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On an ordinary winter day in January of 2001, a sixty-eight year old woman set off on a hike with three others. Shortly into the trail, she decided she wasn’t up for the hike and turned around to go back to the park’s lodge area while the other’s carried on to the destination. When the others returned, there was no sign of her, and there hasn’t been ever since. Besides her hiking partners, nobody can confirm she was actually in the park that day. The mysterious nature of her disappearance has led to multiple theories, but to this day none of them have produced any answers.

TIPS: Polk County Sheriff's Office 501-394-2511

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Sources:

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-star-plane-crash/168928893/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/batesville-guard-search-called-off-tuesd/168881008/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sun-initial-search/168880971/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/paragould-daily-press-ross-perot-article/168880513/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sun-billionaire-involved-in-search/168880462/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sun-mysterious-disappearance/168880348/

https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/tag/Gloria+White+Moore+McDonald+missing

https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/arkansas/lovers-leap-trail

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TW: Mention of sexual abuse towards a minor

If you walked around the Jordan Heights Neighborhood of Allentown, PA in early 1984, you might bump into a cute little seven-year-old boy. If you did, the 44 lb elementary school student with light brown hair and sweet blue eyes would likely say to you something like this: “Hi, I’m Louis. Let’s be friends!” A stranger to nobody, Louis was a free spirit who walked around his neighborhood like the mayor, often chatting up adults instead of playing with his peers.
While Louis should have been safe to do so in his busy urban neighborhood, things took a dark turn when Louis reported that he had been sexually abused by a couple, who he only knew by their first names. According to Louis, they threatened to make him disappear if he ever told anybody. And then, sure enough, months later he was gone.

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Sources (more on newspapers.com - limited by character allowance in show notes - check out username asimplertimetruecrime for more)

A Huge Thank You to local paper The Morning Call for the bulk of this research

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-25-years-page-2/168565689/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-25-years-missing/168565424/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-20-years-page-2/168565316/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-6-year-mark-with-refere/168562687/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-18th-bday/168562474/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-the-daily-news-detailed-missing-p/168562059/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-drugs-plague-neighborho/168561928/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-billboards/168561576/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-foreclosure/168561522/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/press-enterprise-photo-cartons/168561291/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-louis-stockholm-syndr/168561112/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-thurston-trucks/168561009/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-more-on-riggs-scandal-p/168559371/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-riggs-strange-search/168559332/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-second-1988-riggs-artic/168558805/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-riggs-article-1988/168558645/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-birthday/168539548/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-detailed-article-about/168389450/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-page-1-of-detailed-loui/168389582/

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In January of 2002, a group of four land surveyors were working in a lightly wooded area in Harris County Georgia. According to the crew, they were all walking in the same direction about 50 feet apart and carrying on conversation. A 20 year old named Christopher was last in the vertical line and the third person in line asked Christopher a question and got no answer. When he turned around he was gone. The search for Christopher provided confusing and concerning clues, but despite the direction those clues pointed in, law enforcement theories were – well, interesting, I’ll say.
The GBI is investigating this case, and with a never-ending push from his family as well as civil-rights groups and activists, its time his case get answers.

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https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article28986784.html

https://www.wrbl.com/news/vigil-for-man-missing-since-2002/

https://medium.com/bizarre-unsolved-cases/the-strange-disappearance-of-christopher-thompkins-f6320543033b

https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/The-Mysterious-Disappearance-of-Christopher-Thompkins

https://gbi.georgia.gov/cases/missing-persons/christopher-thompkins

https://southernstrange.com/2024/09/30/christopher-thompkins-gone-without-a-sound/

https://www.wtvm.com/2023/07/19/20-years-later-family-officials-continue-search-answers-disappearance-harris-co-man/

https://web.archive.org/web/20201111232151/http://exit9.news/2019/03/14/christopher-thompkins-part-ii-following-the-clues/

https://charleyproject.org/case/christopher-carlton-thompkins

https://www.newspapers.com/article/ledger-enquirer-christopher-carlton-thom/168095865/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/ledger-enquirer-protest-for-thompson/168096832/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/ledger-enquirer-no-longer-housekeeper/168096942/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/ledger-enquirer-part-2-protest-article/168097086/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/ledger-enquirer-2004-protest/168097176/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/ledger-enquirer-2009-possible-john-doe/168097813/

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