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Which Real Life Mystery Do You Find Most Fascinating?

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LifeIsBrutal · 28/04/2020 10:24

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.

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Lordfrontpaw · 30/04/2020 14:08

@AdoptedBumpkin (sorry just spotted your Q) - yes I heard a poscast where they were trying to reopen the case and think that was the name.

They concluded that the young man she had been speaking to at the disco had taken her/followed her outside and got all grabby by the quarry, and she fell and hit her head - he went down for a look (there were spent matches by her), decided she was dead/dying and buggered off. It was suspected that he was known but 'protected'.

Lordfrontpaw · 30/04/2020 14:11

Sorry - just looked and it was a different case altogether. How sad.

AliceTeale · 30/04/2020 14:15

@Lordfrontpaw - what is the case with the girl in the quarry please?

Lordfrontpaw · 30/04/2020 14:21

I am wracking my brain here! I think it was in the 70s - she was mid-teens and a 'good girl' by all accounts. She went to a disco with her best friend after begging her parents to be able to go and disappeared. She had been talking to a blond-haired lad and then she just wasn't there.

She was found in a quarry with a load of spent matches around her. They had a good description of the man she was talking to but he just disappeared. There was a helpline set up for people to call - and some did, even anonymous callers with a name - but the investigation just never got anywhere.

The podcast I heard was a recentish update and their conclusion that he was being protected for is political affiliations shall we say, so her poor family (and best friend who was with her on the night) would probably never get the truth. There were people interviewed who said they know exactly who he is and that he still lives nearby.

BarefootHippieChick · 30/04/2020 14:22

packingsoapandwater thank you, I didn't know that. I still wonder who the Christmas gifts were for though. She was obviously in contact with somebody so why didn't they wonder where she was?

Lordfrontpaw · 30/04/2020 14:23

Marian Beattie (glad I found her name) 1973 and she was 18. CAse still open

louise5754 · 30/04/2020 16:16

@notchickenagain but the recycling centre said they check everything that comes in and would have noticed bones

Plus who would sleep in the back of a recycling lorry?

bobstersmum · 30/04/2020 17:05

Well I got really sucked in this afternoon reading about the girls @packetandtripe what a mystery, the night time photos are so odd!

Frownette · 30/04/2020 17:45

I read part 1 of the Panama link...don't think anything will make perfect sense about what happened to them

FlamingoAndJohn · 30/04/2020 17:46

but the recycling centre said they check everything that comes in and would have noticed bones

It didn’t got to the recycling centre it went to either landfill or the incinerator. He would have been a whole person, not bones.

Plus who would sleep in the back of a recycling lorry?
Think about it. One of those big dumpster jobs with a lid. Relatively warm and dry. It was a thing he did when drunk.

notchickenagain · 30/04/2020 17:47

Louise, one programme I saw about it showed him walking unsteadily into the cul-de-sac and not coming out. The lorry was the only thing in there. Easy to jump in the back to sleep it off. I don't remember the waste site talking about checking the load on the way in. As long as the weight of the refuse was within certain parameters it was unchecked as far as I can recall. When the alarm was raised, can't remember if this was days or weeks later, it was too late to check

TheCatsWhisker · 30/04/2020 18:14

Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but there is a great podcast called The Vanished.

The host is amazing, and has brought attention to many cases which didn't get a lot of media attention.

It's also heartbreaking, there are so many families who will never find out what happened to their loved one.

AliceTeale · 30/04/2020 18:58

Sadly I think it’s obvious where Corrie ended up.

bobstersmum · 30/04/2020 19:29

Bloody hell I'm further along now, bones and skin!!

bobstersmum · 30/04/2020 19:29

Bloody hell I'm further along now, bones and skin!!

cacaca · 30/04/2020 19:30

Arlene Fraser - what did he do to her?

teapotstorm · 30/04/2020 21:32

I live fairly close to the town where Corrie disappeared and followed it quite closely when it all initially happened. There was a big ‘find corrie’ Facebook group (although a lot of people seemed a little over invested in it all and there was always drama). The case is baffling and facts relating to it kept changing- eg. It was emphasised repeatedly that he definitely wasn’t in the bin lorry because the weights were normal, only for it to be changed that it was indeed much heavier than usual, it was emphasised constantly that there was no way he could have left on foot without being caught on cctv then this was changed too.. All really strange, the likely explanation is he ended up in the lorry but why did the extensive searching of the landfill never find anything?

CoolCarrie · 30/04/2020 21:39

teapot I asked the same question on here about not being able to find his body, and was told that the size of the dump, plus the amount of rubbish dumped since he had disappeared made it impossible to find him, even using sniffer dogs as the smells of all the rubbish would cover the smell of human remains. It’s a very sad story, I can’t imagine how his family must feel knowing that he is probably there, and not being able to give him a proper grave.

FlamingoAndJohn · 30/04/2020 21:46

but why did the extensive searching of the landfill never find anything?

Because it was a long time before they realised that they needed to search the landfill and after that it was guesswork where the bin he was in had gone. Also, they can’t use dogs to find the body like they normally would do.
The other option is that the lorry went to the incinerator instead. There would be no chance of finding anything then.

Frownette · 30/04/2020 21:59

Just went to read about Corrie - there's a really long time period before they reevaluated the lorry weight, isn't there? I don't get it.

louise5754 · 30/04/2020 22:01

Also the buildings on the top floor were not checked. Only the ground floor shops.

louise5754 · 30/04/2020 22:02

Plus he fell asleep for an hour whilst out. Why would he go to sleep later in a huge bin?

FlamingoAndJohn · 30/04/2020 22:02

there's a really long time period before they reevaluated the lorry weight, isn't there? I don't get it.

I guess they had no reason to think it was wrong.

ScarfLadysBag · 30/04/2020 22:20

He had form for sleeping in bins when drunk, didn't he? I'm sure his dad said he had previously slept in and on top of bins. I agree that this is one mystery that isn't really mysterious, just very sad Sad

Frownette · 30/04/2020 22:23

@ScarfLadysBag I think so - his girlfriend has given birth to a little girl since he disappeared as well :(

I suppose the bin lorries must have an automated update on time and weight so don't know how it was misread