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a 17 year old vanished after his homecoming dance only his underwear was found in a creek
months later but ten years later his killer is still walking free number one blake chapel what
had started as the best night of blake chapel's life ended in mystery the 17 year old from sonoa
georgia had attended his high school homecoming dance surrounded by friends on october 15 2011.
blake's mother melissa dropped him off at his girlfriend's house and it had been planned that
blake would spend the night at his friend austin's house so she didn't plan on seeing him until the
following day blake called his mom after the dance to let him know that he'd had a great time he'd
said goodbye and hung up from the school blake was picked up by his girlfriend's mother he had been
allowed to stay after the dance to watch a movie and then blake was dropped off back at austin's
house he was supposed to stay the night there but at some point in the night he left and walked back
to his girlfriend's house he snuck in through her bedroom window where he spent an hour or so
in the early morning hours around 5 30 am he was caught by his girlfriend's parents and
chased out of the house he was witness walking in the direction of austin's house cellphone records
show he had sent several text messages apologizing to his girlfriend's mom for breaking their rules
and also messaging his girlfriend his last text message to his girlfriend said that a
cop was pulling him over he had mentioned he was near austin's house and was about at a bridge
at around 11am melissa received a call from austin asking if blake had gone home austin told her that
blake had left his house late that night to see his girlfriend but never came back like he said he
was going to melissa checked the home to make sure blake hadn't come home in the night and confirmed
he wasn't there from there she called blake's girlfriend's parents who confirmed he'd been there
unbeknownst to them but had left in the morning melissa called the noonan police department by
noon to reported missing and the search began right away blake had been going through some
odd legal troubles that previous summer he had been dating someone else the girl had been 16 and
ran away from home allegedly escaping her abusive stepfather when she was found she was with blake
as he'd been trying to help her her parents filed charges alleging he had kidnapped her
because blake was 17 he was an adult in accordance with the law and she was a minor he had spent 16
days in jail until he was released on bond blake was set to have his first court appearance in
that matter on october 24th though the charges had already been likely to be dismissed by the
prosecution statements from the girlfriend backed up blake's claims that he was only trying to help
when she had run away and he had not kidnapped her during the incident the stepfather had punched him
in the face and threatened to kill him several times even showing him he was carrying a gun
blake had been terrified over the incident he was only 17 and being threatened by a volatile man
blake and his mother had moved shortly after the incident though it still was concerning his mom
had instructed him to cut contact with any friends from that area due to ongoing threats blake had
been receiving and they didn't want blake to be found by this man when blake had first disappeared
it was initially thought that he may have run away because of the court appearance he had no idea
that the case was close to being dropped he was searched for weeks with no sign of him anywhere
his phone had been dark since the early morning hours the morning he went missing two months after
his disappearance on december 19th a discovery was made the body of a young man was found in
a creek at the summer grove subdivision halfway between his girlfriend's house and austin's house
the body was quickly identified as blake and his cause of death had been a close range gunshot
wound to the back of the head he was found wearing only his underwear and an undershirt
no other clothing or belongings were found in the area his backpack cellphone pants and hoodie are
still missing max gibbs remembers his buddy blake like it was yesterday if you were down in a bad
mood he would make you laugh somehow and melissa becker he always looked at the best in people my
world stopped that day i just couldn't i couldn't believe it you know i was still i had hope
that he was going to walk down that driveway the medical examiner estimated his time of death to be
close to october 16th and had likely been murdered close to when his phone last connected to a cell
tower around 6 am an extensive investigation was launched but there was little evidence
to forensically point to a suspect officials have gone on record to clear several suspects
but they have one suspect yet to be cleared there's a 20 dollar reward being offered for
any information leading to an arrest police don't know if he was killed the night he went missing or
if he was kidnapped and the killer dumped his body later and they don't know who would have
could have done this but someone out there does somebody knows something and so now a decade later
the plea for answers for justice continues he was just an innocent child i just want to know why
number 2 scott jayvin's it was a warm evening on may 24th 2002 in terre haute indiana 20
year old scott javins was at a house party when he received a call from his mom at 1 57
am it had been a brief conversation and he told her that he was on his way home
scott a university of indiana student had to work the next morning he said his goodbyes and friends
had offered him several rides home as he'd been drinking at the party he declined all offers for
a ride and got into his brand new honda civic at 2 30 am his mom called him again at 2 37 am but
it went to voicemail concern grew as time went on he didn't live far from where the party was
less than 15 minutes scott didn't show up for the rest of the night nor did he show up for
work the next morning which was highly unusual he was reported missing by his family that day
despite an extensive search there was no sign of scot or his vehicle anywhere
several witnesses came forward claiming to have seen scott murdered for the theft of his vehicle
one witness said that she saw four people drag scott out of his car beat him and abduct him
it was determined that this witness was lying in an attempt to incriminate people she knew
she was charged and sentenced to prison time for wasting police resources and fabricating a police
report terre haute rallied behind the javins family local businesses and restaurants helped
to raise funds and donations at one point there was a hundred thousand dollars raised as a reward
for information in scott's disappearance however the reward money may have done more harm than
good after the announcement several tips came in across the nation one tip led investigators on a
dive expedition in terre haute's cass's lake while the car was discovered it did not belong to scott
in 2007 a tip led investigators to another body of water the fairbanks park along the wabish river at
the time of the search the section of the river could get up to 20 feet deep but at this time
the river had significantly receded they looked around a concrete boat launch and made a discovery
seven feet deep was a honda civic hatchback matching scott's vehicle once removed from
the river they were able to match the car's vin number and confirm it belonged to scott currently
the body is at the vigo county coroner's office now the autopsy started around 10 a.m this morning
now deputy chief claudum told me that is that they believe the autopsy could last between two to four
hours but he hopes to release some new information by this evening and the official cause of death
skeletal remains were found in the vehicle and dental records confirmed that they had found
scott javin's scott's watch had stopped at 2 33 am giving investigators an approximate time when the
watch was submerged the car's driver's side window was open his cell phone was plugged into his car
charger his wallet and cash were recovered in the car and there was no sign of any violence in the
car or on the remains the car was found in fifth gear and investigators theorized that maybe scott
had pulled over maybe because he wasn't feeling well possibly realizing he drunk too much and
shouldn't be driving it was also very late in the morning perhaps he opened the window to stay awake
police theorized that it likely been an accident the car was new and maybe he'd meant to put the
car in park and accidentally put it in fifth and the car rolled into the water and he drowned
where he had been was a dark unlit area the evening brought a misty fog and even if he
had regained consciousness when the car hit the water the darkness combined with the mist
may have made it impossible to orient himself out of the vehicle
the terre haute police department closed the case but scott's family still hoped for more answers
you know i can tell you exactly what we did the day we found him you know it's something we'll
never forget never don't want to experience again we don't want anybody to have to experience what
we've been going through number three lee ochi it was august 27th 1992 in topilo mississippi
lee ochi was left home alone briefly it had been a normal morning lee's mother vicki had
gotten her up the two had breakfast together and then vicki left for work lee was left to
finish getting herself ready the 13 year old was to be picked up by her grandmother later that
morning and was going to spend the day at her grandparents house until her mom got off work
hurricane andrew was moving in set to descend on the community later that day vicki had left around
8am and she said that she felt an uneasy feeling she never left lee home alone and
something didn't feel right she called the house from work at around 8 30 and lee didn't pick up
she dismissed her concerns assuming that lee was having a shower or something or just getting ready
she called again half an hour later and again no answer she decided to pop back home as she
didn't work far away and check in when she pulled into the driveway she saw the garage door was open
and the motion sensor light had been activated meaning someone had recently triggered it
when she got to the house she noticed a door that she knew she locked when she left was now unlocked
inside the home vicky called for lee but there was no answer now in a panic she ran through the house
and discovered blood on the floor and walls in lee's bedroom and the bathroom there was a trail
of blood leaning from the back hallway to the living room and to the back door when vicki had
left that morning lee had been still wearing her pajamas which were now covered in blood on the
bedroom floor vicky called the police at 9 00 a.m which started a near immediate search of the area
please go out and search your property have your neighbors and friends go search their property
so that we can find my daughter the other side of the family meaning lee's mother
and stepfather are they going to join you all in any of these searches have you heard
not that i'm aware of if they did it if they do it's going to be surprised to me the family and
friends greatly appreciate everything everybody that's come out here to help us search it's been
amazing what the community has done to pull together for lee there were no signs of forced
entry into the home the blood also appeared to have originated on a door frame to the back door
it appeared that lee may have hit her head while trying to escape and that had been the source of
blood her nightgown had blood stains that had dripped down suggesting she had sustained a
head wound early on and had remained upright long enough for a substantial amount of blood to drip
there appear to have been some efforts to clean the blood up in the bathroom but investigators
couldn't find any cloths or rags in the home suggesting the attacker took blood-soaked towels
with them the only things in the home missing were some clothing of leaves her glasses and her shoes
officers brought in bloodhounds to search the area but with hurricane andrew touching down
the dogs weren't able to get a scent with little evidence and the hurricane and
despite several organized searches nothing came up one month after lee's abduction
vicki received a small package in the mail it was addressed to her ex-boyfriend barney yarborough
barney and vicki had separated in days before leeds disappearance inside the envelope were lee's
glasses there was nothing else in the envelope and it was sent to the fbi for forensic analysis
the only information they got from the envelope was that it was sent from boonesville mississippi
about 30 miles from topilo the envelope had no fingerprints and the stamp had been moistened
with water no ransom note had been found or any indication that lee was still being
held alive the investigation slowed and eventually became a cold case
in 1993 human remains were discovered in a soybean field and had quickly been identified as liochi
though dna determined it actually belonged to a missing 27 year old woman in lee's disappearance
there are several people of interest which include vicki and her stepfather barney though they were
never announced formally as suspects there had been reports from lee's school that she may have
been mistreated at home there had been several reports that in the previous school year lee
had come to school with bruises and once even a black eye investigators suspected that perhaps
the abduction setup may have been staged to cover up abuse that may have led to the death of lee
though that is only a theory barney had a strong alibi for the time lee had gone missing
and also agreed to undergo a polygraph test which investigators said he passed
vicky also did a polygraph test which showed deception she redid the test two more times and
each one showed deception though not considered evidence itself merely an investigation tool
it drew more questions than answers another theory stemmed from another abduction of a young girl
less than a year after lee's abduction the man michael kiernez had been a bible school teacher
and was known to the victim as well as lee he also abducted her while she'd been at home alone
though he had lured her into his vehicle by saying her parents had asked him to drive her to school
kieran has abducted the girl assaulted her and then dropped her off at school
where she reported it immediately he was later arrested and charged with 24 years in prison
he has denied any connection to leochie's disappearance however there are undeniable
similarities between the crimes and he met and had built up a trust with both girls from church vicki
said that lee never would have unlocked the door for a stranger but she would have trusted kirnez
explicitly lee ochi's disappearance remains active advances in technology genealogy and
forensic techniques keep law enforcement hopeful that one day they will be able to gather new leads
a lot of people thought vicky that's the mother's name vicky exhibited strange behavior after lee
vanished and for a whole host of reasons rumors around north mississippi were that vicki knew
what happened was maybe even responsible the talk was so rampant that vicki moved away
out of mississippi and 26 years later the case is still unsolved no one's ever been arrested
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