Tera Smith loved life and according to her family, lived it to the fullest. “She had a lot of passions and interests. She loved horses. She loved basketball, nature,” Tera’s mother, Marilyn, told ...

A California woman's plan to fake her own kidnapping in 2016 has brought some renewed attention to the unsolved disappearance of 16-year-old Tera Smith, who vanished from a run nearly 26 years ago.

Editor's note: A version of this article first appeared in the Redding Record Searchlight on Aug. 22, 2008. With the face of an angel, Tera Lynn Smith still continues to haunt North State residents.

When Sherri Papini went missing while out for a jog in November 2016, her fellow residents of Redding, Calif., couldn't help but compare the circumstances to another shocking disappearance in their ...

More than a decade ago, singer-songwriter Gajendra Verma struck an emotional chord with Emptiness—a raw, instinctive track that became the soundtrack to countless heartbreaks. Today, his latest single ...