Her mother said that not knowing who and why Destiny was killed bothers her every day. Her mother said that Destiny’s two pit bulls and a chihuahua also were in the house when the shooting occurred. “If the dogs don’t know you, they would attack you,” Destiny’s stepfather, Steve McCombs said. “They were very protective of her.”

Destiny’s family, friends and the Kokomo Police Department seek answers and her family struggles to move on.

Investigative Agency: Kokomo Police Department  765-456-7100

If you have any information on this case, please contact CUE Center for Missing Persons at (910) 343-1131 or call the CUE Center 24-hour tip line at (910) 232-1687. All information submitted to CUE Center for Missing Persons is confidential.

Missing SC Woman Jessica Ashmore Found Dead in Woods

Jessica Ashmore, 34, had been reported missing by her family on May 19, 2019. The mother of two and a resident of Jonesville, South Carolina, had been walking along a rural road and vanished after having an argument at her family’s Jonesville property. Her cell phone and inhaler she used for chronic asthma had been left behind.  According to deputies with the Union County Sheriff’s Office, Jessica’s remains were discovered by a tree planting crew, deep in the woods on Jeffries Farm Road on December 16, 2019. Union County deputies said South Carolina Law Enforcement Department (SLED), the state lab, used DNA testing to confirm a 99.7 percent match. Sheriff David Taylor said crews from American Forest Management were planting pine trees about 2.5 miles away from Jeffries Farm Road. Described as in the “middle of nowhere” deputies had to bring in equipment to cut their way into the deeply forested location. “We had to cut a road for part of it to get our vehicles down there,” Taylor said. The skeletal remains did not look like they were buried. However, local law enforcement working with SLED and the FBI have referred to Jessica’s death as “criminally suspicious” according to Fits News. “It’s nothing but a skeleton,” Taylor said.

Investigative Agency: Union County Sheriff’s Office 864-429-1612 

If you have any information on this case, please contact CUE Center for Missing Persons at (910) 343-1131 or call the CUE Center 24-hour tip line at (910) 232-1687. All information submitted to CUE Center for Missing Persons is confidential.

In Springfield, Missouri, on October 17, 1975, Shirley was not aware that drugs were a big business in her hometown. She was free to romp and play and go to school and walk from her grandmother’s home on West Avenue to her house a few blocks away on Scenic. A witness reported seeing someone in a 1969-1970 blue Chevrolet pull up behind Shirley on the street. Some have said it was a 72 Ford Torino but either have yet to be confirmed. Later, she was supposedly spotted again on the same street, and the car had left the scene. At 6:45 p.m. on October 17, the pretty grade schooler who was known for her sweet disposition was picked off the street just a block from her home

Her wholesome face, a carbon copy of actress Kristy McNichol from the popular ‘70s television show Family, became well known to Springfieldian’s as the search for her abductor or abductors began.

A few months later, a caretaker at McDaniel Lake, found the little girl’s grave. Shirley Jane’s family had provided the description of their missing child and the fact that she had been last seen wearing a favorite embroidered shirt. Animals had unearthed part of a skeleton wearing that same blouse. A vibrant young elementary student was simply folded and discarded like a milk carton in the trash. Her case remains unsolved till this day.

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Shirley Jane Rose

Investigative Agency: Springfield Police Department

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October 15, 2008
ST. PETERSBURG – If a civilian investigator had not stopped by a gas station one day last year, authorities might never have learned what happened to a 20-year-old single mother who vanished 28 years ago.

At the station the investigator, Brenda Stevenson, spotted a poster put up by the friends and family of , who disappeared while walking the few blocks from her home to her boyfriend’s place in July of 1980.

Stevenson said she noticed an uncanny resemblance between the picture on the poster and a composite sketch based on skeletal remains that were found eight years later in a park miles away. The remains were found March 2, 1989, in Maximo Park, wrapped up in carpet.

Stevenson knew DNA from the bones had been sent to the FBI, and she knew DNA from Harder’s mother and daughter had been sent to the FBI. She called the FBI in June, when she saw the poster, and she’s been calling them once a month ever since, asking that they compare the two DNA samples.

On Thursday, she was told there was a match.

Harder was living at 2136 23rd Ave. N. when she was reported missing on July 27, 1980, police said.

The night before, she and her sister-in-law decided to go out while Harder’s ex-husband watched over her three young children, police said. Later on, the pair returned, but Harder decided to walk by herself from her home to her boyfriend’s home at 17th Street and 20th Avenue North, police said.

She never made it there.

Her remains were found at the park at 6500 34th St. S., which is at the other end of town, police said. A bulldozer clearing heavy brush from an area in the park uncovered a carpet rolled up containing skeletal remains of a woman, police said.

Although there were no signs of trauma to the remains, the medical examiner’s office concluded the cause of death to be homicidal violence, police said. The manner of death was undetermined.

Before she went to the gas station, Stevenson, who started working cold cases at the police department two years ago, had asked for a list of women reported missing in Pinellas County for the 10-year period leading up to the discovery of the bones. Harder’s name wasn’t on the list.

There are no suspects.

St. Petersburg police are asking that anyone with information on Harder’s death to call them at (727) 893-7780 or the confidential tip line at (727) 892-5000.
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Crystal Warner’s remains have been found, according to a Kentucky coroner.

The Bath County coroner said that the missing woman’s remains were identified through dental records.

Warner, 35, and her boyfriend Bobby Jones, 28, vanished July 3.

Their tenant, Craig Pennington, is accused of killing them after a confrontation about unpaid rent.

Jones’ body was found just off an Interstate 64 exit ramp in Clark County, Kentucky, in August.

Kentucky State Police said Warner’s remains were found off the Salt Lick exit of Interstate 64 in central Kentucky Monday afternoon. Investigators said the operator of a bulldozer found a skull and some personal items under a brush pile on private property.

Warner’s mother posted a thank you message on Facebook Thursday confirming the remains were her daughter’s.

The family now knows they will soon be able to bring Warner home.

“I know where she’s at. In heaven. But it’s still hard to let them go,” Mary Reeve said.

So many emotions were unleashed with the confirmation.

“I don’t know for me if in my heart anything will ever be closed because I’m always going to miss her every day and think of her,” Reeve said.

Reeve can’t understand why Pennington, her daughter’s tenant, would kill Warner and Jones.

He’s accused of killing them in July.

Crystal’s parents said they’ve found eviction documents Pennington signed in May.

“He just had it in his mind that he was going to go ahead and kill them. You know, it’s almost like it was premeditated. And I believe it was,” Reeve said.
The couple’s car was found near Georgetown.

Details of Disappearance:

Crystal and her boyfriend, Bobby Jones, went missing on July 3, 2016, after they went to Washington County to talk to Craig Pennington, who was renting a cabin from Bobby Jones, outside of Springfield. According to Bobby’s family, the couple had been in the area visiting family, but stopped in Springfield because Pennington who “had been evicted for not paying rent for several months had not returned calls or been in contact with Bobby in weeks”. No one heard from them after stopping at Pennington’s house. One month later, on August 5th, 2016, Bobby’s remains were discovered by people collecting aluminum cans for recycling, alongside Goshen Road, at the intersection with U.S. 60 near Winchester. The location is near exit 101 just off Interstate 64. The couple’s car was found off Interstate 75 in Scott County in July.

Craig Pennington was charged with two counts of murder for both Bobby Jones and Crystal Warner, however, Crystal has never been found.

Investigative Agency:
Kentucky State Police, Post 15, (270) 384-4796

If you have any information related to this case, please contact CUE Center for Missing Persons at (910) 343-1131 or call the CUE Center 24-hour tip line at (910) 232-1687. All information submitted to CUE Center for Missing Persons is confidential.

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Eileen Marie Carter, 41, of Garland, was reported missing by family members on March 28 around 10 p.m., authorities said. After she was reported missing, the sheriff’s office began an investigation.

According to the autopsy report, Carter was reported missing just “before her wrecked car was discovered abandoned in a wooded roadside field.”Carter’s phone was found several miles away from her abandoned vehicle, authorities said.

On March 31, a deputy patrolling the area around the Ingold community stopped on a dirt-covered hunting road and looked down a short distance where he found a dead woman, fully-clothed and resting against a dirt pile, the autopsy shows. She was later identified as Carter.

Authorities wouldn’t say at the time where Carter’s body was found because the location needed to remain private “for investigative purposes.” According to the autopsy, the scene “suggested a ‘struggle’ at the site, with variable sized blood stains located in three different areas, the largest beneath the woman’s body.”

The autopsy was performed between April 2 and April 4 and the cause of death was determined to be “multiple sharp force trauma,” according to the report.

UPDATE: Family heartbroken after Sampson County woman dies from 32 stab or slash wounds

Carter suffered 32 sharp force injuries, including “several stab wounds with single edge features,” the deepest of which was 5 inches in length. The autopsy shows nine head and neck wounds, 11 torso wounds — including six stab wounds of her back — and 12 wounds to her extremities.

The medical examiner deemed Carter’s manner of death to be a homicide.

Investigative Agency: Sampson CountySheriff’s Office at 910-592-4141

If you have any information on this case, please contact CUE Center for Missing Persons at(910) 343-1131 or call the CUE Center 24-hour tip line at (910) 232-1687. All information submitted to CUE Center for Missing Persons is confidential.

These so called friends made Jason Bolton’s death to look like an accident.. but it was no accident! Things were done to Jason that we do to our farm animals/Horiffic. His privates mutalated and then they placed him in the roadway and ran him over with a car to cover up what they had done.

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Indiana State Police
Captain Ed Davis
9022 South State Rd. 67
Pendleton, IN 46064
765-778-2121
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Chico >> What happened to Heidi Ring? It’s a question that has followed her mother, Gretchen Ring, for nearly nine years.

The prospect of knowing the answer to that question elicits tears.

“It would mean that I can die in peace,” Gretchen, 72, of Chico, said. “I want to know what happened to her before I die. I don’t even know why, maybe because I’m her mom, but I need to know.”

Heidi Ring went missing from Chico in the summer of 2005. She was 37 at the time, in and out of homelessness. Her skeletal remains were found seven summers later, in July 2012, in a burn pile at Ord Bend Park near the Sacramento River in Glenn County.

The sheriff at the time suspected that Heidi’s death was the result of a homicide. Exactly how she died, however, remains unknown.

Gretchen recently sat down with the Enterprise-Record to discuss Heidi’s case, which she said is “so cold it’s buried under a 2,000-ton glacier.” She is scheduled to speak at an upcoming missing persons conference starting Thursday in North Carolina, where advocacy groups, law enforcement and affected families gather. Gretchen said she hopes her story can help someone else, and, perhaps, unearth the answer she’s been looking for.

Gretchen Ring painted a portrait of her daughter that revealed the contrasts of Heidi’s life.

Heidi had a warm heart and helped people regularly. She was also bratty and hard to be around, her mother said.

Heidi suffered from mental and physical problems and was rarely happy. She was often ill and in pain, suffering from migraines, seizures and depression. She spoke her mind loudly. She was adorable and imagined herself, playfully, as royalty. When Heidi was 3, she asked her mom, “How do you get to be queen?”

She was hard to raise. Her siblings, an older sister and younger brother, would try to avoid her. Heidi’s last address was her brother’s residence. She was a self-taught gemologist and particularly enjoyed blues music. Heidi smoked marijuana. Then, before she went missing, she was known to be using harder drugs.

Heidi put on a tough persona, but “she was like a scared little girl inside,” her mother said, adding, “It was just hard to be Heidi, and it was hard to be her family, too.”

In June 2005, Gretchen Ring noticed that she hadn’t spoken to her daughter in some time. Heidi’s siblings, Mike and Barbara, also hadn’t heard from her, Gretchen said.

“We thought, well, that’s weird,” she said, “because even with all her problems she always kept very close contact with the family.”

Gretchen said family members, pictures in hand, searched Heidi’s haunts, area shelters and other places. “A lot of people recognized her and said, oh yeah, I saw her last week at the wherever,” Gretchen said. “And, oh yeah, I saw her a couple of days ago at Duffy’s or somewhere.”

It was a few days later when family members received a possible sign from Heidi.

“We heard through the hobo network — I think you would call it — that Heidi was OK,” Gretchen said. “She was mad at the family. She wasn’t going to contact us anytime soon. That she was with a friend about an hour and a half from Chico. She was mad that we were looking for her.”

This irritated the Ring family. Heidi may have known she was being sought and intentionally kept them at bay. Gretchen said, “We kind of looked at each other and then we were kind of disgusted like, I mean, we’re working our butts off trying to find her and you know she’s — well she’s who she is.”

The next plan of action was to stake out Heidi’s brother’s mailbox west of Chico, where Heidi’s disability checks were mailed. She didn’t show to collect her money. Gretchen said a missing person report was filed with Chico police on June 19, 2005.

The Ring family also turned to private investigator Louis Parker for help. Parker, 84, of Chico, told this newspaper that posters of Heidi went out across the north state, and his search took him all over Northern California.

Many tips and leads he’d gathered “turned into puff and smoke,” Parker said. He would show people pictures of Heidi, who had long brown hair, hazel eyes and a wide smile, on his hunt. “You know, everybody saw her, but nobody really did.”

During his search, one tip seemed especially promising. He got word that Heidi may have been picked up by a Caltrans worker east of Redding and taken to a bus stop, with the intent to head to Portland.

Parker said he and an associate got in a car and rode on to Oregon, nearly reaching Eugene. After talking to local authorities, a lead, once again, chilled. There was no sign of her.

According to an Enterprise-Record article published in 2012 — after Heidi’s remains were recovered but had not yet been identified — Chico police said they hadn’t uncovered anything concrete in the seven-year missing person case, which was unusual for a woman said to be living on the street.

Heidi’s remains were found adjacent to a boat ramp at Ord Bend Park in July 2012, and they were identified as hers in October of that year.

While the Glenn County Sheriff’s Office initially suspected homicide, Jim Mikkelson, 67, an investigator who works with Parker, said that’s currently a “best-guess scenario” of what happened. Other scenarios that wouldn’t involve foul play are also possible.

“They called it a homicide, but there’s no supportive evidence,” Mikkelson said. He added, however, “If ever there was a person ripe for a crime of opportunity it would have been Heidi at that point in time.”

Heidi’s situation wasn’t unique, Gretchen Ring said.

“There’s a huge group of people in Heidi’s position,” she said, adding, “And they end up on the streets and they are such easy victims.”

Gretchen conceded there are no easy solutions to homelessness. What may work for one person may not work for another, she says, but “that means we just have to find a different kind of help for that person.”

Gretchen said she recently moved back to Chico after 23 years and has noticed good things happening. She noted Stairways Programming, which has collaborated with Chico police to help get people off the streets and into service programs.

Other challenges remain, Gretchen said, citing area shelters that have struggled financially or closed early. For her part, she said plans to help out more at the Jesus Center on Park Avenue.

“I don’t get how people don’t get they are us, and we are them,” Gretchen said. “It’s your brother, it’s your father, it’s your sister, it’s you. How would you want to be treated?”

Gretchen Ring has been asked to speak at the National Missing Persons Conference in Wilmington, North Carolina, this week. The three-day conference, sponsored by the Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons features advocacy groups for missing people, homicide victims and families.

“The event is open to all who support the mission of finding a resolution for families who have suffered a missing loved one and are or have been a victim of crime,” according to the conference’s website.

There, Gretchen says she’ll tell Heidi’s story.

“Maybe,” Gretchen said. “Maybe I can help someone out, somehow, with their journey in this unforgiving landscape of pain that families are in.”

Maybe, by sharing Heidi’s story, the Rings will find their answer, too.

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Despite the years that have gone by Lisa Valentino is still hopeful that her sister’s killer will be caught.

“Allison had a tremendous smile, a great heart and really loved life,” Valentino said.

Valentino is in town from New Jersey for what’s become a routine trip to talk with investigators in her sister’s unsolved case.

“It’s very very frustrating,” she said. “I seek answers and justice for Allison, for myself, but also for her two daughters, who are now without a mother. I just think it’s a solvable case, and I feel there is one or two people out there who know what happened and have some information that can help us out and maybe be that piece to the puzzle. They need to come forward and they need to speak to police.”

Foy was last seen leaving Junction Pub and Billiards off Carolina Beach Road in July 2006. In April 2008 two sets of human remains were found in a wooded area about a mile away. DNA test revealed that remains belonged to two women: Foy and Angela Rothen.

Wilmington police say Foy’s case is coming along.

“We’ve been following up on several old things that keep coming back up,” Det. Lee Odham said. “The same people, the same scenarios are still involved in the case.”

Investigators can’t say much about the ongoing case, but they did confirm that Tim Iannone, who was once a suspect but later cleared, is still a suspect.

As for Foy’s family, they remain optimistic, praying that the case comes to end.

“I’m hoping that it’s going to be sooner than later,” Valentino said.