The Skeleton Key Chronicles

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On Halloween morning in 2010, sixteen-year-old Devon Griffin walked into his family's farmhouse in Martin, Ohio, and saw something so unexpected that he initially thought someone was playing a prank. He had spent the night at a friend's house and was stopping home to change clothes before church. The house was unusually still, and when he peeked into his parents' bedroom, he couldn't believe what he was seeing.

Inside, Devon found his stepfather, William Liske Sr., 53, and his mother, Susan Liske, 46, unresponsive in their bed. Upstairs, his brother Derek Griffin, 23, was found in his own room. Devon ran outside and called his aunt, who contacted 911.

Investigators found no signs of forced entry, and attention soon turned to someone who knew the family. The farmhouse sat back from the road in a rural stretch of Ohio between Toledo and Sandusky, near a small pond where investigators later found tracks that matched the suspect's shoes.

The evidence led to William "B.J." Liske Jr., William Sr.'s son from a previous relationship and Devon's stepbrother. He pleaded guilty in 2011 and received a life sentence without the possibility of parole. In 2015, Liske was found unresponsive in his prison cell.

Devon was just 16 when he lost his mom, stepfather, and brother that Halloween morning. The farmhouse where they lived has since been torn down, and a memorial stone now marks the property where the family once lived.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

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On October 26th, 2016, 23-year-old Angie Barlow was headed to a private gig in Indianapolis. Angie worked as an exotic dancer at Club Rio, but according to her family, she was preparing to move on from that chapter of her life. The person who arranged the booking hadn't given Angie a name, only an address at the Landmark Apartments and Townhomes complex. Before leaving, Angie sent that address to her roommate along with a joking message about going missing.

When Angie failed to return by the following morning, her roommate and best friend, Mona Jackson, reached out to her parents.
Angie's parents came to help look for her, while Mona and several friends went to the same apartment complex Angie had visited hoping to find some explanation about whay happened. But when Mona reached the apartment where Angie had been scheduled to work, she found it empty.

As the search unfolded, surveillance footage from the complex offered another troubling detail. Around 3:30 a.m. on October 27th, Angie's blue Pontiac G6 was seen leaving with a black sedan following close behind. The second vehicle was believed to be connected to a woman Angie knew from Club Rio, but the tinted windows prevented anyone from identifying who was driving either car.

Angie's mom, Christina Kramer, eventually contacted the dealership where Angie had purchased her Pontiac and learned that it could be located through its GPS system. Twelve days after Angie disappeared, the car was recovered approximately eight miles from the apartment complex, but Angie wasn't there. Christina said her daughter had always been particular about keeping her car clean, yet the interior was now a mess. It also appeared to have been driven beneath a fence. Finding the Pontiac answered one question about where it had gone, but it brought the family no closer to finding Angie.

For nearly eight months, Angie's family continued searching and hoping she would come home. Then, on June 20th, 2017, her remains were discovered buried in the backyard of a property off Harcourt Road in Indianapolis. The search for Angie had finally ended, but there were still no answers about who was responsible for what happened to her.

Ten years later, no one has been charged in connection with Angie's death. Christina recently told Fox News Digital that she has gone approximately two years without hearing from the Marion County Prosecutor's Office, despite trying to reach someone about her daughter's case. Indianapolis police say the investigation remains open, with Detective Jose Torres assigned to it. Angie was the oldest of four sisters, a talented softball player who loved sports, and a young woman whose youngest sister was only four when she disappeared.

Christina continues to speak publicly about her daughter, determined to find out what happened that October night.
Anyone with information about Angie Barlow's disappearance or what happened to her is encouraged to contact the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

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In October 1981, 17-year-old Kurt Sova disappeared after attending a Halloween party in Newburgh Heights, Ohio. Five days later, his body was discovered in a nearby ravine. But there was something about that discovery that his father couldn't explain. He had already searched that very spot, and Kurt hadn't been there.

It all began on Friday, October 23rd, when Kurt left home and met up with a friend who invited him to a party at a duplex on Harvard Avenue. Kurt was the youngest of four brothers, a high school junior whose parents said he rarely stayed out late without letting them know. That evening, he was among a group of people he didn't know particularly well. According to witnesses, Kurt had been drinking and eventually got a little too tipsy. His friend helped him outside for some fresh air, leaving him near a fence while he went back inside to retrieve their jackets. When he returned, Kurt was gone. He assumed Kurt had headed home, but he never arrived.

By the following morning, his parents, Ken and Dorothy Sova, were worried. Dorothy began contacting his friends while Ken searched the neighborhood. When they learned about the party, Dorothy visited the duplex, but the woman who hosted it initially denied having a gathering. She eventually acknowledged that Kurt had been there. Over the next several days, the family searched ravines, school grounds, and anywhere else they thought their son might have gone.

On Wednesday, October 28th, three boys discovered Kurt in a ravine behind a warehouse, a short distance from the party. One of his tennis shoes was found among nearby rocks, but the other was never recovered. Ken insisted he had already searched that area and would have noticed his son, especially because Kurt was wearing a bright yellow shirt.

Then came the medical examiner's findings. According to the original Unsolved Mysteries account, Kurt had been deceased for approximately 24 to 36 hours before he was found. If accurate, that meant he had survived for several days after leaving the party. There were no obvious signs of what happened and, in the end, the coroner characterized it as probably accidental.

As the family tried to piece together those missing days, another detail emerged. A friend named David Trusnik claimed he had seen Kurt on Monday, October 26th, walking with another boy. David said he stopped to offer them a ride, but a van approached, Kurt called out to someone named Franco, and both boys climbed inside. Of course, this detail was unable to be verified.

There was also a phone call on the morning Kurt was discovered. The woman who originally hosted the party at the Harvard Avenue duplex contacted Dorothy around 3:30 a.m., suggesting someone might have been sleeping in her basement. Ken went to investigate and found a cot that appeared to have been used, but nobody was there. Whether Kurt had ever been in that basement remains unknown.

Kurt's parents eventually brought his case to Unsolved Mysteries in 1988, hoping someone would come forward with answers. Both passed away without learning what happened to their youngest son. Police revisited the investigation in 2019, but the case remains unresolved.

Forty-five years later, Kurt's family still has no explanation for where he spent those missing days or how he ended up in a ravine so close to where he was last seen.

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