To ask if you’ve ever become obsessed with a murder case?

Kathleen Peterson and the staircase, the trial and forensic evidence is just so confusing to me.

This came up on a wonderful thread on here about unsolved mysteries.
I had never heard od the two girls but quickly became fascinated by the case.
It's definitely strange and the calls and photos only add to it.

I find true crime interesting, but some ppl are chatting shit about ppl who until a body has been found are legally missing not a murder case! So therefore should be removed

This is why this thread needs to be moved to the True Crime board, people always moan about threads like these. You can always hide it as you say as you can't police what others say.

I was at uni with a young woman called Isabel peake- not sure on spelling. She was coming home for weekend from France and was thrown off a train. Think about it often. Her killer sid rozales- again not sure of spelling - was caught and killed himself in a Portuguese prison. He killed 2 or 3 women and I think would have killed many more if not caught.

The JFK assassination if that counts.

Sharontheodopolodous
I lived in one of the blocks in Olympian Court, which is just off Hull Road, and very close to the crossroads for Melrosegate/Tang Hall Club and the Shell garage, and l worked at Monks Cross at the time, so l travelled to and from work that way.
It's so weird, when l moved there (I'm from Northumberland) it didn't even occur to me until l saw the poster in Waitrose and then things started to click with me.
I'm pretty sure the police know who's responsible, but they don't have enough evidence, and people aren't talking. Someone MUST know. I reckon they do.

My eldest son is in the emergency services. He often makes a safeguarding referral that a colleague wouldn't bother with. He told me he never wants to be responsible for a missed opportunity. So heartbreaking that so many reported concerns have gone unheeded. RIP little one.

My parents live between her house and the uni (just up the road to the working mens club/shell garage) and I used to live further down (a street off melrosegate,just a bit further down from hull road/tang hall park)

My ds lives around the corner to her

I was a bridesmaid at the church on the corner,I think there may be a photo of her standing where I stood at a wedding

I've drank in the nags head (as an underage teen but looked a lot older)

My father was walking her route (but from the other way) that morning at the same time (he's not a creep,he was taking a parcel to ds's flat in heworth as ds needed it and was on way home from a night shift) and should have seen her pass him if she had made it that far,but saw nothing

He would have remembered her as he normally didn't see anyone-he did ring the police but nobody got back to him and then it was said she'd been seen talking to a man on melrosegate Bridge near the church and again on the grounds (it's weird to think I used to use my sledge there as a kid)

My ex was her bin man,and it took them almost 6 years to interview him as he had done her bins the morning before (i think-it could have been the morning she disappeared)

It took them a while to check the alleyway behind her house too (although they may have checked at the time but I saw it years later on the news,around the time my ex was going for his interview)

And why did that car stop where it did?the traffic lights are a lot further down the street near the church

And the van near the chip shop that was just sat there?

the man caught on cctv,stood waiting until people passed (although a lot of men I know would have done the same to allow females to walk past without feeling threatened)

It's very strange to see an area I know so well on the tv,I've used that post office to collect my child benefit,the shops to pick up basics,the pizza shop for a cheeky dinner,was a nanny at the house behind the shops and my best friend still lives just down the road to the shops

Yes I think that too, he looks very uncomfortable and trying his hardest to look happy but it was very obvious that he wasn't.

I can’t find the post now so can’t quote, but just wanted to say that in the video where Chris Watts discovers that Shannan is pregnant with their 3rd child, I don’t think he looks happy at all. I think he’s clearly acting for the camera.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterkaifeck_murders

The Hinterkaifeck farm murders. Such an odd case!

Yes - the family never got closure because he pleaded guilty and wouldn't tell them why. He then killed himself in jail and her mother felt that he's taken the coward's way out.

It was the first case ever to be featured on Crimewatch and it profoundly changed the village.

There are some very dumb things said on this thread, several ppl mentioned are missing and not a murder case.
Would you be happy if it was someone you knew being discussed as a "favourite murderer case" when the are legally a missing person
Maybe ppl should think before replying?
Yes I can not read this, hide it or whatever but it's still shitty behaviour of certain posters.

Notts?

If they're psychopaths then they won't care. It's unthinkable for anyone else, but they literally see and have no consequence.

@Over40Overdating I was on maternity leave when Graham Dwyer’s trial for the murder of Elaine O’Hara was taking place and I remember reading every single paragraph written about it. He is such an evil, evil man - a predator in every sense of the word.

Paul Williams’ book ‘Almost the Perfect Murder’ on it is very good. The sheer number of coincidences which led to the murder being discovered and him being caught are almost unbelievable - if it was fiction you would say it was far fetched. The testimony from the previously suicidal American woman who said he was trying to convince her to let him kill her was terrifying and very distressing. His former partner testifying that he brought a knife to bed was incredibly disturbing. The world is a much safer place with him behind bars.

RIP Elaine. I am so glad for her family that all his appeals have been rejected and justice has prevailed.

Oh God yes, that one is harrowing. I only found out about it recently but I've not been able to forget it either. That poor poor girl.

I remember the movie of that case , he was such a manipulater.

Also I can't remember her name (sad) but the young woman who was murdered by the man who was of Yemen elite, and he almost got away with it. I'll find it. Martina something. That case infuriated me. Typical male entitlement, murdered her because she rejected him.

Yes... the Sara Boone case, (aka suitcase Sarah).

The Jamie Bulger case has always haunted me. I was at the shopping centre in Bootle the day he was abducted, witnessing the commotion when it was discovered he was missing. I remember the horror of watching events unfold on the news and when they announced they had found his body, the shock of learning that two such young boys were responsible for torturing and killing him.

Basically every case covered by the prosecutors podcast. Fascinating discussions, but my favourite is probably the Murdaugh murders.

I want to know more about the police officer! Do you remember his name or any other info please? I kind of have the same opinion having worked for the police.

Claudia Lawrence is definitely one for me. I'm also fascinated with Alice Glaston, although that is very different.

Me too.