5 unsolved mysteries caught on camera 1.The feltonville kidnapping
Around 4:30 AM on June 13, 2012, a nine-year-old girl in Feltonville, which is a suburb of
Philadelphia, awoke to a naked man wearing a green mask touching her leg.
The man grabbed the girl, and she screamed.
Her father heard the scream but assumed that the girl, or one of her siblings who she shared
the room with, was just having a nightmare.
By the time he got up to investigate, he heard the front door close and discovered that the
girl was gone.
He called the police, and by 6:30 AM, the police and even the local media were at the
girl's house.
Miraculously, that is when the girl came running down the street screaming, "Daddy," and
she was reunited with her family on the front porch of her house.
She was taken to the hospital, where she told them that she had been sexually assaulted
in an alley near her house and then taken to a playground, where the man threatened
to kill her whole family if she told anyone about the assault.
He then let her go, and she found her way home.
The police only have two clues for the atrocious crime against the unidentified girl.
The first is surveillance footage from a pizza place at the end of the house's road.
Unfortunately, the camera was too far away to show specific details about the kidnapper,
but it did provide a few clues.
The man entered the house through an unlocked front door at 3:50 AM.
He stayed in the house for the next 40 minutes.
At some point, he entered the room that the girl shared with her sister and stepsister.
The man only fled with the girl after she screamed.
These actions have led the police to speculate that the man knew the family because he seemed
comfortable enough to spend that much time in the house, and he knew to target it.
Also, police think that he was wearing a mask to hide his identity, which means that the
girl or her family might have been able to recognize him had they seen his face.
Police were also able to get DNA evidence, and they tested it against men that the family
knew, but no match for the DNA has ever been found.
2.Brendan Vollmost Brendan Vollmost, 23, went missing after he
had his car smashed into, was chased, assaulted and then kidnapped by up to four men in South
Windsor, west of Sydney, on March 31.
Vollmost has not been seen since and police believe he was murdered and his body has never
been recovered.
Perhaps, The most chilling part of the case was a CCTV footage released by the police.
The horrifying CCTV footage may have captured the final, desperate moments of Vollmost's
life.
The footage shows the 23-year-old and two friends in a car, pulling into his driveway
at Cox Street, South Windsor, at about 10.30pm on March 31.
The car is still moving when Vollmost opens the door and jumps out.
He and the driver run from the car, leaving the third person inside the vehicle.
He frantically tries to scramble over the fence before it swings open and he and the
driver run into the yard.
At almost the same time, a white Hyundai i30 arrives.
Several men jump out of the car and race up the driveway, pursuing Vollmost into the yard.
Police believe Vollmost was bashed to death in his back shed while his girlfriend was
inside the house they shared, and that the men carried Vollmost out of the yard, bundled
him into their car and drove away.
Previous reports suggested the crime may be connected to drugs and Vollmost might have
been involved in a collision with the Hyundai just before he was abducted.
Blood found in the property's shed suggested he had been seriously injured before being
taken away.
Detectives are still searching for Vollmost's body and the Hyundai, but suspect the car
is still in the western suburbs because it hasn't been detected crossing any of the toll
points on the major highways out of the Hawkesbury.
Vollmost, who was on a two-year good behaviour bond for drug possession and driving offences,
was travelling with friends at the time his vehicle was struck.
Police are working with Vollmost's passengers to better understand why brendon was targeted.
The footage led to arrest of 4 men who based on evidence collected by the police have been
charged with bredon's murder.
Police have confirmed the four men, three aged 25 and one aged 33, are part of a group
calling themselves the "Blood Brothers", and the death was likely a result of drug
trafficking.
however, bredon's remains have never been found and the men refuse to give any information
about him.
Brendon and the car still remains missing.
3.Kayelyn Louder 30 year old Kayelyn Louder had led a relatively
normal life until September of 2014.
She had been a social worker at a boys school, but had recently been let go.
She lived in a Murray, Salt Lake City Utah condo with a friend and her beloved dog who
she scarcely left home without.
On the night of September 26 2014, Kayelyn began to act strangely.
She placed an anxious call to 911, claiming there was a fight outside her condo which
involved firearms.
Police arrived and found no fight…only a peaceful wedding reception next door.
The next day, Kayelyn called 911 once more.
She was convinced that someone had broken into her apartment.
She claimed she believed there was more than one intruder, as she had heard someone say
something akin to "check in there".
While on the phone, Kayelyn's friend had awoken and walked in, trying to calm her,
assuring her that their door was locked and there was no one in the house.
Kayelyn eventually calmed, but later that evening she walked out of her home into the
rain outside, barefoot and with none of her possessions, and was never seen alive again.
Over nine weeks later.
Kayelyn's body was found in the Jordan River, about six miles from her condo.
A coroner could not establish a definitive cause of death, and labeled in "undetermined
due to water exposure".
There are also two surveillance videos from Louder's condominium complex that capture
her.
One recorded her outside her condo at 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 27, apparently having an animated
conversation with herself, according to police.
but to me she just seems to be talking to her dog.
The second was at 5:45 p.m., showing her walking out of her residence barefoot and wearing
a tank top.
Police say that was the last known location of Louder.
She left her cellphone and keys behind, and her beloved family dog.
Investigators fear she may be delusional.
Family members say Louder does not have any diagnosed mental illness and they were unaware
of any medications she may have been taking.
Whether she simply walked away, was planning on meeting someone, got a ride or exactly
what happened to her is unknown.
Family members say Louder was "kind of a quirky cousin" who was very social in talking to
everyone, even her dog.
But she was also a homebody who loved to watch movies or play board games.
The day she went missing, the family believed she had plans to stay home and update her
resume.
Regardless, police did not believe that foul play was involved.
It seemed to most that Kayelyn had suffered a psychotic break that lead to her death.
However she had never shown signs of mental illness before, and how she had walked six
miles barefoot and wearing clothes obviously unfit for the weather, without being seen
remains unclear.
4.Emma Fillipof
Emma Fillipof had always been a free spirit.
The 26 year old had set off to live on her own in Victoria, Vancouver after becoming
depressed and stressed by her parents divorce.
She worked at a seaside restaurant and spent a lot of her time writing poetry.
But in the weeks leading up to her disappearance she began to struggle with her new life.
She journaled about her loneliness, and expressed unease that someone might be stalking her.
She had to stay at a women's shelter several times, and finally on November 26th 2012,
she called her mother and begged to come home.
Emma's mother made plans to fly out to Victoria to get her immediately.
On November 28th Emma went into a 7 Eleven and bought a pre-paid cell phone.
Surveillance video indicated that she seemed anxious to return outside, as if avoiding
someone.
She then tried to take a taxi to an airport, but was ejected after not having adequate
fare.
She returned to the women's shelter for a time, then went back to the 7 Eleven and
bought a pre-paid credit card.
She was last seen between the times of 7:30pm – 8:30pm in front of the Empress Hotel.
According to a witness, Dennis Quay (an acquaintance of Fillipoff, said Emma seemed confused.
He saw her at a zebra crossing, refusing to cross the street.
Quay asked her if she was feeling okay, and asked her if she was being followed, due to
her paranoid mannerisms.
Fillipoff said she was okay, so not knowing what to do; he entered a near-by restaurant
and made a phone call to the police, claiming there was a dazed and distressed woman pacing
in front of the Empress hotel.
He assumed the police would pick her up, however they didn't.
Police showed up and found her shoeless.
They questioned her for a total of 45 minutes, asking if she felt suicidal or homicidal.
She answered no to both questions and said she was going through some things, and was
taking a walk before going to stay with a friend.
Apparently convinced Emma was alright and having no reason to take her, they left her
at about 7:45pm.
That was the last time Emma was ever seen.
A CCTV footage that investigators found was a clip from a local YMCA five days before
Emma went missing.
In the clip, she walks in and out through the door six times, peering out through the
glass.
Her cellphone was never activated, and her credit card was found by an alcoholic man
who used it to buy cigarettes and could not remember where he had found it.
The rest of Emma's possessions were found locked in her van, indicating she did not
run away.
Her mother arrived in Victoria just three hours after Emma had last been seen.
Though a search began and a reward was offered, nothing could be found of Emma.
In May of 2014 a man walked into a Gastown Vancouver convenience store and ripped a poster
of Emma off the wall, crumpling it.
When the concerned employees questioned him, the 'creepy' man reportedly said "It's
one of those missing persons posters, except she's not missing, she's my girlfriend
and she ran away 'cause she hates her parents."
The man was caught on CCTV and police were called, but he has yet to be identified, and
it is unknown if he actually knows Emma.
5.Yukari Yokoyama One of the more infamous cases from japan
was the Yukari Yokoyama Missing Persons Incident of 1996 (横山ゆかりちゃん行方不明事件
in Japanese).
Yukari was a 4-year-old girl whose parents Yasuo and Mitsuko took her and her baby sister
to a pachinko parlor on July 7, 1996 in Gunma Prefecture's Ota City.
Pachinko is a pinball-like arcade game that's been popular in Japan since the early 1950s.
Like pinball, you try to shoot little balls into one of the holes in the machine.
You win every ball that lands in a hole, and you can exchange these balls for prizes.
While the Yokoyamas split up, with Mitsuko taking their baby daughter and Yasuo going
off to play at a machine in a different row, Yukari was left free to roam around and play
in the parlor.
Around noon-time, Mitsuko bought some lunch and took the kids outside to the car to eat.
Yukari wasn't very hungry during the time, but decided that she wanted to eat some more
after her mother started to play pachinko again.
Mitsuko then sent her daughter off with a snack to eat on a near-by couch where she
could keep an eye on her.
Sometime after 1:40 PM, Yukari came back to her mother and said something about an "uncle".
Mitsuko couldn't hear very well over the sounds of the pachinko machines though, and
Yukari went back over to the couch unheard.
10 minutes later, Mitsuko looked up from her game and noticed that Yukari wasn't sitting
on the couch anymore.
When she got up to check where Yukari was sitting, she found the girl's juice and
a half-eaten onigiri (rice ball).
Mitsuko then told her husband that Yukari was gone.
After searching the parlor's parking lot, the Yokoyamas reported Yukari missing to a
near-by police station around 2:10 PM.
While the police searched the area over the next two days, interviewing customers and
other people who were in the parlor that day, one witness reported seeing a little girl
around Yukari's age getting into a white car around the time of her disappearance.
There were other people who remembered seeing Yukari in the parlor, but nobody paid any
attention to her, and nobody could say whether they saw anybody particularly suspicious either.
A big breakthrough in the case came when the authorities reviewed footage from the parlor's
security cameras.
At 1:27 PM, a man about 5 feet, 2 inches (158 cm) came into the parlor and went into a bathroom
located in the back of the building.
The man, whose most distinguishing features were some sunglasses, sandals, and a hat,
came out three minutes later and then began to wander the parlor.
At 1:33, while Yukari was sitting on the couch, the man came over and sat next to her.
He smoked and talked to Yukari, pointing his finger to the entrance a few times until he
got up and left the building at 1:42.
Yukari then went over to her mother and mentioned something about "uncle".
After her mother paid her no attention, Yukari walked over to the entrance and left the building,
after which the security cameras lost sight of her.
Although the surveillance footage from the parlor was widely shown in the media, and
the shady man's image was included on flyers, Yukari's abductor has never been identified.
Some believe the man might have been a prior customer, or was at least familiar with the
parlor's lay-out.
As of May 2017, this case has remained completely cold.
If Yukari Yokoyama is still alive today, she would be around 22 or 23.
Không có nhận xét nào:
Đăng nhận xét