1.
Christmas Doe Just days before Christmas, on Dec. 18, 1988,
A logging truck driver stepped into the woods, near an isolated garbage dump in Ware County,
Georgia, to relieve himself.
When he became curious about an old television console laying nearby.
The man kicked it over and it broke open - revealing a black metal suitcase hidden inside.
Inside the metal suitcase was a duffle bag , When the logger opened the bag, he found
what he believed to be a small child's hand sticking out of the bag that had been filled
with concrete.
Upon furthur inspection, he found a decomposing body of a child.
He immediately notified the police.
An Albany Herald newspaper was also found near the body.
An autopsy was conducted on the girl's body, but no cause of death was determined because
of the decomposition of her body.
The little girl, believed to be 3 or 4 years old, had been dead for about two months.
Investigators also don't know if she might have been alive when sealed inside the suitcase.
The child was found wearing a white knit pullover shirt with a red pony on the front, pajama
bottoms and a diaper.
Her black hair was pulled back into a ponytail and her right ear was pierced.
A forensic sketch artist drew a composite of what the little girl might have looked
like based on skull features.
The little girl is African-American and was wearing yellow barrettes in her hair when
she was found.
Some speculated the child was Kimberly Janis Boyd, who disappeared from South Carolina
alongside her mother and her mother's friend.
Boyd was later excluded as a possible identity for the unidentified child.
A potential link to Albany, New York was discovered later in the investigation process.
Authorities worked with a local television station in 2009 to put together a news story
for the public, but were unsuccessful with finding any additional leads.
If you have any information related to this case, please call 1-800-843-5678.
2.
Valerie Graves During Christmas period of 2013, Valerie Graves,
a 55 year old mother and grandmother, originally from Scotland was house sitting for her friends
at a residence in Smugglers Lane, Bosham, West Sussex along with her family which included
her mother, sister and sister's husband.
The house was rather luxurious, worth an estimated £1.6 million and was located down a private
lane, by the sea.
During this period, several members of the family came and visited the Graves' there
over the holiday period to celebrate the occasion and also Valerie's birthday, which was on
Christmas Day.
On the evening of the 29th December 2013, Valerie excused herself at around 10 pm and
headed to her groundfloor bedroom at the rear of the home.
During the course of the night Valerie was brutally murdered with a hammer while she
slept.
Her family, who were residing upstairs, were completely unaware of the crime until they
discovered her body the next morning.
She had suffered severe head and facial injuries.
An autopsy later determined the crime likely occurred around midnight.
A patio door that led from Valerie's bedroom to the backyard was found unlocked.
Following the murder, Forensic teams searched the home and surrounding areas.
All of Valerie's relatives and the neighbours were thoroughly and repeatedly questioned.
A few days after the murder, a hammer was found by police at the entrance to the driveway
of Harts' Farm on Hoe Lane, some 600m from the murder scene.
Athough recent rain had washed away much of the evidence from the hammer, both Valerie's
DNA and partial DNA of an unknown male remained and it was confirmed to be the murder weapon.
A local man was arrested on 14 January 2014 and questioned about the murder, but was bailed
and released without further action.
In January 2015, Sussex Police began a voluntary mass DNA screening programme in Bosham, asking
men aged 17 and over, who lived or worked in the village, or visited the area at the
time of murder, to give samples.
To date over 3000 men have been eliminated and authorities haven't found a match to
the DNA profile in the National DNA Database.
Officers have interviewed more than 9,500 people in relation to the case but no one
has been charged with her murder and it remains unsolved.
3.
Mari Ann Fowler On Christmas Eve in 2002, Mari Ann Fowler
was on her way from Louisiana to Texas to visit her incarcerated husban, Jerry Fowler,
a former elections commissioner who was doing time in prison for bribery, when she stopped
at a Subway sandwich shop at a strip mall in Port Allen.
Shortly after purchasing some food, Mari Ann disappeared.
Investigators believed she was abducted from that location.
Mari's belongings were found scattered on the pavement shortly after she disappeared,
along with some of her acrylic fingernails which were possibly torn off in her struggle
with her abductor.
Robbery was probably not the motive for her kidnapping, as her car was found to contain
her purse, including wallet and cash, as well as the food she had bought and some wrapped
Christmas presents.
Investigators checked footage from a nearby surveillance camera.
Although it was hard to see anything at first, the FBI eventually enhanced the footage enough
to make out the image of Mari Ann being forced into a Chevy pickup truck before it sped out
of the strip mall parking lot.
At one point in the footage the abductor's face can even be seen, but there was no way
to enhance the image enough for a positive identification and he remains unidentified.
Jerry Fowler's lawyers after learning about Mari, tried to get him furloughed from prison
so he could help search for Mari, but they were unsuccessful.
Investigators don't believe Jerry's criminal activities have anything to do with Mari's
abduction.
He died in 2009.
Police have since speculated that Fowler may have been the victim of the infamous Baton
Rouge Serial Killer, Derrick Todd Lee, who was suspected of being behind the murders
of at least seven women in the region.
Lee owned a pickup truck similar to the one seen in the surveillance footage, and cell
phone records placed him nearby Mari on the day of the abduction.
Police attempted to link Lee and Mari with DNA and were unsuccessful, but many investigators
still believe Lee had something to do with Mari's disappearance.
Although it is highly suspected that she was abducted and possibly murdered, the man and
the pick up truck have never been located.
Neither Lee nor anyone else has been charged in her case.
She was declared legally dead in May 2004, seventeen months after she was last seen.
4.
Latricia white On December 17th, 1993, nine year-old Chance
Wackerhagen left his mother's home in Kingsville, Texas to his father's home in Lockhart.
He was going to spend the holidays with his father, Lee Wackerhagen, and his long-time
girlfriend, thirty-eight year old Latricia White.
Chance was supposed to return to his mother on Christmas Day, but called her to request
a few more days with his father.
On December 27, after not hearing from his daughter for a while, Latricia's father
decided to visit her home.
He was shocked to discover Latricia dead in her bed.
She had been shot six times with a .22-caliber weapon.
There was no sign of Chance or Lee nor were there signs of a struggle.
Investigators did find Chance's footprint in the blood at the crime scene, indicating
he was there either when the murder happened or shortly afterwards.
Authorities initially believed Lee had murdered White and fled with Chance; Lee reportedly
had a violent temper and was jealous and suspicious of White and the couple had frequent, fierce
arguments.
Despite his known temper, Lee had no previous run-ins with the law, and Chance's biological
mother even stated she doesn't believe he would be capable of hurting their son.
Nonetheless, A warrant was issued for Lee Wackerhagen's arrest.
However, there was still debate about whether lee took Chance and went on the run as a fugitive
or if they were both victims themselves.
Three days after Latricia was found, Lee's green 1986 Ford pickup truck was found abandoned
in a field in east Austin, Texas at 1:00 a.m., Thirty miles from the crime scene.
Inside the truck authorities found Lee's hunting rifle, which hadn't been fired.
They also found his checkbook, his wallet, a toolbox, a spare tire and some bloodstained
Christmas gifts, some of them unopened.
Surprisingly, the blood did not match Latricia White, lending credence to the possibility
that lee and Chance fell victim to an unknown party who subsequently disposed of their bodies.
The warrant remained avtive for 25 years, but there was no sign of either Lee or his
son.
In the spring of 2016, authorities reopened the case and announced they had evidence that
both Lee and Chance were victims of foul play.
The last lead in the case occurred four months after Lee and Chance disappeared, where Chance's
maternal grandfather got an anonymous phone call at his home.
The caller said "help me" and then the line went dead.
Chance's grandfather believed the call was from his grandson, but this hasn't been confirmed
and the call was never traced.
Tragically, Lee's father committed suicide in 1999, six years after the disappearances.
Whether or not this had to do with Lee's case is unknown.
No one knows if lee and Chance Wackerhagen were murdered that Christmas or if they're
still hiding out somewhere.
5.
Melissa Brannen
Melissa Brannen was born on April 13, 1984, to parents Michael and Tammy Brannen.
Amidst rumors of infidelity with neighborhood women, Michael and Tammy would go on to separate
and divorce.
After the divorce, Tammy and Melissa moved to an apartment complex located close to the
Fort Belvoir army installation in Lorton, Virginia.
On December 3, 1989, Melissa and Tammy went to a christmas party at the apartment complex
where they lived.
Approximately 80 People had gathered for the celebration.
At about 10:00 p.m., Melissa and her mother were getting ready to leave the party when
Melissa went back in for some more potato chips.
She was never seen again.
When she was not found, foul play was suspected.
A search began almost immediately, with over 300 volunteers participating.
The group scoured the surrounding areas for days but came empty handed.
After the initial investigation, Caleb Daniel Hughes quickly became a suspect.
He was a guest at the holiday party and he had worked as a groundskeeper at the apartments
for about 2 weeks before Melissa's disappearance.
According to a number of witnesses who were at the Christmas party, Hughes had shocked
neighbors with his inappropriate behavior.
He had made unwanted advances to several female guests.
Hughes had been seen sitting near Melissa when she was last seen and had left around
the same time that Melissa was discovered missing.
Hughes had a criminal record, however nothing violent or sexual.
Investigators searched for Hughes after the disappearance was reported, but did not find
him until 1:00 a.m. the next day.
He had already put his party clothing in the wash.
The police noticed that Hughes had sliced off part of the soles of his shoes, possibly
to remove blood evidence.
The police had found another disturbing piece of evidence in the washing machine, amongst
the clothes was a sheath designed to hold a large knife.
Although the police searched the rest of the home, the knife that the sheath held was not
found.
Moreover, Hughes' wife Carol reported he had returned home much later than normal that
night.
His vehicle had counted noticeably more miles than what it would usually have taken him
to return from the party.
Hughes claimed that the mileage was a result from a side trip he took to purchase a 6-pack
of beer and then taking a longer route home.
But the police officials remained unconvinced as he claimed to have gotten home around 12:30
AM, however, liquor stores in Virginia do not sell alcohol past midnight per state regulations.
The FBI even took blood, hair and fiber evidence from Hughes's maroon Honda and tested it in
a forensic laboratory.
It was found that Melissa could be the source of the hair and blood, but so could 40% of
the general population.
Further testing ruled out Melissa as a source for the stains.
However, rabbit hairs found in the car matched Melissa's rabbit-fur jacket and there were
many blue fibers that matched her sweater and some red fibers consistent with her skirt.
In 1991, Hughes was convicted abducting Melissa with intent to defile.
He was sentenced 50 years in prison.
He has maintained his innocent the whole time.
He is an inmate at Bland Correctional Center and his expected release date is October 2025.
Two other men were convicted of trying to extort ransom money from Melissa's mother
shortly after her disappearance.
These individuals were not connected to the abduction.
Melissa has never been located and foul play is suspected in her disappearance.
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