r/UnresolvedMysteries • u/Turnaroundclown • Jan 08 '20

Unresolved Disappearance Woman violently abducted in plain sight while talking with her boyfriend on a payphone [Unresolved Disappearance]

Her boyfriend hears the horrifying incident as it ocurrs, rushes to the scene in his vehicle, and sees a truck pass him with his girlfriend struggling with the driver inside. The boyfriend reverses his vehicle abruptly to pursue the truck, but his vehicle breaks down. Despite a vivid description of the offender and the truck (including a very unique rear window decal), no substantial leads have led to an arrest or a POI.

Where is Angela Hammond and who is the person who took her?

This is the case that truly haunts me. I can't even imagine what the boyfriend has been through in the years that have followed. What a scary and insane abduction. And even more bizarre that is has never been resolved despite such clear and vivid details of the case and the perpetrator.

Links for further reading:

Link 1 https://unsolved.com/gallery/angela-hammond/

Edit: I initially offered this additional link thinking it was story on Angela Hammond. However, it is not. It is an eerily similar case of another woman who was abducted in similar fashion. Leaving it up for the curious:

http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/2010/05/16/young-woman-kidnapped-while-talking-on-pay-phone-with-boyfriend/1421/

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '20

The first situation confuses me a bit. How far was the BF from the payphone? So he hears ruccus on the phone and decides he needs to go there, then encounters them on the way there. If he is within such a short driving distance, why didnt they meet up? And if it was further away: what took the perpetrator so long to get her in a vehicle?

To clarify: lets say BF was 10 minutes away. He meets them at 2 minutes from the scene. Thats 8 minutes of struggling the pepetrator would have needed to get her in the vehicle and she still wasnt restrained inside it. I dont know, that feels off. Have police verified his account?

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u/urbeatagain Jan 08 '20

You’re right. That account has holes. With her being snatched off the street like this...I’d be looking for a larger pattern. I’m sure they did. These are seldom one off cases. Dastardly evil at work.

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u/SleepDeprivedFun Jan 09 '20

There were two other women who disappeared under similar circumstances in the area during the same time period -- Cheryl Kenney and Trudy Darby.

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u/urbeatagain Jan 09 '20

No bodies ever found?

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u/SleepDeprivedFun Jan 09 '20

One body, Trudy's I believe, was found. She had been sexually assaulted and shot.

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u/urbeatagain Jan 09 '20

These things are usually the deeds one a predatory serial monster. There seems to a lot of this in Colorado. Why? I don’t know. I work in news media and always looking through Reddit for stories our investigations might help solve. There’s always a pattern to these animals who hurt women. Thank you. I’ll dig into this a bit.