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Who murdered Debra Joyce Bruce?

May 30, 2016 By Alice

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Debra Joyce Bruce (Nov 11, 1956 – Nov 10, 1976) was found murdered one day shy of her birthday in Slocum, Anderson County, Texas. She was a housewife and had married James Robbins just five months ago in June. A passerby saw the house on fire and called the fire department. Fire fighters found Debra between […]

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Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: Debra Joyce Bruce, Gun Fire, M-Vac Systems, Texas, touch DNA, withheld evidence

National Missing Children’s Day

May 25, 2016 By Alice

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May 25th is National Missing Children’s Day in the USA. This year, we are raising awareness for the missing children by rocking one sock on social media. The idea is simple: during the month of May, the National Center for the Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is asking everyone to wear one sock, take a “footsie” […]

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Filed Under: Missing Persons Tagged With: National Missing Children's Day, NCMEC

What happened to Woodrow Rae Harr?

May 21, 2016 By Alice

What happened to Woodrow Rae Harr?

What happened to Woody? That’s what his best friends from high school would like to know. On February 25, 1982, Woodrow “Woody” Rae Harr (April 7, 1964 – February 25, 1982) was found dead in a shallow pond near Newport News, Virginia. He was just 17 years old. I have tried to find more information about […]

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Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: Newport News, Virginia, Woodrow Rae Harr

The murder of Anne L. Barber Dunlap

May 13, 2016 By Alice

The murder of Anne L. Barber Dunlap/Photo: KSTP/ Beth McDonough

The murder of Anne L. Barber Dunlap is hard to research. Many details online have been deleted, links to newspaper articles are broken, and the rest is repetitive. In this post I will try to sum up what I found in the public domain (see resources below). Anne was born on June 12, 1964. Her […]

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Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: Anne L. Barber Dunlap, Knife Attack, Minnesota

Case of the Month: Iwona Mogila-Lisowska

May 1, 2016 By Alice

Case of the Month: Iwona Mogila-Lisowska, from the Dziennik Lodzki Online, photography Krzysztof Szymczak, grid AdS

Case of the Month: Iwona Mogila-Lisowska hardly has a web presence and if there is any information, it is in Polish. I found an October 2015 article in Polish in which her father Adam Puzio was interviewed. I used Google translate. It gave me the gist of the article but some details were not well translated. […]

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Filed Under: Case of the Month, Missing Persons Tagged With: Case of the Month, Iwona Mogila-Lisowska, Missing Person, Poland

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