Within a three-day period in late December 1955, three people were found murdered along U.S. 67, one of the main highways through Arkansas. Various newspapers quoted Clark County Sheriff Buren Hardin as saying, “It looks to me like all three jobs may have been done by some kill-crazy nut traveling down the road.” Newspapers sensationalized…
Murder Mystery: The Pursuit to Solve the Missy Witt Murder By Lauren McLemore On Dec. 1, 1994, 19-year-old Melissa Witt drove to Bowling World in Fort Smith but never made it inside. After some time, Witt’s mother filed a missing persons report, and police found her car still parked at the bowling alley…
Murder Mystery: Murder at Horseshoe Lake, Conclusion By Janie Jones The New Madrid Earthquake of 1811-12 was so strong it made church bells ring in Boston and caused the Mississippi River to run backward. By the time it was all over, the course of the river had changed, and parts of it meandered off…
An Oregon man has been arrested and charged with an Arkansas murder that has been open since 2004. The Arkansas State Police (ASP) announced that William Alama Miller, 44, has been arrested for the murder of Rebekah Gould. The Cottage, Grove, Ore. resident was arrested on Saturday, Nov. 7, in Lane County, Oregon by…
by Janie Jones The West Memphis Child Murders: Part 1 The West Memphis Child Murders: Part 2 The West Memphis Child Murders: Part 3 In 2007, when FBI profiler John Douglas was investigating the murders of Christopher Byers, Stevie Branch and Michael Moore, he said Stevie’s stepfather, Terry Hobbs, was “on the front burner” of suspects.…
by Janie Jones Need a Refresher? Here’s Part 1 of Murder Mystery: The Pistol Packing Preacher In the early 1930s, a rivalry between two preachers, Joseph Jeffers and Dale Crowley, resulted in violent confrontations between their opposing factions. This series of incidents, known as the “Jonesboro Church Wars,” led to one of the ministers being tried…
By Janie Jones The Morgan Nick AMBER Alert is Arkansas’ version of the nationwide system used by law enforcement and media to notify the public when a child may have been abducted. The sooner the word gets out, the better the chances are finding the juvenile. AMBER is an acronym for America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency…
The Morgan Nick Story by Janie Jones An old superstition says if you make a wish when you see the first lightning bug of the year, the wish will come true. But for Colleen Nick, lightning bugs remind her of the night her six-year-old daughter, Morgan, went missing. On June 9, 1995, Colleen and Morgan…
By Janie Jones For more than 25 years, the unsolved murder of Pamela Felkins haunted a lot of people: her family and friends, the people of Greenbrier where she lived and died and the investigators who would catch a lead only to see it vanish in the wind. Was her killer a stranger? Or was…
By Janie Jones [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n November of 1987, Friday the 13th was an especially unlucky day for John Markle, the vice president of Stephens Inc. in Little Rock. Markle lost his job that day. More precisely, he was fired. It was an ignominious end to a career that had begun with such promise. Before he received…
