A massive search is underway for a woman who set out for a hike at Washington’s Vesper Peak on Wednesday—and whom authorities say hasn’t been seen or heard from since. Samantha Sayers, 28, is thought to have went hiking in the Cascade Mountains, located about an hour and 45 minutes northeast of Seattle, at approximately …
Mollie Tibbetts’ mom has an offer for whoever might have taken her daughter. Return her 20-year-old daughter and you can collect the $260,000 reward. While police don’t know if the Iowa college student was kidnapped, a Crime Stoppers spokesman says they are trying to “shake the tree” with the huge reward, which can be paid …
A teenager is crediting a postal worker with saving her from the captivity of alleged sex traffickers in California. According to a Fox News report, 16-year-old Crystal Allen says she was held against her will be alleged sex traffickers who “drugged, tortured and abused” her for three weeks before she made a daring escape from …
Eleven children were rescued Saturday from squalid living conditions with little food and no water in a remote New Mexico compound, the Associated Press reports. “It was the saddest living conditions and poverty I have seen,” Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said. Five adults – two men and three women – were accompanying the children. …
The search for a missing three-year-old girl in Bryan, Texas, has taken a dark turn as investigators found human remains near her home. According to an ABC 13 report, Rayven Shields was reported missing by Child Protective Services on Monday, after a case worker visit to her home raised concerns. Rayven was not seen at the …
A 12-year-old Chinese girl thought to have been abducted Thursday from Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., was actually picked up by her two biological parents in what’s being called a misunderstanding. WJLA reported that JinJing Ma’s parents, who have been in the U.S. for two years, learned of the AMBER Alert issued for …
Virginia State Police say an elderly man who vanished on Wednesday, possibly abducted, could be headed toward Maryland with an abductor. NBC Washington reports that 88-year-old John Alee Wimbush disappeared from his home off of Forest Street in Martinsville, Virginia, on Wednesday morning at around 10:28 a.m. He could be in the company of Valerie Vianna Swinson, 59. Police …
The mother of a Florida teen who vanished from home five years ago said she’s received a letter from her missing daughter. Pam Massimiani took to Facebook on July 26 and announced that Emily Paul, her now-19-year-old daughter, has reached out to her for the first time since April 2013. Massimiani later confirmed the letter’s existence …
Police in Ohio are asking for the public’s help in locating a 15-year-old Coshocton teen who was reported missing Saturday evening. Per the Coshocton Tribune, Samuel J. Walters was last seen at a pond near County Road 495, just off U.S. 36. The Coshocton County Sheriff’s Office said a fisherman at the location that night could …
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A 911 call made by missing but presumed-dead mother of four, Bethamy Gamboa, was released on Monday, shortly after police announced that her former boyfriend reportedly confessed to killing her. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Lamont Johnson, 41, currently behind bars on second-degree murder and child abuse charges, allegedly confessed to Virginia Beach authorities that he killed his …
Missing mother of four, Bellamy Gamboa, and the father of her two youngest children, Lamont Johnson, apparently filed assault charges against each around a year prior to her disappearance. WAVY reports that according to court documents, Gamboa, 40, filed assault charges against Johnson on March 26, 2017, stemming from two reported physical altercations on March …
