The Skeleton Key Chronicles

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The Pima County Sheriff’s Department is asking people to stop calling 911 with personal theories about the Nancy Guthrie case. Dispatch manager Cecilia Ochoa says their office received tens of thousands of calls in just the first half of February, many from people sharing speculation rather than specific information.

Some callers are debating whether the person seen on surveillance footage is right- or left-handed, or whether the figure appears to be a man or a woman. Those repeated guesses, she explained, overwhelm dispatch lines.

Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing from her Tucson home on February 1st. Investigators have said they believe she was taken from the residence that morning, and later obtained video showing a masked individual approaching her front door.

Authorities are urging the public to call only with concrete, actionable details that could assist the investigation, rather than opinions formed online.
In cases that draw national attention, the volume of input can grow quickly. The focus now, they say, is keeping emergency lines clear for information that truly helps move the case forward.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

19 hours ago

Earlier this week, Girl on the Run: The Hunt for America’s Most Wanted Woman dropped on Hulu. The three-part series revisits the escape of Sarah Jo Pender.

In 2002, Pender was convicted in Indiana in connection with the deaths of her roommates and sentenced to 110 years. Six years into that sentence, in 2008, she walked out of Rockville Correctional Facility with the help of a prison guard.

What followed was a 138-day search that crossed state lines and drew national coverage. Her case was featured on America’s Most Wanted before she was eventually located in Chicago.

The series examines the circumstances of her 2008 escape and the four months that followed before she was located. It also revisits the original trial and the legal questions that have followed the case in the years since.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

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In July 2013, a late-night police pursuit in southern Oklahoma ended with two passengers vanishing into the woods. This week, search crews working in Love County located two sets of human remains in a wooded area near Oswalt Road, Pike Road, and Long Hollow Road. The discovery comes more than a decade after 17-year-old Molly Miller and 21-year-old Colt Haynes were last seen alive.

It began back in July 2013 when the pair were passengers in a car driven by James Con Nipp when officers attempted a traffic stop in Wilson. The vehicle accelerated instead, heading down Highway 76 into rural Love County. Deputies eventually lost sight of the car near Oswalt and Long Hollow Road after a brief pursuit on back roads. The vehicle was later found crashed in the woods. Nipp made it home on foot. Miller and Haynes did not.

According to investigators at the time, the two remained in the area after the crash and used their phones to contact friends for help. By morning, those phones had gone silent. Neither Molly nor Colt has been seen since.

In the years that followed, Nipp was convicted in connection with the pursuit. He has consistently told authorities he does not know what happened to the two passengers after the crash.

Earlier this week, search teams focused on an area of rural Love County that had not previously been searched in connection with the case. The remains recovered there were collected by the FBI Evidence Response Team and the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for forensic testing. Officials have not confirmed the identities and have not said whether the remains are connected to the Miller and Haynes investigation.
For families who have waited more than ten years, that location matters. It is the same stretch of back roads where the pursuit ended, where phones went dark, and where questions have remained ever since.

For now, investigators are waiting on forensic confirmation. But more than a decade after Molly and Colt disappeared along those back roads, this discovery may finally bring their families the answers they have been seeking since 2013.

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