Back in 1994, an 18 year old woman walked into a medical clinic in McHenry, Illinois seeking help. Her mother had just died, leaving her all on her own, with no other family to turn to. This young woman was cognitively impaired and vulnerable, living on the streets, alone. At the clinic, she met a 54 year old registered nurse named Linda LaRoche. LaRoche recognized right away that this young woman was impaired and took her into her own home in McHenry, a suburb of Chicago. LaRoche told her that she would help her get her high school diploma and…
The consummate evil stepmother, Stephanie Spitser, resented Scotty and was jealous of the time his dad spent with him.
On November 25th 1992, Susanne Baker entered the office of Paces Creek Elementary school in Manchester, Kentucky, dawning a wig and glasses, asking to check a student out for the day. The school was holding a special lunch day for the kids for Thanksgiving, that parents and family were invited to. The student she wanted to check out of school was ten year old Donald Scotty Baker, who goes by the name Scotty. When asked what the occasion was by the…
Emily Ward and her ex husband , Mitch Ford, were fighting over custody of their three year old daughter, Grace Lillian Ford. In the meantime, Grace was living with her father and his fiancé in Plano Texas. Child protective services had been called numerous times about bruises found on Grace and she had also been taken to the hospital due to a Benadryl overdose. Protective services didn’t take any action, as Mitch and his fiancé were able to explain away her injuries. Emily and her father, Doug were gravely concerned about Grace, so much so that they wrote a letter…
Joe Stacy didn’t want to send his four year old son Ethan to stay with his mother Stephanie Sloop, and her fiancé at the time, Nathanael Sloop, but a court order told him he had to and he didn’t want to fight it anymore, so he agreed to it. He was worried that Ethan wouldn’t be taken care of while there, he even wrote to the judge and told him Stephanie was unstable. He also added that he was afraid that she would take Ethan and he would never see him again. Joe told a reporter that Ethan didn’t want…
Five month old Benjamin Sargent died with his hands clenched and his eyes open after enduring unimaginable neglect in his final eight days alive. This is his story.
Benjamin’s case is reminiscent of another case that I wrote an article about, Sterling Koehn. The neglect and abuse this little one went through was as horrific and tortuous as what happened to Sterling.
John Sargent and Tracey Hermann were the parents of two children, a three year old daughter and five month old Benjamin. Benjamin was born on August 27th, 2007 in Peoria Illinois. Sargent and Hermann were having issues in…
Tamara Lewison Goff, called Tammy by everyone who knew her, was 3 days shy of her 60th birthday, when she went missing. This was on July 12th, 2018 and nobody has seen her since that morning, when she got into her 2008, black Chevy Colorado pickup. She loaded her German Shepherd, Sadie in the truck and planned to go to her father in laws house, Tamara and her husband Bob had just inherited it along with an old cat named Mouse. She was going to feed the cat first, then take her dog, for a walk.
Bob and Tamara got…
The first responder, Toni Freidrich arrived to the apartment of Zachary Koehn and Cheyanne Harris on the afternoon of August 30th, 2017 in response to a 911 call placed by Zachary Koehn. Zachary appeared calm in the 911 call, telling the dispatcher he believed that sudden infant death was a possibility. He met Toni in the front yard of the apartment and led her to where the baby was, Little Sterling’s room was dark, warm and filled with an acrid stench of urine . Zachary turned on the light and quickly went to another part of the house. Toni looked…
A spotlight into just six out of the thousand’s of missing loved ones, this holiday season.
Leslee Gail Reynolds Larson was born in Montana on September 25th, 1954. After graduating from high school in 1972, she went to school to become a dental assistant. Leslee worked for a short time for a local dentist before marrying Dennis R. Larson in 1974. The couple made their home in Great Falls, Montana which was the second largest city in Montana at that time. The couple spent the day of June 10th, 1975 picking mushrooms near Prickly Pear creek, when, according to Dennis…
This is the tale of the many child disappearances and murders in Los Angeles county starting in the early 50’s and continuing until 1970. It is believed that one person is responsible for placing his selfish and deviant desires above everyone else, and tearing these children away from their loved ones. Each child was someone’s daughter, son, sister, brother, and friend. Each one mattered, each one made a mark, each one deserves to have their story told. Most of the details in this case are 50 years old or older, so there are differing versions of what transpired. …
Santa Clara California, nicknamed the mission city due to churches being scattered along the California coast of San Diego to Sonoma, in the 1700’s. It is the home of many high tech companies, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Nvidia and Intel. It is also the birthplace of Doreen Rae Hitchens, who was born on November 29th, 1952 to Franklin and Catherine Hitchens and was the fourth of five children The family was tight knit and loving, enjoying family activities such as fishing and camping. Doreen was described as an angel, who had a cheery attitude and generous spirit. Her husband Charles said…
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