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Between 2005 and 2010, at least ten Black women disappeared from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and the surrounding Edgecombe and Halifax counties. Eight bodies were eventually recovered, most of them along or near a rural stretch known as Seven Bridges Road. Joyce Renee Durham has never been found. Most of the victims were navigating addiction, and several had histories of survival sex work — circumstances that, according to reporting and community accounts, contributed to a slower, less urgent police and media response than cases involving other victims in the same area.

The break in the case came through 28-year-old Taraha Shenice Nicholson, reported missing on February 22, 2009 and found less than two weeks later near Seven Bridges Road, strangled. DNA recovered from her body was matched to Antwan Maurice Pittman, a Rocky Mount native with a long prior criminal record. Pittman was arrested as a fugitive in Nash County in August 2009 and charged with Nicholson's murder that September. He admitted at trial to paying her for sex six days before her body was found. In September 2011, a jury convicted him of Nicholson's murder, and he was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

In this episode of The Last Known Moment, we walk through the case timeline, the ten women at the center of it, the investigation that finally produced a DNA match, and the systemic neglect — race, poverty, and addiction — that let this pattern continue for years with almost no national attention. Antwan Pittman has never been charged in the other nine deaths, though investigators have said on the record they believe he is connected, since the killings stopped after his arrest. As of this recording, Joyce Renee Durham remains missing, and no one has been held accountable for the deaths beyond Taraha Nicholson's.

In this episode we cover:

• ↲Between 2005 and 2010, at least ten Black women disappeared from Rocky Mount, NC and surrounding Edgecombe/Halifax counties
• ↲Eight bodies were recovered, many near a rural stretch known as Seven Bridges Road; Joyce Renee Durham has never been found
• ↲DNA evidence linked Antwan Maurice Pittman to the 2009 murder of 28-year-old Taraha Shenice Nicholson
• ↲Pittman was convicted of Nicholson's murder in September 2011 and sentenced to life without parole — the case's only conviction
• ↲He has never been charged in the other nine deaths, though investigators believe he is connected since the killings stopped after his arrest
• ↲A 2018 play, "Seven Bridges Road," was written to highlight the disparity in attention these cases received compared to others in the same town
• ↲A 2012 charity motorcycle ride was held in Rocky Mount to raise awareness for the victims

On the night of February 7, 2018, Khadijah Rose Britton was at a friend's home in Covelo, California, when her ex-boyfriend, Negie Tony Fallis IV, allegedly showed up armed with a gun, along with his new girlfriend. Witnesses say a physical struggle broke out and Khadijah — a 23-year-old member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes known to loved ones as "Deej" — was forced into a vehicle at gunpoint. She has not been seen or heard from since.

Khadijah had a documented history of domestic violence with Fallis, including an attack with a hammer weeks before she vanished. She had reported it to police, then later told them she didn't want to pursue charges — a pattern domestic violence advocates say is tragically common. Ten days after her disappearance, Fallis was charged with kidnapping, attempted murder, and domestic violence. In June 2018, prosecutors dropped those charges for insufficient evidence; Fallis ultimately pleaded no contest only to a reduced firearms charge. No one has ever been charged in connection with Khadijah's disappearance itself.

In this episode of The Last Known Moment, we walk through the last known moment, the investigation's early stumbles, the reward that has grown into six figures, and the broader Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons crisis that Khadijah's case has come to represent. We also address, directly and on the record, a false claim currently circulating online that her remains have been recovered — a claim no law enforcement agency has confirmed. As of this recording, Khadijah Rose Britton's case remains open. She has not been found.

In this episode we cover:

• ↲February 7, 2018 — Khadijah Rose Britton, 23, was forced into a vehicle at gunpoint by her ex-boyfriend outside a friend's home in Covelo, California
• ↲A member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes (Wailacki and Yuki descent), known to loved ones as "Deej"
• ↲She had reported domestic violence — including an attack with a hammer — against her ex-boyfriend weeks earlier, then withdrew the complaint
• ↲Ten days after she vanished, her ex-boyfriend was charged with kidnapping, attempted murder, and domestic violence
• ↲In June 2018, those charges were dropped for insufficient evidence; he pleaded no contest only to a reduced firearms charge
• ↲No one has ever been charged in connection with Khadijah's disappearance itself
• ↲The reward for information has grown from an initial $50,000 toward as much as $85,000 over the years
• ↲Her case is part of the broader Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons crisis in California
• ↲A false claim currently circulating online says her remains have been found — no official source confirms this; her case remains open and unsolved

On December 18, 2011, 23-year-old Phoenix Coldon left her family's home in Spanish Lake, Missouri, behind the wheel of her black 1998 Chevy Blazer. Her father said she was headed somewhere close — maybe a convenience store, maybe a friend's house. She never came back.

Just a few hours later, her Blazer was found abandoned roughly 25 minutes from home, across the Missouri-Illinois state line in East Saint Louis, Illinois. Inside were her glasses, her purse, her shoes, her ID, and an old cell phone bill — no sign of a struggle. But because the vehicle was impounded on the Illinois side of the river, it was never cross-referenced against the missing persons report her parents had just filed with Missouri police. The Coldon family says they were never properly notified — a family friend, searching independently, found the Blazer sitting in a tow lot.

After that afternoon, every trace of Phoenix went silent. Her phone, her bank accounts, her social media — all activity stopped completely and never resumed. Frustrated with the pace of the official investigation, her parents spent their own money and time chasing leads on their own, a search that eventually cost them their home and their savings.

In this episode of The Last Known Moment, we break down the timeline, the jurisdictional failure that may have cost investigators their best early lead, and the competing theories — abduction, a staged disappearance, trafficking — that have circulated for over a decade. As of this recording, Phoenix Coldon has been missing for more than fourteen years. No arrest has been made, and her case remains open.

In this episode we cover:

• ↲December 18, 2011 — Phoenix Coldon, 23, disappeared after leaving her family's home in Spanish Lake, Missouri
• ↲Her Blazer was found abandoned about 25 minutes away, across the state line in East Saint Louis, Illinois, within hours
• ↲Her glasses, purse, shoes, ID, and an old cell phone bill were still inside — no sign of a struggle
• ↲A jurisdictional mix-up meant the impounded vehicle was never cross-referenced against the Missouri missing persons report
• ↲The Coldon family says they were never officially notified — a family friend found the car in a tow lot first
• ↲All phone, bank, and social media activity ceased that day and never resumed
• ↲The Coldon family spent their life savings and lost their home searching independently for their daughter
• ↲As of this recording, Phoenix Coldon has been missing for over fourteen years; no arrest has been made

On December 28, 2010, sixteen-year-old honor student Phylicia Barnes disappeared from her half-sister's apartment in Northwest Baltimore while visiting from Monroe, North Carolina for winter break. She had told people she planned to go to the mall. She never returned.

Michael Maurice Johnson, who was dating Phylicia's half-sister, became an early suspect after witnesses reported seeing him move a large plastic tub out of the apartment the same day she vanished. In April 2011, Phylicia's body was recovered from the Susquehanna River near the Conowingo Dam; the medical examiner ruled her death a homicide by asphyxiation.

What followed was one of the most drawn-out legal battles in Maryland criminal court history: an indictment, a second-degree murder conviction overturned for a Brady violation, a mistrial, an acquittal that was itself reversed on appeal, and finally a third trial that ended with a judge's acquittal. Under the law, that acquittal is final — no one has ever been convicted of killing Phylicia Barnes, and Johnson can never be retried for her death.

In this episode of The Last Known Moment, we cover the full case history and the most recent development: in June 2026, Johnson was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences plus 25 years in an unrelated Baltimore County rape and assault case. The judge allowed Phylicia's family to submit victim impact statements at that sentencing — a measure of relief after sixteen years, even though her murder itself remains legally unresolved.

In this episode we cover:

• ↲December 28, 2010 — Phylicia Barnes reported missing from her half-sister's apartment in Northwest Baltimore
• ↲Michael Johnson, who was dating Phylicia's half-sister, named an early suspect after witnesses saw him move a large plastic tub from the apartment
• ↲April 2011 — Phylicia's body recovered from the Susquehanna River near the Conowingo Dam; ruled a homicide by asphyxiation
• ↲2013 — Johnson convicted of second-degree murder; conviction later overturned for a Brady violation
• ↲A mistrial, a reversed acquittal, and a third trial that ended with a judge's acquittal — legally final, no retrial possible
• ↲No one has ever been convicted of killing Phylicia Barnes
• ↲June 2026 — Johnson sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus 25 years in an unrelated Baltimore County rape and assault case
• ↲Phylicia's family submitted victim impact statements at that sentencing, calling it a measure of relief after 16 years

On January 25, 2006, housing officers forced open the door of a bedsit above Wood Green Shopping City in North London — not searching for a body, but dealing with unpaid rent. What they found was a skeleton: the remains of thirty-eight-year-old Joyce Carol Vincent, so decomposed she could only be identified through dental records.

Investigators believe Joyce had been dead since December 2003 — meaning her body lay undiscovered in that flat for over two years. The television was still switched on. Wrapped Christmas gifts sat nearby, never opened. An inquest later returned an open verdict: no forced entry, no evidence of foul play, just an ordinary door that nobody thought to check.

In this episode of The Last Known Moment, we cover who Joyce really was — a vibrant, socially connected woman before isolation quietly swallowed her final years — the discovery that shocked a nation, and the 2011 documentary Dreams of a Life that finally gave her story a voice.

There is no killer in this case. No trial. Just an uncomfortable question about how easily a person can disappear from a crowded city, and how long it can take before anyone notices.

In this episode we cover:

• ↲January 25, 2006 — housing officers force open Joyce Carol Vincent's bedsit door above Wood Green Shopping City, North London
• ↲Investigators believe Joyce had been dead since December 2003 — her remains undiscovered for over two years
• ↲The television was still on; wrapped Christmas gifts sat untouched nearby
• ↲Joyce was identified through dental records due to the extent of decomposition
• ↲An inquest returned an open verdict — no forced entry, no evidence of foul play
• ↲Born in 1965 to Grenadian parents, friends describe a vibrant, socially connected woman before her isolation deepened
• ↲The 2011 docudrama Dreams of a Life, directed by Carol Morley and starring Zawe Ashton, brought her story to public attention
• ↲Why an entire community — family, friends, neighbours — failed to notice her absence for over two years

On September 26, 2016, twenty-one-year-old Keeshae Jacobs left her family's home in Richmond, Virginia's East End for a night out. Around 11 p.m., she texted her mother to say she'd made it to her destination safely. It was the last anyone in her family ever heard from her.

Keeshae had been in contact with a man named Otis Lee Tucker and was believed to be heading toward his residence. Investigators later found her SIM card and blood-stained items tied to Tucker's home, but without a body or a confession, the case stalled for years.

In this episode of The Last Known Moment, we cover Keeshae's disappearance, the mother who refused to stop investigating on her own, the 2022 murder that put Tucker behind bars in Florida, and the 2024 confession — secured with help from Tucker's own father — that finally confirmed Keeshae's death without ever charging anyone for it.

Keeshae's case remains classified as exceptionally closed. Her remains have never been recovered.

In this episode we cover:

• ↲September 26, 2016 — Keeshae's last known movements: a night out in Richmond, and a text to her mother confirming she'd arrived safely
• ↲Keeshae was 21 years old, known to family as a homebody and "a very sweet and loving person"
• ↲Her SIM card and blood-stained items were later found tied to the residence of Otis Lee Tucker
• ↲Richmond Police investigation: what was gathered, what was pursued, and why the case stalled for nearly eight years
• ↲Toni Jacobs — Keeshae's mother — who investigated independently after being told there wasn't much police could do
• ↲Otis Tucker's 2022 conviction for the murder of Ashley Fowler in Florida, and how it reopened Keeshae's case
• ↲The 2024 confession, secured with help from Tucker's father, in which he admitted to disposing of Keeshae's body but not to killing her
• ↲Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards' July 2024 announcement confirming Keeshae's death
• ↲Why the case is classified 'exceptionally closed' and why no charges have ever been filed

On October 2, 2018, twenty-six-year-old Kierra Coles left her apartment on Chicago's South Side for her mail route — and never came home. She was a United States Postal Service letter carrier. She was three months pregnant. Neither Kierra nor her unborn child have ever been found.

Kierra's car was later located near her delivery route. Her personal belongings were inside. Kierra was not.

In this episode of The Last Known Moment, we cover the full timeline of Kierra's disappearance, the investigation that followed, the years of near-silence in national media coverage, and the relentless advocacy of her mother, Karen Phillips, who has never stopped fighting for answers.

Kierra's case remains an active missing persons case. A reward of $68,000 is currently offered for information.

In this episode we cover:

• ↲October 2, 2018 — Kierra's last known movements: her apartment on South Cottage Grove Avenue, her mail delivery route, and the moment she disappeared
• ↲Kierra was a 26-year-old USPS letter carrier who was three months pregnant at the time of her disappearance
• ↲Her personal vehicle was located near her delivery route — her belongings inside, but Kierra was not
• ↲Chicago Police Department investigation: what was gathered, what was pursued, and where it stands
• ↲Karen Phillips — Kierra's mother — speaking publicly and advocating without pause for media attention on her daughter's case
• ↲The question of why national media largely failed to cover a missing pregnant woman for years
• ↲The Cook County Sheriff's Office active missing persons listing and current case status
• ↲A $68,000 reward is currently offered for information leading to Kierra's whereabouts or those responsible
• ↲Anyone with information can contact Chicago Police at 1-833-408-0069

On January 3, 2024, Kayla Laray Atwood dropped her four children off at daycare and never came home. She was thirty-two years old.

Kayla was last seen getting into a yellow Penske moving truck. The man driving it was Antonio Elmores — a man she had met on a dating app two days earlier. Elmores helped Kayla drop her children off at daycare that morning, and she was last seen on surveillance footage entering the passenger side of his truck. Elmores was questioned by investigators. He was cleared. He had no involvement in what happened to Kayla.

But someone else was watching that morning. Mikhail Fountain — Kayla's ex-boyfriend — had been obsessively tracking her movements since their breakup approximately one week earlier. He asked neighbors what vehicle had picked her up. On January 3rd, he sought access to a neighbor's residential surveillance footage. He was the last person to view those files before critical footage was deleted — along with text messages and a fabricated police report.

On January 8, 2024, Fountain was arrested on evidence tampering charges. In the days that followed, K-9 cadaver units located Kayla's body in a shallow grave outside Pensacola. She had been missing for eight days. Fountain's charges were elevated to second-degree murder.

In January 2026, Mikhail Fountain was found guilty after a three-day trial in Escambia County. On February 11, 2026, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

In this episode of The Last Known Moment, we examine Kayla's last known day, the evidence tampering that preceded her body's discovery, the community response in Pensacola, the trial and conviction, and the questions her family continues to ask — publicly, and on the record — about whether the full scope of the investigation was ever completed.

In this episode we cover:

• ↲January 3, 2024 — Kayla's last known movements: daycare drop-off with Antonio Elmores, and surveillance footage entering his yellow Penske truck
• ↲Antonio Elmores — a man Kayla met on a dating app two days earlier — was questioned by investigators and cleared
• ↲Mikhail Fountain's obsessive surveillance: asking neighbors what vehicle picked Kayla up, accessing and deleting footage
• ↲What was destroyed: surveillance video, text messages, and a fabricated police report
• ↲January 8, 2024 — Fountain arrested for evidence tampering before Kayla's body was found
• ↲K-9 cadaver units locate Kayla's body in a shallow grave outside Pensacola — eight days after her disappearance
• ↲The community response and the family's on-record statements about the scope of the investigation
• ↲January 2026 — three-day trial in Escambia County, second-degree murder verdict
• ↲February 11, 2026 — life without parole
• ↲The investigation into possible accomplices and the questions that remain open

On November 3, 2018, Tamla Horsford attended a neighborhood sleepover at a friend's home in Cumming, Georgia. By the next morning, she was found face down in the backyard — dead.

Within hours, Forsyth County investigators closed the case as an accident: an alcohol-related fall from a second-story balcony. No crime scene was processed. No toxicology was awaited. The people who had been in that home with her were never formally interviewed.

Tamla's family never accepted that conclusion. And once the details began to surface publicly — physical evidence inconsistent with an accidental fall, a timeline that raised more questions than answers, witness accounts that shifted over time — thousands of people across the country didn't either.

In this episode of The Last Known Moment, we examine the full timeline of November 3rd-4th, 2018, the forensic and physical evidence that raised serious questions about the official ruling, the role of race in how quickly this case was closed, and the national reckoning that forced investigators to take a second look.

No charges have ever been filed. The case remains open.

In this episode we cover:

• ↲November 3, 2018 — the sleepover at Jeanne Myers' home in Cumming, Georgia
• ↲At approximately six thirty the following morning — Tamla found face down near the base of a second-story balcony
• ↲The official ruling: accidental death — no crime scene processing, no formal interviews, no toxicology awaited
• ↲Physical evidence described as consistent with a physical altercation, not an accidental fall
• ↲The role of race: Tamla was one of the only Black women at the party, and the investigation closed within hours
• ↲Summer of 2020 — the national reckoning following George Floyd's murder resurfaces Tamla's case publicly
• ↲Advocates, activists, and online communities amplify what her family had been saying for two years
• ↲The Georgia Bureau of Investigation reopens the inquiry under public pressure
• ↲No charges. No arrests. A family still waiting for answers.

On Valentine's Day 2000, nine-year-old Asha Degree packed a bag and walked out of her North Carolina home before sunrise. She stepped into a cold rainstorm, walked miles alone down Highway 18, and vanished. One witness saw her. When he turned back, she was gone.

Twenty-five years later, this case has become one of the most haunting unsolved disappearances in America — and the most significant developments in recent memory now point toward answers.

In this episode of The Last Known Moment, we trace Asha's last known night, the buried backpack discovered eighteen months after her disappearance, and the DNA evidence that finally gave investigators a direction. We follow the 2024 homicide reclassification, the search warrants executed against the Dedmon family, the witness who came forward in 2025, and the large-scale FBI and SBI searches that continued into April 2025.

No arrests have been made. But twenty-five years of waiting have never felt closer to ending.

In this episode we cover:

• ↲February 14, 2000 — what Asha's family saw, what the night looked like, and why she may have left
• ↲The witness on Highway 18 — what Jeff Ruppe saw and what happened when he turned around
• ↲The shed on the highway — items arranged, not scattered, and what that told investigators
• ↲The buried backpack discovered in Burke County 18 months later, 30 miles from home
• ↲The 2024 homicide reclassification and DNA evidence linking the Dedmon family
• ↲September 2024: eight search warrant locations, Roy and Connie Dedmon, and the forensic thread
• ↲The 2025 witness statement: 'I killed Asha Degree' — and the text messages that followed
• ↲The April 2025 FBI and SBI searches at North Brook Elementary School and two North Carolina highways
• ↲A $100,000 reward and still no arrests — what Asha's family has waited 25 years to hear

In June 2017, 20-year-old Ashley Loring HeavyRunner vanished from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Montana. She was an environmental science student with plans to transfer to the University of Montana. She wanted to build a life beyond the reservation she'd grown up on.

Eight years later, no arrests have been made. No charges have been filed. No remains have been found. And Ashley's family is still searching.

In this episode of The Last Known Moment, we cover one of America's most under-reported ongoing missing persons cases — and one that puts a human face on the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. We follow the last known timeline, the catastrophic failures in the official investigation, a critical tip involving Highway 89 that investigators nearly let slip away, and the extraordinary advocacy of Ashley's sister Kimberly Loring, who organized more than a hundred search parties and testified before the United States Senate.

Ashley HeavyRunner would be 29 years old today. This is her case.

In this episode we cover:

• ↲June 5, 2017 — the night captured on video that became Ashley's last known sighting
• ↲Why authorities told the family: "She's of age, she can leave when she wants to"
• ↲The tip about Highway 89, and the sweater lost by law enforcement
• ↲How three overlapping jurisdictions — tribal police, the BIA, and the FBI — let the case fall through the cracks
• ↲The 1978 Supreme Court ruling that stripped tribal governments of the power to prosecute non-Native offenders on reservation land
• ↲Sam McDonald, Paul Valenzuela, and what may have happened after June 11
• ↲Kimberly Loring: 100+ search parties, Congressional testimony, and a sister who refused to stop
• ↲Savanna's Act, the Not Invisible Act, and whether the law has actually changed

On the morning of June 13, 2001, 19-year-old Jason Jolkowski left his Omaha, Nebraska home to walk eight blocks to meet a coworker for a ride to work. His car was in the shop. It was a Tuesday morning. He was never seen again.

In this episode of The Last Known Moment, we cover one of Nebraska's most haunting unsolved disappearances — a case with no body, no suspects, no physical evidence, and a 9-day delay before police even opened an investigation. We also cover the extraordinary legacy that emerged from the silence: Jason's mother Kelly Murphy founded Project Jason, a national nonprofit for families of the missing, and championed the passage of Jason's Law in Nebraska — landmark legislation that changed how the state handles missing persons cases forever.

Twenty-five years later, Jason Jolkowski's case remains open. His story deserves to be heard.

In this episode we cover:

• ↲The morning of June 13, 2001 — a detailed timeline of Jason's last known movements
• ↲Why the Omaha Police Department waited 9 days to open a formal investigation
• ↲How a half-mile walk to catch a ride to work became an unsolved mystery
• ↲Project Jason — the nonprofit Kelly Murphy built from grief to help other families
• ↲Jason's Law — the Nebraska legislation that changed missing persons protocol statewide
• ↲OPD Case #RB85214T — what investigators have and haven't found in 25 years

After the 1982 Tylenol murders shocked Chicago, a dangerous blueprint was left behind — and some people decided to use it.

In this episode of NaturalQueen77 TV, we follow the chilling wave of copycat poisonings that emerged in the years that followed. We cover the 1986 death of Sue Snow in Auburn, Washington — the first crack in what would become a twisted murder-for-hire scheme — and the extraordinary forensic investigation that led to Stella Nickel, the first person ever convicted under the federal anti-tampering act. Then we look at Diane Elsroth's unsolved cyanide poisoning in Yonkers, New York, and Joseph Melling's calculated attack on his own wife disguised as random product tampering.

One anonymous killer in 1982 changed consumer safety forever. But the copycats they inspired? Those cases are far from over.

In this episode we cover:

• ↲The 1986 poisoning death of Sue Snow — the case that cracked open a deadly insurance scheme
• ↲How Stella Nickel became the first person convicted under the federal anti-tampering act
• ↲The forensic breakthrough that exposed a premeditated murder disguised as random tampering
• ↲Diane Elsroth's unsolved cyanide poisoning in Yonkers, New York — still no answers
• ↲Joseph Melling's calculated attack on his own wife hidden inside store-shelf products
• ↲How one anonymous killer in 1982 inspired a decade of dangerous copycats

In 1982, seven people in Chicago died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol laced with potassium cyanide — and the killer was never caught. This is the case that changed how America buys medicine forever.

On September 29th, 1982, a 12-year-old girl named Mary Kellerman took a Tylenol for a cold and never woke up. By the end of that week, six more people were dead. The poison had been placed inside over-the-counter Tylenol bottles on store shelves — randomly, deliberately, and without mercy.

In this episode we cover:

• ↲The shocking chain of deaths that unfolded within 72 hours
• ↲How investigators traced seven victims back to a single product
• ↲The nationwide panic and Johnson & Johnson's unprecedented 31-million-bottle recall
• ↲James Lewis — the man convicted of extortion but never charged with murder
• ↲Why the FBI's investigation remains technically open to this day
• ↲How this one crime gave birth to tamper-evident packaging on every product you buy