What cold case do you reaaallly want solved?

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Anonymous wrote:I really want to know what happened to Asha Degree. 8 or 9 years old, came from a nice family, seemingly no issues.... left at 4am with her backpack full of clothes and books and was seen walking down a highway alone near her house, then ran off into the woods.... and that's it? They found her backpack like 30 miles away, a year or two later, with her stuff in it but plus OTHER stuff like library books from her school that weren't hers, and a t shirt that hadn't been hers originally?

Very strange. I have never heard of this case before.

I hadn't either. And to think how much coverage Elizabeth Smart got, around that same time. I wonder what the glaring difference could have been. Poor girl.

Hmmm what could the glaring difference in coverage possibly have been?

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The murdered women, along with 1 man and 1 toddler, found along Oak Beach on Long Island.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_serial_killer

Shannan Gilbert's mother would later be murdered by one of her other daughters, who had a severe mental illness.

Shannan was on the phone with 911 for 20 minutes the night of her murder and knocked on the doors of a few homes in the area prior to disappearing. She was with a john and ran off. Her driver tried to get her back in the car and get out of the area, but she refused.

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Anonymous wrote:Shanaan Watts.

how is this a cold case?

According to the parents of Christopher Lee Watts, it still is.
His parents are still not convinced their son killed their granddaughters.

Interesting, since this IS a parenting venue I noticed today watching Cocomelon that three characters in the show are named after the 3 children: Bella, CeCe and Nico.

Of course his parents can’t accept the truth. He dumped those kids alive in those wells.

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Anonymous wrote:I really want to know what happened to Asha Degree. 8 or 9 years old, came from a nice family, seemingly no issues.... left at 4am with her backpack full of clothes and books and was seen walking down a highway alone near her house, then ran off into the woods.... and that's it? They found her backpack like 30 miles away, a year or two later, with her stuff in it but plus OTHER stuff like library books from her school that weren't hers, and a t shirt that hadn't been hers originally?

Very strange. I have never heard of this case before.

I hadn't either. And to think how much coverage Elizabeth Smart got, around that same time. I wonder what the glaring difference could have been. Poor girl.

Hmmm what could the glaring difference in coverage possibly have been?

Maybe it’s the "someone broke into Elizabeth Smarts house and kidnapped her while her family was home" part?

Did you assume something else?

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William Bradford Bishop who murdered entire family disappeared
He was a foreign service officer and lived in suburban Maryland.

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Who is Trig Palin’s mother? Huge mystery.

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Anonymous wrote:I really want to know what happened to Asha Degree. 8 or 9 years old, came from a nice family, seemingly no issues.... left at 4am with her backpack full of clothes and books and was seen walking down a highway alone near her house, then ran off into the woods.... and that's it? They found her backpack like 30 miles away, a year or two later, with her stuff in it but plus OTHER stuff like library books from her school that weren't hers, and a t shirt that hadn't been hers originally?

Very strange. I have never heard of this case before.

I hadn't either. And to think how much coverage Elizabeth Smart got, around that same time. I wonder what the glaring difference could have been. Poor girl.

Hmmm what could the glaring difference in coverage possibly have been?

Maybe it’s the "someone broke into Elizabeth Smarts house and kidnapped her while her family was home" part?

Did you assume something else?

Actually all we knew was that Elizabeth's sister went into her parents room and said she was gone. And said someone took her. And in Asha's case, her brother heard her bed creaking around 3am as if she were shifting or getting up, and then she was gone in the morning but had been sighted with a backpack, alone, next to a highway in the middle of the night. Those were the facts available, for each case. Except actually Elizabeth was at more of a classic runaway age (13? 14?) whereas Asha was only 8 or 9. How many 14 year old black girls who go missing in the middle of the night get national press coverage for months?

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Anonymous wrote:The deaths of Max Shacknai and Rebecca Zahau

Eh. This was obvi the husband’s ex-wife and brother.

She damn sure didn’t kill herself.

I think she did.

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Imagine: a white 8 year old girl, happy, active in her church and on her sports teams, with married parents and a sibling and living in a nice neighborhood. One night, she disappears along with her school backpack, and some motorists claim they saw her walking alone in the rain with a backpack on the highway. One motorist stopped immediately to help her and she ran away into the woods, away from him. No one heard from her or saw her again, BUT, a year later her backpack was found in a different area of the state with her belongings in it, but also other belongings. And it was buried in a bag, underground.

This would be the top news story. Who lured her away?? Or who kidnapped/ took her and then dropped her off along the highway?? Where did she run to and why was her backpack buried underground in a plastic bag, 30 miles from her home town? Why did it have library books from her own school inside, even though she'd never checked out those books?

But since she was black we heard nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:I really want to know what happened to Asha Degree. 8 or 9 years old, came from a nice family, seemingly no issues.... left at 4am with her backpack full of clothes and books and was seen walking down a highway alone near her house, then ran off into the woods.... and that's it? They found her backpack like 30 miles away, a year or two later, with her stuff in it but plus OTHER stuff like library books from her school that weren't hers, and a t shirt that hadn't been hers originally?

Very strange. I have never heard of this case before.

I hadn't either. And to think how much coverage Elizabeth Smart got, around that same time. I wonder what the glaring difference could have been. Poor girl.

Hmmm what could the glaring difference in coverage possibly have been?

Maybe it’s the "someone broke into Elizabeth Smarts house and kidnapped her while her family was home" part?

Did you assume something else?

Whereas Asha Degree disappeared into thin air in the middle of the night, from her house, while her family was home? Yet got no press coverage despite being 5-6 years younger and therefore less likely to have left on her own cognition?

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Wow, the Asha Degree story is so sad and perplexing. Why on earth would she do that? Can you imagine your 9 year old leaving in the middle of the night and walking down the highway? Someone in her life had something to do with this. Either she was running away from someone or was lured by someone. This was pre social media so it wasn't an internet predator situation.

I'm very curious about the library book. Even though the book was found much later, I would think there would be some way to track down the child who checked it out and find out how it got into Asha's hands. And the NKOTB shirt. Some classmate would remember that her shirt had gone missing. Very frustrating.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish the Lyon sisters could be found and returned to their family.

Sadly they were liked by Lloyd Welch, who confessed last month.

Yes. I just wish there was some way that the girls' remains could get back to their parents for a proper burial.

The parents passed away before the case broke.

This isn’t true. They were there in court when Welch plead guilty.

“In a brief statement after Welch pleaded guilty, John Lyon, the girls’ father, thanked authorities and law enforcement.

“We just want to say simply: Thank you,” he said. “And it’s been a long time and we’re tired, and we just want to go home.”

Can’t imagine what h**l they have lived through, knowing their beloved daughters were both tortured and abused before being murdered.
What a sick family the Welchs’ are.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, the Asha Degree story is so sad and perplexing. Why on earth would she do that? Can you imagine your 9 year old leaving in the middle of the night and walking down the highway? Someone in her life had something to do with this. Either she was running away from someone or was lured by someone. This was pre social media so it wasn't an internet predator situation.

I'm very curious about the library book. Even though the book was found much later, I would think there would be some way to track down the child who checked it out and find out how it got into Asha's hands. And the NKOTB shirt. Some classmate would remember that her shirt had gone missing. Very frustrating.

Or, honestly, she could have been taken by someone and then escaped- hence running down the highway- and then got scared when another car stopped and she ran into the woods. But i agree more likely someone she knew and trusted told her to walk somewhere at 3am to meet them. Since there were no previous concerns for abuse with either her or her brother- and her home life was stable- I doubt she was escaping from abuse. Her brother would have spoken up by now.

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^^ and YES about the library book!!! Shirt could have been purchased for her by her predator, but the library book from her own school? Makes me wonder if a teacher from her school is who took her. And why did they not release the details of what was in her backpack until YEARS after they found it? It could have led to a memory! "Oh yeah Mr Johnson took that book from the library to bring home for his kids!"

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Anonymous wrote:Bethany Decker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Bethany_Decker

her boyfriend was a violent immigrant who is/was deported. others said he was controlling and crazy. seems obvious .. ?

And here is the resolution, 5 years later:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/18/boyfriend-guilty-missing-pregnant-woman/