Fifteen-year-old Betsy Rosa Owens disappeared from Pauingassi First Nation, Manitoba, after leaving her boyfriend’s home on the morning of October 23, 1988. She had attended a volleyball game and a community dance the night before, left the dance with her boyfriend around 11:00 p.m., and was last seen the next morning. At the time she was described as 5 feet 3 inches, 119 pounds, with long black hair and brown eyes, wearing a white cotton hooded sweater, a blue denim jacket, blue jeans, and white high-top sneakers.

Local residents searched immediately and RCMP conducted searches in 1996 and 1997 but found no evidence of her whereabouts. Investigators later concluded foul play was involved; police now say they believe Betsy was taken from the dance against her will and murdered, although her body has never been found. Rumors persist in the community and police continue to review the case, with regular visits to Pauingassi by Manitoba RCMP Major Crime Services seeking new information.

If anyone knew Betsy, knew where she spent time that weekend, or has information that could help bring answers, please contact the investigators handling the case.

Family member here. Justin murder is still un-solved . And we still care. If anybody cares to reach out any that will help . please do so….

Are you getting any information from law enforcement? So many years have passed it might qualify for cold case investigation. I know some jurisdictions have more resources when a case is classified as 'cold'. It might not be the case where Justin's case was investigated. Sending my deepest condolences for your unimaginable loss.

I'm so sorry this is still open after all these years , people still care and you're not alone in wanting answers. Since you are a member here you can use all the tools, I suggest you send out a 16 year anniversary of his missing Press Release so that his case not forgotten. We did this on the 10th anniversary of my brother's case and it actually provided some leads that detectives say they are 'looking into'.

Rogelio Lozano-Garita (26), the boyfriend of Seraphina Pereira, has been charged in her killing. Police say he faces murder, criminal possession of a weapon, concealment of a human corpse and tampering with physical evidence after Pereira’s body was found buried in a shallow grave at Rockaway Community Park and later identified by the medical examiner.

Seraphina Pereira, 35, disappeared from the Ocean Bay Apartments on Beach 54th Street on Oct. 19, 2026, and was found days later near Beach 58th Street and Almeda Ave. The ME determined she was shot, and investigators conducted a search and detained a person of interest before filing the charges, police said. smh this whole neighborhood must be shaken up.

This is heartbreaking news for her family who searched thru the area looking for her, and I cant imagine what theyre going thru right now. didnt expect this to move so quickly but glad there's been an arrest at least.

Finally! after nearly 20 years Franklin police say a suspect has been indicted in the 2006 slayings of Blake Michael Dickus (10) and Chynna Dickus (26). Authorities say Michael Jerome James (35) was indicted by a Johnson County grand jury and arrested in connection with the July 24, 2006 killings, which investigators now say may have happened during an attempted burglary. James would have been about 14 at the time, and prosecutors returned the indictment after reviewing evidence for several weeks, so this looks like a big development in a case that's haunted the community for decades.

He made a first court appearance in Johnson County recently and has been formally charged with murder, and I saw reports he pleaded not guilty. Next up will be the arraignment/setting of future hearings in Johnson Circuit Court, so watch for court dates and any prosecutor filings that describe the evidence

Kayla Huff was reported missing on May 6, 2026 from Moberly, Missouri. The update is that deputies and Moberly police arrested a 17-yr juvenile on May 8 in connection with her disappearance. Kayla was last seen at about 7 a.m. on May 6 on County Road 2345, wearing a Nirvana shirt; the article also lists her as 5'4", 125 lbs. Authorities said searches of the Rudolf Bennitt Conservation Area were continuing and they did not release further details.

As of that report the juvenile was in custody and investigators were still searching and following up on leads, so criminal filings or formal charges against the juvenile were not spelled out in the story. Court events for the adults charged in the case are already set in other reports, and we'll update if/when arraignment info is released for this juvenile and what charges, if any, are filed, right now the case is still moving thru the courts and investigators say searches and interviews are ongoing, so there may be more info at the next hearing didnt

Finally some real closure. April Parker, who vanished in May 2014 and whose remains were found behind the Sleepy Hollow complex in Monticello, has had her killer sentenced. Keymarroo (Keymarro) Guiden, 53, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was convicted of second-degree murder earlier this year and on Oct. 30, 2026 was sentenced to 25 years to life. Prosecutors said he killed April in May 2014, dismembered her remains, then tried to create an alibi by taking her two children to New York City and using April’s phone number and Facebook to make it look like she was still alive. The sentence was handed down by Sullivan County Supreme Court Judge Stephan G. Schick.

This case dragged on for years and investigators worked thru alot of records and interviews to get here, so it’s good to finally see a life sentence. Any of you who followed the trial , anything stand out to you about how they proved the alibi and the digital evidence?

Claude Wayne "Doc" Holsclaw, reported missing in mid-July 2026, had human remains found on July 20 on a property on 4th Street Place SW in Hickory while Brookford PD and the SBI were searching the area. Detectives said the remains were discovered around 8 p.m. and were sent to the NC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for ID and to determine cause and manner of death, and investigators said foul play is suspected, smh.

Police later named suspects and made arrests, but at this stage the investigation is ongoing and charges/proceedings are moving thru the courts. Hoping Doc's family gets answers and justice 🙏 dont take this lightly.

The family waited 52 years for this call. Norman Lamar Prater, who was 16 when he was reported missing from East Dallas on January 14, 1973, has finally been identified as the man killed in a July 1973 hit-and-run near Rockport/Corpus Christi.

CrimeSolversCentral had this case at a 92% match to the unidentified individual:
https://crimesolverscentral.com/unidentified/14748

Dallas police say a newly discovered photo from the Aransas County Medical Examiner’s Office was passed to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and then to Detective Ryan Dalby, who, with a Texas Rangers forensic analyst and Norman’s older brother, made the ID. The brother pointed out scars on the lip and eyebrow that matched, so they closed the missing-person investigation.

There are no arrests and no criminal court dates right now, the hit-and-run is still an open homicide investigation down in Aransas County, and Dalby said he still doesn’t know how or why Norman ended up near Corpus Christi , he thinks the teen may have been hitchhiking. Prob no trial info to expect here, so for now it’s identification and an open investigation; if anything changes investigators will likely file charges and those would be handled in the county where the crash happened. (Also, FYI, this case was DPD’s longest cold missing-persons case and the lead came after examiners found that photo at the end of 2025, then routed it thru the usual channels.)

Finally some news on this one , Barbara Lealyn Lenz, who vanished from Woodbine, Iowa on May 6, 1989, has a conviction in her case. Robert Davis (62) was found guilty by a jury of second-degree murder in late March 2026 for Barbara's death, prosecutors saying he assaulted and choked her during their relationship and she had told others she was afraid of him.

The Iowa Cold Case Unit and the attorney general's office helped bring the case back up, and Davis was sentenced to 50 years in prison on May 22, 2026, so he’ll serve decades behind bars. This was the first arrest in the case and the conviction finally gives Barbara some closure, esp after all these years, tho her body was never found and many questions remain, but the court process is done and the sentence stands, didnt expect this to wrap up like this.

Ann Lombard, who vanished from Placitas, New Mexico on April 29, 1996, has finally been found.

Sandoval County investigators say skeletal remains were uncovered on the former Taylor property in May 2026, about 27 feet from the house, wrapped in a blanket and blue tarp and buried roughly 2 1/2 feet down. The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator confirmed in July 2026, using genetic genealogy, that the remains are Ann Lombard Taylor. James Anthony Taylor remained the sole suspect for decades but he died in 2019, so no charges were filed.

I’m relieved her family finally got some answers after all this time, esp her son Tyler who pushed the case, and it’s a reminder of how hard families have to fight thru long cold cases to get closure.