1993 South St. Paul Murder Unsolved

Left: Todd Hanson and Chad Birkeland

My Fox Twincities - MN, USA

1993 South St. Paul Murder Unsolved

Published : Monday, 17 Aug 2009, 9:06 AM CDT

SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn. - On May 2nd, 1993 Todd Hanson and his friend Chad Birkeland disappeared from South St. Paul. Police are still looking for clues into what happened.

On May 13th of 1993 25-year-old Birkeland's body was recovered from the Mississippi River near Hastings. 22-year-old Hanson has never been located. Both men are featured on one of the cold case playing cards released by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

If you have any information about what happened to Todd Hanson or Chad Birkeland call the BCA tipline at 1-877-996-6222.

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/metro/Cold_Case_Chad_Birkeland_Todd_Hanson

Family struggles to cope with father's cold-case disappearance

Left: Waldir Pedersoli

Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA

Family struggles to cope with father's cold-case disappearance

Police have no leads after man with Alzheimer's vanished in 2007
by Liz Skalski Staff Writer

In August 2007, John Pedersoli was in the middle of coaching a soccer practice when his wife came to tell him his father, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, had disappeared.

Pedersoli wasn't alarmed. He assumed he would find his father walking around his Lanham neighborhood, just like the previous times his father had gone missing.

Now it has been nearly two years since Waldir Pedersoli, who was 75 and had trouble walking and seeing at the time of his disappearance, vanished on Aug. 24, 2007. Investigators say they have no new information, and family members are losing hope that he will be found alive. (more...)

FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY REMEMBERED

SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA

FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY REMEMBERED

By MELISSA M. SCALLAN

GULFPORT — Gayle Goodwin was a teenager in Alabama when Hurricane Camille hit in 1969, but for the past few years, she has attended the memorial service for Faith, Hope and Charity, the three storm victims who were never identified.

Goodwin said after Hurricane Katrina, she realized how important it is to remember everyone in the community.

“These are somebody’s daughters, aunts, nieces,” Goodwin said. “They are part of our society and they just disappeared.”


Goodwin was one of a small group who attended Monday morning’s service at Evergreen Cemetery in Gulfport honoring the three unidentified women who were killed 40 years ago during Camille.

The service has been held since the mid-1970s.

“It is very humbling to stand before you 40 years after Hurricane Camille,” said Rupert Lacy, director of the Harrison County Emergency Management Agency. (more...)

Missing Crimora Mom Now Gone A Full Year

Left: Margaret Gail Stamper-White

Harrisonburg Daily News Record - VA, USA

Cold Case Posted 2009-08-18

Missing Crimora Mom Now Gone A Full Year

By Pete DeLea

CRIMORA - For the past year, Brittany White has thought about her mom constantly.

The 17-year-old White has been busy making phone calls and talking to anyone who might know where her mother is.

Margaret Gail Stamper-White was reported missing about a year ago from her Crimora home, where she lived with a man who was named a suspect in his wife's murder roughly six years ago.

"We just want to have her back, and if we can't, we want to know what happened," said White, of Anawalt, W.Va. "It's been a year ... we need some closure to the case."

Fearing The Worst

On July 29, the White family contacted the Augusta County Sheriff's Office to report the 35-year-old woman missing. The family said she hadn't been seen since mid-May, adding that she would disappear for short periods of time but would always resurface.

Deputies say Stamper-White, who is 5 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs 110 pounds, was living with Charles Melvin Spencer on Spencer Lane.

The blond-haired, blue-eyed woman had no driver's license, no vehicle, no bank account or credit card, and she left her cell phone behind, deputies say. (more...)

Jax woman's disappearance remains a mystery

Jacksonville Journal-Courier - FL, USA

Jax woman's disappearance remains a mystery

5 years later, trail is cold in search for Rosa Butler

August 18, 2009 12:08 AM
BY MARIA NAGLE
Jacksonville Journal-Courier

Five years after her sudden disappearance, relatives of Rosa L. Butler believe she’s alive, but still do not know where she’s gone or why she left.

Her mother, Connie Butler of Jacksonville, spent Friday doing odds and ends around the house to take her mind off the day’s significance.

“I just can’t understand it really,” she said. “I can’t understand why she has not contacted us. I was thinking she might call.”

Between 6:30 and 7 a.m. Aug. 14, 2004, Rosa Butler’s youngest child and her companion of more than 22 years, Carl Bryant, realized she was missing from their Jacksonville residence.

The day before, Rosa Butler, 40, had a yard sale and told her mother to make sure she came back to help with the second day.

Connie Butler arrived to find nothing outside. (more...)

'Every missing person is somebody's child

Left: Jimmy Charles Scott

Kilgore News Herald - TX, USA

'Every missing person is somebody's child

By BRENDA BROWN knhedit@kilgorenewsherald.com

Marie Martin of Henderson knows her brother was no angel — he had issues with drugs and alcohol and the law over in Cherokee County knew his name long before he disappeared.

But after 50-year-old Jimmy Charles Scott vanished on Nov. 3, 2001, Martin says law enforcement wrote off his case almost immediately and that has never really changed.

Still, his big sister mourns his loss and looks for news of Scott even today, hoping without hope and knowing that he was likely murdered by someone he probably knew.

Because Martin knows the pain of losing a loved one and never really knowing what happened, she says she is sympathetic to others in the same predicament and wants everyone to know about the 6th annual "On the Road to Remember" Nationwide Tour for Missing Persons, which will make a stop Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the Henderson Plaza Shopping Center parking lot (in front of Tractor Supply), 2309 US Hwy. 79 South.

Cal Riley and 94 West Band will perform and Martin encourages people to bring their lawn chairs to hear the music and sit a spell in between looking at the photos of missing people from Texas and across the nation. (more...)

Skeletal remains ID'ed

Left: Ashley Oliver

MyFoxOrlando.com - FL, USA

Skeletal remains ID'ed

Published : Tuesday, 18 Aug 2009, 8:18 PM EDT

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - Skeletal remains found in Orange County have been identified as those belonging to a woman who was reported missing four years ago.

The bones were recovered and sent to a Federal Bureau of Investigation's laboratory for forensic examination and identification.

The FBI, through the use of DNA, identified the remains as Ashley Oliver, 21, a young woman reported missing from her residence at 600 S. County Road 13 by a family member on June 16, 2005.

Investigators have declined to release exactly where the body was located, the date she was found, who discovered her, or how long they believe she was at the location where her remains were found. The case has been turned over to homicide for further investigation. (more...)

Defense Asks For Change Of Venue In Dismemberment Case

I thought I had posted a case about a woman, in AZ possibly, convicted of her husband or bf killing, just part of his body was ever located. If someone remembers his name please tell me. I've created a new label for partial remains missing that's why. Thanks!


Left: Mekole Harris

WHNS - SC, USA

Defense Asks For Change Of Venue In Dismemberment Case

Clarence Jenkins Appears In Court

POSTED: 10:01 am EDT August 18, 2009

GREENVILLE, S.C. -- The man accused of killing a woman and leaving her severed hands and feet on the steps of two homes last year was in court on Monday.

Clarence Jenkins, 24, and his wife, 20-year-old Carman Jenkins, were charged in connection with the death of 34-year-old Mekole Harris in April 2008.

Authorities said that Harris’ hands and feet were cut off, put in bags and placed in front of two homes in Greenville.

Clarence Jenkins was in a Greenville County courtroom on Monday as his attorney made a request for a continuance on the trial that was set to begin in November. His attorney said he would not be ready in time.


The defense also filed a motion for a change of venue.

The judge made no decision on either of the motions on Monday.

The remainder of Harris’ body has never been found.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/20432/suri-turns-journalist-film-inspired.html

FBI Agents Resume Search Of Sea Gate Home

Left: Irena Malezhik

WCBS-TV New York - NY, USA

FBI Agents Resume Search Of Sea Gate Home

Neighbors Of Up-Scale Coney Island Community Shocked By Latest Developments
Irina Malezhik Has Been Missing Since Oct. 2007; Authorities Believe She May Be Buried In Basement

Reporting
Magee Hickey BROOKLYN (CBS)

(8/18/2009)
The FBI and New York City Police are continuing to search Tuesday for the body of a woman who vanished two years ago. Authorities are digging through the basement of a house in Brooklyn.

It was a tip to the FBI that led a team of agents and NYPD detectives to bring in a cadaver-sniffing dog and special, heavy equipment to search the basement of the Sea Gate home owned by Julia and Dimitriy Yakovlev.

The Sea Gate couple has already been charged with stealing the identity of the missing Russian court translator. Irina Malezhik had been working on Russian mob cases in federal court, so naturally her neighbors fear the worst.

"If she was involved with the Russians they'll never find her," Roz Lichtmann said. (more...)

'Jane Doe' now has Facebook page

The Reporter - WI, USA

'Jane Doe' now has Facebook page

By Russell Plummer • The Reporter • August 19, 2009

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children gave Fond du Lac County’s “Jane Doe” a face.

Fond du Lac County

Mick Fink has vowed to be her voice.
And detectives now hope the world’s most popular open source database can help give her a name.
On Monday, a series of e-mails and a court order written by Fond du Lac County Circuit Court Judge Dale English paid off when “Jane Doe” got her own page on the Web site Facebook.
Three deer hunters found the body of a woman on Nov. 23, 2008, in a wooded area behind W4617 Skyline Drive in the town of Ashford. Since then, even with a reconstruction of her face, no solid leads have formed, said Lt. Bill Flood.
Detective Charles Sosinski announced during a June press conference he was creating a Web page for the woman on social networking Web sites Facebook and Myspace. (more...)

Found remains

Human bones in northwestern Minnesota dug up by workers may be 50 ...
Examiner.com - MN, USA

Apparent Human Remains Found In Chesterfield
WRIC - VA, USA

Human skeletal remains found in Crystal River
ABC Action News - FL, USA

Skull found near ski resort, search on for rest of body
The Salt Lake Tribune - UT, USA

Judge clears perjury charges linked to McHenry teen's disappearance

Left: Brian Carrick

Chicago Daily Herald - IL, USA

Judge clears perjury charges linked to McHenry teen's disappearance

By Charles Keeshan Daily Herald Staff

A judge Wednesday cleared a McHenry man of allegations he lied to a grand jury when he denied telling a former friend he knows what happened to a 17-year-old high school student who vanished nearly seven years ago and is believed murdered.

McHenry County Judge Sharon Prather ruled that testimony from the friend, who claimed Mario Casciaro told him how the teen died and where his body was dumped, was not enough to convict Casciaro of two perjury charges.

"(Case law) dictates that the testimony of a single witness is sufficient only if that testimony is confirmed or corroborated by other evidence," Prather said. "The state has failed to do so. (more...)

Commentary: Still no answers on Depies after 17 years

Left: Laurie Depies

Appleton Post Crescent - WI, USA

Commentary: Still no answers on Depies after 17 years

August 19, 2009

There was plenty of big news in 1992. Milwaukee serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer went to prison for life. Hurricane Andrew blazed a trial of destruction in Florida. Bill Clinton ascended to the presidency. Riots broke out in Los Angeles after police officers accused in the Rodney King beating were found not guilty.

It also was the year Laurie Depies vanished from a Town of Menasha apartment complex.
The baffling case of the then-20-year-old Appleton woman captured the attention of the public and the media. And it remains a source of considerable interest today, the 17th anniversary of her disappearance.
The missing persons case has been investigated exhaustively by the Town of Menasha Police Department and the state Department of Justice. There have been intriguing developments and suspects have surfaced along the way, but the case remains unsolved. (more...)

Additional link: http://www.lauriedepies.com/

Cold disappearance case reopened by DA's office

That's great! I had seen from the Charley Project Mary's case had been added to the NCMEC but the investigation reopened that's even better.

Left: Mary Stuart

Times-Standard - Eureka,CA,USA

Cold disappearance case reopened by DA's office

Allison White/The Times-Standard
Posted: 08/19/2009 01:30:09 AM PDT

A nearly 32-year-old case involving the disappearance of a Honeydew woman and her two children has regained momentum, according to Humboldt County District Attorney's Office investigators who announced Tuesday they have new leads and are looking for more.

Mary Stuart, 32, and her two daughters, Fannie, 1, and Jessie, 2, disappeared from Honeydew on Dec. 10, 1977, after they left to get groceries. The family's station wagon was found a few miles from their home on Jan. 19, 1978, on an old logging road. Groceries were still in the car and the car's gas line was broken, according to a Jan. 20, 1978, Times-Standard story following the investigation.

The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office initially reported that there was no evidence of foul play and no sign of a struggle near the car, according to the story. (more...)

Neighbor Says Thompsons "Reclusive"

TheDenverChannel.com - CO, USA

Neighbor Says Thompsons "Reclusive"

Kids Say They Cleaned House Before Thompson Made Missing Children's Report
Tyler Lopez, 7NEWS Reporter

POSTED: 10:14 am MDT August 18, 2009

CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- Purple, polka-dot pants, a white sweatshirt and a photo from the Grand Canyon were some of the more intriguing items introduced as evidence Tuesday in the Aaron Thompson trial.

The clothing, passed among jurors, was used by police to obtain Aarone Thompson's DNA profile.

Aarone was reported missing on Nov. 14, 2005. Her father, Aaron Thompson, is now on trial in connection to her death.


The strangest item introduced Tuesday was a photo taken at the Grand Canyon with two kids, possibly Aarone and her older brother, though that was never clarified by prosecutors. They both were wearing T-shirts and shorts, with the boy in a red T-shirt and the smaller girl in a purple outfit with white tennis shoes.(more...)

Melodie Rowe - Comparison pictures

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-06-24-unidentified-remains_N.htm

Just a warning

Warning

As some of you know 3 years and a half ago I was kicked out from the Doe Network with one of my friends who was one of their moderators board member because she dared to tell me the highly confidential matter and various reason for a banning that could hinder a law enforcement investigation (according to them):

"They wanted Titi or Toto as a member liaison"

which was a much more important thing than all I did for this group that you can judge by this blog.

And if you know what they themselves do for this group it becomes even more ridiculous.

But they were probably there thinking: "Me or the missing and unidentified? ... Meeeeee or the missing and unidentified? ... ME or the missing and unidentified? ... <3 Me <3 or the missing and unidentified? The little vexations that my beautiful sublime unequalled ego endured because of the... oh... unfounded... critics of these persons or the missing and unidentified... Hmm... Dilema, dilema... Oh, well... there are priorities in life: ME!"

The actual reason for my friend and I's banning was that they could not stand that we tried to show them they did wrong at various levels of the group, starting with their constant meaness to their members.

Pettiness is no limit, that's what they taught me.

However one of their mods who is pathologically paranoid went to disclose on a public board (not theirs) my real name that she knew as a priviledge of her admin position on there because in an access of paranoia she perceived the fact that I told her I googled her and told her I came accross a board she was on and regretted she wasn't as friendly on the Doe Network as: stalking (for the info I know her for six years and she owes me about 1/5 or more of her site and she is bizarre so I wanted to know what was up with her).

That and the fact that when I talk to her I am always making threats, you know, just to give you an idea of the tone, with fictitious examples who are probably close to what she perceives as threats: when I say good morning, I don't mean good morning but good mourning, when I say I missed DN people, I mean that I missed them with my laser gun, when I say I'm tired, of course I imply that I'm tired of her, if I say happy birthday, I only do that to scare her.

I'm horrid I confess, horrid, horrid.

But so yes, my friend and I were kicked out for bullshits from the DN while in their admin minds, disclosing publically personal information about former members is no problem.

The thing is as they are paranoid these people ask personal information to anyone wanting to join their group.

So I am just warning the public that by doing so there is no guarantee of confidentiality, these persons are absolutely not trustable and their conception of respect stops to their very own selves.

They actually learnt of my friend telling me of this position they wanted to create going through all the personal messages we had sent each others from their board finding out they could. They would tell you they came accross them "by accident", as I've always said, when I scroll a text myself, I read one or two words "by accident" nothing that would make much sense or raise any of my suspicion. Anyway it's not as if one person hadn't told me before that that two of them spent their time reading each and every email sent from their board (emails are different from personal messages, just for the info. and this person had told me they couldn't see personal messages).


Beside if this person sees me who am a very nice person, at least I try hard to, as a threat I am myself highly glad that none of the individuals in their admin know my personal address. I am just not sure how far they can go.

Just a warning to the public.

UID woman, NH, 1971

Not much but a more precise est. height and weight estimate, that sucks there was a recon made of her, but for some reason no one seems to be able to give its pic. there are some great mysteries in this universe.



http://www.doenetwork.org/hot/hotcase37.html

Schertz, TX, 1987, Jane Doe

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/18uftx.html

Cold-case families suffer twice, CSU study shows

The Coloradoan - CO, USA

Cold-case families suffer twice, CSU study shows

BY SARA B. HANSEN • SaraHansen@coloradoan.com • August 16, 2009

A new study completed by the Center for the Study of Crime and Justice at CSU reveals families of cold-case victims suffer twice — when they lose a loved one to vio-lence and again when the case goes unsolved.

Howard Morton, executive director of the non-profit Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons, contacted the Center for the Study of Crime and Justice to study the “co-victims” — family members and friends of cold-case homicide victims.
The study is the first of its kind and Colorado State University was honored to conduct it, said Prabha Unnithan, sociology professor and director of the Center for Crime and Justice.
The study, which involved interviewing 40 co-victims from 10 law enforcement jurisdictions over nine months, revealed an average of 14 years had elapsed since loved ones had suspiciously disappeared or been murdered. (more...)

Old sighting raises hopes in Cheryl Grimmer cold case

Left: Cheryl Grimmer

Illawara Mercury - Australia

Old sighting raises hopes in Cheryl Grimmer cold case

BY MICHELLE HOCTOR
17/08/2009 9:15:00 AM
After nearly 40 years, a vital clue may have emerged in the case of missing Fairy Meadow youngster Cheryl Grimmer.

Wollongong detectives are investigating the sighting of a child matching the three-year-old's description, six months after she disappeared from Fairy Meadow beach on January 12, 1970.

If the claim proves correct, it would mean Cheryl might still be alive.

Cheryl disappeared after attending the men's amenities shed with her brothers Ricky and Stephen, following a day at the beach.

After the story of Cheryl's disappearance was recounted in the Mercury on August 1, the newspaper was contacted by a 79-year-old Windang man who was adamant he saw Cheryl on Windang Beach in the winter of 1970.

The man, who asked not to be named, said the sighting had haunted him for 39 years.

''I tried twice to tell police. The second time I was told the case was too old and to just forget it,'' he said.

The man said he was with his four-year-old daughter on the beach in June or July of 1970 when a little blonde girl approached them.

''A cold westerly wind was blowing and this little girl came from nowhere. She was a blonde girl with a fringe, exactly the same as what was in the paper. (more...)

A father lost, a father found

The Spokesman Review - WA, USA

August 16, 2009 in Features

A father lost, a father found

Rebecca Nappi
rebeccan@spokesman.com, (509) 459-5496

A “John Doe” was found dead in a van in downtown Spokane on June 14, 1983. In 2006, thanks to a “cold case” investigation, Spokane County medical examiner’s office staffers discovered his identity: Michael Keith Roberts.

County staffers, along with others in the community, paid for a headstone and held a memorial service for Roberts. The Spokesman-Review did a series of columns in summer 2006 on the “Michael Mystery.”

End of story? No.

Recently, Zak Gilbert, 33, of Fort Collins, Colo., contacted the newspaper. Roberts was Gilbert’s biological father.

Gilbert didn’t know how his dad had died until a relative alerted him – just this June – to the columns that ran three years ago.

This story is a complicated one involving a forgotten man, the son he never knew, and relentless searchers in Seattle and Spokane. (more...)

Mystery lingers in disappearance of volunteer firefighter

Left: Brandy Hall

Florida Today - FL, USA

Mystery lingers in disappearance of volunteer firefighter

BY J.D.GALLOP • FLORIDA TODAY • August 17, 2009

The once-ubiquitous posters with Brandy Hall's face are mostly gone as clues surrounding her mysterious disappearance grow murkier with time.

Three years later, all that remains of the case is a thick file that keeps the attention of Sgt. Ken Arnold, a detective with the Palm Bay Police Department.
"It's still an open case, but we haven't had any active leads in quite a while," Arnold said. The 32-year-old mother of two and outdoor enthusiast vanished Aug. 17, 2006, after she left work at the Malabar Volunteer Fire Department.
The next day, the firefighter's pickup was pulled from a small pond off Treeland Boulevard after a fisherman spotted her gear bobbing in the water. Inside the truck's cabin was Hall's blood, police said. (more...)

Mom endured 50 years of grief after losing tot to Bow River

Left: Larry Nelson

Calgary Herald - Calgary,AB,Canada

Mom endured 50 years of grief after losing tot to Bow River

Losing a child can profoundly alter one's life: experts

By Sherri Zickefoose, Calgary Herald
August 17, 2009

CALGARY - As a young boy, Larry Leroy Nelson was afraid of the water. The three-year-old hated bath time and fought it like a cat. At the beach, he was too scared to dip his tiny toes in the lake.
When he disappeared in front of two helpless playmates -- the sole witnesses saw his small red snowsuit bobbing along in the Bow River as he was swept away --and was presumed drowned on Dec. 23, 1957, Larry's family was grief-stricken.
His mother, Madelien Flavel, went to her grave two years ago at age 70 still questioning her son's fate five decades after losing him.
His body was never found. No death certificate was ever issued. The blond-haired, blue-eyed boy's disappearance became a lifelong obsession for his mother.
In death, she passed down her quest for answers to relatives.
Now, another generation has inherited the same tragic curiosity about that afternoon two days before Christmas more than 50 years ago. (more...)

Additional link: http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/184dmab.html

Delay in Kiplyn Davis case angers victim's father

Salt Lake Tribune - UT, USA

Delay in Kiplyn Davis case angers victim's father

By Donald W. Meyers

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated: 08/12/2009 05:38:11 PM MDT

Provo » The case against the man accused of murdering a Spanish Fork teenager 14 years ago is on hold until November.

Fourth District Judge Lynn W. Davis rescheduled a status conference on Timmy Brent Olsen's case Tuesday to await word from the Utah Supreme Court on whether he can get a fair trial in Provo.

Olsen, who is charged with killing then-15-year-old Kiplyn Davis, wants the trial moved out of Provo. The judge has denied the change of venue motion, and Olsen's attorneys are currently appealing to the Utah Supreme Court.

The delay is frustrating Richard M. Davis, Kiplyn's father, who said the family has waited too long for justice.

"It's been six years since this started in the courts, and it's been 14 years since Kiplyn's been gone," a visibly frustrated Davis said. "It's not right. Here's another summer gone without finding Kiplyn."

Davis vowed he would do something to reform a justice system he says favors the accused more than victims' families. (more...)