There’s nothing better than spending 6 hours binging a riveting true crime documentary that’s full of twists and turns. Truth really is stranger than fiction! But as satisfying as it is to find out that the estranged father did it all along or that the man’s jilted ex actually was innocent, sometimes, we don’t get all the answers. And that can make a story even more fascinating…
Redditors have recently been discussing some of the most famous and puzzling unsolved mysteries of all time, so we’ve compiled a list of the most intriguing cases below. Enjoy reading through and theorizing about what you think actually happened, and be sure to upvote the stories you’d love to see solved!
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There is a ‘mystery’ that nobody thinks is a mystery. But personally I’m suspicious. There are a lot of missing Native American teenage boys in the area around Yakima Washington. Some of them where high risk but not all of them. At the start of the pandemic boys started going missing at like a 20% higher rate and then it calmed down after the pandemic. Some as young as 12 to as old as 23. The police don’t properly investigate. Just right them off as at risk teens that ran away. As of now they are not considered connected and there are more but you have to dig through Yakima county missing persons. I don’t know, I feel like so many serial killers get away with it because they target Native Americans (look at the center for missing and murdered indigenous women) and police in rural areas are often racist pieces of s**t. I think one day we are going to uncover what’s happening to these boys.
Yeah they don’t properly investigate cases related to indigenous people and it drives me crazy. So many missing people
I'm not sure who the "they" is you're referring to, but neither local nor state police have legal jurisdiction on Native reservations. Tribal law prevails, and if the tribal cops aren't investigating the deaths of their own, that's a whole different thing than US police not investigating.
Load More Replies...This happens in Canada as well. See Robert Pickton. I'm honestly not ashamed to say that I literally laughed out loud when another inmate stabbed him in the neck with a sharpened toothbrush before shoving a broken broom handle so far up his nose that it more or less turned his frontal cortex into scrambled eggs. That bastard was just about to get the right to day parole. Every cop who was on that case for years basically knew what was going on and decided it wasn't worth pursuing, and should be in jail today themselves. (TLDR, the guy fed at least 49 mostly indigenous sex workers to his pigs, as well as to unwitting attendees of the raves he and his brother threw on their family farm. The police in the area had so much evidence this was going on while turning a blind eye that they were effectively complicit in mass murder)
Ever seen the movie Wind River on Netflix? It stems from this issue of missing indigenous people
It’s nothing wildly infamous, but when I got my cat, I bought him a catnip cookie toy. He’d play with that thing for hours at a time. One day, it disappeared. We’ve rearranged the rooms multiple times since then and it’s nowhere to be found.
I know, it’s probably not what you’re looking for, but it’s the biggest unsolved mystery I know.
Nice to have a lighthearted one among all these grim other ones. It’s a nice break
it was the cat, didn't wanna say they didn't like the gift..
Load More Replies...This has happened in our our house and then one day one of the cats will just strut out with the missing toy hanging out of their mouth with a smug look that only a cat can pull off that lets you know that they knew where it was the whole time and were just enjoying watching the staff look for it.
Of course. It's part of your job to entertain us.
Load More Replies...Our cat lost a tiny silver ball about 6 years ago now. It was her favorite toy so we tore the house apart looking for it. When she passed in 2022, my parents naturally cleaned her stuff out of the house and garage and we still assumed that ball was lost forever. A couple months ago, my dad took me out for lunch and he got choked up because he walked into the garage, and the ball was laying in the middle of the floor. Keep in mind, they have no other pets and there are no children around.
Every time I read something like this, those darn onion ninjas sneak in the room and attack me.
Load More Replies...For me, it's ping pong balls. My kitty loves them, but they literally disappear. I find one occasionally behind the frig or under the bed, but there are 7 of them unaccounted for.
One of my cats had a dozen ping pong balls. I numbered them. They would disappear and then another day I would see her patting a piece of furniture & looking at me - sure enough there would be a ball under there...
Load More Replies...Did you look under the washing machine? Moved mine for plumbing reasones, and found a huge stash of missing cat toys.
down the side of the refrigerator or behind it for some reason
Load More Replies...This happened to me too. That one catnip toy. It's been more than a year. The furniture has been rearranged thrice. Never found it.
How did reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, who was investigating the Kennedy assassination and had interviewed Jack Ruby, end up dead hours after appearing fine on the What’s My Line tv show? She was found sitting up in bed at home, in a room she didn’t normally sleep in, with her makeup still on and her Kennedy case file missing. It was never found and her death was never properly investigated.
Well I can imagine it had something to do with Kennedy’s assassination…
Well, thank God we know for certain that the FBI/CIA/SS would never let a lone gunman shoot someone they were protecting in the head from high ground overlooking a rally from a few hundred feet away. Clearly, anyone who finds anything suspicious about something like that must be a conspiracy-mongering nutjob!
Load More Replies...These are the conspiracies I can understand believing. These days we have "Jewish space lasers" and "5G chips in vaccines" and I wanted to scream...
She is one of a few people who disappeared after Kennedy's assassination who were investigating it or connected to it.
Probably for the same reason Marilyn Monroe died under odd circumstances.
I read that this case was solved. She died from a d**g overdose.
That entire thing is a maddening enigma wrapped in a mystery and coated in a conundrum. All conveniently packaged in a nice layer of red tape and redacted documents.
I loved her. I def believe she was kilt - see what I did there BP censors?
Wikipedia says this is disinfo. She died accidentally from a combination of booze and barbituates. There was no missing file.
I grew up in a very small town. 4 people lived there named Reggie, and all of them mysteriously disappeared within 2 years. Never solved, not even a clue. Never heard from any of them again.
9 years go by, someone named Reggie moves to the town. Within 30 days, they disappear, never heard from again. That was 18 years ago, still no one knows what happened.
I need to know where this is so I don't accidentally move there, I'm sometimes called Reggie (my name is Regina)
Reggie, you shouldn't have admitted this on the Internet. Check in with us every few days, will you? ;-)
Load More Replies...most likely a witness protection program. Reggie is just a name assigned to that location.
That seems like an irresponsible way to name people in a witness protection program lol, I would think just giving them a random name not connected to anything would be safer.
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The Setagaya family murder, in which the Miyazawa family were murdered in their home in December 2000. The killer was confident, having left fingerprints and DNA evidence, as well as the clothes he was wearing, in the house. Sand was analyzed from the scene, and had sand from Edward's Air Force Base in California. Not only that, only 120 sweaters of the kind the killer was wearing were sold. Somehow, still not solved.
No cameras and cash sale would leave them with nothing. That idea that sales staff remember who they sell stuff to is rubbish. They forget you just as I am sure 80% of the time we forget them.
I'm currently working as a conductor on a train, even if I only sell two tickets during an hour I'm very likely to have forgotten about whoever bought them.
Load More Replies...Bottom line it takes a copshop with the incentive and funding to do a cold case investigation. Not everyone does that. it might entail a person in the CODIS system, but also might mean checking the non-CODIS DNA in various state databases. Or the cost of finding a relative. It also depends on surviving family and friends lighting a fire under the police, too. There is no real standard procedure. Also, DNA isnt' the be all end all in every case. In 2000 you could find a great deal of the people who bought that sweater. it would be old fashioned police work.
DNA isn't of much help if the persons DNA isn't already on file and they don't have any suspects to test.
That's kind of like the Lindsay Busiak case here in Canada. There was witnesses who saw a woman in a unique colored dress.
Amber Hagerman. She was about my same age and was killed in the city where I grew up. The AMBER alert system in the US was named in her honor and has helped safely recover many abducted children. However, Amber's murderer was never found and the tip hotline for her case remains open. Source.
I'm not American and had no idea it was called after her. I always assumed it was amber for the colour and other colours are for other things like a "green alert" was natural disaster, "red alert" was fire etc
AMBER Alerts, which stands for "America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response.
I cry everytime i come across articles about this poor little bugger, heartbreaking 2 know her killer still aint been found, R.I.P babygirl
*Code Adam* is a child safety program that helps businesses, parks, and government buildings respond to missing children. The program is activated when a child is reported missing before law enforcement arrives. It's named after Adam Walsh, who was abducted from a Florida department store in 1981 at the age of six and later found murdered.
There is a really good documentary on this out there! I believe it's on peacock but not 100% sure!
Documentary about her https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/movies/amber-the-girl-behind-the-alert/ae3a0a68-260b-3cac-925e-a762722a085f
We have 'amber alerts', but they are normally weather based, and have no relationship to child abduction. The lowest level of alert broadcast is the 'yellow alert' (very likely to happen). 'Amber' means it virtually guaranteed it will happen, and 'red' means there's a serious risk of loss of life.
The guy who killed a japanese family, stayed hours inside the house with the corpses using their computer and eating their food. he even took a s**t and didn't flush the toilet. he left so much dna in the house and the police haven't found him.
(english isn't my first language so excuse any mistakes).
I don't think peeps that know more than one language, need to apologise if they do get a word wrong. No errors here, BTW. 😎
possibler duplicate to the post about "Setagaya family murder, in which the Miyazawa family was murdered
It's the exact same case. The wiki entry for the "Setagaya family murder" mentions traces of specific foods (string beans and sesame seeds) found in the feces that the murderer left in the home.
Load More Replies...There was something similar in germany or at least in europe: somebody killed a whole family but return to the crime scene for over two weeks every day to milk the cows so nobody get suspicious (cows get nervous and moo if they aren't milked regulary as I was told with this story).
But DNA is pointless unless it's already on file or they arrest someone to compare it with. Just having DNA doesn't suddenly mean you know who it is.
It's not "pointless" even if the perpetrator isn't "on file". A partial match might be made if a relative of the perpetrator's DNA is on file. Or the perpetrator may commit another minor crime that they are arrested for and then the DNA will be retroactively matched to the previously "unknown" DNA from the original case. Saying "DNA is pointless" is absolutely not true. Does it automatically point a finger at the criminal? No. But "pointless"? Not in the slightest. I'm sure if you ask the Miyazawa family's relatives, they'd tell you they would find closure and some peace if the murderer was arrested for ,say, shoplifting tomorrow, and his DNA collected and retroactively matched to the murders 24 years ago. How is THAT "pointless"?
Load More Replies...Look into the Golden State Killer and how they caught him. Forensic genetic genealogy. Several cold cases have been closed through this process.
Load More Replies...You would think they would reopen the case, with today’s technology there is a possibility of solving this tragic story.
This is listed twice, once here and once as The Setagaya family murder.
Brandon Swanson - he was on the phone with his father late one night after a car accident, said “Oh s**t!” and was never heard from again.
Frequently the last words on the cockpit voice recorder.
Load More Replies...There's a lot missing from the description given here. Swanson crashed his car into a ditch while driving drunk, was so drunk and disoriented he didn't know where he was even though he was in a familiar area, and believed some lights in the distance was a particular town. He asked his parents to meet him there, and both his parents stayed on the phone with him for 42 minutes while he attempted to walk across farmland to get to those lights. After 42 minutes of walking he said "oh s**t" and the line when silent (NOT DEAD) - the line was silent for several minutes and his parents decided to hang up, so they could call him back, hoping he'd see the ringing phone light up. It's almost impossible to be foul play because his parents would have heard something in those minutes of silence. He certainly tripped and fell ( into a river, mineshaft, etc.) and his body was just never found and decomposed.
Yeah. I know this one. It's commonly believed Brandon fell in to a well head or cess pit after climbing over fencing while trying to cross farmland. Local property owners wouldn't allow seach and rescue dogs or thorough searches of their properties for fear dogs would injure or spook their cattle; but it's believed it was due to fear of liability and being sued.
Load More Replies...makes me think of that secret graveyard they found behind an Alabama prison which contained the bodies of people the local police had killed/ hit with their cruisers. It solved a few missing persons cases after it was dug up.
He was drunk. It was dark. He didn't know where he was. Pretty sure he fell in the river and drowned - they just never found the body. Very sad.
They did find the car… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Brandon_Swanson
Load More Replies...My neighbor was beaten to death but he never admitted he was beaten while fighting for his life in the hospital. Even the nurse said it was obvious it wasn't just a fall. The police never started a case. That neighbor was very elderly and a sweetheart. He was murdered and the murderer is still there living free. Nobody cares and I'm disappointed in everyone involved. .
Probably a family member. He wanted to protect them that's why he never said he was beaten.
I agree. Probably a very close one, with an addiction, came to his home looking for money. There have been several cases. An addict that needs the next dose doesn't care who they have to kill to get it.
Load More Replies...Can you bring light to it? Without putting yourself in danger. Maybe anonymous posts. What a terrible crime
Jack the Ripper's identity. Victorian London's most famous killer. Inspires countless stories and fascination. Women brutally murdered. Lots of apparent evidence. And despite all this.....noone can say for sure or even largely agree who he is! I work near Whirechapel too.....crazy the history there.
George Chapman, in my opinion. He fits best. Also, when he went to New York, the murders in London ended. Murders of street women in New York went up.
My favorite conspiracy theory is the fact Gandhi was a law student in London at the same time
Of course. As several thousand other people. Where's the evidence? "He was there"?
Load More Replies...I read somewhere they thought it may be someone from the royal family.....
There was more than likely one murderer. The "first" letter that was printed was actually made up. See the first chapter in "Murder in Plain English: From Manifestos to Memes - Looking at Murder through the Words of Killers by Michael Arntfield and Marcel Danesi
I'm still confused about whether Mr Hengist was possessed or did the alien take his form...
Load More Replies...The lead singer for Ghost has a pretty convincing theory about the suspect's identity.
I'll always go with the theory from Amazon Women On the Moon....it was Nessie
Zodiac killer, mfer went around in a costume and wrote letters taunting the police and all sorts and they still aren’t sure for certain who dunnit.
Apparently the FBI had a lead suspect for a long time, connected through partial DNA match, weapon possession, match with composite portrait and even multiple confessions to relatives and friends who testified to investigators but the lead was not followed. After a whistleblower contacted a group of "internet detectives" about the evidence laying dormant, the case was brought to media attention and reopened in 2023. The suspect -who died in 2018 not before dispersing his conspicuous gun and assorted weapons collection- is named Gary Francis Poste, a former army technician involved in multiple suspicious deaths (a car crash and the homicide of his wife in a domestic violence incident).
Note that the partial DNA match was only a result of modern re-examination of the case. DNA testing did not exist back in the 1960s.
Load More Replies...It's Ted Cruz. He's the Zodiac Killer. Note he spells his last name with a Z and not Cruise like most people do. Z as in Zodiac. Also, you never see pictures of him and the Zodiac Killer in the same room together. Ergo -- he's the Killer.
It's DB Cooper, not JB, and it's not a sketch of him, like LakotaWolf pointed out, it's the Zodiac. Quick google search will show that also.
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The disappearance of the five Sodder children. Five of the family’s ten children vanished in a house fire on Christmas Eve, 1945. Their parents and siblings escaped, but no remains of the other five children were ever found. The fire did not burn that long or that hot; remains should have easily been found of at least some of the five children. The fire itself seemed suspicious, and the family believed the children were kidnapped.
Years later there was also a photo sent to the parents which looked like it could have been one of the children. They never gave up hope.
I think the picture above is the one sent years later.
Load More Replies...Also, their phone line had been cut, the fire engines didn’t bother to come until the next day, the father was being ostracised by the local Italian community as he’d never joined them in supporting Mussolini . There were lots of suspicious thinks in the lead up and during the fire. And afterwards.
I listened to a very good - albeit very sad - podcast about this a few years ago. One of the likely explanations is that they did die in the fire, and the fact that the pit where the house had been was backfilled so quickly was why they never found any remains. Essentially, it was filled in before the soil and rubble properly had time to cool, which meant it kept smouldering underground for some time, long enough and hot enough to burn away any remains before it was re-excavated in an attempt to locate remains.
And I think I remember the truck with the ladder couldn’t be started as it had been disconnected from the battery?
They DID find human remains that were shown to come from a child, the family were just in complete denial. The collapsed house was never properly searched. It's very very obvious that the kids all died in the fire and the family are just deeply in denial. All the stuff about Mussolini is just nonsense if you know anything about history or the political situation at the time.
The fireman suspiciously took six hours to get to the house. Years later the father, alone, had gone to meet two men on a farm in Georgia who looked like his kids but they refused to listen. He died believing they were his kids. I believe that sadly the last child died in 2021 with her six grandchildren to take over looking for them
I used to think they were abducted for the longest time since there was no remains of the children found. Then someone enlightened me that they had a coal burning fire in the house and coal burns at a significantly higher temperature that wood or gas and could easily have eradicated all remains of the children to dust. I no longer believe that they were kidnapped and that they did die in the house fire after all.
This has always been weird to me. Someone (I believe it was one of the children) set fire to the house to escape. And took just a couple kids with them.
Some salesman appeared on their porch before the fire. He got angry with the father and said to him that he and his family would pay for the slander he spoke about Mousseline and his house was going to go up in flames.
The Missy Bevers murder should have been solved a long time ago. Tons of video footage of the killer and their car, iirc.
ZeldaHylia: I can’t believe it hasn’t been solved. The killer is on video. I was always confused by why they said the killer looked female by the way they walked. Such a weird story. It had to be someone who knew her. You’d think someone in her life would recognize the person in the video.
The video of the person wandering around the church before she got there is chilling.
It really makes you wonder how the killer was able to get police gear. Could it possibly have been a police officer that murdered Missy? Is the police department covering it up for one of their own?
Covering up a couple downvotes from someone who thinks police can do no wrong
Load More Replies...I've always thought the killer was a total stranger, a wannabe militia who was practicing clearing a building chosen at random, and being all hyped up, acted out his violent military fantasy when he suddenly came across a person. There's no personal connection between killer and victim, no connection between killer and location. He might have come a great distance as well, so nobody in the local area would recognize him.
I think it looks less like a female gait and more like someone trying to counter balance a weight. Like they were wearing heavy padding or weren't used to the weight/shape of the uniform. If you strap a weight to someone they'll put their hips forward and feet out to offset it and center their weight.
Load More Replies..."In 2021, the FBI asked Dr. Michael Nirenberg, a forensic podiatrist, to study the suspect's gait. Nirenberg stated that the person's gait is affected by the weight of the gear and weapons, and that there is no relationship between gait and gender. He concluded that the suspect's gender cannot be determined solely from their gait."
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When I was a kid, over the course of like 10 years, a bunch of severed feet washed up upon the shores of Vancouver Island.
It was almost always one foot, in a shoe, like 3-5 years apart.
Super odd
Edit: since Aug 2007, 20 different feet have been recovered in the Salish sea region alone.
This is seen in a lot of places actually, usually near bridges and almost always in running and sport shoes. The most common theory is that they’re suicide victims who have jumped from bridges and as their bodies decompose their feet are protected by the shoes.
And eventually, the foot disconnects from the ankle and then the rubber soles act like flotation devices bringing the feet to the surface.
Load More Replies...No, nothing weird about it. If a body goes into the water, it gets eaten extremely quickly, and any remains decompose. Modern sneakers are made of synthetic materials that don't decompose and protect the foot from being eaten. A shark isn't going to swallow a Nike! Notice none of these feet are ever in leather or canvas shoes, only ever in synthetic sneakers? That's because all the bodies that go into the water wearing leather or canvas shoes, the shoes decompose and so the feet are unprotected and decompose or get eaten with the rest of the body. If you fall into the ocean and drown while wearing Nikes, then your feet will probably end up being "preserved" while the rest of your body is eaten/decomposes. No mystery just basic science.
And feet in synthetic sneakers wash up all over the world, not specific to Vancouver Island.
Load More Replies...I thought this had to do with temperature and decomposing? Something about the water being too cold to make the corpses bloat and float to the surface but as fishes eat parts break off and the shoes are enough to make the foot float.
Most of the feet have been identified. There's no big mystery. Most came from people who jumped from bridges or cliffs, and at least one came from the victim of a float plane crash.
I think they have matched most of the parts. The wilderness of BC is rugged so people either committed suicide or got lost and couldn't find their way back and just died Like especially on the rough waters.
Are there more right feet than left, or is it a balance you think?
A bit off the cuff, but the Cocolitzli epidemics. This illness broke in Central America after Europeans made contact in the 16th century....and it destroyed entire villages; one epidemic killed 10-12 million people, even more than smallpox in the area. Absolute desolation.
No one knows what illness it was. Was it a hantavirus? Smallpox? Salmonella? Viral hemorrhagic fever? Why did it always appear after a drought? Where did it go? We will probably never know.
My favorite podcast, *This Podcast Will Kill You*, did an episode on Cocolitzli, going into detail about Contact and colonization and how & why there isn't much historical record on this.
For those who don't like to sleep at night
Latest studies basically confirm it was two different agents. First, Salmonella enterica; the bacteria DNA was found in the teeth of 31 skeletons throug MALT (metagenomic analysis), and it is known to cause paratyphoid fever, an illness that still kills about 30k people each year in places that have limited access to vaccine or antibiotics, or have abysmal health standards. It raged in the central american populations in 1545 in an higly viral form. Second, a proto-form of the smallpox virus (VARV). It is suspected to be one of many variants (among them, the common measles and smallpox) of the RPV, the bovine pest, that was endemic in Asia and Europe at the time. That specific strain does not exist anymore and has since been replaced by the form that evolved two centuries ago and spread worldwide before being eradicated by vaccines, but at the time for an unprotected population living in close quarters with debatable hygiene it spread quickly, sweeping through 1520s Mexico.
You're always so informative on list like these. Thanks a bunch for saving the rest of us time.
Load More Replies...Wow for someone who thought they knew I have never heard of this. Wow. Deep dive!!
The Black Dahlia
It just seems so suspicious to me. It’s not everyday that a body just shows up cut in half, but there’s no blood in sight. If you read the page about the case from the FBI, something just doesn’t seem right.
That’s terrifying, especially knowing the condition of the corpse…(don’t try to look up any pictures of it if you don’t want nightmares, please please trust me on this…look up a description if you want to satisfy your curiosity)
Hadn't heard of this one so checked the wiki page, and I simultaneously have no words and SO many words about the press' behavior. "Immediately following Short's identification, reporters from William Randolph Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner contacted her mother, Phoebe Short, in Boston, and told her that her daughter had won a beauty contest.[53][36] It was only after prying as much personal information as they could from Phoebe that the reporters revealed that her daughter had in fact been murdered.[36] The Examiner also offered to pay Phoebe's airfare and accommodations if she would travel to Los Angeles to help with the police investigation; that was yet another ploy since the newspaper kept her away from police and other reporters to protect its scoop."
Load More Replies...There’s a guy who thinks his father, who was a doctor to Hollywood stars may be the murderer. Just need to remember his name…
That guy is insane, though. He's accused his dad of being just about every famous unsolved serial killer in history.
Load More Replies...I remember when I first read about the case they were saying she was transgender. Haven't heard anybody ever mention it again.
In MA there was a young girl named Molly Bish that disappeared from her post as a lifeguard. Her body was found 3 years later. 24 years later and her killer has never been found.
They do have a strong suspect, although he died in 2016. His name is Frank Sumner, Jr., a convicted rapist.
A young woman if she was old enough to be a lifeguard. Not a young girl
She was a teenager who had just started working as a lifeguard, at the pond she disappeared from, just 3 days prior.
Load More Replies...Imagine being so devoid of sympathy and empathy that you make a 12-year-old's "tee hee" joke about a murdered child's last name?
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Bible John. It's insane that everyone who knew him covered for him. That's the only way he could've remained undetected.
For people who don't know, Bible John was a serial killer in 60s Scotland who had an extremely unique appearance, and it's pretty insane he was never caught.
Most killers do, and lead two different lives. But then you might be surprised to know that everyone rates somewhere on the psychopathic chart. Everyone. It doesn’t mean you are (at least I hope not *L*)
Load More Replies...The police have long suspected that he was Peter Tobin. The murders stopped when he moved.
If you looked it up and read the whole report, Bible John sounds like a lazy invention of the Scotish police who didn't seem to do anything whatsoever.
The Dyatlov Pass Incident.
Im aware of the new theory that recently has been presented, as a slab avalanche. But there are still questions that I don’t know.
Why was there high levels of radiation on the Hikers?
Why did they not die from impact from the slab avalanche? Most victims of such an avalanche are typically killed. Instead they cut the tent from the inside, and ran away. Also, wouldnt a slab avalanche push the tent? They are characterized by hard blocky material (had to google this)
I don’t fully accept the idea, but I’m open to having my mind changed.
The radiation has been explained. The victims lived downwind of the radioactive plume released by the Mayak plutonium plant explosion, two years before. One of them was involved in the cleanup efforts. Others lived in towns that sourced water from the Techa river, that in a spectacularly Russian fashion was used both to dump radioactive material and as a drinking water source.
Also, the leading theory is that they were not directly hit by the avalanche. Their camp was, initially lightly. They took the hint and run away by cutting the tent to escape. Found refuge nearby, started a fire and built a makeshift refuge out of snow, ice and debris. The hut collapsed and injured the hikers, leaving them to die from exposure and their corpses to be partially eaten by wild animals.
I've read a lot into this, and, being obsessed with them, my theory is a dragon attack. I know that the chances of that are very, very low, but let me explain. Some theories claim that it could have been Bigfoot, though the only footprints found were from the people running. What flies and has no reason to land and make footprints? Some of the bodies were found in a tree and had been scorched to a crisp. Theories say that it was due to a fire they had burning outside of their tent. But why would they burn themselves to a crisp and then be found in a tree later? And what (most likely) breathes fire and can put things in trees? Some of the bodies were found very far away from the tent and had suffered blunt force trauma. What can fly very far away and drop things from a great height? A dragon. Anyway, that's my theory. Most likely, none of it is true, but it can't hurt to have more theories.
As I understand it, they were predated by a herd of man-eating jackalopes. Their fangs are notoriously sharp, their antlers like spears. Their countenance is typically mistaken for innocent rabbits, until it is far too late. If only our dear campers possessed the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch... this disaster might have been averted.
Load More Replies...Wrong on the avalanche thing, the 'hard blocky material' is what you get once it's settled. The 'Slab' refers to the site where it starts and the surface of the snow at that point, but as it moves down a mountainside it will be break up and be just as likely to form a powder cloud as any other type.
The slab theory - or at least the (scientific) article I read about - also suggests it was highly localized, as a result of destabilizing the snowpack when they cut into it at right angles (level ground and then a straight vertical cut) to pitch the tent. The mountain has an average slope of 26 degrees, which the authors pointed out is not typical for avalanche conditions, but that there are localized areas with a much higher slope, so an avalanche then becomes more possible/likely.
Load More Replies...I just listened to a podcast on this!!! The guy thought they were inadvertently camping in an area where the societ government was testing bombs. Basically bombs started going off and made them run out of their tent. Then they died (or got very close to dying) of exposure and another bomb close by caused the internal injuries that were found. The podcast guy thinks this because the military took an extraordinary high level of interest in the case. Plus just the fact they tested for radiation. Why test a bunch of dead hikers for radiation in the first place, unless you expect to find it. This also sounds like something the Soviet government would do, then try to cover up.
My info came from reading Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Its almost a totally different version of what happened.
JonBenét Ramsey
12345_PIZZA: The ransom note, to me, makes it so the only suspects are family members. That thing is just so long, so filled with movie like details, and so specific with John’s bonus. Plus it looks like Patsy’s handwriting.
Even so, I can’t think of any theory that makes total sense. If Burke did it on accident, why’d they send him to the neighbors since he could’ve let something slip? If John did it, would Patsy really help him cover it up? And if Patsy did it, how’d John seem to know right where the body was?
I’m quite convinced by the theory that the brother did it, especially as it was known he had a very violent side to him.
What doesn't add up for me is that she was sexually assaulted the night she died, and the substantial vagina damage in the full autopsy report (not the original redacted autopsy report) was universally agreed by a large number of experts to have been caused by repeated sexual abuse. Giving the sexual assault the night of the murder, if seems likely that whoever was regularly raping her, was also the person who killed her. That would seem to rule out a pre-pubescent child.
Load More Replies...I had to watch/read a good bit of material on this in my Deviant Behavior and Criminal Psychology classes. I firmly believe the brother did it and the parents covered for him.
I don't get the whole ransome note thing. When you hold someone for ransome, you kidnap them and take them away from their place of residency and demand money for their return. Then, when the ransome is paid, you let that person go. She was in the house and dead. Doesn't make sense to me. And it doesn't seem like she was accidentally killed before the person had a chance to get her away from the house as she had that thing wrapped around her neck.
"then when the ransom is paid, you let that person go" No that's the lure a ransom scheme uses to get payment. They often do NOT let the person go and never planned to- why leave a witness? And yes, ransom notes get sent after the murder takes place, as long as the people getting the ransom note doesn't KNOW they're dead you still get your money. That's why movie/tv kidnap/ransom plots often insist on "proof of life"- because too many times the ransomer is just trying to profit off a murder, maybe even one they didn't do
Load More Replies...Their son did it, they were covering for him. When the cops came they sent him to his room and told him not to come out.
Burke was a 9-year-old kid who couldn't have carried his sister down a flight of stairs (and she was carried, since she had evergreen decoration in her hair after having gone past it on the basement stairs. A 9-year-old carrying a 6-year-old? I doubt it.
Imo, and one I've held since it happened, the adults are the guilty ones and making it *seem* like the son did it was super easy. He had other issues going on in his life, yes perhaps even a violent side, but that's extremely common when mommy and daddy love one child and only one child. John, imo, was likely abusing her for an extended period of time, and that one time it went too far. Patsy covered for him, and likely knew the entire time what he was doing to her, but didn't care, because she still had her little doll. When John killed her little doll, they panicked. Making her brother the scapegoat is pretty easy, he was still young himself. There is no way in HELL he not only killed her, but also carried her around the house in a manner he would need to, at 9, it just didn't happen. Yes she was little, but she wasn't that much littler than him. I hope John and Patsy rot in hell. Even if I am wrong they were still s****y abusive people that didn't deserve to have either child.
Carlene Tengelsen. In 1972 she disappeared after stopping by Westgate Mall here in Macon, Georgia. Carlene’s mom got a phone call from her youngest daughter, who was at a day camp. She called because Carlene hadn’t picked her up. Mr. Tengelsen found the car later that night. It was parked across the street from the mall at a doughnut shop. At the time, the police didn’t take her disappearance seriously, and assumed she ran away. Years later the police department issued a formal apology and admitted they dropped the ball. When Carlene’s parents moved away a year later, they asked a neighbor if they could keep a phone with Tengelsen’s telephone number at their house in case she ever called. Carlene never called.
Carlene Tengelsen’s Disappearance 52 years later.
Reading the update made me cry. I can't imagine not knowing.
It's simply /staggering/ how many cold cases or murders were initially missing persons that were either delayed due to the 48/72 hour limit or /assuming someone just ran away./
I know someone who went missing a few years ago in Las Vegas. The police didn't take it seriously and said he just took off, which he wouldn't have because of his son. A few months later his GF and her mom said they supposedly saw him at the mall in Reno. Come to find out, his body had been found in the desert a few months after he disappeared. He had been beat, shot in the femur and left for dead. The GF and her mom made the statement after his remains were found, so they didn't see him or speak with him. There is a lot of suspicion with the GF. She didn't report him missing for a few days and didn't call his mom and tell her. His mom is still fighting to have the case reopened but the sheriff, at the time (who is now our freaking governor) won't allow the case opened.
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The escaped prisoners of Alcatraz.
Themonsterkiddo: They most likely drowned. I’ve visited Alcatraz many times and that bay is treacherous. They used a makeshift raft at nighttime. The water in the bay is extremely cold, very choppy with strong currents, and San Francisco commonly has fog from night until morning. They probably got knocked over by a wave and died of hypothermia. If it was foggy they may not have even been able to see which direction the shore was and the darkness would only add to the confusion. It’s a super cool story but they most likely died in the ocean.
Mythbusters proved that this was survivable. The FBI were REALLY focused on Angel Island, but the Mythbusters asked: why not aim for the Marin Headland, and use the current to get us there? And they did it. Plus, once escaped, it would be much easier to adopt a completely new identity, in that era.
I would love a film where the main character finds out that their grandad was one of these guys hehe
Load More Replies...Am I the only one who thinks that if a person was smart/lucky enough to escape high security prison or non-murder crime scene (like this guy who jumped off the plane and was never found), they somewhat "earned" their freedom and deserve it? I know, I'd think dofferently if it would be a person who hurt me or my family. But little rebel part of me enjoys stories of succesful escapes and hopes that they survived and lived rest of their life in peace
So it doesn't matter if the murdered someone? And are smart enough, now that they are free to murder the next one but now be smarter about it and not get caught and then get the next one. Or do some other crime. Just because they are smart enough to escape doesn't mean they turned into better persons.
Load More Replies...Actually, this mystery is solved. They have been found in some photos from Mexico. They run it through some program and found out it was really them. Thoughty2 have a very nice short documentary about that.
2 of the guys did survive, there is a photo of the both of them, looking much older, so it is them. They lived out their lives in South America somewhere.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Does-this-photo-prove-the-most-famous-Alcatraz-6568415.php
Load More Replies...I honestly believe they made it to shore at least 2 did anyway. I also believe someone was on shore helping them.
The murder of Elizabeth Barraza.
It was caught on camera and the getaway vehicle was clearly seen. The murderer was speculated as being a woman or man in a wig. Truly bizarre.
A woman or man - they really narrowed the field down with that lil nugget of deducting.
As a native of the Portland Oregon metro area, it's really sad that Kyron Horman's disappearance is still unsolved. He will be 21 this year. Disappeared at 7.
The top unsolved mystery I think about is the disappearance of the three Beaumont children who went missing from an Adelaide suburban beach (in the state of South Australia). That was in January 1966. Nothing since. There's been theories of who took them and what happened, but no definitive answer and the case is still open. Their parents were left with no children and divorced in the following years. My heart ached that they never knew what happened, and for so many years up to their deaths, at 92 (mother in 2019) and 97 (father in 2023). Another mystery, though most Australians can surmise what happened, was the Australian Prime Minister (Harold Holt) going missing after swimming in rough ocean waters in December 1967. He was officially declared dead by drowning, though conspiracy theories abound.
There was a disappearance of two girls from the Adelaide Oval during a big football game less than ten years later. One description of the man who was seen with the Beaumont children was also seen with the two girls.
Load More Replies...Terri obviously killed him and disposed of the body. Her and her friend who keeps refusing the answer questions. Terri also tried to hire a hit man to kill her husband before Kyron disappeared.
I truly believe it was Kyron's stepmother. She was absolutely unhinged.
Load More Replies...unsolved mystery for all in DFW and all of texas/lousiana/arkansas/oklahoma: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/silver-alert-canceled-for-missing-88-year-old-dallas-woman/3581450/
Yes. Poor kid. But we all know the step Monster did and knows more
I think he ran out of school (he was known for bolting, and was being investigated for autism) and died in the vast, dense forest immediately surrounding the school. The forest wasn't searched till hours after he vanished, and it's almost impossible to find a body in woods that dense and wild. I know people blame the stepmum but she physically cannot have done it, and the only reason people suspect her is the bio mum's crazy hate campaign against her, and all the lies (like the debunked claim that she tried to hire a hitman to kill her husband - police proved that was a hoax and a blackmail attempt, but people online still act like it's true).
I havent read one thing saying the claim she tried to hire a hit man was debunked, my understanding is that they just did not have enough evidence to charge her. Also the step mothers friend made the step mothers actions more suspicious when refusing to answer any questions during the lawsuit or even acknowledging that she ever meet the child or the childs father. Also the actions of the mother driving around to soothe the baby and then going to the gym to work out for a little over 30 minutes, sounds more like she was trying to establish an alibi. Please show your sources because I have never read anything in regards to what you are stating.
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Sneha Philip, the doctor who was last seen shopping at a store near her Lower Manhattan apartment the evening of Sept 10, 2001, but never returned home that night. Obviously, we all know what happened the next morning.
Her husband and family hired a private detective and fought to have a review of her case done for several years before she was officially named a 9/11 victim, even though there is no solid evidence to prove she was at or in the WTC at the time either plane struck or when the towers collapsed. BUT there's also no solid evidence to prove she WASN'T at the WTC either. It's so crazy. In a nutshell, there are about 4 or 5 theories on what happened to her and all of them are evenly plausible.
Michele Harris went missing September 11, 2001 from near Binghamton NY USA and has never been heard from or seen again. Many people think her husband used the chaos of the day to dispose of her. Possibly with the help of a good friend who owned many scrap and waste recycling yards.
There’s so much untold stories that I would really want to know what happened. Also, it sucks for the family not knowing what happened to her.
Her family thinks she went to help the injured people and ended up dying when the buildings collapsed.
Apparently quite a few people took the opportunity of 9/11 to 'disappear'.
The lost A-bomb off the coast of America, which the US government said not to worry about in the 50's and tried to cover up. Was dumped in the ocean in an aviation accident and it's still lost to this day.
100x more powerful then what was dropped in Japan.
They found it in 2001 with modern hydrographic methods. It's firmly buried below 15 feet of silt at 70 feet deep, possibly leaking radiation. There is still one other missing airplane A-bomb laying in the Philippine Sea, east of Okinawa -where a fully armed US A4 Skyhawk fell off the carrier USS Ticonderoga while maneuvering for departure- and two atomic torpedoes laying with the USS Scorpion south-west of the Azores.
This i why i never rally fully trust any BP post they make. Thanks for updating!
Load More Replies...In the water is best if they’re leaving it luckily. If you denote nuclear ordinance under the water it’s submersion changes its physics. The waters density will make the shock stronger but the water also contains and neutralizes most of it. If it denotated no one would likely be none the wiser.
Off the coast of America huh? Which of the 35 countries that make up the two continents of “America” are they referring to?
I think it's common knowledge that "America" by itself is the shorthand name for the United States of America.
Load More Replies...Brian Shaffer's disappearance. He was in a bar and afterwards disappeared. Surveillance photos never show him exiting, but a search never found him. I don't remember the in depth details though.
It reminds me of this one (restaurant?) worker who disappeared on shift and wasn’t see. Leaving on any of the cameras and then, iirc, they were found crushed and decomposed behind one of the fridges or something. Excuse the lack of clarity, just going off memory!
I thought that was a grocery store and they only uncovered the body during renovations when they were replacing the freezers. Seems like he got stuck there.
Load More Replies...Obviously this is a mystery, but the Ugly Tuna had multiple exits not covered by CCTV, and the CCTV on the main exit was poor quality. We don't know what happened to him, but it's absolutely not a mystery how he exited the bar, he could have exited unseen extremely easily.
Columbus has so many cameras. Another camera nearby should have caught him on film, even if the bar's cameras didn't.
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I was cycling home from work one day, I was 18 or 19. (This is in Ireland in the early 1980s). I thought I saw my first cousin walking along the path on the far side of the road. (He was living & working in a town about 25 miles away). So I went over to say hello.
It wasn't my cousin. It wasn't even anyone I knew. It wasn't anyone I had ever seen before. But he knew me, knew my name, knew where I was from, called me "*Mr [Loneswimmer]*".
I got utterly flustered and confused and embarassed and pretended I knew who he was and that I'd come over to say hello. So then I couldn't admit I had no idea who he was and I left after a brief exchange.
That was 40 years ago. I still have no idea who that was. I never saw him again. I could remember his face & voice for many years afterwards, I would even dream of him, but I've forgotten those now, except a vague sense.
That is quite easily explainable, I too know many young people just because I know their parents, but I guess many of these young people do not know me. Especially nowadays when people publish photos all over net it is quite easy to recognise some youngster and call him by his name. Back in the day, it was harder, but not impossible.
Especially if there is a strong family resemblance.
Load More Replies...There is an army of people out there that know me, but I wouldn't know them if I fell over them. I have a very short memory of people's names and faces and I often wonder how many people I've worked with and walked past that remember me - but I don't acknowledge them. LOL
Where Josh Powell put Susan Powell’s body.
FunnyMiss: POS family is an understatement. It was truly insane what he did to her before and after her death. The poor social worker on the phone with another POS acting like she was overreacting and not taking the appropriate fast action.
I know 911 dispatchers are heroes 99 out of 100 times. The one time he wasn’t? A poor woman doing a job very few would ever want watched her charges die at the hands of their dad. I cannot imagine the anguish I’d feel after that.
Josh Powell will go down in my book as one of the biggest POS's to ever live.
Disgusting people. Sex offender father obsessed with his son's wife. Josh killed his her but it was never proven. Then he blew up a house while he was inside with his 2 kids rather than give custody of them to his wife's family. Total trash.
Piece of s**t or point of sale, though obviously not the latter in this case.
Load More Replies...Josh & his dad both - CRAZY. Susan's parents are persistent. It seems like for years afterward that would be an annual review of the story in the local news.
The podcast COLD about this case is the only time I can remember breaking down in hysterical tears upon hearing the ending. Those poor little boys, devastating.
Sea people. An entire civilization who destroyed a couple of empires and very little is known about them. It’s still not even known if it was on specific group. There’s theories, but nothing really confirmed. Who they were, where they came from, their motivations, daily life, religion, etc. Just an entire group of people who brought down the lives of thousands, destroyed established, seasoned societies and armies, and we know very little facts about them. They are literally considered a possible huge figure in the late Bronze Age collapse and there’s just nothing known for sure. EDIT: I meant there isn’t a lot we know for sure. Lots of theories and speculation using a lot of random puzzle pieces, but not much definitive conclusions. Don’t know too much about it so I’m inspired to look more now lol.
There is no comprehensive explanation, but some historically proven facts give a very good lead on the whole story. Let's follow the facts 1) In the late bronze age populations moved from Greece to current Palestine after a string of earthquakes destroyed Thebes, Mycenae, Pylos and several other major cities. 2) A couple centuries later, as documented by archaeological findings, droughts pushed several populations to move, among them said Greeks "expats", populations from northern Africa, Lybians and Nubians and other minor ethnic groups such as Teresh (prototurkish), Pelesets and Shardans. 3) The Sea People used wear Tereshi fashion, used African iconography, had greekish military practices, wore Peleset headwear and used Shardan blades. It's like the term "Sea People" relates to a loose cultural aggregation of such populations.
Where did they live? We don't know exactly, 4) but they needed a place with easy sea access, relatively central to the Mediterranean, with ample access to woodland, agricultural and pastoral resources. What is this place? We don't know *for sure* but curiously enough 5) at the same time of the Sea People apogee the island of Sardinia experienced a population boom, a swath of constructions and the reprise of Nuragic constructions (Nuraghe are fortified defensive structures, towers or protocastles, acting as a town center and possibly as religious building) with some technical innovations and a definite increase in size and wealth. Same, but in a less remarkable way, happened in the coastal town of North Africa, and new colonies popped up in Sicily. Weird coincidence, uh?
Load More Replies...Justin Richardson. He was in my class and went missing in 2001. It was the summer before 8th grade. The story I heard back then was just he went out to a woods party with some older friends and disappeared and he might have runaway to live with a supposed girlfriend he has in Chicago. It was a small town with not many families so it wasn’t uncommon to have friends older or younger so I didn’t think too much of it. Years later I got curious and read some of the news stories and it just seemed so much worse than I originally thought. The story doesn’t make any sense, three 18-21 year olds doing meth with a 13 year old. Two get separated so Justin and the remaining guy start searching for them covering well over 10 miles just walking back to town and then back to the forest to search more. Then they search the rest of the night and when the guy comes down off the meth he passes out for like 12 hours and when he wakes up Justin is gone. The original guys are found 15 miles south along the train tracks the next day. Then the theory somehow is Justin while his friend was sleeping decided to runaway to Chicago after being on [substances] all night walking around the forest? My guess is they murdered him and hid the body somewhere out in the forest which I think now is one of the leading theories.
Ray Gricar. A journalist came close to solving it and was threatened by a very powerful man and dropped her investigation. What was he digging into and what happened.
He was the DA in Centre County, PA. There is also some speculation that his disappearance had to do with his investigation of reported child molestation by coaches at Penn State University. This was several years before the Jerry Sandusky scandal came to light.
Someone didn't want him to prosecute Sandusky. Someone who must have been involved with the scandal. Or someone they hired to clean up. Very sad. :(
His case seems so likely a result of a hit from an international organized crime syndicate for his involvement in heroin trafficking.
If you are a Long Island serial killer fan, the whole Shannon Gilbert story is pretty strange. She was found dead in a field around Gilgo Beach after running around a neighborhood naked. She called 911 and said some weird stuff like they are going to kill me but investigators think she just had a psychotic episode, ran into the marsh land and died of the cold. Her death and body helped identify there was a serial killer in Gilgo Beach. He was eventually was caught last year and is now suspected as being one of the most prolific SKs in American history.
You'd be surprised then. There are dozens of podcasts with this theme out there
Load More Replies...The yogurt shop murders in Austin, Texas back in 1991. “The 1991 Austin yogurt shop killings are an unsolved quadruple homicide which took place at an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas, United States on Friday, December 6, 1991. The victims were four teenage girls: 13-year-old Amy Ayers, 17-year-old Eliza Thomas, 17-year-old Jennifer Harbison, and Jennifer's 15-year-old sister Sarah. Jennifer and Eliza were the shop employees, while Sarah and her friend Amy were in the shop to get a ride home with Jennifer after it closed at 11:00 pm. Approximately one hour before closing time, a man who had tried to hustle customers in his queue was permitted to use the toilet in the back, which took a very long time and may have jammed a rear door open. A couple who left the shop just before 11:00 pm, when Jennifer locked the front door to prevent more customers from entering, reported seeing two men at a table acting furtively.”.
I went to high school with the three older girls. It's very sad. My then room mate (I was a few years older than the girls) and I were at Denny's that night drinking coffee and acting cool, and drove by I Can't Believe it's Not Yogurt, on the way home. There was a TON of police, ambulances and fire personnel there. I remember my roommate and I trying to figure out what had happened. It was a safe area of town and I had been to that shop dozens and dozens of times, as well as the mall and the pizza place. There's still many people in Austin who want answers.
The death of Cindy James. She was harassed multiple times through phone calls, house fires, phone lines being cut, and dead animals being left outside her apartment. Even though she moved apartments multiple times, she was continually harassed, and police and private investigator couldn’t figure out who harassed her. Cindy suddenly died, even though she was happy the morning of her death and showed no signs of depression.
Here’s a great podcast episode about it.
Being happy doesn’t mean you’re not depressed. She could have been happy cuz she knew it was all gonna be over soon.
pisses me off when I hear "but you don't look depressed" ...."oh I'm sorry to have disappointed you" is often my reply
Load More Replies...This is a weird one. There really was NO proof that someone was stalking her. Even friends who were there was she said something happened couldn't corroborate it. I'm not saying they didn't happen, but it's very suspicious that not a single piece of evidence was found despite all the police involvement.
A red panda went missing from the Norfolk, VA zoo...never found a trace of it. Also, Jon Bennet Ramsey murder.
We're sorry. Would a mousie toy help?
Load More Replies...Hmmmm my kid was obsessed with red pandas when we moved to Norfolk. She was only six but still 🤔
This dude got lost in the catacombs, and they found camera footage of his journey, but at some point he drops the camera and just starts to run. As far as I know, nobody has found out wtf happened to him.
OP could have been more vague by replacing "catacombs" with "somewhere" and "camera" with "thingy".
Pretty sure he's talking about the Paris Catacombs.
Load More Replies...If they mean the Paris catacombs ònce you leave the established tour area it is meant to be really easy to get lost. I don't think they know the full extent of it at all.
This sounds like a wanna-be Blair Which hoax that took place in the catacombs of Paris (not the area open to public, but in the vast closed off, urban spelunking area) that happened nearly 30 years ago. I wanna say 1998, but could be mistaken. I’m not suggesting it was motivated by Blair Witch, only that it was a hoax of similar style & obviously not produced for theatrical release.
I've seen this video. Mr. Ballen did a story about it. It's referring to Paris.
This couldn’t be more vague if he/she/they were discussing Casper the friendly ghost.
https://www.bing.com/search?pglt=171&q=This+dude+got+lost+in+the+catacombs%2C+and+they+found+camera+footage+of+his+journey%2C+but+at+some+point+he+drops+the+camera+and+just+starts+to+run.&cvid=c88c418fdaaf4a5c9f894ecb47d9316f&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCDE2NjBqMGoxqAIAsAIA&FORM=ANNTA1&PC=U531
I watched a documentary on this a while back. The search team used the footage to retrace the man's path and then branched from there but could only go so far because of how long they were down there.
Johnny Gosch paper boy who went missing during his route in west des moines iowa. he was seen talking to a police officer under the bleachers at a game and asked to go on his route alone. he was told no but went anyways. he was seen giving directions to someone and his dog was found attached to the wagon he used for the papers. no one knows where he is but it's suspected he was sold into trafficking and is in hiding now. his mother noreen has claimed to have seen him as an adult. it's so eerie. he was also one of the first milk carton kids i believe.
IMO it's a tie between Jimmy Hoffa & DB Cooper. Hoffa's body was allegedly buried by the mafia (some say underneath either old Yankee Stadium or NY Giants field). Cooper hijacked a plane, jumping out with thousands of $$$'s. And all have to go on is a sketch of his face.
come on we all know DB Cooper was Loki and he just went back to Asgard
Hoffa Disappearance- over the years there were many deathbed confessions. The one that came closest was one a few decades ago and this man knew things only someone involved knew and he told. The FBI that they probably leaned on the metal barrel while investigators search a dump. And perhaps the others were persons merely involved somehow.
It's insane to think Hoffa was picked up in Detroit, and buried in New York, that makes no sense
My sister in law carries a huge purse crammed full of all sorts of unimaginable crapp. I always tease her that if she emptied it, we would find Jimmy Hoffa. Case solved!
The girl I knew who disappeared without a trace in 1989, when we were 12/13 years old. She was a good kid, not the type to run away or anything; most likely was abducted and murdered, by the same couple who killed a few other girls in the area around that time. She was walking home from school, and her keys were found later near a wooded area - then her backpack was found in a nearby creek.
FBI page here
And speculative theories here
Jody huisentruit. She was a local news anchor who was kidnapped and presumed dead. There's a lot of stories from folks back then about police involvement and her owing a d**g debt. She was well liked so that story is seen as kind of s******g on her memory, but I've personally heard stories from several people that all kind of say the same thing.
One that really messed me up when I read it was this old case of the Mattoon, IL, gasser. Someone was spraying some sort of noxious gas into people’s windows at night. It turned into mass hysteria. It f****d me up when I learned about it because one, it’s super creepy, and two, it violates your sense of feeling safe, just sleeping at night with your windows open trying to get some fresh air in a time before AC, only to be gassed by some creep.
It didn't turn into mass hysteria. It was a textbook case of mass hysteria form the very beginning. Someone starts claiming a wild theory, other people link unrelated events to said theory and create a reinforcing feedback loop. In no time the wild theory becomes a "fact" and more people connect their experience to the theory, losing view of the most obvious explanation. It's the way most conspiracy theories form.
Are you saying we've been knocking things off the edge of the earth for nothing???
Load More Replies...My friend was killed in a home burglary. She was a photographer and she had cameras in her house. They never caught the people who did it and the police haven ever said s**t about it. Absolutely not one update since her murder and it’s been a while.
I wish more of these were written in the assumption that not everyone knows what the OP is talking about. And when BP does compilations like this I wish they'd add info to the unclear ones instead of just copy/paste everything.
I agree! They assume that everyone is from the USA and knows about the murders.
Load More Replies...Madeleine Mc Cann https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdwijning_van_Madeleine_McCann And Natalee Holloway, although the last one is short of resolved: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/18/us/joran-van-der-sloot-natalee-holloway-plea-wednesday/index.html
The police/authorities etc often "know" who committed loads of crimes but, certainly in the UK, won't go to trial if they don't think their evidence can get over the 'beyond reasonable doubt' threshold. It sucks and a lot of time the police are blamed, but if the evidence isn't there, what can they do. If a suspect chooses to do a "no comment" interview, which most solicitors advise, it makes it even more difficult.
It is astonishing how many murders have gone unsolved because they police didn't care and made no attempt to work on them.
Or sometimes because they did care but got hindered every step of the way by forces out of their control.
Load More Replies...Well that was depressing. I’d kind of hoped it would be more about natural phenomena like ball lighting and stuff, but I guess it matched the title
Before DNA testing, CCTV, national databases, etc both the rate of reporting and solving of disappearances/murders was quite low. Under 50% in many places based on recent estimates. Anecdotally most every town I’ve lived in has stories of missing people.
Eefke Wolf. 25 year old woman who went missing in 1983 in The Netherlands. Was seen walking out of the door at work with her helmet, going towards her moped. Next day she didn't arrive at work and it was discovered her moped was still there untouched. only clue is that she told her parent she would sleep at work and said to co workers she would go home. So might had a secret appointment with someone.
Cyber Sleuth Alert. One missing is one of the longest unsolved mysteries in the history of NJ. It’s the Judith Kavanaugh murder. Anyone who could be hurt by the conclusion has passed on. But it would be great to solve it. I know how I would feel about it.
I wish more of these were written in the assumption that not everyone knows what the OP is talking about. And when BP does compilations like this I wish they'd add info to the unclear ones instead of just copy/paste everything.
I agree! They assume that everyone is from the USA and knows about the murders.
Load More Replies...Madeleine Mc Cann https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdwijning_van_Madeleine_McCann And Natalee Holloway, although the last one is short of resolved: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/18/us/joran-van-der-sloot-natalee-holloway-plea-wednesday/index.html
The police/authorities etc often "know" who committed loads of crimes but, certainly in the UK, won't go to trial if they don't think their evidence can get over the 'beyond reasonable doubt' threshold. It sucks and a lot of time the police are blamed, but if the evidence isn't there, what can they do. If a suspect chooses to do a "no comment" interview, which most solicitors advise, it makes it even more difficult.
It is astonishing how many murders have gone unsolved because they police didn't care and made no attempt to work on them.
Or sometimes because they did care but got hindered every step of the way by forces out of their control.
Load More Replies...Well that was depressing. I’d kind of hoped it would be more about natural phenomena like ball lighting and stuff, but I guess it matched the title
Before DNA testing, CCTV, national databases, etc both the rate of reporting and solving of disappearances/murders was quite low. Under 50% in many places based on recent estimates. Anecdotally most every town I’ve lived in has stories of missing people.
Eefke Wolf. 25 year old woman who went missing in 1983 in The Netherlands. Was seen walking out of the door at work with her helmet, going towards her moped. Next day she didn't arrive at work and it was discovered her moped was still there untouched. only clue is that she told her parent she would sleep at work and said to co workers she would go home. So might had a secret appointment with someone.
Cyber Sleuth Alert. One missing is one of the longest unsolved mysteries in the history of NJ. It’s the Judith Kavanaugh murder. Anyone who could be hurt by the conclusion has passed on. But it would be great to solve it. I know how I would feel about it.
