One of the most covered unsolved cases in a college town, the disappearance of Lauren Spierer at Indiana University is still cold 10 years later.
Lauren Spierer was a junior at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, studying apparel merchandising in 2011. A native of Scarsdale, New York, Lauren had a tight group of friends on and off campus. That makes her now-10-year disappearance even more baffling.
Lauren's case has received a lot of media attention since she went missing, including national coverage from the likes of Nancy Grace and People Magazine. But there are still so many unresolved questions from that night, including the biggest—where is Lauren?
The day Lauren went missing. On the late evening of June 2nd, 2011, Lauren was seen leaving her apartment with a friend, David Rohn. The two went to another mutual friend’s apartment, Jay Rosenbaum. Lauren, David and Jay had plans to meet up with Jay’s neighbor, Corey Rossman. There were approximately 10 people at Corey’s apartment with reports of heavy drinking and drug use. By midnight, David heads back to his apartment at Smallwoods Plaza and per surveillance footage, he isn’t seen leaving the apartment again around 11AM the next morning.
By 1:46AM, Lauren goes to Kilroy Sports Bar and is later seen leaving the bar with Corey Rossman by 2:27AM. Lauren leaves behind her shoes at the bar because the bar has a sand- covered patio. After leaving the bar, there is a lot of back and forth from various friends homes before she is last seen:
- By 2:30AM Lauren and Corey are seen at Smallwood Plaza but are confronted by Zach Oates, and 3 others who are concerned about Lauren. Zach Oates and Corey have a verbal altercation before Zach punches Corey in the face.
- Lauren and Corey leave Smallwood Plaza. A security camera shows Laurnen and Corey exiting the alley near Smallwood at 2:51AM and walking toward the 5 North Townhomes–where mutual friends live.
- When they re
An important disclaimer that I am NOT affiliated with any of the entities involved with producing Cold (Amazon, KSL Podcasts, Bonneville International, etc.). I'm simply a fan, just asking a question that I've pondered since finishing both seasons of Cold.
As far as I know, nothing has been mentioned publicly about a third season being in the works (someone correct me if I'm wrong). And we know that both seasons covered true crime cases in Utah (where Dave and his team are based). So, on those lines: What's a Utah true crime case you'd want Cold to cover in a new season?
Dave mentioned the case of Theresa Greaves in season two, and I think it'd be awesome if her case got its own season. Of course, that's dependent on there being enough material accessible to the Cold team to produce a full season (and I don't know if there is).
On Feb. 27, 1993, Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Station deputies responded to a call for service at a residence for a shot man.
The man was immediately rushed to San Bernardino Medical Center, but unfortunately was pronounced dead from the gunshot wound.
According to an article published in 1993 by San Bernardino County Sun, that call was made by an unidentified woman who had called authorities to report she had shot her boyfriend after a dispute.
The man was later identified as 35-year-old Rick Hafty. He was a native of Alhambra and worked as a driver for S.E. Pipeline Construction out of Santa Fe Springs. Hafty was Dad to two daughters. He also had a Mom, a Dad and a sister that cared about him.
Deputies have later arrested Diane Elizabeth Cook, then 41, for investigation of murder, according to the same article from the Sun, but for some reason, Cook was released soon after. Authorities have never disclosed details of the original investigation, so that reason is unknown.
Long story short, with all leads exhausted there was nothing more to be done, so the case went cold.
Fast forward to June 2021: investigators from the Sheriff’s Cold Case Homicide Team have re-examined the case and reopened the investigation. This effort lead to the arrest of the same person arrested 28 years earlier - Diane Elizabeth Cook, who is now 70-year-old.
Authorities have not mentioned what new evidence led to Cook's latest arrest.
Diane Elizabeth Cook, a resident of Crestline, remains in custody at West Valley Detention Centre in Rancho Cucamonga, with bail set at $1 million.
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All of my information is sourced from local papers unless stated otherwise (specific sites and news articles are cited within this write-up). Without further ado, here is the story of Loy Evitts:
Background Loy Gillespie Evitts was born December 12, 1947, in Coffeyville, Kansas, near the Oklahoma border to parents William H. and Jewell Palmer Gillespie. She graduated from Field Kinley Memorial High School in Coffeyville, class of 1966 (Loy Evitts @ findagrave). At 17, during her senior year of high school, the striking blonde met Don Evitts, 19, and the two dated as he attended Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas, and she went on to study nursing in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Loy ended up transferring to Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, roughly a 3-hour drive northwest from her hometown, where she studied clothing and retail (Loy Gillespie Evitts @ the Charley Project). Meanwhile, Don Evitts served in Vietnam, leaving his Firebird car for her to drive while he was overseas and writing to her every week; she kept a bulletin board full of his photos in her dorm room at K-State. Loy graduated with honors from K-State in 1972 and married Don Evitts later that year on November 4, 1972. The couple settled in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, Kansas (“Disappearance of Overland Park woman remains a heart-wrenching mystery, 40 years later”, The Kansas City Star, Glenn E. Rice and Andy Taylor, 3/1/17).
Disappearance On Monday, February 28, 1977, at approximately 2:00 PM (“Life Empty After Wife’s Disappearance”, The Kansas City Star, Bill Norton, 5/28/77), 29-year-old Evitts took her lunch break from her place of work as a legal secretary at a law firm near the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri, where she had been working for about a month. She had a watch adjusted before going to a drugstore—reportedly Katz’s Drugstore, formerly located on the corner of 39th and
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A team of citizen cold case sleuths diving in a river Wednesday found a car that matches the description of a vehicle belonging to a woman who disappeared in 2017. Police have not yet positively identified the car as belonging to Stephanie Torres, who went missing in 2017, but her family members are standing by in hopes of having their questions answered. Waco police, on hand at Brazos Park East on Wednesday, were investigating whether the blue and gray 2006 Kia Rio found by divers with Adventures With Purpose belonged to Torres.
Torres was days from celebrating her 43rd birthday when she disappeared. She was last seen leaving her home on Dec. 20, 2017, but did not take her cellphone, wallet or medication with her.
The car was found in the cold, murky waters of the Brazos River in Cameron Park about an hour after the dive began. “I’m scared. I’m nervous. I don’t have words at this point,” daughter Bianca Torres said as the search for the car unfolded.
Adventures With Purpose, which Oregon-based scuba diver Jared Leisek founded, conducted the search in the Brazos River after connecting with the family via social media last year. The group originally organized environmental cleanup dives before turning to searching for missing people.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/cold-case-divers-find-car-matching-description-missing-womans-vehicle-rcna12590
*I just want to thank all of you for your input, comments, and awards! I hope a new wave of cold case detectives will soon get a fresh look at this case, in the mean time I hope that someone speaks up. This is an amazing sub with amazing, knowledgeable people!
This is my first time posting here, my apologies if it's not good quality as most of the posts here are!
CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) – On the afternoon of Jan. 6, 1996 Forest Hills Ambulance was dispatched to a home in Summerhill, Cambria County where a woman was found dead in her bedroom.
Beth Ann Bodenschatz was discovered with a gunshot wound to her head. 25 years later, her son who was five at the time remains the only witness to the crime.
At the time of the murder, Bodenschatz’s son recalled hearing his mother yelling and seeing a man with a gun shoot her. The shooter was described as having brown hair and wore a brown jacket.
Several other witnesses observed a brown/beige Subaru car parked at the end of Bodenschatz’s driveway where a male had been seen walking from the residence to the vehicle.
The murder weapon has never been found and Ebensburg State Police continue their investigation of the homicide.
Source: https://www.wearecentralpa.com/news/local-news/cambria-county-murder-investigation-continues-25-years-later/
I have thought about this case for the last 25 years. I was a junior in high school when this happened. It was a few towns over from where I lived, however in Central Pennsylvania the small towns are very close knit.
It was heartbreaking when the billboard was put up (in the links), just to think that an innocent 5 year old saw his mother gunned down is almost too much to wrap your head around.
There were rumors back in the day that it was a murder for hire, but the hit man got the wrong house as it was supposedly intended for a neighbors wife. Again, with small town PA also comes big time rumors. I have no idea if there is any truth to that theory.
What I do know is that the PA State Police are no closer to solving this cold case then they were in 1996.
I moved out of PA a long time ago, but I never forgot this case. I would absolutely love for a podcast to be made about it to bring it back into the light. Someone knows what happened and someone got away with a horrific murder that day. Let's get the word out.
https://www.wearecentralpa.com/news/local-news/cambria-county-murder-investigation-continues-25-years-later/
https://www.crimewatchpa.com/crimest
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ATLANTA — The cold case of an Atlanta 14-year-old who was raped and murdered has been solved by homicide investigators almost 26 years later. On June 7, 1995, Nacole Smith was killed in the woods on the way to school in southwest Atlanta. Police said a man sexually assaulted her and shot her twice in the face. Atlanta investigators announced Tuesday that the suspect has finally been identified.
Using genealogy and forensic technology, the cold case unit connected the DNA of Nacole’s alleged killer to a man who died in hospice care of liver and kidney failure in August 2021. Nacole’s mother said she will always live knowing she didn’t get to confront her daughter’s killer. “I never imagined this person would be deceased. So many unanswered questions I had for him,” Acquenellia Smith said. “I’ll live with this pain for the rest of my life. Just take it one day a time. There’s nothing more I can say right now. My feelings are all over the place. There’s not a pill that can take that pain away.” Police said at the news conference that they would not release the suspect’s name because they do not want to give his name any relevance. Former detectives who worked the case and investigators credited the bravery of a 13-year-old victim who was raped by the suspect nine years later in 2004. The East Point girl was pulled into the woods, raped and escaped. She was able to give detectives a description of the man for a composite sketch. The victim identified herself Tuesday as Betty Brown. Brown said she never thought she would be speaking but didn’t want to hide or live in pain anymore. “He is no longer out there able to do the things that he did to me and Nacole and to others,” Brown said. Brown added that she felt conflicted about the outcome and doesn’t want to let her rape control her life anymore. But she also wants the suspect’s family to know the pain that her family felt for the past 18 years. “To know the man who you loved, you respected did something so horrible to me and Nacole, I want you to live in that. I want you to wear that like I did. Like I do every day of my life,” Brown said. “I’m mad I didn’t get that opportunity to face him and look him in his eyes.”
Retired Atlanta police Detective Vince Velazquez worked both Smith and Brown’s cases.
He said the department and East Point police put a lot of effort and spent hundr
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The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office (FBCSO) is reopening the cold case of Julie Esther Hawkins. This announcement comes after Season of Justice, a nonprofit organization, awarded the FBCSO a $10,100 grant to test DNA, which was likely recovered from the scene.
Julie was last seen by her mother at approximately noon on Thursday, December 6th, 1973, who dropped her daughter off at a Houston intersection to do some shopping. The Hawkins family lived near Rice University and the Texas Medical Center, which was and is considered a nice, safe area of Houston.
Julie's body was recovered the next day in a remote area of Fort Bend County along FM 1464, which is due west of Houston. At this time the area was probably mostly rural, which would likely point to the perpetrator having a car. Houston was (and still is) fairly spread out. While public transportation is available, it is quite limited.
What we definitely know follows: the coroner determined that Julie had died by ligature strangulation, and by the time bird hunters had found body the body, she had been dead for 12-14 hours. I've found no obituary for Julie Hawkins, and it seems her parents divorced just a few years later.
While Julie likely lived a happy, sheltered life, Houston as a whole was not the safest city. To put thing in perspective, this was the time that Dean Corll, the Candy Man, was hunting and killing teenage boys in the Heights. Police had limited resources for investigating crimes, and the fact that the victim in this case went missing in one jurisdiction and was found in another likely did not help the investigation.
As an aside, I'm originally from this area. Until the early 2000s, Fort Bend County was still semi-rural, and Houston was not nearly as sprawling as it is today. What we now call "neighborhoods" in Houston were semi-autonomous villages within Houston city limits; this is what partially allowed Dean Corll, who operated in the Heights, to kill as long he did despite numerous signs of his dangerous nature.
It is with this grant I hope Julie Hawkins, who was outlived her parents, step-father, and grandparents, gets the closure she deserves. I also hope the closing of this case leads to the closure of other similar cases in the Houston area so their families can get the resolution they deserve.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43871881/julie-esther-hawkins
https://thekatynews.com/2021/11/09/dna-grant-to-help-fbcso-identify-suspect-in-an-unsolved-cold-case-murder/
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A man serving life in prison for a 2002 murder after strangling a single mother in Fairfax County, Virginia, has been linked to two other unsolved killings, one in Virginia and another in Maryland.
Prosecutors in Fairfax and Prince George’s counties announced that Charles Helem, who is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of 37-year-old Patricia Bentley is connected to the 1987 and 2002 deaths of two other women.
Helem confessed to prosecutors and police details about the unsolved crimes recently while incarcerated. The two previously unknown victims named at the press conference this afternoon are Eige Sober-Adler and Jennifer Landry.
In 1987, then 37-year-old Eige Sober-Adler was found murdered in Herndon, Virginia and her case remained unsolved for the past 35 years.
The second previously unknown victim, Jennifer Landry, age 19 when she died, was murdered in Maryland on 31 July 2002. Her body was dumped in Mount Rainier, MD, and remained unidentified for three years.
Authorities stated at the press conference that after verbally confessing to the murder of Landry last year, he also revealed details about the murder of Adler that would be known only to the killer.
Background and timeline
Charles Helem was born 1969 in and is currently 52. He is incarcerated at the supermax Red Onion State Prison in Virginia for the 2003 murder of Patricia Bentley. Helem has been described as a violent career criminal who has been known to police since a young age. At age 13 in 1982 he faced assault and battery charges.
The murder of Eige Sober-Adler occurred five years later on September 8th, 1987, when Helem would have been ~18 years old. She was found in a field to the rear of a Days Inn. Eige's vehicle was found on the Dulles Toll Road in Fairfax Virginia.
Ten years later in 1997, Helem would be convicted of choking his then-wife and would serve the next four years in prison in Lompoc, Calif until 2001.
Helem's next known victim, Patricia Bentley, lived with Helem in her townhouse from November 2001 to January 2002; but their relationship was stormy, and Helem eventually left and moved in with another woman in Manassas. But he left some of his exercise clothes in Bentley's home and kept coming over to use her treadmill. She was found She was strangled with a phone cord and an extension cord on April 6, 2002.
On August 15, 2002, the
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Not much information on how they solved this beyond "a new investigation using modern forensic science techniques was able to pinpoint a suspect" which sounds to me like more advanced DNA testing than they would have had in the 80s.
Some excerpts from the article:
>San Francisco police announced Sunday they made an arrest in the baffling and tragic murder of a 15-year-old girl who came to the city to see her newfound biological sister in 1978.
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>“For more than four decades, Marissa Harvey’s family members have been relentless advocates to bring her killer to justice, and we hope this development in the case begins to bring a measure of healing and closure they’ve been too long denied,” San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said in a statement.
Edit: Her killer was named John Reigh Hoff
Spokane police detectives say they have the answer to a question that’s lingered for more than 60 years: Who killed 9-year-old Candy Rogers?
The Spokane Police Department will hold a press conference at 10 a.m. Friday to unveil the person responsible for Rogers’ death and to explain how they solved one of the oldest cold cases in the state of Washington. The police department will broadcast the conference live on Facebook.
Candice “Candy” Elaine Rogers, a Holmes Elementary School student, went missing the evening of March 6, 1959, while selling Camp Fire Girls mints near her 2106 1/2 W. Mission Ave. home.
Her body was found just over two weeks later March 22 about 3 1/2 miles northwest of Spokane Falls Community College under a pile of pine needles and boughs about 200 yards south of an abandoned rock quarry and 130 feet off Old Trails Road. The ensuing investigation determined she had been raped and strangled.
Among the evidence found was grape-smelling gum smeared on Rogers’ sweater and coat.
The gum was among an amount of evidence linking Rogers’ death to Hugh Bion Morse, a serial killer who murdered two Spokane women and nearly killed a third. Though Morse had a penchant for grape-flavored gum, however, DNA evidence that became available in 2001 indicated Morse didn’t assault Rogers.
Rogers was the daughter of Elaine and Carl Rogers Jr., who were divorced at the time of her disappearance. In June 1963, Carl Rogers killed himself with a revolver at a hotel in Walla Walla. He was 44.
More details about Candy’s disappearance and murder are at the Unsolved Mysteries link below.
I haven’t seen anyone post this update. Apologies if I missed it.
The murder of 16 year old Kim Bryant has been solved through DNA testing. On Jan. 26, 1979, Bryant was reported missing when she didn’t return home from school. She had gone there to register for classes. The Western High school sophomore was last seen that morning near a Dairy Queen restaurant on Decatur Boulevard near U.S. 95. Her body was found on Feb. 20 in a desert area near Charleston Boulevard and Buffalo Drive.
Police determined that Bryant was abducted, sexually assaulted, and killed. The man responsible was 19 year old Johnny Peterson, who died in 1993.
The same Texas-based forensic sequencing lab, Othram Inc., that solved the Bryant case also solved another Las Vegas cold case earlier this year involving the 1989 murder of 14-year-old Stephanie Isaacson. The suspect in her case was Darren Marchand. He died by suicide in 1995. His DNA was matched to the Isaacson crime scene and one other murder scene.
The above information is taken from the following source:
https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/metro-to-provide-update-on-1979-murder-cold-case/amp/
So I really love Bill Curtis's voice and I love Cold Case Files because although I don't like unsolved cases the ones on CCF are all solved. But. I just can't take the voice of the host. I know I'm not alone because the reviews constantly say the same thing. But I'm wondering why they wouldn't replace her if almost everyone is complaining. Anyone have any inside scoop or just want to commiserate? #GreatPodHorribleVoice
As the title says, this ring has to do with a cold case. The ring was found with the remains of a jane doe in Connecticut. It is a class ring, it is silver and has 4 letters on the front and an engraving of 3 letters on the inside. It has the year 1917 on the front with those 4 letters (possibly initials). While looking online for any info i found an almost identical ring on ebay, being sold out of alabama. Although this ring is in gold, it has the same font for both the letters on the front and inside. As well as the exact same shape and year 1917. The jane doe file did state that she possibly had relatives in the south. I'm hoping to get more information on this ring, like what school it was from, and any other identifiers i could give to the authorities In hope she can get her name back and be properly laid to rest. Thank yall for reading
Here is the photos of both rings https://imgur.com/a/iOmduUD
Here are some newspaper articles from the 70’s about this case
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1913&dat=19740702&id=EZ8gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hWgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1390,212981&hl=en
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xHRTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8YUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4311,6086229&dq=ledyard+and+bodies+female+unidentified&hl=en
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19760708&id=MesgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3XEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5049,1396095&hl=en
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19760625&id=qe0gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AXIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3442,4299365&hl=en
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Has to be the best start of a career in the history of the NFL for a QB right? At least one of the best. Appreciate him.
I was a big fan of that show from my teenage days, I wonder it is still good and holds up well. Are there all episodes where they are trying to solve the cases like that for 7 season straight, or there are few "amazing" episodes behind that (like House M.D.)? Was it cancelled or did it end well?
In the orcish stronghold of Narzulbur we meet the orc chieftain Mauhulakh who has had four wives all die on him. Immediately it seemed strange so I investigated it more and cam to a shocking conclusion: it was murder. In the stronghold we can find the chief's two aunts Bolar and Yatul who appear to have a, strange relationship to their nephew to say the least. Evidence can prove that they are the killers. Dialogue between them strongly implicates them.
Bolar: "He's been spending a lot of time at the graves again."
Yatul: "Good. The more time he pines for the dead wives, the less time he spends finding a new one."
Bolar: "Be careful. The spirits can speak to the living if there's a strong connection."
Yatul: "Bah. He never had a connection with any of them beyond what his loins told him."
Bolar: "Maybe, but..."
Yatul: "We're the ones he loves. Me, and you."
and
Yatul: "If he does show up with a bride, we'll have to move quickly."
Bolar: "Once she's with child, I will not harm her."
Yatul: "Yes, you've made that quite clear in the past. And now we have Urog and Dushnamub because of your weakness."
Bolar: "They are good, loyal children."
Yatul: '"They squander their father's love. We can't dally this time."
and to prove this even further
Yatul: "I hear Mauhulakh is wandering again. He's after a new woman."
Bolar: "He's lonely. What do you expect?"
Yatul: "No matter. You'll take care of things like you always have."
Bolar: "Please, let's not have it come to that."
Yatul: "True... we could simply make sure she never reaches Narzulbur."
Bolar: "That wasn't what I meant."
so that just about puts the nail in the coffin but there is even more, in Narzulbur there are two locked huts and a cellar, one of the huts is an ebony storage so nothing weird there, and the cellar is just where Mauhulakh stores his impressive booze collection, but the final hut is the one to look at. Inside that hut is a storage with lots of poisons and ingredients which on its own wouldn't be a smoking gun but it's happens to be separate from the main alchemy hut and is locked which proves that the alchemist(Bolar) is hiding it's contents. So now that the murder is solves, let's look at the motives and how truly deprived this orcish stronghold is. This is dialogue from Bolar which is quite suspect:
"All my auguring never predicted this. A woman for Mauhulakh, eh? We'll see how this goes."
"Urog and Dushnamub were such lovely children. I held them as they watched their
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