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10 Creepy Unsolved Rest Stop Mysteries
When you’re traveling on a long road trip, a rest stop can provide a much-needed break and an opportunity to recharge your batteries. Unfortunately, because they are often situated in isolated locations where help is many miles away, rest areas are not always the safest places in the world. Here are some creepy, harrowing stories that have taken place at rest stops, many of which involved travelers becoming the victims of an unsolved mystery.
10 The Blind River Rest Stop Murders
In 1991, Gord and Jackie McAllister, an elderly couple from Lindsay, Ontario, decided to go on a road trip in their motor home, eventually stopping to spend the night at a remote rest stop near the town of Blind River. Shortly after midnight on June 28, the couple was awakened by a knock on their door by an unidentified man claiming to be with the police. When the door was opened, a long-haired man burst inside, wielding a .22-caliber rifle and 20-gauge shotgun, dem
The coroner’s office says potent mixes of dangerous drugs is contributing to the rise in overdoses.
Butler Co. sees 11 percent increase in overdose deaths after two-year decline By Kody Fisher | April 8, 2021 at 10:15 PM EDT - Updated April 8 at 11:08 PM
BUTLER COUNTY, Ohio (FOX19) - The Butler County Coroner’s Office says it saw an 11 percent increase in overdose deaths in 2020.
That reflects an increase of 18 deaths from 2019, when the coroner’s office recorded 159. The spike is doubly significant after at least two years of declining overdose deaths.
Martin Schneider with the coroner’s office says it’s unlikely to be one cause driving the increase, though he notes mixing drug is particularly dangerous for users.
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by Kathy Melvin | Presbyterian News Service
Sarah Bleile gets ready for the Wednesday lunch at Okra Abbey in New Orleans, before COVID-19 changed the way meals were served. (Contributed photo)
LOUISVILLE â Sarah Bleile joined the Young Adult Volunteer (YAV) program in 2019 because she was looking for a challenge.
A challenge is just what she got.
She was in the middle of her YAV year when the pandemic hit the U.S. The YAV year came to a halt, but rather than returning home, she chose to shelter-in-place at the YAV house in New Orleans so she could continue to serve as a volunteer with several YAV partner organizations.