Mother Of Two, Jessica Johnson, Needs Justice.

Jessica Re'nee Johnson

She was born in 1979 to Linda Appleton and David Johnson. Jessica was a beautiful woman who never went unnoticed. She was always dressed up for the occasion. She was always outgoing, energetic, loved people and was fun to be around. Jessica was a single mom who took care of her kids without child support. She loved her two kids with all her heart. They were everything to her.

In 2017, Jessica moved in with her parents, who were always there for her and the kids. Jessica started hanging out with the wrong crowd. Her choice in men had also change. Jessica used to be extremely picky and careful when choosing her suitors, however, her last to boyfriends were allegedly controlling, mean and narcissistic.

On May 31st, Jessica left her home to visit her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Garland Hart. In their relationship, the bad out weighed the good. According to Jessica's family and friends, Hart was physically and emotionally abusive to Jessica. She had even commented to them that "This guy is going to kill me." Allegedly, Jessica stayed near Hart because she helped him recover from heroin overdoses. She was afraid if she was not there with him, he would die.

On June 1st, Jessica called one of her friends. She was in hysterics as she explained that she was locked in the bathroom of the house she was staying in. She was afraid of Hart and wanted to be picked up. Jessica's friend did show up, but after about 35 minutes the friend left without Jessica. 

Jessica also talked to her mother over FaceTime and said she was coming home soon. That would be the last time her mother would ever talk with Jessica.

After 6 p.m. that evening, all the occupants of the house where Jessica was staying, claimed that she vanished.

On June 2nd, 37-year-old Jessica was found dead by a postal worker. 

She was found kneeling and tied to a waist high mailbox with her shoestrings fastened as a noose around her neck. She was at a home less than five miles from her parents house. 

The preliminary cause of death was a suicide caused by asphyxiation. Jessica's family and friends never believed that it was a suicide, not even for a second. It is unfathomable for them to think that Jessica would do this out for the whole world to see. Jessica was always well groomed and dolled up, but when she was found deceased, she didn't have even a speck of makeup on. Plus, they said that Jessica loved life and her kids way too much to end it all. Furthermore, she didn't seem depressed and if she had killed herself, they don't think she was capable of doing it the way she allegedly did. Family and friends said that if Jessica had wanted to take her own life, she would have used pills and would have went to sleep like sleeping beauty.

Statistically, women are more likely to take their life by taking pills.

Even though the death certificate said that no autopsy was preformed, with the help of forensic scientist Dr. Maurice Godwin, Jessica's family found out that a partial one was done. 

It turned out that Jessica had meth and Xanax in her body when she died. And some people think that this might be a reason why her case was not treated as a homicide investigation.

Jessica's family had her cremated due to financial difficulties, so a second autopsy couldn't be preformed. At the time, her family thought that the police had all the evidence they needed to investigate death.

Godwin think doesn't that the way the noose was positioned  around Jessica's neck that she could have passed out, let alone die. He doesn't think it would have put enough pressure to cut off her air supply. He said that in the position Jessica was in, the brunt of the pressure was on her cheekbone. This would have been excruciatingly painful and she would not have been able to put up with that while waiting for death to come.

Jessica's purse was found in her lap with her hand resting on it. Godwin doesn't see how someone struggling for air would not have been grabbing at her own throat. He also thought it was suspicious that her hair was ensnared in the shoelaces.

Godwin also pointed out that if indeed the shoelace had cost Jessica her life, it should have left a nasty scar behind. Supposedly there was very little evidence that she had the shoelaces around her neck. He also doesn't understand how Jessica could have physically tied the knot in the shoelaces in the cover of dark. Godwin isn't the only one to think this way either.

Former Memphis police officer, Rome Moreno, thinks it was impossible for Jessica to tie such a precise knot in the pitch black. He also thinks that the mailbox wouldn't have stood up against the weight and the force of a struggle. There were plenty other low lying limbs from trees close to the mailbox that Jessica could have used to hang herself from, instead of using such an awkward object.

Moreno and Goodwin both think that Jessica's suicide was staged.

Moreno also said that authorities had corrupted the crime scene. They had parked too close to it and trampled all over it. He believes that potential witnesses were ignored as well, since one of the neighbors of the house Jessica died in weren't questioned. And speaking of the house were Jessica died, police never looked at or acquired the surveillance footage from the camera mounted on the outside of the home. Allegedly, the owner of the house kept changing stories about what happened to the footage of Jessica's last moments.

Items containing potential evidence were returned right away to the family, instead of being kept in police custody. 

The shoes that Jessica was wearing had possible blood spatter on the side towards the bottom. 

Her purse was also one of the items that had been returned. The metal connecting the strap had been broken off. 

Jessica also had holes in her hands, along with bruises, and a possible shoe print.

Goodwin wanted the police to swab the shoelaces and test them for possible DNA evidence. This proved to be impossible because the police had lost them while in their custody, along with the necklace that Jessica was wearing when she died.

The clothes that Jessica was wearing when she died are also gone. They were sent to the funeral home director in a bio-hazard bag and were burned.

Jessica's family can't look into her phones for potential answers either. Garland Hart changed the code on Johnson’s phone and is the only person who knows the code. He hasn’t been cooperative with the family.  

Jessica's 19-year-old son received a text from his mother’s phone at 3:29 a.m. the day she died. This was either moments before she died or right after.

One of Hart's friends as well as his new girlfriend don't think that he could have harmed Jessica, let alone kill her. That girlfriend also claims that he was with her when Jessica died. Ironically, Hart had a warrant out for his arrest for domestic violence against the girlfriend.

Hart claims he had no involvement in Jessica's death, but he as well as his friend, think that Jessica wouldn't do that to herself either.

Jessica left two wonderful children. Her family will not stop fighting for justice for Jessica and the truth.

If you have any information related to the case, no matter how small, please email Jessica's mom at  johnsonlinda536@gmail.com

This is Jessica's Facebook page.  https://www.facebook.com/only1jessyj/about?lst=611694228%3A1377181456%3A1500492729

This is a Facebook page about Jessica and her case. https://www.facebook.com/pg/What-happened-to-Jessica-Johnson-886316114880842/posts/

What do you think happened to Jessica?

In my opinion, she didn't hang herself from the mailbox. From what I've read, she seemed to intelligent to do that. I don't think ending her life that way would have turned out successful either. Even if you are trying to kill yourself, you still are going to freak out a little and struggle. i don't think the mailbox could've stood up in a struggle. It doesn't look to me like Jessica really struggled. i think she would have to have been incapacitated before being tied up. Then she would have been incapable of tying herself up at all. i also think that some of the people at that he house where Jessica died, have more answers than they are giving.

One thing i know for certain is, there are too many unanswered questions. Justice has not been served and until it is, Jessica's friends, family and people like me, will keep her story out there. 

And i hope the guilt and the ghosts of the secrets haunt the souls of the culpable until they come forward with the truth.

Kelsey Berreth's Finance Goes On Trial For Her Murder This Month And Is Trying To Blame It All On His Girlfriend.

As Patrick Frazee sits in a Colorado jail awaiting trial for the murder of his fiancé Kelsey Berreth, he is pointing a finger at his once-secret girlfriend, Krystal Lee. The defense might introduce evidence that other individuals committed or fabricated portions of the crimes alleged against Frazee, to include Krystal Lee. 

On October 18th, Frazee entered the courtroom for a pretrial conference. Defense wanted a continuance. The judge wants this trial to start on time, which is on the 28th. The judge also is talking about putting a full gag order.

This week, a judge denied prosecutors to air accusations at trial that Frazee bludgeoned a cow sometime before investigators say he beat his Kelsey to death.

"She had her wings down here and she was an earthly angel … and now she'll have real angel wings, heavenly angel wings."

-Ashley Cogburn

Kelsey loved her God, she loved her family and friends and she loved her job as a flight instructor. She was gorgeous and very put together. She was raised on a hay farm and very much a tomboy. She wasn't afraid to challenge the typical boundaries.

Patrick Frazee caught Kelsey's eye on a dating website in 2016. He was, like, a country boy and that's what she was used to. They started a long-distance relationship. Patrick Frazee lived on a 35-acre ranch in rural Florrisant, Colorado, with his mother. There he trained cattle dogs, shoed horses and groomed donkeys.

Eventually Kelsey moved to Colorado from Washington State to be closer to Frazee. They were expecting a child were engaged. After their daughter Kaylee was born in October 2017, the couple still didn't live together but shared parenting duties. He never came to see her, but she would go back and be with him on her days off. Kelsey was struggling to balance the baby, her job and a long commute. Her relationship with Frazee seemed strained. Frazee was emotionally abusive to Kelsey.

Kelsey was last seen grocery store shopping with her baby on Thanksgiving Day, 2018. Her mother reported her missing after she couldn't reach her for days. 

After Kelsey was reported missing police talked to Frazee. He told them that the day before Thanksgiving, Kelsey said she wanted to end their relationship. They wanted to split custody. Patrick Frazee told police he and Kelsey met to exchange the baby on Thanksgiving Day. He also returned Kelsey's belongings.

Police began to suspect Frazee. If she wanted to end things with Frazee, why was she was shopping the next day for the family dinner?

Kelsey had also sent Frazee this text message: 

"I bought some sweet potatoes in case you wanted sweet potato casserole ..."

Kelsey also never mentioned to her mother that her and Frazee split up when she spoke to her Thanksgiving morning.

Another suspicious thing is that Frazee claims that exchange of their daughter happened outside Kelsey's home, but he's never said when. Shortly after 1:15 p.m. he is seen on Walmart surveillance with a baby carrier.

Fifteen minutes later a neighbor's security camera captures an image of Frazee and Kelsey with a baby carrier in front of Kelsey's door. But then, according to authorities, around 3:30 p.m., that same security camera captures an image of "an individual that matches the physical description of Frazee at Berreth's residence."

Police searched Kelsey's home but turned up no signs of foul play. Then Kelsey's mother, Cheryl, and Cheryl's son went to the house to check it out. There had been a mat in the bathroom and they noticed it was gone. They also noticed that the refrigerator looked like it had been wiped down recently. They went in the bathroom and noticed blood on the base of the toilet.

Cheryl alerted investigators who returned to the house. This time they used chemicals to detect the presence of blood. They found trace amounts of blood everywhere in the bathroom. Later. DNA results showed it was Kelsey's. Some of her blood was mixed with unknown female and male DNA. The male DNA did not belong to Frazee.

Then, investigators found important evidence in Kelsey's driveway near her car. They also brought cadaver dogs and they found human decomposition. 

Authorities looked at Kelsey's cellphone records, which confirmed that Frazee was their man. 

Frazee told authorities he drove their daughter Kaylee to his ranch for Thanksgiving dinner. He said Kelsey wasn't with them, but investigators discovered that her cell phone was. It pinged off every tower that his did as his did.

Investigators believe that Frazee made around 19 messages from Kelsey's phone pretending to be her texting his phone.

Phone records also showed that three days after Thanksgiving, while Frazee's cell stayed near his ranch, Kelsey's phone was on the move, heading west out of Colorado.

While it was on the move. there was a text from Kelsey's phone to her supervisor at Doss Aviation saying … "I won't be at work."

The next text from Kelsey's phone read: "Do you even love me?" By this time, Kelsey's phone pinged near Gooding, Idaho.

During this time, phone records show that Patrick Frazee was in touch with Krystal Kenney Lee. Krystal was a nurse and avid horsewoman who grew up in Idaho. Authorities believed that it was Krystal who traveled to Idaho with Kelsey's phone. When the FBI made their initial call to Krystal she said she had no idea who Kelsey Berreth was. She also denied knowing Patrick Frazee. Krystal did end up changing her story and admitted to knowing Frazee. She claimed that they didn't have a personal relationship and that she just looked at his horses a few times. The police found out that she was lying yet again.

Krystal and  Frazee met after high school. Then, eight months before Kelsey disappeared, Krystal and Frazee's relationship heated up. 

A month into Kelsey's disappearance, a friend of Krystal's called the FBI and told them about a conversation that they had with Krystal a month before Kelsey disappeared. In the conversation, Krystal had confided in her friend that Frazee wanted her to kill his "baby mamma". Krystal told her friend that Frazee had told her it was because she wanted to take him back to court to get custody of the baby … and he was in fear that she was going to harm the baby.

Investigators found no proof Kelsey had harmed her daughter. They did find evidence that Frazee had planned to challenge Kelsey for custody and believe that may have been his motive for murder.

After the tip the FBI received from Krystal's friend, the FBI went back and talked to Krystal again. Krystal was ready to come clean, but she wanted a deal first. In exchange for her testimony against Frazee, she agreed to plead guilty to evidence tampering. She admitted to getting rid of the gun, to tossing Kelsey's keys in a canyon and destroying her phone. Doing this, Krystal would only face a maximum sentence of three years in prison.

Krystal began to tell the events leading up to Kelsey's demise. She claimed Frazee tried to get her to kill Kelsey three different times.  The first attempt was to get Kelsey's favorite drink from Starbucks,  a Caramel Macchiato, and poison it with a lethal dose of Ambien and Valium.

Two months before Kelsey went missing, Krystal drove 12 hours from Idaho to a Starbucks near Kelsey's home in Colorado. She gets the drink and takes it to Kelsey's house,but couldn't poison it. Krystal knocked on the door and when Kelsey answered Krystal made up a story about a lost dog and gave Kelsey the coffee.

When Frazee found out that Krystal didn't poison the coffee, he was furious and came up with another plan. He told Krystal that he had metal pipe that he'd leave outside his property that she could come pick up. He wanted Krystal to go wait for Kelsey at her town home and hit her on the back of the head. Krystal said that she drove to Kelsey's house with that metal pipe, but didn't attack her and drove back to Idaho. 

A week later Frazee called with a new murder plan. And once again, Lee drove from Idaho to Kelsey's Colorado townhouse. This time she waited for Kelsey outside her home with an aluminum baseball bat. Just like her earlier attempts, she says she chickened out.

Phone records show Frazee called Krystal in Idaho on Thanksgiving Day and told her, "You need to get out here now, you got a mess to clean up."  And to be on the lookout for a tooth while cleaning up. She told Frazee that she would be out there a few days.

Two days later Krystal traveled to Frazee's ranch to pick up a set of Kelsey's keys he left for her outside. Then she drove to Kelsey's home with cleaning supplies, bleach, hair nets, gloves and trash bags. When Krystal opened the door there was blood everywhere.  Every inch of the town home was covered in blood. Krystal then spent four hours cleaning up the horrific scene. There was some stuff she couldn't get clean, so she loaded the items up in trash bags and stuffed them in her car. She also found the tooth, that she was supposed to be the lookout for, along with a bloody sweater.  She put them both in a trash bag as well.

After cleaning the murder scene, Krystal went to sonic and ordered a burger before meeting up with Frazee.  Frazee then told Krystal had invited Kelsey to play a game with candles. He had took a sweater from Kelsey's room and blindfolded her with it. He had candles sitting out in front of Kelsey and told Kelsey to guess the scent of each candle. While baby Kaylee was in another room, he took a baseball bat and went to swinging. He put her body in a black tote. 

Krystal said that after Frazee told her the horrific details, that she watched as he doused the black tote in gasoline and burned it. Krystal also told investigators that she helped Frazee cover up his sinister act in part because she loved him. She was also terrified of him and he had threatened her and her own daughter. Krystal then took investigators to Kelsey's home and pointed out where she claims she intentionally left blood for them to find. 

One month after Kelsey went missing, Frazee was arrested on first-degree murder charges. Two months after his arrest, authorities searched a landfill for Kelsey's remains. After weeks of searching, they didn't find a thing. They did however, find a piece of a tooth when they searched Frazee's ranch. They also found residue of an accelerant.

Krystal is at home and she will be sentenced after Patrick Frazee's trial. If her story doesn't hold up, that plea deal she got from prosecutors is off the table and could be charged with a much more serious crime.

Did Kristy Kelley Drown After She Accidentally Crashed Into A Lake? Or Was Something More Sinister Afoot?

Kristyn “Kristy” Scales Kelley

She was fun-loving, vivacious and wasn't afraid to tell you what she thought. She loved her children and was a very dedicated Mommy. Kristy was had beautiful big blue eyes. She was born on Oct 28th, 1986 in Boonville, Indiana to Todd and Kathy Scales. 

On August 15th, 2014, Kristy was a 27-year-old pharmacy technician and a single mother of two young children.  She had just gotten divorced and moved in with her parents. 

That night, Kristy went out with her friends to a couple of local bars. 

After that, they went to VFW Post 3418. Kristy stayed passed closing time, sitting alone and talking to her bartender friend as he worked. Her friend and the other bartender had their backs to Kristy for a few minutes while they were having a conversation. When they turned around, Kristy was no longer sitting at the bar. They checked the woman's restroom, but it was empty. They thought she had left without saying goodbye. This was the last time Kristy would be seen alive..

The next morning, Kristy's parents drove to her work to visit her and noticed that Kristy's car wasn't there. They assumed that she was out to lunch and left. Later, they found out that she didn't show up to work and didn't call in sick either. This was uncharacteristic for Kristy. Kristy's dad, Todd, was a retired jailer for Warwick County Sheriff department and he immediately called his former sergeant and told him that is daughter might be missing.

When Todd learned of Kristy's activities the night before, he went to the last place she was reported been seen, the VFW. When he arrived, there was no sign of Kristy's SUV. He went inside and found out that the janitor had found Kristy's cellphone in the bathroom. This sent Todd into a panic because Kristy always had her cellphone. Todd then drove around searching all the backstreets in town.

Within a few days, a multi-agency search for Kristy was underway. When the land search failed to yield results, police ordered polygraph tests for the people that were the last known people to see Kristy. One of the bar tenders and three of seven of Kristy's friends failed. The search also moved to the water and investigators scoured a local lake.

On Sept. 16, 2014, Kristy was found inside her crumpled vehicle at the bottom of a lake at Mount Gilead and Yankeetown roads in Warrick County. Kristy's parents were both relieved and devastated.

The coroner quickly ruled Kristy's death as an accidental drowning. Investigators theorized that Kristy had too much to drink and was speeding when she ran a stop sign and swerved off the road, crashing into the murky lake. Kristy's parents didn't agree with the results and were suspicious. They asked the sheriff if he would open Kristy's case file so they could review the findings. Their request was denied and Kristy's file was sealed without a reason given as to why. 

In the pursuit for truth, Todd decided to do an investigation of his own. He also hired a lawyer to help him get a look at Kristy's case file.

The bartender that failed his polygraph claimed that Kristy didn't seem intoxicated when he last saw her. Also, when Todd talked to the toxicologist, he found out that Kristy's blood alcohol level was estimated to be between 0.04 and 0.06 at the time of her disappearance.

Most places in the U.S. the legal limit for driving under the influence of alcohol is 0.08. Where I live is 0.05, the strictest in the country. 

0.02 BAC: You are likely to feel relaxed and have some loss of judgment. You aren't able to quickly track the movements of other vehicles, pedestrians, or animals. You lose some of your abilities to do two things at once, so you are more likely to be distracted.

0.05 BAC: You begin to exhibit loss of small-muscle control such as being able to focus your eyes, and you can have lowered alertness. You have even worse ability to track moving objects. Your ability to steer is degraded. If an emergency situation develops, such as needing to brake quickly or maneuver around an unexpected blockage, you are likely to have a poorer response. 

0.08 BAC: At the legal level of 0.08, you will usually exhibit poor muscle coordination, loss of balance, slower reaction time, slurred speech, loss of acuity in vision and hearing, difficulty in detecting danger, and impaired judgment, self-control, reasoning, and memory. When driving, you have difficulties in speed control and in recognizing and reacting to signals and emergency situations. All of these impairments result in an increased risk of injuries in general, and particularly those related to the operation of a motor vehicle.

Security camera footage was found of what appeared to be Kristy leaving the bar and turning right, which was towards her parents home. Why was her body found miles in the opposite direction?

Todd searched the area where the fender to Kristy's SUV was found. This turned out to be  miles away from where her SUV and body was discovered.

When Todd got a look at Kristy's SUV, he said that he looked like it was damaged beyond a crash into a lake would do. Also, the gearshift was in park and her keys were found in her pocket. There were no signs that Kristy tried to escape the vehicle. Her seat belt was off as well.

When Kristy's body was found, it had no bruises or wounds whatsoever. Oh, and her body was found in the backseat..

One of Kristy's exes was working for the sheriff's department for thirty years and had connections to the department investigating her case.

The FBI acquired Kristy's phone records for the family. And in those records it was found out that Kristy was getting threatening text messages in the weeks leading up to her disappearance and death. That ex was given a polygraph and his results were inconclusive.

It also turned out that another one of Krisy's exes was stalking her.

In June of this year, the sheriff finally released Kristy's case files.

Kristy's family just wants answers.

Alice Paul Was One Of The Leaders Of The Women's Suffrage Movement And One Of The Primary Forces Behind The Passage Of The 19th Amendment.

Alice Paul

"I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality."

Alice was  charismatic and clever tactician with dark hair and compelling violet-blue eyes. "Great earnest childlike eyes that seem to seize you and hold you to her purpose," said a supporter. She dreaded public speaking, but was fearless of confrontation.
She was born on January 11, 1885, at Paulsdale, her family farm in Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey. Alice was the eldest of four children  of William Mickle Paul I and Tacie Paul. Her father was a wealthy businessman and her mother was a suffragist and brought Alice with her to women’s suffrage meetings. Both her parents embraced gender equality, education for women, and working to improve society. Her ancestors included participants in the New Jersey Committee of Correspondence in the Revolutionary era and a state legislative leader in the 19th century.  Alice was also descendant of William Penn, the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania. 

Alice graduated at the top of her class from Moorestown Friends School. She then attended Swarthmore College, a Quaker school cofounded by her grandfather. It was the same institution her mother had attended as one of the first women educated there. While attending Swarthmore, Alice served as a member on the Executive Board of Student Government. She graduated in 1905 with a bachelor's degree in biology. 

After graduation Alice completed a fellowship year at a settlement house in New York City. Living and working at the settlement house taught her about the need to right injustice in America.

She went on to attend the New York School of Philanthropy (now Columbia University) and received a Master of Arts degree in sociology in 1907.

Alice then went to England to continue her studies at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham. She also took economics classes from the University of Birmingham, while continuing to earn money doing social work. While in England, Alice met American Lucy Burns, and joining the women’s suffrage efforts there, they learned militant protest tactics. Alice was arrested on several occasions, serving time in jail and going on a hunger strike.

After returning from England, Alice earned a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1910.

In 1912, Alice and Lucy joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association and served s the chair of it's congressional committee. They then organized a huge women’s suffrage march in DC on the eve of the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson. Approximately eight thousand women marched with banners and floats down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House, while a half million spectators watched, supported and harassed the marchers. 

Out of frustration with NAWSA's policies, however, Alice left the NAWSA to form the more militant Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage with Lucy. The group was later renamed the National Woman's Party with the goal of implementing change on a federal level.

On March 17, 1913, Paul and other suffragists met with Wilson, who said it was not yet time for an amendment to the Constitution.

In January of 1917, Alice and other NWP members that called themselves  "Silent Sentinels", stood silently at the White House gates, picketing for women’s suffrage.  They carried signs that read, “MR. PRESIDENT, HOW LONG MUST WOMEN WAIT FOR LIBERTY?” “MR. PRESIDENT, WHAT WILL YOU DO FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE?”

The Silent Sentinels were arrested for “blocking traffic,” and refusing to pay their fines, were arrested and sent to jail. Alice and the others began hunger strikes and their tactics were met with brutality. Alice was considered the ringleader and was held separately. Later in the psychiatric ward, there was an attempt to make her declared insane. 

On November 27 and 28 of 1917, all the suffragists were released from prison.

In 1918, After the bad publicity that ensued, President Wilson gave his support for a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.

On August 26th, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment became law on. A federal court had also thrown out charges against the pickets, and permits to demonstrate in the nation’s capital were now issued. 

Alice returned to college and received her law degree (LL.B) from the Washington College of Law at American University in 1922.

In 1923 she introduced the first Equal Rights Amendment in Congress, which was passed in 1972 but never ratified. 

In 1927, she earned a master of laws degree, and in 1928, a doctorate in civil law from American University.

Alice also led a US coalition to successfully include a clause prohibiting sexual discrimination in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Until she was debilitated by a stroke in 1974, Alice Paul continued her fight for women’s rights. She died on July 9, 1977, in Moorestown. She is buried at Westfield Friends Burial Ground, Cinnaminson, New Jersey.  People frequently leave notes at her tombstone to thank her for her life long work on behalf of women's rights.

7-Year-old Karla Rodridguez Disappeared From Her Las Vegas Neighborhood

Karla Carolina Rodridguez

She was born on September 29th,1992 to Ramon and Elia Rodridguez. Karla Rodriguez loved riding her bike, exploring and playing with her friends and her three sisters. 

On October 20th, 1999, 7-year-old Karla and her mother set off from their home on 705 E. St Louis Ave., in Las Vegas, Nevada. Two churches were within sight of her home, and Nevada’s oldest women’s club was directly across the street. Elia was taking Karla to an English language class at Park Elementary School, which was only a few blocks away. On the way they ran into a group of Karla’s school friends and mother and daughter parted ways. Karla never actually made it into school that day. She sometimes skipped school so the fact that she was absent did not immediately raise concerns. 

At around 3 p..m that afternoon, Karla’s father returned home from work. He noticed that Karla wasn’t home but her bike was. Her sisters told Ramon that Karla "is around here somewhere.“ After that, Ramon thought nothing of it and left for a meeting. He returned at 5 p.m. Karla was still not home. But now her bike was missing, too. Ramon spoke to a neighbor on Bonita Avenue, just around the corner, who saw Karla on her bike about 7 p.m. Karla wanted to visit the neighbor’s son, but it was too late, and the neighbor told her to go home. The neighbor said that Karla played outside for about 15 minutes before leaving.

When Karla did not return home that night, her parents didn’t think twice, and thought she was sleeping at a friend’s house, or had been picked up by an aunt who sometimes took Karla unannounced. She was only reported missing the next morning, on October 21, 1999, when her mother could not find her at school pick-up time. 

A local task force canvassed the neighborhood around Maryland Parkway and St. Louis Avenue, a mile east of the Stratosphere. Two bloodhounds traced Karla’s scent to an apartment complex about a half-mile from her home, but no “items of evidence or value” were found at the complex.

At the time of her disappearance, Karla had black hair and brown eyes, she was 3'5” and weighed 49 lbs. She had visible cavities in her teeth and a small mole above her right eyebrow.  She had a surgical scar on her abdomen. Karla spoke Spanish and limited English. She was last seen wearing a black jacket, a blue and white striped shirt and red pants. Her nails were painted green.

Since's Karla’s disappearance, her family have since welcomed a new member, a little brother, who has yet to meet one of his sisters.

Karla's family just wants her back home. 

“Your family is waiting for you, Karla,” one of Karla's sisters, Rosy Rodriguez said.

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

You can call Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department 702-229-5678

Etan Patz: The Face On The Milk Carton

Etan Kalil Patz

He was born on October 9th, 1972 in Manhattan, New York to Julie and Stanley Patz. 

He was a six-year-old living with his parents in SoHo in 1979. Etan’s parents were cautious, they made sure always to accompany him when he left the apartment. One fateful day, that decided that he was old enough to go off alone..

On the morning of May 25th, 1979, Etan left his SoHo apartment at 113 Prince Street by himself for the very first time. He had planned on boarding the school bus at West Broadway and Spring Street, a mere two blocks away. He was wearing a black "Future Flight Captain" pilot cap, a blue corduroy jacket, blue jeans and blue sneakers with fluorescent stripes. He never made it on the bus.

It was Etan’s teacher who first noticed his absence later that morning. This is where i find conflicting stories. Either Etan's teacher reported his absence to the principal, who assumed that his parents had just forgotten to call in or she didn't tell the principle. Either way, Etan's parents were not informed by the school and a whole school day's worth of time was wasted.

When Etan did not return home after school, his mother immediately called the police. At first, detectives considered Etan's parents to be possible suspects, but quickly determined they had no involvement. An intense search began that evening, using nearly 100 police officers and a team of bloodhounds. The search continued for weeks. Neighbors and police canvassed the city and placed missing-child posters featuring Etan's portrait, but this resulted in few leads.

Etan’s father was a professional photographer. With the help of the police, Stanley printed Etan’s photos on countless posters and Etan soon became the first missing child to be shown on milk cartons.  They were also projected on screens in Times Square.

In 1985, a new State’s Attorney, Stuart R. GraBois, was given control of the case. GraBois came up with a suspect in Etan's disappearance. 

Jose Antonio Ramos was a former better sitter of Etan's and just happened to be a convicted child sexual abuser. 

In 1982, multiple boys had accused Ramos of trying to lure them into a drain pipe in the area where he was living. When police searched the drain pipe, they found photographs of Ramos and young boys who resembled Etan. Ramos had been taken into custody in Pennsylvania before this incident, but had never been charged.

When first questioned, Ramos stated that he had indeed taken a young boy back to his apartment on the day of Etan’s disappearance. Unfortunately, he wasn’t positive that the boy was Etan Patz. He also stated that the boy was alive and he left him on the subway.

While incarcerated n 1991, Ramos bragged that he knew what happened to Etan. He also  drew a map of Etan’s school bus route and told them that he knew Etan’s was the third stop on the route. Police were not able to make a case against him and he was never charged. 

Etan was declared legally dead in 2001.

In attempts to get some kind of justice for Etan’s death, his parents filed a civil suit against Ramos in 2004. They won $2 million in damages. Every year, on Etan's birthday and the anniversary of his disappearance, Stan Patz sent Ramos a copy of his son's missing-child poster. On the back, he typed the same message: "What did you do to my little boy?" 

Ramos has denied that he killed Etan. He served a 20-year prison sentence in the State Correctional Institution in Dallas, Pennsylvania, for child molestation.

The investigation was reopened in 2010 and  by April 19, 2012, FBI and NYPD investigators had begun looking into the contents of a SoHo basement located at 127-B Prince street. The place belonged to a neighbor of the Patz family. It had been newly refurbished right after Etan’s disappearance. While the four day search turn up nothing, it received lots of media coverage and new tips about the case came pouring in. One of those tips led to a new confession..

On May 24, 2012, New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced that they had a man in custody who had implicated himself in Etan’s disappearance. Pedro Hernandez was an 18-year-old stockboy at the bodega beside Etan’s bus stop at the time of the kidnapping. Hernandez had admitted to previously killing a young boy while he was attending an open confessional at his church in 1982. When police questioned Hernandez’s family, his brother-in-law and wife confirmed the story.

Hernandez was interrogated in 2015, and eventually confessed to luring Etan into the bodega, strangling him, and dumping his body in the trash near the grocery store. The first trial was declared a mistrial after 11-1 verdict. But when Hernandez was retried the new jury found him guilty of kidnapping and murder. After an unsuccessful appeal attempt, Hernandez was sentenced on April 18, 2017 to 25 years to life in federal prison.

Etan's body has never been found.

On the fourth anniversary of Etan’s abduction, President Ronald Reagan declared May 25 to be National Missing Children’s Day. Etan’s case, along with that of Adam Walsh and several other children abducted across the United States, also led to the establishment of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in an attempt to raise awareness about child predators and prevent such tragedies.

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