Brandee Canipe was last known to be alive on May 6, 2006. At the time, it’s believed that Canipe was living in Mocksville, North Carolina, in Davie County. She was just 29 years old when she vanished. Brandee’s younger sister spoke with Dateline and stated, “She was a free spirit,” Leigh said. “It would be sometimes a…
A Headless Blackbeard Haunts Teach’s Hole
Teach’s Hole in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, specifically Ocracoke Island, is the name given to a channel and spot where the infamous pirate Blackbeard is said to have anchored and met his demise in battle. 1718 wasn’t a great year if you happened to be a pirate in those days. Stede Bonnet and…
The 2000 Disappearance of Asha Degree
Asha Degree was just nine years old in the fourth grade when she disappeared from Shelby, North Carolina. In the early morning hours of Valentine’s Day on February 14, 2000, for reasons unknown, Degree left her home. According to the FBI website, “Around 2:30 a.m., Asha Degree’s father checked up on her and her older brother in the room they shared. Both were sound…
Serial Killer Joe Metheny
Joe Metheny was a huge man who had a serious drug habit. The only difference between Metheny, who owned a roadside barbecue stand in the 1990s, and others we have written about in the past was the fact that he had alleged that some of his victims ended up on the menu, because he claimed…
The Disappearance of Donna Barnhill
Donna Barnhill was just 13 years old at the time of her disappearance when she left her family’s residence in Lexington, North Carolina, to go to a nearby friend’s home. Barnhill vanished on the afternoon of March 18, 1981, and 44 years later, her family and friends are still looking for answers. A billboard on…
The 1974 Abduction of Kathleen Ruth Smiley
Kathleen Ruth Smiley was known to her family and friends as “Kathy.” Smiley was just 16 years old when she was abducted off I-85 in Georgia in 1974. Kathy was born in Florida in 1957, and after several years living in Hong Kong, due to her father’s job, the family relocated to the Atlanta area…
The cold case of 15-year-old Silene Eaddy
Silene Eaddy was just 15 years old at the time of her death in 2004. Eaddy, also known as Erica, lived in Columbia, South Carolina. Eaddy’s body was found in the early morning hours of April 17, 2004, after the Columbia-Richland Fire Department responded to a call for a brush fire near the intersection of…
The 1986 Disappearance of Elizabeth “Libby” Crawford
On the evening of July 16, 1986, Elizabeth “Libby” Crawford received a call. Ms. Crawford, just 34 years old at the time, was living at 108 Cherrywood Mobile Park in Simpsonville, South Carolina, when she went missing. Crawford told her son that she was going to a friend’s house after receiving a call from a…
The National Forest Serial Killer
Gary Michael Hilton was born on November 22, 1946, in Atlanta, Georgia. Hilton was a drifter who was characterized by his unsavory looks of pure evil. He was known to terrorize mountain trails along the eastern United States in Georgia and North Carolina. On October 21, 2007, an elderly couple in Horse Shoe, North Carolina,…
The Disappearance of Stephanie Womacks at Table Rock
Stephanie Womacks was just 52 years old when she went missing at Table Rock State Park on March 3, 2025. Womacks was last seen around 6 p.m., an hour after her husband left to get supplies for the couple. A search would ensue to find Stephanie Womacks, but it was almost like she vanished into…