The Skeleton Key Chronicles

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A newly issued Texas AMBER Alert is drawing attention to a case that actually began nearly a month ago. According to investigators, 7-month-old Ozana Cisneros was last seen around 6 p.m. on June 10 near the 330 block of Roosevelt Avenue in San Antonio. For weeks, there were very few public updates as authorities searched not only for Ozana, but also for her 19-year-old mother, Maximina Cisneros.

Then, on Thursday night, an AMBER Alert was suddenly issued for the baby. One day later, the investigation took another turn. Police announced that Maximina had been found alive at a home about a mile from where Ozana was last seen. She was taken to a local hospital and is expected to recover. FBI personnel were also seen at the residence, but investigators have not said what led them there or released additional details about what happened over the past month. Ozana, however, has still not been found.

Authorities continue to believe the 7-month-old may be in immediate danger, and the AMBER Alert remains active as the search continues.

One question many people have is why the AMBER Alert wasn't issued until this week if Ozana was last seen on June 10th. So far, authorities have not publicly explained what changed in the investigation. Texas has specific requirements that must be met before an alert can be activated, but investigators have not said whether those criteria were only recently met or whether another development prompted the alert.

Hopefully, with Ozana's mother now located, investigators are one step closer to finding out what happened and, most importantly, bringing Ozana home safely.

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Earlier this month an 8-year-old girl walked into a Cleveland fire station carrying nothing but a piece of paper with her grandmother's phone number. She told firefighters her mother was chained in a closet and needed help. The little girl was the daughter of 37-year-old Amber Graham. Amber had traveled from Spring Hill, Tennessee, to Ohio to meet Matthew Hensley, someone she'd met while playing the online game Call of Duty. When her family and friends stopped hearing from her, they reported both Amber and her daughter missing.

As loved ones searched for answers, Amber's friend, Josh LaCroix, became increasingly concerned. During one of their last conversations, he said he could hear an agitated man in the background. After losing contact with Amber, he turned to a Cleveland Facebook group for help. Members believed they had identified the home Amber may have traveled to, and Josh passed that information along to police.
By July 3rd, officers responded to that address for a welfare check where they found Amber unresponsive in the backyard. Authorities have not yet determined her cause of death, and investigators in both Ohio and Tennessee are continuing to work the case together. First responders also found three adult women and a teenage girl inside the home. U.S. Marshals said Hensley was found hiding inside a secret compartment he built inside the home. He was taken into custody.

Amber's daughter is currently with Child Protective Services while arrangements are being made to reunite her with her grandmother. According to family friends, her grandmother's mobility issues have made those arrangements more challenging. For now, the little girl is safe, but Amber's family and friends are still waiting for answers about what happened.

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Nearly 49 years ago this week, Cheryl Hughes left her Chillicothe, Ohio, home to pick up a pizza and never came back. What happened next turned into one of southern Ohio's most enduring unsolved mysteries. A few days later, Cheryl's body was discovered along a rural road near South Shore, Kentucky, about 60 miles from where she disappeared. Investigators spent years trying to piece together what happened, but the case has never been solved.

One person who refused to let Cheryl be forgotten was her best friend since childhood, Janet Donahue. The two worked together at the RCA plant in Circleville, and before Cheryl disappeared, Janet says Cheryl confided that she was having an affair with a city police officer. As the years passed and answers never came, Janet took an extraordinary step. She earned her private investigator's license, placed newspaper ads, and spent decades trying to uncover what happened to her friend.

The case only became more frustrating with time. According to a 2019 report, the original investigative file is gone, reportedly lost after water damage. Today, little remains beyond old newspaper articles, fading memories, and an 11-page Kentucky State Police summary that begins with a line many followers of the case have never forgotten: "To say the least, this is a very confusing case." Nearly five decades later, Cheryl Hughes' family and friends are still waiting for the answers that disappeared with her on that July night in 1977.

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