Is Michaela Alive? Or Is She a Victim of the Speed Freak Killers?

Michaela Joy Garecht

She was nine years old when she was abducted on Saturday, November 19th, 1988,  in Hayward, California, San Francisco Bay Area, at the corner of Mission Boulevard and Lafayette Avenue.

It just after 10:00 a.m. on the first day of  Thanksgiving vacation. Michaela and her best friend, Trina, had ridden their scooters two blocks from her Michaela's house to the grocery store then known as Rainbow Market, now called Mexico Super.

When they went in the store, they left their scooters by the front door. 

They started to walk home and when they were halfway across the parking lot they remembered they had brought their scooters and turned back. 

One of the scooters was not where they had left it. 

Michaela spotted it first, a few parking spaces down from the door, next to a parked car. 

She went to get it, and when she bent over to pick it up, a man jumped out of the car, grabbed her from behind, picked her up with his right arm around her waist, and put her into his car as she screamed.

He then took off driving erratically down the busy Mission Boulevard in Hayward.

Trina was the only witness and she ran back into the store to get help.

Michaela's kidnapper was described as a man in his 20's, with long, dirty-blonde hair.

His most outstanding characteristic was severe acne, like boils.

He was wearing a white t-shirt.

He was driving an older, tannish-gold, full-size sedan, boxy in shape, with body damage. 

Trina said,

"He had fox eyes.

He looked right at me, but he didn't even see me."

Wesley Shermantine, one of the Speed Freak Killers duo, wrote a letter to The Stockton Record after his partner in crime, Loren Herzog, committed suicide in January 2012, in which he pointed out that Herzog resembled the composite of the person who kidnapped Michaela.

Pokemon Go Helped A Missing Navy Veteran Find His Way Home

On April 20th, 2018, Allison Simpson Hines was hunting for virtual creatures when she stumbled upon Homer Howard, an 83-year-old man with dementia who had been missing for a day.
She was taking her "daily loop" to check in at various Poke Stops, and spotted Howard at the stop in Kenny Shields Park in Covington, Kentucky.
Hines caught her attention because he was wearing a Navy hat.
When Hines started talking to Howard she said he seemed really confused and thought his wife was coming to get him.

After a while, Howard remembered his name and phone number, and the name of his wife.
Hines was able to get in touch with his family, who told her that Howard had been missing for more than 24 hours.
When Hines found him, Howard was about 35 miles from his home in Maineville, Ohio, and had crossed state line.

Hines met Howard's family at the local police station.
They snapped some pictures before going their separate ways.

Ryan Michael Nehiley Murder Update.

He was an excellent dad and well-loved by friends and family.
Ryan Michael Nehiley, a 25-year-old father of two who was shot to death in his home in Spryfield this last Friday night.

He was a owner of a medical Marijuana dispensary.

One of his stores on Joseph Howe Drive had been fire-bombe iin early August.

Police are investigating his death as a homicide and believe that more than one person is involved.

His parents say they are devastated by the loss of their son and hope those responsible will be brought to justice.
Ryan Was Murdered On Friday

Did the Father Really Give the Boys Away as He Claims? Or Did He Kill Them?

The Skelton Brothers

They were smart, happy boys.

On Thanksgiving day, 2010 in Morenci Michigan,brothers, Alexander, Tanner and Andrew were at their father, John's, house for a visit.

John and the boys mother Tanya were going through a pretty bad divorce.

Tanya has full custody of the boys, but she let them visit their dad for the holiday.

They were never seen again.

John was suppose to return the kids the next day at 3:00 in the afternoon, but Tanya wanted to go get them early.

Tanya called John and he started telling her a story.

He said that they went on a trip to Jackson and he would see if they could make it home early.

Tanya said his van was in his driveway when he made this claim.

She asked him how he could be gone with his vehicle still at his house.

John said that they traveled with someone.

At first the mom believed him, but she soon grew suspicious.

She continued to call and text John and he finally told her what he says is the truth.

He said that he is at home, but the boys are with his friend, Joann Taylor.

He says he met Joann on the internet.

Tanya asked John whose house the friend is being them to when they return.

He says he is not sure.

Tanya asks exactly where is Joann coming from and maybe she could meet her.

John then says that he is really at the hospital and that he had tried to hang himself.

Tanya started to panic and drove to John's house.

Joann never showed up so Tanya called the police.

An Amber Alert was issued and police searched John's house.

There was broken dishes, furniture was broken and things were thrown around.

There was no sign of the boys.

A massive search for the boys began that fruited no results.

Johns cell phone records indicated he left his home the day after Thanksgiving and drove at least 20 miles southwest, towards Ohio, before returning home.

John was arrested and charged with three counts of parental kidnapping and three counts of unlawful imprisonment. 

Tanya's and John's divorce proceedings continued.

John represented himself in court.

He called Tanya to the stand and asked her,

"How do you know that your husband knows where the kids are at?" 

Tanay answers,

"Yes i do."

During the criminal trial authorities discover Joann Taylor doesn't exist.

Now John claims that he gave the boys to a group called United Foster Outreach and Underground Sanctuaries in order to protect them from their abusive mother.

Authorities can find no proof that such an organization exists.

John took a plea deal and ended up pleading no contest to the unlawful imprisonment charges and was sentence to a ten to fifteen year sentence.

He says he made this deal in order to be freed early enough to see his children once he gets out.

This is what the boys might look like now.

Andrew would be 16-years-old, Alexander 14-years-old, and Tanner 12-years-old now.

John had an interview this year, to a news station, where he said he gave the boys to a man and two women driving a light colored van to live on a farm in Ohio, near the Indiana border. 

He claims he told the boys they would have a better and safer life there with a new family.

John said on his last night with the boys, he made them their favorite dinner of fried chicken and a cake to celebrate Andrew's birthday.

They watched a karate movie and then went to bed. 

In the interview John says how much he misses his children and never would have harmed them.

Did John kill his boys or did he really leave them with someone?

The Skelton Boy's case remains unsolved.

Hania’s Family Calls Her Their Princess and Desperately Wants Her Back.

Hania Noelia Aguilar

On November 5th, 2018, Just before 7:00 a.m., she was 13 years old when she was abducted from the front yard of her Lumberton, North Carolina home.

An unidentified man, dressed all in black and wearing a yellow bandanna around his face, grabbed her in broad day light. They were last seen traveling on Elizabethtown Road in Lumberton in a green 2002 Ford Expedition South Carolina Registration NWS984.

The paint on the hood is peeling and there is a Clemson sticker on the rear window.

The Ford was found Thursday, November 8th, shortly before 8 a.m. off Quincey Drive in Lumberton.

It turns out that it was a stolen vehicle.

There was a subservience footage of a mysterious man walking near the scene.

The videos shows what appears to be a man wearing light-colored shoes, a light-colored shirt, and a hoodie walking down Lambeth Street and then turns left on Highway 41/Elizabethtown Highway towards the Rosewood Mobile Home Park were Hania lives.

Several vehicles were seen on the video driving by.

Hania’s family recently bought her a new and very distinctive pair of sneakers, which she was wearing when she was taken.

Hania is 5'0" tall, 126 lbs with black hair and brown eyes.

She was wearing a blue Shirt with Flowers and blue jeans.

Was Jennifer's Abduction and Her and Her Family's Murder Related to Jaymee Closs's Case?

On August 15, 2002, the bodies of Michael and Mary Short were found in their home in Bassett, Virginia. 
Michael was on a couch, in the attached garage and Mary in the bedroom.
The phone line had been cut.
They had both been shot in the head and their 9 year old daughter Jennifer was missing.
Police removed 64 items from the Short home during their investigation, including two .22-caliber shell casings found near the Shorts’ bodies.

A month later, Jennifer's body was found near a stream in Rockingham County, North Carolina, she had also been shot in the head.
The last time the family was seen alive was the night before their murders. 

The family went through the drive-thru at Burger King in Collinsville before heading home. 

That was around 11:00 p.m., on August 14.

An unknown male had been parked along U.S. Highway 220 near the Short home during the early morning hours of August 15, 2002.

This individual is described as having a weathered complexion and an age consistent with someone in his forties.

The man was reported to have been in a 1998-2002, white, single-cab, two-ton flatbed stake body truck with wooden rails. 

To this day the case has remained unsolved.
One potential suspect in the case is Garrison S. Bowman.

He a 60-year-old man from Mayodan, NC who had allegedly had a dispute with Michael Short. 

Allegedly, Bowman had complained that "he had paid a man in Virginia to move his mobile home and that if the man didn’t move it or return his money, ‘he would have to kill him.’”

Bowman also lived near where Jennifer’s body was found and moved to Canada a day after the murders.

Bowman had allegedly pulled a gun on the landlord on the day of the murders and installed a “false floor” in his van. 

Bowman’s landlord said that he had found a Virginia map in the house Mr. Bowman rented that was marked with the location of the Shorts’ house.

In 2007, the FBI confirmed that Bowman was no longer considered a suspect.

Did the police bungle or have something to do with the case?

The Sheriff, H. Frank Cassell, plead guilty in 2007, to “knowingly and willfully making a false material statement and representation to a Federal Bureau of Investigations special agent” in relation to corruption charges spanning back as far as 1998. 
12 of his deputies were charged with dealing crack-cocaine, marijuana, and ketamine” and he was determined to have been an integral part of the “drug distribution and money laundering ring” in Henry County, VA. 
Michael Short’s uncle lamented to news reporter that “he believes police might have destroyed crucial evidence by allowing too many people in and around the Shorts’ house after the bodies were found.”

Supposedly Mary had a stalker from the Pluma plant she previously had worked at.

Could the same person or persons be responsible for the murder of Jaymee Closs' disappearance and her family's murder?

On October 15th, at around 1:00 a.m. Denise and James Closs were shot dead inside their home in northwestern Wisconsin and their daughter, Jaymee, was gone.
Denise and James were found in different rooms of the house.

Jaymee has yet to be found and the case remains unsolved.

Whatever happened to Jaymee, hopefully she doesn't meet the same fate as Jennifer.

Jaymee is Missing And Her Family Was Murdered.

Even Though Her Body Is Still Missing, After 30 Years Her Ex Lover Is on Trial For Her Murder.

Katherine Dolan Heckel

Katherine was a doting mother who would do anything for her family.

She was 40 years old when she went missing from Lock Haven, Pennsylvania on July 15, 1991.

She was last seen leaving her office at the International Paper Company.

Katherine called her two children just before lunch that day and said she was going to run some errands and would eat her lunch alone. 

At the start of her lunch break she drove her car out of the parking lot and never returned. 

Her father reported her missing the next day.

Katherine wasn't carrying any money or personal belongings, and her financial accounts weren't used.

Her silver 1990 Ford Festiva was found near the Lock Haven Hospital at 10:30 p.m. on July 17.

The car was parked in third gear with the emergency brake applied, and the keys were missing. 

At the time of her disappearance, Katherine's husband of eighteen years was in the National Guard and was away from home on a two-week training exercise.

Authorities focused on one of Katherine's coworkers, Loyd Groves.

Shortly before her disappearance, Katherine told a friend she was having an affair with Groves, who was also married. 

She allegedly said she wanted to end their relationship but Groves did not.

She said she was anxious and fearful of him and accused him of stalking her and sending her lewd messages. 

On the morning of the day she disappeared, she had a fight with Groves and he was witnessed chasing her through the paper plant.
Groves's van was seen leaving the International Paper Company at around the same time as Katherine's car. 

He claimed not remember where he was at the time of her disappearance, and allegedly attempted to manufacture an alibi.

Katherine's body has never been found.

On November, 19th, 2018, Loyd Groves is on trial for Katherine's murder.

He is charged with both first-degree and third-degree murder.

In opening statements, the deputy attorney general told the jury that

Katherine was afraid of Groves and he killed her out of jealousy because she broke off their affair.

In court on November 21st, Dennis Taylor said he was having an affair with Katherine at the time she disappeared.

He said that they began a relationship in June 1991, meeting on a regular basis for lunch at various parks and sometimes at her home.

Even though he was married as well, he said the relationship became sexual.

Taylor said he knew about Katherine's relationship with Groves and on July 9, 1991, 

Taylor said Katherine told him she wanted to get out of that relationship.

Katherine also told him Groves did not want the relationship to end and he had been sending her cards and calling her all of the time.

On the day Kathy disappeared, Taylor said he spoke with Katherine at about 9 a.m.

They made plans to meet that evening at 9 p.m. at Twin Kiss, but at about 11:30 a.m., he received a call from Katherine saying that she was very upset and frightened.

She said, ‘he wants me to go to lunch with him.'”

Taylor was busy at work and told her he’d call her right back. When he tried to call her back 10 minutes later, she was already gone from work.

With teary eyes Taylor said,

“I never got the chance to talk to her. I just wish I had the chance to talk to her. I feel partially responsible because I couldn’t talk to her.” 

He kept trying to call her that day, but she never answered.
He then went to play golf at Nittany Country Club.

Taylor wanted to help find Katherine, so the next day he went voluntarily to the state police to tell them what he knew.

Martin Went Missing On November 19th From A Bar In Texas.

Martin Gutierrez

He was 25 when he went missing in the early Monday morning, November 19 from Austin, Texas.

He had dinner with his girlfriend,Mitchell, and his girlfriend’s family at Cover 3 on West Sixth Street, the night before.

Mitchell decided to go home.

Martin wanted to stay out with his friends a little longer and went with them to a bar called Alibi.

Before visiting The Alibi, Martin went to Lustre Pearl, where he made his last know purchase there around 11:30 p.m.
According to his phone records, around 1:27 a.m. on November 19, Martin called a friend and asked for a ride home.

His friend was working and couldn’t pick him up.

Surveillance footage from the Alibi, showed Martin exiting the bar “kind of like he was in a sprint.” 

He was on his phone when he left.

His phone is turned off or went dead.

He is 5'8" tall, 160 lbs with short black hair and brown eyes.

Martin has big dimples and a scar over his right eye.

He was last seen wearing blue jeans, grey Vans shoes, a light green shirt, and a black Patagonia jacket. 

Pregnant Mom, Kendall Gurley, Just Went Missing From Mesa, Arizona.

She was 32 years old when she disappeared on the night of November 14th, 2018.

She was last seen, about 9 p.m., leaving her aunts house, near Gilbert Road and Southern Avenue in Mesa Arizona.

Kendall is described as 5 feet, 4 inches tall, and weighing about 115 pounds.
She has blond hair, blue eyes and has several tattoos on her arms and large black script on her ribs. 

Her family also is concerned because she has been a victim of domestic violence recently.

She is pregnant and also has a four year old son at home waiting for her return.

The last message family received was Wednesday the 21st, around 4:30 a.m. saying she was away from Wi-Fi but would try to get in touch as soon as she can.

Instead of Divorcing Melanie, Ed Decided to do This....

Melanie Lynn Callison

She was 46 years old when she went missing in 2014 from Richfield City, Utah.

She was reported missing by her sister September 25th.

The last reported sighting of Melanie was by her husband, Ed Callison, Sept. 12, after a camping trip. 

Ed told police that Melanie had taken her possessions and left after the camping trip and planned to go to Hayward, California.

On Oct. 27, Ed admitted making up the story about Melanie about going to California. but didn't reveal anything else about her whereabouts.

Police had been to the campsite near mile marker 18 on State Road 24, where the woman's family said the couple liked to camp.

Authorities found bone fragments in a fire pit.

On November 10th, Ed files for divorce.

On November 12th, a forensic anthropologist identified the bone fragments as human.

On November 13th, officers arrested Ed and he agreed to take police to the campsite and explain what happened.

Melanie and Ed were married for about six months.

Ed took his wife to a mountain campsite where he gave her a massive dose of Percocet and Clonazepam.

She washed them down with orange juice and vodka.

Melanie overdosed and died.

Ed then used an ax and a knife to dismember her body and drag it to shallow grave.

He further dismembered her into small pieces, and then began to burn the pieces until it was all burned except for her torso.

He buried the her torso, and buried the ashes in a different spot.

Ed told detectives that he wanted his wife dead for awhile. 

He said that,

He wanted some peace in his life and he was tired of living with a drug addict."

On Tuesday, December 16th, 2014, Ed pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering his wife and was immediately sentenced to prison.

He was charged in Richfield's 6th District Court with first-degree felony murder, second-degree felony obstruction of justice and third-degree felony abuse or desecration of a human body.