For nearly thirteen years, she was known only as the Fond du Lac County Jane Doe: a young woman whose badly decomposed body was discovered frozen in a rural Wisconsin creek in November 2008. Investigators knew she was young. They believed she had been dead for months and that someone had brought her to the … More Amy Marie Yeary: Fond du Lac County Jane Doe

Jeremy Lamar Long was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, and was only sixteen years old at the time of his death. He attended Richard L. Sanders School, a Pinellas County school serving students through specialized educational programs. Those who knew Jeremy remembered him by the nickname “Jay.” Friends described him as affectionate, sensitive, and as … More Jeremy Long

Ann Story Fox was born on November 12th, 1960, and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. The daughter of Carl Louis Fox Jr. and Marcia Mansfield Fox, she attended Presbyterian College in South Carolina and later earned a master’s degree from Converse College. She moved to Aiken, South Carolina in 1988 and spent the next two … More Ann Fox Smith

At approximately nine a.m. on Sunday, March 9th, 2008, Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District personnel responded to a structure fire in the 7900 block of Archer Avenue in Fair Oaks, an unincorporated community northeast of Sacramento, California. When firefighters arrived, they encountered an elderly man outside the residence. According to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, the … More Eleanor Nichols

By February 2007, sixty-year-old Ken Gorman had spent more than a decade making himself impossible to ignore. He had smoked marijuana openly on the steps of the Colorado State Capitol, organized rallies before 4/20 celebrations became mainstream commercial events, run for governor under the irreverent nickname “Governor Pothead,” gone to prison on a marijuana conviction, … More Ken Gorman

Robert “Bob” Hatcher was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa on March 21st, 1968, the son of William “Bill” C. Hatcher and Marjorie Ann Brockman Hatcher. He grew up in the area and graduated from Treynor High School in 1987 before attending Iowa Western Community College for a year. Bob spent much of his working life … More Robert “Bob” Hatcher

On the afternoon of March 23rd, 2007, fifty-two-year-old Randi Gorenberg went shopping at the Town Center at Boca Raton, an upscale mall in Palm Beach County, Florida. She bought a CD and a piece of clothing, then walked out carrying her purchases and headed toward her black Mercedes-Benz SUV. Less than an hour later, Gorenberg … More Randi Gorenberg

On December 12th, 2007, forty-seven-year-old Nancy Bochicchio and her seven-year-old daughter, Joey Bochicchio-Hauser, spent part of an ordinary Wednesday afternoon at the Town Center at Boca Raton in Florida. Christmas was less than two weeks away. Joey was only days from her eighth birthday. Mother and daughter entered the busy South Florida mall shortly after … More Nancy Bochicchio and Joey Bochicchio-Hauser

Shortly after eleven p.m. on June 8th, 2007, twenty-five-year-old Tyvon Nicole Whitford was inside her home in rural Putnam County, Florida, with her five-year-old son, eating pizza and watching a movie. She was six months pregnant with a daughter she had already named Ke’mora. Within minutes, CoCo (as virtually everyone in her life called her) … More Tyvon “CoCo” Whitford

Anita Knutson was born on September 22nd, 1988, in Orange County, California. Gordon and Sharon Knutson adopted her when she was five months old, and she spent much of her childhood in Anaheim. Even at a young age, she showed a strong creative streak. While attending Bernardo Yorba Middle School, she wrote and published a … More Anita Knutson