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Movie and TV crime dramas sometimes make it seem that strange cases are impossible to solve. However, in reality, thanks to advanced forensic techniques and meticulous detective work, we can get answers to even the most perplexing ones.
So, in an attempt to reassure each other that society can protect its innocent members from the vile ones, Reddit users have been sharing creepy and puzzling mysteries that were eventually cracked.
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#1
There’s a couple that come to mind for me.
The 30-year cold case murder of Reyna Marroquín that was solved when a New York family found a 55-gallon drum in the crawl space of their basement that had been sitting there for years through many previous homeowners.
The original spider man murder. Pretty freaky if you think about it. Makes you want to double check your attic and basement often, just in case. This man snuck in to a couples house and lived in their attic for years in a tiny makeshift room with a false door. He would come out at night to eat. One evening the wife woke up to her husband being stabbed to death in the kitchen. Police were perplexed because there was no sign of breaking and entering or any other evidence at that. She lived in the home alone with this guy secretly living in the attic for about a year but left the house abandoned after much heartbreak. A couple of the original detectives on the case just couldn’t get the case off their mind so they would drive by the abandoned house every so often just to see if they could come up with some new ideas on solving the case. One night on a random drive by, they see a shadow of a man in the upstairs attic window and quickly bust in to see what was going on. By a mere seconds one of the cops catches a glimpse of his foot going up into this tiny trap door. When they push it open, they find this man living in a tiny makeshift room with newspaper clippings of the murder. He would eventually come clean and confess to the murder. The thought of someone living in your attic or basement secretly without you knowing gives me the heebie-jeebies!
Kiss Army 1 year ago
This lady had her lover living in the attic and even when she moved, she moved him with her! They ended up killing her husband and continued to live in the attic. When he never boyfriend found out about her attic boyfriend, he turned her in because he was suspicious of her husband's death. I just saw an interesting video about it on you tube in the series called Well, I Never. Here is the Wikipedia page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walburga_Oesterreich
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago (edited)
He lived in the attic for 5 weeks before the murders, not "years." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Edward_Coneys
Biytemii 1 year ago
They a tually have a word for this now. It's called phrogging. I found a show about it once people who had people in their houses without knowing. " Having phroggers." I don't remember the name of the show or which streaming service though lol. Think it was I survived or had a phrogger or something like that
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
The only time my attic not being able to support a person is a good thing
Duvet Woman 1 year ago
Good luck to anyone who can fit into our attic which is full to the brim with my husband's "keep just in case" rubbish.
Kelly Hartle 1 year ago
There's a refrigerator in our house that was in the garage when we moved there 25 years ago. Other stuff piled up in front of it before we opened it and now I'm afraid to.
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#2
Debugging behind the iron curtain. Computers at a soviet train station would randomly bug out and no one knew why. One guy eventually traces it to when livestock was being brought in from Ukraine, where Chernobyl left the cows with so much radiation they could flip bits.
Ouss Ben Aziza 1 year ago
Ahaharfeea I am dead. Funniest s**t I read today.
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nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
The Soviets had some interesting safety practices. I'm sure that's all right as rain now, with King Vlad at the helm.
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#3
In Pennsylvania there was an urban legend of a thing called "The green man" or Charlie no-face". For many years people would say they had seen this weird human like creature wandering through the streets at night. It had no face, and had green skin.
After sighting became more and more common, some people started investigating. That was when they discovered Raymond "Ray" Robinson, the man behind the urban legend. Due to an accident with a power line, he became severely deformed. Because the way he looked people would cause panic whatever place he'd go. His only choice was to walk at night. He was so scary that, more than one time, people tried to hit him with their cars, thinking they had found the famous monster "Green Man"
Search his name and you will understand why people were scared of him.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
No I don't understand why people were scared of him... He hid but was trying not to scare anyone... This poor guy who hadn't done anything wrong........ Facial scars are horrible to live with, especially as people are far too quick to judge and outright say horrible nasty comments to your face. Excuse me darling but you ain't all THAT yourself so keep your lil remarks and opinions to yourself.
Nikki Gross 1 year ago (edited)
I've seen pictures and I would have been curious, but not scared of him when I was a kid. When I was young things that were considered "different" made me fascinated more then frightened.
#4
The Body in Room 348.
This is another one I've posted about, but it's such a good mystery. Really, don't read my summary -go for the article.
A man is found dead in his hotel room. He enjoys drinking and eating less than healthy and has been a lifelong smoker. It looks like natural causes from a lifestyle that caught up with him. He was found lying on the floor as if staggering for the door.
The autopsy says otherwise. He's got a laceration in his s*****m and it's bruised and swollen as if he'd been given a hard kick. There's bruising in his groin that rises up through his hips and abdomen. Inside, his organs are bruised and lacerated. It looks like he was brutally beaten. However, his hotel room was normal, except, ya know, for his corpse. Nothing out of order, no blood, no signs of anything foul.
Case goes cold. A new detective is brought in, one known for solving the unsolvable. He sits down with the medical examiner to go over autopsy photos and such. Then, he figures it out. The man had been shot. Through his s*****m. That was the laceration and the wrinkled skin folded to obscure the bullet hole. The bullet had traveled up through his body causing the other injuries.
So, who did it?
There had been a group of men in the room next door and one of them pulls out a gun and starts playing with it. It went off, firing through the wall into the victim's room where it hit him. The men used toothpaste to fill the bullet hole, which had been through a part of the wall that wasn't easy to notice.
Spidercat 1 year ago
Why the fùck is scrotùm censored? It. Is. A. Perfectly. Normal. Word. Fücking so over BP censorship bòllocks.
ScarletRos 1 year ago
I thought they were censoring sternum, which makes even less sense.
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This Face Believes You 1 year ago
Umm, that’s some shoddy work by the medical examiner. Any proper examination of the laceration would have revealed the gunshot wound. It took a cop looking at pictures of the autopsy to see it, but the people touching the actual corpse missed it?
The Other Guest 1 year ago
Joining in on the "stop censoring anatomically correct terms" crusade. Scrotum scrotum scrotum scrotum scrotum scrotum.
Michaelann Dahlman 1 year ago
Odd that there was no bleeding & why didn't the original autopsy find the bullet?
Thomas Schwarting 1 year ago
I've heard of cases like this on tv programs. Monk maybe or more likely CSI.
#5
I've posted about this one before, but the Death Valley Germans.
Article is an amazing write up of the case and methods used to solve it by the man who cracked it.
I'm going to try to explain -no, there is too much, I will summarize.
A family of German tourists go missing on their US vacation. They're tracked to Death Valley. Their rented van is found abandoned off an abandoned service path. There's no sign of them. They disappeared in the valley in July when even experienced outdoorsmen would have struggled to survive with proper gear.
Why were they so far from the tourist spots of Death Valley? Where did they go? Were they kidnapped/car jacked?
It amounts to a series of unfortunate events. It was determined they made a last minute choice to sight see there, misunderstood a map, and instead of turning around, assumed there would be ranger stations and pressed on. The unkempt path cause the van to break down. Looking at their map, they saw a US military installation. Being from Europe, to them, that meant it would be manned with patrols. It wasn't. They set off for help in the direction of the base -the one direction no one thought to check because as Americans, the rescuers knew there would be no help that way. A health card for one of the family members and scraps of bones were found to confirm what happened.
Really, though, read the article. It's fascinating.
Jacob Ross 1 year ago
Since BP has so many European readers, I want to take the opportunity to remind you to please, please, please take the heat seriously. I live in the Pacific Northwest, a green space in a forest, on the river, in the figurative shadow of a snow-covered mountain. We routinely get temperatures in excess of 39 degrees during peak tourist season. Four summers ago we had a wave of several days peaking at 50 degrees. It is a big place. Texas alone is three times the size of France. You cannot see it all in a single trip, and you cannot get as far in a day as you think you can. This leads to fatigue, car failures, and other hazards. Our wildlife is no joke. Bears are mean, and way more common than you think. Elk will attack you. Moose will destroy a car. Cougars are deadly. Our squirrels carry the black plague, and it is not uncommon for someone in Oregon to get it in the summer. We have nasty floods, heavy windstorms, and severe blizzards. This said, we love visitors. Please come.
Bookworm 1 year ago
Seconding this. I live in the American southwest. Do not underestimate the heat. The low last night was 70 fahrenheit. You'd need to be up at 2-3 am to enjoy the cool. We've had heat advisories all week due to reaching over 100 degrees. We've also had flash flood warnings (arroyos are deadly). I see so many people assume rain means it'll be cooler. Not here. You can get heat stroke in the morning and swept away in the arroyo in the afternoon. It's lovely to visit if you take the appropriate precautions. Namely a ton of water, heat shade, sunscreen, physical maps, the weather forecast, and-possibly-a satellite phone.
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PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
This was an extremely interesting case to read i remember this one.
This Face Believes You 1 year ago (edited)
A couple of years ago Death Valley reached its highest temperature in recorded history. People flocked to it, I guess for the “experience”🤷🏻♀️.
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Silberwolf 1 year ago
Sounds like an awful end. I assume the place is called Death Valley for good reasons.
#6
I grew up in Nashville, TN in the 1970s. Terrible crimes were rare.
The disappearance of 9yo Marcia Trimble.
She was delivering Girl Scout cookies a couple of doors down from her home and vanished.
The case was strange from the beginning, and went unsolved for 33 years.
I called my older sister when I heard the news and we both just cried even though it had been so long ago. We had friends close to the case and my folks were friends with the police chief at the time. The entire city felt the same way; we all felt she was one of us, and that's what made the whole thing so scary and sad.
There were several suspects, and many theories of the case, but none ever panned out.
It turns out a local man had murdered a Vanderbilt student and raped a Belmont student just days before killing Marcia Trimble. He was arrested in March for those crimes and was imprisoned. He eventually confessed to Marcia's murder to other inmates who turned him in.
Her parents both died before her case was solved.
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
Poor kid. Poor family. Having said that, "Terrible crimes were rare" means "Terrible crimes were rarely made known to the general public."
1 year ago
I grew up just outside Nashville. I was a Girl Scout and the same age as Marcia. The case is still very upsetting to me and I think about it more than I should. That summer, there was a tree planted in her honor at GS camp
#7
Posted this elsewhere, but the Weepy Voiced Killer was a serial killer who would murder women and then call the police weeping, stating his regret and saying he needed to be caught and couldn't help himself. Some of his calls are readily available on the internet and are pretty chilling. Anyway, he bit off more than he could chew one night with a prostitute named Denise Williams who sensed danger, hit him with a glass bottle and with the help of another dude managed to escape. Paul Michael Stephani was caught when he sought medical assistance and was identified by the dude who had clashed with him. He was convicted of a murder and attempted murder but later confessed to three murders and two attempted murders when he realised he would die of cancer.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago (edited)
Denise Williams deserves a gold medal.... And isn't it funny how they always express remorse when they're dying? You know you did what you did . You terrorised us. Scared us beyond and now? NOW? You expect sympathy for you?......... Sorry, darling but what you did what you did. My heart is now cold stone dead for you.
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
I'll save my sympathy for the innocent that were harmed by a predator's decision to do evil.
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Two girls were on their way to a college party in 1971 in South Dakota and all of a sudden went missing. Virtually vanished with no leads, they tore up the property of a classmate who was in prison on SA charges but found no evidence of the girls. 42 years later, in 2013, a nearby creek dried up and revealed a car with the two girls' bodies inside.
Winnie the Moo 1 year ago
So sad… and the parents! Can’t imagine their suffering for 42 years not knowing where the girls are…
Granger 1 year ago
I was curious too. According to CNN, authorities ruled there was no foul play. There was damage to one tire, and the vehicle was running at the time it hit the water.
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Eugenia 1 year ago
About 10 years ago, in Italy, a man and his car went missing. There were absolutely no clues. Then, men cutting high grass and bushes inside a government area found him still sitting in the car. He had a heart attack, lost control of the car which slid under the fencing and ended in a huge bush. The metal fencing somehow closed behind the car and nobody noticed the damage.
Mark Trombley 1 year ago
If a person disappears they can be anywhere, if they and their car disappear they are under water.
Grumpy Old Broad 1 year ago
There was a book written about this case, "Vanished in Vermilion". A very good read. It's awful how they treated the suspect and there are some in law enforcement that still believe he was involved, because they can't admit they were wrong.
Leesa DeAndrea 1 year ago
The girls died when the one who was driving lost control of the car and it crashed into the creek and sank in deep water, remaining hidden for over 40 years.
#9
The McStay family disappearance & murder. I’m going to f**k it up if I fully explain but the short version is a family of four is found missing, nothing disturbed in their home, it looked like they just up and left. A search is performed and their car is found near the Mexico border. Border surveillance is checked and a family of four who resembles them (on grainy video) is found so everyone thinks they were running away from something/one. A few years later, someone off roading in the California desert stumbles upon their remains. After digging deeper into the family’s relationships, they arrest the business partner of the slain father of the family. And if I’m not mistaken, the trial is just starting or has been postponed to start very soon.
Zara VP 1 year ago
I remember reading about this one. Such a sad event- those poor babies. I hope that POS dies a gruesome death in prison.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
Stop with the pedantics over "Found Missing"... It's lexicon. And shame on you both for laughing too.
AutumnGirl 1 year ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McStay_family_murders
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#10
This one's pretty widely known on Reddit, but Lori Erica Ruff.
Short version is that she was a Texas mother and wife whose past was shrouded in mystery from her husband and in-laws, who suspected she was hiding something and felt that she was lying about her age (she appeared older than she was claiming to be). Her behavior became increasingly erratic, and her husband filed for divorce. She killed herself on Christmas Eve 2010, after which her in-laws went through her private belongings and found a birth certificate for a Becky Sue Turner and documents requesting a name change from Becky Sue Turner to Lori Kennedy (her maiden name).
It was discovered that Becky Turner had actually died in a fire at the age of 2 in the 70s. From what people were able to dig up, "Lori" had somehow obtained Becky's birth certificate and used it to petition a name change for herself to Lori Kennedy. Investigators were able to find only a few people who knew her before she married her husband.
Her identity was finally discovered in 2016 thanks to forensic DNA evidence and Social Security records--she was Kimberly McLean, a Pennsylvania woman who had run away as a teenager. We still don't know what she was up to in the two years between when she left Pennsylvania and when the next sightings of her show up in California two years later.
I'm probably messing up the details of the story. It's an interesting one, though.
#11
The disappearance of the *Stardust.*
It's 1947, and aircraft manufacturers are in a race to profit from the post-war air travel market. Avro of England comes up with the Lancastrian, a passenger version of the famed Lancaster with the same four Rolls Royce Merlin engines. On a scheduled flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago, Chile, the Lancastrian *Stardust* of British South American Airways takes off and begins its "dead reckoning" navigation. It will be many years before directional beacons, much less widespread airport radar or electronic positioning systems. The navigator must give the pilot a bearing and note the airspeed and time for the different legs of the flight, then calculate the distance covered.
The Lancastrian has ample power to cross the Andes, and the flight has been done without incident many times. At the appropriate time, the navigator tells the pilot to begin his descent into Santiago. The crew waits to drop below the cloud in confidence that the airport lights will be visible somewhere below. The plane sends a Morse code message to the airport ending in the odd term: S T E N D E C. And then simply vanishes.
When search planes find no trace of the plane, crew, and six passengers, the disappearance is reluctantly consigned to the annals of unsolved mysteries. People jump on the story with multiple theories of what the strange message meant, and speculate on sabotage, political intrigue, and even alien abduction. In reality, there are no explanations. And so it remains for 50 years.
In 1998, two Argentine climbers have reached the foot of the glacier on Mt. Tupungato, 50 miles east of Santiago. They spot a strange form which turns out to be a battered aircraft engine. There are also pieces of twisted metal and ripped clothing. *Stardust* has been found. A subsequent military expedition discovers other engines, wheels, propellers, and human remains.
By now, a phenomenon that was virtually unknown in 1947 is understood and well-plotted on a daily basis: the jet stream. Aided by a study of the wreckage, it becomes apparent that the plane flew head-on into a known jet stream at the high altitude needed to cross the Andes. Its airspeed - as opposed to groundspeed - had remained nominal, while it was in fact falling far below what was expected, and the plane was well short of it destination when the crew confidently began its descent.
*Stardust* had apparently flown straight into the near-vertical head of the glacier, causing an avalanche that instantly hid it from searchers. Over the course of 50 years, the mangled wreckage, crew, and passengers became part of the glacier, slowly traveling to its foot to await discovery. As for the strange broadcast, many solutions have been forwarded, but STENDEC remains a mystery.
Charlotte A. 1 year ago
and a quick google says "Severe Turbulence Encountered, Now Descending, Emergency Crash-landing" (in article from 2002)
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
That's not a standard abbreviation in any way, though. Nobody could be expected to know what that meant.
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Xenia Harley 1 year ago
Easy enough to do! I took a plane to Juliaca in Peru with a friend (who is Peruvian!) We were both scared at the descent of the plane, as the mountains are very steep and close in that airport! (I believe he had flown into that airport before but even he was nervous!) Imagine bad weather or cloud cover?
JK 1 year ago
Ah yes, whilst suffering potential oxygen deprivation or just cruising, the navigator not only types a word in morse vode, but decides to make an anagram of what he is trying to describe, whilst managing to correctly interpret the morse code for each letter and then putting them in an order that makes no sense to any air traffic control in countries where English is not the first language. Yes, I'm sure that's what it is /s
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#12
A school bus driver kidnaps 3 girls on Aug-23-2002, Apr-21-2003, Apr-2-2004. He holds them captive in his house in a Cleveland city neighborhood. For SA and torture. One of the girls gives birth to a daughter on Dec-25-2006. They escape May-6-2013. Almost 11 years after the first.
Ariel Castro - kidnapper of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Georgina DeJesus. Rescued by Charles Ramsey. He has a song about his initial interview.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
I read Michelle's book. Kind of wish I hadn't. It's horrifying. Too bad the coward managed to kill himself before he had to spend the rest of his life in jail. He deserved to suffer.
Robert Benson 1 year ago
His suffering would only cost more tax-money. The people he harmed would not be better off with his continued existence even if he suffered the entire time. I don't know if retribution ever truly helps those who need it.
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Mgtow Smurf 1 year ago
He committed suicide while in jail. The city demolished the house where the girls were kept prisoner.
Catpawsarethebest 1 year ago
This has been into a movie right? Think I saw it on Netflix. I regret seeing it. It's so sad and horrible and I can't get it off my mind. My heart breaks thinking about the victims!
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
Are you thinking of "The Girl In The Basement"? Yups horrifying especially as its a true story
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Bookworm 1 year ago (edited)
This whole article is 'unsolved' cases that have now been solved. That's the entire point.
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I remember being pretty terrified after I read a bunch of stuff about Albert Fish, aka The Gray Man.
He killed, tortured and ate a bunch of people in the early 20th Century.
He would send obscene letters to the police, the victims families and random women, baffling police for years.
shankShaw deReemer 1 year ago
You can see an X-ray of the needles if you Google it. Be prepared to shudder. It's pretty creepy.
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SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
What's with serial killers, like the Zodiac Killer, writing stuff to others? "Oh I'm so smartypants and your not! Bwahahaha!"... Btw? I knew about Albert Fish way before I should've because he was used as a childhood scare tactic to not wander off on your own
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
Even Jack the Ripper did that. He wrote letters to the police to taunt them.
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Bill Walker 1 year ago
I read his autobiography as a teen. This dude had some heavy stuff on his plate ;)
Zero Costa 1 year ago
Behind The Bastards podcast by Robert Evans did an episode about Albert Fish. the guest for the ep, Maggie Mae Fish, is a distant relative of his! def recommend listening
Kurt Schilling 1 year ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish Basically Holy S**t! We grow monsters....
Michael None 1 year ago
He looked like that and never once was considered a suspect for murder.
#14
Dr Harold Shipman. A family General Practitioner that made unsolicited house calls on his patients, some with no physical ailments. He would murder them,alter their medical records, then sign their death certificates stating natural causes and organising their cremation to cover his tracks.
David 1 year ago
I wonder how he / anyone could do that and not expect to get caught. Insurance companies are highly suspect of a beneficiary that is not a relative - outside of well documented business cases like a partnership. It does happen though so once could understandably slip by. But.. multiple times???
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
You're confusing 2 different articles. There is one (from yesterday) about unsolved cases. This one (from today) is about solved cases.
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This wasn't *exactly* a mystery, other than the fact he had managed to k!ll so many patients without anyone *really* noticing, and those that did, literally shipped him off to other medical facilties to work in. His downfall was the mother of a barrister who knew her mother wouldn't change her will the way it had been and insisted on involving and pushing the police to investigate, after she noticed the huge uptick in patients "passing in their sleep" after visits from him. Otherwise, he probably could and would have carried on under the radar.
Tobias Reaper 1 year ago
he murdered more than 200 people and the coward unalived himself in prison
#15
This one stuck with me since I saw one of those Identification Discovery shows detailing the story. It's not as much of a mystery as some cases, since it didn't make national or international news while being solved. But I'm damn sure it was a clusterfuck of a mystery for people that knew this couple and police investigating it.
Police were called to a hotel because a man jumped to his death. He had a lonnnng suicide note in his pocket, and it said something to the effect of "I'm ending my life because I'm so sorry for the one I took." (super paraphrased here)
So police went to his address and found crazy rantings spray painted on the wall including "look in the oven." Oh, what did they find in the oven, you wonder? It's body parts belonging to his girlfriend. Her head was in a pot on the stove, and some of her was in the fridge. He strangled her, dismembered her, and cooked her. Supposedly, he wasn't planning to eat her, he was trying to get rid of evidence until his conscience caught up with him.
The couple was Zach Bowen and Addie Hall who had met in New Orleans and weathered Hurricane Katrina together and stayed in the area after the storm. If you google them, you can find a picture that made it into some sort of magazine or newspaper that was a little fluff piece showing young lovebirds dealing with Katrina aftermath.
Apparently Zach Bowen had spent time in the military and had a wife he was separated from. Zach and Addie bartended together and drank a lot. Some people said Addie was a nasty drunk that could be abusive. Also there were rumors that they were doing a lot of cocaine. The substance abuse issues and the possibility that Zach may have had undiagnosed mental issues after his military experience are the theories for possible motive of the crime.
Edit - I just posted this as a reply to a comment, and wanted to add it here because it adds to how interesting and insane this case is.
Also on the show I saw, they had a friend of theirs giving an interview just kind of giving her opinions on their character and how it was super shocking and batshit crazy for this to happen.
The friend was Margaret Sanchez and she herself wound up pleading guilty to manslaughter in an unrelated case. She and her boyfriend apparently stabbed and dismembered an exotic dancer. Margaret's boyfriend, Terry Speaks, was found guilty of second-degree murder, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice. The victim's name in that case was Jaren Lockhart.
The story for that one is that the couple was at a gentleman's club and offered Jaren Lockhart money to come back to their place for a private party. They stabbed her, dismembered her, and she washed up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
In the couple articles I skimmed, I couldn't find a motive for this.
David 1 year ago
Yes, I think as long as you don't use the word "cluster" by itself, it is okay. /S LOL
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Salty Wild Hair 1 year ago
The second couple mentioned? Yeah, I lived on the beach in Long Beach, MS, where I could see Criminalists and police gather every so often when someone stumbled upon that woman's body parts. Just too much.
#16
The Dr. Bogle & Mrs. Chandler mystery. Their bodies were found on New Years Day, 1963 by an empty river bank in Sydney. I don’t think they could find the cause of death at the time & it was very suspicious with their half naked bodies covered with cardboard, plus both were married but not to each other & had left a NYE party together earlier that night, so jealous revenge theories abounded. Turns out it was carbon monoxide poisoning escaping from the dry river bed which had dissipated by the time police arrived the next day.
David 1 year ago
thanks, because I was trying to wrap my head around how a river was spewing out lots of carbon monoxide. H2S is a lot easier to get from rotting vegetation and such.
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#17
Claremont killings.
3 women in the late 90s all disappeared from the same suburb in Perth. It was well known and a lot of people stopped going out. Then he just stopped.
Well a few years back they actually caught him. And he’s the most unassuming person you’ll ever see. Ran his Little Athletics club, was quite popular. I know people who know him through sport and to say they were stunned was an understatement.
They finally charged him with the third murder not long ago.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago (edited)
The worst part (I was living there when he was caught) was soooo many people knew or met him randomly in their lives and didn’t suspect him. One was my bffs mother who worked with him briefly and she was very surprised.
Hassel Davidhoff 1 year ago (edited)
Anyone know the cünt's name? Edit; nevermind, found it. His name is Bradley Robert Edwards and he is a shartcünt of the highest order.
#18
There was a segment on the TV show Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, where a big brother was taunting his younger brother about a monster in the closet or something like that. Then, one day, the big brother goes into the closet and disappears. The show insinuates there was something supernatural going on, and viewers were freaking out when it was revealed to be one of the true stories. But it turns out the the big brother had some secret passage that he escaped out of and he was basically just running away from home.
Edit: Here is an excerpt from an article I found:
> A bit of digging turns up at least one comment on the show’s IMDB message board, posted on February 12, 2008, in which the commenter shared her correspondence with someone who had worked on Beyond Belief and knew the actual truth:
> “The Beyond Belief: fact or fiction story about the monster in the kid’s closet was based on an actual event that I personally investigated,” she was told. “At the time it happened there was no explanation for the boy’s disappearance— until two weeks later when it was learned that he had climbed out of the closet through a ceiling panel and ran away from home. He stayed at a friend’s house surreptitiously until the friend’s mother discovered him hiding in the attic of their home and exposed the ruse.”
> The show’s producer wouldn’t discover this very important detail until it was far too late.
Jacob Ross 1 year ago
It is from an American show called Fact or Fiction: Beyond Belief, which ran during the early 2000's. You can find some of it on YouTube. Host Jonathan Frakes would introduce three segments, each a narrated story with a chilling mystery or twist. At the end of each episode Frakes would ask the home audience which, if any, of the stories they believed were true. Then he would reveal which were true and which were false. I remember that some were easy to tell because they rehashed popular urban legends or even the plots of old Twilight Zone episodes.
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David 1 year ago
" The show’s producer wouldn’t discover this very important detail until it was far too late." I SEROIUSLY doubt that last sentence. It seems much more likely they were not interested in that detail because it made the whole story very mundane. "Big brother taken by closet monster" has more ratings appeal than, "Surly teen runs away to his friend's house for two weeks".
Toni Ahlgren 1 year ago
This is such an incoherent wall of text, I couldn't comprehend any of it.
#19
Charlie Brandt. He & his wife stayed at her nieces house in Orlando, Florida, because of Hurricane Ivan.
3 days later, Charlie is found hanging in the garage, his wife stabbed to death and the niece had been decapitated & her heart removed.
Very freaky story, with lots of twists. Turns out Charlie had murdered his 8 month pregnant Mom & attempted to kill his Dad & sister as a child .
Dr's could not figure wtf was wrong with him, or how to even label it- I believe he was 12 at the time. He served no jail time & his records were sealed.
Another twist! He grew up to become a serial killer too. Married and lived a semi normal life with his wife - or so everyone thought. While apparently obsessing over his wife's niece.
Think 48 hours did an episode & it can be found on Youtube.
*raspberry sound 1 year ago
What? Who was 12, the man who killed his wife? There's no continuity
Pheebs 1 year ago
What it amounted to is Charles killed everyone, including himself, but at different ages. Someone screwed up royally by letting a psycho little kid go with sealed records, leading to more murders later.
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Ineke Pronk 1 year ago
When Charlie was 12 he killed his mother and tried to kill his father and sister. Doctors could not give an explanation to why Charlie would have done such a thing (no mental illness they could find) and because he was a minor his records were sealed. When he grew up he became a serial killer who ended up killing his wife and niece before hanging himself. Or that is at least what I get from this post. And that if you want to kill people and get away with it, just be a minor.
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Sophia Athene 1 year ago
When apostrophes become essential. Nieces? Nieces'? Niece's? Name, more than one niece, one niece?
Jennifer Marquis 3 weeks ago
“Carl Eric "Charlie" Brandt (February 23, 1957 – September 13, 2004) was an American serial killer who m******d at least four women: his mother in Indiana and a homeless woman, his wife, and his niece in Florida. Growing up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Brandt shot his parents in their family home on the night of January 3, 1971, when he was 13, k*****g his pregnant mother and wounding his father. He spent one year at a psychiatric hospital before being released and was never criminally charged. On September 13, 2004, Brandt stabbed his wife and niece to death and then hanged himself in his niece's garage in Maitland, Florida.“
#20
Walking rocks of Death Valley. Intriguing, with a great explanation and no ETs involved.
Biytemii 1 year ago
Just to further on this the rocks end up sliding from the tiniest bit of wind when the conditions are right and there's a thin layer if ice on the ground and rock . This was proven at some point I remember watching a show about it.
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The rocks clearly moved, leaving tracks in the dirt, but no one ever saw them move. Science discovered how.
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Susan Reid Smith 1 year ago
Please don't go to see if without a 4 wheel drive vehicle. It is a long way off pavement on a rough road.
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
And be very careful about what time of year you go. July/August would NOT be a good bet, what with heat. When the LOW temp is above 90F (32C), which is usual in summer there, probably not a good idea unless you're really good at handling extreme heat.
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#21
I saw this story on TV, probably on Forensic Files. It was a case of double murder, I believe, with the wife dead and the husband severely beaten. At some point hours later the husband wakes up, but he's all beaten, and may have had massive head trauma. Anyway, his body is on autopilot so he gets up and goes to get the paper off the lawn, brings it back inside, then dies. It's so disturbing to me.
shankShaw deReemer 1 year ago
The mother survived and supported the son throughout his trial and after, even though he had planned the entire murders. It disfigured her face and did some major damage to her. It's a really sad, disturbing case.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Yes, the person who beat him damaged part of his brain, so his 'automatic' functions still worked. Poor guy. (It *was* Forensic Files BTW.)
#22
This isn't creepy but very interesting. A writer went missing while driving from point A to point B. It became a cold case after nearly a year with absolutely no clues. An amateur detective decided to retrace the route and found the car & driver in an aqua-duct.
Crawford said that when he read about Devore's disappearance, it struck him as remarkably similar to the story of an Orange County woman who vanished on a trip to Montana some years ago and was later found to have crashed into the California Aqueduct.
"Devore had stopped for gas in Fenner, Calif., about 10:15 p.m. on June 27, 1997, and spoke with his wife by cellular telephone outside of Barstow about 1:15 a.m. the next morning.
"From this, I deduced that he was traveling in the direction of home, and he had traveled approximately 110 miles since refueling," Crawford said in the e-mail, which was forwarded to investigators with the Santa Barbara County and Los Angeles County sheriff's departments.
Crawford said that during his July 3 trip, he stopped at the spot where the Antelope Valley Freeway crosses the aqueduct. There, he found debris matching Devore's Ford Explorer.
In response to Crawford's message, Santa Barbara County sheriff's detectives began their search of the area Tuesday.
Inside Devore's Explorer, detectives on Wednesday found a 35-millimeter camera and a pottery vase, which they believe Devore may have purchased while staying at actress Marsha Mason's New Mexico ranch."
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
This reminds me of the film - "Big Driver" which is based on a Stephen King story in "Full Dark, No Stars" . It's a pretty graphic and horrible read if you're not prepared for it but ultimately? In the end? You're gonna be okay. That book, story has helped me a lot.
#23
Jacey Dugard. everyone expected that she had been taken and was long dead. The real story is honestly far worse than that. She’s such an incredible person.
Ineke Pronk 1 year ago
Her kidnapper was on parole, kidnapped her and sa-ed her for years. She gave birth to 2 daughters while being hidden by the kidnapped in tents/lean-to's/sheds. When she was finally rescued she sued the sate in charge of the kidnappers parole at the time. Yes I could post his name, but I believe the victims have more rights to be remembered than monsters.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
This is way too similar to "The girl in the basement" film... Which is a film based upon a real life events... Basically her father held Elisabeth Fritzl captive for around 24yrs. It gets worse so if you do look it up? Be warned.
Ravenna Morningstar 1 year ago
Not just her, but also the 3 kids he forced her to have by him. The oldest was around 20yo when they were rescued. Insane 😵
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#24
The Benjamin Kyle mystery.
"Benjaman Kyle" was the alias chosen by an American man who has severe dissociative amnesia after he was found without clothing or identification and with injuries next to a dumpster behind a fast food restaurant in Georgia in 2004. As a result of his lack of personal memories, between 2004 and 2015, neither he nor the authorities were sure of his real identity or background, despite searches that used widespread television show-based publicity and various other methods.
It was recently solved in 2015. It took 11 years but they found out his true identity.
Littlemiss 1 year ago (edited)
So we're left to Google the rest? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjaman_Kyle
Charlotte A. 1 year ago
Reading the wikipedia article his amnesia doesn't seem to be the biggest mystery of his life as there are apparently no records of his whereabouts for decades before he appeared in 2004 (after what I would assume to be a recent assault or something).
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MagicJacket 1 year ago
I suppose Glen Powell would be chosen to portray this guy if a movie were to be made.
#25
I've posted this before I think on the same question or similar,The Cleveland house of horrors,3 kidnapped girls found alive that were kidnapped after 10 years.
ROSESARERED 1 year ago
Thankyou. We, in Australia, feel the same about the _-_-_ who perpetrate the Port Arthur massacre
#26
Similar to Jaycee Dugard, is the Shawn Hornbeck story.
I remember reading details, when he was found, that while he was missing Shawn posted a message to his family through the Internet asking how long they planned to look for their son.
I think it was his dad that answered back (thinking it was just a cruel comment). "We will never stop looking.".
Charlotte A. 1 year ago
In short (and from the link Littlemiss posted): Shawn was kidnapped aged 11, and missing for 4 years. He was later found when police was searching for another kidnap victim who had disappeared only a week earlier - the same guy had kidnapped them both (and they were both found alive).
Littlemiss 1 year ago (edited)
So another mystery with no info.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Hornbeck_Foundation#:~:text=Hornbeck%20was%20eleven%20years%20old,Devlin.
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Toni Ahlgren 1 year ago
At entry #25 we are reaching the bottom of the barrel, no need to read any further.
#27
I believe they worked out that Amelia Earhart had crashed somewhere but survived for a good while. Rescue never came.... THAT is nasty. Dying alone and helpless waiting for help that never arrives.
Display name here 1 year ago
No. This is just one of several theories. None of them have been proven.
Mgtow Smurf 1 year ago
Hardly anybody ever mentions her co-pilot and navigator Fred Noonan who also went missing,
Upstaged75 1 year ago
I've heard that theory - that she was injured and eaten by the giant spider crabs there. Not sure I believe it, but it's an interesting story.
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Cindy Brick 1 year ago
I still think that Amelia and her navigator Fred were captured, imprisoned and eventually executed by the Japanese. More evidence about that.
RosenCranzLives 1 year ago
Not necessarily alone. I'd assume Fred Noonan had just as much a chance to survive as she did. Assuming anyone did.
Ineke Pronk 1 year ago
If I remember the documentary about it, they found her and her co-pilots bones decently fast But they decided that they could not be hers and kept looking for her. Only to find out many years later that the bones they found where most likely their bones.
#28
Ted f*****g Bundy.
go watch the Ted Bundy movie.... holy s**t.. this guy was something else... and women loved him.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Which movie? There's The Stranger Beside Me, the one with Michael Reilly Burke, the one with Mark Harmon, the one with Corin Nemec and the one with the guy from High School Musical.
Jane Hower 1 year ago
A few gals didn't fall for his 'broken arm/help me with my bike' scam and knew something was wrong that he'd ask a girl to help when men were around. Smart gals - they are alive today. ALWAYS TRUST YOUR GUT!!!
El Dee 1 year ago
We know what he is and therefore perceive him as ugly. This is the same as with Moors Murdered Myra Hindley. But not knowing anything except how personable and charming he was, like the victims did, he managed to engender trust and even have some think that he was handsome..
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The Case of the Vanishing Blonde.
After a woman living in a hotel in Florida was raped, viciously beaten, and left for dead near the Everglades in 2005, the police investigation quickly went cold. But when the victim sued the Airport Regency, the hotel’s private detective, Ken Brennan, became obsessed with the case: how had the 21-year-old blonde disappeared from her room, unseen by security cameras? The author follows Brennan’s trail as the P.I. worked a chilling hunch that would lead him to other states, other crimes, and a man nobody else suspected.".
Xenia Harley 1 year ago
I reread that three times and couldn't make heads or tails of it! Huh?
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Winnie the Moo 1 year ago
I looked it up: a PI eventually cracked the case by going over the hotels camera footage again and again. Turns out a man stuffed her in a big suitcase, rolled her out of the hotel and dumped her body in Miami. Then returned casually to the hotel as if nothing happened. Because of this casualness the PI suggested this man had done this before. After hunting the man down they linked his DNA to the sperm found in the blonde lady’s body. But also they ran his DNA through CODIS and found out he was responsible for three more attempts of murder and rape. He got 28 years to life.
Christopher Walkies 1 year ago
Blonde Woman. If you must. Not just 'the 21 year old blonde'. For crying out loud....Imagine it was a blonde young man and they just called him 'a blonde'.
Matt Richardson 1 year ago
Just in case someone missed it, here's a copy paste of the TL,DR from the same thread "TL;DR Big black guy wearing glasses followed her into the hotel lift. He knocked her out and stuffed her into his suitcase and nonchalantly walked out of the hotel with her in it. Did the deed and left her in some weeds. He was linked to 3 other rapes and is serving 24yrs to life. She also was awarded $300k USD."
Dawnieangel76 1 year ago
How did the dead woman sue the Airport Regency? I'm assuming the victim's FAMILY?
Rebecca McManus 1 year ago
This is just the blurb from the start of the vanity fair article, I'm calling this one out as not human generated
Milady Blue 1 year ago
So, the person was SA, murdered, and left in the Everglades, and sued the hotel? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!!
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
I understood “left for dead” as she survived but the råpist intended her to die
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Dana Andrews II 1 year ago
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2010/12/the-case-of-the-vanishing-blonde
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Whoopdeedoo 1 year ago (edited)
I... um...think I'm going to be done with internet for now..... Edit: also why are so many of them unfinished?
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
It's almost midnight here... Why the heck do I read these things just before bedtime? 😭😭😭
Whoopdeedoo 1 year ago (edited)
I... um...think I'm going to be done with internet for now..... Edit: also why are so many of them unfinished?
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
It's almost midnight here... Why the heck do I read these things just before bedtime? 😭😭😭
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