#6 - Cheyann Klus
22-year old Cheyann Klus of Downers Grove, Illinois, went missing on November the 27th
of 2017. She was out partying the night of her disappearance, an activity she’d partaken
in with relative frequency in the months prior. Her mother had passed away, in January of 2016,
and her beloved family dog died soon after as well. This swift sequence of tragic events sent
Klus into a downward spiral of depression and she began to engage in what her friends described as
self-destructive behavior. She was surrounding herself with people of questionable character,
mostly older men looking to take advantage of her. Just months before she vanished, Klus had been
arrested alongside a 31-year old man and charged with obstructing identification and illegal
transport of alcohol. Those close to her were concerned that something bad might happen to her
if she continued down that path. On the night of November the 27th, Klus was with 38-year old Brian
Biddle at his house in Chicago. The two had spent most of the night drinking and partying together,
eventually falling asleep in the early morning hours. Biddle claimed he was passed out for the
next 18 hours and, when he woke up, Klus was nowhere to be found. The last anyone ever heard
from her was on the morning of November the 29th, following a series of frantic texts and calls
directed at 27-year old Chad Chanapai, who didn’t see her messages until 20 minutes after
she had sent them. When he tried returning her calls, she didn’t pick up. That’s when Cheyann
Klus disappeared into the wind. The police were baffled by the lack of evidence in the case,
and they’ve since been struggling to piece together what happened to her. On December the
11th of 2017, a 9-1-1 call was placed using Klus’ cell phone. Before an operator ever picked up, the
call was disconnected. Investigators traced the call to an area of Mallard Lake Forest Preserve
in Dupage, Illinois, and subsequently conducted an extensive search of the wooded preserve. Nothing
came of the search, and an additional exploration of the woods in March of 2018 yielded no further
evidence of Klus’ whereabouts. In April of 2021, the Missing Persons Awareness Network
put out a $1,000 reward for any information that might lead to the discovery of her location.
#5 - Mackenzie Marken
14-year old Mackenzie Marken of Weston, Wisconsin, had a strained relationship with her parents.
They were constantly at odds, especially after she’d started high school, in the fall of 2015.
Marken had run away from home twice before. Both times, she turned up at her friends’ house,
but the incidents caused her parents to become even stricter in their attitudes towards her.
They forbade her from owning a cell phone or using social media of any kind. For a while,
they believed she was following their strict household rules but, on October the 11th of 2015,
she disappeared again. Marken’s parents figured she had run off to a schoolmate’s house,
but none of her close friends had any knowledge of her whereabouts. She was officially reported
missing and the police stepped in to aid in the search. During their investigation,
the authorities discovered that Marken had been secretly using social media to communicate
with older men. This caused them to develop the theory that she’d become a victim
of human trafficking. Nevertheless, there’s been very little progress made in her case.
#4 - Curtis Merworth, Malcolm Meeks, and Ardean Charles
49-year old Curtis Merworth of Salt Lake City, Utah, was obsessed with finding buried treasure.
His fascination compelled him to take a trip to the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix,
Arizona. He believed he’d come across a treasure map that revealed the location of the Lost
Dutchman Mine, and he set out to find it. During his trek into the mountains, however, he got lost
and subsequently had to call 9-1-1. Merworth was hospitalized due to dehydration, but he didn’t
let the ordeal dissuade him from continuing his search for treasure. On the second time around,
he brought along two companions, Malcolm Meeks and Ardean Charles. The trio neglected to bring a cell
phone with them, however, and by July of 2010, they still hadn’t returned home from their trip.
Over the next few months, more than 20 searches of the area were made, none of which uncovered
any clues. In January of 2011, all three of the treasure hunters’ skeletons were found
scattered outside of Phoenix. The state of their bones suggested the men had suffered gunshot
wounds. Merworth’s remains were located roughly a mile from his friends’. The circumstances of their
disappearance and subsequent deaths have long puzzled investigators and the exact events that
led to their demise remain unknown. #3 - The Crew of Flight 101
On August the 16th of 1942, two experienced pilots, 27-year old Lieutenant Ernest Cody and
32-year old Ensign Charles Adams, climbed onboard an L-8 Blimp with plans to set out across the
California coastline. Their mission was to monitor the western shores for a possible invasion by the
Japanese military, which had previously attacked an oil refinery in Santa Barbara, just months
prior. The operation was dubbed “Flight 101”. Just moments before the blimp took off, the aviation
machinist assigned to assist the two pilots was ordered to leave the aircraft, though neither
Cody nor Adams gave him a definitive reason as to why. Nevertheless, the two men ascended into
the sky above the coastline and, for the first few hours of Flight 101, everything seemed to be going
smoothly. It wasn’t until around 8 am, on August the 16th, roughly 2 hours after their initial
takeoff, that the squadron headquarters at Moffett Field started to detect that something was wrong.
Cody told the radio dispatch that they were investigating a strange oil slick east of the
Farallon Islands. That was the last time anyone heard from either of the two men aboard the blimp.
Three hours later, there were reports of a blimp crashing into a beachside golf course,
near Daly City, and subsequently drifting into a nearby neighborhood. Although no one was injured
in the crash, neither of the blimp’s pilots was found on board. Apparently, the gondola doors
had been opened mid-flight and two life jackets were missing. No one saw them fall from the blimp
even though the aircraft itself had been seen by multiple planes and boats
over the course of that morning. There have been a number of theories regarding the true nature
of the mysterious Flight 101, including one about the two pilots being caught up in a love triangle
that resulted in one of them murdering the other and then fleeing the scene of the crash.
No evidence has been presented in that regard and their bodies were never found.
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#2 - Sandra Nevarez 41-year-old Sandra Nevarez,
a wife and mother-of-four from Sylmar, California, disappeared on January the 17th of 1995.
She had dropped her son off at school that morning and proceeded to run various errands
over the course of the day. She was last seen at 5 pm that evening walking around a local
shopping center. After failing to return home, the police set out to look for her. That same night,
Nevarez’s car was found. It had been abandoned in the shopping center parking lot. Police found
evidence of foul play in the form of a pool of blood near the back of the vehicle. The blood
was identified as Nevarez’s. They speculated that she’d been dragged from the car against her will
as her purse and a pile of folded laundry were found inside the vehicle. There was no other
evidence present at the scene. Around the same time that Nevarez first went missing, there were
a number of stores at the Sylmar shopping center that were robbed, though authorities are unsure
whether the incidents are connected. In November of 1996, unidentified human remains were found
by investigators. While it was suspected that they had found the remains of Nevarez’s corpse,
this was not confirmed until December of 2012 when lab testing identified the DNA as belonging to the
missing woman. She was killed through blunt force trauma to the head, but the specifics
of her murder have remained unsolved. Members of Nevarez’s family believe her husband, Pete,
was somehow involved, but he has consistently denied the allegations. He was eventually arrested
in 2013 for unrelated charges and sentenced to 6 years in prison. According to the case’s latest
updates, Pete is the only suspect police have identified in their investigation, but there is
insufficient evidence for him to be charged. #1 - Richard Bare
In January of 1984, 24-year old Sherry Hart of Ashe County, North Carolina, disappeared
after failing to show up to a date. None of her friends knew where she was or who she was with,
and she remained missing for 11 months before her body was discovered at the bottom of a 2,000-foot
cliff. The police learned from witnesses that Hart had been with two acquaintances,
Jeffrey Scott Burgess and Richard Bare. The two men were arrested, and Burgess confessed to being
involved in Hart’s murder. Apparently, the trio had been out joyriding the night of her death.
Bare made unwanted advances on Hart and she pleaded with Burgess to protect her.
Bare then struck her with the butt end of a handgun and dumped her body off the cliff. He
threatened to kill Burgess and his family if he ever told the police about what happened.
They were subsequently charged with killing Hart, but prior to undergoing a trial, Bare
escaped from the prison he was being held in and has not been seen or heard from since. In 1993,
8 years after his initial disappearance, the FBI very nearly tracked him down to a relative’s house
in Delaware, but he fled before agents arrived at the scene. Bare remains wanted for Hart’s murder,
but there has been little headway made in the police’s search for him. Burgess,
whose trial had been delayed until Bare was captured, died in 2012 without ever being
prosecuted for the crime. Hart’s daughter, April, who now has three of her own children,
continues to hunt for the missing killer, but investigators doubt he will ever be found.
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