Resurrection Day for Cold Cases

Details in the 1955 disappearance of 22 month old Frederick Andrew Holmes have been added to the Doe Network database.

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/4109dmny.html

Freddie was last seen by his mother walking down the driveway of his home at approximately 9 a.m. in Grahamsville, New York on May 25, 1955.

Despite a massive search of up to 1,000 people, including police, firemen, and volunteers, a blood hound and helicopter no sign of the boy has ever been found.

Most likely he was taken by a hungry animal or perished from exposure, but in the strange world of cold cases anything is possible. Might Freddie have been taken by a human predator, raised by strangers and still be alive today? He has biological family members that still cling to hope.

The family had considered the possibility he might have been the infamous "Boy In The Box" --
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/4umpa.html

Initial inquiry with New York officials did not give a definite conclusion. Plans to follow up with Pennsylvania officials are ongoing.

MISSING -

On May 21, 1971, Claude Shelton and his wife, Sue Shelton, left their residence at Gerry's trailer park on 18th street in Corbin, Kentucky (Harlan County) and never returned.

Until recently only small references could be found online regarding the missing couple. The Kentucky State Police recently began family reference sampling from relatives of the couple including their daughters. A broader sampling is in the works.

Though talks were already in progress between Shelton family and KSP -- a local Doe Network researcher, Angie Bunch, accelerated the conversation with the family. Once connected officials were quickly able to revise and fill in several gaps in the data on file. A much improved file for both now exists in NamUs.gov.

Did the Shelton's meet with foul play, or move along and start a new life?

FOUND -

Also under review in Harlen, Kentucky - a long term Jane Doe case. Unidentified for 40 years and counting.

Newspaper reports from 1969 say a man picking flowers for his wife found a young woman's nude, badly decomposed body just off the Little Shepherd Trail in the mountain just above the town of Harlan. She had been stabbed in the chest.

Harlan's Coroner says he's interested in helping with this. He says if he can gather enough information, he will look into exhuming the body for the purpose of collecting DNA to be added to the national DNA database.

Might the Cincinnati restaurant receipt found nearby be an Ohio connection?

http://www.wkyt.com/wymtnews/headlines/47071827.html