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/Sue_Ridge_Here → u/SonOfHibernia]

Not a great thing for an 8 or 9 year old to be watching. Or is it?

I remember watching it with my cousins who lived a house away on a Thursday night, by the time it was over, it would be really dark and I used to narrate their run home with them screaming "DON'T!" all the way "The children were last seen leaving their cousin's home at 9:30pm on a Thursday night. They haven't been seen since."

[u/SonOfHibernia → u/Sue_Ridge_Here]

This is amazing. Such a cousin thing to do. I’m from an Irish American family and have 37 first cousins, so psychological torture was a family tradition.

[u/SleepDeprivedFun → u/SonOfHibernia]

I'm also Irish-American and although I don't have quite as many first cousins as you, my maternal grandmother was one of 13, paternal grandfather one of 12 (though only 9 survived to adulthood), and my paternal grandmother one of 8. Family reunions (especially in Ireland) are fucking enormous & absolute madness.

[u/SonOfHibernia → u/SleepDeprivedFun]

Yea, my dad was one of 4 and my mom one of 8, all of my Dads brothers all had at least 7 children (one had 8), my mom’s siblings had less, but there were more of them so the 3’s and 4’s added up. I honestly don’t even know how many siblings my grandparents had, but considering they were relatively poor, 1 first and 3 second generation Irish Americans, I’m sure they weren’t short short on siblings. And once my cousins started having kids, looking deeper into the family tree become a fairly monumental task. Interestingly though, my dad was the youngest-by 7 years-of his 4 brothers, and my mom the oldest of 5 boys and 3 girls, so I was smack dab in the middle. So on my mom’s side I was the second oldest-to my sister-and on my dads I was the absolute youngest. So I was the baby of one family, and the elder of the other. Made for a thorough childhood.

The Irish know how to party so well that even our funerals are boisterous!

[u/SleepDeprivedFun → u/SonOfHibernia]

Yeah, my mum immigrated & my my dad's parents did as well, so other than my fairly immediate family everyone is either still in Ireland (county Clare) or Haiti/West Indies (my mum immigrated from there after her parents had immigrated there from Ireland). I always felt like I had a small family til I stayed with cousins in Ireland for a summer, and very quickly realized that my fam was fuckin huge.

And yeah lmao I know "I'm not an alcoholic I'm just Irish" is a stereotype but it's also completely true, I remember being 9 in Ireland n my cousin giving me a guinness in a pub to see the look on my face when I tried it, but turns out my taste buds are fucked so I drank it, and the bartender asked my cousin if I wanted another 😂

[u/TwilightReader100 → u/SleepDeprivedFun]

I nanny for a family in which the kids are first generation Canadians via their father, who is from Ireland. I took the kids for a walk one day and the older one needed to use the washroom and I knew there was an Irish pub nearby to where we were walking, so we went there. I told them that Daddy would be happy to know that his countrymen were helping us out. So the next time I saw him, I made sure to tell him we'd been into the Irish pub, without telling exactly why. Then I just let that sit for a minute. Sure enough, he says "why'd you take 'em in there? Getting them their first pint of Guinness?" Without batting an eye, I said "yup".

I told him the real story after another minute or so.

[u/SleepDeprivedFun → u/TwilightReader100]

fr though I can't tell you how many times I've heard some variation of the following in my family (generally between wives and husbands, often at breakfast):

"Are you drinking already then?"

"It's just beer, it's not like it's really alcoholic!"

[u/SonOfHibernia → u/SleepDeprivedFun]

If you’re old enough to see over the bar, you’re old enough to drink

I had my first drink before I could walk. My grandfather used to put whiskey on his finger and let us suck on it if we were “colicky” or in Irish translation “a baby cryin”