Nicolás Viñuela

Oct 14, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Nicolás Viñuela

Oct. 14, 2024, 9:02 PM UTCBy The last time that Carmen Villagómez saw her daughter, 33-year-old Katherine “Kathy” Arias, was when she walked out of their Red Bank, New Jersey home with a blue duffel bag. It was around 8 p.m. on June 21, 2022. “I assumed then that she was going to the laundromat to wash her clothes,” Carmen told Dateline, with whom she spoke in Spanish. Kathy’s stepfather, Kenny DeGroot, got home around 11 p.m. that night.

Sep 18, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Nicolás Viñuela

Sept. 18, 2024, 8:33 PM UTCBy It’s been over a year since 52-year-old Sherrell Brown walked away from her Petersburg, Virginia home. “I want her home. It is crucial that we find out what has happened to her,” her mother, Brenda Blackwell, told Dateline. “I don’t believe that she would just go somewhere and not tell anybody anything.”The last time Brenda saw her daughter was on September 1, 2023 — the day she went missing. “We went out early in the day to go to the grocery store,” she said.

Sep 15, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Nicolás Viñuela

Sept. 15, 2024, 3:16 PM UTCBy It was around 8 a.m. on the morning of Thursday, September 15, 1988, when a fisherman spotted a body floating in the Cane River near Pratt’s Bridge, just south of Natchitoches, Louisiana. “Deputies responded to the scene discovering the fully clothed body of a female floating in the river,” the Natchitoches Parish Sheriff’s Office wrote in a 2021 Facebook post.

Sep 1, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Nicolás Viñuela

Sept. 1, 2024, 3:30 PM UTCBy “Everything was going to be OK as long as my big sister was with me,” Ruby Hall told Dateline about her sister, 13-year-old Blanca Elisa Roberson, who went by her middle name. “Life was going to be great.” The thought of Elisa takes Ruby back to afternoons spent biking together down to the harbor in Aransas Pass, Texas — a corner of the world which, in their minds, belonged only to them. “Our whole lives seemed to revolve around these few blocks,” Ruby said.

Aug 25, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Nicolás Viñuela

Aug. 25, 2024, 1:58 PM UTCBy It’s true of all the Molina women. “If it makes noise,” Ramona Molina explained. “I’ll dance to it.”Ramona’s sister Maria Dolores Molina — or Lola, as she liked to be called — was no exception. Ramona says one of her earliest memories is watching Lola work out and dance to the Bee Gees’ ‘Stayin’ Alive.’ “[That song] takes me back to that time,” she told Dateline. “Lola loved music.”In 1983, 17-year-old Lola was involved in the ROTC program at her high school.