What happened to Carolyn Jeanne Holloway?
On September 30, 1977 in the small Texas town of Richardson, 34-year-old Carolyn Jeanne Holloway was seen for the very last time. Her NamUs entry offers the following horrifying details:
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Teenager Barbara Peterson went missing from Dallas, Texas on July 16, 1977. Her Namus entry says: "Left location and has not been heard from since." The location listed? Dallas, Texas 75215.
Read full storyWhere is Janice Kay Carroll?
Janice Kay Carroll disappeared in July 1975 from Dallas, Texas. There are two versions of her disappearance. According to Janice's NamUs entry, she had an argument with her husband on July 18, 1975. He claimed to have left their apartment. When he returned, his wife was gone.
Read full storyWhat happened to Dallas, Texas resident Sonia Kay Redbird?
According to her family, 19-year-old Sonia Kay Redbird disappeared from Dallas, Texas sometime in 1975. Sonia Kay Redbird's last known location was Dallas, Texas. She ceased communications with her family sometime in 1975.Photo byNamUs.
Read full storyWhere is Cecil Marie Jackson?
On Saturday, August 16, 1986, in Dallas, Texas, Cecil Marie Jackson told her family she was going to church. In fact, she was never seen again. Jackson had a unique smile. In her upper front teeth there is a gap and the right central incisor is crooked.
Read full storyWhat happened to Grand Prairie, Texas teenager Joyce Creola Brewer?
Joyce Brewer went missing from Grand Prairie, Texas on September 6, 1970.Photo byNamUs. Sometimes missing persons leave on their own. They go somewhere else, start new lives, and shut the door on everything and everyone from their past.
Read full storyIs law enforcement closer to solving the cold case murder of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman?
On January 13, 1996, nine-year-old Amber and her five-year-old brother, Ricky, visited their grandparents with their mother, Donna, in Arlington, Texas. Winter weather in the Lone Star State is often fickle--ranging from warm and sunny one day to freezing and rainy the next. This particular afternoon offered cloudless blue skies and temps in the seventies. Amber and Ricky wanted to ride their bikes. Donna told her kids to stay on the block.
Read full storyWho killed these young girls and dumped them near Texas highways?
What kind of person can murder a young girl, put her body in a garbage bag, and dump her off the side of a Texas highway?. For these three different cases where female bodies were found in trash bags tossed into ditches and fields, all we have are their skeletal remains. And the stories their bones tell us about their last moments on this earth.
Read full storyBuffalo Bayou John Doe found on July 8, 1957 in Houston, Texas still unidentified
On July 8, 1957, an unidentified deceased man was found floating face down in Buffalo Bayou in downtown Houston, Texas. The nearest address to his location was the 1200 block of Commerce Street. The medical examiner estimated that Buffalo Bayou Doe died three days prior to being pulled out of the waterway, but the body was too decomposed for an autopsy. Cause of death is unknown.
Read full story225 skulls of unidentified people found throughout Texas
A basic search in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) for unidentified persons found in Texas without torsos, limbs, or hands creates 225 results. That means there are 225 people who died--either through murder, self-harm, or accident. All that's left of them, of their stories, is their skulls.
Read full storyWho are these six unidentified persons whose skulls were found throughout Texas?
Bones hold histories. Tell stories. Show truths. A skull can reveal a lot about a person, even if it's the only physical element left that proves they once existed as a living human being.
Read full storyFemale skull found in Crane County, Texas in January 1990 remains unidentified
On January 31, 1990, a human skull was recovered in Crane County, Texas. Law enforcement believes the skull belongs to an Hispanic woman between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one. They also estimated the woman died at least ten years before her skull was recovered.
Read full storyTexas Rangers offering cash rewards for help solving these three 1980s Cold Case homicides
Texas Rangers need your help with three 1980s cold case homicides that occurred in Houston, Corpus Christi, and Lubbock, Texas. Anyone who provides credible information that leads to the arrest of the killers can receive up to $3,000. To be eligible for the cash rewards, tipsters must call the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477). All tips are anonymous, and tipsters will be provided a tip number to use as an identifier (instead of the tipster's name).
Read full storyWho murdered Texas Lutheran University student Mikiko Kasahara?
On December 14, 2002, fire fighters were called to the Sunset Terrace Apartments located in the 900 block of San Antonio Avenue in Seguin, Texas. After they extinguished the fire and searched what was left of the scorched apartment, they made a gruesome discovery in the bedroom: The charred remains of a female.
Read full storyWho is the handcuffed boy in the Polaroid found in North Texas?
It's 2012. In a school bus abandoned in a North Texas field for the last forty years, film maker Josh Vargas is digging through the belongings of Elmer Wayne Henley, the subject of his current movie project. At the bottom of a moldy box, the director finds a sealed envelope. He opens it. A blurry Polaroid photograph falls out. The image? A handcuffed boy on his knees next to a large opened tool box.
Read full storyTexas Rangers seek killer in 43-year-old cold case murder of Elizabeth Barclay in Dallas, Texas
On October 23, 1979, seven-year-old Elizabeth Barclay, her three-year-old brother, Scotty, and neighborhood friend, five-year-old J.R. Potter, left their apartment complex on Starlight Road to walk to a nearby store (different sources state they were going to a convenience or a grocery store). According to the Texas Rangers, who re-opened the decades-old unsolved murder case in 2019, Elizabeth was kidnapped in the area of 2900 West Northwest Highway in Dallas, Texas around 7 p.m.
Read full story48-year-old cold case focuses on mother's mysterious disappearance from Fort Bliss, Texas
On July 20, 1974, Janet Kay Baze, a 36-year-old mother of five, got into the family car with her husband of nineteen years, Sergeant Major Everett Neal Baze. Some reports indicated that the couple had a "heated argument" before leaving together.
Read full story34-year-old cold case of murdered woman in Dallas County, Texas remains unsolved
On October 30, 1988, the body of a woman was found not far from Fairway Avenue in Dallas, Texas. She'd been strangled to death and left face down in a creek bed. By the time she was discovered, Fairway Jane Doe had been deceased for fifteen days.
Read full storyNo answers in cold case murder of young Jane Doe in Madisonville, Texas
On September 17, 2016, a man mowing his pasture in the 7800 block of I-45's southbound feeder road near Madisonville, Texas plowed into a black suitcase. Finding abandoned things in the high grass wasn't unusual, especially for an area so close to a well-traveled road.
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