The Skeleton Key Chronicles

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More than 40 years ago, seven-month-old Christopher Abeyta was put to bed in a crib at the foot of his parents’ bed in Colorado Springs. By morning, he was gone. It was July 15th, 1986 and Christopher was living with his parents, Bernice and Gil Abeyta, and his siblings in the family’s home on Ashwood Circle.

Sometime during the early morning hours, while the family was inside the house, Christopher disappeared from that bedroom. What followed was a mystery that would consume the Abeyta family for decades.

The search for Christopher continued for years, but no trace of him was ever found. His disappearance eventually received national attention on Unsolved Mysteries, and his tiny baby photograph became familiar to generations of people who followed missing-child cases.

But Christopher’s family never treated his disappearance as something that simply happened without explanation. They believed someone had come into their home and taken him, and over the years they continued pushing for answers, following leads and keeping Christopher’s name and face in front of the public.

His mother, Bernice, was especially determined to find out what happened to her youngest child. She spent more than 30 years searching for Christopher and passed away in 2017 without getting that answer. Christopher’s father, Gil, passed away in 2020. Despite that, their children have continued the search their parents began that morning in 1986.

Over the years, NCMEC has released age-progressed images in an effort to show what Christopher might look like as an adult. He would be 40 years old today, and his siblings are still hoping that someone, perhaps even Christopher himself, could recognize something familiar in those images and help bring answers after all these years.

More than four decades later, Christopher Abeyta remains missing, and his family is still searching for the little brother who disappeared from their Colorado Springs home in July 1986.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

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Over Labor Day weekend in 2009, 37-year-old Quinn Gray suddenly vanished from her home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. On September 4th, Quinn called her husband, Reid, and told him she had been taken from their home by three men. A handwritten note was also found back at the house, and authorities spent the next several days trying to find the missing mother of two.

Then, on September 7th, Quinn turned up near the Orange Park Mall and approached a deputy. She told authorities the men had taken her because of a financial issue involving her husband and even gave investigators a name to work with. She said one of the men involved was named Jasmin, that he drove a white Volkswagen Jetta and that she could show them where she had spent those missing days. That led investigators to 25-year-old Jacksonville auto shop operator Jasmin Osmanovic.

And this is where the story takes a pretty wild turn.

Quick spoiler warning because there is actually a show about this one. Quinn's case was featured earlier this year on FEDS, an Investigation Discovery true-crime series that follows real FBI investigations. Her episode is called Vanishing Act and is also streaming on HBO Max. If you want to watch it without knowing how the whole thing played out, stop reading here.

Ok so back to the case, when investigators talked to Osmanovic, they got a very different version of what had happened over Labor Day weekend. He acknowledged that he already knew Quinn and said the two had been seeing each other. More importantly, he claimed Quinn had been involved in planning her disappearance.

Investigators began checking his account and learned that Quinn and Osmanovic had spent time together while everyone was looking for her. The pair had stayed at a Jacksonville motel, where witnesses remembered seeing them together, and Quinn's purse was found at Osmanovic's business. But there was something else investigators didn't know about yet. Osmanovic had secretly recorded some of his conversations with Quinn.

Once investigators heard those recordings, they believed they were listening to the two discussing the disappearance and going over details of the story Quinn would tell when she returned. At one point, Quinn could even be heard saying she wanted to go over the plan again.

Suddenly, what authorities thought they had been investigating over Labor Day weekend looked very different. Both Quinn and Osmanovic eventually faced legal consequences connected to the case. Quinn continued to maintain that her original account was true, but neither case ultimately went to trial. In 2011, she pleaded no contest and received seven years of probation. Osmanovic pleaded guilty and received six years of probation.

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An unusual case is unfolding in Washington state, where 34-year-old Reilley Holmes has been missing since September 3rd following a 911 call that ended without anyone ever making contact with her.

Reilley was last seen leaving work in the South Hill/Puyallup area that day. Later that evening, apparently she called 911 to report that she had been in a collision. But then, for reasons that remain unclear, Reilley asked that emergency response services be canceled.

Sometime afterward, her vehicle was found abandoned on I-5 at Gravelly Lake Drive in Lakewood. Reilley wasn’t there, but her cell phone was still inside the car.

And for now, that is where the trail seems to end. Authorities haven’t released that 911 call or explained how she came to leave her vehicle behind. Three days later, and Reilley is still missing. If you have any information regarding her whereabouts please contact the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office.

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