Tag: Mississippi

The Disappearance of Leigh Occhi

EARLY LIFE: Leigh Occhi was born on August 21, 1979 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her parents, Vickie Felton and Donald Occhi, were military members who met while stationed in California. In 1977, after a year of dating, they married and were transferred to the military base in Honolulu. Sadly, their marriage came to an end in

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Sharkey County John Doe

DISCOVERY: On January 8, 2014, an employee with Duett Hack Hole Services discovered a human cranium within a drainage canal in Sharkey County, Mississippi. It appeared to belong to a small child and thus the man called in his discovery to the Sharkey County Sheriff’s Department. Upon receiving the call, a sheriff’s deputy and the

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Delta Dawn

*UPDATE: The Jackson County Sheriff has announced the identity of Delta Dawn: Alisha Ann Heinrich* DISCOVERY: On the morning of December 5, 1982, truck driver Ted Hammond was driving along Interstate 10 when he spotted the body of an adult female floating in the Escatawpa River, then known as Dog River. Upon discovering the body,

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