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Most people can name at least one unsolved mystery out there, but you might be surprised to hear that around 40% of murders in the US go unsolved. So it simply stands to reason that most places where humans live will have at least a few crimes or weird occurrences that are still unexplained.
Someone asked “What's the strangest or most bizarre unsolved mystery from your country/state/hometown etc?” and people shared their examples. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote the most interesting ones and detail your own local mysteries in the comments below.
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#1
My great great aunt was systematically sexually assaulted for years by a number of men in the village, the whole village knew and then she was found dead under suspicious circumstances and the police did no investigation.
That village is a black hole of toxic secrecy and people know what happened to her, they're just too cowardly to say.
Her name was Agnes Amalie Waade and she was a wonderful, kind human being who loved animals and who was extraordinarily kind to everyone. But especially children and animals.
Edit: Case from Norway.
Just stopping by 11 months ago
How does..i can’t even wrap my mind around this. I have questions and yet I don't know if I really want the answers. If i were her family I'd probably end up in jail trying to find the answers.
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#2
Here in Stockholm, it’s probably the m****r of prime minister Olof Palme. It’s not only strange that someone could m****r the prime minister in the middle of the capital and not get caught, but both witnesses and police have said and behaved strangely throughout the investigation.
Check out The Unlikely Murderer on Netflix if you want more.
Srinivasan S 11 months ago
If conspiracy theories could be true, then it's highly possible in this case
#3
Rachel Mellon Skemp - Bolingbrook, IL
She was sick home that school day during winter with her stepdad and suddenly "disappeared" without a jacket, shoes or her purse during a wintery Chicago suburb evening. Her stepdad was covered in deep scratches on his chest, neck and arms and told the police it was from "fixing up an old car in the garage". What Rachel's stepfather stated was that he went to check up on her in the afternoon and she was sleeping in bed. He left the house to supposedly walk the dog but the dog ran off and he stated he chased after it and came home without the dog and without checking up on her.
Many people speculate that due to her crying a few days before to her friend about "having to take care of a problem" that her stepfather sexually abused her to the point of pregnancy, which further raised suspicion when she had a hidden kitchen knife in her bedroom as well as her personal diary about the sexual abuse and mistreatment her stepfather inflicted on the young teen. The only missing articles from the home were just her bedsheets and many people believe that he hid and ditched her body in the trunk of his car when police were called to investigate.
Her biological mother wasn't too keen on looking for her nor Rachel's stepfather and they both moved to different states together. Rachel's biological father however hasn't given up on hope for searching what remains of his daughter as he moved back to Illinois and has spent decades with what resources he has to uncover the truth.
The last I heard he was trying to hire a company to search the ground via sonic waves for anything.
patricia patricia 10 months ago
The bio mother was a huge piece of s**t. The stepfather is likely a murderer, but it can't be proved. However, the mother must have known he was sexually abusing her daughter and did nothing to protect her. In my opinion,she is much, much, much worse than him.
#4
Grew up in Adelaide, m****r capital of Australia. Can probably take your pick between:
- the Beaumont children, 3 sisters who were led away by a man at Glenelg Beach and disappeared with no trace after six decades
- Adelaide Oval kidnapping, potentially linked to the Beaumont children, another two young girls disappeared without a trace from a football game
- Family murders, the perpetrator of one of the crimes was put away but the dark mystery was how many h**h profile people in the city were potentially involved, doctors, politicians etc
And we also had the Somerton Park mystery cadaver but that got solved recently.
camomooey 11 months ago
Pretty soon this entire website will be nothing but asterisks.
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Rose the Cook 11 months ago
The Beaumont children were actually 2 girls and 1 boy. Jane aged 9, Amna aged 7 and Grant aged 4in 1966.
Ben Stubbs 11 months ago
BP is now editing the word "high" which hasn't been used in the context of a euphoric feeling? What are you trying to protect the world from?
Seán Baron 11 months ago
I remember watching a programme about an abduction of a girl, around 10 years old, from her bedroom during the night, again I think it was somewhere in Adelaide, during the late 70s I think. No clues left behind and still unsolved.
Huddo's sister 11 months ago
Beaumont children is the one I'm most curious about. They were on the beach, supposedly went to the toilet block to change before going home, then no one saw them again.
#5
August 15, 2002, Michael and Mary Short of Oak Level, VA, were shot in the head while sleeping in separate rooms. (He slept apart from her due to his snoring.) When his employee found their bodies later that morning, it was also discovered their 9-year-old daughter, Jennifer, was missing. Six weeks later, Jennifer was found dead under a bridge--45 minutes away in North Carolina.
This case was heavily investigated with no cure, and continues to be revisited periodically without resolution. Theories (professional and amateur) have ranged from criminal enterprise to business dealings to stalkers/traffickers, to revenge to family abduction, but all have come up empty.
Linda Riebel 11 months ago
Please be outraged about something important. And I'm actually a grammar grinch !
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From Texas- The Ice Box Murders. On June 23, 1965, police were sent to the home of Fred and Edwina Rodgers. The door was locked, there was food on the table, but there was no sign of a struggle, or of the couple. Their heads and dismembered body parts were later found in the fridge. The couple had a 43 year old son that lived with them, he disappeared on the day of their murders and was legally declared dead 10 years later.
As an FYI, to those who are not from the area: an ice box is a term used for the refrigerator. It was mostly used by older generations, and is not commonly used now, but I grew up hearing this term.
Yayheterogeneity 11 months ago
Sounds like the son committed the crime and started somewhere new.
Carilyn Beverly 11 months ago
Isn't there also a highway in Texas that is known for multiple (dozens? or more?) murders over the span of many years?
Megalodon Meg 11 months ago
I think you're referring to either the Texas Killing Fields or the Highway of Tears that starts in Canada and winds it's way through the US where several murder victims, typically of Native descent have been found over many years.
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Illinois has plenty but I can't believe the Lane Bryant murders haven't been solved yet (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_Bryant_shooting). Five women were k**led mid-morning at a clothing store in 2008. Another survived, and there's a sketch of the shooter but no suspects.
#8
I’m from Wales - Trevaline Evans a 52-year-old lady disappeared from Llangollen in 1990 after leaving a sign on the door of her antique shop that said “back in two minutes.”.
John O'Donnell 11 months ago
They believe she made it back to the shop too. A banana skin was found in the bin, and she had bought a banana while she was out.
#9
Italy.
Emanuela Orlandi vanishing: the 15yo daughter of a Vatican employee disappeared while coming back from a music course in 1983. Since then there have been a lot of investigations and suspects but no real clues about what happened.
Potential leads regarded Pope John Paul's attempted assassination, dirty bishops, the notorious Roman "banda della Magliana" (a criminal g**g that robbed, k**led, kidnapped, dealt d***s and p**********n during the '70s and '80s), and white women s***e trade.
At a certain point, a possible suspect - who said a lot of lies but was alsso able to produce a flute that really seemed Emanuela's one - made a correlation with another girl, k**led in 1984, with no relationship whatsoever with Emanuela during life.
This time he was right and Kethy's grave was actually opened to find it robbed and the casket taken away.
Emanuela's family is still fighting for the truth, her brother firmly believes in some Vatican responsibilities, while the original investigator still believes in a "plain" sexual a*****t ended in m****r.
The image of Emanuela used in the missing posters is very familiar to any Italian and especially Roman grown up in the '80s, with her flute and her black hairband, and for a long time there was some hope that she could be still alive (there was a trace that lead to an English college in the '90s), but nowadays all is wanted is some justice for a 15 yo vanished in a hot summer afternoon.
Nils Skirnir 11 months ago
Penetrating the Vatican’s mysteries is more difficult than finding the truth about the Ancient Roman Empire
Lilly Muerte 11 months ago
i'm still getting too much context from this, how about adding some more ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************?
Lilly Muerte 11 months ago
but let's see if i can solve the little riddles (hope everyone will survive reading potential bad words): g**g = gang (SUCH a bad, bad word, really) | k****d = killed | d***s = d***s | p**********n (that's a hard one - no idea, maybe pooooooooorn? lol) | s***e = slave | a*****t = assault, maybe? | m****r = murder.
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Livia Beirnes. She used to babysit me when I was young. Someone tied her up in her basement and burned the house down and they never caught the culprit.
#11
Not my hometown itself but just down the highway…the murders of Barry and Honey Sherman. Billionaire Toronto couple who were found hanging by belts from a railing that surrounded their indoor pool. There is video of a suspect near their home but you can’t see the face…and there’s no other leads despite a 35 million dollar reward.
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
I might put it on the billionaire putting up the 35 million reward to know something
#12
Rex McElroy murdered on the street of Skidmore Missouri in the 1980s. He terrorized the town for years, with r*pe, arson, attempted murder. They finally had enough and one morning shot him dead in his brand new truck with his wife seated next to him. No one ever confessed and no one was convicted.
DaisyBee 11 months ago (edited)
This case is one where you truly understand why it happened. Rex was a true menace and tormented the town. His 2nd “wife” (see: victim) was 12 when they met (he was 35). He raped her repeatedly, and when her parents tried to stop him from marrying her, he burned down their house and killed the family’s dog. After his “wife” gave birth at 14, she and his first wife fled from him with the baby and returned to her parents’ house. He then returned, burned the house down again and shot the new family dog - taking both the “wives” back by force. When he was finally being held accountable for these crimes, his 2nd “wife” and child were taken into foster care. He would sit outside the foster family’s house for hours and threatened to take their biological daughter as a “trade” unless they gave him back his “wife” and child. And this is only one set of his crimes. The town took the trash out.
Panda Bear 11 months ago
I’m sure everyone in that town knew who did it and refuse to say. Can’t blame them.
Nikki Gross 10 months ago
They ALL know what happened to him. His truck was shot full of so many different types of bullets, there isn't a snowballs chance in hell that ANYONE will confess or point fingers. Most of the people that were involved are probably dead by now, especially since it happened over 40 years ago. There are several short and long documentaries on YouTube that are really interesting to watch about the shooting and the town itself.
Felicia Baxter 2 months ago
the wife had some form of Stockholm syndrome and believed he was killed unjustly, I hope she's ok now
#13
Austria, Wiener Neustadt: Pencil Murderer
1973 an 11 yo girl was brutally murdered on the way home from school with her own pencil.
Jihana 11 months ago
My brother's in-laws are from Wiener Neustadt, gotta ask them if they ever heard about that case. (also, because I need to be the first: was it John Wick?)
Jihana 11 months ago
Ok, so I googled it now. Gabriele K. Was on her way home from school, walking through a park when someone attacked her, dragged her into some bushes, sexually assaulted her and stabbed her several times with a pencil, piercing her lung and heart. Some men who were seen near the park were arree, among them Herbert P, a 30 year old loner. He was questioned for 48 hours straight, beaten and shown evidence that was forged. First he denied everything, but then he broke down and confessed. Two years later, during the trial, it came out that he was forced to confess, and that, in fact, there was no way he could have done it. Still, he was in jail for two years, and his reputation was utterly ruined. To this day parents change to the other side of the street when walking by his house.
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Vancouver BC - Cindy James. A woman who reported ~90 instances of stalking, harassment, and attacks over a 7 year period from 1982-1989. She went missing in 1989 and was later found dead in the yard of an abandoned house hogtied in the fetal position with nylons around her neck. Cindy had several d***s in her system and a huge dose of morphine that was suspected to be intravenously administered (though no needle was found near her body).
I’m not even sure what popular opinion is on this case and I go back and forth between it being self inflicted and the result of a third party. Ultimately I think it was someone else, and that she likely knew who.
Nils Skirnir 11 months ago (edited)
Tough to hogtie oneself in a fetal position and then strangle oneself to death
Bailey 11 months ago
Although she had the nylons round her neck, it was the d**g overdose that killed her, not strangulation. At the inquest it was also shown that the way she was tied up could be done by a person on their own in less than 3 minutes. It's an interesting case, Cindy had a lot of mental health issues, and a long history of harassment incidents which seemed suspect
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#15
I'm from Argentina. There's many i'm interested in, Cecilia Giubileo, Claudia Ferro (i mean, we kinda know but there's no official statement), Sofia Herrera (i have so much hope she'll be found safe and well)
The one that really stuck with me tho is Maria Rosa Di Leo. Excuse me if i miss use some words.
Okay, this was years ago. Maria Rosa was a daycare teacher (or kinder, not sure what the word is for 3-5 year olds in English) who lived with her parents in Rosario, Santa Fe, was dating a man called Luis (who lived in Buenos Aires, another province) planning to marry
Maria had the daycare in their (parents and her) place. It was a humble daycare, nothing big or that had something different that you might really want your child to go there.
For months she kept receiving calls from a woman who wanted to make the inscription for her kid to go there althought, according to the calls, she lived on the other side of the city. Again, this is a humble place, not something you'd drive a long time daily for.
Anyway on one of those calls the woman apparently tells her she'll sign her kid there.
She actually goes not long after, (which they find weird, its not like she lived 5 blocks away) and Maria Rosa brings out the paperwork, she is about to write down the info when she gets shot, there's actually a pen trail on the paper.
She is found by her mom at the place, obviously police is called
Anyway there's no suspects. Some people nearby said they saw a brunette woman, some people saw a blonde woman, but they dont know who she is or if it was even her who shot Maria Rosa. More than that and the calls, they have nothing.
Months after a tv channel gets an anonymous message saying a woman, Miriam Buisart, was who shot Maria Rosa. They give this info to the police in charge who start investigating. Turns out Miriam lived in Colon, Buenos Aires, which is were Luis, Maria Rosa's boyfriend lived.
They investigated and she was brunette -not blonde like some people had said- had money and had dated Luis.
She got detained, at her place they found a blonde wig, she had missed work, her car was similar to one described to have been there the day of the m****r and she took it to the carwash althought the neighbours did not recognize that as the car, the hair found in the crime scene did not belong to her, her phone line was investigated and had no ties to the daycare.
On the day of the crime she says she had been with her boyfriend, claims to have casually dated Luis in the past but it was not serious and meant nothing, she had last seen him 5 or so months before the crime. The blonde wig, she said was for a costume from a party and had she done it, she would not have gotten such a cheap wig.
She did say that a few weeks before, her daughter picked up a call from Luis -or someone claiming to be him- telling her to tell Miriam to call to another phone number later, she didn't call but thinks it was probably an attempt to incriminate her.
Anyway she did went to jail for two years but then was absolved. Many things fit but there was no actual proof. Maria Rosa's parents weren't happy with the fact that she didn't contact them, apparently Luis stopped talking to them during the investigation (and he didn't say anything or help with the investigation in any way, which imo is suspicious) the case went cold and to this day there's no answer.
Admiralshallbethejudgeofthat 10 months ago
Okay, to sum it up for people who don’t read this long (no offense I love reading and this was good), Maria and her mum opened a daycare in their home, it was doing well, a lady at the other side of the city was interested in it (weird), Maria was she was dating and planning to Mary a guy named Luis. Now this lady wanted to enroll her kid in there, so she gave her information (blonde hair, car features, all that stuff). As she was writing it down, someone shot Maria. Now they investigated the crime, and the lady was suspected. She actually had brown hair and the blonde hair was a wig, which she claimed was for a party. She was with Luis, nothing serious. She brought in her car, which looked nothing like the description, and had claimed to be with Luis that day. A few weeks later, too, “ her daughter picked up a call from Luis -or someone claiming to be him- telling her to tell Miriam to call another phone number later, she didn't call but thinks it was probably (rest is in reply)
Admiralshallbethejudgeofthat 10 months ago
An attempt to incriminate her” the case went cold and there is still no answer
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They found a severed hand in the dog park across the street from my old house. Never found out who it belonged to or where it came from. Not exactly the best safest town, there’s a good deal of d***s and crime, but the neighborhood was still outta place for that kinda thing, just a small cul de sac with old people and kids so it was pretty wild.
#17
Omaha, NE: Jason Jolkowsi disappearance. In June 2001, the 19 year old man was walking 6 or 7 blocks from his home in a middle class, semi urban residential neighborhood to a nearby high school to meet a coworker for a ride to their job. He was last seen by his younger brother and a neighbor bringing trash cans back up from the curb up to his family's garage then walking west toward the high school. Sometime during the short 10 to 15 minute walk on a bright summer day around lunchtime, Jason vanished. Neighbors and people living in the area saw and heard nothing unusual, and no trace evidence (keys, wallet, discarded clothing, etc) has ever been found. I get it that kidnappings/disappearances can happen in the matter of seconds, but it's still so crazy that a young, 6'2" man could vanish while walking in the middle of a semi-busy neighborhood. This is a neighborhood not far from major thoroughfares in the city of Omaha (those familiar with Omaha know what I'm talking about: Fontenelle Blvd, Saddle Creek Road/Northwest Radial Highway, Maple Street, 52nd Street etc.) and even within the neighborhood there is regular foot and car traffic. This wasn't some isolated rural area out in the boonies at night with nobody else around.
It's quite baffling, also considering there were no other disappearances reported in the area before and since. It's literally like he was there 1 second and gone the next. Also frustrating because when Jason's parents called Omaha PD that afternoon, they were brushed off with the "Oh he probably ran away" trope and OPD didn't start a serious investigation until almost a week later.
#18
Central Iowa, United States— Johnny Gosch was a paperboy who disappeared at the age of 12 one morning in 1982 while doing his paper route. Despite being the first missing child to have his picture printed on milk cartons, he still hasn’t been found. His mom claims that she met him in the 90s and got photos of him in the 2000s, but most people here don’t think that happened. It’s a sad case for a lot of people in my dad’s generation, that something like that could happen here and a boy could go missing without a trace. I hope he’s found, if nothing else but to give his parents peace.
#19
Tacoma, Washington state, Tekah Lewis, toddler that disappeared from a bowling alley 20+ (?) years ago. She's never been found.
Emma London 11 months ago
These are the worst. Imagine the parents hoping that thier child would be kidnapped and thus still alive instead of just murdered with body never been found.
Huddo's sister 11 months ago
I watched a show once with people who had a family member or friend go missing. Some bodies had been found, but not all. The ones whose bodies were found said they were relieved when it happened, because they could then get closure but it also meant there was no more hope that they would be found alive. The ones who hadn't been found, the relatives were mostly stuck in this cycle of hope and despair and they couldn't fully grieve or get closure.
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#21
The r*pe and murder of Rachel Hurley in Jupiter Florida, USA in 1990. It happened in the middle of the day, walking from one part of the beach to another to meet her mom. No eye witnesses or anything. She was only 14 years old.
ETA: it happened on St. Patrick's Day, a generally busy day at Jupiter Beach/Carlin Park. I've been there literally hundreds of times and it's shocking how close other people had to have been. It's also a relatively open area. While there are trees and other foliage on the path she took, it's not dense at all.
#22
Couple off top of my head:
-Disappearance of Catherine Sjoberg outside of Oconomowoc, WI in 1974. Vanished from a party at the Concord House and place notable due to another double murder that happened there 6 years later which has been solved. I've been in that general area for work, strangely unsettling feeling when I'm there.
-Karl Lotharius in Milwaukee, 1981. Murdered with a crossbow. 2 prime suspects, 1 of whom was an ex lover with crossbow experience but as Karl lay dying he identified the other suspect. The ex lover k**led himself months later, other suspect vehemently denies involvement.
#23
Oregon, the Kyron Horman case. Hoping they find him someday.
Arcadia Gardener 11 months ago
Kyron Hormon was a kid who went missing in the late 00s or thereabouts. He never arrived at school, but his stepmother claimed to have dropped him off. She was the main suspect, but no remains have been found.
#24
Maryland, USA Sister Catherine Cesnik, Netflix docuseries, The Keepers is about her unsolved m****r.
embi miller 11 months ago
What's disgusting is that there is a TON of evidence but no one is charged because the church, the cops, and the state government refuses to actually charge, try, and convict someone (or more likely lots of people).
#25
Chelsea Small’s murder in 2013. She was a single mom who was gunned down while working at a check cashing place. The suspect is on video but the police don’t think he has a previous connection to her.
#26
Germany - the YOGTZE case.
It is an unsolved m****r case where the victim wrote down a "word" with unknown meaning.
Also the unsolved disappearance of Lars Mittank (although it happened in Bulgaria).
Arcadia Gardener 11 months ago
Idr much off the top of my head, but YOGTZE (or YO6TZE), which is suspected to be a license plate number, was scrawled by a murder victim as the only real clue. Lars Mittank suffered a TBI while on a trip with friends in Belgium. It was suggested he not fly due to said injury, but he wanted to go home. Instead, he suddenly ran away from the airport (caught on CCTV) in a suspected manic state caused by the TBI. He's never been found.
#27
Oh my god this:
I didn't know them or anyone who knows them personally but I heard about this and it's bothered me.
Basically, two twins, one died of unknown causes and the other outed herself, probably when she found her sister dead. They were incredibly close. Even though they seemed to have friends and did activities outside the house regularly, people who knew them said it was only really on a surface level. No one really knew anything about their childhood or anything else personal. Only family was someone a bit distant (neither married or had kids.) Their house was designed for a lot of privacy from the street. Someone who worked with them (a dr, I think, also per a different article) said he always thought if one of them died, the other would take herself out, which is what happened.
So it's not just mysterious that the one twin's death was unknown causes, but their whole lives were very secretive. Just another case of twins who kept almost entirely to themselves. I've checked periodically over the years for any update or anything new on them. It's been mostly crickets. .
Agfox 11 months ago
This refers to 58yo Valerie and Diane Blackler, who were found dead in their house in Naples, Longbeach on 1st February 2017, though it was estimated they'd been dead for approx 2 weeks. The coroner’s report ruled Diane’s death a suicide. No cause of death was found for Valerie. Toxicology reports for both women came back negative for d***s. Alcohol — 0.08 gram percent in a sample from Valerie’s heart and 0.05 gram percent from Diane’s liver — was found. No trauma was noted in Valerie’s examination notes. Trauma found on Diane’s body was found to be consistent with suicide hanging. Both bodies were decomposed when found. Despite both sisters working as nurses, they were described by neighbours as reclusive & inseparable https://www.presstelegram.com/2014/04/17/coroners-reports-released-on-blackler-twins-found-dead-in-naples-in-february/
Deeelite 11 months ago
I thought this might refer to the case of Jennifer and June gibbons. As adults, they became obsessed with tge idea one of them had to die so the other one could live a "normal" life. One twin just up and died without real cause and the other lived a domewhat normal life
LukewarmSoymilk 11 months ago
The entry literally says both twins were found dead though. June Gibbons is alive to this day.
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#28
North-East France : "Le petit Gregory".
A little boy found dead in a stream near his parents' home, where he was playing under their supervision. Hands and feet tied, and a hood on the head
A mysterious raven who sends anonymous letters before and after the incident to taunt parents.
After 37 years of investigation, we still haven't found the culprit. Part of the family was suspected, the father k**led an alleged culprit..
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
I need more details on the mysterious letter carrying raven as well
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British Columbia -- the disappearance of the Jack family, 1989. This case is unusual even in a province that has a lot of missing persons cases, compared with the rest of the country. (A lot of sparsely-populated terrain that's difficult to search due to rugged topography, dense forests, and coastlines/lakes is a major factor.) Multiple people disappearing at the same time is much less common than individuals going missing -- an entire family, including the kids, is very strange. I don't think there's another case like it in Canada. The circumstances suggest they didn't go out camping/boating and have an accident -- the fact that other people, who have not been identified, were involved is rather ominous.
#30
Austin, TX - 1991 Yogurt shop murders. Unsolved quadruple homicide. Victims were 13-17 year old girls.
Emma London 11 months ago
Are we supposed to just know about these by name, or go to ask Google? Because just naming the cases doesn't get us anywhere.
Gabby M 11 months ago
Being old enough and in the USA I remember these mur-ders. But here you go !!! ...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Austin_yogurt_shop_killings
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Three employees and, I believe, a visiting sister or friend, were all murdered in a yogurt shop just before or right after closing shop. No suspects were ever named.
#31
North Carolina - Asha Degree. I grew up in a neighboring county and have always wondered what happened to her.
Erla Zwingle 11 months ago
We also will be wondering about her. Like, everything about her. What is the point of putting in these cases if you tell us absolutely nothing?
Gabby M 11 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Asha_Degree
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Asha Degree, on the eve of her parents' anniversary (Valentine's day) or possibly a birthday, packed a backpack and left in the middle of the night. She was seen walking along the highway by passing motorists, but when one pulled over to approach her, she ran off into the woods. Later, deeper into the woods, a backpack belonging to her with another child's DNA was discovered. In recent months, they have potentially a family of suspects who may have been involved, due to both a suspected vehicle being found and a possible DNA tie. This is off the top of my head, so forgive any inaccuracies.
#32
Jefferson Davis parish, Louisiana.
Jeff Davis 8, 8 girls k**led by a serial k**ler right? Well…all the girls knew each other, all were in p**********n and d***s, all witnessed a cop k**l a d**g d****r in a d**g den.
After that it just gets even weirder, from dirty cops, to a local criminal, to a politician who was supposedly running a d**g and p**********n ring and had national ambitions for congress.
Watch m****r on the bayou or read the book. This story is crazy and unsolved.
Lilly Muerte 11 months ago
Another crazy story: A*****b c**d e*****f g***h i*******************j k**l m***********n o**p q*******r s****t u****v w***********x y****z. THAT`S what i call a mystery...
Hellcaste's Wife 11 months ago
I've watched several shows on this and I maintain the "uncle" was involved in it.
#34
Where I come from in Central Scotland has low crime and the inhabitants generally have their feet on the ground so there is a lack of mystery ... with one striking exception: Roughcastle Brickworks m****r (1949)
This is a fantastically obscure case.
#35
Washington State here : D.B. Cooper!
Arcadia Gardener 11 months ago
A man, only identified as B.D. Cooper, bordered a plane, only to hijack it. He robbed the people on board, then requested another plane to get away in as a hostage release deal. Either after switching flights, or just before the first plane landed, he parachuted out with his ill-gotten gains. Bills were scattered all around the area he would have landed in and it's suspected that he may have died during his escape. No one knows his true identity or whereabouts to this day.
Kelly Scott 11 months ago
If you're in Wahington state, trust me, you're the only one who cares.
#36
Phoenix AZ area. Mikelle Biggs. It has always bugged me because she was my age and the short amount of time she disappeared was just scary.
#37
I’m from Maryland. The m****r of Kanika Powell (in August 2008) is both baffling and terrifying.
#39
Yuba County Five, Brian Shaffer.
Arcadia Gardener 11 months ago
The Yuba County Five were a group of young men from the same school or group home who all had some sort of mental illness or disability back in the 60s(?). They had gone out to a dance during the winter, but got lost on the way back. They seem to have gotten into a car accident, but that isn't what killed them. Most had frozen to death either in the vehicle or outside of it while trying to find help. Brian Shaffer, an OSU medical student, disappeared from the Ugly Tuna Saloona. What makes his case so strange is he's caught on CCTV entering and walking about the venue, but was never observed leaving the building.
Zero Costa 10 months ago (edited)
with the Yuba 5, I believe they went out of their home town to watch a basketball game! they were all in an amateur league together, which was how they became close. The rest of the details you got right though, I believe two of the men had found forest cabins used by the forestry service ? I don't know much about all that, but it was odd because there was food and a way to heat the cabin. only four of them were found, one of them still hasn't as far as I know
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This is from just down the road from where I live. I believe law enforcement has an idea of who did it, but doesn't have the evidence for arrest.
WindySwede 11 months ago
OP: https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/Who-Killed-Kelcey-Fike-of-Kearney-Nebraska
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Kansas City - Baby Lisa.
Arcadia Gardener 11 months ago
Baby Lisa went missing from her crib at roughly a year old early one morning. I don't believe either of her parents are suspects, but the window was found open and she's never been found.
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Lauren Speirer from Indiana.
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TheElementalGod️️ (He/him) 11 months ago
BP, THIS IS ABOUT CRIMES. Why would you censor murder?
Jay Scales 11 months ago
I need to wait for a rainy afternoon & then look all these up online - so many have no details.
John O'Donnell 11 months ago
I’m from London, so we have Jack The Ripper, you may have heard of him. The less famous one is The Thames Nude Killer, responsible for six victims in West London in the early 1960s. Where one of the victims was found I could see from my bedroom window in my old house.
Milena B. G. Rosa 11 months ago
Brazil - In 1989, in the state of Minas Gerais, there was a criminal known as the "Black Cape Maniac", an arsonist who killed 3 people, injured 35 and successfully escaped a search by around 500 police officers. To this day, no one knows who he was, why he committed the crimes or how he ended up - although it is assumed that he died due to old age.
Lilly Muerte 11 months ago (edited)
An old unsolved case from Germany: Hinterkaifeck - 1922 - very rural area - farm - 6 people killed (father, mother, daughter, maid, a child and a baby). they assume that the murderer stayed at the farm for several days after killing the family. the killed farmer was known to be rude and aggressive and had an incestuous relationship with his own daughter, assumingly the baby was their child. Edit: Highly recommend having a look at the wikipedia entry (also available in English). This story has it all - wild background stories, many good theories who murdered them and why and, given that it happened 1922, there is a lot of detailed information available.
Sapna Sarfare 11 months ago
India: The Stoneman Serial Killer: It started in Mumbai in 1985 with the killing of poor and homeless sleeping on the pavements at night. The killer bludgeoned their heads with stone. It happened mostly in the Sion and King's Circle areas of Mumbai. Only one person survived but he could not see the person due to lack of lighting in that part. The killing went on for almost two years and then mysteriously stopped. No one could find the real stoneman serial killer. Then in 1989, a series of similar killings happened in Kolkata (then Calcutta). The modus operandi was similar but they could not confirm if it was the same man. The victims were homeless or poor people who slept on the pavements in one part of the city. Even here, they could not really define the killer. The case remains one of the most haunting episodes of crime in India. The Stoneman Serial Killer is yet to be identified.
Lilly Muerte 11 months ago
Thanks for sharing the story! Unbelievable what some people are able to do to others. We had a similar case in Austria 2 years ago which was fortunately solved quite quick. A then 16 year old boy stabbed 3 homeless people while they were sleeping outside in their sleeping bags. 2 died, his 3rd victim survived. A few weeks later he went to a police station and confessed everything.
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Lee Banks 11 months ago (edited)
I lived in El Paso, Texas in 1994. The mass femicide happening just outside the border (Ciudad Jaurez) was astounding and terrifying. Everyone knows it had to do with maquiladoras, but no one knows if it was police, cartels, or even serial killers hiding behind the actions of the former. (Likely all three.) There were pink crosses on every street light.
tracy black 10 months ago
leigh ann green from white bluff tn disappeared without a trace in may of 1983 or 84 her twin brother went to pick her up from work ( she worked at the holiday inn , since been torn down) as a waitress . he ran outta gas and went to get gas the station was in sight and on a busy highway he was gone 10 -15 minutes he got back she was no where to be seen her purse was in the car there were scratch marks supposedely from her boots she had on down the side of the car but not a single trace of her has never been found
Skogsrået 11 months ago
How could a convicted felon and conman be elected is a much more important question.
Load More Replies... TheElementalGod️️ (He/him) 11 months ago
BP, THIS IS ABOUT CRIMES. Why would you censor murder?
Jay Scales 11 months ago
I need to wait for a rainy afternoon & then look all these up online - so many have no details.
John O'Donnell 11 months ago
I’m from London, so we have Jack The Ripper, you may have heard of him. The less famous one is The Thames Nude Killer, responsible for six victims in West London in the early 1960s. Where one of the victims was found I could see from my bedroom window in my old house.
Milena B. G. Rosa 11 months ago
Brazil - In 1989, in the state of Minas Gerais, there was a criminal known as the "Black Cape Maniac", an arsonist who killed 3 people, injured 35 and successfully escaped a search by around 500 police officers. To this day, no one knows who he was, why he committed the crimes or how he ended up - although it is assumed that he died due to old age.
Lilly Muerte 11 months ago (edited)
An old unsolved case from Germany: Hinterkaifeck - 1922 - very rural area - farm - 6 people killed (father, mother, daughter, maid, a child and a baby). they assume that the murderer stayed at the farm for several days after killing the family. the killed farmer was known to be rude and aggressive and had an incestuous relationship with his own daughter, assumingly the baby was their child. Edit: Highly recommend having a look at the wikipedia entry (also available in English). This story has it all - wild background stories, many good theories who murdered them and why and, given that it happened 1922, there is a lot of detailed information available.
Sapna Sarfare 11 months ago
India: The Stoneman Serial Killer: It started in Mumbai in 1985 with the killing of poor and homeless sleeping on the pavements at night. The killer bludgeoned their heads with stone. It happened mostly in the Sion and King's Circle areas of Mumbai. Only one person survived but he could not see the person due to lack of lighting in that part. The killing went on for almost two years and then mysteriously stopped. No one could find the real stoneman serial killer. Then in 1989, a series of similar killings happened in Kolkata (then Calcutta). The modus operandi was similar but they could not confirm if it was the same man. The victims were homeless or poor people who slept on the pavements in one part of the city. Even here, they could not really define the killer. The case remains one of the most haunting episodes of crime in India. The Stoneman Serial Killer is yet to be identified.
Lilly Muerte 11 months ago
Thanks for sharing the story! Unbelievable what some people are able to do to others. We had a similar case in Austria 2 years ago which was fortunately solved quite quick. A then 16 year old boy stabbed 3 homeless people while they were sleeping outside in their sleeping bags. 2 died, his 3rd victim survived. A few weeks later he went to a police station and confessed everything.
Load More Replies... Lee Banks 11 months ago (edited)
I lived in El Paso, Texas in 1994. The mass femicide happening just outside the border (Ciudad Jaurez) was astounding and terrifying. Everyone knows it had to do with maquiladoras, but no one knows if it was police, cartels, or even serial killers hiding behind the actions of the former. (Likely all three.) There were pink crosses on every street light.
tracy black 10 months ago
leigh ann green from white bluff tn disappeared without a trace in may of 1983 or 84 her twin brother went to pick her up from work ( she worked at the holiday inn , since been torn down) as a waitress . he ran outta gas and went to get gas the station was in sight and on a busy highway he was gone 10 -15 minutes he got back she was no where to be seen her purse was in the car there were scratch marks supposedely from her boots she had on down the side of the car but not a single trace of her has never been found
Skogsrået 11 months ago
How could a convicted felon and conman be elected is a much more important question.
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