Disappearance of Columbus G. McLeod

In 1908, 62/63-year-old Columbus G. McLeod was a DeSoto County sheriff. On November 30th he carried out game law enforcement duties in Lee County, Florida. He was searching for egret hunters at Cayo Pelau Island. He was never seen again and it's presumed he was killed. 

His boat was found sunken with sand sacks tied to it. His hat was located nearby with two axe chips, blood, and hair. His body was however never recovered. 

SOURCES:
Officer Down Memorial Page

Find a Grave
International Missing Persons

Disappearance of Anwesha Dey

On May 3, 2015, 30-year-old Anwesha Dey was last seen leaving a friend's home near 23rd and S Streets in Lincoln, Nebraska.  She was walking home alone but never arrived. At the time the weather was bad and was stormy with heavy winds.

CCTV from the Union Plaza area showed that Anwesha had fallen into Antelope Creek at 7:27 pm. The creek was only 3ft deep, but the current was strong. Anwesha was also known to not know how to swim. It's believed that she had accidentally drowned. 

Her body may have never been found due to Antelope Creek flowing into Salt Creek, then which connects to the Platte River, which joins into the Missouri River that goes into the Gulf of Mexico. Her body may have ended up in any of these bodies of water. 

Anwesha was born and raised in India. She moved to Nebraska to attend the University of Nebraska. She studied biological sciences. Anwesha originally believed in the Hindu religion but began practicing Buddhism after she moved to the United States

Anwesha is an Asian female and was 30 years old at the time. She is 5'9" and 110 lbs. She has black hair and brown eyes. She was wearing an orange hooded zip-up sweatshirt with the Fall Lake State Park logo, blue jeans, and blue/pink or white lace-up shoes. She was carrying a light blue umbrella and an orange and gray backpack.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Charley Project

International Missing Persons Wiki

Disappearance of Ian Richardson

On April 30, 1992, 16-year-old Ian Richardson disappeared from Denver Colorado. He lived in the northern section of the city and frequented the Idaho Springs area. Foul play is suspected in this case. 

John Taylor is a prime suspect in Ian's disappearance as he was sexually abusing him since he was 13 until he disappeared. In 1991 Ian told police that John Taylor had sexually abused him in 1989 during a camping trip and again in 1990. John was then charged with child sexual abuse and harboring a runaway. These charges were dismissed after Ian recanted his story. 

In 1992 Ian accused John again, but this time of circumcising him while he was passed out drunk. John refuted stating that Ian had done it to himself. Ian would tell a counselor that he was being threatened and that if he testified he or his family would be harmed. He would then allegedly punch John in the face later. This would cause Ian to be charged with assault in juvenile court. He would disappear soon after. 

 John Taylor would admit that he had in fact sexually abused Ian. He claimed that Ian had killed himself. In 2002 however, a friend of his went to the police to tell them that John had in fact shot Ian and then chemically cremated him. John is a chemist and had the knowledge to do so. He claims that he's being framed for Ian's disappearance. 

Ian is a white male and was 16-years-old at the time. Ian was 5'10" and 150 lbs. He had brown hair and brown eyes. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Charley Project

International Missing Persons Wiki

Disappearance of Mandy Schmidt

On April 11, 1998, 13-year-old Mandy Schmidy would leave her parent's home in Halle-Saale, Germany to go into town. She was last seen around 2 p.m. in Halle-Saale. 

Less than a year later the brother-in-law would go to prison (reason unstated). He would admit to having been sexually abusing her and had done so the day she disappeared and that the two were in a forest area. Her hair was found in the trunk, but there was no evidence or proof of a crime. 

Mandy is a white female and was 13-years-old at the time. Mandy had shoulder-length dark blonde hair and grey-green eyes. She was wearing a black anorak, Anthracite jeans,grey sweater, and tricolor sneakers with sock sole with red stitching.

SOURCES:

VVK 

Focus

International Missing Persons 

Disappearance of Robin Reed

 

On January 24, 1995, 15-year-old Robin Reed was last seen jumping off of the Golden Gate Bridge in Petaluma, California. He had left a suicide note behind stating he felt unwanted. He had recently told friends that he was gay, but did not come out to his parents though they suspected it. 

His parents stated that he was being bullied at Petaluma Highschool. He had a failing grade on his report card and told his parents about the bullying. He said that he was called derogatory names and picked on about his sexuality that he wasn't even out about though it was suspected. It would have probably been worse if they actually knew about it. At one point he told his mom, "Mom, I'm a really normal and healthy 15-year-old because my hormones are raging right now. But I hate being sexual. My life is going so well and I'm really happy except for my hormones. I hate them. It's so confusing. I don't even know if I'm straight or not."

His body was never recovered and is unlikely that he survived the jump. After his death, students at his high school created a Gay/Straight Alliance in his memory. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Charley Project

International Missing Persons

Albion Monitor November 14, 1995

Disappearance of Janis Louis Taylor

On January 9, 1968, 15-year-old Janis Taylor was last seen waiting for a ride home from her school in Concord, New Hampshire where she was a sophomore. Her family believes that someone had abducted and murdered her. 

At the time Janis was a babysitter, and she was worried about one of the little boys, a relative, she babysat. She had seen the boy covered in bruises and told relatives. She believed it was caused by a man who knew the family and not a relative of the toddler.

It's not stated when this happened but the little boy would die 4 days after receiving a kick in the stomach from the man Janis suspected. The man would plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter. He got 1 year in jail and 10 months suspended. There is no evidence of him being involved in Janis's disappearance, but the family suspects him. 

Janis is a white female and was 15-years-old at the time. She was 5'3" and 110 lbs. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She has a scar behind the left ear from an abscess. She was wearing A blue coat, a gold and white suit, black nylon stockings, and black shoes, and had a white purse with her.

SOURCES:
NamUs
New Hampshire Department of Justice
National Center of Missing and Exploited Children
Charley Project
International Missing Persons

Concord Monitor April 2, 2022

Disappearance of Sveinbjörn Jakobsson

 At 7 p.m. on October 9, 1930, 46-year-old Sveinbjörn Jakobsson, an Icelandic fisherman, took a taxi to a household in Reykjavík, Iceland. He left the taxi without paying and went inside the household. When Sveinbjörn didn't return to the car the taxi driver contacted the police. 

Police would ask residents of the home the taxi driver claimed that he went into. People inside claimed to have not seen him, and he had not been there. Sveinbjörn was never seen again, and foul play was suspected in his case.

The next day he was supposed to return home on a cruise ship. He was a fisherman and was believed to have had a significant amount of money on himself at the time because it was the end of Herring season. 

 His case was the first disappearance to be investigated as a homicide in Iceland. 

Sveinbjörn is a white male and was 46-years-old at the time. He had false teeth.

SOURCES:

Internation Missing Persons Wiki

Facebook

IMDB2

The Possible Homicide of Roy

 A witness came forward stating when they were a child, around 6-years-old, witnessed the murder of a man named Roy. He had been beaten to death with a fire poker and buried in a wooded area behind the witness's home in one of 6 states they lived in. 

Roy was a white male. He was a caretaker of a farm for an older white woman possibly named Quincey. He would have died between 1975 to 1979. It could have happened in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas.

SOURCES:

Georgia Bureau of Investigation

Disappearance of Leila Lewis Bryan and Mary Rachel Bryan

On May 10, 1941, 36-year-old Leila Bryan and her only child, Mary Rachel Bryan went to the beach and returned around 6:30 p.m. Her husband and Mary Rachel's father Edis Clarence or E.C. was preparing plans to pour concrete in the basement.

The two were last seen in Carolina Beach, North Carolina. At 9 p.m. Leila supposedly took Mary Rachel out to buy groceries at a store two blocks down and another said she was going to buy a new brassiere at the dime store. She only brought Mary Rachel with her because her daughter kept insisting on coming with. For some reason, Leila left her rings on the sink.

E.C. went to bed while the two were out. Barry, Leila's brother, and a friend came to the home that night. That was when he found out the two never arrived home. Barry and his friend went searching for the girls but didn't find a trace of them. E.C. called the police within hours and the police and community joined in the search. The search included the beach, waterways, and wooded areas.

 At the time she was driving her husband's black 1935 Ford Model A coupe with 1941 North Carolina License plate number 219-056. The car was low on gas when she left and it could have been possible she filled up the tank. One filling station attendant was pretty sure he saw Leila at 10 p.m., but that lead led nowhere.

The car was never recovered and the two were declared dead in 1948. Police did not believe that Leila left on her own accord. It could be possible that she met foul play and she and Mary Rachel were dead.

Police suspected Leila's husband for their disappearance. They suspected that he killed his wife and daughter and then buried their bodies. It was initially believed that they were buried under their concrete basement floor at the beach cottage on Raleigh Ave., but it was dug up in 2009 and remains were not found. It's possible their bodies were buried elsewhere though.

Leila may be spelled as Lela is a white female and was 36-years-old at the time. She was 5'7" to 5'8" and 120 lbs. She has black hair and grey eyes. She was wearing a summer print housedress with a green turban, possibly a sweater and white and brown shoes.

Mary Rachel is a white female and was 4 at the time. She was 3'0" and 40 lbs at the time. She has dark brown hair and brown eyes.

 
SOURCES:
Charley Project (Leila)
Charley Project (Mary Rachel)
Find A Grave (Leila)
Find A Grave (Mary Rachel)
Doe Network (Leila)
Doe Network  (Mary Rachel)
Dead Maidens

Dissappearance of Tiana Neshelle Martin

In 2002 9-year-old Tiana Martin was living with her aunt, Tamara Lynette Robinson, with her cousin and her 11-year-old and 13-year-old sisters. The five of them were living in an apartment complex in the 4400 block of West Avalon Ave. in Fresno, California. Their mother couldn't afford to take of them as she had lost her job.

On September 8, 2003, Tamara asked her sister-in-law to babysit the girls while she ran errands. All but Tiana arrived at the home and when asked the response was that she was out of town. Tamara then came home and acted upset asking where Tiana was.  They then searched for the10-year-old and called the police and reported missing at 1:30 a.m. on September 9. 

Tamara claimed that she last saw her at 7:30 a.m. the day before. Hours later Tamara was arrested and charged with two counts of felony corporal injury to a child and child endangerment. In documents, her sisters indicated that they were both abused. One of them had also told the school vice principal that Tamara killed Tiana. 

Tiana had in fact been missing since either July or August. It was found that Tamara told people that Tiana was gone for the summer or back with her mother. She missed a July 7th appointment. Her sister went to a birthday party around the same time and friends thought it was strange Tiana wasn't there.

When the girls started school in late August. Tiana wasn't listed on her sibling's emergency contact forms as a sister and didn't fill out Tiana's card. She had also filled out forms for welfare and name her daughter and Tiana's sisters, but not her as dependants. She wrote down that Tiana went to live with her mother. This was not true though. Relatives of the girls began to question about Tiana and this was when Tamara decided to report her missing.

Sources said that Tamara beat Tiana to death. She claimed the girl was likely last seen in July 11th. She described the girl as a problem child and her sisters as liars. She said that one of the girls had actually hurt or killed Tiana after a fight about physical exercises.


Police believe Tamara had beaten Tiana to death. Her sisters were forced to help dispose of Tiana's body. Tiana was likely disposed of in a trash bin a week after her death and she had been her body would be at American Avenue Landfill in Fresno on American Avenue. Two weeks were spent searching for her remains at the landfill, but they weren't recovered.

Over a year later Tamara was charged with murder. At her trial, both of Tiana's sisters testified against her.

They stated at the trial that they watched their aunt strip Tiana down to her underwear. She then locked her in the hot garage without water for around 30 minutes. She then proceeded to hit the girls head against the wall and severely beat her with items such as a baseball bat, a meat tenderizer, a curtain rod, and a vacuum cleaner hose. She did this till Tiana was dead.

She then tried to revive the girl by doing CPR, but it was useless. She then realized she killed the girl had her sisters redress her and kept the body in the apartment for a week. She then had the girls help her with wrapping the body in plastic bags and put her in the apartment complex dumpster. She then poured bleach over the body to disguise the smell.

Tamara denied this, but in 2006 she was convicted of second-degree murder and felony child abuse. She was acquitted of child endangerment. She was sentenced 15 years to life in prison and was given three years of credit due to staying in jail during her trial.

Tiana was 10-years-old at the time and is African American. She was 5'5" and 80 lbs at the time. She had Graves Disease which is a rare autoimmune hyperthyroid disorder. Her condition did require close medical supervision and makes her physically weak. It's fatal without treatment.

SOURCES:
NamUs
Charley Project
Find a Grave

Disappearance of David Claude Yeager

On Feb. 7, 1971, 17-year-old was walking to Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisana. He was going to a school function and may have tried to hitchhike there. He was last seen on the 2600 block of Lola Lane in Shreveport. He was never seen again.

His family has stated that David had no reason to leave home. Since his disappearance, his bank account hadn't been touched. This led investigators believing that foul play may have happened. 

David is a white male and was 17 at the time. He's 5'6" to 5'8" and 220 to 240 lbs. He has black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing an off-white shirt and dark-colored pants. 

SOURCES:

Charley Project

NamUs

Disappearance of Carlton L Edmondson

On Jan. 19, 2018 Carlton Edmondson was kidnapped in Morganton, North Carolina by Leighkatherine Mina and Robert Leroy Littleton. They kidnapped and assaulted Carlton. Four other people were also involved in the incident, Brittany Arnold, Micheal Stacy-James May, James Combs, and Valerie Ann Dollar. They had taken Carlton over to Tennessee and was last seen in Trade, Tennessee. Arrests have been made in this case.

He was beaten and left to die and it was caught on a cell phone video. It's believed he had died and his body has not been found yet.

Carlton is an African American male and was 29-years-old at the time. He's 5'8" to 6'0" and 200 to 240 lbs. He has black hair and brown eyes. He has a metal plate on his left mandible. He may have been wearing a black coat, blue jeans, red shirt, and white crocks.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Morganton

Watauga Democrat 

Disappearance of Aliayah Lunsford

On September 24, 2011, 3-year-old Aliayah Lunsford was reported missing from her Weston, West Virginia by her mother Lena Lunsford.

A year later Aliayah's five siblings were adopted by Craig and Cammie Cole. They had suspicions that the children may have known what had happened to their sister. They weren't for sure until two of her sisters who were 9 and 11 at the time Aliayah's disappearance came forward.

They came forward in 2016 claimed that they watched their mother hit Aliayah with a piece of wood. They said that she was found dead the next morning and their mother hid her body in the woods.

The girls said they promised to never tell anyone and they were terrified of their mother. One sister said that Aliayah seemed to be treated the worst out of all the siblings. She would get harsher punishments than anyone else.

The two girls were taken to the woods separately to point out where their mother buried Aliayah. They pointed out the same area without talking to each other. The dogs were brought in for the search and Aliayah's body was there at one point, but it was moved somewhere else or animals had gotten to the body.

Lena was charged for her daughter's death. Her husband said that he had no idea that Aliayah had been killed that the two did bath salts that night and he drank some beer and went to bed. He went to work and came back and was told by Lena Aliayah was missing.

Lena was charged and is going to serve life in prison.

Aliayah is a white female and was 3 at the time of her disappearance. Her ears are pierced and she was missing her four front teeth at the time. She was 3' and 35lbs She has brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a purple Dora P.J. bottoms and a pink princess shirt.

SOURCES:
Missing and Exploited Children
WCHS
CBS
WVNews
Crime Online 

Disappearance of Kirsa Mary Jensen

On September 1, 1983, 14-year-old Kirsa Jensen rode her horse along Awatoto Beach in Napier, New Zealand. It's believed that she made it to the beach by 3:30 p.m. When she didn't return home by 5:30 her parents began to worry. Her family and friends began to search for her, but they did not find her. Her horse was found wandering by itself at the Tutakuri River near a gun emplacement she was last seen near.

Witness said that they saw a girl matching Kirsa's description was by the gun emplacement on the Tutakuri River. She was being held at arm's length by a European man around 1.8 meters tall between 40 and 50 years old. The same witness noticed a white utility vehicle with brown sides nearby.

John Russell a convicted rapist stated that he was the one last seen with her. He said he killed her but later retracted his confession. He was also adamite in not being involved in her disappearance at the same time. He later committed suicide and it's never been proven whether or not he was or wasn't involved.

  SOURCES:
New Zealand Herald
New Zealand Police 
Crime New Zealand
Wikipedia 

Disappearance of Joanne Williams

On December 7, 1978, 22-year-old Joanne Williams was last seen driving from her residence in the 500 block of East Gibson St. in Scranton, Pennsylvania in her 1977 Datsun 200 SX with white racing stripes. She was heading to an exercise class at her dance school on Route 6 in Chinchilla. She left the school around 10 p.m. and never arrived home

Her car was later found on December 16 parked at Lafayette Street and North Everette Ave. It was unlocked and her paycheck, purse and other things were inside undisturbed. There was no sign of her and was never seen alive again. SHe declared legally dead in 1991. 

There is a possible suspect in the case, Frank Osellanie. He was convicted of kidnapping, raping, and murdering a 9-year-old Scranton girl in 1990 and has been in prison since. He's a person of interest in a few cases including the disappearance of 11-year-old Michelle "Jolene" Lakey. It's unsure if he's involved in this case. He maintains his innocence in all the cases put against him. Investigators are unsure if he's involved. 

Joanne is a white female and 22-years-old at the time. She's 5'0" to 5'4" and 95 to 105 lbs. She's a strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes. She was wearing a beige swede jacket, blue jeans, and a leotard. 

SOURCES:
Doe Network
Charley Project
NamUs

Disappearance of Ila Veronica Tucker Maynard

Ila Veronica Tucker Maynard would go by her middle name Veronica. On December 4, 1974 the 17-year-old was last seen in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her last seen circumstances are different some say she was last seen on foot others she was riding in a gold 1971 Chevrolet Nova.  She was last seen leaving her father's home. At the time she was living at the 200 block of Baker Drive in Greensboro.

Her husband Julian is a suspect in his case. He died in 2004 and her family thinks that Veronica is dead. They hoped to recover her body.

Veronica is an African American female and was 17 at the time. She's 5'3" and 125 lbs. She has black hair and often wears weaves in her hair. She has brown eyes. Her ears are pierced.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Charley Project

Unidentified Wikia 

Disappearance of Conradina Olson

Carl and Conradina Olson

In 1910 38-year-old Conradina Olson left Brookfield, Wisconsin to go to a doctor's appointment. She said goodbye to her husband and four children at the train station before she left.

She may have run away from her husband. It was said he was verbally abusive and at this time she couldn't divorce him. A psychic contacted a family member telling them that Conradina was killed near the train station or tracks. They believe that Carl had something to do with her disappearance as he was also gone for a period of time around the time she disappeared.

For a period of time it was thought possible the Jane Doe found in Ellis, Missouri could have been her through later investigation and the same psychic saying Ellis had something to do with it. The woman found in Ellis though was found in 1877 and couldn't have been Conradina.

Ultimately her fate is unknown and her case may never be solved.

SOURCES:
Unidentified Wiki
Unsolved Mysteries Wiki

Disappearance of Carlee Jade Morse

At 1 a.m on the morning of August 20, 2010, 16-year-old Carlee Morse asked her mom for permission to go outside to talk on her cellphone. Her mom gave permission so, Carlee stepped outside their apartment complex at 7000 blocks of West Bonnie in Westland, Michigan. She was barefoot and was in her pajamas. It was unknown what had happened to her until December. 

Nicolas Jay Cottrell and Justin Lee Yoshikawa had confessed to having murdered her the night she disappeared. Both of them knew Carlee as she had dated Justin that spring and broke up with him during the summer. This was why they decided to kill her. 

On that night Justin hid underneath some clothes in the back seat of Nicolas's Ford. Nicolas invited Carlee to smoke some weed. She went inside of his truck. He then drove her to an isolated place where Justin came out from under the clothes and strangled her with a dog leash. 

Together they stated that the dumped Carlee's body. They wrapped her in garbage bags and left her in a trash bin behind a red brick church. They couldn't remember where it was as they were in shock and under the influence of drugs. 

Nicolas claimed that Justin also planned on killing Carlee's mother. He had also believed at the time Justin had killed other people. He stated he was scared for his life and wanted to come forth sooner. 

Both were charged with first-degree murder,

In January 2011 Nicolas pleaded guilty to second-degree murder when he struck a deal. He was supposed to testify at Justin's trial. He was sentenced 20 to 50 years in prison. 

In November of 2011, Nicolas claimed he has coerced a confession during Justin's trial. He refused to testify against him and the judge allowed his transcript to be read at trial. Justin admitted everything was true and was sentenced 35 to 70 years in prison. 

It was found that Nicolas's mother knew of the murder. She was charged as an accessory after the fact. She failed to inform law enforcement of Carlee's murder. She was charged with a misdemeanor. 

Carlee is a white female and was 16-years-old at the time. She was 5'0" and 90 lbs at the time. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She has a scar on her left side and a burn scar on her inside right ankle. Her ears are pierced. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Charley Project

Shirt Found on September 19, 1975

On September 19, 1975, a shirt with blood and 36 stabs in it was found on the rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. It's believed that the shirt belonged to a woman who was stabbed to death. It's believed that whoever wore the shirt was stabbed to death and may have been a part of the "Outlaw Motorcycle Gang".       

SOURCES:
Coconino County Sheriff's Office

Disappearance of Yohanna Cyr

18-month-old Yohanna Cyr's was left with her mother's boyfriend while her mother was out of town for a few days in their home in the Saint Laurent area of Monreal, Quebec, Canada. When she returned Yohanna was not there. Her boyfriend claimed that Yohanna went to Washington with his mother. So Yohanna went to Washington in search of her child, but she was not found. When she returned to Canada she alerted police of Yohanna's disappearance. Her missing date is listed as August 15, 1978.

The boyfriend claimed that she had drowned in the bathtub while the mother was gone. He had buried before she returned home. He was questioned but released due to lack of evidence. A neighbor said they saw her boyfriend take a bread box to the wooded area near the apartments. Nothing was found though. Her mother believes that her daughter possibly didn't die, but was sold.

Yohanna is a biracial female black/white and was 18-months-old at the time. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She had a scar on her right hand between her index and middle finger in the shape of a Y.c

SOURCES:
Canada's Missing
Doe Network
Montreal Gazette