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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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Zaphodsotherhead · 11/05/2020 17:54

Amy-Lynne Bradley - I believe she simply fell overboard. When someone is drunk and standing at the edge of a ship in the middle of a bloody big ocean, and the next moment they are gone...well. Occam's Razor comes into play there, I feel.

Wishful thinking contributes to everything thereafter.

Snooks1971 · 11/05/2020 19:02

Billie-Jo Jenkins. Poor girl.

Am I right in thinking that her stepfather Sion Jenkins was released and the case hasn’t been solved?

I can’t believe it happened in 1997, it only seems like ten years ago max.

JoeExoticsEyebrowRing · 11/05/2020 19:20

They didn't think she had fallen overboard though did she?

At the time of her disappearance the ship was just about to dock in Curaçao, meaning it wasn't out in really deep ocean, and it would fairly likely that a body would wash up on shore or be relatively easy to find in relatively shallow waters. She was also a trained lifeguard and very strong swimmer (although she may have still been drunk at the time). Of course that doesn't rule it out though.

Also, her own balcony was one where it didn't just go straight down, it was a terrace of balconies below so I think it would have been impossible to fall overboard from her own balcony at least?

She was allegedly seen at about 6am (so after her dad saw her on the balcony) in the bar with that 'Yellow' guy and he handed her a drink of what looked like coke or coffee?

Yes, I guess she could have still fallen overboard, but it's actually pretty hard to do that, and she would have had to be standing on the edge, the sides of cruise ships are really high you can't just 'fall'.

The other thing that was interesting was that they were talking about the fact that law enforcement on cruise ships can actually be really difficult because of different countries and jurisdictions, and that often no one is actually accountable when something like this happens. It's tighter post 9/11 but Amy-Lynne went missing in 1998 and her parents set up a charity to help get justice for lots of families who have been the victims of crimes on cruise ships or where things haven't been investigated properly.

lyralalala · 11/05/2020 19:27

@Snooks1971 You have to hope Sion Jenkins was guilty of that. He lost contact with his children, and was never compensated for that or the time he spent in prison.

The refusal of compensation has left it hanging over his head.

lyralalala · 11/05/2020 19:28

The refusal of compensation has left it hanging over his head that he's guilty, but fluked his way out

Snooks1971 · 11/05/2020 19:32

@lyralalala he seems to have had some good lawyers I grant you that...

Peapod29 · 11/05/2020 20:51

I listened to the generation why podcast on Amy Lynn Bradley. They highlighted how Cruise ships are quite dangerous. A mixture of lots of people constantly drinking, guard down as they feel secure. There are lots of sexual assaults and the added complication that it’s hard with the jurisdiction means that they probably attract predators. If she didn’t fall I’d put money on it being an assault gone wrong. They never searched the ship at 1st, giving the perpetrator plenty of time to dispose of the body. The fact that it was so close to shore makes a fall unlikely, unless there was some extreme rip tide that carried her off ?

ALovelyBitOfSquirrel · 11/05/2020 21:24

There’s very good evidence that Kyron Herman’s stepmother had nothing to do with it

Such as?

SheWranglesRugRats · 11/05/2020 21:35

There’s a very good multipart thread on it on the unsolved mysteries subreddit.

Tramolamodol · 11/05/2020 21:59

I'd also been thinking of the Billie-Jo case. Statistically, he was the most likely subject.

CoolCarrie · 11/05/2020 22:38

Wasn’t there another suspect in the Billie-Jo case? I am sure I read that a drifter or tramp , a known sex offender was in the area at the time. Very odd case, the Sion Jenkins is a habitual liar, but that doesn’t mean he is a murderer.

lyralalala · 11/05/2020 22:38

Sion Jenkins was the third suspect

Iadoremylabrador · 12/05/2020 12:20

One of the other suspects in the Billie Jo Jenkins case was a homeless & mentally ill man that was know for inhaling plastic bags. Billie Jo had part of a plastic bag very far up one of her nostrils.

I'm mostly of the opinion that Sion Jenkins was responsible for her murder. But I'm not sure how the plastic up her nose fits in with that! He would only have had a small amount of time to kill her.

ellanwood · 12/05/2020 19:36

In the case of Billie Jo and Sion Jenkins don't understand how the father is supposed to have killed her, composed himself and returned to the other children to go on an errand in the space of three minutes. If it was premeditated, surely he'd have planned it more efficiently so he wasn't in danger of his daughters walking in, or his wife and other daughters returning home. And if it was heat of the moment, what could possibly have happened in just three minutes to raise his fury to such a level that he attacks and then can calm down and return to the car? It seems impossible to rationalise either of those scenarios.

loopylindazdaughter · 13/05/2020 17:57

For anyone interested, Someone knows something is a really good podcast

gaggiagirl · 14/05/2020 06:48

Ooh thanks I'll check that one out. I'm currently enjoying'they walk among us' this week's episode is very well researched.

CoolCarrie · 14/05/2020 23:22

I really don’t think Sion Jenkins murdered Billie Jo.

SweetMarmalade · 15/05/2020 00:18

I’m a bit behind the times regarding podcasts!

What do I need to do to find them?

Grin
SweetMarmalade · 15/05/2020 00:19

I have an iPhone Grin

rayoflightboy · 15/05/2020 00:44

Andrew Gosden.
This is what I think happened.
1 He was meeting someone,that's why he walked the 4 miles home from school
.2 He only bought the 1 way ticket because he was getting a lift back
3 That's why he didn't take all his money and why they didn't find online activity

He knew the person and also a few months before he went missing.Some other lad from near him disappeared.He was smart like Andrew.

BubblyWater · 15/05/2020 01:31

Having read up on the Dyatlov Pass, I would have thought an avalanche was the cause of death.

rayoflightboy · 15/05/2020 01:41

Chris Watts.I think when his wife returned f on her work trip.They had a row and murdered his family.

Only for her friend was so on the ball and got the police straight away,there was a chance he might have got away with it.

I am also don't think his gf was involved with the murders,cause he would have dropped her right in it.If he thought it would get him a lighter sentence.

FlamingoAndJohn · 15/05/2020 06:37

@SweetMarmalade.
On your phone you should have an icon that is purple that looks like this picture

Click that then go to search on the bottom right.
Type in the name of the podcast and you should see it come up.
Click the picture.
I would then click all episodes and you should see all the episodes in order.

Which Real Life Mystery Do You Find Most Fascinating?
whodunit3 · 15/05/2020 08:53

Another case I have always been horrified but intrigued by in the murder of Lyn Russell, youngest, dog and attempted murder of eldest child (The Chillenden Murders)

Not as a big a mystery as some mentioned however Michael Stone is in prison for it it but their is strong speculation that the crime was actually carried out by Levi with a 3rd option that the real killer was never found.

The E-FIT that was given certainly doesn’t look like either men and I’m sure there was evidence left at the crime scene that indicated they the killer was a 3rd party.

I remember when this case was 1st reported but I also now have a very similar lifestyle to the victims, young daughters, country lane school runs, rural life and so it has always resonated with me how scared they must have been and such a sad waste of a happy family.

I’d be interested on anyone else’s thoughts on this case and also if there has ever been any podcast on it.

Shopgirl1 · 15/05/2020 20:51

The Chillenden murders were horrific, I remember reading about it a few years ago and being horrified that someone could do that to them.