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






Vanished Into the Night: What happened to Mike Adams in 1987?
On June 8, 1987 Michael Jefferson Adams completed his shift at the M-System Food Store on 12th and Mockingbird Street in Abilene, Texas,...

"Walked away" in the middle of the night, never to return
Seven years before the birth of the most famous son of Sulpher, Louisiana, future Dallas Cowboy quarterback Dak Prescott, the small town...

Jonesboro police still seeking answer in January, 2020 shooting death of Donald C. Hubbard
On January 26 of this year, a 78-year-old Jonesboro man was found shot multiple times in the bedroom of the home he had owned for 30...

Gone Without a Trace: The Heather Teague abduction in Kentucky
In exactly one week, Heather Danyelle Teague will have been missing from Kentucky for a quarter of a century. Teague was sunbathing at...

Mississippi murder of Justin Tubbs still on radar of Harrison County officials
On April 9, 2007, 48 year old Justin Tubbs was reported missing by his family members in Saucier, Mississippi. Tubbs,, a devoted and...

Memphis double homicide from 2003 of cousins remains unsolved
Sherlena “Penny” Burgess (April 22, 1980 – Sept 14, 2003) and La Shonia “Shon” Yvette Austin (Nov 13, 1978 – Sept 19, 2003) were murdered...

Did Fort Campbell soldier go AWOL...or was she murdered by her husband?
Alice Jefferson, 21, was last seen in Fort Campbell, Kentucky sometime during 1974 and 1975. She was living on post with her two small...

Missouri family has been seeking lost daughter, sibling for over sixty-five years
Two-year-old Elizabeth Gill was last seen in the front yard of her home in the 300 block of South Lorimer Street in Cape Girardeau,...

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...

The forty year-old cold case from western Sequoyah County - Gary Wayne Williams
On December 13, 1980, Gary Wayne Williams--who had been working in western Oklahoma-- arrived back at his rural Sequoyah County home near...

Murder on the Arkansas-Missouri Border: Dana Stidham - July, 1989
On July 25, 1989, 18-year-old, Dana Stidham was last seen alive leaving the Phillips Food Center (now Harps in Town Center) in Bella...

Texas Rangers still trying to track down clues in 1985 murder of Mexia social worker
The Texas Department of Public Safety is seeking information and asking for the public’s help in solving the 1985 cold case homicide of...

Louisiana convenience store robbery, shooting claimed restaurant owner in 1989
At the time of her death in 1989, Juanita Jones, then 32, was working two jobs so she could save up enough money to focus on her...

Murder in West Memphis Part 6: The only logical conclusion leads to Terry Hobbs
After extensively researching the murders of Stevie Branch, Chris Byers, and Michael Moore, I have become more and more convinced that...

Loving mom missing since 2002 still sought by police and family members
Mary Elizabeth "Me Me" Loper was reported missing May 29, 2002 by her mother and sisters. She was last seen at her house in the 200...

Mid-afternoon kidnapping in 1989 case still on the radar of Chattanooga officials
Information taken from The Charley Project... Tonetta Carlisle was last seen walking home from City High School, where she was a...

Kentucky officials still seeking clues in stabbing death of 61-year-old Ledbetter woman
On July 17, 2006, officials with the Kentucky State Police received a complaint of a woman down at her residence on 173 McCollum Road in...

Corpus Delicti: No body found leads to less that satisfactory justice for "Angie"
Michelle Angela "Angie" Varnell was last seen at her residence in the vicinity of the 3900 block of Ozark View Road in Stover, Missouri...

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...






















