A man suspected of involvement in the young girl’s disappearance committed suicide two days after she vanished.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Amber Renee Barker, 10, was a 4th grader at James Monroe Elementary School. She was one of eight children born to Robert Barker and Bonnie Barker. Her parents were divorced, and she resided with her mother at 3119 NW 39 Terrace.
The brown-haired, brown-eyed girl had many…
The Pittsburgh teens were at a Virginia Beach motel for a few days when an intruder broke into their cottage and killed them.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — During their sophomore year at Penn Hills High School in Pennsylvania, Janice Pietropola and Lynn Seethaler, 19, met and instantly became inseparable. Both girls were popular and had many friends.
Pietropola worked at the Gold Circle restaurant and had excellent grades and a strong work ethic…
Debra stayed home from school after falling on ice and disappeared after her parents left for work.
ALLENSTOWN, N.H. — Debra Horn, 11, resided with her family in Allenstown and attended sixth grade at her local school. Small in stature, she stood 4 feet, 4 inches tall, and weighed about 50 pounds. …
Mother and son vanished without a trace in October 2002.
VALDOSTA, Ga. — Paula Ann Wade, 25, was a former military wife originally from Florida. She had one son, Brandon Lee Wade, born July 15, 1999.
Her marriage to Lance Wade, a staff sergeant assigned to Moody Air Force base, fell apart, and the couple separated. Lance Wade was reassigned…
Gettis Lee had numerous affairs and was possibly involved in criminal activity.
BRADENTON, Fla. — Gettis and Merrill Lee were well-known in the Parrish community as they had lived there for decades on 121st Avenue East in a home built by Gettis Lee in the 1930s. Lee, 63, owned a general store and was considered the unofficial “mayor’ of Parrish who helped…
A family member found the mother and son dead and another son unharmed, hiding in a closet of their mobile home.
HEFLIN, Ala. — Young mother Monica Fay Pritchett Rollins, 23, loved her children dearly and was excited for the arrival of her third child, a boy to be named “Cheyne.”
Rollins was a busy mom, balancing a full-time job and raising her two sons, Dalton, 6, and Aaron, 2. She…
Wiss was a key witness in an upcoming felony criminal trial but disappeared before she could testify.
WICHITA, Kan. — At 16 years old, April Susanne Wiss was a typical teenager desperate for liberation.
Born on Sept. 1, 1983, Wiss grew into a tall, rebellious, fiercely independent teenager. …
The young mother disappeared from Fort Campbell nearly 50 years ago.
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — Alice Fay Jefferson was born on April 30, 1954. By the time she reached adulthood, she had given birth to two children, Paula and Johnny.
She eventually married an Army soldier named Lee Andrew Jefferson. He was not her children’s father. …
The teenager left home to visit a family friend and has not been seen since.
OWENSBORO, Ky. — Shannon Rena Green, 16, left her home at 907 W. 2nd St. at 12:30 p.m. on July 6, 1986, to walk to the home of a family friend, John Edgar Reneer, then aged 39. He resided at 1430 Haynes Ave., two and a half miles from Green’s…
Her grisly killing outraged an entire nation and is considered one of the most vicious crimes in Australian history.
SYDNEY — Anita Cobby was a gorgeous woman who easily could have been a model and had dreamed of becoming one at a particular time in her life.
During her youth, she participated in several beauty pageants. …
