Josh Made A Deadly Friend And It Cost Him His Life...

Joshua Allen Dufort

He was born on July 15th, 1987 in Dansville, Michigan to George and Jana Dufort,

He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2006 to pursue an acting career and comic improvisation.

His family says he was always happy and smiling.

Josh's uncle, Jeff Jones said

"He was always trying to cheer people up and never burdened people with his problems. 

He made even the oddball kids feel wanted, even though he worked out and ran. 

He was friends with the geeks and he was friends with the jocks; that type of kid."

He was known for Astro Zombies: M3 - Cloned (2010) and Possibly Talented (2011)

In his spare time, Josh liked to do medieval fighting reenactment and started a chapter in Las Vegas. 

He was also an actor in a few different shows, including "Rehab," which was put on at the Hard Rock Cafe. 

He also worked for a landscaping business while in Nevada.

Josh liked to work out and was going to try ultimate fighting, but he didn't dare do it because you can't model and act because your face is all beat up.
He met a girl that worked at the local bakery shop, her name was Shannon Lutz.
They fell in love and moved in together.
He also made other friends, one of them was a lightweight champion boxer named Don Juan Petrelli.
Don acted as Josh's mentor.
November 7th, 2010, Don text Josh and asked him to come over, work out and talk about a t-shirt business they were talking about starting.
Josh decided to jog over to Don's house.
He told Shannon goodbye, kissed her and left.
She never saw him alive again.
In the morning she gets a call from police asking her if she knows a phone number they recite to her on the phone.
It turns out it is Josh's number.
The police inform Shannon that the number is involved in a missing person's case, not wanting to tell Shannon yet the horrible truth.
Josh's lifeless body had been discovered that morning dumped at the side of the road, beaten and strangled.
Don came over and talked to Shannon and Josh's family.
They said Don was acting strange.
He played them messages he had gotten from Josh on the night he was murdered.
On the way to Don's, Josh left him a terrifying voicemail.
There were three messages of Josh saying that these guys were there, that they were following him and he didn't know what to do.
He was frantic and saying that Don needed to come get him right now.
Detectives retrace Don's last steps and talk to his friends.
They find out that Josh had not one, but two life insurance policies.
Together Josh was insured for 1.75 million dollars.
The beneficiary of these policies was Don.
The two insurance companies deny Don's for the pay outs.
One company took him to federal court and he counter sued.
What was revealed in court papers and the application was Don and Josh were listed as domestic partners.
Whomever filed the claims stated that Josh made over $180,000 a year from the t-shirt company that Josh and Don co-owned.
His girlfriend said that he only made $16,000 a year.
And his friends stated that he didn't live like he made $180,000 a year.
A audio interview with the insurance company didn't sound like Josh.
Whomever it was was also seeming to have problems giving basic information about Josh.
Investigators soon learn that the voice in the audio interview is Don's brother.
Don's brother breaks down and confesses that Don asked him to pose as Josh.
Don and his brother never get charged with insurance fraud, because they didn't collect any money.
Neither one of them was charged in Josh's murder either.
Josh's case remains unsolved.....

Has The Murder Case of the Black Dahlia Been Solved?

Dr, George Hodel has been one of the longtime suspects in the Black Dahlia murder case.
Now George's son, retired LAPD Detective Steven Hodel, discovers a decade old letter he believes further links his father to the Black Dahlia's murder.

In weeks after he finished his latest book about his dad and the Black Dahlia murder, a woman named Sandi Nichols contacted Steven and told him that after her mother passed away, she discovered a 69-year old letter tucked away with her belongings.

The three-page letter was written by Sandi's  grandfather, W. Glenn Martin, reportedly used the initials “G.H.” to identify the Black Dahlia killer as well as the suspect in the murder of Louise Springer.

Springer was a 28-year-old woman who was abducted and strangled in 1949 two years after 22-year-old Elizabeth Short’s naked corpse was found maimed and split in two, and later dubbed“The Black Dahlia.”

Steven Hodel says that Martin’s letter only further bolsters the case he has laid out against him.

Martin was a police informant at the time of the murders and appears to have written the letter to protect his then-teenage daughters. 

He feared his knowledge on the Black Dahlia case would put them at risk.

Written across the front of the envelope, dated Oct. 25, 1949 are the words: “In Case of Margaret Ellen’s or Glenna Jeans Death.”
Margaret Ellen was Nichol’s mother and Glenna Jean was her aunt, they were teens at the time the letter was written.The letter begins

“I believe Choate framed this with McCawley to let G.H. get out of it as the known Black dalia (sic) killer.” 
Joe Choate,is a former Los Angeles deputy district attorney, and Sgt. Kenneth J. McCauley, an internal affairs LAPD officer.
The letter continues

“G.H. was grilled by police on Louise Springer death; he and I
both knew her,”
“The investigation officer became G.H. friend, so matter dropped. He threatened to get even with me.”Steven Hodel suspects his father used the information as a successful surgeon and doctor, served in a series of health-related positions that made him privy to the sexual disease histories of the Los Angeles elite, including celebrities and cops as leverage when got caught up in legal troubles.

New Theory And Missing Evidence In The JohnBenet Murder Case

Was JonBenet killed at the neighbor's Christmas party?
The authorities say that the time of her death was around 10:00 p.m. on Christmas day.
Suppose something happened at the party, and the Ramsey's took her home to stage the kidnapping?
Remember, she was struck on the head hours before she was strangled to death.
Forget about the pineapple, she could have had that at the party. 
A fact that came out is that she also had other fruit being digested in her body as well.
Did her father and Fleet White cover up her murder?

In a bizarre interview that aired on the 2016 US TV show Investigation Discovery’s series JonBenet: An American Murder Mystery, John Karr aka Alexis Reich, then 51 stated that
"Nobody wanted that little girl to die that night, nobody. 
Her death was an accident. 
I was with her when she died. 
But I was not the person who caused it."
He explained a panic had ensued after her death. 
"How she was found, that’s not how she died. 
Where she was found in that basement is not where she died."
Karr also said JonBenet’s body was tampered with in a bid to cover up who the killer was.
"Something happened to her and I had to take care of it.
I have always been able to fix things. Nobody came in there and did a paedoerotic thing to that little girl, but it was made to look as though it was done that way."He also claimed the kidnap letter found at the Ramsey house was fake and simply there to make her death look like a botched kidnapping.

They Tried To Cut Whitey Bulger's Tongue Out Before He Was Killed.

Authorities have one suspect in custody in Whitey Bulger's murder.

One of the two suspects in the brutal beating was identified as 51 year old Fotios "Freddy" Geas, a Mafia hit man from Massachusetts.

Geas is now in solitary confinement.

He is already serving a life sentence at the same prison for the 2003 murder of a crime boss and another man he believed was an FBI informant.

Whitey was beaten beyond recognition with a lock in a sock on Tuesday. 

His attackers also attempted to cut out his tongue.
James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger was a police informant and was serving two life sentences for participating in 11 murders.

Was The Right Man Executed For Sister M. Tadea's Death? Or Was Johnny Frank Garrett Innocent?

Sister M. Tadea 

Martina Benz

She was born in Switzerland on September 21st, 1905.
She was a Roman Catholic nun at the St. Francis Convent in Amarillo, Texas.
On October 31st, 1981, Sister Angela Martinez noticed 76 year old Sister M. Tadea's absence at 6:30 a.m. mass and went to check on her, because she seldom missed chapel.
About 7:00 a.m., Sister Martinez went to Sister Tadea's room on the second floor and found the door closed.
This was unusual, because Tadea was hard of hearing and always left the door ajar to hear the morning buzzer.
Martinez found Tadea's nude body on the floor with her arms outstretched and her face bloody.
Four other nuns wrapped Sister Tadea's body in a sheet, believing she had died in a fall, and cleaned up spots of blood on the floor near her body.

The nuns had the body transported to the funeral home.

An hour later Sister Florantine discovered a broken window unlatched and open, in the community room located on the first floor of the convent.
She realized a break-in had occurred and  called police.
When police arrived at 9 a.m. to investigate the break-in, officers overheard the nuns' conversation about the Tadea's death and decided to investigate.

They recovered bed linens, the victim's night clothes, and a kitchen knife under the bed. 

Fingerprints and palm prints were lifted from the knife blade and handle and from the bed headboard. 

The cut window screen and a second knife, a steak knife, were found in the driveway.

The police recovered her body from the funeral home.

It had been partially cleansed and arterial embalming completed. The autopsy revealed contusions to the head, stab wounds to the chest, and excoriation and abrasive injuries to the front and back of the neck. 

The pathologist, Dr. Erdmann, determined that death was caused by manual strangulation.

The autopsy also revealed evidence of forcible rape. 

There were signs of external bleeding and internal trauma in the vaginal area. 

Tests of vaginal contents revealed the presence of sperm and prostate secretions. 

No test was conducted from the vaginal contents designed to determine the assailant's blood type.

Pubic hairs recovered from the scene.

Prints found on the handle and blade of the kitchen knife recovered from under the victim's bed and prints from the bed headboard matched Johnny Garrett's.

Sister M. Tadea was laid to rest in the Llano Cemetery in Amarillo, Randall County, Texas on November 2, 1981.

Johnny Frank Garrett

He was born on December 24th, 1963 in Oklahoma to Charlotte Jo Cameron.

When as a little boy, Garrett was raped by his stepfather, who then hired him to another man for sex. 

From the age of 14 he was forced to perform bizarre sexual acts and participate in pornographic homosexual films. 

He was first introduced to alcohol and other drugs by members of his family at the age of ten and subsequently indulged in serious substance abuse involving brain-damaging substances such as paint-thinner and amphetamines. 

Garrett was regularly beaten and on one occasion was put upon the burner of a stove, resulting in severe scarring.

On November 9, 1981, Garrett was 17 years old and living across the street from the convent, when he was arrested for Sister Tadea's murder.

Garrett adamantly  denied committing such a horrendous act.

However, his fingerprints were those found on Sister Tadea's headboard and their was a witness claiming to have seen Garrett running away from the convent on the night of the murder.

Authorities also stated that they believed the pubic hairs looked like they came from Garret.
A steak knife found at Garrett's home was similar to the weapon found in the driveway of the convent. 

The police said that he wrote a confession, which he never signed,  saying that he Sister Tadea and choked her to death.

He also told police that she recited the Lord's Prayer during the attack.

Later Garrett said that he was in the convent, but it was 12 hours before the murder.

He stated that he was trying to find something to steal.

Garrett's abusive upbringing and mental health problems were not made available to the jury. 

According to three mental health experts who examined him  was extremely mentally impaired, chronically psychotic and brain-damaged as the result of several severe head injuries he sustained as a child. 

He suffered from paranoid delusions.

One of the experts described Garrett's case as 

"one of the most virulent histories of abuse and neglect...I have encountered in over 28 years of practice."

Garrett was convicted of killing Sister Tadea and was held at Ellis Unit, north of Huntsville, Texas and received the death penalty.

He was originally scheduled to be executed on January 6, 1992, but after Pope John Paul II asked for clemency, Governor of Texas Ann Richards gave him a temporary reprieve.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles held a hearing on whether Garrett should receive a commutation to life in prison but the death sentence was retained by a 17 to nothing vote.

He was executed at age 28 at Huntsville Unit on February 11, 1992 by lethal injection.

Supposedly he left behind a letter, cursing those who wronged him.

HERE ARE SOME OF HIS LETTERS FROM DEATHROW

Jesse Quackenbush

Jesse Quackenbush was hired by Garrett's family and questions whether evidence was ignored, the authenticity of the confession and the handling of DNA evidence.

He points out comparisons between Tadea's slaying and that of Narnie Box Bryson, 77. 

The two were slain three months apart in a similar manner in the same part of town.

In 2004, DNA evidence linked Leoncio Perez Rueda, a Cuban immigrant to the crime the murder of Sister Tadea.

Rueda admitted to sexually assaulting a "nun" four months prior to the rape and murder of another elderly woman, 

Narnie Box Bryson, for which Rueda was convicted. 

Physical evidence also linked Rueda to the crime, such as hairs found at the scene and on a white T-shirt formerly said to be that of Garrett's.

He has never been charged in Sister Tadea's death.

Black Mass Aka Mob Boss Whitey Bulger Was Killed In Prison.

89 year old James "Whitey Bulger" was found unresponsive  at 8:20 a.m., on Tuesday morning, a day after his transfer, at the US Penitentiary Hazelton in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia. 
Details of his murder have not yet been released.

Did She Runaway And Become A Victim Of The Green River Killer? Or Is She Still Alive?

Kristi Lynn Vorak

She was 13 years old when she was last seen on October 31, 1982.

She lived with her foster family Tacoma, Washington.

There is an unconfirmed sighting of Kristi later at a bus depot in Seattle, Washington. 

She had no history of running away or prostitution, but she did frequently explore the streets of Tacoma and the neighboring areas.

Her mothers has hopes that she still is alive, while investigators believe she is deceased.

Even thought she doesn't really match the profile, it is believe that Kristi might be the victim of the Green River Serial Killer, Gary Leon Ridgway, and has been added to his victim list.

It is believed Kristi was a victim of the murderer due to her location in the northwest United States, where many young women disappeared and/or were murdered by the suspected assailant, between 1982 and 1984.

At the time of her disappearance Kristi was 5'3 tall, 110 pounds,
with brown hair and hazel eyes. 

Due to a birth defect, Kristi's left middle finger is about an inch shorter than average.

Who Is The Lady With The Orange Socks? UPDATED: Identified

Lady Orange Socks AKA Debra Jackson

After 40 years,"Orange Socks" has been identified Debra Jackson. 23-years-old when she left home in 1977, but her parents never filed a missing person's report because she was known to have left home before. 

This year, Jackson's sister called authorities after seeing the newest forensic image of "orange socks" on the news, and believed that she was her missing sister. Photos obtained from Jackson's family were compared with the forensic image, and family confirmed additional physical characteristics matching orange socks. Her identity was further confirmed with assistance from the DNA Doe Project through the process of DNA genealogy with Jackson's relative.

Jackson's family said they feel like they can let her rest after this break in the case. They had been looking for all these years, but they just thought she had went her separate way.

Jackson's identity is a huge step forward in finding more clues to her murderer.

Records show Jackson worked at a hotel in Amarillo in 1978 and an assisted living facility in Azle the same year.

The sheriff's office is now asking for anyone from Abilene, Amarillo, and Azle with information on Jackson's whereabouts between 1977 and 1979, or worked with her, to contact their cold case unit tip line at 512-943-5204.

A female body was found on October 31, 1979 in a culvert on interstate 45 in Georgetown, Texas.

The only thing she was wearing was orange socks.

It is believed that she was to have died only a few hours before the discovery.

She was white and had been sexually assaulted.

She had been dragged to and thrown over a guardrail.

The cause of death was ruled as strangulation, as a large amount of bruising was visible on her neck. 

Other bruises were also visible, caused by the body having been dropped from the overpass.

The victim's legs were unshaven with a large number of insect bites. 

She had very long toenails.

Her fingernails were painted and a hairline scar was observed beneath the chin. 

She had not broken a bone during her life.

She had reportedly suffered from salpingitis, due to previously contracting gonorrhea.

She had long brown hair with a reddish tint, hazel eyes, and her age ranged from 15 to 30 years. 

She was approximately five feet eight inches to five feet ten inches tall, and weighed between 140 and 160 pounds.

Two of her teeth were missing.

The rest of her teeth were well-maintained.

A silver ring was found on her hand, containing an abalone or mother of pearl stone and her ears were pierced.

A towel was found at the scene along with the body,

It was likely used in place of a sanitary napkin, as though the victim was attempting to use it as a feminine napkin or tampon. 

One of two matchbooks found at the scene belonged to a hotel from Henryetta, Oklahoma, which supported the theory she was a hitchhiker or drifter.

In 1982, serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed to her murder.

There was no physical evidence that he had been involved in the killing, sexual assault or disposing of the body.

He stated that he picked her up in Oklahoma, where they had sex.

And when he asked her for sex again while he was driving and Orange Socks said "not right now" and attempted to leave his car.

This is when he killed her and raped her corpse. 

He then drove her body to Georgetown.

Lucas told authorities that the victim had stated her name as being "Joanie" or "Judy". 

He had previously showed officers how he had supposedly dragged her body over the guardrail when taken to the location where her body was found.

Interrogators stated that he had contradicted himself several times when confessing to the murder, and his defense also stated that he was shown images of the crime scene before his interview.

Lucas later recanted this statement after his conviction in 1984 and, by involvement of the then state governor, George W. Bush, his death sentence was reduced to life imprisonment, as the death of Orange Socks was the only case that resulted in his receiving a capital punishment.

Lucas confessed to upwards of 3,000 murders.

Lucas himself recanted his confessions, stating that the only murder he had committed was that of his mother, Viola.

Was She Murdered Because They Thought She Was A Prostitute? Updated October 6th, 2024

"Under Construction

sad but happy

crying but laughing

ugly but pretty

hungry but full

hurt but fine

weak but strong

I pretend

and this is me."

10.25.01 -Cindy Song

Hyun Jong Song who was known to her friends as Cindy was open-minded and fiercely independent. Her friends said that she was also studious and willing to work hard to achieve her goals. This bright and vivacious woman liked dance and paintings and aspired to become a graphic and fashion designer.

Born on February 25th, 1980, to Ban Soon Song in Seoul, South Korea Cindy moved to the United States in 1995 to live with her aunt and uncle in Springfield, Virginia.

She attended Hayfield Secondary School and then transferred to Randolph-Macon Academy in Front Royal, Virginia, where she graduated in 1998. She then got an apartment and enrolled in Pennsylvania State University, where she majored in integrative arts. She also joined the Korean Undergraduate Student Association, the American Red Cross and Advertising Club. She was scheduled to graduate during the spring of 2002, but sadly that day would never come.

On Halloween night in 2001, a 21-year-old Cindy was dressed as a playboy bunny which consisted of a pink sleeveless shirt with a rabbit design imprinted on the front, rabbit ears, a white tennis skirt with a cotton bunny tail attached to the back, brown suede leather knee-high boots and a red knee-length hooded parka. She went partying with friends at Player's Nite Club (now The Basement Nightspot) in the 100 block of west College Avenue. Around 2 a.m. they went to play video games at another friend's house. At 4 a.m., she was dropped off at her apartment 363 by her roommate Stacy Paik at State College Park Apartments in the 300 block of west Clinton Avenue (Alight State College on Blue Course Drive). Cindy had been drinking that evening and was mildly intoxicated when taken to her apartment. Palik watch Cindy as she walked towards the door but couldn't confirm she went inside. 

Later that day when Paik returned from visiting her family, the door to their apartment was locked from the outside and there was no Cindy anywhere to be seen. Paik wasn't too concerned at the time because allegedly short absences weren’t entirely uncharacteristic. However, after missing shifts at the Seoul Garden Korean Restaurant (The Koop: Korean Chicken and Cuisine) and her failing to contact anyone, Cindy's friends reported her missing on November 14th, which was three days after she was last seen.

When police arrived at her home the door, they found eyelashes on the kitchen counter, which were part of her costume she had been wearing. They also found her backpack and her cellphone. Her keys and her purse, containing her credit cards and driver's license, were missing as well as the rest of her bunny costume. Her cellular phone was turned off, and she didn't place any phone calls from her apartment after returning home, nor was there any indication of a struggle or foul play at the scene. Bloodhounds and search parties were sent into the woods and other areas surrounding her apartment with no results.

Cindy's mother Ban Soon and brother Ki Ho traveled from South Korea to the United States after her disappearance. They cleaned her apartment shortly after the initial police search, inadvertently destroying what physical evidence that might have been there. They hired Jin Han, an attorney from New York to help be their spokesperson. Ban Soon was quite distraught but was very active in placing posters around town.

The theory that Cindy ran away was quickly ruled out. She had already registered for classes for the next semester. She had a computer ordered and she had Britney Spears tickets. She did not have any travel plans in November 2002 and her loved ones maintained that she was not suffering from any personal problems at the time of her disappearance. There has been no activity on her credit cards since her disappearance.

Cindy had broken up with her boyfriend months before her disappearance, but her roommates say she was getting over the breakup and was not depressed about it.

Some people speculated that Cindy was abducted from her apartment, while others theorize that she had entered the apartment after she was dropped off but decided to leave again to travel to a nearby 24-hour supermarket she often frequented and was abducted going to or from there.

On December 5th, 2001, 35 days after Cindy was last seen authorities received a tip from a woman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The witness claimed that she saw a woman matching Cindy's description inside a vehicle with an unidentified male in the city's Chinatown district. The witness said that the woman called for help, but the man interrupted her and told the witness to leave. Authorities have not identified the man allegedly seen by the woman. The man was described as having an olive or light brown complexion with medium-length hair. Allegedly it was found out that the lady that the witness had seen was not Cindy.

In January of 2002 there was a prank call by a woman claiming to be Cindy. And by the beginning of February there was no active leads to go on.

In the spring of 2002 Ban Soon said through an interpreter “It is spring now, and there are flowers, and she is not here to see it.”

In June 2003 a career criminal named Paul Weakley was facing a felony burglary charge and told police that his associate and bank robber Hugo Marcus Selenski along with a man named Michael Kerkowski Jr. had abducted Cindy while she was walking down the street. Weakley said that Kerkowski had mistaken Cindy for a prostitute. Cindy was then allegedly taken to Kerkowski’s house in Hunlock Creek, where she was kept inside a walk-in safe where the two men had their way with her until she died. After that Weakley said that they then buried Cindy's body in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

Selenski was arrested and several sets of human remains, believed to be from between five and twelve people, were found in his backyard. None of the remains were from Cindy.  Kerkowski could not confirm or deny Selenski's account because he was one of the people buried in Selenski's backyard.

Weakley said Selensky had killed Kerkowski after learning that he had kept Song's bunny ears as a souvenir of the crime. One of Selenski's friends, told police that Selenski had bragged about the murder to him.

Weakley initially claimed that he only helped bury the bodies of the victims found at Selenski's house. It turned out he actually assisted Selenski with two of the murders. 

Selenski and Weakley had conspired to rob $60,000 from Kerkowski’s home and Kerowski's girlfriend Tammy Fassett was killed because she happened to be there.

Investigators are skeptical about Weakley's claims that Cindy was abducted and killed by Selenski. A search of Weakley’s computer revealed that he had downloaded several articles about Cindy, so he could have learned about her case online. Selenski has always denied any involvement in Cindy’s disappearance.

Paul Weakley is serving life in federal prison after pleading guilty in connection with the murders of Kerkowski and Fassett.

Investigators have been unable to prove Selenski's involvement in Cindy's disappearance, but they have not ruled him out as a suspect either. Selenski went on trial for the murders of Frank James and Adeiye Keiler, which were two of the bodies buried on his property. He was acquitted of the murder charges against him but was convicted of two counts of abuse of a corpse in March 2006. He was charged with the murders of Kerkowski and Fassett and after being convicted at trial in 2015, he received a life sentence

At the time of Cindy's disappearance, she was 5'1 - 5'3 tall, 110 - 130 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Her playboy bunny costume that she was wearing consisted of a pink sleeveless shirt with a rabbit design imprinted on the front, rabbit ears, a white tennis skirt with a cotton bunny tail attached to the back, brown suede leather knee-high boots and a red knee-length hooded parka. Her ears and navel were pierced.

Ferguson Township Police Department

814-237-1172

800-479-0050

Was Pocahontas Murdered By A Sexual Predator? Or Did She Get Lost On An Adventure?

“She had such a great laugh, but it’s fading. Her laugh is fading from my memory.” 

~Lisa Ann Rodrigez

Veronica "Voni" Lenhart Safranski was born on March 13th, 1956, Warren, Marshall County, Minnesota to Donald George Lenhart and Bernice Gay Mootz Lenhart.

Voni was a stay-at-home mom and also worked as an award-winning salesperson for Mary Kay.

On October 26, 1996, she was 40 years old mother of four, when she attended a Halloween party at Mick's Bar and Grill, in Warren, Minnesota. It was chilly and stormy. It was around 12:30 a.m. when one of her friends noticed she couldn’t find her. Witnesses later told the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office that Voni had left with a man named Kevin Scott Skjerven around that time in his black 1997 Dodge Power Wagon pickup truck with Oregon license plates. Voni was wearing her costume but left her coat and purse behind at the bar.

Voni was going through a separation with her husband Ed and had been casually dating Skjerven. Skjerven was a man convicted of sexual assault on multiple occasions. He said he had no idea what had happened to her. He has never been charged in her disappearance.

Ed was also questioned by authorities but was cleared of any involvement Voni's disappearance.

Veronica had been dressed as Pocahontas. Months later, a belt believed to be part of her costume was found three miles from Skjerven’s home along a country road half a mile south of the crossing of Marshall County roads 8 and 6.

Every time a new tip or lead surfaced, Voni’s children experienced a surge of hope, only to be left heartbroken yet again. Her daughter Lisa Ann Rodrigez said to Dateline, “It’s like someone is ripping my heart out every time. We’re at the point where we don’t want her to be alone anymore. We just want her back. We need to know where she is.”

At the time of her disappearance Voni was 5'4 tall, and 110 lbs., blonde hair, blue eyes and her ears were pierced. She was wearing a Mary Kay ring with diamonds in the shape of the letter "S."

Marshall County Sheriff's Office 218-745-5411

A 2015 NEWS REPORT WITH AN INTERVIEW WITH VONI'S PARENTS