What true crime has left you baffled?

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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.

Alistair Wilson in Nairn.
A man who went missing in Dublin after a night out - unfortunately I can't remember his name. I think it was Brian something. His poor family have never had closure.

Lars Mittank. I can’t get over that footage of him racing out of the airport, and I still wonder what happened to him, whether he’s still alive, where he ran to…

Sorry, not Brian in Dublin. His name was Trevor Deely.

Missing Leah Croucher. It seems she's disappeared into thin air. Poor poor girl.

I don’t think the Delphi girls murders are “baffling.” It’s clear what happened to them, police just haven’t located the suspect yet. Yes they have some low quality footage of him/his voice, but that isn’t an instant case solver if the murderer lives an off the grid sort of lifestyle or just otherwise can’t be easily identified from the footage as it doesn’t clearly show his face. I mean the 2 sketches are completely different (young/no facial hair vs old/beard)

Yes, that footage of Lars Mittank is so odd isn't it?

I can see me disappearing myself into google to read a lot of these.

I'm very interested in crime and unsolved cases.

Any case where someone disapears. I think that is so interesting. How does someone simply 'vanish' into thin air never to be seen or heard from again? Scarily intriguing to think about. Horrible for their friends and families though to never know what happened.

Brian Shaffer. He was caught on CCTV going into a bar and never seen again. There was no other exit from the bar. It is a very odd case.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Brian_Shaffer

A few people vanished themselves after 9/11 in the confusion, to start new lives. I wonder of the adults who vanish how many want to cut ties and start afresh.

@MissMarpletheMurderer - well a witness came forward six months after the event saying that they thought she was mouthing 'help me'. After six months I think any evidence must be regarded with some suspicion.

The flashing hazard warning lights were apparently seen by a few people. But the whole thing is odd.

Asha Degree - it seems she was abducted and murdered. However, why did she leave home in the early hours that day taking her school bookbag with her ? It was cold, dark and pouring with rain. She wasn't even wearing a coat. Chance abduction by an opportunistic predator ?

The contents of her bag were found twenty or so miles away a few years later. The police are wanting to find a book and a t-shirt that belong to her that still have not been found.

Penny Bell- very interesting case
Claudia Lawrence
Suzy Lampugh
Madeline McCann

The unsolved murder of Judy Smith. She went missing in 1997 from Philadelphia while visiting the city with her husband while he attended a business conference. Her body was found about 5 months later, and the details are absolutely baffling.

Andrew Gosden is quite local to me. South Yorkshire Police have just tweeted today that new age progression images have been done of how Andrew may look now and uploaded on the family's blog. I have a son of the same age he was when he went missing and I can't even begin to imagine the family's torment. I'll put the link below if anyone would like to look at the new images:

helpustofindandrew.weebly.com/blog

Ben Needham

I thought the Ben Needham case was solved with the truck driver admitting (shortly before he died) that he might have run him over on the building site?

This one will never be 'officially' solved but I wish it could be. It's Cold War era mystery.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Henry_Borynski

'I thought the Ben Needham case was solved with the truck driver admitting (shortly before he died) that he might have run him over on the building site?'

Yeah, one of Ben's sandals was found where he dumped Ben's body but to date no remains have been found. So there was no abduction. Well, I guess there was, sort of.

Which leads me to the case that shall not be mentioned, MM. What evidence was there of an abduction ?

Oh you can’t mention that here. Goodness me.

If no one has seen it, "Who took Johnny." Is on Netflix. It's about a 12 year old boy who'd went out and has never been seen again.

I often think that perhaps some people who just go missing do so deliberately in order to escape their lives or to make a new start or similar.

I’ve often thought that perhaps Andrew Gosden was one of those. After all he deliberately took out money, deliberately got on a train and then never materialised again. And of course in cases of people who just disappear the families probably are distraught but are unlikely to talk of any issues that may have meant those people may have wanted to just run off.

I remember reading about a case once of someone (and I can’t remember if it was a man or woman) who disappeared seemingly without a trace, who was located about nine years later in Spain. He had simply wanted to start out again, and although he agreed that the family could be told he’d been found, he didn’t want any contact with them, and as he was obviously an adult that was respected.

Oh that boy who took the train down to London and nobody saw him again. What was his name again? He was about 13 and the last CCTV images of him were at a station (Kings Cross possibly?)

Corrie McKeague's disappearance is mystifying to say the least. However, he might have been having a 'complicated' life and chose to disappear.

Did he know his partner was having his baby ?

There is still loads of wild country and water even in the U.K. it’s more of a surprise that bodies are ever found, rather than they aren’t.