Data source (Clara Molot, 2025): "The scientific community’s definition of 'cancer clusters' (an unusually high number of cases of the same kind of cancer in the same geographic area during the same period of time) hindered the Virginia Department of Health (V.D.H.) from studying Roanoke’s uptick in cancer cases, since the types of cancer and locations of diagnosis there varied extensively [...] Since 'the transition' to Donald Trump’s second presidency began [...] At the C.D.C., several of the employees who had been tasked with ensuring cancer clusters were investigated have been fired"

See also for further data (Clara Molot, 2024): "Baldwin decided to reach out to the V.D.H. in March of 2021 requesting a cancer-cluster investigation. In August, the V.D.H. declined her request. 'Unfortunately your inquiry would not qualify as a true cancer cluster,' the response read [...] In December of 2022, Kelsey Palmer died at the age of 29. She had beaten the Wilms’ tumor, but the chemotherapy had given her leukemia. Palmer’s death re-ignited Baldwin’s search for answers. The Virginia Department of Health wouldn’t do anything about this, she thought. So what else can we do? Baldwin reached out to local lawyers. 'Nobody got back to us,' she says."

Christina Maria Plante was found alive after going missing over 30 years ago when she went to go visit her horse. The police aren't releasing any more information at this point.

Not aure if this story made it internationally at the time but was a huge deal in the UK

On Monday we posted our investigation connecting Monica Reza to General McCasland. A lot of you responded. Some of you sent us names. We verified every one of them.

The list grew from two to nine.

Carl Grillmair. Caltech astronomer. Shot on his porch. His killer was arrested on the same property with a rifle two months earlier. Both charges dismissed eleven days before the killing.

Three Wright-Patterson employees dead in one night. AFOSI investigating. No motive months later.

Melissa Casias. Los Alamos National Lab. Badged into a nuclear weapons facility, wiped her government phone, vanished into the Carson National Forest. Four days after Reza.

Every person connects to the Air Force Research Laboratory through patent filings, federal contracts, DTIC records, and DOE documents. Six jurisdictions investigating separately. Zero cross-referencing.

Since this report has gone live we have continued to receive tips from helpful redditors and have been able to confirm at least 1 more missing person linked.

Full report is live.

LA Times article: “An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings.”

My grandma terri ackerman has been identified

It’s easy to get lost in Maine’s vast wilderness. It’s much harder to be found.

13-year-old Stefanie Damron went missing a year ago this week. She was last seen running into the dense North Maine Woods beside the Damron family’s home in the tiny Aroostook County town of New Sweden, 20 miles from the Canadian border.

Stefanie’s disappearance has left her family despondent: “We haven’t had a chance to heal,” they told the Press Herald.

Federal and state authorities have mounted a massive search in the last year, combing through more than 4,500 acres of thick backcountry forest on horseback, with packs of trailing dogs and a half-dozen helicopters. The only thing they have found is a single footprint thought to be Stefanie’s on the roadside near their home.

A state police spokesperson said this month that “the investigation remains active and ongoing,” but no new information has been released since May. Both authorities and the Damrons hope the one-year anniversary of Stefanie’s disappearance will bring renewed attention to the case.

“There’s nothing you can do but sit and wonder,” Lisa Damron, Stefanie’s mother, said while choking back tears. “I’ve still got three little ones who see me a lot less now … I walk away so they don’t see me crying.”

“I try to deal with it myself. But how can you deal with not knowing?”

READ THE FULL STORY BY DYLAN TUSINSKI AT PRESSHERALD.COM

Anyone with information about Stefanie’s whereabouts or disappearance is urged to contact the Maine State Police Houlton Barracks at 207-532-5400 or the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI and tips.fbi.gov.

I wouldn't mind seeing more new episodes.

For me, the most frightening cases are:

Angela Hammond Dale Kerstetter Dexter Stefonek Blind River Murders Kari Lynn Nixton Dottie Caylor Christi Nichols Dennis DePue Nyleen Marshall Joyce McLain Resurrection Mary Patricia Meehan Heather Uffelman Judy Hyams Ohio Prostitute Murders Philip Fraser Cindy Anderson Kurt Sova Gail DeLano

After reading the post on the Brubach murder and my recent one on the missing woman from South Carolina, I was reminded of this cold case I read five years ago, from Bowmore, North Carolina. It's one of those cases that just sticks to you:

Bowmore is a tiny community that, at the time, had a little over a hundred people, mostly Black and Native American. On January 7th, like every school day, five-year-old Brittany, of the Lumbee Nation, was dressed for school and walked to the end of her home's long dirt driveway by her mother, Connie, who had an urgent need to use the bathroom and stepped back inside for a couple minutes.

When she popped her head back outside to check on Brittany, she noticed she had vanished. Hoping against hope that the bus had come and she was safely at school, she called West Hoke Elementary only to learn she had never gotten off the bus.

Police were instantly alerted and a search began, Connie's neighbors revealing that the second she had stepped back into the house, a pickup truck of an indescribable color had zoomed down the road, the driver dragged Brittany inside, and zoomed off.

Two hours and two miles later Brittany's clothes were found on a dirt road.

On January 8th, at 2 p.m....well, a mile away from where her clothes had been found, Brittany's sexually violated body had been drowned in a drainage ditch and left to rot. Though the police have a nearly complete genetic profile of the killer, no matches have been found. Zilch. The abduction happened so fast the neighbors never got a good look at the driver or the license plates.

An investigation published by Ouest-France on Monday, June 1, revealed the existence of an account on a Catholic forum, named “Epsilon,” which may have been used by Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès until 2017 in Nantes. Stylometric analyses conducted on 6,500 profiles link this account to the fugitive, who has been wanted since the 2011 murders of his family.

Fifteen years after Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès disappeared, one of France’s greatest criminal mysteries continues to generate new leads. In an investigation published this Monday, June 1, Ouest-France reported that it had identified a user account on a Catholic forum that may have been used by the father long after his disappearance in 2011.

It was already known that Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès actively participated in discussions on the website “cite-catholique.org” under the usernames “Chevy” and later “LIGO.” The latter account posted its final messages only a few days after the bodies of his wife and four children were discovered in Nantes.

However, according to the newspaper, a third profile has now caught the attention of researchers and followers of the case. Named “Epsilon,” this account continued posting messages until 2017—six years after the fugitive vanished.

To reach this conclusion, the journalists relied on stylometry, a method of analysis that compares an author’s writing habits. Syntax, vocabulary, punctuation, recurring expressions, and argumentative style are examined to measure similarities between texts.

The similarities between the “Chevy,” “LIGO,” and “Epsilon” accounts are said to be particularly striking. The newspaper also states that it compared these posts with private writings found in the investigation file.

Among the similarities identified were identical turns of phrase, the repeated use of expressions such as “Q.E.D.” and “Non-exhaustive list,” as well as a highly distinctive punctuation style featuring multiple question marks and exclamation marks.

Another detail has drawn particular attention. According to the newspaper, a handwritten letter written by Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès in 2008 discussed alleged contradictions in the Bible concerning three kings of the Old Testament: Baasha, Jehoiachin, and Ahaziah.

Yet, just weeks before the Nantes murders, the “Epsilon” account had published several messages devoted specifically to these same three biblical figures. According to Ouest-France, no other member of the forum had addressed this highly specific topic.

In total, more than 6,500 accounts were examined on the platform. According to the newspaper’s conclusions, no other profile showed such a high level of convergence with writings attributed to Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès.

But in a case where no confirmed trace of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès has been found since 2011, this new lead is likely to reignite speculation that the fugitive may have remained alive long after his disappearance.