Is Acacia Patience Bishop Still Alive, Or Did Her Grandmother Drown her?

Acacia Patience Bishop

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It was Sunday evening on May 25th, 2003 and Acacia was 19 months old.

She was being watched by her great-grandparents in Salt Lake County, Utah, while her parents attended a wedding rehearsal dinner.

Her grandmother, 38 year old Kelley Jean Lodmell, stopped by the home around 6:00 p.m.

The Salt Lake Count Sheriff's Office delayed issuing the amber alert for nearly 12 hours following Acacia's disappearance.

The girl disappeared when the great-grandmother briefly turned her attention to something else and left the room for a moment.

Lodmell drove to The Red Lion Hotel in Idaho, Falls along the Snake River.

Acacia and Lodmell were last seen together in Idaho Falls, Idaho on May 26, close to the Broadway overpass and green belt, next to the Snake River.
That same day, Lodmell was soaking wet when she ran to a nearby hydroelectric plant near the overpass and told employees there that she had dropped Acacia into the river while they were dangling their feet off the bridge. 

The plant was immediately shut down so Acacia would not get sucked into its turbines. 

Divers searched the murky river for several days, but Acacia was never found.

However, a pair of baby shoes and a doll were found on the riverbank. 

One of Lodmell's shoes was also found on the bank and the other one was in the water.

The Lodmell  later admitted she drowned the baby in the Snake River in a failed suicide/homicide attempt and was charged with kidnapping and murdering.

Lodmell has a criminal record, a history of substance abuse, has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

A year before she took Acacia for a half-hour before relatives found them.
Police were not called at that time until after the two were found.

She had wanted the girl for herself.

She has occasionally lived on the streets or in her car, and she took her medication only when she could afford to pay for it. 

She was not taking it at the time she abducted Acacia.

A report was filed with the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office and no charges were pressed against Kelley Lodmell. 

However, during a recent stay in the Salt Lake County Jail, Kelley Lodmell indicated she would take the girl again, given the chance.

Acacia's parents hope that Lodmell is lying about her granddaughter's  death in an effort to conceal her from the rest of the family.They characterize Lodmell as a habitual liar.. 

Lodmell sent the parents a letter from jail, writing that Acacia was alive and being cared for by others. 

She never referred to Acacia in the past tense in her letters. 

They also point out that Lodmell purchased diapers and milk for Acacia shortly before the baby allegedly drowned, which would not make sense if she had been planning to murder her.

There was a man who was allegedly seen checking Lodmell and Acacia out of the Red Lion Hotel on May 26. 

He was described as being in his late forties or early fifties with rough, weathered tan skin, graying sunbleached hair, hazel eyes, large hands with carrot-shaped fingers, and a small build.

He was about 5'6 tall and smoked Basics cigarettes.

At the time of Acacia's disappearance she was 2'6" tall, 35 lbs, with blonde hair and blue eyes.

Acacia was last seen wearing a pink sundress with white sunflowers. 

Both of her ears are pierced and she has a tennis ball-sized birthmark on her lower left abdomen.

His Ex-Wife Is Running From The Law, Did She Have Something To Do With His Disappearance?

Jeff Nichols

He loved his job as an air traffic controller the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at Salt Lake International Airport and his life in general.

He was close to his parents, his siblings, his friends.

He is originally from northern Virginia and moved to Utah in 1998.

He was about to turn 41 years old when he went missing from his residence in the vicinity of the 2500 block of east Parley Way in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 8th, 2004.

Nichols was supposed to meet his ex-wife, and their 7 year old boy, Sam at McDonald's in Midvale. 

His ex-wife stated Jeff called them to say he would be unable to keep the appointment. 

He has never been heard from again.

His girlfriend reported him missing on the morning of June 9.

His family later learned his white 2000 Ford Ranger, was towed from the 4800 South State Street block on July 15, 3 blocks away more than a month after he disappeared. 

His bank accounts and credit cards have not been used since.

At the time of his disappearance, he was planning on visiting his sister in Wisconsin and had already purchased the plane tickets and made hotel reservations.

At the time of his disappearance he was 6'2" tall, 195 lbs, with brown hair and green eyes.

His ex-wife had filed for bankruptcy prior to his disappearance.

She and Sam moved out of the area two weeks after Jeff vanished.

His family has lost touch with them. 

Jeff's ex-wife and son have since left the country, and she has been indicted for bankruptcy fraud. 

There is a warrant out for her arrest.

Jeff's case remains unsolved.

The Man Who Killed His Wife And Accused Of Killing His Children Goes Back To Court.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, November the 6th, Chris Watts makes his last court appearance before his arraignment, where he may enter a guilty or not guilty plea.
He is charged with five counts of first-degree murder, one count of first-degree unlawful termination of pregnancy and three counts of tampering with a deceased human body.

Watts, 33, is accused of killing his wife, 34-year-old Shanann Watts, and their two daughters, 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste. Shanann Watts was also 15 weeks pregnant with a boy, who her family said would be named Nico.

Bryan Taylor Walked Away From a Mental Health Facility.

Bryan Bert Taylor

He was 38 years old when he went missing April 27th, 2004.

He walked away from the Wasatch Mental Health Facility in Provo, Utah.

Bryan is considered disabled and may have been headed for Colorado.
At the time of his disappearance he was 6'0" tall, 200 lbs with brown hair and blue eyes.
May have long hair and beard and mustache.

I am not sure if his family declared him dead or this is a mistake

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Her Ex-Boyfriend Was Charged With Her Murder Almost 30 Years Later.

Peggy Sue Case

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She was born in Payson, Utah on July 28, 1960 to Richard and JoAnn Hales Ellsworth.

Peggy was a gentle, loving, and whimsical soul who was much more likely to love people than judge them.

She was a talented graphic arts designer pursuing a degree.

She was last seen at a hot-tub party she attended with her then boyfriend, Michael Ignatius Kufrin on July 9, 1988 in Spanish Fork, Utah.

At the time, police said they suspected foul play, but had no evidence of a crime.

Witnesses reported hostility between the two when Kufrin accused Peggy of flirting with some men at the party. 

The two left together, and Peggy was never seen again. 

Kufrin reportedly called Peggy's workplace to report her sick after the party, and the next day told Peggy's employers she had gone out of town to buy a car.

Co-workers, suspicious because the behavior was unlike her, reported Peggy missing July 15, 1988.
Kufrin initially claimed Peggy was staying in contact with him, but later stopped cooperating with police.
He reportedly served time in an unrelated attempted theft case before moving back to his home state of Illinois.

On May 22, 2017, the tenant living her her old home she shared with Kufrin, noticed sagging in the cellar's dirt floor and decided to dig with a friend, curious because he heard from a neighbor about Peggy's disappearance.

They uncovered human skull wrapped in a blanket and plastic mesh, buried about 18 inches deep, and called police.

A warrant was issued for Kufrin in July, according to court documents, and he was arrested July 17 by the Forest Park Police Department in Illinois.

Kufrin was extradited from Illinois to Utah on October 30, 2017 and charged with Peggy's murder.

Jonathan Berry Is From Grand Junction Colorado

Jonathan David Berry

He was 23 years old BYU student when he went missing on June 1st, 2006 from Provo, Utah
He told his friends he was headed to Rock Canyon, but never returned.
He was last seen wearing sandals, a blue t-shirt and tan shorts.

Berry's roommate found a note he left behind indicating Berry did not want to live and did not want to be found. 

Authorities do not necessarily believe he is deceased, however. They think he may have left of his own accord.
At the time of his disappearance, Berry was a scholarship student at Brigham Young University, majoring in biology. 

He is from Grand Junction, Colorado. His loved ones stated he did not seem troubled or depressed prior to his disappearance. 

At the time of his disappearance he was 6'2 - 6'4 tall, 160 - 170 pounds, with blond hair and blue eyes. 

Berry has a scar on his forehead between his eyebrows. 

He wears contact lenses.

Who Killed Elizabeth Salgado?

Elizabeth Salgado

She loved star-gazing, the sound of birds and flowers.

She was 26 years old missionary when she vanished on April 16, 2015, as she was walking home from school.

Less than a month before, she had moved to Provo, Utah from Mexico to study at the Nomen Global Language Center.

Classmates say they last saw Elizabeth, who spoke little English, after class that afternoon as she headed home to her apartment, about 18 blocks from the school. 

After that, there was no activity on her cellphone or bank accounts and she was never seen or heard from again.

Shortly after 9:00 a.m. on Friday, May 18, 2018, deputies were dispatched to a report from a man who said he found what he believed were human remains in Hobble Creek Canyon.

The remains were found off the road and it was in an area that you would not find by being on a trail.

The wooded, mountainous area where the body was found is a popular area for campers, fishermen, and hikers. 

Hobble Creek Canyon is roughly thirteen miles from where Elizabeth was last seen.

Using dental records, the remains were identified as belonging to Elizabeth Elena Laguna-Salgado.

The possibility of strangulation or asphyxiation appears unlikely, because the main bone in a strangulation, the hyoid bone, was not disturbed.

There is no outstanding evidence that would suggest blunt force trauma.

And there is no evidence of an overdose.

Her death is being treated as a homicide under suspicious circumstances and authorities are currently looking at two people.

They offered alibis but detectives aren't convinced of their whereabouts after Salgado disappeared.

In September, the family hired an attorney to help solve her murder.

New Clues In The Search For Asha Degree.

Asha Degree went missing when she was 9 years old on February 14th, 2000,from Shelby, North Carolina, United States.
A year and a half later, her book bag, still packed, was unearthed from a construction site along Highway 18 north of Shelby.
In early October of this year the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office announced two “new possible clues”.
The first clue is a library book from Fallston Elementary School in Cleveland County, Cleveland.The book, “McElligot’s Pool” by Dr. Seuss, shows a fish chasing a worm on a hook on its cover.
Unfortunately the library records at the Fallston Elementary School Media Center don’t go back to the year of Asha’s disappearance.
The second clue was a concert T-shirt from New Kids on the Block, which formed in the 1980s and is currently on tour.
Officials said investigators were working on the assumption that Asha is alive.
In May 2016, the FBI announced it was looking for an early 1970s Lincoln Mark IV or Thunderbird, based on a tip that someone who looked like Asha may have gotten into a car like that on N.C. 18, around the time she disappeared.
A $45,000 reward is available for information on the case, according to the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office video. 
Anyone with information on the library book, the shirt or other details can call 704-484-4822.

Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist

Susan B. Anthony

"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand."

She was born February 15th, 1820 to Daniel Anthony and Lucy Read in Adams, Massachusetts.

Susan was inspired by the Quaker belief that everyone was equal under God. 

That idea guided her throughout her life. 

She had seven brothers and sisters, many of whom became activists for justice and emancipation of slaves.

She learned to read and write by the age of three.

Life became difficult for Susan and her family after her dad lost almost everything when the economy collapsed in 1837. 

Susan started teaching to make money to help pay off her father's debts.
She collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17.
In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
In 1852, Susan and her friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the New York Women's State Temperance Society after Susan was prevented from speaking at a temperance conference because she was female. 

Together in 1863, they founded the Women's Loyal National League, which conducted the largest petition drive in United States history up to that time, collecting nearly 400,000 signatures in support of the abolition of slavery. 

They initiated the American Equal Rights Association in 1866, which campaigned for equal rights for both women and African Americans. 

They began publishing a women's rights newspaper called The Revolution in 1868.

They founded the National Woman Suffrage Association as part of a split in the women's movement in 1869.

In 1890, their organization merged with the rival American Woman Suffrage Association to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. 

In 1876, Susan and Stanton began working with Matilda Joslyn Gage on the six-volume History of Woman Suffrage. 

She was arrested in 1872 for voting in her hometown of Rochester, New York, and convicted in a widely publicized trial. 

She refused to pay the fine, but the authorities declined to take further action. 

In 1878, Susan and Stanton arranged for Congress to be presented with an amendment giving women the right to vote. 

It later became known colloquially as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment and was ratified as the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.

Susan traveled a lot and gave as many as 75 to 100 speeches per year and worked on many state campaigns. 

She worked internationally, playing a key role in creating the International Council of Women.

In 1893, she also helped to bring about the World's Congress of Representative Women at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

At first Susan was harshly ridiculed and accused of trying to destroy the institution of marriage. 

Later in life, public perception of her changed radically. 

At age 75, she toured Yosemite National Park on the back of a mule.

Her 80th birthday was celebrated in the White House at the invitation of President William McKinley. 

She became the first actual woman to be depicted on U.S. coinage when her portrait appeared on the 1979 dollar coin.

She remained as leader of the NAWSA and continued to travel extensively on suffrage work, initiating the Rochester branch of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union.

In 1898, she called a meeting of 73 local women's societies to form the Rochester Council of Women. 

She played a key role in raising the funds required by the University of Rochester before they would admit women students, pledging her life insurance policy to close the final funding gap.

Susan B. Anthony died at the age of 86 of heart failure and pneumonia in her home in Rochester, New York, on March 13, 1906.

She was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester. 

He was 22 years old when he went missing under suspicious circumstances.

Daniel Leon Scott

He was 22 years old when he went missing on January 1, 1997 under suspicious circumstances from Murray, Utah.

At the time of his disappearance he was 5'10" tall, 140 lbs, with brown hair and brown eyes.