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What true crime has left you baffled?

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TaliZorahVasNormandy · 27/10/2019 22:27

I'm watching a show on sky crime called, "Who killed Garrett Phillips."

I'm baffled at how the police came to the conclusion that their main suspect did it. Apart from the fact, that he was on camera in his car at the school (he worked there) and the victim was also on camera 7 seconds later, nowhere near his car.

It is truly bizarre.

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Sunrae28 · 18/11/2019 09:54

Charlene Downes very sad and sinister case

Meredith Kercher because of the flawed policy investigation and media circus i don't think we will ever now the truth

FreeBedForFlys · 18/11/2019 09:56

Omg I’ve spent the last hour engrossed in reading about the Oslo Plaza woman! How odd and fascinating and sad.

There’s no mystery about who killed Meredith Kercher. He’s in prison.

OutOntheTilez · 23/11/2019 17:44

One that's got me completely baffled is the Lost Girls of Panama, Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers who went missing in the jungle in 2014. I first heard about it several months ago but never bothered reading in depth about it until the other day. I had trouble sleeping that night.

The whole thing is so bizarre.

sausagetown · 24/11/2019 21:03

OutOntheTilez I've been obsessed with Lisanne and Kris for a year or so.......why all the photos in the middle of the night. They started calling the emergency number as it was getting dark on the first day so they couldn't have got far - why weren't they found?

It seems as though the Panama authorities are keeping some information from the public so I suspect they know what happened, but we will not find out, and rightly or wrongly it sounds as though the families won't either.

Planesmistakenforstars · 24/11/2019 21:56

I'm baffled why anyone would think that Adnan Syed didn't kill Hae Min Lee.

As already mentioned, Asha Degree's disappearance is mystifying. Why did she leave the house that night? The odds of her happening onto a child killer at 3am on a rural road must be astronomical. If she was groomed and lured, why wouldn't her killer take her from near her house rather than rely on a child walking miles along a highway? If the parents are lying and she didn't leave the house, why do two separate witnesses report seeing her? Unfortunately, without a body I can't see this one being solved.

Missy Bevers is the other case that baffles me. So few people knew she would be in the church that morning, and it should be easy to narrow those down.

Littledidsheknow · 25/11/2019 14:46

One that baffled me recently was the John and Mark case about two Manchester teens.
I listened to the Casefile podcast about it and kept making incredulous noises whilst in public listening to it! The details are utterly gobsmacking.
Basically, one boy manipulates and coerces the other into murdering him. Luckily it was unsuccessful - just - but they had to invent a whole new crime to charge him with: incitement to murder oneself. Can't believe I'd never heard of it before.
There have been a couple of documentaries about it, too.

OutOntheTilez · 26/11/2019 02:20

@sausagetown

I know, it’s addicting, isn't it? I haven’t been able to stop reading about the case. I look it up every day as though suddenly, after five and a half years, it will miraculously be solved.

There are so many questions. Why were there no pictures between the sunny, daytime, touristy pictures of April 1 and the menacing, frightening, nighttime pictures of April 8? Who took the night pictures? If it was the girls, and they were in trouble within hours of their departure on April 1 as their cell phone records show, why did they wait until April 8, a week later, to signal for help or create a record of their circumstances, if that’s what the night pictures were meant to represent?

Why take 90 pictures during a three-hour window in complete darkness?

Were they alive on April 8? Who permanently deleted picture #509 and what was on it?

Where was the girls’ backpack before it was found along the bank of a river, clean, dry, and with the electronics in it in good working order? It wasn’t exposed to the elements for 10 weeks. Who had it?

It’s frightening to think that two girls’ lives are expendable in the name of a $4 billion tourist industry. Of course, they could have gotten lost, gotten injured and succumbed to Mother Nature. That’s not out of the question, but there are just too many things that don’t make sense.

Sad that their families and friends will never know what happened, as well as the loved ones of all of the victims here Sad

JemimaTab · 26/11/2019 08:17

One that I found fascinating but very odd is the Pauline Picard case in 1920’s France (possibly Brittany), which I read about a while back.

In summary, Pauline was a little girl who went missing from her parents’ farm. A few months later, she was apparently found alive in a town some distance away. Her parents identified her and took her home. However, another few months later, a body was found not far from the family farm which was positively identified as the (actual) missing Pauline. So who was the girl they had taken in, and why did the parents think it was their daughter? Apparently the “found” little girl did not recognise the parents, and could not even speak their dialect. It stuck in my mind as it was so peculiar.

user1493423934 · 26/11/2019 10:01

Jemima This one is very similar to the Pauline Picard case: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Bobby_Dunbar

Notthebradybunch · 26/11/2019 18:08

Just watching one on Netflix, Who killed Gregory, absolutely bizarre!

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 26/11/2019 19:11

@Notthebradybunch I watched that. That family was bizarre.

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BlueScreen171 · 26/11/2019 19:11

There’s no mystery about who killed Meredith Kercher. He’s in prison

I think he’s been out for a couple of years now.

W0rriedMum · 26/11/2019 21:26

I had never heard of the Oslo Plaza lady either!
This Norwegian website has the updates including the exhumation.
www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/xRjoWp/mystery-at-the-oslo-plaza

DontFearTheReaper · 27/11/2019 18:02

Thanks for the Atlantic piece on MH370. Great article.

OutOntheTilez · 28/11/2019 13:10

Another strange one is the 70-year-old case of the disappearance of Dorothy Forstein, a housewife in Philadelphia, PA, USA. It's never been solved.

www.americanhauntingsink.com/the-vanished-housewife

moresugarpls · 30/11/2019 16:29

The case of Gareth Williams (spy in the bag) has always baffled me.

I can't understand how it was rules a suicide Confused

thescarftwins · 04/12/2019 17:10

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Howmanymorecantherebe · 09/12/2019 19:25

All so terribly sad isn't it...it's hard enough losing someone but having that unknown of where they are/what happened. I think you'd hope for the best but I know personally I'd be imagining all the most awful things :-(

I hope the relatives get some form of peace in these cases.

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