She Seeks Justice

Twenty-four years have passed since 21-year-old Lisa Marie Young disappeared after a night out in Nanaimo, British Columbia. Her family has never stopped searching, never stopped asking questions, and never stopped fighting for the answers they deserve. This week on Faith, Fire & the Forgotten, I share the story of a young Indigenous woman whose life was full of promise—and the mystery that continues to haunt her loved ones to this day. https://faithfireandtheforgotten.substack.com/p/the-woman-who-never-came-home-47e

She was Camden Arkansas's first female attorney. She passed the bar with the highest score in her class. She was respected, influential, and deeply involved in a legal battle over a fortune worth millions. Then she vanished. On March 2, 1957, Maud Robinson Crawford disappeared from her Camden, Arkansas home under circumstances that continue to baffle investigators nearly seventy years later. Her purse was left behind. Her car remained in the driveway. A pan of beans sat unfinished. It was as if she simply vanished into thin air. But as journalists and investigators dug deeper, they uncovered allegations involving a powerful Arkansas family, a disputed estate, missing documents, political influence, and witnesses who remained fearful decades after her disappearance. Was Maud the victim of a crime connected to one of Arkansas's most controversial estate battles? Or is the truth still hidden somewhere in the shadows of history? Read the full story here: https://faithfireandtheforg...

On November 28, 1988, fifteen-year-old Adriana Bejarano disappeared from her home in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. She left behind her purse, money in her bank account, and a family desperate for answers. Neighbors reported hearing a car horn that morning, and investigators would later identify a person of interest, but nearly four decades later, Adriana's fate remains unknown. In my latest article, I take a closer look at the circumstances surrounding Adriana's disappearance, the clues left behind, and the questions that still haunt this unsolved case. Read here: https://faithfireandtheforgotten.substack.com/p/the-morning-adriana-bejarano-vanished #MissingPersons #ColdCase #UnsolvedMystery #AdrianaBejarano #FaithFireAndTheForgotten

  Forty-one years later, the disappearance of eight-year-old Marjorie Christina Luna remains one of Florida's most heartbreaking unsolved mysteries. On a warm Sunday afternoon in May 1984, eight-year-old Marjorie Christina Luna left her home in Greenacres City, Florida, to make a simple trip to a neighborhood grocery store. The store was only a few hundred feet away. It was the kind of errand parents asked children to run every day. The kind of short walk that seemed safe. The kind of ordinary moment that no one imagines will become the last time a child is ever seen. Marjorie, known to her family as Christy, purchased cat food at Greenacres Grocery on May 27, 1984. Witnesses reported seeing her at the store sometime around 3:00 p.m. Investigators believe she may have remained there for several hours, possibly playing video games before heading toward home or a nearby park. What happened after that remains a mystery. Marjorie never returned home. As evening turned into night, her f...

  There are some stories that never truly leave a state. They linger in the backroads, in faded newspaper clippings, in abandoned parking lots, and in the memories of families who have spent years — sometimes decades — waiting for answers that never came. For years, Arkansas has carried those stories quietly. Now, LaDonna Humphrey is preparing to bring many of them into the light with her upcoming book, The Lost Girls of Arkansas , a sweeping investigative work focused on missing women, unsolved murders, forgotten victims, and the systemic failures that often allowed those cases to fade from public view. Humphrey has built much of her career around the uncomfortable spaces other people avoid. Through podcasts, investigative journalism, advocacy work, and longform true crime writing, she has repeatedly returned to one central question: what happens to the victims nobody fights for long enough? That question sits at the center of this book. Rather than presenting Arkansas as a collec...

 She disappeared in 1974. A Native American mother of three vanished from Michigan after telling family she planned to visit them. More than a decade later, a man was convicted in her presumed murder, yet Christine Marie Honson has still never been found. This is not just a story about one missing woman. It is a story about how vulnerable women—especially Indigenous women—were too often allowed to disappear quietly while the world moved on around them. Fifty years later, her family is still without answers. Still without a gravesite. Still without her. Read the full story here: https://faithfireandtheforgotten.substack.com/p/the-woman-who-never-came-home