Two of the numbers went to motels and the third to a teen sexual assistance hotline. The police initially suspected she ran away, but that October, Judith Rahn discovered three mysterious calls to California on her phone bill. In the morning, she found her daughter’s friend in her place, and said she did not know where Laureen was. Her mother, Judith, came home that night to find all of the hallway’s light bulbs unscrewed and assumed her daughter was asleep in her bed. Teenager Laureen Rahn, from Manchester, New Hampshire, never came home from a friend’s house on April 26, 1980. Laureen Rahn, 14 Laureen Rahn | The Mortuary via YouTube Next: This child’s mother came home to unscrewed light bulbs and a missing daughter. That tipped off authorities that foul play may have occurred, but no additional clues - or Asha - ever appeared again. A year and a half later, her backpack appeared 26 miles away, wrapped in plastic trash bags.
Three days after she disappeared, a pencil, marker, and bow belonging to her turned up in a tool shed about a mile from her house. At the time, her class had been studying kids who go on adventures, leading authorities to suspect she left on her own. Witnesses later reported seeing a girl matching her description walking down the highway in the wee hours of the morning. Asha Degree, 9 Asha Degree | Cayleigh Elise via YouTubeĮven though Asha Degree shared a room with her brother, she disappeared from her bed the night before Valentine’s Day in 2000 without waking him. Next: This child may have left on her own. More items that once belonged to her surfaced in another store’s freezer, two and a half years later, after a local paper published a story about the crime. On April 15, the severed tip of her right middle finger appeared near the scene of the crime, and two weeks later, a bag of her clothing turned up in a nearby convenience store’s freezer. The caller ID read “Starlight”, but no one answered when Augat’s mom called back. On April 13, 1988, she received a frantic message on her answering machine saying “Help, help, let me out” and “Hey, gimme that.” It sounded like someone tried to grab the phone in the background. Diane Augat, 40 Diane Augat | Mysterious Disappearances via YouTubeįlorida resident Diane Augat called her mother three days after she mysteriously vanished. Next: This woman’s abductors left a grisly clue. Police later received a call that someone had spotted a disoriented woman many miles away at a gas station, but the caller hung up before providing any additional details. Authorities discovered her belongings - including $2,500 - scattered throughout the scene, but not the cat or Roberts.Įven stranger, someone had placed blankets over the window, as if using it as a shelter. While the crash should have resulted in injury, no blood was found in the vehicle. On March 18, authorities found her abandoned jeep crashed over an embankment in Whatcom County, Washington. She took her stuff and her cat with her, but told no one where she was headed. In March of 2000, college student Leah Roberts left Raleigh, North Carolina on a road trip.
Leah Roberts, 23 Leah Roberts | Trace Evidence Podcast via YouTube Next: This missing person may have used her car as a shelter. Theories abound about her fate, from a secret admirer to a sex scandal. Both places reported seeing a disheveled woman matching her description, evidently with a minor head injury and in the company of two overbearing men.
Little Jr.” and looked similar to her handwriting. The day after she went missing, her gasoline credit card showed up at two separate stations in Charlotte and Raleigh. Police discovered Little’s undergarments neatly folded inside, as well as traces of blood throughout the vehicle. The next day, authorities found her car parked in the same lot where she had left it, but it showed signs of having been driven away and returned. The newlywed secretary from Atlanta, Georgia disappeared after having dinner with a friend on Oct. Mary Shotwell Little, 25 Mary Shotwell Little | BurkettQuintana via YouTube Some of the stories range from odd to insane, and we found some of the most mysterious ones. A total of 115 got abducted by a stranger. According to the National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children, of the 797,500 children reported missing in a one-year period, 203,900 were abducted by family members and 58,200 were abducted by non-relatives. On average, 90,000 people go missing in the United States at any given time, according to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. Some never make it home, and others leave bizarre clues as to where they went. Even in our interconnected world, people go missing every day.
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