Still missing a month on, 14-year-old Adelle Burns

A 14-year-old Florida girl is still missing more than a month after she disappeared from the bed she was sharing with her sister.
Adelle Burns left a note telling her mom that she would be with friend's in Mississippi, but there has been no word from her since.
Her mom Glenna Phillips told the Tallahassee Democrat that the family "just want her home."
"We want her home and we hope she is sage wherever she's at," she said. "Somebody is helping her. A 14-year-old cannot run away and survive on her own without money or anything. There are so many ifs in this situation."
The family is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to her return.
The Leon County Sheriff's Office said they did not consider Burns to be at risk, but spokesperson James McQuaig told the paper, "there's a great concern for this child's safety."

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Stephanie Low's body found in shallow grave

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 The body of a woman missing for nearly four years has been discovered in a shallow grave in the national forest near Wabeno, Wis., cops said. 

Stephanie Low was found Friday around 80 miles northeast of the Wausau apartment where she was last seen on Oct. 10, 2010, Police Chief Jeff Hardel said. 

At the time cops found blood droplets, missing bedding and the smell of bleach in the 22-year-old's home. 

Hardel told WSAW that a person of interest reportedly confesses to six people that he went to Low's apartment with the intention of ripping her off. 

No criminal charges have been filed in relation to the case, but cops say they will be coming. 

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Mother fears Hannah Graham victim of serial killer

Gill Harrington has been down the terrible road the family of missing University of Virginia Hannah Graham is now traveling -- and fears a serial killer is hunting in the area. Her daughter Morgan was kidnapped and murdered in 2009 after a Metallica concert -- and now she's seeing chilling similarities between the two cases. MORE AT COLD CASE USA

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Cops resume search in 1975 Lyon sisters cold case

Maryland police have resumed their search for two sisters who vanished in 1975 at a rural cemetery in Virgin

ia. Sheila Lyon, 12, and her sister Katherine, 10, disappeared on March 25, 1975 when they went for lunch at a local mall in the Washington, DC suburb of Wheaton. But last February, cops identified convicted child molester Lloyd Lee Welch as a person of interest in the tragic case. He was living nearby when the girls went missing and is currently doing a jolt in the big house. The property being search was once owned by Welch's relatives. Cops say they placed him at the mall the day the girls went missing.  MORE FROM FOX NEWS

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Mitchell Ruble nabbed in 1981 shotgun slaying

Police have arrested a former Ohio sheriff's deputy and charged him with the cold case murder of a fellow cop in 1981.  Mitchell Ruble, 63, was arrested charged with the brutal shotgun slaying of  Deputy Lt. Ray "Joe" Clark.
Cops say that Clark was watching a basketball game when he went to his kitchen to fetch a snack. At that instant, a shotgun blast slammed into his head killing him instantly. According to cops, the motive was most likely revenge: Clark canned Ruble in 1979 for  "inappropriate conduct while on duty." 
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Hannah Graham update: 3 other women missing

UPDATE: Detectives are piecing together new sightings of missing university co-ed Hannah Elizabeth Graham that may help them unravel the mystery of her disappearance. The University of Virginia student last weekend after a boozy outing with pals in Charlottesville, Va. 
Now, new video footage obtained by cops suggests she made it to a downtown mall before vanishing. She had earlier left  McGrady's Irish Pub around 12:45 a.m., WJLA is reporting. The new footage shows the pretty student walking back and forth at a Shell station. The last anyone heard from her was 1:30 a.m. when she texted pals that she was lost. On a more chilling note at least three other young women have disappeared from the area over the past five years, heightening fears for Graham's safety.

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Va. cops hunt for missing Hannah Elizabeth Graham

Cops in Charlottesville, Virginia have released new photos of missing co-ed Hannah Elizabeth Graham who vanished last Saturday.
The 18-year-old sent a text to pals around 1:20 a.m. and hasn't been heard from since. The University of Virginia student is 5’11” with a skinny build, blue eyes, light brown hair and freckles. Graham was last seen wearing a black crop top with mesh cutouts.

The new photos show Graham around 9:30 p.m. on the Friday night she disappeared. Cops say the pretty student left a party alone and then 45 minutes later texted friends that she was lost. Detectives believe she was "fairly well intoxicated."
“Hannah is a wonderful young lady. She’s the type of girl anyone would want to have as a daughter,” said Karen Blunk, a neighbor of Graham’s who watched her grow up. “I want everybody to think of the family and help us get Hannah home soon.”
 Anyone with information about Graham was asked to call Charlottesville Police Department at 434-970-3280 or CrimeStoppers at 434-977-4000.

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OREGON COPS RELEASE NEW SKETCH OF 1996 COLD CASE

Cops pushing for new leads in a 1996 cold case have released a new sketch of an unidentified murder victim found dead in rural Oregon.
Suspicious circumstances at the Polk County crime scene lead investigators to believe that the case was a homicide. Her body may have been in the area for as long as a year before it was found.
A search of missing persons from the county and the state didn't turn up a match, but police believe she may have been from out of state, according to a statement from Polk County Sheriff's.
The woman is described as white with black and grey hair, around 45-years-old and between five and five feet-six inches tall
With a slight build, she had a possible curvature of the spine and a surgical incision in her forehead from sinus surgery that apparently occurred years before her death.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Polk County Sheriff's Office on 503 623 1878.

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PROF PLEADS TO ROLE IN 1995 MEAT CLEAVER MURDER

Norma Esparza

A psychology professor has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter in the cold case murder of her alleged rapist who was found hacked to death with a meat cleaver 20-years ago.
Norma Esparza told a California courtroom that she never meant for Gonzalo Ramirez to be killed in the Spring of 1995, but that her ex-boyfriend Gianni Anthony Van had forced her to point him out after she told him about the rape.
The following morning Orange County cops found the 24-year-old's body at the side of the road, beaten and hacked to death with a meat cleaver.
Esparza, a professor at Webster University in Geneva, Switzerland was arrested two-years ago when she tried to reenter the U.S. for an academic conference two years ago.

The 40-year-old had previously rejected a plea that would have given her a three-year sentence. She is expected to be sentenced to six-years in state prison and will testify against her co-defendants according to the Orange County district attorney's office.
According to the LA Times Co-defendants Van, 45, and Shannon Ray Gries, 43, are expected to go on trial next year, charged with felony murder in the commission of a kidnapping.
A third suspect, Diane Tran, 45 has already pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Her husband
Kody Tran, who was also a suspect in the case, shot himself during a standoff with police.

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