McStay children identified, and (the lack of) updates on the Jamison case

Crosses erected where the Mcstays' bodies were discovered

When Joseph and Summer Mcstay's bodies were discovered, they were also discovered two children's bodies with them. Tonight tests revealed what most people have been expecting; these were the bodies of Gianni and Joseph McStay.

Investigators are obviously treating this as a homicide.

And it's always difficult to find words when one is dealing with the murder of a child. 

Meanwhile, in Oklahoma, we are still in the dark as to the identities of the three bodies found near where the Jamisons disappeared. A spokeswoman on the case is saying that identification of the bones could take "anywhere from days to years."

I hope there are answers soon. Regardless of whether this is the Jamison family- and I think it's likely- these are still three people who deserve to have their identity restored to them. And their relatives and friends deserve to know what happened to them.

Jamison family found?

A post from the Jamison family's missing person's facebook page

Quick recap: The Jamisons were a family of three that vanished while looking at land in a fairly remote location in Oklahoma. The only trace of them was their dog, and their car (which contained vast sums of untouched money.) They often get mentioned in the same breath as the Mcstays.

There have been no official reports, yet, but various sources have come forth to say that three bodies have been recovered two miles from where they vanished. Two adults and a child.

More on this as it develops.

First edit: I have found an official news report. There were, indeed, three bodies found in the area today. 

Department of Homeland Security reopens Brandi Wells's case

Brandi Wells: Missing since 08/02/2006

As per KETV, the Brandi Wells case is being re-investigated by Homeland Security.

For those who don't remember, Wells was featured in the first season of Disappeared. She went to a nightclub in 2006 and hasn't been heard from since. A few days later her car was found abandoned on the side of the highway. For a while, police honed in on security footage of a woman thought to be her in the nightclub. This was broadcast to the public at large, before it was discovered that that footage was of another woman, and Wells arrived at the nightclub at a later time in the evening. This may have made the trail even colder than it already was.

Seven years on, we're not much closer to knowing what happened to her. A few years ago Wells's mother, Ellen Tant, received a mysterious call, where an unknown man claimed Wellswas alive in Kansas City, Missouri, and that he had her contact number. He hung up before Tant could get that information, and that seems to be the extent of leads on this case up to this date. From my limited information on this case, it seems to bear many hallmarks of stranger on stranger crime, which is a notoriously difficult type of crime to solve.

The article about re-opening Wells's case is a bit scant. We know Homeland Security is taking an interest, and we know her family thinks human trafficking is likely. (For the record, Dawn Drexel thinks something similar happened to her daughter, Brittanee Drexel.) I don't know if there is a connection between these two facts; human trafficking crosses national borders, of course, and is something Homeland Security takes an interest in. As of July 23rd, they also seem to have edited their page for the missing person form. But it's unknown whether they have evidence that Wells was trafficked and/or if that's the reason for their renewed focus on this case.

Introduction

Brittanee Drexel. Missing since 04/25/09, from Myrtle Beach

About a year ago on Netflix, I came across an Investigation Discovery show called Disappeared, and proceeded to watch the entire series over the course of a month or two. It was a crash course in problems faced by families of missing persons, law enforcement blind spots, and the overall agony of not knowing what the hell happened. I search many of these names on a frequent basis, in the hopes of resolution.

Today I've decided to just go for it and set up a blog for this show. I have put the names of each victim on my google alerts, and will link to whatever pops up.

I hope that the friends of family of every person featured on Disappeared will one day find satisfactory information.