Gone without a trace

Jamie Michelle Fraley

She disappeared while trying to catch a ride to her local hospital on April 8, 2008.

She told a friend over the phone that she was going to the hospital for the third time in the last 24 hours due to a stomach flu.

She said a friend of a friend was going to give her a ride.

She has not been seen since.

Her cellphone was found a few days later but provided no useful information as to her whereabouts.
Police were investigating Ricky Simonds Sr., her fiancé's father, who lived in the same apartment complex, a person of interest, he has since died.
he was found two months later when Simonds was found dead, apparently of heat stroke, in the trunk of a former girlfriend's car.

He had driven Fraley to the hospital on one of her previous visits that day, and had a criminal record that included prison time for manslaughter after he had strangled a girlfriend in the 1980 s.

Her family is still holding out hope.

Her son will grow up without her.

Ericka Bradley

She went missing in 2006, when she was 17.

Her boyfriend said he left her at the side of the road in South Carolina, after they had an argument.

He was convicted running her over with his car and killing her and destroying her remains in an incinerator.

It is suggested that he had an accomplice, whose trial on the matter starts sometime this year.

However, he had maintained his innocence.

Her body was never found.

Their son will grow up not knowing his parents. 

Carolina's mother is trying to obtain full custody of the child.

Was Bethany Decker and Her Baby Murdered? Updated On 02/17/2023

UPDATED ON 02/17/2023: On November 18, 2022, Bethany's boyfriend, Ronald Roldan pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of Bethany. He is set to be sentenced on Feb. 21, 2023.

UPDATED ON 11/13/2020 Ronald Roldan is being charged with abduction in Bethany's disappearance. Ronald is the only person of interest in Bethany's disappearance. He is currently serving time in a North Carolina prison. He had been charged with attempted murder after a 2014 domestic violence attack on girlfriend Vickey Willoughby in her home in Pinehurst, North Carolina. He is expected to be transferred to Loudoun County Tuesday

Bethany Anne Decker

She was born on May 13th, 1989. 

In 2011, Bethany was a senior at George Mason University. where she was majoring in global and economic change. She also worked at Carrabba's Italian Grill in Centreville.

On January 29th, 2011, Bethany was 21 years old and pregnant when she went missing. Her husband was on leave from military duty in Afghanistan and the couple had returned from Hawaii the day before. The couple had been married about eighteen months and had a one-year-old son, who lived with Bethany's parents. 

That day Bethany had left her husband's family's home in Maryland and returned to her apartment on Orchard Grass Terrace in Ashburn, Virginia. Her boyfriend, Ronald Roldan, a married man she was having an affair with and the father of her unborn child, said he saw her there later that day. She has not been seen since.

Bethany's husband returned to Afghanistan on February 4th. She wasn't at the airport to see him off, which is uncharacteristic of her, but she and her husband had been having marital problems, so it was assumed that she was mad at him.

Bethany's family reported her missing on February 19th, after their numerous attempts to contact her were unsuccessful and they realized someone was impersonating her on her Facebook account. 

Bethany's car was found parked near her apartment in her garage. There hasn't been any activity on her bank accounts, email or cellular phone since she went missing.

Bethany never showed up to work or attended classes. She also left behind her passport and identification. After her disappearance, someone posing as her used her Facebook account to send messages to her friends. 

Extensive searches have found no trace of Bethany or the child she might have given birth to.

Roldan is reportedly a person of interest in the case, he has never been charged with her disappearance.

Although Bethany's husband and Roldan have both been cooperative with the police in her case, Roldan has been named as a person of interest. Bethany's family said she'd told them he was controlling and abusive. He also has a criminal record prior to Bethany's disappearance.

In 2015, he was arrested in North Carolina and charged with the attempted murder of another girlfriend after she survived several gunshot wounds he allegedly inflicted on her during an incident in 2014. After she recovered, the victim claimed on the Dr. Phil show that he had made statements to her that might implicate him in Bethany's disappearance.

Roldan pled guilty to two lesser charges in 2016; after he serves his sentence, he will be deported to his native Bolivia.

Bethany's mother says that Bethany wouldn't have left her 2 year old son behind without an explanation.

Investigators said there has been new “movement” in her case. The development came after a January search warrant of Decker’s Facebook account. Since 2011, better technology has helped investigators pinpoint the origination of suspicious online activity.

So far, Bethany's case remains unsolved.

At the time of her disappearance, Bethany was 5'0" tall, 130 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.

 

She had a small tattoo on her left ankle and her ears were pierced. She was about four to five months pregnant at the time of her disappearance; her due date was August 7, 2011. Bethany's maiden name is Littlejohn.

If you have any information, no matter how small, please come forward. 

Loudoun County Sheriff's Office 703-777-0445

What happened to Asha Degree?

Asha Degree

She was nine years old when she went missing on February 14th, 2000 from Shelby, North Carolina.

Her family says that they last saw her sleeping in her bed.
The FBI says that she was last seen by drivers, walking down a highway around 4 a.m.
The next day, candy wrappers were found in a shed at a nearby business along the highway, near where Asha had been seen.

Along with them were a pencil, marker and Mickey Mouse-shaped hair bow that were identified as belonging to her.
The next year her bookbag, packed, was unearthed from a construction site along Highway 18 north of Shelby.
It was raining heavily and their was heavy wind.
The FBI announced in May 2016, that their reinvestigation of the case had turned up a possible new lead. 

They said that Asha may have been seen getting into a dark green early 1970s Lincoln Continental Mark IV, or possibly a Ford Thunderbird from the same era along Route 18 near where she was last seen later that night. 

It was described as having rust around its wheel wells.
Her mom said that even after all this time, her daughter is still on her mind.

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WW2 Mysteries

The Ghost of a Soldier.

This photo was taken of soldiers in Egypt during WW2,
There is clearly a ghost in the background.

The Ghost Plane of Pearl Harbor

December 8, 1942 an unknown plane was detected on radar, approaching Pearl Harbor from the ocean of Japan.
The U.S. sent patrols to examine the area, they discovered that the plane was a P40 Warhawk.
It was the same type of plane that the U.S. was using the previous year during the attack on Pearl Harbor and which had ceased being used.
Looking at the aircraft, they noticed that the plane had been perforated by gunfire.
The pilot still inside, bloody and slouched over the cockpit and waving at the patrol.
The plane then crash landed.
The search team was unable to find a body or any sign of a pilot being in the craft.
There was only a diary found, describing the planes departure from Mindanao.

What Happened to Raoul Wallenberg

He was a Swedish entrepreneur and a philanthropist.

He ran and operation to produce forged papers for Jews to protect them from internment in concentration camps.

Up until the liberation of Budapest in 1945, over 100,000 Jews able to remain free from detention.

Wallenberg was captured by Soviet forces in 1945.

No one is sure what happened to him after that.

The Soviet physician that was tending to Wallenberg suggested that he passed away in 1947 following a heart attack at Lubyanka prison.

There are prison records where Wallenberg, Prisoner 7, was interrogated for 16 hours in July 1947, several days after his supposed death.

In 2009, there was suggestions of an ongoing investigation in to what happened to him.

The Amber Room

It was located in Russia and was looted by the Nazi's during WW2.

It was reconstructed and put on display in Conisbrough up until 1945.

It's location since, has been a mystery.

The original place was at Catherine Palace, located in the town of Tsarskoye Selo.

It was constructed in Prussia at the beginning of the 18th century.
The room had Amber boards with gold leaves and mirrors.
After the Nazi invasion of the USSR during WW2, the Russian's tried to extract the priceless art inside and around Leningrad.
They had begun to disassemble the Amber Room.
The artifacts began to disintegrate with attempt to move them.
They decided to cover it with wallpaper.
Nazi forces discovered this and dismantled the Amber Room in 36 hours.
Then they transported it to a castle in Conisbrough.
January 1945, the city of Conisbrough was going to be invaded by the Red Army.
Hitler ordered all of his artifacts to be evacuated outside of the city.
However, Erich Koch, commanded the force in Conisbrough, fled the city before removing the Amber Room.
August 1944, the city was impacted by a firebombing raid.
The city was largely destroyed.
After the war, there was various reports of people having pieces of the Amber Room.
There are some accounts of the Amber Room being loaded onto a German passenger freight called the Wilhelm Gustloff.
January 1945, the ship sank after being intercepted by Soviet submarine.
In 2004,  two British reporters concluded that the Amber Room probably was destroyed during the firebombings in Conisbrough.
Now a replica of the Amber Room, that was commissioned in 1979, rests at the original location.
It took 24 years to complete.
A miniature version is in Berlin.

Foo Fighters

Might be the first UFO sightings ever.

Appeared over Europe and the Pacific.

No clear answer for the sightings have been determined.

The U.S. 415th night fighter squadron came up with the name in WW2.

The term included all airborne phenomena that deemed to be out of the ordinary.

Allied military intelligence suspected the Foo Fighters were covert Nazi weapons used for surveillance or stealth demolition.

January 1953, the Robertson Panel, was established to study and ascertain the UFO sightings.

No conclusive results were ever made.

Two possible explanations were determined however.

One, that it could be St. Elmo's Fire.

St. Elmo's Fire is an atmospheric phenomenon, which causes objects to become illuminated.

The other one is Ball Lightning.

It also is an atmospheric phenomenon which causes luminous spherical objects to materialize and then explode.

Jean Moulin

He was a key figure in the organization of the French Resistance.

June 21st, 1943, German collaborators tipped off the Gestapo, about a meeting of the resistance.

The Gestapo stormed the meeting and arrested Moulin.

This was not the first time he had been seized by German forces.

This time he was tortured before being transported to Berlin, passing away on route.

It has never been known exactly how the Gestapo learned about the meeting.

Anne Frank

The warehouse that her and her family hid in for 2 years was stormed in 1944.

All eight people living there were arrested.

Anne's father was the only one to survive the war.

An unidentified caller led the Gestapo to them.

No indications of who ever made the call has been ascertained.

Soundgarden's Chris Cornell: Did he really commit suicide?

Christopher John Cornell (Boyle)

"Ultimately I think I'm sort of a freethinker and kind of open. … So many bad things–as well as good things–have happened based on people just sort of blindly following religion that I kind of feel like I want to stay away from any type of specific denomination or any religion period. If for no other reason than just that. I don't want to be involved with anything or condone any school of thought that at some point and in some way causes the death of innocent people, or tragedies where initial fantastic ideas are distorted. Like the life, for example, of Jesus is well-documented. It's corroborated by different people, who had different backgrounds, and different levels of education. And they wrote about it. We know that this guy existed, and we know pretty much what he said, and it's pretty simple. Everything from that point on in terms of wars and fighting over land and territories and religious things, none of that was even included in anything he said. His message was pretty simple, be really nice to each other and everything will be okay."

He was born July 20, 1964 in Seattle Washington.

His parents were Edward F. Boyle, a pharmacist of Irish-Catholic background, and Karen Cornell, an accountant and psychic of Jewish background.

He was an American musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for the rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave. 

He was also the founder and frontman for Temple of the Dog, the one-off tribute band dedicated to his late friend Andrew Wood.

He is considered one of the chief architects of the 1990s grunge movement.

He had a  nearly four-octave vocal range, and a powerful vocal belting technique.
Cornell's death was ruled a suicide by hanging.

His widow Vicky Cornell has continued to insist that he’d never have taken his own life. 

She believes prescription medication with known side-effects  abd head trauma, disrupted his state of mind.

An emergency technician was supposedly heard on medical dispatch audio referencing a gash in Chris Cornell’s head and the ambulance crew report referred to a “laceration to back of skull.” No mention was made of such an injury in the autopsy report. Vicky told the News: 

“You can clearly see a gash or at least a visible big bald spot in pictures and video footage. It was confirmed by the band and crew: They said they saw it at the show, and not at sound check. You can’t tell people there was no laceration when it’s documented, and we can all see it.”

If Cornell did sustained head trauma, it suggests that he acquired an injury that may have caused a concussion. 

A concussion can cause confusion, memory loss, and unusual behavior such as sudden mood swings, and becoming easily irritated. 

Vicky said that when she talked to him the night of his death he was slurring his speech and that he said he may have taken an Ativan or two.

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The world's oldest shark was alive during the time of Shakespeare!

The Greenland Shark

It is also known as the gurry shark or grey shark.

It is a large shark, closely related to the Pacific and southern sleeper sharks.

They are among the largest sharks in the world.

They have been known to grow as long as 21 feet and as heavy as 2,100 pounds.

Its meat is poisonous.

They are known to be non confrontational.

There is no known documented case of them attacking humans.

This species was captured on film for the first time in 1995.

It took 18 more years for anyone to get a video that depicted Greenland sharks in their natural environment.

Researchers have recorded them diving as deep as 7,218 feet.

They are scavengers and eat about any flesh they can find.

Greenland sharks are Earth’s longest-living vertebrates.

Scientists have discovered the possibility that these mammals can live to 400 years old or more.

Literal Murder

Liu Yongbiao, was 53 when he received the death penalty in a cold case that went unsolved in Huzhou for nearly two dozen years.

The author and an accomplice reportedly killed a couple and their grandson during a robbery in November 1995 at their family-owned hostel.

The  pair evidently killed the family to cover up the murder of one of the guests.

For 22 years the murders remained unsolved, due to lack of surveillance cameras at the hostel.

Police were able to finally make a break in the case last year after using DNA evidence from a cigarette at the crime scene.

Liu later admitted in an interview that the gory details in some of his novels were based on the killings.