A 16-year old high school student from Washington is savagely raped and brutally murdered just yards away from her classmates. With dozens of potential eyewitnesses, and 2 boys who saw the suspect, it seemed like it was an open and shut case. But it would take investigators almost 3 decades before they had a potential…
Read MoreSubscribe to Forensic Tales podcast so you don’t miss an episode! On December 14, 1991, 16-year old Sarah Yarborough left her house to go to Federal Way High School in Federal Way, Washington. She was meeting the rest of her drill team to get on school buses to head to a competition. As Sarah’s classmates…
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A 34-year old wife and mother of 2 young children is kidnapped in Redding, California while out for a jog. Her cell phone and headphones are discovered less than a mile from her house, with a clump of her long blonde hair. Her disappearance was dubbed as the kidnapping of ‘Super Mom”. A beautiful woman simply…
Read MoreSubscribe to Forensic Tales podcast so you don’t miss an episode! Sherri Papini, 34-years old, and a wife and mother of two young children disappeared while out jogging in Redding, California on November 2, 2016. The day she disappeared, her husband, Keith Papini used the Find My iPhone feature to locate her cell phone. Her…
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On December 7, 1987, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, carrying 38 passengers and 5 crew members, departed from Los Angeles for what should have been a short flight to San Francisco. Moments after reaching the standard cruising altitude of 22,000 feet, the pilots inside the aircraft signaled distress, telling air traffic controllers that shots had…
Read MoreOn December 7, 1987, Pacific Southwest Airline Flight #1771 crashed into a California hillside in the county of San Luis Obispo killing all 43 people on board. But what happened before and what caused the crash is even more terrifying. Flight 1771 was a British Aerospace Bae 146-200, registered as N350PS. PHOTO SOURCE: Wikipedia One…
Read MoreSubscribe to Forensic Tales podcast so you don’t miss an episode! In June 2017, Yingying Zhang, a young scholar from China went missing from a bus stop near the University of Illinois. The entire encounter was caught on nearby surveillance cameras. Yingying Zhang was born on December 21, 1990 in China. She was the first…
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In June 2017, a young Chinese scholar, Yingying Zhang, was abducted in broad daylight while she waited at a bus stop near the University of Illinois campus. The entire encounter was caught on nearby surveillance cameras. With no body, could forensic science and good old fashioned detective work put a wannabe serial killer behind bars?
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In the summer of 1977, over 140 young girls attended Girl Scout Camp in the remote woods of Oklahoma. Lori Farmer, Michelle Guse, and Denise Milner were among the girls who attended camp that summer. On the morning of June 13,1977, only the second day of the 2-week long camp, the bodies of 3 young…
Read MoreSubscribe to Forensic Tales podcast so you don’t miss an episode! On June 12, 1977, nearly 140 young girls arrived at the Girl Scouts Headquarters in Tulsa, Oklahoma excited to attend a two week stay-away camp at Camp Scott. Camp Scott sits on over 400 acres and had been operated by the Girl Scouts since…
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