March 1, 1986 Hamilton Virginia Sexual Assualt

On March 1, 1986, an unnamed female was reported to have been abducted and sexually assaulted after hitchhiking in the area of Route 9 and Route 704. Her abductor would drive her to a dead end on 38400 block of Crooked Run Lane (formerly Route 721) in Hamilton Virginia. Her abductor would then sexually assault her and she would eventually escape and run to nearby residents for help.

The suspect is a white male driving a blue passenger vehicle. 

SOURCES:

Loudoun County Virginia

Murder of Marie Bridget Patrick

On November 11, 1981, 15-year-old Marie Patrick and a 16-year-old friend were in the process of running away from Cincinnati, Ohio to Texas. While hitchhiking in Cincinnati the two were picked up by a truck driver who called himself Bill at about 6:30 p.m. 

While on the I-64 at mile marker 67 in Indiana Bill began to make sexual advances and threats toward the girls. Between 10 to 10:30p.m., the girls demanded to be let out and a struggle ensued and Bill would end up stabbing Marie in the leg. Marie would shove her friend out of the moving truck, but Marie could not get out with her. Her friend would survive and someone would give her a ride to the hospital in Jeffersonville. That was when she told them what had happened. 

It wasn't until the next morning that Marie's body would be found about 5 miles down from where her friend escaped. She likely died soon after she was last seen. It's unknown if she had fallen, jumped, or shoved out of the vehicle, but had died due to head injuries from the fall. She did not have signs of sexual assault. 

Bill was driving a semi with a white cab and a silver grey trailer.

SOURCES:

Indiana State Police

Evansville Courier and Press November 12, 1981

Evansville Courier and Press November 17, 1981

Murder of Mary Jo Shelleby

On November 9, 1973, 19-year-old Mary Jo Shelleby left her parent's home around 8:30 p.m. in Sarasota, Florida. She told her parents she would be right back. The next morning at about 2:30 a.m. by a police officer who accidentally ran over her body on McIntosh Road just south of Clark Road. She was already dead when the police officer ran her over. She was partially nude and had been beaten to death. Investigation indicates that more than one person may have been involved in her death.

At the time Mary Jo was attending Manatee Junior College. She was a known hitchhike. 

SOURCES:

Sarasota County

The Bradenton Herald November 12, 1973

Tampa Bay Times November 13, 1973

Tampa Bay Times November 16, 1973

The Tampa Tribune November 22, 1973

Disappearance of Sandra Lee Killian

 On September 18, 1984, 31-year-old Sandra Killian got into an argument with her husband William. She told him she was going home to Kentucky from their home in Lakewood, Colorado. Her only way there though was by hitchhiking. 

Sandra is a white female and was 31-years-old at the time. She's 5'3" to 5'8" and 100 lbs. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She has a butterfly tattoo on her left shoulder. She was wearing a brown coat, blue t-shirt, and jeans at the time.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Colorado  Bureau of Investigation

July 23, 1972 Beckley, West Virginia John Doe

 

On July 23, 1972, a man hitch-hiking was struck by a vehicle that went out of control near the Fair Deal Market in Beckley, West Virginia. Someone who had given the hitch-hiker just before the accident told them that he was raised in Chicago, Illinois and his parents are dead. At the time he was en route to Bluefield to acquire a birth certificate so he can join the military. He did not divulge his name. 

John Doe was a white male between 17 to 21-years-old. He was 6'0". He had dark reddish-brown hair and sported a mustache. He was wearing blue Levi jeans, a blue and grey checkered shirt, and jungle boots. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Doe Network

Murder of L.G. Strowbridge

In 1981 55-year-old L.G. Strowbridge was a transient traveling east to return to his home state Michigan. On July 1, 1981, his body would be found underneath the eastbound lane of I-80 at the Pilot Butte exit in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He had suffered from severe trauma and died from strangulation. He was last seen in Salt Lake City, Utah area around two days before.

SOURCES: 

City of Rock Springs

Disappearance of Thomas Clyde O'Daniel

On May 15, 1958, 29-year-old Thomas O'Daniel called his family and told them he was hitchhiking to Yuma, Arizona from Pheonix which is a distance of around 200 miles. There is little information in this case. 

Thomas is a white male and was 29-years-old at the time. He is 5'10" to 6'0" and around 170 to 190 lbs. He has strawberry blonde hair and green eyes. He has flesh tags behind his ears. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Charley Project

National Missing Person Directory

Murder of Ashley Turniak

 

On November 9, 1998 16-year-old Ashley Turniak went to her  Highschool in Agawam, Massachussets. She was seen before classes and was waiting for a friend so they could skip together. She would end up skipping without the friend and getting in the car of an unidentified person. 

20 minutes later on Interstate 91 in Longmeadow near the Massachusetts/Connecticut line Ashley was seen tumbling out of a blue or tan car traveling towards Conneticut at 50 to 65 mph. It's unknown if she had been pushed or jumped out to escape the car, but had exited feet first. She had unfortantly died from her injuries. 

She was wearing a black tank top, jeans, but did not have a coat or shoes on. The same day her backpack was later found lying on a side street of the highway.

SOURCES:

Hampden District Attorney

South Coast Today

Hartford Courant 

Disappearance of Lora Skaggs

Sometime between 1948 to 1950 Lora Skaggs went hitchhiking in Charleston, West Virginia. She was either on her way to Ohio for work or was on her way to pay bills. Little information is known in this case.

Lora was a white female around 27-years-old when she disappeared. She was 5'0" to 5'4" and 115 to 130 lbs. She has red/auburn hair and her family believes she has brown eyes but weren't positive. She had an appendectomy scar.

SOURCES:
NamUs

Disappearance of Christine Lester

On May 5, 1987, 24-year-old Christine Lester left her home in Indian Wells, Arizona at 6 a.m. to get to the Flagstaff Mall in Flagstaff 120 miles away. She had also cashed her check and had $300 with her. She and a friend were supposed to hitchhike there. Her uncle gave her a ride for two miles to Arizona 77 and this was the last time she was seen.

The woman that she claimed to supposed to have met that day said that they had no plans. Christine is a shy religious woman who rarely left home. It was unlikely that she ran away. 

Christine is a Native American and a part of the Navajo Nation woman and was 24 at the time. She's 5'3" to 5'4" and 120lbs. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She suffers from epilepsy and takes prescription medication to control her condition. The medicine was left behind.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Charley Project

Disappearance of Jeannette Kamahele

On April 25, 1972, 20-year-old Jeannette Kamahele was last seen hitchhiking on the Cotati on-ramp off of Highway 101 in Santa Rosa, California. A friend of hers spotted her and was going to pull over to pick her up, but another vehicle beat them to it. It was a faded brown 1970-1972 Chevrolet pickup truck. The man in vehicle was described as being a white man between 20 and 30-years-old. He had an afro hairstyle. This was the last time anyone saw her. 

 At the time she was a student at Santa Rosa Junior College and was living with a roommate in the 900 block of Sierra Ave. She was described as a conscientious student and it was out of character for her to disappear.

Around the same time as Jeannette's disappearance, 7 other known females disappeared. These women were later found murdered all of them being habitual hitchhikers and between 12 and 23-years-old. It's possible a serial killer was operating in the area. She is suspected to be another victim of the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders.

Jeanette is an Asian female and was 20-years-old at the time. She's 5'5" and 120 lbs. She had long black hair and brown eyes. She has a large birthmark under her right breast. She was wearing Levi's and a brown sweater, sandals, a leather purse with natural brown color and dyed pattern, and gold-post earrings. 

SOURCES:
Find a Grave
NamUs
Unidentified Wiki
Charley Project

Disappearance of Robin Anne Vaudreuil

On April 17, 1995, Robin Anne Vaudreuil spoke to her mother on the phone and said that she was going to Oswego, New York, from Worcester, Massachusetts. She has never been seen again. It seems that Robin had no known connection to Oswego at the time. She would have likely would have hitchhiked there with long-haul truckers.

Robin is a white female and was either 28 or 32 at the time of her disappearance. She was around 5'1" and around 110 lbs. She had brown shoulder-length hair and brown eyes. She's far-sighted but refuses to wear glasses. She has a 2-inch scar on her cheekbone and a 1-inch scar on chin.

She was last seen wearing a dark-colored sweatshirt and sweatpants, and a dark-colored satin motorcycle jacket with an eyepatch design on the back. 

SOURCES:

City of Worcester

Charley Project
The Doe Network
NamUs

Disappearance of Helen Claire Frost

Around 8 p.m. on October 13, 1970, 17-year-old Helen Frost came home to the apartment she shared with her sister Sandy and Darlene and her baby in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. Helen asked Sandy if she wanted to go on a walk with her and Sandy declined. It was too cold outside, and Helen left around 8:20. She never returned back home and was reported missing two days later and was going to turn 18 on October 17th.

In the spring of 1970, Helen went to a home of unwed mothers and gave birth to a daughter Sandra Jeanette on May 13th. Shortly afterward she went back to Prince George and lost custody of her daughter. She tried to get custody during the summer, but it was unsuccessful. Her relationship with the baby's father, Stefan Grumpner, ended.

At the time Helen was working odd jobs including being a busser at the Hudson's Bay Company cafeteria and a gas station painter for a company.

Helen was considered an introvert and a private person but did have a spontaneous side. Like for example when Helen was 14 and Sandy was 15 in 1967 they went to Abbotsford to work as berry pickers. The following summer they went to Penticton and spent time hitchhiking and sleeping outside after jobs didn't materialize. They were comfortable with truckers who would sometimes buy them a meal and ask another truck to help them on their journey. Helen was comfortable with this kind of risk-taking.

Helen is a Caucasian woman and was 17 at the time. She's 168 cm( 5'6") and 57kg (126lbs). She has blue eyes and short blonde hair. She may be going by the alias's Lana Lunn, Lana Lnun, Debbie Soles.

SOURCES:
Canada's Missing
Unidentified Wiki
Doe Network

Unsolved Murder of Tina Elizabeth Foglia

Around 3 a.m. on Feb 1, 1982, 19-year-old Tina Foglia left her home in Brentwood, New York to see Equinox, a Queens band, at the Hammerheads Nightclub, on Sunrise Highway in West Islip. She hitchhiked there. She did make it to the nightclub but never made it home. 

 Her family reported her missing on the third. Later that day her body was found dismembered and placed in bags along the exit ramp westbound Southern State to the northbound Sagtikos. Her clothes were never found she was last seen wearing a white waist-length hooded jacket, black slacks, and brown suede shoes.  She may have been killed by someone who picked her up while hitchhiking. 

SOURCES:
New York State Police 
News Day

Disappearance of Mark Wendell Wilson

 

13-year-old Mark Wendell Wilson was planning to see a movie in Quincy, California on November 4, 1967. He was going to hitchhike from Meadow Valley to Quincy. He never returned and was never seen again. He also went by the nickname Wilson. He had just turned 13 on October 4. 

Mark is a white male and was 13 at the time of his disappearance. He was 5'2" and 110 lbs at the time. He has dark blond to brown hair and blue eyes. He has a slight dimple on one of his earlobes. He wore a dental retainer at the time. He was wearing dark pants, dark sweatshirt, white jacket and tennis shoes. 

SOURCES:

Doe Network

NamUs

Charley Project 

California General Attorney 

Disappearance of Marcia Estelle Remick

On June 9, 1979, 17-year-old Marcia Estelle Remick last seen in Virginia Beach, Virginia when she told her roommate she was going to visit a friend on the oceanfront. She was never heard from again after this. Her typical method of travel was hitchhiking or walking. There rumors she went to Florida, but this was never confirmed.

Marcia is a white female and was 17 at the time. She's 5'3" to 5'4" and 110 lbs. She had brown hair and green eyes. She has a mole near her elbow and her ears are pierced.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Charley Project

Disappearance of Michael Lee "Zappa" Pickering

On April 16, 1971, 20-year-old Michael Lee Pickering told his family he was going to hitchhike from Victorville, California to San Fransisco. He said he would be back home in a few days. He never came back home and was never heard from again.

He was a white male and 20-years-old at the time. He also went by the nickname Zappa. He was 6'0" and around 130 lbs to 140 lbs. He has blonde or strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes. He had a deformed right ear.

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SOURCES:
NamUs
Doe Network

Disappearance of Paula Agnes Lynch

In the late 70's Paula Agnes Lynch left ger home on Sandusky, Ohio to go see the world. Her mother last heard from her in 1978 and she told her she was in Marathon, Florida. In 1979 her brother got a letter from her. It's unknown where she had sent it from.

She's a white female and was 21 at the time she was last heard from. She's 5'8" and 120-135 lbs. She has blonde hair and hazel eyes. She has a birthmark near her right eye, a tattoo of something with wings on her chest, and a tattoo of the rolling stone tongue on her lower abdomen under her belt line, and may have a tattoo of a butterfly on her shoulder.
SOURCES:
NamUs
Charley Project

Disappearance of Phyllis Marie Corbin

In 1963 16 year old Phyllis Marie Corbin was placed at the House of Good Shepard in St. Louis, Missouri. It was a shelter for juveniles located on 3800 block of Gravois Ave. in St. Louis. Sometime in November of 1963 Phyllis and another unnamed girl decided to runaway. They both headed to New Orleans, Louisiana. The two got a ride to the Greyhound bus station to get to New Orleans.

It's reported that the other girl returned three weeks later by herself, but that is unconfirmed. The home supposedly reported the girls missing, but the family hasn't been able to confirm.

Phyllis is a white female and was 16 years old at the time of her disappearance. She had reddish brown hair, and blue eyes. She was around 5'5" and 5'8" and 100-155 lbs.

SOURCES:
http://charleyproject.org/case/phyllis-marie-corbin
https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/50556/details

August 23, 1982 Pasco County, Florida John Doe

Around 9:15 p.m. on August 23, 1982 a man was walking north on the ST 52 near US in east Pasco County in Land O' Lakes when he was hit by a vehicle. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. He was a white male between 40 and 60 years old. He was 5'8" and 150 lbs. He had brown hair and his beard was greying. He had grey/green eyes. He had a scar on his right abdomen and a vertical scar on right thigh. He had an extremely rare fixed Cantilever Bridge with porcelain fused with metal and also had periodontists.

He was wearing blue jeans, brown work boots, a plaid long sleeve button up shirt, a white shirt, white underwear and brown socks.


He has dentals and DNA available.

SOURCES:
http://unidentified.wikia.com/wiki/Pasco_County_John_Doe_(1982)
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1325umfl.html
https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/1271/details