San Angelo, Texas — 2005–2017 For years, Naomi Michelle Miller was simply gone. She disappeared in Texas in 2005, but the circumstances surrounding her disappearance remained unclear for more than a decade. There was no confirmed contact from Naomi. No activity appeared in her personal or banking records. And yet, for years, she was not … Read more
Bristol, England — February 2015 Sixteen-year-old Rebecca Marie Watts, known to her family as Becky, was supposed to be safe inside her own home. On the morning of February 19, 2015, Becky was at the family house on Crown Hill in St George, Bristol. Her stepmother, Anjie Galsworthy, was the last person in the household … Read more
Colorado City, Texas — December 27, 2010 Thirteen-year-old Hailey Darlene Dunn came home from school on a Monday afternoon. She was a student at Colorado City Middle School. She was also a cheerleader. That afternoon, Hailey told her mother’s boyfriend, Shawn Adkins, that she planned to visit her father, Clint Dunn, who lived nearby. She … Read more
On 19 November 1980, the body of 8-year-old Goh Beng Choo (Chinese: 吴明珠; pinyin: Wú Míngzhū) was found behind a Taoist temple in Bukit Batok, Singapore.[1][2][3][4][5] Background Goh Beng Choo’s family lived in the now-demolished village of Jalan Petua in present-day Bukit Batok. Beng Choo, a Primary Two student of Jurong Primary School, performed well … Read more
Carol Ann Cole (November 5, 1963 – December 1980; previously nicknamed as “Bossier Doe” or “Bossier’s Doe” and officially known as Cold Case No. 81-018329)[1][2] was a 17-year-old American homicide victim whose body was discovered in early 1981 in Bellevue, Bossier Parish, Louisiana.[3] The victim remained unidentified until 2015, when DNA tests confirmed her identity. … Read more
Around 11:40 p.m. on September 11, 2001, Henryk Siwiak (1955–2001), a Polish immigrant to the United States, was fatally shot on a street in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City,[1] where he had mistakenly gone in order to start a new job. After being shot once in the lung, Siwiak was able to … Read more
Belgrade, Serbia — April 25, 2000 On an April night in 2000, Živorad “Žika” Petrović returned to the street where his parents lived. He was the chief executive of Jat Airways, Serbia’s national flag carrier, and had held the position since 1992. But on the night of April 25, 2000, he never made it safely … Read more
Stirling, South Australia — 2006–2007 In the early days of social media, the internet was still something many families were learning to understand. Teenagers were discovering chat rooms, instant messaging and websites like MySpace, while parents were only beginning to realize how easily a stranger could create an entirely false identity online. There were no … Read more
The house should have been quiet. It was the early hours of 4 January 1983, and ten-year-old Louise Bell was asleep in her bedroom at the family home in Hackham West, South Australia. Her younger sister was asleep in the same room. By morning, Louise was gone. There was no obvious explanation for how a … Read more
John Joseph Joubert IV (July 2, 1963 – July 17, 1996) was an American serial killer who was convicted of killing three boys in Maine and Nebraska between 1982 and 1983. He pleaded guilty in Nebraska to the murders of Danny Joe Eberle and Christopher Walden and was sentenced to death. He was later convicted … Read more