Murder of Carlton Mosley

On September 3, 2000, Carlton Mosley was in a vehicle in the 500 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Bakersville, California, Carlton was struck by gunfire and died from a shot to the back of the head. 

SOURCES:

Bakersville 

Murder of Kirsty Jones

In 2020 23-year-old Kristy Jones was a Welsh citizen who loved back packing. She had done it before and planned to do it again. She would go to several Asian countries on vacation. She had already been to Singapore and Malaysia before she went to Thailand in early August. She would check into a hostel room in Chiang Mai, Thailand. On her trip she went trekking in the mountains, sightseeing, and met people. This would be the second time she would backpack in Thailand. 

On August 10, 2000, Kristy would be murdered in her hostel room. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death.

Thailand has a 20-year statute of limitations on murder. So on August 10, 2020, the case was officially closed. In this case, no one can be prosecuted even if the murderer was found. There were several suspects in this case, but no evidence that could convict any of them. 

SOURCES:
Wikipedia

ITV News May 2020
BBC August 9, 2020
ITV News August 10, 2020
The Guardian August 15, 2020

Murder of Carmen Rodriguez

At 10 pm on July 8, 2000, 28-year-old Carmen Rodriguez was seen walking through near the park at North Pine and 30th streets in Wilmington, Delaware. The last time she was seen was at 3:30 am at 29th and Tatnall streets blocks. The next morning someone walking in a secluded part of the park would find Carmen's partially dressed body in some bushes. 

She was likely pushed down face-first into the ground. She had evidence of being beaten and then strangled to death. 

SOURCES:

Wilmington Delaware 

Uncovered

The News Journal July 10, 2000

The News Journal July 11, 2000

Murder of Daniel Saucedo

Around 7 pm on November 1, 2000, on 550 N. Eastern Ave in Las Vegas, Nevada 28-year-old Daniel Saucedo confronted two men trying to steal the 1988 Chevrolet Caprice he was borrowing from a friend. The two men were armed with guns and one of them shot Daniel. One fled on foot and the other fled in the car.

The car was later recovered at the intersection of Valley Forge and Virgil.

The suspects were described as black males, 20 to 30 years old, and 5'8 to 5'10.

SOURCES:

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

Disappearance of Travis Deion Massey

On November 30, 2000, Travis Massey was last seen in Huntsville, Alabama. He was seen a red Ford pickup truck with Alfred "Sonny" Hardy III prior to his disappearance and may have been seen with two unidentified white males and an unidentified African American male earlier that day. The Vehicle would later be found in Cullman County and the truck's owner is unable to answer what had happened to Travis.

After Travis's disappearance, Sonny Hardy was arrested for the murder of Derwin Tyrone Hawk that had happened the same month. It's believed that he killed Derwin in a residence in Huntsville and that Travis witnessed it. He would be convicted for the murder but maintains innocence claiming to be framed.

It's believed that Travis was murdered because he allegedly saw the murder. There have been no charges filed for his disappearance and suspected death.

Travis may have traveled to the Birmingham, Alabama area. Travis is an African American male and was 20-years-old at the time. He is 6'1" and 240 lbs. He has black hair and brown eyes. He was wearing A gray Polo fleece shirt, black Levi jeans, and red and black Air Max shoes.

SOURCES:

National Missing Person Directory

Doe Network

Charley Project

February 25, 2000 Detroit, Michigan John Doe

On February 25, 2000, the cranium of a teenager was found by workers cleaning the back yard of a vacant house. No other remains were recovered. 

John Doe is African American and was between 14 to 18-years-old. 

SOURCES:

Unidentified Wiki

NamUs

Murder of Shawn Smith

 

At 12:30 a.m. on Feb. 5, 2000, 22-year-old Shawn Smith and a friend were walking through the south parking lot at Rawhide in Scottsdale, Arizona. Someone would approach the two and pulled out a knife and attacked the two. Shawn was stabbed and his friend was slightly injured. Shawn would be pronounced dead at the hospital.

SOURCES:

City of Scottsdale

ABC

Yamaira "Mayra" Vivian Montes-Gonzalez

On November 14, 2000, 14-year-old Yamaira "Mayra" Montes-Gonzalez was last seen walking to her school bus stop in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. There is little information in this case.

Yamaira is a Hispanic female and was 14-years-old at the time. She was 5'7" and 126 lbs at the time. She has brown hair and brown eyes. At the time her hair was dyed blonde. 

SOURCES:

Charley Project

Doe Network

NamUs

Urban Legends: Carmen Winstead

Carmen Winstead is the 17-year-old ghost that was murdered by schoolmates around 2000. She was freshly new to Indiana and 5 girls trying to embarrass her pushed her down a sewer opening accidentally killing the girl. The 5 girls would lie and say she accidentally stepped in it. To get her revenge a cursed chain mail in 2006 that if the sender has to acknowledge her murder and send it to others on social media (MySpace). If they failed they would die in the sewer from Carmen's wrath.

Example of Letter From Snopes 

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"She was pushed

About 6 years ago in Indiana, Carmen Winstead was pushed down a sewer opening by 5 girls in her school, trying to embarrass her in front of her school during a fire drill. When she didn’t submerge the police were called. They went down and brought up 17 year old Carmen Winstead’s body, the neck broke hitting the ladder, then side concrete at the bottom. The girls told everyone she fell… They believed them.

FACT: 2 months ago, 16 year old David Gregory read this post and didn’t repost it. When he went to take a shower he heard laughter from his shower, he started freaking out and ran to his computer to repost it, He said goodnight to his mom and went to sleep, 5 hours later his mom woke up in the middle of the night cause of a loud noise, David was gone, that morning a few hours later the police found him in the sewer, his neck broke and his face skin peeled off.

If you don’t repost this saying

“She was pushed”
or “They Pushed her down a sewer”

Then Carmen will get you, either from a sewer, the toilet, the shower, or when you go to sleep you’ll wake up in the sewer, in the dark, then Carmen will come and kill you.

About 6 years ago in Indiana, Jessica Smith was pushed down a sewer opening by 5 girls in her school, trying to embarrass her in front of her school during a fire drill. When she didn’t submerge then police were called. They went down and brought up 17 year old Jessica Smith’s body, she broke her neck hitting the ladder, then hit her side on concrete at the bottom. The girls told everyone she fell … They believed them.

FACT: 2 months ago, 16 year old Ron Anderson read this post and didn’t repost it. When he went to take a shower he heard laughter from his shower, he started freaking out and ran to his computer to repost it, He said goodnight to his mom and went to sleep, 5 hours later his mom woke up in the middle of the night cause of a loud noise, Ron Anderson was gone, that morning a few hours later the police found him in the sewer, his neck broke and his face skin peeled off

If you don’t repost this saying

“She was pushed”
or “They Pushed her down a sewer”

Then Jessica will get you, either from a sewer, the toilet, the shower, or when you go to sleep you’ll wake up in the sewer, in the dark, then Jessica will come and kill you.

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There's no evidence of  Carmen ever-existing especially a Carmen Winstead that died in Indiana in such a way in 2000. 

SOURCES:

Scary Urban Legends

Snopes

Creepypasta Wiki

The 2000 Department Store "Centrs" Bombing

 On August 17, 2000, two explosives were placed at the downtown shopping center Centrs in Riga, Latvia. At 5:19 p.m. in the lobby of the supermarket, a bomb went off,. It shattered the window and filled the ground floor with smoke. Police would arrive a few minutes later and started evacuating.  8 minutes later a second bomb would go off in the same lobby.

Dozens were injured from the blasts. Three had to be rushed to hospitals while 33 were treated at the scene. Only one woman lost her life in the bombings. The bombs were set off at the busiest time of the day for the supermarket. 

A Leonards Butelis was arrested for planting the second bomb, but was acquitted by the supreme court a year later. No one else has been charged for the bombing.

SOURCES:
Wikipedia
BBC
GTD

AP News

The Irish Times

Murder of Concepcion "Connie" Romero

On July 23, 2000, the body of 76-year-old Concepcion "Connie" Romero was found in her home she lived alone on 4440 Fletcher Ave. in Fort Worth Texas. She died from blunt force trauma.

SOURCES:

Fort Worth Texas

Murder of Laymond Lee Drummond

On May 8, 2000, at 1 p.m. the body of 50-year-old Laymond Drummond was found in his truck in the parking lot of the nightclub Ma & Me in Greer, South Carolina. Someone had shot Laymond in the head in the vehicle. The shooting had to of happened between 9 a.m. and 1p.m. as he was seen by his family that morning. 

SOURCES:

Spartanburg Sheriff

Greenville News May 9, 2000

The Attack on Julie Cooper

Photo of Julie after the attack

Photo of Julie 7 years after the attack

Between 1:05 and 1:15 pm on 15 August 2000, 28-year-old Julie Cooper was walking back to work after taking a lunch break at home. She would be attacked on a cycle path close to Norfolk County Hall, Martineau Lane, and a local industrial estate at Europa in Norwich, England. Julie would suffer from injuries and on her face and upper body from a knife or sharp weapon and had been robbed.  Julie would survive the attack and would end up having several surgeries because of it.

The attack was not common in this area of Norwich, and there didn't seem to be any similar attacks or offences leading up to the attack. The area she was attacked may have been a busy traffic route, but at the time the path was heavily overgrown so her attacker may have done the attack in that area for that reason.

Police hope that someone will come forward with information so that this case could be solved. 

SOURCES:

Norfolk Constabulary

Eastern Daily Press

WANTED: Curtis Lee Brovold

Curtis Lee Brovold is wanted for the alleged sexual activities with a 14-year-old Minnesota girl. He started talking to the girl online in February of 2000. In July of 2000, It was alleged that the two engaged in sexual activities in Moorhead, Minnesota at a local hotel.

He was then arrested on July 11, 2000, and was released on bond. He would not appear for his court hearing scheduled on September 18, 2000, in Clay County. This caused a state arrest warrant issued in State in Minnesota, Seventh Judicial District after Brovold was charged with criminal sexual conduct. He was also charged subsequently with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and a federal arrest warrant was issued by the United States District Court, State, and District of Minnesota.

He is a white male born on November 5, 1953. He has blonde hair and blue eyes. He's 6'3" and was 195 lbs at the time. At the time he was working as a computer technician. 

SOURCES:

FBI

The U.S. Marshall 

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 Trans Woman Tyra Henderson

In 2000 22-year-old Tyra Henderson was living on the 1700 Block of T St. in southeast Washington D.C. She was a trans woman and at the time she was working as a sex worker as a means of survival.

On April 23, 2000, around 2 a.m. someone called 911 to say that there was moaning coming from the rear of the 3600 block of 11th st, NW. A 6:26 a.m. Tyra's body was discovered. She had been beaten to death. It's unknown if Tyra's sex work had to do with her death.

A complaint was filed against the police for the response time for Tyra's scene. The complainant sought help from the ACLU of National Capital Area as of Jan. 17, 2018 it is listed as being under  review of police.

SOURCES:

Metropolitan Police Department

Metropolitain Police Department (PDF)

Trans True Crime 

Metro Weekly

Murder of Kenneth and Anjanette Murphy

On April 14, 2000, someone kicked in the door of  31-year-old Kenneth and 30-year-old Anjanette Murphy home on Montecrest Ave. in Richmond, Virginia. The killer or killers had shot and killed the couple. 

SOURCES:
Richmond Virginia
Find a Grave (Kenneth)
Find a Grave (Anjanette)

Murder of Jamaal Daron Tisdale

On April 5, between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. residents around the 700 block of Rex Ave. heard gunshots. At 12:56 a.m. on April 6, police located the body of Jamaal Tisdale and he had been shot to death in an alley. 

SOURCES:

Richmond Virginia

Unsolved Murder of Paul Mairano

On December 26, 1999, 21-year-old Paul Mairano was last seen by his father. On Jan. 25, 2000 Paul's body was found in the trunk of his grey 1999 Lexus CS300. It had been towed from 108 Eastern Ave in Worcester, Massachusetts before it was known he was in the trunk. It was found that he had been shot in the head and then the killers hid his body in the trunk.

SOURCES:

City of Worcester 

Murder of Catrina Pink

On December 14, 2000, 27-year-old Catrina Pink's body was found on the 4600 block of McKee Rd in Bakersfield, California. She was stabbed to death. She was last seen by a friend at the Tropicana Motel on 1622 Union Ave. two days before on the 12th.

SOURCES:
City of Bakersfield 
Find a Grave