Disappearance of Cindy "Tig" Rivera

On June 30, 2012, 19-year-old Cindy "Tig" Rivera left the home she shared with her father on Peggy Lee Lane in Las Vegas, New Mexico. She was driving a purple 2005 Chevrolet Cavalier with New Mexico plate number JFZ-534. She told him that she was going to be back in a few. 

Cindy and her 1-year-old son were staying the night at the home of a health care client of her mothers. Her mother wasn't home at the time as she was spending the night with a friend so Cindy was supposed to take care of the bedridden client. 

At 2 a.m. Cindy called her mother telling her that Chris Trujillo, Cindy's Ex and baby's father, was at the client's home drunk. She didn't sound frightened on the phone so her mother told her to chase Chris off. This was the last time she was heard from. 

The bedridden client would hear the baby crying all night. When Cindy's family arrived at the home they found the baby in the bathroom. The garage door was open, and her slippers, lighter, and a couple of cigarettes was found on the ground outside. 

Supposedly Chris went to a relative's house dressed in only his boxers and covered in scratches. He supposedly stated he had killed Cindy and asked the relative to rent him a room at a hotel in Albuquerque. Which the relative did. 

Chris has not been named as a suspect in this case, but is refusing to cooperate with the investigation. Her family believes that Chris kidnapped and killed Cindy that night.

Cindy is a Hispanic woman and was 19 at the time. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She has multiple tattoos including the name "Rhonda" on the right side of her neck, The phrase "Trust No Bitch", on her collarbone, she has faces and the phrase "Smile Now, Cry Later", on her right arm, the word "tyga" with some stars on her right hand and the word "Bites" with hearts on her left hand. Her ears, and her lower lip on both sides are pierced. 

SOURCES:

Charley Project

New Mexico State Police

Albuquerque Journal 

Murder of Jerry Lee Stamper

On the morning of June 30, 2001, around midnight 24-year-old Jerry Stamper made a small purchase at the 7-11 on 3421 E. Tropicana in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was on foot and walked a short distance to the apartment complex on 3190 Tarpon Dr. Around 1:15 a.m. a security guard discovered 24-year-old Jerry Stamper. He was lying unconscious on the ground with his face bloody. When Paramedics arrived Jerry already died from the wound on his head. It appeared that the motive was robbery as his wallet laid empty beside him.

SOURCES:

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

Find A Grave

Murder of Jessica Minter

On June 30, 1964, 15-year-old Jessica Minter at her home in Lawrenceville, Ohio on 2801 Anita Drive. She was home alone after her mom left to work at 9 a.m.  She was first stabbed in the back near the door. It's unknown if she was fleeing from someone in the house or coming into the house. In the living room, her killer would unbutton her shirt and pull it down over her shoulders and then stabbed her in the chest and abdomen.

A neighbor had noticed a boy's red bicycle in front of Jessica's home between 9 to 9:30 a.m. They also heard a scream around this time. Whoever was riding was never seen or noticed.

SOURCES:
Clark County Ohio
Ohio Attorney General 
The Journal Herald
The Journal Herald

Murder of Joseph Sass

Photo of Joseph with his Mom

On the night of June 29, 2000, 23-year-old Joseph Sass was working at the King George Exxon Gas Station on highway #78 and King George Road in Bernards Township, New Jersey. Around 9:20 p.m. several witnesses saw a black male come to the gas station on foot from the south side entrance. He would enter the vending machine area of the building and then he went to have a brief conversation about the vending machine taking dollar bills with Joseph. 

Witness said that the man asked Joseph for some change, and Joseph took a large amount of money from his pocket. This was when the man brought out a gun and asked for all the money. Joseph gave him the money and the man shot him in the head and fled the same way he came. Joseph was able to make it to the hospital but died soon after.

The man was a black male between 20 to 30-years-old. He was 5'9" to 6'1" and thin with a dark complexion. Witnesses observed a late model. dark-colored commercial type van fleeing the area and proceeded westbound onto Route #78. It's not stated if they think or know if the suspect was in the car.

SOURCES:

Somerset County

My Central Jersey

New Jersey Hills Media Group

Murder of Robert Mullins

On June 28, 1977, at 4:25 a.m. the body of Robert Mullins was found by a customer. His body was inside the office of the Citgo Service Station which was located on the northbound side of Interstate 295/Rt. 130 in West Deptford Township, New Jersey. He had been beaten and shot. His cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head. The motive was robbery as an undisclosed amount of money was stolen from the store. 

SOURCES
Gloucester County, New Jersey
Courier-Post June 28, 1977
The Daily Register June 28, 1977

Murder of Loretta Melendez

At 4:48 am on June 26, 1992, the body of 28-year-old Loretta Melendez's body was found on 17 Morgan Street in Yonkers, New York. She was last seen on the same street by a female friend. She had been shot in the head. 

At the time Loretta was a divorced mother of four. She was unemployed at the time but did have previous arrests for prostitution and drugs. It's unknown if that had anything to do with her death. 

SOURCES:

City of Yonkers

New York Times

Disappearance of Mary Lazzara

Sometime in 1939 Mary Lazzara who was around 24-years-old at the time was last seen heading to work in Gary, Indiana. She was never heard from or seen again. Mary is a white female and was around 24-years-old at the time. She has black hair and brown eyes. There is little information in this case.

SOURCES:

Doe Network

Murder of Christine Susan Munro

On June 24, 1995, 37-year-old Christine Munro's body was found along the Sacramento River Trail, in Redding, California. One source stated that her throat had been slashed. She had been jogging that morning and had been attacked and killed. 

Micheal Vielbig confessed to killing Christine in 1997 after going to jail for rape and attempted murder. At the time he also claimed to kill three other people. He was a suspect before his confession. There is not enough evidence to convict him. 

SOURCES:

City of Redding

Record Searchlight April 24, 1997

Action News Now- December 23, 2019

San Fransisco Gate- April 27, 1997

Flicker

Girl Murdered by Ancient Soldiers

Image Credited to BBC

Archeologist excavating near a former Roman settlement in the county of Kent, England, lying in a shallow grave was the skeletal remains of a young woman between 16 and 20 years old. Her shallow grave was amid ancient military gear believed to be left behind from the 1st Century Claudian invasion. Inside her grave with her were pottery pieces dated around 50 A.D. about four years after the Claudian Invasion.

It was believed that the items found in the trench were abandoned after the Romans were done taking over the area. They dug pits and dumped broken or unneeded things for their travel. They had done the same with the girl. Possibly her use to them was done when they left. They were done with her.  She was in a kneeling position and was stabbed in the back of her head.

They didn't even give her a nice burial as they dug a shallow grave and dumped her in and covered her with dirt. She was lying face down in her grave her body laid twisted. One foot was out of the grave and one of her arms underneath her.

There is little known about the girl. She was young and healthy and was likely a native to the area, unlike the invading Romans. Another indication she was native was that she was buried North/South instead of East/West/.

Her story has unfortunately been lost to time.

SOURCES:
BBC
History
UPI

Cline Falls Axe Attack

In 1977 19-year-old Terri Jentz who was from Western Springs, Illinois and 20-year-old Avra Goldman from Wellesley, Massachusetts were roommates and students at Yale University. They decided that summer that they were going to cycle across the U.S. via the newly opened Trans America Trail. They would end their tour in Astoria, Oregon.

On the night of June 22, they headed east from Astoria and ended up in Cline Flass State Park in Oregon. They decided to camp there for the night though the women felt uneasy as if they were being watched. The two would go to bed and would wake up at 11:30 p.m. to the sound of a vehicle. This was when the nightmare would start.

It was initially believed that the truck pulling up belonged to partying teenagers. The truck would then drive over the tent its tires pinning Terri down, this would break both her arms, one leg, her collar bone, and several ribs as well as crushing her lung. A man exited the vehicle with an axe. He would hit Avra in the head with it around 6 times.

The man then would hover over Terri looking down at her. He would slowly bring down the axe over Terri and she caught it in her hands above her heart by the blade. He then withdrew it and drove away. He left the girls to die. Terri would describe him as a fit cowboy type.

Avra was able to get to the roadside even though her leg was broken and she had wounds from the axe. A motorist heard her cries and took both women to the hospital. They would state the scene was a bloody mess. Miraculously neither woman lost their lives even though their injuries were significant.

Terri was able to remember the attack, but Avra's eyesight went bad from the wounds and she couldn't remember that night. The man who attacked them was never caught. Later Terri would go back to Oregon to search for the man who tried to kill her and this caused her to write "A Strange Piece of Paradise".

She found out that all the initial information on the case was lost. This included interviews, physical evidence, and crime scene photos. She also found that the man who was thought to have tried to kill them a child rapist and child murderer Richard Wayne "Bud" Goodman did not match the description. 

Instead, she said that another suspect who she gives them a different name in her book as Dirk Duran. He matches the description and had told people over the years that he was not involved with the ax attack. But others in the community had suspected him.

SOURCES:
Wikipedia
Statesman Journal June 27, 1977
CNN May 8, 2006
The Independent June 21, 2006

Murder of Darryl Messer

On June 21, 1990, 25-year-old Darryl Messer was at his home a quarter of a mile west of U.S. 421 on West St, Medaryville, Indiana. He went to his garden to get vegetables and didn't return inside. This was when he was discovered lying in the yard suffering from a gunshot wound. He would later die due to this.

SOURCES:

Indiana State Police

The Kayhausen Boy

In 1922 the body of a young boy was found in a bog in Lower Saxony, Germany. He was called the Kayhausen Boy and was between 7 and 10-years-old and had lived and died between 300 and 400 BC. The boy had been killed and it's more than likely due to sacrificial reasons.

The young boy had been bound. Strips of woolen fabric were used to tie his arms behind his back, and a length of textile was wound around his neck, passed between his legs, and back up to his neck where the two ends were tied together. It was found that he had been stabbed 3 times in the neck and once in the left arm. It was likely killed with a dagger with a 4-centimeter blade. It's unknown if he was stabbed before or after he was bound.

It's likely he was sacrificed because he was disabled and probably considered disfavored by their gods. He had suffered from an infected socket at the top of his femur and was unable to walk without assistance. His story and identity will never be known as it was lost to history.

There is a picture of the boy, but it shows how he's tied up and to be a bit too much to post on here. Both links below do have images of this mummy though.

SOURCES:
Wikipedia
Mummipedia 

Murder of Jeff Curry

African American man Jeff Curry had a verbal argument with Frank Powell and Frank's son about a job he's done with them. During the argument, it was said he swore to kill Frank. Near the Blue Creek, Alabama mines he concealed himself and waited by a road that he knew Frank would pass. He was caught and arrested before he could try to kill Frank.

On the night of March 19, 1888,  Constables David Rainey and Sam Redden were going to bring him to Birmingham jail. They claimed that 12 disguised white men overtook the guards and took Jeff from them. The mob of men then tied Jeff to a large tree. They then shot him to death. It was said that his body was riddled with bullets. The men then disappeared into the woods.

In the newer article, it's stated that Frank and Jeff pulled revolvers out at each other, and this was why he was arrested. The older articles indicated that this did not happen. It's also suspected that Frank and his friends may have killed Jeff.

This case has never been solved.

SOURCES:
News and Observer- March 21, 1888
The Tuskaloosa Gazette- March 22, 1888
The Times and News- March 22, 1888
The Troy Messenger- March 29, 1888
The Columbia Recorder- March 29, 1888
Birmingham Watch- Feb. 29, 2019