Category: Probable Abduction
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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 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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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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Kortne Stouffer
In the summer of 2012, Kortne Stouffer was a 21-year old working as a dog groomer and living with her boyfriend, Bradley Herr, in an apartment in Palmyra, Pennsylvania. Sometime in the early hours of July 29th, 2012, between the hours of 3:45 am and 7:00 am, Kortne vanished and has not been seen or heard…
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The Springfield Three
Today, I’m going to be tackling a missing persons case that dates back to 1992, that of the Springfield Three. Not to be confused with the famous West Memphis Three or the in some ways even more baffling Fort Worth Three (which I do plan on writing about at some point). This case is fairly…
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Tionda and Diamond Bradley
Today, I want to talk about a missing persons’ case that, as of this past summer, over two decades old. This case has not exactly been ignored. In fact, it sparked one of the most extensive searches in Chicago’s history. Even now, two decades later, it hasn’t been entirely shifted to the back burner of…
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