On the night of October 31, 2001, Cindy went out with friends Stacy Paik and Lisa Kim to The Players, a bar located just minutes from her apartment. The trio danced, drank, and mingled until last call at 2:00 a.m. After the bar closed, they went to a friend’s apartment to play video games.

Shortly before 4:00 a.m., Stacy dropped Cindy off at the steps of her apartment.

Stacy Paik, who will later tell police that she “watched her go up to the apartment, but not in the door,” before driving away. This is the last confirmed sighting of Cindy Song.

Before she disappeared, Cindy had made arrangements to spend time catching up with her roommate, Younjoo Kim — who went by her American name, Catherine. Catherine returned to their apartment on Thursday, November 1, in the early afternoon after an extended visit with family in Philadelphia. The front door was locked from the outside. Inside, the apartment was empty.

There were no signs of forced entry. No indication of a struggle. Nothing obviously disturbed.

Catherine assumed Cindy had stepped out briefly. They had plans that evening. They were supposed to go out with friends the following night. But Cindy never came back.

By Sunday, Catherine and Cindy’s friend Stacy went to the Ferguson Township Police Department. Police would not enter Cindy’s apartment until Monday November 5, 2001, four long days after she was last seen. What they found suggested she had made it home that night. Her bookbag was inside, along with her cell phone. Her false eyelashes were resting on the bathroom sink. But they could not account for her wallet, keys or debit card.

Within weeks, Cindy’s disappearance gained international attention. The FBI became involved due to her status as an international student. The Korean Consulate stepped in. The investigative team briefly expanded from two officers to six. As the search intensified, Cindy’s mother, Bansoon Song, and her brother, Kiho Song, traveled from Seoul to Pennsylvania.

Cindy’s rent had been prepaid through the beginning of the fall semester and was covered through December. Her brother publicly stated that the family intended to continue paying it. They wanted the apartment preserved exactly as Cindy left it. Not emptied. Not reassigned. Not closed.

At some point in December, Bansoon discovered she could not access her daughter’s apartment. The locks had been changed. The family says they were not notified in advance. The apartment complex then known as State College Park Apartments, now Alight State College would not disclose the identity of the co-signer on Cindy’s lease.

Adding to the unease: Cindy’s bedroom door which reportedly had holes in it prior to her disappearance had been replaced. Some possessions were removed from the apartment. It is unclear what was taken, by whom, or under what authority. Forensic processing of the apartment did not occur until March 2002. Nothing of evidentiary value was publicly reported.

In early November, a woman in Philadelphia reported hearing a woman crying from inside a car:

“Help me. Please help me.”

When she approached, the driver told her to get away. She later believed the woman in the car was Cindy Song. On December 5, 2001 (35 days after Cindy vanished) Ferguson police learned of the claim and traveled to Philadelphia. It was the first promising lead.

But inconsistencies in the witness’s statements weakened its credibility. The tip was eventually deemed unreliable. Months later, the witness was placed under controlled hypnosis in an attempt to recover additional detail. Nothing useful emerged. The case quickly became cold.

In early June 2003, in a quiet backyard in Luzerne County, preparations were underway for a graduation party. Then police arrived, looking for a missing pharmacist, Michael Kerkowski. What they uncovered would ripple across Pennsylvania Five bodies buried in a yard. By mid-June, four were publicly identified.

Before March 2003, Detective Lieutenant Gary Capitano had never heard the name Hugo Selenski. That changed when a friend of Selenski’s asked authorities to look into a robbery. An informant emerged. That informant, Paul Weakley, led Capitano and other Luzerne County detectives to what would soon be described as a backyard graveyard.

Paul Weakley began cooperating with police in exchange for a reduced sentence — reduced meaning life imprisonment instead of something worse. Throughout the summer and early fall, he provided details about crimes involving himself and Hugo Selenski. He said he knew what happened to Cindy Song.

According to Weakley, in 2002 Hugo Selenski and Michael Kerkowski drove to State College. They encountered a young woman he described as a prostitute. They abducted her. Kerkowski sexually assaulted her. She was taken to Selenski’s home in Hunlock Creek and held there until she died. Weakley claimed Kerkowski kept a trophy: a pair of bunny ears.

Cindy’s reward posters described her Halloween costume. The early public descriptions were inconsistent about whether the ears were specifically listed. To this day, public documentation is unclear on whether law enforcement definitively confirmed that the ears were left inside the apartment.

On October 8, 2003, Ferguson Township Police met with Weakley and began examining his claims. He identified locations where bodies were allegedly buried. Those searches yielded nothing. Investigators turned their focus to Weakley. They searched his apartment. On his computer, they found extensive material related to Cindy’s disappearance.

At the suggestion of the Penn State Paranormal Research Society, psychic Carla Baron was brought in. Baron was nationally known at the time and had gained visibility through appearances connected to MTV’s Fear.

Much of her involvement was not publicly detailed.

In April 2004, Baron and Detective Brian Sprinkle appeared on ABC’s Primetime Live. During the segment, Baron laid out tarot cards and claimed to communicate with Cindy’s spirit. She suggested the killer was “somebody obsessed with her” and referenced a third person connected to Selenski and Kerkowski. She also stated she felt Cindy’s presence in Luzerne County. But at the end of the day there is still no solid information to tie Cindy to Luzerne County.

As of today, her disappearance remains unsolved.

If you have credible information related to Cindy Song’s case, please contact the Ferguson Township Police Department directly at (814) 237-1172 or (800) 479-0050.

On November 9, 1933, twenty-two year old Brooke Hart left his father’s department store in downtown San Jose and walked to the garage where his Studebaker roadster was parked. He was supposed to drive his father to a meeting that evening. He never arrived.

Family received a call. Brooke had been kidnapped. The caller demanded $40,000 for his return.

Police traced a later ransom call to a telephone booth and arrested Thomas Thurmond. He gave up the name of John Holmes, who was arrested at a nearby hotel. Both men confessed to the kidnapping and murder.

According to their statements, they had taken Brooke to the San Mateo Bridge, struck him, bound him with baling wire, tied concrete blocks to him and thrown him into the bay.

But their confessions had not been tested in court. No jury had heard the evidence, and no defence lawyer had challenged their accounts.

Then, on November 26, seventeen days after Brooke disappeared, two duck hunters found his body in the bay.

News spread through San Jose that Sunday. Crowds gathered outside the Santa Clara County jail, where Thurmond and Holmes were being held. Radio reports announced that the prisoners would be lynched that night. The crowd grew. Sheriff William Emig asked Governor James Rolph to send in the National Guard.

Rolph refused.

That night, a group of men attacked the jail entrance with a length of pipe. Deputies tried to hold them back, but the mob broke through. Thurmond and Holmes were dragged from their cells, taken across the street to St. James Park and hanged from trees. People in the crowd took pieces of their clothing as souvenirs.

The two men had confessed to Brooke Hart’s murder. They had never stood trial. Whatever the evidence might have established, no court would examine it.

Rolph did not condemn the mob. He praised the lynchings as “the best lesson that California has ever given the country” and promised to pardon anyone convicted of taking part.

No one was ever convicted for the killings of Thurmond and Holmes.

Brooke Hart’s murder never went to trial. Neither did theirs.

More than 31 years after 22-year-old Elisabeth Membrey disappeared, the circumstances surrounding her suspected murder remain unresolved, and her family is still without the answers they deserve.
Elisabeth was last seen after leaving her workplace, the Manhattan Hotel in Ringwood, late on 6 December 1994. Blood was subsequently discovered at her home, and investigators believe she was killed before her body was removed. Her remains have never been found.

A significant development: the 2025 coronial inquest
In 2023, Victoria Police sought a further coronial inquest after new forensic evidence emerged. Investigators reported a DNA link between a man connected to Elisabeth’s housemate and evidence recovered from her car. However, prosecutors determined there were insufficient prospects of securing a conviction, and the man was not charged in connection with Elisabeth’s disappearance.

On 2 July 2025, State Coroner John Cain delivered his findings. He could not determine, on the required standard of proof, that the man was responsible for Elisabeth’s death. The findings therefore did not establish who killed her.
Where does the case stand now?
Elisabeth’s remains have not been recovered.
No person has been convicted of her murder.
The man charged in 2010, Shane Bond, was acquitted in 2012.
Victoria Police continues to invite information about the case.

A $1 million reward remains available for information leading to the conviction of the person or persons responsible,
A family’s continuing search for answers
Elisabeth’s mother, Joy Membrey, has spent decades seeking justice and hoping to find her daughter. The 2025 inquest did not provide the definitive answers her family had hoped for.
As of October 2026, the latest confirmed official information available for this update does not establish a killer or disclose the location of Elisabeth’s remains.
Anyone with relevant information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers Victoria on 1800 333 000 or submit information confidentially through Crime Stoppers Victoria⁠.

In Oct 2026 a current affair found the prime suspect who they for the first time could unmask as Andrew crump formally “MR C” named by Ashley Peterson Elisabeth best friend brother her house mate Vivienne crump.
suspect denies killing membrey
He denies any involvement her murder despite moving hundreds of kilometres 10 days after she vanished.

Joy Elisabeth’s mother for 32 years has advocated for her 22- year old daughter since disappearance 3 decades ago and prior to his death in 2023 her father Roger did as well, among Ashley Peterson her former ( named )best friend for the past 6 years on a dedicated Facebook in her honour and 18 years amongst forms online and forums and through the trial of Shane Andrew bond sharing a unique bond of friendship and co-workers, Ashley is dedicated to bring Elisabeth home and gone on many podcasts over the years, circle of friends whom Elisabeth or “Liz” had becomes noticeable in how she was a person a bubble of light as Ashley and other former friends and colleagues describe her joy and Roger describing their daughter as everything they ever wanted and a wonderful girl and beautiful young woman, kind and ambitious a beautiful and talented with dreams be a journalist in a tragic twist her dream job would arrive hours after she was murdered.

(Image from find Elisabeth membrey FB)

So few months ago I was looking at my hometown and while exploring in Google Earth I saw this. (1st image :- so apparently it u click on these 2 circles it shows u an wedding hall. And I am confused that why is there an wedding hall in the middle of the mountain, and there is not a road conection which connects to this dot.)

(2nd image) :- here there are some weird circles that are there for no reason. Few people said it was for farming purpose but i cannot confirm if that's true. If someone knows about this let me know.

Looking for my father Gregory spanish he was coming at St jean le thomas

Hello to everyone

I'd like to share a thing that happened to me, I don't find an explanation

I saw a colleague at work.

I left the spot where he was still standing.

I passed by the storage area on the floor below—I went right through there.

I didn’t see him go past me, and when I left the first location, he was still there.

I arrived at the storage area, and there he was—sitting and talking to another colleague.

Seems a bug of the simulation theory?!

In August 2011, an Orlando mom named Michelle Parker and her ex-fiancé went on The People's Court.

They were fighting over a $5,000 engagement ring. On camera, the fight got ugly. Michelle talked about the relationship turning physical. She told the judge he could get malicious and vindictive.

The episode was set to air three months later.

On November 17, 2011, the day it hit TV, Michelle was 33. She was a bartender and a mother of three, including 3 year old twins she shared with her ex.

That afternoon, right around the time the show came on, she dropped the twins off at his condo for a visit.

Later, security cameras caught her going through a KFC drive through.

That night she was supposed to show up to her bartending shift.

She never made it.

The next day, her black Hummer was found abandoned in an apartment complex parking lot.

At first, her family thought it was a carjacking.

Two years later, police released red light camera footage of her Hummer at an intersection at 8:55 p.m. that night, less than a mile from where it was found. They said they didn't believe whoever was responsible acted alone. "A two person situation."

Then her iPhone turned up. Police said it was in remarkably good condition. They wouldn't say where they found it.

Police eventually named her ex-fiancé as their prime suspect. He has always denied any involvement.
:EDIT
“He lost custody of the twins, and her mother now raises them.”
THIS IS INCORRECT FROM THE ARTICLE I SOURCED. My apologies. Her mother did not have custody of the twins and had fought and lost. Dale had full custody. My apologies for not correcting this sooner.

Investigators have searched retention ponds, lakes, and a family member's backyard. Dive teams. Cadaver dogs. Volunteers.

Nothing.

No one has ever been charged.

Next month will mark 15 years since Michelle Parker disappeared.

Millions of people watched her on TV that day.

Nobody has seen her since.

Hi! I was wondering if anyone could recommend any mysteries or strange stories that happened in Sweden ?

Back in 1976, people in Circleville started getting these creepy handwritten letters with no return address. But it wasn't just random hate mail — whoever was writing them knew deeply personal, horrifying secrets that almost nobody should’ve known. It completely destroyed lives and threw the whole town into total paranoia for years.

Eventually someone tried to set a booby trap for the letter writer, which led to a wild trial and they finally arrested a guy named Paul Freshour. Everyone thought the nightmare was over when he got locked up in prison.

Then a new letter arrived. Same handwriting. Same postmark. While he was locked in a maximum security cell. Describing the evidence in text doesn't do it justice, so I made a quick visual breakdown here [https://youtube.com/shorts/IUN-dIaRiOA\]. What do you guys think happened?

On December 14, 1931, 10-year-old Vera Page left her aunt’s house in Notting Hill to buy Christmas presents for her parents. She was carrying her swimming certificates and never made it home. Two days later, a milkman found her body beneath bushes in a front garden on Addison Road. She had been raped and strangled, and pathologist Bernard Spilsbury believed she had been killed elsewhere before her body was moved to the garden.

There were some unusual details at the scene. Vera’s face was covered in soot, candle wax was found on her clothing, and a small bandage for a single finger was lodged in the crook of her elbow. It was stained with ammonia. Police focused on Percy Orlando Rush, 41, whose parents lived in the same building as Vera. He visited them regularly, worked in a laundry where he handled ammonia, and had injured his left little finger just days before the murder.

A search of his home turned up bandages, a candle, and a red tablecloth resembling one a witness had seen covering a bundle on a wheelbarrow near the scene. His overcoat also had traces of coal dust and candle wax.

On paper, the circumstances looked damning. But one important piece of evidence did not fit.

Laboratory examinations found that the bandage material recovered from Vera did not match the samples taken from Rush’s home. Rush said he had made his own bandage and burned it days earlier. Investigators never established that the bandage found on Vera had belonged to him.

There was also a later claim from a police superintendent that Rush had been asked for bandage samples before his home was formally searched, potentially giving him time to dispose of evidence. That account raises questions, although it does not prove that Rush destroyed anything.

At the inquest, the coroner strongly pointed towards Rush. The jury deliberated for just five minutes before returning a verdict of “murder by person or persons unknown.” Rush was never charged and died in 1961.

So what happened here? Did investigators have the right suspect but fail to secure the evidence they needed, or did the circumstances lead them towards a man they could never reliably connect to Vera’s murder?

It seemed to connect the victim to the suspect, but the laboratory findings failed to establish that link.

Revelle Balmain was a 22-year-old dancer who disappeared in Sydney, Australia, on November 5, 1994. She was supposed to meet her mother in Newcastle the following morning, but she never arrived.

The investigation faced serious difficulties over the years. In July 2026, a coroner's inquest found that people who ran the escort agency where Revelle worked had lied to police and that the evidence suggested they knew what had happened to her.

The coroner also criticized the investigation for focusing too heavily on one person of interest while other possibilities may have been overlooked. The case was referred for further investigation, but no one has been convicted in connection with Revelle's disappearance.

After so many years, could this new investigation finally uncover what happened to Revelle? And what do you think investigators may have overlooked the first time around?

More details in

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/revelle-balmain-inquest-finds-escort-bosses-knew/106977496

Marilyn Wallman was 14 when she disappeared in Mackay, Queensland, Australia, on March 21, 1972. She had left home to catch her school bus, but never arrived.

Her abandoned bicycle was found that morning. In 1974, a fragment of a human skull was discovered in nearby bushland and was later confirmed to belong to Marilyn.

The investigation has been surrounded by unanswered questions for decades. In 1988, an attempt to reopen the original inquest was rejected after evidence connected to a convicted offender had gone missing. That evidence reportedly included a map that investigators believed could have linked him to the area.

A second coronial inquest began in October 2026. It is examining the original investigation, evidence that was lost, and several possible leads. A person of interest has been discussed during the proceedings, but no one has been convicted in connection with Marilyn's disappearance.

How much can missing evidence affect a cold case? And could this new inquest finally clarify what happened to Marilyn?

More details in

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-19/marilyn-wallman-disappearance-50th-anniversary-mackay/100910592

On January 4, 2026, siblings Ágatha Isabelly Reis Lago, 6, and Allan Michael Reis Lago, 4, disappeared in the rural community of São Sebastião dos Pretos, in Bacabal, Maranhão, Brazil.

The children had gone out to play with their eight-year-old cousin. The cousin was found alive three days later, but Ágatha and Allan were not found.

Search efforts involved police, firefighters, volunteers, search dogs, and searches around nearby forest and river areas. One lead came from search dogs detecting traces of the children at an abandoned house near the Mearim River, but this did not establish what happened to them.

By September 2026, the siblings had been missing for eight months. Their family was seeking international assistance, while authorities continued investigating. Public information about the case remained limited, and no confirmed explanation had been established.

What challenges make rural missing-person searches so difficult, and what kinds of verified information can help investigators without spreading rumors or harming the family?

More details in

https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/policia-muda-estrategia-no-caso-das-criancas-desaparecidas-em-bacabal

It's in Portuguese.

In January 2005, the body of an unidentified woman was discovered near a road in Saint-Quirin, France. Despite the investigation, authorities were unable to establish her identity for roughly two decades.

The case became known as "The Woman with the Richmond Dental Crown" because of a distinctive dental feature that investigators documented.

In 2024, the case was included in INTERPOL's Identify Me campaign, which appealed to the public for help identifying women whose deaths remained unexplained or suspicious.

In 2026, investigators identified the woman as Hakima Boukerouis through familial DNA searching. French authorities also announced the arrest of a suspect in connection with her death. The investigation and legal proceedings are ongoing, and the arrest is not proof of guilt.

The identification finally restored her name, but many details about her final months and the circumstances of her death have not been made public.

How many other unidentified victims could be identified if old cases received renewed attention and modern forensic techniques?

More details in

https://www.interpol.int/What-you-can-do/Identify-Me/Countries-in-which-the-bodies-were-found/Women-found-in-France/FR02-The-woman-with-the-Richmond-dental-crown

The quick dismissal from the LAPD regarding her as a missing person.
The fact that her husband’s attorneys informed only UK papers that she is alive and well.

Her mother was a Scientologist. When she left the church she took confidential materials with her. She was later found murdered.

Vicki Aznarnan, a former high-ranking church executive claims that Shelly’s husband not only said but exclaimed that “the bitch got what she deserved”.

Shelly supposedly registered to vote in 2017 during a time when nobody was prosecuted for voter impersonation fraud.

Otherwise nobody has seen or heard from her since 2007.

A chief spokesman for the church stated that she did ask him, shortly before disappearing, if her husband was still wearing his ring.

Those who have left the church have nothing but terrible, awful things to say. The church has an endless supply of money and possibly ties with LAPD.

Somebody knows the fate of this woman.

On July 31, 2001, the body of a teenage girl was discovered in the River Main in Frankfurt, Germany. For nearly 25 years, investigators did not know who she was. The case became known as "The Girl in the River Main."

In 2024, the case was included in INTERPOL's Identify Me campaign, which appealed to the public for help identifying women whose bodies had been found across Europe.

In 2026, tips from the public helped investigators identify the girl as Diana S. Authorities subsequently arrested her father, who was placed in pre-trial detention on suspicion of murder. The investigation is ongoing, and the arrest does not itself establish guilt.

This case shows how a decades-old mystery can move forward when previously unknown information reaches investigators.

What do you think made the difference after all those years? Could public appeals and renewed attention help solve other cold cases that have remained unidentified or unexplained for decades?

More details in

https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2026/Identify-Me-arrest-in-Germany-after-murder-victim-is-identified

On November 22, 2019, 34-year-old Amber Aiaz and her 12-year-old daughter, Melissa Fu, disappeared from Irvine, California. They have not been found.

According to Amber's husband, Cheng Zhang, two strangers came to their apartment that evening. He claimed that one of them used an unknown substance that caused him to lose consciousness. When he woke up, Amber and Melissa were gone.

Zhang did not report their disappearance to police until December 2, more than a week later. He said he had received threatening notes instructing him to clean the apartment and act normally. Investigators found blood evidence in the home, including evidence they believed belonged to Amber.

The investigation initially focused heavily on Zhang. However, in a 2021 report, the Los Angeles Times described how investigators said they could not establish his involvement and had been unable to disprove key parts of his account. He was not charged in connection with their disappearance.

Authorities considered several possibilities, including a kidnapping connected to Amber's past. However, no definitive explanation has been established in the sources cited below.

This case is one of those that seem to have an obvious reason and solution, but at the same time, it doesn't.

Questions that remain:

• Who were the two people Zhang said came to the apartment?

• What happened to Amber and Melissa after November 22, 2019?

• Why did the disappearance remain unexplained despite an extensive investigation?

Sources:

• Irvine Police Department: https://cityofirvine.gov/news-media/news-article/irvine-police-seek-publics-help-locating-missing-persons-who-may-have-been

• Los Angeles Times (June 14, 2021): https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-14/mother-and-daughter-vanish-in-irvine-the-husband

• The Charley Project, Amber Aiaz: https://charleyproject.org/case/amber-aiaz

• The Charley Project, Melissa Fu: https://charleyproject.org/case/melissa-fu