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The Disappearance of Janet and Marisa Shuglie | Somerset County Cold Case (1985)

The Disappearance of Janet and Marisa Shuglie Little Dickies, Some cases are loud. This one is quiet in the way a locked room is quiet after the argument ends. On June 30, 1985, a mother and her eleven year old daughter walked away from the Coleman Motel in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. They were heading toward help. They never arrived. Janet Marie Shuglie was 35 years old. Marisa Alexandra Shuglie was 11. Nearly forty years later, they remain missing. Janet Marie Shuglie and her daughter Marisa Alexandra Shuglie. Missing since June 30, 1985. The Motel By the end of June 1985, the Shuglie family was staying at the Coleman Motel in Somerset County. Motels are transitional. Temporary. Often a sign that stability has cracked somewhere else. Reports indicate the family had previously lived near Hidden Valley Resort. Hidden Valley is scenic, seasonal, and structured. Then suddenly, a motel. Financial instability had reportedly been growing. On June 30, ...
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The Disappearance of Eric Wayne Pyles: The 2000 Jonestown Pennsylvania Cold Case That Still Haunts Lebanon County

Little Dickies, Some cases whisper. Others linger. A few refuse to leave you alone once you start reading about them. The disappearance of Eric Wayne Pyles is one of those cases. On a cold afternoon in December 2000, a twelve year old boy stepped off a school bus in rural Pennsylvania. He should have walked a short distance home. Instead, he walked in another direction. Somewhere between a church, a patch of woods, and a busy highway corridor, Eric Pyles vanished. More than two decades later, the silence around that moment still echoes. Union Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. A rural farmland community where Eric Pyles disappeared. A Quiet Community Union Township sits in the agricultural heart of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania . Rolling farmland stretches across the landscape. Barns and silos dot the hills. Small roads connect quiet homes, churches, and schools. In the year 2000, the community was the kind of plac...
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The Disappearance of Amy Leanne Pugner: Ransom Calls, A Missing Mother, and a Washington County Mystery

Little Dickies Some cases whisper. This one grabbed the phone and started making threats. The Casefile Opens Amy Leanne Pugner disappeared on June 9, 2010 from Washington, Pennsylvania. She was 40 years old. She was a mother. She was a daughter. She was a sister. And she was in recovery, clean and sober, fighting for a better life. Then the story took a turn that still makes my skin crawl. A man used Amy’s phone to contact her family. He demanded $30,000 or he would kill her. And for a moment, her voice, or something close enough to tear a family apart, appeared on the line. The official missing poster. The facts are clean. The reality is not. Victimology If you only read the cold bullet points, you miss the whole person. Amy was not a headline. She was a full human being who laughed, loved, and was trying to rebuild. Yes, Amy had a history of addiction. Yes, she lived with mental health struggles. But at the time of her disappearance, she was doing what peo...
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The Disappearance of Brenda Louise Condon: The Carl’s Bad Tavern Mystery That Still Haunts Pennsylvania

Little Dickies, Today marks 35 years since Brenda Louise Condon vanished from Carl’s Bad Tavern in Spring Township, Pennsylvania. Thirty five years since a bartender finished counting the night’s receipts, prepared to lock the doors, and somehow never made it home. Her gray Mercury Capri was still sitting in the parking lot. The bar was quiet. And inside the men’s restroom, investigators found the boots she had been wearing just hours earlier. For thirty five years, the question has remained the same: Who was the last person inside that tavern with Brenda Condon? Tonight we reopen the casefile. CASEFILE Brenda Louise Condon Age: 28 Missing: February 27, 1991 Last Seen: Carl’s Bad Tavern Spring Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania Status: Unsolved Who Was Brenda Condon? Brenda Louise Condon. Mother, entrepreneur, and bartender. Brenda Louise Condon was twenty eight years old when she disappeared. She was a mother of two children and an en...
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The Disappearance of Tonee Marie Turner: The Two-Mile Mystery Between Hazelwood and the Homestead Grays Bridge

Little Dickies, s. The disappearance of Pittsburgh artist Tonee Marie Turner remains one of the city’s most haunting unsolved cases. On December 30, 2019, her belongings were discovered on the Homestead Grays Bridge. Tonee herself has never been found. Some disappearances fade quietly into the background noise of the world. Others leave behind a silence so loud it never stops echoing. The disappearance of Tonee Marie Turner is one of those cases. Tonee was not someone drifting through life unnoticed. She was an artist. A metalworker. A teacher who inspired young students. A young woman building a future with her hands, shaping metal, shaping ideas, shaping lives. And then one winter night in Pittsburgh, she vanished. What she left behind was not just questions. It was a trail. And that trail leads directly to one of the most unsettling mysteries in Pennsylvania. Someone knows what happened between Hazelwood and the Homeste...
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