These Are The Unsolved

01/09/2022

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09/08/2020

David Mathew Jaramillo, 21, and Lloyd Michael Reese (some sources say Michael Lloyd Reese) went missing on July 3, 1985, near Salt Lake City, Utah. The boys were last seen in a brown Datsun near East Canyon Reservoir. The vehicle was never recovered and the circumstances regarding their disappearances remain unknown.

David Mathew Jaramillo & Lloyd Michael Reese went missing near Salt Lake City, Utah, in July of 1985. Neither were ever seen again.

08/30/2020

Sylena Jo Dalton was murdered in her Strasburg, Virginia, apartment on July 27, 1998. Her two month old daughter, Allyson Kathleen Dalton has been missing since that date. Sylena’s murder remains unsolved.

Sylena Jo Dalton and her infant daughter were last seen alive on the morning of July 27, 1998. The 20 year old mother and her two month old child, Allyson Dalton, were in good spirits at 7:45am when a family member visited them at their Strasburg, Virginia, apartment. A Murder & A Kidnapping The dev...

08/30/2020

Margaret Beck’s body was discovered August 18, 1963, near Deckers, Colorado. The 16 year old was attending a Girl Scout Camp as a counselor at the Flying G Ranch. She was sexually assaulted and strangled to death with her body left zipped inside her sleeping bag, similar to the 1977 Oklahoma Girl Scout murders.

DNA evidence and forensic genealogy have led investigators to a key suspect in the 1963 murder of Colorado Girl Scout Margaret Elizabeth Beck.

08/30/2020

Gerald Leroy Bingham, a Fort Smith, Arkansas, resident was last seen leaving his home at 2am by his neighbors. He would be seen by a witness on Cavanal Mountain, near Poteau, Oklahoma, an hour or two later, but has not been seen since. Gerald is a diabetic and his medical supplies were found in his vehicle, which was abandoned on Cavanal Mountain.

Gerald Leroy Bingham was seen leaving his Fort Smith, Arkansas home on June 17, 2000. He was last seen on Cavanal Hill, near Poteau, Oklahoma.

08/30/2020

Scott Andreas Douglass, better known as Andy Sims, disappeared from Wichita Falls, Texas, on December 9, 1961. Andy was last known to be playing near his house, however a witness says he saw Andy at the local Boy Scout Hut and Andy’s troop leader reported he thought Andy had left “with a family member”. In a strange turn of events, Andy’s half-brother didn’t become aware of Andy’s existence until after their biological father had passed away, adding even more mystery to this tragic tale.

Scott Andreas Douglass (Sims) was a blond haired, blue eyed boy and was a fifth grader at Jefferson Elementary School in Wichita Falls, Texas. His mother, Ellen, was a nurse and his step-father William had reported for duty in Fort Polk, Louisiana, with the National Guard’s 49th Armored Division d...

08/29/2020

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Clifford and Linda Bernhardt were just starting their life together when they were brutally murdered in their Billings, Montana, home. Despite a $100,000 reward being offered their case remains unsolved.

In 2019, DNA evidence was used to determine that Cecil Caldwell was responsible for the murders of Clifford and Linda Barnhardt.

08/29/2020

Faye (Jackson) Dollar’s sons Chad and Cameron sleeping in their beds the night of November 30, 1980, and left her southwest Atlanta home to presumably run an errand. Her body was discovered four days later in the trunk of her 1972 Monte Carlo, parked in the Admiral Benbow Inn parking lot. Her case has remained unsolved for nearly 40 years.

Faye Jackson Dollar was found bludgeoned to death by a blunt instrument in 1980. Her body was found in the truck of her car in an Atlanta parking lot.

08/29/2020

Dennis Eugene Johnson was 8 years old when his family took a vacation to Yellowstone National Park in April, 1966. Dennis' younger sister went missing while they were stopped at a picnic area, and he and his father split up to look for the girl. His sister was found, but Dennis never returned. No clues to his whereabouts were ever discovered despite a massive manhunt, and his case remains one of Yellowstone's greatest mysteries to this day.

No official tally exists of the number of people who went - and remain - missing in the public lands and National Parks of the United States. An “educated guess” has estimated that number at roughly 1,600 people whose fates still remain a mystery today, and the National Park Service’s Investig...

08/29/2020

Christine Ann Nelson supposedly disappeared from Lane county, Oregon, on August 24, 1986. She and her husband had left August 22nd for Carson City, Nevada, to pick up two purchased cars, and she was confirmed seen at that time. Christine's husband was the last person to see her alive, and reported her missing on August 25th. He stated she had left their home near Eugene, Oregon, the previous morning on her 1973 Honda motorcycle and didn't return. Her motorcycle was later recovered about 15 miles from their home, but there was no sign of Christine. Her case remains unsolved.

Christine Ann Nelson was reported missing in Oregon on August 25, 1986, by her husband. She was last seen in Carson City, Nevada with him several days prior.

08/29/2020

John was a successful to***co dealer at the time he went missing, having opened a cigar shop in South Norwalk, Connecticut, where he resided with his wife Amy. In December, 1907, John returned to Manhattan to visit his family for Christmas. December 26, 1907, was the last time John Poggenburg Jr. would be seen alive, although accounts vary on where he was last seen and by who. The last contact with Poggenburg was a telephone call to a friend that night around 7pm, stating that he was at Grand Central Station and would be boarding a train within the hour to return to Connecticut. Poggenburg hasn't been seen since.

I'm guessing that until now you had never heard of a missing person named John Henry Poggenburg Jr, I know I hadn't. Poggenburg is not listed in any of the usual missing persons databases and website case files and there are few sources regarding him online. Over the years missing persons, unidentif...