CORTNEY CLAYTON MURDER: SUSPICIONS RUN DEEP

Cortney Clayton went for an evening walk on the evening of Sept. 2, 1988 to get a soda from a nearby convenience store in her tiny hometown of Stamford, Texas. The pretty little girl never came home and on Sunday, March 26, 1989 the 7-year-old's remains were discovered in a field 50 miles away.
Her family said that she was a smart, adventurous and happy child. With just 4,000 people, many townspeople have always felt the killer was from Stamford.
''I have always felt that somebody here in town knows something,''  Candy Clayton, Cortney's mother, said in 2007. ''Even if they don't know they know it. 'One good thing about living in Stamford is that people here haven't forgotten about Cortney." By the time Cortney's body was found by a hunter, there was little evidence at the scene.
Anyone with information is asked to submit a tip thru the Texas Rangers’ Cold Case website or contact us at the Missing Persons Watts Line: 1-800-346-3243 .

NEW LEADS IN MELANIE MELANSON 1989 DISAPPEARANCE

'NEW LEADS'

SHE VANISHED over 21 years ago, but now a private detective believes that he has new leads in the mysterious disappearance of Melanie Melanson.
The 14-year-old was last seen at a high school party in a woods near her home in Woburn MA and then she vanished without trace.
But 22-years on P.I Michael Garrigan, who has worked the case from the very beginning says he has "credible leads" which could see people in the woods that night prosecuted.
He told Fox 25: "I developed some leads over the past year, we can’t discuss those at this time, but very credible leads from several sources.”
And with the help of trained cadaver dogs he hopes he's hoping to confirm that traces of human decomposition in the woods, which he believes hold the key to discovering the truth.  

NEW HOPE AS TIP REOPENS KATIE SEEFELDT CASE

AGE PROGRESSED

AGE 12

SHE was a naughty, grounded, 12-year-old girl when she vanished without trace back in October 2002.
Today she would be 21, but the mystery surrounding her disappearance remains.
Investigators once believed Katie Seefeldt may have run away, but but now after what officers are calling a credible tip in the case deputies have begun searching for bones.
The night of her disappearance Katie answered the phone and told the whoever it was at the end of the line: "You guys know I can't have phone calls this late, and if you continue to call me, my mom is going to keep me grounded longer."

NO NEWS IN ANCHOR JODI HUISENTRUIT'S VANISHING

MYSTERY

SHE was a popular TV news anchor who simply vanished one morning in a mystery which has baffled cops and the general public for more than 16-years.
Cops believe there was a struggle before Jodi Huisentruit disappeared as her car keys were left in the parking lot along with a single shoe.
But although they suspect foul play may have been involved, no body has ever been found for the KIMT reporter, although she was legally declared dead in 2001.
Now a new book from former fellow TV personality Beth Bednar is raising new questions about the disturbing case and she's accusing cops in Mason City, IA, of not investigating properly.
She told KEYC that Dead Air:  The Disappearance of Jodi Huisentruit includes new leads which investigator's have yet to follow up.

AMBER ELIZABETH SCHOLZ STILL A MYSTERY 30-YEARS ON

WITHOUT TRACE

IT'S been 30-years since she vanished, but cops are refusing to give up on the case of Amber Elizabeth Scholz. 

On November 8, 1981 the gorgeous 21-year-old had been partying with pals and was dropped of by a friend at her Rock Spring, WY apartment. 

She was never seen again. 

Scholz's father called the police when he was unable to reach his daughter later that day, but when officers called round, there was no sign of forced entry or a struggle. 

A police source said: "It's a genuine mystery. There was nothing out of the ordinary about her home and her friends said she seemed fine when they dropped her off.

FREEZER BODY: FRANK JULIAN 'REFUSED LIE DETECTOR'

KILLER?

A MAN who kept a woman's body hidden in a storage unit refused to take a lie detector test after his girlfriend went missing, a retired detective revealed yesterday.
As we reported here Frank Julian's relatives found the hidden corpse in an unplugged freezer, when they were cleaning up after his death.
Cops now suspect it may be the body of his on again, off again girlfriend, Kitty Wardwell, who vanished in July 1983, aged just 29.
Joe Zamboni who worked the case, is convinced that Julian will be posthumously branded a killer, as he was always the chief suspect when he was alive, saying his story about going with Wardwell to Salem, N.H., having a fight and then leaving her behind at a motel didn't  add up.
He told the Bangor Daily News: "The last person who saw them alive, you have to look at them very closely. That's common sense. You don't have to be a homicide investigator to figure that out.

FREEZER BODY MAY BE MISSING KITTY WARDWELL: COPS

KILLER?

THE body of a Maine woman missing for almost 30 years may have been found in a freezer belonging to her ex-boyfriend, cops say. 
Kitty Wardwell was reported missing by her on-again, off again boyfriend, Frank Julian, back in July 1983 and was never seen again. 
But after he died earlier this month, aged 80, relatives were clearing out his storage unit when they came across human remains in an unplugged freezer at a storage unit registered to him. 
Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland told the Bangor Daily News: “Remains have been found, but we don’t know whose body this is definitively at this time.

STILL NO SIGN OF MISSING JENNIFER LYNN PENTILLA

PENTILLA

A MISSING missionary who was on her way to Mexico when she vanished continues to baffle authorities almost 20-years since she vanished. 

Dedicated Jennifer Lynn Pentilla, was just 18-years-old when she decided to meet a missionary group in Las Cruces, NM and help the poor, before heading south of the border. 

Armed with a backpack and a couple of bibles, she planned to ride down on her mountain bike from San Diego and called in with mom eight times to report her progress. 

But on October 17, she changed her plans, telling her mother that she'd heard that a woman traveling alone in Mexico could be dangerous and she'd decided to go and meet a pal in Minnesota instead.  

STILL HOPE FOR GORGEOUS ANNA WATERS

AGE PROGRESSED

WHEN KIDNAPPED

HER family have still not given up hope that something or someone will lead them to the gorgeous little girl who vanished without trace in January 1973. 

Gorgeous Anna Waters was just five-years-old when disappeared after her family left her happily playing in the backyard of their San Mateo, CA home. 

But while investigator's initially thought she may have fallen in a nearby creek, the began to suspect foul play when no trace of her was found. 

Her stepbrother told his family he remembered a strange couple driving alongside Anna, trying in vain to tempt her the kindergartener into their vehicle.

MELVIN PARKER GUILTY IN 1994 DOROTHY PAIGE SLAY

PARKER

PAIGE

THEY SUSPECTED him at the time, but when Melvin Parker's wife and the chief witness against him went into hiding, the case collapsed.
Fast forward 17-years and cops reopen the case of Dorothy Paige, who in August 1994 was found brutally stabbed and strangled in her Madison, WI, apartment.
And the cold case detectives immediately focus in on Melvin Parker, now 48, who just five years after Paige's murder was jailed on child abuse and burglary convictions.

DID CHILD KILLER PENTON KILL SHANNON SHERRILL?

A CHILLING Indiana cold case marked a sad anniversary Wednesday. Shannon Sherrill was just 6-years-old when she was last seen outside her mom's trailer home on Oct. 5, 1986. And things quickly went ice cold and it appears cops are no closer to a resolution today than they were in the 1980s.
But the tragic little girl's family has never given hope that the killer will be caught.

Over the years, detectives have followed leads involving David Elliott Penton, a man who is serving a life sentence in Ohio for murdering a 9-year-old girl there but there has never been enough evidence to put him on the hook for the grisly

WITNESSES SAW ROBYN GARDNER MURDER: SOURCE

COPS IN Aruba tell the National Enquirer they now have two witnesses who saw a woman being violently attacked. They now believe the victim was missing Maryland woman Robyn Gardner. The source told the Enquirer: “The cops believe a local couple actually witnessed the beginning of what turned out to be Robyn’s murder." MORE AT CRIME SCENE USA

DEANIE PETERS VANISHED IN '81; WOULD HAVE BEEN 45

SHE WOULD be approaching middle age now. Perhaps with children, maybe grandchildren. Instead, she is a question mark. Deanie Peters was just 14-years-old when she vanished on Feb. 5, 1981. Friends and family recently remembered the pretty brunette on what would have been her 45th birthday. In her honor, they gathered in Grand Rapids, Michigan and released 45 white balloons. Each of the ballons had her picture on it. Her former boyfriend Rob Mackey was

NO CLUES IN 1971 JOHNNIE HERRERA DISAPPEARANCE

JOE HERRERA says he hasn't had a decent birthday since his twin brother vanished in 1971. Johnnie Herrera vanished from Oxnard, California on Aug. 27, 1971 when he was just 20-years-old. The years since have been a complete mystery for Joe and the rest of the family. he wasn't depressed. There were no signs of foul play. Joe, now 60, told the Ventura Star: "I lost my twin, and since then, I don't think I've ever been the same. There's a really deep, empty void in my life since he vanished."
He was last seen at a friend's bachelor party in his 1969 blue Volkswagen. He and his car were never found. Johnnie was married and had an infant son, Johnnie Jr. and his brother said it was very unusual for him not to come home. Someone thought they had spotted him at a McDonalds near his home. Over the

NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S MOM: 'MAKE YOUR KIDS SAFE'

BETH

NATALEE

THE DISTRAUGHT mom of missing Natalee Holloway urged parents to make sure their kids are safe, to avoid the heartache she had been through.
Beth Holloway who founded the International Safe Travels Organization after her daughter's presumed death, recalled the last phone call before Natalee packed for 2005 spring break in Aruba.
"I just told her I loved her," she said.
However she refused to comment on her daughter's supposed killer Joran Van Der Sloot, who's trial for the murder of young Peruvian Stephany Flores, 21, may again be delayed.

DANIELLE & DOROTHY PITCHER VANISHED INTO THIN AIR

WITHOUT TRACE

AFTER attending church that morning the mother and daughter happily skipped off the store for an ice cream cone and a pack of cigarettes.  But after making a phone call from the Pearce, AZ store, neither Danielle or Dorothy Pitcher have been seen again since that May 1993 day. 
Despite an extensive search, no sign of the pair was ever found again, although search dogs did pick up a scent along the highway, which abruptly stopped, prompting investigators to believe that they may have been picked up by a vehicle. 
To date, two suspects have been picked up and interviewed, although both were released as was Dorothy's husband after he passed a polygraph. 
He died in 1998. Dawn Pitcher, however refuses to give up hope and friends and family continue to run this website in memory of the pair and

LETTER REOPENS 1983 JO-ANNE PEDERSON MYSTERY

MYSTERY


SHE was last seen in a phonebox outside the Penny Pincher store in Chilliwack BC, trying to call her mother and stepfather.  A man, who had messy or wavy hair, was seen helping Jo-Anne Pederson but then the 10-year-old vanished without trace, never to be seen again.
Despite huge searches, a massive police operation and numerous TV appeals, for 28-years her disappearance has haunted the small Canadian community.
But now RCMP officers are hopeful they might get break, after a mystery letter arrived in their offices, which apperently might hold the key to unlocking the mystery. According to the Vancouver Sun Police believe the writer may have witnessed what happened to Jo-Anne before she disappeared on Feb. 19, 1983.

MISSING SABRINA LONG'S FAMILY: 'WE WON'T GIVE UP'

LONG GONE

HER disappearance more than two decades ago is a complete mystery, but Sabrina Long's family are refusing to give up hope that someone will come forward with information about what happened. Back in August 1991, the gorgeous 19-year-old vanished from her stepfather's home in Bloomfield, AZ, never to be seen again after working a late shift. Her last words to her mother were: "I love you" 
Long's aunt, Janice Dowling, who last month started this Facebook page in memory of her niece.
She told WMAZ: "Until you find a body, or somebody says something, there's always hope. Realistically, no, we don't think she's still alive."
But she added that the responses they'd received still gave them hope that someone would come forward.

SYLVIANE FINCK LOZADA MISSING: FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED

MISSING?

MISSING?

A POPULAR Belgian schoolteacher who has been missing for over a month may have been the victim of foul play, cops have revealed.
Sylviane Finck Lozada was reported missing from her Baton Rouge, LA home on July 18, although she last spoke with her family a couple of weeks earlier.
Her husband Oscar Lozada boarded a plane from Dallas to Venezuela July, only with the couple's young daughter.

NEW CLUE MAY CRACK SUSAN POWELL MISSING CASE

FOR THE past two years cops in Utah have been baffled by the disappearance of mom of two Susan Powell, 28. But they've never made a secret of the fact they think her husband Josh murdered the bubbly brunette. Now, detectives say that new information could solve the riddle and bring the fiend responsible to justice. Powell vanished on Dec. 6 2008 from her home in West Valley City.
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