On Thursday, April 4, 1991, at around 11:15 pm, Angela Hammond, a young woman four months pregnant, used a payphone in a Clinton, Missouri supermarket parking lot to call her fiancé, Rob Shafer. She had intended to meet up with him that night. During the call, Angela noticed a suspicious man circling the parking lot in an older green pickup truck, wearing glasses, a beard, and a mustache, and carrying a flashlight. As the man approached her, Angela described him to Rob, and moments later, she screamed, and the call abruptly ended.
Rob, alarmed and fearing for Angela's safety, rushed to the parking lot and encountered the same green truck as it headed toward him. He heard Angela screaming for help but was unable to follow the truck as his car's transmission failed.
Rob reported the incident to the police, describing the abductor's truck, which had a distinctive decal on the rear window and damage on the left front fender. Despite extensive searches, the police were unable to locate the truck.
Angela's car was found in the parking lot near the payphone, but there were no signs of what had happened. The FBI was called in to support the investigation, as Angela was not the first young woman to vanish in Missouri that year, raising concerns about a possible serial k*ller.
Over 250 volunteers joined the search for Angela, but no leads were found. Rob, deeply concerned for Angela's safety, tried to maintain hope, but as time passed without progress, optimism waned.
Angela was described as a friendly, outgoing young woman who eagerly anticipated motherhood. On the evening of her disappearance, she had spent time with friends in Clinton, parted ways with her best friend, and headed to a payphone to inform Rob of her fatigue.
Detectives obtained phone records to identify potential witnesses who might have seen the abductor's truck while Angela was on the call. Both Rob and one of Angela's former boyfriends willingly submitted to polygraph examinations and were cleared of suspicion.
The search for Angela continued, and rewards for information leading to her or the abductor's apprehension grew, reaching $11,000. New witnesses came forward, reporting seeing a man in a green pickup truck near the payphone shortly before Angela's ab*uction.
Despite increased rewards and national exposure on the TV show "Unsolved Mysteries," the investigation yielded no leads. In April 1993, police searched a farm in Lafayette County based on a psychic's claim, but no clues were found.
As the years passed, the case received sporadic tips, but investigators remained uncertain about Angela's fate. In 2021, the Clinton Police Department released new information suggesting a case of mistaken identity, with a confidential letter received by a narcotics informant mentioning "your foxy daughter." This theory raised questions about whether Angela was mistakenly targeted.
As of July 2023, Angela Hammond remains a missing person, with various theories surrounding her disappearance. Without a confession or the discovery of her remains, the truth remains elusive, and her case serves as a haunting unsolved mystery.
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