In May of 2002, 24-year-old Evelyn Hernandez disappeared from San Francisco just days before her due date. Her 5-year-old son, Alex, was with her. Evelyn was a devoted mother, an immigrant from El Salvador, and a woman working hard to raise her family. On the evening of May 1, she picked her son up from […]
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She said she’d be back in an hour. It’s the kind of thing people say a thousand times in a lifetime and never think twice about. A quick errand. A short visit. Be right back. But on the evening of January 7, 2016, when nineteen-year-old Tyarra Cacique Williams said those words to her family, walked
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On the night of June 15, 2018, Jermain Charlo, a 23-year-old Indigenous mother and a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, went out in downtown Missoula, Montana. She was last seen near the Badlander bar just before midnight. She never came home. More than six years later, Jermain remains missing. Who Jermain Was
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A New Beginning Najah Ferrell was the kind of person people leaned on. At 30 years old, she was raising two sons of her own and had opened her home to three foster children, telling loved ones she simply wanted to “give back” to kids who needed it. For years she’d been a stay-at-home mom,
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On the night of July 7, 2019, 30-year-old Cecilia Huerta Gallegos walked into the bedroom she shared with her husband. Surveillance footage captured her entering that room. She never came out. Hours later, the home’s cameras were mysteriously shut off. When they came back online, Cecilia was gone — and her husband, Reyes Gallegos, was
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On the morning of January 26, 2014, a McCain’s plant employee arrived at the Portage & District Recycling Depot on the western edge of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, to drop off recyclables. What he found instead was a 20-year-old woman, half-buried in freshly fallen snow, barely clinging to life. Within hours, Rocelyn “Roxy” Gabriel would
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Imagine an ordinary Monday turning into a nightmare. On February 22, 2010, 18‑year‑old Jalesa Chantell Reynolds of Scotland Neck, North Carolina, started her day as usual. She spent the morning at the local library, using the public computer to log onto Facebook. At 11:00 a.m. she logged off and left the library – but she
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In the summer of 2019, 39-year-old Cynthia Acevedo disappeared from her home community in Laveen, Arizona. Cynthia was an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community, living on tribal land just southwest of Phoenix. By all accounts she was a devoted daughter, and her sudden disappearance shocked family and friends. According to the FBI,
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