13 Vanished Drivers: No Trace, No Clue

One of her colleagues called her and Huisentruit said she’d slept in but was on her way to the TV station. Yet a fair amount of time passed, and still she didn’t appear.

Strewn around the vehicle were various of Huisentruit’s personal items, including a pair of shoes and a blow dryer. The police began a serious investigation but drew a blank, although some neighbors said they’d heard a scream around the time that Huisentruit was due to leave for work. 

The mystery of Huisentruit’s disappearance remains unsolved, and in 2001 she was officially declared dead. But her family still operates a website, FindJodi.com, in hopes of learning the truth about what happened to the young woman. 

Then, unsettling text messages from Burt began to appear on Kim’s cell. The gist of them were that her ex had decided to vanish before embarking on a new life.

But the news was far from comforting. The burnt-out wreck of the car had turned up in the wilds of the Owyhee Desert which straddles south-west Idaho and parts of Nevada and Oregon.

Braun ended up serving jail time. But despite this previously unsuspected side of Burt’s life being exposed, absolutely no link between his fate and Braun has ever been established. The disappearance remains unsolved. 

After dropping off her mother, Renkoski visited a friend then headed back to Okemos. Later, witnesses were to recall they’d seen Renkoski on Interstate 96, stopped at the side of the highway.

But when police arrived at the location, Renkoski was nowhere to be seen. The Oldsmobile’s door was hanging open, the lights were on, and the engine was running. Renkoski’s shoes, wallet and purse were all inside the car.

The driver had been a woman and this had happened not long after Renkoski disappeared. Police dropped him from their investigations after he passed a lie-detector test; Renkoski’s disappearance remains a chilling mystery to this day.

Some three hours later, Coldon’s abandoned car was found and impounded just a 25-minute drive from her parent’s house. The engine was still running and the driver’s-side door lay open when the car was discovered. 

Feeling that the police had let them down, the Coldons went on to spend thousands of dollars in an effort to trace their missing daughter. But their efforts produced no results.

In the video Coldon said, “I just want to be happy, man. I can't remember a time when I was happy.” Does that indicate that she’d voluntarily run away? Or is there a more sinister explanation? To date we simply don’t know what happened to her. 

So he did exactly what many teenagers might do in a tight spot: he phoned home. His parents, Brian and Annette jumped into their pick-up truck to rescue their son, who was thankfully unhurt. 

Still talking on the phone, both flicked their lights on and off, yet they still couldn’t find each other. Finally, after more than 40 minutes, Swanson said he would go to a friend’s nearby house on foot.

Eventually police found Swanson’s car 25 miles away from Lynd. The cops thought he might have fallen into the Yellow Medicine River. But despite extensive searches, Swanson wasn’t found and his whereabouts remain unknown. 

But Holland never reached her Atlanta home. Concerned, her sisters made a missing person report, and nine days later Holland’s empty BMW was found near Morrow, Georgia, on Interstate 75. 

Sadly the other dog had been run over on the road. Various people claimed to have seen Holland around the area where her car had been found. But none of those sightings helped to find her. 

Some said that Holland had become disillusioned with escort work and had talked of heading to Europe for a new life. Whatever the truth of any of those claims, only one thing is certain: Holland has never been seen again.

Their 19-year-old son had been driving the 460 miles to his parents’ home from Sierra College in Rocklin, California where he was studying. He called to tell his folks that he was too tired to complete the journey and was going to stop and sleep in his car. 

Yes, Laspisa’s Toyota Highlander had been spotted not far from Castaic Lake. Ominously, the vehicle was lying on its side in a ravine. The rear window was shattered and there was no sign of Laspisa.

It seems that he’d been using drugs and drinking too much before he disappeared, but whether those were pertinent factors remains undetermined. The Laspisas still haven’t given up on their son and continue to run a Facebook page titled “Find Bryce Laspisa”.

Roberts was a young woman who had already experienced more than her fair share of grief: both the 22-year-old's parents had died during her teens. Appearing on Larry King Live her big sister Kara said that, “I feel like she took this… as a soul-searching trip”.

Just nine days after she’d started out, her wrecked vehicle was discovered off the Mount Baker Highway about 85 miles from Seattle, Washington. Of Leah, there was no sign. The kitten was gone too. 

But that was hardly enough information to track her down. There were suspicions that foul play may have been involved in her disturbance. But nothing conclusive has ever been found to solve this eerie enigma. 

So, one Friday evening in May that year, Mann drove off in a red Ford Mustang. He headed for his apartment, then went out to spend some time with a couple of his buddies. They went for a McDonald’s

In fact, that was the last anyone would ever see of Mann. The next morning Mann’s parents discovered the Ford Mustang he’d borrowed in a parking lot near their home; their son was nowhere to be seen.

The whole affair was thoroughly mystifying. Did the midnight meeting that Mann mentioned to his friends have a connection with his disappearance? Nobody even knows whom he was due to meet. His disappearance remains unexplained.  

But her abandoned truck was found on a country road in Stephenson County, Illinois, with various belongings  — which included her cell phone — still inside it. Extensive searches failed to find Trumpy. 

But the arrest wasn’t connected with her disappearance. It was for drugs offenses, crimes of which Trumpy was also accused. If Trumpy had indeed made it to Shannon, then Hammer might have been the last person to see her alive. 

The outlet’s report continued, “His arrest came after Trumpy’s son told his teacher he saw Hammer hit Trumpy and pull a gun on her.” Of course that proves nothing, but Trumpy’s disappearance is being treated by police as a homicide case. 

It seems Murray was somewhat accident-prone; just a few days earlier she’d crashed her father’s car. This time a witness to the accident called the police. That was despite the fact that Murray had asked him not to.

Strangely, although there was snow lying where the car had come to a halt, no footprints were visible in the vicinity. Plus dogs searching for her scent could trace nothing outside of a 100-yard radius. 

But who that might have been and where they’d gone remained as unanswered questions. To this day we still don’t know where Murray is, or even if she is still alive. The mystery is deepened by the fact that there’s no known history of emotional or family problems. 

Sullivan had already driven more than 900 miles west when police stopped him. They’d seen him driving erratically but it turned out that he was tired, rather than drunk or stoned. Even so, the cops told Sullivan to stop off for the day.

The car was locked and Sullivan’s personal effects including his wallet and  his guitar were inside. So what had made him leave his car and his possessions just 26 miles away from the motel? A search seemed to show that although he’d checked in, he hadn’t slept there.  

He’d released an album called U.F.O. which became a cult hit after his disappearance. That title was enough to convince many believers in extra-terrestrial beings that Sullivan had in fact been abducted by aliens.

Her intention, at least as far as anyone knew, had been to drive home where she lived with her family. But she never made it home: the next day her car was found abandoned, stuck in a muddy creek in MacKerricher State Park.

Perhaps even more worryingly, as well as the above traces of blood were found nearby. And strangely,  Krebs had been involved in a similarly bizarre incident three years earlier, when her car had got stuck in mud and caught fire. 

But that didn’t fully explain her complete disappearance on this second occasion. In the following months there were reports that Krebs had been seen hitchhiking in Utah, but she has never been found.