August 29th, 2014 2:00 a.m.

911 receives two strange phone calls reporting someone may have jumped off the Horace Wilkerson Bridge in Baton Rouge Louisiana.  When police arrive on the scene, they find Jake Latiolais’ truck still running in the right-hand lane near an exit.  

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The owner of the truck was nowhere to be found. Strangely, Jake’s crutches and his wallet were missing. He was also in a walking boot waiting to have surgery on a broken foot. The boot would be discovered at home. The crutches were never officially found. Of course, nothing was officially done about anything in this case. 

To make matters worse, the trailer that he shared with a roommate had been ransacked, and all of Jake’s valuables had been taken including his guns, his PlayStation, and his TV. Police wrote this off saying Jake wanted to end it all. Why would he end it all when he was preparing to go to court to win custody of his child? If he did want to end it all then why didn’t he use his own guns at home instead of driving to a heavily trafficked bridge that he didn’t normally use? 

Why was his roommate able to sleep through the whole ordeal? Supposedly, he told Jake’s mother that he simply went to bed and the house was fine. When he got up the next morning the house was destroyed. Holes had been knocked into walls and windows had been shattered. Yet, despite all of this, he was able to sleep through it. Was he passed out on something? Why would he not call the police the next morning?  And why we’re both of those 911 calls coming from the same phone number even though they were acting like two different people? 

A jurisdictional dispute over who should be policing the bridge has caused more trauma for Jake’s mother. This dispute has forced Jake’s mother, Tina, to become the primary investigator in her son’s case. What happened to Jake Latiolais?

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As with so many of these cases, Jake went missing within a couple of weeks of a court date. He was fighting his ex-girlfriend over custody of their child. He had made arrangements to have her full-time. He was working multiple jobs trying to earn the type of income needed to support a child. And, he had a good chance of winning custody due to a previous conviction against his ex. 

We know that Jake’s phone received a text message from the ex-girlfriend. She wanted to meet at a local Walmart parking lot to talk. Although it isn’t clear if he ever met with her, we do know that he had a receipt from Walmart where he had purchased three packs of cigarettes. Did he actually go and meet her? Was she the last person to actually see Jake alive? 

5 years later:

Five years after Jake went missing, his aunt reached out to Tina and claimed she had Jake’s crutches and she had them all along. She said Jake told her he didn’t need them because the doctor had released him. This didn’t make since to Tina because Jake hadn’t had the surgery for his foot yet! There’s no way the doctor would release him to walk without crutches BEFORE the surgery. 

As with everything else, Tina took this information to the police along with Jake’s medical information from his doctor’s office. Again, she is pushed back and forth between East Baton Rouge P.D. and West Baton Rouge P.D. No one wants to take the lead on this case. So this valuable lead goes to waste just like everything else this poor mother has collected over the years. 

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Tina is hoping the IRS might take up her son’s missing person case. No, the IRS doesn’t usually investigate these types of cases but should have a vested interest in who cashed Jake’s stimulus checks during the pandemic. Tina found those checks went to the family of his ex. Strange. 

If you have any information on this case please contact Tina on Jake’s Facebook Page

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Chaos rules in a small Southeastern Missouri County. Madison County spans 500 square miles and has a population of approximately 13,000 people. The county seat is Fredericktown with a population of approximately 4,000 people. This rural county should be a safe place in beautiful Americana, but it hides a dark secret. Fredericktown is one of the most dangerous places to live in America. Check out this quote from neighborhoodscout.com. 

“With a crime rate of 31 per one thousand residents, Fredericktown has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes – from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One’s chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 32.” 

I started researching one case sent to me by a desperate grandmother. That case led me to fifteen more. Then I realized this county has had murder, corruption, and chaos since before the Wild West days. This book will start with a lynching by a Fredericktown mob in 1844. Hold onto your seats when you read this one. You’re in for a wild, chaotic ride through rural Missouri. 

February 6th, 1987: 

Timothy Guy heads to work at the Sleepy Fox Farm in Forsyth County, Georgia. He told his dad he would be returning to his family home in Snellville, Georgia after work that day for the weekend, but Tim never arrived at his parent’s house. 

He lived at the farm during the week and only came home on the weekends. But this weekend was a little different. There was a horse show in town, and he was going to ride in it. So when he did not return home the family did not think anything about it. 

Timothy J. Guy was an 18-year-old boy who had some slight learning difficulties. Although he had no official diagnosis. This made him slightly naive to the cruelty of the world around him. But he loved horses and the Sleepy Fox Farm seemed to be the perfect job for him. 

Tim’s parents received a phone call from a man we will call P.K. on Monday, February 9th saying Tim didn’t show up for work. He said that he saw Tim leave the Friday before with someone named Jeff. He said Jeff was driving a 1970 Chevy Impala and that he was approximately 5’10, 180 lb, and described him as a big bone muscular guy. 

Soon officers began to question the existence of this mysterious Jeff. Things seemed to point towards another horrific tale. It is doubtful that Tim ever left the farm. 

When his parents showed up at the farm that afternoon, P.K. and his wife had gathered all of Tim’s things in a trash bag, washed his clothes, and handed them to his dad along with his last paycheck. 

Who does that? Who misses a day of work, and your boss literally scoots you out the door? 

Later on, P.K. would end up being arrested on drugs and weapons charges. Did Timothy see something he shouldn’t have seen that day? Did Timothy really leave the farm that Friday evening? Or was he killed Friday evening, and the perpetrators had three days to clean up the farm before he was reported missing? 

It’s been almost four decades and we still have no answers. P.K. is deceased now. He still has family around, but somebody must know something. If you have any information, please call a tip line and let them know. Timothy’s dad, Warren has been fighting for answers for way too long. 

Forsyth County Sheriffs department at 770–781–2222 OR you can contact GBI at 404–244–2600

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Madhouse Madison County

Chaos rules in a small Southeastern Missouri County. Madison County spans 500 square miles and has a population of approximately 13,000 people. The county seat is Fredericktown with a population of approximately 4,000 people. This rural county should be a safe place in beautiful Americana, but it hides a dark secret. Fredericktown is one of the most dangerous places to live in America. Check out this quote from neighborhoodscout.com. 

“With a crime rate of 31 per one thousand residents, Fredericktown has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes – from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One’s chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 32.” 

I started researching one case sent to me by a desperate grandmother. That case led me to fifteen more. Then I realized this county has had murder, corruption, and chaos since before the Wild West days. This book will start with a lynching by a Fredericktown mob in 1844. Hold onto your seats when you read this one. You’re in for a wild, chaotic ride through rural Missouri. 

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  Small town America might be a great place to raise a family, but sometimes it isn’t the best place to die. Many rural communities lack the resources and experience to solve major homicide cases. When you add in the rumor mill of small-town gossip and the loss of major evidence, some people wonder if the case is solvable. Such is the case of Jennifer Harris from Bonham, Texas. Jennifer Harris was a vivacious 28-yr-old with fiery red curly hair. Everyone around the community loved her including two men; Rob Holman and James Hamilton.

  Holman was Jennifer’s childhood sweetheart. They were married shortly after high school and it looked like a happily ever after situation. Unfortunately, this wouldn’t be the case. The couple had a rocky relationship and some even claim Rob had abused Jennifer. It hasn’t been confirmed whether this was physical or verbal abuse and no police reports were ever filed. As time passed and Jennifer went to college the couple began to grow apart. Rob enjoyed the laid-back pace of Bonham, Texas while Jennifer was enjoying living in the city.

  Things began to fall apart even further when Jennifer met James Hamilton in the massage therapy school she had been attending. The two hit it off and decided to open a business together. That wouldn’t be all they did together and soon Jennifer was living in the city and seeing James while Rob moved back to Bonham. Hamilton was living with the mother of his two children and had a baby on the way but was insisting on marrying Jennifer. Jennifer refused and was quickly losing interest in Hamilton.

  By early 2002, Jennifer had lost her massage business with Hamilton and was facing bankruptcy. What does she do? She looks up Rob, who had a new girlfriend by this time. It didn’t seem to matter. The couple frequently met and slept together. All this soap opera style drama would lead up to Mother’s Day, 2002 and a mystery that has haunted Bonham, Texas for twenty-three years.

  Jennifer visited a friend during the early evening hours of May 12, 2002, and left around 8 pm. She wouldn’t be seen alive again. A woman takes her dog out for a walk down a lonely country road and notices a dark green jeep abandoned at the side of the road but thinks little of it until she sees it again the next day. She calls the police. The Jeep is quickly identified as belonging to Jennifer Harris. It would be a long six-day search before a fisherman would discover Jennifer’s lifeless body in the Red River. The medical examiner determined the cause of death to be homicidal violence but couldn’t determine the exact cause of death. Her body had been severely decomposed, and her uterus was missing. This is where the rumor mill of small towns kicked into overdrive. As soon as that story was released theories ran wild. Friends of Jennifer Harris said she had confided in them about her pregnancy, but there wasn’t any hard evidence to verify it. Could she really have been pregnant, and the murderer removed her uterus to destroy evidence? This is what the townsfolk claimed. It would be years before her autopsy would be reexamined.

  After this examination, it is determined that Jennifer’s uterus was indeed missing, but so were other organs and body parts. The latter examiner determined that Jennifer had suffered some sort of severe injury that left her organs exposed to fish and turtles in the river. Both Rob Holman and James Hamilton were initially interviewed by police and were named as possible suspects, but no arrests were made.

  Hamilton claimed he was at an McDonald’s over an hour away on the May 12th. After reviewing the case files new investigators and consultants are discouraged by the way this alibi was handled. It wasn’t verified properly, and no one ever pushed it. Rob Holman, on the other hand, claimed to be out driving around for over five hours on the night Jennifer disappeared. Hamilton supposedly passed a lie detector test, but Rob was never given one. To make matters worse, most of the evidence, in this case, has either been lost or damaged when the storage pods got wet. The clothing that was found was lost and so was her laptop. Nobody was even sure if the jeans and t-shirt were even Jennifer’s. This case has more twists and turns than a roller coaster so hold on, there’s more.

  Jerry Harris took notes on the case from the beginning and was determined to find justice for his daughter. This meticulous record keeping brought up a sinister revelation years later. Two months after Jennifer’s body was found her ex-boyfriend, James Hamilton called the grieving father to ask about Jennifer’s life insurance policy. In all the case files, this is the only reference to an insurance policy. I have many questions about this.

  Was there actually an insurance policy taken out on the life of Jennifer Harris? If so, who was the beneficiary? Was there money paid out? Who received it? None of this has been reported. If the beneficiary was Rob or James then that would supply the investigators with a serious motive for murder. Who knows if this lead was even followed? The case file for Jennifer Harris is so slim no one knows what leads were followed and which ones weren’t.

  A year later, a woman is watching the news when she hears about the Harris cold case. Incredibly, Deborah Lambert hadn’t heard about the case. She quickly called the police and gave a recorded statement. Deborah and her mother had driven across the Red River Bridge on Mother’s Day a year earlier and had witnessed a frightening scene around 5 pm.

  Lambert vividly recalled a red-headed woman being rough-housed by three men. Deborah said she made eye contact with the woman and saw terror in her expression. Her mother said, “that girl is about to be raped and killed.” Deborah claimed she was too afraid to call the police at the time. Deborah claimed two  men were wearing jeans and one man was wearing shorts. Because of the time discrepancy, the original investigators dismissed Deborah’s statement completely. The new team doesn’t dismiss it so quickly. In reality, the time difference can be explained. Most people don’t continuously watch the clock. Deborah and her mother could have traveled across the bridge later than she remembered, and or Jennifer’s friend could be mistaken on the time she left her home.

  Jennifer’s younger sister Alyssa and her filmmaker husband Barry has taken up the case along with private investigator Daryl Parker and the new sheriff Mark Johnson. Everyone hopes to find justice for Jennifer. This case was recently highlighted on the show 48 Hours. Hopefully, the renewed interest in the case will generate some leads.

  If Deborah Lambert’s statement is correct, there could be two other men out there that know something about this case. At one point, the local D.A. was accused of being involved in the murder of Jennifer Harris. This rumor was completely unfounded but based on the fabricated fact that her uterus was missing. Authorities researched this rumor extensively and found absolutely no connection, but the D.A. still lost his job over this case.

  This case was so mishandled that people wonder if it can be solved at this point. I believe it can, but I have many questions.

Here are a few of my questions and theories.

–        Is it normal for a body to decompose so quickly in the river, or was she partially mutilated before her body was dumped?

–        – I would like to know what happened to Rob. Did his second marriage fall through? Is his wife/ex-wife still alive?

–        – Did a forensic team investigate Jennifer’s Jeep?

–        Has anyone checked Jennifer’s online footprint? Yes her laptop is missing, but surely her accounts would still be there. Everyone had a MySpace account. If someone remembered Jennifer’s email address then they might be able to reopen the accounts and see who she was talking to at the time of her death.

My suspicion and theory:

  Rob Holman claimed Jennifer had called him and wanted to see him on the evening of May 12th. He told the police that he refused to meet her because he had plans with his new girlfriend, but when asked for an alibi Rob said he didn’t have one. He was out driving around for four hours that night. Ok. What is it then? Was he with his new girlfriend, or was he out driving around? Also, I looked up the historical weather data for that day. It was rainy, overcast, and pop up thunderstorms all evening. Who drives around in thunderstorms? Curious.

  I have reached out to Sherriff Johnson and Daryl Parker with questions about this case. I haven’t heard back from them as of this writing, but I will update you all when I get some answers to my questions. As always, if you have any information regarding the murder of Jennifer Harris, please contact the

Fannin County Sherriff’s offce at (903) 583-2143

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Mary Ann Higginbotham was a sweet young woman who got mixed up with a rowdy young man who was in trouble with the law. Because of this, she would end up shot execution-style, and her body stuffed into a barrel. At least she was found. 46 years later, her boyfriend’s body is still missing. This case was bungled from the beginning, and this poor family still doesn’t have justice. 

On June 6, 1978, Mary Ann Higginbotham, 22 hadn’t shown up for work for three days in a row. This was completely out of character for Mary Ann, so her boss called the police. No one takes too much notice of the missing young woman. she was of age, and she had run off to California with her boyfriend once before. so an officer goes by the house, knocks on the door, and waits in the driveway for a few minutes, but Mary Ann never appears and they leave. they do not look inside the house or they would have found a crime scene. 

Almost a year later a 55-gallon barrel washed up on the shore of White Lick Creek twelve miles away. Inside they found the body of Mary Ann Higginbotham. She had been shot in the back of the head, rolled up in blankets and carpet, bound around the feet and chest, and stuffed into a barrel. 

At first law enforcement thought her boyfriend Timothy Willoughby was the prime suspect in her disappearance. Maybe he had killed her and skipped town, but no trace of Tim was ever found. Three more years would pass and finally, an informant would come forward with some disturbing information. Timothy Willoughby would never be found. In reality, he was the target of the hit and Mary Ann was collateral damage. 

Willoughby was involved in a car theft ring and they ended up chopping up the last car in Tim’s garage. The job was bungled and the police ended up on Tim’s doorstep for the car theft. The informant said two men killed Tim and Mary Ann and she knew about it because one of the murderers was her ex-husband. 

Ronald Tomasik and James Kellam were running a stolen car ring. They would take the cars and dismantle them partially either in Tim’s garage or in a body shop owned by a family member. Then they would take what was left of the dismantled car, and haul it away and torch it. This time they got caught and Timothy wasn’t going to take the rap for the group and told them he wanted money to disappear. If they didn’t pay, he would snitch on the whole group. 

The informant claimed they killed Mary Ann first in the house. She was home alone and let them in to wait for Tim to get home. They killed her and stuffed her in the barrel and then caught Tim as he came home. They convinced him to go for a ride with them and shot him about a mile from his house. The informant says they put him in a barrel as well and both barrels were buried in a gravel pit 22 miles upstream from where Mary Ann would eventually be found. 

After the one barrel was jarred loose from the flood waters after a freak snowstorm, the two men supposedly panicked and dug up Tim’s body. They took him back to the body shop and dismembered what was left of him. Then to make sure he would never be found they drove north and began scattering pieces of his remains along the road. They literally tossed him out like a cigarette butt along the back roads across several counties. 

The woman claimed the two men came home that night upset and made her wash the blood out of their clothes. She gave the police several rings that had belonged to Mary Ann as proof. 

The two men were arrested and it looked like this case was closed, but nothing could be further from the truth. Everyone was shocked when the prosecutor let them go. He said they demanded a speedy trial and that was enough to let these two men go free. That was over forty years ago, and this case is still right where it was left. If it weren’t for one advocate/friend the case would have been completely forgotten. 

What can be done now? In reality, not much. They had their case handed to them on a silver platter and bungled it. Now one of the alleged killers is dead and most of the evidence is gone. Only a few people are still around. Maybe the new prosecutor and the cold case detectives can get something together before it’s too late. 

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October 4, 1978 a young woman’s body is found in the ditch by a roadworker laying cable just outside of Rock Rapids, Iowa. She would be Jane Doe for almost thirty years, but finally in 2006 local police matched her fingerprints to an old arrest and her name was discovered. 

Wilma June Nissen was only 23-years-old, and to say her life was He$$ would be an understatement. She was born into a poverty-strickened family like many other children, but when her mother left them, it only compounded the problem. To make matters worse her sister was disabled and their father seemed more interested in other things.

Wilma never attended school. Instead the two sisters would be locked in the closet while her father left for the day. He ended up losing the house and the three ended up living in a car. While her disabled sister was locked in the trunk, Wilma was free to scrounge the alleyways looking for food for the family. This is the life poor Wilma suffered through when the Child Protective Services finally stepped in. 

Wilma was ten years old and she couldn’t even use a fork to eat. The children were taken from their father and passed from home to home in the foster care system. Wilma was one of the lucky ones, and she ended up in a couple of different loving homes as a foster child. So many children don’t get this opportunity, but like all foster children she would end up aging out of the system with no where to go and no life skills. She ended up on the streets paying her way with her body. 

By the time she was 23 she had been married three times and had three children. Unfortunately, those marriages failed, and the children were given up for adoption in each case. A year before Wilma died she gave birth to a beautiful little girl who was immediately adopted by one of Wilma’s former foster families. They were old enough to be her grandparents, but they didn’t care, they wanted to help any way that they could.

Fast forward until 2006, and by now you have a woman ho had looked for her mother for 17 years. Krissi was 28 years old by the time she would find out what happened to her biological mother, and she would find out in the most gruesome of ways. Everyone knew she was looking for Wilma, but nobody knew what happened to her. She just vanished into thin air. No one knew that she had been sitting as a Jane Doe for 27 years, but that was soon to change. 

Police would find her name through her fingerprints and it would hit the papers along with a photograph of a forensic reconstruction of her face. This is what Krissi got to see for the first time. A greusome reconstruction of what was left of her mother.  It was heart wrenching, but now she knew why Wilma never came for her.

It’s been 47 years since this woman’s body was found in that ditch, and we still don’t know what happened to her. There are two women who were also escorts that the police would like to question. One’s name is Peaches and the other one’s name is Sugar.  Of course, these are stage names. Police have contacted Sugarc and she denies any knowledge of Wilma, but she has also failed lie detector tests. It is a known fact that Peaches and Sugar would rob other escorts and clients. Is this what happened? We may never know. The police have never found Peaches. They think she may have fled to Canada after Wilma’s disappearance. 

There is hope however, DNA was found on the ropes that bound Wilma’s feet. The technology isn’t available to use this Amplified DNA source at this moment, but technology is advancing rapidly, and soon we may finally find out who killed Wilma June Nissen.

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A pregnant woman nearing her due date vanishes after a surprise meeting with the uninterested father of the unborn child. Although the man was named as a person of interest, he hasn’t been named as a suspect. Who could have taken this mother? Why is this case still unsolved fourteen years later?

August 14, 2005, Amanda Jones from Festus, Missouri, received a call from the man she claimed was the father of her baby. Although he wasn’t interested in a relationship with her, she hoped he would be interested in the child. Up until that point, he had shown no interest in either mother or baby.

It was a humid Sunday morning, and Amanda was on her way to church. She told the man she would meet him at the Hillsboro Civic Center around 1 pm after the Sunday Morning service. After church, Amanda drove her four-year-old daughter to her grandparent’s house. She told them she would be back in two hours and was never seen again.

Around 1:15 pm, Amanda received a phone call on her cell phone and wasn’t heard from again. According to Bryan Westfall, he met with the pregnant woman around 1 pm. They talked for an hour, then she excused herself to go to the restroom, and she never returned. He claimed he went out to his car around 5 pm and seen her sitting in her car.

Why would a pregnant woman sit in a hot car without an air conditioner for three hours?

Although this story is questionable, to say the least, Westfall hasn’t been officially named a suspect. He supposedly cooperated with the initial investigation but won’t talk about it anymore. A preliminary search was conducted on the family farm, but a thorough search needed a warrant. Police are hoping someone will come forward with the evidence they need to obtain the search warrant, but nothing has come in.

The family feels they already know who killed their daughter, but the police need evidence before they can do anything. If you have any information about this case, please contact your local FBI office.

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  Madeline Edman, 15 went missing from La Crosse, Wisconsin on July 29, 2005. Madeline and her mother were doing laundry at the local laundromat on the corner of St. James & Calendonia St. Madi decided to leave before her mother was finished and walked out the door. Her mother thought nothing of it but began to get worried when the teenager hadn’t returned home by that evening. Kathy Edman filed a missing person’s report for her daughter, but no clues ever emerged.

  Some reports say her grandmother thinks the teenager isn’t missing at all. She thinks the girl wanted to disappear. Due to her troubled childhood, and her mother’s arrests; perhaps this is the case, but as a child, someone needs to care and look for her. It’s not like she’s an adult and made this decision. The local police agree with my point of view on this case. Her case is classed as a “possible endangered runaway,” but the police haven’t ruled out homicide, or human trafficking.

  The authorities have created an age progression photo hoping to generate leads. If Madi is still in the area of La Crosse, there hasn’t been official sightings to verify it.

  I find it strange that a teenager can go missing, and yet her own family assumes she ran away. If you travel down Calendonia street, you will come across a Catholic church. Could this troubled teen have sought refuge there? Has any investigation gone in this angle? I don’t know, but I think it would be a good place to start. Maybe someone felt sorry for her and helped her disappear.

  Two months after her daughter’s disappearance, Kathy Edman was arrested and charged with encouraging or contributing to the delinquency of a child, drug possession, and distribution to a child under 17.

  In 2008, a body was recovered only 172 miles away from the laundromat that closely resembled the missing teen. It was later ruled out, and Madeline Edman’s case remains unsolved. If you have any information, please contact:

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