“She was literally fighting for her life for 48 hours," Carlee Russell's boyfriend said of her disappearance. Police have not released any details of where she was.
“My son’s girlfriend heard her asking the child, ‘Are you Ok?' She never heard the child say anything but then she heard our daughter scream,’’ Carlee Russell's mom said.
"It felt like Stockholm syndrome honestly,” Rudy Farias said of his mom allegedly manipulating him into staying home for eight years to maintain the lie that he'd been missing the entire time.
Fanta Xayavong's remains were found in a storage unit a week after Joseph Jorgenson was charged with the death and dismemberment of his ex-girlfriend, Manijeh "Mani" Starren.
Rudy Farias came home shortly after he was reported missing and has been living with his mom all along, despite her maintaining for eight years that he was still gone, Houston police say.
Wynter Cole Smith was found dead after allegedly being kidnapped by her mother's ex-boyfriend, Rashad Maleek Trice, who has already been charged for a “brutal physical and sexual assault” on the mom.
Rudy Farias' mother has said she's thankful that her son has been found after he allegedly vanished as a teen, but neighbors say he's been living with her for years.
Phoenix police arrested Michael Turney in August of 2020 on second-degree murder charges, 19 years after his stepdaughter, 17-year-old Alissa Turney, vanished on her last day of her junior year of high school.
