What 1 crime/mystery would you liked to be solved?

[Strugglingonagain]

Just that really, what one unsolved crime/mystery/news story do toy wish would be solved?

For me, its Madeleine McCann. It may well just be because of the age I am, its one of the first ones I remember really clearly as it happened.

What about you?

Elisa Lam - not really a mystery, she was very unwell the poor girl. She had a dx of bipolar disorder and was having a psychotic episode, climbed into the tank and drowned.

Suzy Lamplugh is strongly believed to have been murdered by John Cannan, the name 'mr kipper' (the client she was supposed to be meeting) was a nickname he'd used previously.

Ben Needham- wasn't there a deathbed confession by the driver of the digger? Definitely seems plausible.

Jill Dando - also agree with IfOnly, it was a professional hit (allegedly an Albanian gang) because of her investigations into Saville and other high profile sex offenders.

How did she pull the tank lid back over herself

Claudia Lawrence that's the one I was thinking of

There is an excellent podcast called Casefile on the Suzy Lamplugh case which covers the John Cannan theory, it does seem pretty likely it was him. The garden of a house his mother used to live in was dug up by police recently but they found nothing.

After listening to the casefile podcast on it, I'm pretty convinced Harry Phipps killed the Beaumont children.

Claudia Lawrence - local to me. I know the stretch of road where she went missing very well and while it's not the nicest area of York it's still shocking in what is a relatively safe city. I saw her dad in the supermarket the other week, you just want to say something but the poor man is probably fed up of people butting in with trite things while he's trying to get on with life.

I don't know about people closing ranks as a pp said but there is a very strong feeling locally that someone knows something (how could they not?) and is keeping quiet. I hope they really struggle to sleep at night.

wasn’t there an issue with the weight of one of the bin lorries that has led investigators to believe he was in there?

Iirc the bin lorries weight was found to be too light to have had him in it. The thoughts are that either the weight was misreported or that the lorry went to the incinerator rather than the land fill.

rosybell I’m with you re: Andrew Gosden. Absolutely heartbreaking and completely baffling.

A truly appalling crime - Carl Bridgewater, delivering newspapers. I believe I’m right I’m thinking the burglars put away for it were not the right men and later found to be not guilty of his murder?

Genette Tate. The first time I realised in my lifetime that children could come to harm. But also Keith Bennett.
I will never really understand people who have been convicted of crimes not "giving up their secrets". It seems beyond cruel.

Re Corrie, the bin lorry was initially reported as weighing 100kg less than it actually did so although all the evidence pointed towards him having climbed into the bin and being taken away by the dustcart the police ruled it out as a possibility due to the weight of the bin lorry. It was a few weeks before the mistake was discovered and several more tonnes of waste had been put in that landfill in the meantime

All the usual ones..
Plus Leah Croucher, she went missing almost 2 months ago near me and there have been no sightings, I can't imagine how her family must be feeling

@familysecret I was sure that guy was just saying that for notoriety?

@ToEarlyForDecorations
I know all of that info and I wouldn't be so quick to say poor patsy. It's been pretty much proven she wrote the extremely long, rambling ransom note.

With JonBenet it's key to remember that evidence was found of past sexual abuse. Was her dad sexually abusing her and patsy found out, was there an altercation?

Was Burke angry as he had been prone to violent outbursts in the past? Did she eat his pineapple, then he hit her on the head with the flashlight and seriously injure/kill her? Did her parents panic and stage the scene?

The 'stun gun' marks also matched Burke's toy train tracks. Did he do something to her and then mess with her?

For me the ransom note that was written with tools sourced from within the home, use of phrases like 'foreign faction' and the fact when tested, patsy's handwriting couldn't be ruled out.

I think it's crazy to think a completely random person 'broke' in and did this. We all know that the majority of murders are committed by people that are close to the victim, not by random strangers.

Matrice Richardson anyone?

An extremely interesting/buzzard case.

I'd recommend the podcasts my favorite murder, the teachers pet, and serial.

I became quite interested in Corrie's disappearance in the early days and watched it all unfold on SM and there were a lot of very odd things about that. His mum accessed some of his SM profiles and deleted the lot before the police looked at them. They set up the lines to contact family rather than the police (understandable I thought, they didn't want to miss anything by having the official line unavailable) but then later on people were posting online saying they'd seen x or y and were never contacted again. The family then admitted to some of those and said they'd been discounted for some reason or another.

The uncle first posted that Corrie was depressed, this was then retracted and deleted and completely denied. Also that he was gay/ bi was completely denied. I understand denying he was suffering depression, his family didn't want him written off as having wandered off drunk and harmed himself as they didn't believe that but they later admitted it. The swinging thing was a denial then admittance. Some people think he went AWOL and the family know but I don't think they'd be pushing this hard if that were the case. They'd have let it all die down after a while. That was just in the beginning too, there were lots of contradictions/ denials of having said something that there were screenshots of by the family. I'm not saying they were involved at all, but 100% they hindered the case in the early days, however well intentioned it was.

Patrick Warren and David spencer. Local to me and am reminded every Christmas. Suspect as it was two young working class boys everyone just assumed they would turn up as they were deemed to be 'streetwise'

Hindered the investigation. Not the case.

34plus4
I'm on episode 8 of Teachers Pet. It is truly bizarre and sickening the attitudes of teachers in NSW to the female pupils.
I think the pod caster is right, there is a lot of worried people at the moment as this case is now under the spotlight.

Mine is the disappearance of mh370

@notacooldad I absolutely loved the teachers pet, Hedley Thomas is brilliant.

I feel so much for Lynne's daughters.

I wonder what happened to her?

I totally agree, their attitudes stunk! I hope the people responsible are on the edge of their seats quaking at the thought of what may be coming to them.

I don’t know how people go on with the not knowing.
There was a high profile case from when I was growing up, Vicky Hamilton whose body was finally found 16 years later but her poor mum died not knowing what happened to her