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The case of a woman who went missing thirty eight years ago may have been solved. Beverly England was 32 years old when she went missing from her hometown of Salida in Colorado. (Source) On the morning she disappeared, Beverly called up a friend, Kathy Smith. The two attended the Temple Baptist Church together and England asked Kathy if she would babysit her children for a couple of hours. Beverly England had two kids, Bricia, then 5, and Cayl, who was 8 years old at the time. Beverly informed Kathy that she planned to meet a woman called Mitzy Abeyta. It turned...

Reader discretion is advised. Post includes mentions of child abuse.  (Source) On November 11th, 2014, a 44 year old Georgia resident named Calvin McIntosh walked into Sandy Springs hospital cradling the lifeless body of his 1 year old daughter, Alcenti McIntosh. “She’s stopped breathing” he told hospital staff, who declared the severely underweight child dead on arrival. The emaciated appearance of the child, who weighed only 7lb’s at the time of her death, lead to an investigation into Mr. McIntosh who lived at room 310 at the nearby extended stay America hotel, on 7065 Jimmy Carter Blvd in Peachtree corners....

On the 15th of May of 2017 a 41 year old real estate agent from Florida went missing while on a belated honeymoon trip with her husband. Isabella Hellmann and her husband of three months, Lewis Bennett, ventured out on a 2 week sailing trip starting on the island of St. Maarten in the Caribbean.  They planned to travel through Puerto Rico and Cuba before finally returning home to Florida, when on the last leg of the journey, Hellmann went missing. (Source) Lewis Bennett, an experienced sailor from Dorset, England, claimed that he was sleeping below deck at around 1AM when...

Twenty year old Psychology student, Mollie Cecilia Tibbetts, went missing while out on a jog around the city of Brooklyn in Iowa on the evening of July 18th. (Source) Brooklyn is part of Poweshiek County, just north of I-80 and just off highway 6. The city has a population of around 1500 residents and is considered as a safe place to live by many. Before the disappearance of Miss Tibbetts many residents confessed they felt so safe that they didn’t even bother to lock their doors. On the day she went missing Mollie was dog-sitting at her boyfriend’s house. When...

In 2011 a North Carolina resident named Amanda Perry Hayes was sentenced to 13-16 years in  prison for her involvement in the murder of Miss Laura Jean Ackerson. Ackerson was the ex-girlfriend of Amanda's husband, Mr. Grant Ruffin Hayes III, who was sentenced to life in prison for first degree murder.  (Source) In 2011 Miss Ackerson was living in an apartment with her two young children in Rayleigh, North Carolina. She was enjoying her independence and had just started two new Graphic design businesses and things seemed to be going well for the 27 year old. Life wasn’t perfect just yet, however, as...