10: Barbara Agnew The last time anyone saw Barbara Agnew alive
it was January 10, 1987.
She was returning to Norwich after a long day of skiing up Stratton Mountain in Vermont.
The 39-year-old woman stopped at a gas station on Interstate I-91, near Hartford.
But from there, the trail went cold.
Her car was later discovered abandoned about 10 miles from her home with its door ajar.
According to the Vermont State Police, Barbara was not reported missing until January 14th,
four days later.
It was only when the towing company that removed her car from where it was abandoned called
her ex-husband that he finally contacted the police.
The first clue into solving the case came from attendants at the gas station.
They uncovered clothing in their dumpster with Barbara’s identification.
The police immediately began to search around the area, but they were unsuccessful.
It wasn't until March 28, months after she had gone missing, that hikers discovered what
they first thought was a pile of clothes in the nearby mountains.
Unfortunately, it was not a pile of clothes, but the body of Barbara Agnew.
The police were able to determine that Barbara had been stabbed to death.
However, they never got a match on the fingerprints taken from her vehicle and they didn't have
any suspects in the case.
It ended up going cold.
Brad Hanson, from the Vermont State Police Cold Case division, says Barbara simply crossed
paths with a random act of evil.
No one knows who commited this murder, or why.
9: Crystal McDowell Crystal McDowell mysteriously vanished two
days before Hurricane Harvey arrived where she lived in Baytown, Texas.
At 37 years old, Crystal was a mother of two, a successful real estate agent, and a respected
member of the community.
She was captured on surveillance footage getting into a black Mercedes and leaving her new
boyfriend’s house at 7:35 in the morning on August 25, 2017.
This was the last time anyone saw Crystal alive.
Unfortunately, just when Crystal was reported missing and the police set out to search for
her, the hurricane prevented them from getting much done.
Homes and businesses were flooded, the whole region was in ruins, and the police just couldn't
spare the manpower to search for a missing woman.
But after the hurricane cleared, the cops got right back at it.
They found out that at 13 years old, Crystal had been abducted by a man who kept her as
a prisoner inside a chicken coop.
She escaped one day and moved in with her relatives.
She ended up becoming an adult with a great job, a husband, and a secret dark past.
But this dark past never really left her, and she had taken numerous lovers, both men
and women, throughout her marriage.
This is eventually what brought it to a grinding halt.
At the time of her disappearance, her new boyfriend was Paul Hargrave.
Police suspected both him and her ex-husband.
And as it turned out in the end, it was actually her ex-husband Steve who killed her during
a heated argument after she left the boyfriend’s house.
He had been jealous of her new lover.
Steve wrapped her body in a blanket, put it inside his trunk, then stashed the body in
the woods.
After getting caught, Steve was sentenced to spend the next 50 years in prison.
8: The Keddie Cabin Murders On April 12, 1981, Sheila Sharp, just 14 years
old, returned from a sleepover at a friend’s house.
At the time, she was living with her family in a cabin in Northern California.
When she arrived at home, she found her mother, her brother, and her brother's friend cold
dead on the floor.
All three had been murdered.
Sheila’s 12-year-old sister, Tina, was missing.
And even stranger, Sheila’s younger brothers Greg and Rick, along with one of their friends,
were found asleep and unaware in one of the cabin’s bedrooms.
This turned into one of the most bizarre murder cases in history.
Sheila's younger sister, Tina – wasn't discovered for another three years after the incident.
Her entire remains were never found, only her skull in the nearby forest.
Plus, the three victims had all been tied up with electrical cable and tortured before
being killed.
Investigators found a steak knife, a butcher knife, and a claw hammer stained with blood
at the crime scene.
35 years later, police still have no idea what happened in the cabin that day.
The main suspects at the time were the neighbor, Marty Smartt and his friend, Bo Boubede.
However, they never managed to get any evidence against them that could be used to prosecute
the case.
When the police recently reopened the case, they did discover some new evidence that could
indicate Marty was in fact the killer – but even so, he would have already gotten away
with the crime.
Smartt passed away back in 2006.
Even if he was responsible, he'll never face justice.
7: Caylee Anthony On July 15, 2008, Cindy Anthony called the
police in Orlando, Florida, to report that her granddaughter Caylee had been missing
for 31 days.
When the police questioned Caylee’s mother (Cindy’s daughter) Casey Anthony, She told
them that her daughter was with a babysitter named Zenaida Gonzalez.
But the police were never able to track this babysitter down, and they later learned that
Casey had made her up.
In the following months, hundreds of people searched for little Caylee while law enforcement
looked into Casey, positive that it was the mother who had something to do with her own
daughter's disappearance.
A break in the case came in December of 2008, when the young girl's decomposed body was
discovered in a wooded area not far from where she had been living with her mom.
The police were quick to arrest Casey Anthony for murdering her daughter, claiming that
she had chloroformed the girl and then suffocated her by wrapping her face in duct tape.
But the mother denied these accusations, instead saying that her daughter drowned in the pool.
Casey said she disposed of her body because she feared being prosecuted.
In the end, no one could decide if this woman was a murderer or if her young daughter had
really accidentally drowned.
Either way, disposing of her body in the forest was pretty suspicious and the numerous lies
told during the investigation only compounded that fact.
However, the jury acquitted Casey Anthony, who is currently living free somewhere in
Palm Beach County, Florida.
6: Deirdre Jacob & Jo Jo Dullard Back in the 1990s, the disappearances of Deirdre
Jacob and Jo Jo Dullard from the Leinster area had the people of Ireland scratching
their heads.
They were only two of eight women who vanished in the eastern part of Ireland during a span
of 10 years.
The area became known as the vanishings triangle, and to this day, no one has any idea what
happened to any of the women who vanished.
The case of these missing women was recently reopened, with the police focusing their attention
on Deirdre Jacob.
She was 18 when she vanished on July 28, 1998.
She had just completed her first year at university and was studying to be a teacher.
On the day she vanished, she had gone to an ATM machine to get a bank draft, then went
to visit her grandmother.
After leaving her grandmother's house, she began her walk back home, but she never made
it.
Neither she nor any of her belongings have ever been found.
The last time anyone saw her, it was one of her neighbors.
The neighbor witnessed Deirdre walking just a few yards away from her very own driveway.
In the few feet between her house and the street, someone snatched her and she was gone.
Even with the case reopened, the police have not made any new headway.
Deirdre, Jo Jo, and the other six women have still not been found – no remains, no bones
- nothing.
Do you have any theories as to what was going on in Ireland back in the 90s?
Do you think it was a serial killer who terrorized the country for 10 years and then vanished?
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5: Gabby Petito The mysterious vanishing of Gabby Petito is
still being investigated right now as you watch this video!
At least, as of October 20, 2021, this is still an active case.
It all started on September 11, 2021, when Gabby was reported missing.
Just one week later, her decomposing remains were found deep within the Bridger-Teton National
Forest.
An autopsy revealed that Gabby had been strangled to death.
Her body had been left in the woods for at least a month before she was found, meaning
she had already been dead for three weeks before she was reported missing.
Gabby had been traveling across the country in a van with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie,
documenting all their adventures on social media.
On the outside, the couple seemed perfectly happy.
They posted pictures from all the most famous places in the United States, always with big
smiles on their faces.
But on September 1, 10 days before she was reported missing, Laundrie returned to his
parent’s house in Florida -where the couple had been living before they set out on their
adventure- without Gabby.
Naturally, the police suspect Brian had something to do with Gabby’s death.
But he too had vanished and the police still haven't found him.
It's been over a month since he wandered off into the forest without his cell phone and
wallet, likely to avoid the police.
In a shocking turn of events, however, an unidentified body was found in the Myakkahatchee
Creek Environmental Park.
Police believe it could be the body of Brian Laundrie.
4: David O’Sullivan When Irishman David O'Sullivan went missing
in Southern California, the authorities were confident that they could locate him.
Over four years later, David is still missing.
He set off on April 7, 2017.
The Irishman, 25 years old at the time, checked out from his motel in the mountain town of
Idyllwild and started a hike that would take him 2650 miles.
He sent a message to a friend that morning, saying that his journey so far had been difficult
but that he was loving it.
He was trying to follow the Pacific Crest Trail all the way through the American West
to the Canadian border.
But as far as anyone knows, he never made it past the start.
He was supposed to meet friends in Santa Barbara but never arrived.
He never took a single dollar out of his bank account.
And to this day, he's never contacted his parents.
Sadly, he is now presumed dead.
No one has any clue as to where his body might be.
Investigators spent months trying to track him down with no success.
Today, the only people still looking for David are a group of volunteers across the US, still
searching along the Pacific Crest Trail for his body – either alive or dead.
3: The Highway of Death There is a stretch of road in Mexico popularly
known as the “Highway of Death.”
According to recent news reports, at least 50 people have gone missing after traveling
along this lonely stretch of highway.
Some of the more recent disappearances include a mom from Texas, her two children, and three
other citizens of the US.
This mysterious stretch of road is about 3 hours long, between Monterrey and Nuevo Laredo.
And while the local government is trying to track down the troubling disappearances of
the US citizens as well as people from Mexico, they haven't had much luck.
As you may have guessed, the people vanishing on this highway are not being abducted by
aliens.The so-called Highway of Death is a stretch of road where armed men often force
vehicles to stop, attack and rob people and then dispose of their remains.
Most of the missing people are actually from Nuevo Laredo, which is known to be dominated
by the cartel.
The other missing people are primarily from Laredo in Texas, located just across the border
from the other city.
And despite more than 50 people vanishing, most likely having been abducted and killed
– Mexican authorities have yet to find even a single victim’s body.
2: Michael Hearon Michael Hearon was from Maryville, Tennessee.
The 51-year-old vanished without a trace back in August of 2008.
He was working on his family's land, a great swath of wilderness near the Great Smoky Mountains
National Park.
Michael had called his sons on Aug 23 to let them know he would be out at their property
mowing the grass.
He was seen by one of his sons on the road that day pulling into his driveway with the
lawn mower attached to his truck.
At around noon that same day, a couple of neighbors saw him driving around on his ATV.
Michael waved at them and that was the last time anyone is known to have seen him.
Days later, his ATV was discovered abandoned.
But there was nothing to indicate that anything strange happened.
There were no footprints, there were no pieces of clothing, and not even a trail leading
away from the vehicle.
Investigators also found no blood to suggest foul play.
It was as if he’d never been there in the first place.
And here's where things get really weird.
In the years since this incident, not a single lead has been discovered in the search for
Michael.
Not even his body has been found.
No one has any idea what happened to him, because he literally vanished into thin air.
It was as if he had been lifted into the sky off the seat of his ATV, never to return.
1: Jason Landry Jason Landry was a 21-year-old student at
Texas State back in December of 2020.
Jason was on his way home to visit family in Missouri City for Christmas when he vanished
on December 13.
Not knowing what happened, the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office looked through both Jason’s
phone and computer hoping to find information on where he could have been going.
Unfortunately, there was absolutely nothing on either device to suggest where he could
have gone.
Then the police made a break in the case.
They discovered his crashed car in the country back roads near Luling.
State troopers said it looked like Jason got in a crash right before he vanished.
But there was no other paint on his car to suggest someone had hit him.
Yet his vehicle seemed to be damaged in the front and back, as if he’d had two impacts.
This is one mystery that really makes no sense.
The keys were in the ignition, the car lights were on, and the door to the passenger side
was locked.
The authorities say he probably saw a deer and veered off the road and crashed.
But then where did he go?
At the initial search, police found his backpack, a laptop, gaming equipment, toiletries, a
ball cap, and a tumbler containing his dead pet beta fish near the site of the crash.
Even stranger?The next day, when his father went to the scene where his wrecked car was
found, all of the clothing Landry had last known to have been wearing, shorts, socks,
shirt, underwear, sandals, and a wristwatch- were also found about 900 feet away from the
vehicle in the roadway.
What could have happened to Jason?
Why would he leave all of his belongings?
Did he leave the vehicle on his own power, or was he abducted?
How did his clothing end up in the roadway?
As of now, it remains a complete mystery.
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