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Amanda Nichole Forkum was 42 years old when she disappeared from Doniphan, Missouri, on July 1, 2025. More than a year later, she remains listed as missing, and the question at the center of her case remains unanswered: Where is Amanda?

In this episode of The Lost Girls Podcast, hosts Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey discuss Amanda’s disappearance, the limited information available about her last known movements, and the importance of keeping her story in public view. With so many unanswered questions, the conversation focuses on what is known and how listeners might help investigators find answers.

Amanda is described as a white woman with black hair, brown eyes, and pierced ears. She stands approximately 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighed around 160 pounds when she disappeared. The episode explores how a remembered conversation, an encounter at a local business, or a message exchanged around the time she went missing could help clarify her movements.

If you knew Amanda or lived in or traveled through the Doniphan area around July 1, 2025, please take a moment to review her photograph and consider whether you have information to share. Something that seemed ordinary at the time may be worth bringing to investigators’ attention.

Anyone with information about Amanda Nichole Forkum’s disappearance or whereabouts should contact the Ripley County Sheriff’s Office at 573-996-2129. Please provide information directly to investigators and avoid posting accusations or unverified theories online.

View Amanda’s listing through the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s active missing-person records for Ripley County.

Help keep Amanda’s name and photograph in circulation by sharing this episode, particularly with people in southeastern Missouri and northern Arkansas. A shortage of publicly available information should never mean a missing woman is forgotten. Because every girl deserves justice.

The Lost Girls Podcast is not monetized because we believe profiting from missing persons cases risks placing financial interests ahead of the search for answers, and families’ uncertainty and grief should never become a source of revenue for those seeking to help.

Katie Elana Haughey was 38 when she disappeared from the Williamsburg area of Virginia on August 24, 2025. Publicly available details remain limited, but her need for medication adds urgency to the search for answers.

In this episode of The Lost Girls Podcast, Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey discuss Katie’s disappearance, the questions surrounding her whereabouts, and the importance of keeping missing adults visible when information is scarce. They explore how an ordinary encounter—a brief conversation, a stop at a business, or a request for directions—might provide information that helps investigators.

Katie’s story deserves attention grounded in facts and concern for her well-being. Listen, share her photograph, and help her name reach someone who may know something.

Katie’s identifying information

• Full name: Katie Elana Haughey
• Age at disappearance: 38
• Missing since: August 24, 2025
• Missing from: Williamsburg/James City County, Virginia
• Height: 5 feet 6 inches
• Weight: Approximately 210 pounds
• Hair: Brown
• Eyes: Hazel
• Classification: Endangered missing
• Medical information: Requires medication; the condition has not been publicly specified.

Have information?

Contact the James City County Police Department at 757-253-1800. To reach police dispatch, call 757-566-0112. Call 911 for an emergency or an immediate safety concern.

When reporting information, include the date, location, and what you personally observed. Please direct tips to law enforcement rather than posting speculation online.

Case information and photograph:

The Charley Project: Katie Elana Haughey

Hosted by Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey.

Because every girl deserves justice.

The Lost Girls Podcast is not monetized because we believe profiting from missing persons cases risks placing financial interests ahead of the search for answers, and families’ uncertainty and grief should never become a source of revenue for those seeking to help.

On May 27, 2005, 19-year-old Asia Nicole Martin, known to her loved ones as “Nikkie,” disappeared from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. According to her roommate, Asia left their home at Robinson Place Apartments to take a walk and never returned. Just three days earlier, she had purchased a bus ticket to visit her mother in Denver, Colorado, but she never boarded the bus. Her disappearance remains unsolved. The Charley Project

In this episode of The Lost Girls Podcast, hosts Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey examine Asia’s life, her family connections, and the unanswered questions surrounding her last known evening in Hattiesburg. They discuss her ties to Slidell, Louisiana, and Petal, Mississippi, her college plans, and her decision to take time away from school to help her ill mother. The conversation also addresses differences in public accounts of her disappearance and why distinguishing established information from uncertain details matters.

Asia was a young woman with relationships, responsibilities, and plans for her future. More than two decades later, this episode asks listeners to remember the person behind the missing-person listing and consider whether they have information that could help clarify her final known movements.

Asia is a Black woman with black hair and brown eyes, born November 5, 1985. Identifying characteristics include an inability to bend her left pinky finger, double-pierced ears, a pierced navel, and crooked lower teeth. Her case is listed as open in the Mississippi Repository for Missing and Unidentified Persons.

Anyone with information about Asia’s disappearance or whereabouts should contact the Hattiesburg Police Department at 601-544-7900 and reference agency case number 2005-06-62-79 or NamUs case MP438. Please provide firsthand information directly to investigators, including anything you remember about Asia’s activities, plans, or contacts around May 27, 2005. Case and reporting information

Please share this episode, particularly with people who lived in Hattiesburg, Petal, or Slidell in 2005. Help keep Asia’s name and story visible, because the passage of time does not diminish her importance or her family’s need for answers.

On September 13, 1982, 17-year-old Pamela Ann Pedro was dropped off at school in Atwater, California. She was a gifted student, a classical pianist, a black belt in karate, and a high school senior preparing to graduate early. By that afternoon, she had vanished.

In this episode of The Lost Girls Podcast, hosts LaDonna Humphrey and Amy Smith examine the disappearance of Pamela Ann Pedro, a case that has remained unresolved for more than four decades.

Pamela was last seen on the morning of September 13 outside Atwater High School, where she was reportedly talking to an unidentified person on a pay phone. When Pamela's mother arrived to pick her up at approximately 1:30 p.m., her daughter wasn't there. She waited, asked the school to page Pamela, and eventually contacted Pamela's father when Pamela still failed to appear.

According to accounts of the case, Pamela's parents contacted law enforcement at approximately 4:30 that afternoon but were told that a missing-person report could not be taken until 24 hours had passed. Pamela has never been heard from again.

At the time she disappeared, Pamela was just 11 days past her seventeenth birthday. She was 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighed approximately 110 pounds. She had black hair, dark brown eyes, a dimple on her left cheek, and a small mole beneath her right eye. Pamela wore braces and large-framed eyeglasses and was of Filipino descent. She was last known to be wearing a light blue and pink checkered long-sleeved shirt, blue corduroy pants, and blue Nike sneakers.

There have been conflicting classifications and details associated with Pamela's case over the years. Some agencies have classified her as a runaway, while other records describe her as endangered missing. Even basic information has sometimes differed between sources, including her date of birth, disappearance date, and hometown. What has remained constant is the most important fact: Pamela disappeared as a 17-year-old girl in September 1982, and her family has spent decades without an answer.

There are also significant reasons to continue asking what happened to her. Pamela reportedly never obtained a driver's license after her disappearance, and there has been no known activity associated with her Social Security number. Her father died in 1986 without learning what happened to his daughter. Her mother later remarried and moved to Oregon, but she has continued searching for Pamela.

More than forty years later, one detail from that September morning remains especially important: the unidentified person Pamela was reportedly speaking with on the pay phone outside her school. Who was on the other end of that call? Did Pamela leave voluntarily to meet someone she trusted, or was that conversation connected to something far more dangerous? And does someone still know what happened after Pamela arrived at school that morning?

LaDonna and Amy discuss the circumstances surrounding Pamela's disappearance, the early response to her case, the conflicting information that has followed it through the decades, and why missing teenagers—particularly those initially considered possible runaways—deserve thorough investigations from the very beginning.

Pamela Ann Pedro would be 60 years old today. Age-progressed images have been created to show what she might look like as an older woman. Regardless of how much time has passed, Pamela is still missing, her case is still unresolved, and her family still deserves answers.

If you have information about the disappearance of Pamela Ann Pedro, even if it seems insignificant or you believe investigators may already know it, please contact the Merced County Sheriff's Department at 209-385-7444.

Someone may remember Pamela. Someone may remember who she was talking to that morning. Someone may remember something they dismissed as unimportant in 1982.

After more than four decades, that memory could be the piece that finally helps bring Pamela home.

Case: Pamela Ann Pedro

Missing Since: September 13, 1982

Missing From: Atwater, California

Age When Missing: 17

Classification: Endangered Missing

Investigating Agency: Merced County Sheriff's Department

Tips: 209-385-7444

The Lost Girls Podcast is hosted by LaDonna Humphrey and Amy Smith and is dedicated to telling the stories of missing and murdered women and girls while keeping the focus where it belongs: on the women, their families, and the search for answers.

In August 2015, 48-year-old Sheila St. Clair disappeared from Duluth, Minnesota. Nearly eleven years later, her family is once again facing the uncertainty of a missing loved one after Sheila’s daughter, 35-year-old Stephanie St. Clair, was reported missing from Moorhead, Minnesota.

In this episode of The Lost Girls Podcast, Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey examine the circumstances surrounding Sheila’s long-unsolved disappearance while also discussing the more recent search for Stephanie. Although the cases involve a mother and daughter, authorities have not publicly established any connection between the two disappearances, and the circumstances surrounding each case are different.

Sheila was last seen on August 20, 2015, at the Cascade Apartments in the 100 block of West Third Street in Duluth. She reportedly planned to visit family on the White Earth Reservation and may also have intended to travel to Red Cliff, Wisconsin. Sheila did not own a vehicle, leaving an important unanswered question: Who, if anyone, was supposed to give her a ride?

Another critical complication is that Sheila was not reported missing until September 10, approximately three weeks after she was last seen. By the time investigators began reconstructing her movements, memories may have faded, surveillance footage could have been lost, and potential witnesses may not have realized that something they saw was important.

Sheila is Native American, and her disappearance has become part of the broader effort to bring attention to missing and murdered Indigenous women and relatives. For more than a decade, her family and community have continued sharing her story and searching for answers.

Now the St. Clair family is waiting for news about Stephanie. Stephanie was last seen June 6 at her residence in the 800 block of Second Avenue in Moorhead. Authorities have indicated that they do not currently have reason to believe she is in danger and believe she may have left the area voluntarily. The Lost Girls Podcast emphasizes that Stephanie’s disappearance should not be sensationalized because her mother is also missing, nor should Sheila’s unresolved case become merely a footnote to the newer search.

This episode asks listeners to focus on the questions that have remained unanswered since 2015: Who was Sheila expecting to see on August 20? Who knew about her plans to travel? Was someone supposed to pick her up from the Cascade Apartments? Did anyone see her leave in a vehicle?

Nearly eleven years have passed, but information does not become meaningless simply because it is old. Someone may still remember a conversation, a vehicle, a person, or a seemingly insignificant detail that investigators have never heard.

If you have information about Stephanie St. Clair’s current whereabouts:

Contact the Red River Regional Dispatch Center at 701-451-7660.

If you have information concerning Sheila St. Clair’s 2015 disappearance:

Contact the Duluth Police Department Violent Crime Unit at 218-730-5050.

Two women from the same family. Two separate missing-person investigations. Both deserve to be treated responsibly, and neither deserves to be forgotten.

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Hosted by Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey

Because every girl deserves justice.

At first, everyone believed fourteen-year-old Jessie Kay Peters had simply run away.

But as the years passed, the evidence told a different story.

In this episode of The Lost Girls Podcast, hosts Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey examine the heartbreaking disappearance of Jessie Kay Peters, who vanished from her Glendora, California home on March 29, 1996. What began as a runaway investigation would later become linked to two convicted killers already serving death sentences for another young girl's murder.

Amy and LaDonna explore the timeline of Jessie's disappearance, the investigative missteps that delayed progress, the shocking connection to Michael Forrest Thornton and Janeen Marie Snyder, and why law enforcement now believes Jessie was one of their earliest victims—even though her body has never been found and no one has ever been charged in her case.

This episode is a powerful reminder of how quickly assumptions can derail a missing child's investigation and why every missing person deserves to be taken seriously from the very beginning.

If you have information about the disappearance of Jessie Kay Peters, please contact the Glendora Police Department at (626) 914-8250.

Every missing girl has a story. Every family deserves answers. Every case deserves to be remembered.

On the morning of February 14, 2000, nine-year-old Asha Degree disappeared from her family’s home near Shelby, North Carolina. Despite cold temperatures, heavy rain, darkness, and strong winds, several motorists reported seeing a young girl walking alone along North Carolina Highway 18 before sunrise.

Asha was known as a shy, responsible child who was close to her family, active in church, and involved in basketball. She had no known history of running away. Yet sometime after going to bed, she apparently packed a backpack and quietly left her home. Why she left—and whether she believed she was meeting someone she trusted—remains one of the central mysteries of the case.

In this episode of The Lost Girls Podcast, LaDonna Humphrey and Amy Smith examine the reported highway sightings, the personal items found near an equipment shed, and the discovery of Asha’s backpack more than a year later. The backpack had been wrapped in two plastic trash bags and buried approximately twenty-six miles from where Asha was last seen. Inside were belongings connected to Asha, as well as a New Kids on the Block T-shirt and a library copy of McElligot’s Pool that her family did not recognize.

LaDonna and Amy also discuss the significant developments that emerged in September 2024, when investigators executed search warrants at properties connected to members of the Dedmon family. Court documents indicated that authorities believed Asha had been the victim of a homicide and that her body had been concealed. Investigators also seized a green 1964 AMC Rambler while examining a possible connection to an older green vehicle previously sought in the case.

A search warrant is not proof of guilt, and no one has been convicted in connection with Asha’s disappearance. More than twenty-five years later, investigators continue working to determine why Asha left home, what happened after she walked away from the highway, and where she can be found.

Why did Asha leave her home during such dangerous weather? Was she expecting to meet someone? Did someone groom, manipulate, or lure her? What happened after she ran from the roadside into the wooded area? Who buried her backpack, and what is the significance of the unfamiliar book and T-shirt found inside?

Anyone with credible information about Asha Degree’s disappearance should contact the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office or the FBI. Information that once seemed insignificant—including memories of a vehicle, an overheard conversation, unusual behavior, or knowledge of the recovered items—could help investigators move the case forward.

Please do not contact people identified in court documents, interfere with the investigation, or circulate unverified accusations. Tips should be submitted directly to law enforcement.

Asha was not simply the subject of a mystery. She was a daughter, a sister, a student, and a child whose life and future mattered.

Because every girl deserves justice.

This episode discusses the disappearance and suspected homicide of a child.

In August 2001, 37-year-old Freida Louise Franks left Neosho, Missouri, for what was supposed to be a family camping trip with her 11-year-old daughter and Mark Terrell Walsh. She never returned.

As investigators pieced together the events surrounding her disappearance, they uncovered a heartbreaking story of abuse, courage, and a mother who they believe gave her life trying to protect her child from a sexual predator.

After the trip, Freida's daughter disclosed that she had been sexually abused by Walsh. He was later convicted on two counts of first-degree sodomy and sentenced to life in prison. Investigators believe Freida's disappearance is directly connected to those crimes.

According to law enforcement, Walsh later claimed he burned Freida's body over several days before scattering her remains in the Osage Creek area south of Green Forest, Arkansas. Despite extensive searches and years of investigation, Freida has never been found.

Nearly twenty-five years later, her family is still waiting for the answers they deserve.

In this episode, we examine:

• Freida's final known movements.
• The camping trip that ended in tragedy.
• The investigation into her disappearance.
• The abuse that changed the direction of the case.
• Why investigators believe Freida died protecting her daughter.
• The continuing search to bring her home.

Freida Louise Franks was more than a missing person. She was a mother, a daughter, and a woman whose courage may have cost her everything. Her story deserves to be remembered.

If you have information about the disappearance of Freida Louise Franks, please contact:

Newton County Sheriff's Office

📞 417-451-8333

or

Missouri State Highway Patrol Missing Persons Clearinghouse

📧 [email protected]

Please reference Case Number: 02000614.

You may also contact the Stone County Sheriff's Office at 417-357-6117 if you have information related to the original investigation.

If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with others. Every share helps keep Freida's name in the public eye, and every listener is another chance that someone with information will come forward.

Because every girl deserves justice.

The Lost Girls Podcast | The Disappearance of Trudy Leann Appleby | The 1996 Illinois Cold Case That May Finally See Justice

In this episode of The Lost Girls Podcast, hosts LaDonna Humphrey and Amy Smith examine the heartbreaking disappearance of Trudy Leann Appleby, an 11-year-old girl who vanished from Moline, Illinois, on August 21, 1996.

For nearly three decades, Trudy's family searched for answers while investigators pursued countless leads in one of Illinois' most haunting missing child cases. Although her remains have never been found, the investigation never stopped. Today, prosecutors have brought murder charges in a case that many believed might never reach a courtroom.

This episode carefully explores the known facts surrounding Trudy's disappearance, the early investigation, the witnesses who eventually came forward, the years-long focus on Campbells Island and the Mississippi River, and the recent criminal charges that have renewed hope for justice.

Because this remains an active criminal case, we also discuss the legal process and emphasize the importance of the presumption of innocence. The individual charged has pleaded not guilty, and the allegations will ultimately be decided in court.

Throughout this episode, we distinguish between documented investigative findings, witness statements, and allegations presented by prosecutors so listeners can better understand where the evidence stands today.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The disappearance of 11-year-old Trudy Leann Appleby from Moline, Illinois

• The last confirmed sighting on August 21, 1996

• Why investigators abandoned the runaway theory

• The significance of the silver or gray four-door vehicle

• The role of Campbells Island and the Mississippi River searches

• William "Ed" Smith and the investigation that unfolded over decades

• Witness statements that reshaped the case

• The forensic work that continued long after Trudy disappeared

• The 2025 indictment and murder charges

• The ongoing search for Trudy's remains

• Why families never stop searching for answers

Cases like Trudy's remind us that time does not erase the need for justice. Behind every missing child is a family waiting for answers, investigators refusing to give up, and a community that can still make a difference by remembering.

If you have information about the disappearance of Trudy Leann Appleby, please contact the Moline Police Department at 309-797-0401. Investigators continue to believe there are people who know more than they have shared.

If you believe in giving a voice to missing women and children, please help us by subscribing, sharing this episode, and leaving a review. Every share increases the chances that someone who knows something will hear Trudy's story.

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In July 1981, 20-year-old Audrey Chin left her family's home in East Norwich, New York, for what should have been a quick trip to the grocery store. She never returned. More than four decades later, her disappearance remains one of Long Island's enduring unsolved mysteries.

In this episode of The Lost Girls Podcast, Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey examine the life of a young woman whose future seemed full of promise. Audrey was working as a typist while attending night classes at the State University of New York's Agricultural and Technical College at Farmingdale. She hoped to transfer to Stony Brook University that fall to continue her education and pursue her dream of becoming a nurse. Friends and family described her as responsible, hardworking, and happy. Nothing suggested she intended to disappear.

After Audrey vanished, investigators located her tan 1976 Chevrolet Nova abandoned in the parking lot of a diner at Old Country Road and South Oyster Bay Road in Plainview. Several of the tires were flat, and investigators found cigarette ash inside the vehicle, despite Audrey being a non-smoker. The discovery only deepened the mystery.

Amy and LaDonna also explore one of the more unusual aspects of the case. The night before Audrey disappeared, she fainted in her family's bathroom, striking the back of her head. Although she was evaluated at a hospital and doctors found no serious injury, Audrey's mother later wondered whether the fall or a delayed medical complication could somehow have played a role in her disappearance. Investigators have never found evidence to support that theory, but it remains one of several unanswered questions surrounding the case.

The hosts discuss why Audrey's family never believed she left voluntarily. On the morning she disappeared, she scheduled a veterinary appointment for her kitten later that afternoon and left several hundred dollars in cash untouched in her room. She also left behind the life she had been carefully building, including her job, her education, her boyfriend, and her future plans.

More than 40 years later, Audrey Chin has never been found, and no one has been charged in connection with her disappearance. Amy and LaDonna examine the timeline, the evidence, and the lingering questions that continue to haunt investigators and Audrey's loved ones.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Audrey Chin, please contact the Nassau County Police Department at 516-573-8800.

Join Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey as they continue telling the stories of missing women and girls whose cases deserve renewed attention—because every girl deserves to be found, and every family deserves answers.