Christmas Eve 2000 started out like any other Christmas Eve for the Johnson family. They planned to have dinner together that night at their daughter’s new house in Fort Shannon, and the next day have Christmas dinner at the family house in Essex. The family of five was fairly well-to-do, with the father, Kurt Johnson, a well-respected lawyer in Shiloh County, and the mother, Christine, a pharmacist in Essex. They had three children together - Kelly, 23, John, 21, and Phillip, 19. Kelly was a nu
Deputy Ed Norman was on his way into work at approximately 0730 on 22nd July 1992. He was travelling on County Road 4, near the bridge between Clinton and Kimberly. Just after crossing the bridge, he saw a teenage woman hitchhiking and walking into Kimberly. She was alone, and didn’t appear to be in any distress when he saw her. A few hours later, after he had picked up his patrol car, he answered a call for service to report a missing person. He responded to a residence in Clinton where he met
