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The 3rd play of Unsolved Mysteries has begun connected Netflix, with each the mysterious lights successful the sky, inexplicable sightings and suspected paranormal enactment that entails.
But determination are besides the flesh-and-blood acold cases, suspicious deaths and disappearances that lone grew more mysterious with time—and which were ever deserving of a heavy dive to the families and friends near behind five, 10, 20 years ago.
"We truly bash effort and person a assortment of antithetic types of mysteries, and we similar to effort and person mysteries that we deliberation are going to get solved," bid co-creator Terry Dunn-Meurer told Gizmodo up of the Oct. 18 play premiere. "We aren't ever close astir that. But also, cases wherever it feels similar the amusement tin bash something, wherever we tin really make immoderate tips; that's important due to the fact that [in] immoderate cases, instrumentality enforcement conscionable doesn't person immoderate leads."
The bid has made an impact, such arsenic successful the lawsuit of the 2004 decease of 23-year-old Alonzo Brooks, whose assemblage was recovered a period aft helium disappeared pursuing a enactment successful agrarian La Cygne, Ks., and featured on Unsolved Mysteries' 2nd season in 2020. While the question of what, exactly, happened to him remains unanswered, renewed attraction resulted successful his assemblage being exhumed and his death ruled a homicide pursuing an autopsy. The FBI offered a $100,000 reward for accusation that leads to an apprehension and condemnation of whoever's responsible.
"Alonzo Brooks was killed," Duston J. Slinkard, U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas, said successful 2021, per NBC News. "We are doing everything we can, and volition spare nary resources, to bring those liable to justice."
So each play of Unsolved Mysteries begins with the hope that immoderate antecedently uncovered portion of the puzzle volition autumn into place. Here are 3 cases that could instrumentality a turn:
Was Tiffany Valiante's decease truly a suicide?
Dianne Valiante never believed for a infinitesimal that her 18-year-old daughter, Tiffany—who was headed to assemblage successful the autumn of 2015 connected a volleyball scholarship—took her ain life.
"There's perfectly nary way, nary mode astatine all," she said connected the occurrence "Mystery astatine Mile Marker 45. "I privation to cognize what happened to my daughter."
On the nighttime of July 12, 2015, Dianne argued concisely with Tiffany extracurricular their location successful Mays Landing, N.J., aft her girl admitted to using a friend's credit paper without permission.
Diane went into the location astatine 9:28 p.m. to get Tiffany's father, Stephen Valiante. When they came backmost extracurricular a infinitesimal later, Tiffany was gone.
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A cervid camera Stephen had acceptable up extracurricular showed Tiffany walking disconnected astatine 9:29, wearing a achromatic shirt, achromatic jean shorts and flats, her hairsbreadth tied up successful a escaped bun.
The household searched for her astir the neighborhood. On the show, Tiffany's uncle Michael Valiante recalled heading toward the railroad tracks—where he saw determination had been an accident. A miss had been deed by a train. Local authorities hadn't been notified because the tracks were nether the jurisdiction of New Jersey Transit Police.
Michael, a State Police trooper, was the 1 who identified Tiffany's body. "I genuinely judge successful my full bosom that my member would ne'er person been capable to grip it," helium said. "What I saw that night, nary 1 needs to spot that. It was astir apt 1 of the astir horrific things I've seen."
The adjacent day, local quality outlets were already reporting that Tiffany had died by suicide. The authorities aesculapian examiner came to the aforesaid conclusion. Her lawsuit file, per records obtained by NJ.com, included statements from a comparative that Tiffany had been arguing with her parent and had a past of self-harm.
But Tiffany's household insisted she had to person been the unfortunate of foul play, that determination was nary mode she—as authorities investigators had determined, per NJ.com—dropped her telephone astatine the extremity of her ain driveway, walked 4 miles to the tracks successful the mediate of the night, past different mile alongside the tracks and stood connected intent successful beforehand of an oncoming NJ Transit train.
Another uncle, Robert Valiante Sr., said connected Unsolved Mysteries that Tiffany was "scared to decease of the dark."
Her shoes and headband were found along the way she seemingly took, her steps sniffed retired by a instrumentality enforcement bloodhound. But, arsenic her parents charged successful a 2016 suit challenging the aesculapian examiner's findings, investigators lone brought the canine retired aft 2 dense rainstorms. Who knows what benignant of clues had been lost, they wondered.
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"We're conscionable benignant of acting similar she's inactive away, you know, astatine college," Tiffany's older sister Jessica Valiante-Vallauri told NJ Advance Media, which included Tiffany's lawsuit successful a 2017 investigative report for NJ.com about alleged rampant dysfunction wrong the State Medical Examiner's Office. "We're waiting for her to travel location due to the fact that it hasn't truly clicked that this is real, due to the fact that we truly don't cognize what happened that nighttime to her."
The Valiante household hired their ain investigator, who provided a 20-page study to NJ Advance Media detailing myriad ways the authorities allegedly didn't springiness Tiffany's decease owed diligence. "While determination are respective plausible explanations for Ms. Valiante's tragic death," the researcher wrote, "suicide is not 1 of them."
After NJ Advance Media published its report successful December 2017, then-incoming Gov. Phil Murphy called for "wholesale reform" of the State Medical Examiner system, calling the article's findings "shocking and appalling." (Then-outgoing Gov. Chris Christie had nary comment.)
But successful March 2018, aft reviewing his office's 2015 findings, as good arsenic further accusation provided by the Valiante household and their investigator, Chief State Medical Examiner Andrew Falzon upheld the archetypal conclusion: Tiffany died by suicide.
Her family's attorney, Paul D'Amato, told NJ.com that Tiffany's loved ones weren't giving up. "All the household is looking for is simply a declaration from the authorities of New Jersey to accidental their girl didn't perpetrate suicide," helium said. "The adjacent step, which is going to beryllium the endless journey, is to find retired however she was killed."
In summation to stating their lawsuit on Unsolved Mysteries, Stephen and Dianne have accrued their offered reward for accusation that leads to definitive answers astir Tiffany's destiny from $20,000 to $40,000, according to the Press of Atlantic City.
"We cognize truthful galore others that besides judge Tiffany's decease was not suicide, that determination was a unreserved to judgement to adjacent the case, and that the existent communicative of however and wherefore she died has yet to beryllium told," they said successful a connection released by D'Amato. "The operation of this new, profoundly researched, fact-based programme and the accrued reward mightiness conscionable beryllium what's indispensable to assistance get Tiff's lawsuit reopened."
Who killed David Carter?
Fearful of what they mightiness find successful the sleeping container that attraction workers had travel crossed in a grassy country alongside Ohio Interstate 75 connected Oct. 1, 2018, Ohio Department of Transportation officials waited for authorities troopers to amusement up.
Which was for the best, due to the fact that the container contained the dismembered little fractional of a man's body. Authorities noted a distinctive tattoo of a pit bull with reddish eyes connected the near precocious leg, and sent the description out for constabulary to cheque with missing idiosyncratic reports.
DNA investigating soon confirmed that the remains belonged to 39-year-old David Carter of Melvindale, Mich., whose household had reported him missing respective days beforehand aft helium didn't amusement up for 2 shifts astatine the auto parts manufacturer where helium worked.
His sister Tasia Carter-Jackson, brother-in-law Derrick Jackson, dada Elton Carter Sr. and ex-partner Samia Conner recounted connected the Unsolved Mysteries episode "Body successful Bags" going to his residence astatine the Gale Gardens Apartment to look for him connected Oct. 2. His car was inactive successful the batch and the doorway to his portion was unlocked. Tasia said there was what looked similar a humor stain connected the level nether the bed, and indentations connected the carpet indicated the furniture had been moved to conceal the stain. Elton, arsenic an ex-military man, recognized what looked to him similar a slug spread successful the closet door, positive determination was different spread successful the mediate of different reddish stain connected the mattress.
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They recalled being puzzled that Tamera "Tammy" Williams, David's woman of six months, didn't look peculiarly shaken by the quality that her fellow was missing. Tasia said connected the amusement that Tammy told her she hadn't seen David successful a fewer days and didn't cognize wherever helium was. She reportedly kept going to enactment and posting connected societal media similar everything was normal.
On Oct. 5, Ohio State Highway Patrol announced the DNA match to the remains recovered on Interstate 75.
The adjacent day, Melvinville Police confirmed to the Detroit Free Press that a person of involvement whose individuality they did not disclose had been arrested successful transportation with the investigation.
On Oct. 16, more remains were found along Interstate 75, astatine different exit 20 miles distant from the archetypal site, which authorities suspected were connected to the archetypal grisly discovery. By past David's decease was being investigated arsenic a homicide.
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"OK, Tammy is the key," Samia, ma to present 20-year-old lad D.J. Carter with David, recalled reasoning astatine the clip connected Unsolved Mysteries. "She knows what happened."
But by the mediate of October, Tammy was obscurity to beryllium found.
Tasia said connected the amusement that astatine archetypal she believed backmost successful October 2018 that David had breached up with Tammy and she couldn't instrumentality it—but, she added, "I never, ne'er thought Tammy would beryllium susceptible of murder. Never."
Investigators concluded otherwise. On Dec. 20, 2018, Michigan's 24th District Court issued a felony warrant for Tammy's apprehension connected charges of first-degree homicide, disinterring a dormant assemblage and tampering with evidence.
In January 2019, authorities told Detroit's 7 Action News that Tammy was the 1 who killed David. Police confirmed that Tammy was the idiosyncratic of involvement who'd been taken into custody, but she was released—and past near town.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Aaron Garcia told the presumption that Tammy was "a manipulative person, an evil idiosyncratic retired determination who thought this out, and—she killed her boyfriend." They had tracked her arsenic acold arsenic Brooklyn, N.Y., but past she disappeared disconnected their radar.
On Feb. 1, the U.S. Marshals Service Detroit Fugitive Apprehension Team sent retired an alert asking the nationalist for assistance uncovering Tammy. And they've been looking for her ever since.
In October 2021, the U.S. Marshals Service raised the reward for accusation starring to her seizure to $10,000.
"She changes her look a lot," Garcia told ClickOnDetroit. "You know, she mightiness person a wig and she fluctuates her hair. The color, styles. So, arsenic acold arsenic identification...it's been beauteous hard."
Sister Tasia told the outlet, "It's been a nightmare for our family...we inactive haven't processed it. We were ne'er capable to spot my member successful the casket. We were ne'er capable to interaction him oregon thing similar that...We conscionable virtually person perfectly nothing."
What happened to Joshua Guimond?
On the nighttime of Nov. 9, 2002, Joshua Guimond arrived at a enactment wrong a friend's dorm to play poker astatine 11:30 p.m. By midnight, helium was gone.
And the 20-year-old St. John's University student, who vanished into the nighttime successful Collegeville, Minn., has been missing ever since.
According to consequent accusation shared by authorities and his family, the aspiring lawyer who was voted "Most Likely to Succeed" successful precocious school didn't person his glasses oregon his car keys, helium wasn't dressed warmly capable to walk immoderate magnitude of clip successful the snowfall and, arsenic clip went by, determination was nary enactment connected his recognition cards. Friends archetypal realized thing was incorrect erstwhile Josh didn't show up for a mock proceedings squad signifier the time aft the party.
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Local and authorities authorities, joined by much than 100 Minnesota National Guard troops and countless volunteers, combed the sprawling field and surrounding woods, a chopper scoured the country from supra and dive teams were dispatched to plumb the depths of Stumpf Lake. But each hunt came up empty.
"We searched what we could successful the dark," Stearns County Sheriff's Department Lt. Dave Nohner told the Maple Lake Messenger astatine the time. "Our resources were activated astatine 7 a.m. connected Monday [Nov. 11] and we conducted a hunt of the field and its buildings, going fundamentally country to room, including the powerfulness plant, the doors and each the wooded areas."
Authorities yet raised the anticipation that Josh fell into one of the bodies of h2o astir field and drowned. But Josh's father, Brian Guimond—who astatine 1 constituent hired backstage divers to travel up on that theory—became convinced that his son was a unfortunate of foul play.
Brian sued the Stearns County Sheriff's Office for entree to Josh's lawsuit record successful March 2021, lawyer Mike Padden telling CBS Minnesota, "We consciousness that if we person that there's a tenable accidental we tin fig retired what happened to Josh."
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On the 2016 podcast Simply Vanished, host Josh Newville—who secured approval from Josh's parents earlier embarking connected his ain investigation—raised the anticipation that there was a greater signifier astatine hand. "There were a bid of attacks and stalkings, attempted abductions of assemblage men successful the area," he told Minnesota Public Radio, "not conscionable successful November of 2002, the aforesaid period that Josh went missing, but successful the years surrounding that arsenic well. And truthful we are continuing to person leads related to this theory."
Interest successful the existent transgression podcast aside, the lawsuit remained cold—but sheriff's officials who inherited the investigation years aft Josh vanished person not fixed up.
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"We judge we tin lick it done hard enactment and a small spot of luck," Stearns County Sheriff's Office Lt. Vic Weiss told the Star Tribune in 2017. "That lawsuit is truthful unfastened arsenic acold arsenic possibilities—whether helium walked away, whether helium was abducted, whether helium was killed. We don't cognize wherefore helium disappeared."
"Someone has a captious portion of information," Weiss added. "Most times it's thing from the public...that pushes the lawsuit forward."
Many of the aforesaid names quoted successful the reports of his disappearance successful 2002 appeared on Unsolved Mysteries, including his precocious schoolhouse sweetheart, Katie Benson, mom Lisa Cheney and dada Brian, and they support anticipation that answers are retired there.
Josh's representation hangs successful the hallway astatine the Stearns County Sheriff's Office "because we inactive person this unsolved case," Weiss said connected the show, "and we person to person that constant, regular reminder that it's there, truthful it's not forgotten."
The archetypal 3 episodes of Unsolved Mysteries season 3 are streaming connected Netflix, with ensuing trios dropping Oct. 25 and Nov. 1.
