Every week, Heather & Scott will research and discuss a new episode of Unsolved Mysteries Season 3.

On July 12, 2015, outgoing 18-year-old volleyball star Tiffany Valiante was struck by a New Jersey Transit train. Less than a day later, authorities classified her death as a suicide. But Tiffany’s family — and some investigators — believe that she didn’t take her own life, but was instead a victim of foul play.

Orville Gibson rose from bed at his usual hour of 3:30 on the morning of December 31, 1957. The upper Vermont dairy farmer disappeared soon after.

Episode Links:

https://vsp.vermont.gov/unsolved/homicide/gibson

https://newengland.com/today/living/profiles/the-haunting-case-of-orville-gibson/

https://vermonthistory.org/orville-gibson

https://transom.org/2014/murder-memory-in-a-new-england-village-the-story-of-orville-gibson/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2985899/In-Vermont-blotting-old-stain-towns-reputation.html

A young couple was involved in a single vehicle rollover crash at 7 AM on a rural reservation in South Dakota, and then disappeared.

Sources for this episode include the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, the Associated Press, and the Sioux City Journal, with named reporting by Steve Young and Melanie Brandert.

If you have any information about the deaths of Arnold Archambeau and Ruby Bruguier, the case has been technically closed, but you can contact the Yankton Sioux Tribal Police at 605-487-7500, or the FBI.

Matthew Pendergrast was last seen leaving his residence in Memphis between 7:30 and 8:00 a.m. on December 1, 2000. He was scheduled to attend a Spanish class four blocks from his home that morning. He never arrived and has not been seen again.

Contact the Arkansas State Police 800-553-3820, or...

Lonoke County Sheriff's Department 501-676-6494, 501-843-2611

Between 1975 and 1995, at least 10 bodies were dumped in the woods around Morgan County, Indiana.

Among those cases which remain unsolved:

41-year-old Mai Warner's murder in 1988, and the abduction and murder of 23-year-old Loria Norris in 1989.

Sources for this episode include: The Martinsville Daily Reporter, The Franklin Daily Journal, and the Associated Press, among others.

15-year-old Debbie Grabher was murdered in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1992.

Contact Detective Cordon Parks with the Salt Lake City Police (801) 799-3000

53 year-old Paul Sass, a husband and father of two, was shot in his driveaway after returning home from work.

His murder remains unsolved more than 50 years later.

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Lakewood, NJ police are urging anyone with information to contact Lt. Gregory Staffordsmith at 732-363-0200 Ext. 5318, or at [email protected]

32-year old Irene Gakwa was last heard from in February.

The Gillette, Wyoming Police Department's investigation into her disappearance continues.

If you believe you may be an abusive relationship, there's free and confidential help available 24/7 through the National Domestic Violence Hotline. Learn more here: www.thehotline.org

A 35-year-old scientist and researcher was found shot dead inside his home.

Two separate investigations since seem to have led police in very different directions.

Reporting for this episode is from the Lima News, and the Hackensack, NJ Record, including reporting by Manuel Mendoza, Susan Durant, and Greg Sowinski.

Anyone with information about this case can contact the Shawnee Township Police Department at 419-227-1115. There is a reward for information leading to an arrest.

You can also submit a tip online to the Ohio Attorney General’s website: https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Files/Law-Enforcement/Investigator/Cold-Case/Homicides/Becci

In January 1990, the badly beaten body of a still-unidentified man was found by hunters in Davies County, KY.

Authorities have re-opened the investigation several times since, but the identity of the victim - and his killer(s) - remain unknown.

Anyone with information about this case should contact KSP Post 16 @ 270-826-3312 or email [email protected]; or call the Davies County Sheriff’s Department: 270-685-8444.

Find more information here:

https://transdoetaskforce.org/
http://kentuckystatepolice.org/portfolio/murder-unknown-white-male-2/

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