Missed Chances & the Coal Bunker: Sonia Forsythe
Emily G. Thompson • 19th October 2024
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It was 1995 when 15-year-old Elyse Pahler was lured from her home in Arroyo Grande, California. Unbeknownst to Elyse, three teenage boys believed they had made a pact with Satan.
On 13 July, 2012, two cousins vanished in Evansdale, Iowa. It would take almost six months before the bodies of Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook were found.
In August 2015, Pamela Ann Daughtry text her daughter asking for help. Her teenage son had gone into an outburst. When her daughter arrived, it was already too late.
In February of 2016, Paul Jefferies was found dead in his home. He had been the victim of a brutal and frenzied attack. Shortly after his murder, a teenage boy appeared in hospital with injuries. He claimed they were self-inflicted, but was he really telling the truth?
It was Halloween of 2014 when residents of a Long Island community witnessed a man dragging a beheaded body into the street. By first appearances, it was nothing more than a macabre Halloween prank. On closer inspection, however, it was more than just a prank.
It was Valentine's Day of 2013 when police in Peoria, Illinois, received a report of a burglary. The investigators would quickly zone in on a suspect, but a very unlikely one.
In 2014, police in New Stanton, Pennsylvania, received a 911 call from 14-year-old Jacob Remaley. He claimed his father had shot and killed his mother and his brother, but was he really telling the truth...?
In May of 2018, a body was found by a creek in Wyalusing Township, Pennsylvania. News outlets would conduct an interview with a man who lived nearby. He seemed surprised by the grim discovery but did he know more?
In 1982, 13-year-old Carrie Ann Jopek vanished after getting suspended from school in Cudahy, Wisconsin. It would take 33 years before the case was cracked.
In May of 2020, police in Layton, Utah, received a 911 call from a man who informed them that he had just murdered a person inside his residence.
In 1991, a hunter in Jake's Lake in Warner, Oklahoma, witnessed a woman give birth down by the lake and then watched as the man she was with beat the baby to death. The case would gradually go cold before a massive development in 2009.
In 1998, the body of a man was found in a ditch in Galena Park, Texas. He was identified as Buddy Musso, a mentally disabled man, who had moved to Texas in the hopes to marry a woman.