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Two one-month-old twins and their teenage mother have been reported missing out of Dolton, a community just south of Chicago, and the details coming out add a little more urgency to the situation.
Jaylen and Jayden Atkinson, along with their 17-year-old mother Zarreya Atkinson, were last seen around 2 a.m. near Shepard and East 146th Street. That’s the last confirmed sighting so far. The twins had only recently been released from the hospital and are said to need specific care, including special formula and monitoring for minor health conditions.
There are indications they may have left from a home sometime early that morning, and it’s been suggested they could be with another adult, but beyond that, very little has been confirmed about where they may have gone.
The twins were last seen wearing gray and blue onesies.
Anyone with information is being asked to contact Dolton Police.
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For more than 40 years, her case sat without answers, now investigators say they finally know who was responsible.
On the morning of Wednesday, November 16, 1983, 16-year-old Sheri Jo Elliott left her home on Seneca Street in Flint, Michigan around 6:30 a.m. to go to school. She was last seen near West Dartmouth and Clio Road, walking toward her bus stop, but she never made it home. Community members and local authorities spent days searching the area before she was found four days later along a rural road in Blumfield Township in Saginaw County, and from that point on, the case remained unresolved for decades.
This week, Michigan State Police said the case has finally been resolved after more than 40 years. Investigators worked with the MSP Forensic Science Division and Othram Labs, using advanced DNA sequencing to develop a profile from evidence collected back in 1983, and over time that profile led them to a man named Roni Collins, 75, of Grand Blanc.
Before investigators could request a voluntary DNA sample, Collins died in January 2026, but DNA collected during his autopsy was later analyzed and matched the original evidence, identifying him as the person responsible.
If course there won’t be any charges filed, but investigators say the identification finally brings a level of clarity that had been missing for decades for both her family and the community.
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After months of cases involving researchers tied to high-level work, federal agencies are finally taking a closer look. So far, at least ten cases have been identified since mid-2023, involving individuals connected to high-level research in areas like defense, nuclear science, and advanced technology, and in several of those cases, it’s been reported that individuals had expressed concerns beforehand.
The most recent is Major General William “Neil” McCasland, who was reported missing from his New Mexico home on February 27. McCasland previously led advanced research programs for the U.S. Air Force, including work at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
For now, whether any of them are actually connected remains unclear, but I will definitely be paying attention to this case as it moves forward.
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