What is the most vexing true crime case in your life? What is the one case that you need to know how it ends?

[ilovewings]

I forgot to mention Jodi Husentruit!!!!
Will this case ever be solved?

 

[sallye818]

*JonBenet, of course, like most of us (Boulder, CO)
*Summer Wells (Hawkins County, TN)
*Diamond Bynum & King Walker (Gary, IN)
*Janet Miller (Brookhaven, GA)
*Maura Murray (New Hampshire)

 

[marybelle29]

Russell & Shirley Dermond
Missy Bevers
Katherine Jannes
Elizabeth Barraza
Hannah Truelove

 

[iamshadow21]

I thought of another, an adult this time, not a child case.

Sigrid Stevenson. NJ - NJ- Sigrid Stevenson, 25, grad student @Trenton State College, pianist, S.A., bludgeoned, body left on the Kendall Hall stage, 4/9/77,*New initiative*

 

[caradana]

Jennifer Kesse, who is
- so relatable to young women

 

[airportwoman]

I forgot to mention Jodi Husentruit!!!!
Will this case ever be solved?

Since the most likely culprit is now deceased, probably not, unless some information is uncovered that hadn't been seen before.

I second the Dardeen murders from Ina, Illinois. I would add Dyke and Karen Rhoads from around that same time and place; their names did not mean the same thing when they were born as those words do now, and they were newlyweds who were found dead after their house was set on fire. In the Rhoads case, Karen worked for a very corrupt company, and some people believe she was going to blow the whistle.

 

[NewMommy09]

There are so many. Off the top of my head:
Maura Murray
Brianna Maitland
Kristen Modafferi
Rachel Cook
And most of all: Gabriel Johnson. He will be turning 18 in a year and a half and graduating High School if he's still alive. I'd love nothing more than to see him come forward alive and reunite with his Father and meet his younger siblings.

 

[pizzawonder]

Summer Wells
Miyazawa family

 

[abyquinn]

There are so many. Off the top of my head:
Maura Murray
Brianna Maitland
Kristen Modafferi
Rachel Cook
And most of all: Gabriel Johnson. He will be turning 18 in a year and a half and graduating High School if he's still alive. I'd love nothing more than to see him come forward alive and reunite with his Father and meet his younger siblings.

Gabriel. Thank you for remembering him. I sure would love for him to be found too. I think in my heart I’ve given up on that happening bc I think his mother was evil enough to have done just what she said she did, but there is always hope. Do you know if the Find Gabriel is still active on Facebook?

 

[LinasK]

Ilene Misheloff- Dublin, CA, and my cousin's case is solved, but his remains were never found- Mark Dribin- Portland, OR.

 

[annemc2]

There are so many! Sharon Marshall was my white whale case that was ultimately resolved.

Missing -
Jason Jolkowski
not a super well known case but sticks in my mind MT - MT - Paul Batson, 45, Stillwater Co, 29 Apr 2018

Murdered -
Miyazawa family
Al Kite

UID-
WA - WA - Seattle, WhtFem 30-50, 159UFWA, UP12916, alias 'Mary Anderson', copper IUD, breast surgery scars, Oct'96
LA - LA - Belle Chasse, WhtMale 16-17, UP88342, hanged, suicide note, Feb'75

edit - gonna add a conspiracy theory category case to my list

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OH Thread 'OH - Ronald Tammen, 19, Oxford, 19 April 1953'

Oct 24, 2005

Ronald Henry Tammen, Jr. (19) Missing since April 19, 1953 from Oxford, OH

Ronald Henry Tammen, Jr.
Missing since April 19, 1953 from Oxford, Ohio
Classification: Endangered Missing

Vital Statistics
Date Of Birth: July 23, 1933
Age at Time of Disappearance: 19 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'10"; 175 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Dark hair and muscular.
Blood type: O Positive

Circumstances of Disappearance
Tammen was last seen in old Fisher Hall, a former Victorian mental asylum, at Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio on April 19, 1953...

• Richard
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• Forum: Pre-1960's Missing

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[LadyL]

Adding again, the Grimes sisters/Chicago IL, very old case

adding their WS thread

IL Post in thread 'IL - Barbara, 15, & Patricia Grimes, 13, Chicago, 27 Dec 1956'

Apr 6, 2025

2 Sisters Vanished After an Elvis Movie — Found Naked in the Snow, Their Deaths Led to a Stunning Twist

Barbara and Patricia Grimes' disappearance led to hundreds of police officers searching Chicago and even caught Elvis Presley's attention.

people.com

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[LadyL]

Ruth Baumgardner in 1937
Joan Risch in 1961 Erin Valenti in 2019

Ruth's case is a real mystery.

OH Thread 'OH - Ruth Baumgardner, 21, Delaware, 4 May 1937'

Oct 3, 2005

Ruth Baumgardner was a 21 year old senior at Ohio Wesleyan College in Delaware, Ohio. By all accounts she was a good student, popular on campus, and was in the Delta Delta Delta sorority. She was engaged to a boy (Bud Moore) from her home town of Lakewood, Ohio. Her father was a wealthy manufacturer. She received a red convertible for her graduation gift, and had once remarked that if she ever wanted to disappear, she'd leave her car behind because the fiery red vehicle would be easy to spot. The last time she was seen was the evening of May 4, 1937, when she went to the sorority...

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• Replies: 427
• Forum: Pre-1960's Missing

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[LadyL]

There are so many. Off the top of my head:
Maura Murray
Brianna Maitland
Kristen Modafferi
Rachel Cook
And most of all: Gabriel Johnson. He will be turning 18 in a year and a half and graduating High School if he's still alive. I'd love nothing more than to see him come forward alive and reunite with his Father and meet his younger siblings.

dear little Gabriel and his heartbroken Dad

J

Post in thread 'AZ - Gabriel Johnson, 7 mos, Tempe, 27 Dec 2009'

Nov 7, 2024

Gabriel Scott Johnson – The Charley Project

• John/Jane Doe

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[ChatteringBirds]

Chance Englebert

Check his thread. There is a recent update in his case.

I wanted to add even though it is not old, Megan Trussell. This one, IMO, feels like LE didn't even try, just wanted to gloss over it.
Megan Trussell

I just read through her thread. It is a very tragic case, buy I think it sounds like the answers are likely in her autopsy and toxicology reports. But what do you think?

 

[snooptroop88]

Is Zodiac on here yet?

 

[Aegon_the_Conqueror]

Joyce Malecki. (As many of us did, I first heard of her in "The Keepers".) 2 years ago she was exhumed, and it was speculated in news articles that this step was motivated by the recent ID of one of the suspects in the Pamela Conyers case, as they were last seen at the same mall. Reading that freaked me out. Why? The guy ID'd was my grandmother's 2nd cousin.

Since then I've done my own research and come to the conclusion that, while it's still possible that he could've been involved in that murder also, he's no more likely than anybody else. For one thing, the reporters were wrong, it wasn't the same mall. And Malecki had almost reached her destination, which was 10 miles away.

 

[NewMommy09]

Gabriel. Thank you for remembering him. I sure would love for him to be found too. I think in my heart I’ve given up on that happening bc I think his mother was evil enough to have done just what she said she did, but there is always hope. Do you know if the Find Gabriel is still active on Facebook?

I got rid of FB about 5 years ago so I'm limited what I can see on FB. But I believe Gabriel's Dad is still active on the FB Bring Home Gabriel Johnson. Elizabeth has had at least one child herself in the last few years. My oldest son was born a couple days before Gabriel and as I've watched my own son grow into a young man, I've watched Gabriel grow up too in my mind. The repercussions of him being found now, almost grown, and having to re-integrate with a family he most likely doesn't even remember, would be so hard. But still better than never knowing. Which is not to say I fully believe he was given up for a Black Market Adoption, but I prefer that because it means he could still be alive, well, and happy somewhere.

 

[steeltowngirl]

If I had to choose only one:
Kathy and Samantha Netherland

others:
Lyric Cook and Elizabeth Collins
Cherrie Mahan
Amy Mihaljevic
Jennifer Kesse