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Avery After Dark

194: MYSTERY | Kidnapped From A Payphone

Avery After Dark

Avery Ross

True Crime, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In 1991, the quiet midwestern town of Clinton, Missouri became the center of one of the most haunting unsolved abductions in America… the disappearance of Angela Hammond.

Angela was just 20 years old when she called her fiancé from a payphone late at night—completely unaware that someone was watching her. During that call, she described a strange truck circling the area. Moments later, her fiancé, Rob Shafer, heard her scream.

What followed was a desperate chase… a broken transmission… and a vanishing that has never been solved.

Despite eyewitness accounts and chilling details, Angela Hammond has never been found. This is one of the most disturbing unsolved cases in true crime history—and the details are more chilling than you think.

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0:00.0

This unsolved mystery out of Clinton, Missouri is one of the most haunting I've ever come across.

0:05.6

Angela Hammond, a young expectant mother, was on a call with her fiancé Rob late one night using a payphone.

0:12.7

The call took a terrifying turn.

0:15.0

When she suddenly tells him she sees a strange, dirty man walking towards her.

0:22.9

Moments later, he heard her scream.

0:27.2

The call cut out, and when her fiancé arrived just minutes later,

0:28.9

she was nowhere to be found.

0:34.6

That evening, Rob would later come within mere seconds of saving Angela's life,

0:36.4

but was tragically unable to.

0:42.7

But some recent evidence, specifically, a style note with cut and paste letters, could possibly break this decades-old case wide open.

0:47.0

This is the unsolved abduction of Angela Hammond.

0:50.8

Angela Marie Hammond, family and friends called her Angie, was born on February 9, 1971, to parents Marcia and Chris Hammond.

1:01.1

In the first few years of Angela's life, the family lived in Kansas City and relocated to Clinton, Missouri, so they could be closer to Angela's grandparents who lived there.

1:11.4

Clinton, Missouri is a very small, very quiet farming town, smack dab in the middle of the heart

1:17.5

of America.

1:18.8

Clinton is thought to be a very peaceful place and is away from the big city rush.

1:23.7

The Hammonds later had a son named Lauren, so Angela had a little brother.

1:27.9

And by all accounts, the family was very close, very loving.

1:31.7

Later on, Angela's parents did split up, but the family remained close.

1:36.7

Friends described Angela as so much fun.

1:40.1

They said she was smart, energetic, bubbly.

1:43.2

Angela Hammond knew how to enjoy life.

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