- [Narrator] What is up, EWU Crew?
Today, we're covering five extremely
disturbing unsolved missing persons cases.
The fact that the murderers of these people
could still possibly be out there
living their lives freely
makes these cases even more chilling.
Let's get right into it.
Number five, Dorothy Jane Scott.
In the spring of 1980, 32 year old, Dorothy Jane Scott
was a single mother living in Stanton, California
with her aunt and four year old son, Shawn.
She worked as a secretary at a store in Anaheim
called a Swinger's Psych Shop,
which specialized in psychedelic items.
She was close to her parents who lived in Anaheim
and frequently babysat Shawn while Dorothy worked.
Dorothy was a devout Christian
who regularly attended church.
Didn't do a lot of dating and lived on mostly quiet life,
working hard and taking care of her son.
There was no reason to think anything would ever change
until Dorothy received a mysterious phone call
one day at work.
The unidentified man who called her,
claimed that he loved her.
And then a moment later proceeded to threaten her.
It didn't stop there.
As the weeks went by,
the same man would call Dorothy repeatedly,
not just at work, but at home.
He continued to claim he loved her
while also threatening to kill her.
He would mention her daily routine, making it clear
that he had been watching her.
Dorothy expressed her fear about this stalker to her family.
She told them that she recognized his voice,
but was having trouble placing who it was.
At one point, she became very alarmed
because the caller said he was going to get her alone
and cut her into bits so that no one would ever find her.
Another time, the man told her he left something
outside for her.
When she checked, she found a dead rose on top of her car.
Dorothy began taking self-defense lessons
and talks about buying a gun.
On May 28th, Dorothy was at work
when she noticed that her coworker, Conrad Boston
was experiencing redness and swelling on his arm
that looked very concerning.
She offered to take him to the emergency room
and there are other coworker,
Pam Head, decided to accompany them.
Conrad was treated for what turned out to be a spider bite
and then released.
Dorothy went to go get her car and pull up to the front
while Conrad and Pam waited for his prescription.
Dorothy didn't want Conrad to have to walk very far
after his ordeal.
Conrad and Pam got the prescription
and walked outside to wait for Dorothy
to pull up in the car, but they didn't see her anywhere.
They stood around waiting for about 10 minutes.
Suddenly Dorothy's car went speeding by
with the headlights on
making it impossible to see who was driving.
Dorothy was never seen alive again.
Her car was found a few hours later
burning in an alley, 10 miles away.
The man who had been calling Dorothy
then began calling her mother, tormenting her
by telling her he had Dorothy or that he had killed her.
This went on for several years
until Dorothy's father answered the phone one day.
The man hung up and never called again.
On August 6th, 1984,
partial remains were found in some brush
in Santa Ana, California.
It was confirmed to be the remains of Dorothy Jane Scott.
To this day, the man who stalked then killed Dorothy
and then proceeded to torment her mother for years
has never been found or identified.
Number four, Evelyn Hartley.
In October, 1953, Evelyn Hartley
was a 15 year old high school girl in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
On the evening of Saturday, October 24th,
the big homecoming game was held in town.
Evelyn agreed to babysit the Rasmussen family's
20 month year old daughter that night
so they could attend the game.
Their regular babysitter wasn't available
because she was also attending the game.
Evelyn brought her school books so that she could study
after the baby went to bed.
Evelyn had an agreement with her father
that she would call home to check in at 8:30 PM.
He became concerned and called the Rasmussen home,
but there was no answer.
After calling several more times
and still not getting an answer,
he decided to drive over there.
No one came to the door, which was locked.
All the lights and the radio were on inside,
greatly alarmed by this point, Evelyn's father
managed to force his way inside.
Evelyn was nowhere to be found.
Her school books were scattered across the living room floor
and the furniture appeared to have been moved around.
One of her shoes and her eyeglasses, which were broken,
were found upstairs.
He found the baby sound asleep in her crib and unharmed,
but still no sign of Evelyn.
All the other rooms in the house were locked
except the basement.
He went down there and discovered Evelyn's other shoe,
a small stepladder positioned in front of an opened window
and the screen from the window leaning against the outside
of the house.
Evelyn father notified the police who came right away.
They found blood near the basement window
and in the yard, as well as bloody hand print
on a nearby garage.
The blood was later determined
to be of the same blood type as Evelyn's.
They found sneaker footprints near the basement window,
as well as the living room
and pry marks on three other windows of the house.
A pair of bloody sneakers were later found
in an area Southeast of town.
The pattern of the soles matches the pattern
of the sneaker footprints in the house.
Police spoke to neighbors,
some of who reported hearing screams around 7:00 PM.
The neighbors had dismissed the screams
believing it was just the sound of children playing.
Another neighbor claimed to have seen a car
circling the neighborhood repeatedly.
A man named Ed Hofer told police
he was almost hit by a Buick that passed by him
heading West.
He said a man was driving
and another man was in the backseat with a girl.
Despite a massive search and investigation,
the killer was never found.
Evelyn's body was never found either.
Years later, Evelyn's parents moved away.
They died years later,
never knowing what happened to their daughter.
In 2004, there was an unexpected break in the case.
A man named Mel Williams,
went to police with a tape recording
of a conversation that took place at a bar years earlier.
On the tape, a man named Clyde Peterson claimed that he
and two other men had been the ones who kidnapped
and murdered Evelyn.
Unfortunately by the time the tape was given to police,
Clyde Peterson, and the other men mentioned on the tape
were deceased.
There have been no further leads in the case.
Number three, Linda Sherman.
On April 22nd, 1985, 27 year old Linda Sherman
of Florissant, Missouri disappeared without a trace.
She left behind her husband of 10 years, Donald Sherman,
her 10 year old daughter, Patty and her parents
who had been living next door to them.
Linda had met her husband Don
when she was a junior in high school.
They had fallen in love quickly and married in 1975
when Linda was just 17 years old.
Later that year Linda gave birth to daughter, Patty.
Linda went back to school to finish her education
while her parents cared for Patty.
Don worked first at a gas station.
And then as a machinist at a factory.
Linda graduated from high school
and eventually began working
at the U.S. government records center.
Within two years of their marriage,
Linda and Don were having problems.
Linda claimed Don was possessive, controlling and jealous.
She filed for divorce in October, 1977,
but changed her mind when they patched things up
a month later.
They continued having problems off and on though.
In 1982, Linda suffered a miscarriage.
A short time later Linda's health began to decline.
She was having seizures and was diagnosed with epilepsy.
Don's attitude, worsened, and they began fighting more.
Things eventually got so bad
that Linda filed a restraining order against Dawn
and moved her and her daughter into an apartment
in another town.
Linda claimed that Don had to threatened to kill her,
their daughter and himself.
She also believed he had tampered with her car
in an attempt to endanger her life.
Despite all this around a month later,
they made up and got back together.
On April 11th, 1985, Linda filed for divorce again.
11 days later, Linda worked a late shift at work
and didn't get home until around 3:00 AM.
Don was waiting to confront her,
demanding to know where she had been
and who she had been with after work.
They fought for about an hour.
Don claim that Linda slept on the couch that night.
Their daughter Patty would recall
that he took her to school the next morning
and her mother was still sleeping on the couch.
She thought it odd that her father was taking her to school
since that was something her mother usually did
and that she wasn't even awake to tell her goodbye.
She also said her mother didn't seem to be moving.
According to Don, he went to work
after dropping Patty off at school.
When he got home from work, Linda was still home
and was angry and barely speaking to him.
She left for work and never came back.
He claimed she was having an affair
and that he saw her a week later
in the passenger seat of a van being driven by a man.
When she saw him, she docked.
Five years later, a human skull was found in the bushes
outside of a restaurant.
The skull was later determined to belong to Linda Sherman.
The rest of her body has never been found.
Although Don Sherman was the prime suspect
in the case for years,
police were never able to gather enough evidence
to charge him.
He died in 2015 at the age of 58.
The Linda Sherman case has never been officially solved.
Number two, Diane Augat.
Diane Augat was born February 21st, 1958 in Florida.
She had a normal upbringing, graduated from high school
and married a man named Frederick
when she was in her twenties.
She became a devoted wife and loving mother
to a son and two daughters.
Things began to fall apart after Diane was diagnosed
with bipolar at the age of 30.
She would have severe episodes of depression
followed by manic highs as is common with the disorder.
Things became so bad that by 1991,
Frederick had divorced her
and gained full custody of the children.
Diane became a drug addict and an alcoholic.
She would frequently fail to take her medication
and became almost unbearable to be around.
By 1998, she had been placed in a mental health facility,
a total of 32 times.
After being released from a mental health facility
for what would turn out to be the last time,
Diane went to stay with her sister, Deborah
in a town called Hudson Florida.
On April 10th, 1998, Diane left her sister's house
to go to a doctor's appointment and never returned.
She was spotted later that day at a bar three miles away.
The bar tender cut her off
after she began walking around in circles.
So she left.
The next day, someone spotted her walking down a road.
Over the next few days, Diane was spotted at a motel
and a hotel restaurant.
Then one night her mother received a voicemail message
of Diane crying out,
"Help, help, let me out."
Followed by a scuffling noise and Diane's voice saying,
"Hey, gimme that," before the call stopped.
The caller ID said Starlight,
but investigators were never able to identify
the exact location.
The next day, a severed finger was found on the ground
next to a highway.
Since Diane had previously been arrested, several times,
her fingerprints were on file.
Police were able to quickly determine
that the print of the severed finger
matched that of Diane's right and middle finger.
A few days later, a bag of folded clothes
was found in an outside freezer
behind the convenience store where Debra worked.
Two years later, the St Petersburg Times
ran a story in the newspaper about the Diane Augut case.
The very next day, Diane's brother's girlfriend
found a zip lock bag labeled Diane at the convenience store.
The bag contained perfume, eyeliner, pink lipstick,
and a tube of toothpaste.
Diane's mother told investigators
she thought the perfume, eyeliner and lipstick
were her daughter's.
And that the toothpaste looked like one
that had been given to her at the mental health facility.
Diane's mother said she was entirely too trusting of people
and that because of her severe mental health issues,
she should have been in a longterm treatment facility.
She said she didn't believe the previous facility
should have released her.
Besides the finger Diane's body has never been found.
There have been suspects in the case,
but never anything solid for investigators
to bring charges for.
The case remains unsolved.
Number one, Laura Parker.
In May, 1984, a 14 year old freshmen
at Lindenhurst High School in Long Island, New York
named Laura Parker finished up her last period class.
All that was left was softball practice
and school would be over for the day.
When the bell rang, Laura got up and gathered her things
and left the room, just like all her classmates.
But Laura never showed up for softball practice.
In fact, Laura was never seen alive again.
Whatever happened between the end of the last period class
and softball practice that day, remains a mystery
36 years later.
As police began investigating the disappearance,
rumors started swirling that Laura had been a troubled kid
who had talked about running away
and had been having problems with her parents.
Her family adamantly denied any of that was true.
A boy who allegedly been Laura's boyfriend
up until about a month before her disappearance
is rumored to have said that she did mention running away,
but she only said it in the same way
that most kids talk to one another and never seemed serious.
In addition to rumors, there were outright lies
and even a cruel prank.
There were claims of sightings of her
as far away as Manhattan.
There were kids who claimed they talked to her
and she told them she was never coming home.
Someone even called her family at one point,
and pretended to be her.
On September 11th, 1984, three, 12 year old boys
found skeletal remains in the woods
a few blocks from the high school.
It was Laura.
Dressed in the same clothes she was wearing
when she disappeared and rolled up in a rug.
She had never run away
and she had never been spotted somewhere else.
She had been killed the day she disappeared
by someone who had to have had abducted her sometime
between the end of her last class
and the start of the softball practice
she never showed up for.
Based on a Reddit post by someone who claims
to have interviewed Laura's boyfriend,
Laura's boyfriend later allegedly said
he had been into the drug scene, but Laura had not.
There were drug dealers in the school.
One of whom was rumored to have been seen, acting angry
and abusive to a girl about a week before Laura was killed.
This same guy's best friend was allegedly
the boyfriend's drug dealer.
According to this Reddit post,
the boyfriend allegedly stated he would go to his home
and into his bedroom.
He noticed there was a rug in the room
after Laura disappeared, the boyfriend noticed
the rug in the drug dealers bedroom changed.
Although this information is interesting.
It can't be confirmed as it's simply based
on an anonymous Reddit post.
Despite a substantial investigation,
there has not been much written about this case
over the years.
No one has ever been charged with Laura's murder
and it remains unsolved to this day.
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