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Nearly 42 years after 8-year-old Christy Luna disappeared in Florida, investigators are still chasing down new leads, including one that recently led detectives to excavate part of a backyard tied to a new witness tip.

Christy disappeared on May 27th, 1984 after walking to Belks General Store in Greenacres City to buy cat food for her cats. Detectives said the store was about 400 feet from her home, and a clerk remembered her coming in that afternoon. Christy was later reportedly seen walking home barefoot, but somehow in that short distance, she never made it back.

The recent excavation came after a witness contacted investigators with new information tied to Warren Gilbert Williams Jr., a man who lived nearby at the time Christy vanished. According to Palm Beach County detectives, the witness claimed Williams had been remodeling a home near both Belks General Store and Christy’s neighborhood on the day she disappeared. Investigators said he allegedly left the worksite to make a quick trip to the store and never returned after police activity in the area started building. The witness also claimed Williams poured a concrete pad behind his home about a week after Christy vanished. Williams later served time in Florida for cases involving children and passed in an Alabama prison in 2016.

On February 25th, 2026, detectives brought cadaver dogs and ground-penetrating radar to the property connected to the tip. Part of the yard was excavated and a large tree was removed from the area where the concrete pad once sat, but investigators said they did not locate remains.

After more than four decades, Christy Luna’s disappearance is still unsolved, but not due to lack of suspects. Over the years, investigators have looked closely at multiple men. For example, Christy’s disappearance has often been associated with the 1984 disappearance of 8-year-old Tammy Belanger in New Hampshire. Investigators were able to connect both cases to Victor Wonyetye, a man who had lived in Florida around the time Christy vanished before returning to his home state of New Hampshire the same year Tammy went missing. Both girls were 8 years old. Both vanished in broad daylight in 1984. And decades later, neither case has ever been solved.

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A Philadelphia mother and her 1-year-old daughter have been missing since May 4, and the case is starting to draw more attention as days continue to pass without answers.

According to police, 30-year-old Raquel Smith and her daughter Adrianna Stowe were last seen near their home in Philadelphia’s Parkside neighborhood. Family members later reported the two missing after losing contact with them. Investigators said Raquel was known to spend time in the Kensington area, though it’s still unclear what connection she may have had to the neighborhood. In recent years, Kensington has become widely recognized online through countless YouTube videos and livestreams documenting conditions in the area.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

1 day ago

A new Netflix documentary about the Mackenzie Shirilla case has brought the case back into the spotlight again, but now much of the attention is turning toward her father after the stance he took in the film. Steve Shirilla recently spoke with Cleveland-area media and said he believes important context was left out of the documentary. He has continued standing by his daughter’s innocence even after prosecutors argued during trial that the 2022 incident was intentional.

The documentary revisits the Ohio case involving a vehicle collision in Strongsville where Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan lost their lives in 2022 while Mackenzie Shirilla was behind the wheel. Investigators said the vehicle rapidly accelerated and reached nearly 100 mph seconds before impact. The film also includes interviews with Mackenzie herself, along with family members, attorneys, and friends connected to the case. It further explores the events leading up to the incident, including the reportedly volatile relationship between Mackenzie and her longtime boyfriend Dominic Russo, along with details that were not widely discussed when the story first made headlines.

Following the film’s release, Steve Shirilla was reportedly placed on administrative leave from his teaching position at a Catholic school in the Cleveland area after concerns were raised over his participation in the documentary and comments made during it, which has only continued the conversation surrounding both the case and the film itself.

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