Jersey Dianne Bridgeman was a 6-year-old girl who was abducted from her home while she was sleeping in Bentonville, Arkansas, on November 20, 2012, six days after her birthday. Later that day, Bridgeman was found murdered. Her case garnered considerable media attention, which spurred debates about child protection in part due to the prior convictions and lengthy sentences for … Read more
On July 18, 2018, Mollie Cecilia Tibbetts, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student, disappeared while jogging near her home in Brooklyn, Iowa. A month later, police identified 24-year-old Cristhian Bahena Rivera as a suspect in connection with the disappearance; surveillance footage showed Rivera’s car following Tibbetts on her jog. Rivera led police to the body … Read more
Geraldine Anita Largay was a retired nurse and U.S. Air Force veteran from Brentwood, Tennessee, who was flip-flop thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail. On July 24, 2013, she was reported overdue at a trail crossing on State Route 27 in Carrabassett Valley in Maine by her husband. One of the largest searches in the state’s history … Read more
Asunta Yong Fang Basterra Porto (born Yong Fang; 30 September 2000 – 21 September 2013)[1] was a Chinese-born Spanish girl whose body was found in Teo, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, on 22 September 2013, shortly before her thirteenth birthday. The coroner determined that she had died by asphyxiation and had been given at least twenty-seven … Read more
The murder of Mackenzie Lueck occurred on June 17, 2019. Lueck, a 23-year-old student at the University of Utah and self-proclaimed “sugar baby”, was reported missing[1] and her bound, burned, and buried remains were later discovered.[2][3] Ayoola Ajayi, 31, was arrested and charged with Lueck’s kidnapping and murder.[4][5] In October 2020, Ajayi pleaded guilty to … Read more
On October 15, 2018, 21-year-old Jake Thomas Patterson abducted 13-year-old Jayme Lynn Closs after fatally shooting her parents, James and Denise Closs, at their home just outside of Barron, Wisconsin, at 12:53 a.m.[3] Patterson took Closs to a house 70 miles (110 km) away in rural Gordon, Wisconsin, and held her in captivity for 88 … Read more
Dennis W. Day (July 12, 1942 – c. July 17, 2018) was an American actor, singer, dancer, and theater director, best known as one of the original cast members of The Mickey Mouse Club. After ending his career as a child actor, he went on to work as a theater director before relocating to Oregon in the 1980s. Day … Read more
On 29 December 1969, Muriel Freda McKay, a 55‑year‑old Australian woman, was kidnapped in London in a case that became one of the United Kingdom’s earliest murder convictions without a body. She was abducted after being mistaken for Anna Murdoch, the then‑wife of media proprietor Rupert Murdoch. McKay was married to Alick McKay (sometimes referred … Read more
Patricia Ann Spencer (born January 10, 1953) and Pamela Sue Hobley (born May 24, 1954) were two American teenagers who went missing on Halloween, Friday, October 31, 1969, in Oscoda, Iosco County, Michigan, after presumably committing truancy together, as they had both been seen walking in each other’s company shortly before.[1][2][3] The pair were aged 16 and 15, respectively, and “were not considered friends” at the time they disappeared.[4] Their … Read more
On 24 May 1968, 19-year-old Ong Beang Leck (Chinese: 王勉励; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ông Bián-lē), the son of a millionaire, was last seen leaving his house. His family received a call two days later, being told by the caller that Ong was kidnapped and a ransom of S$100,000 was demanded. After a second phone call in the second week of Ong’s disappearance, … Read more