For three months in 1974, five young girls ranging from 8 to 12 were mysteriously abducted from Jacksonville, Florida. Investigators, then and now, are still trying to determine whether they are all connected.

In the summer of 1974, just a few weeks after Jeanie Schoen, 8, was abducted from a Jacksonville laundromat, Mylette Anderson, 11, and her sister Annette, 6, would vanish from their Jacksonville home in a 20-minute window.

A few weeks later, another young girl named Virginia is abducted on her way to the grocery store; this time there are witnesses and evidence. While investigators are searching for Virginia, another girl is taken on her way to the grocery store.

Rebecca went missing just a few weeks after Virginia, and her case quickly goes from a missing investigation to a homicide when Virginia's body is found.

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Alabama season 2 of the 50 State Cold Case Spotlight. In today's episode, I'll be featuring 5 Unsolved Cases that still need the public's help. Each of these cases needs more media and social media attention to generate the tips and leads to finally solve their cases!

Cases featured:

📍Christina Lynn Carter

In September 1973, Christiana Carter, 3, and her mother, Janet, disappeared from Hueytown, Alabama.

Janet was recently divorced from Christina's father and had planned a trip to the Great Smoky Mountains.

When they didn’t return as planned, they were reported missing.

There was no sign of the two until October 7th when Janet's remains were found bound and stuffed into a duffel bag 50 miles from Winston-Salem and Christina was nowhere to be found.

To this day, nobody has been arrested in Janet's death and we still don’t know what happened to Christina.

📍Ieasha Abrams

Ieasha Abrams 34 had gone through some struggles but had finally gotten her life on a solid track.

She was trying to do right by her three children when her remains were discovered behind her Birmingham Alabama apartment complex in October 2017.

Investigators told reporters in 2018 that they were close to cracking her case and that they had a solid suspect, they just needed the public to come forward with more information.

📍Sherry Ann Milton

There are two versions of what happened to Sherry Milton 26 in August of 2005 but what's clear is she was last seen at a gas station in Ensley Alabama.

Despite conflicting stories, investigators quickly determined two people of interest in her case, but there are still no official suspects at this point and her case remains unsolved.

📍Haleigh Breann Culwell and Kimberly Whitton

Kimberley Whitton 36 and her daughter Haleigh Culwell 11 were last seen in June of 2007.

Kimberley’s husband Barry told investigators that Kimberly and Haleigh left their home in a white Ford or van truck with Alabama license plates shortly after Kimberly got home from work.

He said he gave her $20,000 in cash and never saw the pair after that. He told investigators he believed they were headed to Montana.

What Kimberly likely didn’t know about her husband Barry and investigators would soon discover was that her husband, Haleigh’s stepfather, was the main suspect in his first wife’s murder.

His first wife, whom he also told investigators, just left him one day. Haleigh and Kimberly's case remains unsolved.

📍Tarasha Benjamin

Tarasha Benjamin 17 Family faced so much tragedy before she vanished in June of 2010.

Two of her siblings died in a house fire when they were just three and four years old and two years before Tarasha vanished her father vanished.

His remains were found behind a restaurant in Selma, Alabama, and to this day it’s reported that it is unclear what happened to him. Tarasha's sudden vanishing has left her family with even more heartache and unanswered questions.

This week in the 50 State Cold Case Spotlight Series we are in Connecticut. Here are all 4 cases featured this week in one video.

Cases featured:

Bob Hart a mechanic on his way home to see his wife for lunch, was gunned down by a hitchhiker who darts off into the woods. To this day, the hitchhiker has never been identified, and we still don’t know why he attacked Bob.

Margo Olsen 24 was murdered in a particularly cruel way. She was shot with arrows before being buried in a shallow grave. Investigators had a solid suspect but when he died in an attempted robbery weeks later they closed the case. But investigators may have been focusing on the wrong suspect.

Doreen Vincent’s father told investigators that he and his 12-year-old daughter got into an argument on a late evening in June of 1988 and that Doreen walked out the front door taking some of her belongings with her. Initially, her case was treated as a runaway, but as investigators began to take a deeper look, they realized that someone close to Doreen likely had something to do with her disappearance, and her father's story kept changing.

April Grisanti was last seen being forced into her ex-boyfriend's car. April had recently broken up with him and her family and friends state that her ex was extremely abusive. Her family is still searching for her and believes there are those in the community they know where her remains are.

Next week I will be covering Delaware!

📍Correction: in Margo’s video in the opening I say the wrong date it's 1976 not 1974.

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Danielle Bell was last seen in September 2001 at a party on the 500 block of Cedar Tree Lane and Highway 95A in Cantonment, Florida

Witnesses who attended that party with Danielle would tell investigators that they last saw Danielle leave the party with a man who was in his mid-20s at the time.

It wouldn’t be until six years later, in 2007, that Alfredo Gomez Sanchez Junior would be charged with providing law enforcement with false statements about his whereabouts on the day and time of Danielle’s disappearance.

Alfredo is currently serving time for lewd and lascivious acts against a minor, and one of those charges is for Danielle Bell specifically; however they have been able to charge him in her disappearance.

I sat down with Danielle’s big sister, Bonnie, to learn more about her sister and what’s happened so far with Danielle's investigation in the last 25 years.

Bonnie has made big strides pushing her sister’s case forward, and things are actively developing. To keep up with the most current updates in Danielle's case, please follow Bonnie’s TikTok linked below:

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I’ll be adding all the links to follow Bonnie on her socials, mainly TikTok, so you can all go show her some love and support and follow along her journey to get Danielle to her justice and bring her back home to Bonnie.

To make your voice heard and show support for Danielle and Bonnie, please sign the petition linked below:

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To follow Bonnie’s Instagram for Danielle, please follow the link below:

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To follow the Facebook run by Bonnie for her sister Danielle, please follow the link below:

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Bonnie’s YouTube channel, where she documents her fight for Danielle’s justice, is linked below:

https://youtube.com/@justiceforthemissing3690?si=897ditcq2tj0DnGM

As Bonnie stated in the interview, she is most active on TikTok, so please go over there and follow her for the most recent updates on Danielle‘s case.

Doreen Jane Vincent

Doreen Vincent, 15, was last seen at her father’s home in Wallingford, Connecticut, between 8 and 9 PM.

Her father, Mark, would later tell investigators that they had an argument that evening, and Doreen took some money and extra clothing and walked out the front door, never to return.

Doreen had recently moved with her father and stepmother to a new house just 10 days before she disappeared, and it was well known that Mark had a violent temper.

Dorren’s Stepmother was at church that night, leaving Doreen and Mark home alone.

His accounts of what happened the night Doreen went missing have been inconsistent, so inconsistent that even his wife, Sharon, didn’t believe his story about what happened that night.

Initially, investigators believed that Doreen ran away.

She clearly wasn’t happy there, and she had run away before, but as the days went on, it became clear to investigators and Doreen’s loved ones that someone close to her had something to do with her disappearance.

Investigators have a few solid suspects in her case, but no one has ever been charged in her disappearance, and her case remains unsolved.

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In April of 2022, Debahni, 18, spent the night partying with friends. When she was not home the next morning, her parents called the police to report her missing. While investigators began a massive search for Debahni, her mother received a haunting picture of Debahni standing on a highway. This photo was taken by the cab driver who picked her up from the party.

This eerie photo would go viral and would become the face of a movement in Mexico for women all across the country fighting against the rising out-of-control cases of femicide. What happened in the hours of Debahni’s disappearance and the discovery of her remains has been shrouded in mystery and mistrust,

Not only was Debahni’s family questioning the investigation, but the community and the women of Mexico demanded answers not just for Debahni but for all the women of Mexico being murdered and vanished at alarming rates.

In August of 1974, Tess Hilt 22 was brutally murdered in her off-campus apartment. Investigators had some solid suspects but not enough evidence to get a conviction. There were some unique details about the crime scene that may help the public identify the suspect.

On November 21st 1971, Kathy left home to go down to the local store to buy a few snacks and never came back. Her faithful German Shepard returned hours later, with her scratching frantically at the door. The next day, Kathy’s nude remains were found badly beaten. She had been rapped and dumped in the woods off a dirt road just three miles from her house. Her sisters have spent their lives fighting to bring Kathy justice. They have changed how New Hampshire handles cold cases, but Kathy's case remains unsolved despite a confession from a man the family knew.

In 1953, Cecil Wells was a wealthy businessman who was married to the picture-perfect bombshell blonde and was a huge investor in many Alaska businesses; he had it all. That all changed in October of 1953, when he was murdered in his bed, and his wife was severely beaten and left for dead. Cecil’s wife, Diane, survived her injuries, and initially, investigators believed it was a robbery gone wrong, but just a few days later, police began looking deeper into Diane and her rumored affair with a Jazz drummer. The case made national headlines, and public opinion became torn between Diane being a victim or an accessory to her husband's murder. The headlines caused real damage to Diane and their son, and to this day, the case remains unsolved.

Crystal Arensdorf was last seen in the early morning hours of July 4th, 2001, at Knicker’s Saloon in Dubuque, Iowa. Earlier that evening, Crystal watched the annual fireworks display by the river before heading over to Knicker’s with several friends.

Crystal was last seen around 2 am inside Knicker’s. According to witnesses, Crystal and the bartender had plans to share a cab to continue the night in East Dubuque, Illinois, across the river, but no one ever saw her leave the bar.

Crystal's family knew something was wrong when they hadn't heard from her the next day, which was completely out of character for her.

Crystal’s keys and purse were later found at Knicker’s, and all the patrons and staff were interviewed, and polygraphs were given to some suspects, but her case is still unsolved 25 years later.