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I go over episodes 1 and 2 of the Netflix docuseries, The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann. This event is truly the worst nightmare for any parent. 

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A 20 year old was last seen alive outside a college dorm, surrounded by others. How did she go from there, to dead in a bathtub within hours? Decades later, they may have found the guy who did it who flew under the radar until good ol' DNA ratted him out. Here is Sophie's last story. 

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June 1992, Two high school seniors graduate and come home after a house party. The next morning both teens and one of their mothers is missing and have never been seen since. 

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A 17 year old girl goes missing and her killer is caught nearly two decades later on the other side of the country after never being a suspect initially

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In March of 1978, A mom and son went out of town while the older sister went to stay with friends. Or so the mom thought. Turns out no one really knows how that weekend went, but they know how it ended. But who could be mad enough at a 16 year old girl to kill her the way they did? 






SOURCES

• Reddit
• Fox10Phoenix > Arizona News 4-26-16
• Counteverymystery.blogspot.com/2018/04/murder-on-pauline-robbin-burgette.html?m=1
• Ktar.com > story > phoenix-police-hoping-for-leads-in-1978 (5/16/16)
• Thetruecrimefiles.com
• Crime watchers
• Newspaper clippings
• NBCnews.com > This is just the beginning: using DNA and Genealogy crack years old cold case

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A nice summer evening at the Alma, Alabama baseball fields catching fireflies. There were hundreds of people enjoying the sounds and smells of America’s favorite pass-time… but out of those hundreds of people, no one saw what happened to a little six year old girl emptying sand out of her shoe as the game was winding down. This is the case of Morgan Nick. 

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February 9th is a pretty significant day for two separate families for the same reason. 2006 a 29 year old mom was found murdered. Then 2008 a 57 year old mom was found murdered in nearly the exact same way. Still unsolved to this day… but what do police know now, that will break this wide open? 

• Sonia Mejia was 29 in 2006 and had taken her 8 year old son to school. She was a small lady, only 5’ 3” and 125 lbs. She was also six months pregnant. 
• Someone had seen a latino man holding a bottle of Coke and a bag of chips leaning against Mejia’s door and talking to her. The same witness told police the man then HIT her on the side of the head, pushed her into the apartment and kicked the door shut. 
• What????
• Mejia’s common law husband came home around 6pm to find her dead in the bedroom. 
• He found her partially nude on the bed with a dark blue bandana around her mouth and a WIRE around her neck; there was an orange substance consistent with the color of Cheetos on her right breast. 
• Mejia’s husband later found a bag of Cheetos and a Coke bottle inside the front doorway. 
• Husband said the bandana and wire did not belong to him. 
• 4 things were believed to be stolen; heart shaped Ruby ring, Diamond ring, medallion of Our Lady of Guadalupe on a gold necklace, and her Gray 1998 Ford Escort keys. 
• Her car was found 5 days later, 12 blocks away in a motel parking lot.

• Damiana Castillo was 57 in 2008. 
• There are different reports. One says that Castillo’s son had gone to check on her after  she didn’t show up for church, the other says he was going to pick her up for work. So maybe it could be both? 
• Either way she was found by her son. No one answered the door so he found the extra key and let himself in. 
• He said the apartment was a mess and she was laying on the ground, partially covered by a pillow. 
• Records state that their death’s were similar so even though it doesn’t go into detail about Castillo’s complete state at the time of her death, I can imagine it probably had to do with the same elements as Mejia’s death. 

• On February 9, 2006 Sonia Mejia was found sexually assaulted and strangled to death in Taylorsville, Utah. 
• On February 9, 2008 Damiana Castillo was found strangled in West Valley City, Utah. 
• Even though it happened in different cities, these only happened 1 mile apart. 
• The same DNA was found in each crime scene. 
• The DNA was not in the system at the time. 
• In 2009 a task force was created and it was found that these two were linked and they were likely dealing with a serial killer. 
• The Anniversary of the slayings prompted extra patrol officers in the area to prevent a 3rd slaying. 
• Recently in November 2018 an article was released stating that they know who the killer is. 
• They do not want to release his name in case he becomes a flight risk and tries to flee. 
• He is currently serving time in another state and does not know that he is being charged in Utah. 
• His current release date is unknown, or at least that is what they have told reporters so we can’t figure out who it is. 
• Charges were filed 1 day before the statute of limitations was reached in 2010 with two counts aggravated burglary and a count of aggravated sexual assault for the two women. 
• They were charged to John Doe but they wanted to make sure they could put a name to those charges eventually. They will submit an amendment to the charges to replace “John Doe” with his name as a way to get around the statute of limitations. 

This is an exciting “Cold Case” to report on because it is actually relatively clos

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A summer morning in a small Alabama town was the last place a 12 year old girl was seen in 1984. Did Sherry ever get the soda that she intended to buy with the dollar her step-father had just given her while he ran in the bank. He asked her to be back in 15 minutes, but how many minutes did it take for their world to be turned upside down? 

• She also adored her step-father. When he was leaving to go into town to go to the bank, she came running outside with her shoes in hand begging to go with. 
• Raymond (her step father) went into the bank to sign papers, he gave her $1 to go get a soda. One article said it was from a vending machine, another said it was from a Chevron gas station. 
• Raymond told her to meet him back at the truck in 15 minutes. 
• She was last seen crossing the street towards the Chevron gas station at 9:30 am. 
• She didn’t come back after 15 minutes and Raymond began to get frustrated. It was not like Sherry to be late or disobey. After another 10 minutes he called Betty at her job at the local Waffle House to see if she happened to have gone over there to say hi.   Betty said that Sherry was not there. Raymond then called the cops and that began the nightmare her poor mother has endured her entire life since then. 

SOURCES
https://www.unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/sherry_lynn_marler
Montgomery Advertiser 2015 article
Sherry Lynn Marler Still Missing - Facebook page

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12 years after a set of remains were found off a frontage road in Utah, DNA comparisons to a family member of a missing woman confirmed their suspicions of the identity of the remains. But, how she got there and who put her there remains unanswered. 

• This case originally was an unidentified found remains case known as “Saltair Sally”
• 1.5 miles east of a local concert hall named “The Great Saltair”. Duck hunters found “badly decomposed remains. A skull with rotting teeth and waist length hair, 26 bones, a purple beaded necklace ,and an oversized T-shirt  in the mud off of an I-80 frontage road in a field. 
• Based on the location of the body, Unified Police Lt. Justin Hoyal said it was likely a homicide. 
• Running theory is that she was killed along I-80 and or her body was dumped there. 
• Having traveled on I-80 I can say that this is very very likely. I don’t know how much I want to get in to, just incase family may listen, but my husband and I have taken advantage of how much… privacy you can find on that long boring highway through the salt flats. 
• In October 2012, “Saltair Sally” was given a name. Through DNA comparisons to a family member, it was found to be Nikole Bakoles. Only 20 years old and a mother of a young daughter at the time of her disappearance and death. 

SOURCES

https://www.updsl.org/page_coldCase.php

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/family-asks-for-help-in-daughters-homicide/

https://www.archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=56449101&type=cmsid

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An unknown person then crept onto the Investor in the darkness and executed every person on board with what police believe was a .22 caliber pistol or rifle. 

• Mark Coulthurst 28
• Irene Coulthurst 28 and pregnant
• Kimberly Coulthurst 5 
• John Coulthurst 4
• Chris Heyman 18
• Jerome Keown 19
• Dean Moon 19
• Mike Stewart 19

• September 5, 1982 Mark Coulthurst along with his family and deckhands arrived in the rowdy fishing town of Craig, Alaska having originally come from Blaine, Washington. It was near the final days of the commercial fishing season for that year. 
• Mark was said to be ambitious, hard-working and well liked Skipper. “Everyone of his crew wanted to be like Mark, he was one of the best skippers around.” Said one of the deckhands brothers. It was also said that he was a “rising star”. “He could be really tough, really aggressive.” But as any growing business owner knows… you kind of have to be. 
• Mark had just become the proud owner of one of the most expensive ($850,000), high-tech commercial fishing boats of it’s kind in the region at that time. 

SOURCES

https://people.com/crime/inside-unsolved-mass-murders-fishing-boat-investor-Alaska

https://www.google.com/amp/s/people.com/crime/people-explains-investor-fishing-boat-murders-alaska/amp/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/people.com/crime/john-peel-interview-alaska-investor-fishing-boat-murders/amp/

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