8 The Disappearance Of Kelly Dove
On the evening of June 18, 1982, 20-year-old Kelly Dove was working the graveyard shift
alone at the Imperial gas station in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Sometime during the night, Kelly vanished without a trace but not before she reported
some disturbing incidents of harassment to the police.
Shortly after midnight, Kelly called 911 to report that she was receiving obscene phone
calls.
She asked the police to check on her, but they never showed up.
Later, Kelly phoned the police again to report that she was being harassed by a male customer,
implying that he had indecently exposed himself to her.
At approximately 2:30 AM, a frightened Kelly called 911 for the third time to report another
obscene phone call.
She also claimed that the same customer had pulled into the parking lot in a silver Ford.
The police finally decided to check on her, but Kelly was gone when they arrived two minutes
later.
Her purse had been left behind, but there were no signs of any struggle or robbery.
The police received criticism for not going to the station until Kelly's third 911 call.
They also neglected to close the store or dust for fingerprints after her disappearance.
Kelly's family has always believed that a former high school acquaintance of hers
with a history of indecent exposure and obscene phone calls might be responsible for the disappearance.
But no evidence has ever tied him to the scene.
Kelly Dove remains missing after more than 30 years.
But perhaps the most tragic part of her story is that she had traded shifts with her sister
and wasn't even supposed to be working that night.
7 The Disappearance Of Susan Swedell At approximately 4:00 PM on January 19, 1988,
19-year-old Susan Swedell left her place of employment in Oak Park Heights, Minnesota,
and was driving to her home in Lake Elmo.
Susan was about 2 kilometers from her destination when she was forced to stop at a gas station
because her car was overheating.
According to the attendant on duty, Susan then climbed into another car at the station
that was driven by an unidentified man.
That was the last time anyone ever saw her.
As Susan disappeared on a cold, snowy day, it seemed strange that her car overheated.
However, an examination of her vehicle revealed that the petcock on her radiator had been
loosened.
One theory is that the unidentified man at the gas station had sabotaged Susan's car
earlier so that he could follow her from her workplace and offer her a ride once she had
car trouble.
The case took another strange turn when Susan's mother visited her apartment and found the
red pantsuit Susan had been wearing at work on her bed.
Did Susan or another individual visit the apartment at some point after she disappeared?
Sadly, after 27 years, there are still no answers about what happened to Susan Swedell.
6 The Disappearance Of Tangena Hussain
At approximately 9:00 PM on October 2, 2008, Jamrul Hussain visited a gas station in the
Hamtramck suburb of Detroit.
According to Jamrul, two-year-old Tangena Hussain was in his vehicle.
Even though they shared the same surname, Tangena was not Jamrul's child, but he was
dating Tangena's mother, Nilufa Begum.
Jamrul claimed that he left Tangena in the locked vehicle to purchase a few items at
the gas station's convenience store.
When he returned to his car a few minutes later, Tangena was gone.
Even though there were surveillance cameras at the station, Jamrul's car just happened
to be parked out of camera range, so there was no way to verify what happened to Tangena.
It wasn't long before suspicion started to fall upon Jamrul.
Instead of searching for Tangena or calling the police after the girl went missing, Jamrul
made the inexplicable decision to pick up Nilufa at her workplace.
He acted strangely when she asked where her daughter was.
Tangena's disappearance was not reported to the authorities until after Jamrul drove
Nilufa back to the gas station.
After the case received media coverage, the story took a bizarre turn when a 15-year-old
girl came forward to claim that Jamrul had kidnapped and raped her earlier that same
year.
An investigation revealed that Jamrul and the girl had likely been involved in a consensual
relationship.
The kidnapping charge was dropped, but Jamrul was charged with statutory rape.
In December 2009, he received a prison sentence of 18 months to 15 years.
Jamrul is still considered a person of interest in Tangena's disappearance, but the child
has never been found.
5 The Disappearance Of Cheryl Scherer In 1979, 19-year-old Cheryl Scherer was employed
as an attendant at the Rhodes Pump-Ur-Own service station in Scott City, Missouri.
Originally, she had worked the night shift, so her family was relieved when her shift
was changed to 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
But in a cruel twist of fate, Cheryl vanished in broad daylight.
At some point between 11:40 and 11:50 AM on April 17, Cheryl disappeared while working
at the service station.
Her vehicle and purse were left behind, but $480 was missing from the register.
So it seemed likely that she was abducted during a robbery.
The station was located next to a grocery store that was usually busy.
But in another strange twist of fate, the store was closed that day because the owner
was attending his mother's funeral.
On the surface, Cheryl's case seemed like the perfect crime.
But it was eventually linked to serial killers Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole.
After Lucas was arrested in the 1980s, he claimed that he and Toole had once abducted
and murdered a young woman near Scott City before disposing of her body.
Cheryl's disappearance was the only unsolved missing person case from the area during that
time period.
It was established that Lucas and Toole were in Scott City on the day Cheryl went missing.
However, after looking at her photograph, Lucas denied that she was the victim.
As Lucas and Toole are now deceased and both men were notorious for confessing to crimes
they didn't commit, the full truth about Cheryl Scherer's disappearance remains a
mystery.
4 The Disappearance Of Kelli Cox
On the morning of July 15, 1997, 20-year-old Kelli Cox went on a field trip to the Denton
Jail as part of her criminology class at the University of North Texas.
As she wasn't allowed to bring personal items into the jail, Kelli locked her purse
and car keys inside her parked vehicle.
She hid a spare key under the fender, planning to use that key to unlock the car after the
field trip ended.
However, when Kelli returned to her vehicle, her spare key didn't work.
She hoped to use the phone inside the jail to call for assistance, but they wouldn't
let her make a long-distance phone call.
Instead, she left to use a pay phone at a nearby Conoco gas station.
Kelli phoned her boyfriend, Lawrence Harris III, and asked him to bring her another spare
key.
Sometime around 12:30 PM, Lawrence arrived at the gas station.
Her vehicle was still parked in its original spot, but there was no sign of Kelli anywhere.
After Kelli was reported missing, the police suspected that Lawrence was involved.
He was forced to pass multiple polygraph tests before he was cleared of any involvement in
Kelli's disappearance.
Her family has always been critical of the investigation, believing that the police focused
too much energy on Lawrence.
According to the family, the timeline made it impossible for him to have abducted Kelli.
The police also failed to dust her car for fingerprints and may have missed crucial evidence.
Nearly two decades have passed, and Kelli Cox's baffling disappearance remains unsolved.
3 The Disappearance Of Andy 'Joe' Lepley On May 30, 1976, 18-year-old Andy "Joe"
Lepley showed up for work at a Texaco station in Colorado City at 6:30 AM.
Within the next half hour, he became a missing person.
When the station's owner showed up later that morning, Joe was nowhere to be found,
even though his pickup truck was still parked out front with the keys in the ignition.
However, approximately $100 was missing from a cashbox, and the microphone had been ripped
out of the station's citizens band radio.
It's been theorized that Joe entered the station while someone was committing a burglary.
Shortly before Joe's disappearance, waitresses spoke to an unidentified, middle-aged man
at a cafe connected to the service station.
The man asked what time the service station opened and claimed that he needed gas for
a trip to Wyoming.
This man drove a flashy Pontiac Grand Prix that was attached to an unusual plywood trailer
covered with a tarp.
He was spotted near the gas station after Joe arrived for work and was seen driving
away at around 7:00 AM.
No one knows if this man had any involvement in Joe's disappearance, but he was never
located.
Andy "Joe" Lepley remains a missing person.
2 The Disappearance Of Amy Sue Pagnac
On August 5, 1989, 13-year-old Amy Sue Pagnac left her home in Maple Grove, Minnesota, to
spend the day at the family farm in Isanti County with her stepfather, Marshall Midden.
At approximately 5:00 PM, Amy and Marshall were on their way home.
But even though they were only 3 kilometers from their residence, Marshall pulled over
at the Holiday gas station in Osseo to use the restroom.
According to Marshall, Amy stayed in the vehicle while he went inside.
When he returned, Amy had disappeared without a trace.
As Amy had a history of running away from home, authorities initially thought she'd
return.
But she never did.
Amy also had a history of seizures, so there was speculation that she might have suffered
a seizure, causing her to become disoriented and wander off while her stepfather was in
the restroom.
In May 2014, the case was back in the spotlight when authorities performed extensive searches
of both the Pagnac family's residence and farm.
Although police didn't disclose what compelled them to perform the search or what they were
looking for, nothing of interest was found.
Amy Sue Pagnac's strange disappearance remains unsolved.
1 The Disappearance Of Jessica Heeringa
On April 26, 2013, 25-year-old Jessica Heeringa was working the evening shift alone at the
ExxonMobil gas station in Norton Shores, Michigan.
The last confirmed sighting of her occurred at 10:55 PM when a female customer purchased
a lighter at the station.
Approximately 15 minutes later, another customer arrived and discovered that the station was
unattended.
Sometime during this brief window, Jessica had mysteriously disappeared.
All of her personal items were left behind, and there were no signs of any struggle or
robbery.
But there was a small drop of blood outside the rear door.
In a bizarre turn of events, one of the biggest leads came from the gas station's manager
and the manager's husband, who were traveling through the area on their motorcycles at around
11:00 PM.
They claimed to have seen a silver minivan parking near the gas station and noticed an
unidentified man opening and closing the van's rear door before driving away.
As the manager didn't see anything suspicious, she never went into the station to check on
Jessica.
Surveillance cameras from nearby businesses confirmed the existence of this van driving
through the area at that time.
One possible suspect is a convicted rapist named Brad Mason, who was living in a halfway
house only a few kilometers from the gas station.
He had no confirmed alibi on the night of Jessica's disappearance.
In February 2014, police showed up at Mason's apartment to arrest him for the abduction
and rape of another woman.
Mason responded by pulling out a toy gun and was shot dead in an apparent case of "suicide
by cop."
If Mason had any knowledge about the disappearance of Jessica Heeringa, he took that information
to his grave.
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