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






Woman wanted for Bossier City boyfriend murder has been on the lam for almost 22-years
In August of 1998, a woman calling herself "Deianna Ray" placed an ad in the personals sections of a Louisiana newspaper. Her description...

Did gambling debt lead to the execution of Carlos Armin Quesada-Martinez on a Galveston beach?
Galveston County, Texas Sheriff’s Office is actively investigating a homicide case involving Carlos Armin Quesada-Martinez (AKA Jesse...

Did a Mississippi teen stumble onto a drug transaction in rural Pearl River County in 1989?
On the afternoon of August 21, 1989, 17-year-old Norman Ladner left his family's country store in Pearl River County, Mississippi to go...

Tennessee woman missing two years before bone chilling fragment recovery in Chattanooga neighborhood
On February 2, 1993, a dog carried a human skull into its owners' yard at 2013 Greenwood Road in Chattanooga, Tennessee. . Approximately...

Married into the wrong family; The tragic life and death of Gravel Switch, Kentucky's Kara Rigdon
Kara Denora Rigdon was last seen on Beech Fork Road in Gravel Switch, Kentucky on July 17, 2010. The 27-year-old said she was meeting a...

Parking Lot Mystery: Who left the body of a 35-year-old Arkansas woman in a Springfield truck stop?
On July 13,1997, at approximately 8:29 a.m., patrol officers from the Springfield Police Department were dispatched to the Seven Gables...

Stabbed and dumped in broad daylight: Who killed Tammy Lynn Jarvis?
On May 26, 2001 27-year-old Tammy Lynne Jarvis was found murdered in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Jarvis was stabbed and then thrown from a...

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....

Abducted from a lonely stretch of Highway in Oklahoma in 1982, Shannon remains a little boy lost
Almost thirty-eight years later, and no one really knows what happened to one-year-old Shannon Ketron on June 17, 1982 According to the...

Despite conviction of murderer, body of Arkansas twelve-year-old has never been located
A Russellville, Arkansas teenager who was last seen on December 2, 1976 was one of three females who disappeared from the Fairview...

Abduction and death of 7-year-old Cortney Clayton in Stamford, Texas still haunts local residents
During the evening hours of Friday, September 2, 1988, 7-year old Cortney Clayton begged her father to let her go to the store in...

Louisiana Lovers: One dead and the other has been missing since November 25, 1956
Forty-six-year-old Thomas Hotard was a Louisiana native who was romantically seeing Audrey Moate, a thirty-one-year-old divorced mother...

FBI, local authorities still seeking answer in 2001 D’Iberville, Mississippi triple homicide
On October 5, 2011, officers with the D’Iberville Police Department discovered three bodies in a residence located on Seymour Avenue in...

Murder in Knoxville basement from 1991 still baffles local law enforcement officials
Fifty-year-old Pauline George was found dead in her West Knox County, Tennessee home on March 7, 1991. She had been stabbed to death....

Simpson County Jane Doe remains unidentified after October, 2001 discovery near SH 65
The saddest of all missing person cases are when a body is located and never identified and classified as a "Jane" or "John" Doe. On...

Missing St, Louis teenager ran away forever... 63 1/2 years go
In 1963, then 16-year-old Phyllis Marie Corbin was placed at the House of Good Shepard in St. Louis, Missouri. It was a shelter for...

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....

Who killed popular coach and teacher J.C. Dunn in Ardmore in 1963?
Nearly 47-years ago J.C. Dunn was found shot to death in his home on Campbell street in Ardmore. A former minor league baseball player,...

Arkansas Cold Case: The 32-year enigma in the death of Brandy Dean Hutchins
In November of 1988, a 14-year-old Clarksville girl, Brandy Hutchins, was found brutally murdered in an old abandoned house on...






















