Thirty-year-old Norsaadah Husain, a graduate student from Malaysia, was working on a doctorate degree in food technology from Clemson University. She lived alone in a small mobile home not far from the campus. She was scheduled to finish her degree in May 1993 and planned to return home to Malaysia to teach at a local university there. Norsaadah had been planning to speak at a national meeting of food scientists about her process for removing...
On March 18, 2012, a man named Robert McCaffrey, who went by Bob, called police from his West Ashley home near Charleston, South Carolina, to report his wife missing around 5 p.m. He said the two had gone out to dinner the day before around 2:30 p.m. When they returned home, they got into an argument. When Gayle refused to speak with him, he got into his truck and drove four hours away to Easley, South Carolina. He drove back in the early...
On April 26, 2005, police in Durham, North Carolina responded to a home 2606 Ferrand Drive, after receiving a frantic phone call around 10 p.m. Twenty-five-year-old Raven Abaroa had returned home from a soccer game to find his wife, Janet, deceased in their home. He told police at first he thought she’d been shot because there was so much blood around her body. She was lying on her back in an upstairs bedroom when police arrived on the scene....
In Episode 149, I shared the story of Phonesia Machado-Fore, who was a 52-year-old mother and grandmother from Pee Dee, South Carolina when she went missing in March of 2024. She had worked as a paramedic for Florence County EMS since 2017, and her EMS director described as being very happy-go-lucky. He said that “She was always around, always had a smile, and just loved her job and loved people.” Phonesia had recently accepted a job in...
In March of 1987, 29-year-old Jimmy Dale Whitfield disappeared from Seneca, South Carolina. At the time, he was living with his wife Wanda and their two children off Route 3, which is now Whitfield Lane. Here’s a little more about Jimmy. He was born on March 28, 1957, to Selena and Fred Whitfield. Fred passed away in 1977. Jimmy was a smoker, had no criminal record, and considered himself a man of faith. He married Wanda Gail George in the...
On June15, 2004, a prisoner went missing from the Brown Creek Correctional Institution in Anson County. Local media reported the prisoner, 32-year-old Jeffrey Manchester, likely escaped the grounds by hanging on to the undercarriage of a truck as it was leaving the prison’s metal plant. Manchester had been assigned to work in the plant, which made prison beds and footlockers. Corrections Administrator Rick Jackson said the supply truck had...
The week after Thanksgiving in 2006, friends and family of 27-year-old Sherri Jackson were concerned. She didn’t attend a party she’d RSVP’d for and no one had heard from her. They knew she wouldn’t leave town without telling anyone or notifying her job. Sherri failed to pick up her paycheck from Shipman Family Care the week after Thanksgiving. This was when Sherri’s family knew for certain that something was wrong. Sherri was born in...
I first shared the heartbreaking story of Mica Miller’s death in Episode 112. At the time of her death, many suspected her estranged husband John-Paul Miller of being involved. While he was able to physically prove he was not with Mica when she took her life at a North Carolina state park, her friends and family knew he had waged a campaign of emotional abuse and stalking against her that led to her fragile state of mind. There has recently...
A little after 5 p.m. on October 13, 2022, Raleigh-Wake Emergency Communications received a call that a victim had been shot in the Hedingham subdivision in northeastern Raleigh. The neighborhood bordered the Neuse River Greenway Trail, which is part of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. The caller reported the shooter was dressed in camouflage and carrying a long gun and backpack. By 5:55 p.m., members of the Raleigh Police Department had arrived on...
I first shared the story of Nikki McPhatter in the early days of the podcast, in Episode 8. Nikki McPhatter was a 30-year-old woman working in Charlotte at the time of her disappearance. A goal-oriented person who always seemed to know what that next step was, she joined the Navy shortly after graduating from high school. After her time in the military, she took a job as a ticket agent for U.S. Airways at the Charlotte Douglas International...
