Crime

The body of a man who’s been missing for nearly 17 months was found last week in an Indiana self-storage unit rented by his son. Roger Farmer, 58, was reported missing on Dec. 27, 2019, when he didn’t return from a supposed hunting trip. His 37...

The skeletal remains of a woman found in 2016 inside a self-storage unit at Ample Storage in Durham, N.C., have at long last been identified as Melissa Ann Poitra, who’s been missing since 2005. After years of frustration and dead-ends...

Michael Edwin Grant, 52, has been arrested and charged with murdering his father, 72-year-old Michael Grey Grant, on Thursday at Speedy Self Storage in Winchester, Tenn. The shooting occurred at 11:13 a.m. at 911 S. College St., while the elderly...

Arson is suspected after a four-alarm fire on Monday destroyed about 25 units and caused an estimated $3 million in damages at Airport Self Storage in Salem, Ore. No injuries were reported. Tristan Sillman, 22, was arrested on multiple charges of...

A woman was charged with second-degree burglary for breaking into three units at Patriot Mini Storage in Stillwater, Okla., on March 6. The business owner called police two days after noticing suspicious activity on the facility’s surveillance...

Lance Greaney, director of Oamaru Self Storage in Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand, got involved in a foot chase on Wednesday when a police fugitive ran out of an RV that was parked on the property, in which he’d been hiding illegally. Greaney...

A fire that ignited at a self-storage facility in Evansville, Ind., this week is being investigated as arson. Several units at Bee Hive Mini Storage were destroyed in Monday’s blaze, according to the source...

Four people have been charged in connection with a 2020 break-in at a self-storage facility in Plymouth, N.H. The theft of Security Storage occurred last May. Items taken from the property at 265 Yeaton Road include bicycles, kayaks, Coach...

Investigators believe a fire that started inside a tenant’s unit at Monster Self Storage in Evans, Ga., on Monday morning was set deliberately. First responders found clues that pointed to arson as the cause, according to the source...