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It was a lively night in Paderborn on June 20, 2006, as people filled the bars of the west German city to watch the World Cup game between England and Sweden. One of these people was Frauke Liebs, a 21-year-old student nurse, who was at an Irish pub with some friends to watch the match. While she was there her phone ran out of battery, so she borrowed a friends which she returned to her at the end of the night.

It was around 11pm when she left to take the short 1.5km journey to her apartment. Yet it was almost 2 hours later when her flatmate Chris received a text from Frauke, letting him know that she would be back later. Frauke never returned home, and after missing work the following day, her mother reported her missing.

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caseremains · 5 years

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caseremains · 5 years

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Southall is a busy suburb of West London, colloquially known as ‘Little India’ because of its high population of Asians. Despite the name, it is a diverse area with people from many backgrounds ranging far and wide. It’s a bustling part of town, with streets bustling with activity. And on a February evening in 1990, it’s where 5-month-old Ames Glover disappeared.

It was around 6pm, and Ames had been left in the locked car of his father, Paul, who had parked up his blue Ford Sierra in South Road so that he could go and get some cash and pick up a takeaway. When he returned to the car twenty minutes later - Ames was nowhere to be seen.

Paul had separated from Ames’s mother, Shanika, and both parents were questioned in relation to the disappearance. When no witnesses came forward saying that they had seen Ames in the car or being kidnapped, suspicion naturally fell on Paul, particularly as his car was parked in a busy junction which was usually packed with traffic and pedestrians at that time of the evening. Not only that, but Paul had been due to return Ames to Shanika earlier, but she had reluctantly agreed for him to bring him home later. Despite his claims that the car was locked, there was no evidence or damage to suggest that it had been broken in to.

Paul was arrested and the garden of his hostel dug up for clues, but ultimately he was released without charge, and police could find no evidence to implicate either him or Shanika. Shortly after Ames went missing, the media revealed that the baby had been on the council's 'at risk' register until the morning of the crime.

In the months following Ames's disappearance, Shanika suffered a miscarriage and attempted suicide twice. She and Paul moved back in together, but their reunion wasn't to last, and eventually they split up for good.

During that time, police interviewed thousands of people and took hundreds of witness statements, but couldn't come up with any solid leads. Following a tip-off, they even travelled to Paul's native Ghana, but found no trace of the missing boy. The case disappeared from the pages of the newspapers, drawing criticism from the local community. Perhaps Ames might still be being talked about, they said, if he was white.

It wasn't until Ames's 14th birthday that his name made its way into the public eye once more, when the case was reopened by Scotland Yard. Police appealed for fresh information and offered a monetary reward of £10,000. Paul, who was believed to be living in North London at the time, was not a part of the appeal, and sadly no new leads could be established.

Shanika went on to remarry and had two more children, although almost three decades later, the void left by baby Ames is one that still lingers. With just a few photos to remember him by, she holds onto hope that maybe one day she might know what became of her son.

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caseremains · 5 years

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Patti Krieger was 65-years-old when she vanished from the Sauk Mountain Trail in 2010. While disappearances of lone hikers are sadly not uncommon, Patti wasn't alone. In fact, she was with six other people as well as her faithful Rottweiler, Bear. They all made it off of that mountain. Patti, meanwhile, is still nowhere to be found.

Among the other people in the group were Patti’s boyfriend, 42-year-old Larry Pressley, a relative of his, Troy Robinson, Robinson’s girlfriend, Nichole Gardner, and three other relatives of Larry. They had headed to the mountain that day to scatter the ashes of Larry’s parents, but after the ceremony, they said Patti had separated herself from the group, going down a different trail along with Bear. They said that they had called out to her to ask her where she was going, but that for whatever reason, she didn’t respond. Assuming the trails would join together again at some point, the group carried on without her. It was four hours later when Larry reported Patti missing, after stopping off for some burritos and beer.

It wasn’t until Patti didn’t turn up for work the next day, however, that any of her family realised something was wrong. Her co-workers got in touch with her son, who went over to his mother’s house to find out where she was. It was then that he discovered Patti and her dog had disappeared the night before, although strangely, the hiking group were in possession of her phone, car keys and ID.

A search of Sauk Mountain was launched by police that included the use of a helicopter and infrared cameras, but they didn’t turn up any clues. Patti’s son, co-workers and friends continued to search by foot, although the sheriff believed that she was no longer on the mountain - dogs had tracked her scent down to the car park at the bottom of the trail. Twenty-six days after their search began, Bear was discovered wandering a nearby mountain road. But there was still no sign of Patti.

Larry and his friends had been living at Patti’s house, and her family soon heard sightings of Larry driving around in her luxury cars. They went over to the residence, but Larry wouldn’t let them in, so they eventually got a court order to gain access to her home. Once inside, they found it trashed; beers cans everywhere, her safe emptied.

Naturally, suspicions began to turn towards Larry. Prior to meeting him, Patti had been married to a successful real estate investor, Jason Graham, who passed away in 2006. Jason was an associate of Larry’s, who got wind of his passing while he was serving time in prison. Upon his release he got in touch with Patti, and said that Jason had asked him to take care of her should anything ever happen.

Patti soon fell for his charms, although their happy union didn't last long. She told co-workers about his short temper, and of finding a gun as well as a stash of marijuana hidden behind a wall in her home. She also told friends that the pair didn't have a physical relationship because Larry was impotent, although it later transpired he was sleeping with several other women, and even ended up getting one pregnant.

Less than one year after Patti vanished, Larry married Dawnica Mejia-Lard. Police came to search their house after Larry was arrested for assaulting a police officer, where they found drugs and a number of stolen weapons, including one that belonged to a homicide victim. It wasn't Larry's first time in trouble with the law. He had more than 30 previous convictions. Nevertheless, Larry plead guilty to his charge and was sentenced to three years in prison, while Dawnica, his new wife, took the rap for the other charges. She was sentenced to twelve years.

Dawnica handed over her power of attorney to a friend, who went over to the couple's house to go through her belongings. While she was over there, she found a backpack in the attach - the same one that Larry had used during the hike. It appeared to be covered in blood. Patti's son turned the backpack over to police, but it is unclear if any further evidence was found.

Patti was physically fit and training for a marathon at the time of her disappearance, but she was not an experienced hiker and was not dressed for cold weather. She has been neither seen nor heard from since the day of the hike on October 2, 2010, and has been legally declared dead. Though it is almost a decade since Patti disappeared, her friends and family hold out hope for that one missing piece that may finally solve the puzzle. They still want some answers. But more than that, they want to bring her home.

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caseremains · 5 years

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Lamont Stephenson was detained on March 7 after Maryland police received a call about a suspicious rental company truck.

After being confronted by police, he admitted to being wanted for murder and was promptly arrested.

Stephenson is also the suspect in the murder of 40-year-old Natina Kiah, who was found stabbed to death in her Washington home alongside her pet cat just one week prior to Stephenson’s arrest.

Lamont Stephenson is the latest addition to the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list after allegedly murdering his fiance Olga DeJesus and her dog Lola.

On October 17, 2014, Stephenson strangled Olga and Lola in their New Jersey home before calmly calling a taxi and heading to Penn Station, where he was captured on CCTV footage. He has been neither seen nor heard from since.

Stephenson had met DeJesus, a mother of 2, as a child, and the pair had become an item following a high school reunion several months prior to the murder.

Stephenson has no criminal history and, as a result, police do not even have his fingerprints on file. He has ties to Virgnia, North Carolina and South Carolina, and has a history of working with cars.

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caseremains · 5 years

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Christopher Temple was 17-years-old when he stepped away from a group of friends on April 22, 1990, and seemingly vanished into the night.

April 22 is Earth Day, an annual event to support the protection of the environment, and Chris and his friends had a few celebrations to attend. First, they went to the Earth Day festival at Riverfront Park, before he and three friends headed to the Rose Lake Recreation Area with plans to camp there for the night.

Although it’s not clear as to why, Christopher walked away from the group at around 9 pm. When he hadn’t returned four hours later, his friends called his parents, who reported him missing at 1 am. Police arrived at the recreation area and began to search with dogs and a helicopter from 3 am that same night. But after scouring up to two square miles of land, Christopher was nowhere to be found. The authorities deemed him a runaway, and decided to put an end to the search pending any new evidence to the contrary.

According to his parents, John and Ronnie, to run away would be extremely out of character. Christopher had no major problems that they knew of, and was a bright student just two weeks from graduation. Christopher had been driven to the recreation area by one of his friends, and didn’t even have a driving licence of his own.

John told a local paper that Christopher knew that he could always give him a call, and that he had come to pick him up in the early hours of the morning on more than one occasion. He described Christopher as generous and soft-spoken, and probably a little too trusting at times. Christopher’s teacher, Marilyn Newman, agreed, even describing him as ‘an easy victim’.

Speaking to the Lansing State Journal, she said: “He’s slight and quiet, the kind of person who walks with his head down."

But there was another side to Christopher. Like a lot of teenage boys, he regularly smoked marijuana, but also sold a little on the side. Some say that he had a history of shorting his clients, and believe that it may have got him into trouble. Old acquaintances have also expressed surprise at his whereabouts that evening. There were other, bigger parties going on that night, some that Christopher had personally been invited to. The remote area that he and his friends went to wasn’t often visited by anyone from his school.

When no clues had turned up four days later, a second aerial search was launched while Christopher’s friends scoured the campground by foot. The next day, police returned on horseback and also searched a nearby lake. But still, they found nothing. John and Tonnie hired a private investigator and proffered a $1000 reward, which was soon raised to $2500, hoping that it might prompt someone to come forward. Desperate for answers, they even turned a psychic on the request of one of Christopher’s friends.

A year and a half after Christopher vanished, two hunters uncovered one of his shoes in a boggy area, around 300 yards from where Christopher was last seen. According to locals, the area is full of marshland, even likened to quicksand by some.

Detective Howard Woolridge, who was working on the case, said: “If you step through this stuff you can go right down to your armpits in a heartbeat. It’s nothing to fool around with. It’s life-threatening”.

The other shoe was found just a few weeks later. But that wasn’t the only discovery - just 100 yards away from the second shoe were handfuls of long, strawberry blond hair, enough to fill two 8 x 10 envelopes. Though the hair did not belong to Christopher, it did leave police wondering.

As the years turned into decades, with no further clues, the investigation into Christopher’s disappearance all but dried up. In a letter to a local paper in 2015, Christopher’s parents expressed their disappointment over the lack of police and press attention in the case. “We hope you will remember”, they wrote. “We always will”.

Sadly, John would never get the answers that he and his family so desperately needed. In August of last year, John passed away at the age of 72, never knowing what became of his son.

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caseremains · 5 years

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It was March 24, 1976, when a fisherman made a horrifying discovery along the Harpeth River in Tennessee. Lying face down in shallow water was the body of a teenage girl. She had been dead for less than 24 hours.

The girl's body had washed up against a branch in a rural part of the river near McCrory Creek Road, flanked by tall trees and dense bushes. She was aged between 14 and 18, dressed in a white bra and a pair of jeans, and wearing a rawhide bracelet and a beaded dove necklace. It is uncertain whether the blue blouse found in the water the next day once belonged to her.

An autopsy determined that the girl had drowned, but it was unclear if this had happened accidentally or if she had been murdered. There was bruising on her legs and chest that suggested she could potentially have been held underwater. Tests determined that she had been sexually active only days before, but again it was not clear if this was the result of an assault.

Tucked into the girl's back pocket was a photograph of a young blond boy, with a phone number and the name 'Little Charley' written on the back