I’ve been thinking a lot this holiday season about victims of crime and their families. I hope in 2019 there will be more cases solved with DNA technology and the thousands of untested rape kits sitting on shelves will be processed. This could be another great year for unsolved cases. I also hope in 2019
The narrative of the disappearance of Kimberly Sue Doss, called Kim by her family, is all over the place. I think that may be part of the problem as to why this case hasn’t been solved. Let’s start with 1980. That’s the earliest missing date that I have seen listed for Kim, who would
Nathan Edison Williams was last seen on September 28, 2004 at the University of Minnesota, Morris campus. He was planning to go on a fishing in Northern Minnesota. As far as law enforcement is aware, he was travelling alone. He was 21 years old at the time of his disappearance. Two days later, police found
I came across a profile for missing woman Nachida Chandara while researching the Fond du Lac County Jane Doe. I thought she was a good match– young, last seen in neighboring Michigan, and seemingly vanished without a trace. This is Nachida on the left, the Jane Doe on the right. However, upon further inspection, it
I was tooling around on NAMUS and found this: an unidentified man found frozen to death in an abandoned building (the former JJ Hill office building) in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1985. He was presumably homeless, age between 20-40. Sorry, both pictures do not have great resolution, but there are some similarities that I find
This is an odd and under the radar case that I found a while ago on the Charley Project. The two men owned a shop together on the East Side of St. Paul that sold redwood products, which they had closed earlier in 1977. In June 1975, Freeman, originally from Hastings, MN, and a friend
Ebby Steppach was last seen on October 24, 2015, almost two years ago. When I started reading extensively about her case, I found out there has been a lot of conflicting information put out there and it was hard to find a media source that was consistent. To be clear, this is far from a
I saw a surveillance camera image online recently of a burglar in a church, and this got me thinking about the Jennifer Kesse suspect. (The unknown person seen abandoning her car at a nearby apartment complex). These are the two images of the same church burglar: Seriously, look at the difference. When I saw this,
I have yet to hear about a legit teen runaway case where the missing teen doesn’t take any of their personal belongings. So goes the bewildering case of New Hampshire teen Laureen Rahn, 14, who disappeared from her third-floor family apartment in the middle of the night of April 26, 1980. This is one of
I recently read about Diana Braungardt, an 18-year-old who disappeared in 1987 after a shift at a Venture store (similar to Target in the 80s) in Crystal City, Missouri. Diana completed her shift, and by all accounts, was planning to go home to study for a test. When she didn’t show up, her parents began
