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

Some cases get more attention than others for some reason.

This little girl never gets mentioned. I remember reading about this case in a newspaper. Social workers were too scared to go to their flat. Imagine how scared that little girl was being tortured and starved.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2002/sep/21/childrensservices.childprotection1

Arthur Labinjo Jones. One of the most heartbreaking news stories. He is still in my thoughts to this day . RIP Arthur xxx

absolutely not ever

Not technically murders, but

Mark van Dongen
Abigail Witchalls

I think about them most weeks.

I love true crime. The most disturbing case I ever watched on YouTube is the murder of Junko Furuta. The poor girl was kidnapped, held for 40 days, whilst being perpetually raped, tortured and eventually killed by a gang of young men. It is the single most horrific thing I have ever seen and I've watched a lot. It has stuck with me.

Yes - I remember this well. Also Caroline Hogg. I grew up in the Scottish Borders at the time she was taken. I remember crossing a bus station area and a white van did a big loop U-turn right around me when i was on my way to primary school. It scared and unnerved me at the time. However, it was a very open area. I've always wondered ...

I went down all the rabbit holes with this one too. The Facebook groups were crazy everyone blaming Shanann to start with. I knew it was him from the first interview he did.

Jayden Parkinson age 17 murdered by the father of her unborn child.

That ransom note made no sense at all. No criminal would go to those lengths surely?

The Delphi murders

it’s so shocking that they had a video and a voice recording and no one apparently knew him in such a small town
Those poor girls would have been beyond terrified

Down The Hill is a really good podcast on the case

April Fabb disappeared in Norfolk in 1969.
No trace of her has been found.

Jon Benet Ramsey - there was a really good Vanity Fair article that went into so much detail - it was crazy - the ransom note

Me too. Just listening to the podcast featuring her sister for the second time.

The Springfield 3 - so bizarre and can’t imagine how three women were kidnapped from their home with no clue who did it to this day.

Yes, this. There’s just something not right about the whole thing, but I’m sad that I’ll go to my grave and never know.

I often wonder what really happened to Tegan Lane.

Totally obsessed with Phillip Cairns & Mary Boyle disappearance & the killing of gardai Donoghue don't believe the person convicted of his murder did it.

The Springfield three, I just can't understand how they disappeared and no-one saw anything!

@Pantaloons99 This was the documentary she made on it but there are loads of other video too.

Yes I agree. It appeared they really didn't like her. They've possibly blamed her in their mind for his decision to destroy her and his own children!

I've watched a few programmes recently where the mums of violent murderous sons are vocal in their love and adoration in spite of what their little monsters have done! And the dads are often quiet nod along imbeciles equally enabling.

The Idaho 4 killings have really been baffling to me

When a lady in my block of flats was murdered by her partner, my kitchen window faced where the police were going in & out, ds & I spent most of the time they were doing their investigations watching everything. I never realised that the partner was her partner, I thought he was her son, had seen him going out to the car every time she came home, I thought it was to help her with shopping etc but during the trial it came out he did it to make sure she had no chance of telling anyone nearby that she was being abused by him, it was total control. After he had strangled her, he put her body in the bath behind the shower curtain & the neighbours had rung the police hearing everything but when they visited they never went in the bathroom & found her for 24 hours until the partner decided to try to kill himself then chickened out & rang for an ambulance instead, the paramedics found her curled up in the bath.

The West Cork podcast about the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier . It's amazing that in a small community they could never truly convict the killer .

Also I've just finished the Claudia Lawrence podcast , another disappearance with no answers .

As for truly evil yes Chris Watts.

I agree. When they said they forgave him at the sentencing hearing, that was just completely inappropriate towards Shananns family.

@ChickAndTheDuck ah I will go look at that, thankyou!

Yes it was quite a limp reaction to the pregnancy. I think I'm a terrible liar because it just goes so against my values. ( I'm no saint but this is a big thing for me 🤦‍♀️) so my body and face would always give me away. He doesn't show ' oh shit, you need to die soon' vibes. I think he was seeing his bit on the side at this point too, you're right.

That doesn't make sense about the kids you're right. Luckily we will never understand what was going through his mind. Those little girls, it's so horrific. And they look so much like him.

Shannan was incredibly belittling and controlling of him. She did not come across as likeable. What's very unsettling though is that I understand he has a large swathe of female supporters who think she drove him to it! I really feel for her family. Knowing all this must be mind blowing for them.