
Back Road Mysteries
Murder, mayhem and missing cold cases
Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Tennessee
Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas






Thirteen-year-old was beaten to death in Monroe at the 1985 Ark-La-Miss Fair
September 28, 1985 started off as a typical day in northern Louisiana. With the temperature ranging from 58 to 74 degrees throughout the...

Women left Mississippi for St. Louis in 1960 and has never been seen again
Lyrian Barry graduated from R. E. Hunt High School in the small town of Columbus, Mississippi in 1956 and was described as being “quiet”...

Young Tennessee girl has been missing for a year from her Hawkins County home
Thursday of this week marked the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of a five-year-old Tennessee girl who vanished from right...

Bluegrass Parkway disappearance in 2015 remains a puzzle for Kentucky law, FBI
Editors note: Compiled from several online sources. Thirty-five-year-old Crystal Rogers went missing from Bardstown, Kentucky on July 3,...

What happened to Missouri store clerk who went missing at the end of her 1991 shift
Was a Missouri woman who disappeared from a convenience store the victim of a serial killer or did she walk away from her happy family...

Seventeen year-old went missing in Russell, Kansas in 2008
It has been thirteen years since teenager Colton Ross Barrera went missing in the small town of Russell, Kansas on September 26, 2008....

Confusion after 1947 Woodward tornado led to missing status of four-year-old
On April 9, 1947, the small town of Woodward was cut off from the outside world as a result of a telephone operator strike. On that same...

Stuttgart teen has been missing since leaving home to run an errand in 2014
Fifteen-year-old Cassie Kay Compton returned home from an overnight stay at a friend's house on September 14, 2014 after attending a...

Still unsolved after 40-years, officials keep looking for the killer of Ruth Bettis
Ruth Elizabeth Bettis, a 19-year-old college student, was last seen alive November 24, 1982 at Sugar's, a popular gentleman's club on...

Estranged husband fled country for Brazil two days after wife's 2013 disappearance
On February 8, 2013 32-year-old went missing from Crystal Dupuis Grebinger out of the Lafayette, Louisiana area and she hasn't been heard...

Mississippi Mystery: Who killed the Vicksburg furniture heiress in 1995?
Sixty-two year-old Jacqueline Levitz was last seen on November 18, 1995, by a store clerk at a business in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She...

Knoxville "Money Man" was killed back in 2010 inside rental home he was renovating
James Junior “Jim” Hundley, better known as the "Money Man" had a big heart for his community and was known by many to lend a helping...

Simpson County Jane Doe remains an enigma since her body was discovered in 2001 in rural Kentucky
On October 9, 2001, a survey crew found the decomposed remains of a female a short distance off of Interstate 65 North about 12 miles...

A fifty-two year-old mystery still haunts the memory of West Alton, Missouri
Replaced in 1994 by a superstructure cable and steel monstrosity in 1994, then original Lewis and Clark bridge off of US Route 67 in...

Death in a Small Town: Who killed the Concordia, Kansas couple in October 1980?
Shaun Champlin was busy that Saturday night in October 1980. He’d been goose hunting earlier in the day and was getting ready to pick up...

Did 1998 pregnancy claim lead to death of Tulsa sixteen year-old?
Every June 6 in for the past several years, a memorial service and vigil has been held at the Family Fellowship Church in Berryhill. That...

Pine Bluff woman filed for order of protection but never made it to court on the day of her hearing
Katesia Marshae Weathers was last seen in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on May 22, 2007. At the time of her disappearance, she was seeking an...

Hallsville, Texas: Four went on a walk and one never returned in 1989
Kimberly Rachelle Norwood was last seen at approximately 5:15 p.m. in her hometown of Hallsville, Texas on May 20, 1989. She was...

Alexandria, Louisiana: Two bodies, one location...what's the connection?
On December 20, 2002 the decomposed bodies of Rebecca Ann Miller, 30, and Roderick Wayne Collins, 32, were found by a hunter in a wooded...






















