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On July 4th, 2026 police announced they had made a second arrest in the April 28th, 1998 disappearance of 17 year old Donna Keogh. Keogh went missing from Middlesbrough, England and at the time investigators who looked into her disappearance strongly suspected she was likely murdered. Despite a 28 year long investigation to this day Keogh’s body has still not been found. The case was relooked into in both 2000 and 2002 after the cases of Vicky Glass and Rachel Wilson occurred and were being investigated.

The investigation had a huge update when on March 31st of 2026 a first arrest was made that of a 64 year old man from the Leeds area on suspicion of murder. They also announced a second arrest had been made in her disappearance this time a 62 year old Manchester man who was arrested on Friday the 3rd also on suspicion of murder. Investigators in this case have focused their investigation in the past few months on the Leeds area which Keogh had traveled to in 1998 prior to her disappearance.

In a recent interview following the arrest investigators have said they suspect her murder occurred shortly after she disappeared. The 62 year old suspect is currently being interviewed by officers while the investigation continues. They have also asked those with information in her disappearance to come forward and speak with officers.

Sources:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/bik8z6/the\_murder\_of\_3\_girls\_in\_middlesbroughuk\_donna/?solution=b22d0eda1eb2f988b22d0eda1eb2f988&js\_challenge=1&token=7afd7253fec22262ff1c52b1703fe9ece0643629d76b41f2639ad1abefa53cdd&jsc\_orig\_r=

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70yv87x8kqo

https://news.sky.com/story/man-arrested-over-suspected-murder-of-donna-keogh-17-whose-body-was-never-found-13526363

https://www.hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hits/teesside/news/second-man-arrested-in-connection-with-the-murder-of-donna-keogh

Hello everyone! As always, thank you for all your comments and votes under my last post about the Middlesex County John Doe- I hope that he will be identified soon.

Today I'd like to highlight a disappearance case.

BACKGROUND

Robert Alexander "Alex" Easterling was 30 when he went missing from Pickens, Mississippi, USA.

One article noted that he was a "young father", but no details were given about this part of his life.

DISAPPEARANCE

Alex was last seen on the 20th of April at 8:15 PM on Stockyard Road in Pickens. His mother, Ashley E Martin, had picked Alex from jail and then dropped him off at his acquaintance’s house at Alex's request. Alex's mother had a bad feeling about the place one they arrived, and later described it as a "chop shop".

Before he left, Alex asked his mother to text him when she comes home, so that he'd know that she returned safely. Ashley kept her promise and both called and texted Alex, but recieved no reply. When there was still no word back from Alex by the next morning, Ashley knew that something was wrong.

After Alex was reported missing, Ashley learned how to analyze phone data from a friend who was involved in law enforcement. According to that data, Alex was on his friend's porch, and then, minutes later, the phone appeared to stay in one spot. According to the interpretation of data from Alex's phone, he then ran off the back porch and "fell flat"- the next phone ping was sent at 12:23 AM, and it came from across the street from the friend's residence.

A search party with dogs was meant to search the friend's property, but the friend revoked his permission after he initially granted it. It doesn't seem like any physical clues were found during the search.

CONCLUSION

The info I'll give below comes from Alex's websleuths.com thread from a user claiming to be Ashley. This user has not been verified, so we can't be 100% sure that it is indeed Ashley, but I still found the details provided notable enough to include. Approach these with a grain of salt.

• Alex was in jail due to an outstanding warrant in Hinds County from 2020 for Grand Larceny. He was arrested on the 16th of February. His charge was reduced to a misdemeanor and Alex was released on Pretrial Intervention Program (PTI).
• Alex has struggled with substance abuse issues for a few years before he went missing. His larceny charge was a result of that.
• Ashley didn't know it at the time, but the house she dropped Alex at belonged to a known drug dealer. She said that the place looked "shady" and like "a junk yard with old cars everywhere, high wooden fencing, flood lights, etc".
• An officer went to the friend's house on the 22nd to talk to him about Alex's disappearance. The friend claimed that Alex did come by that evening and that the two talked on the porch. Alex allegedly asked the friend to give him some phone numbers, as he had a brand new phone with no new contacts. The friend allegedly went inside to grab his phone, and when he returned, Alex was gone. When Ashley's father went to talk with the friend a bit later on the 22nd, he said that he went inside to put on a t-shirt, and when he came back, Alex was gone. Even later on the 22nd, a deputy came by to the friend to talk about Alex- the friend claimed that he went in to grab a cigarette, and when he came back, Alex was gone. The friend gave three slightly different versions of the story overall. He hasn't been questioned by the police in an official capacity (at least by the 12th of July 2022, no idea if that has changed since).
• The area where Alex went missing at was looked through using drones and sniffer dogs at the 27th and 28th of April 2022. The friend had denied them access to the property at first, but then changed his mind. The dogs immediately hit Alex's scent and lead the handlers from the front gate straight to the front porch. The dogs then tried to lead the handlers to the back of the house, but the friend said that Alex "didn't go back there" and didn't want to let them through. A deputy was called during the search, but once he arrived at the property, he didn't even exit his car and didn't acknowledge Ashley, her husband, or her father, who were also at the scene.

The friend who owned the house that Alex was last seen at is considered a person of interest.

There is a $10,000 reward for any info in Alex's case.

Robert Alexander "Alex" Easterling was 30 when he went missing and would be 34 now. He is a white man, 5' 9" (69 Inch / 175 cm) and 160 lbs (73 kg). He has brown hair and hazel eyes. He has a large cross tattoo on his back. He wast last seen wearing a black t- shirt with a white Egyptian design on the front, blue jeans, and military style boots.

If you have any info about Alex's whereabouts, contact the Holmes County Sheriff's Department at (662) 834-1511 (case number 289622-HSO).

SOURCES:

1. wlbt.com
2. breezynews.com
3. wlbt.com
4. wjtv.com
5. NamUS.gov

Alex's websleuths.com thread

This photo was taken in Papua New Guinea and posted on Facebook about a week after a man buried his wife.

While looking through the photo, I noticed something unusual. On the man's left shoulder/neck area, there appears to be what looks like an adult hand with what seems to be red nail polish.

It could simply be his daughter's hand wrapped around his neck from behind, but the shape, texture, apparent size, and what looks like red-painted fingernails make it resemble an adult woman's hand to me.

I also noticed that the lighting and shadows seem consistent with the rest of the photo, so it didn't immediately strike me as an obvious editing artifact.

I'm not claiming this is paranormal or that it's proof of anything. I'm genuinely interested in hearing what others think. Is this just an optical illusion, perspective, the child's hand, or do you see something unusual as well?

Note: The image doesn't belong to me. It's going viral in my country.

*I have also reached out to the person pictured for his account, await his reply and will update this post accordingly.

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John Doe 41 off of the ECAP (Endangered Child Alert Program) with the FBI has been one of the cases that has plagued my mind as of recent. For those who don't know the FBI's ECAP is a list of child sex offenders who were found in videos or images of CSAM. Their photos are cropped and often very limited to hide the faces of the victims. One case that has been going since 2008 I believe finally got resolved (John Doe 5). and I believe there is a chance these people can be identified if it was more wide spread. Theres been a post about him here before but I was wondering if anyone new potentially had information about him? I tried reverse image searching him but not much came up. Is there anywhere I could potentially cross post this for better chances. I think all of the people on the list deserve to be arrested for these crimes, this is just one that has "captivated" me unfortunately.

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/ecap/unknown-individual---john-doe-41

Edit: I know the soap or face cream and mouthwash in the video have been identified, but they aren't local or regional and can't be pinned to a specific area.

I've been researching obscure historical cases for a while now, and every once in a while I stumble across something that refuses to leave my mind.

This is one of those stories.

It's about Augusta and Lenore Hartley, two sisters who lived in rural Texas. According to the records, they sealed themselves inside their farmhouse in December of 1938.

And then they never came back out.

Not for 43 years.

The part that first caught my attention wasn't even what happened inside the house—it was how the house was finally discovered.

In January of 1981, two state troopers were sent out to the property for what was supposed to be nothing more than a routine welfare check. A utility worker had noticed something strange: the farmhouse was still drawing electricity.

Month after month.

Year after year.

For more than four decades.

Even stranger, someone had been paying those utility bills the entire time through automatic payments from a bank account that had been opened back in 1937.

When the troopers arrived, they quickly realized something wasn't right.

The front door had been nailed shut from the inside.

Not just locked.

Nailed shut with dozens of nails.

Every window had been boarded from within, and the cellar entrance had been filled with concrete.

Whoever had done it clearly had no intention of leaving.

After finally forcing their way inside, the officers found Augusta and Lenore sitting quietly at the kitchen table.

Their hands were folded.

They appeared completely aware of what was happening.

Almost as if they had been expecting someone to arrive.

When one of the officers asked why they had never left the house, Augusta reportedly looked directly at him and answered with just one sentence.

"We were protecting all of you."

Out of everything I've read about this case, that's probably the line that stayed with me the most.

According to the information I found, the official report was 11 pages long before it was sealed by the county within just 72 hours.

Three historians later verified the Hartley family death records going all the way back to 1779.

Every recorded date matched.

Every death was confirmed against public records.

There are also reports that one of the responding troopers left law enforcement less than six months later.

The other, who reportedly hadn't attended church in over twenty years, suddenly began going three times a week.

Neither of them ever publicly spoke about what they saw inside that kitchen.

I've spent quite a bit of time trying to gather everything I could find on this case and put it together into one place because there are a lot of details that don't fit into a single Reddit post.

If you're interested, here's the full breakdown:

https://youtu.be/SGJsP_jwgWU

I'd really like to hear what other people think about this one. Whether you believe it's an overlooked historical case, a local legend that grew over time, or something else entirely, I'm curious to hear your perspective.

Located just south of Orlando, the town of St. Cloud was a quiet community with a small population in 1979, making the sudden violence that struck on the afternoon of June 21 all the more shocking. Norma, a 28-year-old wife of a local Nazarene minister Jim Page, was home alone with her young sons. Norma was from West Virginia, and was close with her sisters. She adored her two young sons, 4-year-old Adam and 2-year-old Steve.

Norma was known to be cautious and had installed extra locks on the inside of her doors to keep strangers out. Despite these precautions, a motorist recalled seeing a stranger follow Norma through her back door as she tried to close it in his face. It remains unknown why this witness seemingly did not report the scene to authorities.

The intruder overpowered her, forcing Norma and her boys into the family car to cash a $213 check at a local bank before returning to the church parsonage. Once back at the home, the attacker locked the children in a room before beginning his assault. Her four-year-old son later escaped to a neighbor's house, screaming that a man with a gun was hurting their mother, leading police to a horrific scene where Norma was found nude, bound to a bed, and stabbed over 30 times in what investigators described as a thrill killing.

The stranger vanished, and for thirty-one years, the case went cold. The initial investigation was deeply flawed. The St. Cloud Police Department had not investigated a murder in more than twenty years. The police chief left town the very next day for a statewide meeting, leaving an officer in charge who had never handled a homicide. The chief even resorted to consulting psychics from a local spiritualist camp for leads, and it took weeks before the department finally asked for help from the local sheriff's office and other neighboring agencies. Despite these early missteps, the department made one crucial decision that eventually paid off: they meticulously collected and properly preserved the biological evidence left behind by the killer.

In 2010, this decades-old evidence was analyzed using modern forensic capabilities, submitted to a national database, and yielded a definitive match. The killer was identified as Steve Bronson, an individual from a prominent local family, who had completely evaded suspicion in 1979. Bronson was a highly violent offender who had already spent over twenty years in some of the toughest prisons in Florida and California for various crimes, including kidnapping, rape, and an armed shootout with deputies. Steve apparently went by the name “Nancy Sue”. Their time incarcerated was marred by severe abuse, leading them to file a federal lawsuit alongside other inmates against the state. A magistrate sided with Bronson and the other plaintiffs who sued over corruption and sexual violence at Glades Correctional Institution. The magistrate recommended $30,000 in damages for Bronson, who stated that they were repeatedly raped and that for him, prison was "like a slave market.” Despite this history of victimization in the penal system, their own capacity for violence was undeniable. When confronted with the irrefutable DNA evidence in 2010, Bronson confessed to the 1979 murder, callously telling investigators they simply "went crazy" on the young mother.

However, the elation of an arrest quickly deteriorated into profound anguish for Norma's family. They had hoped to see the aging offender face trial, but that would not be the case. Bronson, now in his 60s, had suffered progressive, untreatable brain damage and paralysis from multiple strokes over the preceding decade. Over a series of agonizing court hearings, multiple medical experts testified that Bronson was legally incompetent to stand trial due to his severely deteriorated physical and mental state. Their defense attorneys requested the first-degree murder charge be dropped so they could be moved to a nursing home. In June 2012, following an appeals court ruling, a judge ordered Bronson's release from the county jail, and they were transferred to a nursing home in St. Petersburg, Florida. While public records do not readily confirm their exact date of death following this transfer, Norma's family was left with the agonizing reality that an innocent mother's killer would spend his final days living in comfort and receiving professional medical care instead of answering to a jury for death.

This case has not received substantial attention over the decades. Surprising this never caught the attention of a “48 Hours” or the like. This write up was sourced with archival newspaper articles. I hope that Norma’s family has found some relief in knowing the identity of her killer, even if they received little justice. RIP Norma Page.

20 years ago this December, six year old Kira and her mother Heather Radcliffe were murdered, and their house was set on fire. On the morning of December ninth, 2006, in Gainesville, FL, law enforcement were dispatched to a house fire. Inside were the bodies of Kira and Heather. As a child, I was told they died in a house fire and nobody knew who set it. This is not true. Investigators found they were both deceased before the fire was set, most likely an attempt to destroy evidence which, unfortunately, worked. Heather was found shot to death, and possibly sexually assaulted. Kira, most likely hearing the disturbance, was trying to call for help but misdialed, and the killer then strangled her before setting the house on fire. Their dog was also found deceased in their home. Investigators believe this was not a random attack, and the killer knew the victims. This is a person who sexually assaulted a woman and killed her and then killed a little girl trying to save her mother. They need to be caught. This case is very personal to me as my sibling was in the same class with Kira and considered her a good friend. As this December will be the 20 year anniversary with no answers and no justice, I am trying to spread the word about this case as much as I can. The more people know about a cold case, the more likely it is to be solved. And I never hear people talk about this one, it always flies under the radar. Someone out there has to know something. For more info on the case, the podcast “Last Seen Alive” has a more thorough look at the case. If you have any information about who killed Kira and Heather, please contact either the Gainesville police department or the FBI. Thank you

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/vicap/homicides-and-sexual-assaults/heather-and-kira-radcliffe-gainesville-florida

https://lastseenalivepodcast.com/2025/02/24/unsolved-double-homicide-heather-and-kira-radcliffe/