Trying to identify a case - Diana Braungardt

[soymiercoles]

Hi everyone, I'm a longtime lurker and this is my first post. Since UM just got released on Prime I have been binging the past few days I'm trying to remember a case but it is slipping my mind. A girl was at work in a mall and was leaving to go home and she was abducted walking to her car. Anyone know what case I'm looking for?

[1990 UM fan]

Sounds like the Diana Braungardt case, which Unsolved Mysteries briefly featured in October 1989.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/...rdt_diana.html

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...09a6b747d.html

[Steve W.]

Originally Posted by 1990 UM fan

Sounds like the Diana Braungardt case, which Unsolved Mysteries briefly featured in October 1989.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/...rdt_diana.html

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...09a6b747d.html

Thanks for mentioning it. I never knew about her/this case. I wonder if the perp was the same guy that abducted Angela Hammond in Clinton, MO 4 years later.

[asmitty]

Originally Posted by Steve W.

Thanks for mentioning it. I never knew about her/this case. I wonder if the perp was the same guy that abducted Angela Hammond in Clinton, MO 4 years later.

I was not aware of this case either, but you raise a very intriguing possibility. Based on Diana's age and looks, this seems a more valid connection to Angela Hammond than the Cheryl Ann Kenney connection that was brought up on Unsolved Mysteries.

[soymiercoles]

Originally Posted by 1990 UM fan

Sounds like the Diana Braungardt case, which Unsolved Mysteries briefly featured in October 1989.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/...rdt_diana.html

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...09a6b747d.html

Yes! That's it! Thank you!

[unsolved243]

Originally Posted by Steve W.

Thanks for mentioning it. I never knew about her/this case. I wonder if the perp was the same guy that abducted Angela Hammond in Clinton, MO 4 years later.

Interestingly, police suspect that Diana's abductor may have been one of Trudy Darby's killers: http://www.missingpersonsofamerica.c...-crystal-city/

Rush is considered a person of interest. He matched the description of the man last seen with Diana and looked similar to the composite sketch. The cases are also somewhat similar in MO: women abducted from their work places while alone late at night.