June 30, 2024 • 27 mins
On Tuesday October 28, 2008, 36-year-old Corrie Anderson would vanish without a trace. That morning she had worked her normal shift at Jamestown Community College, where she worked part time in the library, before stopping to visit her boyfriend at the car dealership where she worked. She would stop home before all signs of her vanished. There's been no trace of her since. In 2021 two sets of human remains would be found 10 yards apart of the Rails to Trails path in Portland, NY. While neither them would prove to be Corrie, they also lead to three additional mysteries. What happened to Corrie Anderson, Marquita Mull, & Patricia Laemmerhirt? And who is the Rails to Trails Jane Doe?
If you have any information about Corrie Anderson's disappearance, please call NYSP at 716-665-3114.
If you have any information about Marquita Mull or the Rails to Trails Jane Doe, please call Chautauqua County Sheriff’s office at 716-753-4973 or you can send an email to UnsolvedChautauqua@sheriff.us
If you have any information about the disappearance of Patricia Laemmerhirt, please call NYSP-Fredonia at 716-679-1549.
You can join the Justice for Marquita Mull Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/share/ALzGNYypVY2NMcda/
Be sure to also check out the Facebook Group WNY Missing and Unidentified Persons:
https://www.facebook.com/wnymissingandunidentifiedpersons
And a Facebook Group to help Find Corrie Anderson:
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In late October of 2008, a 36 year old mother of three failed
to show for a meeting at her son's school at 3:15 PM that was
scheduled to plan the class Halloween party, and she
appeared to have vanished without a trace.
Her dark blue Dodge Caravan would be found two days later by
a hunter abandoned on a trail past the gas well on Courtright
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Rd. in Boost I, about two miles from her New York home.
What happened to her still remains a mystery to this day,
and as I researched her story, Ikept finding more stories of
other missing New York mothers. I'm Amanda Morgan, and this is
New York's dark Side. When I started researching this
(01:15):
episode, I quickly got invested because what I didn't expect to
find was so many stories of missing mothers in like the same
sort of area and the story of a Jane Doe who has yet to be
identified. For those of you that actually
(01:35):
know me personally, this week has been so bittersweet.
I had the privilege and the pride to watch my son graduate
from high school this week, ending one chapter of life and
preparing to move on to the next.
Even though I was joking with mydad yesterday that it seems like
every day the contents of that next chapter change, I know that
(01:57):
he will figure out a path. The women that we'll talk about
today did not have that same privilege that I did.
Their children did not get the joy of their mother cheering
them on at so many of their lives next milestones.
Instead, they're left with a mystery as to what happened to
them and I'm left feeling the heartache of their story while
(02:19):
adding additional names to my list for future coverage in
upcoming episodes. These are the stories of Corey
Anderson, Marquita Mull, Patricia Lammerhurt, the still
unidentified Chautauqua rails totrails Jane Doe.
Let's dive right in. Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
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started out like a normal day for Boost I, New York resident,
36 year old Corey Anderson. Corey worked part time in the
library at Jamestown Community College.
On this day, she worked her shift at the library and got
done at her usual time. Around noon.
After work, Corey stopped to seeher boyfriend who worked at the
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Lake County Dodge car dealershipthat was on Washington Street at
the time and she left there between 1:00 and 1:10 PM.
After leaving the car dealership, Corey stopped back
at her house on Wellman Rd. in the town of Boost Day.
What happened to Corey from there is a mystery.
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When Corey failed to show up at her meeting at the school and
didn't pick up any of her children, the family notified
police right away. This was something that was
completely out of character for Corey.
She was very devoted to her children.
She would not just not pick themup.
She would not just not attend a meeting.
There was also a significant amount of concern from Corey's
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family that her disappearance may be a result of her estranged
husband, Kenneth, whom Corey hadan order of protection in place
from. Corey and Kenneth had met in
2000, and they married shortly afterwards.
Corey had already had two daughters from a previous
marriage, and in 2001, Corey andKenneth would welcome a son.
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They were married for five yearsbefore they separated and they
separated because Corey learned that he was still married to his
previous wife. Kenneth was not at all happy
about the separation and he continued to pursue her trying
to reconcile, but he did it in such a like a not OK way.
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Like he would go so far as to put Agps tracker on her car,
which totally not stalkerish at all.
I'm joking. Anyway, this is when Corey
sought the order of protection against Kenneth, which he did
violate in 2007, the year beforeCorey's disappearance.
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Corey had sent an e-mail to a relative prior to her
disappearance in October describing how Kenneth would try
to make her feel insane, and that he was.
She felt like he was trying to drag his feet on getting the
terms of their separation workedout because he had, quote,
control issues. After calling the police to
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report Corey missing, her familywould go to her home.
And this solidified to hit them that something was very wrong
when they found that her van wasmissing.
But also that there was a shoe that she had been wearing
earlier that day lying at the bottom of the staircase.
And they couldn't find the othershoe in the house.
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It was just gone. It seems like from the start,
law enforcement took Corey's disappearance very seriously.
Members of the Chautauqua CountySheriff's worked with both New
York State Police and all the other law enforcement agencies
in the county to search for Corey.
They searched on foot and they searched by air.
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They used AT VS horses, helicopters, search dogs.
But Corey seems to have just vanished without a trace.
Two days later, Thursday, October 30th, a hunter would
find Corey's 2005 dark blue Dodge Caravan abandoned on a
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trail just past a gas well on Courtright Rd.
The van was well out of sight from the road, but its location
was actually not far from Corey's house, only about a mile
or two away. The van was taken to a lab in
Batavia, NY to search for any evidence that might help track
down what happened to Corey. They continue to search the area
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around where the van was found. However, the weather being late
October into early November would not cooperate with them
very long, and the search had tobe called off as New York
weather started to dump snow on the region.
After Corey's van was found, lawenforcement officials would
question Corey's estranged husband, Kenneth, and they would
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also conduct a search of his home.
But if any evidence was pulled from his home at that point, it
doesn't appear that it was ever released publicly.
Fast forward to 2016. So we've gone eight years with
nothing, no sign of Corey, nothing further in the case.
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In 2016, police would receive a reliable tip that sent them back
to do another search of the areawhere Corey's van was found.
And they launched another large scale search including the use
of search dogs. Again, they used metal detectors
and the weather at this point was vastly improved from their
prior search attempts in the area.
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And they felt that it was because of this that they
located and secured some furtherevidence, including Corey's keys
and her missing shoe. Later that year, in November of
2016, Kenneth Anderson would be accused of abducting his current
wife at the time from New York and sexually assaulting her.
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In an article by Spectrum News, Kenneth and his wife were found
at a Days Inn in Richmond, KY, several states away by police.
His wife at the time had a restraining order against him
just like Corey had, and he, just like he had with Corey, had
violated it. His wife would report to police
that Kenneth had assaulted her and threatened to lock her in a
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basement and take her children. He was charged with kidnapping,
domestic violence, and 1st degree sexual assault.
With this news, New York State Police began working with law
enforcement officials in Kentucky to see if any potential
new leads would come from this arrest, much like Corey had
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described in the e-mail to a relative before her
disappearance. Kenneth's wife, whose name was
not released in 2016, would describe Kenneth as extremely
controlling and that he had a history of assaulting her.
Kenneth was held in a Madison County detention center.
His current wife would return towhere she lived in New York and
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had plans to meet with New York State Police soon after
returning, according to an article in HuffPost.
While Kenneth Anderson was and still is considered a person of
interest in Corey Anderson's case, he's still not been
charged to this day. In a September 2019 episode of
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Unsolved Senior Investigator on Corey Anderson's case, Jeremy
Smith was state in an interview that while the case was
currently cold, it may not stay that way for long as
investigators had DNA evidence from Corey's house and the Dodge
Caravan investigator. Smith had met with the
Chautauqua County District Attorney Patrick Swanson to try
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to work on using the new DNA technology available to try to
help separate the DNA that was found in the van in house to try
to pin it down to direct individuals.
On September 26th, 2021, Corey'smother Vicky would get a call
that human remains had been found off the trail in
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Chautauqua Rails to trails in Portland, NY by hikers in a
shallow grave. Vicky would later give a
statement to Spectrum News that she had been driving at the time
that she received the phone callabout the remains.
And she had to pull over. And she just cried because of
the emotions of wondering if this time would be the time that
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they finally found Corey and allthe memories that came to the
surface along with that. And I just, I just can't imagine
not having answers for this long.
And not just not knowing it's, it's incredibly, incredibly
heartbreaking. And not long after receiving
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that call, she heard that investigators said it actually
found a second set of human remains.
The following day, as they were conducting a grid search from
the area, the first set of remains was found.
There were concerns that the second set of remains was likely
too new to be Corey, and the first set was very likely too
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old to be Corey. They were found only about 10
yards from each other. And according to an article in
the Jamestown Port Journal, there had been no attempts at
all to try to bury the 2nd victim.
She was just left in the open. Unfortunately, the the thought
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that they were not Cory would prove to be true.
The second set of remains that had been found would later be
identified as 50 year old Marquita Mole by the Mercyhurst
Forensic Anthropology Department.
Based on her dental records, Marquita had been a resident of
Buffalo, NY and was last seen onJune 15th, 2001 in Buffalo, 60
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miles from where she would eventually be found.
She was reported missing to authorities in Buffalo on July
18th. Investigators thought that
because Marquita was a resident of Erie County, they thought it
was possible that the other victim was also from Erie
County, though there is no concrete evidence at all that
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the two cases are connected. At this point, Marquita's family
would tell W KB W that Marquita had no known connections to the
area of where her body was found, and that they believe
that someone had potentially killed her in Buffalo where she
went missing, and then dumped her body in Portland.
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Marquita did not have a car, andit made that incredibly unlikely
that she would have been able toget to Portland of her own
accord. Marquita was a mother of three,
just like Corey. Her sister would say in the same
article that while Marquita struggled with mental illness,
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she did a lot to help other people that were struggling,
including helping to feed peoplewith unstable housing.
And she did other things to helpvolunteer in her community.
Wendy, Marquita's sister, would go on to state something that I
just found to be very, such a very powerful reminder in
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regards to anyone struggling with mental health issues.
And she said, quote, don't judgeher by her depression when she
did act out, when she did have problems, when she didn't know
how to control it, because depression is a mean thing.
And, quote, it's just so important to remember that there
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is a person underneath what is going on with them.
There is a person in there that is truly struggling.
And this country, the state, so many counties just really,
really struggle with access to mental health care.
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There is such a stigma around seeking mental health care and
it's just, it's debilitating to this country.
I think it's debilitating to theperson that can be struggling
with it. People don't want to struggle
with mental health problems. They don't want to be depressed.
They don't want what's happeningto them.
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It's an illness. It's not a choice and we could
do so much better at as a state,as a, a nation to build access
to mental health care. I, I could go on.
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I really could. I, I've worked with so many
people struggling with mental health care and it is hard.
It's hard for, it's hard for healthcare workers to sometimes
deal with the behaviors that come along with mental health
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issues, but it's first and foremost so hard on the person
that's actually struggling with them.
That's all I have to say. The first set of remains was
described to be that as an unidentified female victim
between 15 and 35 years old. She was between 4 foot 11 and
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five foot 7 inches. They were able to use dental
records to determine that the woman was not Corey Andrews or
that of several other missing women in the state.
I've shared a flyer on the show's web page for this
episode, and I'll share it on social media as well.
That was created by the group Western New York Missing and
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Unidentified. I'm linking their page in the
show notes as well, but they areup organization that helps in
trying to locate missing and unidentified peoples, so I
really highly recommend checkingthem out.
I follow them. It's just a great organization
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to try to follow. According to a December 2022
article in the Times Observer, aname that had cropped up as a
potential match to the Jane Doe was Patricia Lamerhurt, who had
been reported missing in April of 1976, like almost 50 years
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earlier by her husband. However, the shirt that was
found with the remains likely rules that out as a possibility.
The striped shirt that was foundwith her was determined to be
likely sold in the early 1990s, which is what ruled her out but
gave law enforcement a potentialtimeline for how long the Jane
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Doe may have been buried in the area.
It's uncertain if Marquita Mole's body being discovered in
the area of the Jane Doe connects the two cases in any
way, like I said. But in January of 20/22, it was
announced that the remains of the Jane Doe had been sent to
the FBI for more advanced DNA testing, the results of which
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have not been publicly released as of this episode.
If you have any information on Marquita Mall's disappearance or
the Rails to Trails Jane Doe, please reach out to Investigator
Jacob Staley of the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office at
716-753-4973 or you can send an e-mail to Unsolved Chautauqua at
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Sheriff dot US and I'll have that contact information In the
show notes. Marquita Mall's family wants
answers as to what happened to her.
There is a Justice for Marquita Mall Facebook page, which I've
also LinkedIn the show notes andon the web page for this episode
and I'll be sharing that on my social medias as well.
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Back to Patricia Lammerhurt, thewoman that was potentially
thought to be the Jane Doe earlyon.
She was only 27 when she disappeared back in 1976, and
what happened to her still remains a complete mystery to
this day. Patricia lived in Westfield, NY
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with her husband Ernest Lammerhurt Junior on North
Portage St. In March of 1976, she told her
brother Albert Sam that there was some marital issues
occurring between her and Ernestand Albert actually came to
retrieve her from Westfield and took her home to stay with their
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mother in Dunkirk, NY. She would later return to
Westfield to stay with Ernest. On April 5th, Ernest would call
Patricia's brother Albert, asking if he had seen Patricia,
stating that Ernest had not seenor heard from her since about
two days earlier. Suspicious of Ernest's story,
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Albert would actually bring another relative and would come
break into the Lamb or Hert homewhen Ernest was away to look for
clues to her disappearance and he found that all of her
belongings, including all of herclothes, were gone.
He would later tell the Buffalo News that, quote, there was not
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one sign that my sister had everlived there.
Her drawers were all empty, no clothes, nothing.
End Quote. I can't imagine like that.
I I've heard this before and a couple other cases.
It's just it's just creepy and Idon't know.
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So Ernest, he would relate a report that he thought that
Patricia may have gone to Chicago, IL.
I'm not sure what. He thought would be a reason why
she'd go there. It never really became clear in
any of the reporting that I could see.
But like Corey Anderson and Marquita Mall Patricia, she was
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also a mother, leaving behind two children.
In 1993, Patricia's brother Albert would actually get
permission from and Commission the cost of excavating the
property that Patricia had previously shared with her
husband Ernest. It this property had been sold.
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The new owners were totally finewith them coming on and digging
up the yard. They dug up the basement.
They dug up the concrete floor in an addition that had been put
in. And while they were unsuccessful
with finding Patricia, District Attorney James P Sub Stack would
say in an article in the BuffaloNews that the publicity that
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Albert continued to garner with his search for Patricia was
bringing new leads in their investigation.
Unfortunately, there's never been any evidence of a crime,
and without finding her remains,there's not much for police to
go on with her disappearance. The search of the property in
1993 did end up recovering some bones, but they turned out to be
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animal bones, likely pig or cow,leftover from a time when some
butchering must have taken placeon the property.
They also found a bread wrapper from 1974 though, and that
proved that the concrete floor of the basement had been poured
sometime after that. Patricia, unfortunately has,
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like I said, still never been found.
There's been no further signs ofwhat to go on with her.
So if you have any information on the disappearance of Patricia
Lammerhurt, please reach out to New York State Police of
Fredonia at 7166791549. And we'll end with the story
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that we started with Corey Anderson.
Corey's mom, Vicki, is still searching for answers and she
would tell The Post Journal in 2021.
Quote. I guess my biggest thing is
closure. I would like to know that I'm to
the point. I just want there to be closure
for all of us. I know whether she's still here
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someplace or not, she's with theLord.
I have a very strong faith and that's helped me.
And quote, Jeremy Smith, the lead investigator in Corey's
case, is also very invested in finding answers to what happened
to her. It's a case that he's been
involved with from the very start and he wants to see it
through. He urged anyone with information
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regarding Corey's case, even if it might seem small, to call New
York State Police at 7166653114.At the time of Corey's
disappearance, she had chin length blonde hair.
She has green eyes, is 5 foot 11and weighed about 170 lbs.
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She was last seen wearing wire rimmed glasses, black corduroy
pants and a black leather jacket.
I mentioned when I started researching this case that I
came across more names of peoplethat I want to get their story
out there. That's the one thing I, I was a
(24:04):
little bit worried actually. And I think I mentioned this on
the first episode of this show over a year ago that someone had
asked me if I thought doing a podcast just focused on New York
State would be kind of limiting in the content.
And I can't keep up. Like there's so many stories
(24:28):
that I want to tell. There's so many.
It's, it's not just true crime. There's, there's cryptids,
there's paranormal, there's history.
And I love it. Like it makes me sad, like the
true crime stuff makes me very sad.
The the history stuff sometimes makes me very, very sad.
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But it has just been so enjoyable at the same time,
being able to put the stories out there to have the community
continue to grow, to have. I've had a couple families reach
out to me now that have heard a coverage of an episode that I
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have done and thanked me for, you know, covering and getting
the word out about their, their loved ones.
So I, I just, I, I, I think I say it at the end of every
episode. I'm just so humbled with the
direction that this show has taken and I can't wait to
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continue to see it forward. And I have some ideas of
different things I want to do and I'm just looking forward to
continuing on this journey. So if you haven't already to
kind of segue into this, if you haven't already, please make
sure that you are following the show on your podcast platform of
(25:54):
choice. You can follow us on social
media. I'm the really the most active
on the Facebook page, but we're also on Instagram and X we have
a YouTube channel. There's some things I'm
considering doing with that. You can find all the source
material. There were a ton with this
(26:14):
episode on our web page. It's LinkedIn, the show notes,
but it's NY darksidepodcast.com.And if you want to get in
contact with me, you can always e-mail me at
nydarksidepodcast@gmail.com. I hope you have a great week
ahead. I have some different ideas for
(26:34):
the next episode that I have started, but I'm really leaning
towards doing a history episode to kind of break it up.
So I, I hope you will check it out there.
I actually researched it a whileago.
My dad had and I had the opportunity to go actually to
the site of it and check it out.I got some pictures from that.
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So I hope you will check that out.
I didn't even know it was there was a little gem hidden in
Camillus, Camillus, NY just outside of Syracuse.
So I will hope you will check that out as well.
And I hope everyone has a great week ahead and I hope you stay
curious. Bye.
In late October of 2008, a 36 year old mother of three failed
to show for a meeting at her son's school at 3:15 PM that was
scheduled to plan the class Halloween party, and she
appeared to have vanished without a trace.
Her dark blue Dodge Caravan would be found two days later by
a hunter abandoned on a trail past the gas well on Courtright
(00:25):
Rd. in Boost I, about two miles from her New York home.
What happened to her still remains a mystery to this day,
and as I researched her story, Ikept finding more stories of
other missing New York mothers. I'm Amanda Morgan, and this is
New York's dark Side. When I started researching this
(01:15):
episode, I quickly got invested because what I didn't expect to
find was so many stories of missing mothers in like the same
sort of area and the story of a Jane Doe who has yet to be
identified. For those of you that actually
(01:35):
know me personally, this week has been so bittersweet.
I had the privilege and the pride to watch my son graduate
from high school this week, ending one chapter of life and
preparing to move on to the next.
Even though I was joking with mydad yesterday that it seems like
every day the contents of that next chapter change, I know that
(01:57):
he will figure out a path. The women that we'll talk about
today did not have that same privilege that I did.
Their children did not get the joy of their mother cheering
them on at so many of their lives next milestones.
Instead, they're left with a mystery as to what happened to
them and I'm left feeling the heartache of their story while
(02:19):
adding additional names to my list for future coverage in
upcoming episodes. These are the stories of Corey
Anderson, Marquita Mull, Patricia Lammerhurt, the still
unidentified Chautauqua rails totrails Jane Doe.
Let's dive right in. Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
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started out like a normal day for Boost I, New York resident,
36 year old Corey Anderson. Corey worked part time in the
library at Jamestown Community College.
On this day, she worked her shift at the library and got
done at her usual time. Around noon.
After work, Corey stopped to seeher boyfriend who worked at the
(03:03):
Lake County Dodge car dealershipthat was on Washington Street at
the time and she left there between 1:00 and 1:10 PM.
After leaving the car dealership, Corey stopped back
at her house on Wellman Rd. in the town of Boost Day.
What happened to Corey from there is a mystery.
(03:24):
When Corey failed to show up at her meeting at the school and
didn't pick up any of her children, the family notified
police right away. This was something that was
completely out of character for Corey.
She was very devoted to her children.
She would not just not pick themup.
She would not just not attend a meeting.
There was also a significant amount of concern from Corey's
(03:45):
family that her disappearance may be a result of her estranged
husband, Kenneth, whom Corey hadan order of protection in place
from. Corey and Kenneth had met in
2000, and they married shortly afterwards.
Corey had already had two daughters from a previous
marriage, and in 2001, Corey andKenneth would welcome a son.
(04:09):
They were married for five yearsbefore they separated and they
separated because Corey learned that he was still married to his
previous wife. Kenneth was not at all happy
about the separation and he continued to pursue her trying
to reconcile, but he did it in such a like a not OK way.
(04:33):
Like he would go so far as to put Agps tracker on her car,
which totally not stalkerish at all.
I'm joking. Anyway, this is when Corey
sought the order of protection against Kenneth, which he did
violate in 2007, the year beforeCorey's disappearance.
(04:55):
Corey had sent an e-mail to a relative prior to her
disappearance in October describing how Kenneth would try
to make her feel insane, and that he was.
She felt like he was trying to drag his feet on getting the
terms of their separation workedout because he had, quote,
control issues. After calling the police to
(05:17):
report Corey missing, her familywould go to her home.
And this solidified to hit them that something was very wrong
when they found that her van wasmissing.
But also that there was a shoe that she had been wearing
earlier that day lying at the bottom of the staircase.
And they couldn't find the othershoe in the house.
(05:39):
It was just gone. It seems like from the start,
law enforcement took Corey's disappearance very seriously.
Members of the Chautauqua CountySheriff's worked with both New
York State Police and all the other law enforcement agencies
in the county to search for Corey.
They searched on foot and they searched by air.
(06:01):
They used AT VS horses, helicopters, search dogs.
But Corey seems to have just vanished without a trace.
Two days later, Thursday, October 30th, a hunter would
find Corey's 2005 dark blue Dodge Caravan abandoned on a
(06:22):
trail just past a gas well on Courtright Rd.
The van was well out of sight from the road, but its location
was actually not far from Corey's house, only about a mile
or two away. The van was taken to a lab in
Batavia, NY to search for any evidence that might help track
down what happened to Corey. They continue to search the area
(06:44):
around where the van was found. However, the weather being late
October into early November would not cooperate with them
very long, and the search had tobe called off as New York
weather started to dump snow on the region.
After Corey's van was found, lawenforcement officials would
question Corey's estranged husband, Kenneth, and they would
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also conduct a search of his home.
But if any evidence was pulled from his home at that point, it
doesn't appear that it was ever released publicly.
Fast forward to 2016. So we've gone eight years with
nothing, no sign of Corey, nothing further in the case.
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In 2016, police would receive a reliable tip that sent them back
to do another search of the areawhere Corey's van was found.
And they launched another large scale search including the use
of search dogs. Again, they used metal detectors
and the weather at this point was vastly improved from their
prior search attempts in the area.
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And they felt that it was because of this that they
located and secured some furtherevidence, including Corey's keys
and her missing shoe. Later that year, in November of
2016, Kenneth Anderson would be accused of abducting his current
wife at the time from New York and sexually assaulting her.
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In an article by Spectrum News, Kenneth and his wife were found
at a Days Inn in Richmond, KY, several states away by police.
His wife at the time had a restraining order against him
just like Corey had, and he, just like he had with Corey, had
violated it. His wife would report to police
that Kenneth had assaulted her and threatened to lock her in a
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basement and take her children. He was charged with kidnapping,
domestic violence, and 1st degree sexual assault.
With this news, New York State Police began working with law
enforcement officials in Kentucky to see if any potential
new leads would come from this arrest, much like Corey had
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described in the e-mail to a relative before her
disappearance. Kenneth's wife, whose name was
not released in 2016, would describe Kenneth as extremely
controlling and that he had a history of assaulting her.
Kenneth was held in a Madison County detention center.
His current wife would return towhere she lived in New York and
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had plans to meet with New York State Police soon after
returning, according to an article in HuffPost.
While Kenneth Anderson was and still is considered a person of
interest in Corey Anderson's case, he's still not been
charged to this day. In a September 2019 episode of
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Unsolved Senior Investigator on Corey Anderson's case, Jeremy
Smith was state in an interview that while the case was
currently cold, it may not stay that way for long as
investigators had DNA evidence from Corey's house and the Dodge
Caravan investigator. Smith had met with the
Chautauqua County District Attorney Patrick Swanson to try
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to work on using the new DNA technology available to try to
help separate the DNA that was found in the van in house to try
to pin it down to direct individuals.
On September 26th, 2021, Corey'smother Vicky would get a call
that human remains had been found off the trail in
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Chautauqua Rails to trails in Portland, NY by hikers in a
shallow grave. Vicky would later give a
statement to Spectrum News that she had been driving at the time
that she received the phone callabout the remains.
And she had to pull over. And she just cried because of
the emotions of wondering if this time would be the time that
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they finally found Corey and allthe memories that came to the
surface along with that. And I just, I just can't imagine
not having answers for this long.
And not just not knowing it's, it's incredibly, incredibly
heartbreaking. And not long after receiving
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that call, she heard that investigators said it actually
found a second set of human remains.
The following day, as they were conducting a grid search from
the area, the first set of remains was found.
There were concerns that the second set of remains was likely
too new to be Corey, and the first set was very likely too
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old to be Corey. They were found only about 10
yards from each other. And according to an article in
the Jamestown Port Journal, there had been no attempts at
all to try to bury the 2nd victim.
She was just left in the open. Unfortunately, the the thought
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that they were not Cory would prove to be true.
The second set of remains that had been found would later be
identified as 50 year old Marquita Mole by the Mercyhurst
Forensic Anthropology Department.
Based on her dental records, Marquita had been a resident of
Buffalo, NY and was last seen onJune 15th, 2001 in Buffalo, 60
(12:18):
miles from where she would eventually be found.
She was reported missing to authorities in Buffalo on July
18th. Investigators thought that
because Marquita was a resident of Erie County, they thought it
was possible that the other victim was also from Erie
County, though there is no concrete evidence at all that
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the two cases are connected. At this point, Marquita's family
would tell W KB W that Marquita had no known connections to the
area of where her body was found, and that they believe
that someone had potentially killed her in Buffalo where she
went missing, and then dumped her body in Portland.
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Marquita did not have a car, andit made that incredibly unlikely
that she would have been able toget to Portland of her own
accord. Marquita was a mother of three,
just like Corey. Her sister would say in the same
article that while Marquita struggled with mental illness,
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she did a lot to help other people that were struggling,
including helping to feed peoplewith unstable housing.
And she did other things to helpvolunteer in her community.
Wendy, Marquita's sister, would go on to state something that I
just found to be very, such a very powerful reminder in
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regards to anyone struggling with mental health issues.
And she said, quote, don't judgeher by her depression when she
did act out, when she did have problems, when she didn't know
how to control it, because depression is a mean thing.
And, quote, it's just so important to remember that there
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is a person underneath what is going on with them.
There is a person in there that is truly struggling.
And this country, the state, so many counties just really,
really struggle with access to mental health care.
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There is such a stigma around seeking mental health care and
it's just, it's debilitating to this country.
I think it's debilitating to theperson that can be struggling
with it. People don't want to struggle
with mental health problems. They don't want to be depressed.
They don't want what's happeningto them.
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It's an illness. It's not a choice and we could
do so much better at as a state,as a, a nation to build access
to mental health care. I, I could go on.
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I really could. I, I've worked with so many
people struggling with mental health care and it is hard.
It's hard for, it's hard for healthcare workers to sometimes
deal with the behaviors that come along with mental health
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issues, but it's first and foremost so hard on the person
that's actually struggling with them.
That's all I have to say. The first set of remains was
described to be that as an unidentified female victim
between 15 and 35 years old. She was between 4 foot 11 and
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five foot 7 inches. They were able to use dental
records to determine that the woman was not Corey Andrews or
that of several other missing women in the state.
I've shared a flyer on the show's web page for this
episode, and I'll share it on social media as well.
That was created by the group Western New York Missing and
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Unidentified. I'm linking their page in the
show notes as well, but they areup organization that helps in
trying to locate missing and unidentified peoples, so I
really highly recommend checkingthem out.
I follow them. It's just a great organization
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to try to follow. According to a December 2022
article in the Times Observer, aname that had cropped up as a
potential match to the Jane Doe was Patricia Lamerhurt, who had
been reported missing in April of 1976, like almost 50 years
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earlier by her husband. However, the shirt that was
found with the remains likely rules that out as a possibility.
The striped shirt that was foundwith her was determined to be
likely sold in the early 1990s, which is what ruled her out but
gave law enforcement a potentialtimeline for how long the Jane
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Doe may have been buried in the area.
It's uncertain if Marquita Mole's body being discovered in
the area of the Jane Doe connects the two cases in any
way, like I said. But in January of 20/22, it was
announced that the remains of the Jane Doe had been sent to
the FBI for more advanced DNA testing, the results of which
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have not been publicly released as of this episode.
If you have any information on Marquita Mall's disappearance or
the Rails to Trails Jane Doe, please reach out to Investigator
Jacob Staley of the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office at
716-753-4973 or you can send an e-mail to Unsolved Chautauqua at
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Sheriff dot US and I'll have that contact information In the
show notes. Marquita Mall's family wants
answers as to what happened to her.
There is a Justice for Marquita Mall Facebook page, which I've
also LinkedIn the show notes andon the web page for this episode
and I'll be sharing that on my social medias as well.
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Back to Patricia Lammerhurt, thewoman that was potentially
thought to be the Jane Doe earlyon.
She was only 27 when she disappeared back in 1976, and
what happened to her still remains a complete mystery to
this day. Patricia lived in Westfield, NY
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with her husband Ernest Lammerhurt Junior on North
Portage St. In March of 1976, she told her
brother Albert Sam that there was some marital issues
occurring between her and Ernestand Albert actually came to
retrieve her from Westfield and took her home to stay with their
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mother in Dunkirk, NY. She would later return to
Westfield to stay with Ernest. On April 5th, Ernest would call
Patricia's brother Albert, asking if he had seen Patricia,
stating that Ernest had not seenor heard from her since about
two days earlier. Suspicious of Ernest's story,
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Albert would actually bring another relative and would come
break into the Lamb or Hert homewhen Ernest was away to look for
clues to her disappearance and he found that all of her
belongings, including all of herclothes, were gone.
He would later tell the Buffalo News that, quote, there was not
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one sign that my sister had everlived there.
Her drawers were all empty, no clothes, nothing.
End Quote. I can't imagine like that.
I I've heard this before and a couple other cases.
It's just it's just creepy and Idon't know.
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So Ernest, he would relate a report that he thought that
Patricia may have gone to Chicago, IL.
I'm not sure what. He thought would be a reason why
she'd go there. It never really became clear in
any of the reporting that I could see.
But like Corey Anderson and Marquita Mall Patricia, she was
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also a mother, leaving behind two children.
In 1993, Patricia's brother Albert would actually get
permission from and Commission the cost of excavating the
property that Patricia had previously shared with her
husband Ernest. It this property had been sold.
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The new owners were totally finewith them coming on and digging
up the yard. They dug up the basement.
They dug up the concrete floor in an addition that had been put
in. And while they were unsuccessful
with finding Patricia, District Attorney James P Sub Stack would
say in an article in the BuffaloNews that the publicity that
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Albert continued to garner with his search for Patricia was
bringing new leads in their investigation.
Unfortunately, there's never been any evidence of a crime,
and without finding her remains,there's not much for police to
go on with her disappearance. The search of the property in
1993 did end up recovering some bones, but they turned out to be
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animal bones, likely pig or cow,leftover from a time when some
butchering must have taken placeon the property.
They also found a bread wrapper from 1974 though, and that
proved that the concrete floor of the basement had been poured
sometime after that. Patricia, unfortunately has,
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like I said, still never been found.
There's been no further signs ofwhat to go on with her.
So if you have any information on the disappearance of Patricia
Lammerhurt, please reach out to New York State Police of
Fredonia at 7166791549. And we'll end with the story
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that we started with Corey Anderson.
Corey's mom, Vicki, is still searching for answers and she
would tell The Post Journal in 2021.
Quote. I guess my biggest thing is
closure. I would like to know that I'm to
the point. I just want there to be closure
for all of us. I know whether she's still here
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someplace or not, she's with theLord.
I have a very strong faith and that's helped me.
And quote, Jeremy Smith, the lead investigator in Corey's
case, is also very invested in finding answers to what happened
to her. It's a case that he's been
involved with from the very start and he wants to see it
through. He urged anyone with information
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regarding Corey's case, even if it might seem small, to call New
York State Police at 7166653114.At the time of Corey's
disappearance, she had chin length blonde hair.
She has green eyes, is 5 foot 11and weighed about 170 lbs.
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She was last seen wearing wire rimmed glasses, black corduroy
pants and a black leather jacket.
I mentioned when I started researching this case that I
came across more names of peoplethat I want to get their story
out there. That's the one thing I, I was a
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little bit worried actually. And I think I mentioned this on
the first episode of this show over a year ago that someone had
asked me if I thought doing a podcast just focused on New York
State would be kind of limiting in the content.
And I can't keep up. Like there's so many stories
(24:28):
that I want to tell. There's so many.
It's, it's not just true crime. There's, there's cryptids,
there's paranormal, there's history.
And I love it. Like it makes me sad, like the
true crime stuff makes me very sad.
The the history stuff sometimes makes me very, very sad.
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But it has just been so enjoyable at the same time,
being able to put the stories out there to have the community
continue to grow, to have. I've had a couple families reach
out to me now that have heard a coverage of an episode that I
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have done and thanked me for, you know, covering and getting
the word out about their, their loved ones.
So I, I just, I, I, I think I say it at the end of every
episode. I'm just so humbled with the
direction that this show has taken and I can't wait to
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continue to see it forward. And I have some ideas of
different things I want to do and I'm just looking forward to
continuing on this journey. So if you haven't already to
kind of segue into this, if you haven't already, please make
sure that you are following the show on your podcast platform of
(25:54):
choice. You can follow us on social
media. I'm the really the most active
on the Facebook page, but we're also on Instagram and X we have
a YouTube channel. There's some things I'm
considering doing with that. You can find all the source
material. There were a ton with this
(26:14):
episode on our web page. It's LinkedIn, the show notes,
but it's NY darksidepodcast.com.And if you want to get in
contact with me, you can always e-mail me at
nydarksidepodcast@gmail.com. I hope you have a great week
ahead. I have some different ideas for
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the next episode that I have started, but I'm really leaning
towards doing a history episode to kind of break it up.
So I, I hope you will check it out there.
I actually researched it a whileago.
My dad had and I had the opportunity to go actually to
the site of it and check it out.I got some pictures from that.
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So I hope you will check that out.
I didn't even know it was there was a little gem hidden in
Camillus, Camillus, NY just outside of Syracuse.
So I will hope you will check that out as well.
And I hope everyone has a great week ahead and I hope you stay
curious. Bye.
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