Wait for me stories of those who disappeared without a trace. Mysterious stories about missing people
We managed to talk about the current topic of missing people, the so-called “lost people” in professional jargon, with a private detective from one of the leading agencies in Russia, a former senior police officer for the Department of Internal Affairs, who told us interesting facts and stories from my practice. This is what we learned about the harsh realities of the work of modern private investigation representatives in the field of people search. In Russia, currently without war, with a population of 146 million people, almost 200 thousand people go missing every year, according to statistics on officially filed reports of disappearances. However, only every second person can be found. To find means to find, regardless of whether dead or alive, with confirmation (identification) from those who submitted the application (most often close relatives). At the same time, the question remains open of the fate of other missing people, the number of whom is equal to 100 thousand people. The private detective immediately made a reservation that the conversation would concern exclusively those persons who were among those against whom an application had been filed with the police or appeals to specialists of private search structures - detective agencies about the disappearance of acquaintances, colleagues, relatives, friends, etc. It is noteworthy that all other statistics provided in the public domain on the Internet have different meanings. Our opponent noted: “All figures published in the media mass media, are false, not reflecting the real state of affairs, based on the instructions of the highest “ranks” in uniform.”
Circumstances of missing person
At the same time, based on the general reasons for what happened, the category of missing persons can be divided into those who disappeared under certain circumstances:
- They disappeared abruptly, without any explanation or reason;
- Lost as a result of a hike or a hunting or fishing trip to a place unknown to them;
- Left home as a result of a family quarrel, “slamming the door”;
- Disappeared under certain circumstances, which are associated with frequent abuse of alcoholic beverages, diseases nervous system. Often, if these are elderly people and they cannot be found, this category should be classified as corpses with an unknown identity;
- Escaped from an orphanage;
- Classified as missing, but had significant circumstances in order to “disappear,” including unfulfilled obligations in the form of debts or potentially negative consequences actions, crimes, etc.;
- Disappeared due to force majeure in the form of natural disasters or, for example, lived in a combat zone, becoming a hostage of the situation, active or passive participants in it;
- Missing people specific place residence.
The man disappeared suddenly. The investigation found no traces
If we take into account the entire contingent of all missing people in Russia, then half certainly belong to those who lead an immoral and antisocial lifestyle (alcohol, drugs, vagrancy, gambling and others). But approximately 25% of missing people are people who disappeared for no apparent reason - suddenly (this is approximately 50 thousand people annually in Russia, and only a minority of them can be found, since in other situations, with the exception of the very first point of the reason for the disappearance objectively understandable and intuitively one can guess in advance exactly how events developed by highlighting the motives in series A. life situations, in which the disappearance of people is difficult to explain with sound logic and to find arguments in favor of an independent decision to leave. A private detective, a former criminal investigation officer, who conducts his activities in search and search of people, claims that “the list of situations when a person disappeared suddenly (suddenly means that nothing foreshadowed such a thing) can be continued indefinitely, amazed by the amazing circumstances that even with cannot be explained by a qualitative investigation.” And yet, where do those people of whom no trace remains?
A young woman went missing in Simferopol
In the morning hours, a resident of Simferopol, a young woman, aged 32, who has two children, sent one of her children to kindergarten on the way and took a minibus. She never showed up at work, despite the fact that she was only a few meters away from the bus stop. It was not possible to find it either on the first or second day. At the same time, they worked out different versions: friends, relatives, even possible lovers, phone calls checked. No traces. No missing items were found in the apartment either. Even passengers minibus were able to confirm the fact of her presence and exit at the designated stop. Then the trace of the person is simply lost.
Disappearance of a man
A typical man with a handsome salary living in country house, bought without credit loans, having a car, a family and a child, suddenly disappeared. It’s trivial that he took the elevator down to the underground garage, got into his personal Volkswagen and left for work, where he never showed up. A couple of days later the car was found parked on the way to work. Experts found no signs of violence, any struggle, or robbery inside the Volkswagen. At the same time, the car was started and the key fob was in the ignition, but by that time the gasoline had already run out. The smartphone and laptop remained intact inside the car, the car was in in good condition, turns, stops are not included, there are no warning signs. They searched everything in the surrounding area, but didn’t even find any traces. Despite his financial sufficiency, the man held the position of middle manager and had no relationship with management. Most of the income came from apartments, belonging to parents and the wife's now deceased grandmother, which were inherited after their death and were rented out. The wife is a regular therapist in the hospital. According to the card accounts of the plastic cards on hand, no movements of financial assets were also noticed.
Mom went missing
A girl who recently gave birth went to buy dairy products in one of the nearby stores. The child is not even one year old yet. Often, I went out for cottage cheese and milk at lunchtime, when the child fell asleep. My husband is always at home, his work is on the computer, there is always someone to look after. She left and never returned an hour, two, three, days later... The store is only a couple of stops on the trolleybus, responsibility: breastfeeding... And yet it’s been a year and there are no traces.
Tourist disappeared from hotel
Friends decided to go on vacation with two families in private cars from Belgorod to Crimea. We were on the road all day, after which we decided to stay at one of the roadside hotels on the outskirts of the city and rented two rooms. In the morning, after a sound sleep, they discovered that one of the men was missing. None of the family members: the wife, as well as the son and daughter, heard anything; the administrator who was on duty that night, a very young girl, completely dozed off in the utility room and could not see anything. Entrance doors Hotels are locked at night, and video surveillance only works in the parking area. At the same time, the car is intact, all documents, mobile phone, money, personal belongings are in place. The man came out of the room lightly dressed and with shoes on, probably to smoke at night, since there were no cigarettes anywhere. Even after searching everything around for a radius of many kilometers, they could not find any clues to find the person.
The story of the disappearance of the office "clerk":
A promising young man got a job as a programmer in one of the city offices of Sevastopol, worked for several years, established himself well and even got a girlfriend with whom he lived in civil marriage. Together we bought a car on credit and lived on rented apartment. One fine day, the young man left the office for lunch break and disappeared forever. He got home for lunch, the girl confirmed this by the presence of the left dirty dishes and food eaten. However, he never came to work again. It is noteworthy that no trace of him or his car could be found. At the same time, apart from the loan, for which funds were regularly repaid, he had no problems or difficulties, and by character he was a non-conflict person, gentle, cheerful. His phone went off an hour after lunch, which became known from a call from his boss, who noticed his absence and called an hour after the break. The investigation yielded no results.
And here's another:
A police officer has disappeared. At the same time, he did not disappear after a shift or duty, or a heavy duty outfit, when there was a chance to assume that he himself was staying with friends to drink a glass of beer together. On the contrary, he disappeared in the morning, quietly boarding a train on the way to work, which, by the way, he never got to. Colleagues have worked through everything possible versions and connections, but no one could provide additional information. They interviewed a colossal number of passengers that day, but all in vain... A positive person, repeatedly awarded, simply disappeared.
Versions for investigation and search
Here is a list of the main versions of events that are confirmed by real facts and were the causes of the disappearances:
- Murders. In this case, the corpse cannot be found due to the fact that it was dismembered, burned, buried or destroyed in any other way;
- Kidnapping a person and then selling him into slavery;
- Kidnapping of women for the purpose of exportation and forced prostitution;
- Kidnappings to obtain donor organs;
- Absurd accidents, including injuries with memory loss.
This information was presented by a person who has almost two decades of operational experience in the authorities and the field of private investigation. Having then joined the police in the dashing 90s, and now working on the search and search for people privately, he notes that the statistics and reasons have not undergone significant changes. The same crimes, their motives for 20 years. In some cases, you can think about mysticism or aliens, since unremarkable people go missing, who should never have been among the disappeared. And thus, almost 100,000 people per year disappear and are not found in Russia. Of course, against the backdrop natural loss in the form of a death rate of 1 million per year, these are not such huge numbers. But these are people, people who had families, and all this time their relatives and friends experience anxiety and bitterness of loss, fear and uncertainty for the fate of a person close to them!
Actions taken by relatives to solve the disappearance
We wish every person never to encounter such difficulties, but once we find ourselves in stressful situation in case of disappearance, their fate may directly depend on the actions of loved ones. At the Client’s request, DASC private detectives organize an urgent search in the form of the arrival of specialists, detectives and experts, using all forces and means to find the person “on fresh tracks.” Most often, this is the most effective way to find the disappeared and provide them with assistance. Efficiency, professionalism and high quality Our agency's human search services have already been appreciated by hundreds of grateful Clients, for whom cooperation with DASC turned out to be fatal and allowed them to save their family, friends and relatives.
Thousands of people go missing every year, and these disappearances become truly baffling when investigators have virtually nothing to work with - situations in which no one has seen anything and there are no reasonable explanations. It's almost the same if these people literally disappeared into thin air.
1. Maura Murray
On February 9, 2004, 21-year-old University of Massachusetts student Maura Murray reported email to her teachers and employers that she is forced to leave due to the death (fictitious) of one of her family members. That evening, she was involved in an accident, crashing her car into a tree near Woodsville, New Hampshire. By a strange coincidence, a couple of days earlier, Maura also had an accident and crashed another car.
The driver of a passing bus approached and asked Maura if the police should be called. The girl answered “no,” but the driver made the call anyway as soon as he got to the nearest phone. When the police arrived ten minutes later, Maura was gone.
There were no signs of a struggle at the scene, so Maura may have asked someone for a ride. The next day, Maura's fiancé in Oklahoma received a voicemail supposedly from her, but heard only sobs on the other end of the line. Although Maura acted a little strangely in the last days before her disappearance, her family does not believe that she disappeared of her own accord.
Nine years have passed, but it has not been possible to find out what happened to the girl.
2. Brandon Swanson
On the evening of May 14, 2008, as nineteen-year-old Brandon Swanson was returning to his hometown Marshall, Minnesota, on a rural gravel road, his car went into a ditch. Brandon called his parents and asked them to come get him. They immediately went in search of Vyn, but could not find him. His father called him back, Brandon picked up and said he was trying to get to the nearest town of Lead. And in the middle of the conversation, Brandon suddenly cursed, and the connection abruptly ended.
Brandon's father tried to call back several more times, but received no answer and could not find his son. Police later found Brandon's car, but were unable to find either the guy or him. cell phone. According to one version, he could have accidentally drowned in a nearby river, but no traces of a body were found in it. No one knows what prompted Brandon to curse during the ringing, but that was the last anyone heard from him.
3. Louis Le Prince
Louis Le Prince is a famous French inventor who was the first to capture moving images on film. Oddly enough, the “father of cinema” is also remembered as the subject of one of the strangest disappearances in history. On September 16, 1890, Le Prince visited his brother in Dijon and then traveled by train to Paris. When the train arrived at its destination, it turned out that Le Prince had disappeared.
IN last time Le Prince was seen entering his carriage after checking his luggage. There were no signs of violence or anything suspicious during the trip, and no one could remember seeing Le Prince outside his carriage. The windows were tightly closed, so it would have been quite difficult to jump off the train, but the suicide version seemed unlikely at all, since Le Prince was going to go to America to get a patent for his new invention.
As a result of this disappearance, the patent for the kinetoscope (a device for displaying sequential photographs of motion) went to Thomas Edison. As for Le Prince, his future fate still remains a mystery.
At four in the morning on December 10, 1999, an 18-year-old freshman at the University of California named Michael Negrete turned off his computer after playing video games with friends all night long. At nine in the morning, his roommate woke up and noticed that Michael had left, but left all his belongings, including his keys and wallet. He was never seen again.
The most curious thing about Michael’s disappearance is that the guy even left his shoes. Investigators used sniffer dogs to try to track Michael to a bus stop a couple of miles from the hostel, but how could he have gotten that far without his shoes on? Only one person was seen near the scene at 4:35 a.m., but no one knows if he is connected to Michael's disappearance. There is no reason to believe that Michael disappeared due to at will, but there has been no news about Michael’s fate for more than ten years.
5. Barbara Bolick
On July 18, 2007, Barbara Bolick, a 55-year-old woman from Corvallis, Montana, went hiking in the mountains with her friend Jim Ramaker, who was visiting from California. When Jim stopped to admire the scenery, Barbara was 6-9 meters behind him, but when he turned around less than a minute later, he discovered that the woman had disappeared. The police joined the search, but the woman was never found.
At first glance, Jim Ramaker's story sounds completely incredible. However, he cooperated with the authorities, and since there was no evidence of his involvement in Barbara's disappearance, he was no longer considered a suspect. The culprit would probably have tried to come up with a better story rather than claim that his victim simply vanished into thin air. Six years have passed, but no traces of violent death have been found, nor any hints of what could have happened to Barbara.
On August 23, 2008, 51-year-old Michael Hearon went to his farm in Happy Valley, Tennessee, planning to cut the grass on his lawn. That morning, neighbors saw Michael leave the farm in his all-terrain vehicle—and that was the last time he was seen.
The next day, Michael's friends visited the farm and saw his truck parked on the road. A trailer was attached to it, in which a lawn mower was found, but the grass on the lawn remained untouched. His friends returned the next day and became concerned when they saw the truck parked in the same spot, still containing his keys, cell phone and wallet.
Three days after Michael disappeared, investigators found their only lead: an all-terrain vehicle on a steep hill located a mile from his home. However, it was not clear why he needed to go there. In addition, no signs of violence were found. Michael had no enemies or any other reason to hide, so his disappearance became a truly incomprehensible mystery.
7. April Fabb
One of the most famous disappearances in British history occurred in Norfolk on April 8, 1969. A 13-year-old schoolgirl named April Fabb left home and went to her sister in a neighboring village. She rode her bike there and was last seen by a truck driver. At 2:06 p.m., he noticed the girl driving along a country road. And at 2:12 p.m., her bike was found in the middle of a field several hundred yards from where she was seen, but there was no sign of April.
Kidnapping seemed like the most likely scenario for April's disappearance, but an attacker would only have six minutes to kidnap the girl and leave the crime scene without anyone noticing. A large-scale search for April did not yield a single clue.
This case has many similarities with the disappearance of another young girl, Janet Tate in 1978, and Robert Black, a notorious child killer, was considered as a possible suspect. However, there is no evidence to conclusively link him to April's disappearance, so this mystery also remains unsolved.
8. Brian Shaffer
A 27-year-old medical student from a university in Ohio went to a bar on the evening of April 1, 2006. Sometime between 1:30 and 2:00 he mysteriously disappeared. That night he drank a lot and, after talking with his girlfriend on mobile phone, he was last seen in the company of two young women. However, no one in the bar could remember whether he was seen after that.
Most difficult question The part of the story that remains unanswered is how Brian left the bar. The CCTV footage clearly showed him entering the bar, but not a single footage showed him leaving! Neither Brian's friends nor his family believe that he went into hiding on purpose. Three weeks earlier, he was doing well in school and planning to go on vacation with his girlfriend. But if Brian was kidnapped or the victim of another crime, how did the attacker drag him out of the bar without being noticed by witnesses or CCTV cameras?
9. Jason Yolkowski
On the morning of June 13, 2001, 19-year-old Jason Yolkowski was called to work. He asked his friend to pick him up at a nearby high school, but he never showed up.
The last time Jason was seen was by his neighbor, about half an hour before the scheduled meeting, when the guy was carrying trash cans into his garage. CCTV cameras high school show that he did not appear there. Jason had no personal problems or any other reason for disappearing, nor is there any evidence that anything could have happened to him. His further fate remains a mystery twelve years later.
In 2003, Jim and Kelly Yolkowski immortalized the name of their son by founding their project, a non-profit organization that has become one of the most famous funds for the families of the missing.
10. Nicole Morin
On July 30, 1985, eight-year-old Nicole Morin left her mother's Toronto penthouse. That morning, Nicole was going to swim in the pool with her friend. She said goodbye to her mother and left the apartment, but 15 minutes later her friend came to find out why Nicole had not yet left.
Nicole's disappearance led to one of the largest police investigations in Toronto history, but no trace of the girl was ever found. The most plausible assumption was that someone could have kidnapped Nicole immediately after she left the apartment, but the building had twenty floors, so it would be quite difficult to get her out of there without being noticed.
One of the residents said that he saw Nicole approaching the elevator, but no one else saw or heard anything. Nearly thirty years later, authorities have still not collected enough information to determine what happened to Nicole Morin.
The organizers explained why children get lost, how they organize their rescue, and why not all of them are found.
"Lisa Alert" searches for missing people for free. Photo: AiF / Aliya Sharafutdinova
For the “Not Childish” exhibition, the organizers selected a room that is undergoing renovation. Bare plastered walls, dampness and coolness create a heavy atmosphere, which intensifies when you realize that missing children are looking at you from photographs, and happy or tragic stories whole families.
In memory of Lisa
The story of the missing and deceased Lisa Fomkina from Orekhovo-Zuevo inspired thousands of caring people to fight and search.
The Lisa Alert squad appeared in 2010 after the incident in Orekhovo-Zuevo. Then five-year-old Lisa Fomkina got lost in the forest with her aunt. For five days, almost no one looked for her. When information about the missing person appeared on the Internet, about 500 volunteers went out to search for her. Lisa was found on the tenth day after her disappearance. If it were not for the belated reaction of the internal affairs bodies and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the girl would have been alive. An examination found that the child died from hypothermia the day before the discovery.
Each of the volunteers has their own life: work, family, worries. But despite this, if a request for help comes, they go meter by meter to examine forested areas, hand out leaflets with orientation, and are on duty on the phone.
For anyone who has encountered such a problem, Lisa Alert has opened a free hotline: 8-800-700-54-52 .
The exhibition is dedicated to the work of the detachment. Photo: AiF / Aliya Sharafutdinova
In the first hall of the exhibition there are photographs dedicated to the work of the detachment, and advice to parents: how to protect their child from harm. All photographs are black and white, there are no staged shots among them.
There are no staged shots here. Photo: AiF / Aliya Sharafutdinova
The second hall is dedicated to the stories of missing children. The room is divided into nine zones, each of which tells about the disappearance of the child, the progress of his search and future fate baby.
The team consists of people from different social status. Photo: AiF / Aliya Sharafutdinova
There are signboards testifying from Lisa Alert volunteers about the search, and media clippings about the progress of the search. Sheets painted orange and white symbolize the successful search for a child, signs in black tones represent the stories of children found dead.
The child wandered in the forest for four days
On June 19, 2010, 4-year-old Sasha Kononov was visiting with his mother in the dacha village “Rodnik” (Noginsky district). At about 3 p.m., mother and son set off on foot to their home village of Stromyn along a forest path.
At night, the rescuers received a call from their relatives: the Kononovs were missing. Emergency Situations Ministry employees began combing the forest. Dog handlers, military, firefighters, police, foresters and hunters, as well as an army of volunteers, joined the search. The work was complicated by the fact that the area was very swampy, and there were many snakes in the area.
On June 21, the boy’s mother, Olga, was found in a semi-fainting state. Lifeguard one and a half kilometers along swampy forest carried her in his arms to the car.
The squad's volunteers search for children in urban areas and in forests. Photo: AiF / Aliya Sharafutdinova
A child's bicycle and shoe were found near the woman.
On the night of June 21-22, 600 people were already looking for Sasha. Volunteers and rescuers combed 40 square kilometers dense forest. On the morning of June 22, volunteer Alexander Efimov found the boy. He was very scared, dehydrated and bitten by mosquitoes. The child was hospitalized.Later it turned out that Sasha’s 30-year-old mother is disabled and suffers from multiple sclerosis. She probably had a seizure in the forest and lost her direction.
Sacrifice of one's own parents
At the end of February 2012, a tragedy occurred in Bryansk. On February 22 and 23, Alexander Kulagin celebrated the holiday with a large number alcohol. From another scandal Eight-month-old Anya woke up and burst into tears. The father attacked his daughter with his fists, hitting her on the head, and then twice forcefully threw the child onto the sofa.
The parents did not help the beaten girl, put her on a blanket in the bathroom and left her to die. Anya died on February 26.
The criminals carried the daughter's body out onto the balcony. It lay there until March 4th. Afterwards, Svetlana Shkaptsova asked her husband to take out the remains and destroy them.
In death infant the parents are to blame. Photo: AiF / Aliya Sharafutdinova
The couple came up with a plan to stage the kidnapping of a child in order to hide traces of the crime.
From March 4 to March 11, the parents of the murdered woman walked down the street several times with an empty baby stroller. They also bought children's toys in the store, and when talking with relatives on a mobile phone, they imitated the sounds allegedly made by an infant.
In the afternoon, Svetlana Shkaptsova put Anya’s clothes in her daughter’s stroller, covered them with a rain cover and went to the store.
On the way, she bought a toy in a store, focusing the merchant’s attention on the fact that it was for her daughter.At 17.11, the woman left the stroller near the Zoo store and went to buy food and vitamins for the cat. At this moment, Alexander Kulagin, dressed in women's clothing, acted out a child abduction scene. He stole a stroller that allegedly contained a girl.
The father of the murdered girl thought out the plan in advance. He came secretly from Moscow, where he was working at that time. After staging the kidnapping, he burned the women’s belongings and returned to the capital the next day.
Svetlana Shkaptsova contacted the police. Volunteers learned about the trouble and began a search for Anya, to which hundreds of people joined every day. As a result, more than a thousand volunteers were looking for the child.
Information about the disappearance of the child quickly spread among Lisa Alert volunteers. On the forum search party messages from search participants were recorded. Grigoriy writes at 15.31 on March 21, 2012: “We held a meeting with the police. We work in the area of the loss: markets, train station. The local guys are great. We agreed on local printing of orientation cards directly from the police. 10,000 pieces."
The police's suspicion was aroused by the calm behavior of the girl's mother. Realizing that there were inconsistencies in the testimony of Shkaptsova and Kulagin, but they would still insist on their own, the investigators allowed the father to leave for Moscow to his place of work. When Shkaptsova was left alone, the woman’s feeling of guilt prevailed and she told what really happened to her daughter.
Anya's father and killer were given 19 years in a maximum security colony, Svetlana Shkaptsova is serving a sentence of 4 years and 3 months in a general security colony.
Gone in an instant
On August 5, 2012, 9-year-old Sasha Tselykh was relaxing with her mother and her friend on the beach of the Don River near the Kalinin farm. At some point, the girl asked to go to the toilet and disappeared.
They are still looking for Sasha Tselykh. Photo: AiF / Aliya Sharafutdinova
After a three-hour independent search, Sasha’s mother contacted the police. Almost all residents of the village of Zaplavskaya, Oktyabrsky district, participated in the search for the missing Sasha. Her parents are still looking for her...
Dasha Sotniova was found alive. Photo: AiF / Aliya Sharafutdinova
But the story of 5-year-old Dasha Sotnikova ended happily - she was found alive and unharmed two kilometers from her house near a swamp. The girl disappeared from the courtyard of the house where she was visiting relatives in the Gagarinsky district of the Smolensk region. The relatives left the girl for only a couple of minutes. Passers-by and neighbors did not see the child.
Vasilisa's room
At the Kazan exhibition there was a separate room, called “Vasilisa’s room” by “Lisa Alert” activists, in memory of Vasilisa Galitsina, whose death a year ago shocked the residents of Naberezhnye Chelny and all of Tatarstan. On the walls are lines from a letter supposedly written by hand dead girl, conveying the pain and horror of a child falling into the hands of a rapist.
Vasilisa Galitsina did not return home after the choreography group on February 2, 2013. Almost the entire city took part in the search for the young resident of the motor city.
The disaster that happened to Vasilisa Galitsina shocked Tatarstan. Photo: AiF / Aliya Sharafutdinova
On February 3, some fragments of the girl’s clothing and school supplies were found along the side of the M-7 highway. There were witnesses who told how they helped a man, in whose car a girl similar in description was sitting, to get out of a snowdrift. On February 5, Farrukh Tashbaev, a suspect in the murder of a schoolgirl, was detained. He showed the place where he left the child's body.
“The history of Lisa Alert’s activities in Tatarstan began with Vasilisa Galitsina,” admitted the curator regional office“Lisa Alert” Aiguzel Khairieva. “God grant that such stories will not be repeated again, and children will not get lost.”
You can contact the Lisa Alert search team by phone toll free hotline: 8-800-700-54-52 .
Anyone can help find people. On the Lisa Alert website you can leave your profile and contacts. You can see who Lisa Alert is looking for now.
The disappearance of Lucy Johnson was strange from the very beginning. Lucy was last seen by neighbors in September 1961, but her husband did not report her missing until May 1965. It is completely unclear why the husband waited four years before going to the police and telling them that his wife had disappeared. If he is involved in the case, why go to the police, and if not, why wait four years? Of course, it was Lucy's husband who became the first suspect. Police searched the entire backyard of the Johnson home in an attempt to find the remains of the missing woman, but were unsuccessful.
Lucy's daughter Linda Evans, already an adult, really wanted to find her mother. Despite all reason, she believed that her mother was alive. After finding Lucy's old documents, Linda went on television to ask viewers to help locate her mother. Much to Linda's surprise, a woman named Rhonda responded to the ad and explained that she was also Lucy Johnson's daughter.
It turned out that Lucy had been living with another family all this time, fifty years. She had four more children with her new husband. She explained the reason for her escape by saying that her first husband was a tyrant at home. He did not allow her to take the children with her, but Lucy could no longer stay with him.
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After 52 years, mother and daughter were reunited. For the first time in so many years, Linda saw her mother's face. “I don’t know how to describe it,” she says, “I saw my face in her face, my eyes in hers.” But a difficult question was still asked: why? “She said my father treated her very badly, he cheated on her all the time,” Evans said. “She said he told her to get out, she came back to pick us up, but her father forbade her to go near the children.” She left and never tried to contact us again."
Runaway lovers
Jacqueline Raines-Kruckman was 18 years old, but by this time she already had two children: two years old and six months old. She was on the verge of divorcing her husband and was already living with her parents again. In September 1965, Jacqueline said she was going to a friend's wedding, but never returned.
Melvin Uphoff worked for Jacqueline's husband. He disappeared from home a month after Jacqueline went missing. Melvin also had a family - a wife and children. Many people gossiped that Melvin and Jacqueline fled together, but the police still started searching.
In 2009, authorities were on the trail of the couple. It turned out that Melvin and Jacqueline actually lived together. They stated that they escaped on purpose and are now demanding respect for the right to immunity privacy. They do not want to let their own children and families know about themselves. Due to the lack of evidence of a crime, the cases of Melvin and Jacqueline were closed.
"Too Young to Be a Mother"
Lula Gillespie-Miller was 28 years old when she gave birth to her third child. The woman believed that she was too young to be a mother, so she signed a waiver of the baby in favor of her parents. In 1974 she escaped. Lula sent just one letter to her family, after which she disappeared.
In 2014, The Doe Network, a volunteer organization dedicated to searching for missing people, contacted Indiana police Sergeant Scott Jarvis, who agreed to take on the 40-year-old case. He found references to a woman matching Gillespie-Miller's description in Texas around the 1980s. Scott suggested that she was still living there under a false name.
Lula was indeed found - after 42 years of silence. Her daughter Tammy was shocked by what she heard. “This is not going to be the subject of one of those reality TV sob stories,” Tammy warned. Although Tammy did try to contact her mother and called her on the phone, Gillespie-Miller said she would talk to her daughter when she was ready. Her daughter believes that day will never come.
The Invisible Woman
The disappearance of Petra Pashitka is considered one of the most strange cases in police chronicles. When Petra was 24 years old, in 1984, she disappeared without a trace from her university dormitory in Braunschweig, Germany. Any attempts by the police to follow Petra's trail were unsuccessful, and five years later the authorities were forced to declare Petra dead.
However, 31 years later, Petra was found alive and well. She lived in different parts Germany under fictitious names. Petra had almost no documents with her: no bank account, not even insurance.
The police managed to find her when they responded to a call for a robbery at the apartment of a woman who tried her best to hide her real name. In the end, Petra revealed who she was. The police were shocked, but Petra said that she was not going to contact her family and just wanted to be left alone.
Married two years after his own death
Richard Hoagland and Linda Eisler lived the life of simple burghers in the city of Indianapolis. Linda was Richard's second wife, the couple could afford a large house, several cars and exotic holiday wherever they wish.
On the day of his disappearance, Richard complained to his wife about feeling unwell and decided to immediately go to the hospital. This was the last time he made contact with Linda. Police found his car abandoned at the airport. But there was no record of Richard leaving the city. The following summer, Richard sent the children cards wishing them a happy birthday, each containing $50. He never contacted them again.
23 years later, Richard was discovered living under the name Terry Szymanski. Richard stole Mr. Szymanski's death certificate. He even married a woman named Mary, bought a house in Florida and raised a child with his new wife. The police found him thanks to the nephew of the real Mr. Szymanski, who suddenly discovered that his uncle got married... two years after own death.
Kidnapped or rescued?
Richard Wayne Landers Jr. grew up in dysfunctional family. His parents fought constantly and, in the end, the boy ended up in a homeless shelter. Social Services They ruled that the boy's mother suffered from mental retardation. The father filed for divorce and “disappeared from the horizon.” The boy was taken in by his grandparents - they received temporary custody of their grandson.
After some time, the court ruled that Richard Wayne should return to his mother (who was then living in the car), but his grandparents were strongly against this idea. In the end, they withdrew all the money from their account and fled. For 19 years, Richard's mother and the police tried to find him. They succeeded, but by that time he had already grown up and started a family. Wayne justifies the actions of his grandparents, despite the fact that they acted against the law.
Maybe you'll find something here, but for now... strange deaths and subsequent shocking discoveries.
1. Croatian woman sat dead in front of her TV for 42 years
A woman's remains have been found sitting in front of the television 42 years after she was reported missing. Jedviga Golik, who was born in 1924, apparently made herself a cup of tea before sitting down in her favorite chair in front of the black and white television. Croatian police said neighbors last saw her in 1966, when she was 42 years old. All this time her neighbors naively thought that she had moved to Zagreb.
However, she was found by police and bailiffs when they broke into the apartment to help authorities identify who owned it. When the employees walked in, they said it felt like a place frozen in time. The cup she had drunk tea from was still on the table next to the chair where she had been sitting, and the house was full of things that had not been seen in a long time. Nothing had been disturbed for decades, although there were a lot of cobwebs there.
Despite numerous complaints from tenants who noticed that no one had entered or left the apartment since 1970 and requests to break into and inspect the apartment, no one responded to their requests for four decades.
2. An undetected 38-year-old woman lay dead for three years.
On 25 January 2006, employees of a north London housing association decided to break into a room in Wood Green after three years due to rent arrears. And a grim discovery awaited them there. On the sofa lay the skeleton of a 38-year-old woman who had died almost three years earlier. In one corner of the room the TV was on, playing BBC1, and there was a small stack of unopened Christmas presents lying on the floor nearby. Dishes were stacked in the sink and there was a mountain of mail by the front door.
Death apparently came in late 2003, her remains lying undetected for three years despite the smell of decomposition emanating from her apartment.
Due to the extensive decomposition of the body, the only way to identify the body was to compare a photo of Joyce Vincent with a holiday photo where she appeared to be smiling. The cause of death has not been determined due to the condition of the remains, but police believe Vincent's death was natural.
This story formed the basis of the film Dreams of Life, in which the investigation revealed that the woman was an acquaintance of many influential members of the London pop scene of the 80s and 90s.
In May 2013, the mummified remains of Chicana (Mexican-American) author feminist movement), activists and teachers were found in her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Authorities and family members believe the body of Barbara Salinas-Norman, who was 70, may have been in the home. more than a year.
At one time, Salinas was a prominent children's author. She wrote and published stories through Pinata Publications, which she founded to help Mexican-American children.
However, in recent years Salinas became a recluse and experienced financial difficulties.
Salinas' body was discovered by her brother-in-law, Luis Ponche, who visited the house determined to find her because it had been a long time, more than two years, since he had last heard from her.
When he entered the house, which was filled with a "horrible smell", Ponche found her mummified remains near a poster parodying Rosie the Riveter.
A preliminary autopsy indicated Salinas' death was likely due to natural causes.
4. A man lay dead in his apartment for two years until cleaners came to clean out his house.
A lonely man lay dead in his city center apartment for two years after his death, which no one knew about. Simon Allen's skeletal remains were only discovered when cleaners entered his home. In November 2012, his body, wearing only a pair of socks, was found lying behind a chair in the living room of his flat in Brighton, East Sussex.
Eleven days earlier, the landlord and bailiffs had entered the first floor of the house to investigate why rent had not been paid for months. Neighbors said they smelled a "musty smell" in the hallway outside the apartment before the body was found, but did not notice anything else unusual. Police believed Mr Allen died in December 2010, when he was approximately 50 years old.
They were unable to locate his family or friends, and only found a few personal items in the apartment Mr. Allen had rented since 1999.
Police said there were no suspicious circumstances identified in the death and the cause of death could not be confirmed.
5. A Lonely Florida Woman May Have Been Dead for Three Years Before She Was Found
In August 2013, the decomposed body of Geneva Chambers was discovered by a gardener at her Florida home.
Once police began investigating, they learned that Chambers preferred solitude when she was alive. She ordered her neighbors to leave her private property, and even angrily drove away the woman who offered her cookies.
It is disgusting that Chambers may have been dead in her home for three years. According to court documents, foreclosure notices were issued in 2009 and all public utilities were turned off by June 2010.
Neighbors believed Chambers had left the house. However, they continued to mow Chambers' lawn in recent years, completely unaware that her body was inside.
More than a year's worth of mail addressed to a 68-year-old woman was found in her home. Chambers' last known contact with people was in April 2010 during a bail transaction.
One neighbor said: "It remains big question: why none of her friends and relatives tried to contact her. A very sad situation. A very lonely person... What kind of life did she live?"
Local police ruled that there was no crime in her death.
6A Man Was Found Dead Four Years After His Suicide In A Home He'd Foreclosed On
Abandoned houses have become an increasingly common sight in the United States. However, what may be hidden behind closed doors it could be much worse.
In 2012, a Milwaukee real estate agent walked into one of these homes after it was repossessed due to a tax foreclosure and saw something he was unlikely to forget. Investigators found the body of the owner, David Carter, "almost skeletal" on the stairs, which had lain there undetected for four years.
Carter, who was described by friends and acquaintances as "smart and generous" and even "funny," quit his job as a peace officer for the city of Milwaukee in 2007, telling co-workers that he planned to move to New Mexico. Instead, Carter apparently committed suicide. He was found with a bullet wound in his head and a gun on his chest on what would have been his 45th birthday.
7. Elderly man died at least 15 years ago and was found in his bed, still wearing his pajamas
A human skeleton completely clad in pajamas is believed to have lain undetected in an abandoned house for more than 15 years. It was discovered in the northern city of Lille, France. French police are trying to identify a body believed to be that of the house's elderly owner.
The man lived alone and, as it turned out, he had no relatives. Authorities found piles of unopened mail in a home dating back to 1996. He was of Spanish descent and was born in 1921, according to French reports.
8. In Germany, a man was found dead in bed seven years after his death.
In 2007, the body of a deceased German man was discovered in his bed, almost seven years after the man supposedly died. Police in German city Essene said the man was 59 years old when he died and it was concluded that the man died around the turn of the century. The estimated date of death is November 30, 2000. The man was single and unemployed at the time of his death. Police believe the death was caused by natural causes.
The man received a letter from the Welfare Office on the day of his death. Police found a pack of cigarettes near his body. television program and several Deutschmarks (which were no longer in circulation since Germany switched to the Euro).
The man's apartment was located in a building that also contained offices and other apartments. Although many of these apartments are now vacant, one would think that the smell of a corpse rotting for several years might have alerted one or two people over the years, but apparently not.
Of course, the most interesting part of this story is that no one noticed that their grandfather/friend/partner was missing.
"Nobody missed him. No missing person report was ever filed," local police said. Somewhere in western Germany someone should be kicking themselves for forgetting the existence of their loved one.
9The Elderly Australian Woman Was Dead For Eight Years Before Her Body Was Found
Apparently, when the elderly Australian woman went missing eight years ago, no one bothered to call the police. Neither relatives, nor neighbors, nor government officials who continued to receive payment for services from her benefits social security from the bank account, which remained untouched, they did not notice her disappearance.
In 2011 federal police A NSW woman discovered skeletal remains on the floor of her Sydney home after her sister-in-law called police to say she had not heard from the woman, who was 87, since 2003.
Police were trying to determine exactly when the woman died but said they did not think the death was suspicious. The woman was a recluse with no relatives except her sister-in-law, Dzevlan said. The two had a fight in 2003 and never spoke again. Police have not said why the daughter-in-law waited years to report the woman missing or what prompted her to call now.
As years passed, utility workers cut off the electricity and water to the woman's home. Centrolink, the state-owned welfare enterprise, continued to pay benefits into her bank account, which remained untouched. Her mail was forwarded to her sister-in-law's house until 2003, but eventually stopped arriving. Neighbors told police they hadn't seen her in years and assumed the house was vacant.
Police said the woman's home was locked and furnished, and it looked like no one had lived there in years.
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