5 The Disappearance Of Revelle Balmain. Revelle Balmain. In 1994, 22-year-old Revelle Balmain lived in Sydney and had aspirations of being a model and dancer. She caught a big break when she was hired for a six-month dance tour in Japan.
Leonard Dirickson was a 39-year-old divorcee who lived with his teenage son Jared at their dairy farm in Strong City, Oklahoma. On the morning of March 14, 1998, Leonard and Jared were eating breakfast when an unidentified man in a pickup truck showed up at their farmhouse. Leonard went to speak with the man for several minutes, and when he came back inside, he told Jared that the stranger was interested in buying one of his horses. Curiously, Leonard had never advertised having horses for sale. Nevertheless, Leonard left with the mysterious stranger in his pickup truck to go show him the horse. This would be the last time Jared ever saw his father.
In 1969, 48-year-old Dorothy Miller lived in Burlington, Iowa, and was the only female real estate agent in the area at that time. On the evening of August 15, Dorothy received a call from a man calling himself “Robert Clark,” who wanted to be shown a local house that was for sale. Since Dorothy didn’t like showing houses alone late at night, she brought her husband, Fred, along. The couple met Clark, who claimed he was planning to move his family from Des Moines. The following morning, Clark phoned Dorothy again and asked if he could take photos of the property for his wife. Dorothy was not available that day, but she scheduled another appointment for August 18. The two of them met that night and were seen entering the house together by neighbors.
In 1991, 43-year-old Penny Bell ran a successful employment agency and lived with her husband and two children in the village of Denham, England. On the morning of June 6, builders were renovating the Bell home when they saw Penny leave at approximately 9:40 AM. She told the builders that she was running late for an appointment. Two hours later, Penny’s car would be found in the parking lot of the Gurnell Leisure Centre in Greenford, a suburb of London. Penny’s body was in the front seat. She had been stabbed and slashed a total of 50 times.
On December 18, 1969, Carmen Hallock, a 22-year-old waitress and junior college student from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, had lunch with her former sister-in-law, Nancy Bauer. Carmen told her that she had a meeting about an employment opportunity scheduled that night.
In 1978, 25-year-old Mary Shinn owned an art studio in Magnolia, Arkansas, but also dabbled in real estate on the side. She decided to place an ad in a newspaper to sell a home she owned. On July 19, Mary showed the house to an unidentified man, who apparently wanted to make a deal which would involve her trading her property for a piece of land he owned outside of town. The following day, Mary received another call from this man. He claimed that his car was being repaired, so he asked Mary if they could meet at the EZ Mart across the street from her studio, so she could give him a lift to check out the house again. Mary agreed to the arrangement, and she soon vanished without a trace.
On February 2, 2008, 24-year-old real estate agent Lindsay Buziak received a phone call from a woman who asked if she could show her an expensive home in the Saanich district of Vancouver. Lindsay agreed to meet the woman at 5:30 PM, but she soon received another call from a man who said he would be meeting her instead. This made Lindsay uneasy, so she asked her boyfriend, Jason Zailo, to check in on her while she showed the house. Jason and one of his friends arrived at 5:45 PM and claimed that they saw two figures moving around inside. When Lindsay didn’t respond to a text message, Jason and his friend decided to enter the house. They would discover Lindsay’s body in the upstairs bedroom. She had been stabbed over 40 times.
The body of a Dallas businessman who had been missing since October was found in a wooded area of the Texas city. A survey crew working for Paul Quinn College found human remains near the campus Thursday, police said.
The Dallas County medical examiner identified the remains as Alan White, an executive at accounting firm KPMG who was last seen gassing up his Porsche after a gym visit on Oct. 22. The 55-year-old’s vehicle was found about a week later, and there were no signs of a struggle or accident.