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






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...

Kansas septuagenarian couple has been listed as missing from Kansas since 2009
Billie Black and his wife, Mary, disappeared from Atchison, Kansas at 8:15 a.m. on September 11, 2009. They left their home in the 2400...

Almost 47-years ago, 20-year-old Dana Whisler died on the edge of Kansas City
On August 14, 1973 a 20-year-old woman woman was driving north on Antioch Road on the edge of Overland Park, a relatively quiet suburb...

Good Golly: Someone out there must know Salina, Kansas "Jane Doe" Miss Molly
The saddest of all cases for law enforcement are those involving the death of a child but maybe even more confounding for officers in a...

FBI offers $100,000 reward for information that solves sixteen year-old rural Kansas cold case
The FBI is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for the death of Alonzo...

Westwood, Kansas robbery turned into murder during grocery store heist in August 2003
On Friday, August 15, 2003, at approximately 6:00am, a man armed with a handgun attempted to rob the Apple Market Grocery store in...

Disappearance and death of fifteen year-old in Spring Hill, Kansas in 1996 still an active case
Back on December 7 in 1996, 15-year-old Tawnya Knight disappeared without a trace from Spring Hill, Kansas. Six months later her body...

Baxter Springs, Kansas: Killer of 1982 bride-of-nine-days has never been brought to justice
On May 11, 1992, the body of Jennifer D. Judd was found in her residence located at 219 North Park Avenue, in Baxter Springs, Kansas....

Kansas Bureau of Investigation offering $5000 reward for information in February, 2019 disappearance
On the evening of February 23, 1999, Star Boomer was patron of Uncle Mike's Bar at 49th and Metropolitan in Kansas City, Kansas....

Topeka Tragedy: Who took the life of the wealthy east coast socialite in June of 1962?
The world-famous and highly respected Menninger psychiatric hospital in Topeka was the kind of place in 1962 that would nowadays be...













