Hey everyone,
I wanted to share this story- the disappearance of 16-year-old Owen Harding.

For context, Owen vanished from his home in Saltdean, East Sussex, on the evening of March 26, 2020 —just days after the UK entered its first strict nationwide lockdown. Owen had been struggling deeply with the travel restrictions because they cut him off from his girlfriend, Meg, who lived 280 miles away in Yorkshire. Following a tense argument with his mother about the restrictions, Owen walked out of the house around 6:00 PM to "stomp it off" and watch the sunset at the nearby Telscombe Cliffs. He never returned.
What makes this case a compelling subject for a meta-discussion is how the unique reality of March 2020 completely hindered the initial response and fueled wildly different theories.

Because trains were halted, one theory his family and friends considered was that a determined, emotional teenager might have impulsively tried to walk the entire 280 miles north to see his girlfriend.

However, CCTV later tracked him walking directly toward the cliff paths, and his girlfriend confirmed they were on the phone together right before his signal went dead around 6:23 PM Facebook. This led authorities to fear a tragic accident on the cliffs, with oceanographers noting that low tides and specific weather patterns that evening could have swept a body straight out to sea. Adding to the mystery, police later investigated pings from his phone that suggested potential unconfirmed activity much further away in South London (Bromley/West Wickham).

Owen's mother, Stella Harding, has openly spoken about the "excruciating uncertainty" of the case and how the isolation of the first lockdown aggravated the mental health and emotional struggles of teenagers across the globe.

I also cover this case on my podcast to spred awereness and in the episode, we analyze the timeline of that specific evening, the profound impact of the early pandemic lockdowns on youth mental health, and the technical breakdown of the phone pings and tidal tracking.
Listen to the episode here.

As Owen has now been missing for several years, his family is still desperately searching for answers. Does anyone have any recent updates on this case, or know if Sussex Police have followed up on the London phone pings or any new local leads lately?

David Glenn Lewis was born in 1953 in Borger, Texas. He went to Texas Tech, earned a political science degree in 1975, a law degree in 1979, and later became an attorney. He married Karen in 1982, and they had a daughter in 1983. David eventually became a judge in Moore County, later returned to private law practice in Amarillo, and also taught government at Amarillo College.

January 28, 1993: Mystery Begins

On Thursday, January 28, David went to work at his law firm but left early because he said he wasn't feeling well. That evening, however, he still went to Amarillo College and taught his government class until approximately 10 p.m. This is the last publicly disclosed confirmed sighting of David in the Amarillo area. Karen and their daughter were going to Dallas for a weekend shopping trip. David stayed behind.

January 31, 1993: Karen comes home

On Sunday night, Karen and their daughter returned to Amarillo. David was gone, and so was his Ford Explorer. Even more strange was that his wedding ring and watch were on the kitchen counter, the TV was on, and the VCR was still recording Super Bowl XXVII. Karen went to bed thinking David was probably just out somewhere and would show up at some point.

February 1, 1993: David is reported missing

The next day, Monday, February 1, David still hadn't returned home and failed to appear for scheduled work appointments. Concerned, Karen reported him missing. Police now had a genuine missing-person case: a 39-year-old attorney and former judge had disappeared, leaving many of his ordinary possessions behind.

His Ford Explorer was subsequently found in the parking area at the Amarillo courthouse. Inside were more of his personal effects. In the cupholders was his wallet, drivers license, checkbook, two gas-station credit cards, and under a floormat were the keys to both his vehicle and house. Police investigated but ultimately couldn't find David.

John Doe

Now we have to leave Texas because while Amarillo authorities were looking for a missing attorney, another mystery was happening 1,606 miles away.

February 1, 1993: Moxee, Washington

At approximately 10:30 p.m., motorists were traveling along State Route 24 outside Moxee, Washington, east of Yakima. They encountered a man in the roadway. The man appeared disoriented and was walking around in or near the traffic lanes. The motorists passed him, became concerned, and turned around to warn other drivers. When they got back, the man was lying in the road. He had been struck by a vehicle. He was dead.

A Chevrolet Camaro was observed leaving the area, but investigators never established who had struck the man. Police searched the body but found no identification. Nobody knew who he was. Tests found that he wasn't intoxicated. He was wearing military-style camouflage fatigues and work boots. Washington authorities had themselves an unidentified dead man. A John Doe.

The Lewis investigation eventually went cold. David's family still didn't know where he was, and the unidentified man in Washington remained unidentified.

2003: Detective Ditter Takes Another Look

Ditter had read newspaper reporting about problems with long-unsolved missing-person and unidentified-person cases.

That made him wonder whether the Moxee John Doe might be listed somewhere as a missing person but had simply never been properly connected to the Washington case.

So, Ditter tried something different. He used Google. He searched for missing men, matching his John Doe's physical characteristics. After about a week, he had narrowed the possibilities to roughly a dozen men. Then he found a missing man from Amarillo, Texas. David Glenn Lewis.

Ditter looked at David's photograph. He looked at the photographs and information concerning his unidentified man. They looked remarkably similar, but there was a problem, the glasses. David wore very distinctive eyeglasses. The dead man in Washington hadn't been wearing glasses when he was found.

However, Washington authorities had preserved the man's belongings and clothing as evidence. So, Ditter checked, and among that old evidence were eyeglasses. They resembled the distinctive glasses David Lewis wore in photographs. Now Ditter had something substantial. He contacted authorities in Amarillo, but resemblance and glasses weren't enough to prove that this was David. They needed DNA.

October 2004: The Answer

Fortunately, biological material from the unidentified man had been preserved.

David's mother, Esther Lewis, provided a DNA sample for comparison. The University of North Texas Health Science Center conducted the testing.

In October 2004, the result came back.

There was a reported 99.91% probability supporting the identification. The unidentified man killed on that Washington highway on February 1, 1993, was David Glenn Lewis.

Eleven years after David disappeared, his family finally learned what had happened to him. Or, more accurately, they learned where he had ended up. They still had no idea what had happened in between.

David disappeared from Amarillo, Texas.

On the same day his wife reported him missing, David somehow ended up 1,606 miles away near Moxee, Washington. His vehicle never went with him. It remained in Amarillo. His family knew of no connection between David and Washington State.

When he died, he was wearing camouflage fatigues and work boots that his family didn't recognize as his clothing. He had no identification, he wasn't intoxicated, and he was wandering on a highway late at night.

Nobody knows how he traveled from Texas to Washington, nobody knows why he went there, nobody knows why he was wearing those clothes, nobody knows what happened to him between leaving Amarillo and appearing on that highway, and nobody has ever identified the driver who struck him.

Theory: The Lawsuit and Upcoming Deposition

At the time of his disappearance, David was one of several defendants—including other attorneys and a former client—in a $3 million conflict-of-interest lawsuit brought by a former/wealthy client against David, several other attorneys associated with his former firm, Ham, Irwin, Graham & Cox, and an individual David had represented. David himself had not yet given his deposition. According to later accounts, he was the last of the defendants who still needed to be deposed.

David's wife, Karen, later pointed out that David's files and paperwork relating to the lawsuit could not be found after his disappearance. In other words, David disappeared, and the legal files connected with a case in which he still had to give testimony disappeared as well. Those files have never publicly been accounted for.

This naturally raised the question of whether the lawsuit had something to do with what happened to David. However, there has never been evidence establishing that connection. David's own attorney reportedly doubted the lawsuit provided a motive for anyone to make David disappear because there would be no benefit in doing so.

So one mystery was solved in 2004: The identity of the Moxee John Doe. However, the much larger mystery is what happened to David Glenn Lewis during the final days of his life? And, How/Why did he end up roughly 1,600 miles from home, walking along a dark highway at night, and wearing military fatigues that weren't even his?

FYI: The crime scene photos are AI/SI generated as there are no public crime scene photos. I wanted to give a visual aid to the story. Everything else, like the photo of David, the newspaper, and the story itself, are not AI/SI.

On the night of October 31, 2001, Cindy went out with friends Stacy Paik and Lisa Kim to The Players, a bar located just minutes from her apartment. The trio danced, drank, and mingled until last call at 2:00 a.m. After the bar closed, they went to a friend’s apartment to play video games.

Shortly before 4:00 a.m., Stacy dropped Cindy off at the steps of her apartment.

Stacy Paik, who will later tell police that she “watched her go up to the apartment, but not in the door,” before driving away. This is the last confirmed sighting of Cindy Song.

Before she disappeared, Cindy had made arrangements to spend time catching up with her roommate, Younjoo Kim — who went by her American name, Catherine. Catherine returned to their apartment on Thursday, November 1, in the early afternoon after an extended visit with family in Philadelphia. The front door was locked from the outside. Inside, the apartment was empty.

There were no signs of forced entry. No indication of a struggle. Nothing obviously disturbed.

Catherine assumed Cindy had stepped out briefly. They had plans that evening. They were supposed to go out with friends the following night. But Cindy never came back.

By Sunday, Catherine and Cindy’s friend Stacy went to the Ferguson Township Police Department. Police would not enter Cindy’s apartment until Monday November 5, 2001, four long days after she was last seen. What they found suggested she had made it home that night. Her bookbag was inside, along with her cell phone. Her false eyelashes were resting on the bathroom sink. But they could not account for her wallet, keys or debit card.

THE INVESTIGATION
Within weeks, Cindy’s disappearance gained international attention. The FBI became involved due to her status as an international student. The Korean Consulate stepped in. The investigative team briefly expanded from two officers to six. As the search intensified, Cindy’s mother, Bansoon Song, and her brother, Kiho Song, traveled from Seoul to Pennsylvania.

Cindy’s rent had been prepaid through the beginning of the fall semester and was covered through December. Her brother publicly stated that the family intended to continue paying it. They wanted the apartment preserved exactly as Cindy left it. Not emptied. Not reassigned. Not closed.

At some point in December, Bansoon discovered she could not access her daughter’s apartment. The locks had been changed. The family says they were not notified in advance. The apartment complex then known as State College Park Apartments, now Alight State College would not disclose the identity of the co-signer on Cindy’s lease.

Adding to the unease: Cindy’s bedroom door which reportedly had holes in it prior to her disappearance had been replaced. Some possessions were removed from the apartment. It is unclear what was taken, by whom, or under what authority. Forensic processing of the apartment did not occur until March 2002. Nothing of evidentiary value was publicly reported.

PHILADELPHIA SIGHTING?
In early November, a woman in Philadelphia reported hearing a woman crying from inside a car:

“Help me. Please help me.”

When she approached, the driver told her to get away. She later believed the woman in the car was Cindy Song. On December 5, 2001 (35 days after Cindy vanished) Ferguson police learned of the claim and traveled to Philadelphia. It was the first promising lead.

But inconsistencies in the witness’s statements weakened its credibility. The tip was eventually deemed unreliable. Months later, the witness was placed under controlled hypnosis in an attempt to recover additional detail. Nothing useful emerged. The case quickly became cold.

A GRAVEYARD IN LUZERNE COUNTY
Before March 2003, Detective Lieutenant Gary Capitano had never heard the name Hugo Selenski. That changed when a friend of Selenski’s asked authorities to look into a robbery. An informant emerged. That informant, Paul Weakley, led Capitano and other Luzerne County detectives to what would soon be described as a backyard graveyard.

In early June 2003, in a quiet backyard in Luzerne County, preparations were underway for a graduation party. Then police arrived, looking for a missing pharmacist, Michael Kerkowski. What they uncovered would ripple across Pennsylvania Five bodies buried in a yard. By mid-June, four were publicly identified. They were the pharmacist Kerkowski, his girlfriend, and two drug dealers. The fifth person has never been publicly identified.

Paul Weakley began cooperating with police in exchange for a reduced sentence — reduced meaning life imprisonment instead of something worse. Throughout the summer and early fall, he provided details about crimes involving himself and Hugo Selenski. He said he knew what happened to Cindy Song.

According to Weakley, in 2002 Hugo Selenski and Michael Kerkowski drove to State College. They encountered a young woman he described as a prostitute. They abducted her. Kerkowski sexually assaulted her. She was taken to Selenski’s home in Hunlock Creek and held there until she died. Weakley claimed Kerkowski kept a trophy: a pair of bunny ears.

Cindy’s reward posters described her Halloween costume. The early public descriptions were inconsistent about whether the ears were specifically listed. To this day, public documentation is unclear on whether law enforcement definitively confirmed that the ears were left inside the apartment.

On October 8, 2003, Ferguson Township Police met with Weakley and began examining his claims. He identified locations where bodies were allegedly buried. Those searches yielded nothing. Investigators turned their focus to Weakley. They searched his apartment. On his computer, they found extensive material related to Cindy’s disappearance. At the end of the day they had nothing to concretely tie Cindy to any of the men in the Luzerne area.

THE PSYCHIC

At the suggestion of the Penn State Paranormal Research Society, psychic Carla Baron was brought in. Baron was nationally known at the time and had gained visibility through appearances connected to MTV’s Fear.

Much of her involvement was not publicly detailed.

In April 2004, Baron and Detective Brian Sprinkle appeared on ABC’s Primetime Live. During the segment, Baron laid out tarot cards and claimed to communicate with Cindy’s spirit. She suggested the killer was “somebody obsessed with her” and referenced a third person connected to Selenski and Kerkowski. She also stated she felt Cindy’s presence in Luzerne County. But at the end of the day there is still no solid information to tie Cindy to Luzerne County.

As of today, her disappearance remains unsolved.

If you have credible information related to Cindy Song’s case, please contact the Ferguson Township Police Department directly at (814) 237-1172 or (800) 479-0050.

On November 9, 1933, twenty-two year old Brooke Hart left his father’s department store in downtown San Jose and walked to the garage where his Studebaker roadster was parked. He was supposed to drive his father to a meeting that evening. He never arrived.

Family received a call. Brooke had been kidnapped. The caller demanded $40,000 for his return.

Police traced a later ransom call to a telephone booth and arrested Thomas Thurmond. He gave up the name of John Holmes, who was arrested at a nearby hotel. Both men confessed to the kidnapping and murder.

According to their statements, they had taken Brooke to the San Mateo Bridge, struck him, bound him with baling wire, tied concrete blocks to him and thrown him into the bay.

But their confessions had not been tested in court. No jury had heard the evidence, and no defence lawyer had challenged their accounts.

Then, on November 26, seventeen days after Brooke disappeared, two duck hunters found his body in the bay.

News spread through San Jose that Sunday. Crowds gathered outside the Santa Clara County jail, where Thurmond and Holmes were being held. Radio reports announced that the prisoners would be lynched that night. The crowd grew. Sheriff William Emig asked Governor James Rolph to send in the National Guard.

Rolph refused.

That night, a group of men attacked the jail entrance with a length of pipe. Deputies tried to hold them back, but the mob broke through. Thurmond and Holmes were dragged from their cells, taken across the street to St. James Park and hanged from trees. People in the crowd took pieces of their clothing as souvenirs.

The two men had confessed to Brooke Hart’s murder. They had never stood trial. Whatever the evidence might have established, no court would examine it.

Rolph did not condemn the mob. He praised the lynchings as “the best lesson that California has ever given the country” and promised to pardon anyone convicted of taking part.

No one was ever convicted for the killings of Thurmond and Holmes.

Brooke Hart’s murder never went to trial. Neither did theirs.

More than 31 years after 22-year-old Elisabeth Membrey disappeared, the circumstances surrounding her suspected murder remain unresolved, and her family is still without the answers they deserve.
Elisabeth was last seen after leaving her workplace, the Manhattan Hotel in Ringwood, late on 6 December 1994. Blood was subsequently discovered at her home, and investigators believe she was killed before her body was removed. Her remains have never been found.

A significant development: the 2025 coronial inquest
In 2023, Victoria Police sought a further coronial inquest after new forensic evidence emerged. Investigators reported a DNA link between a man connected to Elisabeth’s housemate and evidence recovered from her car. However, prosecutors determined there were insufficient prospects of securing a conviction, and the man was not charged in connection with Elisabeth’s disappearance.

On 2 July 2025, State Coroner John Cain delivered his findings. He could not determine, on the required standard of proof, that the man was responsible for Elisabeth’s death. The findings therefore did not establish who killed her.
Where does the case stand now?
Elisabeth’s remains have not been recovered.
No person has been convicted of her murder.
The man charged in 2010, Shane Bond, was acquitted in 2012.
Victoria Police continues to invite information about the case.

A $1 million reward remains available for information leading to the conviction of the person or persons responsible,
A family’s continuing search for answers
Elisabeth’s mother, Joy Membrey, has spent decades seeking justice and hoping to find her daughter. The 2025 inquest did not provide the definitive answers her family had hoped for.
As of October 2026, the latest confirmed official information available for this update does not establish a killer or disclose the location of Elisabeth’s remains.
Anyone with relevant information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers Victoria on 1800 333 000 or submit information confidentially through Crime Stoppers Victoria⁠.

In Oct 2026 a current affair found the prime suspect who they for the first time could unmask as Andrew crump formally “MR C” named by Ashley Peterson Elisabeth best friend brother her house mate Vivienne crump.
suspect denies killing membrey
He denies any involvement her murder despite moving hundreds of kilometres 10 days after she vanished.

Joy Elisabeth’s mother for 32 years has advocated for her 22- year old daughter since disappearance 3 decades ago and prior to his death in 2023 her father Roger did as well, among Ashley Peterson her former ( named )best friend for the past 6 years on a dedicated Facebook in her honour and 18 years amongst forms online and forums and through the trial of Shane Andrew bond sharing a unique bond of friendship and co-workers, Ashley is dedicated to bring Elisabeth home and gone on many podcasts over the years, circle of friends whom Elisabeth or “Liz” had becomes noticeable in how she was a person a bubble of light as Ashley and other former friends and colleagues describe her joy and Roger describing their daughter as everything they ever wanted and a wonderful girl and beautiful young woman, kind and ambitious a beautiful and talented with dreams be a journalist in a tragic twist her dream job would arrive hours after she was murdered.

(Image from find Elisabeth membrey FB)

Does anyone remember the story of the town where everyone was calling 911 and the cops couldn't find the town even as the calls were coming in? They never found it after either, if I recall correctly.

Hello to everyone

I'd like to share a thing that happened to me, I don't find an explanation

I saw a colleague at work.

I left the spot where he was still standing.

I passed by the storage area on the floor below—I went right through there.

I didn’t see him go past me, and when I left the first location, he was still there.

I arrived at the storage area, and there he was—sitting and talking to another colleague.

Seems a bug of the simulation theory?!

So few months ago I was looking at my hometown and while exploring in Google Earth I saw this. (1st image :- so apparently it u click on these 2 circles it shows u an wedding hall. And I am confused that why is there an wedding hall in the middle of the mountain, and there is not a road conection which connects to this dot.)

(2nd image) :- here there are some weird circles that are there for no reason. Few people said it was for farming purpose but i cannot confirm if that's true. If someone knows about this let me know.

Looking for my father Gregory spanish he was coming at St jean le thomas

In August 2011, an Orlando mom named Michelle Parker and her ex-fiancé went on The People's Court.

They were fighting over a $5,000 engagement ring. On camera, the fight got ugly. Michelle talked about the relationship turning physical. She told the judge he could get malicious and vindictive.

The episode was set to air three months later.

On November 17, 2011, the day it hit TV, Michelle was 33. She was a bartender and a mother of three, including 3 year old twins she shared with her ex.

That afternoon, right around the time the show came on, she dropped the twins off at his condo for a visit.

Later, security cameras caught her going through a KFC drive through.

That night she was supposed to show up to her bartending shift.

She never made it.

The next day, her black Hummer was found abandoned in an apartment complex parking lot.

At first, her family thought it was a carjacking.

Two years later, police released red light camera footage of her Hummer at an intersection at 8:55 p.m. that night, less than a mile from where it was found. They said they didn't believe whoever was responsible acted alone. "A two person situation."

Then her iPhone turned up. Police said it was in remarkably good condition. They wouldn't say where they found it.

Police eventually named her ex-fiancé as their prime suspect. He has always denied any involvement.
:EDIT
“He lost custody of the twins, and her mother now raises them.”
THIS IS INCORRECT FROM THE ARTICLE I SOURCED. My apologies. Her mother did not have custody of the twins and had fought and lost. Dale had full custody. My apologies for not correcting this sooner.

Investigators have searched retention ponds, lakes, and a family member's backyard. Dive teams. Cadaver dogs. Volunteers.

Nothing.

No one has ever been charged.

Next month will mark 15 years since Michelle Parker disappeared.

Millions of people watched her on TV that day.

Nobody has seen her since.

Hi! I was wondering if anyone could recommend any mysteries or strange stories that happened in Sweden ?

Back in 1976, people in Circleville started getting these creepy handwritten letters with no return address. But it wasn't just random hate mail — whoever was writing them knew deeply personal, horrifying secrets that almost nobody should’ve known. It completely destroyed lives and threw the whole town into total paranoia for years.

Eventually someone tried to set a booby trap for the letter writer, which led to a wild trial and they finally arrested a guy named Paul Freshour. Everyone thought the nightmare was over when he got locked up in prison.

Then a new letter arrived. Same handwriting. Same postmark. While he was locked in a maximum security cell. Describing the evidence in text doesn't do it justice, so I made a quick visual breakdown here [https://youtube.com/shorts/IUN-dIaRiOA\]. What do you guys think happened?

On December 14, 1931, 10-year-old Vera Page left her aunt’s house in Notting Hill to buy Christmas presents for her parents. She was carrying her swimming certificates and never made it home. Two days later, a milkman found her body beneath bushes in a front garden on Addison Road. She had been raped and strangled, and pathologist Bernard Spilsbury believed she had been killed elsewhere before her body was moved to the garden.

There were some unusual details at the scene. Vera’s face was covered in soot, candle wax was found on her clothing, and a small bandage for a single finger was lodged in the crook of her elbow. It was stained with ammonia. Police focused on Percy Orlando Rush, 41, whose parents lived in the same building as Vera. He visited them regularly, worked in a laundry where he handled ammonia, and had injured his left little finger just days before the murder.

A search of his home turned up bandages, a candle, and a red tablecloth resembling one a witness had seen covering a bundle on a wheelbarrow near the scene. His overcoat also had traces of coal dust and candle wax.

On paper, the circumstances looked damning. But one important piece of evidence did not fit.

Laboratory examinations found that the bandage material recovered from Vera did not match the samples taken from Rush’s home. Rush said he had made his own bandage and burned it days earlier. Investigators never established that the bandage found on Vera had belonged to him.

There was also a later claim from a police superintendent that Rush had been asked for bandage samples before his home was formally searched, potentially giving him time to dispose of evidence. That account raises questions, although it does not prove that Rush destroyed anything.

At the inquest, the coroner strongly pointed towards Rush. The jury deliberated for just five minutes before returning a verdict of “murder by person or persons unknown.” Rush was never charged and died in 1961.

So what happened here? Did investigators have the right suspect but fail to secure the evidence they needed, or did the circumstances lead them towards a man they could never reliably connect to Vera’s murder?

It seemed to connect the victim to the suspect, but the laboratory findings failed to establish that link.

Revelle Balmain was a 22-year-old dancer who disappeared in Sydney, Australia, on November 5, 1994. She was supposed to meet her mother in Newcastle the following morning, but she never arrived.

The investigation faced serious difficulties over the years. In July 2026, a coroner's inquest found that people who ran the escort agency where Revelle worked had lied to police and that the evidence suggested they knew what had happened to her.

The coroner also criticized the investigation for focusing too heavily on one person of interest while other possibilities may have been overlooked. The case was referred for further investigation, but no one has been convicted in connection with Revelle's disappearance.

After so many years, could this new investigation finally uncover what happened to Revelle? And what do you think investigators may have overlooked the first time around?

More details in

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/revelle-balmain-inquest-finds-escort-bosses-knew/106977496

Marilyn Wallman was 14 when she disappeared in Mackay, Queensland, Australia, on March 21, 1972. She had left home to catch her school bus, but never arrived.

Her abandoned bicycle was found that morning. In 1974, a fragment of a human skull was discovered in nearby bushland and was later confirmed to belong to Marilyn.

The investigation has been surrounded by unanswered questions for decades. In 1988, an attempt to reopen the original inquest was rejected after evidence connected to a convicted offender had gone missing. That evidence reportedly included a map that investigators believed could have linked him to the area.

A second coronial inquest began in October 2026. It is examining the original investigation, evidence that was lost, and several possible leads. A person of interest has been discussed during the proceedings, but no one has been convicted in connection with Marilyn's disappearance.

How much can missing evidence affect a cold case? And could this new inquest finally clarify what happened to Marilyn?

More details in

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-19/marilyn-wallman-disappearance-50th-anniversary-mackay/100910592

On January 4, 2026, siblings Ágatha Isabelly Reis Lago, 6, and Allan Michael Reis Lago, 4, disappeared in the rural community of São Sebastião dos Pretos, in Bacabal, Maranhão, Brazil.

The children had gone out to play with their eight-year-old cousin. The cousin was found alive three days later, but Ágatha and Allan were not found.

Search efforts involved police, firefighters, volunteers, search dogs, and searches around nearby forest and river areas. One lead came from search dogs detecting traces of the children at an abandoned house near the Mearim River, but this did not establish what happened to them.

By September 2026, the siblings had been missing for eight months. Their family was seeking international assistance, while authorities continued investigating. Public information about the case remained limited, and no confirmed explanation had been established.

What challenges make rural missing-person searches so difficult, and what kinds of verified information can help investigators without spreading rumors or harming the family?

More details in

https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/policia-muda-estrategia-no-caso-das-criancas-desaparecidas-em-bacabal

It's in Portuguese.

In January 2005, the body of an unidentified woman was discovered near a road in Saint-Quirin, France. Despite the investigation, authorities were unable to establish her identity for roughly two decades.

The case became known as "The Woman with the Richmond Dental Crown" because of a distinctive dental feature that investigators documented.

In 2024, the case was included in INTERPOL's Identify Me campaign, which appealed to the public for help identifying women whose deaths remained unexplained or suspicious.

In 2026, investigators identified the woman as Hakima Boukerouis through familial DNA searching. French authorities also announced the arrest of a suspect in connection with her death. The investigation and legal proceedings are ongoing, and the arrest is not proof of guilt.

The identification finally restored her name, but many details about her final months and the circumstances of her death have not been made public.

How many other unidentified victims could be identified if old cases received renewed attention and modern forensic techniques?

More details in

https://www.interpol.int/What-you-can-do/Identify-Me/Countries-in-which-the-bodies-were-found/Women-found-in-France/FR02-The-woman-with-the-Richmond-dental-crown