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

Not obsessed, but I'd really like to know where Margaret Fleming's body is. Edward Cairney died in prison last year, but Avril Jones is still alive and could say where she is.

I’m obsessed with all “who dunnits”. DH said if Im ever suspected of a murder and the police looked at my tv viewing history I’m fucked 😂
I watched one, American interview tapes.
An officer said to the suspect, we’ve located the body of a man buried in your garden, what have you got to say to that.
she replied “ I obviously didn’t bury him deep enough” 😂

It may or may not be a murder case but the Maura Murray case in the US baffles me.
Crashed her car in 2004 and never seen again.

Have you read Foreign Faction by A. James Kolar?
Foreign Faction: Who Really Kidnapped JonBenet? (Audio Download): A. James Kolar, Jennifer Hedayat, Ventus Publishing, llc: Amazon.co.uk: Audible Books & Originals
Free on Kindle Unlimited/Audible trial and worth a look.

This has just reminded me of another one I went down the rabbit hole with. The Parkland shootings by Nikolas Cruz. I saw some horrific footage where you could hear some of the victims dying. Will never get those sounds out of my head.

A lot of people suggested Angus Sinclair and Gordon Hamilton, however, Sinclair was in prison until 1967 and was known to Glasgow police of the time. He's reckoned to have killed several other women in the area in the 1970s, but I've never seen or read anything that seriously puts him in the frame as BJ

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Back in the 80s (when it was much harder to lear more about US cases) I became very interested in the case of a young teen named Cinnamon Brown. She was manipulated by her father into murdering her stepmother, Linda, Ann Rule wrote a book about the whole sad thing, called 'If You Really Loved Me.' Her father really was a piece of work.

I still always think about Suzy Lamplugh and Claudia Lawrence, and hope that we'll have answers about them one day.

I listened to the Vallow case only today on the Anatomy of Murder podcast.

Crime Junkie is also a good one (though both American)

I'll always wonder what happened to Genette Tate. I'm a similar age to what she'd have been now so her disappearance and the subsequent news coverage was really frightening to me at the time.

I was very into this case too and it was just so bizarre because nothing added up or made sense. Chris Watts was the least likely candidate to commit these crimes by himself. He was a submissive type of personality who did what he was told by women. I personally think someone else was behind it but received immunity for supplying information.

I've still got all the evidence that I requested from the DA office which includes police reports and videos etc.

The Daybell case will live never leave me.

Yes.

Like a few others mentioned in here, it isn't technically a "murder", but it's fascinating nonetheless. How it's not as well documented or widely heard of as JonBenet and so on is beyond me.

Regardless of what you believe happened, it's undeniable Casey Anthony is a reprehensible p.o.s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Caylee_Anthony

God how scary.

Ah ok, thanks for clarifying. Hideous man.

@AccidentallyWesAnderson

Yes, there's loads more.

Do you think he is Bible John?

It's awful to think those families may never get the finality of knowing for sure.

I don't think so. The police ruled him out and I don't think they'd have done that if they didn't have proof he was elsewhere.

That said I might be swayed by the fact my Nana and her sister (who went to the Barrowland, but not at that exact time) were both convinced that one of the women wasn't killed by Bible John. In a documentary I watched once that seems to be a not uncommon belief. They believed there was two killers.

Oh my goodness I need to follow this thread, I’m obsessed with all things “Murder Sh.t”, as we call it in our house.
Chris Watts murders had a profound effect on me. I haven’t stopped thinking about it, since I watched that Netflix doc back in 2020. I cried watching it, in a packed gym. Must’ve looked a right loser.

The Tobin = Bible John theory has been completely discounted. He didn't resemble the descriptions of surviving witnesses, and more importantly, he wasn't even in the Glasgow area for much of the timescale of the BJ murders.

baby star. I had a DD around the same age and was just so upset by this case.

India Chipchase.
I was a year or two older than her, but I was out that particular night in the same town (but in a different bar on the same street) but I had been in that particular bar hundreds of times before.

I was really into true crime prior to that, but it just made it all hit home for me, and I had to distance myself from true crime following it.

The Emma Caldwell podcast really got to me. Still think about it.

Jon Benet Ramsey. But I think the Dad and possibly the brother will take it to their graves.

Edited: this was in response to @Summerx. Quote feature fail!

Is it truly awful that the first thing springing to mind about the Casey/Caylee Anthony case is Nancy's Grace's never-ending parrot cry of TOT MOM!

This trial was interesting because I was WFH at that time and able to stream the trial in its entirety: a thing we in Britain never get the chance to do.

It's safe to say that the operation of the law in Florida and the nature of the evidence admissible into the court is very, very different from the way things are done in the UK. Quite the eye-opener.

Trial by media is a very real risk with the transparency of every aspect of the proceedings, including the freedom of the jury to talk about their deliberations later if they so choose. In this case that doesn't seem to have affected the outcome. No one ever expected that Casey Anthony wouldn't be found guilty of at least one of the more serious indictments.

That whole family were weirder than the line-up of a Wes Craven movie. Poor little girl.