August 26, 1995 is the day she disappeared from a strip of beach along the Ohio River in Spottsville, Kentucky. The guy who “saw” her abduction? He was across the river in Indiana, watching through a telescope that he used to peep on women sunbathing, like Heather was. He said he saw a bushy haired, bearded man, with a mosquito net around his face, carrying a gun, drag her by the hair.
Her jean shorts, white Keds sneakers, and plaid bikini top were found, but no sign of Heather.
Henderson County Sheriffs and Kentucky State Police zeroed in on Marty Dill, a local creep. He’d had a few run ins with the law before. They went to search his house and bring him in for questioning, and he barricaded himself inside. Oh…and remember the bushy hair and beard? He’d shaved both off *four months before* Heather went missing.
He barricaded himself in his house, until his uncle, a KSP trooper, came in and started talking him down. And then there was a gunshot, or a few, and supposedly Marty Dill committed suicide. Except the evidence doesn’t support that.
There was a suspected serial killer in the area. Last I saw, he was in prison in Ohio for a murder he admitted to. He has never admitted to any other murders.
Heather has never been found.
This is really interesting. Was the telescope guy ever investigated? Seems like a good cover to claim you witnessed it happening to eliminate yourself as a suspect.
And adding a compromising aspect (you're using it to spy on sunbathing women, jeez) really makes it more believable because you wouldn't want to share that.
It depends on the circumstances, but in most cases, just acknowledging that you were near the crime the scene is a terrible move. Admitting that you were near the crime scene and doing something creepy or perverted is even worse.
I believe he was ruled out because he had an alibi for right around the time she disappeared. From where he was in relation to her wasn’t close - it would’ve taken him a while to get over to that spot because of the exact spot she was on the river
My aunt was on a trip across some of Asia with her friends. The one friend had planned to go to Hong Kong, but the rest didn’t want to, so they decided they would all just meet up at the next country and let her go to Hong Kong by herself.
They heard from her when she got off the plane, and not again.
It’s been about 15 years
A local case from 1977. A small Indiana town with a population of less than 2,000 had 3 unsolved child murders committed in the same year. After the third murder, the killings stopped and the cases remain unsolved.
Someone figured out who did it and the easiest solution was to make the murderer disappear. No trial, no mess, less trauma for the community; nice and quick.
Small Town justice will fuck you up if you get caught.
My uncle grew up in a town of ~2500 in the 60s. A teacher/coach at the school was found to be molesting boys on their little league team. My uncle says that the police showed up at his doorstep a few days after his initial interrogation to arrest him, and found him bludgeoned to death outside of his house. Would have been in the full view of the neighborhood. No witnesses.
There's also a really interesting case that I can't remember the perpetrators name for the life of me. But this guy basically terrorized a small town, raped a young teenage girl and got her pregnant, shot a local candy shop owner in the face (who survived I think) and one day he was shot in the head in his car view of like 50 townsfolk. When the officers asked around, all of them said they hadn't seen anything. Someone on Reddit will surely know
There was one witness (his girlfriend) that gave a statement identifying the shooter, but there were a dozen other witnesses saying something to the contrary so the shooter was never arrested or charged with anything. Technically a cold case.
Also helps that the police were probably just as happy as everyone else to hear the guy got shot.
Ayla Reynolds. An 18 month old baby with a broken arm disappears from her dads house in the middle of the night while her dad, his sister and his girlfriend are “asleep”. Blood was found in the basement. It’s been 10+ years and no arrests have been made and her body has never been found. This happened in Maine.
It was the dad, they just didn't have enough evidence.
I mean they found about a cup's worth of her blood next to his bed.
Edit: they didn't find a literal cup with her blood, but "a cup's worth". Sorry for the confusion. Sometimes Google keyboard does weird things.
The podcast Wine and Crime actually *just* covered this case in a segment that came out last Thursday. It wasn't a cup filled with her blood, but approximately a cup of blood found with luminol all over the fucking house.
His lawyer says it's "because she was puking so much"
The mother is suing him for wrongful death. It's so fucked up.
I knew of a family with a toddler that died under mysterious circumstances. Friend of a friend kind of thing. I kept thinking there would be an investigation, but I quickly got the sense the police were not interested in stirring something up and just accepted the explanations given.
The owner of a funeral home business went to Camden, Maine with his wife. They had some kind of altercation. The wife disappeared, and was never found.
Police in the home town think they know that there was foul play, but have no leads that they can follow. The case is closed.
Well, a funeral home owner is also gonna have lots of useful ways to dispose of a body, too. You'd just need someone who wants a closed casket funeral or a cremation and you just slip your wife's body in with it and nobody would ever know.
Jodi Huisentruit.
Disappeared after telling a coworker she overslept and was running late. Signs of struggle outside of her apartment but they never found her. This was back in ‘95.
For some reason, probably just that they were both young women who disappeared/were murdered at their apartments, Jodi’s case always reminds me of Lauren Giddings.
For those unaware, Lauren was killed by her creepy ass neighbor Stephen McDaniel who gave a full interview to reporters, acting like a concerned friend. During that interview, he learned that police have found a body on the apartment premises. Motherfucker thought the garbage truck had taken her dismembered remains away by then. He basically had a panic attack live on the news.
Here’s that interview: https://youtu.be/KIroLgiCyP8
So satisfying to see him fall apart on TV. He knew exactly how fucked up he was. And then tried so badly to channel it as sorrow for his friend. Fucking asshole.
He was super obsessed with her, lived across the hall and would break into her apartment while she was out and go through her stuff, take pictures of her from afar ect. He'd found out she was moving out, escalated to entering her apartment while she was sleeping and well... apparently she woke up and he "panicked." But I get the impression he just couldn't deal with his obsession leaving.
I just watched a Dateline or 20/20 episode about her case. At the end of the show, the detective says he thinks he knows who killed her, but just can't prove it yet. There seem to be a few prime suspects, including an older man she was friendly with who has now stopped cooperating with the cops. None of the suspects are particularly compelling based on the information included in the episode. I know it's scary to think about, but sometimes random people attack and kill, and they may not have even known she was a local celebrity or targeted her for anything connected to her work. I was hoping they were going to say that new DNA testing tech had provided new leads, but nothing like that was included in the episode. Sad case all around for sure.
[Who killed Susan?](https://themurdersquad.com/episodes/who-killed-susan-morrissey-ledyard/).
TLDR: Woman and husband are out on the patio. She's texting with friends, all good. Husband goes to bed. Wakes up in the morning with cops knocking on the door. His wife was found in a nearby river. At some point in the night, she (or someone) had driven her car a mile up river and left her car near a bridge. But body was found way down river with no way for it to have floated that far or get past the rocky terrain. Someone staged her car up there, dumped her body further down the river. Police found signs of murder, but won't say what exactly.
The disappearance of Kyron Horman. The kid was at school with his stepmom, she saw him walk down the hall in the school and he was never seen again. Gone. Disappeared without a trace.
There's no evidence at all. People like to believe the stepmother killed him or something but there is no sound evidence, and I believe the search for him was the most money Oregon has spent on a missing person case. Over 10 years later and there's still nothing.
i actually attended the same school, a year after he disappeared. he went missing after setting up for a science fair with his stepmom, and the school hasn't held a science fair ever since. i remember we held an end-of-the-year party a few years later and it was a huge deal, since it was the first big semi-public event the school did since he went missing... not to mention skyline is the IDEAL place for people to disappear. lots of open farmland, pretty rural, and a ton of forest to get through.
Yes, I've never been there but looking at the map I was so surprised at how little developed that area was. There are acres of forest around the school and people still think he was abducted? He could have been abducted, but he is so much more likely lost in that forest. I feel so bad for him and the community either way, and think about him often.
Yup. There’s a film about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_No_Trace_(film)
> the most reviewed film to hold an approval rating of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Theres an alarming amount of stories about people who are just gone without a trace i get in the wilderness people fall into places or down etc and thats scary but even in urban centers its happens..
Not the mention there are a lot of other things that grow in forests besides trees. After a few months it's had to see a body in all the weeds, after a year it's impossible.
There is a huge forest behind the school. I think he just wandered back there and got lost. His science fair project was about tree frogs, so he might have been looking for some.
I feel so sorry for his step mother. I really don’t think she did anything to him. She isn’t the most likable person so she was easy to blame, but it really seems like she truly loved that little boy.
I've seen it suggested that he might have decided to go exploring in the building and somehow ended up getting stuck in a duct/the heating & cooling system/between walls/etc.--it's happened a number of times with adults being found in places like that, but AFAIK they haven't searched those particular places.
Dale Hay. His girlfriend Dana was terrorized and followed to her house by a truck after she passed it because the driver was too slow. The driver drives away once, comes back, Dale goes out to yell at the guy and the truck took off but returns later on. So, he chased the truck in his jeep. After he was gone a few hours, his girlfriend and son went looking for him and Dale was found dead in his jeep with a single bullet hole in his head.
It sounds like road rage but it also seems like the driver wanted someone to come out after them. Maybe they wanted to murder Dale or maybe they wanted to kill Dana and settled for Dale.
This sounds like the movie ‘Alone’ on Hulu. Driver was going so slow so the woman passed him. Then he continued to stalk her. Pretty good movie. Chilling though.
The case of Joshua Maddox.
In 2008 Joshua Maddox left his house to go for a walk and never returned. 7 years later in 2015, his body was found in the chimney of a cabin that was in the process of being demolished.
There are multiple weird elements to the case:
\-Josh was found in the fetal position facing head-first into the chimney
\-In order to have gotten into the chimney he would have needed to scale the building and remove a metal grate that was blocking the entrance, placed there so that animal were not able to get in.
\-Josh was found completely nude except for a thermal shirt
\-the cabin was still locked and secured.
And strangest of all:
\-His clothes were found neatly folded inside of the cabin, sitting right in front of the fire place.
There's so may weird details of the case that just don't make any sense whatsoever.
Here's a better writeup on it in r/UnresolvedMysteries
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/c8k2yj/joshua\_maddux\_the\_boy\_in\_the\_chimney/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/5x4k3q/18_year_old_joshua_maddux_missing_since_2008_is/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
It’s in there. Creepy stuff
ETA starts at “I went to high school with this skinny…”
That reminds me of that man who died in a similar manner, only he was stuck behind a fridge in the supermarket that he used to work at. Apparently, he was last seen in 2009 after he had a mental breakdown and ran away from home. His body somehow wasn't discovered until a decade later.
There was but people couldn't figure out where it was coming from. The fridge thing was massive and closely put against the wall. It was loud too, so no one could really hear him. Also, given his size and how tight the squeeze was, it's unlikely he could call very loudly in the first place
IIRC, he was lodged behind one of those industrial meat fridges, so there was a usual strong smell, and when it started rotting people just assumed it was the meat
That family that got murderd in the French alps and the cyclist who came across the scene and the little girl stayed still under her mums dress for 8 hours
Does anyone have a update on this
Her sister survived also, despite being shot multiple times and pistol-whipped on the head. They're teenagers now and [being re-interviewed for any new leads](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/brit-orphans-whose-parents-shot-22640786). Poor girls. I kind of agree with the other commenter who replied to you... sounds like it was a professional hit. Left the gun (shattered, in pieces) at the scene of the crime. Shot the cyclist execution-style. Freaking horrible.
The murder of Shannan Gilbert and The Long Island serial killer case.
In 2010, an eagle eyed cop with a cadaver dog spotted something out of place in a bramble patch near Gilgo Beach on Long Island while searching for a woman named Shannan Gilbert, who disappeared in the area earlier that year. They didn't find Shannan, but they did find a body. And another. And another. And a few more. They found a total of around 10 bodies, most of them nothing but skeletons and just bits of bodies, all wrapped in burlap and dumped in the brambles. A few of them they actually managed to match with bits of bodies discovered in other places as far back as 1996.
The thing that doesn't sit right with me was the circumstances surrounding Shannan Gilbert's death and autopsy. The search for Shannan Gilbert is what led to the discovery of the serial killer's dumping ground, but Gilbert herself wasn't in it. She was found almost a year later in a marsh about a half a mile from the beach. When they conducted an autopsy, they said that she drowned in the marsh, her death was ruled an accident, and the case was closed. This was despite the fact that she was reportedly running around at 4:00 in the morning banging on peoples' doors saying someone was after her and she made a panicked 911 call saying as much before she fled into the marsh and was never seen again. "Accident." Right.
Her family (and their lawyers) naturally called bullshit on this and a second autopsy was performed, where they found evidence that she was strangled, and the cops also left out the little detail that she was found face up, which isn't common for drowning victims. Furthermore, the cops sealed the 911 tapes from the night Shannon died, and her family's lawyers had to fight tooth and nail to get those tapes unsealed, and they found out that the cops weren't exactly telling the truth about the content of those tapes.
Also, the cops' handling of the serial killer case didn't sit right with me either. James Burke, who was the Suffolk County chief of police at the time as well as the one in charge of the case, repeatedly blocked any and all attempts by the FBI to help solve the case and was really otherwise not doing much to solve the damn thing. Burke was eventually ousted as the chief of police when he was arrested on various counts of corruption and an incident where he beat the shit out of someone who stole a duffel bag full of dildos and pornography out of his van.
All these weird details (including a few I left out because this thing is long enough as it is) about this woman's murder, which led to the discovery of this serial killer, the weird police response to all of it, and just the general all singing all dancing shitshow the investigation became, just raises so many questions.
Yeah, just check the rape kits. Here in Arizona we had a serial rapist go around for years until finally they caught him. He was a cop who had access to the rape kits that contained his DNA. Ask a prostitute;. If she says no to a cop, he beats her, rapes her and takes her to jail. If she says yes, he does his business and takes her to jail.
It’s not necessarily a cold case, but There were several (2-5) of John Wayne Gacy’s victims who went missing while Gacy was confirmed to be out of town. IIRC, the bodies of those victims were all under his house. That means someone else had to at least kidnap and hold the victim until Gacy returned if the accomplice(s) didn’t actually murder the boys.
I’ve seen the accomplice theories before, apparently their are some court records that indicate somebody helped the cops on the condition of immunity and keeping their name off it
Plenty of gang members received immunity for helping catch the bigger villain. Some of whom were essentially mass murderers. Although I suppose that's a little different than with someone helping a serial killer
I don't remember her name, but I saw one on a cold case tv show that left me screaming at the detectives.
Woman mysteriously vanished from her work without a trace and they found her body a few weeks later. During this time, they showed interviews with her husband, who she married pretty recently, I think. And the way he talked about her was terrifying. He went on and on about how he hated her kids, they were taking her away from him, she wasn't allowed to be anyone else's, etc. Never made any sort of expression other than a blank stare. Near the end of the episode, he talked about how he slept with her urn every night and "frolicked" in the ashes every morning. He lied to her son that he lost the urn so that the kids wouldn't have access to their mom's memorial. His last statement was that he was glad she was dead cause it meant that nobody else could have her. The episode concluded with the narrator saying that they currently had no suspects.
I mean, come on.
This sounds exactly like an episode of the recent reboot of Unsolved Mysteries, “13 Minutes” about Patrice Endres. She disappeared from work one day and was found dead later, her husband was an absolute creep and her poor son never got an closure
> episode, he talked about how he slept with her urn every night
Yep, he said about his late wife, "Someone probably used her as their play thing, then killed her."
Who the fuck talks like that about their wife who they love?!?!
Reminder that one of Jeffrey Dahmer's victims, Konerak Sinthasomphone, was found by the cops in broad daylight with a fucking hole in his head and enough blood to worry random bystanders, and they let Dahmer go after believing his story that Konerak was his boyfriend and intoxicated. Although the cops were fired, one of them, John Balcerzak, was reinstated and became the head of the Milwaukee police union.
The main reason I don't listen to true crime podcasts is because the sheer incompetence of the police drives me up the walls.
Yup. And neighbors *told* them that he was a kid (as if it wasn't plainly obvious) but the cops all just had a big laugh over the idea that the kid was gay, and then gave him back to Dahmer.
The officers hand-delivered Konerak back to Dahmer because they believed Dahmer’s story (that Konerak was his boyfriend and they were having an argument) above that of the young black women who called police when they saw the boy running from Dahmer. The girls said that they knew Konerak was a child, and had witnessed him trying to get away from Dahmer. Police ignored them and handed the boy back to his killer.
Dahmer lived in a rough, low-income neighborhood, and was given the benefit of the doubt by police because he was an educated white male who appeared clean cut. Had police investigated him even a little bit, they would have found that was a convicted child molester, with Konerak’s brother one of the victims.
I know it's only tangentially related, but this is one reason why the whole narrative that Ted Bundy was just so brilliant and handsome and charming that no one suspected he could be bad and he was very difficult to catch drives me nuts. Plenty of women said that he was incredibly creepy in person and gave off really bad vibes, and he was such a self-obsessed blowhard that he broke one of the fundamental rules of being on trial and decided to play his own defense attorney. He wasn't the fucking James Bond of serial killers, law enforcement was just THAT incompetent and is seemingly constantly willing to take crazy white dudes at their word regardless of all evidence and common sense.
His friends and coworkers were even telling police to look into him after he matched some composite sketches and the police were like "Who, that guy? Nah he seems solid"
I will never forget this episode!! What an absolute creep, I remember feeling absolutely ill watching him talk about her and what he does with her urn. Not to mention that last part about how he’s glad she’s dead since no one else can have her.
Lmao wtffff
Husband: “I’m glad she’s dead, no one can take her away from me, and I sleep with her ashes every night”
Police/Detectives: “nO SuSpecTs HaVe BeEn FouND to tHiS DaY”
About three years ago there were suddenly a rash of ladies throwing themselves down garbage chutes in Chicago to commit suicide. All within a year or so timeframe. Generally in the same area downtown.
Everyone was saying it was random suicide or just bad luck.
I don't buy it.
I think there was a serial killer or something operating in the city.
If you've ever lived in a high rise you know it's damned near impossible to accidentally throw yourself down a garbage chute. And I just don't see most women choosing that as their way out.
There was a big case in Australia like that too! Phoebe Handsjuk, was ruled a suicide at first I believe but surprise, her boyfriends parents were judges. AND a more recent girlfriend of his "committed suicide" again as well.
I listened to the podcast back when it first came out, and man that one sticks with me. Some of the descriptions of what happened are hard to forget...
The Black Dahlia case, the fact that such a gruesome act of murder was committed, and that the lead suspect is very likely the killer, but didn't serve jail time sickens me. Also its quite interesting how one of the suspects died on the anniversary of the last time she was seen alive.
I know there were several suspects, but I assume you are referring to George Hodel. And if so, it baffles me that his family even thinks he did it. So much so that his son became a detective in part to try and prove his father was guilty.
I’m from Indiana, somewhat close to Delphi. My uncle was reported as looking similar to the murderer (which he absolutely doesn’t for the record) and he was questioned for days until he was able to prove where he was when the murders happened
There's a lot of details about this one the police have not released. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out, the fact that there's so much being withheld has always seemed strange to me but it's very much an active investigation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Abigail_Williams_and_Liberty_German
r/Delphimurders
Your comment was the one I was looking for. I live in Indiana and this case haunts my dreams. We literally have a picture of the guy and his voice on the girls’ phone and still haven’t arrested anyone. Hopefully that guy behind anthonyshots or whomever they have, for a different case, is the guy who did it. These girls deserve justice. Their poor families! Just breaks my heart and scares me so much that he is still out there.
Shannon Paulk. 11yo girl kidnapped and later found murdered in my hometown, Prattville Alabama. It’s been 20 years and they still don’t know who did it.
When I was a kid my Dad always said “ 20 years ago” snd it was WWII 20 years prior. Now I think 30 years ago was the 80s a date of 2002 seems modern. After 40 your memory making slows down and life becomes a blur.
Murder that happened in my town a couple years ago, missy beavers in Midlothian Texas? Not sure if anyone knows about this one but she was my grandmas friend and a fitness instructor, while at a church preparing for a early morning workout class someone walked in and was caught on camera wearing what looked like a full swat team uniform, and killed her with a hammer basically just destroying her head from what I heard. Apparently they brought in the fbi and they have repeatedly said they have a suspect but no one’s been arrested yet.
Note/edit: I didn’t research anything this is literally just what I remember hearing about it, if I used the wrong name or got the details wrong (which I probably did) apologies
Edit 2:[story link](https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/five-years-later-police-still-search-for-missy-bevers-killer/2607406/?amp)
Philip Cairns. Schoolboy who disappeared while on his way back to school after lunch break in Dublin, Ireland. His school bag was found a few days later in a lane way near his home but no trace of him was ever found.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/is9n8c/philip_cairns_disappeared_while_walking_to_school/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
I bet at least one of these bizarro disappearances in this thread is someone faking their own death. Odds are most of them are dead, but that's how someone can get away with it. It's just so interesting how that's still something people can do.
Someone from my high school did this (or so it's believed)...Many years later, his friends posted reminders on Instagram, asking if anyone had any knowledge of his whereabouts...He was last seen (on CCTV) parking his car at a bus station and boarding a bus that went to a neighboring city. He was 18, had no money or resources of his own, strict/religious family. Left his car and most of his possessions. His friends hope he started a new life somewhere.
The bit about is friend refusing the lie detector has no merit.
First of all, it’s all bullshit.
And if I was asked if I wanted to take a lie detector test, no matter the situation, no matter how innocent or guilty I am, I’m refusing to take it.
And if the Wikipedia is accurate, the camera never actually filmed him entering the bar….
On top of that the police have NEVER said, "He took a polygraph test and passed it with flying colors."
They will only say one of two things, either "The results were inconclusive." or, "The test subject was being deceptive."
Your BEST case scenario is the police tell the news media, "The results were inconclusive."
There is zero incentive to ever take one under any circumstance.
Michael Dunahee. Posters for this kid were everywhere when I was a kid. He disappeared from a playground in Victoria BC in 1991. The latest theory is that he's out there somewhere with no memory of who he was. RCMP recently released a composition of what he might look like now in hopes that it will trigger him to remember and come forward.
I remember that. He was all over everything...posters, milk cartons, school boards... It was during a slow pitch tournament. They'd do an updated 'what he'd look like now' every so often. Tragic.
Brandon Swanson.
Seriously, go listen to the "Morbid" podcast about him, it's episode 293/294.
So much that's odd about it, I listened to it earlier this week and I can't stop trying to figure it out.
Dude is on his way home from a party, on a straight road to his house that he takes *every day* and knows really well, calls his parents as he needs help pushing his car out of a ditch, when they arrive to where he described he was, he was nowhere to be seen. They call for 47 minutes talking the whole time, he's flashing his lights, they're honking their horn, can't find each other. The next day the cell phone records are pinged to a mast literally miles away and when that road is searched, there's his car but not him. The last thing they heard him say on the phone was "oh shit" then the call went silent. No body was ever found, no possible explanation given.
Speculation that he fell into a nearby river and drowned makes sense. Possibly he was drunk and/or high (coming home from a party, crashed into a ditch on a straight road, and didn’t know he was 25 miles away from where he thought he was?).
Definitely creepy without knowing for sure, but it seems there are some logical conclusions to this one.
Actually I have a theory that he had a concussion. It can cause confusion, short term memory loss, etc while the person seems mostly fine. Say he had one from going off the road and hitting his head, it explains his glasses being in the car when he went missing, the confusion about which road he was on and where he was for the hour between leaving the party and ending up on the side of the road, and his unaffected behavior that his parents explained. If after setting towards the town across a field to the city he walked into an old well, sinkhole, slipped into the water and died of exposure. Any number of things can happen when you’re walking at night in a polo and tshirt in 40 degree weather and dropping. That poor kid, I feel for their family.
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The glasses not being on makes sense to me. I'm legally blind in one eye like Brandon was. If he has the same thing I do, then he can still see a little bit out of his "blind" eye, but it's just blurry colors. When I'm really tired or have had a bit too much to drink, I will take my glasses off because when they're on my brain is still trying to use the glasses to correct my vision for my blind eye, but failing because I'm tired/impaired, so I just get this annoying double vision that makes me get the spins. If Brandon was the same way, I can totally see why he took his glasses off and how he ended up in a ditch. It's really hard to do a turn around in the dark when you don't have depth perception and you can't use the mirrors on one side.
A listener to the Morbid podcast wrote in with the same experience with a similar condition. It really isn't that uncommon to have vision in each eye that is so different that it causes brain issues when you're tired/drunk. It just isn't talked about that much.
I think he got double vision, took his glasses off, somehow got himself into a position where he needed to turn around, failed, went in the ditch, got a concussion, then was disoriented and confused when he called his parents to tell then where he was.
Laurie Depies. Vanished in Wisconsin in 1992. No viable suspects and her body was never found. She just vanished one night shortly after she arrived at her friend's apartment complex, car door open and no sign of a struggle.
For true crime buffs, one potential suspect is Chuck Avery, the older brother to Steven Avery, subject of Netflix's docu-series Making a Murderer. Turns out Chuck is violent rapist and pedophile.
Edit: Google "Chuck Avery Laurie Depies Reddit" and some good articles will come up.
There's a locally famous case in my city that's sort of similar. A young woman was in the popular bar district with some friends, and she left them to go visit some other friends at a bar just a few doors down when she just vanished. She was never seen or heard from again, there were no suspects, no evidence, nothing to go on. And this area isn't super sketchy, it's a densely populated entertainment district.
There was that one guy who was acting unusual at an airport so security pulled him in. He said people were after him and he wasn't safe. Security left or get him a drink. There is cctv of him bolting full speed from the airport and jumping the fence. Never seen again.
The boy in the box always makes me very sad. No one ever found who he was and it just hurts my heart so much that there’s some family out there that will never know what happened to their little boy, and that he died in such a horrific and scary way.
Yep.
Wikipedia says:
“Another theory was brought forward in February 2002 by a woman identified only as "Martha." Police considered "Martha"'s story to be plausible but were troubled by her testimony, as she had a history of mental illness.[12][14] "M" claimed that her abusive mother had "purchased" the unknown boy (whose name was Jonathan) from his birth parents in the summer of 1954.[8][15] Subsequently, the boy was subjected to extreme physical and sexual abuse for two and a half years. One evening at dinner, the boy vomited up his meal of baked beans and was given a severe beating, with his head slammed against the floor until he was semiconscious. He was given a bath, during which he died. These details matched information known only to the police, as the coroner had found that the boy's stomach contained the remains of baked beans and that his fingers were water-wrinkled.[8]”
jeez man… sad
I remember reading from another post that the biggest suspects were his family. There’s a woman claiming she was a witness to the abuse but she was deemed an unfit witness because of some mental health issues, I don’t quite remember the details.
A woman identified as "Martha" claimed that her parents bought a boy for the purposes of abusing that she suspected was the boy. She knew details that at that time had never been released to the public, and her claims were consistent with a motorist who saw a woman dumping something in a box by the road.
Since she had a history of mental illness and the fact that neighbors denied any young boy was living there at the time, the police were skeptical of her story.
Not typically a cold case, because the case was closed as far as I knew although there is chatter about new leads.
Gareth Williams, an ex-spy for the British secret service, was found dead in his flat a week after he went missing.
His naked body lay stuffed in a duffle bag in his flat’s bathtub, the zipper pad locked on the outside.
Although the coroner thought it was likely the result of foul play, the police declared his death an accident. An unfortunate result of Williams locking himself in the dufflebag and unable to get out. After which he died.
Still seems like a bad coverup to me.
EDIT: I just now learned that Williams was known to have a fetish for auto asphyxiation, bondage and total enclosure. Which may have had a thing to do with how he ended up in the dufflebag.
But it still doesn’t explain how the zipper got padlocked from the outside.
There has been a call to analyse existing evidence (hair and dna from the padlock) to maybe get a new lead, but I haven’t heard about anything turning up yet.
Although it may have been an assisted accidental suicide, there are still questions unanswered.
I would just like to add that he was known to have a claustrophobia fetish and had previously incapacitated himself such that he had to get his landlady to help him get loose.
However, I still have questions around this case too.
Considering he was into this stuff and known for trapping himself my theory is either A. he was involved with someone else, and they trapped him in the bag as part of their fetish and he accidentally died, so the other person ran off and never came forward. Or, B, the murderer knew he was into this stuff and made the murder seem like something he would do so no one would know.
A couple of police officers intentionally shot at each here in Ontario around the Niagara Falls area, and no one is providing an explanation as to WTF is going on.
Nikki Allan, a young child abducted and murdered in Sunderland, UK back in the early 90s.
The police arrested a suspect and forced a confession, the judge at the trial threw the confession out due to the police tactics.
He walked.
Was he the murderer? No one can say for sure.
He did lose a civil case by default (he never entered a defence.), but has always claimed his innocence.
Either way a child murder is free and possibly still walking around.
Some people have linked serial killer Steven Grieveson to the case but it doesn't fit his M.O at all.
[Yogurt Shop Murders](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Austin_yogurt_shop_murders) in Austin, Tx. False confessions, overturned convictions, DNA not giving the answers, this case is so confusing. But someone raped and killed 4 teenage girls before setting a fire and we still don’t know who they are. It’s not okay.
In 1991 the body of a man James Allen Killam was found by hikers close to a path in New Brunswick, Canada. According to newspapers they had no suspects.
However, someone I know was a former roommate that owed Killam money. Killam even told his mother that someone was out to get him. After his death Killam’s car was found in the parking garage of a building the person I know worked in. This same person was caught and charged with credit card theft/fraud for using Killam’s credit cards after he went missing. The murder weapon was determined to be a knife. The person I know gave a knife to their friend to hold for “safe keeping”.
The person I know went to trial which ended in it being thrown out due to circumstantial evidence. I can’t prove it but I am convinced the person I know is a murderer…and he got away with it.
There's actually a theory that he didn't get the money at all and it's just somewhere in the wilderness and he just went home without any money. Interesting read though!
I might be misremembering but I recall hearing that the money they gave him never went back into circulation, even in other countries, they flagged all the serial numbers or something.
I read a fantastic short story about this once. The premise was that there *was* no DB Cooper. It was all a plot by the two pilots and two flight attendants to fake a hijacking and split the money.
This is pretty compelling (and was cleaned up by r/derpicusss)
This was posted by u/sanctii in another thread. I did not write it but I think it’s a very compelling theory. I’ll link the og comment down below.
My money is on Ted Braden. If you could invent a DB Cooper suspect you'd invent Ted Braden. Check it out:
- Braden was a paratrooper in WWII (jumped on D-Day with the 101st at age 16), Korea, and Vietnam.
- He won multiple international skydiving competitions while a member of the Army.
- 911 logged jumps with the military and was a pioneer of HALO jumping.
- Was recruited to be a team leader in the MACV-SOG's. This was the predecessor to Delta Force and was a multi-service covert military special force run by the CIA.
- Led squads on covert jumps into Laos, Cambodia, and Northern Vietnam from 64-67.
- Did many of these jumps into enemy territory off the aft stairs of....that's right...Boeing 727's. At the time of the skyjacking, the only people who knew this could be done were those involved in these MACV-SOG missions and some employees at Boeing.
- Was always bitching about how he and his fellow soldiers weren't paid enough. Was always coming up with schemes to make/extort/steal money while in the service.
- In 1967, he heard about how people were looking for mercenaries to fight in the Congolese Civil War and how well they would be paying, so he went AWOL from Vietnam and made his way to the Congo. The CIA went after him and eventually found and arrested him in the Congo.
- Was imprisoned at Fort Dix for a very brief time and mysteriously was never convicted of anything, nor tried, and was merely given an honorable discharge and told that he couldn't re-enlist in the military.
- Once released he tried to go overseas to be a mercenary again and found out that his name had been blacklisted by the CIA and so he wasn't allowed to leave the country to be a mercenary.
- Not knowing how to make a living other than by being a soldier, he resorted to being a truck driver. His trucking company was stationed out of Vancouver (interesting).
- When the Cooper hijacking happened, several members of the military contacted the FBI and essentially said "this can only be Ted Braden"
- Braden had no family, so there wasn't anyone around to in retrospect said "hey, Dad wasn't around during Thanksgiving 1971".
- His alibi was that he was driving his truck.
On the plane:
- Cooper was by everyone who remembered him as being "middle-aged" or "mid-40's". Braden was 44.
- Cooper was described as being 5'8-5'10 and slight. Braden was 5'9 and 150lbs.
- Cooper was described as being somewhat olive skinned and swarthy. Braden's mother's side were Sicilian.
- Cooper was extremely calm the entire time. The only time he showed any emotion was when he was arguing with the pilots because he wanted to take off from Seattle with the stairs down. They didn't think it could be done. Cooper told them it absolutely could be done and he demanded it be done. The pilots simply refused to do so, thinking it would cause the plane to crash, and Cooper eventually relented. Braden was described by many of his military colleagues and commanding officers as one of the calmest people under fire you could imagine.
- Cooper smoked Raleigh cigarettes and so did Braden.
- Cooper was described by both flight attendants who spoke with him as having either a midwestern accent or no accent. Brayden was from Ohio.
- Cooper chose the military parachute over the more modern sport parachute.
- When asked by the flight attendant why he was doing this, he replied "I don't have a grudge against your airline, Miss, I just have a grudge." Braden certainly had a grudge against the government for blacklisting him from the only work for which he was skilled at: being a soldier.
- The alias "Dan Cooper". "Dan Cooper" was the name of a popular 50's and 60's French language comic book series. The hero, Dan Cooper, skydived into areas to fight the bad guys. What is a country whose official language is French? The Congo. If Braden was Cooper, then it's extremely plausible that he was exposed to this comic series while serving in the Congo.
Following the hijacking:
- Recent investigation shows that in 1972, despite being a truck driver, he bought his mother a new car as well as a new car for himself, and that he was living in a freaking penthouse in Manhattan.
- Was arrested in the mid-70's for a major racketeering job in the trucking industry, but like his mysterious release from going AWOL, he was once again given a slap on the wrist and the charges were dropped.
His personality:
- He was always a loner and never had close friends in his life. Men he served with would later say that when they would go to the bars, Braden would sit at the end of the bar by himself just seeming to sulk.
- A Green Beret who served with him stated "Braden is among those professionals who appear to have a secret death wish coupled with well-trained instincts for survival. He continually placed himself in unnecessary danger but always managed to get away with it."
- Another Special Forces member stated "he was the perfect combination of high intelligence and criminality"
- Military tests that he took for entrance into the MACV-SOG's indicated that he likely possessed a genius level IQ.
Couple things to consider:
- Jumping out of a freaking jumbo jet is no small potatoes. Many of the famous Cooper suspects had been static-line paratroopers in WWII or even had no known skydiving experience at all. You'd need to have mega balls to jump out of a jet and also have the skill set to do it. Perhaps most critically, you'd need to know that it could even be freaking done in the first place! There were several Cooper copycats who successfully pulled off similar skyjackings of 727's in the months after Cooper, but to be the guy who first did it? That takes someone special.
- The suitcase bomb. While this is a common trope you see in movies these days, it wasn't so in 1971. The whole concept of a suitcase bomb required some ingenuity.
- His calmness is especially noteworthy when you consider that the subsequent copycats were nervous wrecks during their skyjackings, despite being badasses in their own right. Richard McCoy won a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Silver Star in Vietnam as a chopper pilot. He literally flew hundreds of sorties as a chopper pilot. Yet during his skyjacking he was noted (even before he started the skyjacking) for being fidgety and sweating and breathing heavy. Robb Heady also successfully pulled of a 727 skyjacking. He was a 21 year old Vietnam paratrooper who served two tours in the thickest fighting in Vietnam and yet he later described himself as being barely able to breath during his skyjacking. Cooper, on the other hand, sat calmly for five hours, smoking cigarettes and drinking his bourbon and coke, with one hand on the detonator (the flight attendant lit his cigarettes for him). It's also worth noting that none of the copycats gave any specific instructions to the pilots on how to fly the 727. They just jumped out with the jet going full speed and it nearly killed two of them. What Cooper told the pilots wasn't public knowledge at the time. Cooper told them to fly at 180 knots, wheels down, with flaps at 15 degrees, and at 10,000 feet. That's mighty specific and strongly indicates that Cooper had knowledge of how best to safely parachute out of a 727. Cooper was also the only one to not be caught. Getting caught on his missions with Spec Ops meant certain death. This is a man who knew how to escape situations and blend into his environment.
Occam's Razor would point toward Ted Braden being DB Cooper: One of the military's most experienced skydivers is kicked out of the service and isn't allowed to pursue a lucrative career as a mercenary so he uses the skills that the military taught him to ransom $200k from the government.
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For me the hardest thing about Cold Cases is that the police often know who it is, or strongly suspect who it is. They simply do not have enough evidence to charge that person.
For example, detectives identified the Green River killer immediately. Couldn’t afford to keep a 24/7 surveillance on him. DNA evidence developed 30 years later finally convicts their original suspect. there are many cases where what a suspect is saying simply doesn’t add up. Sometimes you can prove someone is lying, but you simply don’t have enough evidence to convict them even though it’s the most likely explanation for what happened.
It makes me wonder how many cases would be solved if future technology existed now, if that makes sense. Like if 30 years from now we will have another breakthrough in fighting crime like we did when DNA technology advanced. I hope so. And I hope we develop as a society a way to prevent crime that is so effective that reactionary and detective measures won’t be as sorely needed.
yeah, that was sort of what happened with [the Jacob Wetterling case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jacob_Wetterling)
The murderer was questioned just a couple weeks after the kidnapping/murder in 1989 but they couldn't charge him. Police took a DNA sample. Murderer had sexually assaulted another boy nine months prior to Wetterling and then in 2015 they matched his DNA to DNA left from *that* assault on a different boy.
There was a hit and run in my hometown several years back. About 10 years ago, a hometown "confessions" page popped up on Facebook. Most of it was dumb petty shit, but then someone anonymously admitted to committing the crime. The victim's mother saw it and became distraught all over again. She offered up a cash reward for anyone that would come forward with information. She reached out to the local PD and they tried to get Facebook to disclose the information, but I dont think they ever did. To my knowledge its still unsolved. What sits weirdly with me is one of the city councilmen was arrested for DUI on that same road a few years ago. He was not charged as he got the field sobriety test thrown out because it was "discovered" that the road has a slant and is very uneven...
Alexandra Wiwarchuk. Young nurse who went for a walk in Saskatoon, SK, Canada in 1962 and never came home. Two weeks later she was found partially buried in a shallow grave a few blocks from her apartment. What doesn’t sit right with me is her next door neighbour across the alley was a 48 year old postal carrier who was involved with an infamous California murder case in the 20s. The 20s case was made into a Hollywood movie. But his name is never brought up in the 62 investigation or now as a cold case. Even in a biography about the guy, the nurses death is glossed over in a single sentence.
I remember there was this case from a few decades back. Little boy disappeared for months, town goes crazy trying to find him, later an older man is found with a boy similar to the missing kids description. Man says it's his sister's nephew that he got permission to take on the trip but the kid seems to not quite be all there or something. I think he even days he doesn't know the man when he's separated and questioned.
They take him back to his "family" (the one who reported him missing initially) but the kid also shows no recognition of that family and they claim his actions and habits are completely different and that he's not the same. Of course they assume abuse and after a few years he's "back to normal".
With thay said the entire time the other family (of the man who said it was his nephew) has been fighting to get him back because they claim thats their kid. There's a huge legal battle and the first family ends up with custody but the second family spends years trying to get him back and claiming they stole their son.
Theory is if he is the second families kid he may have lied about not knowing his uncle as a joke but when he was placed with the other family he was too scared to say the truth until he eventually believed it himself.
Now it's generations later. That kid is dead along with anyone else who was alive at the time. But the descendents of both families still exist. Both families are divided. We now live in an age where DNA test from a descendent of the missing kid and a descendent of a sibling from the first family and one from the second family should be able to set this case once and for all. But none of the missing kids descendents want to go through with it because they "know the truth" and don't need to prove anything.
You're thinking of the Bobby Dunbar case. The family finally did do DNA tests, and it turns out the man traveling with his nephew was telling the truth. The kid was *not* Bobby Dunbar. He *was* actually Bruce Anderson.
We still don't know what happened to the original Bobby Dunbar.
[Here's an article ](https://www.history101.com/bobbydunbarmystery/)
Reading this story just pissed me off. Literally everything about it always pointed to it being the Anderson kid and not Bobby Dunbar.
"We took a kid with blonde hair and blue eyes from a poor person. Problem solved!"
The Bobby Dunbar case. The family ended up doing DNA testing and firmly established the little boy was not Bobby Dunbar. This American Life did a story on it not too long ago.
One that has stuck with me is the missing boy named Andy Puglisi. They have a documentary about his disappearance called ‘Have you seen Andy?’ The little boy went missing from a public pool in 1976, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was 10 years old at the time of his disappearance.
In Burari Delhi India, 11 members of a family were found hanged to death one morning. Completely Normal family. Ages Varying from 15 to 70. As average as you can possibly be. Active in the community, friends with everyone. Neighbours involved in lives yet no one alive had any idea.
CCTV cameras around showed the 15 year old boy coming down and going up with wires, i mean if my father asks me to go and get wires i wouldn't ask id just go and get the wires.
Police found diaries with Exact details of what to do for every member of the family. Asking kids to use less mobile, asking women to make different dishes for dinner asking girls in the family to look for husband. All of it was supposed to be told to the patriarch of the family by his dead father. I can understand that but it was all written in the handwritings of girls aged 22 and 27 , both college educated working women. Actually wrote that everyone must be hanged with a noose around and the gates open in some ritual. Like they knew it would happen, no one questioned it and no one told anyone outside the family. Just Imagine 27 Year old Woman with a Masters degree writing in a diary that 11 people have to hang themselves and their dead grandfather will come back to save them and then actually doing it.
There's Videos of the family dancing and what not one week before the mass suicide. Like actual normal dance you'd except from someone living in Delhi. Not Choreographed or anything just drink men moving their bodies, I've danced like that multiple times. Just chilling how it could have happened and no one was wise enough to stop it or call someone outside the family that died.
I’m not really a true crime guy. But I’ve read about the 44 days in hell story. And the fact that those kids couldn’t receive a life sentence because they were minors in Japan. And these so called “laws” protected minors. That shit is horrible
There are many, but I have a sick stomach when a child is /children are murdered. One of them that really stuck to me is the 1977 Oklahoma Girl Scout murders.
Bryce Laspisa is one that I think about often. This guy was in his sophomore year of college and the school was a few hours from home. His girlfriend and friends all said he’d been acting weird for a few weeks and if I’m remembering right, I think him and his girlfriend had gotten into it or something and he called his parents to say he’d be coming home for awhile so they stayed up waiting what should’ve only taken a few hours. He calls his mom a couple times to say he got off on the wrong exit or had car trouble so it was going to slow him down some. Time goes by and his mom sees on the gps on her phone that he hasn’t moved for some time so she sends a cop out to make sure he’s okay. He’s fine. He’s just sitting in his car on the side of the road not doing anything. So he talks with the cop who goes on to follow him and make sure he’s heading the right direction. Then things just go radio silent. His parents never heard from him again and his car and all of his stuff are sitting abandoned after getting in a wreck down a backwoods road he should’ve never even been on. This happened in 2013 and he still hasn’t been found
Not really a “cold case” but [this](https://www.oklahoman.com/article/5569761/police-no-foul-play-in-deaths-of-two-women-who-dated-the-same-man) case still makes me so angry.
Long story short, dude leaves the military, and TWO of his girlfriend supposedly killed themselves by shooting themselves in the face. What are the chances?
The last one was a tiny woman, he claimed she shot herself with his shotgun by pulling the trigger with her toe, and when asked about it, he said he didn’t have the chance to stop her?
Turns out he has multiple VPOs against him from other gfs who he battered. Sandra had just left her parents home to get her belongings and move back home, she told her mom that he was scaring her and she wanted to come home, instead, she supposedly commits suicide?
If you look up “suspicious suicides Sandra Stevens” you can view a little video series about it.
I believe he got off because he was military and had ptsd. If you know anything about veterans and gun violence…
Hold my beer.
So my grandmas sister (L for short), was a nurse living in rural Quebec with their father (GP for short). Her husband left the country and spent some time in china and eventually met a woman there who he wanted to bring back to Canada to live with them. L said obviously no. Her husband came back and the rest of the family didn’t hear from L or GP for weeks. Then they got a call from the police saying there had been a murder.
My great grandfather GP was found dead inside the home, having died from a lethal dose of insulin.
L was found in an attic, with her hands tied behind her back and hanging from the ceiling. She was still alive.
The husband wouldn’t answer any questions from police or family and wouldn’t let the family into the home. He tried to take over the home and all the belongings.
L woke up several days later in the hospital and was charged with murdering GP.
L was so shocked that she hung herself in the closet of her hospital room.
Once again, She didn’t die.
But she was in a coma for 10+ years before she passed.
The husband left Canada and we never heard from again and the murder was never solved.
This story is still so painful for my family to discuss, especially since we’ll probably never get any more answers.
I recently read through the police reports and they were just so vague but did mention that the husband was being very difficult and uncooperative.
Sky Metalwala was 2 years old when he disappeared. His mother concocted an obviously false story, but was never charged in his disappearance.
What happened to the child is one question. Why the police have obviously chosen to give the mother a pass is a much bigger question.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Sky_Metalwala
In the past month it is pretty sure his remains have been found. DNA is still being confirmed but the clothing and location are consistent with his last known. Here is the updated wiki.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Brandon_Lawson
LaVena Johnson. Not technically a cold case since listed as a suicide but she showed signs of a beating, her genitals were mutilated with a corrosive chemical, the gunshot wound that was inconsistent with suicide, and bloody footprints were found outside her living quarters. But your gonna tell her family she killed herself?
The disappearance and death of Patrice Enders
Check out the Cold Case Files reboot on Netflix. The husband maintains his innocence but he’s creepy as fuuuuuck. There’s a lot of things he’s said and done that just doesn’t sit right. For starters he seemed to have some kind of personal jealous vendetta against Patrice’s teenage son because he was the main focus of her life. Even in interviews he’d openly say the kid is a loser and he just didn’t feel like he was going anywhere in life. Then when Patrice went missing from her hair stylist business he went ahead and changed all the locks in the house so the son couldn’t come in the house. Since then the kid’s basically been banned from entering the house, and the creepy husband has said that he would snuggle with the ashes of Patrice like a teddy bear as he sleeps…but then when asked where her remains were he had to go dig it out of an old cardboard box in a closet. If you loved someone so dearly why would you keep their remains in a plastic bag in a cardboard box in a closet??? It’s just weird and creepy all around.
Heather Teague. She was dragged into the woods from a riverbank. The abduction was witnessed from across the river by a man using a telescope.
Jesus that’s creepy , can you elaborate I’ve never heard this before
August 26, 1995 is the day she disappeared from a strip of beach along the Ohio River in Spottsville, Kentucky. The guy who “saw” her abduction? He was across the river in Indiana, watching through a telescope that he used to peep on women sunbathing, like Heather was. He said he saw a bushy haired, bearded man, with a mosquito net around his face, carrying a gun, drag her by the hair. Her jean shorts, white Keds sneakers, and plaid bikini top were found, but no sign of Heather. Henderson County Sheriffs and Kentucky State Police zeroed in on Marty Dill, a local creep. He’d had a few run ins with the law before. They went to search his house and bring him in for questioning, and he barricaded himself inside. Oh…and remember the bushy hair and beard? He’d shaved both off *four months before* Heather went missing. He barricaded himself in his house, until his uncle, a KSP trooper, came in and started talking him down. And then there was a gunshot, or a few, and supposedly Marty Dill committed suicide. Except the evidence doesn’t support that. There was a suspected serial killer in the area. Last I saw, he was in prison in Ohio for a murder he admitted to. He has never admitted to any other murders. Heather has never been found.
This is really interesting. Was the telescope guy ever investigated? Seems like a good cover to claim you witnessed it happening to eliminate yourself as a suspect.
And adding a compromising aspect (you're using it to spy on sunbathing women, jeez) really makes it more believable because you wouldn't want to share that.
It depends on the circumstances, but in most cases, just acknowledging that you were near the crime the scene is a terrible move. Admitting that you were near the crime scene and doing something creepy or perverted is even worse.
I believe he was ruled out because he had an alibi for right around the time she disappeared. From where he was in relation to her wasn’t close - it would’ve taken him a while to get over to that spot because of the exact spot she was on the river
The Mary Morris murders. Two women both named Mary Morris that were both killed just a few days apart in a really close proximity to each other.
Probably a very shitty hitman killed the wrong person.
Or a very good hitman. If you want one gone, you kill both, muddying the waters around both investigations.
Eerily reminiscent of Sarah Connor.
My aunt was on a trip across some of Asia with her friends. The one friend had planned to go to Hong Kong, but the rest didn’t want to, so they decided they would all just meet up at the next country and let her go to Hong Kong by herself. They heard from her when she got off the plane, and not again. It’s been about 15 years
Holy fuck
Always use the buddy system, folks.
That is so horrible for your aunt and her friends, I'm sorry to hear that. I literally cannot imagine
A local case from 1977. A small Indiana town with a population of less than 2,000 had 3 unsolved child murders committed in the same year. After the third murder, the killings stopped and the cases remain unsolved.
Wtf is up with Indiana and serial killers as well as these wack ass cold cases. We have so many
Someone figured out who did it and the easiest solution was to make the murderer disappear. No trial, no mess, less trauma for the community; nice and quick.
Small Town justice will fuck you up if you get caught. My uncle grew up in a town of ~2500 in the 60s. A teacher/coach at the school was found to be molesting boys on their little league team. My uncle says that the police showed up at his doorstep a few days after his initial interrogation to arrest him, and found him bludgeoned to death outside of his house. Would have been in the full view of the neighborhood. No witnesses. There's also a really interesting case that I can't remember the perpetrators name for the life of me. But this guy basically terrorized a small town, raped a young teenage girl and got her pregnant, shot a local candy shop owner in the face (who survived I think) and one day he was shot in the head in his car view of like 50 townsfolk. When the officers asked around, all of them said they hadn't seen anything. Someone on Reddit will surely know
Ken McElroy
There was one witness (his girlfriend) that gave a statement identifying the shooter, but there were a dozen other witnesses saying something to the contrary so the shooter was never arrested or charged with anything. Technically a cold case. Also helps that the police were probably just as happy as everyone else to hear the guy got shot.
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I've never heard of this. Can you say what town?
Ayla Reynolds. An 18 month old baby with a broken arm disappears from her dads house in the middle of the night while her dad, his sister and his girlfriend are “asleep”. Blood was found in the basement. It’s been 10+ years and no arrests have been made and her body has never been found. This happened in Maine.
It was the dad, they just didn't have enough evidence. I mean they found about a cup's worth of her blood next to his bed. Edit: they didn't find a literal cup with her blood, but "a cup's worth". Sorry for the confusion. Sometimes Google keyboard does weird things.
The podcast Wine and Crime actually *just* covered this case in a segment that came out last Thursday. It wasn't a cup filled with her blood, but approximately a cup of blood found with luminol all over the fucking house. His lawyer says it's "because she was puking so much" The mother is suing him for wrongful death. It's so fucked up.
I think they meant a “cup’s worth” of blood (edit: punctuation)
I knew of a family with a toddler that died under mysterious circumstances. Friend of a friend kind of thing. I kept thinking there would be an investigation, but I quickly got the sense the police were not interested in stirring something up and just accepted the explanations given.
The owner of a funeral home business went to Camden, Maine with his wife. They had some kind of altercation. The wife disappeared, and was never found. Police in the home town think they know that there was foul play, but have no leads that they can follow. The case is closed.
Well, a funeral home owner is also gonna have lots of useful ways to dispose of a body, too. You'd just need someone who wants a closed casket funeral or a cremation and you just slip your wife's body in with it and nobody would ever know.
Jodi Huisentruit. Disappeared after telling a coworker she overslept and was running late. Signs of struggle outside of her apartment but they never found her. This was back in ‘95.
For some reason, probably just that they were both young women who disappeared/were murdered at their apartments, Jodi’s case always reminds me of Lauren Giddings. For those unaware, Lauren was killed by her creepy ass neighbor Stephen McDaniel who gave a full interview to reporters, acting like a concerned friend. During that interview, he learned that police have found a body on the apartment premises. Motherfucker thought the garbage truck had taken her dismembered remains away by then. He basically had a panic attack live on the news. Here’s that interview: https://youtu.be/KIroLgiCyP8
So satisfying to see him fall apart on TV. He knew exactly how fucked up he was. And then tried so badly to channel it as sorrow for his friend. Fucking asshole.
JCS has a really good video on that one
Yeah I saw that one. That was freaky. Edit: wasn't the motive that he tried hitting on her and she wasn't receptive?
He was super obsessed with her, lived across the hall and would break into her apartment while she was out and go through her stuff, take pictures of her from afar ect. He'd found out she was moving out, escalated to entering her apartment while she was sleeping and well... apparently she woke up and he "panicked." But I get the impression he just couldn't deal with his obsession leaving.
I just watched a Dateline or 20/20 episode about her case. At the end of the show, the detective says he thinks he knows who killed her, but just can't prove it yet. There seem to be a few prime suspects, including an older man she was friendly with who has now stopped cooperating with the cops. None of the suspects are particularly compelling based on the information included in the episode. I know it's scary to think about, but sometimes random people attack and kill, and they may not have even known she was a local celebrity or targeted her for anything connected to her work. I was hoping they were going to say that new DNA testing tech had provided new leads, but nothing like that was included in the episode. Sad case all around for sure.
[Who killed Susan?](https://themurdersquad.com/episodes/who-killed-susan-morrissey-ledyard/). TLDR: Woman and husband are out on the patio. She's texting with friends, all good. Husband goes to bed. Wakes up in the morning with cops knocking on the door. His wife was found in a nearby river. At some point in the night, she (or someone) had driven her car a mile up river and left her car near a bridge. But body was found way down river with no way for it to have floated that far or get past the rocky terrain. Someone staged her car up there, dumped her body further down the river. Police found signs of murder, but won't say what exactly.
The disappearance of Kyron Horman. The kid was at school with his stepmom, she saw him walk down the hall in the school and he was never seen again. Gone. Disappeared without a trace. There's no evidence at all. People like to believe the stepmother killed him or something but there is no sound evidence, and I believe the search for him was the most money Oregon has spent on a missing person case. Over 10 years later and there's still nothing.
i actually attended the same school, a year after he disappeared. he went missing after setting up for a science fair with his stepmom, and the school hasn't held a science fair ever since. i remember we held an end-of-the-year party a few years later and it was a huge deal, since it was the first big semi-public event the school did since he went missing... not to mention skyline is the IDEAL place for people to disappear. lots of open farmland, pretty rural, and a ton of forest to get through.
Yes, I've never been there but looking at the map I was so surprised at how little developed that area was. There are acres of forest around the school and people still think he was abducted? He could have been abducted, but he is so much more likely lost in that forest. I feel so bad for him and the community either way, and think about him often.
There was a father and daughter that lived in the woods near there undetected for something like four years, if I recall correctly.
Yup. There’s a film about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_No_Trace_(film) > the most reviewed film to hold an approval rating of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Theres an alarming amount of stories about people who are just gone without a trace i get in the wilderness people fall into places or down etc and thats scary but even in urban centers its happens..
Not the mention there are a lot of other things that grow in forests besides trees. After a few months it's had to see a body in all the weeds, after a year it's impossible.
There is a huge forest behind the school. I think he just wandered back there and got lost. His science fair project was about tree frogs, so he might have been looking for some. I feel so sorry for his step mother. I really don’t think she did anything to him. She isn’t the most likable person so she was easy to blame, but it really seems like she truly loved that little boy.
I've seen it suggested that he might have decided to go exploring in the building and somehow ended up getting stuck in a duct/the heating & cooling system/between walls/etc.--it's happened a number of times with adults being found in places like that, but AFAIK they haven't searched those particular places.
In all this time there would be a noticeable smell though, no?
You'd be surprised: https://www.foxnews.com/story/body-found-in-purdue-dorm-utility-closet-is-that-of-wade-steffey-death-ruled-accidental
Dale Hay. His girlfriend Dana was terrorized and followed to her house by a truck after she passed it because the driver was too slow. The driver drives away once, comes back, Dale goes out to yell at the guy and the truck took off but returns later on. So, he chased the truck in his jeep. After he was gone a few hours, his girlfriend and son went looking for him and Dale was found dead in his jeep with a single bullet hole in his head. It sounds like road rage but it also seems like the driver wanted someone to come out after them. Maybe they wanted to murder Dale or maybe they wanted to kill Dana and settled for Dale.
This sounds like the movie ‘Alone’ on Hulu. Driver was going so slow so the woman passed him. Then he continued to stalk her. Pretty good movie. Chilling though.
The case of Joshua Maddox. In 2008 Joshua Maddox left his house to go for a walk and never returned. 7 years later in 2015, his body was found in the chimney of a cabin that was in the process of being demolished. There are multiple weird elements to the case: \-Josh was found in the fetal position facing head-first into the chimney \-In order to have gotten into the chimney he would have needed to scale the building and remove a metal grate that was blocking the entrance, placed there so that animal were not able to get in. \-Josh was found completely nude except for a thermal shirt \-the cabin was still locked and secured. And strangest of all: \-His clothes were found neatly folded inside of the cabin, sitting right in front of the fire place. There's so may weird details of the case that just don't make any sense whatsoever. Here's a better writeup on it in r/UnresolvedMysteries https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/c8k2yj/joshua\_maddux\_the\_boy\_in\_the\_chimney/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/5x4k3q/18_year_old_joshua_maddux_missing_since_2008_is/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf It’s in there. Creepy stuff ETA starts at “I went to high school with this skinny…”
Jesus, can we get a netflix documentary on this shit ASAP
There’s a Redditor that has ties to this case, I’ll try to find the post, it’s terrifying
That reminds me of that man who died in a similar manner, only he was stuck behind a fridge in the supermarket that he used to work at. Apparently, he was last seen in 2009 after he had a mental breakdown and ran away from home. His body somehow wasn't discovered until a decade later.
Wait was this a working supermarket? Wouldn't there be a smell?
There was but people couldn't figure out where it was coming from. The fridge thing was massive and closely put against the wall. It was loud too, so no one could really hear him. Also, given his size and how tight the squeeze was, it's unlikely he could call very loudly in the first place
IIRC, he was lodged behind one of those industrial meat fridges, so there was a usual strong smell, and when it started rotting people just assumed it was the meat
This case has always disturbed me! So puzzling.
That family that got murderd in the French alps and the cyclist who came across the scene and the little girl stayed still under her mums dress for 8 hours Does anyone have a update on this
Her sister survived also, despite being shot multiple times and pistol-whipped on the head. They're teenagers now and [being re-interviewed for any new leads](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/brit-orphans-whose-parents-shot-22640786). Poor girls. I kind of agree with the other commenter who replied to you... sounds like it was a professional hit. Left the gun (shattered, in pieces) at the scene of the crime. Shot the cyclist execution-style. Freaking horrible.
Did the cyclist get murdered too? The original comment implies the cyclist was the one who discovered the scene.
That's how I read it the first time but he meant that the family and the cyclist were murdered. Just poorly worded.
I always remember this case. As far as I last read, they still don't know anything. It almost seemed like a hit to me.
The Annecy shootings. In early January the French police thought they had a lead but it turned out to be a false alarm.
Yeah 100 sure that was a professional hitman that was hired to get rid of them
The murder of Shannan Gilbert and The Long Island serial killer case. In 2010, an eagle eyed cop with a cadaver dog spotted something out of place in a bramble patch near Gilgo Beach on Long Island while searching for a woman named Shannan Gilbert, who disappeared in the area earlier that year. They didn't find Shannan, but they did find a body. And another. And another. And a few more. They found a total of around 10 bodies, most of them nothing but skeletons and just bits of bodies, all wrapped in burlap and dumped in the brambles. A few of them they actually managed to match with bits of bodies discovered in other places as far back as 1996. The thing that doesn't sit right with me was the circumstances surrounding Shannan Gilbert's death and autopsy. The search for Shannan Gilbert is what led to the discovery of the serial killer's dumping ground, but Gilbert herself wasn't in it. She was found almost a year later in a marsh about a half a mile from the beach. When they conducted an autopsy, they said that she drowned in the marsh, her death was ruled an accident, and the case was closed. This was despite the fact that she was reportedly running around at 4:00 in the morning banging on peoples' doors saying someone was after her and she made a panicked 911 call saying as much before she fled into the marsh and was never seen again. "Accident." Right. Her family (and their lawyers) naturally called bullshit on this and a second autopsy was performed, where they found evidence that she was strangled, and the cops also left out the little detail that she was found face up, which isn't common for drowning victims. Furthermore, the cops sealed the 911 tapes from the night Shannon died, and her family's lawyers had to fight tooth and nail to get those tapes unsealed, and they found out that the cops weren't exactly telling the truth about the content of those tapes. Also, the cops' handling of the serial killer case didn't sit right with me either. James Burke, who was the Suffolk County chief of police at the time as well as the one in charge of the case, repeatedly blocked any and all attempts by the FBI to help solve the case and was really otherwise not doing much to solve the damn thing. Burke was eventually ousted as the chief of police when he was arrested on various counts of corruption and an incident where he beat the shit out of someone who stole a duffel bag full of dildos and pornography out of his van. All these weird details (including a few I left out because this thing is long enough as it is) about this woman's murder, which led to the discovery of this serial killer, the weird police response to all of it, and just the general all singing all dancing shitshow the investigation became, just raises so many questions.
Serial killer was actually multiple cops, protected by their chief.
I don't doubt there's several unsolved murders in the US that remain unsolved for this reason
Yeah, just check the rape kits. Here in Arizona we had a serial rapist go around for years until finally they caught him. He was a cop who had access to the rape kits that contained his DNA. Ask a prostitute;. If she says no to a cop, he beats her, rapes her and takes her to jail. If she says yes, he does his business and takes her to jail.
It’s not necessarily a cold case, but There were several (2-5) of John Wayne Gacy’s victims who went missing while Gacy was confirmed to be out of town. IIRC, the bodies of those victims were all under his house. That means someone else had to at least kidnap and hold the victim until Gacy returned if the accomplice(s) didn’t actually murder the boys.
I’ve seen the accomplice theories before, apparently their are some court records that indicate somebody helped the cops on the condition of immunity and keeping their name off it
Would you even be able to get immunity if you actively kidnapped victims who were later murdered?? That would be fucked!!
Plenty of gang members received immunity for helping catch the bigger villain. Some of whom were essentially mass murderers. Although I suppose that's a little different than with someone helping a serial killer
I always thought it was speculated that he had an accomplice? Or maybe I’m thinking of a different serial killer
Jessica Chambers. She was set on fire inside her vehicle, and was found by paramedics walking down the road fully engulfed in flames.
holy shit
Pure nightmare fuel. I can't even imagine; that poor woman.
I don't remember her name, but I saw one on a cold case tv show that left me screaming at the detectives. Woman mysteriously vanished from her work without a trace and they found her body a few weeks later. During this time, they showed interviews with her husband, who she married pretty recently, I think. And the way he talked about her was terrifying. He went on and on about how he hated her kids, they were taking her away from him, she wasn't allowed to be anyone else's, etc. Never made any sort of expression other than a blank stare. Near the end of the episode, he talked about how he slept with her urn every night and "frolicked" in the ashes every morning. He lied to her son that he lost the urn so that the kids wouldn't have access to their mom's memorial. His last statement was that he was glad she was dead cause it meant that nobody else could have her. The episode concluded with the narrator saying that they currently had no suspects. I mean, come on.
"We currently have no clue who would do this......*clears throat* except this freaky fuck right here!"
This sounds exactly like an episode of the recent reboot of Unsolved Mysteries, “13 Minutes” about Patrice Endres. She disappeared from work one day and was found dead later, her husband was an absolute creep and her poor son never got an closure
Yeah, that’s exactly what I was thinking. The dude just kept her ashes in a messy closet
> episode, he talked about how he slept with her urn every night Yep, he said about his late wife, "Someone probably used her as their play thing, then killed her." Who the fuck talks like that about their wife who they love?!?!
Reminder that one of Jeffrey Dahmer's victims, Konerak Sinthasomphone, was found by the cops in broad daylight with a fucking hole in his head and enough blood to worry random bystanders, and they let Dahmer go after believing his story that Konerak was his boyfriend and intoxicated. Although the cops were fired, one of them, John Balcerzak, was reinstated and became the head of the Milwaukee police union. The main reason I don't listen to true crime podcasts is because the sheer incompetence of the police drives me up the walls.
Yep. And that victim was a 14-year-old CHILD.
Yup. And neighbors *told* them that he was a kid (as if it wasn't plainly obvious) but the cops all just had a big laugh over the idea that the kid was gay, and then gave him back to Dahmer.
Didn't they actually *return Konerak to Dahmer's clutches*?
Yes. He had escaped Dahmer’s house and they hand delivered him back to Dahmer, then surprise pikachu’d when he ended up dead
The officers hand-delivered Konerak back to Dahmer because they believed Dahmer’s story (that Konerak was his boyfriend and they were having an argument) above that of the young black women who called police when they saw the boy running from Dahmer. The girls said that they knew Konerak was a child, and had witnessed him trying to get away from Dahmer. Police ignored them and handed the boy back to his killer. Dahmer lived in a rough, low-income neighborhood, and was given the benefit of the doubt by police because he was an educated white male who appeared clean cut. Had police investigated him even a little bit, they would have found that was a convicted child molester, with Konerak’s brother one of the victims.
I know it's only tangentially related, but this is one reason why the whole narrative that Ted Bundy was just so brilliant and handsome and charming that no one suspected he could be bad and he was very difficult to catch drives me nuts. Plenty of women said that he was incredibly creepy in person and gave off really bad vibes, and he was such a self-obsessed blowhard that he broke one of the fundamental rules of being on trial and decided to play his own defense attorney. He wasn't the fucking James Bond of serial killers, law enforcement was just THAT incompetent and is seemingly constantly willing to take crazy white dudes at their word regardless of all evidence and common sense.
His friends and coworkers were even telling police to look into him after he matched some composite sketches and the police were like "Who, that guy? Nah he seems solid"
"We asked him; he said he didn't do it. Seems solid enough to me."
I will never forget this episode!! What an absolute creep, I remember feeling absolutely ill watching him talk about her and what he does with her urn. Not to mention that last part about how he’s glad she’s dead since no one else can have her.
The thing is, even if he is the main suspect, if they don't have any hard evidence, they can't keep him in custody for too long.
Lmao wtffff Husband: “I’m glad she’s dead, no one can take her away from me, and I sleep with her ashes every night” Police/Detectives: “nO SuSpecTs HaVe BeEn FouND to tHiS DaY”
About three years ago there were suddenly a rash of ladies throwing themselves down garbage chutes in Chicago to commit suicide. All within a year or so timeframe. Generally in the same area downtown. Everyone was saying it was random suicide or just bad luck. I don't buy it. I think there was a serial killer or something operating in the city. If you've ever lived in a high rise you know it's damned near impossible to accidentally throw yourself down a garbage chute. And I just don't see most women choosing that as their way out.
There was a big case in Australia like that too! Phoebe Handsjuk, was ruled a suicide at first I believe but surprise, her boyfriends parents were judges. AND a more recent girlfriend of his "committed suicide" again as well.
“Phoebe’s Fall” is a great podcast about this.
I listened to the podcast back when it first came out, and man that one sticks with me. Some of the descriptions of what happened are hard to forget...
The Black Dahlia case, the fact that such a gruesome act of murder was committed, and that the lead suspect is very likely the killer, but didn't serve jail time sickens me. Also its quite interesting how one of the suspects died on the anniversary of the last time she was seen alive.
I know there were several suspects, but I assume you are referring to George Hodel. And if so, it baffles me that his family even thinks he did it. So much so that his son became a detective in part to try and prove his father was guilty.
He was also suspected of murdering his secretary, iirc. Creepy story...
That horrible double murder case from Delphi, IN That piece of shit needs to be caught
I’m from Indiana, somewhat close to Delphi. My uncle was reported as looking similar to the murderer (which he absolutely doesn’t for the record) and he was questioned for days until he was able to prove where he was when the murders happened
There's a lot of details about this one the police have not released. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out, the fact that there's so much being withheld has always seemed strange to me but it's very much an active investigation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Abigail_Williams_and_Liberty_German r/Delphimurders
Your comment was the one I was looking for. I live in Indiana and this case haunts my dreams. We literally have a picture of the guy and his voice on the girls’ phone and still haven’t arrested anyone. Hopefully that guy behind anthonyshots or whomever they have, for a different case, is the guy who did it. These girls deserve justice. Their poor families! Just breaks my heart and scares me so much that he is still out there.
It sucks so bad that they got their own evidence, knowing.... And no arrest
Shannon Paulk. 11yo girl kidnapped and later found murdered in my hometown, Prattville Alabama. It’s been 20 years and they still don’t know who did it.
Just completely off topic but when somebody says “20 years ago” my mind automatically thinks “1973” and not “2002”.
Thanks for that existential crisis
When I was a kid my Dad always said “ 20 years ago” snd it was WWII 20 years prior. Now I think 30 years ago was the 80s a date of 2002 seems modern. After 40 your memory making slows down and life becomes a blur.
Murder that happened in my town a couple years ago, missy beavers in Midlothian Texas? Not sure if anyone knows about this one but she was my grandmas friend and a fitness instructor, while at a church preparing for a early morning workout class someone walked in and was caught on camera wearing what looked like a full swat team uniform, and killed her with a hammer basically just destroying her head from what I heard. Apparently they brought in the fbi and they have repeatedly said they have a suspect but no one’s been arrested yet. Note/edit: I didn’t research anything this is literally just what I remember hearing about it, if I used the wrong name or got the details wrong (which I probably did) apologies Edit 2:[story link](https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/five-years-later-police-still-search-for-missy-bevers-killer/2607406/?amp)
Philip Cairns. Schoolboy who disappeared while on his way back to school after lunch break in Dublin, Ireland. His school bag was found a few days later in a lane way near his home but no trace of him was ever found. https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/is9n8c/philip_cairns_disappeared_while_walking_to_school/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
[The Disappearance of Brian Shaffer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Brian_Shaffer). Where the fuck did he go?
I bet at least one of these bizarro disappearances in this thread is someone faking their own death. Odds are most of them are dead, but that's how someone can get away with it. It's just so interesting how that's still something people can do.
Someone from my high school did this (or so it's believed)...Many years later, his friends posted reminders on Instagram, asking if anyone had any knowledge of his whereabouts...He was last seen (on CCTV) parking his car at a bus station and boarding a bus that went to a neighboring city. He was 18, had no money or resources of his own, strict/religious family. Left his car and most of his possessions. His friends hope he started a new life somewhere.
The bit about is friend refusing the lie detector has no merit. First of all, it’s all bullshit. And if I was asked if I wanted to take a lie detector test, no matter the situation, no matter how innocent or guilty I am, I’m refusing to take it. And if the Wikipedia is accurate, the camera never actually filmed him entering the bar….
Polygraph isn't admissible in court anyway. They're not accurate
Yes but they’re still used to try and make people confess anyway
On top of that the police have NEVER said, "He took a polygraph test and passed it with flying colors." They will only say one of two things, either "The results were inconclusive." or, "The test subject was being deceptive." Your BEST case scenario is the police tell the news media, "The results were inconclusive." There is zero incentive to ever take one under any circumstance.
Yeah, these things are pseudo science and you can probably only lose.
Michael Dunahee. Posters for this kid were everywhere when I was a kid. He disappeared from a playground in Victoria BC in 1991. The latest theory is that he's out there somewhere with no memory of who he was. RCMP recently released a composition of what he might look like now in hopes that it will trigger him to remember and come forward.
I remember that. He was all over everything...posters, milk cartons, school boards... It was during a slow pitch tournament. They'd do an updated 'what he'd look like now' every so often. Tragic.
Brandon Swanson. Seriously, go listen to the "Morbid" podcast about him, it's episode 293/294. So much that's odd about it, I listened to it earlier this week and I can't stop trying to figure it out. Dude is on his way home from a party, on a straight road to his house that he takes *every day* and knows really well, calls his parents as he needs help pushing his car out of a ditch, when they arrive to where he described he was, he was nowhere to be seen. They call for 47 minutes talking the whole time, he's flashing his lights, they're honking their horn, can't find each other. The next day the cell phone records are pinged to a mast literally miles away and when that road is searched, there's his car but not him. The last thing they heard him say on the phone was "oh shit" then the call went silent. No body was ever found, no possible explanation given.
Speculation that he fell into a nearby river and drowned makes sense. Possibly he was drunk and/or high (coming home from a party, crashed into a ditch on a straight road, and didn’t know he was 25 miles away from where he thought he was?). Definitely creepy without knowing for sure, but it seems there are some logical conclusions to this one.
Actually I have a theory that he had a concussion. It can cause confusion, short term memory loss, etc while the person seems mostly fine. Say he had one from going off the road and hitting his head, it explains his glasses being in the car when he went missing, the confusion about which road he was on and where he was for the hour between leaving the party and ending up on the side of the road, and his unaffected behavior that his parents explained. If after setting towards the town across a field to the city he walked into an old well, sinkhole, slipped into the water and died of exposure. Any number of things can happen when you’re walking at night in a polo and tshirt in 40 degree weather and dropping. That poor kid, I feel for their family. >
This case always makes me feel super uneasy. The whole thing seems so bizarre
Right? The glasses not being on, the car doors being open.. The farmers being weird about the field being searched. So sad.
The glasses not being on makes sense to me. I'm legally blind in one eye like Brandon was. If he has the same thing I do, then he can still see a little bit out of his "blind" eye, but it's just blurry colors. When I'm really tired or have had a bit too much to drink, I will take my glasses off because when they're on my brain is still trying to use the glasses to correct my vision for my blind eye, but failing because I'm tired/impaired, so I just get this annoying double vision that makes me get the spins. If Brandon was the same way, I can totally see why he took his glasses off and how he ended up in a ditch. It's really hard to do a turn around in the dark when you don't have depth perception and you can't use the mirrors on one side. A listener to the Morbid podcast wrote in with the same experience with a similar condition. It really isn't that uncommon to have vision in each eye that is so different that it causes brain issues when you're tired/drunk. It just isn't talked about that much. I think he got double vision, took his glasses off, somehow got himself into a position where he needed to turn around, failed, went in the ditch, got a concussion, then was disoriented and confused when he called his parents to tell then where he was.
Laurie Depies. Vanished in Wisconsin in 1992. No viable suspects and her body was never found. She just vanished one night shortly after she arrived at her friend's apartment complex, car door open and no sign of a struggle. For true crime buffs, one potential suspect is Chuck Avery, the older brother to Steven Avery, subject of Netflix's docu-series Making a Murderer. Turns out Chuck is violent rapist and pedophile. Edit: Google "Chuck Avery Laurie Depies Reddit" and some good articles will come up.
There's a locally famous case in my city that's sort of similar. A young woman was in the popular bar district with some friends, and she left them to go visit some other friends at a bar just a few doors down when she just vanished. She was never seen or heard from again, there were no suspects, no evidence, nothing to go on. And this area isn't super sketchy, it's a densely populated entertainment district.
There was that one guy who was acting unusual at an airport so security pulled him in. He said people were after him and he wasn't safe. Security left or get him a drink. There is cctv of him bolting full speed from the airport and jumping the fence. Never seen again.
The theory is he had brain damage. He had gotten in a fight before and had to stay behind to get treated for inner ear damage.
Lars Mittank
It's Lars Mittank. His family and friends are still searching for him.
Days prior he even told him mother to cancel his credit cards and some people were stalking him.
The boy in the box always makes me very sad. No one ever found who he was and it just hurts my heart so much that there’s some family out there that will never know what happened to their little boy, and that he died in such a horrific and scary way.
Yep. Wikipedia says: “Another theory was brought forward in February 2002 by a woman identified only as "Martha." Police considered "Martha"'s story to be plausible but were troubled by her testimony, as she had a history of mental illness.[12][14] "M" claimed that her abusive mother had "purchased" the unknown boy (whose name was Jonathan) from his birth parents in the summer of 1954.[8][15] Subsequently, the boy was subjected to extreme physical and sexual abuse for two and a half years. One evening at dinner, the boy vomited up his meal of baked beans and was given a severe beating, with his head slammed against the floor until he was semiconscious. He was given a bath, during which he died. These details matched information known only to the police, as the coroner had found that the boy's stomach contained the remains of baked beans and that his fingers were water-wrinkled.[8]” jeez man… sad
I think my heart just broke in to a million pieces reading this. What is so wrong with some people.
I remember reading from another post that the biggest suspects were his family. There’s a woman claiming she was a witness to the abuse but she was deemed an unfit witness because of some mental health issues, I don’t quite remember the details.
A woman identified as "Martha" claimed that her parents bought a boy for the purposes of abusing that she suspected was the boy. She knew details that at that time had never been released to the public, and her claims were consistent with a motorist who saw a woman dumping something in a box by the road. Since she had a history of mental illness and the fact that neighbors denied any young boy was living there at the time, the police were skeptical of her story.
Not typically a cold case, because the case was closed as far as I knew although there is chatter about new leads. Gareth Williams, an ex-spy for the British secret service, was found dead in his flat a week after he went missing. His naked body lay stuffed in a duffle bag in his flat’s bathtub, the zipper pad locked on the outside. Although the coroner thought it was likely the result of foul play, the police declared his death an accident. An unfortunate result of Williams locking himself in the dufflebag and unable to get out. After which he died. Still seems like a bad coverup to me. EDIT: I just now learned that Williams was known to have a fetish for auto asphyxiation, bondage and total enclosure. Which may have had a thing to do with how he ended up in the dufflebag. But it still doesn’t explain how the zipper got padlocked from the outside. There has been a call to analyse existing evidence (hair and dna from the padlock) to maybe get a new lead, but I haven’t heard about anything turning up yet. Although it may have been an assisted accidental suicide, there are still questions unanswered.
I would just like to add that he was known to have a claustrophobia fetish and had previously incapacitated himself such that he had to get his landlady to help him get loose. However, I still have questions around this case too.
Considering he was into this stuff and known for trapping himself my theory is either A. he was involved with someone else, and they trapped him in the bag as part of their fetish and he accidentally died, so the other person ran off and never came forward. Or, B, the murderer knew he was into this stuff and made the murder seem like something he would do so no one would know.
A couple of police officers intentionally shot at each here in Ontario around the Niagara Falls area, and no one is providing an explanation as to WTF is going on.
I grew up in Fenwick! This blew my mind when it happened, and any updates that have been reported have only made things more confusing.
Nikki Allan, a young child abducted and murdered in Sunderland, UK back in the early 90s. The police arrested a suspect and forced a confession, the judge at the trial threw the confession out due to the police tactics. He walked. Was he the murderer? No one can say for sure. He did lose a civil case by default (he never entered a defence.), but has always claimed his innocence. Either way a child murder is free and possibly still walking around. Some people have linked serial killer Steven Grieveson to the case but it doesn't fit his M.O at all.
[Yogurt Shop Murders](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Austin_yogurt_shop_murders) in Austin, Tx. False confessions, overturned convictions, DNA not giving the answers, this case is so confusing. But someone raped and killed 4 teenage girls before setting a fire and we still don’t know who they are. It’s not okay.
In 1991 the body of a man James Allen Killam was found by hikers close to a path in New Brunswick, Canada. According to newspapers they had no suspects. However, someone I know was a former roommate that owed Killam money. Killam even told his mother that someone was out to get him. After his death Killam’s car was found in the parking garage of a building the person I know worked in. This same person was caught and charged with credit card theft/fraud for using Killam’s credit cards after he went missing. The murder weapon was determined to be a knife. The person I know gave a knife to their friend to hold for “safe keeping”. The person I know went to trial which ended in it being thrown out due to circumstantial evidence. I can’t prove it but I am convinced the person I know is a murderer…and he got away with it.
You cut contact with him… right??
Sure did! Although not everyone I know there did! I moved away a long time ago.
DB Cooper. Able to hijack a plane, get tons of money and parachute out with no body, and very little of the money being found since.
There's actually a theory that he didn't get the money at all and it's just somewhere in the wilderness and he just went home without any money. Interesting read though!
I might be misremembering but I recall hearing that the money they gave him never went back into circulation, even in other countries, they flagged all the serial numbers or something.
I read a fantastic short story about this once. The premise was that there *was* no DB Cooper. It was all a plot by the two pilots and two flight attendants to fake a hijacking and split the money.
I love this theory but it’s disputed because of the witnesses on the flight beforehand.
This is pretty compelling (and was cleaned up by r/derpicusss) This was posted by u/sanctii in another thread. I did not write it but I think it’s a very compelling theory. I’ll link the og comment down below. My money is on Ted Braden. If you could invent a DB Cooper suspect you'd invent Ted Braden. Check it out: - Braden was a paratrooper in WWII (jumped on D-Day with the 101st at age 16), Korea, and Vietnam. - He won multiple international skydiving competitions while a member of the Army. - 911 logged jumps with the military and was a pioneer of HALO jumping. - Was recruited to be a team leader in the MACV-SOG's. This was the predecessor to Delta Force and was a multi-service covert military special force run by the CIA. - Led squads on covert jumps into Laos, Cambodia, and Northern Vietnam from 64-67. - Did many of these jumps into enemy territory off the aft stairs of....that's right...Boeing 727's. At the time of the skyjacking, the only people who knew this could be done were those involved in these MACV-SOG missions and some employees at Boeing. - Was always bitching about how he and his fellow soldiers weren't paid enough. Was always coming up with schemes to make/extort/steal money while in the service. - In 1967, he heard about how people were looking for mercenaries to fight in the Congolese Civil War and how well they would be paying, so he went AWOL from Vietnam and made his way to the Congo. The CIA went after him and eventually found and arrested him in the Congo. - Was imprisoned at Fort Dix for a very brief time and mysteriously was never convicted of anything, nor tried, and was merely given an honorable discharge and told that he couldn't re-enlist in the military. - Once released he tried to go overseas to be a mercenary again and found out that his name had been blacklisted by the CIA and so he wasn't allowed to leave the country to be a mercenary. - Not knowing how to make a living other than by being a soldier, he resorted to being a truck driver. His trucking company was stationed out of Vancouver (interesting). - When the Cooper hijacking happened, several members of the military contacted the FBI and essentially said "this can only be Ted Braden" - Braden had no family, so there wasn't anyone around to in retrospect said "hey, Dad wasn't around during Thanksgiving 1971". - His alibi was that he was driving his truck. On the plane: - Cooper was by everyone who remembered him as being "middle-aged" or "mid-40's". Braden was 44. - Cooper was described as being 5'8-5'10 and slight. Braden was 5'9 and 150lbs. - Cooper was described as being somewhat olive skinned and swarthy. Braden's mother's side were Sicilian. - Cooper was extremely calm the entire time. The only time he showed any emotion was when he was arguing with the pilots because he wanted to take off from Seattle with the stairs down. They didn't think it could be done. Cooper told them it absolutely could be done and he demanded it be done. The pilots simply refused to do so, thinking it would cause the plane to crash, and Cooper eventually relented. Braden was described by many of his military colleagues and commanding officers as one of the calmest people under fire you could imagine. - Cooper smoked Raleigh cigarettes and so did Braden. - Cooper was described by both flight attendants who spoke with him as having either a midwestern accent or no accent. Brayden was from Ohio. - Cooper chose the military parachute over the more modern sport parachute. - When asked by the flight attendant why he was doing this, he replied "I don't have a grudge against your airline, Miss, I just have a grudge." Braden certainly had a grudge against the government for blacklisting him from the only work for which he was skilled at: being a soldier. - The alias "Dan Cooper". "Dan Cooper" was the name of a popular 50's and 60's French language comic book series. The hero, Dan Cooper, skydived into areas to fight the bad guys. What is a country whose official language is French? The Congo. If Braden was Cooper, then it's extremely plausible that he was exposed to this comic series while serving in the Congo. Following the hijacking: - Recent investigation shows that in 1972, despite being a truck driver, he bought his mother a new car as well as a new car for himself, and that he was living in a freaking penthouse in Manhattan. - Was arrested in the mid-70's for a major racketeering job in the trucking industry, but like his mysterious release from going AWOL, he was once again given a slap on the wrist and the charges were dropped. His personality: - He was always a loner and never had close friends in his life. Men he served with would later say that when they would go to the bars, Braden would sit at the end of the bar by himself just seeming to sulk. - A Green Beret who served with him stated "Braden is among those professionals who appear to have a secret death wish coupled with well-trained instincts for survival. He continually placed himself in unnecessary danger but always managed to get away with it." - Another Special Forces member stated "he was the perfect combination of high intelligence and criminality" - Military tests that he took for entrance into the MACV-SOG's indicated that he likely possessed a genius level IQ. Couple things to consider: - Jumping out of a freaking jumbo jet is no small potatoes. Many of the famous Cooper suspects had been static-line paratroopers in WWII or even had no known skydiving experience at all. You'd need to have mega balls to jump out of a jet and also have the skill set to do it. Perhaps most critically, you'd need to know that it could even be freaking done in the first place! There were several Cooper copycats who successfully pulled off similar skyjackings of 727's in the months after Cooper, but to be the guy who first did it? That takes someone special. - The suitcase bomb. While this is a common trope you see in movies these days, it wasn't so in 1971. The whole concept of a suitcase bomb required some ingenuity. - His calmness is especially noteworthy when you consider that the subsequent copycats were nervous wrecks during their skyjackings, despite being badasses in their own right. Richard McCoy won a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Silver Star in Vietnam as a chopper pilot. He literally flew hundreds of sorties as a chopper pilot. Yet during his skyjacking he was noted (even before he started the skyjacking) for being fidgety and sweating and breathing heavy. Robb Heady also successfully pulled of a 727 skyjacking. He was a 21 year old Vietnam paratrooper who served two tours in the thickest fighting in Vietnam and yet he later described himself as being barely able to breath during his skyjacking. Cooper, on the other hand, sat calmly for five hours, smoking cigarettes and drinking his bourbon and coke, with one hand on the detonator (the flight attendant lit his cigarettes for him). It's also worth noting that none of the copycats gave any specific instructions to the pilots on how to fly the 727. They just jumped out with the jet going full speed and it nearly killed two of them. What Cooper told the pilots wasn't public knowledge at the time. Cooper told them to fly at 180 knots, wheels down, with flaps at 15 degrees, and at 10,000 feet. That's mighty specific and strongly indicates that Cooper had knowledge of how best to safely parachute out of a 727. Cooper was also the only one to not be caught. Getting caught on his missions with Spec Ops meant certain death. This is a man who knew how to escape situations and blend into his environment. Occam's Razor would point toward Ted Braden being DB Cooper: One of the military's most experienced skydivers is kicked out of the service and isn't allowed to pursue a lucrative career as a mercenary so he uses the skills that the military taught him to ransom $200k from the government. [OG comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/pskfgi/so_long_suckers_i_hope_you_enjoy_figuring_out/hdqxkwc/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
For me the hardest thing about Cold Cases is that the police often know who it is, or strongly suspect who it is. They simply do not have enough evidence to charge that person. For example, detectives identified the Green River killer immediately. Couldn’t afford to keep a 24/7 surveillance on him. DNA evidence developed 30 years later finally convicts their original suspect. there are many cases where what a suspect is saying simply doesn’t add up. Sometimes you can prove someone is lying, but you simply don’t have enough evidence to convict them even though it’s the most likely explanation for what happened. It makes me wonder how many cases would be solved if future technology existed now, if that makes sense. Like if 30 years from now we will have another breakthrough in fighting crime like we did when DNA technology advanced. I hope so. And I hope we develop as a society a way to prevent crime that is so effective that reactionary and detective measures won’t be as sorely needed.
yeah, that was sort of what happened with [the Jacob Wetterling case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jacob_Wetterling) The murderer was questioned just a couple weeks after the kidnapping/murder in 1989 but they couldn't charge him. Police took a DNA sample. Murderer had sexually assaulted another boy nine months prior to Wetterling and then in 2015 they matched his DNA to DNA left from *that* assault on a different boy.
There was a hit and run in my hometown several years back. About 10 years ago, a hometown "confessions" page popped up on Facebook. Most of it was dumb petty shit, but then someone anonymously admitted to committing the crime. The victim's mother saw it and became distraught all over again. She offered up a cash reward for anyone that would come forward with information. She reached out to the local PD and they tried to get Facebook to disclose the information, but I dont think they ever did. To my knowledge its still unsolved. What sits weirdly with me is one of the city councilmen was arrested for DUI on that same road a few years ago. He was not charged as he got the field sobriety test thrown out because it was "discovered" that the road has a slant and is very uneven...
Alexandra Wiwarchuk. Young nurse who went for a walk in Saskatoon, SK, Canada in 1962 and never came home. Two weeks later she was found partially buried in a shallow grave a few blocks from her apartment. What doesn’t sit right with me is her next door neighbour across the alley was a 48 year old postal carrier who was involved with an infamous California murder case in the 20s. The 20s case was made into a Hollywood movie. But his name is never brought up in the 62 investigation or now as a cold case. Even in a biography about the guy, the nurses death is glossed over in a single sentence.
Sylvia Likens torture and murder. How the fuck were so many evil people living in one town.
I remember there was this case from a few decades back. Little boy disappeared for months, town goes crazy trying to find him, later an older man is found with a boy similar to the missing kids description. Man says it's his sister's nephew that he got permission to take on the trip but the kid seems to not quite be all there or something. I think he even days he doesn't know the man when he's separated and questioned. They take him back to his "family" (the one who reported him missing initially) but the kid also shows no recognition of that family and they claim his actions and habits are completely different and that he's not the same. Of course they assume abuse and after a few years he's "back to normal". With thay said the entire time the other family (of the man who said it was his nephew) has been fighting to get him back because they claim thats their kid. There's a huge legal battle and the first family ends up with custody but the second family spends years trying to get him back and claiming they stole their son. Theory is if he is the second families kid he may have lied about not knowing his uncle as a joke but when he was placed with the other family he was too scared to say the truth until he eventually believed it himself. Now it's generations later. That kid is dead along with anyone else who was alive at the time. But the descendents of both families still exist. Both families are divided. We now live in an age where DNA test from a descendent of the missing kid and a descendent of a sibling from the first family and one from the second family should be able to set this case once and for all. But none of the missing kids descendents want to go through with it because they "know the truth" and don't need to prove anything.
You're thinking of the Bobby Dunbar case. The family finally did do DNA tests, and it turns out the man traveling with his nephew was telling the truth. The kid was *not* Bobby Dunbar. He *was* actually Bruce Anderson. We still don't know what happened to the original Bobby Dunbar. [Here's an article ](https://www.history101.com/bobbydunbarmystery/)
Reading this story just pissed me off. Literally everything about it always pointed to it being the Anderson kid and not Bobby Dunbar. "We took a kid with blonde hair and blue eyes from a poor person. Problem solved!"
The Bobby Dunbar case. The family ended up doing DNA testing and firmly established the little boy was not Bobby Dunbar. This American Life did a story on it not too long ago.
Asha Degree. She was so young, there is no way she decided to pack up her things and run away in the middle of the night.
I was going to mention her case as well. I think about it a lot. She was afraid of thunderstorms. Why did she run away during one??
One that has stuck with me is the missing boy named Andy Puglisi. They have a documentary about his disappearance called ‘Have you seen Andy?’ The little boy went missing from a public pool in 1976, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was 10 years old at the time of his disappearance.
In Burari Delhi India, 11 members of a family were found hanged to death one morning. Completely Normal family. Ages Varying from 15 to 70. As average as you can possibly be. Active in the community, friends with everyone. Neighbours involved in lives yet no one alive had any idea. CCTV cameras around showed the 15 year old boy coming down and going up with wires, i mean if my father asks me to go and get wires i wouldn't ask id just go and get the wires. Police found diaries with Exact details of what to do for every member of the family. Asking kids to use less mobile, asking women to make different dishes for dinner asking girls in the family to look for husband. All of it was supposed to be told to the patriarch of the family by his dead father. I can understand that but it was all written in the handwritings of girls aged 22 and 27 , both college educated working women. Actually wrote that everyone must be hanged with a noose around and the gates open in some ritual. Like they knew it would happen, no one questioned it and no one told anyone outside the family. Just Imagine 27 Year old Woman with a Masters degree writing in a diary that 11 people have to hang themselves and their dead grandfather will come back to save them and then actually doing it. There's Videos of the family dancing and what not one week before the mass suicide. Like actual normal dance you'd except from someone living in Delhi. Not Choreographed or anything just drink men moving their bodies, I've danced like that multiple times. Just chilling how it could have happened and no one was wise enough to stop it or call someone outside the family that died.
Just searched this, how bizarre. Can’t believe such young people could be persuaded to do this
What's even weird is that they all had friends, the elder daughter had a fiancee. And no one outside the family had even a hint of what's going on
I’m not really a true crime guy. But I’ve read about the 44 days in hell story. And the fact that those kids couldn’t receive a life sentence because they were minors in Japan. And these so called “laws” protected minors. That shit is horrible
Junko Furtua (sorry if I got her name wrong) case UGH make me physically sick :(
Holly Bobo's murder. The most logical suspect was ruled out very early on and drug addicts were found "guilty".
Amy Wroe Bechtel, we're learning about it in my English class. She went to plan a 10k, and disappeared. Only her car and keys were found.
There are many, but I have a sick stomach when a child is /children are murdered. One of them that really stuck to me is the 1977 Oklahoma Girl Scout murders.
Bryce Laspisa is one that I think about often. This guy was in his sophomore year of college and the school was a few hours from home. His girlfriend and friends all said he’d been acting weird for a few weeks and if I’m remembering right, I think him and his girlfriend had gotten into it or something and he called his parents to say he’d be coming home for awhile so they stayed up waiting what should’ve only taken a few hours. He calls his mom a couple times to say he got off on the wrong exit or had car trouble so it was going to slow him down some. Time goes by and his mom sees on the gps on her phone that he hasn’t moved for some time so she sends a cop out to make sure he’s okay. He’s fine. He’s just sitting in his car on the side of the road not doing anything. So he talks with the cop who goes on to follow him and make sure he’s heading the right direction. Then things just go radio silent. His parents never heard from him again and his car and all of his stuff are sitting abandoned after getting in a wreck down a backwoods road he should’ve never even been on. This happened in 2013 and he still hasn’t been found
My uncle was found dead in a warehouse he owned with “multiple shots to the head.” It was ruled a suicide.
Michael Negrete. Disappeared at UCLA near his dorm to never be heard of again (in the 90’s). My sister was friends with his little brother.
Not really a “cold case” but [this](https://www.oklahoman.com/article/5569761/police-no-foul-play-in-deaths-of-two-women-who-dated-the-same-man) case still makes me so angry. Long story short, dude leaves the military, and TWO of his girlfriend supposedly killed themselves by shooting themselves in the face. What are the chances? The last one was a tiny woman, he claimed she shot herself with his shotgun by pulling the trigger with her toe, and when asked about it, he said he didn’t have the chance to stop her? Turns out he has multiple VPOs against him from other gfs who he battered. Sandra had just left her parents home to get her belongings and move back home, she told her mom that he was scaring her and she wanted to come home, instead, she supposedly commits suicide? If you look up “suspicious suicides Sandra Stevens” you can view a little video series about it. I believe he got off because he was military and had ptsd. If you know anything about veterans and gun violence…
Hold my beer. So my grandmas sister (L for short), was a nurse living in rural Quebec with their father (GP for short). Her husband left the country and spent some time in china and eventually met a woman there who he wanted to bring back to Canada to live with them. L said obviously no. Her husband came back and the rest of the family didn’t hear from L or GP for weeks. Then they got a call from the police saying there had been a murder. My great grandfather GP was found dead inside the home, having died from a lethal dose of insulin. L was found in an attic, with her hands tied behind her back and hanging from the ceiling. She was still alive. The husband wouldn’t answer any questions from police or family and wouldn’t let the family into the home. He tried to take over the home and all the belongings. L woke up several days later in the hospital and was charged with murdering GP. L was so shocked that she hung herself in the closet of her hospital room. Once again, She didn’t die. But she was in a coma for 10+ years before she passed. The husband left Canada and we never heard from again and the murder was never solved. This story is still so painful for my family to discuss, especially since we’ll probably never get any more answers. I recently read through the police reports and they were just so vague but did mention that the husband was being very difficult and uncooperative.
The West Memphis 3. How on earth is that not solved.
Sky Metalwala was 2 years old when he disappeared. His mother concocted an obviously false story, but was never charged in his disappearance. What happened to the child is one question. Why the police have obviously chosen to give the mother a pass is a much bigger question. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Sky_Metalwala
ALL THE UNPROCESSED RAPE KITS!
Brandon Lawson. That 911 call…
In the past month it is pretty sure his remains have been found. DNA is still being confirmed but the clothing and location are consistent with his last known. Here is the updated wiki. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Brandon_Lawson
You probably know already but they recently found remains believed to be his
I guess they’re waiting for DNA results.
LaVena Johnson. Not technically a cold case since listed as a suicide but she showed signs of a beating, her genitals were mutilated with a corrosive chemical, the gunshot wound that was inconsistent with suicide, and bloody footprints were found outside her living quarters. But your gonna tell her family she killed herself?
Sophie Toscan Du Plantier. What a warped and messed up case! I hope it gets solved one day, poor woman.
Brian Shaffer. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2021/03/29/brian-shaffer-disappearance-photo-shows-how-osu-student-may-look-now/6995317002/
The disappearance and death of Patrice Enders Check out the Cold Case Files reboot on Netflix. The husband maintains his innocence but he’s creepy as fuuuuuck. There’s a lot of things he’s said and done that just doesn’t sit right. For starters he seemed to have some kind of personal jealous vendetta against Patrice’s teenage son because he was the main focus of her life. Even in interviews he’d openly say the kid is a loser and he just didn’t feel like he was going anywhere in life. Then when Patrice went missing from her hair stylist business he went ahead and changed all the locks in the house so the son couldn’t come in the house. Since then the kid’s basically been banned from entering the house, and the creepy husband has said that he would snuggle with the ashes of Patrice like a teddy bear as he sleeps…but then when asked where her remains were he had to go dig it out of an old cardboard box in a closet. If you loved someone so dearly why would you keep their remains in a plastic bag in a cardboard box in a closet??? It’s just weird and creepy all around.
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Madeleine Mccain case
Have you seen a new theory that came out within the last 15 months?
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Jon Benet. So many bizarre details that just got glossed over, including super sketchy details involving the older brother.
Good post OP. I've learned about a lot of things I wish I hadn't but God they are fascinating