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

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Strugglingonagain · 07/04/2019 20:45

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?

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Handsoffmysweets · 12/04/2019 10:07

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DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 12/04/2019 10:07

Izzabellasasperella Maybe, the islands a small place Smile

AyeitstheCaddy · 12/04/2019 11:53

Elizabeth Paravicini in West London in the 70s. Very close to where I lived, I saw the reconstruction being filled.

I wondered recently if Leon Bellfield was responsible but he would have been a young child at the time.

Very sad for her family.

youarenotkiddingme · 12/04/2019 11:53

Larry taking the date of the article you linked too he went missing same day as MM?
Heartbreaking story that made me cry 😢

Al2O3 · 12/04/2019 12:00

Alan Addis

Who really now owns Iraq and Kuwaiti oilfields

SunshineCake · 12/04/2019 12:05

I think Genette Tate has been solved.

youarenotkiddingme · 12/04/2019 12:20

Ncjust Thanks that must have been so difficult. Thankyou for answering some of the personal emotional questions about how it feels that have been raised on the thread.

Parsley1234 · 12/04/2019 12:31

Yes David Kelly Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell any ideas ?

SecretWitch · 12/04/2019 12:41

Two old ones that frightened me very much when I was younger (ok, still do) The Hinterkaifeck murders and The Villesca axe murders.

Both are so eerie and dreadful.

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oweus · 12/04/2019 15:30

zodiac

LivinLaVidaLoki · 12/04/2019 18:14

There are things I just cant get my head round in the JonBenet case. Like, why leave a ransom note if you've left the body in the house? How was the body in the house not discovered earlier and why did the ransom note only ask for 118k. Weren't the parents millionaires....why not ask for a million?

34plus4 · 12/04/2019 19:32

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Yes I agree, she was so young she was a victim too.

It's just the fact that at 16, you do know right from wrong. I've heard her speak in an interview where she said 'nobody has ever shown so much kindness toward me as what Lynne Dawson did'

Then also the fact she was so awful to the girls growing up, when she had a daughter, Kristen, with Chris it got a lot worse and she wouldn't let Lynne's daughters touch Kristen or hold her.

It's very sad. I just really really wonder what happened. He's been arrested and charged now, but unless there's a major bit of evidence that we don't know about yet, I think he will probably get off on reasonable doubt. With no body it's hard to prove.

I think he did it, or got someone else to do it. He's a real monster.

Bw3344 · 12/04/2019 21:24

I read a really interesting book by one the guys that helped create the behavioural science unit in the FBI called the cases that haunt us. He included the JonBenet case and said the room to the basement where her body was found had been broken months before and that it was known but not fixed. That families the Ramsays were friends with had keys to the house and that to her knowledge Patsy was not sure if the door was left locked that night because they'd been out at friends and the 118k was a bonus that Mr Ramsay had recieved that close friends would have known about. To this day he says he actually interviewed and profiled the family and doesnt believe they had anything to do with it. It's a very interesting book
And he profiled the Jack the ripper case and one of the suspects, a Kosminsky, he established as a likely suspect, they recently found his DNA on the apron left at one of the scenes.
A fascinating read for those looking at cold cases. It really is!

Bw3344 · 12/04/2019 21:25

A window to the basement ** sorry have a vino in me lol xxx

user1493423934 · 13/04/2019 02:31

@34plus4
I think he did it, or got someone else to do it. He's a real monster.

Yes absolutely. I mean he moved Joanne into house soon after Lynne disappeared and apparently made his daughters call her Mum.
Interesting about how Joanne treated them - I've heard she was really nice to his daughters, and when she had Kristen Chris was really nasty to her and treated his other daughters a lot better? I guess it's what you read/hear. Haven't heard the Teachers Pet podcast, but read articles.

LarryGreysonsDoor · 13/04/2019 05:41

Yes, Daniel Entwistle went missing on the same day as MM but 5 years earlier.

He went missing in this country. Someone out there knows what happened to him. Someone who might be living next door.
But because he’s not a photogenic little girl with, some might say, less media savvy parents he gets forgotten.

Mrsong · 13/04/2019 13:38

The Daniel Entwistle one is shocking. A 7 yr old boy missing and practically zero media exposure! 7 years old!Shock

notacooldad · 13/04/2019 13:43

Haven't heard the Teachers Pet podcast, but read articles
It is definitely worth a listen.Te amount of research Hedley Thomss and his team have done is amazing.

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BlackCatSleeping · 13/04/2019 15:34

Daniel's case is so sad. I think that just because they didn't find his body in the water, that doesn't mean he didn't fall in there. It was awful Policework though. They just didn't seem to care Sad

I love solved cases though. I think the Rachel Nickell case being solved by DNA gives hope that others will also be solved. That was also originally awful police work, but advances in DNA tested helped.

Another one I was interested in was there was a lake in Oklahoma where the police were testing new sonar equipment and to their shock they found two cars containing bodies who had disappeared in 1969 and 1970. They were able to identify the bodies. One of the cars contained teenagers who had just vanished one night.

edition.cnn.com/2014/10/23/us/foss-lake-mystery-solved/index.html

It is interesting to read the DNA testing on Kominski. I think Jack the Ripper is one of the cases people ultimately don't want solved though. They prefer the mystery.

ShaggyRug · 13/04/2019 15:38

MH370 for me.

Just can’t get my head around how it’s possible for a plane that size to disappear. It just feels unthinkable.

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Jiggles101 · 13/04/2019 15:49

Shit wrong thread sorry!

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