Nearly half a century after skeletal remains turned up in the woods outside a North Carolina tire plant, state investigators used advanced DNA testing to put a name to the dead, a 15-year-old girl who ran away from home in Maryland and never came back. North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation announced this week that […] The post Skeletal remains found in North Carolina woods in 1977 identified as 15-year-old Maryland runaway appeared first on American Almanac .
Nearly half a century after skeletal remains turned up in the woods outside a North Carolina tire plant, state investigators used advanced DNA testing to put a name to the dead, a 15-year-old girl who ran away from home in Maryland and never came back. North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation announced this week that remains discovered on December 29, 1977, belong to Cindy Marcell Blizzard, a teenager from Monkton, Maryland, who left home in the spring of that year. The SBI is treating her death as a homicide. No arrests have been made, and the cause of death remains unknown. The remains, skeletal by the time they were found, lay in woods near a Firestone tire manufacturing plant in Wilson County, a rural area roughly 60 miles east…Open
A newly enhanced recording of the emergency call placed the night 18-year-old Nolan Wells disappeared on Horn Island, Mississippi, has revealed alarming background phrases, including what sounds like "Is he dead?", raising fresh doubts about the official account of his final hours. The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources released the original audio of a call […] The post Enhanced audio from Nolan Wells emergency call surfaces disturbing background phrases appeared first on American Almanac .
A newly enhanced recording of the emergency call placed the night 18-year-old Nolan Wells disappeared on Horn Island, Mississippi, has revealed alarming background phrases, including what sounds like "Is he dead?", raising fresh doubts about the official account of his final hours. The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources released the original audio of a call placed to the private towing company Sea Tow at approximately 4 p.m. on July 4, 2026. An unnamed teenager aboard a sinking boat near the west tip of Horn Island, a barrier island off Mississippi's Gulf Coast, can be heard telling the dispatcher that the vessel's bilge pump had failed. WLOX obtained the recording directly from MDMR and reported on its contents July 26. On the…Open
Fourteen-year-old Abby Hernandez disappeared while walking home from school in North Conway, New Hampshire. For nine agonizing months, her family searched and prayed, believing she might never come home. What no one knew was that Abby was being held captive inside a locked metal container in the woods by a stranger named Nathaniel Kibby. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield unravels the terrifying true story of Abby Hernandez, the teen who vanished in broad daylight, the desperate search that followed, and the shocking truth that finally came to light. Medical Guardian: https://www.medicalguardian.com/dds75 Get Protected Today — 75% Off With Code DDS75 or call 1-800-486-3080 Credits: Host- Ashleigh Banfield Executive…
Eva Yan, the mother of missing 15-year-old Thomas Medlin, joins NewsNation to discuss his disappearance. Medlin was last seen in downtown Manhattan the evening of Jan. 9. It is believed he went to meet a person he met on Roblox in the city. Anyone with information on Thomas’s whereabouts is asked to call 911 or the SCPD’s Fourth Squad Detectives at 631-854-8452. Anchor Elizabeth Vargas delivers the biggest stories, without bias or opinion. Watch "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" every weeknight at 7p/6C on NewsNation. #VargasReports NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
