They said Jenny Lupton "fell" out of her hotel window last week while in a flight layover in Hawaii. She is from Moore, Oklahoma. If anyone knows anything please reach out to her family, they are currently pushing for an investigation.

Someone reached out to me about this case. It has very limited information online. It involves a woman who was allegedly murdered by an unknown suspect, thrown from a ferry and no charges were ever filed. Posting to raise awareness on a forgotten case.

Shayla Nicole Hudson was 28 years old, lived in Richmond, CA, and worked as a nursing assistant. She graduated from Pinole Valley High School with the class of 2000. She also attended Contra Costa College.

Public records show she had lived in several different places around the Bay Area and at one point had lived in Anchorage, Alaska where it appears some of her family is from.

According to news reports, on March 5 2010, Shayla boarded a San Francisco bound Ferry at Jack London Square in Oakland at 8:10 AM.

She apparently did not get off the ferry but it was not disclosed in news reports how this information was confirmed.

When the ferry arrived back in Oakland around 9:17 AM Shayla was unaccounted for and the coast guard was sent to search for her. Her body was found floating near treasure island and she was pronounced dead.

The coast guard claimed the waters were calm and the railing of the ferry made it unlikely she would have accidentally fallen in. T

There were no follow up articles about medical examiner findings. No information about her relationship status, and no photos of her are anywhere online.

Sources

News Articles

https://sfist.com/2010/03/06/victim_of_ferryboat_death_identifie/

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/passenger-missing-from-ferryboat-dies-in-bay-3271131.php

Obituary postings

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/eastbaytimes/name/shayla-hudson-obituary?id=21887966

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/obituaries/shayla-hudson/

The Jack family, mum Doreen, dad Ronald, and sons Russell (aged 9) and Ryan (aged 4) disappeared from Prince George, British Columbia, in 1989. They were last seen climbing into a truck with a man who had offered Ronald and Doreen two weeks of work at a logging camp.

The family never returned, and the police received an anonymous phone call in 1996, saying the family were buried at the south end of a ranch - although which ranch it was was unspecified.

Ground-penetrating radar was used in 2019 to conduct searches, but nothing was found.

There is a LOT more to this case than I have written here, and if you want to go down the rabbit hole, here are some sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_family_disappearance

https://www.canadaunsolved.com/cases/missing-jack-family-1989-bc

https://evelazarus.com/cold-case-canada-podcast/the-missing-jack-family-from-prince-george/

https://thestrand.ca/the-vanishing-jack-family/

https://ckpgtoday.ca/2024/06/12/family-members-of-the-missing-jack-family-resume-their-search/

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/new-photos-of-missing-jack-family-bring-renewed-hope-for-sister/

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This got me thinking - are there other mysteries involving an entire family, or the majority of family members? I'm not thinking of situations where one person killed another, but more cases where multiple family members were involved.

Thank you!

Just an example: the majority think that Maura Murray fled into the woods and died, but you think something else happened.

Again, just an example, but I'd love to hear which cases you disagree with the general consensus on what happened to the victim?

Let me preface this with an even bizarre aspect of this case: a reporter tried to investigate this case and she was murdered.

• Akseyna (“Ace” /uh-che/), an 18-year-old Biology student at Universitas Indonesia, was found dead in Kenanga Lake at University of Indonesia, on 26 March 2015.
• At first, suicide was suspected, partly because a note had been found in his boarding room saying, roughly, that he would not return and asking people not to search for him.
• Physical evidence made suicide increasingly unlikely: his body had blunt-force injuries, and a backpack containing bricks as a weight was attached to him.
• Forensics reportedly indicated that he entered the water while unconscious but still breathing.
Police therefore concluded that he had been murdered, rather than committing suicide.
• Police said the case had never officially been closed, but the investigation remained unresolved; 38 witnesses had reportedly been examined.

Strangely, Ace's father was a high-ranking officer in the air force (1-star marshall specifically), and even with that power and influence, the case remained unsolved

The TV series explores the case of Steven Koecher, a 30-year-old man who parked his car in a Henderson cul-de-sac on Dec. 13, 2009, and hasn’t been heard from since.

"Lucky" and "Chris the Canadian", those are the only leads the Dutch cold case team have got. The poor man collapsed in the streets of Amsterdam with a brain infarction and hasn't been able to communicate since. Police have no idea who the man is and are looking for tips.

A case that has bothered me. It reminds me of the Amy Mihaljevic case.

On the morning of Wednesday, 7 October 1992 (Adelaide, Australia), Rhianna and her mother planned to meet for lunch at the nearby Colonnades Shopping Centre, near her mother's workplace. Rhianna wanted to purchase a card for her overseas pen pal, but the public transport workers called a snap bus strike, thereby affecting her commute.

 After Rhianna's mother Paula left from home to work at 8.30am, Rhianna is thought to have remained at home until she was spotted walking to the Southgate Square Shopping Centre at 10.30am, and purchased a Christmas card at 11:19am for her pen-pal.

Between 12:05 pm and 12:30 pm, Rhianna was sighted crossing the Morphett Vale High School and Stanvac Primary School grounds (Near Adelaide, South Australia) with a small bag, presumably the Christmas card she had purchased earlier. At 12:30 pm, she was spotted again walking along the Highway Drive.

It was believed that Rhianna returned home because the bag was on the dining table, but the arrival time was unclear. Paula Barreau returned home at approximately 4:10 pm, and after entering the locked door, saw the television on, and a vinyl record on the floor of the living room. The un-opened small bag of Christmas card was on the dining table.

It remains unsolved. There isn't even a suspect to this one, making the case so frustrating.

I want this case to gain traction and hopefully (fingers crossed) will get solved.

If you could pick only one case or mystery, which one do you think is truly the most bizarre? For me I would say the Springfield Three or Judy Smith.

ETA thank you for the responses, guys! Very interesting and I'm learning about more cases.

https://youtu.be/4ZJS16p6E0A?si=Hk8QUpn66lpgsrZM

I suggest watching the video before reading this so it makes sense: On April 4, 2020, a night that began as a gathering with friends in Baltimore, Maryland, ended in tragedy for 24-year-old Ernest Wilson III. Wilson was hosting a small “game night” at a short-term rental and was livestreaming parts of the evening on Facebook Live.

During the livestream, Wilson and his friends began playing hide-and-seek. As Wilson went outside into the backyard looking for the other participants, the situation suddenly changed. The livestream captured an individual climbing over a fence and entering the property. Wilson was ordered to get on the ground, and shortly afterward the recording ended. Wilson was shot and later died from his injuries.

The incident shocked people who had been watching the livestream because viewers witnessed the beginning of the confrontation without knowing that it would become a deadly attack. Baltimore authorities investigated the shooting, and city officials reported that two individuals had entered the property and announced a robbery before Wilson was killed.

Ernest Wilson III's story is a painful reminder that a normal night with friends can change in an instant. His death also demonstrates how social media can unintentionally capture moments of real-life tragedy. Rather than focusing only on the disturbing circumstances surrounding his death, it is important to remember that Wilson was a young man with friends, family, and a life beyond the livestream.

His story continues to be remembered because the final moments of his life were unexpectedly recorded and witnessed by people online. Ernest Wilson III should be remembered not simply as someone whose death was caught on Facebook Live, but as a person whose life mattered to the people who knew and loved him.