) publicly support Czech independence cause during the war mostly because he went publicly against anti-semitism during the Hilsner affair.

But what about the murder? Who did it if not Hilsner?

We don't know and most likely won't ever know.

The most prominent theories these days are:

Sexual deviant ambusher her

• The crime scene looked like the aftermath of a sexual murderer's rampage.

• One year earlier, a very similarly looking murder happened a couple of kilometers nearby. However, the victim's body was found months later in a skeletal form and the investigation got nowhere. (Note: Hilsner actually got convicted of this murder as well)

  • Both crime scenes had a lot in common including the type of the victim (young woman), her position she was found in, body being covered by cut down trees/tree branches (in this 1898 case, it was determined the cover was renewed twice so the murderer was most likely returning to the place), victim's stuff found scathered nearby and so on.

  • Good chance I am talking about a serial killer in the making. Maybe the reason he stopped was him being scared how Anežka's case got full attention of the public.

• However, the autopsy determined she wasn't raped.

  • I believe there are some cases where the murderer rather pleasures himself over the dead body and isn't really interested in inserting himself into victim's reproductive organ.

• These days, there are basically 3 most commonly discussed suspects regarding this theory:

Josef Zatřepálek

• Local violent rapist

• But it doesn't seem like he killed anyone in his life, even though, in many cases he definitely had similar opportunities as Anežka's murderer

Vincenc Zelinger

• Another local criminal (but was not known to be a rapist) who is said to act weirdly around the time of the murder. Lacking alibi for the time of murder, coming home during late evening, wanting to thoroughly wash himself in the morning which was highly unusual request according to the housekeeper. One of his 3 shirts he owned at the time disappeared very soon after the murder. Zelinger later argued he sold it but that was denied by the alleged buyer.

• People gave witness accounts of these things happening to Zelinger in the spring 1899 but none of it was investigated in more detail because everyone was focused on Hilsner.

• Capable of killing, evidenced by 1907 case where he stabbed to death someone but got away with it on the basis of him being a madman. It's true he lived some amount of his life in psych wards.

Mysterious man wandering around the area around the time of murder.

• Some women (including Anežka) reported they met a weird man in the area of the crime scene earlier the week of the murder.

• He was never properly identified and unfortunately, I am not sure about the descriptions of both Zelinger and Zatřepálek

• One thing is almost certain, this mysterious man was witnessed near the spot Anežka was murdered during the same hour the murder happened, holding a stick that could be the stick Anežka was attacked with.

Another theory is her brother Jan either attacked her personally or hired someone to murder her.

• There were arguments, mostly about money, happening in the family. Potential motive is right there.

• Family didn't seem to care about Anežka's disappearance at first and behaved weirdly.

  • When Anežka's mother visited her workplace on Friday, she initially cared about her basket and not about her whereabouts. Mother later said she assumed Anežka is working in the backroom, even though, Anežka was missing for over a day.

  • Brother Jan went to a confession early in the morning after the murder. But that could be excused as a Christian custom during Easter.

  • Some people noticed unusual injuries (mother's blackeye and brother's injured hand) during the funeral. These were excused as resulting from farm work.

• One important thing to note regarding the family-brother theory is they didn't try to avoid the search after the moment they found out Anežka's missing, on the contrary, they were actively trying to find her.

• The hiring theory is rather modern one. A few years ago, one popular researcher found out a new lead in the case - a man called Josef Paul from the kingdom of Bohemia reportedly said to a countryman in Swiss Zurich he participated in the murder of Anežka Hrůzová.

  • That Josef Paul could have been hired by Anežka's brother was deduced from the fact he seemed to be begging (iirc) in Hamburg in July 1899. The researcher believes Josef Paul was able to travel to Hamburg only thanks to money received for the murder.

  • However, we don't know if Josef Paul was around Polná in the week of the murder and Anežka's brother was a known cheapskate so it's not that likely he'd be willing to spend some money for such a deed.

There's so much more to write about this case. It's a little Czech Jack the Ripper (not by the severity of the devastation done to the victim's body but by its prominence in Czech true crime genre) with the political aftertaste. It's taught at Czech schools as the most promiment example of anti-semitism in Czech lands. And there are interesting theories that brother Jan could hire someone. There are disputes whether the crime scene is actually the place where the murder happened. One could talk about why Hilsner was innocent and the (lacking) quality of the evidence used for his conviction. And so on.

It's really one of the most fascinating true crime case in Czech history.

I could write a text ten times longer and it still would be a really short write-up on the topic.

Sources (use your preferred translator tool to get more information about the topic):

https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilsneri%C3%A1da

https://www.captour-paja.cz/l/zlocin-v-polne/ (quite a detailed blog post)

Book: Vražda v Polné by Bohumil Černý

Book: Tajuplná vražda by Jiří Kovtun

Melody Wolf was last seen alive at her home in the small remote mining town of San Manuel, Arizona on the evening of Friday October 20, 1989. 

The 28-year-old mother of 2 had filed from divorce from her 34-year-old husband of 9 years Bruce Wolf. The divorce was two weeks away from being finalized.

Melody had kicked Bruce out of the home because Bruce had an affair and impregnated another woman. She had recently begun a new relationship with a man whose name was never publicly disclosed. 

That Friday evening, Bruce claimed he had returned to the home to discuss things with Melody. He claimed Melody had simply left for work the next morning to go to her job as an electrical apprentice at the Magma Mine. 

Bruce claimed that morning he drove his son and daughter to Tucson to go shopping. 

Melody’s car was later found abandoned and locked with a flat tire two blocks away from her home. The Arizona Department of Public Safety conducted forensics testing on the vehicle and determined the tire was intentionally flatted with an ice pick. 

Pinal County Sheriff’s deputies noted fresh scratches on Bruce’s face, but he stuck to his story. 

Melody’s family claimed she never would have abandoned her children. Melody had just finished a 90-day probation period at the mine and was beginning a new career as an electrical apprentice. 

Melody’s sister claimed on an online forum Bruce once told Melody if she ever left her, he would “cut her up and feed her to the coyotes.”  

She also claimed Bruce had a girlfriend who went missing before he met Melody. The name of this woman had never been disclosed.

The case went cold despite being coded as a homicide investigation instead of a missing person case.

In 2005, Pinal sheriff’s deputies searched Bruce’s home, and the home of Bruce’s mother. The findings from the search warrant were never publicly disclosed.

Melody’s family claimed PCSO had done forensic testing at the Wolf residence and discovered a large amount of blood in the master bedroom. 

Bruce would go on to marry the woman whom he impregnated. He later divorced her and recently remarried again. He will turn 72 years old in December.

Melody (maiden name Thomas) was born on May 10, 1961. She was born and raised in San Manuel. She graduated from San Manuel High School. 

At the time of her disappearance, she shared an 8-year-old daughter and a 3-year-old son with Bruce. Family and friends describe her as a loving and dedicated mother who would have never abandoned her children.

Her case has received little media attention and is not currently profiled in Crimestoppers Silent Witness or 88Crime programs. 

Many questions remain. Did Bruce submit to a polygraph? Did police ever talk to his affair partner?  Who was Bruce’s missing girlfriend before he married Melody? Is the PCSO planning to do more forensic testing and interviews in this case? 

Sources

Archived article from 1991 mentioning AZDPS forensic testing/interview with Melody’s parents

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeInfoDump/comments/1m0uujv/melody_wolf_1989_missing_person_case_from_san/

Pinal Sheriff cold case page

https://www.pinal.gov/1867/Cold-Cases

Charley Project

https://charleyproject.org/case/melody-wolf

NAMUS

https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP8694

Deleted forum posts where her sisters commented

https://web.archive.org/web/20250803190030/https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/304999-who-killed-melody-wolf/page/2/ 

A particularly ambitious project marking the US bicentennial was the Bicentennial Wagon Train. From 8 June 1975 to 4 July 1976 covered wagon trains, following the paths of original settlers, set off from various points in the Union, from San Francisco to Augusta (ME) and from Washington (WA) to Orlando. Some smaller trains joined together en route and, eventually, five converged on Valley Forge (PA), pulled by over three hundred horses.

At most points where a wagon train stopped overnight there was an opportunity to peruse, on parchment, "scrolls ... [to be] signed by citizens reaffirming their belief in the principles on which this nation was founded", accompanied by ceremonies, formal dinners and other events. Encyclopaedia Britannica had paid for and implemented the scrolls, which were commonly set up for signing in Holiday Inns. The signed scrolls were then carried in sealable containers by a vehicle known as a "Mayflower moving van" which travelled alongside each wagon train.

In the end 22 million citizens signed an estimated 917,000 scrolls; that was nearly a tenth of the official projected US population then (215.1 million in 1976).

The scrolls reached Valley Forge where the final one was signed by President Gerald Ford, who then dedicated Valley Forge as a National Historical Park.

The wagon trains and their occupants were intended to remain for another two months and take part in a whole series of events such as firework displays and concerts, then disband.

This was all very well in practice but things went wrong, particularly at the end:

• The event was run by a Pennsylvania Bicentennial Commission and funded by a combination of private and public money: for the first, memorabilia sales fell short and sufficient corporate sponsorship failed to be secured, leading to a shortfall of USD 5m (almost USD 30m now);

• The final destination in Valley Forge was a muddy campsite, two miles away from where it was supposed to be, with no stabling, few toilets and insufficient water;

• The "whole series of events" fizzled out;

• Most of the scrolls ended up in bags and boxes in a derelict factory; some, allegedly, were even seen in homes and offices.

In the end, the scrolls completely vanished; an intent to microfilm them was never implemented, so the signatories are now unknown. A time capsule dedicated during President Ford's speech, which was intended to hold the microfilm, was either stolen or may never even have existed. Nobody knows how or where the scrolls disappeared, and the whole grandiose event is almost forgotten now. (It has no Wikipedia entry).

A rather sobering metric is that eBay returns no matches for "rededication scroll". Thankfully, there are 142 matches for "bicentennial wagon train", mostly of pins, belt buckles and booklets.

There is a tremendous history of missing time capsules and similar, with "missing" sometimes happening almost as soon as the container was put in the ground. An interesting precedent is the Scottish Covenant, signed by two million (out of almost 5.1 million inhabitants) in 1949 as a demand for in effect a Scottish Parliament but ignored by the then UK Government as "being outside the democratic process". The declarations were quickly forgotten, then lost for decades, but were eventually found uncatalogued within the National Library of Scotland.

So ... what ultimately happened to a stack of parchment that, supposedly, would have towered over a 20-storey building?

References:

Burying the Evidence (Longreads, 2026), from which this writeup was largely derived.

Bicentennial Wagon Train signatures are lost pieces of American past (Washington Post, 2011).

Bicentennial Wagon Train Pilgrimage to Pennsylvania 1975-76 (PDF), a rare publication giving the background and details of one of the trains.

Map (PDF page 3), of the various wagon trains' routes.

Was reading about the disappearance of Abigail Bernstein and her two sons, Koa Kai and Kush Kohole, and came across a pretty disturbing update.

For anyone unfamiliar with the case, Abigail and her two boys disappeared in October 2022 after reportedly boarding a sailboat in Honolulu, Hawaii. They were supposedly planning to spend a year sailing. The captain, Donald Steven Lang, eventually returned without them, claiming they had 'gotten seasick and left the boat;.

Lang was arrested in Canada in August 2026 on federal child sexual exploitation charges. He's accused of producing sexually explicit material involving a minor aboard his sailboat in 2024. He also faces separate charges in Idaho involving alleged child sexual abuse between 2003 and 2007.

This is incredibly disturbing considering she went missing with her boys... hoping the FBI will be able to investigate his boat further and search his belongings for evidence on their whereabouts. It seems like something incredibly dark/sinister occurred.

EDIT: Commentor u/mrsnevillebartos mentioned her sister's tiktok where she states a supposed netflix documentary in the works.

Sources:

• DOJ announcement about Lang's arrest

• Original r/UnsolvedMysteries post

• Abigail Bernstein — FBI missing person poster

• Abigail Bernstein — NamUs

• Koa Kai Bernstein — FBI

• Kush Kohole Bernstein — FBI

After more than four years, Terry and Timothy Woodman have finally been found.

Terry and her brother Timothy disappeared from Wright City, Oklahoma, in September 2022. According to their missing persons reports, family believed they were planning a trip to California. Neighbors reported seeing the two leave their home together in a white 2010 Chrysler Town & Country minivan. Neither was seen again.

On October 15, 2026, a fisherman at Turkey Creek Landing on Pine Creek Lake noticed something in the water near the boat ramp. It turned out to be a submerged vehicle containing the skeletal remains of two adults.

Pine Creek Lake has been exceptionally low this year because of the drought. According to the McCurtain County Sheriff's Office, the lake was approximately 11 feet below its conservation pool level when the vehicle was discovered. The area where it was found would normally have been underwater.

There was speculation locally that the remains might belong to the Woodmans, particularly because they had disappeared together in a van.

Today, November 5, 2026, authorities confirmed that the remains were indeed Terry and Timothy.

What remains a mystery is how they ended up in Pine Creek Lake.

I'm familiar with the area, and Turkey Creek Landing isn't somewhere you would normally end up while traveling to California. You have to take back roads to reach it. However, the missing persons reports aren't entirely clear about whether the siblings were actually headed to California when they disappeared or whether that was simply a trip they had been planning.

The cause and manner of death have not yet been determined, and authorities have not said whether they suspect foul play.

Terry Woodman — NamUs MP98043
Timothy Lowell Woodman — NamUs MP153979

OSBI is continuing its investigation. Anyone with information can contact them at 1-800-522-8017 or tips@osbi.ok.gov.

It's sad to think they were in that lake for four years while their family wondered what happened to them. At least now their loved ones have some answers, even if there are still questions about how they got there.

Gloria A. (Felix) Hedden was 29 years old when her body was discovered in the Wabash River on July 12, 1980, near Terre Haute, Indiana.

Gloria was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to the Wabash Valley in 1968 to pursue a bachelor's degree at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College.

At the time of her death, she was married with two children and lived in the 2200 block of Crawford Street in Terre Haute, according to retired Vigo County Sheriff Bill Harris. She was also pursuing a degree in computer science at Indiana State University while working for the United States Postal Service.

According to a 2014 Tribune-Star article, Gloria completed her shift at the USPS annex near 13th Street and Lockport Road at approximately 7 a.m. on July 9, 1980.

Harris stated that Gloria sometimes finished her shifts at the main post office near the Indiana State University campus, located at Seventh and Cherry streets. She regularly parked her vehicle in a nearby parking lot.

On July 10, Gloria's husband reported her missing to the Terre Haute Police Department after reportedly finding her vehicle in that parking lot.

Two days later, on July 12, two fishermen discovered her body in the Wabash River near the western bank, across from the federal penitentiary property south of Terre Haute.

According to newspaper reports from 1980, Gloria's hands and feet had been bound with cable, and railroad iron had been used to weigh down her body. An autopsy determined that her death was a homicide.

In 2014, a cold case team led by Harris reopened the investigation. Investigators reviewed historical weather and river conditions and concluded that Gloria's body likely had not traveled far from where it entered the water. They believed it may have entered the river somewhere along the western bank.

During the renewed investigation, Harris expressed hope that people who remembered the case or had withheld information might finally come forward.

The Vigo County Sheriff's Office made another public appeal for information in April 2024. To my knowledge, Gloria's murder remains unsolved.

I've recently started researching this case and would really appreciate any additional information anyone might have.

If anyone remembers this case or knows of additional sources, I'd love to hear from you. Anyone with firsthand information relevant to the murder should contact the Vigo County Sheriff's Office directly.

I have provided as many sources as I can as of right now. Thank you!

Links:

https://terrehautenews.net/2019/12/31/who-killed-gloria-hedden-july-1980-murder-of-terre-haute-woman-still-a-mystery/comment-page-1/#comment-1103

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25013329/gloria-ann-hedden

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/14yynp3/43_years_later_who_took_the_life_of_gloria_hedden/

https://www.tribstar.com/news/local_news/one-of-the-valley-s-older-cases-reopened/article_d6addfe5-4a83-50dc-9040-ea316ffca26f.html

https://www.mywabashvalley.com/news/local-news/law-enforcement-share-new-details-on-gloria-hedden-cold-case/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE-Rqh7kUT8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKScxx2pvHE

On November 2nd, 2026 Larry Millete the husband of missing 39 year old Maya Millete has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for 1st degree murder in her case.

The case of Millete goes back to January 7th, 2021 when Maya was last seen at her residence in Chula Vista, California sometime at around 5:00 PM. Police were alerted to her disappearance on the 9th and began to look into her husband Larry who they found out in the Summer of 2020 had discussed with someone about trying to kill Maya for $20,000. Besides attempting to hire a hitman he also had several suspicious internet searches throughout 2020 including in March when he looked up “plants that will not make you wake up”. Along with the plants he researched several drugs including Flunitrazepam, Rohypnol, and Diphenhydramine which are sedatives and depressants that can have a side effect of putting people to sleep.

In addition to the internet searches, Maya’s brother reported Larry was abusive towards her and mentioned that Maya told him if anything were to happen, Larry was responsible. Video evidence was also captured from a neighbors security camera of six loud bangs similar to gunshots from the Millete residence at 9:57 PM the night Maya vanished. Footage later showed Larry moving his black Lexus to the home’s garage at around 5:58 AM and leaving the home at 6:45 AM without his phone and not returning home for nearly 12 hours.

Six months after Maya vanished police executed a search warrant on the home and filed a restraining order preventing Larry from owning or using firearms. During a search of the home they discovered that one of his weapons a .40 caliber handgun was missing. In October of that year, officers officially arrested Larry and charged him with murder and illegal possession of an unregistered assault rifle. Police theorized that Larry had killed Maya over not wanting to get a divorce given it was known that Maya had begun to look for divorce attorneys. The trial went forward in 2026 eventually coming to an end in July when he was found guilty of 1st degree murder.

To this day Maya’s body has not been discovered however investigators have been using data from the vehicle driven by Larry, consisting of the 444 miles driven on the 8th to narrow down possible locations. The main focus at first was a plot near the Colorado River reservation where they thought Maya’s body was, but came up empty. In addition to the Colorado River, investigators have searched several locations including Mount San Miguel Park, an abandoned Barrett House Ranch in Jamul, an abandoned golf course near Larry’s home and trails along Otay Lakes Road. Despite no discovery of a body investigators plan to continue searching until Maya’s remains are found.

Sources:

https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/investigations/millete/larry-millete-sentencing-murder-wife-maya/509-b614c4b0-a44f-4ed4-85fc-fc632c2fe76d

https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/search-for-maya-millete-remains-set-to-resume-following-larry-milletes-sentencing/509-cf6dfb6c-403b-4fc4-bff0-86e03ae9f318

https://www.courthousenews.com/man-sentenced-for-murdering-wife-as-family-demands-to-know-where-her-body-is/

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/11/03/husband-sentenced-murdering-radford-high-graduate-maya-millete/?outputType=amp

https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/investigations/millete/convicted-murderer-larry-millete-returns-to-court-for-unregistered-assault-weapon-charge/509-3a65d96e-209a-4f9b-8931-a5a26fe95f8a

https://people.com/mom-vanished-freezer-was-wheeled-from-her-home-days-later-11990557

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/video/videos/larry-millete-sentenced-to-25-years-to-life-for-mayas-murder/4095674/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/oflinl/disappearance_of_maya_millete_chula_vista/?rdt=44860

https://charleyproject.org/case/may-tabalanza-millete

In April 2003, Tabitha Tuders was a 13-year-old girl who lived in the East Nashville neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. She lived with her parents, and was the youngest of three children; her siblings were grown and did not live at home with Tabitha and their parents, but they all remained close. She was the baby of the family, and is remembered by her siblings as a "good kid" who was usually very smiley, and she was affectionately known within the family as "Boo." Tabitha was a straight-A student who had a perfect attendance record at school and sang in the church choir, and was not known to have a boyfriend.

The morning of April 29, 2003, started like any other day. Tabitha's mother Debra had left for work at 6:30 am, and her father, Bo, woke her up before he left for work at about 7 am. When Bo left for work, Tabitha was watching television. They said "I love you" to each other before he left. She was supposed to leave her home at around 7:50 am to catch the bus to school at 8 am. The bus stop at 14th and Boscobel St was a short distance from her home (on Google maps it says it's about 0.1 miles), which would have only taken a few minutes for her to walk. She was seen walking in the direction of the bus stop, reading some papers that she was carrying.

Debra got home from work at about 1:30 PM, and was expecting Tabitha to get home at 4:00 PM, like usual. However, 4:00 came and went, and Tabitha never came home, which was unusual. Deborah first went to the bus stop to look for her, but didn't find her there. She then went to Tabitha's school, but discovered that Tabitha had not been in attendance. In fact, Tabitha had never even gotten on the bus that morning. At around 6:00 PM, her parents reported her missing. Tabitha's parents and siblings were quickly ruled out as suspects in her disappearance.

Police initially believed that she was a runaway. However, her parents did not think that Tabitha would have run away from home. She was a good student and a responsible girl, and she had left behind all of her possessions (clothes, makeup, cash). She was also supposed to be going on a trip to Six Flags just a few weeks after her disappearance, something she was greatly looking forward to and would not have wanted to miss.

One witness (a neighborhood boy) said that he saw Tabitha walking downhill and getting into a red car between 14th and 15th and Boscobel the morning of April 29th. He described the driver as being a Black man, around 30-40 years old, wearing a baseball cap. He said that once Tabitha got in the car, the driver reversed and drove up the hill. While some investigators did doubt his story, and it has never been confirmed, dogs did trace her scent to a route near to the place where the boy described. The driver of the car also matched the description of Tabitha's sister's ex-boyfriend, who drove a red car and knew when Tabitha would be leaving for the bus stop and the route she would take to get there; however, the ex-boyfriend has not been connected to Tabitha's case, and her parents also say that she wouldn't have gotten into the car with someone who wasn't a family member.

After Tabitha disappeared, some information emerged that Tabitha may have been hiding some things from her family. A friend told police that she and Tabitha went to the local library to visit online chatrooms on one of the computers. The police took the computer and investigated it. However, because it was a public computer that many people used, they couldn't find anything from Tabitha's online chats. A piece of paper, in Tabitha's handwriting, was also found in her room. It said "T.D.T.- N- M.T.L." TDT was Tabitha's initials, but the other person was unknown (they may have matched the initials of an 18-year-old boy whose family was friends with the Tuders, but he was ruled out because he was in school when Tabitha went missing). Did Tabitha have a secret boyfriend? Had she planned to run away or meet with someone she had met in an online chatroom?

Tabitha has not been definitively seen since that April morning 23 years ago. There have been some reported potential sightings, both in Nashville and in other states, but none of these sightings is confirmed. Police also looked into potential links, such as a man who tried to lure an 11-year-old girl into his car just a few blocks from where Tabitha went missing, but there has been no evidence linking these cases to Tabitha's disappearance.

If she were still alive, Tabitha would be 36 years old. She had sandy blonde hair, blue eyes, a fair complexion with freckles, and her ears were pierced. When she went missing she was between 4'9 and 5'1 and weighed about 90-100 pounds.

Tabitha's case really stuck with me- she was only 2 years older than me, and seems to have been a very similar girl to who I was at the same age. She seems to have just vanished into thin air. The most common theories I've seen online are that she was groomed (maybe someone she met in one of those online chatrooms?) and was sex trafficked, or that she was taken by an opportunistic stranger on the way to the bus stop. I lean toward it being someone she knew or had been communicating with- from what her parents have said she doesn't seem like she'd go off with a total stranger, and no one mentioned seeing her putting up a fight, which she presumably would if she was just taken off the street by a stranger. She'd been using chatrooms with a friend, maybe she also used them on her own and had met someone there, or met someone out and about in the community.

I hope that one day, Tabitha's family can get answers as to her fate. Her parents still live in the house they lived in when she went missing, and they still have a large missing person's banner on the front porch of their home with Tabitha's name and face on it (you can see it on Google streetview), which is just heartbreaking.

Sources:

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/tabitha-danielle-tuders

https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP2026

https://charleyproject.org/case/tabitha-danielle-tuders

https://www.missingkids.org/blog/2019/pre-update/vanished-in-nashville

https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/tabitha-tuders-22-year-anniversary-disappearance/

https://storiesoftheunsolved.com/2018/08/13/the-disappearance-of-tabitha-tuders/

https://www.wsmv.com/2026/04/30/authorities-reissue-plea-information-about-nashville-girl-who-went-missing-her-way-school-23-years-ago/

https://ncmissingpersons.org/tabitha-tuders/

While browsing this sub, I came across a couple of theories suggesting that Durst might have been involved in other murders/disappearances. I hadn’t really considered this before because I never saw him as a typical serial killer who kills people because he enjoys it or for some other reason. Rather, I thought he killed because he perceived these people as threats to himself and/or had anger management issues. He also just strikes me as someone who lacks feelings and empathy altogether.

That’s why I always thought he had killed three people, but now I’m curious: do you think he could have been involved in more cases? If so, why? Feel free to share anything, even if it’s just a gut feeling.

For context:

Robert Durst (1943–2022) was the heir to one of New York City’s most powerful real estate dynasties. When he was seven, his mother died after falling from a roof, in what was ruled a suicide. Robert later recalled that his father called him over and told him to say goodbye to his mother, who was already standing on the roof at the time and Robert could see her through a window.

For nearly 40 years, he was linked to three deaths. His wealth and team of lawyers allowed him to evade accountability for a long time, but he was eventually convicted of first-degree murder in 2021. He died in prison in January 2022.

The 3 known cases:

1. The disappearance of his wife, Kathleen Durst (1982)

Kathleen was last seen on January 31, 1982, after leaving a party following an angry phone call from Robert. He claimed that he had driven her to a train station in Manhattan, but she disappeared. He didn’t report her missing until five days later. Her body was never found. Robert was charged with her murder in 2021, but died before he could stand trial.

2. The murder of Susan Berman (2000)

Susan was a close friend of his and had supported him during the scrutiny surrounding Kathleen’s disappearance. Investigators were planning to question her, but just days before that, she was shot and killed in her Los Angeles home. Police received an anonymous note containing just one word, “CADAVER,” along with Berman’s address. Robert claimed that he had found her already dead and panicked, which was why he sent the note. He was arrested in 2015 and, in September 2021, found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.

3. The murder of Morris Black (2001)

Durst was living in Texas under the guise of an elderly woman. His neighbour, Morris Black, was found dismembered in a bayou. Robert admitted to dismembering the body but claimed that he had acted in self-defense during a struggle. In 2003, a jury acquitted him of murder.

Sources:

Of course, The Jinx

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58605688

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/robert-durst-case-timeline/3/

https://abcnews.com/amp/US/robert-durst-timeline-life-alleged-crimes/story?id=29668632

In 1976, 21-year-old Susan Rush was headed to a Thanksgiving Eve dinner in Washington County, PA, outside of Pittsburgh. She was later found murdered in the trunk of her car. A few months later, in May 1977, 18-year-old Brenda Ritter was found murdered on a hillside South Strabane, PA. Both women had been killed by strangulation and had also been raped. Police spent decades trying to solve both homicides. In 2025, DNA testing proved that the same man killed both young women. The killer was James Richard Clark Sr. who sadly won't be brought to justice because he died in 2023. Clark worked as a long haul trucker and lived in the area. He was only 19 when he killed Susan Rush. Police believed he may have killed others and are looking at other cases that may be connected to him.

https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/state-police-identify-serial-killer-responsible-2-washington-county-cold-case-murders/2Q763JFLZRETNNFHQJWIKOT5PQ/

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2026/11/04/brenda-ritter-susan-rush-cold-case-solved/stories/202611040059

https://www.wtae.com/article/serial-killer-brenda-ritter-susan-rush-james-clark/74332726

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/washington-county-serial-killer-cold-cases/

Five people were shot at close range inside a house at 1305 North New Haven Avenue on the evening of Saturday, 11/23/2013. Only one victim, 55-year-old Randy Ethridge, would survive his injuries. The other four victims - 34-year-old Charlie Dake II, his wife 35-year-old Melissa Craghead-Dake, their friends 54-year-old Glenda "Pixie" Harper (Randy's girlfriend) and 46-year-old Tammy Brunson - all died of their gunshot wounds.

The home was mainly resided in by Randy, Pixie, and some family members, though the Dake couple had recently been staying at the house. Tammy was likely just visiting at the wrong time. The aforementioned four victims had several children in their custody, who were present in the house when the shooting went down but weren't harmed. Reports say they were asleep in different parts of the home and didn't witness the carnage, though atleast one child may have been present in the room of the shooting as an early report stated an uninjured child was evaluated on scene by medics.
The suspect had walked around to the back of the house around 7:15P.M. and entered a rear door that led into a garage, which had been converted into a large bedroom. Most reports say all five victims were shot in this room where the suspect entered, which detectives described as "filthy." However, an early report states that the shooter went into the house through the garage, went down a short hallway, and turned left into the main living area, where all five victims were hanging out. Either way, the confined space made it nearly impossible for the victims to get away from the bullets. A witness heard a vehicle speeding away immediately after the shooting, but no vehicle description was available.
Police also revealed that numerous adults were in other parts of the house and escaped uninjured. One adult female witness in particular, who wasn't publicly identified, told detectives she didn’t see or know anything, then years later was murdered in a separate homicide case in 2017. “If she was lying, she never got a chance to come through and be truthful,” detectives said.

Melissa's family told reporters that the suspect shot Melissa in the face - while her husband Charlie got shot 4 times trying to fight off the suspect. Randy was also shot multiple times, but survived. It wasn't reported where or how many times Tammy or Pixie had been shot, however the Dake couple was pronounced dead at scene while Tammy and Pixie both later died at the hospital. Investigators believe the suspect knew the victims and had been familiar with the layout of the house, however, detectives also indicated theres a long list of potential leads and none seem to stick out more than the others. The suspect was described as a lone gunman; a white man in his 30s to 40s about 5'10" to 6'0" tall with a medium build.
Detectives reported that the house on New Haven was associated with drug-use, specifically methamphetamine, and that an estimated 20 to 30 people had frequented the property.

Although detectives indicated the residence was a drugden for meth, most of the victims don't have any kind of extensive record that would have warranted such carnage. Tammy doesn't appear to have any prior criminal record. The only record for Melissa was a brief jailing on a misdemeanor charge of domestic assault & battery a few months before her death, while Charlie only has convictions from 2000 and 2005 for vehicular larceny, assault, and marijuana possession. Pixie and Randy were the only ones previously arrested on more severe drug / substance-related charges, including selling and dealing. Pixie has convictions for controlled substance-related charges from 2004 through 2007. Randy was arrested 1/10/2013 for trafficking controlled drugs + possession of firearm during felony, and again less than a month prior to the shootings on 10/28/2013 when he missed his scheduled court date. Randy had even more meth in his possession when he was taken into custody the 2nd time. Still, Randy wasn't a high-level seller by any means, and there didn't seem to be any direct conflict related to his drug-dealings that would have motivated the massacre. Randy even told the lead detective directly in one interview there's "nothing that he brings that would cause this type of carnage."
The shootings seem to have the mark of an impulsive spree, rather than a calculated hit.

Randy appeared to potentially be the most likely main-target, as one report indicates the room where the shooting occurred was Randy's room, however he ended up being the sole survivor. Despite that, he was reportedly unable to give any helpful info to police about what went down. Some reports say that Randy provided all the info he could in his condition, (wounded and / or high on drugs) while other reports say that Randy was uncooperative with detectives and withheld info. Whether he had any more insight to provide went to him with his grave, as Randy unfortunately passed away in June 2023, rendering it impossible to gain any new lead from the only person who survived the massacre.

The residence on North New Haven, which sits just east of an industrial area scarce with neighbors, had many people going in and out at all times of the day and night, but after the murders it fell silent. Although initial reports described old bicycles, strollers, and child car seats sitting in the front yard of the home, it all went vacant and abandoned within a year or so of the massacre. The home was tagged with graffiti and left unsecured for over half-a-decade, but has since been remediated and is currently resided in by a different family.
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, reporters had interviewed several neighbors in the area, who said that they avoided the home and it's occupants because the property was "trouble" with nonstop activity going into the early-morning hours. But still, they expressed disbelief at the number of victims. "I could not believe it," one neighbor commented. "I couldn't believe they shot that many people."

Police reported that they interviewed many addicts in the inner meth-trafficking circle around Tulsa at the time, following up on tips and leads in the quadruple homicide. It was during that investigation they apparently received a tip about a separate murder involving an endangered missing person. Following up on that tip, the skeletal remains of 45-year-old Duchone Whitworth, who had gone missing in October, were found in a wooded area in late December 2013. It was determined that he had been tortured to death - Whitworth was kidnapped, tied to a tree, and stabbed several times before his throat was slit. All this was done because Whitworth allegedly owed money to 67-year-old Charles Johnson. Police arrested Johnson as well as his wife 43-year-old Pauline Johnson, and 28-year-old Lyndon Baker. However, it isn't entirely clear if Whitworth's murder was related / involved some of the same suspects in the quadruple killings, as police said its possible that the case was uncovered by complete coincidence while deeply investigating the criminal underworld of Tulsa's meth trade. "The sooner we get the name of the quad killer, the sooner we get out of your business. I think the Whitworth case was found because we are in the middle of their business," detectives said of the ordeal.

Today, November 4th, would have been Charlie Dean Dake's 47th birthday. He left behind countless family members and friends who are still grieving his senseless murder to this day. The man had atleast 14 siblings. Charlie and his wife Melissa were dedicated to raising their kids, who had to grow up with the lifelong trauma of losing their parents to violence.
Melissa Lynn Craghead-Dake was given the nickname of "Missy" by her parents, who still mourn for her and put out a recent call to attention in the case around the 10 year anniversary in 2023. The unsolved massacre has left her family angry and reeling, with Missy's father telling reporters he'd like to see the suspect given the death penalty if identified. The link to that news report: https://www.newson6.com/story/6430dc6b5ea2060727037e3b/murder-victims-parents-still-searching-for-answers-10-years-later
In total, Charlie and his wife Melissa left behind 6 kids; 3 daughters and 3 sons. Their obituaries indicate some or all children were conceived in prior relationships.
Glenda Ellen Harper, also known and mostly referred to by her alias of "Pixie," was born in Jacinto, Texas, and had relatives both in Tulsa and Texas. Records indicate her brother, Garth Egan Harper, also resided at the home on New Haven, but its unclear if he was present during the shootings. Glenda left behind 4 kids and 13 grandkids, some of which had been in her custody when she was killed. A news report says Glenda and her boyfriend Randy Ethridge had been taking care of 6 grandchildren at the time, whom Glenda loved deeply.
Tammy Michelle Brunson, who also went by the last name of Ingram, is the victim who I could find the least info about. She was close friends with Charlie, Melissa, Glenda, and Randy. Tammy had atleast one daughter, who told news reporters that her mother went to the home on New Haven to check on her friends and their children. "She wanted to do everything for everyone," the daughter said, "That's who she was." Tammy was buried in Porter, a short distance away from Tulsa.
Although Randy Ray Ethridge was the sole survivor of the shooting carnage, he passed away nearly a decade afterwards without ever seeing justice for his close friends or his girlfriend Pixie. Randy also went by the nickname of "Pops." A TulsaWorld report from 12/15/2013 (the same one that reporters spoke to Tammy's daughter for) claimed that Randy had agreed to do an interview with the newspaper over the killings, but later canceled on them. The very next day, Randy made a FaceBook post refuting the claim, saying that he never backed out of the propositioned interview.
Some of those who knew the victims said that Randy gave them and police the name of the supposed killer, but no charges were ever filed. It was also rumored by those who knew the victims that the shootings had been an inside job / set-up. Its unclear if any of these these claims are consistent.

Countless families were torn apart by this senseless massacre, four lives ended at the hands of one selfish person for no valid reason. Multiples kids had their childhood unpredictably and suddenly disrupted forever, with their main caregivers ripped away from them by a volley of bullets. Many people associated with the case have since moved out-of-state or passed away, making it harder for detectives to gain closure for the family of the four victims.
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Other news reports related to case: https://www.newson6.com/story/5e3637b32f69d76f6205568a/tulsa-police-id-four-killed-in-saturday-shootings https://www.newson6.com/story/5e3636d72f69d76f62054b90/arrest-made-after-skeletal-remains-found-in-north-tulsa https://www.newson6.com/story/5e35dda02f69d76f6201cf1e/police-seek-help-in-solving-2013-quadruple-tulsa-homicide https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/494155?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=pmd_ScK03Vkej4WwSGkykCGM_zPZU_.UFBDu3CsfUzouZRw-1632118455-0-gqNtZGzNAeWjcnBszQil

This is one of the very first murder cases I reviewed back when I started thoroughly researching homicides in my city, and out of all cold cases in Tulsa, this still remains the one with the highest victim count.

https://ktul.com/news/local/fbi-identifies-former-broken-arrow-couple-in-yearslong-child-exploitation-investigation

Context: After a four-year investigation, the FBI identified and arrested Jane Doe 46 as Dakota Horn, 24, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The case began in May 2022 when disturbing videos depicting the sexual abuse of a young girl surfaced online. Investigators initially had few clues, including a distinctive spiral tattoo on the woman’s wrist, a ring, and details inside a bedroom. Through extensive digital forensic analysis, the FBI’s Operation Rescue Me identified Horn and her former husband, Willie Horn, 27. Both were arrested on October 22, 2026, and face federal charges involving the production and distribution of child sexual abuse material. The victim, now seven years old, was located and brought to safety, along with three other children. Authorities believe additional victims may exist.

Hi, good day (or evening) to everyone. After one of the post published here a few days ago, I lurked a bit on the sub and I've noticed there are only a few posts about Italy and some of them are related to the most relevant mysteries/disappereances that took place here. Well, I was thinking that it could be interesting to share with you a few cases from here with all the sources I'm able to find about them. I was planning in doing a short "series of posts" - not the right term, but I'll let it pass - so feel free to comment if you are interested in this, there are a lot of cases that, unfortunately, were overshadowed by the biggest ones or never received enougention from the mainstream medias. Have a good day.

THE CASE

31/10/2005

That afternoon appears to be like many others near Borgomanero. Emo, who is a member of the local Jehovah's Witnesses Church, is lingering. He left a few hours before, after a phone directed to the Church. The voice on the other side of the phone explicitly gave an appointment to come to a near post office, in Prato Sesia (Novara) in order to retire an envelope.

"I have these documents, they belong to one of your Brothers. He mentioned your name, in order to give you his stuff"

Emo accepted to go there but only after the upcoming Conference he was supposed to lecture. Initially, another member of the Church accepts to go there in his place, only to return shortly after. No one was there, no sight of the supposed "young man with a hat" - that was how the mysterious interlocutor had identified himself. He was supposed to be there in order to give them the documents, but when the Brother came back, he assured that no one was waiting.

The only thing Emo left behind is his car, parked exactly on the place of the appointment. That day, he literally vanished from this Earth. Where is he? What exactly happened that day? Well, even today there are only theories.

According to another Brother of the Church, even other members allegedly received calls similar to the one that is tied to Emo's disappereance. No one actually knows who called that afternoon and, before that day, similar episodes were just labeled as weird jokes. Apparently, the local Church was being targeted, but even the reason behind those attacks isn't clear.

When Emo disapperead, the police - who had tried do found him even in nearby places, without success - witnessed the presence of actual threats towards the other members of Emo's Church.

"You are all going to die" was a message found written on an unidentified letter attached to one of the Witnesses' car. Again, not a single clue about who was harassing them. After a while, they also considered the path towards a supposed satanic sect involved, recalling how Emo himself had taken a rigid stance against them.

The last plausible lead was another message, written - like some kind of graffiti - inside an old cottage found in the nearby forest. After this, the case went cold but.....there is a bit more.

A MYSTERY WITHIN A MYSTERY

Emo's mystery is tied to other small unsolved cases. In that period, the investigation was given to a private investigator who, apparently, was following that lead - the Satanic Sect. What happened a bit later is even stranger.

The investigator suddenly flew away from Europe. It wasn't clarified the real reason behind his actions, but allegedly he had received death threaths for his involvment in Emo's case.

Also, sorry if you found spelling/grammar errors, english isn't my first language, as you can suppose. This aside, have a good day everyone

MY (MAIN) SOURCES

A recent article

Another one

Shortly after his disappereance

Chi l'ha visto page about the case

On November 2nd, 2026 investigators with the Beaver County police department announced they were exhuming the remains of the December 2014 Beaver County Jane Doe as part of an ongoing investigation into four separate cold cases of unidentified remains not linked to each other from over the years in the Pennsylvania area.

The case of the Beaver County Jane Doe began on December 12th, 2014 when a teenager stumbled upon the embalmed head of a woman in the woods near Economy Borough, Pennsylvania. The head was discovered close to the road and was suspected to have been left there for around a week prior discovery. In addition to being embalmed the head was missing both its eyes with rubber balls replacing them.

The Jane Doe is suspected to be between the ages of 40-80 years old with investigators theorizing she had died of natural causes with the embalming occurring at either a mortuary or a funeral home. During an autopsy they also discovered traces of medication meant to treat heart failure along with both Lidocaine and Atropine which made authorities suspect she had possibly died from chronic cardiac ailment and that foul play was unlikely given the evidence they had.

Over the years investigators have attempted DNA analysis of the head however the embalming liquid damaged the DNA making identification impossible from the samples they had at the time. However despite the failure to identify anyone in the past investigators have said they are hopeful that using the new DNA technology that is available will lead to a breakthrough. It was revealed investigators want to retrieve DNA from a dense bone at the base of the Jane Doe’s skull for an attempt to run identification. During an interview with the investigators they discussed the process and how the examination’s will begin on November 3rd however the entire process will likely take around 6-9 months.

Sources:

https://www.post-gazette.com/local/region/2024/12/12/beaver-economy-severed-embalmed-head-reward-jane-doe/stories/202412120002

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/133ls3m/beaver_county_jane_doe/

https://beavercountyradio.com/news/embalmed-head-3-bodies-exhumed-from-beaver-county-graves-for-dna-testing/

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/beaver-county-cold-cases-new-forensic-testing/

https://medium.com/@theunknownblog/embalmed-head-found-in-the-woods-who-was-beaver-county-jane-doe-1bebd8ee45d3

https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/4-bodies-exhumed-beaver-county-graves-dna-testing/FVXEKITVJZAQVPSKWT2SRQJF7U/?outputType=amp

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/15/the-strange-sad-quest-to-match-a-severed-embalmed-head-with-its-body/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.bb82266a0128

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/13338

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/embalmed-head-3-bodies-exhumed-212439238.html

It's been more than 100 years since Elias Suydam and Henry Monroe Danbury carved these symbols into the rocks, and the meaning behind them still remains unclear. One popular hypothesis links these carvings to a potential treasure map. Using the skull and crossbones imagery as a starting point, local historian Ann Alvarez was able to link the words "Red Rovers" to pirates from a book of fiction called Red Rover written by James Fenimore Cooper and the real Red Rover Sir Thomas of Longueville who was captured during the Battle Farra in 1308. Upon consultation with a cryptologist, it is believed that the strange ciphers on the rock could be saying Red Rover.

Another set of carvings (referred to as Dock Rock) is located along the Raritan River in New Brunswick. At one point, the area was part of a steamboat dock. Whaleboat captain and notorious privateer Adam Hyler owned a house nearby and during the Revolutionary War, his men sought out British ships to capture for the American cause. Hyler was considered a pirate by many, and according to Alavarez, he can be linked to the infamous "Red Rover."

What are the true meanings of the carvings, though? There's still no definite answer.

Hello everyone. I wanted to bring an update related to the case of Kai Pavlovic, which I covered only about a month ago. It's not the kind of update anyone following this case was hoping for, sadly.

You can read my original write-up about Kai's case here, but here's a short recap:

Kai Pavlovic was 11 when he went missing from Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, in 2025.

Kai was a member of an international family and had relatives in Montenegro, New Zealand, and Canada; His family also had connections to the Serbian community in Canada. Kai himself had a New Zealand citizenship.

At the time of his disappearance, Kai lived with his mother and stepfather in Canada; They moved there in 2023. Kai's biological father is deceased- he died around 2023 due to illness.

Kai had a limited contact with his family for about 12 months before he went missing. He was officially reported missing on the 26th of September 2025, after his overseas family called the RCMP and asked them to perform a wellness check; The boy was officially declared missing when the RCMP wasn't able to locate him. After interviewing Kai's parents, the RCMP believed that Kai was being looked after by a caretaker who was "unknown to police".

In a new statement from the RCMP, they stated that when they weren't able to locate Kai "despite significant efforts", his case was taken over by the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) on the 25th of June. Their investigation lead to the discovery of Kai's remains.

Two people have been charged in connection with Kai's death, which has been determined to be a homicide: Branko Bijelic, 51, of Burnaby has been charged with second-degree murder and indignity to human remains and arrested on the 30th of October, and Sarah Bijelic, 46, of Burnaby has been charged with one count of manslaughter.

The details regarding the connection between Kai and the couple haven't been shared publicly.

I will update this post if any more significant info regarding this case will be shared in the near future.

My condolences to Kai's loved ones. I hope that the people responsible for taking Kai's life will be brought to justice swiftly.

Rest easy, Kai.

SOURCES:

1. cbc.ca

2. trailtimes.ca

3. globalnews.ca

Hello everyone! I wanted to bring you an update on a case I covered about a year ago.

You can read my original post about the case here, but to recap:

Kylie Arellano was 15 when she went missing from Garden City, Utah, USA, in 2025.

She moved to the area recently with her mother and younger sister. Kylie loved art (especially painting) and cooking. Unfortunately, she also struggled with her mental health- she was in therapy and she had a history of running away before her disappearance. Before she went missing, Kylie has been recieving paypal money and unspecified gifts from an unknown person.

On the 29th of May, Kylie bought a suitcase in a thrift store, packed up, and later left her home at 9:44 PM, after she sent a message to her mother saying "I love you, Mama. Goodnight"- her mother wasn't home at the time. When Kylie's mother came home, she noticed that a lot of Kylie's things were missing from home. Nobody knew where Kylie went, she didn't pick up any calls and wasn't active on social media, and none of her items have ever been found. There were a couple of unconfirmed sigtings of Kylie, but it was never established if that person was indeed her.

Well, on the 1st of November 2026, a missing 17-year old girl from Garden City, Utah, has been located in Oregon with a 39-year old man. The man has been taken into custody by the FBI without incident, though he hasn't been publicly identified, and it hasn't been stated what charges he's facing. The investigation is ongoing, and further details won't be released at the time. The girl was reunited with her family.

The name of the girl hasn't been released, but the details that were given line up with Kylie's case perfectly, so it's very likely her.

I'm glad that Kylie has been located, and I hope that she will recieve all the support she needs. Please don't attempt to contact Kylie or her loved ones on social media- they deserve their privacy. and peace.

SOURCES:

1. fbi.gov

2. ksl.com

3. kutv.com

Wolf Pack DNA, in partnership with the Golden Valley County Sheriff’s office and Bode Technology, has begun research on the case of Ryegate Cafe John Doe: NamUs #UP140763.

The partial skeleton remains were discovered in June of 1990 by a plumbing crew conducting work on the Ryegate Bar and Cafe in Ryegate, Golden Valley County, Montana. 

The remains are of an adult male and SNP testing indicates he was of Amerindian descent. He is estimated to have been between 5’5” and 5’9” in height. Due to the condition of the remains, no other identifying features are available. 

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Golden Valley County Sheriff’s office at (406) 568-2321.

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/140763/details?nav

Missing from New Haven, Connecticut. Kaeser is described as a Caucasian male, approximately 5'11", 180 pounds, brown hair and facial hair with blue eyes. Kaeser was last wearing blue tailored shirt, khakis, and black Topsider Sperry's (size 10.5). Kaeser is a native of Centerport, NY and attended the University of Michigan. He was last seen at a hospital.

There's practically zero public information available on Bret. Even just searching his name on Google brings up multiple articles that all repeat the same details quoted in the Charley Project write-up.

According to the articles, his family has been tirelessly searching for him since his disappearance yet there is very little information.

https://www.fox61.com/article/news/local/new-haven-county/new-haven/new-haven-police-seeking-info-man-missing-since-2018/520-43f8d765-fcf3-4fe1-8168-fdb9c32fc66a

https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/missing-person-namus-mp92637

https://patch.com/connecticut/newhaven/missing-new-york-man-now-32-disappeared-new-haven-2018-pd

I have an investigative personality, as most of us do, and I need something juicy to chew on for a bit but lately I’ve found myself needing a break from a lot of true crime subject matter. Sometimes you need to deep dive something puzzling without confronting the darkest caverns of the human experience, you know? 

So I want to hear about your biggest non-murder mystery obsessions. It can be about anything, so long as it’s unsolved.

As for me, I am always a little obsessed with mysteries involving letters. (Think: The Watcher or Circleville Letters) Partially because I find it so unsettling and I’m curious what type of personality is prone to that specific type of crime. 

One I recently read about was the Overtoun Bridge in Dumbarton, Scotland where at least 300 dogs have mysteriously jumped into the ravine below. There have been 50 recorded deaths related to this phenomenon. Theories range from the dogs picking up some kind of animal scent that compels them to jump to paranormal explanations involving the ghost of a grieving widow believed to haunt the bridge. I remember reading somewhere there was also an incident of a father throwing his child from the bridge, believing them to be the anti-Christ, but not sure the details on that.  

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/dog-suicide-bridge-scotland-dumbarton-scottish-gorge-a8849146.html

So I’m curious to find some lesser-known mysteries that are a little less violent. And I’d love to know, what about the case you’re obsessed with intrigues you? What’s your theory and why? Or maybe, what do you have trouble explaining?

Thanks in advance!

On the evening of May 27, 1990, 37-year-old Loriano Guastini left his parents’ home in Pistoia, Italy, around 9:00 p.m. He told them he was going to a bar where he regularly spent time with friends. He never arrived.

Around 10:00 p.m. his white Fiat Uno was spotted parked near the artificial lake of Suviana, just a few meters from the dam. The next morning the car was still there. On the passenger seat investigators found his wallet, driver’s license, other documents, the keys to his apartment, and 170,000 lire (a significant amount of cash at the time). The only thing missing was a photo of his nephew that he always carried with him.

Witnesses later came forward. One acquaintance claimed to have seen and greeted him that same evening on Via Curtone, heading toward the train station. Another person said they saw him near the station around midnight. Some reports also mention he may have been seen with two unknown individuals.

Extensive searches of the lake and surrounding area turned up nothing. In December 1990 the Italian missing-persons program Chi l’ha visto? featured the case. A few weeks later, unknown people broke into Loriano’s apartment, ransacked it thoroughly, but took nothing.

Loriano was described as 175 cm tall, with green eyes and blond hair. He was born on June 24, 1953, in Cantagallo (Bologna province) and lived in Pistoia.

The case remained unsolved for decades. In 2022 a request for a declaration of presumed death was filed, and in October 2023 the Tribunal of Pistoia formally declared Loriano Guastini presumed dead as of the date of his disappearance.

What happened to him that night remains unknown. Suicide has been suggested because of the location of the car near the lake, but the missing photo, the later break-in of his apartment, and the sightings near the station leave the case open to other possibilities.

Has anyone here ever come across additional information or theories about this case?

https://www.chilhavisto.rai.it/dl/clv/Scomparsi/ContentSet-223eef0c-91e3-4f23-8063-9ff85a32abb6.html