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A woman is about to make her final vows as a nun and is taking part in a spiritual retreat on Convent grounds to pray about her decision. One morning, she grabbed an apple and her Bible and walked up a hill less than 100 yards away from the Retreat House to sit on a bench and pray. Just hours later, her lifeless body would be discovered 40 feet away from that overturned bench. The brutal sexual assault and murder of a nun in a sacred religious space would spark fear and outrage. Nearly 50 years have passed, but thanks to carefully preserved DNA evidence, her case may finally soon get answers.

Sources:
https://uncovered.com/cases/roberta-elam

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/t9lme2/roberta_elam_was_a_26yearold_nun_who_was_killed/

https://www.nbc.com/the-dna-of-murder-with-paul-holes/video/who-killed-sister-robin-elam/4067270

https://cindygoff.blogspot.com/2012/01/unsolved-murder-1977-murder-1-who.html

https://stjosephretreatcenter.org/

https://robertaelam.blogspot.com/2010/09/raped-murdered-on-june-13-1977.html#comment-form

https://positivelypittsburgh.com/a-rash-of-murders-southwestern-pa-in-1977/

https://darkmatter69.blogspot.com/2020/01/who-killed-west-virginia-nun-roberta.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/q5nkxc/was_there_a_serial_killer_operating_in_western_pa/

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A mother arrives home where her 19-year-old daughter and 18 month old grandson are staying with her. She expects the house to be empty because her daughter is supposed to be at work and her grandson to the babysitters. But when she arrives home, she see's her daughter's car still in the driveway. Even more puzzling, the house is locked from the inside. Confusion turns to concern when she hears her grandson crying in the home and her daughter doesn't answer the door. After forcing her way into the home, she finds her grandson unharmed but no sign of her daughter. This case has gone on a roller-coaster of leads, but still remains one of the most confusing and bizarre cases the Quad City Region has ever seen.


Sources:
https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/crime/vanished-qc-a-mother-waits-40-years-to-see-her-daughter-again/

https://www.trimblefuneralhomes.com/obituaries/emma-jean-mccorkle

https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/crime/vanished-qc-for-4-decades-a-missing-womans-mother-son-have-no-answers/

https://ourblackgirls.com/2020/03/14/regina-mccorkle-vanished-in-1981-her-son-was-found-locked-in-bedroom/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-dispatch-what-happened-to-regina/157767082/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-dispatch-missing-regina-1982-augus/157767046/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-dispatch-regina-mccorkle-other-mis/157766987/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-dispatch-regina-mccorkle-other-mis/157766987/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-rock-island-argus-regina-mccorkle/157892756/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-dispatch-foul-play-suspected/157892877/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-dispatch-brief-overview-of-regina-mc/157893037/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-dispatch-church-service-to-be-held/157893084/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-rock-island-argus-100-reward-form-c/157893432/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-rock-island-argus-boyfriend-passes-t/157893502/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-rock-island-argus-robert-mccorkle-ob/157893605/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-rock-island-argus-april-of-1983-so/157895356/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-dispatch-6-months-in-hit-dead-end/157895547/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/quad-city-times-bizarre-case-all-leads/157923219/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/quad-city-times-continued-of-bizarre-art/157923711/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/quad-city-times-police-fear-she-was-abdu/157924335/

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A nurse works the overnight shift and then drives home to her house on a dead-end dirt road. She calls her mother and husband to let them know she made it home safe, and then crawls into bed to sleep. That would be the last time anyone would hear from her again. When her husband and children arrived home they would find signs of a violent struggle in the house, but Melinda was nowhere to be found. Police suspect foul play immediately and think she was attacked while sleeping and abducted from the home. Investigators looked into multiple serial killers operating within driving distance of her home at the time, including the infamous Baton Rouge Serial Killer - Derrick Todd Lee. But many local people believe the answer is right in their small town and that people out there know what happened to Melinda. Now is the time to come forward.

https://www.northescambia.com/2013/03/exclusive-sister-addresses-mcghee-disappearance-sheriff-has-message-for-abductor

https://uncovered.com/cases/melinda-mcghee

https://www.northescambia.com/2021/03/after-18-years-the-search-continues-for-melinda-wall-mcghee

https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP5022

https://int-missing.fandom.com/wiki/Melinda_McGhee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmore,_Alabama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRRgNpXjuWw

https://charleyproject.org/case/melinda-wall-mcghee

https://www.al.com/live/2013/03/10_years_later_escambia_county.html

https://www.atmoreadvance.com/2013/03/26/search-continues-for-melinda-mcghee/

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/usedtobedoe/mcghee-melinda-w-march-24-2003-t7055.html#google_vignette

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/a-timeline-of-derrick-todd-lee-s-killings-capture-and-conviction/article_9397101d-4e88-5d04-a265-ed213c30238f.html
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-selma-times-journal-2008-word-that/157407976/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montgomery-advertiser-melinda-m-sist/157407082/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montgomery-advertiser-remains-found/157406964/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-anniston-star-april-9th-search-cal/157405331/

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A mother of five takes advantage of some beautiful sunny weather to swim and have a few beers with friends on the shores of the Missouri River.
When she doesn't make it home, suspicion falls on the people who she was hanging out with that day.
After her body is found, the FBI gets involved and a large reward is put out for information on her case, but to this day it has not been solved.


Source Material:
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/minneapolis/news/press-releases/10000-reward-for-information-about-the-disappearance-and-death-of-victoria-vicki-jane-eagleman

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/crime/vicki-eagleman-murder-case-investigation-murder-update/89-9d31ec00-fb7d-4b59-b1b3-4b51d63ac317

https://indianz.com/News/2006/015555.asp

https://indianz.com/News/2007/005207.asp

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/gender-journal/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/11/Rhea-Shinde_No-More-Stolen-Sisters_Issue-3.pdf

https://www.newspapers.com/article/argus-leader-vicki-eagleman-investigated/157054626/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/argus-leader-body-found/157054562/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/rapid-city-journal-2016-reward-for-her-c/157052166/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/argus-leader-full-article-of-68-cold-cas/157052135/

https://charleyproject.org/case/delema-lou-sits-poor

https://uncovered.com/cases/victoria-eagleman

https://charleyproject.org/case/donna-marie-larrabee

https://www.npr.org/2007/07/25/12203114/rape-cases-on-indian-lands-go-uninvestigated

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The 1980s were a terrifying time for some of the population's most vulnerable in Salt Lake City, Utah: A predator was targeting elderly women who lived alone. When numbers climbed into the double digits, police were confronted with a terrifying reality: It wasn't just one suspect. There was a serial killer with twisted sexual fantasies, there were one-off robberies, and some still unsolved and motive unknown. The case of Bertha Hughes is one of them. The 82-year-old should have been given the opportunity to age and die with dignity. Instead someone violently ended her life. She was a woman who loved nothing more than to people-watch through her front window and visit with her family and friends from church. Even though over 40 years have gone by, new DNA testing could help police to close in on her killer.




Sources:

https://www.abc4.com/news/digital-exclusives/cold-cases-utah-cases-that-remain-unsolved-years-later/

https://bci.utah.gov/coldcases/jean-muir/#:~:text=Jean%20was%20planning%20on%20going,found%20inside%20her%20home%20murdered.

https://bci.utah.gov/coldcases/bertha-larsen-hughes/

https://www.abc4.com/news/top-stories/the-justice-files-a-decade-of-elderly-women-murders/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65518369/eliza-drucilla-ovard

https://www.deseret.com/1999/10/10/19469865/confessed-killer-adds-3-women-to-his-toll/

https://www.deseret.com/1999/8/9/19459771/did-one-time-burglar-slay-up-to-13-women-br-if-so-police-hope-convicted-killer-will-come-clean/

https://www.deseret.com/2000/1/3/19551749/victims-of-past-crimes-may-finally-see-justice/
https://www.deseret.com/1990/6/12/18866076/was-accidental-death-in-1985-a-murder-state-re-examines-body/

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A high school senior rides the bus to school, puts his books into his locker, talks to his friends, and never makes it to his first period class. He was on the verge of qualifying for the USA Ski Team, had put down his deposit for college, and was looking forward to the upcoming ski competition that weekend.
But those close to him say he seemed troubled by something in the days leading up to his disappearance - could the cause of this be connected to his disappearance?


Sources:
https://medium.com/cold-cases-unsolved-crimes/the-strange-disappearance-of-roger-ellison-e3d4fae786de

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/30/us/a-symbol-of-the-missing-thousands-durango-s-young-unknown-traveler.html

https://findrogerellison.wordpress.com/inside-a-reporters-notebook/

https://findrogerellison.wordpress.com/

https://truecrimediva.com/roger-ellison/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-sentinel-unmarked-grave/156239059/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-sentinel-mortuary-search-conti/156238965/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-sentinel-dig-at-mortuary/156238708/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-sentinel-front-page-17-years-l/156237639/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-sentinel-dying-man-ellison/156237555/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-sentinel-roger-ellison-1998/156237524/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-sentinel-ellison-parents-off/156163781/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-sentinel-no-clues-in-disappear/156163648/
https://charleyproject.org/case/roger-john-ellison

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A woman travels with her husband from Boston to Philadelphia to attend his work conference. She decides to do a day of sightseeing while he works. When she fails to meet back at the hotel on their agreed upon time, alarm bells go off in her husbands head. Police eager to show that this is a city safe for tourists urgently hit the streets but come up empty, shifting focus back to her husband and even insinuating that she never was in Philadelphia at all. But nobody could prepare for what came next and ultimately the question still lingers: who murdered Judy, how did her body get 600 miles away, and why?

Do you have information? Contact the Byncombe County Sheriff’s Dept at 828-250-6670


Sources:
https://lostnfoundblogs.com/f/judy-smith-traveling-or-troubled

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-part-2-of-cove/155805509/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-judy-smith-bac/155783634/

https://unsolved.com/gallery/judy-smith/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Judy_Smith

https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/The-Bizarre-Murder-of-Judy-Smith-Found-Dead-600-Miles-Away

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A man from Poland is in the United States trying to earn enough money to help his family back home. His job as a day laborer at a construction site in lower Manhattan is interrupted by the events of 9/11/2001. Desperate to not lose out on any money, he finds a job mopping floors overnight at a grocery store that night. But a wrong subway stop would prove deadly for him, and he would become the only standalone homicide in NYC on 9/11/2001.
His family has all but given up hope that his case will be solved, but somebody out there still knows who did this.



Source Material:
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/nyregion/brooklyn-murder-on-sept-11-2001-remains-unsolved.html?_r=0

https://www.wnyc.org/story/156998-homicide/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/asked-evening-murder-911-unsolved-york-city/story?id=57457505

https://billyjensen.com/wp-content/themes/billjensen/pdfs/crime_stories/overshadowed_by_history.pdf

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