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# State Stories

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## Posts
- [Who Killed AJ Freund: The Story of a Five-Year-Old Boy and a Decade of Failed Oversight](https://statestories.com/who-killed-aj-freund-the-story-of-a-five-year-old-boy-and-a-decade-of-failed-oversight/): On April 18, 2019, Andrew Freund Sr. called Crystal Lake police to report that his five-year-old son Andrew, known as AJ, had gone missing from the family home at 94 Dole Avenue. He told dispatchers he had last seen the boy when he tucked him in the night before, around 9:30 p.m.
- [How an Iowa News Anchor Vanished From Her Own Parking Lot in 1995](https://statestories.com/how-an-iowa-news-anchor-vanished-from-her-own-parking-lot-in-1995/): At 4:10 a.m. on June 27, 1995, Jodi Huisentruit answered the phone in her Mason City, Iowa apartment and apologized for oversleeping. She told her producer, Amy Kuns, that she would be at the station soon. The 27-year-old morning anchor for KIMT-TV had never once missed a broadcast in her two years on the air.
- [Marina Boelter Disappeared on New Year’s Eve in 2014, and No One Has Found Her Since](https://statestories.com/marina-boelter-disappeared-on-new-years-eve-in-2014-and-no-one-has-found-her-since/): On December 31, 2014, 18-year-old Marina Boelter clocked out of her shift at the IGA grocery store in Bloomfield, Indiana, at six o’clock in the evening. She had a son in foster care she was fighting to get back, a new apartment she was proud of, and plans to spend the night celebrating. Within minutes of leaving work, she got into a stranger’s car. More than a decade later, Greene County’s prosecutor would describe her case in blunt terms: not a missing persons case anymore, but a death investigation.
- [How the Bling Ring Robbed Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Orlando Bloom](https://statestories.com/how-the-bling-ring-robbed-paris-hilton-lindsay-lohan-and-orlando-bloom/): In October 2008, two teenagers from Calabasas, California, climbed a hill behind the guard-gated Mulholland Estates community in Sherman Oaks. Rachel Lee and Nick Prugo had found the address of Paris Hilton’s $5.9 million mansion online, and they wanted to find out if the rumors about her were true, that the hotel heiress really did leave her front door unlocked.
- [A Decade After Mekayla Bali Vanished, Her Last Five Hours Are Still the Only Thing Anyone Knows for Certain](https://statestories.com/a-decade-after-mekayla-bali-vanished-her-last-five-hours-are-still-the-only-thing-anyone-knows-for-certain/): On the morning of April 12, 2016, Mekayla Bali’s grandmother dropped her off at Sacred Heart High School in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, the same as any other day. The 16-year-old walked inside, put a binder in her locker at 8:21 a.m., and walked out the back entrance nine minutes later. Over the next five hours, dozens of security cameras across town caught her pawning a ring, withdrawing cash, and circling the same city block again and again.
- [How Isaac Wright Jr. Was Sentenced to Life as a Drug Kingpin, Then Walked Free as a Lawyer](https://statestories.com/how-isaac-wright-jr-was-sentenced-to-life-as-a-drug-kingpin-then-walked-free-as-a-lawyer/): In 1996, Isaac Wright Jr. stood in a Somerset County courtroom and cross-examined the detective who had helped convict him five years earlier. Wright was not a lawyer. He was a prisoner serving a life sentence, representing himself, working from law books he had studied alone in his cell. He had one question left for Detective James Dugan.
- [How Eleanor Jarman Served 7 Years of a 199-Year Murder Sentence, Escaped an Illinois Prison in 1940, and Was Never Found](https://statestories.com/how-eleanor-jarman-served-7-years-of-a-199-year-murder-sentence-escaped-an-illinois-prison-in-1940-and-was-never-found/): On the morning of August 8, 1940, Eleanor Jarman and a fellow inmate named Mary Foster stole clothing from prison staff at the Dwight Correctional Center in Illinois, climbed a 12-foot perimeter fence topped with barbed wire, and hitchhiked out of sight. When the women failed to appear at lunch, staff conducted a thorough search. They found nothing except that two sets of staff clothes were missing. The women’s prison uniforms turned up later in a field less than a mile from the penitentiary.
- [How Ethan Saylor Died for Wanting to See a Film Twice](https://statestories.com/how-ethan-saylor-died-for-wanting-to-see-a-film-twice/): On the evening of January 12, 2013, 26-year-old Robert Ethan Saylor sat in his seat at the Westview Regal Cinemas in Frederick, Maryland, and watched the end of Zero Dark Thirty. He had loved it. His caregiver later told investigators that when the credits rolled, Ethan had clapped.
- [How Marcin Majerkiewicz Murdered His Housemate Stuart Everett, Dismembered His Body, and Spent Weeks Pretending to Be Him](https://statestories.com/how-marcin-majerkiewicz-murdered-his-housemate-stuart-everett-dismembered-his-body-and-spent-weeks-pretending-to-be-him/): On April 2, 2024, a man was caught on surveillance footage walking a quiet street in Salford carrying a large, heavy blue bag. He moved without urgency, blending into foot traffic the way anyone running an errand might. Nobody stopped him. Nobody looked twice. Two days later, a member of the public found a human torso wrapped in cling film inside an isolated concrete bunker in Kersal Dale Nature Reserve.
- [The Chilling Story of Fiona Beal, The Northampton Teacher Who Murdered Her Partner and Buried Him in Their Garden](https://statestories.com/the-chilling-story-of-fiona-beal-the-northampton-teacher-who-murdered-her-partner-and-buried-him-in-their-garden/): On the evening of November 1, 2021, Nicholas Billingham returned home from a day of renovation work and was drawn by his girlfriend of 17 years into a bath she had drawn for him, with the promise of sex afterwards. He put on an eye mask when she asked. He allowed her to tie his wrists to the bed frame. Once he was restrained and blinded, she stabbed him once in the neck with a knife she had hidden in the bedside drawer.
- [Sarah Gonzales-McLinn, The Teenager Who Killed the Man She Called Dad](https://statestories.com/sarah-gonzales-mclinn-the-teenager-who-killed-the-man-she-called-dad/): On January 17, 2014, employees at a CiCi's Pizza restaurant in Lawrence, Kansas, arrived for work and found the doors locked. Harold Sasko, 52, was always there to open the kitchen. That morning, he was not. After three days without contact, his staff called police and requested a welfare check at his home on West 26th Street. An officer knocked at the front door, received no answer, and peered through the front window.
- [Yoon Ji-ah Was a Rising Streamer. The Man Who Donated $70,000 to Her Channel Killed Her.](https://statestories.com/yoon-ji-ah-was-a-rising-streamer-the-man-who-donated-70000-to-her-channel-killed-her/): On September 11, 2024, a young content creator named Yoon Ji-ah stood on the coastal path of Yeongjong Island in Incheon, South Korea, talking to her audience the way she always did: warm, unhurried, like she had all the time in the world. She thanked her viewers before signing off. Thirty minutes later, she was dead.
- [The Disturbing Story of Carson Sistrunk, The Mississippi Welder Shot Dead by His Snapchat Date](https://statestories.com/the-disturbing-story-of-carson-sistrunk-the-mississippi-welder-shot-dead-by-his-snapchat-date/): On the night of September 6, 2022, former Mississippi Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Frank Riley shone a work light across a silver Ford Raptor sitting in a convenience store parking lot in New Hebron. The truck had been found in the lot, keys in the possession of a 20-year-old woman named Sierra Inscoe, who told the officers surrounding her that she had no idea who Carson Sistrunk was. Riley crouched low and examined the tailgate.
- [The Disturbing Story of Robert Crimo III, The Highland Park Shooter Who Killed Seven at a Fourth of July Parade](https://statestories.com/the-disturbing-story-of-robert-crimo-iii-the-highland-park-shooter-who-killed-seven-at-a-fourth-of-july-parade/): On the morning of July 4, 2022, Highland Park, Illinois was doing what it always did on Independence Day. Central Avenue hummed with marching bands. Kids chased candy along the parade route. Parents settled into lawn chairs with neighbors, pouring coffee in the early heat of a clear summer morning. After two years of COVID cancellations, the town had been waiting for exactly this. The sky was cloudless. Nothing felt wrong.
- [The Story of Monique and Spencer Tepe, The Columbus Couple Shot Dead at Home by Monique’s Former Husband](https://statestories.com/the-story-of-monique-and-spencer-tepe-the-columbus-couple-shot-dead-at-home-by-moniques-former-husband/): At 10:03 a.m. on December 30, 2025, a co-worker of Dr. Spencer Tepe made it through the door of the house at 1411 North Fourth Street in Columbus, Ohio, and found him on the floor beside his bed. There was blood. Spencer was not moving. Monique was nearby. She was not moving either. Within minutes, Columbus Fire Department Medic 7 pronounced both of them dead, each shot multiple times in the night, while their four-year-old daughter and one-year-old son were still inside the house.
- [The Story of Elliot Eastman, The American YouTuber Who Predicted His Own Murder on Camera](https://statestories.com/the-story-of-elliot-eastman-the-american-youtuber-who-predicted-his-own-murder-on-camera/): On the evening of October 17, 2024, Elliot Eastman sat on the floor of his small home in Sibuco and ate his dinner in front of a live stream camera. He appeared flat and disheveled, answering viewer questions in short, disconnected fragments. When someone asked whether he was enjoying the Philippines, he paused. "There's some parts that I like about it," he said. "There's some parts that I don't like." A viewer pushed further and asked what he didn't like. He answered without inflection. The bathrooms smelled. He was getting tired of being around all the same people. Then he turned off the camera. He did not say goodbye.
- [The Disappearance of Leigh Occhi, The 13-Year-Old Who Vanished From Her Tupelo Home in 1992](https://statestories.com/the-disappearance-of-leigh-occhi-the-13-year-old-who-vanished-from-her-tupelo-home-in-1992/): On the morning of August 27, 1992, Vicky Felton left for work at a manufacturing plant a few minutes from her home on Honey Locust Drive in Tupelo, Mississippi. Her daughter Leigh was still in bed. Before leaving, Vicky locked the front door. Less than two hours later, she came home to find it unlocked, blood smeared across the walls, and her daughter gone.
- [The Harrowing Story of Giulia Tramontano, The Seven-Months-Pregnant Woman Stabbed 37 Times and Set on Fire by Her Boyfriend](https://statestories.com/the-harrowing-story-of-giulia-tramontano-the-seven-months-pregnant-woman-stabbed-37-times-and-set-on-fire-by-her-boyfriend/): On the afternoon of May 27, 2023, Giulia Tramontano sat across a table from a stranger at the Armani Hotel in Milan and heard the full extent of what had been done to her. She was 29 years old and seven months pregnant. She had come to the hotel knowing it would be bad. She had not known how bad.
- [The Twisted Story of Courtney Clenney, The OnlyFans Model Who Killed the Man Who Loved Her](https://statestories.com/the-twisted-story-of-courtney-clenney-the-onlyfans-model-who-killed-the-man-who-loved-her/): On April 3, 2022, at 4:57 in the afternoon, a 911 dispatcher in Miami picked up a call from a woman screaming that her boyfriend was dying. The address was 3131 Northeast 7th Avenue, a luxury high-rise less than a mile from downtown. When paramedics arrived, they found Christian Obumseli, 27, on the floor bleeding from a deep stab wound to the chest, cradled in the arms of the woman who had put the knife in him. Multiple pools of coagulated blood spread across the apartment. He had been losing blood for some time before anyone called for help. On his chest, inches above the wound, was a tattoo of her name.
- [The Murder of Dustin Wehde, The Iowa Killing That Took Ten Years and a Hidden Notebook to Solve](https://statestories.com/the-murder-of-dustin-wehde-the-iowa-killing-that-took-ten-years-and-a-hidden-notebook-to-solve/): On the evening of December 13, 2001, 20-year-old Dustin Wehde drove to the Roberts family home in Early, Iowa. He was a quiet young man who had cut the family's grass, sat beside them at church, and been helped by the family's patriarch in finding work. Dustin's mother, Mona, later testified that Tracey had called her personally and asked that Dustin come by alone, saying she had some paperwork she needed him to help with. He arrived at the house that evening with no reason to be afraid.
- [The Story of Kristi Johnson, The Aspiring Actress Who Was Lured to Her Death With a Fake Bond Girl Audition](https://statestories.com/the-story-of-kristi-johnson-the-aspiring-actress-who-was-lured-to-her-death-with-a-fake-bond-girl-audition/): On February 15, 2003, 21-year-old Kristi Johnson stood in her Santa Monica apartment and modelled an outfit for her roommate Carri. Black miniskirt. Sheer nylons. A crisp white men's dress shirt. Brand-new stilettos she had bought that afternoon on the precise instructions of a man who had told her she was going to be the next Bond girl. She was beaming. The audition in Beverly Hills was a formality, he had said. The job was already hers.
- [The Disturbing Story of Jeremiah Button, The Child Sex Offender Who Built an Underground Bunker to Escape Justice](https://statestories.com/the-disturbing-story-of-jeremiah-button-the-child-sex-offender-who-built-an-underground-bunker-to-escape-justice/): On the morning of August 9, 2019, Thomas Nelson pushed open a log door built into the side of a Wisconsin hillside and stepped inside. He saw canned food, storage bins, a radio still faintly crackling with an advertisement. The air was cool and smelled of cold earth. Then he swept his flashlight around a corner. A man was lying on a cot, staring directly back at him.
- [The Twisted Story of Ari Squire, The Chicago Contractor Who Burned a Stranger Alive to Steal His Identity](https://statestories.com/the-twisted-story-of-ari-squire-the-chicago-contractor-who-burned-a-stranger-alive-to-steal-his-identity/): On February 23, 2008, Denise Squire stepped out of her bedroom around 8 a.m. to find thick black smoke pouring from the garage behind their Lake Barrington, Illinois home. She assumed her husband Ari was already in there, as he always was on Saturday mornings, bent over one of his diesel trucks. She called his cell phone. No answer. The smoke thickened. At 8:24 a.m., she called 911.
- [The Disturbing Story of Matthew Muller, The Harvard Marine Who Committed Violent Crimes for Two Decades Behind a Celebrated Career](https://statestories.com/the-disturbing-story-of-matthew-muller-the-harvard-marine-who-committed-violent-crimes-for-two-decades-behind-a-celebrated-career/): At 3 a.m. on March 23, 2015, a man in a black wetsuit slipped through the back door of a home in the Mare Island neighborhood of Vallejo, California.
- [The Disappearance of Teekah Lewis, the Two-Year-Old Who Vanished from a Tacoma Bowling Alley](https://statestories.com/the-disappearance-of-teekah-lewis-the-two-year-old-who-vanished-from-a-tacoma-bowling-alley/): On the evening of January 23, 1999, two-year-old Teekah Lewis was at the Cruis'n World racing cabinet in the arcade section of the New Frontier Lanes bowling alley on Center Street in Tacoma, Washington. She had a clear purse with a fish design in her hand. It was packed with Starbursts. Her mother, Theresa Czapiewski, was a few feet away at the lane. It was Theresa's turn to bowl. She stepped up, rolled, and turned back around.
- [The Haunting Story of Darla Harper, The Young Mother Who Vanished While Her Daughter Slept](https://statestories.com/the-haunting-story-of-darla-harper-the-young-mother-who-vanished-while-her-daughter-slept/): On the morning of March 5, 1986, a co-worker arrived at Darla Harper's apartment in Gravel Ridge, Arkansas, with officers from the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office at his side. Darla had not come in to work. She had not called. In four years on the job, she had never once done either of those things.
- [The Twisted Story of Michael and Suzan Carson, The “San Francisco Witch Killers” Who Murdered in the Name of God](https://statestories.com/the-twisted-story-of-michael-and-suzan-carson-the-san-francisco-witch-killers-who-murdered-in-the-name-of-god/): On March 7, 1981, police entered an apartment in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood and found the body of a 23-year-old woman named Keryn Barnes. She had been beaten over the head with a blunt object and stabbed 13 times around the face, neck, and mouth. Her skull was crushed. Someone had wrapped her in a blanket and concealed her in the basement. When investigators moved through the rest of the apartment, they found the walls covered in strange religious symbols. One word had been written across them, over and over: Suzan.
- [The Disturbing Story of Jonathan Gerlach, The Pennsylvania Man Who Robbed 26 Graves and Hoarded Over 100 Human Remains](https://statestories.com/the-disturbing-story-of-jonathan-gerlach-the-pennsylvania-man-who-robbed-26-graves-and-hoarded-over-100-human-remains/): On the evening of January 6, 2026, detectives conducting surveillance outside Mount Moriah Cemetery in southwest Philadelphia watched a brown Toyota RAV4 pull up and park. The driver climbed out, slipped through the perimeter fence, and disappeared into the dark. When he emerged roughly an hour later, he was carrying a crowbar and a burlap sack. Inside the sack: the mummified remains of two small children, three skulls, and additional loose bones.
- [The Haunting Story of Martha Rendell, The “Wicked Stepmother” Who Painted Her Stepchildren’s Throats With Acid](https://statestories.com/the-haunting-story-of-martha-rendell-the-wicked-stepmother-who-painted-her-stepchildrens-throats-with-acid/): In April 1909, neighbors on Robertson Street in East Perth had begun asking questions. Fifteen-year-old George Morris had not been seen in days, and the answers coming from inside number 23 were vague and shifting. When Detective Inspector Harry Mann tracked the boy to his mother's house across the city, George sat down and told him something that stopped the investigation cold. His brother and two sisters had not died of diphtheria. They had been murdered. Their stepmother had painted their throats with acid and watched them suffer.
- [The Chilling Story of Joshua Hunsucker, The Flight Paramedic Who Poisoned His Wife and Then Poisoned His Own Daughter](https://statestories.com/the-chilling-story-of-joshua-hunsucker-the-flight-paramedic-who-poisoned-his-wife-and-then-poisoned-his-own-daughter/): On the night of September 23, 2018, a 911 dispatcher in Gaston County, North Carolina received a call from a man who described his wife's symptoms with the kind of precision that comes from years of medical training. He said she was not breathing. He said she was blue. He gave the address clearly, stayed on the line, and remained composed throughout. His name was Joshua Hunsucker. He was a flight paramedic for Atrium Health's Med Center Air.
- [The Harrowing Story of Stephanie Sempell, The Florida Teenager Who Lay Unidentified for 28 Years](https://statestories.com/the-harrowing-story-of-stephanie-sempell-the-florida-teenager-who-lay-unidentified-for-28-years/): On December 30, 1976, a camper from Lake Worth, Florida, reported something unusual to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. He and a friend had been camping near Grassy Key when a man with what the camper described as a "hippie type appearance" approached them with an offer: for a quarter, he would show them a human skeleton.
- [The Harrowing Story of Bridgette “Biddy” Porter, The 10-Year-Old Whose Murder Exposed Australia’s Broken Justice System](https://statestories.com/the-harrowing-story-of-bridgette-biddy-porter-the-10-year-old-whose-murder-exposed-australias-broken-justice-system/): On the morning of July 8, 2020, Rebekah Porter was driving to work when her phone rang. Her former father-in-law was on the line, his voice wrong in a way she couldn't place. "What's happened to Bridget?" he asked. Before she could answer, a second call came through. It was Dominic, her ex-husband. He told her their daughter was dead.
- [The Haunting Story of Wendy Sewell, The Bakewell Secretary Who Was Beaten to Death in a Graveyard While Her Killer Was Never Found](https://statestories.com/the-haunting-story-of-wendy-sewell-the-bakewell-secretary-who-was-beaten-to-death-in-a-graveyard-while-her-killer-was-never-found/): On September 12, 1973, at approximately 12:40 p.m., Wendy Sewell walked into her boss's office at the Forestry Commission in Bakewell, Derbyshire, and handed him a note. She was going out for some fresh air. She would be back after lunch.
- [The Harrowing Story of Terri Jentz, The 19-Year-Old Who Caught an Axe Blade With Her Bare Hands at an Oregon Campsite](https://statestories.com/the-harrowing-story-of-terri-jentz-the-19-year-old-who-caught-an-axe-blade-with-her-bare-hands-at-an-oregon-campsite/): At 11:30 p.m. on June 22, 1977, Terri Jentz woke to a sound she could not identify and a pain that did not make sense. She was inside her tent at Cline Falls State Park, near Redmond, Oregon. She could not move. A pickup truck's tire was pressing her chest into the ground. Both of her arms were already broken under its weight. One man climbed out of the vehicle. He was neatly dressed in cowboy clothes, sleek and well put-together, she would later recall. He was carrying an axe.
- [The Disappearance of Norine Higuchi Brown, the Long Island Mother Who Vanished the Night Before Her Birthday](https://statestories.com/the-disappearance-of-norine-higuchi-brown-the-long-island-mother-who-vanished-the-night-before-her-birthday/): On the evening of December 12, 1990, Norine Higuchi Brown told her husband she was running a quick errand to the Pathmark on Jericho Turnpike in Garden City Park. She needed ingredients for Christmas cookies. The store was less than a mile from their New Hyde Park home, and she often went shopping late at night to avoid the crowds.
- [The Murder of Martin Duram, the Michigan Man Shot Five Times While His Wife Claimed Amnesia, a Case Solved Two Years Later by a Parrot](https://statestories.com/the-murder-of-martin-duram-the-michigan-man-shot-five-times-while-his-wife-claimed-amnesia-a-case-solved-two-years-later-by-a-parrot/): On May 13, 2015, Connie Reem crossed the street to check on her neighbors. She spoke to Martin and Glenna Duram almost every day, two people who had built a life together across the road from her in Sand Lake, Michigan. Two days had passed without a word. The front door was unlocked. She called out. No one answered.
- [The Unsolved Case of Tera Lynn Smith, The California Teen Who Vanished the Night She Planned to End a Secret Relationship](https://statestories.com/the-unsolved-case-of-tera-lynn-smith-the-california-teen-who-vanished-the-night-she-planned-to-end-a-secret-relationship/): On August 22, 1998, 16-year-old Tera Lynn Smith told her younger sister she was going for a quick jog and would be back in 20 minutes. Tera was grounded, had a shift at the family's amusement center scheduled for 7:00 p.m., and had spent most of the afternoon running errands with her mother before being dropped home. Her sister Sierra, then 11, tried to stop her at the door. Tera waved her off and jogged up the road.
- [The Cold Case of Margaret Fetterolf, The 16-Year-Old Jane Doe Named by a Stranger’s DNA Test](https://statestories.com/the-cold-case-of-margaret-fetterolf-the-16-year-old-jane-doe-named-by-a-strangers-dna-test/): On the morning of September 12, 1976, a woman and her young son drove along Dogwood Road in Woodlawn, Maryland, toward church. They passed a van parked on the roadside and continued on without thinking much of it. Less than a mile away, near the back gate of Lorraine Park Cemetery, someone had left a body wrapped in a white sheet.
- [The Haunting Story of Kirsty Bentley, The New Zealand Schoolgirl Found Dead the Day Before Her 16th Birthday](https://statestories.com/the-haunting-story-of-kirsty-bentley-the-new-zealand-schoolgirl-found-dead-the-day-before-her-16th-birthday/): On New Year's Day 1999, veteran search and rescue volunteer Dave Saunders noticed a trail of flattened, damp grass leading off the Ashburton River walking track. He followed it to a small clearing in the brush. A black labrador cross was tied to a tree by her leash. She hadn't made a sound during the search. She didn't bark or jump as Saunders approached. He stood still and said the name Kirsty out loud. Her ears pricked.
- [The Disturbing Story of Jennifer Odom, The Honor Roll Student Who Was Abducted and Killed 200 Yards From Home](https://statestories.com/the-disturbing-story-of-jennifer-odom-the-honor-roll-student-who-was-abducted-and-killed-200-yards-from-home/): On the morning of February 19, 1993, Renee Converse drove her daughter 200 yards up a winding lime rock driveway to wait for the school bus near their mailbox in rural Pasco County, Florida. It was their daily ritual, a few quiet minutes carved out before the day pulled them apart. That morning they talked about mathematics.
- [The Disappearance of Cindy Song, The Penn State Student Who Vanished on Halloween Night and Was Never Found](https://statestories.com/the-disappearance-of-cindy-song-the-penn-state-student-who-vanished-on-halloween-night-and-was-never-found/): On November 1, 2001, just before 4:00 a.m., Stacy Paik stopped her car outside the State College Park Apartments on Blue Course Drive and said goodbye. Cindy Song stepped out, still wearing her rabbit costume. Stacy waved and drove away. She did not wait to see Cindy reach the door.
- [The Disturbing Story of Lloyd Neurauter, The Father Who Manipulated His Daughter Into Killing Her Own Mother](https://statestories.com/the-disturbing-story-of-lloyd-neurauter-the-father-who-manipulated-his-daughter-into-killing-her-own-mother/): On the night of Saturday, August 26, 2017, Lloyd Neurauter climbed into the rear hatch of his 19-year-old daughter's car and stayed out of sight as she pulled out of a hotel parking lot in Rochester, New York. His 14-year-old daughter, Charlotte, was in the passenger seat. She had no idea her father was there. Karrie drove south for a hundred miles, into the dark, toward her mother's house.
- [The Unsolved Story of Alonzo Brooks, The Gardner Man Who Vanished From a Party in La Cygne](https://statestories.com/the-unsolved-story-of-alonzo-brooks-the-gardner-man-who-vanished-from-a-party-in-la-cygne/): On May 1, 2004, Maria Ramirez was finally allowed to look for her son. It had been 28 days since Alonzo last walked out her front door. Law enforcement had searched the creek beds, deployed cadaver dogs, sent helicopters over the surrounding fields, and found nothing.
- [The Harrowing Disappearance of Sydney West, The 19-Year-Old Who Walked onto the Golden Gate Bridge at 6:45 a.m. and Was Never Seen Again](https://statestories.com/the-harrowing-disappearance-of-sydney-west-the-19-year-old-who-walked-onto-the-golden-gate-bridge-at-645-a-m-and-was-never-seen-again/): On September 30, 2020, at 6:45 a.m., Sydney West walked through the entrance to the Golden Gate Bridge. She was 5 feet 10 inches tall, 130 pounds, with blue eyes and light brown hair pulled into a bun. She wore dark leggings, a teal hoodie, and Vans slip-on sneakers with a blue-green tropical print. A black backpack sat on her shoulders. She may have been wearing eyeglasses. A security camera recorded her walking eastbound toward the span, into the dense fog and wildfire smoke that had settled over the bridge that morning.
- [The Haunting Story of Leigh Ann Sabine, The Welsh Woman Who Hid Her Husband’s Body for 18 Years](https://statestories.com/the-haunting-story-of-leigh-ann-sabine-the-welsh-woman-who-hid-her-husbands-body-for-18-years/): On the afternoon of November 24, 2015, neighbors Michelle James and Rhian Lee made their way into the communal garden of Trem-Y-Cwm House flats in Beddau, Pontypridd. Among the belongings left outside after the recent death of 74-year-old Leigh Ann Sabine sat a large, tightly wrapped package. Leigh had told Michelle for years that it contained a medical skeleton from her nursing days, the kind of thing that might make a decent prank on another neighbor. They cut through the outer layers. A foul liquid ran across the pavement. A smell rose that stopped them both.
- [The Unsolved Murder of Julie Pacey, The Grantham Mother Killed in Her Own Home](https://statestories.com/the-unsolved-murder-of-julie-pacey-the-grantham-mother-killed-in-her-own-home/): At 4:15 p.m. on September 26, 1994, fourteen-year-old Helen Pacey came home from school and pushed open the first-floor bathroom door of the family's house on LongCliff Road in Grantham, Lincolnshire. The door met resistance. She pushed harder. Her mother was lying face down on the tiles.
- [The Lonely Hearts Killer Who Lured Dozens of Men to Their Deaths on Her Indiana Farm](https://statestories.com/the-lonely-hearts-killer-who-lured-dozens-of-men-to-their-deaths-on-her-indiana-farm/): On the morning of April 28, 1908, farmhand Joe Maxson woke at approximately 4:00 a.m. to the suffocating smell of smoke. The farmhouse on McClung Road outside La Porte, Indiana was already burning. He ran for his life, made it out, and then did something that would haunt him: he circled back and checked the windows of the children's bedrooms. They were empty. The glass reflected only firelight.
- [The Haunting Story of Debbie Lindsley, The Hotel Manager Who Boarded a Train in Broad Daylight and Was Never Found Alive](https://statestories.com/the-haunting-story-of-debbie-lindsley-the-hotel-manager-who-boarded-a-train-in-broad-daylight-and-was-never-found-alive/): On March 23, 1988, at approximately 2:50 in the afternoon, British Rail staff boarded the 14:16 Orpington-to-Victoria service as it pulled into Platform 2 at London's Victoria Station. The journey had taken 31 minutes.
- [The Haunting Story of Hilkka Saarinen, The Finnish Mother Sealed Inside a Stone Oven for 12 Years](https://statestories.com/the-haunting-story-of-hilkka-saarinen-the-finnish-mother-sealed-inside-a-stone-oven-for-12-years/): On November 27, 1972, Turku district commissar Gunnar Kivelä and his assistant arrived at a large wooden house in the village of Krootila, Kokemäki, Finland, carrying a warrant to dismantle a stone oven. The husband who lived there was taken to the police station before they started.
- [The Harrowing Story of Hannah Anderson, The California Teenager Held Captive 1,000 Miles From Home After Her Family’s Trusted Friend Killed Her Mother and Brother](https://statestories.com/the-harrowing-story-of-hannah-anderson-the-california-teenager-held-captive-1000-miles-from-home-after-her-familys-trusted-friend-killed-her-mother-and-brother/): On the morning of August 4, 2013, firefighters arrived at a remote cabin in Boulevard, California, to find it reduced to rubble and ash. The fire had been set deliberately. Timed incendiary devices planted before the occupant left had done their work. In the garage, partially concealed beneath a tarpaulin, lay the body of a 42-year-old woman. Inside the burned structure, investigators found a second body. It belonged to a child. The family dog, Cece, had been shot and buried in a sleeping bag.

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