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Kristina S. Hickey (1969 – 1984)

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Introduction Kristina S. Hickey (1969 – 1984) was murdered in Park Forest, Illinois, 1984. She was 15 years old and still in high school. On January 15, 1987, Christopher Abernathy was convicted for Kristina’s murder. On February 11, 2015, after 30 years of incarceration, Abernathy was exonerated by DNA and set free. But who killed […]

Brenda Jean LaCombe (1962 – 1982)  

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Brenda Jean LaCombe (19) went missing on May 16, 1982 from Lowell, Massachusetts. Around 1245am on May 16, she left her grandmother’s house in the Francis Gatehouse Mill Apartment Complex, Lowell, Mass. On June 4, 1982, a jogger found her remains behind a stone wall on the side of Littleton County road off Interstate 495 […]

Tami Renee Jackson (Dec 17, 1976 – Jan 26, 1994)

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Tami Renee Jackson (17) was found murdered on January 26, 1994. Her remains were on an isolated area of Hutchinson Island in Savannah, Georgia. Tami was stabbed 130 times. She was bound and run over by a car. The picture on the left comes from the justice page made on Facebook by her sisters. Nobody has ever […]

Sherlena Burgess and La Shonia Yvette Austin

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Two cousins Sherlena “Penny” Burgess (April 22, 1980 – Sept 14, 2003) and La Shonia “Shon” Yvette Austin (Nov 13, 1978 – Sept 19, 2003) were murdered after a night out on Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee. One of my readers alerted me to this case. There is not much online. That’s why this is the […]

Unsolved: Theone Lindgren Davis

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Theone Lindgren Davis (Jan 8, 1907 – Aug 5, 1971) was found beaten, strangled, and shot dead inside her home at 2975 Saturn Street, Huntington Park, Los Angeles, California. Nobody was ever arrested or convicted in her murder. It remains unsolved.  But there is a chance with DNA. I have not found a lot of […]

Who killed James “Jim” F. Gossen?

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Introduction On July 13, 1988, James “Jim” F. Gossen (Aug 16, 1949 – Feb 6, 1988) went missing. At the time he disappeared, he was separated from his wife Myra Redman and their two children. Gossen (38) was a diamond broker selling wholesale diamonds to jewelry stores. They lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His remains […]

Samantha Angela Ainsworth (Dec 2, 1969 – found Dec 3, 1985)

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Samantha Angela Ainsworth’s remains were found in a shallow grave on March 11, 1987. She was last seen walking north towards Nellis Blvd., Las Vegas, Nevada. I am not sure about the date. Samantha was found by dirt bike riders near Sunrise Mountain, Las Vegas, Nevada on March 11, 1987. There is very little online […]

Who killed Alana Kela?

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Alana Kela (? – 1993) was born in Hawaii, USA. I do not have an exact island name or date of birth. She died in 1993 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, from a single gunshot wound to her head. Her murder remains unsolved. This is the Case of the Month for July 2019. […]