Kyani Reid

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May 28, 2025, 3:34 PM EDT“We choose faith, and we choose hope,” Esther Kwong told Dateline. “He will come home.”Esther’s brother, Jared Oswald, vanished on May 19. The 50-year-old was last spotted in Rochester, New York. “He would never do this,” Esther said. Jared, affectionately known as “Bear” by his family, grew up in Palmyra, New York, the youngest of seven siblings. “He was just a big little boy, and that’s what stuck,” Esther said of her brother’s nickname.

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May 19, 2025, 2:53 PM EDTIt was a beautiful two-layer cake, decorated to reflect a fun childhood activity. “All done up like a merry-go-round with the top, horses, and everything,” Vickie Goulette told Dateline. “I mean, it was incredible, and I still have all those decorations.”It was 1974, and the cake was for Vickie’s eldest daughter, Michelle, who had just turned 1. It was baked with love by Michelle’s grandmother, Nancy Hartley. “She was an incredible baker,” Vickie said.

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Deborah Scott came into the world on October 5, 1957. She left it 18 years later. “It was a very violent crime scene,” Deborah’s mother, Jean Hayes, recalled. “I’m sure she fought back.”On April 26, 1976, Jean came home to a horrific scene—one she says she’ll never forget. Deborah had been murdered in their apartment. “I did not think there was anyone who would want to hurt her,” she said.

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The disappearance of Washington state teenager Esmerelda “Kit” Mora raises more questions than answers. And among those many questions are two that Kit’s older sister, Charlotte Reckard, keeps asking. “I want to know what the hell happened,” Charlotte told Dateline. “I want to know where Kit is.” “You could never be mad at Kit,” Charlotte said. “They’re very smiley, very happy.” The 16-year-old is creative and loves art. “Art was one of their main hobbies. Other hobbies were writing, reading.

2 months ago | nbcnews.com | Kyani Reid

On Friday, March 28, 2025, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office announced an arrest in the January 2025 disappearance of Clinton Bonnell. Clinton’s case was featured in Dateline’s ‘Missing in America’ series in February 2025, a month after he vanished. Clinton, 50, was a recently-retired Green Beret and had been enrolled in a Physician Assistant program at Methodist College in Fayetteville, North Carolina.