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

Obsessed, no, but there's one I followed closely in the media having met the victim. Very interesting case anyway, but it felt close to home having interacted with the person, even though it wasn't really anything to do with me personally.

one thing about watts murders is his family-they act like its an injustiece hes in prison and dont seem at all upset hes killed their gc-odd the lot of them

The murder of Bobbi-Anne McLeod by Cody Ackland. She was a young 18 year old at a bus stop, he was a 24 year old good looking band member who had what looked from the outside to be a great life. He snatched her from the bus stop and murdered her. It didn't appear to be sexually motivated. I just can't fathom why he did it and I think because of their ages, him being in a successful band, it just really shocked me.

Noah Donohoe - I really hope and pray that one day soon Fiona and family will get some answers as to what happened that night and who was responsible.

A south east scotland one, Jodi jones. Her boyfriend at the time Luke Mitchell was jailed for her (very brutal) murder. There was a STV documentary made a few years back that kind of showed Mitchell as being innocent, many think he is. He has always claimed to be innocent.

poor Jodi. I am from the same town as it happened so it hit home.

@Pantaloons99 Do you think? I felt that he was having to really force himself to act happy when Shanann announced the 3rd pregnancy. She didn't sound too excited about it either. I think by this time he may have already been sleeping with Nikole.

I guess we only saw what Shanann wanted us to see on her social media posts but I have heard that a lot were deleted by her family that cast her in a bad light. I think the way she belittled him sometimes was uncalled for - such as when they were playing that big chess game.

If you're still interested in watching about this case, there's an excellent YouTube channel called RedXCrime or something like that. So many interesting points raised.

What gets me is...why put the children in the oil drums but bury his wife? Surely it would have made more sense to just bury them all together as it would take less time? I personally don't think he did it alone. He wouldn't have had the time to do it all.

There was a murder in the village I grew up in, when I had just started secondary school. A 16 year girl was raped and murdered. It wasn't solved for over 26 years.

It completely changed the village, it destroyed the family and it had a huge lasting effect.

I was obsessed with it for the whole duration. He never gave the family an explanation.

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.
I used to live on the street parallel to where he was living with his family, so the case hit me pretty hard. I read everything I could find about it. Don't know why, as I found it so upsetting, but I kind of felt that I had a duty to know what he went through. I still think about him often.

I always think about those unsolved cases, or missing people, at least one person somewhere knows what happened to them, how do they feel, do they spend their life looking over their shoulder that they might be caught or do they not care, and how can they live with themselves knowing what they’ve done or that the loved ones of the victim are suffering so much.

Yes the Chris Watts case horrified yet intrigued me ( that is a very insensitive word in this case. )

He appears so absolutely calm, friendly, chilled out in the FB videos his wife posts. When she films his reaction to the news regarding her pregnancy ( something he would not have wanted we later realise), he is utterly and absolutely convincing to me, with no room what soever in his reaction to suggest he wasn't keen. This is so terrifying.

His wife comes across as a difficult and rather annoying control freak. ( No, this poor woman did not deserve this!! I don't feel that one bit). My point is more that you cannot read a single thing at all about him from the mountain of SM information and the way she and her family talk so highly of him .After the murder different of course. It's his wife you are instead inclined to dislike.

He's clearly a psychopath but you'd never see it based on all we're shown ( pre murder). He's calm, he has a pleasant demeanor. This is what's so scary. I've watched the documentary about 5 times.

Madeleine Mcann, my Aunty lived where it happened in Portugal. My mum took my young son on holiday there a few years later and I was worried to death about him, I didn't want him to go even though he was 10 and my mum and Aunty swore he'd never be left alone. That poor little girl went on her holidays but never came home. How awful it must have been for her parents to come back without her. I feel desperately sorry for her parents, they (and she) have paid a high price for their terrible error of judgement. I wonder if we'll ever find out what happened to her but most of all I pray she didn't suffer.

Didn’t they say that the one who killed his wife and put her in the septic tank, his previous two wives had both died, down as natural causes but they were re-looking into them as possibly suspicious. Think his wives were all reasonably wealthy and he claimed life insurance. Or something like that.

That must have been very traumatic, for you I'm glad he was found safe ,
I have a disabled child with similar needs to Nora,s it was absolutely heartbreaking what happened .

Same here. I remember it happening and my mum met them a few times.

Yes that' waa very sad my Grandad used to take me to stubby lee Park where she was attacked when I was a child ,
Sense less attack just because they looked different

Me neither. At best it was an appallingly improper investigation much of which would have resulted in an unsafe conviction if it happened now. I’ve always had an interest in this case at it was local to me.

I had Covid in early March 2020 and went down the true crime rabbit hole. The one that affected me the most were the Delphi murders. I can't believe a suspect has been caught. I literally had nightmares about the video (fever induced). I stayed away from it for quite a while.
The two girls were so brave and had the forethought to record the suspect. I still can't hear anyone say "down the hill" without getting chills.

I think the Idaho case is interesting. I do think about Andrew Godsen and Claudia Lawrence.

Not obsessed but often ponder unsolved murders
Jill Dando
Suzy Lamplugh
Jon Benet Ramsay
Madeleine McCann
Genette Tate
Others local to me that have never been big news eg Janet Murgatroyd

Did anyone else sit through the televised trial of Louise Woodward, like I did. She was an au pair in the US and was tried for killing the baby in her care, Matthew Eapen. It was a difficult watch and will stay with me.

Sir Jack Drummond: top government official and scientist murdered w his family in France. Only learned about it recently and keep thinking about it http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/nottingham/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9402000/9402414.stm

he basically saved Britain from starvation in WWII.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/who-killed-sir-jack-and-his-family-not-the-kgb-surely-90889.html

I was a similar age to Susan Maxwell when she was kidnapped & murdered in the early 80s. I even looked like her and still think about her, more than 40 years on. Robert Black, a serial killer, was eventually convicted.

I don't think he did ir.

The murder of Sophie Lancaster really got to me. I sobbed my way through the documentary. I can’t believe the bravery and drive of her mum, starting the Sophie Lancaster foundation. I wear my Weirdo, Mosher, Freak t shirt with pride.

Did you watch the programme capturing the trial? I wasn't aware Cairney had died. It's awful when the bodies aren't recovered, like Suzanne Pilley.

Yes, loads of cases -

Chandler Halderson, invented a fake life for himself then killed his apparently very nice supportive parents when he was found out. He then dismembered them and scattered the pieces all over Wisconsin. Didn’t find half of the poor buggers.

Chris Watts and Scott Petersen - both murdered pregnant wives (and their own kids in Watts’ case) so they could start afresh with no baggage.

Rachel O’Reilly murdered by her husband Joe in a faked burglary. Sent her poor mum to the house to look for her so she found the brutalised body of her adult child. He then acted like a weirdo - re-enacting what “he thought” had happened.

That prick who murdered his (new) author wife and her dog and hid them in a fucking septic tank.

All of these men had pathetic alibis. Although they had all planned their murders they made really basic errors. At least 3 of them are still protesting their innocence though evidence is overwhelming. Just pointless.