What a lovely family

Earlier I wrote that Arnold Aggas Sr. was charged with the 1989 murder of Kimberlie Kantonen. Well, I Googled his name and discovered that Arnold Jr. has been charged with attempted murder (he allegedly stabbed his roommate in the neck) and his daughter, 18-year-old Brittney Trifaro-Aggas, has been charged as an accessory to that crime and also for making false statements to the police.

Woman missing since 1970 apparently found alive

Earlier it was announced that a body found in a brickyard in Galesburg, Illinois, previously thought to be Lula Cora Hood, had been misidentified. The police are back at square one as far as identifying that body is concered.

Lula disappeared in August 1970. She had fourteen children and used a number of different names. According to one of her daughters, she was unable to care for her children due to a mental illness and all of them were placed for adoption.

An article from today says that the police “obtained information from the family” and they think they’ve found Lula alive. The DNA testing hasn’t been done yet, but they seem very sure. Very little information has been released about the woman thought to be Lula; she’s 84 years old, has health issues and is living in an undisclosed location out of state. I hope it’s her.

Unbelievable

Someone — that is to say, a real life person talking with me in the flesh — asked me about the Bob Louis Boyes case today. I told her I run a missing persons website and she was like, “Do you know about this case where some boy disappeared in, like 1969, and I think his last name was Boyes…” And I was like, “Holy crap, you actually know about that case?”

It turned out she’d seen his NCMEC poster somewhere and was intrigued by the fact that he’d been missing for so long. (She remembered his pet deer too. I mean, who has a pet deer?) She tried to find out more about the case online but there wasn’t much. Unfortunately, I myself don’t really know much more than what’s on the poster.

But I never thought that a woman in Ohio would ask me about a boy who disappeared in Maryland in 1968 and never made headlines.

Rapist convicted in murder of brother 40 years ago

Joseph Barabino, who was earlier convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl, has now been convicted also of the 1972 murder of his brother, Vincent. Joseph was fifteen years old at the time; Vincent was six. He had been missing for two hours when his nude body turned up in the cab of a fuel truck. He’d been stabbed to death. The murder was witnessed by another brother, Michael, who was four. Michael was the main witness against Joseph at the trial.

Joseph had apparently sexually molested both boys and may have stabbed another brother in a fight years before Vincent was killed. (He didn’t die.) Not everyone in the family believes Michael’s story about the murder, though. Michael claims he was ostracized by his family when he made the decision to testify against Joseph. Their sister thinks he made up the story to get revenge on Joseph for molesting him.

This case has all the hallmarks of a Law and Order episode.

Missing man found in wife’s flowerbed

I didn’t have this guy on Charley, more’s the pity. It looks like he was never officially reported missing. But the police have found a long-missing guy, David Bostic, buried in his wife’s garden. This was in North Carolina.

David Ellis Bostic disappeared sometime in the mid-1990s. The time his family saw him was in 1994 and the police have his voting record from 1996 and that’s the last sign of him. He’d been sick and his wife, Ruth, said he’d gone to a nursing home several states away. Everyone believed the story.

Ruth appears to have suffered from mental illness for much of her life. In the decade and a half after David dropped out of sight, her mental condition deteriorated and she become the neighborhood’s resident crazy person, as well as being estranged from her family. Her house fell into disrepair but she kept her garden up nicely. When she died last year, no one noticed until her mail started piling up. She was 78. Naturally, she had continued to collect David’s Social Security checks until she died.

Apparently it wasn’t till after Ruth’s death that anyone realized David was missing, although his family wondered why they hadn’t heard from him in so long. On a hunch, the police dug up the garden, and there he was.

Perhaps David simply died. He was a lot older than Ruth was, and he was in his eighties when he disappeared. In fact, I think that’s the most likely explanation: David died and Ruth concealed his death either because she was batshit crazy, or to collect his Social Security checks. The autopsy didn’t reveal anything suspicious — although, after so many years, evidence of murder would be harder to find.

It reminds me a bit of the Walter Dunson case.

Articles:
New York Daily News
The Associated Press

South African toddler missing for almost a month found under unusual circumstances

I hadn’t heard about this case before today, but a three-year-old girl named Chante Christoffels was abducted in Bellville, South Africa several weeks ago, on June 3. According to this account, a woman whom her parents knew by sight offered to buy her some yogurt, then walked off with her, and this was all captured on CCTV. There’s a picture of Chante here. Her parents are “car guards,” whatever that is, and apparently homeless.

The police found her over the weekend, playing alone not far from where she disappeared, wearing the same clothes she’d been wearing at the time of her abduction. They were clean. It looks like they’re still trying to figure out what happened. In the meantime, Chante is not being returned to her parents’ care, although they’re being allowed to see her. I don’t know if the police think they were involved in the abduction, or whether it’s just concern about their living situation, or what.

Keeping quiet for a bit

I haven’t updated in a few days and things are inevitably piling up. I suppose I’ll probably update tomorrow. I’ve just been sort of hanging out with my boyfriend and stuff. Yesterday was my dad’s birthday/Father’s Day/retirement party and the whole family showed up, even my cousins.

(It’s kind of funny because Dad is only retiring on paper. The university couldn’t find a replacement for him so he will in all likelihood be teaching courses in the fall as usual. I don’t understand it; I thought the world was full of out-of-work professors scrambling to find jobs. Is there anyone out there with a PhD in biology or a related field and would accept a tenure-track position in northwest Ohio, the armpit of the nation?)

In other news, I’m just about over my strep throat and I haven’t had a headache in weeks. I’m taking some new medicine that might be responsible for that, or they might have just inexplicably gone away like they have before. I think they’ll probably come back, but I’m enjoying myself while it lasts.

Arrest in Kimberlie Kantonen case

Arnold Aggas Sr. has been charged with murder in the 1989 disappearance of Kimberlie Kantonen, who was 20 and pregnant when she went missing from Hornbrook, California. (I used a graphics editor to blot out that dark spot on her lip.) Aggas is also facing some sex crimes charges from 2007. I can’t really find anything else about this and what his relationship to Kimberlie was. She was last seen at his house, but I don’t know if he was the father of her baby, or what.

Missing teen boys

Having done a list of older cases of teen girls I have little to no information on, I thought I’d follow up with a list of boys.

Marc Allen, 13, missing from Iowa since 1986. The third missing Des Moines boy, that nobody ever talks about.
Steven Anderson, 17, and his friend David Williams, 12, missing from New Jersey since 1975. Both mentally challenged, they disappeared from the grounds of the state institution where they lived.
Douglas Armstrong, 19, missing from California since 1975. No details. He had an impressive beard for his age.
John Ashley Jr., 18, missing from Delaware since 1971. Last seen walking home from basketball practice.
Michael Askren, 17, missing from California since 1981. Suspicious circumstances is all I know.
Mark Bachelder, 17, missing from Texas since 1974. Disappeared while surfing; presumed drowned.
Lindsey Baker Jr., 17, missing from North Carolina since 1989. Last seen when a friend dropped him off somewhere after a party.
Ivan Barela, 15, missing from California since 1986. Possible drowning victim, or possibly suspicious circumstances; I got kind of contradictory information.
Arden Bogart Jr., 18, missing from New Mexico since 1988. He is from Lima, Ohio, a town I’m very familiar with.
Christian Boldt, 18, missing from California since 1986. No clues.
Peter Bonick, 17, missing from California since 1970. Kind of mysterious: he supposedly went missing with a friend, but it’s not clear whether the friend was ever found or ever reported missing for that matter.
Jeffrey Borthwick, 19, missing from California since 1982. He is mentally disabled. No details.
Michael Burnett, 14, missing from California since 1971. Last seen walking to school; foul play suspected.
John Campbell, 18, missing from California since 1985. Possible abduction.
Francis Cantea, 19, missing from Washington since 1975. He left all his stuff behind. He was declared dead in 2005.
Michael Causey, 16, missing from California since 1979. Presumed to have drowned in a boating accident.
Rogelio Cerda, 15, missing from Texas since 1975. Probably drowned.
William Delk, 18, missing from New York since 1982. Foul play is suspected but there’s not much evidence available.
Landon Deriggi, 13, missing from Florida since 1973. He was hyperactive, had behavioral problems and was a chronic runaway, but it’s not clear what happened to him.
Jose Dominguez, 16, missing from California since 1981. Two suspects were charged with his murder in 1989, but it never went to trial and I don’t have any details on the case.
William Downey, 12, missing from Washington since 1987. He had older friends and might have run away from home, but it seems unlikely that he’d have stayed gone for this long.
Alan Duque, 19, missing from California since 1987. No details.
James “Colin” Egan, 18, missing from California since 1972. Disappeared en route from California home to Wisconsin.
Paul Egan, 18, missing from Florida since 1975. No details. No relation to Colin that I know of.
Kevin Ellsworth, 18, missing from Minnesota since 1982. Strange circumstances, involving a building fire, a bar fight and a possible suicide threat.
Rickey Enochs, 18, missing from Missouri since 1977. No details.
Michael Ewing, 19, missing from California since 1983. Presumed to have drowned.
Bryan Fisher, 16, missing from Pennsylvania since 1983. Disappeared when he left for a fishing trip. I have no details and don’t know if this is a lost/injured missing case or what.
Duane Fochtman, 15, missing from Oregon since 1986. Classified as a runaway.
Clay Foreman, 18, missing from Missouri since 1979. No details.
Frank Frazier, 18, missing from Texas since 1990. He left a pool of blood on his sofa.
David Galvan, 16, missing from Texas since 1989. He was depressed and mourning the death of his father.
Keith Garkowski, 18, missing from Hawaii since 1987. His case is possibly linked to other disappearances in Hawaii.
Matthew Garnes, 16, missing from Washington since 1984. He told his parents he was driving to Portland, Oregon.
Michael Gaughan, 17, missing from Texas since 1975. He was on his way home to New Mexico when he called his parents to say he had car trouble, and this is the last anyone heard from him.
Marvin Gibbs, 19, missing from New York since 1985. No details.
David Gionet, 18, missing from Michigan since 1983. No details.
Richard Griener, 13, missing from Illinois since 1972. Possible victim of a now-deceased child serial killer.
Brian Grocki, 14, missing from Michigan since 1990. His friend who last saw him gave inconsistent statements.
William Gunn, 15, missing from Oregon since 1984. Foul play suspected.
Timothy Guy, 18, missing from Georgia since 1987. Left work with an unknown man and was never seen again.
Charles Hall III, 15, missing from Tennessee since 1981. Disappeared on New Years’ Eve.
Christopher Harvey, 14, missing from Colorado since 1984. He was at first seen as a lost backpacker, but now foul play is suspected.
Ruben Herrera, 14, missing from Texas since 1983. No details.
Marti Hetzell, 18, missing from Washington since 1989. He might have left on his own.
Scott Hilbert, 19, missing from Ohio since 1988. He was supposed to go visit friends at Ohio State University in Columbus. His car turned up in Arizona three weeks later.
Jitsuro Hiramoto, 17, missing from California since 1984. No details.
Daniel Hoffer, 19, missing from California since 1975.
Anthony Horner, 18, missing from California since 1989. Authorities believe he left on his own.
Reed Jeppson, 15, missing from Utah since 1964. Disappeared walking his two dogs, which were never found either. That’s unusual.
Frank Johnston, 19, missing from Alaska since 1980. He planned to hitchhike to California.
Danny Jones, 15, missing from Texas since 1974. Classified as a runaway.
John Katsilieris, 17, missing from California since 1985. He’d left his home in Illinois earlier that year.
Robert Keck, 16, missing from Pennsylvania since 1979. Classified as a non-family abduction, but there really isn’t a lot of evidence to point towards anything.
Christopher Kerze, 17, missing from Minnesota since 1990. He ran away from home and was apparently never heard from again. His car turned up abandoned.
John Kinsora Jr., 19, missing from Arizona since 1982. No details.
Ronald Kruska, 18, missing from California since 1978. He probably ran away, at least at first.
Steven Lamb, 17, missing from Oregon since 1968. No details.
John Lango, 17, missing from Pennsylvania since 1988. He left home right at the turn of the new year and never came back.
Charles Lassell Jr., 19, missing from Connecticut since 1981. Vanished on his way to college. No details beyond that.
Clifton Leonard, 16, missing from Florida since 1983. He has schizophrenia.
Andy Lepley, 18, missing from Colorado since 1976. Disappeared from his gas station job.
Gary Locklear, 15, missing from South Carolina since 1974. He left all his stuff behind. No details.
Sylvester Lopez, 13, missing from California since 1989. For some reason he wasn’t reported missing until 1993. No details.
Richardo Lupercio, 17, and his friend Denise Rodriguez, 17, missing from California since 1984. They are believed to have drowned.
German Machuca, 18, missing from Texas since 1990. He disappeared while in the middle of washing his car, leaving the water running.
Jerome Maeth, 19, missing from California since 1983. No details.
Dennis Mann, 19, missing from Mississippi since 1979. No details, but foul play is suspected.
Michael Masaoay, 16, missing from California since 1989. Last seen walking to his Catholic school (which is still in existence, I found their website). Classified as an non-family abduction.
Michael McCool, 14, missing from Pennsylvania since 1978. Last seen en route to his job.
Charles Melendez, 13, missing from Texas since 1982. No details.
Thomas Meuse, 14, missing from New York since 1971. No details.
Johnny Mills, 13, missing from Missouri since 1990. A runaway, he was picked up and placed in a shelter, where he provided false identifying information before vanishing again, this time forever.
Richard Miller Jr., 18, missing from Virginia since 1983. He disappeared right before he was supposed to get married, leaving a goodbye letter, but his family doesn’t believe he really ran away.
Cesar Moragutierrez, 12, missing from Florida since 1986. He was staying at a runaway shelter and left there before his identity could be verified.
Jerome Morris, 14, missing from Pennsylvania since 1990. No details.
Scott Morris, 14, missing from Indiana since 1978. A body was later mis-identified as him and the mistake wasn’t corrected for two years. Embarrassing.
Alan Morse, 19, missing from Georgia since 1989. Listed as AWOL from the Navy until his case was reclassified to a missing person in 2007.
Douglas Mueller, 19, missing from Arizona since 1977. There was a ransom demand, apparently never followed up on.
Daniel Naylor, 14, missing from California since 1982 (on my birthday). Walked out after an argument with his parents.
John Nellans, 19, missing from California since 1986. His original missing persons report was canceled and then refiled in 1989, three years later.
Armando Noriega, 13, missing from California since 1983. Disappeared trying to illegally cross the border from Mexico into the U.S.
Sergio Noriega, 18, missing from California since 1990. No details.
Edward Nye, 14, missing from Oregon since 1978. Disappeared on a fishing trip; I classed him as lost/injured missing.
Brian Page, 16, missing from Oregon since 1975. His car disappeared with him and was never found.
Robert Parks, 13, missing from Arizona since 1974. No details.
Timothy Parry, 19, missing from Utah since 1989. He was severely disabled with brain damage, seizures, porphyria and a genetic condition called Angelman’s Syndrome.
Richard Powell, 18, missing from Texas since 1984. Foul play is suspected.
Thomas Pulaski, 18, missing from Texas since 1985. No details.
Norman Prater, 17, missing from Texas since 1973. No details.
Jose Ramirez, 18, missing from California since 1989. Believed to have been kidnapped and killed on orders of a drug lord.
Travis Randall, 19, missing from Idaho since 1990. No details.
Lloyd Reese, 13, missing from Utah since 1985 along with his friend David Jaramillo, 21
Thomas Rios, 18, missing from Oklahoma since 1970. He disappeared with two friends, 16-year-old Jimmy Williams and 18-year-old Leah Johnson, as well as Jimmy’s car, which never turned up.
James Rogers, 14, missing from Massachusetts since 1981. Disappeared either walking or hitchhiking to a friend’s home.
Froelan Rosales, 15, missing from California since 1989. No details.
Bernard Ross, 18, missing from Maine since 1977. Little information; he was reportedly depressed and he stole a truck the day he went missing, but the owner later decided not to press charges.
Jason Russo, 13, missing from California since 1988. He disappeared on a fishing boat with his father, Vito Russo, and two other men, Stacy Sabal and Stephen LaSpino. No trace of them or the boat was ever found.
Stevey Sommerville, 14, missing from New York since 1990. Classified as a runaway.
David Stack, 18, missing from Colorado since 1976. He said he was going to hitchhike to California.
Hilary Stagg Jr., 16, missing from Louisiana since 1970. I don’t even have a date for his disappearance, just the year. Believed to have jumped off a bridge.
Farren Stanberry, 18, missing from California since 1980. He’d left home several months earlier to see the world.
Rodney Stewart, 17, missing from Louisiana since 1987. No details.
Christopher Temple, 17, missing from Michigan since 1990. Disappeared on a camping trip with friends. Originally thought to be a runaway, but now foul play is being considered.
Dana Torgeson, 19, missing from Washington since 1985. No details.
John Troha, 18, missing from Michigan since 1981. No details.
John Wagner, 16, missing from Missouri since 1968. There were unconfirmed stories that he got killed in a fight over a girl.
David Warner, 12, missing from Tennessee since 1983. Disappeared either from home or between a friend’s house and home.
Chester Wetmore, 14, missing from Florida since 1986. No details.
Larry Williams, 15, missing from California since 1975. He was a frequent hitchhiker. No details.
Mark Wilson, 13, missing from California since 1967. No details.
Mark Woodard, 19, missing from Florida since 1975. Possibly drug-related.
Jesse Wooten, 16, missing from New Mexico since 1989. No details.

Missing teen girls

The recent articles about Nancy Scamurra and Sharon Pretorius inspired me to look at other older cases involving teen girls whom I don’t have very much information on. There are a lot of them.

Fawn Abell, 15, and her sister Rozlin, 18, missing from Oklahoma since 1985. They went out to look for jobs and never came back.
Ellen Akers, 15, missing from Florida since 1981. She asked her mom for money to see a movie but it’s not clear whether she actually went to the movie or not. I wonder if anyone has looked at Christopher Wilder as a suspect.
Teresa Alfonso, 12, and her friend Cynthia Gooding, 16, missing from Florida since 1974. One of the girls, not sure which, had run away before and the police thought they’d done it again, but foul play is now suspected in their cases.
Anna Anderson, 19, missing from California since 1983. No details.
Barbara Barkley, 19, missing from Florida since 1981. Her car was later found abandoned. She is presumed dead.
Donna Barnhill, 13, missing from North Carolina since 1981. The police seem to think her family was involved. One of Donna’s sisters in 1966 of what was later found to be a child abuse homicide. Both of Donna’s parents are now deceased.
Ramona Beal, 15, missing from California since 1985. Foul play is suspected; she was a witness at a criminal trial.
Susan Bender, 14, missing from California since 1985. Some of her stuff was found at a suspect’s home after her disappearance, but nothing could be proved against him.
Lurline Bergeron, 14, missing from Florida since 1991. She was a chronic runaway.
Theresa Bier, 16, missing from Californa since 1987. Bigfoot got her, so they say.
Kimberly Billy, 19, missing from California since 1984. No details.
Jackie Boyer, 12, missing from California since 1980. No details.
Diana Braungardt, 18, missing from Missouri since 1987. Last seen walking to her car after leaving work.
Joyce Brewer, 15, missing from Texas since 1970. I have nothing on this case, zip, nada, zilch.
Niki Britten, 15, missing from Oregon since 1969. I just put her up yesterday. She’s classified as a runaway.
Laronda Bronson, 18, missing from Oregon since 1982. One inevitably suspects the Green River Killer.
Mary Burnette, 16, missing from Alabama since 1984. She ran away from home and the last trace of her was an arrest in Atlanta in 1985.
Hattie Burton, 19, missing from Florida since 1988. She was pregnant.
Sandra Butler, 16, missing from Nevada since 1978. Offhand I wonder if Royal Russell Long might have been involved in this case as well. She seems to fit the profile.
Teresa Byers, 18, missing from Texas since 1979. No details; I don’t even have a date of disappearance here, just a range of months.
Cynthia Carmack, 16, missing from Ohio since 1988. No details.
Vicki Carriere, 18, missing from Louisiana since 1987. No details.
Kimberly Carter, 19, missing from Missouri since 1984. She had a high-risk lifestyle and ran with a rough crowd.
Pollyanne Carter, 15, missing from Washington since 1984. She had a runaway history but it’s not clear whether she ran away this time.
Miriam Cavallo, 19, missing from California since 1983. No details.
Angela Chan, 19, missing from Oregon since 1989. Suspicious circumstances.
Patricia Chesher, 12, missing from New Mexico since 1969. Classified as a runaway.
Dorothy Clitheroe, 14, missing from Arizona since 1973. She might have gone to Oregon or Texas after her disappearance.
Sharaun Cole, 12, missing from New York since 1983. I wrote a blog entry a few days ago on the sad paucity of details in her disappearance.
Cynthia Constantine, 15, missing from New York since 1969. Last seen walking her dog.
Cynthia Coon, 13, missing from Michigan since 1970. What few details I have are bizarre: she called her family twice a few months after her disappearance, but said she didn’t know where she was. A month after that they got an “extortion type phone call,” whatever that is.
Barbara Cotton, 15, missing from North Dakota since 1981. The prime suspect in her disappearance is a former boyfriend and he is now dead.
Brenda Crowley, 16, missing from New York since 1980. Very unclear circumstances; she and her siblings were in and out of foster care, group homes, etc. She wasn’t reported missing till 1994.
Thwana Darrough, 16, missing from Arkansas since 1989. Last seen walking to school.
Mary Day, 12, missing from California since 1980. No details; not even a date of disappearance.
Krista Dela Rosa, 19, missing from Oregon since 1990. She left a letter saying she’d contact her family later, but she never did.
Charlotte Doles, 19, missing from Florida since 1983. Her boyfriend is a possible suspect (of course).
Carol Donn, 17, missing from Florida since 1980. She had a history of running away.
Kimberly Rae Doss, 16, missing from Florida since 1979. I have almost nothing on her. I have more details on the disappearance of Kimberly Sue Doss, who was 16 when she went missing from Iowa in 1982.
Jennifer Douglas, 17, missing from Colorado since 1984. Last seen on a bike ride.
Jeannette Gesela Drzewiecki, 19, missing from Texas since 1982. She was an exotic dancer and disappeared just a few days after her daughter was born.
Michelle Duncan, 18, missing from California since 1984. Suspicious circumstances.
Martha Dunn, 15, missing from Texas since 1990. Classified as a runaway.
Diane Dye, 14, missing from California since 1979. A friend claims she saw her alive and well in 1981, but there’s been no sign of her since then.
Christine Eastin, 19, missing from California since 1971. She disappeared while in the middle of washing her car. Foul play is suspected, but there’s very little evidence available.
Lillian Estrada, 16, missing from California since 1990. No details.
Karen Evan, 18, missing from Alaska since 1980. No details.
Theresa Fishbach, 18, missing from Texas since 1986. The last word from her was a card she sent her mom for Mother’s Day.
Jennifer Floyd, 19, missing from Mississippi since 1988. She left a young child, with the usual statements that she wouldn’t have abandoned it like that.
Debra Frost, 17, missing from Utah since 1984. She was going to hitchhike to her boyfriend’s workplace but never arrived there.
Janice Fullam, 17, missing from New York since 1981. She had a warrant out for her arrest at the time of her disappearance, but it seems unlikely that that would keep her in hiding for this long.
Cynthia Gastelle, 18, missing from Maryland since 1980. No details.
Brenda Green, 15, missing from Alabama since 1988. Last seen standing on a friend’s doorstep; the friend wasn’t home.
Christine Green, 16, missing from Pennsylvania in 1985. She may have been pregnant. Another student from her school, Allen Briscoe, disappeared later that year and the police think the two cases might be related.
Shaunda Green, 13, missing from Michigan since 1983. Classified as a runaway.
Mary Gregory, 18, missing from Ontario, Canada since 1978. Profiled on Charley because she apparently traveled around the U.S. after she went missing.
Teresa Hammon, 19, missing from California since 1981. Considered a possible homicide.
Terrie Hefner, 19, missing from Texas since 1984. She may have gone to Louisiana after her disappearance.
Lorraine Herbster, 17, missing from New Jersey since 1979. Last seen on her way home from work.
Cynthia Hernandez, 18, missing from California since 1976. The police think a serial killer may have been involved.
Ashley Higgins, 19, missing from California since 1982. No details.
Mary Hogland-McCluskey, 12, missing from California since 1981. She’d run away from home and was picked up and put in a juvenile facility, then ran away from there and vanished.
Tammy Hollins, 14, missing from Florida since 1979. She disappeared with her mother, Diane. I have no details beyond that.
Margaret Holst, 18, missing from Nebraska since 1977. She had a date and he says he dropped her off near her home afterwards, and then she disappeared.
Sandra Hopler, 18, missing from Pennsylvania since 1973. She said she was going to New York City for a visit.
Peggy Houser, 18, missing from Florida since 1981. She apparently left home with a biker. She called her mom a few weeks later and that was the last anyone heard from her.
Shantelle Hudson, 16, missing from Nevada since 1988. Possible runaway.
Wendy Huggy, 16, missing from Florida since 1982. She was last seen at home; she said she going to spend the day at the beach with friends. Again I find myself wondering about Christopher Wilder.
Karen Hughes, 12, missing from New York since 1983. Possible runaway and/or family abduction case.
Cheryl Iacovone, 17, missing from Pennsylvania since 1977. I have nothing on this one.
Catrina Jackson, 13, missing from Georgia since 1986. Last seen walking to school; no other details.
Leah Johnson, 18, missing from Oklahoma since 1970. Disappeared with two friends, 18-year-old Thomas Rios and 16-year-old Jimmy Williams, as well as Jimmy’s car which never turned up.
Gail Joiner, 13, missing from Florida since 1972. The serial killer Gerald Stano confessed to her murder but they’re not sure whether he did it or not.
Kimberly Kahler, 15, missing from California since 1980. No details. The date of disappearance is given as January 1, which makes me wonder if they actually have a date; often they use January 1 when the date is unknown.
Fran Kaniho, 19, missing from Hawaii in 1988. No details and no date, just the month of August.
Stacey Kelekoma, 14, missing from Hawaii since 1986. Unusual circumstances, but classified as a runaway.
Tina Kemp, 14, missing from Delaware since 1979. She had run away from home before, but she always came back within a short time.
Cindy King, 15, missing from Oregon since 1977. No details.
Donna Kingston, 18, missing from Oklahoma since 1984. She was planning to go to Tulsa with a man because she thought she could make money there.
Cynthia Kinney, 16, missing from Oklahoma since 1976. Disappeared from the laundromat.
Nancy Kirkpatrick, 16, missing from Montana since 1976. Her family said she was a hippie but a more or less normal and well-behaved teenager.
Susan Rhonda Labbe (or just Rhonda Labbe, accounts differ), 17, missing from Massachusetts since 1974. She disappeared hitchhiking between her family’s home and her boyfriend’s home where she lived.
Lisa Lambert, 14, missing from Maryland since 1979. She apparently ran away and was sighted in the local area in the days following her disappearance.
Cassandra Landrum, 18, missing from Georgia since 1975. Her parents got anonymous phone calls saying she’d been murdered.
Tina Layton, 19, missing from California since 1990. She was a prostitute and was last seen entering a customer’s car.
Ruth Leamon, 16, missing from California since 1982. She was planning to meet up with two older men the night of her disappearance.
Angelica Longoria, 15, missing from California since 1985. Originally classified as a runaway.
Lynn Luray, 15, missing from California since 1964. She may have traveled with an adult male after her disappearance, but it also says she’s missing under suspicious circumstances. Shrug.
Shelly Luty, 19, missing from Pennsylvania since 1982. Last seen leaving her waitressing job, possibly with an unidentified male customer.
Myra Manley, 19, missing from Pennsylvania since 1983. No details.
Noel Marcotte, 19, missing from California since 1990. Possible drowning.
Gayle Marks, 18, missing from California since 1988. Disappeared without a trace after going to the DMV to get an ID card.
Maria Martinez, 17, missing from Arizona since 1990. She disappeared when she went to a strange man’s house to baby-sit.
Vicki Martinez, 19, missing from Texas since 1979. No details.
Deborah McCall, 16, missing from Illinois since 1979. Last seen after leaving school.
Dena McHan, 18, missing from California since 1981. Last seen getting gas for her car.
Meredith Medina, 16, missing from Oklahoma since 1989. Classified as a runaway. Her stepmother, Nancy, had gone missing four and a half years previously.
Maria Medina, 19, missing from California since 1989. No details.
Cindy Mellin, 19, missing from California since 1970. She had a flat tire (punctured, it turns out) and some guy was helping her change it, then she vanished, leaving the car still jacked up. That old trick.
Yvonne Mestas, 15, and her friend Victoria Sanchez, 15, missing from Colorado since 1982. They ran away together.
Irin Meyer, 19, missing from Oregon since 1979. She left her cat zipped into a sleeping bag on the beach.
Deborah Meyer, 14, missing from Wyoming since 1974. Royal Russell Long is considered a possible suspect in her disappearance, but there’s not a lot to go on.
Alishia Miller, 13, missing from Michigan since 1989. Classified as a runaway.
Christine Miller, 19, missing from Oklahoma since 1989. Because she had a habit of dropping out of sight, the date of her disappearance isn’t known and she wasn’t reported missing until several months had passed.
Jeanette Miller, 17, missing from Washington since 1970. No details.
Connie Minchaca, 17, missing from California since 1978. No details.
Becky Minish, 19, missing from Georgia since 1987. Her car turned up after her disappearance, abandoned and tampered with.
Deborah Moberg, 18, missing from Texas since 1987. Her stepfather pleaded guilty to her murder but I can’t find many details about it.
Christina Monteiro, 19, missing from Massachusetts since 1988. Possibly the victim of a serial killer who targeted prostitutes in the area.
Sophia Moreno, 16, missing from Texas since 1979. Her family said her husband had “violent tendencies” but as far as I know no one has been named as a suspect in her case.
Michelle Mulcahy, 17, missing from Florida since 1979. Last seen en route to a dance contest.
Ngol Nga, 18, missing from California since 1981. No details.
Dana Null, 15, missing from Florida since 1978. I haven’t put her case on Charley yet, but she has an NCMEC poster.
Nadine O’Dell, 16, missing from Michigan since 1974. Last seen walking to her boyfriend’s house to babysit.
Judith O’Donnell, 19, missing from Maryland since 1980. She had been visiting Baltimore and was supposed to take a bus back home to New York City.
Jeanne Overstreet, 19, missing from Arizona since 1982. Last seen hitchhiking on her way to have lunch with a friend.
Alexis Owens, 16, missing from Washington since 1987. After her disappearance she was arrested multiple times under alias names.
Carla Owens, 14, missing from Washington since 1981. She disappeared while babysitting, leaving a broken and bloodstained bottle behind.
Cynthia Perry, 17, missing from North Carolina since 1985. She ran away from the group home where she’d been staying because of her drug addiction.
Robyn Pettinato, 14, missing from Montana since 1975. No details.
Shaliegh Phillips, 12, missing from California since 1988. She may have run away from home, but foul play is suspected in her case. Her hairstyle is…uh…interesting.
Sherry Pickle, 15, missing from California since 1972. May have run away from home and possibly hitchhiked to Los Angeles.
Denise Pflum, 18, missing from Indiana since 1986. Her car was found abandoned. Foul play is suspected.
Tamara Porrin, 15, missing from Pennsylvania since 1986. No details.
Shannon Potter, 13, missing from Maryland since 1984. She seems to have run away from home, but what happened to her afterward is anyone’s guess.
Debra Pscholka, 12, missing from California since 1971. She disappeared after she was kicked out of a movie theater for smoking.
Kathryn Quackenbush, 17, missing from Maryland since 1981. Last seen walking alone along a state highway.
Mary Rawlinson, 19, missing from California in 1985. She was a prostitute and a possible victim of a serial killer.
Donnis Redman, 14, missing from Nevada since 1958. She and her boyfriend vanished after they eloped.
Ashley Reed, 18, missing from Texas since 1990. She was supposed to meet two guys for dinner.
Yvonne Reglar, 17, missing from Ohio since 1977. Apparently abducted from the gas station where she was working alone.
Marcia Remick, 17, missing from Virginia since 1979. Said she was going to walk or hitchhike to visit a friend.
Michelle Richardson, 16, missing from Texas since 1989. She’d just had a baby, and she left all her belongings behind. Foul play is suspected.
Simone Ridinger, 17, missing from Massachusetts since 1977. She was hitchhiking home, and supposedly a police officer asked another man to give her a lift.
Susan Riedling, 18, missing from Kentucky since 1986. She was pregnant.
Tammy Risenhoover, 19, missing from Oklahoma since 1984. She wasn’t reported missing until 1990.
Amanda Rivera, 14, missing from California since 1990. No details.
Elaina Rivera, 13, missing from California since 1987. No details.
Sherry Roach, 17, missing from California since 1976. She was staying at a halfway house, but I’m not sure why. No details.
Carla Roberson, 19, missing from Florida since 1984. Last seen sunbathing; might have drowned.
Carol Roberts, 18, missing from Florida since 1976. She left with a boyfriend who claims they argued and he left her somewhere in Arizona.
Denise Rodriguez, 17, and her friend Richardo Lupercio, 17, missing from California since 1984. They are believed to have drowned.
Deanna Saccone, 18, missing from California since 1985. No details.
Julia Salucka, 19, missing from Missouri since 1986. She may have gone to California. Foul play is suspected.
Carlota Sanchez, 12, missing from Washington since 1979. She ran away with a cousin, Elsie Luscier, whom I don’t have a picture of.
Cynthia Schmidt, 18, missing from Minnesota since 1986 with her boyfriend, Ronnie Bromenschenkel, 26. Foul play is suspected.
Jennifer Schmidt, 19, missing from Indiana since 1985. Last seen at Purdue University, where she was a freshman electrical engineering major.
Suzanne Schultz, 17, missing from Wisconsin since 1978. She later contacted her family from Florida and said she was coming home, but never arrived.
Lulaida Sejalbo, 17, missing from California since 1973. Possible abduction.
Denise Sheehy, 16, missing from New York since 1970. She got in an argument with her mom and left the house angry.
Colleen Simpson, 14, missing from Iowa since 1975. She disappeared from home in the middle of the night Her father was a police chief and is still alive last I heard.
Christina Smith, 19, missing from California since 1984. No details.
Debra Spickler, 13, missing from Connecticut since 1968. She was visiting her aunt at the time.
Mary Sprague, 19, missing from Florida since 1979. She went to go pick up her paycheck and vanished afterwards. Most of her relatives, including her son, are dead now.
Debra Stewart, 19, missing from Texas since 1976. She left all her stuff behind and her car was found abandoned. She was a sophomore communications major at the University of Texas.
Diane Suzuki, 19, missing from Hawaii since 1985. Vanished from the dance studio where she taught classes.
Edna Thorne, 15, missing from Pennsylvania since 1975. No details for this one.
Sheryl Tillinghast, 17, missing from New York since 1973. For some reason she wasn’t reported missing until 1998.
Sarah Tokier, 16 – 17, missing from California since some time in 1977
Deborah Tomlinson, 16, missing from Oregon since 1973. I just put her up yesterday. She ran away on her birthday with an unidentified female friend.
Annette Vail, 18, missing from Oklahoma since 1984. Her husband said he put her on a bus to Mexico because she wanted to “disappear.”
Leah Van Schoick, 17, missing from Florida since 1982. She had left home and was living with a biker at the time, and working in a bar. Her biker boyfriend is a suspect in her disappearance.
Beatrice Villela, 19, missing from Texas since 1980. No details.
Marie Wade, 19, missing from California since 1983. No details.
Paulette Webster, 19, missing from Illinois since 1988. Missing under unclear circumstances. She left all her things behind.
Mary Wesolowski (or Maryanne, I’m not sure which), 13, missing from New York since 1971. She was supposed to meet up with friends to go swimming.
Micki West, 19, missing from Missouri since 1979. A confirmed double-murderer confessed to killing her but was never charged.
Angela Westberry, 17, missing from Florida since 1984. She and three others apparently disappeared while on a boat trip to the Cayman Islands.
Lisa White, 13, missing from Connecticut since 1974. Several other girls and women disappeared from the vicinity around the same time.
Kathy Wilcox, 15, missing from Michigan since 1972. Left home to go for a walk and never came back.
Tammie Wilkinson, 18, missing from Missouri since 1984. Foul play is suspected.
Tabbetha Worford, 19, missing from Florida since 1990. Her baby turned up on the doorstep of its father’s former wife after Tabbetha disappeared, but I don’t know what that has to do with anything.
Cheryl Wyant, 13, missing from California since 1978. She was living in a group home and ran away.
Amy Yachimec, 13, missing from Arizona since 1981. No details.
Rhonda Yocum, 19, missing from California since 1985. She was involved with drugs and a motorcycle gang.
Londa Young, 19, missing from Louisiana since 1986. Unclear circumstances. She left a baby behind.
Sherry Young, 13, missing from Florida since 1984. The pictures I have are clearly quite out of date.
April Zane, 17, missing from Illinois since 1977. She had a history of running away.
Karen Zendrosky, 16, missing from New Jersey since 1979. Last seen at a bowling alley.