The Skeleton Key Chronicles

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A Michigan man says he left home to run a quick errand and came back to find his 55-year-old sister gone without a trace. Jennifer McCormick disappeared from her home in Alamo Township, Michigan on May 13th while her brother and caregiver, Mike McCormick, was away from the house for about 90 minutes. When he returned, he said he searched the home, checked outside around the property, and eventually called police after realizing she was nowhere around.

Jennifer has Down syndrome, and though she is considered mostly independent, she's still heavily reliant on family members especially in terms of leaving home. According to investigators, she was known to occasionally go for walks, though family members said she would normally let someone know before leaving. Sheriff Richard Fuller also said Jennifer is not believed to have been carrying a cellphone or cash when she disappeared.

At one point, deputies believed nearby surveillance footage may have captured Jennifer, but investigators later determined the person seen was not her. Search teams have since used drones, tracking dogs, volunteers, and repeated searches around the property and nearby area while investigators continue trying to piece together where Jennifer may have gone.

Jennifer’s brother later told local media he is concerned she may have gotten into a car with someone, though investigators said there has been no indication of foul play so far.

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6 hours ago

National Missing Children’s Day is coming up on May 25th, and one of the cases most closely tied to it is suddenly heading back into court again. Pedro Hernandez, the man convicted in the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, is due back in court June 1st after a federal appeals court overturned his conviction earlier this year.

Etan vanished on May 25th, 1979 while walking to his school bus stop alone in Manhattan. In the years that followed, his photo became one of the first faces printed on milk cartons during the nationwide effort to bring attention to missing children cases. The date he disappeared would later become National Missing Children’s Day.

Although Hernandez confessed in 2012, more than 30 years after Etan vanished, his first trial ended with a hung jury before he was convicted during a second trial in 2017. An appeals court later ruled jurors were improperly instructed during deliberations, and prosecutors have already said they plan to retry the case. Now nearly half a century later, the case will be heard again. They say the wheels of justice move slowly, but 47 years is a long time for a family still searching for some sense of justice.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

21 hours ago

Back in 2004, a man was found behind a Burger King in Georgia with no identification and no memory of who he was. And somehow, that was only the beginning of how strange the story would get.

For years, the mystery surrounding the man known as “Benjaman Kyle” became one of those internet rabbit holes people could not stop digging into. Now Investigation Discovery is revisiting the case in a new documentary event called The Many Lives of Benjaman Kyle. But this is not just a story about a man with memory loss. Apparently filmmakers uncovered contradictions in Kyle’s backstory, possible connections to older unresolved cases, and parts of his past that raised a completely different set of questions.And the deeper they looked, the stranger it apparently became.

The documentary airs over two nights on Investigation Discovery beginning Monday, May 25th, 2026 at 9 p.m. and wrapping up Tuesday, May 26th. Definitely looking forward to this one!

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