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

The brother. They think she was hit over the head by a large torch of which she would never have survived because of damage to her skull/ brain. The Garot or strangulation was staged.

The parents said she was put to bed when they got home and have no explanation for the pineapple in her stomach which was in a bowl on their dining table.

So we are to believe that an intruder took her from her bed and fed her pineapple downstairs first and then spent 20 minutes writing a ransom letter inside the house. Absolutely ridiculous

Not that I am obsessed with this case

pootle I’m a bit obsessed with it too,

I remember hearing about it on the news,and thinking how awful, and have been obsessed with it ever since .
I always felt Patsy knew more than what she disclosed to the police.

@queenofarles

You are my kindred spirit then. I think other people are bored of listening to me!

Re Jon Benet, what kidnapper sits down in the house to pen a rambling eight page thesis using a notepad and pen he found there? And cites the precise figure which had just been paid as a bonus?

Yep. The long rambling ransom letter would have taken a while to write. Also, as has been mentioned, why write a ransom note when the victim is already dead ?

So, it had nothing to do with the little girl JonBenet Ramsay being a child model. Also, accusing a random security guard working at the venue of one of the beauty pageants that she attended is nonsense.

Her brother Burke has been interviewed on t.v. recently and came across as shifty. I wonder if he's been bribed or threatened to keep his secret. Or there's things he doesn't want to admit to. He's also sued a broadcasting company for damages and won.

Does that mean that the father wrapped cord around her throat when she was already dead ? She had a skull fracture, apparently ? What was given as her cause of death ?

@wateriswide

I think the cause of death was the strangulation but I think the skull fracture was to an extent overlooked or it wasn't properly considered that in all likelihood she would have died of those injuries - although perhaps taking a number of hours.

The investigation was a disaster and not properly treated as a crime scene.

You have to consider whether the parents deliberately invited all the friends over knowing that would cause issues for anyone trying to identify if there was any 'stranger' dna.

I've spent a lot of time reading most of these this evening! one that sticks with me is the disappearance of Rebecca Coriam. It just doesn't make sense and it feels like there's been some effort to cover up what really happened to her. It's very strange

Yup. Convinced it was a Disney cover-up.

Awful for her poor family.

Look up Burke Ramsey childhood interviews on YouTube. There is a compilation and it is shocking particularly his complete and utter lack of emotion. Interestingly he suggests someone might have hit her over the head.

But surely anyone with an ounce of common sense would know better than to write such a suspect ransom note? Surely you wouldn’t be stupid enough to ask for the precise amount of JRs bonus??

I could talk about this all day too 😳

@Aliceteale

You would think so wouldn't you? The random note is just ridiculous. It says we are a small foreign faction - do people who are what we consider a foreign faction call themselves that?

Maybe we should start our own thread

Good idea, I watched that Clemente docu several times.
And they do make a good point ...

Yes it’s so odd. Time must have been of the essence so why so much detail? Why the suspicious exact amount? Why not write with your non dominant hand in case of handwriting experts being brought in?

Everyone has seen enough crime shows to surely avoid making such simple and silly errors.

Maura Murray mystery and Lyndsay Buziak murder

Got to be Bigfoot for me... I've been slightly obsessed since I was a kid but something about the vast forests of North America and the numbers of detailed sightings has me fascinated. Sasquatch Chronicles podcast is my guilty pleasure!

@ShadowKitty me too 😳

I’m actually fascinated by anything supernatural or unexplained. I am an utter sceptic though. Fascinated doesn’t mean I think there’s any reason to believe in, say, ghosts.

So while I believe Laiste when she described her experience and find it riveting I don’t think it’s proof of the existence of spirits because nobody knows if spirits exist.

So fascinating!

The Beaumont Children - heartbreaking.

Also very local to me - the murder of Anne Noblett. Her body was found frozen in local woodland a month after her disappearance in 1957. Every so often they have an appeal for information but no new leads. Lots of speculation the killer must have been very local, due to the isolated location and the freezing. One of her brothers was interviewed for the most recent appeal only a few years ago .

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Anne_Noblett

And this one. This one really freaks me out.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Holly_Bobo

I just find it scary how people can murder and then go on to live a normal life after! Like theres been cold cases solved 15 years or so after the crime took place yet the person who committed it has married,started a family etc. Know to murder in the first place they are not right and probably think haha wont ever get caught. Just hope more of the unsolved murders get solved because families deserve closure and obviously who did it should be punished not swanning around

Sneha Anne Philip (who disappeared in New York on 9/11) and Ricky Reel (who disappeared in leafy Surrey).

The Steven Avery case .....just weird.

@Cheeryandmerry just read that link for Holly Bobo. Utterly horrific isn't it and to think that they were all in on it, all enjoying it. Poor girl.

This...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8279631/Detectives-believe-woman-claimed-real-Mary-Day-impostor.html

I am sure it's her. Look at the features, the nose especially. Very odd!

That Mail report is so badly written! So the woman found matched the mother’s DNA. Surely must be her then (unless it’s an imposter sister that nobody else knew about). Sounds like the poor kid upped and ran away.