Category: Missing Persons
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The Disappearance of Alexis Patterson
On May 3rd, 2002, a seven year old girl named Alexis Patterson disappeared into thin air between the street corner outside her school and her classroom. Except, of course, she didn’t, because no one does. Something happened to make her vanish, and the purpose of this article is examine what that might have been. Alexis…
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The Murder of Ashley Ouellette and the Vanishing of Antonio Torres
There are two ways of looking at the case(s) I am here to discuss today. One is as a discussion of two mysteries, one an unsolved murder and the other a missing persons case. The other possibility is that this is actually one case that has claimed at least two victims. My purpose here is…
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The Vanishing of Jackie Markham
I have been wanting to write about this case for over a year. At least, that’s what I assume, since I have a file containing notes I took on the Disappeared episode that date back to March of last year. So, no time like the present. The case concerns the suspicious missing person case of…
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Dylan Koshman
In May of 2008, Dylan Koshman was 21 years old and looking to move out of his family home in Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, and begin making a living elsewhere. Dylan was the middle son of five siblings, and he also had a large extended family that he was close to. Most people who knew Dylan describe…
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Brianne Wolgram
This case has been floating around in the general cloud of unsolved true crime cases that I spend what is probably an unhealthy amount of time thinking about for quite some time, but it only really came to my attention while I was actually looking into another disappearance of a young British Columbia woman, the…
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Relisha Rudd
Relisha Rudd was an eight year old girl living with her family in southeast Washington, D.C when she vanished late in the winter of 2014. She is formally listed as missing on February 26th, although this is not actually the last time her whereabouts were accounted for, as we will discuss. Relisha had led a…
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Suzanne Lyall
When I first started get serious about researching this case, I honestly did not think it was going to be that deep of a dive. I thought I would lay out the basic facts, discuss a few, broad theories, and that would be the end of it. After all, could I really add much to…
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Jaliek Rainwalker
I had never heard of the case of the missing twelve year old, Jaliek Rainwalker, until the ever-excellent Trace Evidence podcast covered it a while back. Since then, I’ve been delving into it as much as possible. It’s not a huge topic in true crime discussion circles, but it was picked up by the local…
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Brandy Hall
Today, I am going to be discussing the 2006 vanishing of a 32-year old mother and firefighter, Brandy Hall. This case is moderately well-covered in the armchair detective community–there is a Disappeared episode, as well as a smattering of podcast and Youtube channel episodes (including a whole season of Murder on the Space Coast). So,…
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Joey Lynn Offut and Alexis Brolin III
This is one of those cases that I am genuinely astounded does not receive more attention than it does (these are the cases I am most likely to write about, so this is something I catch myself saying a lot. But please, continue and see if you disagree with me). I should warn people that…
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