Murder of Heidi Marie Cummings

On December 18, 2007, 51-year-old Heidi Cummings was found dead in her home in the 3500 block of Cutter in Fort Worth, Texas. It's believed that she may have known her killer and allowed them into the home where they shot her to death.

SOURCES:

Fort Worth, Texas Police Department

Find a Grave

Murder of Kenneth Baxter

On July 6, 2007, Kenneth Baxter was working at the Hilton Garden Inn located in the Towne Centre Mall in Southaven, Mississippi. He would leave work at 8:30 pm and head to his apartment on Airways Blvd about 1.5 miles away.  About 15 minutes later he was walking in a southbound direction on Airways Blvd. on the Horn Lake Creek Bridge when he was struck by a vehicle going southbound. The vehicle would flee the scene. Kenneth would die from his injuries. 

It was initially believed that the vehicle that struck and killed him was believed to be a 1993 to 1995 Mercury Villager or Nissan Quest in red or maroon color. In 2011 however, it was determined to have been a 1998 Gold Nissan Quest.

SOURCES:

Uncovered

Southaven

Thijs Poos "(van) Rosmalen"

 

On May 4, 2007, 29-year-old Thijs Poos las contacted his family. His last known address was in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He may have been staying in Paris and London at the time. He may be calling himself Thijs (van) Rosmalen.

Thijs is a white male and was 29 years old at the time. He has dark blonde hair and grey/blue eyes. He is around 170 cm (5'5"). 

SOURCES:

Politie

Missing Person

International Missing Persons

Murder of Patrick Grayson

On January 31, 2007, a driver found a body lying near the road on  S.J. Bennett Dr in Birmingham, Alabama. It was 37-year-old Patrick Grayson and someone had murdered him. He had been shot to death. A few feet from his body were his ID and cell phone.  A witness told detectives he had heard a gunshot and what sounded like a woman screaming when Patrick was killed. 

SOURCES:

Uncovered

ABC 33/40 Feb 25, 2014

Murder of Aaron Anthony Breaux

Around 8:53 p.m. on April 29, 2007 officers would respond to the 38000 block of Fremont Blvd. in Fremont, California. They would find 19-year-old Aaron Breaux was found suffering from a gunshot wound in the parking lot. He would later die from his wounds. Witnesses stated that they heard two gunshots, but did not see any suspicious people or vehicles. 

Aaron was a high school student at Washington High School.

There is up to a $60,000 Reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in this case. 

SOURCES:

Fremont Police Department

CBS News Bay Area June 6, 2022

ABC 17 June 6, 2022

Murder of Russell Grant "Blue" Valentine Jr

On the late night of April 2, 2007 gunshots were heard in the 6000 block of Wesleyan Drive in Virginia Beach, Virginia. 46-year-old Russell Valentine Jr. was found laying in the yard of a residence (not stated if it was his own, but he lived on the same block). Russell had been shot and transported to the hospital where he would soon die after. 

SOURCES:

City of Virginia Beach

Find a Grave

Murder of Jair Valencia

On the night of March 31, 2007, Jair Valencia was at his brother's apartment at 5722 Arbor Drive at the Bradford Park Apartments in Southhaven, Mississippi. Jair would leave his brother's apartment. About 15 to 20 minutes later Jair was in the parking lot near his vehicle when he was confronted by several young black males. A struggle would ensue and this would cause Jair to be shot twice. They would flee the scene, but one suspect walked away returned back, and shot Jair 3 more times. The suspects would leave on foot, but an SUV was seen fleeing the area. 

SOURCES:

South Haven

South Haven PDF

Action News 5 April 2, 2007

Clairon-Ledger April 4, 2007

Murder of Cynthia McKenna

 

On February 18, 2007, 49-year-old Cynthia McKenna was seen arguing with a man in a silver pickup truck outside of her apartment on Waterman Ave. in North Providence, Rhode Island. She was seen leaving the vehicle. On February 21st Cynthia's body would be found dead in her bedroom. Someone had died from Asphyxiation. 

SOURCES:

Rhode Island Cold Case

Project Cold Case

Boston February 22, 2010
WPRI February 22, 2019

WANTED: Fatah "Samir" Banlarendj

On May 1, 2007, a 7-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by Fatah "Samir" Banlarendj. He would flee and is believed to be among the British ex-pat community in Spain.

SOURCES:

National Crime Agency 

The Sun

October 28, 2007 Three Points, Arizona John Doe

On October 28, 2007, campers found the body of a young man in the desert by South Shaw Rd. in Three Points, Arizona. He had died just days prior to being found. His cause of death is either unknown or unstated. He may have been from or been to Mexico at one point as he had Mexican Currency on his person.

John Doe is a Hispanic male and was between 16-25-years-old. He was 5'3". He has short, black thick hair. He had healed nasal fractures; atlanto-occipital fusion (C1 and C2), possibly causing restricted neck movement, stiffness, or headaches, His teeth #1 and #16 did not fully erupt due to immature roots. 

He was wearing white briefs, black socks, black work boots, and Size 28 Olympic brand blue jeans. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Missing and Exploited Children 

Doe Network

Unidentified Wiki

Murder of Traci Lynn Douglass

In December of 2006 family members were worried for 39-year-old Traci Douglass. At the time she was living in Salamanca, New York near her daughter and aunt. On September 9, 2009, her skeletal remains would be found by a fisherman along the west shoreline of the Allegany Reservoir in South Valley. It's believed that she had been murdered and may have even died after her disappearance in late January or early February of 2007.

SOURCES:
Cattaraugus County
Cumberland Times-News April 12, 2012

The Salamanca Press April 18, 2014

Murders of of Dequincy Antonio Smith and Dontay Williams

Dontay Williams                                 Antonion Smith

On August 28, 2007, around 8:46p.m. officers responded to an apartment on the 200 block of Southerly Rd. in Baltimore, Maryland. Inside they found two men who had been shot. 23-year-old Dequincy Smith was already dead and 21-year-old Dontay Williams was still alive. Dontay would pass away later at the hospital.

Witnesses stated that two suspects entered the apartment and shot both men before fleeing to a vehicle outside. 

SOURCES:

Anne Arundel, Maryland

The Baltimore Sun August 29, 2007

Murder of Xiong Zhang

On July 19, 2007, two plain-clothed police officers found an injured man on the path between River Roding and Herford Rd in Barking, England. The victim was 33-year-old Xiong Zhang and he was taken to the hospital with a brain injury. He would later die on July 27, 2007. 

Xiong was an illegal immigrant from China and was selling counterfeit DVDs in the area. This is likely why he was targeted. A CCTV camera caught a black youth on a bicycle on the path, and then the youth left with a white bag suspected to be the missing DVDs. Police are searching for information on the youth and what information they may have on the murder. 

SOURCES:

Unsolved Murders UK

BBC August3, 2007

Barking & Dagenham Post June 25, 2008

Murder of Brianna Jean Schlick

From the night of Feb. 16, 2007, to the next morning, 21-year-old Briana Schlick was babysitting at a home on the 7300 block of Sundown Glen St. in Las Vegas, Nevada. An unknown subject or subjects entered the locked home and encountered Briana who was sleeping on the couch. They would shoot her in the head.

SOURCES:

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

Find a Grave

The Star-News March 2, 2007

Jan. 22, 2007 Delray Beach, Florida Baby Doe

 On Jan. 22, 2007 the mummified remains of an infant were found in a suitcase in a storage shed in Delray Beach, Florida. It's believed that the infant died between 1956 to 1957. 

The baby was a white male with strawberry blonde hair. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Chicago, Illinois living John Doe "Shannon Night"

 

A "Shannon Night" is a man that suffered a stroke and has organic brain damage from it. He lives at Chicago Read Mental Health Center in the Northwest Side in Chicago, Illinois, and has been in state care since 2007. He appears lucid, but major details of his life before the stroke isn't there. He does believe he has a son and wife though. He does have an arrest record, but he gave various names including variations of Shannon Night or Sanane Night, in 2006 he gave the name Shannon Hate. He may go as Veno.

He is now a soft-spoken man and carries a red folder with notes in an effort to try to remember who he is and his family. He also has a handmade greeting card he hopes to give to the son he believes he has. He's working on trying to remember. 

Shannon is an African American male and was in his 30's in 2007. He's 5'7" and 240lbs. He has black hair and brown eyes. He has a keloid scar on the anterior chest. a small scar on his left forehead (says from fall from bus bench at around age 6), and around dark mole in his left eyebrow. 

He has two faded and homemade tattoos and he said that they meant Folks. The first tattoo is the Roman Numeral III on his right wrist area, and a tattoo on his left forearm is a combination of a Roman Numeral III tattoo and VENO, with a instead of the O. VE III N. He also mentioned a rabbit with a top hat when talking about this tattoo, but that image is not visible.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Chicago Tribune

Murder of Lockey M. Mitten

 

On July 28, 2007, a friend of 64-year-old Lockey Mitten went to go check up on her. At 6:42 p.m. her friend would arrive at the mobile home at 214 Indiana Avenue in Williamstown, New Jersey. She was found with her throat slit. 

There is a $10,000 reward for the arrest and conviction in the person or persons involved in this case. 

SOURCES:

Gloucester County

Find a Grave

Inquirer July 29, 2008

Disappearance of Chantelle Alice Rose Bushie (Kim Star)

 

In  December 2007 16-year-old Chantelle Bushie was las seen in  Grand Prairie, Alberta Canada. She known to live a high-risk lifestyle. She was a member of Alberta, Canada's Dena Tha' First Nation. She was known to have had traumatic events in her childhood such as sexual abuse and the accidental death of her sister. When she was 14 she began to cut class and run away from home. When she would do this she would use the Alias Kim Star.  She was known to hang around prostitutes and drug dealers even though she herself was neither. If the police picked her up and brought her home she would run away again. At the time in December, she had an infant daughter who was a couple months old. Because of her constant running away she wasn't officially reported missing until 2009 by her mother. 

Chantelle was 16-years-old at the time and is First Nations. She was 5'5" at the time and was 119 lbs. She has short black hair. She has the initials V T on her left hand, these are her parent's initials. 

SOURCES:

Doe Network

RCMP
CBC CA

Murder of Edwin Michael Thomas Forgeron

On March 9, 2007, around 3 p.m. the body of 31-year-old Michael Forgeron was found at 12, Convoy Ave. Halifax, Nova Scotia. He had been a victim of a homicide. There is up to a $150,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction of this case.

SOURCES:

Halifax

I Heart Radio

Murder of Erika M, Cirioni

On the night of December 31, 2006, 26-year-old Erika M. Cirioni was last seen on Division Street in Norwich, Connecticut. Her phone was last used at 11:50 p.m. She wasn't reported missing until Jan. 3, 2007. 

Six years later her skeletal remains were found by children playing in the area of Oxoboxo Dam Road in a wooded area. Her death is being treated as a homicide.

SOURCES:
Connecticut State Division of Criminal Justice
The Day
NBC Connecticut