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






Gone to Cincinatti...or just gone forever?
Kimberly Abercrombie was last seen in Brooksville, Kentucky on June 13, 2013. She left home, saying she'd return later. It's possible she...

McDonald County Mystery: Who is "Grace Doe" and who killed her in 1990?
Located in the southwestern most county in Missouri, Oscar Talley Road is a two-mile dirt drive through the rural farmlands of Anderson...

Fear of police may have caused Kansas woman her life in 2017
Kendra Leigh Nystrom was last seen in the 12000 block of West 29th Street in Maize, Kansas at 10:30 a.m. on May 4, 2017. She went to her...

Did war on illegal liquor lead to death of popular Mayes County District Attorney in 1952?
On the night of June 7, 1952, Henry Lawrence “Jack” Burris, who was the Mayes County District Attorney at the time, was murdered at his...

Springtime Arkansas Disappearance: What happened to Danijel Jasovic?
Danijel Jaskovic was a carpenter by trade who plied his craft in and around Garland County, Arkansas, specifically in the Hot Springs...

Marianne Wilkinson: No rhyme nor reason in Texas cold case from December 2007
\ December 9, 2007, was a night that shocked the small community of Richland Hills, Texas, a virtual "little town with a big city feel"...

Toddler went missing from porch of rural Louisiana home in May, 2001
On a humid Louisiana morning of May, 15 of 2001, a young mother called police because her two-year-old son had gone missing from her...

Is son right about his claims than father and husband murdered Mississippi nurse?
Kimberly Holcomb Watts, 48, was murdered in her Long Beach, Mississippi home on the evening of November 10, 2014. Kim’s co-workers at...

Thirty year-old mystery of University of Tennessee veterinary dean shooting remains unsolved
Dr. Hyram Kitchen, dean of the veterinary school at the University of Tennessee, was killed in 1990. Ambushed in his driveway at his home...

Lies, deceit...and murder? Did brothers and others conspire to conceal a homicide?
Crystal Maria Rogers was last seen in Bardstown, Kentucky on July 3, 2015. She has never been heard from again. Her maroon four-door 2007...

Missouri couple has been "missing" since they disappeared on back-to-back nights in February of 2001
Maureen Webb was last seen driving her black 1990 Ford Aerostar Van after leaving her home in Bolivar, Missouri on February 16, 2001. She...

Pre-meditated murder of single mom in rural Oklahoma remains a mystery
Forty-four-year-old Paula Ivey George was the mother of three sons. A Texas native, she had worked as a plant manager for a small company...

Driving home after visiting her boyfriend, Amanda Tusing was abducted and killed in June, 2000
Twenty-year-old Amanda Tusing vanished after leaving her boyfriend Matt Ervin's house in Jonesboro at around 11:30 pm on June 14, 2000....

The fishing trip of no return: What happened to William "Bill" Roland in Texas?
Harold William “Bill” Roland was last seen during a fishing trip to Powell Park on Lake Sam Rayburn, Texas on July 21, 1997. He was...

Gone without a trace from the Gulf Coast- Wilda Mae Benoit
In mid-summer of 1992, 14-year-old Wilda Mae Benoit of Creole, Louisiana suffered a shoulder injury and was released from a local...

Suspect boyfriend: "She got into the wrong car with the wrong person."
Twenty -seven year-old Kimberlee Sue Turner fit the textbook definition of a "pixie". Small, pert and whimsical, Turner stood 5"1" and...

New Year's Eve party was seemingly the last dance for Memphis eighteen year-old
Kristen Kryszak was last seen after a New Year's party in Memphis, Tennessee on January 1, 2001. She was with her boyfriend, Brent...

Who killed the Grinnell College coed and left her body beside a Missouri highway in 1992?
An Illinois girl bound for Iowa and found dead along a lonely stretch of a rural interstate in Missouri.... It was late August in 1992,...

Death in Topeka: The unsolved 1994 murder of Roxanne Zwiesler
Elegant. Vivacious. Charming. Those are just a few of the superlatives assigned to Roxanne Zwiesler by those that knew and loved her. A...






















