The Skeleton Key Chronicles

12 hours ago

Authorities in Marquette continue searching for Northern Michigan University student Trenton Massey, who has been missing since early Sunday. He was last recorded at 3:25 a.m. on February 22 near East Baraga Avenue and the Founder's Landing boardwalk during a snowstorm. That footage remains the last confirmed sighting.

Investigators say he was wearing an olive green and black coat with dark pants and appeared unsteady in the video. Authorities believe he was attempting to return to his home on McMillan Street.

Since then, search efforts have focused on the waterfront and surrounding neighborhoods. Crews have been working along the shoreline and are using specialized equipment to examine portions of the lower harbor as part of the ongoing effort.

Police are asking residents in the area to review security footage from late Saturday into early Sunday and to check vehicles, garages, sheds, and other outbuildings for anything that could help clarify his movements.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

17 hours ago

More than forty years after her daughter vanished, Janice McKinney is still searching for answers about what happened to her daughter Cherrie. Recently, that search led somewhere unexpected, to her own mailbox.

After a member of the volunteer group that supports Janice reached out to an incarcerated man based on tips, he responded with a claim that immediately drew attention. He wrote that members of his own family were responsible for what happened to eight-year-old Cherrie Mahan. From there, he and Janice began exchanging letters. He maintains that he was not directly involved, only that he knows what his relatives were capable of, keeping himself close to the story while stopping short of placing himself inside it.

When that first letter arrived, Janice did what she has done for decades and followed the lead.
A visit was arranged, and she traveled to the prison prepared to sit across from him and ask the questions that have been waiting since 1985. When she arrived, he declined to meet with her. However with his release expected within the next few months, the possibility of a conversation remains on the table.

To understand why any of this matters, you have to go back to February 22, 1985. That afternoon in Winfield Township, Pennsylvania, Cherrie stepped off her school bus and began walking toward her home. It was a Friday afternoon in rural Butler County. The bus pulled away, and somewhere between that stop and her front door, Cherrie disappeared.

Before long, people started talking about a vehicle seen near the bus route. Witnesses described a bright blue 1976 Dodge van with a mountain scene and a skier painted along the side, and some accounts placed it following the bus that afternoon.

Search crews moved through the surrounding woods and fields while flyers carrying Cherrie’s photo spread far beyond western Pennsylvania, reaching communities that had never heard her name before that winter. Despite years of tips and periodic renewed searches, the bright blue Dodge van with the skier and mountain mural was never conclusively identified, and no confirmed trace of Cherrie has ever been found.

More than four decades later, the investigation remains open, and that painted van is still one of the clearest details anyone can point to. Janice continues to follow each new lead as it comes, hoping that one of them will finally explain what happened after the bus pulled away that afternoon in Butler County.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

1 day ago

What began as a normal workday for a crew from Camelback Moving ended up leading to the rescue of an Arizona three-year-old.

It began on Friday when little Kehlani Rogers was taken from her Avondale home, and an alert went out across the state. Police quickly identified 23-year-old Marina Noriega as the individual responsible.

As officers worked to track her movements over the weekend, a security guard at a Phoenix gas station recognized the vehicle tied to the alert. Several crews from Camelback Moving was there on a job, and at the guard’s request, they positioned their trucks to block the suspect’s car from leaving until authorities arrived.

Police responded directly to the scene where Kehlani was recovered safely. Noriega, who authorities say was unknown to the Rogers family, was taken into custody shortly after.

In the end, the break in the case did not come from a patrol unit or surveillance footage. It came from a security guard who recognized what he was seeing and a moving crew that stepped in to help.

Proof that sometimes all it takes is someone recognizing what they’re seeing and deciding to act.

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