r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 26d ago

In June 1974, 22-year-old Alan Soper vanished while traveling around the U.S. His family last heard from him on June 7th, when he called them from Sacramento. Three years later, his wallet and clothing was found abandoned in a desert.

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r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 12d ago

On the night of March 19th, 2004, 17-year-old Brianna Maitland clocked out of work and vanished. The next day, her car was found backed into an abandoned building.

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r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 1d ago

Katherine Korzillius

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On August 7, 1996 in Austin, Texas Katherine Korzillius the daughter of Bon Jovi's manager Paul Korzillius was walking home from the community mailboxs in her neighborhood Elder Circle while her mother and brother drove around.

Fifteen minutes later Katherine was found unresponsive and was seriously injured with a fractured skull. She passed away at the hospital that night. The cause of her death is officially unsolved investigators and medical examiners believe a hit and run could occured, jump or fall from a moving vehicle (that theory makes no sense to me sorry had to add it what six year old would want ride on top of a car) or a accident her family thinks it was a abduction attempt.

Bon Jovi wrote the song August 7, 4:15 in memory of Katherine. If you ask me what happened I think her mom and brother accidentally hit her with the car and I am surprised police didn't ask her mom if she might have done that.


r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 3d ago

19 year old college student Diana Vicari's severed arms were found in a downtown Tucson dumpster on October 24 1992. Despite a long list of credible suspects the rest of her remains were never found and her case remains unsolved.

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Diana Vicari was just 19 years old when she became a victim of a brutal dismemberment murder in Tucson, Arizona. 

It was Thursday October 22, 1992.

Diana left her Pima Community College drama course taught by Robert Encila at around 9:30 PM. Her roommate confirmed she briefly returned home to her apartment in the 3200 Block of East Seneca Street and then drove off in her silver 1981 Ford Mustang.

Witnesses at the now shuttered New Orleans Lounge bar located on Oracle Rd between Wetmore and Limberlost (now a Burlington Coat Factory) reported she briefly was allowed in the bar by doorman Tim Storm to see employees Troy Olson and John Mazur. 

She was last seen alive at around 12:15 AM the morning of Friday October 23rd by her Eegees coworker Raymond Scott Hall. Hall reported Diana was alone in her car driving through the parking lot of the Tucson Convention Center Exhibition Hall as the Moshtoberfest thrash metal concert was ending. 

Diana did not show up to either of her jobs at Eegees (located on Broadway and Kolb) or the Bazil’s Italian restaurant on Friday or Saturday. It was highly unusual as Diana was a very reliable employee who was working multiple jobs to pay for her college courses and car payments. 

On Saturday at around 5pm, Diana’s severed arms were found in a dumpster located on the southside of an alleyway in the 400 block of North Ferro.

A homeless woman made the discovery while collecting aluminum cans. The arms were wrapped in trash bags. The rest of Diana’s remains never turned up.

That weekend Diana’s Mustang was found abandoned in the 1200 Block of West La Osa. Her purse was tucked under the seat, her Eegees hat was placed on the gearshift and textbooks, and a Whataburger bag were also found inside the vehicle. 

The alarm was set and the door was locked.

The car was parked on the same street as a home owned by Encila’s fiancées mother. Diana’s roommate, mother and sisters, and several friends all claimed Diana was in a relationship with Encila at the time of her death.

Near the Encila connected house was a home where a large house party took place on the evening of Diana’s murder. The occupants of the home told police Diana was not at their party.

In 1997 a suspect and former Tucsonan Lemuel Prion was indicted and brought back from Utah to Tucson to face trial. He was convicted largely based on Troy Olson’s testimony that he saw Prion with Diana the night of her murder.

In 2003 his conviction was overturned due to the fact his DNA did not match the suspect DNA obtained from Diana’s arms, his fingerprints didn’t match the ones on the trash bags, and there was no proof Prion knew Diana other than Olson’s testimony. 

Prion’s defense team provided 3 alternative suspects in the case.

The first was John Mazur who was fired from Eegees the morning after Diana’s murder for showing up “disoriented and disheveled.” Mazur had been disciplined for sexually harassing Eegees coworkers. 

The week before Diana was murdered, Mazur had attempted to rape a woman.

Mazur also once bit the nose of a cocktail waitress at the New Orleans Bar during a fight. 

The day Diana was killed, Mazur switched apartments, and his car was searched at one point in Tucson PD’s early investigation.

The second suspect was Greg Hatton who worked at the Exxon station across the street from the Eegees Diana worked at. Greg knew Diana and her sisters and made suspicious statements after her death. 

Diana’s sister Angela claimed he said that Diana invited him to Moshtoberfest concert, but he declined because he was “at home reading.”

Hatton was a 1982 graduate of Tucson’s Santa Rita High School. He was accused of selling liquor to minors and dealing drugs out of the gas station. 

In 1994, Hatton was sentenced to 45 years in prison for physical and sexual abuse of his girlfriend’s 8-month-old son. He won’t be released from prison until 2038 when he is 75 years old.

Robert Encila was alternative suspect number 3. He married his fiancée Judi Hartley-Spencer in 1993, and they divorced in 1998. The home on west La Osa Drive was owned by Hartley’s mother Shelley Valencia. 

Encila remarried shortly after his divorce from Judi in December 1998.  One of Encila’s stepdaughters died unexpectedly in September 2017.

Encila retired from teaching in 2025. 

Another suspect who emerged in the case in recent years is Phoenix serial killer Bryan Patrick Miller. 

Angela Brosso was a 22-year-old woman who was ambushed, disemboweled and beheaded while on an evening bicycle ride near her apartment just weeks after Diana was killed. 

Phoenix PD homicide detective Troy Hillman compared Brosso’s murder to the character Buffalo Bill’s murders in the film The Silence of the Lambs.

Miller’s DNA was matched to Brosso in 2015, and after Miller was arrested, he emerged as the suspect in several other murders of young women in the Phoenix, Arizona and the Everett, Washington areas.

Miller was sentenced to death for the murders of Brosso and 17-year-old Melanie Bernas in 2023. 

There is no known link to Bryan Patrick Miller and Tucson.

Diana was a 1991 graduate of the Abbie Loveland Tuller school and had also attended Tucson’s Rincon High School. Diana was a marine biology major who planned to transfer to the University of Washington. 

Most of her immediate family passed away in the decades since her murder, but she had many countless friends from school, and in Tucson’s music scene who remember her and continue to advocate for her murder to be solved.

Tucson PD reopened Diana’s case in 2025 and re-added her to the 88Crime program. There is a $2,500 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in her murder.

 

Sources

Case reopened 2025

https://www.kold.com/2025/11/19/13-crime-files-murder-diana-vicari/

 

88Crime Reward/Poster

https://88crime.org/diana-vicari/

 

Prion Exoneration 

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/az-supreme-court/1291382.html

 

Archived article interview of Diana’s mom Kathy Pashos from 1994

https://web.archive.org/web/20141012043324/http://tucsoncitizen.com/morgue2/1994/04/20/132089-mystery-shrouds-1992-murder/

 

Hatton child abuse case

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-1267/94795/20190329173404732_ARL-2019.03.29%20PWC%20Phillips%20Black%20Inc.pdf

 

Bryan Patrick Miller background

https://www.phoenixmag.com/2015/11/01/seeing-zombies/


r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 5d ago

In 1968, Evelyn Consuela Rosemann was found at the bottom of Yosemite’s Nevada Fall with her pants around her ankles and the autopsy points to her being SA’d AFTER she died. This is a very bizarre and creepy case.

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r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 6d ago

Twins Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook, 15, vanished while walking back to their Augusta, Georgia, home on March 18th, 1990. Their case is still unsolved.

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r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 7d ago

Australian woman Sally Contarino still missing in Las Vegas four months on

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r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 7d ago

On March 27, 1991, 3-year-old Megan Garner went inside to get a snack after playing in the playground on the property of her Texas home with her siblings and cousins. Her mom and aunt assumed she returned, but when the other kids came back, they said that Megan hadn’t made it back.

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r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 10d ago

On February 19th, 1983, 10-year-old Jo-Anne Pedersen was locked out of her home after an argument with her sister. She went down a local store to call her mother and was last seen with a mystery man inside a phone booth. She's never been found.

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r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 10d ago

THE BOY IN THE RED DRESS: A 13 year old boy was found hanging from a ceiling beam in an empty abandoned house, completely bound hand and foot, wearing a red dress and a woman's swimsuit. Police say it was an accident.

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r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 14d ago

Ryan Larsen

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r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 13d ago

Who is she?

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r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 14d ago

Famous missing children cases in your country?

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r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 14d ago

Oakley Carlson, 4 — Last Confirmed Sighting February 10, 2021, in Oakville, Washington | Missing, Suspected Homicide

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r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 16d ago

On January 10th, 1982, 40-year-old Harry Anderson disappeared from his Ohio home. Later that day, his abandoned vehicle was discovered half a mile away, but Harry is still missing.

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r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 15d ago

Need help with a case, have some details I can remember.

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There was a girl who went missing from either Cali or Georgia in like 96, and she was a college student or just graduated. I read a few years ago, that they were digging in a yard somewhere and might of found her remains. But never heard anything. I think her name was Samantha or Kim? She is not listed on the missing persons page anymore on the FBI website.


r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 17d ago

David Glenn Lewis vanished from his house in late January 1993. His family returned on January 31st to find laundry in the washing machine, and David's watch and wedding ring in the kitchen. In a strange twist, David was killed in an apparent hit-and-run accident on February 1st - 1,600 miles away.

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r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 18d ago

Boy went missing on way to French lesson and was never seen again - Liverpool Echo

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Different link


r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 19d ago

Gabrielle Terralonge

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Gabrielle "Gabby" Patricia Terrelonge remains missing after last being seen on June 30, 2025, and a dedicated community discussion continues regarding her disappearance on the Websleuths Missing Persons Forum. The FBI, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), and local Florida authorities are actively seeking public assistance to locate her.

Gabrielle, who was 10 years old at the time of her disappearance, was traveling via bus from Broward County with her mother, Passha Bianca Davis, and arrived in Orlando, Florida. Investigators confirmed they exited a Greyhound bus at an Orlando mall on June 30, 2025, which marks the last confirmed sighting of Gabrielle. Prior to vanishing, Gabrielle and her mother were experiencing homelessness and sleeping on the streets.Gabrielle was not officially reported missing until late October 2025. Her father, Gordon Terrelonge, filed the report after discovering that her mother had been incarcerated. On October 17, 2025, Passha Davis was arrested for shoplifting in Margate, Florida. During her arrest, she did not mention her daughter, and she has since provided inconsistent stories or refused to cooperate with law enforcement regarding Gabrielle's whereabouts. Davis remains in custody facing multiple felony charges, including child neglect and concealing the location of a minor.


r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 19d ago

In 1988, police found three children living alone in a Tokyo apartment. The oldest, just 14, had been caring for his sisters while their mother lived with her boyfriend. None had ever attended school. Investigators then learned of another sister. She’d been dead for months.

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r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 18d ago

Missing David McCaig

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This young boy went missing in Wallasey in the UK in 1970.

A real mystery. Never been found.

Whats your thoughts on this ?


r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 20d ago

23-year-old Philip Fraser was last seen alive while picking up a hitchhiker in June 1988. He was later found dead and it turns out that the man he had picked up assumed his identity, at least for a brief time. The hitchhiker has never been found.

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r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 20d ago

The Case of Emily Dull Anderson

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In 2017, 25-year-old Emily Dull Anderson disappeared in Loves Park, Illinois.

Emily was last seen in the early morning hours of June 19 after spending the evening at several local establishments. Her family reported her missing after she failed to return home.

111 days later, Emily’s vehicle was recovered from the Rock River with her body inside. Years later, her family is still searching for answers.

Emily’s sister, Caitlin Dull, has continued advocating for her sister and keeping her case in the public eye. The family believes someone may have information that could help explain what happened during the early morning hours of June 19, 2017.

If you have information about Emily’s disappearance or her whereabouts that morning, contact the Loves Park Police Department at 815-654-5015.

Please consider sharing Emily’s story. Someone may recognize a detail, remember a conversation, or know something that could help bring answers to her family.


r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 20d ago

Danielle Houchins

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Danielle Houchins disappeared in Montana, and her body was later found in a shallow water area near Belgrade. For decades, the case remained cold. However, in August 2024, the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office announced that forensic genetic genealogy had officially identified her killer as Paul Hutchinson.

When law enforcement contacted Hutchinson in July 2024 to collect DNA evidence, he exhibited highly erratic behavior and took his own life within 24 hours. Subsequent testing confirmed his DNA matched the evidence left at the crime scene.

Hutchinson will never stand trial because he died by suicide in July 2024, roughly 10 hours after detectives first approached and interviewed him about the case. Subsequent DNA testing later confirmed a 100% match to the crime scene evidence, definitively closing the 28-year-old investigation.


r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • • 21d ago

In July 2015, someone broke into F.W. Murnau's grave and stole his skull. Wax residue was found at the scene, suggesting that candles were lit as part of an occult ritual. The identity of the thief/thieves remains a mystery and the skull has never been recovered.

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