Her case was also the subject of episode 59 of the Casefile podcast and the podcasts Crime Junkie [23] and The Casual Criminalist. Another book I don’t really have a ton to say about because in a lot of ways it was exactly what you’d expect from a mystery/thriller genre, and in a lot of ways it was straight in the middle when it comes to my enjoyment. Initially, she had refused to leave the shower block, causing one of her brothers to go collect their mother to persuade Cheryl to come out.

His remains were never recovered, and he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his valiant actions. Hahne, a German officer in the Wehrmacht who commanded the 197th Infantry Division, went missing in action on 24 June 1944 near Vitebsk during the Soviet Vitebsk–Orsha Offensive of Operation Bagration. Whitfield, the nephew of wealthy steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, mysteriously disappeared shortly after he departed from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York on the morning of 17 April 1938. Deisenhofer, a German Waffen-SS commander who served in several combat divisions on the Eastern and Western fronts, disappeared while travelling to a new command post. However, the only evidence supporting this is the discovery of a jawbone which washed ashore on a beach in Aruba.Six months later the bodies of the two youngest daughters were recovered on the Columbia River, although the whereabouts of the mother, father and eldest daughter remain unsolved. British spy Sidney Reilly set off for the Soviet Union in an attempt to overthrow the Bolshevik regime and was said to have been captured and shot on 5 November 1925 but it is not known for sure since no location of his body is known. The sports editor of Newsweek, Lake mysteriously disappeared on 10 December 1967, last seen heading for the subway after work. Over the years, several women have come forth saying they suspect they might be Joan, but none of their claims have been verified. It is believed that his disappearance was intentional, to avoid prosecution, and that he died in 1953.

Hyett and Alice Meehan were later released without charge, although Hyett was jailed the following year in an unrelated conviction for benefit fraud.Byerly, an American-born Canadian soldier and agent for the British Special Operations Executive, was last seen in July 1944 and is believed to have been killed at the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Poland on 8 May 1945 or 1946. The Filipina civic leader, social worker, suffragette, and founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines was arrested on 27 August 1944, tortured, and last seen on 6 January 1945, presumably being executed by the occupying Japanese forces and buried in an unmarked grave after that.