NEW LEADS IN MELANIE MELANSON 1989 DISAPPEARANCE

'NEW LEADS'

SHE VANISHED over 21 years ago, but now a private detective believes that he has new leads in the mysterious disappearance of Melanie Melanson.
The 14-year-old was last seen at a high school party in a woods near her home in Woburn MA and then she vanished without trace.
But 22-years on P.I Michael Garrigan, who has worked the case from the very beginning says he has "credible leads" which could see people in the woods that night prosecuted.
He told Fox 25: "I developed some leads over the past year, we can’t discuss those at this time, but very credible leads from several sources.”
And with the help of trained cadaver dogs he hopes he's hoping to confirm that traces of human decomposition in the woods, which he believes hold the key to discovering the truth.  
It's not the first time that investigators have returned to the woods. Detectives launched a revitalized search in 2009, just before what would have been Melanie’s 35th birthday.
While Melanie’s parents have passed on, her aunts and other family members are standing watch over the new search.
Garrigan says he can’t share many details on the investigation, but says he believes the people he hopes will ultimately be prosecuted were absolutely in the woods on that October night.

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NEW HOPE AS TIP REOPENS KATIE SEEFELDT CASE

AGE PROGRESSED

AGE 12

SHE was a naughty, grounded, 12-year-old girl when she vanished without trace back in October 2002.
Today she would be 21, but the mystery surrounding her disappearance remains.
Investigators once believed Katie Seefeldt may have run away, but but now after what officers are calling a credible tip in the case deputies have begun searching for bones.
The night of her disappearance Katie answered the phone and told the whoever it was at the end of the line: "You guys know I can't have phone calls this late, and if you continue to call me, my mom is going to keep me grounded longer."
Her mother Sholly Seefeldt said when she woke up the next morning, her daughter and a lot of her new clothes were gone.
Sholly told KMBC: "She was very outgoing and loving," adding that knew her daughter was also pushing the boundaries.
"I wanted her not to be the wild child that I was, which she kind of resented me for that."
For some time deputies had thought she had run away from her Kansas City, MO, home but now they're digging for bones.
They have been searching the general area for a couple of weeks and have narrowed their search to more specific spots, digging about 18 inches into the soil for bones or other clues.
Sholly added: "I had a bad feeling in my gut. There was nothing really bad between us.

I love her with all my heart, with all my soul," 

Anyone who knows anything about her whereabouts is asked to call the Jackson County Sheriff's Office at 816-524-4302 or the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS.

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NO NEWS IN ANCHOR JODI HUISENTRUIT'S VANISHING

MYSTERY

SHE was a popular TV news anchor who simply vanished one morning in a mystery which has baffled cops and the general public for more than 16-years.
Cops believe there was a struggle before Jodi Huisentruit disappeared as her car keys were left in the parking lot along with a single shoe.
But although they suspect foul play may have been involved, no body has ever been found for the KIMT reporter, although she was legally declared dead in 2001.
Now a new book from former fellow TV personality Beth Bednar is raising new questions about the disturbing case and she's accusing cops in Mason City, IA, of not investigating properly.
She told KEYC that Dead Air:  The Disappearance of Jodi Huisentruit includes new leads which investigator's have yet to follow up.
She said: "I remember hearing about the case.  I followed a lot of the media as well, and her sister actually lived next door to my grandmother.
"I think someone knows something, I think perhaps more than one knows a lot more than they are telling. There are certain things that I wrote about in the book that the police never investigated adequately."
She also claims to have interviewed a woman who claimed she was in the vicinity at the time when Huinsentruit went missing and claimed to have relevant information to the case adding that supposed information was never followed up on by police.
She said: "It was a curious amount of secrecy in Mason City when I was talking to people about her disappearance, it is still very hush hush."
She also hopes information in this book will shed light on the case and play a role in reopening it.

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AMBER ELIZABETH SCHOLZ STILL A MYSTERY 30-YEARS ON

WITHOUT TRACE

IT'S been 30-years since she vanished, but cops are refusing to give up on the case of Amber Elizabeth Scholz. 

On November 8, 1981 the gorgeous 21-year-old had been partying with pals and was dropped of by a friend at her Rock Spring, WY apartment. 

She was never seen again. 

Scholz's father called the police when he was unable to reach his daughter later that day, but when officers called round, there was no sign of forced entry or a struggle. 

A police source said: "It's a genuine mystery. There was nothing out of the ordinary about her home and her friends said she seemed fine when they dropped her off.
"We'll not let this case go though. It will always remain open and we want to solve it, as much as anything to find out what happened."

Oddly however, while they found her wallet and an uncashed paycheck her car, a 1971 Oldsmobile two-door couple with WY plates, 4-93AW was gone. 

It has never been recovered.

 At the time she was involved in a custody battle over her son with her ex-husband, but there was never any suggestion that he was involved in her death.

Anyone with information on this case, please contact the Rock Springs Police Department on 307 352 1575.

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COPS REFUSE TO GIVE UP ON PAIGE RENKOSKI COLD CASE

VANISHED

SUSPECT

IT'S 21years since Paige Renkoski vanished but cops are still determined to find out why she mysteriously disappeared.

Back in 1990 the 30-year-old was last seen on the Interstate near her DeWitt Township, MI, home talking to a man.

But while cops found her unlocked 1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass in the same location, with the engine running and the headlights on.
Her shoes and purse were still inside the vehicle, but since then there has been no sign of the substitute teacher.  But a cold case team is refusing to give up and have now developed three new suspect sketches in the hope that they will jolt someone's memory and help them unlock the case. 

SUSPECT

Team member Mike Frayer told the Detroit Free Press: "Somebody out there knows something."
The first is based on a tip from a now-retired Michigan State Police intelligence officer is considered "extremely credible" and a second sketch based on a tip from a woman resembles a former truck driver serving time in New York for four murders.
Investigators are hoping to compare the truck driver's palm print, which was taken after his arrest, with palm prints found on Paige Renkoski's vehicle.
Described by Frayer as "spookier," Frayer said, explaining how a saleswoman who worked for a photographer accepted a ride from a Hispanic trucker after her vehicle broke down on the same part of the Interstate 96 about six months before Renkoski went missing.
She told officers that once she got into the cab of the semi, the trucker told her: "This is the biggest mistake you ever made."
But Frayer explained:  "She thought fast on her feet. She clutched her purse and told him that she traveled a lot and she carried a firearm in her purse. He kicked her out. That may have saved her life."
The third tip comes from a male accountant he told police he  noticed a black male with an "old, beaten car" flashing a police badge at him in an attempt to get him to stop on the expressway, investigators said.
"We feel guardedly optimistic," Frayer said about the investigation thus far. "We're establishing more of a foundation." If you have information for the cold-case team, call the Sheriff's Department at (517) 546-2440.

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FREEZER BODY MAY BE MISSING KITTY WARDWELL: COPS

KILLER?

THE body of a Maine woman missing for almost 30 years may have been found in a freezer belonging to her ex-boyfriend, cops say. 
Kitty Wardwell was reported missing by her on-again, off again boyfriend, Frank Julian, back in July 1983 and was never seen again. 
But after he died earlier this month, aged 80, relatives were clearing out his storage unit when they came across human remains in an unplugged freezer at a storage unit registered to him. 
Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland told the Bangor Daily News: “Remains have been found, but we don’t know whose body this is definitively at this time.
“We have put both families in the loop about the discovery and we have interviewed a number of members of both families, but the final determination will be made by the medical examiner.”
He added: "Our investigation now looks to the Medical Examiner's Office for answers. DNA may need to be used to make a positive identification."
Wardwell was reported missing by a close pal, but when they questioned the novelty salesman at the time, he told cops that that he had dropped the then the then 29-year-old woman off at a Salem, NH, motel after a fight and had traveled back to his Lewiston ME home without her.
A later investigation revealed cops suspected she may have been the victim of foul play. 

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STILL HOPE FOR GORGEOUS ANNA WATERS

AGE PROGRESSED

WHEN KIDNAPPED

HER family have still not given up hope that something or someone will lead them to the gorgeous little girl who vanished without trace in January 1973. 

Gorgeous Anna Waters was just five-years-old when disappeared after her family left her happily playing in the backyard of their San Mateo, CA home. 

But while investigator's initially thought she may have fallen in a nearby creek, the began to suspect foul play when no trace of her was found. 

Her stepbrother told his family he remembered a strange couple driving alongside Anna, trying in vain to tempt her the kindergartener into their vehicle.

Since then, repeated appeals and an age progressed photo, have yet to reveal any results, but cops are refusing to give up hope. 

An source close to the San Mateo County Sheriff's office said: "All it takes is one little piece of information, one little clue or heaven forbid, one slip up and we'll know what happened.

"We never stop thinking about cases like this and we never give up."

If you have any information concerning Waters' whereabouts, please contact: San Mateo County Sheriff's Office on 650-364-1811.

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MELVIN PARKER GUILTY IN 1994 DOROTHY PAIGE SLAY

PARKER

PAIGE

THEY SUSPECTED him at the time, but when Melvin Parker's wife and the chief witness against him went into hiding, the case collapsed.
Fast forward 17-years and cops reopen the case of Dorothy Paige, who in August 1994 was found brutally stabbed and strangled in her Madison, WI, apartment.
And the cold case detectives immediately focus in on Melvin Parker, now 48, who just five years after Paige's murder was jailed on child abuse and burglary convictions.
He had been charged with murder in 1998, but that charge was dismissed after a key witness, Parker's wife Michele went into hiding, claiming that police were bending her story to make it fit their case. 
But it was the discovery that a witness who corroborated Michele Parker had lied to the original case detective, that finally cracked it for them.
So with little choice Parker ended with a no contest plea to first-degree reckless homicide. 
Assistant DA Brian Asmus told The State Journal: "This has been a long time coming for family members of Dorothy Paige, to finally have someone held accountable."
Paige's mother, Doris Koecher did not attend the hearing but said in a victim impact statement written by Amy Olson that Paige's death has been "a living hell" that has left her deeply depressed and withdrawn from the community.
She wrote: "I see no reason to give this person any type of leniency. Doris has expressed to me that if there is a possibility of the death penalty, that would be nice."

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FEARS GROW FOR MISSING KIMBERLY NICOLE McMILLAN

VANISHED

SHE should be starting her second week of high school this week, but instead the distraught family of Kimberly Nicole McMillan have no idea where she is. The gorgeous youngster, who had the ambitious goal of becoming a forensic scientist vanished from Harlem, NY on August 8 and cops are increasingly concerned for her.
They fear Kimberly's family fears she is in trouble after being last seen with an obsessed and possibly dangerous 18-year-old, Clarence Wright.
Her heartbroken father Ty told the NY Daily News: "It's been a complete nightmare. I'm emotionally distraught." The 33-year-old pastor added that the daughter's mother and stepfather allowed Wright and Kimberly to have a relationship. But McMillan said he didn't approve when he found out about the involvement in June after his daughter told him Wright had a violent
past.
Although Kimberly was initially intrigued by an "older guy" showing interest in her, she told her dad recently she no longer wanted to be involved with Wright.
Then the fun loving youngster who has a love for music and her hobbies include playing video games, reading, and writing, playing tennis, basketball and volleyball vanished. 
Anyone with knowledge of Kimberly Nicole Mcmillan’s whereabouts or if anyone has seen her in public, they are encouraged to call the New York Police Department 32nd Precinct at 212-690-6311 as soon as possible. The family is praying for the swift and safe return of Kimberly.

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DANIELLE & DOROTHY PITCHER VANISHED INTO THIN AIR

WITHOUT TRACE

AFTER attending church that morning the mother and daughter happily skipped off the store for an ice cream cone and a pack of cigarettes.  But after making a phone call from the Pearce, AZ store, neither Danielle or Dorothy Pitcher have been seen again since that May 1993 day. 
Despite an extensive search, no sign of the pair was ever found again, although search dogs did pick up a scent along the highway, which abruptly stopped, prompting investigators to believe that they may have been picked up by a vehicle. 
To date, two suspects have been picked up and interviewed, although both were released as was Dorothy's husband after he passed a polygraph. 
He died in 1998. Dawn Pitcher, however refuses to give up hope and friends and family continue to run this website in memory of the pair and
the hope that one day someone who knows something will come forward.
She said: "In my heart of heart I know their not living. But there's always a little bit of you that hopes they'll come back. We want to put it to rest."
Anyone with information, even if they don't want it to go to police can contact: jendel2579@hotmail.com

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LETTER REOPENS 1983 JO-ANNE PEDERSON MYSTERY

MYSTERY


SHE was last seen in a phonebox outside the Penny Pincher store in Chilliwack BC, trying to call her mother and stepfather.  A man, who had messy or wavy hair, was seen helping Jo-Anne Pederson but then the 10-year-old vanished without trace, never to be seen again.
Despite huge searches, a massive police operation and numerous TV appeals, for 28-years her disappearance has haunted the small Canadian community.
But now RCMP officers are hopeful they might get break, after a mystery letter arrived in their offices, which apperently might hold the key to unlocking the mystery. According to the Vancouver Sun Police believe the writer may have witnessed what happened to Jo-Anne before she disappeared on Feb. 19, 1983.
A source said: "Obviously we don't want to build up our hopes too much, but after so long it's great to finally get a break in the case.
"It's vital however that the person who wrote this letter, contacts us."
In 2008, police appealed to him to come forward, posting this re-enactment of that night You Tube to help jog his memory.
Anyone with information is asked to call Const. Justine Hayward of the Chilliwack RCMP Serious Crime Unit at 604-792-4611 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).

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MISSING SABRINA LONG'S FAMILY: 'WE WON'T GIVE UP'

LONG GONE

HER disappearance more than two decades ago is a complete mystery, but Sabrina Long's family are refusing to give up hope that someone will come forward with information about what happened. Back in August 1991, the gorgeous 19-year-old vanished from her stepfather's home in Bloomfield, AZ, never to be seen again after working a late shift. Her last words to her mother were: "I love you" 
Long's aunt, Janice Dowling, who last month started this Facebook page in memory of her niece.
She told WMAZ: "Until you find a body, or somebody says something, there's always hope. Realistically, no, we don't think she's still alive."
But she added that the responses they'd received still gave them hope that someone would come forward.
She said: "It gives us hope that somebody who knows something may come forward after all these years."
A Georgia Bureau of Investigation case on the missing woman's disappearance has gone cold, Special Agent Jerri Lynn Coody said. Though they are still actively investigating, she said, there have been no leads or clues in a "substantial" amount of time, and that's what makes the case cold.
If you have any information about Sabrina Long's case, you can contact the GBI at 478-987-4545.

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JEREMY BRIGHT VANISHED FROM ORE. FAIR IN 1986

IN AUGUST 1986, Jeremy Bright vanished from the Coos County (Oregon) Fair. He was never seen again and was just 14 when he vanished. But his family has never forgotten him and recently released 1,000 balloons in his honor. Standing 6'1", Jeremy had whopping size 13 shoes. It's a memory his mother Dianne Beatty cherishes. He had been in Coos Bay with his sister, visiting family when he left to pick her up at the county fair. His mom said at the time there was no amber alert and was assured he was just another teen who had run off. Jeremy will come home eventually, she was assured.
Twenty-five years later that has not been the case. When his sister S'Te Elmore realized her older brother
wasn't coming to get her at the fair, she didn't think that meant he would never return.
She said: "It's a struggle. You never want to give up hope. Twenty-five years later, we just want answers. Our main goal is to find Jeremy and to lay him to rest. Just to know that he's taken care of."
Now married with nine children, Elmore said she misses her brother and thinks of him all the time and how her children will never know him.
The family hasn't given up hope someone will come forward with information and crack open the cold case. A detective is still working the case, and Elmore has regular contact with the Coos County Sheriff's Office, she said. They believe his body is still somewhere in the county.
Beatty adds: "God will take care of justice for us. We want to heal, that's all."MORE IN THE COOS BAY WORLD

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LINDSEY BAUM: STILL MISSING TWO YEARS ON

TRAGIC

SHE had walked to her friend's house hundreds of times, but two years ago, in June 2009, Lindsey Baum vanished without trace in broad daylight.
Cops don't think she ran away, nothing was missing from her room, but in a more sinister twist they believe she was kidnapped from the small town of McCleary, WA. 
An FBI Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team also yielded no results, despite checking all the available CCTV footage in the town and repeatedly interviewing the residents.  
Despite the length of time her mom Melissa is refusing to give up hope on her little girl, vowing to fight on until her little girls returned.
She told KOMO recently on the two-year anniversary of her disappearance: "I still believe she's out there - not giving up till we find her."    
"I look forward to her coming home.""Two years ago, I was a single mom, working mom, raising two kids and that's not the case anymore. The only thing that hasn't changed is my determination to find Lindsey and the love that I have for her."
She added that it was not just her daughter who's missing, but her best friend. 
She said: "We did everything together." 
Melissa has also set up this website for tips.
A donor recently added another $5,000 to the reward for finding Lindsey - making it $35,000 for anyone who knows where she is.
Anyone with any information is urged to contact Grays Harbor County Information Hot-line (Tip line) (866) 915-8299, Email: soadmin@co.grays-harbor.wa.us

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STACY ARAGON '05 DISAPPEARANCE BAFFLING: COPS

It is now six years since Gilbert, Arizona mom Stacy Ann Aragon vanished. Aragon, 33, the diminutive mother-of-three was last seen at a family member’s home in Gilbert with her boyfriend Stephen Bishop July 20, 2005. The circumstances of Aragon’s disappearance have baffled cops, with one local detective saying “she literally disappeared into thin air.”
Cops did discover Aragon’s missing green Subaru, but soon after, the leads dried up. The past six years have been torturous for Aragon’s family who, more than anything, just want closure at this point. Stacy’s sister-in-law Nikki Askren speaks of the unending grief that Stacy’s disappearance has caused the family: "Her sons
need to know that their mom didn’t just walk out and leave them.
“It's not even a matter of justice anymore we just want to get her home and buried and have a memorial service and a place where her family can grieve,” Askren said.
If you have any information that may help, please call Gilbert Police Department at 480-503-6500

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