Twenty Years Later: Still Unsolved (2026)

Several cases featured on True Case Files have remained unsolved for 20 years as the we embark on the year 2026. Below is an extensive list of all the unsolved missing persons and unsolved death/homicide cases on TCF that occurred in 2006. Here's to hoping these cases are closer to finding justice this year!

Listed by date of occurrence. Links to case details are provided.

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MISSING SINCE 2006:

Risha Aleena Lewis.

Name: Risha Lewis

Missing since: January 21st, 2006

Age at disappearance: 26

Last seen in: New Castle, DE/Elkton, MD

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Brandee Hope Canipe.

Name: Brandee Canipe

Missing since: May 6th, 2006

Age at disappearance: 29

Last seen in: Mocksville, NC

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Yesenia Castillo.

Name: Yesenia Castillo

Missing since: July 30th, 2006

Age at disappearance: 27

Last seen in: Chicago, IL

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Caleta Sade White.

Name: Caleta White

Missing since: August 22nd, 2006

Age at disappearance: 18

Last seen in: Tukwila, WA

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Devin Janelle Brown-Boussetta.

Name: Devin Brown-Boussetta

Missing since: September 5th, 2006

Age at disappearance: 25

Last seen in: Pittsburgh, PA

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Soon Chon Hwang.

Name: Soon Hwang

Missing since: September 5th, 2006

Age at disappearance: 44

Last seen in: Memphis, TN

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Kristen Lee Anderson.

Name: Kristen Anderson

Missing since: October 1st, 2006

Age at disappearance: 24

Last seen in: Martins Ferry, Ohio

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Jennifer Apreciado.

Name: Jennifer Apreciado

Missing since: October 26th, 2006

Age at disappearance: 17

Last seen in: San Antonio, TX

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Nicholle Rae Torrez.

Name: Nicholle Torrez

Missing since: December 14th, 2006

Age at disappearance: 27

Last seen in: Denver, CO

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UNSOLVED SINCE 2006

The Murder of Catrina Hinton.

Name: Catrina Hinton (18)

Case type: Disappearance and murder

Missing: January 14th, 2006

Remains found: February 6th, 2006

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Teen moves from Virginia to New Jersey for college; is murdered before she could begin attending school.

Case details: The Disappearance and Murder of Catrina Hinton.

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The Disappearance and Death of Taalibah Islam.

Name: Taalibah Islam (20)

Case type: Disappearance; unsolved death.

Missing: January 16th, 2006

Remains found: March 2023

Location: Fort Worth, TX

Texas woman vanished after an argument with her boyfriend. Her remains were found 17 years later; cause of death unable to be determined. The boyfriend has since been convicted of kidnapping another girlfriend. 

Case details: The Disappearance and Death of Taalibah Islam.

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The Disappearance and Murder of Jewel King.

Name: Jewel King (48)

Case type: Unsolved murder; shot to death.

Missing: April 7th, 2006

Remains found: April 2018

Location: Washington, DC.

A DC woman vanished in April 2006. In April 2018, her remains were found in a crawl space, along with the remains of 2 other DC women who also went missing in 2006. The 3 women did not know each other prior to their respective disappearances, but it's believed they were killed by the same person. 

Case details: The Disappearances & Murders of Jewel King, Verdell Jefferson, and Dorothy Butts.

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The Disappearance and Murder of Verdell Jefferson.

Name: Verdell Jefferson (41)

Case type: Unsolved murder; blunt force trauma.

Missing: May 1st, 2006

Remains found: April 2018

Location: Washington, DC.

A DC woman vanished in May 2006. In April 2018, her remains were found in a crawl space in Congress Heights, along with the remains of 2 other DC women who also went missing in 2006. The 3 women did not know each other prior to their respective disappearances, but it's believed they were killed by the same person. 

Case details: The Disappearances & Murders of Jewel King, Verdell Jefferson, and Dorothy Butts.

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The Disappearance and Murder of Terri Reyes.

Name: Terri Reyes (38)

Case type: Disappearance; unsolved murder

Missing: May 21st, 2006

Remains found: June 2007

Location: San Augustine County, TX

Texas woman vanishes before she is supposed to testify against a cop. Her remains are found a little over a year later in San Augustine County.

Case details: The Murders of Terri Reyes and Shunte Coleman.

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The Disappearance and Murder of Jorden Sopher.

Name: Jorden Sopher (18)

Case type: Disappearance and murder

Missing: May 23rd, 2006

Remains found: May 2009

Location: Wabash/Peru, IN

Teen from Wabash vanishes in 2006; her remains are found 3 years later in Peru. An autopsy was unable to confirm a cause of death, but the manner of death is homicide.

Case details: The Disappearance and Murder of Jorden Sopher.

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The Murder of Nishan Bonit Huff.

Name: Nishan Huff

Age: 23

Case type: Murder; shooting.

Date: June 7th, 2006

Location: Greenville County, SC

A young woman is shot to death inside her apartment. Two people were charged with murder in 2022, but the charges were later dropped. The case is still classified as unsolved.

Case details: The Murder of Nishan Huff.

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The Disappearance and Murder of Shunte Coleman.

Name: Shunte Coleman (26)

Case type: Disappearance and murder

Missing: July 2nd, 2006

Remains found: March 2014

Location: San Augustine County, TX

Texas woman vanished before she was supposed to testify against a cop. Her remains were found several years later in San Augustine County. The police officer remains the main suspect in this murder and the murder of Terri Reyes, but charges have never been filed.

Case details: The Murders of Terri Reyes and Shunte Coleman.

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The Disappearance and Murder of Victoria Eagleman.

Name: Victoria Eagleman (33)

Case type: Unsolved murder; blunt force trauma.

Missing: July 28th, 2006

Remains found: August 22nd, 2006

Location: Lower Brule, SD

A mother-of-five vanished after a day of swimming at the Missouri River. Her nude body was found weeks later; her death was caused by blunt force trauma. 

Case details: The Disappearance and Murder of Victoria Eagleman.

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The Murder of Jeana Lynn Burrus.

Name: Jeana Burrus 

Age: 39

Case type: Murder; never reported missing.

Date: Approx. Aug/Sept. 2006

Location: Sarasota, FL

The remains of an adult woman were found in February 2007; it's believed she'd been dead for about 5-6 months at that point. The woman is unidentified for 15 years until 2022, when DNA finally confirms she is Jeana Burrus. It's then learned that, despite living with a husband and 2 young sons, Jeana was never reported missing.

Case details: Never Reported Missing: The Murder of Jeana Burrus.

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The Disappearance and Murder of Amy Drake.

Name: Amy Drake (18)

Case type: Disappearance and murder

Missing: September 20th, 2006

Remains found: November 24th, 2006

Location: Norridgewock, ME

Maine teenager vanished near Skowhegan in September 2006; her remains were found two months later. Her death has been ruled a murder, but the cause of death has never been revealed.

Case details: The Disappearance and Murder of Amy Drake.

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The Disappearance and Murder of Tracy Jones.

Name: Tracy Onawa Jones (19)

Case type: Murder; blunt force trauma.

Missing: November 15th, 2006

Remains found: November 26th, 2006

Location: Little Rock, AR

Arkansas teenager vanishes from a truck stop; her remains are found 11 days later.

Case details: The Disappearance and Murder of Tracy Onawa Jones.

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The Murder of Priscilla Pimentel.

Name: Priscilla Pimentel

Age: 24

Case type: Murder; stabbing

Date: November 24th, 2006

Location: Queens, NY

A young woman and her dog found brutally murdered inside her Queens apartment.

Case details: The Murder of Priscilla Pimentel.

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The Murders of Heather and Kira Radcliffe.

Names: Heather and Kira Radcliffe

Age: 28 and 6

Case type: Murder; shooting and arson.

Date: December 9th, 2006

Location: Gainesville, FL

A young mother and her daughter are found deceased inside their burned down home. 

Case details: The Murders of Heather and Kira Radcliffe.

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The Disappearance and Murder of Dorothy Butts.

Name: Dorothy Butts (43)

Case type: Murder; shot to death.

Missing: December 25th, 2006

Remains found: April 2018

Location: Washington, DC.

A DC woman vanished in May 2006. In April 2018, her remains were found in a crawl space in Congress Heights, along with the remains of 2 other DC women who also went missing in 2006. The 3 women did not know each other prior to their respective disappearances, but it's believed they were killed by the same person. 

Case details: The Disappearances & Murders of Jewel King, Verdell Jefferson, and Dorothy Butts.

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List Series: Bus Stop Mysteries

The next installment of List Series: A list of six women who vanished while walking to or from a bus stop. Most buses and bus stops are equipped with surveillance cameras, and most areas with bus stops are public areas with numerous witnesses. Due to all this, it is hard for a person to simply vanish without a trace near a bus stop--which is what makes the following cases especially eerie.

6. Lashaya Stine

16 year-old Lashaya Stine was last seen during the early morning hours of July 15th, 2016. She snuck out of her family’s Aurora, Colorado home around 2am to meet with an unspecified individual and never came back. The last known sighting of Lashaya was on a surveillance camera, walking near a bus stop in the 1600 block of north Peoria Street at 2:23 a.m. She has never been heard from again.

Although Lashaya left her house without her mother’s permission, it is believed that she intended to return home before anyone even noticed that she had left. She left behind her clothes, wallet, money, phone charger and other belongings. She also has no history of running away from home or getting into trouble, and she disappeared the day before a job interview.

Lashaya’s family believes that she was forced into sex trafficking. Multiple witnesses have told her family that they’ve seen Lashaya in the Colfax Avenue area of Aurora; an area where prostitution and drugs are quite prevalent. Witnesses have also stated that a girl matching Lashaya’s description was being kept drugged and forced into prostitution. Despite these leads, Lashaya has still not been located and the FBI is actively investigating her case. [read more]

5. Caleta White

Caleta White (18) has been missing since August 22nd, 2005. That afternoon, Caleta left her mother’s home in Auburn, Washington and boarded a Metro Bus to visit her boyfriend in Tukwila. She never arrived at her destination and has never been seen or heard from again. Caleta was reported missing by her family after she missed a doctor’s appointment two days later.

Caleta’s boyfriend has a criminal record and apparently gave inconsistent statements to police about the last time he saw her. Despite this, police are currently not calling him a suspect in her case. However, police do believe that foul play was involved in Caleta’s disappearance. Caleta’s cell phone went inactive the day she vanished, and there has been no activity in her bank account since she vanished as well. It is also uncharacteristic of her to be out of touch with her loved ones.

It has been confirmed that Caleta did, in fact, board the Metro Bus that day; however her boyfriend claimed that Caleta never arrived at his house. It is unclear whether or not police believe his statements. [read more]

4. Ali Lowitzer

Alexandria ‘Ali’ Lowitzer was only 16 years old when she vanished on April 26th, 2010.  She disappeared after school that afternoon, shortly after she exited the school bus around 2:45pm. The bus stop where Ali was dropped off is only a few houses away from her family’s Spring, Texas home, but on that particular day, she did not go straight home after getting off the bus. Instead, Ali called her mother Jo Ann to let her know that she would be walking to her workplace, Burger Barn, to pick up her paycheck. That phone call was the last interaction Jo Ann has had with her daughter—Ali never returned home after that. According to the owner of Burger Barn, Ibrahim Banat, Ali never showed up at the restaurant to pick up her paycheck either. She was subsequently reported missing the next day.

Since Ali’s disappearance, the bus stop and the route to Burger Barn have been thoroughly searched. According to Ali’s mother, those searches did not yield any clues, evidence of foul play or even any of Ali’s personal belongings. Investigators also interviewed Ibrahim and the other employees at Burger Barn, despite the fact that Ibrahim said Ali never showed up that day. Law enforcement has never shared any concerns regarding the restaurant in relation to Ali’s disappearance. What happened to Ali after she exited the school bus that afternoon still remains a mystery. [read more]

3. Tabitha Tuders

Tabitha Tuders vanished while en route to her school bus stop on the morning of April 29th, 2003. The 13 year-old was last seen at her family’s Nashville, Tennessee home that morning around 7am, shortly after her father woke her up to get ready for school. Tabitha’s father left for work shortly after he woke her up–Tabitha was watching TV when he left and nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary. Just like every other day, Tabitha planned to walk to her bus stop on 14th and Boscobel Street to board the school bus at 8am. A few witnesses saw her walking towards that direction before 8am, but unfortunately Tabitha never made it to the bus stop or to school that day. When she did not return home that afternoon as planned, her parents called the school only to find out that she had not attended her classes at all that day. Tabitha was then reported missing around 6pm that evening.

Due to Tabitha’s age, authorities initially treated her disappearance as a runaway. Her parents have never believed that she left on her own accord; she has no history of running away and she was a straight-A student who took pride in her perfect school attendance record. Additionally, Tabitha left behind all of her personal possessions and money. At this time investigators have changed their tune, and have stated that they now believe Tabitha was abducted. Many leads have been chased over the years, including possible sightings of Tabitha on a prostitution website--however none of those leads have panned out. Tabitha's disappearance remains unsolved today. [read more]

2. Jennifer Apreciado

17 year-old Jennifer Apreciado vanished after leaving her boyfriend’s house in San Antonio, Texas on October 26th, 2006. She left his house on foot around 3pm, en route to a nearby bus stop where she planned to catch a bus home. During her walk to the bus stop, Jennifer called her boyfriend and said she’d noticed a car slowly circling the block, and she was frightened. She did not describe the appearance of the vehicle or the driver during that phone call. An hour later, Jennifer’s boyfriend tried calling her back to make sure she made it home. Another woman answered the phone and said she had found the phone on the ground on the street near the bus stop. It was later revealed that Jennifer never got on the bus as planned. She has not been seen or heard from again after that. [read more] [also on the Unsolved Mysteries & Suspicious Phone Calls list]

1. LeShay Dungey

LeShay Dungey has been missing since January 24th, 2018. The 19 year-old was last seen in Columbus, Ohio, after she had taken the #2 COTA Bus to see a male friend who lived near the intersection of Summit and East 18th Avenue. Around 8:25pm that evening, LeShay used Facebook messenger to tell her friend that she had exited the bus and was walking towards his residence. She asked him to unlock his door in preparation for her arrival.

LeShay and her friend continued to message back and forth as she approached his residence. Then, all of a sudden, the messages stopped. LeShay reportedly never arrived at her friend’s house. The last messages that LeShay received that evening were from said friend, asking where she was. LeShay also never returned home and has never been seen or heard from again.

Over a year has passed since LeShay’s disappearance, and there has unfortunately been very little media coverage about her case. Also, there are very few additional details available about her case. LeShay remains missing today. [read more]

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Ali Lowitzer's case is featured on Disappeared which is available here on Amazon.