5 Disappearances That Were Solved Decades Later | Part 2

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Denise Bolser In 1985, 24 year old, Denise Bolser lived with her husband in Manchester, New Hampshire. On January 17, 1985, Denise vanished from her home without a trace. The only clue that was found was a note that was left behind which read “We’ve got your wife.” A few days later, her abandoned truck was found at Logan International Airport. Inside the truck the authorities found her personal belongings, including her Social Security card, birth certificate and local charge cards, which were carefully laid out on her on the front seat of the truck. However, she was nowhere to be seen. The note that was found also did not provide any clues as there was no ransom demands or any contact from the kidnappers. There were no suspects in the case and Denise’s husband was never pursued as a person of interest and he divorced her in absentia. At first police believed that Denise was probably kidnapped and possibly even murdered, but there was never an evidence to support this other than the note. It wasn’t until a coworker of the firm she worked for was accused of embezzlement that police began to think that she perhaps ran away in fear. It was found that Denise herself may have been responsible for stealing $12,000 by falsifying books in her role as a bookkeeper. She was charged with her crimes in absentia in 1986. No new clues or tips would be found and she remained missing. The case soon grew cold. Time after time police sent dental records out to investigators in other parts of the country, wondering if this time they would match the remains of some unidentified female corpse but with no luck. Then in 2002, Police would get a credible lead. Denise was soon tracked down and discovered to be living in Panama City. She had started a whole new family who had had no idea about her past life. When questioned, Denise explained that she had embezzled around $100,000 and she had to run when her ex-boss had threatened her life. She also said that she had lived in South Carolina, the Bahamas, California, and Hawaii during her absence. Denise had no idea that she was wanted for embezzlement and that this is what brought authorities to her house. Authorities dropped the embezzlement case in 1993, and Denise’s ex-boss is long dead. Kamiyah Mobley On July 10, 1998, at 7:00 am, Shanara Mobley, delivered a newborn baby named Kamiyah Mobley at University Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida. But eight hours later, Kamiyah was abducted by an African-American woman who was impersonating a nurse. She reportedly was dressed in hospital attire who entered the room, assisted and conversed with the mother, and later walked out of the room with Kamiyah in her arms. Employees initially believed that the woman who kidnapped Kamiyah was a member of the Mobley family. After questioning the staff, police found out that the suspect waited in the hospital for 14 hours, repeatedly asking nurses when the baby would be leaving the nursery. She was in Shanara's hospital room periodically from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on July 10th after Kamiyah's birth. The abductor told Shanara that there was a problem with Kamiyah's temperature at approximately 3:00 p.m. and said that she would return with the infant in approximately 20 minutes. She then walked out of University Medical Center with Kamiyah afterwards. Neither she nor the child were seen again. The police believed the abductor was between 25 and 35 years old and possibly wore a pair of glasses and a wig. She was dressed in a floral blue smock and green scrub pants. She was carrying a large-sized black vinyl or leather bag. Authorities also believed that the abductor had knowledge of the centre's building layout and was also familiar with medical terminology. Kamiyah's father, Craig Aiken, was in jail at the time of Kamiyah's disappearance. He was charged with lewd assault because when Kamiyah was conceived Shanara was only 15 years old and unable to legally consent to sexual intercourse. Aiken was nineteen when his daughter was abducted; Shanara had just turned sixteen. Shanara was awarded $1.5 million after settling a lawsuit against the former University Medical Center. She has since had three other children. Despite extensive searches, there were no leads or any suspects and the case went cold. Then in 2017, A girl named Alexis Manigo had an inclination that she may have been kidnapped when she applied for a restaurant job and couldn’t find her social security number. When Alexis demanded her social security number from her mother, Gloria Williams, she broke down and confessed that she abducted her when she was just a few hours old from a Florida maternity ward and raised her as her own. Alexis quietly pieced together the majority of her backstory by herself from Google and realized that her name was Kamiyah Mobley and her biological mother was Shanara Mobley. She once called her biological mother but hung up when she heard Shanara's voice. According to court documents, investigators finally cracked the case based on two tip-offs: a friend who said Gloria confessed to them and an individual who claimed to have heard it from Alexis. A DNA sample from the teen was taken and submitted to a crime lab, where it was matched with the original newborn DNA taken the day Kamiyah was born. The test confirmed the teen was, in fact, Kamiyah. Gloria Williams was arrested in January 2017 on charges of kidnapping and interference with custody. She had a prior history with law enforcement, having previously been charged with check and welfare fraud. It was found that Williams had suffered a miscarriage about a week before she drove the three hours from South Carolina to Florida and abducted baby Kamiyah. It is believed she then passed off Kamiyah as her own daughter to family and friends, who said they never suspected a thing. In February 2018, Gloria pleaded guilty to kidnapping and was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Kamiyah was then introduced to her biological parents for the first time. However, Kamiyah continues to live in Gloria’s house and says she looks forward to the day she is released from prison as she still refers to her as her mother. Arthur Jones Arthur Jones was a husband and father of three who lived in Highland Park, Illinois. He was a commodities trader with a seat on the Chicago Board of Trade. On May 11, 1979, he told his wife that he had a sudden meeting to attend to, after which he rushed out of the door. He would never come back to his wife and three kids. Detectives would later find his abandoned Buick near O’hare international Airport with all his belongings inside but found no sign of him. Arthur’s wife told police that he had been acting strangely in the days before his disappearance and on the day he disappeared, he wasn’t dressed for business when he left the house. Police would later find that about six months before his disappearance, Jones lost his job at the board of trade as a commodities trade and had to sell his seat to pay for gambling debts in excess of $200,000. His wife told Highland Park investigators that, at one point, he lost $30,000 betting on a basketball game. Another time, Jones took out a second mortgage on their home – forging his wife’s signature in the process – to help fund his gambling. Moreover, his fellow commodities trader Carl Gaimari was recently murder by two men wearing masks. This had impacted Arthur deeply, his wife said. She also said that later in 1979 they scheduled a holiday in California, in fact, and they even bought plane tickets. However, Jones subsequently requested that they put off their trip for a week. His wife suspected that he was waiting for a payout of some kind. All of this information lead police to believe that Arthur had certainly met with foul play. But since there was no evidence to support this, the case went cold. Arthur Jones was eventually declared legally dead in 1986. His wife and children collected about $47,000 in Social Security benefits as a result. For decades his case would remain unsolved until in 2011, the truth about Jones disappearance would come out. Arthur was tracked down in Las Vegas after the Social Security Administration — acting on complaints from a man who said his Social Security number was being used by another — approached the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles for help in locating him. Jones had been using a Social Security number that belonged to Clifton Goodenough, a former Waukegan resident. An investigation found that Arthur Jones was living under the name “Joseph Richard Sandelli,” and had made stops in Florida and California, before settling in Las Vegas where he had been working as a sports bookie for 10 years. Arthur was arrested on four felony counts related to identity theft and fraud. Arthur told investigators that he paid a friend in Chicago $800 for fake documents and a Social Security number belonging to another man and left his wife and children to get a fresh start. Over the past three decades, Jones was arrested numerous times using different names in Florida, California and Nevada, according to investigators who used his fingerprints to track his criminal history. Arthur was charged with fraud, burglary, obtaining and using personal identifying information of another person, and possession of personal identifying information to establish false status or identity. Tamara Milograd Tamara Milograd was a 15-year old Australian girl from Melbourne. Tamara was the only girl amongst three children, with brothers named Eugene and Nick. On September 18, 1971, Tamara told her mother, Luba, that she was heading out to the Royal Melbourne show with a friend from school. The Royal Melbourne Show has been going on since 1848, and there are thousands of people that show up to see the incredible sites and more importantly, the rides and different forms of entertainment that are usually on display for onlookers to enjoy. After reaching the show, Tamara and her friend got separated as Tamara said she needed some change for the 5 Australian dollars she had in her pocket. This was the last time Tamara was seen again. As time passed, her friend couldn’t find her anywhere. She immediately notified her family who reported her missing to the police. Despite extensive searches and police efforts, Tamara would not be found. Weeks, months and years went by, but police couldn’t find any evidence or leads to Tamara’s whereabouts. Although the family refused to give up their search for Tamara, the police would find out that at the time of her disappearance, Tamara, according to her relatives, had become a rebellious teenager and was actively pulling away from her family. She even had an argument with her family about her boyfriend and it was so bad that Tamara told to some of her friends that she wanted to start a new life. This led authorities to believe that Tamara had left at her own accord. But her parents and brothers, refused to stop searching for her. There few unconfirmed sightings in the months following her disappearance, that gave Milograd family some hope. One was at the Tarmac Hotel in Laverton. Another was that she had even slept at the Royal Melbourne Show for two nights before leaving for St. Kilda and getting a job. Her mother Luba went to the areas where she was believed to be seen but came up empty handed. According to Tamara’s brother, Nick, they did whatever they could to be able to find her. He shared that they took trips across the interstate searching for her, forcing them to go on “wild goose chases,” and even hiring a private investigator. But unfortunately, they didn’t get any closer to the truth. Over the years, the Milograd family prayed that Tamara would come back to them. Years would pass and the case would grow cold. 17 years after Tamara went missing, her father died, never knowing what had happened to his daughter. But on his deathbed, he had begged his family to never give up trying to find his only daughter. He also told his wife, Luba, to never stop searching. In 2010, the AFP’s National Missing person Cordination Centre worked with Milograd family to feature her case in National missing persons week. Then, 44 years later, in 2015, 39 year old Corina Rusell was searching on the internet when she came across the AFP’S missing person’s website. Corina had been searching for information about her mother, Pauline Tammy Russell, who had died in a car crash in June 1976. Corinna’s Father was also in the car crash but he survived. As Corinna got older she began to ask more and more questions about her mother and finding only few answers. Her digging would later reveal that her father and mother never married, as Pauline was unable to obtain a birth certificate. It wouldn’t be until 2015, when Corinna, by chance, clicked on the AFP missing person website that she found a woman’s profile who bore a striking resemblance to her mother. The profile she found was that of Tamara Milograd. Not only Tamara looked like her mother but also shared the same birthday and had a father named Alexander. Corrina decided to get in touch with the National Missing Persons Coordination Centre to try and see if the woman in the photo could be her very own mother. Following a DNA Analysis, it was confirmed that Pauline and Tamara were the same person. An incredible 44 years after Tamara had mysteriously disappeared, 90 year old Luba would finally find out what had happened to her daughter. Not only did Tamara truly walk away from her entire family, she had moved to another area in Victoria, changed her age from 15 to 18, changed her name to Pauline Tammy Russell and had two kids before tragically dying in a car crash. Luba, Eugene and Nick would finally meet Tamara’s daughter, along with their great grandchildren as well. Marcia Honsch and Elizabeth Honsch On Sept. 28, 1995, New Britain police officers on patrol just after midnight, spotted a sleeping bag behind the CT Beverage Mart in a shopping plaza on Hartford Road, just down the street from Corbins Corner and the Westfarms mall. When they opened the sleeping bag they found a young woman’s body wrapped in the blanket and a plastic garbage bag. She had been killed with a single gunshot wound to the back of the head. Just one week later the body of another woman was found 40 miles away in Tolland State Forest in Massachusetts. She had also died from gunshot wound. As days went by, police waited to receive a missing-person report, something that would help them identify the women. Both victims had no identification on them and all efforts to identify them failed. Investigators were able to lift a palm print from the plastic garbage bag that held one of the women, but unlike fingerprints, there was no database for palm prints, so the function of the print would only serve to match to an existing suspect. Detectives shared descriptions, photographs of the clothing that they were found to be wearing and sketches of their faces with the public in hopes to identify their identities. They reviewed missing persons cases from across North America. But they had no luck and the case soon grew cold. In January 2011, with the help of forensic testing investigators were able to prove that the two bodies were mother and daughter. This lent the idea that the murders were not only linked, but likely carried out by the same killer, who was still at large. Even though police were able to determine they were mother and daughter, they still did not know their identities. In 2014, police officers in New York received a phone call from someone claiming that her relatives, Marcia and teenager Elizabeth Honsch, had gone missing 19 years earlier. The family had been looking for them without getting authorities involved. The caller told police that Marcia’s husband, Robert Honsch had told them he, Marcia and Elizabeth were moving to Australia to start a new life. The call prompted Massachusetts, New Britain and New York investigators, over a series of days, to interview several relatives. Detectives took DNA samples from one relative to confirm a family connection to the two unidentified bodies. It was found that Honsch never moved to Australia. He wound up in Ohio, where he met his future bride, Sheryl Tyree, at a Christian truck stop. The two truckers married and settled in Dalton, Ohio. They went on to have three children. Sheryl did not want to take the last name Honsch, so Robert changed his surname to Tyree. The name change made it difficult for Marcia's worried relatives to locate Robert Honsch through Internet searches over the years. It was through Robert’s brother and sister-in-law that the relatives searching for Marcia and Elizabeth connected with Sheryl. They communicated with Sheryl for several years. In one conversation, Sheryl conveyed that Robert told her he had no other marriages, no children, was an only child and his parents were dead. One relative spoke to Robert in November 2013 about Marcia and Elizabeth. He told the relative that Marcia had met another man and took off, taking Elizabeth with her. When the relative probed deeper, Robert said he had amnesia. In 2014, after the relative contacted the police, detectives questioned Honsch and he said that something must have happened in 1995 to make him lose touch with all his family, but he could not remember the event. He said there were a lot of things he could not remember since 1995. Investigators found that the Palm print found at the crime scene matched Roberts. Authorities said examination of items found near Elizabeth Honsch’s body connected him to the scene. More evidence pushed authorities to arrest Robert Honsch for their murders in 2014. He was found guilty and sentenced to life without parole.
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Published: Mon Aug 12 2019
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