Which Real Life Mystery Do You Find Most Fascinating?

[LifeIsBrutal]

Mine is D. B. Cooper. He hijacked a beong 727, stole $1.25 million in today's money, and parachuted down to earth with it. His identity is unknown and it's unknown if he survived the plunge to earth.

@CaroleFuckinBaskin yes I agree, it seems like 2 stupid girls getting lost, which I thought too; until you look deeper. There was no way to get lost. This is the best website for it: koudekaas.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-disappearance-of-kris-kremers-and.html

Johnny Gosch
Damien nettles
Maddie
Also the zodiac killer

I also quite like the Manchester Canal Pusher (see also any town with a university population and a river running through it).

Mostly because it's interesting to see the increasingly outlandish theories put forward by people who've never seen how amazingly irresponsible drunken people can be.

I’m obsessed with Roanoke, the first English colony in America and all the theories about what happened to them - did they try to sail back in silly little boats and drown, were they killed by or peacefully assimilated into nearby tribes?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony

Barry and Honey Sherman found dead in their home in Canada
Leah Croucher
The Delphi murder

Interesting thread though being reminded of all these cases and podcasts. I am a big fan of the Staircase - fascinating.

I also go on the Websleuths site which tries to solve ongoing as well as historic cases.

If lockdown lasts a year this thread will keep me busy!

@WaterIsWide I'm reading that book right now. It's heartbreaking how quickly someone's life can spiral. A very fascinating read.

@AppleJane

Thanks, I'm going to order it today. I always wondered what their lives were like (victims of Jack the Ripper). Apparently, only two of them were prostitutes.

I get it JtR was a murderer, but why did he excoriate his victims ? (Were his, 'souvenirs' ever found ?) My own intuition guides me to think he lived locally to his victims.

I think Mary Boyle has been theorised to be a victim of Robert black too.

JonBenet - I firmly believe Patsy (the mother) wrote the ransom note. The documentary on YouTube with Jim Clemente is fascinating and certainly makes sense on some points. But Burke (her brother) sued CBS and was awarded millions in damages as the film basically said he killed her and the parents covered it up. He has also been interviewed by Dr Phil and he comes across a bit shifty but it could be nerves. Her father John seems quite creepy and cold and he has disappeared from public life. I think it was accidental death by the parents, they panicked and staged a kidnapping without thinking it through. Who leaves a ransom note for a dead body?

I have no idea what happened to MM, I'd love to know. I don't think the twins will ever speak out as they have probably been carefully shielded from a lot. I always thought the key to solving this lay with the resort staff.
The Al-Hilli murders fascinate me. The car park where it happened was very remote and at the end of hairpin bend mountain roads, not touristy. Why were they and the French cyclist even there? And the cyclist was shot first. Even though it was in the middle of nowhere they were quickly found by a British ex military man on a motorbike. Why were so many people near this deserted area at the same time?

Reddit unresolved is my late night reading these days.

If you could all have one of these crimes solved which would it be?

MH370 is very simple: Sea big. Plane small.

MH17 is a bigger question: What were they thinking, flying over a war zone?

I read some of these last night...then went to check the front door was locked!

@dayswithaY it would be difficult to pick just one

MH370 - a friends hairdresser has it solved. Aliens apparently...

Excellent book on JTR 'They all love Jack' very in depth.
Also fascinated by the Zodiac killer, and the Texarkana Moonlight murders.
Also the HH Holmes murder Hotel. Not a mystery as such but so bizarre.
The Winchester Mansion too. I'd love to visit.

There's a theory about D B Cooper that cabin crew made it all up and they stole the money. I'd love it if that were true!

The CCTV footage of Corrie McKeague suggests he never left the area of the bin lorry. My theory is that he got in the lorry to sleep and the lorry was then driven to the dump and he was unknowingly unloaded, The reason why this wasn't considered in the early days is that the lorry driver falsified his records regarding the weight of his load. Not because he was guilty of anything but I think he knew his load and it was showing as too much so he recorded what he thought it should be. Something like that anyway, I can't remember the details. So I think his death was an unfortunate accident. When it was realised that it was a serious possibility of him being at the unloading area too much time had passed to make searching a feasible option. Sad.

@packetandtripe

Thank you for posting that link. It's so bloody weird isn't it. Poor girls.

Packet lost a hour to that- very interesting must be F right?

I hadn't heard of the Oslo plaza woman before so read up on that last night - initial thoughts were that she came from a wealthy family and died on the Friday not the Saturday

Does anyone ever read some of these and wonder how anyone could be motivated to consciously commit such awful crimes?

@student26 The Marie Celeste fascinated me. What happened to all those on board? Where did they go?

Any research you may want to would get off to a flying start if you got the name of the ship right. It was the 'Mary Celeste'. The name "Marie Celeste" comes from a fictional retelling of the story by Conan Doyle.

Like a lot of so-called mysteries the Mary Celeste story has accrued a lot of untrue (but romantic) baggage along the way.

@packetandtripe

Yes, thank you for posting that link, I had not heard of it before. What a bizarre and awful case. Poor girls and their poor families.

Re big cats this is pretty interesting. Sounds like they have been caught on cameras, but the landowners don't want masses of people traipsing over their land to try and spot them.
www.theguardian.com/global/2019/apr/14/britains-big-cats-are-pumas-running-wild-or-is-it-our-imagination*

From the linked article:
"He claims to have seen conclusive photos, though the evidence has been withheld from publication by landowners reluctant to attract publicity. "

Basically your typical "I have conclusive proof but I am unable to show you because..." line trotted out by every conspiracy theorist and woo nutter when asked to put their money where their mouth is.

Johnny Gosch , oh god ! I wish I didn’t read about it, someone mentioned this years ago here on MN , freaked me out. Still does .

MM and JonBenet ,so many questions , It just doesn’t make any sense.

Sodder children disappearance

Bobby Dunbar ,