Those who knew Phoenix Coldon, 23, described her as compassionate and strong-willed. When she was 12-years-old, she competed - and won awards at - a national fencing competition in Iowa. When her competitors found out her age, they couldn’t quite believe how talented she was. Phoenix and her family lived in the suburbs of North Saint Louis County in Spanish Lake and Phoenix attended the University of Missouri. She was well read, deeply religious and longed to fit in wherever she went, according to her parents.

At around 3pm on the 18th of December, 2011, Phoenix got into her vehicle and drove away from her home. She was scheduled to come back in a few hours but when she didn’t return, her concreted parents reported her missing. However, an officer told them that Phoenix was an adult and didn’t need to alert her parents if she was going somewhere for an extended period. Her parents then contacted local media in the hopes they they would run the story and get the word out that their daughter was missing. Initially, they were advised that news stations had to adhere to local law enforcement policies and procedures and refused to run the story unless the police requested their help. Eventually, Fox 2 News ran the story.

Two weeks later, Phoenix’s abandoned car was discovered at the corner of 9th and Saint Clair in East Saint Louis. The door was open and her car keys were still in the ignition with the engine running. Since Phoenix vanished, her parents have discovered that she had been staying in her apartment with a boyfriend until she moved back home the year before her disappearance. The boyfriend still lives in the area but hasn’t been in contact with Phoenix’s family. However, St. Louis County Detective Robert Vogel said that he isn’t a suspect. Her parents have wondered whether the boyfriend got her involved with unsavoury people.

To this day, Phoenix Coldon still remains missing. Her family have been disappointed by what they believe to be a lack of effort by police and local media. They have paid a private investigator thousands of dollars to follow leads. Their home has fallen into foreclosure as they have used their mortgage money to fund their own search efforts. “The media wouldn’t give us the time of day, but if Phoenix looked like Natalee Holloway, we wouldn’t have had this problem,” said her mother.

Ten years have passed since the disturbing murder of Nancy Bochicchio and her 7-year-old daughter, Joey.

Nancy was a single mother. She had Joey much later in her life. Maybe that’s why the mother daughter duo were inseparable. One would rarely be seen without the other unless Joey wasat school. Although she was just 7-years-old, Joey was said to be mature beyond her years. “Joey was Nancy. That was her mold. They weren’t even like mother and daughter, they were like sisters,” said Timothy McCurdy, a family friend.

It was the 12th of December, 2007, and the duo were at Town Center in Boca Raton, Florida. It was just several days before Joey’s 8th birthday and her mum had planned a big party at home with 25 of her friends from school. On that fateful afternoon, they went to the mall at around 2PM. They are seen around an hour later leaving the mall. Just minutes later, Nancy places a 911 call; it immediately hung up, however. The 911 operator called her back but there was no answer.

After the phone call, Nancy is spotted on CCTV lifting money out of an ATM behind the mall. This is the last ever sighting of Nancy.

Later on that night, shortly before midnight, a mall security guard noticed that a car was still sitting in the car park. As he approached the car, he was met by a grim scene: both Nancy and Joey are both in the back seat, shot dead. They had both been bound with handcuffs, duct tape and zip ties and they were wearing goggled with black cloth in front of the lenses, rendering them unable to see.

Within hours, Nancy’s phone and credit cards were found in Miami. Additionally, investigators determined that the zip ties and duct tape had also been purchased in Miami.

Police determined that the killer was the same man who carried out another crime just months earlier when a woman and her 2-year-old son were carjacked at gunpoint. She too was forced to lift money from an ATM and was tied up with similar peculiarities. However, the kidnapper thankfully let these victims live. The woman described the perpetrator as around 6 feet tall with a long brown ponytail. She said he was wearing driving gloves and a cap and glasses.

In each case, he only managed to steal around $500. “That’s a lot of work to put in for a $500 financial gain. There’s almost certainly some other motive or rationale for why he did these things, more on a psychological level than financial level,” said an officer. 

As the ten year anniversary of their murders approached, Boca Raton police asked anybody with any information to please come forward. They posted a video summarising the crime on their facebook in the hopes that it could refresh the public’s memory. A $400,000 reward for any information leading to the perpetrator has been offered. 

yooo it’s me again with part two of my reference masterpost, now focusing on life in general a little bit more (see part one for more school-based things)! enjoy ✨

health + food

food masterpost

stress relief

self-care tag

infused waters

staying healthy in college

some exercise for weight loss

cheap food to make

bad days

feel better

got sick?

studying with a cold

studying sick

periods

study munchies

managing stress during finals

getting up early

self-care reminders

overcoming burnout

getting better rest

getting enough sleep

wake up early

reduce exam stress

avoiding burnout

manage and reduce stress

getting a good night’s sleep

food

study breaks (1)

study breaks (2)

make the most of your day

time to sleep

it’s coffee o’clock

it’s time for tea

how to have a good morning

staying awake w/o caffeine

what to eat while studying

waking up early and refreshed

presentations

ace the individual oral presentation

make a great powerpoint

class presentations + public speaking

public speaking tips

how to rock public speaking

how to do presentations when you suck at them

how to: public speaking

debate tips

music

my 8tracks

my spotify

melodic studying

ambient noise

music according to your mood

filling silence

study sounds (1)

study sounds (2)

harry potter study music

study music

summers + holidays

how to stay productive during holidays

summer productivity (1)

summer productivity (2)

keep your brain working on holidays

make the most of christmas holidays

planning for breaks/holidays

stay productive during winter break

journals + notebooks

travel journals

bullet journals (1)

bullet journals (2)

bullet journals (3)

bullet journaling (1)

bullet journaling (2)

bullet journal tips

bullet journals vs. planners

bullet journals vs. diary planners

bullet journal page/list ideas

what to do w/ notebooks (1)

what to do w/ notebooks (2)

why it’s good to keep a journal

the everything book

diy notebooks

websites + apps

really great apps

best iphone apps

useful school websites

subjects + problems website

learn things for free

15 websites that will make you smarter

a website that grades your essays

wallpaper

wallpaper masterpost

educational youtube channels

online courses + a guide

succeeding in online classes

apps everyone should have

printables tag

printables mp

useful websites to help you study

planning + to-do apps

study apps

apps for studying

study apps + extensions

30 websites to kill boredom

life in general

what do i do with my life?

jobs tag

get your life back on track

things no one tells you about getting an apartment

organisation

get organised

money

jobs + careers

things i wish i knew before i started ‘adulting’

save money on food in college

diy!

discounts for your student id

how to take studyblr photos

how to choose a career

making masterposts

college students

muslim studyblr masterpost

hope you liked both of the masterposts! please check out my study instagram and part one of this masterpost, ily all!!

ps here is a list of all my masterposts just in case 🐝

have emotions

think thoughts

is likely introverted or extroverted

has at least a few friends

Rihanna for the June 2018 edition of VOGUE☀️

SHE HAS A NAME: 21 year old, DeEbony Groves was a victim of a mass shooting at a Waffle House in Tennessee.

She was a student at Belmont University and a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.

HE HAS A NAME: 23 year old, Akilah Dasilva was a victim of a mass shooting at a Waffle House in Tennessee.

He was a lover of music and supported local artists by making music videos. He worked at a local AT&T store.

HE HAS A NAME: 29 year old, Taurean Sanderlin was a victim of a mass shooting at a Waffle House in Tennessee.

He was a cook at the Waffle House.

HE HAS A NAME: 20 year old, Joe Perez was a victim of a mass shooting at a Waffle House in Tennessee.

He was a customer at the Waffle House and was killed outside in the parking lot.

It’s dubbed the “anti-trafficking” bill for the internet, but it’s really an anti-sex sledgehammer. The bill removes protection for websites under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and makes sites and services liable for hosting what it very, very loosely defines as sex trafficking and “prostitution” content. FOSTA-SESTA puts into law that sex work and sex trafficking are the same thing, and makes discussion and advertising part of the crime. Its blurry interpretation of sex and commerce, as well as the bill’s illogical, incorrect conflation of sex trafficking and sex work is straight out of a bad movie.

If only the politicians who voted this Morality in Media (NCOSE) mess into law had fact-checked it with Freedom Network USA, “the largest coalition of experts and advocates providing direct services to to survivors of human trafficking in the U.S.” Freedom Network unequivocally states that protecting the rights of sex workers, and not conflating them with trafficking victims, is critical to the prevention of trafficking. They also have the data to back up the fact that “more people are trafficked into labor sectors than into commercial sex.”

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*steps onto soapbox*

‘Sex work’ and ‘sex trafficking’

ARE 👏 NOT 👏 SYNONYMS 👏

Maybe if we weren’t completely inept in this country about issues of consent, our lawmakers could recognize the difference between legitimate business - fueled by mutual consent and structured around the principles of supply and demand - and outright exploitation. I

sn’t limiting government interference on private business supposed to be something that conservatives value?

The Technology and Marketing Law Blog wrote that there’s no mistaking that FOSTA-SESTA violates the First Amendment; it plainly stated that “this statute implicates constitutionally protected speech.”