On August 31st, 2026 it was announced the Jury had come to a verdict in the trial of 63 year old former gang leader Duane Davis in the September 7th, 1996 Las Vegas shooting of Tupac Shakur. Davis was found guilty after the jury deliberated for less than three hours on charges of first degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, and further or assist a criminal gang. Davis is facing the maximum of life in prison without the possibility of parole with him set to be sentenced in October.

During the trial it was mentioned that Davis was involved in planning the shooting of Shakur with the murder being carried out by either his nephew Orlando Anderson, or Deandrae Smith both of whom are deceased while a third deceased man Terry Brown was driving the vehicle used in the shooting. The evidence that Davis’ arrest and conviction on murder came from his own 2019 memoir “Compton Street Legend” and interviews he did about the murder.

In the book Davis mentions that he obtained the .40-caliber handgun used in the murder before giving it to either Anderson or Smith in the back seat but never admitted to which one pulled the trigger. In interviews Davis mentioned the shooting was done as retaliation after Suge Knight, Shakur, and parts of their entourage beat up Orlando Anderson hours before the shooting occurred.

Despite some details and the story slightly changing whenever Davis said the story the one consistent thing was that he confirmed that he was in the vehicle when the murder took place and helped plan it which led to authorities finally arresting him in July of 2023. The trial lasted just 9 days with the jury hearing testimony from 27 witnesses over those nine days.

Sources:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/verdict-trial-tupac-shakurs-killing-former-gang-leader-found-guilty-rcna594859

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tupac-shakur-murder-trial-verdict-duane-davis/

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/31/us/live-news/tupac-duane-davis-trial

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tupac-shakur-murder-trial-verdict-duane-davis/

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/31/arts/tupac-murder-trial-verdict-duane-davis

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/31/tupac-shakur-killing-duane-keith-davis

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-08-31/jury-in-tupac-murder-case-deliberates-charge-against-duane-davis

https://apnews.com/article/tupac-shakur-who-duane-davis-las-vegas-9823301db01186b5b3233475391da5f5

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/ha6eib/tupac_shakurmurdered_in_september_1996_in_a/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/3oob8t/the_killing_of_tupac_shakur/

The Nanterre Cold Case department (PCSNE) has announced today that a Luger P06 was found along the bottom of Lake Annecy. This is the same model of weapon which was used in the 2012 quadruple killing of three members of a British-Iraqi family, Saad al-Hilli (50), Iqbal al-Hilli (47), Suhaila al-Allaf (74) and a French national, Sylvain Mollier (45). The murders happened in a parking area in Chevaline, France, which lies at the southern edge of Lake Annecy. According to one French journal, the weapon was found on the 20th of August by British tourists swimming in the lake, less than 2 meters deep. The authorities state that it is unknown at this time whether this weapon was indeed the same weapon used in the attack, and that ballistics testing will likely take a couple of weeks due to the weapon being submerged in water for such an extensive period.

Sources (in French): https://www.marianne.net/societe/police-et-justice/tuerie-de-chevaline-a-t-on-retrouve-l-arme-du-crime-dans-le-lac-d-annecy

https://www.bfmtv.com/police-justice/tuerie-de-chevaline-des-analyses-en-cours-apres-la-decouverte-d-une-arme-dans-le-lac-d-annecy_AN-202608310703.html

On August 31st, 2026 it was announced by the Honduras authorities that former 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alexis Flores has been extradited to Philadelphia to face assault and murder charges in the July 2000 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania murder of 5 year old Iriana DeJesus.

The case goes back to July 29th, 2000 when the mother of Iriana DeJesus reported to police her daughter was missing after last being seen playing outside her home in Philadelphia. Authorities began an investigation and four days later on August 3rd, 2000 her body was discovered inside of a vacant property that had been under renovation in the 3900 block of North 6th Street, Philadelphia. At the time investigators had a suspect that simply went by the name Carlos who had been staying at the property and said he was from Honduras and was seeking work and a place to stay had also went missing around the time DeJesus’ body was found.

The investigation was cold until 2007 when DNA evidence recovered from the scene identified the man known as Carlos as Alexis Flores who had been arrested in Arizona on unrelated forgery charges in 2004. Flores was added to the FBI 10 Most Wanted List on June 2nd, 2007 for the murder however it was learned that he had been deported to his native Honduras in 2005 following his prison sentence.

Flores was on the run for the murders for the next 19 years however on February 11th, 2026, Flores was finally caught in Lepaera, Honduras. The arrest was made through a joint investigation of the FBI’s Transnational Anti-Gang Task Force as well as local Honduran authorities. Following his arrest it was announced extradition was being discussed and in late August it was announced that Flores had been returned to Philly to face charges in the case. As of now a trial date is not set in the case due to Flores having only just been extradited to Philly.

In a press release following the extradition Philadelphia Commissioner Kevin Bethel said “Alexis Flores may have crossed borders and spent decades trying to escape responsibility, but our commitment to Iriana and her family never stopped. His return to Philadelphia is the result of extraordinary persistence by our homicide investigators and the FBI, together with our international partners in Honduras. We are deeply grateful to everyone who helped bring him back to face justice. Iriana was only five years old. We have never forgotten her, and we never will.”

Sources:

https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/local/flores-philadelphia-murder-extradited-honduras

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/fugitive-returns-to-philly-to-face-charges-in-murder-rape-of-5-year-old-girl/4456170/

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/philadelphia/news/fbi-philadelphia-announces-arrest-of-fugitive-alexis-flores

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/philadelphia/news/alexis-flores-arrested-honduras-murder-iriana-dejesus-philadelphia/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1r2sfbw/the_fbi_has_arrested_former_top_10_most_wanted/?solution=92c355a545f53ccd92c355a545f53ccd&js_challenge=1&token=7afd7253fec22262ff1c52b1703fe9ec7b95d1f1959f20250053171365774c5e&jsc_orig_r=

The Setagaya family murder is an unsolved mass murder that occurred on the night of December 30 to 31, 2000, in the Kamisoshigaya neighborhood of Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. The victims’ house stood next to Soshigaya Park. The victims were Mikio Miyazawa, 44 years old; his wife Yasuko Miyazawa, 41 years old; their daughter Niina Miyazawa, 8 years old; and their son Rei Miyazawa, 6 years old. The bodies were discovered around 10:40 a.m. on December 31 by Yasuko’s mother, Haruko, who went to the house after being unable to contact the family.

The killer entered through the second-floor bathroom window facing the park after removing the screen and climbing up via the air-conditioning unit or the fence. Footprints were found in the mud. He first strangled Rei with his bare hands in the boy’s second-floor bedroom. Mikio came upstairs and struggled with the intruder, who stabbed him in the head with a sashimi knife; part of the blade broke off and remained lodged in the skull. The attacker then turned on Yasuko and Niina, first using the broken knife and afterward a santoku knife taken from the house itself. Three of the victims died from stab wounds and Rei from asphyxiation. The crime took place roughly between 11:30 p.m. and 12:05 a.m.

After the killings the perpetrator remained inside the house for several hours, estimated at between two and ten hours. He used the family’s computer, connecting to the internet between 1:18 a.m. and 1:23 a.m. He drank four bottles of barley tea, ate melon and four ice creams from the refrigerator, used the bathroom and left feces without flushing, treated his wounds with the first-aid kit, rummaged through drawers and papers—some of which he threw into the bathtub and toilet—stole about 100,000 yen while leaving larger sums behind, and possibly rested on the sofa. At the scene he abandoned the knife, a handkerchief, a waist bag, a shirt, a jacket, a hat, gloves and two scarves.

DNA and fingerprints were recovered from multiple places in the house and match no Japanese database. The killer’s blood type is A. DNA analysis indicates a male, possibly of mixed ancestry, with maternal DNA of European origin from the Caucasus region or southern Europe near the Mediterranean and Adriatic, and paternal DNA of East Asian origin belonging to haplogroup O-M122, common among Koreans, Chinese and Japanese. His estimated height is about 1.70 m with a slim build. Age estimates initially ranged from 15 to 35 (or 15 to 40), later revised to 15–22; more recent reports suggest he was at least 30 at the time. He was probably right-handed and injured one or both hands during the attack. The feces showed he had eaten green beans and sesame seeds the previous day. The clothing and knife had been purchased in Kanagawa Prefecture. Only 130 units of the shirt were produced, and police located just twelve buyers. Sand found in the waist bag came from the Nevada desert near Edwards Air Force Base in California and from a skate park in Japan. The shoes were manufactured in South Korea and sold under the British brand Slazenger. In 2019 the scarves left at the scene were noted to resemble patterns used in communities in the Ilocos and Isabela regions of the Philippines. In 2021 new technology visually identified a person who had bought a similar knife, but the DNA did not match.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department mounted one of the largest investigations in Japanese history, involving more than 246,000 investigators and over 12,000 pieces of evidence. As of 2019 roughly 35 officers were still assigned full-time to the case. The reward for information leading to an arrest stands at 20 million yen (2021 figure). The case helped bring about the abolition of the statute of limitations for crimes punishable by the death penalty in Japan, a change enacted in 2010. The house was later demolished because of structural risk, but all internal evidence had already been preserved. To this day the perpetrator remains unidentified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setagaya_family_murder

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/30/japan/crime-legal/setagaya-murder-search/

https://www.tokyoreporter.com/japan-news/special-reports/setagaya-family-murders-dna-is-hope-for-solving-case-25-years-later/

Willie McRae was a Scottish lawyer - and a high-profile, controversial one. At the time of his death, he was 61. He was born in Carron near Falkirk (about a mile from where this author was born), graduated in history then law, became a lecturer at Glasgow University and also a strong supporter of Scottish and Indian nationalism. (He had served in the Royal Indian Navy pre-independence and there were even rumours that he had joined the then-illegal Congress Party). He was soon well known for taking cases against controversial State actions such as nuclear waste dumping, torpedo testing, radioactive contamination and similar and in being a prominent member of a campaign to clean up Gruinard Island, which had been contaminated by experimental anthrax bombs during World War II and simply left. (The campaign succeeded). He became its lawyer and stood for the Scottish National Party in the General Elections of February and October 1974 and 1979 (losing the second contest by fewer than 700 votes) and for the SNP leadership in 1979, but only got 7.4% of that vote.

On Thursday 4 April 1985 he had an accident when, a heavy smoker, he set fire to his new acrylic bathroom suite. He was unhurt but decided to go to his holiday cottage in Dornie, about four hours' drive away, for the weekend while the smoke damage was cleared up and a replacement put in: at about 1830 on Friday neighbours saw him set off in his maroon Volvo 244 from his flat in Strathbungo, in the Southside of Glasgow.

He never arrived. Roughly the last quarter of his route involved travelling along the A87, which has Eilean Donan Castle, as seen in innumerable films, a few miles from the end, but he went off the road about 20 miles earlier at Loch Loyne.

At the time it would have been dark (sunset about 2010) and the weather was mild for the time of year (minimum 7C) with light showers (a trace of rain, both in 12 hours 2100 Friday - 0900 Saturday). Nobody is known to have seen the accident happen and it is not known when it happened, but his car was spotted through binoculars by an Australian couple at 1000 on Saturday, 300 yards from the road (representative landscape) after rolling down a 60-foot slope. Various other drivers stopped and one went off to find a phone. The police and an ambulance arrived 45 minutes later.

They, and a later full examination, found the car to be well maintained with no pre-existing defects and not particularly badly damaged. The rear offside tyre was flat but the other three were inflated; however, body panels were dented, the back windscreen was smashed, the front windscreen was intact (a witness said it was missing but scene photographs made public in 2013 prove that it was present and undamaged), the driver's window was wound down and McRae was unconscious in the driver's seat. He was extricated via the passenger seat, as the driver's door was jammed, and taken away first to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness then to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where he died at 0330 on 7 April, about 17 hours after he was found.

There were at least four oddities at the time:

• The police failed to seal the scene and, in fact, asked one of the drivers who, by coincidence, happened to know McRae to reach into the car, take a leather pouch lying on the back seat and put McRae's personal effects in it. Presumably he had to lean in and take wallet, keys etc. physically off McRae (!)

• Various inconsequential papers (receipts, credit card bills and similar) were found torn up about 45 feet from the car, with McRae's watch face there too.

• It took a long time to find out that McRae had been shot (once, in the head). Accounts differ, but it was either discovered at Inverness or at Aberdeen; the hospital authorities at Aberdeen denied that those in Inverness had told them he had been shot although they said they had done so.

• A gun, which McRae was believed to carry in his car at all times, was found "at least 20 feet" from the car. Once the single shot had been ascertained the choice was between accident, suicide and murder and "at least 20 feet" would appear to point very strongly to murder. However, it came out of the blue in 2015 that the car had been hauled away quickly then the police decided to do a reconstruction, brought it back and possibly put it in the wrong place. That error matters as the gun was only found after the reconstruction. It was a literal antique, a 120-year-old Smith and Wesson and, although stiff to operate, was viable.

Even after the investigation had faded away without even a suspect being identified, at least in public, there were oddities:

• In 1988 the Scottish Solicitor General (Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, who died in 2013) stated that the gun had been found "below the car". The actual position of the gun, given available information, cannot be stated definitively; as well as the uncertainty of the positioning of the car scene photographs were generally lacking, both in context and technically, and there is no known photograph of the gun in situ.

• Also, two years later, the same politician said that the post-mortem showed that the gun muzzle had been pressed against McRae's head. Medical staff in both Inverness and Aberdeen said that there was no evidence that they saw of that, but the pathologist who conducted McRae's post mortem said, in a letter released in 2013, that his opinion was that there was contact.

• Despite numerous attempts to flush it out into the open, no direct medical evidence has ever been made public, although it became known (through what route is not clear) that McRae's fingerprints and nobody else's were found on the gun.

• All (indirect) accounts state that one bullet was found in McRae's head. The police experts received five live and two fired cartridge cases; there is no indication where they were found relative to the gun and there was no known attempt to match one or other of the fired cases with the bullet in McRae's head. It was proved, at least, that the fired cases were from a gun of the type found, although the experts were too cautious to say that they were from that particular gun.

• There was no Fatal Accident Inquiry (the Scots Law equivalent of an inquest) and, in fact, no public investigation of any sort. (Although 2016 law, not much changed from 1985, states that an inquiry for this type of case would be discretionary rather than mandatory).

Skelton [see below] notes that the family thought suicide but everyone else thought murder. That caused much incredulity when I mentioned it earlier in passing on this subreddit as "family says relative would never die by suicide [even when it was obvious that they did]" is almost a trope here.

The official position is that McRae was drunk - a half-bottle of "Famous Grouse Whisky 1/6 full" was found in the glove compartment of the car as well as a full bottle of Glenmorangie in a briefcase - went off the road, was "stricken by remorse" at what he had done and shot himself.

So: accident, suicide or murder?

References

The only previous write-up in this subreddit was 11 years ago. I suspect that potential writers-up have shied away from this case because it has become drenched in conspiracy theories. I have kept them out of it and, unfortunately, they mean that there are few good references, not helped by a Kickstarter for a book on the case (2015, link forbidden) failing, it seems. However:

Willie McRae (Wikipedia) is a good general summary.

An article in The Times (2001) was written by Ian Rankin.

A Freedom of Information release (2013) is poorly presented, making it hard to disentangle the official information from the site owner's opinions on it.

Justice For Willie Final Report (2017) (10MB PDF, 186 pages) was clearly derived from the Scotsman investigation which tracked down many, but not all, witnesses and professionals involved in 1985 and interviewed those who were willing to talk.

No Final Solution (1994) by Douglas Skelton was published 32 years ago and is out of print. However, it gives an excellent and reasonably objective account of this case - conspiracy theories are kept in check - and seven other unsolved Scottish murders, three of which have been solved since (so there is hope!) Blood on the Thistle, by the same author and concerning solved Scottish murders of the twentieth century, is also well worth reading.

70-year-old Dawn Wells was last seen at a bus stop on Kingston Road, Woodridge QLD Australia at 8.30pm on December 9, 2025 and has not been seen or heard from since. Her husband boarded the bus and when he turned around, she was gone and the bus started leaving. She has not been picked up on camera's and no sign of her has been found since. Posters are still located in the area with no new information on her whereabouts released. Her husband of 25 years is facing his first Christmas without her. While there has been unconfirmed sightings over 100 kms away, her bus card has not been used since she went missing.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-04/queensland-police-appeal-search-dawn-wells/106302820

On August 28th, 2026 investigators with the Philadelphia Police confirmed they have found evidence of a 3rd confirmed victim in video recordings at the Chew Avenue home of Eugene/Raymond Horsch. In the new footage police confirmed it depicts the father of Eugene Horsch, Raymond murdering a woman who police have not named them to the public, however have alerted a relative of the unknown woman. Despite evidence of their murders on video, authorities have said they have not discovered any bodies. Since their last update two weeks ago authorities have also said they have discovered additional footage and images that were described as far more disturbing than the previous ones.

Authorities who are investigating the case now suspect the Horsch home likely is connected to murders going back years. They have also begun working with experts and analysts to go through 50 hard drives of data that were discovered in the home which authorities say can take months. As of two weeks ago authorities were only 5-7% of the way through evidence and discovered two missing women confirmed to have been murdered those being 27 year old Maribel Fresses who went missing in 2018 and 22 year old Gabrielle Amarand who went missing in 2012.

Investigators are also looking into the cases of Blair Tonzelli who was reported missing in February 2023. The case got a lead after a U.S. park ranger arrested Eugene Horsch in June 2026 near Sixth and Market Streets where he was found in possession of drugs, two illegal guns, a cattle prod, and a fake drug enforcement badge. A woman who was with Horsch during this incident had an ID with Tonzelli’s information on it. It has also been proven that Tonzelli knew Raymond in 2022 as Tonzelli met him in Kensington and was last seen in August 2022 before being reported missing in February of 2023 according to the Inquirer. The other case being investigated is also Raymond’s ex wife Amy McHale who called her daughter from Raymond’s home in June of 2016 before going missing. Besides the three confirmed murders and two that are being investigated, multiple drug overdoses occurred on the property over the years.

Information released by police confirm that Eugene had been known to brag to his friends about knowing how to mix chemicals that could melt human remains enough to be flushed down the toilet. Eugene is currently being held for federal charges in relation to the gun charges but hasn’t been charged with murder as of yet. Authorities had actually raided the home where Horsch lived in 2025 however it was about marijuana and amphetamines being grown by Eugene. The home that federal agents raided in the summer of 2026 was said to have looked different since 2025 as a fire had also burned at the property in 2025, damaging the second floor.

The father Raymond has a history dating back decades, in 1973 he was arrested for passing bad checks in North Carolina. Again in 1974 he was charged by the U.S. Secret Service for using over 180,000 in fake 10-dollar bills and possessing phony driver’s license, in 1977 his home was raided where he was making drugs and was a fugitive on the run fleeing to New Zealand before later returning to California. He changed his name to Richard Harris and in 1985 was arrested in Florida and sentenced to only 3 years in prison. In 2009 police raided Horsch’s home and he was arrested again for a growing operation of over 450 plants and 2 shotguns in his home he was released in 2013. He married three times as well in 1964, 1980 in Nevada, and finally in 2004 to Amy McHale before divorcing in 2008. Raymond finally died in May of 2025 at the age of 82 from Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

From 2017-2021 Raymond used a website for an escort service with the Philly Inquirer’s investigation finding he had escorts visit his home. He also ran his own personal website where he would upload his images and films with a subscription till at least 2019. Raymond also did interviews with the media talking about his violent films and writing which focused on serial killers and also commonly used women from the Kensington area of Philadelphia to be in his films with two confirmed interviews taking place in 2006 and 2007.

Authorities have not confirmed whether Eugene was involved in any of the cases however investigators have said they are expecting the missing people linked to that home to grow. They are searching the property for DNA evidence in addition to digging up sewer lines under the home. Currently a hearing is set to take place in January 2027 after the defense for Eugene got the hearing pushed back due to Horsch wanting to try and get his 2023 BMW 530XE to pay for his legal fees.

Sources:

https://www.inquirer.com/news/olney-house-missing-persons-horsch-blood-20260724.html

https://6abc.com/amp/post/eugene-horsch-case-families-seek-answers-investigation-olney-home-continues/19693645/

https://www.inquirer.com/crime/raymond-horsch-woman-killed-snuff-film-olney-20260828.html

https://www.inquirer.com/news/raymond-eugene-horsch-missing-women-olney-blair-tonzelli-20260821.html

https://www.inquirer.com/news/a/raymond-eugene-horsch-olney-philadelphia-missing-women-history-20260802.html

https://nypost.com/2026/06/29/us-news/investigators-scouring-sewers-below-philly-house-of-horrors-for-possible-traces-of-dna-dangerous-chemicals/

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/investigators/philadelphia-home-linked-to-missing-women-searched-before-it-was-different/4450106/?amp=1

https://www.fox29.com/news/euguene-horsch-hearing-postponed-until-january-attorney-files-return-bm.amp

https://charleyproject.org/case/blair-tonzelli

https://charleyproject.org/case/maribel-ivette-fresses

https://charleyproject.org/case/amy-teresa-mchale

https://6abc.com/amp/post/gabrielle-amarando-missing-childhood-friend-remembers-victimin-philadelphia-investigation-linked-olney-home/19674289/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1vnikq7/philadelphia_police_have_announced_an_update_in/?solution=8a56da6fd9cae0e18a56da6fd9cae0e1&js_challenge=1&token=7afd7253fec22262ff1c52b1703fe9ec08cd0be705a657dd710d9f90257a71d2&jsc_orig_r=

Hello everyone! As always, thank you for all your votes and comments under my last post about Hari Karasani- I hope that he will be found soon.

Today I'd like to highlight another disappearance.

BACKGROUND

Nihar Mehta was 22 when he went missing from Orange, California, USA.

Nihar was an Ohio native, but at the time of the disappearance, he was living part-time in California, where he was trying to start a business.

According to his parents, Nihar was very entrepenierual ever since he was a kid- he'd buy old dirt bikes, fix them up, and then sell them for profit. At the time of his disappearance, Nihar was trying to start a medical cannabis business. He also planned to work on inventing a way to make vaping healthier.

Before his disappearance, Nihar was interested in spirituality and self-discovery.

Nihar was an undergrad at the Ohio State University, where he was pursuing a business degree.

Nihar had a business associate- a man named Manuel Chavez Zamuido, who was 43 years old. The two allegedly worked on Nihar's projects.

His mother, Sheetal Mehta, said that her son was "all about family", and that they were in daily contact.

DISAPPEARANCE

At the time of his disappearance, Nihar has been staying in Orange, California since April of 2023.

Nihar's family last talked to him on the 2nd of June.

Nihar was last seen on the 3rd of June, around 3:00 AM. CCTV footage placed him at his company's warehouse at 1440 West Taft Avenue in company of another person (they were never officially identified- it's unclear if the investigators know who it is and simply didn't release the name or they don't know who it is). Nihar's phone has been off since the 3rd as well.

That person later claimed that they left Nihar at a Walmart parking lot in Covina sometime between 1 and 4 AM. According to them, Nihar got into a "precarious situation" and he was "confronted by Hispanic men". These claims remain unverified.

There have been no confirmed sightings or contact from Nihar ever since. His financial accounts and social media also remain inactive.

On the 23rd of June, Nihar's car was found at a parking lot a few miles away from the company warehouse. Footage from a security camera from a nearby store showed that the car was parked there on the 12th of June, by a "white man, possibly in his 20s". The car was left with an open window, and the keys were left inside.

After Nihar's disappearance, odd things started happening in the warehouse he was last seen at; Some of Nihar's belongins have been relocated under the direction of a man who is allegedly the landlord of the warehouse.

CONCLUSION

Manuel Chavez Zamuido is a person of interest in this case- it's believed that he was the person who saw Nihar last, but I can't find any source that would definitely state that Zamudio was the person Nihar was talking to at the company warehouse on the 3rd. Zamudio is also considered missing- Nihar's family last talked to him in August 2023.

Manuel "Manny" Chavez Zamudio is described as a 43 year old Hispanic man. He was last known to drive a Toyota Sienna 2004 with a license plate 6ZPN744. He has a Metallica-themed tattoo on his left forearm.

There is a $10,000 reward for information leading to Nihar's whereabouts.

Nihar Mehta was 22 when he went missing, and he would be 25 now. He is an Indian-American man, 6'3" (75 inch / 191 cm) and 225 lbs (102 kg). He has brown eyes, black hair, and had a mustache when he was last seen, and he has a scar on his left ear. He might use the nickname "Mars".

If you have any info regarding Nihar's whereabouts, contact the Orange Police Department at (714) 744-7377 (case number 23060901)

SOURCES:

1. ktla.com
2. missingorangecounty.com
3. abc7.com
4. oag.ca.gov
5. indiawest.com (article mentions an alleged sighting of a homeless man resembling Nihar who also goes by Mars, but I believe this sighting is unverified)
   

Nihar's websleuths.com thread

With the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 just weeks away, approximately 40% of the 2,753 people killed in New York that day have not been linked to remains. Over the past quarter century, the New York City medical examiner's office has worked to conclusively connect the names of 9/11 victims to human remains. Identifying the victims of one of the largest mass murders in history has been a daunting endeavor. As if the sheer scale of the task wasn't enough, extreme heat and pressure have resulted in a wide range of conditions for remains found at the World Trade Center. Investigators have used a plethora of methods, including dental records, fingerprints, personal effects, and DNA to establish links and provide a sense of closure for the families who lost someone that day.

Recent collaboration between the medical examiner's office and the New York City Police Department's Investigative Genetic Genealogy Squad resulted in what Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jason Graham called the first identification of a 9/11 victim using forensic investigative genetic genealogy. Dr. Graham hailed a "promising new addition to our toolkit" for his office's "sacred commitment" to identifying the victims of the terrorist attacks. Both men pledged to continue working to bring answers to the families of the 1,099 individuals whose remains have not been identified.

Per her family's request, the woman's name was not disclosed.

Press release: https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/08/mayor-mamdani-and-office-of-chief-medical-examiner-announcenew-i

Link to The New York Times article (paywalled): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/nyregion/dna-genealogy-science-victim-identification.html

March 28, 1999 a skeletonized and remarkably intact body was found in an isolated forested area of Dallas County Alabama. The body had suffered a gunshot wound to the torso. Unable to determine of it was a suicide or homicide.

In my opinion it was a suicide due to the ammunition found on the body but the large amount would seem to be overkill.

The body had been decomposing for over a year. Interestingly the remnants of a wallet with a badly smeared Driver's License from the State of Ohio was found with the body. The license was ineligible and badly degraded. No name was legible.

I decided to try and enhance and clean up the ID picture using modern software and enhancements to try and get a better visualization of our John Doe. I'm not an expert.

https://imgur.com/gallery/M7opG3X

If you recognize or believe you have a better identification software at your discretion please feel free. I have no interest in misidentification.

Estimated Age: Adult

Race: White/ Caucasian

Sex: Male

Height: 5'7" to 5'8"

Weight: Unknown

Hair: Gray or Partially Gray

Eye Color: Unknown

Distinguishing Marks/Features: Extensive dental work

His Doe Network profile.

3865UMAL

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/software/main.html?id=3865UMAL

I recently learned about a disturbing cluster of unsolved homicides in Leduc County, southeast of Edmonton, and I’m surprised these cases aren’t discussed more often.

Between 2002 and 2015, the remains of five women were found in the rural area around Rolly View:

• Edna Bernard, 28 — found near Range Road 245 in September 2002.
• Katie Sylvia Ballantyne, 40 — found in a field near Range Road 235 in July 2003.
• Corrie Renee Ottenbreit, 27 — disappeared from Edmonton in May 2004; her remains were found in April 2015.
• Delores Dawn Brower, 33 — disappeared from Edmonton in May 2004; her remains were found in April 2015 at the same location as Corrie’s.
• Amber Tuccaro, 20 — disappeared from Nisku in August 2010; her remains were found near Range Road 241 and Highway 623 in September 2012.

RCMP specifically stated that the remains of Katie, Corrie, Delores and Amber were found within an approximately eight-kilometre radius. Edna was found in the same broader Rolly View area and is frequently discussed alongside the other four cases.

There are several apparent similarities:
• Most of the women disappeared from Edmonton or the Nisku area.
• Several were last seen hitchhiking or entering a vehicle.
• Most were Indigenous and/or living in vulnerable circumstances.
• Their remains were left in fields or wooded areas near isolated rural roads.
• Corrie and Delores disappeared only days apart, and their remains were later discovered together.

Amber Tuccaro’s case is especially chilling because a telephone call recorded part of her final car ride. In the recording, she can be heard questioning the driver about where he is taking her. The unidentified man’s voice is also audible, but no one has been charged.
When Corrie Ottenbreit was identified in 2015, RCMP Inspector Stacey Talbot said investigators might be dealing with a “serial predator.” However, police have never publicly confirmed that all these women were killed by the same person.

It is possible that one offender was responsible for several of the deaths. It is also possible that different offenders used the same isolated area to leave victims. The shared location of Corrie and Delores seems particularly difficult to dismiss as coincidence.

I want to be careful not to accuse or identify any private individual without evidence.

I’m interested in verified information about the investigations:
• Has RCMP released any meaningful updates since 2015?
• Do local residents remember suspicious activity in the Rolly View area during those years?
• Are there other cases officially connected to this geographic cluster?

Sources:
CBC report preserved by the Doe Network:
https://www.doenetwork.org/closed/articles/3456dfab_article.pdf

Global News:
https://globalnews.ca/news/2135689/more-remains-near-leduc-identified-rcmp-may-be-searching-for-a-serial-killer/

APTN News:
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/police-release-identity-of-body-found-near-leduc-alberta/

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varig_Flight_967
https://simpleflying.com/disappearance-of-varig-flight-967/

The plane was a Boeing 707-323Cargo, in charge of the flight was Captain Gilberto Araújo da Silva, 55 years of age, First Officer Erni Peixoto Mylius, 45 years of age, Second Officers Antonio Brasileiro da Silva Neto, 39 years of age, Evan Braga Saunders, 37 years of age, and Flight Engineers José Severino Gusmão de Araújo, 42 years of age, and Nicola Exposito, 40 years of age. The Boeing 707 took off from Tokyo-Narita Intl Airport at 20:23 local time, bound for Los Angeles. They climbed to their assigned altitude and turned to their designated heading. Last radio contact was at 20:45 local time, the crew were supposed to radio back at 21:23, but failed to do so. Radio contact was assumed to be lost about 200KM ENE of Tokyo. Search & Rescue crews were dispatched to the approximate location of where the plane lost radio contact, but under the reigning darkness of night they failed to find any clues or wreckage. There has been no reports that any radar has detected the ill fated 707 nor has any plane flying nearby seen it. Since then, no wreckage of the plane has been verified nor found on anywhere on earth.

Personally for me, this is one of my favorite unsolved mysteries, and a fate worse than MH370.
What do you guys think, and do you guys have any theories? Let me know!

The post primarily concerns the media portrayal of two series of events that were not fully resolved for a long time: the three murders provably committed by William Lewis Reece in South Texas in 1997, and the disappearance of three women in League City TX during 1983-84 and the subsequent accidental discoveries of their remains nearby, next to the Calder oil field.

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Hi everyone,

So I recently got around to watching the Netflix documentary miniseries Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields a short time after first reading about it. As far as I can see, this in particular has not been discussed in detail here yet except for this thread here, so I decided to give a short commentary in case anyone’s interested. I’m aware that these events are, in the broad sense of the word at least, not exactly unresolved per se, and that the victims have almost(?) all been identified by now through DNA, but this wasn’t the case for decades, so I think it’s fitting to post about it in this subreddit.

Anyway, I don’t want to nitpick about this series as I think it was overall great, but I’d note first and foremost that it covers three series of murders – three different serial killers, in other words – despite them being unrelated, the sole commonality being that the locations are all in the broader Galveston area:

-          a string of murders committed in 1997 by William Lewis Reece

-          a remote area near the Calder oil field in League City that was used as a dumping ground of at least four young female victims in 1983-85, with the series clearly implying that their murderer is (was) Clyde Edwin Hedrick; the Wikipedia page on this subject also adds that he had at least one suspected accomplice and at least one suspected copycat who apparently used the same desolate area as a dumping ground of at least one victim in 1991 in order to throw off the investigation (the killings received a great deal of local media attention by that time)

-          the murders of at least 9 young women and girls committed between 1971 and 1977 along I-45

I find it a bit curious that the series addresses the last subject basically in passing in a few minutes and then moves on, even though it seems obvious that this was a case of another serial killer in action who had more victims than the other ones mentioned above. The Wiki page I mentioned above lists 8 victims just in the year 1971. Then again, it’s also plausible that more than one killer was active in this particular case. This wider matter is something the series dwells on, namely that multiple serial killers were active in the same narrow region. According to Google, though, there were more than 3 million residents living along the I-45 in 1971, including Galveston County with about 170,000 of them. The series also mentions the big oil boom and construction boom in the ‘70s and ‘80s as contributing factors, as big masses of manual and office workers, transients and also tourists were streaming into this area. I’m guessing the notion that a total of four or maybe more serial killers were active there in the span of 26 years should not be considered that unusual.

The narrator kept reiterating the point that the coastal region of Texas has many desolate areas that are remote and have rough terrain and are only rarely visited by people who normally just go there to dump garbage and ride their dirt bikes or horses. Naturally this also makes them ideal for dumping dead bodies. I can accept this argument for sure but I also wondered: yeah, Texas is huge, but it’s not like there aren’t dozens of other federal states with similar areas, is it? That alone does not explain much.

On a related note, the series does clarify something I’ve never read about, namely that the first discoveries of corpses near Calder Road more or less coincided with the cinematic release of the Cambodian-themed movie The Killing Fields, which prompted some local journalist to dub the murder location in League City ‘Texas Killing Fields’. (Why am I not surprised that a journo would do that.) This term has since then acquired a wider definition which can be misleading, as one commenter noted here.

All in all, the series mostly and rightfully focuses on the indeed tragic and moving story of the father of one murder victim, Tim Miller, founder of the non-profit search and recovery organization Texas EquuSearch.

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https://www.netflix.com/title/81555750

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/seeking-information-in-unsolved-killing-fields-murders-091819

https://texasequusearch.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Killing_Fields

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/crime/article/james-elmore-tim-miller-killing-fields-22183088.php

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/texas-killing-fields-suspect-indicted-42-years-later-galveston-county-grand-jury

https://abcnews.com/US/young-women-murdered-found-oil-field-1986-1991/story?id=62352978

Penny Doe identified

After 36 years Penny Doe has been identified as Windy Buchanan. Windy was 19 years old when she went missing and her sister described her as an artistic and creative person. She was the oldest sibling in the family of five children. A poignant thing her sister Tania said is “she always thought finding a penny head’s up brought good luck.” She was known as Penny Doe because there was a penny in each of her front pockets when her body was found.

Windy’s body was found by children in a culvert on July 22, 1990. It was estimated she had been dead for 1-3 months when her remains were discovered.

Windy was able to be identified through genetic genealogy. Her death was ruled a homicide and I hope they are able to find whoever did this and bring them to justice.

Rest in peace Windy. I’m so glad you have your name back.

[https://www.explorejeffersonpa.com/crime/2026/08/24/breaking-news-clarion-county-penny-doe-identified-after-more-than-36-years-179807/\](https://www.explorejeffersonpa.com/crime/2026/08/24/breaking-news-clarion-county-penny-doe-identified-after-more-than-36-years-179807/)

Link - Det News (Paywall)

November 26, 2010 - Tanner, 5, Alexander, 7, & Andrew, 9 mysteriously vanish Thanksgiving Day. The young boys were with their father, John Skelton, and were supposed to return to their mother after a scheduled visit, but never did.

Despite her history as a sex offender, Tanya Zuvers had custody of the three children

John had a history of abusing his visitation privileges with the boys - he'd run off to FL with them previously

MORENCI, MI (WTOL) - Law Enforcement officers in Michigan are looking for three boys reported missing Friday. Five-year-old Tanner Lucas Skelton, seven-year-old Alexander William Skelton, and nine-year-old Andrew Ryan Skelton have been missing since late Thursday night or early Friday morning from 112 East Congress Street in Morenci, Michigan. The boys' father says he turned the children over to a woman named Joann Taylor who may be driving a white or silver minivan. After turning the children over to this woman, the father tried to take his own life.

Despite more than a decade of searching, police have never found evidence that "Joann Taylor" exists.

Extensive searches of southern Michigan and Northern Ohio were executed without any evidence of the missing children. Police examined John's computer and found no evidence of Taylor or where the boys could be.

Today (8-24) is the preliminary hearing - John Skelton prelim begins today: What to know 15 years after sons’ disappearance | FOX 2 Detroit

Skelton has already been sentenced to 15 years for his failure to return the boys to Zuvers the day after Thanksgiving in 2010 – the only conviction in the case so far. 

The same month Skelton was due to be released, he was charged with murder. 

Over the last almost 16 years, there has been no sight or sign of the three boys who are all now over the age of 18.

How did he hide them so thoroughly?

This case is so well-known that if this proves to be a productive lead, it's huge news in the true crime community.

Tammy Zywicki was a 21-year-old student at Grinnell College in Iowa. She lived with her family in New Jersey. On August 23, 1992 she was driving cross-country with her brother and dropped him off at college in Evanston, IL (northern suburbs of Chicago) before heading to Grinnell. She had car trouble on I-80 in La Salle County at Mile Marker 83 near North Utica. She was seen outside the car between 3:10 and 4 pm. Witnesses also described a semi-truck being pulled over next to her white 1985 Pontiac, and a white male about 6 feet tall with bushy hair, between 35-40 years old also being outside his truck. Thinking she had help, these witnesses went on their way.

Later that day the white Pontiac was found abandoned and the next day the car was towed by Illinois State Police. Tammy's mother, expecting to hear when Tammy reached Grinnell, called the State Police that night to report that her daughter was missing on a cross-country car trip. Police didn't prioritize the report as it seemed like a college kid going off with a boyfriend.

On Sept. 1, a trucker pulled over on Rt. 44 between Springfield and Joplin, MO. He says he went to relieve himself off the side of the road and noticed a bad smell and a large bundle. It was a red blanket sealed with duct tape, and it contained the body of Tammy Zywicki. She had been stabbed 7 or 8 times with a sharp object in a circular pattern around the area of the heart. She bled to death internally. She had also been sexually assaulted. Some of her possessions were missing from the car and were not found with the body: a Lorus watch that plays "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," a Canon 35mm camera, and a St. Giles Soccer Club patch. The place where Tammy was found is over 400 miles from where she left her car.

Although there have been suspects, no one has successfully been tied to the crime. One of the former suspects has since died. Another, a serial killer named Clark Perry Baldwin, was fingerprinted and questioned extensively when he was arrested for a different crime in 2020 but was ruled out as a suspect.

Now there is a report of a new lead, although it sounds tenuous and the person of interest is deceased. ISP and the FBI are looking for information about a woman named Theresa Vega Belenske. They believe she may have been a passenger in the truck that was pulled over next to Tammy's car. Theresa died in 2014, but police want to talk to anyone with information about who she traveled with in the late 80s and early 90s. Anyone with information should leave a crime tip at the ISP Investigative Tips page, or can call 1-800-CALL-FBI. There is a $50,000 reward for information leading to the identification of the killer.

I hope this lead gets results in this sad case that's gone unsolved too long.

Authorities announce new lead in 34-year-old Tammy Zywicki murder case, seeking public assistance

Illinois State Police note new lead, but still no suspect, related to 1992 murder of Tammy Zywicki

Wikipedia

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On the morning of October 7, 1985, Jerri Emken arrived for work at Murray's Pub, near the Pompano Park racetrack in Pompano Beach, Florida.

Jerri worked as a bookkeeper at the bar, which was owned by her brother-in-law, Mickey James. She had moved to South Florida from Arizona several years earlier after going through a painful divorce, wanting a fresh start and to live closer to her sister.

The morning of October 7

According to the Broward Sheriff's Office, Jerri arrived at Murray's Pub before it opened to the public.

Investigators believe the building was initially locked.

At some point after arriving, however, Jerri apparently opened a door and allowed someone inside.

Police have suggested that she may have known the person she admitted into the building, although there doesn't appear to be any publicly identified suspect.

Later that morning, Jerri's brother-in-law Mickey arrived at the pub with an employee from a vending company.

They discovered Jerri's body inside. She had been violently murdered.

From what I can tell the exact manner has never been disclosed.

Robbery does not appear to explain it

One of the stranger aspects of the case is what apparently didn't happen.

There was money inside the business.

It wasn't taken.

Cold case detective David Towsley has said the violence used against Jerri suggested something much more personal-- possibly someone holding a vendetta against her or a crime of passion.

I could not find information on suspects at the time of her murder, I was assuming that I would find that her ex- husband had been investigated. But it seems like maybe that was not released-- similar to exact cause of death.

Two vehicles

There is another potentially significant detail.

Investigators say two vehicles were observed outside Murray's Pub that morning:

A white van.

A distinctive blue pickup truck with a black roll bar and a white stripe around the upper portion of the truck.

The description of the pickup is surprisingly specific.

Yet as far as I can find, neither vehicle has ever publicly been identified as belonging to Jerri's killer.

Police have continued mentioning them in later appeals, suggesting investigators still consider the sightings potentially important.

Decades without an arrest

In 2022, the Broward Sheriff's Office featured Jerri's case as part of its Open and Unsolved cold case series.

Her sister Nancy was still asking for answers more than 36 years after the murder.

Authorities emphasized the descriptions of the two vehicles again and appealed to anyone who might remember seeing them near the pub on the morning Jerri died.

Despite that renewed attention, I can't find any indication that an arrest has ever been made.

As of the latest information I could find, Jerri Emken's murder remains unsolved.

A couple things I feel worth noting:

- Broward Sheriff’s Office’s current cold-case database lists the victim as “Lillian Emken,” case #11-8510-558954 (1985), while its own 2022 publicity material calls her Jerri Emken. That strongly suggests Jerri was a nickname or name she commonly used, but I have found no definitive confirmation of this.

- There are no publicly identified suspects in the material I found. There is also no reliable public information saying whether her former husband was interviewed, investigated, cleared, or had an alibi.

Sources

https://ftlreview.com/crime/the-homicide-of-jerri-emken/

https://deerfield-news.com/2022/09/01/bsos-open-and-unsolved-the-homicide-of-jerri-emken/

Someone reached out to me about this case. It has very limited information online. It involves a woman who was allegedly murdered by an unknown suspect, thrown from a ferry and no charges were ever filed. Posting to raise awareness on a forgotten case.

Shayla Nicole Hudson was 28 years old, lived in Richmond, CA, and worked as a nursing assistant. She graduated from Pinole Valley High School with the class of 2000. She also attended Contra Costa College.

Public records show she had lived in several different places around the Bay Area and at one point had lived in Anchorage, Alaska where it appears some of her family is from.

According to news reports, on March 5 2010, Shayla boarded a San Francisco bound Ferry at Jack London Square in Oakland at 8:10 AM.

She apparently did not get off the ferry but it was not disclosed in news reports how this information was confirmed.

When the ferry arrived back in Oakland around 9:17 AM Shayla was unaccounted for and the coast guard was sent to search for her. Her body was found floating near treasure island and she was pronounced dead.

The coast guard claimed the waters were calm and the railing of the ferry made it unlikely she would have accidentally fallen in. T

There were no follow up articles about medical examiner findings. No information about her relationship status, and no photos of her are anywhere online.

Sources

News Articles

https://sfist.com/2010/03/06/victim_of_ferryboat_death_identifie/

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/passenger-missing-from-ferryboat-dies-in-bay-3271131.php

Obituary postings

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/eastbaytimes/name/shayla-hudson-obituary?id=21887966

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/obituaries/shayla-hudson/

This is a weekly thread for off topic discussion. Talk about anything that interests you; what's going on in your world?. If you have any suggestions or observations about the sub let us know in this thread.

I previously did a write-up on this case when Catherine Hoggle was indicted for the murder of two of her children for the second time.
https://reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1mhwcdz/catherine_hoggle_is_reindicted_for_murder_of_her/

Briefly, Catherine is a woman suffering from paranoid schizophrenia who lived with her children and their father Troy Turner in Clarksburg, Montgomery County, Maryland. In 2013, she was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility and diagnosed at that time. In 2014 she was released to a group home and eventually back to her own home and family. Family made an agreement that she would not be left on her own with the children, although this did place a burden on her partner and her parents. On Sept. 7, 2014, Catherine was at her mother's home in Gaithersburg with daughter Sarah, 3, and son Jacob, 2. She left in their car "to get pizza" taking her son with her. Hours later she came back alone saying she had left him with a friend. For reasons unknown, her parents accepted this and took Catherine and Sarah home.

EDIT: To clarify the home situation and timeline, Catherine's parents were divorced. Her father lived with Catherine, Troy and the kids. Her father took the kids to the mother's house while the mother, Lindsey, was not there. She had a friend visiting from out of town that weekend and had asked for "time off" from her duties of supervising the grandkids. Her father let Catherine use his car and take Jacob with her. When Lindsey and friend returned, the friend took photos of Sarah wearing a costume that was a gift. Later Catherine's father drove home with Catherine and Sarah. So it seems 3 adults knew Catherine was gone with Jacob and didn't do anything about it.

Troy worked nights and returned late, checking on Jacob who wasn't in his crib. But he sometimes crawled out to sleep with his older brother. Troy went to bed. In the morning, Catherine, Sarah and Jacob were all gone. Troy started calling the police but Catherine turned up with a story that she'd taken them to day care in Germantown. Later., when they were due to be picked up, she didn't remember the name or location of the daycare center. After driving around looking for the place, she evaded Troy at a fast-food stop, running out the back door. She was found four days later wandering Germantown and could not account for the children. She was charged with child neglect, found not competent, and committed to a psychiatric hospital. She has been in psychiatric facilities continuously till 2025. Sarah and Jacob have never been found.

In 2017, Catherine was indicted for the murders of Sarah and Jacob, but again was found incompetent to stand trial. At another competency hearing in 2022, the same conclusion was reached. Under Maryland law, the murder charges had to be dropped.

Catherine's former partner believes she murdered their children. Her mother has been on both sides of the fence. From believing she had harmed the children, Lindsey seems to have come to believe Catherine placed them with people who help mothers whose children are in danger of being taken away. This was Catherine's big fear after her involuntary committal.

In July 2025, for some reason Catherine was discharged from the inpatient setting, and the district attorney immediately indicted her again. This time a judge ruled that she was fit to stand trial on two counts of first degree murder. The trial is supposed to start in October.

On August 20, Catherine's attorney entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. The plea was allowed. Her case is that she was suffering from mental illness and not criminally responsible for her actions. She will have to undergo another psychiatric evaluation, thus the trial may be delayed. Frustrating for the father, who wants to see the case resolved and to know what happened to his children.

This is another case where there's no good outcome, but a final outcome may be here soon.

EDIT: Catherine's mother has written a series of posts about the case on Medium. They contain much more detail about the timeline and events. They are from her mother's perspective, but still informative.

The podcast Unrestorable is an in-depth look at the case, much more from Troy's side. It is a worthwhile listen.

Maryland woman accused of murdering her 2 children enters insanity plea

Catherine Hoggle makes first court appearance after murder indictment in Montgomery County

Lindsey Hoggle's Medium Posts

Hello everyone! As always, I'd like to thank you all for your comments and votes under my last post about the Kings County Doe- I hope that they will be identified soon. This write-up seems to have stirred some controversy and it was locked in result. I wanted to thank everyone who reported any transphobic comments made about the subject of that post- arguments about this person's identity and semantics aren't constructive and don't have anything to do with giving their name back to them.

Today I'd like to cover a very recent disappearance case with not a lot of info available.

BACKGROUND

Hari Krishna Reddy Karasani was 24 when he went missing from Healy, Alaska, USA.

He was originally from Guntur in the Andhra Pradesh region of India- Hari came over to the US to study and get his MS at the Trine University. He lived in Houston in a home shared with three roommates.

Hari didn't know how to drive.

DISAPPEARANCE

On the 22nd of December, Hari left the home he shared with his roommates in Houston, Texas, to go on a solo trip to Alaska- Hari wanted to take the trip via public transport after he got to Fairbanks via plane. Hari's plans had struck his roommates as strange and out of character- according to Surya Teja, one of his roommates, Hari "never had any trips or he never went anywhere". Hari didn't divulge why he wanted to go to Alaska in the first place.

He told his roommates that he would be back in two weeks, on the 4th or 5th of January.

Hari arrived in Fairbanks, Alaska, on the 22nd of December. He took a Lyft to Healy, where he stayed in the Aurora Denali Lodge.

Hari last spoke with his friends and family on the 30th of December at 8:30 PM.

He checked out of the Aurora Denali Lodge, at 10 AM on the next day. His mobile phone was switched off sometime on that day. When his roommates tried to call him and couldn't reach him, they assumed that it was due to the poor network coverage in the Denali region.

Hari was reported missing on the 3rd of January 2026.

There were reports of an alleged Lyft transaction on Hari's credit card, but they were allegedly proven false (the sources vary on that; I don't know if they were referring to the Lyft he took from the airport or a different one).

Hari's phone last pinged in Denali.

Hari's family didn't reach out to their local law enforcement in India after he went missing, but they were cooperating with "local contacts" in the US (I'm assuming that means the american police).

CONCLUSION

The temperatures in Denali got as low as -40F (-40C) between the 31st of December and the 1st of January when Hari was missing.

Hari's friends have started a petition to get texan authorities to join with alaskan authorities and conduct an organized search for Hari.

Hari Krishna Reddy Karasani was 24 when he went missing and would be 25 now. He is an Asian (Indian) man, 5'6" (66 Inch / 168 cm) and 135 lbs (61 kg). He has black hair and brown eyes. Hari wears glasses and does not have a vehicle.

If you know anything about Hari's whereabouts, contact the Alaska State Troopers at (907) 269-5511 (case number AK26000654).

SOURCES:

1. indiatimes.com
2. msn.com
3. alaskanewssource.com
4. people.com
5. NamUS.gov

Hari's websleuths.com thread

On August 22nd, 2026 investigators with the Ontario Police Department announced they had released new information in the February, 2005 disappearance and suspicious death of 41 year old Tammy Eileen Penner. Penner’s body was found on August 28th, 2005 in a wooded area near a rest stop in a sleeping bag near Rockwood, Ontario. Penner was found in a pair of black shorts, a beige tank top, white underwear and a peach-coloured bra, and had no ID on her. She had been reported missing on February 7th, 2005 and had lived in both Chilliwack and Abbotsford at the time.

Authorities in April of 2024 were able to identify Penner using DNA connected to a living relative and since beginning their investigation have labeled the death suspicious but have been unable to determine an exact cause of death. During a press release investigators say they do suspect that Penner was dragged a short distance into a wooded area using the sleeping bag around a month before her remains were found. At the time of her death investigators found out she had fractures to her left cheekbone, nose and left eye socket that had healed.

Information released from authorities mentioned Penner’s final movements and sightings. On June 30th, 2005 Tammy attended the Midland Mall in Midland, Ontario. The last known movement was that on or around July 30, 2005 a transport truck driver dropped her off at the now closed Husky Truck Stop on Highway 401 and Dixie Road in Mississauga, Ontario. Her final confirmed sighting was her being seen near a cream-or beige colored transport truck shortly after being dropped off. Besides the recently released information by authorities they are asking the public to help find out further information in the case.

Sources:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/b-c-woman-found-dead-near-rockwood-ont-in-2005-was-seen-at-midland-mall-mississauga-truck-stop-police-9.7314402

https://www.haltonhillstoday.ca/police-beat/police-renew-appeal-for-info-in-decades-old-cold-case-involving-womans-death-12688235

https://globalnews.ca/news/12029941/tammy-eileen-penner/

https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2026/08/20/opp-reopen-21-year-old-suspicious-rockwood-cold-case/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/woman-found-near-rockwood-ontario-remains-identified-1.7303165

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/information-sought-after-remains-found-near-rockwood-in-2005/article_ed856ee7-742b-5906-9e06-fb2e31872d22.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1f2503r/body_found_near_rookwood_ontario_identified_as/

https://dnasolves.com/articles/tammy-eileen-penner-rockwood-ontario/

Norman Volker Franz is one of Germany's longest-wanted fugitives. He has been on the run for more than 27 years.

Franz was born in West Germany in 1970 and became involved in organized crime during the 90s. In 1996, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering two men during an organized-crime attack near Dortmund the previous year. Franz threw a hand grenade into the victims' car; one died in the initial explosion, while another was later shot and killed.

On March 11, 1997, Franz escaped from Hagen prison after sawing through the bars of his cell. His wife Sandra, whom he had married while in prison, was waiting outside in a red Volkswagen Polo.

Within months, three more people were dead.

German authorities strongly suspect Franz of carrying out two robberies after his escape. On March 26, a security guard was shot and killed during a robbery in Weimar. Then, on July 21, two more guards were shot dead during the robbery of a cash transport near Halle.

Franz and Sandra eventually fled to Portugal, where they lived with their young son under aliases. Franz worked in real estate and, for a time, appears to have lived a fairly ordinary life.

However that façade came to an end on October 24, 1998, when the couple were arrested in Albufeira, Portugal.

Franz was imprisoned in Lisbon while Germany sought his extradition. But on July 28, 1999, he escaped prison yet again. He sawed through the window bars, lowered himself with a bedsheet, and then got over four prison walls before disappearing.

He has not been caught since.

Sandra was later extradited to Germany and sentenced to six years and three months in prison for her involvement in the robberies. Almost 30 years since her husband's disappearance, she is now divorced from Franz and says she has never heard from him again.

Despite an international manhunt, known aliases, fingerprints, and contacts across several countries, there has been no publicly confirmed sighting of Norman Volker Franz since 1999. Over the years, supposed sightings have placed him everywhere from Portugal to Central Europe to South America to Africa. Franz speaks German, English and Portuguese, which may have helped him establish himself abroad.

Is he still out there? Where is he hiding?

Source: RND — Die Geschichte des fünffachen Mörders Norman Franz (2024)

Source: WELT — Mit Handgranate und Pumpgun gingen Norman Franz und seine Kumpane auf Rivalen los (2024)