The Skeleton Key Chronicles

18 hours ago

The former husband of missing D.C. mom Antoinette Forbes, and the father of her 10-year-old son, is now being held in Pennsylvania on an out-of-state warrant.

And there’s another part of this story we didn’t know when we first talked about Antoinette last week. She and her former husband had apparently been involved in a custody battle over their son for years.

Authorities haven’t said what the warrant is for or whether his being in custody has anything to do with Antoinette’s disappearance.

If you missed her story, Antoinette is a 53-year-old public affairs executive with Eli Lilly who went missing earlier this month.

Her sister had talked to her over FaceTime on a Saturday morning. They laughed, talked about their weekend and made plans to visit their mother in Florida over Christmas. Nothing about the conversation seemed unusual. After that, her family couldn’t get ahold of her.

By Monday, friends who lived nearby went over to Antoinette’s house to check on her. The front door was unlocked. Her car was still sitting in the driveway. Inside the house were her wallet, laptop and both of her phones, including the one she used for work. Her dog, Max, was there too. But Antoinette wasn’t.

Her disappearance was later classified as a critical missing-person case, and her sister has said investigators have continued working at the house while family members have not been allowed back inside. Now her former husband is in custody in Pennsylvania, but we still don’t know why he was picked up or whether it has anything to do with Antoinette. For now, she remains missing.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

23 hours ago

Investigators may finally be closer to identifying Lake County Jane Doe than they have been at any point in the last 43 years.

She was found in March of 1983, in the brush alongside I-271 in Willoughby Hills, Ohio. She had no identification with her, and nobody seemed to be looking for a woman who matched her description. There wasn't much to go on when she was found aside from her clothing. Authorities believed she was somewhere between 17 and 35 years old and hoped this artist sketch would help someone recognize her, but no ever did.

For decades, there was no movement in the case. Then, years later, investigators heard a story that sounded remarkably familiar
Decades later, Samuel Little gave investigators another piece of the story. He told them he had left a woman along I-271 in the Willoughby Hills area years earlier. His account was similar enough to this case that investigators began considering whether Jane Doe could be the woman he remembered.

But figuring out what happened to her and figuring out who she was are two very different things. And it's the second question that investigators may finally be getting somewhere with.

In 2025, genetic genealogy led to journalist and author Lee Hawkins. DNA indicated that he could be one of Jane Doe's closest known relatives, possibly a second cousin. Suddenly, after more than four decades without a name, investigators had a branch of her family tree to follow.

They began working through those connections and testing other possible relatives, including family members in the Akron area. The idea is to keep narrowing that tree until they can find exactly where Jane Doe belongs.

More than a year has passed since that development, and her identity still hasn't been announced. For now, she's still listed by the Ohio Attorney General's Office as Jane Doe #3771.

But she's no longer a woman with no connection to anyone. Her DNA has led investigators to members of her own extended family. Somewhere within those branches is Lake County Jane Doe's real name.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

2 days ago

Imagine searching for your 16-year-old daughter for nearly nine months, only to learn she had apparently been staying inside a house police had already checked twice.

The Ohio teenager had been missing since December 2nd, 2025, after leaving a transitional living home in Columbus. Her family had been looking for her ever since, and eventually that search led police to Springfield and the home of 48-year-old Jobe Binkley. Apparently Binkley was well known in the community, being a former teacher with Springfield City Schools.

According to court records, officers went to his house twice looking for the girl. Police say Binkley wouldn’t let them inside and told them she wasn’t there.

On August 21st, an officer working with the U.S. Marshals Service went to the house again. This time, according to the probable-cause affidavit, Binkley acknowledged that the teenager was inside and called for her to come out. After 263 days, she was finally located.

There’s some history with Binkley and the school district too. He had been placed on administrative leave in November 2024 over concerns about his professional interactions with students, although those allegations were ultimately determined to be unsubstantiated. He was placed on leave again in January 2025 and fired the following month over a separate technology policy violation.

The district says it didn’t learn about the situation involving this particular teenager until after Binkley was no longer working there. He waa charged with interference with custody and is currently out on bond.

There’s still a lot we don’t know about those eight months, including exactly what was happening inside that Springfield house. Binkley has pleaded not guilty, and his case is now making its way through court.

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