12 February 1993 CCTV footage from the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle. Thompson and Venables were shown casually observing children and selecting a target. The boys were absent from school, which was a common occurrence for them. Thompson and Venables were stealing a variety of items, including candy, a troll doll, batteries, and a…
Jessica Marie Lunsford, a nine-year-old American girl from Homosassa, Florida, was murdered in February 2005 (6 October 1995 – 24 February 2005). In the early hours of February 24, 2005, John Couey, a 46-year-old convicted s*ex offender who resided nearby, abducted Lunsford from her home. Over the course of the weekend, she was held captive…
This month, Edmonton was the scene of Canada’s most severe incident of random stabbing to date, despite the fact that it received significantly less attention than other cases of unfamiliar assault. On the 5th of May, shortly after the conclusion of classes at Crawford Plains School, a mother and child were assaulted by an erratic…
Police announced Wednesday that two bodies believed to be those of a missing Vancouver woman and her 7-year-old daughter were discovered in a rural area east of Washougal. At approximately 9:40 a.m., the Clark County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of suspicious circumstances. According to the agency, a man walking his dog discovered what…
On September 5, 2017, Abby Lynn Patterson, age 20, was last seen in Lumberton, North Carolina. She disappeared after telling her mother she would return in an hour after leaving the house. Background Abby Lynn Patterson was born to mother Samantha Lovette on February 15, 1997. Patterson was visiting her mother in Lumberton, North Carolina,…
26 years of age Sara Ebersole was last seen on March 3, 2023 in Reddick, Florida. She vanished after leaving her job and entering a vehicle with two unknown individuals. Background Sara Gail Ebersole was born on September 18, 1996, and has seven older siblings. Ebersole was raised primarily by her maternal uncle and aunt…
Twenty-year-old Christopher Thompkins was working as a surveyor when he disappeared on January 25, 2002. He has not been heard from or seen since that awful day. Christopher was a devout Christian who was well-liked by everyone in the town. He lived in Ellerslie, Georgia, with his mother. He left his house at about eight…
On February 20, 2006, Robert Turner was only five years old when his mother collapsed in their Detroit, Michigan home. Emergency operators Sharon Nichols and Terri Sutton threatened to call the police if Turner did not allow them to speak with his mother, who was already dying and unable to speak. “Okay, then she’s going…
In 1993, Tricia Reitler was a freshman at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana. She was a psychology major. She did well in school, and her grade point average was high. On March 29, 1993, around 8 p.m., was the last time anyone saw her. That night, Reitler was working on a term paper and…
On June 19, 2014, Diana Duve, a nurse from Moldova who worked in Vero Beach, went to see her ex-boyfriend Mike Jones after a very bad breakup. She told her mother that she wouldn’t be coming back home, and then she mysteriously vanished. Jones had told Duve’s parents that she was safe with him, but…