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Unsolved means there is not enough evidence to convince a jury, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a defendant is guilty. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, one in four homicides remains unsolved each year. Polly Klaas® Foundation is a member of the Association for Missing and Exploited Children Organizations (AMECO), an international association of nonprofit organizations that serve missing and exploited children, their families and law enforcement. Holly Piirainen, 10, disappeared on Aug. 5, 1993, after she and her brother went to a neighbor's to play with puppies. Her brother returned without her. JonBenet Ramsey, 6 -- In 1996, the Christmas night murder of JonBenét in her Boulder, CO home shocked America. No arrests were forthcoming. Despite a national obsession with this case, nobody really knows what happened. Molly Bish, 16, was a high school junior who just started a summer job as a lifeguard. She disappeared in the town of Warren, Mass. They Unexplained Death of Caylee Anthony-- This case being categorized as unsolved is a technicality. Nobody has been found guilty of her murder. Even though her mother claims she died of an accidental drowning.
Okfuskee County, OK. Taylor Paschal Placker,13, and Skyla Whitaker,11, were walking on a county road near Taylor’s home in the late afternoon of June 8th, 2008. Numerous shots were fired at the girls from two guns.They died at the scene. The case is open and active. A reward of $160,000 is offered. If anyone has information, they are urged to call the OSBI at 1-800-522-8017 On September 20, 1997, the body of Leah Rochelle Mahseet, a 16-year-old Cheyenne-Arapaho student was discovered on a county road north of Geary, Oklahoma. She was last seen alive at a Geary Conoco gas station, September 14, 1997, at about 9:00 p.m. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Blaine County Sheriff’s Office are handling the investigation. A $15,000 reward is offered. Elsie Paroubek, a five-year-old daughter of Czech immigrants in Chicago, went missing on April 8, 1911. An intense police investigation covered three states. It was commonly believed she was stolen by Gypsies or Travellers. Her body was found a month later. The Grimes sisters, Barbara, 15 and Patricia,13, disappeared December 28, 1956, in Chicago, after going to a theater about a mile a way to see Love me Tender, an Elvis Presley movie with a total of $2.15 between them. At around 9:30 pm, they were in the theater's popcorn line. The movie ended at 11 pm. At 2:15 am, their mother reported them missing, resulting in Chicagos largest missing-persons search. Elvis Presley publicly asked the girls to come home. Their cut, punctured, bruised, nude bodies were found overlapping each other, beside an icy road on January 22, 1957. The bodies were believed to have been there for several days under a snowfall and preserved by low temperatures. The cause of death was ruled exposure. Police were never able to determine what happened to the sisters. Photos | Cook County Sheriff's Office. There is a current book out on this case: Murder Gone Cold by Tamara Shaffer. Locate sex offenders using the free FBI national registry. PO Box 6166 Olympia, WA 98507 Copyright Kari Sable 1994-2011 |
Mommy's Little Girl: Casey Anthony and her Daughter Caylee's Tragic Fate Inside the Mind of Casey Anthony: A Psychological Portrait—Keith Ablow “I’m writing this as a forensic psychiatrist and journalist. My goal is for people to understand as much as possible about how this little girl disappeared from the face of the earth by using psychological reasoning as a lens to explore the death of Caylee Anthony.” —Keith Ablow in Hollywood Reporter Feature on INSIDE THE MIND OF CASEY ANTHONY |
