
The Jo-Jo King Case: Does This Story Add Up?
Six-year-old Jo-Jo King III died on February 23, 2020, after being found unresponsive in his Grand Prairie, Texas home with a claimed toy chest entrapment
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Six-year-old Jo-Jo King III died on February 23, 2020, after being found unresponsive in his Grand Prairie, Texas home with a claimed toy chest entrapment

FOIA requests reveal hidden evidence in cold cases that authorities may have overlooked or failed to preserve

In July 2015, chiropractor Mary Yoder died suddenly in Utica, New York after becoming violently ill with lethal levels of colchicine in her system, a drug she was never prescribed

Mary Yoder, a healthy 60-year-old chiropractor in New York, died within 48 hours of feeling fine at work in July 2015

Between 1987 and 1991, a masked predator known as Mr. Cruel terrorized Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, breaking into homes and abducting young girls

Joan Webster, a 25-year-old Harvard graduate student, disappeared on December 1, 1981, after landing at Boston's Logan International Airport, with only her wallet and purse found in Saugus marshlands

19-year-old Rachel Hansen was shot and killed in her Arizona apartment in June 2022, nearly four years with no arrest

A devastating house fire in Humboldt County, California on November 15, 1986 killed teenage twins Jill and Julie Hansen

On March 7, 2023, a fatal house fire in Chicago's Montclare neighborhood killed Summer Day and her three children while her firefighter husband was on duty responding to emergencies

In 1974, Detective Bobby Moore solved the murder of Judge Louis Sisler in Washington D.C., which appeared to be a case of mistaken identity

Niqui McCown, a 28-year-old mother, vanished on July 22, 2001, after visiting a laundromat in Richmond, Indiana, leaving behind her young daughter and fiancé

Bonnie Lee Schultz vanished on July 4, 1997, after leaving a bar in Indianapolis, and her vehicle has never been found

Bonnie Lee Schultz, a 45-year-old mother of two, disappeared on July 3, 1997, after telling her husband she wanted a divorce and planned to watch fireworks with coworkers

On August 25, 2008, Linda was brutally attacked in her home near Rough River Lake in Kentucky while babysitting her 22-month-old granddaughter.

18-year-old Heidi Gatliff, a high-achieving Police Explorer in Indianapolis, was found dead in her home in November 2015, sparking an investigation that revealed troubling behavior by multiple officers

23-year-old Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment on February 4, 2021, initially ruled a suicide despite evidence suggesting otherwise.

24-year-old Phoebe Handsjuk was found dead at the bottom of a trash chute in her Melbourne apartment building on December 2, 2010

In 1984, 20-year-old Rowena Wilkinson Zapalac was found dead in Flatonia, Texas, and authorities quickly ruled her death an accident despite suspicious evidence.

Patrick Shunn and Monique Patenaude disappeared from their home in Oso, Washington on April 11, 2016, sparking a major investigation after they missed an Iron Maiden concert and their dog was found running loose.

27-year-old Linda Sherman vanished from her home in Vinita Park, Missouri in April 1985, with her husband claiming she walked out after an argument

38-year-old Amber Spradlin was found brutally murdered in a dentist's home in Martin, Kentucky in June 2023 with her throat slit

On May 17, 1980, two young girls, 5-year-old Teresa Flores and 4-year-old Martha Mezo, vanished from San Miguel, California while walking along Mission Street in broad daylight.

18-year-old Christion Olson was brought home from a party in Brunswick Hills, Ohio on July 13, 2024, and collapsed dead less than two hours later

42-year-old Gwen Hasselquist was found dead in the Puget Sound on March 20, 2020, after her minivan was discovered abandoned on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge with all four doors open

Ashley Flowers presents five of the most puzzling unsolved missing-persons cases covered by Crime Junkie, spanning from 1990 to 2024

On June 16, 1990, 52-year-old Trevaline Evans vanished from her antique shop in Llangollen, North Wales, leaving behind her belongings and a sign reading 'Back in two minutes.'

On November 3, 2022, Destiny Jackson and Nazirah Muhammad were murdered in their Hobart, Indiana apartment by multiple shooters who entered through a sliding glass door

26-year-old Jessica Starr was brutally murdered outside her trailer in Elkhart, Indiana on August 8, 2011, in what appeared to be a targeted attack rather than a random crime

Alex Murdaugh, member of a powerful South Carolina legal dynasty, was convicted of murdering his wife Maggie and son Paul in June 2021

On February 22, 1985, 8-year-old Cherrie Mahan disappeared 500 feet from her home in Cabot, Pennsylvania, just moments after stepping off her school bus

On June 26, 2025, 53-year-old Melissa Casias vanished in Taos County, New Mexico under mysterious circumstances

In June 2017, three bodies were discovered in a shed on a newly purchased property in Caldwell, Idaho: Cheryl Baker (Michael Bullinger's wife), Nadja Medley (his girlfriend), and her 14-year-old daughter Payton

In 1969, two young women, Marina Habe and Reet Jurvetson, were murdered miles apart in Los Angeles under strikingly similar circumstances

23-year-old Dawn Mozino disappeared in 1989 after her shift at Bryn Mawr Hospital in Pennsylvania under mysterious circumstances

15-year-old Tina Fontaine was failed by multiple systems including child welfare, police, and shelters in the weeks before her death on August 17, 2014

39-year-old Jodine Serrin was brutally murdered in her Carlsbad, California condo on Valentine's Day 2007

14-year-old Wendy Jerome was murdered on Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 1984, in Rochester, New York, after leaving home to deliver a birthday card

18-year-old Anastasia WitbolsFeugen was shot and killed in Kansas City's Lincoln Cemetery on October 22, 1997, in a case that has haunted investigators and her family for decades.

Erin Patterson, a 50-year-old Australian mother, was convicted of poisoning her family with death cap mushrooms hidden in a Beef Wellington meal in July 2023

Kristin David, a 22-year-old University of Idaho student, vanished on June 1981 while cycling along Highway 95 from Moscow to Lewiston, Idaho

The Lewis-Clark Valley murders represent a series of unsolved killings and disappearances that occurred between 1979 and 1982 in the Lewiston-Clarkston area of Idaho and Washington

On November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were murdered in Moscow, Idaho: Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin

John and Shelly Markley vanished from their Bristolville, Ohio home on December 15, 1995, leaving behind five children and an unsolved mystery that has persisted for nearly three decades.

The 1980 disappearance of Jeannette Bishop May, former wife of banker Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, and her assistant Gabriella Guerin remains one of Italy's most perplexing unsolved cases

Jennifer Lancaster and her two daughters Sidney and Monique vanished from Topeka, Kansas on May 12, 2000, leaving behind multiple mysterious clues

Jennifer Dulos, a Connecticut mother of five, disappeared on May 24, 2019, during a bitter divorce from her husband Fotis Dulos

On April 3, 1987, Sarah W. Boyd, her 2-year-old daughter Kimberly Janis Boyd, and their friend Linda McCord disappeared after attending a gospel concert in Walterboro, South Carolina

Tina Knaub, an 18-year-old mother of two, disappeared on February 24, 1984, from York, Pennsylvania
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