She Seeks Justice

 A mother of three disappeared along an Arkansas highway. Her car was later found abandoned near the White River. The front tire was flat. Her phone and cigarettes were still inside. Her keys were gone. But Brooke Allensworth's disappearance is about more than an abandoned car. There were conflicting accounts about the last day she was seen, nearly two weeks passed before she was reported missing, and then came troubling confusion over which law-enforcement agency was actually responsible for investigating her case. Eight years later, Brooke is still missing. She was a nurse. A daughter. A cousin. A friend. Most importantly, she was a mother whose three children have had to grow up without knowing what happened to her. I took a deeper look at Brooke's final known movements, the discovery of her car, the searches that followed, and the questions that remain unanswered. Please read and share her story. Someone may still know something. Read: The Disappearance of Brooke Allenswort...

On November 23, 1988, six-year-old Jessica R. Leininger was staying at her maternal grandmother’s home in Bentonville, Arkansas. Her father reportedly had legal custody of her, but that day Jessica was taken by her non-custodial mother. Neither mother nor daughter has been heard from since. Thirty-seven years later, what strikes me most about Jessica’s case is how little information is publicly available. We don’t have a publicly available photograph accompanying the case information I found. We don’t have basic identifying information about her mother. We don’t know where investigators believed they might have gone or whether Jessica may have grown up under another name. If Jessica is alive today, she is 44 years old. That is why I am asking Northwest Arkansas to help. Someone remembers this family. Someone may have gone to school with Jessica, known her parents or grandmother, lived nearby, or remember hearing about the disappearance in 1988. Somewhere there may be an old school phot...