This is gonna be a kinda long message, so I apologize in advance to those with short attention spans!
So I was searching Tape One of my Unsolved Mysteries recordings and found a couple of cases that I don't recall ever seeing updates on. I'm hoping someone can provide me with more info.

-November 12, 1988. Truck driver Dwayne McCorkendale found shot to death at an Oklahoma rest stop. Truckers report being harassed by a Brown Ford Pinto equiped with a CB radio in dangerous "cat and mouse" games. McCorkendale left behind a wife and twin baby girls. Heartbreaking.:(

-March 22, 1990. Just outside Fayetteville, N.C. 2 state troopers on break see a half-naked, bloody woman emerge from the woods on the side of the highway. Turns out she had been kidnapped, brutally raped and shot point blank in the face by an unknown African-American assailant. They call her "Debbie" in the segment. (Interesting side note: Robert cautions "Don't fixate on the colors of the victim's and the criminal's skin" and I remember thinking at the time "Ok, I DIDN'T view this as a racist crime, but now that you've thrown it in my face...")

-December 26, 1985. Again, just outside Fayetteville, N.C. (What is it with that place?:lol: ) Debbie Wolfe(or Wolf) is found dead at the bottom of a pond next to her house. The family claims she was inside an old oil-drum that the police claim never existed. They say she drowned accidentally. The family points to a suspicious message on her answering machine from a co-worker who was supposedly stalking her that says "Where have you been the last couple of days?" when in fact she had only missed one day of work.

Also, any further updates on these 2 cases previously discussed on this message board:

-August 21, 1989. Mississippi. Norman Ladner. Officially ruled a suicide, even though family claims there was drug trafficing in the area and Norman must have been silenced. (Someone mentioned case is similar to the two boys found on the railroad tracks.)

-Morris Davis. Montana pizza delivery man lured to vacant house and killed. The gun that killed him was reported stolen out of Oregon 3 years later, and coincidentally turned up at a pawn shop in Great Falls where Morris was killed. I know police ruled out the gun owner as a suspect, but what about the guy who stole it? Why would he flee to Montana unless he had previous ties to the area? As Robert points out "Obviously guns don't get up and walk off on their own!":crazy: This case always seemed so cut and dry...WHY NO UPDATE!?!?!

I feel so much for these families that still have no answers to these horrible crimes! At the same time, I love bringing back to life these old cases that Lifetime never shows. Please feel free to provide your own opinions about the above cases, you little slueths, you!;)

Yes, I was the one who brought about the conspiracy theory between the two cases (for more info on the railroad deaths read here: http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113423

You summed up the Ladner case really well although many on this board seem to believe it was a suicide I tend to buck the trend and say he was yet another victim of the Dixie Mafia so to speak as according to the book "The Boys On The Tracks" a great deal of the deep south around the time of both Kevin Ives' and Norman Ladner's deaths were suspected in heavy drug trafficing which means if Ladner saw something he was likely silenced in the same manner Ives, Henry and many others were. Thats not saying HE DID SEE anything though

Later.

JohnMill, thanks for the thread, I must have missed it! I've not read "The Boys on the Tracks" but I recall that when the story was broadcast on UM they made mention of another suspicious killing of two teenagers in eerily similar circumstances (I think it was in a different southern state). Does the book mention any other cases besides the Henry-Ives murders? I'm not a psycologist and didn't know the boy, so I can't say whether Norman Ladner displayed suicidal tendancies or not...but it just seems too coincidental to me. His parents seemed very sincere, and it seems like a lot of trouble to go through (reenacting their horror on national television) if they were just in denial about his death. UM suspected there was more to this case than just suicide, but sadly UM tends to leave out pertinent details from a lot of cases.

Yeah there were a lot of murders alleged being connected to Barry Seal or the Dixie Mafia/government and sadly a lot of the victims were young kids. One case that sticks in my mind is Keith McKaskle who said he had information on Henry and Ives and was later found I believe stabbed to death in his backyard. The suspect was his thirteen year old neighbor although it was clear he couldn't have actually murdered Keith because Keith was 36 years old and well built while the thirteen year old couldn't even handle himself in a fight.

Later.