Lost Sisters

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In July 1997, 20-year-old Kelli Cox was a college student and mother to a young daughter when an ordinary day took a terrifying turn. After visiting a local museum with classmates in Denton, Texas, Kelli returned to her car and realized she had locked her keys inside. She walked across the street t…

Caroline Bolen was murdered inside her Silsbee, Texas home in 1988, leaving behind a case that would remain unsolved for nearly four decades. Years later, advances in forensic genetic genealogy would finally identify the man responsible and bring answers to a case that had haunted the community for…

Three Native women. Three lives, three families, and three stories that deserve to be remembered beyond the circumstances of their disappearance or death. This first Lost Sisters collective brings several cases together to look at the individual women behind the statistics, while also confronting t…

At just 20 years old, Vanessa Guillén disappeared from Fort Hood, Texas. As her family fought for answers, Vanessa’s disappearance gained national attention and raised serious questions about what was happening behind the gates of one of the country’s largest military installations. Her case would …

Lindsey Barnett was a 37-year-old elementary art teacher and devoted mother of two living in Lakewood, Colorado. When her husband called 911 and claimed Lindsey had taken her own life, investigators quickly realized the scene didn’t match his story. As detectives looked closer, they uncovered a str…

In 1976, 20-year-old Jennifer Barton disappeared from Austin, Texas, leaving behind few answers about where she went or what happened to her. But Jennifer was not the only young woman to vanish. Two others would also disappear, creating a troubling pattern that has raised questions for decades. Wer…

At seventeen years old, Genelle Bradford was standing on the edge of adulthood. She had plans, people who loved her, and an entire life still waiting ahead of her. But when she suddenly disappeared from Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1999, authorities labeled her a runaway. That assumption would fol…

Christie Wilson was murdered on her way home after finishing her shift at a convenience store in Liberty County, Texas, in 1982. More than four decades later, her case remains unsolved.

In 1960, 25 year old Irene Garza left her family's home to attend confession at her church in McAllen, Texas. She never returned. Days later, her body was discovered in a nearby irrigation canal, and the investigation that followed was filled with unanswered questions, rumors, and decades of silenc…