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The Driftwood Killer: The Murder of Sandra Lee Long and the Case That Changed Delaware

Little Dickies, The Driftwood Killer Content Warning: This case involves sexual assault, arson, and acts of extreme cruelty before and after the murder. Some readers may find the material disturbing. Please take care while reading. Casefile Opener There’s nothing like a killer naming himself. What nerve. Most of them skulk in the shadows, praying the world never learns their names. But Brian David Steckel picked up a phone and introduced himself to the headlines. He called himself the Driftwood Killer . Like he was unveiling a brand instead of a body. Like murder was a marketing campaign. He wanted a legend. He wanted fear attached to a title. He wanted the world to remember the name he chose. But behind that nickname was a woman named Sandra Lee Long . And her story is the one that matters. Sandra Lee Long Sandra Lee Long, 29, whose life was stolen in September 1994. She fought back and that fight helped bring her killer to justice. Sandra wasn’t a headli...

The Disappearance of Cindy Song: The Penn State Student Who Vanished After Halloween Night

Little Dickies, The Girl Who Walked Home The Disappearance of Cindy Song and the Silence That Followed This post discusses a missing person case and suspected foul play. No graphic details are included. Cindy Song on Halloween night, 2001. On Halloween night in 2001, a 21-year-old Penn State senior dressed as a bunny and went out with friends. By sunrise, she was gone. No screams. No broken glass. No witnesses. No body. Just an apartment where her phone sat quietly on the counter, waiting for a call that would never come. This is the story of Hyun Jong “Cindy” Song , a disappearance that cracked the illusion of safety in a place people liked to call Happy Valley. The Paper Trail: The Life Behind the Missing Poster Missing poster for Cindy Song. Cindy Song was not a drifter, not a runaway, and not someone living on the edges of her own life. She was a student, a worker, a...

The Lyon Sisters Case: The Disappearance of Sheila and Katherine Lyon

The Lyon Sisters: A Casefile of Silence, Sound, and a Five-Cent Detail Dicking Around With Richie: A True Crime Feed Little Dickies, There are cases that feel like storms. Loud. Violent. Sudden. And then there are cases like this one. Quiet suburban streets. A mall on a spring afternoon. Two sisters with a couple of dollars in their pockets and a pizza on their minds. The disappearance of Sheila and Katherine Lyon did not begin with a scream. It began with an ordinary walk, a five-cent complaint, and a brother leaving a pizza shop without knowing it would become the last normal moment of his childhood. Sheila and Katherine Lyon vanished after a routine trip to Wheaton Plaza. They never made it home. The Sisters at the Center Sheila Lyon was twelve. Katherine Lyon was ten. They lived with their family in Kensington, Maryland, in a neighborhood where doors were often left unloc...

The Woman Who Vanished Before Dawn: The 1994 Disappearance of Frances Kiefer

The Woman Who Vanished Before Dawn The Disappearance of Frances Mary Kiefer (Fountain Hill, PA | March 22, 1994) By RICHIE D MOWREY for The Sassy Gazette Little Dickies, Some cases explode across headlines. Others slip quietly into the dark and never climb back out. Frances Mary Kiefer’s disappearance didn’t become a national obsession. There were no endless press conferences and no prime-time countdown specials. What it became was quieter and colder, a missing person file that never closed and a family forced to live with a question mark where a person should be. Frances vanished in the earliest hours of March 22, 1994. Her car was later found four miles away beneath a railroad trestle near Saucon Park in Bethlehem. She has never been located. No one has been charged. And the timeline, the one thing that should be solid in a case like this, still refuses to settle into a shape that makes sense. This is the story of Frances Kiefer, the morning she disappeared, the evidence ...

The Death Behind the Filter: The Courtney Clenney Case and the Killing of Christian Obumseli

Little Dickies, There are some cases that feel less like crimes and more like collisions. Not just between two people, but between image and reality, attention and accountability, performance and consequence. The case of Courtney Clenney is one of those collisions. What happened inside a luxury Miami condominium on April 3, 2022, was not just a domestic dispute that turned deadly. It was the violent end of a relationship already spiraling in plain sight, unfolding in a world where perception is currency and the internet is perpetually obsessed with clicks. The Victim A Life, Not a Headline Christian Obumseli wasn’t a headline. He was a son, a brother, a young man with a future that should have stretched far beyond a Miami high-rise. Christian Obumseli was not a social media brand. He was not a persona curated for engagement. He was a son, a brother, and a young man whose life should have stretched far beyond a Miami high-rise...

The Disappearance of Kortne Ciera Stouffer: Silence Inside a Palmyra Apartment

Little Dickies The Disappearance of Kortne Ciera Stouffer Palmyra, Pennsylvania | July 29, 2012 Kortne Ciera Stouffer , 21, disappeared from Palmyra, Pennsylvania on July 29, 2012. Her whereabouts remain unknown. There are cases where the silence feels earned. Time passes. Leads dry up. Lives move on. And then there are cases where the silence feels manufactured . Kortne Ciera Stouffer vanished in the early morning hours of July 29, 2012, from an apartment building in Palmyra, Pennsylvania. She was 21 years old. She did not take her phone. She did not take her purse. She did not take her car. She did not take her dog. She did not leave a note. She did not say goodbye. She did not disappear into thin air. She simply stopped being seen. The Case Snapshot Name: Kortne Ciera Stouffer Age: 21 Last Known Location: 810 West Main Street, Palmyra, PA Date Last Seen: July 29, 2012 Case Status: Endangere...