"Every thing will be fine."
- that something the parent say when their kid leaving home to attend college.
It can be an emotional and nerve-wracking experience for their parents since it's
easy to assume the worst when your child goes out on their own for the first time.
Unfortunately, sometimes the worst actually does happen.
9 Paula Jean Welden Welden was a sophomore at Bennington College
in Bennington, Vermont at the time of her disappearance.
She was last seen on December 1, 1946.
She worked the breakfast and lunch shifts at the dining hall, came back to her dormitory
room in Dewey Hall and spoke to her roommate for awhile before saying she was going for
to go to take a study break and go for a hike.
She didn't say where she was headed.
Welden left campus shortly after 2:30 p.m.
Welden was hitchhiking near the Bennington campus when a passing motorist picked her
up at 2:45 p.m.
She told him she was going to hike on the Long Trail off Route 9, near Glastenbury Mountain.
The driver dropped her off on Route 9, about three miles from her destination.
Several others saw her at that day walking on the trail.
The last confirmed sighting of Welden was at 4:00 p.m., when she spoke to a man on the
trail and asked her how far it extended.
He told her it went all the way to Canada.
Welden has never been heard from again.
Her roommate became concerned the next morning when she realized she'd never returned home
the previous night.
Later that morning, she notified the school authorities of Welden's disappearance.
At the time, Bennington students were required to sign themselves out if they planned to
stay out past 11:00 p.m., then check in with the school security officer upon their return.
Welden had done neither of those things.
When she failed to attend her classes the following Monday, Bennington College officials
notified her family and the police.
An extensive search of the Long Trail and its environs turned up no sign of Welden and
no significant clues.
The search was hampered by the fact that Vermont had no state police at the time.
Eventually, officials from Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York stepped in to help.
Investigators initially believed Welden had gotten lost in the mountains and died of exposure,
but as time passed without their finding any sign of her they began to consider other theories.
Although there were reports that she was somewhat depressed at the time of her disappearance,
her family and friends said she only had normal problems for a girl her age and was not unhappy
enough to commit suicide or run away from home.
She left all her belongings behind, and her family stated she was not the type of person
to leave without warning.
There is no hard evidence of foul play in Welden's disappearance, but many people believe
she was murdered and buried somewhere in near the Long Trail.
Welden lived with her parents and three younger sisters in Stamford, Connecticut when she
was not in school.
She enjoyed painting in oils and watercolors, pencil and charcoal sketching, and playing
the guitar, and she was physically active and an experienced hiker and camper.
In part because of her father's lobbying, in July 1947 Vermont passed a law creating
a state police force.
Welden's disappearance remains unsolved; there has been no indication of her whereabouts
since 1946.
8 Suzanne Jovin Yale University was shaken when 21-year-old
senior Suzanne Jovin was brutally murdered on the evening of December 4, 1998.
Sometime after 9:00 PM, Suzanne e-mailed a friend from her apartment, saying she was
going to leave some books in the lobby for her the next morning after retrieving them
from someone else.
Afterwards, Suzanne left her apartment to go to the Yale police communications center
to return the keys for a car she had borrowed.
Shortly before 10:00, she was found dead approximately 3 kilometers from campus.
Her throat was slit and she had been stabbed 17 times.
It is unknown if Suzanne had any contact with the person borrowing her books and that person
has never been identified.
After returning the keys, it is likely that Suzanne entered another vehicle at some point
since it would have been impossible for her to have walked to the murder scene during
this time frame.
Authorities immediately named Suzanne's thesis adviser, James Van de Velde, as the
prime suspect.
There were rumors he had been conducting an affair with Suzanne, but there was no evidence
to support this and nothing to tie him to the crime.
A witness claimed to have seen a white male sprinting away from the scene on the night
of the murder, but when asked to identify Van de Velde, she claimed it wasn't him.
It was recently announced that James Van de Velde is no longer a suspect, but the real
killer of Suzanne Jovin remains unidentified.
7.
Kristin Denise Smart Smart was a freshman architecture major at
California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo, California in 1996.
She departed from an off-campus party and headed for her dormitory at approximately
1:30 and 2:00 a.m. on May 25, 1996.
When she left the gathering, she was having trouble walking.
Smart was accompanied by a female acquaintance and another student from the university, Paul
R. Flores, when she left the party.
He was a food science major at Cal Poly in 1996.
Smart apparently met Flores at the party earlier in the evening.
Her friend separated from Smart and Flores at the intersection of Perimeter Road and
Grand Avenue on the college campus.
Flores allegedly told Smart's friend that he would see Smart to her home.
She was last seen walking north on Grand Avenue with Flores, towards Muir Hall, her dormitory.
Smart has never been heard from again.
She was not carrying any identification, cash or personal belongings at the time she vanished.
Flores was reportedly seen with a black eye later in the day on May 25.
When questioned about Smart's whereabouts by authorities, Flores claimed that he continued
walking to his own dormitory and last saw Smart on Grand Avenue shortly after her other
friend departed.
Flores told several different stories to law enforcement regarding how he received his
injury.
Smart's roommate contacted police later in the morning of May 25, worried because Smart
had not returned to her dormitory.
The roommate had been at the room the night Smart was last seen, and never saw her get
back home.
Her clothing, toiletries, cosmetics, medicine and identification were left undisturbed in
her room; there is no evidence that she made it back there.
Authorities refused to take the missing persons report for four days, however, because Smart
disappeared on Memorial Day weekend and college students often take impromptu vacations at
that time.
Flores is the prime and only suspect in Smart's disappearance, but authorities do not have
enough evidence at their disposal to charge him in the case.
The Smart family has persisted in their efforts to get investigators to come up with evidence
against Flores.
In 2005, Flores's mother and her boyfriend sued Smart's parents and Mahon, alleging harassment,
severe emotional distress and lost income as a result of their behavior.
Smart's case is open and unsolved.
Her family held a memorial service for her in May 2001, and again in June 2003.
She was declared dead in May 2002.
Smart's family attempted to pursue a civil suit against Flores for Smart's wrongful death,
but dropped the case in 1996 after Flores pleaded his Fifth Amendment rights during
the proceedings.
Smart's family has since revived the suit, which has yet to go to trial.
Smart is described as friendly and generous.
She is a competitive swimmer and had traveled to many places, including Hawaii and South
America, prior to her disappearance.
She had originally enrolled at the University of California at Santa Barbara, but transferred
to Cal Poly early in her freshman year.
Her case remains unsolved.
6 Arlis Kay Perry Arlis Kay Perry was a 19-year-old newlywed
murdered inside Stanford Memorial Church, within the grounds of Stanford University,
California on October 12, 1974.
To date, the case has not been solved.
Arlis Perry grew up in Bismarck, North Dakota, where she and Bruce D. Perry were high-school
sweethearts.
The pair married in August 1974, and Arlis moved to Stanford University with her husband,
who was a sophomore pre-med student.
At the time of her murder, she'd been working as a receptionist at a local law firm.
The couple had been living at Quillen House in Escondido.
Around 11:30 p.m. the night of October 12, 1974, the Perrys had an argument about their
car's tire pressure.
Arlis told her husband she wanted to pray alone inside the church, and they parted.
Bruce became concerned when his wife hadn't returned home by 3 a.m.
He called the Stanford Police and reported her missing.
Officers from the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office went to the church and reported all
the outer doors were locked.
Church security guard Steve Crawford and Stanford Police officer found Arlis's body around 5:45
a.m. October 13, in the church's east transept, near the altar.
She was found face-up; an ice pick was sticking out of the back of her head.
There were also signs of strangulation.
Police noted Perry was naked from the waist down.
A three-foot-long altar candle was in her vagina, and another between her breasts.
Investigators found semen on a kneeling pillow near Perry's body.
They also found a palm print on a candle.
Neither the semen nor the print matched Bruce Perry or the security guard.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff also ruled out any links between the murder of Perry
and three previous murders dating back to February 1973.
At least seven people were in the church during the night of October 12 and the morning of
October 13; among them were Arlis and Crawford.
The other persons were identified; a seventh was not.
A passerby noted this young man was about to enter the church around midnight.
He had sandy-colored hair and wasn't wearing a watch; was of medium build; and stood about
five-foot-ten.
Bruce Perry was an initial suspect, but was ruled out.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department says the case is open and active.
To date, it remains unsolved.
5 Lynne Schulze Schulze was last seen leaving her dormitory
on the Middlebury College campus in Middlebury, Vermont on December 10, 1971, the first day
of final exams before Christmas break started.
Schulze returned to campus and was seen in her dormitory.
She left her room at 12:55 p.m.
She was on her way with her friends to take a final exam in her English Drama class when
she said she had forgotten her favorite pen and was going to go back to get it.
The exam was scheduled for 1:00 p.m.; she never showed up.
At 2:15 p.m., Schulze was seen standing on Court Street, across the street from All the
Good Things and the bus stop where she'd been earlier.
This is the last time anyone ever saw or heard from her.
She left her identification, checkbook and all her personal belongings behind when she
vanished.
She may have been carrying $30 in cash with her.
Campus security was alerted to Schulze's disappearance two days after she was last seen, but her
parents were not notified for a week.
Schulze had mentioned the idea of faking her own death and starting life anew prior to
her disappearance, but her friends did not take her seriously.
In the letters she wrote frequently to family and friends back home, she admitted she felt
homesick and had considered withdrawing from school, but she never indicated she was planning
on dropping out of sight or leaving college before the term was over, and she did register
for spring semester classes.
Both of Schulze's parents died in the 1990s, but her sister is still alive and hopes for
a resolution in her disappearance.
Her case is unsolved.
Some agencies give the date of Schulze's disappearance as December 11, 1971.
4 Joshua Guimond In the Snow at DawnJoshua Guimond was a 20-year-old
junior at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.
Sometime between 11:00 PM and midnight on November 9, 2002, Joshua left a party at the
Metten Court dormitory to go to the bathroom.
Joshua's friends assumed that he simply decided to return to his apartment, but when
they discovered he never went back there, he was reported missing the next day.
Joshua's car, glasses and personal belongings were left behind and he was under-dressed
for the cold winter weather that night.
It was theorized that Joshua might have been intoxicated and accidentally stumbled into
a body of water and drowned after leaving the party.
However, his body has never been found.
Joshua's disappearance happened to take place during a two-week period when three
other college students from the Minnesota and Wisconsin areas – Christopher Jenkins,
Michael Noll and Erika Marie Dalquist – mysteriously disappeared after leaving late-night parties.
The bodies of the other three students were eventually found and while Dalquist's murderer
was caught and convicted, there is speculation that the deaths of the two males might be
connected to Joshua's case since they each have similar appearances.
However, after more than 10 years, Joshua Guimond still remains a missing person.
3 Jack Davis Jr. Jack Davis Jr. was found dead in an exterior
Indiana University of Pennsylvania stairwell of unrevealed circumstances on Wednesday,
October 21, 1987.
He had last been seen the previous Friday night, attending a party with his fraternity
brothers.
Authorities believed that Jack had died accidentally.
They theorize that he went to the stairwell to urinate.
Due to his state of intoxication, he passed out and vomited, inhaling the vomit in his
lungs.
The original pathologist also ruled the death an accident, determining that he died early
Saturday morning.
However, his family was not convinced of the official scenario.
Two years later, a friend told them to contact pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht to help with the
case.
Dr. Wecht was puzzled by the fact that nobody could see his body for the days that it had
been in the stairwell.
He also did not understand why Jack chose to urinate in the certain place where he was
found.
He believes that Jack, in an inebriated state, would have not gone to such great lengths
to conceal himself while urinating.
According to the original report, there was no alcohol in his blood, even though he was
supposedly drinking heavily on the night of his death.
Wecht also found another discrepancy: Jack was clean-shaven on Friday night, but was
found dead with heavy stubble on his face.
The evidence seemed to suggest that he had died later than Saturday morning.
Wecht also found that the cause of death, choking on regurgitated food, was impossible
because food particles was not found in his lungs.
Also, Wecht found that the pathologist who completed the autopsy had not opened his skull.
Jack's body was exhumed for another autopsy.
Wecht found three areas of fracture in the cranial vault of Jack's skull.
He determined that the fractures were the cause of death, not choking on vomit.
Wecht then visited the stairwell where Jack was found.
He did not believe that Jack had fallen or been thrown to the death.
He also believed that it was impossible for somebody not to have seen Jack's body lying
in the stairwell because there were clear views from the window.
Also, Jack's body and clothing were not wet, despite the fact that it had been raining
heavily in the days prior.
Dr. Wecht believed that Jack died or was injured elsewhere before being placed in the stairwell.
Dr. Wecht's findings convinced authorities to re-open the case in October of 1990.
However, little new evidence was uncovered and the case was closed again, and authorities
still believe that Jack's death was accidental.
Wecht hopes that new information will come forward and that somebody from the college
will bring this information to police.
In spite of Dr. Wecht's new findings, Jack's death remains unsolved.
2 Betsy Aardsma One of the most baffling unsolved homicides
in American history took place on November 28, 1969.
A 22-year-old graduate student named Betsy Aardsma was doing research in the stacks section
of Pattee Library at Pennsylvania State University when she was suddenly stabbed through the
heart with a knife.
Her body was found after an unidentified man said "Somebody better help that girl"
to the desk clerk before exiting the library.
Because Betsy was wearing a red dress, blood was difficult to spot, so no one even realized
she had been stabbed.
When they did realize it was murder, the unidentified man was long gone before he could be pursued
as a suspect.
While no one else in the library saw anything, some of them claimed to have heard screams.
Betsy's murder was completely puzzling since she was not known to have any enemies.
An assistant professor named Richard Haefner is considered one possible suspect, as he
reportedly dated Betsy for a short time before her death and would face scandalous accusations
of molesting young boys later on in his life.
However, he died in 2002 and has never been placed in the library at the time of the murder.
For over forty years, authorities have pursued thousands of leads, and it's even rumored
that Betsy Aardsma's ghost haunts Pattee Library.
However, her killer and their motive are still unknown.
1 Ronald Henry Tammen, Jr. Tammen was last seen in old Fisher Hall, a
former Victorian mental asylum converted to a dormitory at Miami University in Oxford,
Ohio on April 19, 1953.
He was a resident hall advisor at Fisher Hall, and lived in room 225.
At 8:00 p.m., he requested new bedsheets because someone had put a dead fish in his bed.
Sometime around 8:30 p.m., Tammen apparently heard something outside his room that disturbed
him, and went out into the hallway to investigate.
He never returned.
His roommate came in at 10:00 p.m. and found him gone.
The roommate originally assumed Tammen was spending the night at his Delta Tau Delta
fraternity house, and did not report his disappearance until the next day.
There is no indication that Tammen left of his own accord.
His clothes, car keys, wallet, identification, watch, high school class ring and other personal
items were left behind in his dormitory room, and he also left the lights on, the radio
playing, and a psychology textbook lying open on his desk.
His gold 1938 Chevrolet sedan was not taken from its place in the school parking lot,
he left his bass fiddle in the back seat of the car, and he left behind $200 in his bank
account.
Tammen is believed to have had no more than $10 to $15 on his person the night he disappeared,
and was not wearing a coat.
However, authorities have not found any indication of foul play in Tammen's disappearance either.
They do not believe he could have been forcibly abducted, as he was large enough and strong
enough to defend himself against most attackers.
They theorize that he could have developed amnesia and wandered away, but if that was
the case he should have been found relatively quickly.
A woman living outside of Oxford, twelve miles east of the Miami University campus, claims
that a young man came to her door at 11:00 p.m. the evening Tammen disappeared and asked
what town he was in.
Then he asked directions to the bus stop, which she gave him, and he left.
However, the bus line had suspended its midnight run, so he could not have gotten on a bus.
The witness says the man she spoke to was disheveled and dirty and appeared upset and
confused.
He was not wearing a coat or hat, although it was a cold night and there was snow on
the ground.
He was apparently on foot, since the woman did not see or hear a car.
The man matched the physical description of Tammen and was wearing similar clothes, but
it has not been confirmed that they were the same person, and Tammen's brother stated he
did not believe the man the witness saw was Tammen.
Tammen's parents, who lived in the 21000 block of Hillgrove Avenue in Maple Heights, Ohio
in 1953, last saw him a week before he disappeared and say he did not appear to be troubled by
anything at the time.
He was on the varsity wrestling team in college, played in the school dance band, and was a
business major and a good student.
He dated at the time that he vanished but did not have a steady girlfriend.
In the decades after Tammen's disappearance, students at Miami University claimed his ghost
haunted Fisher Hall.
His parents are now deceased.
Fisher Hall was torn down in 1978 and an extensive search was conducted in the rubble for Tammen's
remains, but no evidence was located.
His case still remains unsolved.
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