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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