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Oak Grove Jane Doe
Oak Grove Jane Doe is an unidentified murder victim found dismembered in the Willamette River south of Portland, Oregon near Oak Grove over a period of several months in 1946. The first discovery consisted of a woman's torso which was found wrapped in burlap, floating near the Wisdom Light moorage on April 12, 1946; this led the media to dub the case the Wisdom Light Murder. The arms and one thigh of the victim were…
2008 · North CarolinaMissingDisappearance of Jamie Fraley
In the early hours of April 8, 2008, Jamie Fraley, a 22‑year‑old woman from Gastonia, North Carolina, told a friend by phone that she was going to the hospital for the third time in 24 hours due to a stomach flu. When asked who was taking her, she said it was another friend but declined to identify the person. She has not been seen since.
1998 · New YorkMissingDisappearance of Suzanne Lyall
On the night of March 2, 1998, Suzanne Gloria Lyall, a 19‑year‑old undergraduate at the State University of New York at Albany, left her job at the Babbage's computer store in Crossgates Mall in the nearby suburb of Westmere after the store had closed. She is believed to have taken a CDTA city bus from the mall back to the university's Uptown Campus, where a classmate later reported seeing her get off the bus at…
1987 · MissouriOverturnedJohnny Lee Wilson case
The Johnny Lee Wilson case refers to the murder of 79-year-old Pauline Martz of Aurora, Missouri in 1986 that resulted in the wrongful imprisonment of a 20-year-old man named Johnny Lee Wilson. He had confessed to the murder days after it occurred. As a result of a guilty plea, Wilson did not receive a trial by a jury, and was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in 1987.
1996 · TennesseeUnsolvedMurder of Blair Adams
Robert Dennis Blair Adams (December 28, 1964 – July 11, 1996) was a Canadian man found murdered in a parking lot of an under-construction hotel off Interstate 40 outside of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. His murder remains unsolved.
2017 · KansasMissingSuicide of Randy Potter
On September 12, 2017, police investigating a report of a foul odor emanating from a parked truck at Kansas City International Airport (KCI) discovered a heavily decomposed body under a blanket in the front seat. The race and sex could not be determined at first, but it was later identified as Randall Wayne "Randy" Potter (February 13, 1963 – January 17, 2017), who had last been seen leaving his Lenexa, Kansas, home…
1990 · GeorgiaMissingDisappearance of Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook
The disappearance of Dannette Latonia Millbrook and Jeannette Latrice Millbrook is an American unsolved missing persons case in which fraternal twins from Augusta, Georgia, disappeared on March 18, 1990, when they were 15 years old. Their surname is often misspelled as "Millbrooks" and Jeannette's middle name is often given as "Latressa" due to errors on police reports. The twins were last known to have been seen by…
2001 · NebraskaMissingDisappearance of Jason Jolkowski
On June 13, 2001, Jason Anthony Jolkowski, a 19-year-old from Omaha, Nebraska, disappeared while walking from his home to his former high school to meet a co-worker for a ride to work. He has not been seen since. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his parents successfully campaigned for the creation of Jason's Law, a statewide database intended to improve the reporting and tracking of missing persons in Nebraska.
2014 · South CarolinaMissingDisappearance of Tammy Kingery
On the morning of September 20, 2014, Tammy Kingery (born April 13, 1977), a nurse in South Carolina, called her husband Park from work and asked him to take her home as she was not feeling well. He did, and afterwards went to run some errands with his two sons. When they returned, the house was locked and Tammy was not there.
2013 · FloridaMissingDisappearance of Tiffany Daniels
On August 12, 2013, at 4:43 p.m, Tiffany Daniels, a 25‑year‑old theater technician at Pensacola State College in Pensacola, Florida, left work after telling her supervisor she would not be returning for a few days but did not explain why. She briefly returned home afterwards, but her housemate, who was on the phone, did not see her. Daniels has not been seen since.
1962 · New JerseyMissing
William Ebeneezer Jones Jr.
William Ebeneezer Jones Jr (March 5, 1959 – disappeared December 17, 1962), also known as Billy Jones, was three years old when he was last seen outside of his neighbor's house in Vineland, New Jersey around 11:45 a.m on December 17, 1962. His case is considered one of the oldest missing children under-five-years-old cases in New Jersey.
1969 · TennesseeMissingDisappearance of Dennis Martin
Dennis Lloyd Martin (born June 20, 1962) was an American child who disappeared on June 14, 1969, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee at the age of six, six days before his seventh birthday. The search effort was the most extensive in the park's history, involving approximately 1,400 searchers and a 56-square-mile (150 km2) area.
1992 · TexasMissingDisappearance of Kelly Dae Wilson
Kelly Dae Wilson (born May 18, 1974) was an American teenager who went missing on January 5, 1992, from Gilmer, Texas.
1994 · ArkansasMissingDisappearance of Cleashindra Hall
Cleashindra Denise Hall (born March 30, 1976) is an American woman who has been missing since May 9, 1994. Hall was also known as Clea. At the time of her disappearance, Cleashindra was two weeks away from graduating high school.
1987 · WashingtonMissingDisappearance of Julie Weflen
Julie Ann Weflen (born May 3, 1959) is a missing woman who was last seen on September 16, 1987. She disappeared from her workplace in Spokane County, Washington. Her case is considered a presumed homicide although her body has never been found and there are still no suspects.
1990 · MichiganMissingDisappearance of Paige Renkoski
Paige Marie Renkoski (born February 2, 1960) was a substitute schoolteacher from Okemos, Michigan who disappeared on May 24, 1990. She was last seen talking to two men on the shoulder of Interstate 96 near Fowlerville, Michigan. Renkoski's disappearance is one of Michigan's longest running cold cases.
1969 · MarylandUnsolvedMurder of Catherine Cesnik
Catherine Anne Cesnik (born November 17, 1942; disappeared November 7, 1969) was a Roman Catholic religious sister and a teacher at Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. On November 7, 1969, Cesnik disappeared. Her body was discovered on January 3, 1970, near a garbage dump in the Baltimore suburb of Lansdowne.
1988 · TexasMissing
Disappearance of Susan Smalley and Stacie Madison
Susan Renee Smalley (born September 19, 1969) and Stacie Elisabeth Madison (born June 17, 1970) were two young women from Carrollton, Texas, United States who disappeared on the morning of March 20, 1988.
1949MissingDisappearance of Dorothy Forstein
Dorothy "Dora" Forstein (born Dorothy Cooper, 1909) was an American woman who went missing after being last seen at her Philadelphia home on October 18, 1949.
1989OverturnedPatricia Stallings
Patricia Stallings (born 1964 or 1965) is an American woman who was wrongfully convicted of murder after the death of her son Ryan on September 7, 1989. Because testing seemed to indicate an elevated level of ethylene glycol in Ryan's blood, authorities suspected antifreeze poisoning, and arrested Stallings the next day. She was convicted of murder in early 1991, and sentenced to life in prison.
1628 · New HampshireMissingDavid Thompson
David Thompson or David Thomson (c. 1588 – disappeared 1628) was an early Scot settler of the New England area, considered the founder and first non-native settler of New Hampshire. He was granted a land patent for Thompson Island in Boston Harbor, which continues to bear his name.
1971 · TexasUnsolvedMurders of Sally McNelly and Shane Stewart
Sally Ann McNelly (March 26, 1970 – July 4, 1988) and Shane Paul Stewart (August 5, 1971 – July 4, 1988) were two teenagers who were murdered near Lake Nasworthy in San Angelo, Texas after spending the evening watching a fireworks display on the Fourth of July in 1988. Their murders, which remain unsolved, were attributed to rumors of a Satanic cult in which they both were alleged to be involved. The case received…
1887 · New JerseyUnsolved
Rahway murder of 1887
The Rahway murder of 1887 is the murder of an unidentified young woman whose body was found in Rahway, New Jersey on March 25, 1887. She is also known as the Unknown Woman or the Rahway Jane Doe. Four brothers traveling to work at the felt mills by Bloodgood's Pond in Clark, New Jersey early one morning found the young woman lying off Central Avenue near Jefferson Avenue several hundred feet from the Central Avenue…
1926 · OregonMissing
Disappearance of Marvin Clark
On October 30, 1926, Marvin Alvin Clark, an American man, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while traveling to visit his daughter in Portland, Oregon during the Halloween weekend. Clark's case is considered the oldest active missing person case in the United States. Clark left his home in Tigard, Oregon, that afternoon to meet his daughter in downtown Portland.