Down & Away

On June 26, 1978 , the body of Patricia Lucille Smith , w/f 35 years of age, was located in her bedroom at 1206 Gay Street, Apopka, unincorporated Seminole County, Florida. Smith had been strangled and was found partially clothed, however the exact time/date of death was difficult to establish due to the amount of decomposition. Also on J une 26, 1978 , the body of E velyne Rogers Dennis-Beske , w...

February 21, 1990 - David Ricketson was killed in his home north of Sorrento Florida, on a remote 168 parcel of land where he’d recently erected a hydroponic nursery. His case remains unsolved. To report any information you have, please call the Lake County Sheriff’s Cold Case team at 352-343-9529 or email ColdCase@lcso.org You may also call Crimeline at 800-423-8477 (TIPS) to report any crime tip...

February 21, 1990 - David Ricketson was killed in his home north of Sorrento Florida, on a remote 168 parcel of land where he’d recently erected a hydroponic nursery. His case remains unsolved. To report any information you have, please call the Lake County Sheriff’s Cold Case team at 352-343-9529 or email ColdCase@lcso.org You may also call Crimeline at 800-423-8477 (TIPS) to report any crime tip...

February 21, 1990 - David Ricketson was killed in his home north of Sorrento Florida, on a remote 168 parcel of land where he’d recently erected a hydroponic nursery. His case remains unsolved. To report any information you have, please call the Lake County Sheriff’s Cold Case team at 352-343-9529 or email ColdCase@lcso.org You may also call Crimeline at 800-423-8477 (TIPS) to report any crime tip...

February 21, 1990 - David Ricketson was killed in his home north of Sorrento Florida, on a remote 168 parcel of land where he’d recently erected a hydroponic nursery. His case remains unsolved. To report any information you have, please call the Lake County Sheriff’s Cold Case team at 352-343-9529 or email ColdCase@lcso.org You may also call Crimeline at 800-423-8477 (TIPS) to report any crime tip...

February 21, 1990 - David Ricketson was killed in his home north of Sorrento Florida, on a remote 168 parcel of land where he’d recently erected a hydroponic nursery. His case remains unsolved. To report any information you have, please call the Lake County Sheriff’s Cold Case team at 352-343-9529 or email ColdCase@lcso.org You may also call Crimeline at 800-423-8477 (TIPS) to report any crime tip...

February 21, 1990 - David Ricketson was killed in his home north of Sorrento Florida, on a remote 168 parcel of land where he’d recently erected a hydroponic nursery. His case remains unsolved. To report any information you have, please call the Lake County Sheriff’s Cold Case team at 352-343-9529 or email ColdCase@lcso.org You may also call Crimeline at 800-423-8477 (TIPS) to report any crime tip...

February 21, 1990 - David Ricketson was killed in his home north of Sorrento Florida, on a remote 168-acre parcel of land where he’d recently erected a hydroponic nursery. His case remains unsolved. To report any information you have, please call the Lake County Sheriff’s Cold Case team at 352-343-9529 or email ColdCase@lcso.org You may also call Crimeline at 800-423-8477 (TIPS) to report any crim...

February 21, 1990 - David Ricketson was killed in his home north of Sorrento Florida, on a remote 168 acre parcel of land where he’d recently erected a hydroponic nursery. His case remains unsolved. To report any information you have, please call the Lake County Sheriff’s Cold Case team at 352-343-9529 or email ColdCase@lcso.org You may also call Crimeline at 800-423-8477 (TIPS) to report any crim...

February 21, 1990 - David Ricketson was killed in his home north of Sorrento Florida, on a remote 168 parcel of land where he’d recently erected a hydroponic nursery. His case remains unsolved. To report any information you have, please call the Lake County Sheriff’s Cold Case team at 352-343-9529 or email ColdCase@lcso.org You may also call Crimeline at 800-423-8477 (TIPS) to report any crime tip...

February 21, 1990 - David Ricketson was killed in his home north of Sorrento Florida, on a remote 168 parcel of land where he’d recently erected a hydroponic nursery. His case remains unsolved. To report any information you have, please call the Lake County Sheriff’s Cold Case team at 352-343-9529 or email ColdCase@lcso.org You may also call Crimeline at 800-423-8477 (TIPS) to report any crime tip...

His body was found in a wooded area next to the Calibre Bend Apartments in Orlando Florida in 2000, but Paul Lawrence "Larry" Rougeux wasn't identified until early 2024. It is believed that he was killed around 1992-1993. There is very little known about his whereabouts in the ten years leading up to his death. A homicide case intersects with genetic genealogy, and the far-reaching impacts of that...

His body was found in a wooded area next to the Calibre Bend Apartments in Orlando Florida in 2000, but Paul Lawrence "Larry" Rougeux wasn't identified until early 2024. It is believed that he was killed around 1992-1993. There is very little known about his whereabouts in the ten years leading up to his death. A homicide case intersects with genetic genealogy, and the far-reaching impacts of that...

His body was found in a wooded area next to the Calibre Bend Apartments in Orlando Florida in 2000, but Paul Lawrence "Larry" Rougeux wasn't identified until early 2024. It is believed that he was killed around 1992-1993. There is very little known about his whereabouts in the ten years leading up to his death. A homicide case intersects with genetic genealogy, and the far-reaching impacts of that...

His body was found in a wooded area next to the Calibre Bend Apartments in Orlando Florida in 2000, but Paul Lawrence "Larry" Rougeux wasn't identified until early 2024. It is believed that he was killed around 1992-1993. There is very little known about his whereabouts in the ten years leading up to his death. A homicide case intersects with genetic genealogy, and the far-reaching impacts of that...

His body was found in a wooded area next to the Calibre Bend Apartments in Orlando Florida in 2000, but Paul Lawrence "Larry" Rougeux wasn't identified until early 2024. It is believed that he was killed around 1992-1993. There is very little known about his whereabouts in the ten years leading up to his death. A homicide case intersects with genetic genealogy, and the far-reaching impacts of that...

Four more Orlando victims are covered in this season and there is an interview with Donnie Vaughn, the child who was 5 months old when his mother Emma Vaughn went missing in 1982. Music this season courtesy of Blue Dot Sessions

Mabel Andrews' brother Tommie Lee Andrews was the first person in the United States to be convicted of a crime using DNA evidence.

The cases of Mabel Andrews (16) and Nancy Grace Daniel (14) are thought to be related, but the details are complicated. Both young women never returned to their Orlando, Florida area homes after going missing just months apart in 1976.

9-year-old Likisha Battle was sent on an errand by her mother one Sunday morning in the summer of 1982, but never returned home. Her body was found in a wooded area behind their apartment complex two days later.

Emma Vaughn was allegedly last seen walking down Robinson Street in Orlando, Florida on July 10th, 1982. She was 14 years old and had given birth to a baby boy just 5 months before she suddenly disappeared.

On February 22, 1972, around 8a.m., the bodies of Shirley Elizabeth Whitten (19) and Roger Dale Higgins (26) were discovered in the Oak Grove Cemetery at the end of CR 232 in Wildwood, Florida. Both were stabbed multiple times. Shirley Whitten worked at the Union 76 Truck Stop at the time of her death. Roger Dale Higgins had just started working for a moving company and had stopped in to rest at t...

On February 22, 1972, around 8a.m., the bodies of Shirley Elizabeth Whitten (19) and Roger Dale Higgins (26) were discovered in the Oak Grove Cemetery at the end of CR 232 in Wildwood, Florida. Both were stabbed multiple times. Shirley Whitten worked at the Union 76 Truck Stop at the time of her death. Roger Dale Higgins had just started working for a moving company and had stopped in to rest at t...

On February 22, 1972, around 8a.m., the bodies of Shirley Elizabeth Whitten (19) and Roger Dale Higgins (26) were discovered in the Oak Grove Cemetery at the end of CR 232 in Wildwood, Florida. Both were stabbed multiple times. Shirley Whitten worked at the Union 76 Truck Stop at the time of her death. Roger Dale Higgins had just started working for a moving company and had stopped in to rest at t...

On February 22, 1972 around 8a.m., the bodies of Shirley Elizabeth Whitten (19) and Roger Dale Higgins (26) were discovered in the Oak Grove Cemetery at the end of CR 232 in Wildwood, Florida. Both were stabbed multiple times. Shirley Whitten worked at the Union 76 Truck Stop at the time of her death. Roger Dale Higgins had just started working for a moving company and had stopped in to rest at th...