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22/10/2025

Today's case focuses on the disappearance of Jodi Huisentruit.
Jodi Sue Huisentruit was born on June 5, 1968 in Long Prairie, Minnesota, the youngest of three daughters born to Maurice Nicholas Huisentruit and Imogene Laverne Anderson.
In high school, Jodi excelled at golf. Considered a promising talent, she and her team won the state Class A tournament in both 1985 and 1986. After high school, Jodi went on to St. Cloud State University, where she studied mass communications and speech communication, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1990. Jodi's first job after graduation was with Northwest Airlines. She began her broadcasting career with CBS affiliate KGAN in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as the station's Iowa City bureau chief, then returned to Minnesota for a job at ABC affiliate KSAX in Alexandria. Jodi later returned to Iowa for her position at CBS affiliate KIMT in Mason City.
At about 4:00 AM on Tuesday, June 27, 1995, KIMT producer Amy Kuns noticed that Jodi had failed to report to work as scheduled, so she called her apartment. When Jodi answered the telephone, she explained that she had overslept and that she was preparing to leave for the station. However, by 6:00 AM, she had still not arrived, so Amy filled in for her on the morning show Daybreak. At about 7:00 AM, KIMT staff called the Mason City police.
When police arrived at Jodi's apartment, they found her red Mazda Miata still parked in the parking lot. Jodi's personal belongings were found scattered near her car, including a hair dryer, a pair of red shoes, earrings, a bottle of hair spray and her car keys. Police also took an unidentified palm print from Jodi's car. A co-worker and police searched Jodi's apartment but found no signs of forced entry or a struggle. Witnesses had seen a white Ford Econoline van in the vicinity and had heard screams around the time Jodi was supposed to leave for work.
Police, K-9 units and volunteers searched wooded areas, grass fields and the Winnebago River for Jodi's body, but never found her. Police delved into Jodi's personal life and found nothing that would put her life at risk and that she was real and all-American to those who knew her and to her viewers. Police believe that an obsessed fan may have abducted and murdered Jodi. In May of 2001, Jodi Huisentruit was declared legally dead.
In June of 2008, photocopies of the 84 pages of Jodi's personal journal were anonymously mailed to a local newspaper. The Mason City Globe Gazette received the material in a large envelope with no return address and a June 4th postmark from Waterloo, Iowa. The original journal has been in the possession of law enforcement since the investigation of Jodi's disappearance began. Within days, Mason City police reported that the sender had come forward and identified her as the wife of the a former Mason City police chief. Although noting that the former chief had inadvertently taken a copy of the journal home when he left office, the police gave no motive for his wife sending the copy to the newspaper. Police have conducted more than 1000 interviews related to Jodi's disappearance and have followed up on several leads, but nothing conclusive to point towards a suspect or Jodi's remains.
With the slim chance Jodi Huisentruit may still be alive, she would today be 54 years old. She is 5'4, 120 lbs. and has blonde hair and brown eyes. Her ears are pierced.

21/10/2025

Today marks 25 years since Michael Short escaped from prison.
In June 1994, 19-year-old Michael Short met 17-year-old Melody Woods during a summer session at her school in Fort Worth, Texas. They soon began dating and he left a good impression on her parents. They had no idea that he had a criminal record and a nasty reputation.
Six months earlier, Michael and a friend were driving down Highway 121 in Bedford when they came upon a couple driving slowly in the fast lane. Michael became enraged and began yelling at the driver. He followed them for ten miles. He then pulled out a handgun and fired at them. The driver was struck once in the shoulder but survived. Police tracked down Michael through his license plate number. He was arrested and charged with attempted murder.
While out on bail, Michael met Melody. When she learned about his criminal past, she was apparently too in love with him to care. Soon after, she began acting secretly around her parents. They feared that he was becoming too possessive of her. However, she claimed that their relationship was fine.
In March 1995, Michael was convicted of aggravated assault and sentenced to eight years in prison. Melody's parents hoped that the sentence would end her relationship with him. However, she told them that she would try to make it work. He made collect calls to their home every day. If she did not answer at a specific time, he would become enraged with her.
Melody's parents eventually blocked all collect calls to their home. However, Michael was able to find a way around that: he would call his parents' home and they would call the Woods home. Sometimes, the calls would be continuous. For a while, Melody stopped answering him. Eventually, however, she started talking to him again. He seemed to control her life from jail.
On the morning of June 7, 1996, Melody and a friend waited outside the prison walls in a borrowed van. Meanwhile, inside the prison gym area, Michael climbed up a fence, kicked out a window, and escaped. He ran to the van and jumped inside. They drove to a nearby motel where Michael changed his clothes. He and Melody got into her car and left her friend behind.
After nine months on the run, Michael and Melody voluntarily surrendered in Fort Worth, Texas. He was given an additional seven years for escape and has since been released. She was given ten years probation for her role in the escape. They are now married and own a fishing business.

21/10/2025

Today's case focuses on the abduction of Angela Hammond.
Angela Marie Hammond was born on February 9, 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri to Marsha Ann Young. Her family had lived in Clinton, Missouri for three generations. Angela was outgoing and popular. Friends and family referred to her as "Angie".
Around 10 PM on April 4, 1991, Angela dropped off her fiancé, Rob Shafer, at his house after a barbeque. She would then drive to a friend's house before going home to take a bath. At 11:15 PM, Angela called Rob from a payphone in a parking lot outside the Food Barn Store, located at Jefferson Street and 2nd Street in Clinton, Missouri. The conversation was pleasant, until Angela mentioned an older model green Ford pickup truck circling around the parking lot. When the driver parked next to the phone booth, Angela described him as a filthy, bearded man who wore glasses, a ball cap and overalls. After the man used the phone next to her, he acted as if he was searching for something in his truck, using a flashlight. Angela said the truck's back window was covered by a decal, showing a fish jumping out of the water. Rob had Angela ask if the man needed to use the other phone, but he said no.
Rob then heard Angela scream over the phone, and quickly got in his car and raced to the area. As he drove through downtown Clinton, Rob passed an old green Ford pickup truck and heard Angela call out for him from inside the truck. Rob chased the truck through the downtown business district, but didn't realize that when he threw his car into reverse, that it severely damaged the car's transmission. When the truck made a sharp right turn, Rob's car finally died out.
An extensive search began for Angela, the abductor, and his truck. The Missouri State Highway Patrol checked hundreds of trucks matching the description, but all were ruled out. With few leads in this case, investigators questioned Rob's story. At first, no witnesses were found to corroborate his account. A polygraph examination on him indicated that he was telling the truth. Two witnesses later came forward, seeing a truck and a suspicious person around the pay phones between 11:30 and 11:45 PM, shortly before Angela's disappearance. Within a week, Rob Shafer was cleared of any involvement.
Two days after Angela's abduction, authorities theorized that her case may have been linked to two other abductions in the general area. On January 19, 1991, 42-year-old Trudy Darby, a married mother of two, called her son Waylyn shortly after 10 PM to report seeing a suspicious man lurking around the K&D Convenience Store she worked at in Macks Creek, Missouri. He arrived ten minutes later to find his mother gone. The front door was open, lights on, and $200 missing from the cash register. Two days later, Trudy's n**e body was found in the Little Niangua River. She had been r***d and shot twice in the head. Two half-brothers, Jess Rush and Marvin Chaney, were later arrested and sentenced for her murder. On February 27, 1991, 30-year-old Cheryl Kinney, also a married mother of two, disappeared from the Quality Convenience Store in Nevada, Missouri shortly after clocking out at 10 PM. Her white Chevrolet was found abandoned in the store parking lot. Cheryl never arrived home and has never been heard from again.
Serial killer Kenneth McDuff, whose killing spree spanned from 1966 to 1992, had been looked at as a possible suspect. However, he was never officially linked to Angela's case.
In April 2021, on the 30th anniversary of Angela's disappearance, the Clinton Police Department announced that there was a new theory being investigated in her case. A confidential informant that helped in a narcotics operation received a "cut-and-paste" letter. The letter correctly identified the informant's court issued number along with his estranged wife's first name. The letter was postmarked April 4, 1991 - the day of Angela's abduction. The informant's wife and daughter (who was also named Angela) were living in Clinton at the time. Investigators theorized that those involved in the narcotics operation targeted the informant's daughter, but mistakenly abducted Angela Hammond. Investigators have noted that, while the theory seems credible, they have not been able to rule it out. Also, they recently received an anonymous call from someone who may have had information about Angela's abduction; the caller specifically mentioned details involving the letter. They are hoping that the caller will call back.
Angela's mother Marsha passed away on May 25, 2021.
At the time she was abducted, Angela Hammond was 5'0, 120-140 lbs. and had brown hair and brown eyes. Her teeth were in excellent condition and she had a scar on her upper lip. She was also 4 months pregnant at the time of her disappearance. Angela Hammond would today be 51 years old.

21/10/2025

Today marks 25 years since the disappearance and subsequent deaths of Bill Rundle and Traci Kenley.
William McKinley Rundle was born on October 3, 1974 in Hastings, Nebraska to William E. Rundle and Terri Sue Lampman. Bill has one brother, John. He graduated from Hastings Senior High School in 1993 and attended Hastings College, where he was a member of the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity. On April 17, 1999, Bill married Marcie Reynolds; they later divorced. He was employed at P.W. Pipe Co. and also at Murphy's Wagon Wheel, both in Hastings, Nebraska. Bill was a member of First United Methodist Church. He was also a member of the New Flock Band in Grand Island, Nebraska.
Traci Lynn Kenley was born on September 23, 1971 in Hastings, Nebraska to William Galen Kenley and Sharon Lu McLaughlin. Traci has four siblings – William, Richard, Daniel and Linda. She lived on a farm southeast of Edgar, Nebraska, then moved to Hastings, Nebraska after graduating from high school. Traci attended Edgar Elementary School and graduated from Sandy Creek Junior-Senior High School in 1989. She attended Central Community College in Hastings, Nebraska and also earned a bachelor's degree in human and social service administration from Bellevue University. Traci worked at Good Samaritan and Martin Luther Home in Hastings, Nebraska. At the time of her death, Traci was employed at the Hastings Regional Center as a psych technician, where she had worked since 1991.
On August 17, 2000, Bill Rundle and Traci Kenley went to drive 45 miles to Traci's parent's farm in rural Edgar, Nebraska and the pair had vague plans to visit Traci's boyfriend Doug Wolfe later that evening. Bill and Traci had met six months earlier and by all accounts their relationship was platonic. They got together at around 4:30 PM to retrieve a second set of keys she needed and Bill wanted to look at a truck that Traci's father had been selling.
At around 10:30 PM, the two said goodbye to Traci's parents, got into Bill's new black Jeep Wrangler Sahara and headed for the highway. At around 10:45 PM, the two stopped at the Country Store in neighboring Clay Center, Nebraska to go to the bathroom and get something to drink, and they left at 11 PM after Traci called her boyfriend. Traci asked Doug what his after-work plans were and he said he was thinking about getting a beer at a local lounge and Traci said that she and Bill would plan to meet him at 12:30 AM and they said goodbye. It was the last time anyone heard from either Traci or Bill.
The next day, neither Traci nor Bill showed up for work and nobody could understand why they weren't there and what happened to them. The Clay and Adam's Police Departments conducted search parties around the area where Traci called Doug. Authorities believed that Bill may have crashed into a nearby cornfield, but a search turned up nothing. Police considered the possibility that Bill and Traci left voluntarily, but all they had was the money that they had taken with them and none of their ATMs, credit cards, or phones had been used. Then, one week later, Bill's hat mysteriously appeared at the same intersection that Traci had called Doug before they vanished. The area had been searched the week before but the hat was not their previously and it was believed that the hat may have been planted there. Some had speculated that the two might have met with foul play.
On July 31, 2002, a farm worker noticed the outline of a vehicle in a reservoir near Glenvil, Nebraska. Drought had caused the water level to recede. Police arrived and the vehicle was pulled from the water. It was Bill Rundle’s black Jeep Wrangler Sahara. Inside were two human skeletons, which were later identified as Bill Rundle and Traci Kenley. Authorities believe they mistakenly turned off a narrow private road and while turning around may have rolled into a feedlot runoff pond where they remained unnoticed for two years. Neither Bill or Traci were wearing seat belts, and damage to the front of the jeep was consistent with a low-speed impact with water. Their deaths were ruled an accident.

21/10/2025

Today's case focuses on Brad Bishop.
He was born William Bradford Bishop Jr on August 1, 1936 in Pasadena, California, the only child of William Bradford Bishop Sr and Lobelia Amaryllis St. Germain. Brad graduated from Yale University with a degree in American Studies and earned his Master's Degree in Italian from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. He was an avid outdoorsman, camper, and hiker who loved working out, canoeing, fishing, swimming, jogging, tennis, skiing and riding motorcycles. During high school, Brad met Annette Kathryn Weis. They were married on August 2, 1959 in Orange County, California. The couple would go on to have three sons: William Bradford Bishop III, Brenton Germain Bishop and Geoffrey Corder Bishop. The family would later settle in Bethesda, Maryland.
On March 8, 1976, the Bishop's neighbor reported the family missing. Lt Joe Sargent of the Montgomery County Police Department went to the home to investigate. When he got to the front door, he noticed blood on the steps. Once inside, Joe discovered blood leading from the door to the foyer. He walked up the stairs to the second floor and noticed that the wall and ceiling to one bedroom was completely covered in blood. Six days prior in Columbia, North Carolina, a park ranger putting out a brush fire had found the partially charred bodies of five people; two women and three boys. They would later be identified as Bishop's mother, wife, and three sons.
Police learned from Roy Harrell, one of Brad's colleagues in the State Department, that Brad was upset about being passed over for a promotion and complained about having the flu. Instead of going to a clinic, he made three stops. One was at a gas station where he purchased and filled a gas can, the second at the White Flint Mall where he purchased a ball peen hammer and shovel from a hardware store, and the third was at a bank where he withdrew several hundred dollars in cash.
Investigators believe that Brad arrived home around 7:30 or 8 PM. That night, he bludgeoned all five victims. It is believed that Annette was killed first as she read a book. The boys were presumably killed next, followed by Lobelia. None of the victims had a chance to defend themselves. Following the murders, Brad took an all-night drive to Columbia, North Carolina, where he dug a shallow fire pit in a dense area of woods, piled them in it, doused them with gasoline, and set them on fire.
After Brad dumped the bodies, he bought a pair of tennis shoes near Columbia, North Carolina. He then dumped the car at a campground in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park before vanishing. It was discovered by a ranger on March 18, 1976, almost three weeks after the murders. Police inspected it and found the bloodied ball peen hammer, as well as the receipt from the hardware store for its purchase.
Because he still possessed a State Department passport, Brad Bishop was able to travel much easier than civilians. He has not officially been seen since, but sightings have been reported all over Europe, notably Belgium, England, Finland, The Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland as Brad travels on his U.S. Diplomatic Passport. Brad Bishop was indicted in absentia on 5 counts of first-degree murder and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
On April 10, 2014, Brad Bishop was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. In October of 2014, authorities received a tip that an unidentified man killed in a hit-and-run accident in Alabama in 1981 might have been Bishop. Authorities exhumed his body and performed DNA testing. Although Bishop's face appears quite similar to his, he was confirmed not to be Brad Bishop. In February 2021, a 63-year-old woman named Kathy Gillcrist discovered through a DNA test that Brad Bishop was her biological father. It is believed that he fathered her while he was at Yale University.
William Bradford Bishop Jr is 6'1, 180 lbs and has brown hair and brown eyes. He has a six-inch vertical surgical scar on his lower back. Brad is fluent in English, French, Italian, Serbo-Croatian and Spanish. He is an amateur licensed pilot. Brad is known to have violent outbursts and is described as self-absorbed. He should be considered armed and extremely dangerous. Brad Bishop would today be 86 years old.

21/10/2025

Photos of 18-year-old Robert Bever and 16-year-old Michael Bever taken after their arrest on July 23, 2015, for the brutal stabbing murders of five family members at their Broken Arrow, Oklahoma home.
The brothers killed their parents David and April Bever, along with three younger siblings aged 5, 7, and 12. Two sisters survived including a 13-year-old who escaped despite critical injuries and called 911, and a 2-year-old who was found unharmed.
Both brothers were convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

21/10/2025

Emma Schols was home alone with her six children in Edsbyn, Sweden, on September 3, 2019, when a fire broke out in the early morning hours. The 31-year-old mother had just gone to bed when she discovered the flames spreading through their home.
Schols made multiple trips back into the burning house to rescue all six of her children, who ranged in age from infants to teenagers. She carried them out one by one, walking through the flames in only her underwear to reach each child. Despite the intense heat and smoke, she refused to leave any of them behind.
Schols sustained severe burns to 93% of her body during the rescue operation. Medical experts said her chances of survival were extremely slim given the extent of her injuries. However, she defied the odds and survived after extensive medical treatment and recovery. All six children were saved without serious injury.

20/10/2025

31-year-old Jacob Cabinaw vanished from Traverse City on March 31, 2010. On that last evening, he played frisbee golf with friends at a beachside park. He was invited to join friends out for drinks, but Cabinaw declined; he had to study for school. He had a girlfriend with whom he was looking to buy a house and two children from a previous relationship. He drove off in his silver 2002 Chevy Malibu, with Michigan license plate BKQ 4107. The car had minor damage to a panel on the passenger side. But instead of going home to study, Cabinaw drove away. At 1 am, he dialed into the Northwestern Michigan College system to confirm that he was still enrolled in classes (ETA: this call was a GI benefit requirement).
At 2:00 a.m. on April 1, Jacob used his bank card to buy gas in Mattawan, located just southwest of Kalamazoo, Michigan. This is a couple of hours south of his origin point near Traverse City.
About 24 hours later, a police officer in Missouri saw Cabinaw's license plate. A deputy with the Washington County Sheriff's Department in Arkansas ran the plate three hours later and noted Cabinaw was asleep in his car, which was parked at the Brentwood Rest Area off U.S. 71 in West Fork, Arkansas. Not far from the Texas and Oklahoma borders. Also on April 2, Cabinaw's debit card was used to buy gasoline in Sweetwater, Texas. Jacob was captured on a security camera. Sweetwater is over 1,000 miles from Cabinaw's home.
This is the last known sighting of Jacob Cabinaw.
Cabinaw's brother was stationed at Fort Hood in Texas, but that is his only known connection to the state.
Jacob had insufficient funds in his bank account to pay for his gas purchase, but the transaction went through because he had overdraft coverage on his accounts.
His debit card was never used again. His cell phone has not been active since April 1, 2010, and Jacob left home without his cell phone charger.
Because of the fuel purchase in Texas, police considered the possibility that Cabinaw had walked out of his life to travel to Texas or even to Mexico. However, Cabinaw's family thinks that even if he went to Texas, he would have returned and wouldn't have abandoned his life or his two children back in Michigan.
Jacob was a technical science student at Northwestern Michigan College at the time of his disappearance, and a member of the National Guard. He was employed at Dave's Garage, and he owned $20,000 worth of tools. Even today, 15 years later, Jacob’s friends and family are still searching for answers and still hoping that he can come home.

20/10/2025

Shanteari Weems K'illed Her Husband For Molesting Children
Shanteari Weems, a 50-year-old woman from Baltimore, owned and operated Lil Kidz Kastle, a daycare center located in Owings Mills.
After her husband, James Weems Jr. who worked as a driver at the daycare was accused of śexually molḛsting the children, the center was closed in July 2022.
However, everything took a darker turn on July 22, 2022, after learning of a second allegation of abuse against her husband, Shanteari drove to the hotel where he was staying and shot him in the head.

20/10/2025

Iryna Zarutska, 23, was scrolling through her phone aboard a LYNX Blue Line train when a stranger approached from behind and fatally stabbed her in the neck.
The Ukrainian refugee died at 9:50PM on August 22 in what police describe as a completely random attack. Surveillance footage shows Zarutska boarding the train and taking a seat in front of her attacker, who pulled out a pocket knife minutes later and stabbed her multiple times before exiting at the next stop.
Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, was arrested on the platform and charged with first-degree murder. Federal prosecutors are now seeking the death penalty in the case, which has become a flashpoint in national debates over urban crime and public safety. Brown had a lengthy criminal record but had been released time and time again.
Zarutska had fled war-torn Ukraine seeking safety in America, where she dreamed of becoming a veterinary assistant. Neighbours remembered her walking pets through their Charlotte community, always with a smile on her face.

20/10/2025

For years, Sanju Bhagat had lived with an unusually large, protruding belly that caused him breathing difficulties and social embarrassment.
When his condition became life-threatening, doctors at Tata Memorial Hospital prepared for what they assumed would be routine tumor removal surgery. Instead, they discovered something unprecedented: a partially formed human body with limbs, hair, and ge****ls inside Bhagat's abdomen.
Medical experts determined that Bhagat had been born with an extremely rare condition called "fetus in fetu," where one twin develops inside the other during pregnancy. His twin brother had been growing inside him for over three decades, sustained by Bhagat's blood supply.
The successful surgical removal made international headlines and provided valuable insights into this mysterious condition, which occurs in only one in 500,000 births.

20/10/2025

In August 2011, 19-year-old Olga Moskalyova and her stepfather, Igor Tsyganenkov, ventured near a river in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Eastern Siberia, to retrieve a fishing rod. Their outing turned tragic when a mother brown bear and her three cubs ambushed them. Igor was fatally attacked, suffering a broken neck and skull fractures. Olga managed to flee approximately 200 feet before the bear caught up, dragging her to the ground.
In a desperate bid for help, Olga called her mother, Tatiana, during the attack. Tatiana initially thought her daughter was joking, but the sounds of a bear growling and chewing soon revealed the horrifying reality. Over the course of three calls, Olga described her ordeal, saying, "Mum, the bear is eating me! Mum, it’s such agony. Mum, help!" and later, "Mum, the bears are back. She came back and brought her three babies. They're... eating me." In her final call, she whispered, "Mum, it’s not hurting anymore. I don’t feel the pain. Forgive me for everything, I love you so much."
Tatiana's frantic attempts to alert authorities were in vain. By the time help arrived, Olga had succumbed to her injuries. Six hunters were dispatched to eliminate the bears, which were found feeding on Igor's remains.

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