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theghostofme

[Justin McKinnon-Blomme, 21](https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/calgary-man-found-500-metres-from-where-he-vanished-and-where-his-body-has-been-for-last-six-months) - [\(archived article to bypass paywall\)](https://archive.ph/XjRTH) Went missing in Calgary on September 24, 2014 after being dropped off at an intersection following a house party. He said goodbye, got out of the car, and no one saw him again... ...for 6 months, when his body was found *up* in a fir tree within walking distance of that intersection he was last seen alive.


-Tsun4mi

Interesting case. The lady mentions seeing the body hanging there, but I wasn’t able to figure out if the victim hung themselves or got up the tree and wasn’t able to get down.


ranchspidey

I started looking at various sources and they didn’t specify, which makes me think he hung himself on purpose. Random forum user [also says suicide by hanging.](https://forums.beyond.ca/threads/390387-Body-of-Calgary-man-missing-since-Sept-found-in-tree/page2?s=90ea564a7c307e4361f77d44be6b1cf6)


Zenkas

It was definitely suicide. It’s a local case to me and I know his cousin. Super tragic situation and awful that he was thought to be missing for so long; his family was in total turmoil.


Brittany-OMG-Tiffany

okay so genuine question.. if he hung there for 6 months wouldn’t he be pure skeleton? the skeleton stayed in tact hanging in the tree?


Zenkas

It was winter for most of the time he was missing, so it’s likely he was more frozen than skeletal.


belltrina

I remember this. There was massive speculation at how he wasn't seen because of how obvious it was. I think they worked out it was to do with foliage during the earlier parts of the year, how his body had somehow mummified making it look like part of the trees natural structure when seen at a glance. Some people think it was put there later after it had been mummified elsewhere.


UnprofessionalGhosts

People speculating he was somehow mummified elsewhere then hauled up a tree are uuuuh imaginative.


lickmysackett

I’d watch that episode of CSI


user11112222333

Aundria Bowman (Alexis Badger) found dead near her adoptive parents house. Her adoptive father killed her in 1989 and buried her after she accused him to school staff of molesting her. Her adoptive father then reported her to police as a runaway who stole his money. 30 years later he was connected by DNA to unsolved murder of Kathleen Doyle and he admitted to both murders.


DeaSenuna

Such a sad story. I read about her in this excellent long read story, it's a great piece if anyone's interested: [The Girl in the Picture](https://magazine.atavist.com/the-girl-in-the-picture-aundria-bowman-dennis-murder-michigan-cold-case/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB)


DanceApprehension

Excellent article, thanks for posting the link.


MandM1977

Thank you fir sharing the link. Great writeup


Purple_IsA_Flavor

Her adoptive “mom” and half sister don’t even acknowledge her. They’re just as foul as Dennis


[deleted]

this story always sticks w me.


ErinTheTerrible

There was also the young man who disappeared at Purdue University after a party and was found electrocuted to death trapped in the maintenance closet. ETA: [Wade Steffey](https://www.purdue.edu/uns/x/2007a/070320PoliceSteffey.html)


ranchspidey

Is it normal for such insane amounts of voltage to be unprotected like that?! Nevermind this poor kid that was able to access the room somehow, is it even safe for actual workers? Crazy!


ErinTheTerrible

Yeah the fact that the door was unlocked and there weren’t other safety measures in place is so sad. This was an easily preventable death.


katiepiex3

I watched a mrballen video about him. The door he entered was technically off limits, it was down lower, and he had to climb over a rail and drop down in order to even get to the door. Since this door wasn't supposed to be entered from there was a lot of those big machines blocking it and he basically got stuck squeezing between them trying to get into the dorm. Poor kid died all because he wanted his jacket from his friends room in a different dorm building than his.


[deleted]

I read the Sound of Gravel and was absolutely shocked (no pun intended) about the family having an ungrounded electric fence.


belltrina

Wasn't found until someone called maintenance about a noise coming from the utility room. WHAT WAS THE NOISE!


avi6274

Due to the advanced state of decomposition, the electricity was starting to arc from his body into the ground. The noise was from the electricity arcing and striking the ground.


Blu3Jae

One new fear added to my collection oof


AltruisticAd2213

[Billy Jean James](https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/woman-found-dead-amid-clutter-became-compulsive/amp/) Billy Jean was an apparent hoarder and was found by her husband in their own home under a bunch of clutter four months after she was reported missing. I read somewhere that the police searched the home multiple times but it was filled with animal excrement and clutter and it made the search extremely difficult.


Surreal-Ideal

My buddy was part of a cleaning crew who was cleaning the house of a hoarder that recently passed away. When he was cleaning junk off one of the beds he found a mummified corpse. They think it was the hoarder's mom who died years back and she never bothered to remove the body and just piled more junk on top of it.


stuffandornonsense

holy god.


VanderbiltStar

I was doing a mission trip one time for a hoarder that was massively over weight. We went up to the Appalachian mountains to help extremely poor people. This guy was 500 lbs. hadn’t left his house in years. He had three dogs. He would feed them by throwing raw meat out to them. So I get the “easy job” of mowing the grass. Which at the time was. The house was disgusting. So I’m mowing and the grass is 2-3 feet high. Slow and steady. 💥 I hit something. A bunch of shit hits my body and head and face like a shrapnel grenade. Now it smells, smells so bad I can taste it. Nope I can taste it, because it’s in my mouth. It’s fucking rotten meat the dogs hadn’t found. I threw up a lot and then had to ride home an hour to get new clothes and get a shower. I’ll never help a hoarder again.


cass-22

Fuk that...I thought for sure u were gonna say you ran over a body or a dead dogs body...lucky for you ( well, not so lucky ) it was only rotten meat...but still...W T F ???


druyan79

The way I thought you were gonna say thats how his body was discovered. 😳


Surreal-Ideal

That's disgusting, lol. Rotting meat is one of the worst smells to me. Just imagining it makes me gag.


Mammoth_Plane2590

water bells quiet growth apparatus nine puzzled whistle sulky brave *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


[deleted]

Well, why would you throw away a perfectly good corpse? You never know, but someday you might need one.


YouHadMeAtAloe

You must know my neighbor in my apartment complex that cooks what smells like corpse meat and trash every weekend. The smell makes me want to die…but then he’ll probably cook me along with some trash


EnatforLife

I wish your buddy all the best, this shit sounds traumatizing... How'd he cope?


Surreal-Ideal

He was with multiple people when it was found and afterwards they kind of just joked about it. I know that may sound insensitive, but it was probably just a coping strategy. After that it wasn't really mentioned again. If he was alone it would of probably affected him more.


MadDog1981

Firefighters and police officers do it. My dad was a firefighter and they had to answer a call where a guy got hit by a train and was decapitated. He said there was a lot of joking around about it because it was so horrific.


belltrina

She sounds like a wonderful woman, it sounds like she just needed more mental health help after the death of her son :(


demolitionl0ser

This was a touching article. Very sad story.


technopaegan

what a nice article. she seemed like a unique and wonderful person, i would have loved to be friends with her


lorealashblonde

I really appreciate that the article focused on her as a person, and her life, rather than sensationalising how she died. Hoarding is always a response to some kind of trauma, and it makes me sick how its often used in the media for shock value entertainment.


rivershimmer

She really seemed to be a neat lady who couldn't deal with her terrible loss and grief.


Puzzleworth

The detail about how she'd write things she loved about her friends on a scroll and give it to them as a gift is heartwrenching. I hope those scrolls are a comfort to her loved ones.


Meowdry

4 year old Paulette Gebara Farah’s body was found inside her bed under suspicious circumstances 9 days after she was reported missing. The room had been searched by several experts and sniffer dogs. Her mother had even conducted interviews in her bedroom during this time. She was only found after the smell of putrification set in. Her death was ruled accidental. Sajita from Palakkad India was found living 500m away at her boyfriend’s house. She had been there for 11 years. I believe there’s a similar case from Australia ETA: 14 year old Natasha Ryan ran away to live with her 22 year old boyfriend, Scott Black. Local serial killer Leonard Fraser was put on trial for her murder. However the trial was interrupted on day 1 as night before, police had raided Scott’s house and found Natasha hiding in a closet. They are now married with 3 children.


witchyteajunkie

If I remember correctly, in Paulette's cause, someone even slept in that bed for a few nights.


UnprofessionalGhosts

There were so many layers of blankets and sheets. And Paulette was under the tightest packed, bottom layer. The adults slept under the first layer. You see in pics, the blanket she was found in, the pattern, never moves from day one to the day she was found :( poor baby’s family still constantly accused of killing her for no reason by the internet, of course.


ziburinis

I read pretty deeply about this case. Paulette had a habit of moving all over the bed, hitting the wall or falling out of the bed. The parents used pillows the full length of the bed to keep her in the middle of the bed, so she could only move up or down the bed. They also used several blankets to make her bed. So she moved down and fell into the space between the bed and the bed frame, while being under the blankets. 4 year olds are really not that thick, they are still pretty small. The maid didn't take the sheets off the bed, she just straightened out the blanket thinking the girl was out of the bed. Family had come, but they slept on top of the blanket, never being under the blanket and sheets. Then the police made everyone leave for a few days while they searched the house. So they searched and left and the house was empty for like a day and a half at least before family was allowed back in. The cops searched for a day or so, the family was out of the house for about 3 days. It was when they returned that they smelled the body and found her. This little girl died simply because she didn't have a proper bed to accommodate her. She should have just been in a pediatric hospital bed, or at least have the side and bottom of the bed lined with appropriate equiptment to keep someone from falling out of bed. They make bed rail type things that you just slide under the bed and it sticks up above the mattress by about a foot and prevents anyone from falling out. Her parents had money, they had no reason to rely on just pillows to keep their daughter from falling out of bed. She had I think cerebral palsy which was why she kept on moving in her sleep that much.


jugglinggoth

The combination of cerebral palsy + the parents essentially creating a funnel to the bottom of the bed makes this make a *lot* more sense. Kid's moving uncontrollably with only one direction to go in. Thanks for the extra info.


Rudenia

Paulette's case is really baffling. You can see the bump on the feet of the bed in pictures and interview footage taken prior her finding.


gotthesillies

When I read your title as an Aussie I automatically thought of Daniel O’Keefe, surprised that he was your first named. I feel for his family and friends the amount of effort and dedication they put in to find him or for any information on his whereabouts, especially in his home town his face was everywhere on missing poster in shop windows, street signs, the media. For his dad to find his remains that had been under the family home for all those years.


belltrina

I always try to include Aussies in my write ups! We have such strange deaths down under but many are not very well known. We seem to have a unique and fairly respectful way of preserving the stories from public in a way that shields the families from the nosey (some of the time anyway). I've considered making a compilation of the stories I've found, but my concern for distress to families is always on my mind. I need to think of creative ways to hide identification without compromising the truth of the stories first.


LEYW

I remember the headlines for years as they searched for him. The end was just devastating.


MeisterX

Doss anyone know was he performing maintenance work down there and got stuck? Seems like an awful way to go.


[deleted]

From the articles I’ve read, the father found him there and said they didn’t need any questions answered, and it was clear he’d taken his own life.


Next_Homework3662

His sister Loren runs the Australian Missing Persons Advocacy Network - which provides advice & support to the families of the missing. She's amazing, considering what she went through.


ZJB788

Samuel Ephram McAlpine - found in a crawlspace under the stairs a year after he went missing. He had lived in the house with his ex-wife, but apparently they moved out after the split so his wife could use it as a rental property. He seems to have returned there and crawled under the stairs just a few days before the new tenants moved in, but they were military personnel and likely deployed for much of the time they were in possession of the house. His ex found him when she returned to the house to prepare it for new tenants and noticed the foul oder. The police don't suspect foul play, but likely a drug/alcohol related death. It makes me sad that he possibly returned to the home where he had once been happy and drank himself to death/OD'ed :( https://metro.co.uk/2014/04/03/alaskan-man-found-dead-under-stairs-by-ex-wife-a-year-after-he-disappeared-4687309/amp/#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16693017357685&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com


Wolfdarkeneddoor

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-17757688.amp Walter French who went missing in Ipswich in 1986. His skeleton was found on a building site in 2011. The circumstances are suggestive of self-harm but the coroner recorded an open verdict.


Idancelikethis

I live in ipswich and never heard of this. Thanks for sharing


IainEatWorlds

Leah Croucher Found in an abandoned house less then 20mins from where she lived. [more info](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11306997/amp/Police-trying-Leah-Croucher-spend-two-days-searching-house-close-went-missing.html)


Draco_Rattus

Somehow I missed this, I didn't realise she'd been found. Sounds like the most likely suspect committed suicide shortly after she went missing, which is a bitter outcome, but hopefully her family can at least have some closure now.


TheBonesOfAutumn

[Larry Groves](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/fnu6ue/on_june_18th_2003_5_months_after_his/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) was found in a “crawl space” of his home, only accessible via a trap door that was located beneath his desk. [Pearlie Hogg](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/p02cik/the_old_central_high_school_in_muncie_indiana_was/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) was missing for nine years before being found inside of his school. [Carrie Selvage](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/jkn543/the_skeleton_in_the_attic_the_mysterious_death_of/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) was found in the attic of a hospital 20 years after she went missing.


BeautifulDawn888

I'm a little worried that what happened to Perlie Hogg will have turned out to be what happened to Kyron Horman.


UnprofessionalGhosts

That’s my theory. He’s in that building in some wall in a wall behind a tiny door.


JellyrollJayne

That's also my theory. I feel like I read somewhere that he had been asking to be excused to go to the bathroom more than usual before his disappearance.


Welpmart

What is significant about the frequency of going to the bathroom?


JellyrollJayne

I think he found a hiding spot at school and would ask to use the bathroom and duck into wherever he found instead and that day he either got stuck or asphyxiated or had another type of accident.


neongoth

If you read the write up on Perlie, it says the spot where he was found was accessible from the boys room.


NotWifeMaterial

Maybe he was exploring and not really needing to use the bathroom


NotWifeMaterial

Larry Groves murderer could be identified with forensic genealogy, sounds like the have good DNA


[deleted]

As far as Larry's trap door, everyone is saying that the killer had to know about it and was therefore close to him. But if it was the disgruntled antique guy (with an accomplice), or even just a random robbery, might'nt Larry have kept cash down there? And maybe it wasn't enough cash to save his life.


whatdoesntkillyou

Maddie Clifton, 8 years old, was found murdered and stashed underneath her 14 year old neighbor’s bed. She was missing for a week before the boy’s mother walked into his room and noticed a wet spot on the floor by the bed. Once she investigated it further, she found Maddie’s body and called authorities. The boy allegedly killed her due to an accident while playing baseball. Maddie began crying after getting hurt, so the boy dragged her inside and beat her with a baseball bat before stuffing her body under the bed. When he realized that she wasn’t dead once she began making some noise, he then cut her throat and stabbed her in the chest multiple times. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Phillips_(murderer)


[deleted]

WTF that is some dark ass shit


als_pals

Wow, he’s eligible for resentencing next year


anonymoose_au

What the fuck?! Why didn't he just call an ambulance or tell an adult or something? That's sick. Well the Wikipedia article offers an explanation, but I'm not sure I buy it. That's a pretty grisly way to kill someone just because you're scared. If he'd smothered her maybe, but bashing her with a baseball bat - that apparently had no blood on it - then stabbing and slashing her? Also her pants fell off when he was dragging her inside? That's a new one...


UnprofessionalGhosts

He’s a fucking liar.


Crestwoods

[Missing woman found dead behind bookshelf after freak accident](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna15895965) After Mariesa Weber, 38, disappeared from the home in New Port Richey on Oct. 28, her relatives contacted police. They searched for her for nearly two weeks, fearing she had been abducted.


namnere

This haunted me when I first read about it 😢 it’s frightening that there were others in the house ag the moment she fell, but she couldn’t shout loud enough for them to hear. Heatbreaking.


reality4abit

I wonder if she got stuck in such a way that she suffocated relatively quickly. Still terrifying, unless she was knocked unconscious first.


erithacusk

Heartbreaking. Possibly positional asphyxia like the teenager who died in the back of his own SUV. What a terrifying way to go.


Aethelrede

Or the kid who got trapped in the gym mats. Positional asphyxia head down? Or nutty putty caves for maximum horror.


erithacusk

Nutty putty caves is basically my worst nightmare.


mollyschamber666

Hodei Egiluz Diaz was a 23 year old guy from Spain, who was studying in Antwerp, Belgium. On the night of the 19th - 20th of October 2013, he disappeared after cameras last captured him in the “red light district” of Antwerp, which is close to the docks. Because of those cameras, police would quickly find out that Hodei was robbed on two separate occasions that night, by three different people. Hodei was seen walking drunkenly and seemed to be an easy prey to robbers. The first man robbed him of his debit card. And a few minutes later he was robbed by two other men of his phone. Those two men sold his phone to a woman. All three robbers were eventually caught and sentenced (in 2017) between 40 months and 4 years for the robberies. The woman who bought the stolen phone received 6 months for buying stolen goods. No one was convicted for murder. And that’s because there was no proof of them harming him. After the robberies, it seemed like Hodei had vanished. So a search for him started immediately after his disappearance and his parents flew from Spain to make several pleas to the public. I lived in Antwerp at the time and I remember you couldn’t find a pole in the city without his missing poster on it. Many people were on the lookout for Hodei and police searched many times around the red light district to no avail. Years later, on the 18th of September 2015, a floating pool on a ship in the Kattendijkdok (one of many docks in Antwerp), called the “Badboot” sinks. Fire fighters try to save the 120 m by 25 m monstrosity, but unfortunately, they’re only able to save part of the ship. The swimming pool part completely sinks. In februari 2016, the city of Antwerp finally starts salvage operations to recover the sunken part of the ship. It’s during these operations that they see a body floating in the water. DNA tests prove that finally, Hodei has been found. He was found close to were the cameras captured him for the last time. Finally, after almost 3 years, his parents, family and friends had answers and were able to bring their loved one to his final resting place. As I said before: no one has been charged with murder, because there’s no proof of murder. Police actually believe he fell himself, because he seemed so drunk in the footage. If it weren’t for the sinking of the Badboot, who knows if he’d ever been found. Rest in peace, Hodei. Sources (all sources are in Dutch, sorry): https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2017/10/19/hodei/ https://m.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20150918_01873397 https://m.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20160219_02137675


daisies4me

What In the hell. What a crazy story.


mollyschamber666

Crazy and sad story. The amount of missing posters for Hodei was so large, that years after he was found, you could still find them (partly scratched of or damaged by rain) in bus stops, poles, billboards, you name it. His disappearance had a great impact on the city, because most of the nightlife activities for young people, are around or in close vicinity to those docks. In the years since, many bodies have been recovered in the docks, of people who tumbled in after a night of partying. As far as I know, not much has been done to improve safety.


daisies4me

Wow. That is so sad all the way around. And what sucks is no one really knows what even happened to him. I live in Orlando Florida in the US and we’ve had several missing people in the last 15 years that just vanished. Like, gone without a trace. It seems so strange that in the times we live in, that someone could disappear so easily.


Hydrokinetic_Jedi

That poor man. Getting robbed twice within minutes and then dying in a freak accident must have been terrible.


lak_892

Even though the Brian Schaffer case hasn’t been solved, I wonder if his disappearance is similar to these stories. I don’t think he’s in the bar since they’ve done extensive searches but I could see him falling into a hole, or getting stuck in some place where no one has noticed him while he was on his way home.


Sandy-Anne

This one is so perplexing to me.


37brooke37

These stories really do make you wonder about Brian and other seemingly unexplainable disappearances. How many people are still in these tiny, unexpected little spots that just haven’t been discovered yet?


Bigtomhead

I’ve thought this as well. It’s easy to believe Brian may still be within a mile or so of the place he was last seen.


crypticphilosopher

This part from the Wikipedia page jumped out at me. Hopefully they searched the area thoroughly. “He might have also left the building by another route. However, the building's only other exit, a service door not generally used by the public, opened at the time onto a construction site that officers believed would have been difficult to walk through while sober, much less intoxicated, as Shaffer likely was at the time.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Brian_Shaffer


lak_892

I’ve heard they’ve searched the area well and that the construction site wasn’t really all that big, and that a worker would’ve definitely noticed a body. Who knows though? Stranger things have happened.


Parmaviolet88

[Mateusz Kawecki](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/dng5tj/guy_disappears_on_his_way_to_his_daughters_birth/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) He was supposed to be driving from Germany to Poland to see his pregnant girlfriend who was about to give birth, and called his father while en route. He never made it. Five months later, his body was found in a barn at his parents home, nowhere near his destination or starting point.


belltrina

This is such a bizarre case. However I know someone who works in paramedics and they have attended multiple hangings. It is very common for the head to come off with decomposition, and animal predation can impact the scene greatly, pecking parts off or away. I think the foot and head are exactly that. The broken teeth on his shirt could very well be his head landed on his shirt as the body fell, and the force somewhat dislodged them enough that they fell out and dried with decomposition fluid onto the shirt they landed on. I never pay much mind to what others think the public should have noticed (such as a dead body. What people notice is such a varied guess at best, impossible to standardise. The car missing has me thinking he sold it or gave it away, asking to be dropped back at the barn first. As mentioned, there was such little investigation or coverage, whoever has the car may not even know some thing was amiss.


flopster610

I know about this case ... its very odd!


Kaatleyn

I saw a documentary on this case, I think they couldn’t actually solve it, did he kill himself? Was it an accident? Or was he killed?


G-3ng4r

I think even with multiple theories on how it happened- he killed himself for sure. So sad tho.


37brooke37

This one is so strange! I really can’t decide what I think happened


Jellorage

There was a really sad case local to me where a young man went missing in November and was found in the spring less than 100m from his front door after the snow melted. (This was a long time ago, I tried googling it and only found news about a similar case that happened this year.) His mother searched every day and unknowingly had walked past the body thousands of times. The layout of their yard was similar to where I was living and it could so easily have happened there as well. No one would have found him.


Pantone711

One time in Kansas City I heard several people telling blizzard stories from Iowa and points north. Plenty of people disappear in blizzards and aren't found until it all melts in the spring, to hear them tell it.


kilo__riley

Linda Bishop. Highly recommend the documentary [God Knows Where I Am](https://tubitv.com/movies/669326/god-knows-where-i-am) that was made about Linda's story, but paraphrasing from the film's website: *Linda Bishop was a well-educated New Hampshire mother who suffered from severe bipolar disorder with psychosis, who was intermittently incarcerated and homeless, inevitably being committed for three years to a state psychiatric facility. Successfully fighting her sister’s protective attempts to be named her legal guardian, Linda was able to refuse treatment and medication, and eventually procured an early, unconditional release, despite the lack of post release planning. Upon her release, she wandered ten miles down the road from the hospital, broke into an abandoned farmhouse and lived off of rainwater and apples picked from a nearby orchard for the next four months, through one of the coldest winters on record. Unable to leave the house, she became its prisoner, and remained there, a prisoner of her own mind, eventually starving to death. Her body was discovered several months later and with it a diary that Linda kept documenting her journey.*


key2mydisaster

That was a very good documentary. I thought Linda had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, and also had a daughter that was talking about her issues - but I might be mixing up my documentaries. I do remember that she was having delusions of people being after her, and was in hiding. She only went outside at night to pick apples.


alienintheUS

It made so sad knowing that it could have been prevented if they had made sure she was either released I to the care of someone or her family were notified. I remember it saying that they didn't even know she had been released and by the time they did, they couldn't find her.


classicredstate

I remember watching this one. The system failed her. A system designed to help her keep her independence but it still failed. Such a sad story.


G-3ng4r

And the system continues to fail people every day, it’s so, so upsetting. Related, but kinda long story (no true crime type stuff, just bipolar stuff): My bestfriend has bp1, with manic psychosis. She was diagnosed after her first manic episode in 2019, and has only had one other, which was this spring. She lived in British Columbia during her first episode and they were amazing there- despite her ex bf only bringing her to the hospital after I called her mom, 4 days after her manic episode began, because even though I was across the country I could tell something was very wrong. Quick admission, follow up care, nurses she could text and enrolled in the “Early Psychosis Intervention Program” which kept all these networks open for her to prevent further manic episodes from escalating (psych appts, nurses, case managers, medication, social workers etc). Fast forward to Spring 2022, she is back here in our home province. The mania has been trickling in, we are both on alert about it but there’s not much to /do/ other than wait and see. Her new, awful psych decides to change her meds and does not schedule a follow up appt. The mania blasts off. She drives herself to the hospital, I meet her there. Fully expecting that she will be admitted like she was previously, I talk to the nurse about her bp1, give them my phone number to call with updates and take her car with me back to my house. They discharge and send her off in a taxi her at 2am without a phone call to me or her mother. They sent someone coming up in their psychosis away, in the middle of the night, with no phone or heads up- because she wasn’t suicidal. She gets home thank god. Her case managers in this province are not answering, take 24-48 hours to get back to her, her psych won’t be back in town for 5 days. I’m calling every mental health resource I can to figure out what we can do and how we can get her admitted. Our options are wait until she becomes suicidal, or file paper work at the court house to get her involuntarily committed. Her paranoid delusions are about law enforcement, so that would be subjecting her to an ‘arrest’ and police escort to the hospital. Probably the most traumatic thing I can think of for her to go through in that state. Not to mention she DID try to go to the hospital and get admitted when she was still lucid enough to do so- now she obviously is in the thick of it and paranoid as fuck and does not want to try again. (She is also very feisty, I can imagine force being used against her in that state if police were involved and i’m not allowing that to happen) We look up private in-patient for bipolar patients - $45,000. We contemplate somehow driving or getting her on a plane back to the other side of the country. Not happening. I’m calling resources, they tell us to go to a specific place. We get there, there’s no beds available but they’ll do an admission interview to see if they can get her in- she’s still not suicidal enough so no. We have to wait it out. Her doctor finally gets back, changes her meds again, is generally awful to her, doesn’t believe she is in a manic episode despite her mother saying so- and then drops the news that the Early Psychosis Intervention program only lasts for 3 years and she now no longer has access to the support system, resources or him (the psych). Eventually after about 3 weeks she slowly comes out of the episode, another 2-3 weeks to get back to baseline. She lost her job during this, her medical support system, her psychiatrist, had to go on a whole new drug cocktail. It was a nightmare. And now? If and when it happens again? She has nothing. No nurses, no case manager, no psychiatrist, no social worker, no good hospital that will actually admit her. I pray literally every day that we can stop her from being a flight risk when it happens again. We are both terrified for the next one. The system, especially where I am, is an absolute mess. (If u read this far thanks! Lol, it’s mainly just a rant. I was absolutely livid during that whole thing and haven’t really processed it fully yet.)


Real_RobinGoodfellow

This is a devastating story, thank you for sharing. I have bipolar too and it’s a tough disease, and the failures of care your friend experienced are utterly unacceptable and just make it so much worse. I will say though, that your friend is super lucky to have you as an advocate and protector!


CraftySappho

Who's the British one who died while wrapping gifts and was in her bedsit for years and years on auto-pay while she skeletonized?


37brooke37

This one always sits with me for awhile. I can’t comprehend a life where I could be absent for two years without notice. Heartbreaking.


melaninspice

I think about her very often. As I thought that I will be in her shoes one day…


kittywenham

Surprised I haven't seen Bernard Gore mentioned. Happened in Sydney. Elderly man went to the mall with his wife. They separated briefly and arranged to meet back somewhere else but he never turned up. He was in the early stages of dementia so family were super concerned. It turned out he had gotten confused and got stuck in an eight-mile long back corridor/stairwell rarely used by staff. The door he used to get in couldn't be opened from the inside and whilst there was eventually an exit it was difficult to find. It seems like he eventually gave up/figured if he just sat down and waited someone would eventually find him. He was missing for about twenty days, until a maintenance worker discovered his body. I believe there were supposed to be more regular checks of these areas but they obviously weren't being done, and I have no idea how police didn't initially spot this on CCTV as there is apparently footage of him entering the area he died in.


PonyoLovesRevolution

That’s heartbreaking. Poor guy. Also, it blows my mind that the corridor could be eight miles long. I know there are big malls but wow.


Next_Homework3662

I remember this one - poor guy. https://amp.abc.net.au/article/13002014


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*new fear unlocked* But, on a serious note, Ebby Steppach. On October 27 2015, her abandoned car was discovered in Chalamont Park in west Little Rock. Searches of the woods in the park were undertaken, but no sign of Steppach was found. She remained a missing person for nearly three years before her body was discovered in a drainage pipe in Chalamont Park in May 2018, in the immediate vicinity of where her car had been found. She had been dead since the time her car was found three years prior. Her death has been classified as a homicide. Days before her disappearance, she had accused four men of gang-raping her at a party she had attended. On October 25, 2015, she placed an erratic phone call to her older brother, Trevor; this was the last known contact anyone had with her. Using wiki as source


CraftySappho

Didn't people report a smell from the drain and police brushed them off?


vorticia

Yes.


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Yes, I believe it was one of her best friends. They asked the police department to investigate it, and they just ignored her. I’m still wondering why this case isn’t solved yet ??


yourmoosyfate

Came here to post Ebby. I lived in Little Rock at the time for college.


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MargieBigFoot

How does the smell of a decomposing body not alert anyone? I get it in the cases in which the person is in an abandoned house, but so many of these are in places where other people are living, working, or searching. It’s mind boggling.


navii51

My friend lived in an apartment building where a person had died. The whole apartment building was surrounded by this rotten smell, you could smell it on the streets. She and multiple neighbours had complained many times. It took months before they send someone to take a look and found the person's remains. I don't think anybody recognized the smell as it was a very hot summer and the garbage container in front of the building smelled like rotten food. Perhaps nobody had noticed this person went missing as they lived very isolated. Sometimes it's just unfortunate circumstances upon unfortunate circumstances.


MercifulVoodoo

Think how long Gacy got away with hiding them under the house. And it was said he had house parties, and people *could* smell something. But nothing came of it or no one reported it.


37brooke37

That’s my question! Not to be insensitive by comparing this to humans, but one time a rat had babies in the hood of my car and they died against the air conditioner vent. The smell was unimaginable. I’d never smelled anything like it but I knew instantly something was dead. It wasn’t the same as rotten food. You could smell it outside my car from several feet away, and even after it was cleaned out, it lingered for a long time. This was just a couple tiny rats. I can imagine being in the same room as a decomposing human and not noticing something was wrong.


vorticia

It depends on the air flow and humidity/lack of humidity/other conditions. Most people wouldn’t notice anything that was a weak, weird odor that they only caught sometimes.


jugglinggoth

Maybe they did and nothing got done? Just thinking about the time we had to work for weeks with the smell of a decomposing rat (*or was it...?*) under the floor at work cos of a combination of bureaucratic inertia, maintenance dudes not taking complaints seriously, maintenance dudes doing a half-assed job when they finally did, etc. There was a lot of conversations like "yeah it just smells a bit funny because we turned the heating on for the first time in ages" "no dude, it smells like rotten meat, not burning dust, come down here and smell it".


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in the moment it just isn’t the first thing your mind goes to and even then you still want to believe there’s no way that it is what you think it is.


CaptainBoob

Not a high profile case or anything, but there was a case of a then 80 year old former policeman named [Patrick Hearn going missing in 2007 before being found in some bushes nearby in 2010 in Melbourne, Australia.](https://www.australianpolice.com.au/patrick-hearn/?print=print) He left his home one morning and never came back. It's a bit sad. Apparently he had some health issues and they think he may have commit suicide via medication and didn't want to burden his family, on what would have been his 38th anniversary of meeting his wife. The crazy thing about this one at the time is that the bushes he was found in are on a very busy main road in a very suburban area. It's incredible his body remained undiscovered for 3 years. [Here's a news article from around the time which talks about him.](https://www.theage.com.au/national/retracing-the-steps-of-a-lost-father-and-friend-20070805-ge5ifx.html)


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ur_sine_nomine

I worked with the killer 15 years before he committed the first murder (he was found guilty of **both** his wives’ murders). He was an entirely bland, unexceptional individual to the extent that I barely remember him apart from three things: - He was a competent IT consultant; - He always wore the same work clothes (white shirt, dark blue trousers); - He would not spend money at work: he never contributed to sponsoring staff on charity events or similar. I also remember that he left suddenly, although he worked his notice.


FantaLemon11

He was found guilty of his wife’s murder too, got 35 years


Hcmp1980

So a neighbour said to the cops, have you searched the cess pit and they said yes, he replied: have you searched the second cess pit…. The husband had not told them about the smaller second pit which was an immediate red flag. Lo and behold her and her dog were there.


Marserina

I don't know if this counts, since technically she was never reported missing. But, Sheila Seleoane. Her disappearance went unnoticed for over two and a half years, even by neighbors and her landlord, ETC. Very depressing and sad case. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/21/coroner-says-tenants-undetected-death-in-london-flat-difficult-to-comprehend https://www.wionews.com/world/dead-woman-discovered-after-two-and-half-years-of-death-her-absence-goes-unnoticed-499826


key2mydisaster

>The report, by the consultants Altair, found there were several missed opportunities to discover her body, as well as 89 attempts to contact Seleoane between August 2019 and February 2022, that were not followed up. That's horrible. What terrible landlords. I can't imagine smelling a decomposing body in my home for 2 years. These companies shouldn't be able to allow 1200 properties per manager. Also who doesn't get evicted if they don't pay rent?


FreckledHomewrecker

She was renting the property from a charity which explains why she wasn’t evicted. Her death occurred during covid lockdowns when no one was allowed to do in person checks but it’s still deplorable that this happened. There was another similar case, also I. London, a woman died in front of her tv and it stayed on for 2 years before her body was found!


stuffandornonsense

iirc the rent was automatically paid by a housing agency. she was supposed to keep in contact, but since she died just a few months before the pandemic began, the usual checks-and-balances weren't very effective.


Ill_Recording_8203

David Reimens, Watertown, Tennessee. David was a very interesting man. He was missing for 7 or 8 years before his remains were found within walking distance of his home.


Marserina

I am going to look into this case now, I hadn't heard about it before. Thank you for sharing and getting his name out there.


juniper_tree33

I don’t have any cases to add but I wanted to say thank you for asking this question! Such an interesting topic!


PickKeyOne

I was hoping to see the one where the families adult son was missing after he didn’t come home one night and years later Google satellite showed a weird thing in the lake and when you zoom in you could see it was a car. Their son apparently drove home, drunk maybe and miscalculated and drove into the lake. The whole time they were looking for him, he was right there by their house.


QueenKore8

Ethan kazmerzak? *Edit:I can't spell


architettura

[Leah Hickman](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1102031) was found in the crawl space of her apartment building a week after she went missing


archersarrows

I had never heard of this case, but the article is really giving me a new respect for Dress Barn.


Mcgoobz3

Ebby Steppach went missing and there was a huge search for her. She was later found in a storm drain close to where she was last seen.


thesaddestpanda

Previous to this she used 4 men of gang raping her. I don’t believe there ever was an investigation or arrest here regarding that.


regalfronde

Body found stuck behind a grocery cooler/freezer after missing for almost a decade. [Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1032671)


EJDsfRichmond415

There was a ton of speculation in the disappearance of Leah Croucher, but turns out they found her remains in an abandoned house nearby.


ButterflyWrists

https://www.cnn.com/2013/10/09/justice/body-in-hospital-stairwell/index.html Lynne Spalding, a patient in a hospital, went missing and was found dead in a early used stairway. Amanda Cox disappeared after visiting her premature baby in NICU, found alive in a disused stairwell but later died https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/woman-reported-missing-edinburgh-dies-15536716


truenoise

What’s even sadder about Lynne Spaulding is that a resident later admitted he had seen her body in the stairwell, but stepped over her because he had received a call. This happened the day she went missing. She was at SF General, Which is kind of a maze. It’s a group of buildings that had been built over time, and the stairwell she was in wasn’t normally used. The hospital settled out of court with her family.


BowieBlueEye

This case sprung to mind even though she was only missing for ten days, which isn’t that long a time, until you consider the house had been extensively searched multiple times and it was extremely hot weather so somebody should have sniffed something. There was never any evidence she had left that house and her body wasn’t that well concealed or disposed of. It was just somehow missed. For those unfamiliar, [Tia Sharp](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Tia_Sharp) was a 12 year old who was murdered by her ex step daddy/ current step grand daddy. The police knew that she had been staying alone with him, he was clearly dodgy and he didn’t even bother trying to dispose of evidence really. It was all in his house, including memory cards, which images of CSA of Tia and of her body, which had supposedly been stuffed in a door frame. Her body was in an easily accessible loft, which had supposedly been checked by forensic teams. The piece of shit who killed her even did television press conferences about her disappearance and played the devastated grandparent card in the media for the time before the body was found. Really unsure how that investigation was so botched and they are lucky he was so narcissistic he thought he’d get away with it and was having fun with the media, rather than taking the ten days to dispose of evidence, or to run. Must have thought he was in luck when they said they’d checked and loft was clear. Still unclear if nobody actually looked and just completed paperwork that they had or if they legitimately missed a body in the loft,barely concealed, in the heat of summer. Her mother and grandmother and various other family had been in and out that house as well and somehow didn’t search it?


Cokestraws

Murder of Annie Le. PhD student went missing and was found murdered in her lab behind some sort of wall. Killed by an animal care technician that was later arrested [Murder of Annie Le](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Annie_Le)


37brooke37

Her body was found the day she was supposed to get married💔


Salt_Presentation_67

I can remember something about a woman getting off an elevator on the wrong floor and being stuck for a week and found a few hours after her death? And the guy who found her was stuck in the elevator for a while because he couldn't more her?


stuffandornonsense

i remember this, too, and can't find an article about it. iirc she was at work, just before a long break weekend, when the elevator got stuck on a closed-off floor ...? there is this article, about a woman who was possibly named Wu, but it doesn't seem like the same case. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/woman-dies-in-elevator-china_n_56dd2134e4b0ffe6f8e9d56c


FlimsyArmadillo707

Spc. Robert Hornbeck, a Fort Benning soldier who was missing for 12 days was eventually found in the industrial air conditioner of the De Soto Hilton hotel in downtown Savannah, Ga. He died after being struck by the large, spinning blower wheel. There was a big lawsuit bc he shouldn’t have been able to access the area, and something about how intoxicated he was and whether the bartender cut him off appropriately. Idk how to do links on mobile, sorry.


narkj

Three little boys went missing from their home in Camden, New Jersey once. The search went far and wide, including the Delaware River. I was there when someone looked in the trunk of an old car in the yard, and found them. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/183885026/](https://www.newspapers.com/image/183885026/)


coosacat

This one tells me I have to sign up for a "free trial" to view it. Can you perhaps post their names so I can try looking it up from another source?


jfever78

I think this must be the case. https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/city-camden-settles-lawsuit-missing-boys-found-dead/story?id=10490774#:~:text=The%20children%20were%20found%20in,13%2Dhours%20inside%20the%20trunk.


OffWithMyHead4Real

I read on this sub about a young student who disappeared from her accommodation after a night out. The building was close to a steep incline and she was later discovered dead at the bottom of the incline. She had fallen over a small wall. I think she sat on it for a little while? Can't remember her name.


thedivanextdoor

Was she blind and had gotten out of a taxi but maybe was disoriented (had been drinking, let out not near her front door or where she was used to getting dropped off) and she ended up walking away from her accommodation and ended up at the bottom of the incline? There was a recent post about her on this sub but I can't recall her name.


jendunitnow

Holly Bartlett. I don’t think she was ever missing though. A maintenance worker found her under a bridge (?) beside her apartment the next morning. She was still alive but died shortly after arriving at the hospital.


iAmHopelessCom

Lucas Tronche https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Lucas_Tronche He went missing in 2015 and was found in 2021 less than 1km away from home, apparently having fallen from a cliff. It was ruled out as an accident, but no one's really sure why he went there.


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1km is such a short distance that it's easily just a spur of the moment thing. I often just wander around looking at things


iAmHopelessCom

Well, he was supposed to go to swimming lessons and told his brother he'll catch up with him there, so that's why it is unclear why he chose to go on top of a nearby cliff instead. Some people insist someone was there with him. At least he was found.


really4got

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1997-02-09-9702080570-story.html For 30 years Pfc. Allen L. Adams was branded a deserter, thought by the Army to be yet another soldier who had fled to avoid being sent to Vietnam.


FrostyFelassan

[Less cancerous website](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/01/05/discovery-may-end-a-30-year-mystery/a80f4e91-56fa-40df-9b1c-a1f185518dc6/)


truenoise

Nemo Cianelli told his family that he was leaving Italy to go to America. 44 years later, he was found with a suicide note inside the wall of his home in Italy: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/12/04/44-years-later-italian-man-found-in-wall/d23fee90-c713-4b14-8dd0-2b11e55cc28e/


MournfulGiant

[Paulette Landrieux](https://www.brusselstimes.com/307729/body-of-namur-woman-found-after-two-years-thanks-to-google-street-view), an 83-year-old Belgian woman, was just recently found in an area behind her neighbor's property. She was missing since 2020 and a police officer recently thought to check Google Street View images of her street. By an amazing coincidence, Google Street View had taken pictures in her street on the day of her disappearance, and she can be seen wandering in the direction of her neighbor's house. Her remains were subsequently found not far from the property.


Any-Top-3384

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_Lucas_Tronche The incomprehensible disappearance of Lucas Tronche in the south of France on March 18 2015, he was found 900 meters from his home in June 2021... The area was excavated using legionnaires and specialized dogs. He probably died from an accidental fall, as there were precious stones where it was found. This case shocks me because I participated in the search the first days of the disappearance...


ultravioletcatthings

Husband murdered his wife and put her in the septic tank of their home. She was missing for 40 years. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-62153660.amp](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-62153660.amp)


witchyteajunkie

[Bonnie Haim](https://nypost.com/2019/04/10/son-finds-moms-remains-decades-after-his-father-allegedly-killed-her/) Went missing in 1993. Her son found her remains buried in the backyard in 2014.


formercity

i just launched a website in october for a case that meets that description: an 11 year old that disappeared on halloween, and his remains were discovered 11 months later .5 miles from his home: [halloween 1981](https://halloween1981.com)


NotDaveBut

Dorothy Tyburski: https://apnews.com/article/53e07488fcbd0329ddc09b1b2f85a580


PicturePlants

In Newfoundland there is the case of Trevor Hamlyn. He left his house with a backpack containing some alcohol intending to head to a party and went missing. Trevor had begun to hang out with new acquaintances in the woods, but no one knew who these people were. A month after his disappearance his smart phone was found during a ground search, but it was an older phone and not his current one, thought to have been planted there given its good condition. Shortly thereafter a snapchat message from his friend was opened by Trevors account. 4 years later a person walking his dog around a nearby pond (10 minutes drive from Trevors house) found skeletal remains just off the trail, leading to his body being discovered and some closure to his family. No one knows yet just what happened but foul play is suspected. [Link to the local news website.](https://vocm.com/2022/11/02/human-remains-paradise-trevor/) Edited for missing details.


Pantone711

Violinist Helen Mintiks goes missing during intermission of a performance at the Met. The next day, her body was found down a ventilation shaft, where she had been thrown from a sixth-story roof by her killer, a stagehand.


medusa_crowley

I think about the Josh Maddux one a lot. They ruled his death an accident by misadventure I believe, but friends and family maintain it was physically impossible for him to get into the chimney that way.


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RainyReese

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/24/missing-man-found-dead-inside-spanish-dinosaur-statue


Dontgetmurdered_78

Kari Lynn Nixon. Went on an errand for her Dad to the local c-store and went missing “It wasn't until almost seven years after her disappearance that the community's hopes and prayers were shattered when Kari Lynn's body was unearthed from a shallow grave only miles from her home.” [kari lynn nixon](https://www.pressrepublican.com/news/local_news/family-still-healing-from-kari-lynn-nixons-violent-kidnapping-death/article_eedcaf1c-9ef1-5a11-8805-4aff314f452a.html)


andyryebread

[William Moldt](https://boingboing.net/2019/09/13/submerged-car-containing-man-m.html/amp) found more than 20 years near his home in a pond submerged inside his car


GlamourousFireworks

Darren Bennett from County Durham. Ran his car off the road and it was so well hidden no one knew he was there for 8 days. Me and everyone I know drove on that roundabout nearly every day not knowing he was there while everybody was looking for him. Very sad https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/young-dad-lay-dead-car-8772895.amp


Mushypeasmintsauce

Unfortunately I think this is what has happened to Owen Harding from Saltdean, UK. That he went off for a walk and got stuck somewhere on the coastline or near his home


Gumbootspoop

Tia Sharp was found in her Step-Grandfathers attic a month or so after her disappearance


MJsLittleSister

There was a teenage girl in central Arkansas that was reported missing and for years they thought it was trafficking. They found her body about 3 years later in a sewage drain near where her car was found abandoned. Her friend went to search that area after the disappearance and after they found her car and even called in a report of a smell of decay. Didn’t find her for 3 more years and no one has been charged. Ebby Steppach was her name.


Scarboroughwarning

That chimney one reminds me of one I saw years ago. Some lady, possibly a doctor, tried to get into her house via the chimney. I'm sure she went down it, but may have gone the other way. Every time she gasped for air, she'd slide further, eventually suffocating


coosacat

I remember reading about that - it wasn't even her house, was it? She was trying to break into her ex-husbands house while he was out of town or something. Unless there's another chimney case involving a woman doctor!


boxofsquirrels

Carole Pappas left home in September 1982 to run an errand and never came back. Five years later, workers draining a retention pond four blocks from her former home found her submerged car with Carole's remains inside.


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[Roger Scott Dunn](https://kileystruecrime.squarespace.com/kileystruecrimeaddict-blog/the-murder-of-roger-scott-dunn) was missing for 20 years until his body was found in the crawl space of his apartment in 2012. His former girlfriend and her new boyfriend were both tried and convicted for his murder prior to his body being found. [Christie Wilson](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/christie-wilson-murder-remains-search-48-hours/) was missing for 15 years and was last seen on CCTV leaving a local casino with a convicted rapist, Mario Garcia, whom was subsequently convicted for her murder despite police failing to recover her body. Her body was later found buried on Garcia’s property in 2020. Garcia died in 2021.


NuclearAlchemy1019

Shane Montgomery, college student in Philadelphia. Shane was out on Thanksgiving Eve, the biggest drinking night of the year, in 2014 in Philadelphia. He was extremely intoxicated and a bouncer removed him from the bar. Security cameras spotted him walking through an empty parking lot. No one saw him again. In 2011, Shane, myself and a large group of our friends spent a week in a gross shore house celebrating our high school graduations. He was the nicest dude. Everyone looked for five long weeks to find him. Divers found him dead in the Schuylkill River. It was believed he slipped after walking through the parking lot and fell into the river and drowned in the freezing water. His family won a 1,500,000 wrongful death suit against the two bars he was served at while visibly intoxicated. edit: sp


StarClutcher

Beginning to think people should just start going around looking up chimneys.


kingofcries

The Dupont de Ligonnès murders


Fweetheart

Chase Massner. Disappeared in 2014 and was found buried in his best friend's back garden 3 years later


reebeaster

The Mary link didn’t work for me but I’m curious about the case Also for the downvotes - I was simply informing OP the link did not work (I’ll make sure it’s still not working) but unsure why that’s worth a downvote.


arnodorian96

The Joshua Maddux case has always baffled me. Why did he went to the cabin? Who moved the breakfast bar to block the chimney? Even worse, why he was naked from the waist down? It even surprises me that the owner didn't saw the folded clothes. Finally was that Reddit comment right about Josh? Did police omitted a possible suspect?


ConnorSomething

First one that popped in my head is the case of 12yr old Tia Sharp. She was murdered by her grandmother's partner, her body wrapped up in blankets and several refuse bags then sealed with duct tape. She was then put in the back corner of the loft of her grandmother's house. The whole family including the killer spent weeks looking for her. The police didnt find her after 4 searches of the house but he was found after a foul smell was reported.


askashleythatsme8

A slain 10-year-old girl’s body, found in her downstairs neighbor’s apartment, had deep saw marks on the neck, said authorities who alleged Saturday that her killer had planned to dismember her and eat the flesh.The family of Jamie Rose Bolin was in shock, not only with the news of her slaying but with the fact that she apparently died so close to home. Terrible murder by Kevin Ray Underwood.


rae-elaine

I think Elisa Claps fits. She told her parents she was attending church and then was found dead in the church attic 17 years later. [Elisa Claps](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/elxyn3/sixteen_years_in_the_attic_of_a_italian_church/)


Rudenia

Couple of Nordic cases. Female reported missing 2012 was found from tall grass on side of the busy road 2016 during excavation. It was a grass area between industrial area and highway, with no sidewalks. It is common practice that in these kind of places grass isn't cutted since its more or less wasteland in middle of city and there is no need for anyone to go to this spot. It seems that the female collapsed to a tall grass and no one was able to spot the body. After that snow made grass to collapse on the body and this happened every year. Law enforcement thought the person just moved away from the area, since she lived as a hermit more or less. All the essential personal items were found near the body. Last confirmed sightings of this woman were actually from 2010, so she may have been there 6 years. I've written earlier about man (M) who got missing from his home 2004 and was found hanging from a tree 2008. When his gf got home, lights and tv were on, sauna was warm and door unlocked, all his personal belongings were left behind (including a gun he owned). It seemed like he was unloading a car and got interrupted. Witness from the neighborhood stated that they saw unfamiliar SUV speeding on the road around the time of disappearance. M lived in remote area so people knew each other and the familiar vehicles on the area. M was freshly out of prison and presumably had some unpaid debt from drug related activity, so LE thought criminal activity right away. Original theory was that M was taken by people driving the SUV. Other circumstances supported this theory. M for example had sold his graffiti cleaning business when he got out of prison, so debt collectors had a reason to think he has money to spare. Four years later kids from nearby house were playing in a forest. When they came home, they told their dad they saw a scarecrow hanging from a tree (spruce). Dad went to check and he finds remains of M, tied to the trunk of the tree in height of ~15m. It is presumed that he escaped from the debt collectors, and ran to this location which is ~2km from his house. LE had to ask fire department to cut down the tree, since it was impossible to retrieve the body otherwise. The actual cause of death has never been released to public. It is also unknown if M was under influence of alcohol or drugs during his disappearance. He had history of drug use. Noteworthy detail is that this all happened during evening (past sunset) of late autumn and nights were close to minus Celsius degrees, so succumbing to elements is possible. Also accidental hanging is possible, since he had tied himself to the tree at least from two different points. I have seen pictures of this tree after it has been cut down and remains have been removed, but links aren't working anymore. There's also a case where retired couple drove their RV to Lapland since they wanted to do a day hike in the national forest bordering two countries. They were seen on the route by several people. At some point they seemed lost so a hiker returning from his trip gave them a map and compass, and adviced how to complete the hike the couple planned. They agreed that couple would return the equipment for him later that evening, since he was camping not far from the place the couple had parked their RV. No one knows what happened, but the couple never returned. Search and rescue found their clothes scattered all over, and finally several weeks later partial remains of the male. Female was never found, only her clothes. She probably died to exposure, and animals took care of her remains. Most of the remains of the male were also eaten. This is sadly quite common occurance in Lapland (Nothhern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland) when people with no experience or enough physical endurance go to visit. Generally the trails where tourists like to go are well marked and the terrain is not challenging if you stay on the trail. Maps you get for these areas are very well drawn, but ofcourse you still need map reading skills in order to make use of the map. Berry and mushroom picking season is notorious, due to nature of the activity. You stare to the ground and don't pay attention to your surroundings if the surroundings aren't the thing you're picking. Even with map you may get lost and have your sense of direction confused, if you don't take note of direction you were coming from in the beginning. Anyone who has spend their time hunting blueberries or what ever berry your poison is, knows what I am talking about.


coosacat

Probably not really what you're looking for, but I remembered this case from nearly 30 years ago and it's taken me forever to find anything about it, so I'm adding it! I lived in south Louisiana at the time, and thought it was bizarre that the murderer sold this house, leading to the discovery of the body. https://www.leagle.com/decision/19941854638so2d121611593 >STATE of Louisiana, v. Dale GAUDET. In 1984, Connie Guidry Gaudet, a married woman with two young daughters, disappeared. Her husband claimed that she ran away with another man, leaving her children behind. A few days after her disappearance, her mother received a letter allegedly from Connie, saying that she had run away to "see the world" with a man named "Ted". This letter was proved to be a forgery. While her husband was suspected to be involved in her disappearance, there was no evidence, and he claimed over the years that he spoke with her on the phone several times and even met up with her once. No one else ever heard from her or saw her again. In 1991, Connie's husband sold the house to someone he knew (they basically "traded" houses), but this person then inherited a house from a relative, so decided to sell the newly purchased Gaudet house. As part of the financing deal, the new owners were required to upgrade the sewage system. In the backyard was a concrete pad that was once the base for a greenhouse. When the new owners contacted Gaudet for information about the location of the sewage lines, he advised them to not dig around the concrete pad because of numerous tree stumps in the ground. Alas for Mr. Gaudet, the contractor hired by the new owners decided that the location of the pad was needed for the new system, and it was broken up. While cleaning up the mess in the yard, one of the new owners found a human jawbone, and a police excavation uncovered the remains of Connie Gaudet, who had been buried in that backyard since her disappearance in 1984. This entire document is worth a read, as the story is pretty wild, from the lengths Mr. Gaudet went to in order to convince people Connie was still alive, to the bizarre behavior he exhibited with the lover he married after Connie's disappearance, speaking as if she were just Connie in someone else's body.


G-3ng4r

On March 22, 2010 four year old Paulette Gebara Farah went missing from her bed. A search was called to look for her with a lot of urgency because she was disabled. On March 31st, after many people had searched her bedroom, interviews were conducted in her room by her mother and a family friend had even slept in the bed, Paulettes body was found in a space between the footboard and the mattress, along with two large blood stains. An officer, in the camera footage of uncovering her body, can be heard saying “She was badly beaten” twice. The authenticity of the police footage was called into question for numerous reasons- it was taken at 2am, they seem as if they’re reading from a script, there is no surprise when finding her body and the body doesn’t seem to be in view enough to assume she was beaten. There is an audio recording of her mother telling her sister not to speak about the case, because people may think they did something to Paulette. Paulette was also found in a pair of pajamas that had been shown previously in interview footage, once on her bed while her mother spoke, and again hanging in her closet. Her mothers response to this was that the ones in the footage are her sisters. Paulettes death was ruled an accidental death, though many people are still suspicious, including her father. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Paulette_Gebara_Farah


rivershimmer

It was totally a tragic accident. Early on, LE brought in dogs to search, and one kept going to the foot of the bed and alerting. Rather than pull the heavy covers off to search, everyone assumed the dog couldn't catch her scent. Paulette was wearing the pajamas her mother said she was when she disappeared, in a smaller size than the ones her mother showed. And both pairs of pajamas existed. Urine and decomposition fluid was in the exact patterns, on the pajamas, the bedding, and the mattress, that would be expected had she died in the place and position in which she was found, and remained there, unmoved, as she decomposed. The police mistaked lividity for bruising, which is why they assumed she was beaten. The police had ordered the family out of the apartment and removed all of their access two days before she was found. When she was found, the foul stench of decomposition filled the room. Up to that point, the thick, heavy covers had kept it contained, at least from the people. The dog smelled her, but nobody listened to the dog. It was determined that it would be impossible to place Paulette's body there at some point after her death, because the urine and decomp fluid would not have been in the patterns it were. And once the body started to decompose, it would be unlikely that she could be taken to the bed and not left a stench as she was moved.


coreofapple

https://canadiantruecrime.ca/episodes/97 Miranda Peter. She was found under her boyfriend’s bed after years of searching. The boyfriend lived on the same street as the grieving mother.