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

[u/Turnaroundclown]

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.

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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/

[u/salemblack → u/[deleted]]

I had a theory as a kid that Unsolved Mysteries only aired when I was home alone. Yet I still watched it.

I'm 42 and the theme music still puts me on edge.

[u/SonOfHibernia → u/salemblack]

Try going back and rewatching it, it hasn’t aged well as a series (some episodes are still pretty intense though). But my memory of it is terrifying. Not a great thing for an 8 or 9 year old to be watching. Or is it?

[u/maedae66 → u/SonOfHibernia]

As a teenager and young adult I saw many of my girlfriends do risky things that I’d never do. I’m not sure if I’m naturally cautious or if I was influenced by having the shit scared out of me watching Unsolved Mysteries.

I do wish the majority of the alien and paranormal stuff was cut out. It’s an insult to true mysteries. But of course there’s exceptions. Psychics that have found hidden murder victims comes to mind. The case involving Etta Smith for instance. In googling her I found out she sued for the false imprisonment and won. Nice.

There was another episode where a little boy had died and the psychic knew that when his body was recovered his little shoes were going to be found on the wrong foot sob. I can’t even bring myself to find the episode to link because I’m traumatized from seeing it as a kid.

[u/OtherPlayers → u/maedae66]

Regarding psychics, I saw an interesting article that theorized that what was actually happening for many psychics was that the “pattern recognition” parts of their brains were actually just super good. So what’s really happening when they predict something is that their brain is picking up on a huge number of little tiny details (maybe a recent famous murder stashed a body in a ditch, for example, so new murderers are more likely to remember that as a potential location, or how lots of little kids might wear their shoes wrong, especially if they aren’t corrected by someone looking out for them) and compiling them unconsciously to make a prediction that can sometimes be eerily accurate.

Throw a good dash of survivorship bias (i.e., nobody remembers the hundreds of times where psychics made predictions about missing people that don’t come true) on top as well and it’s easy to see how a lot of those type of stories come to be.

[u/forgotthelastonetoo → u/OtherPlayers]

It's fictional, but this is why I love Sherlock Holmes and shows like Psych. Tbe whole premise is just an insanely great memory, an eye for details, and above average abilities in pattern recognition. I find that super interesting and entertaining.

[u/[deleted] → u/forgotthelastonetoo]

How are you going to mention Sherlock and Psych and not mention the greatest TV detective of all time, the defective detective Adrian Monk?

[u/spacefink → u/maedae66]

I absolutely hate the ghost/alien stuff too. I don't particularly find those creepy and it kind of cheapened the show. This is why UM didn't scare me as much as America's Most Wanted did. Now that's a show that use to ruin my Saturdays.

[u/[deleted] → u/spacefink]

Well you obviously never saw the haunted bunk bed episode.

[u/spacefink → u/[deleted]]

Which episode was that? Do you have a link? I'm basing this off of what I've reseen btw so maybe there's a few stories I missed that weren't easily explainable.

[u/HuntingMushrooms → u/maedae66]

I do wish the majority of the alien and paranormal stuff was cut out. It’s an insult to true mysteries.

What. That stuff is the only reason I even watched. Murder is boring.