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Dorothy "Dora" Forstein was born Dorothy Cooper in 1909. She was a well-liked housewife and mother of three. She was described as quite happily married, and had no known problems with anyone around her whatsoever. She lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with her husband, magistrate Jules Forstein. Jules had brought two children, Myrna and Marcy, to their marriage. He’d had a previous wife whom died in 1940. Dorothy and Jules also had a son together named Edward.
On an evening in 1944, Dorothy dropped her children off at a neighbor’s house so she could do some shopping. By the time she returned home, night had fallen. As she entered her house, someone suddenly sprang from the shadows, pounced on and savagely beat Dorothy within an inch of her life. She fell unconsciously to the floor and in the process, knocked the phone from the wall. The operator on the other end heard the struggle and alerted police.
When authorities arrived they found Dorothy crumpled unconscious upon the floor. She had a broken nose, a broken jaw and a shoulder fractured. She was also suffering from a concussion. After Dorothy regained consciousness, all she could say was, “someone jumped out at me.”
Burglary was quickly ruled out as a motive as nothing at all had been stolen from the house. No fingerprints were found of the intruder, nor was there any evidence as to how the he had gotten into the house. Dorothy's husband had a cast-iron alibi. Jules could think of no one who could have held enough of a professional grudge against him to attack his wife. Authorities were just baffled.
After the attack, Dorothy was never the same again. She became fearful, paranoid, and constantly on her guard.
On October 18th, 1949, Jules was away on business for the evening, leaving Dorothy at home with her two youngest children. The eldest child, nineteen-year-old Myrna, was also absent, visiting friends. Around 9 p.m., Dorothy phoned a friend to arrange for the two of them to take a shopping trip the next day. Jules also talked to Dorothy on the phone sometime that evening to tell her he'd be home late.
At around 11:30 p.m., Jules came home from work and unlocked the door. The house seemed eerily empty. He then went upstairs and found his two youngest children hiding in their bedroom, cowering in fear and clinging to each other. When asked what had scared them so badly they said “Mommy’s gone!” over and over again.
Later, when the children calmed down, 9-year-old Marcy said that she and Edward had heard a noise and she went out in the hall to investigate. What Marcy saw was her pajama-clad mother, lying face-down on the floor of her bedroom. She then saw a stranger wearing a “ brown peaked cap” and brown jacket pick up and carry their mother’s unconscious body over his shoulder down the stairs. When Marcy asked the man what he was doing, he had simply kindly patted her on the shoulder and calmly told her “Go back to sleep, little one, your mommy has been sick, but she will be all right now.” After that he had continued on his way down the stairs and out of the house, locking the door behind him. This had apparently all happened only 15 minutes before Jules had arrived at home.
Jules searched the house and found no trace of Dorothy anywhere, yet her purse and keys were still there and there were no signs that anyone had broken in. Strangely, Jules waited two days before contacting the police.
Police were reluctant to believe Marcy's story. There were no strange fingerprints found anywhere in the house, no sign of forced entry into the securely locked residence, and it seemed impossible that anyone could carry a woman’s body down a busy street unnoticed. However, Marcy consistently stuck to this account, and psychiatrists who examined her were convinced she was telling the truth.
A massive search was carried out for Dorothy. Police checked all over Philadelphia, including hospitals, nursing homes, and even morgues, all to no avail. Philadelphia police Captain James Kelly of Philadelphia’s detective bureau sent out 10,000 notices to police departments and institutions all over the country.
The story of Dorothy's disappearance quickly went out of circulation and was sort of swept under the rug. Author and researcher named Troy Taylor, claimed that there was a cover up by the Forstein family.
"For decades, no further word of Dorothy Forstein appeared in print. Then, in 2003, I featured the story of Dorothy Forstein on my website and soon after I received a letter from an attorney from the Forstein family asking if the story could be removed. The letter was not threatening. It merely made an appeal for the privacy of the family members and asked if I would consider removing it out of consideration for their grief. I agreed to do so and I later learned that several sites that had also featured my article on the disappearance had received a similar letter. Why the secrecy about a 50-year-old disappearance? No one could say, and to this day no one is talking."
As far as we know, Dorothy's disappearance remains unsolved.
On October 18th, 1989 in Reno Nevada, Classes got out of Anderson Elementary at 3:00 p.m.. 8 year old Charles Chia and his 6 year old sister Jennifer, had just finished school for the day. About 3:30 p.m., Jennifer, whose two front teeth were missing, grabbed her tote bag and "Miss Piggy" lunch pail and got off the bus. Charles, wearing his backpack, was in tow. They were headed home to the Timber Hills apartment complex in the 800 block of Redfield Parkway. After exiting the bus they walked across the street with a friend and were last seen walking toward their apartment. Their grandmother, who was staying with the family while the kid's mother, Ann Chang, visited her father in Taiwan, waited for them. When the kids didn't show up, their grandmother reported them missing.
At first, the police didn't think it was a stranger abduction case, but as more time went on, police changed their attitude and conducted one of the most extensive searches in the county. Detectives had gone door-to-door throughout apartment complexes and businesses in the area. The children's pictures were placed on billboards, fliers, buttons and a television reenactment was aired.
Witnesses saw a balding Asian man in the apartment complex at the time of the kidnapping. He was standing next to a pickup parked near the bus stop. He was never found.
On October 22nd and 24th, A man named James Grooms calls Imperial Palace, the restaurant that the children's mother owns, and demanded $100,000 for their safe return.
On October 25th, Grooms was arrested for extortion and becomes a suspect in the children's disappearance.
Among the many tips provided over the years, a married couple reported seeing a brown van back into the turnout next to Highway 70 in Plumas County, California, which is approximately 50 miles from Reno, Nevada. The only identifying information provided on the van was that it had a Miller gear shift knob.
On July 25th, 1990 in the skeletal remains of Charles and Jennifer were discovered in a shallow grave next to Highway 70 where the brown van was seen. Police think that the children were killed there. When the kids were found, Ann, the community and the police were devastated.
Shortly after the kids' funeral in 1990, a man deposited money to the children's trust fund and was crying and highly emotional. The teller turned on the surveillance camera and gave the footage to police. He has not yet been found.
In January 2000, A witness reported seeing a white Volkswagen near the children's grave site following their abduction. The car was registered to Grooms. Police believe case-breaking clues could be inside the car, which has never been found.
Grooms' still remains a suspect in the children's abduction and murder. At the time of the abduction, Grooms' own children, a boy and girl, were about the same age as Charlie and Jennifer and looked similar. The police found evidence at his home that indicates he met the children before they were kidnapped. Grooms couldn't explain his whereabouts at the time of the murder. He once lived within two miles of where the bodies were buried, and has never said where police could find his Volkswagen. Grooms has felony convictions in California related to welfare fraud.Grooms has denied responsibility in the children's kidnapping and murders.
At the time of their disappearance, Charles was wearing a long-sleeve white shirt, a blue pullover, blue jeans and was carrying a dark blue and red backpack. Jennifer was wearing a white dress with black dots,white socks, light green shoes and was carrying both a blue tote bag and a Miss Piggy lunch pail.
Call Reno Police: 775-321-8372 or Crimestoppers: 1 800 222 TIPS with any information no matter how small you think it is, it may solve this case.
In early 1942, the Japanese Empire invaded and occupied Burma(now Myanmar)in Southeast Asia. The land was densely forested land that was a nightmare to fight in. So the Japanese decided that a railway would need to be completed to supply their forces. This became known as the Burma Railway, or Death Railway.
It was built during World War II, from Thailand to Burma in order to complete the route from Bangkok to Rangoon. Over 180,000 civilian South Asian laborers and about 61,000 Allied prisoners of war subjected to forced labor were drafted to build the 258 mile railway. Conditions for the prisoners were extremely bad. About a hundred thousand civilian laborers and 16,000 Allied prisoners of war died on the project.
The project is considered a war crime and after the war 111 Japanese officials were tried for crimes related to the Death Railway. 31 of them were executed.
'Cause I don't wanna live and die alone, don't let me go."
-Khalid
Stefani was a free spirit. She was born on September 26, 1966 to Joan Settlemier. She was a student of Reed College in Portland Oregon. She had decided to take a year off from school. Stefanie spent 9 months backpacking through India, Pakistan and other far off places. When she returned the states she started out in New York and was going to hitchhike across the U.S. to California. She was last seen by a desk clerk at a motel in Winnemucca, Nevada, on October 15th, 1987. She tried to get a room, but the place was full. Later that day, she called her parents from a truck stop in Wells, Nevada. At the time, her parents lived in San Francisco. She told them that she had a ride and was coming home the next day, but never arrived. She has not been seen since. Her her light grey suitcase, orange sleeping bag and pink purse has never been found.
Stefani's best friend and her beloved, Caroline Waters, had dreams before Stefani disappeared and warned her not to backpack alone. She knew something bad was going to happen. After Stefani went missing, Caroline traveled to the town of Wells, Nevada. Armed with a machete in one hand, and a gun in the other, she walked for a year, searching for Stefanie. She also carried a pick to dig the earth.
There in the desert Caroline did a private ceremony letting Stefani's soul fly home.
Tommy Lynn Sells, a confessed serial killer who was arrested for a 1999 murder, later confessed to Stefanie's murder. In 1987, he was working for a roofing company in Winnemucca, near where Stefani was last seen. He claimed that he picked Stefanie up while she was hitchhiking and told her that he would take her to Reno, Nevada. He also claimed that they took LSD together, where upon he strangled her, put her body in concrete, and dumped it in a hot spring described a being 30 feet wide. Despite extensive searches for the hot spring, it was never found.
Sells was never charged in connection with Caroline's case and police believe his claims about his criminal activities are exaggerated. He is also considered a possible suspect in the disappearances of Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman from Oklahoma and the murder of Freeman's family, but has not been charged in any of the cases. He has been convicted of murdering two Texas girls and was executed by lethal injection in April of 2014.
In 2010, investigators noted that they were looking into the possibility that Dale Wayne Eaton was responsible for Stefanie's disappearance. Eaton is a suspected serial killer, convicted of murdering Lisa Marie Kimmell and suspected in several other disappearances and murders.
At the time of her disappearance Stefani was 21 years old. She was 5'5" tall, 130 pounds with brown hair, and brown eyes. She hada brown birthmark on the instep of her right foot. She had pierced ears. Stefani was last seen wearing black corduroy pants, a black tank top, a black shirt with elbow-length sleeves, brown leather ankle-high shoes and a wooden bead necklace.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation Las Vegas, Nevada Office 702-385-1281
Suzie as she was known to friends and family, was born on February 23rd, 1954 in Raleigh County, West Virginia to Homer Harrison Brogan and Thelma Jean Thompson Brogan. She graduated from Shady Spring High School in 1971. Suzie then married Bruce Richmond and the couple moved to Pluto Road. The next year, in March, Suzie gave birth to their daughter, Angela Arlene. Life was good, until a fateful day in November of 1973.
On November 8th, 1973, Suzie was 20-years-old when she dropped off Angela at her parents home at approximately 10:30 a.m. She had loaded her orange Volkswagon with Amway products that she intended to distribute to customers on Old Crow Road before taking her grandmother to the store. Suzie was wearing a white dress, a blue sweater, white boots and a red ribbon tied in her black wig.
Suzie had stopped at Ransom`s Market, and the Amoco Gas Station in Beaver, before returning her grandmother back home. After that, Suzie just disappeared.When Suzie failed to return home that evening, her parents called the WV State Police to file a missing person's report. They told her to wait a few days, because Suzie may be a runaway.
Also on November 8th, residents of the town Minden, in Raleigh County, reported seeing smoke rising up from the trash dump.
Bruce was concerned and posted a one-thousand dollar reward for information leading to her returned.
Over 100 of Suzie's friends and relatives organized search parties to scour the woods. A helicopter was deployed in the search for Suzie as well. Bruce even flew in a friend's plane in hopes of finding something. All of this fruited no results.
November 16th, representatives of the West Virginia State Police discovered Suzie's burned Volkswagen over a hill near the Concho Trash Dump in Minden. It was ascertained that her vehicle didn't leave the road due to any kind of accident and that the fire was deliberately set. There was traces of gasoline found her car as well as a partially scorched gold wedding band with the brand name of Gold Circle.
A resident later reported that he saw the Volkswagen burning and he did not see anyone around the car, but he did see two Black men walking up the road away from the car. He asked them if anyone was hurt and they replied, "No, that they were the only ones in the car." He had offered the two young men a ride but they refused. Both men were described as young Black males, perhaps 19 or 20. One was wearing army pants and carrying an army jacket and was wearing a square-faced diver`s watch with a wide band. He was wearing shiny black boots and that the sole of the right boot appeared to be about three to four inches thick but the left boot did not have a built-up sole. He was about 6` tall and slender, medium complexion and stuttered a little when he spoke. The second Black male was described to be only about 5`6" in height and more stocky. He was wearing a black leather cap which appeared to have ear muffs on it and his hair was bushy and stuck out from beneath the cap.
Two weeks after Suzie went missing, two raccoon hunters, Harvey Williams and James Shay, were at the eastern shore of Plum Orchard Lake when they found Suzie's body. It was approximately fifty yards from the road at the base of an overturned tree. Her body was too badly decomposed to determine whether she was sexually assaulted or not. Suzie's dress, sweater and bra were found wrapped around her neck. Her face looked like it had been either beaten beyond recognition or that animals had gotten to it. It also didn't look like Suzie's body had been there longer than 24 hours. A gold colored button chain with a button attached which bore the imprint of a sailing ship, a partial tooth plate, and Suzie's long black wig were found at the scene. Suzie's white boots were missing.
An autopsy revealed that Suzie had died as a result of two stab wounds to the left chest wall that punched her lung and caused hemorrhaging. The murder weapon was never identified. The coroner also determined that Suzie's body was probably at Orchard Lake for at least two weeks.
Two salesmen reported that they may have seen Suzie at the Beckley Shopping Plaza on the day of her disappearance. They had been sitting in a car outside of Murphy`s about 1:30 p.m.on November 8th when they observed a Black man get into a red colored Volkswagen parked nearby. Inside the car was a young white woman sitting on the passenger side. They continued to watch as the Black man started the car to drive away. He seemed to be unfamiliar with the gears on the car and had trouble backing it out of the parking space. One of the salesman thought the girl looked familiar, so he wrote down the license plate number of the Volkswagen as it passed by and headed north on US 21 toward Mount Hope. After they heard about Suzie's body being found, they turned the paper with the license plate number over to the police. It turned out to be the license of Suzie's orange Volkswagen. Three men who had been hauling coal on Beury Mountain toward Thurmond on November 8th, all told identical stories about seeing an orange Volkswagen coming up the narrow road at a rapid pace. The windows were down in the Volkswagen. A Black man was driving, a petite Caucasian woman sat in the middle and a second Black man was in the passenger seat. The description of the Black males in the vehicle matched exactly the description given by the Minden resident who had seen and talked to two Black males walking away from the burning Volkswagen. The search for clues began to concentrate on the Beury Mountain area. Police were searching for any clue that Suzie had been there, especially looking for her pair of white boots. Suzie's family and friends began getting threatening calls and letters telling them to leave the matter alone or they would do something to Suzie's younger sister Sharon. This cause the family to go silent. The following July, Bruce remarried and became a minister. In 1989, Angela got married as well. No new clues have been found in Suzie's case and her murder remains unsolved. If you have any information about the murder of Patricia, please call Crime Stoppers at 304-255-STOP and leave a tip at www.crimestoppersofraleighco.org.
Nancy Paulikas was brilliant, humble, polite and considerate. She was a devoted fan of Nine Inch Nails, a passionate conservationist and an accomplished business woman. She was also an animal lover, a skier, an adventurer, and she loved to walk. Nancy spent her whole life in the mountains, starting as a kid and into her 50’s, up and down the Sierra Nevadas,
She was born as an only child to George and Joan.
During her childhood, She'd watch TV’s “Dark Shadows”,a daytime vampire soap opera that became an odd pop-culture phenomenon, after school with her friend Diane Bassett. Nancy also had a unique collection of puppets, growing up. Nancy and Diane would perform puppet shows from behind the orange sofa in Nancy's living room.
Nancy studied veterinary medicine at UC Davis, and later switched to computer science. After she earned her degree in computer science, she attended graduate school at Stanford University and UCLA.
Nancy met her husband, Kirk Moody, when they worked at TRW. Together they had a daughter.
At age 55, Nancy was a private pilot and an engineerwhen she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
On October 15th, 2016, 58-year-old Nancy was with her husband at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Wilshire Boulevard in West Los Angeles. Nancy wandered off and vanished. The last glimpse of her was on video captured by security cameras on nearby streets.
Kirk began visiting skilled nursing and residential care facilities throughout Southern California and offered a $100,000 reward for information and airing ads on television. A massive search with police dogs failed to locate her.
More than two years after she vanished, a skull and other remains found on a burned Southern California hillside were determined to be Mata. Her remains were found when firefighters that were battling a brush fire at the park on March 11th, 2017.
Investigators don't know how she got to such an obscure location. Nancy's cause of death remains undetermined. Authorities have no idea if foul play is involved.
Nancy was the inspiration for LA Found, a county-wide program that uses trackable bracelets to help find missing people.
"So feline, extremely feminine, majestically tragic, the thousand curves and movements of her body trembling in a thousand rhythms."
-Uknown French Journalist
She was born August 7th, 1876, in Leeuwarden, Netherlands to Adam Zelle and Antje van der Meulen. She had three younger brothers. Her father owned a hat shop that was made successful by investments in the oil industry. This gave Mata a lavish early childhood.
Later, the business went bankrupt due to bad investments and her parents divorced. Mata's mother fell ill and died when Mata was 15 years old. Her father remarried in Amsterdam on February 9th, 1893 to Susanna Catharina ten Hoove. Soon after, the family fell apart and Mata and her three brothers were split up and sent to live with various relatives.
Mata was living with her godfather, Mr. Visser, in Sneek, as she studied to be a kindergarten teacher in Leiden. The headmaster began to flirt with her and she was removed from the institution by Visser. A few months later, she fled to her uncle's home in The Hague.
Mata was 18-years-old when she boldly answered a newspaper ad seeking a bride for Dutch Colonial Army Captain Rudolf " John" MacLeod. MacLeod was a bald man with an elaborate mustache and living in what was then the Dutch East Indies(now Indonesia). Despite a 21-year age difference, they married on July 11, 1895.
They had two children, Norman-John and Louise " Nonnie" Jeanne. Norman died in 1899. Norman and Nonnie both either had syphilis or were poisoned for some known reason when they were in the Indies.
During their rocky, nine-year marriage, an alcoholic MacLeod regularly beat Mata. He was jealous of all the attention the other officers gave her and he blamed her for his lack of promotion.
“One Sunday afternoon, crazed and deranged, he came close to murdering me with the breadknife,” Mata wrote in a letter to her cousin Edward. “I owe my life to a chair that fell over and which gave me time to find the door and get help.”
MacLeod openly kept a concubine and Mata temporarily moved in with Van Rheedes, another Dutch officer. She studied the Indonesian traditions intensely for several months and joined a local dance company during that time. In correspondence to her relatives in the Netherlands in 1897, she revealed her artistic name of Mata Hari, the word for "sun" in the local Malay language (literally, "eye of the day").
Mata did return to MacLeod, but after Norman died they moved back to the Netherlands and officially separated. The divorce became final in 1906. Mata was awarded custody of Nonnie and MacLeod was legally required to pay child support, which he never did. This made life difficult for Mata and Jeanne. During a visit of Jeanne with her father, MacLeod decided to keep her. Mata didn't have the resources to get her daughter back and tried to accept the loss of her Nonnie. Nonnie later died at the age of 21, possibly from complications relating to syphilis.
Mata was lost without Nonnie and she moved to Paris where she performed as a circus horse rider using the name Lady MacLeod.
“I can get by well here in Paris,” Mata wrote, “but I am abstaining from everything for my child (so far). In the event that I am certain of never again being able to have her with me as her mother, then I shall care no longer and shall cast everything aside.”
She struggled to earn a living andtried every means to earn money respectably, giving piano lessons, teaching German, applying to work as a ladies’ companion and as a model a department store. But, eventually she posed as an artist's model forMontmartre painters such as Edouard Bisson, Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet and Fernand Cormon. This led her to important theatrical contacts.
The next year, Mata began to win fame as an exotic dancer by performing her "temple dance" she created by drawing on cultural and religious symbolism that she had picked up in the Indies. She billed herself as a Hindu artist. She would drape herself in veils and then drop them from her body until she wore just a jeweled breastplate and some ornaments upon her arms and head.
Mata's career went into decline after 1912. On March 13th 1915, she performed in what would be the last show of her career.
Mata had relationships with government and military men often for financial gain. Her liaisons with powerful men frequently took her across international borders. This was during World War I and she had some freedom of movement as a citizen of neutral Holland. Mata's travels attracted attention from British and French intelligence, who put her under surveillance.
Mata was nearing 40-years-old when she fell in love with Captain Vadim Maslov. He was a 23-year-old Russian pilot serving with the French and part of the 50,000 strong Russian Expeditionary Force sent to the Western Front in the spring of 1916.
That summer, Maslov was shot down and badly wounded during a dogfight with the Germans, losing his sight in both eyes. When Mata asked for permission to visit the love of her life at the hospital near the front lines, agents from the Deuxième Bureau told her that she would only be allowed to see Maslov if she agreed to spy for France.
The Deuxième Bureau believed Mata might be able to obtain information by seducing the Crown Prince Wilhelm for military secrets, who'd she had preform for before. He was the eldest son of Kaiser Wilhelm II and nominally a senior German general on the Western Front. In reality, the Crown Prince did not have much to do with the running of Army Group Crown Prince or the 5th Arm. He was practically a playboy and him being an highly involved great leader was propaganda. Mata's contact with the Deuxième Bureau was Captain Georges Ladoux, who was later to emerge as one of her principal accusers.
Mata planned to use her connections to seduce her way into the German high command, get secrets and hand them over to the French. She met a German attaché and began tossing him bits of gossip, hoping to get some valuable information in return. General Walter Nicolai, the chief IC (intelligence officer) of the German Army, wasn't happy with the information he was getting from Mata and decided to terminate their relationship by exposing her as a spy to the French.
On February 13th,1917, Mata Hari was arrested in her room at the Hotel Elysée Palace on the Champs Elysées in Paris. She was put on trial on July 24th, accused of espionage, and consequently causing the deaths of at least 50,000 soldiers. She was thrown into Prison Saint-Lazare, where she was allowed to see only her elderly lawyer, Édouard Clunet, who happened to be a former lover.
During lengthy interrogations by Captain Pierre Bouchardon, a military prosecutor, Mata confessed that a German diplomat had once paid her 20,000 francs to gather intelligence on her frequent trips to Paris. Sheinsisted she only passed on to the Germans trivial information and that she remained faithful to France.
Mata's trial came when a time when France had been badly shaken by the Great Mutinies of the French Army. Real or imagined spies were convenient scapegoats for explaining military losses. Captain Georges Ladoux, made sure the evidence against her was constructed in the most damning way and even resorted to evidence tampering.
Mata wrote several letters to the Dutch Ambassador in Paris, claiming her innocence. The most terrible and heartbreaking moment for Mata during the trial occurred when her lover Maslov, declined to testify for her, telling her he couldn't care less if she was convicted or not. After hearing this, Mata fainted.
Clunet was denied permission either to cross-examine the prosecution's witnesses or to examine his own witnesses directly.
The military tribunal deliberated for less than 45 minutes before returning a guilty verdict.
Mata was 41-years-old when she was executed by firing squad of 12 French soldiers on October 15th, 1917. Dressed in a blue coat, a tri-corner hat and white gloves. She had arrived with a minister and two nuns and, after bidding them farewell, walked briskly to the designated spot. She was not bound and she had refused a blind fold. Mata turned to face the firing squad and blew the soldiers a kiss just before the shots rang out. A non-commissioned officer then walked up to her body, pulled out his revolver, and shot her in the head to make sure she was dead.
Mata's was not claimed by any family members and was accordingly used for medical study. Her head was embalmed and kept in the Museum of Anatomy in Paris along with her body. From there it disappeared, allegedly sometime in the 1950's. To this day the whereabouts of Mata's remains are unknown.
Mata's sealed trial and related other documents were scheduled to have been declassified by the French Army in 2017.
At 9:35 a.m., Karlie's mom, Lindsay, received a call from Karlie's dad, Zac. He told her that Karlie was "gone." Lindsay's heart sank. Her mind was racing as she asked an inebriated Zac what was going on. He responded with, "She's just gone. She just went to a party with some friends and Melissa went and picked her up. And from there we got her home, tried to settle her down, and after that she, you know, up and down through the night." Karlie was born on May 13, 2002. She was happy, sweet and fun to be around. She had a lot of friends and did well in school. She was liked by everyone she met. She was a junior at Bishop Union High School, Karlie liked to dance, hang out with her boyfriend, Donald Arrowood III, and make money working after school with her stepmom.
Despite her mother living in Nevada, Karlie and Lindsay were very close and would talk on the phone all the time. Karlie's parents divorced when she was little, but she lived with her mom until she moved to another state. Karlie didn't want to leave her friends behind.
On Friday, October 12th, 2018, 16-year old Karlie was living with her dad, Zac, a construction worker and her stepmother, Melissa, along with her two half brothers. They lived on Ponderosa Street near White Mountain Estate Road in Chalfant. Chalfant is a small census-designated area just about a twenty to thirty minute drive from the California-Nevada border. The Gusé family had just moved there at the beginning of October, from Bishop, California.
That day, Karlie asked her dad if she could go to her high school's football game. Her dad gave her permission to go and off she went, but not to the game. Instead, Karlie went with her boyfriend, Donald, to a party at a mobile home park.
Around 8 p.m., Melissa text Karlie to see if she needed a ride home. She text Melissa back no. Karlie then started feeling sick, so she changed her mind and called Melissa back urgently asking for a ride. While on the phone with Melissa, Karlie asked her to stay on the phone with her until she arrived. Melissa tried to stay on the phone, but the service was bad and he call got dropped.
By the time Melissa got Karlie back on the phone, she wasn't at the mobile home park anymore. Instead, Karlie was running down Dickson street. When Melissa caught up to Karlie, she frantically hopped in the car. She seemed agitated and frantic. When Melissa asked her what was wrong, Karlie stated that they were smoking weed at the party. It took Melissa 15 minutes to calm Karlie down so they could drive home.
Around 9 p.m. Karlie and Melissa arrived back at the house where Zac had just gotten off of work and was drinking beer. He noticed that his daughter was acting kind of strange and paranoid. Karlie had smoked weed before and never acted like this. Zac deduced that either someone slipped her something at the party or her weed had been laced with something.
Melissa decided to make a recording to show Karlie the next day how ridiculous she was being. In the recording, Karlie kept saying she was scared. Melissa tried to get her to eat a salad, but she refused. When asked why she wouldn't eat the salad, Karlie said that it was the "devil's lettuce." Melissa then told her to go to bed, to which Karlie replied, “No, I don’t want to sleep. You’re going to kill me.”
Melissa' stories changed a bit on what happened next. Melissa first said that when they finally got Karlie to bed, she went to her own room to go to sleep. When Melissa woke up at around 5:45 a.m. on October 13th she opened her kids’ doors and said good morning. She said when she checked in on Karlie, who was sound asleep in her bed.
Melissa then went back to sleep and woke up again sometime between 7:15 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. She walked into her stepdaughter’s room to see how she was feeling. Karlie was gone. Melissa checked the house for her, but she was no where to be found.
When Melissa went back into the bedroom to tell her husband that their daughter was not there, he seemed puzzled and asked what she meant. Melissa said. “She’s gone. She’s not in her room. She’s not outside. She’s not in the backyard. She’s not anywhere.”
They thought that Karlie maybe went for a walk, so they got into their cars and drove around town to find her. They thought they’d find her walking down the road. But after two hours they became concerned when the search came up empty.
Melissa and Zac returned home at around 9:30 a.m. and called Lindsay, to tell her that her daughter was missing. Zac then called the Mono County Sheriff’s Office and filed a missing persons report.
A few hours later the deputies arrived and began questioning the neighbors.
Days later, Melissa changed her story and claimed that Karlie had asked her to sleep in her bed with her. Melissa said that she never left Karlie's side and when she woke up at 5:45 a.m., she saw Karlie asleep in the bed next to her. Melissa said that she fell back to sleep in Karlie’s bed. When she awoke sometime between 7:15 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. she noticed Karlie was gone. Three witnesses came forward to say they might have seen Karlie in the early morning hours of October 13th.
Richard Eddy was a 78-year-old retired Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department employee who lived down the street from the Gusé family, He said that between 6:30 a.m. and 6:45 a.m., he was sipping coffee and relaxing in his Jacuzzi when he looked out the window of the enclosed room and saw a tall, slender female with long hair walk by. Eddy said that she was staring up at the sky with a piece of paper in her hand.
Two other witnesses said that they saw Karlie that morning near White Mountain Estates Road and Highway 6. Highway 6 is a major highway that runs east-northeast from Bishop, California to Provincetown, Massachusetts. Investigators didn't treat the Gusé's house like a crime scene, because they just assumed that Karlie was a runaway. Despite this, a multi day search went underway for Karlie. Helicopters and sniffer dogs were brought in to search the nearby area, but nothing was found. Melissa changed her story a few times of what Karlie was last seen wearing. Karlie might have been wearing gray sweatpants, a white shirt and vans shoes. When police got a hold of the family's phone records, they found out that on October 13th, around 2:30 a.m., Melissa had sent a text to Donald's phone that said "Pray for her." Lindsay believes that Karlie overdosed on drugs and passed away. She believes Zac and Melissa know more than what they are saying.
This is one of the Facebook live video's that Melissa did after Karlie went missing. Some people have come to believe her slip up of the word "Mourners" indicates that she is guilty and knows that Karlie has passed away. Other people just think this is a grieving mother. I'll let you be the judge.
What do you think happened to Karlie? In my opinion, i think that her dad and stepmom might know more than what they are letting on. i don't know if Karlie is alive or dead. Wherever she is, or whatever happened to her, i think that someone is not letting her come back or that she has passed away by now. Regardless, Karlie needs to be brought home.
If you are alive somewhere Karlie and you see this, you are loved and missed. If you can, come home. If you can't come home there are people out there that won't give up on you, so don't you give up.
At the time of her disappearance, Karlie had dark blonde hair, blue eyes, she was 5'7" tall and weighed about 110 pounds. She also had her left nostril pierced.
If you have any information concerning the disappearance of Karlie Lain Gusé, you PLEASE come forward and be Karlie's hero. You can contact the Mono County Sheriff's Office by emailing them at karliegusetips@monosheriff.org or calling them at 760-932-5678. You may also contact the Sacramento Office of the FBI by calling 916-746-7000, your local FBI office, the nearest American Embassy or Consulate, or you can submit a tip online at tips.fbi.gov. All tips can remain anonymous.
