Which Real Life Mystery Do You Find Most Fascinating?

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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.

Julia Wallace murdered in Liverpool . I think in the 1920s .

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

It’s perhaps a good thing that there’s not strong evidence though, they’d probably be hunted etc.

Yes I agree with this. I think they'd be hunted, or as said in last post the land would become over run by people trying to spot them or catch them!

I love an unsolved mystery and because of that can we please be sensitive of mentions of MM.
These are parents with a missing child we are talking about here. I would hate for this thread to be pulled.

Jack the Ripper, mainly because i have ancestors that were involved in the case.

I'd never heard of the Julia Wallace case but it is interesting.

Ben Needham- In 1991 he disappeared from his gran’s front garden in Kos, it was broad daylight and he was 21 months old.

Claudia Lawrence, the police have said some people know what happened, but it seems there is a wall of silence.

West Mesa body pit. They couldn't identify all the women found and there really are no clues as to who killed them.
Also Adam in the Thames. There was hope the poor boy had been identified, but I believe it came to nothing.
However - I can now scratch the EAR/ONS case off the list.

Oh my goodness, how have I never heard of Adam in the Thames? Just awful that has really upset me poor boy.

Are any of you on Websleuths?

I also think that the police have a fair idea in the Claudia Lawrence case, but no, or not enough, evidence. I am sure they are keeping a close eye in the hopes that someone slips up.

I'm also fascinated by some of the 'Liverpool Time Slip stories'. Time slips in general really.

Ruth Wilson the school girl who took a cab to the top of Box Hill and disappeared and Andrew Gosden.

I thought the theory with the Ben Needham case was that he was knocked over and killed by a digger driver and buried. Didn’t the man make a deathbed confession?

Second the Amy Lynn Bradley case and the photos that nobody is sure whether it’s her or not.

The creepy Polaroid photograph that was found on the ground in a car park in America that showed two people gagged, there was speculation one looked a little like a woman who’d gone missing but I don’t know whether it was dismissed? The photo was shown on tv but nobody ever came forward to say it was them, so whether it was genuine or a hoax is a mystery. Can’t remember the name of the missing woman.

One that really creeps me out is the two young girls who went hiking in America somewhere a couple of years ago and were found murdered, one of them filmed quick footage of a man approaching them on her mobile but he’s never been found despite it being widely shared. Very sad case.

@student26 what I came to say. I watched a programme earlier this year that suggested the captain suspected the boat was going to sink leading to his decision to abandon the ship.

It was the fact that everything was totally undisturbed so no sign of a struggle, that got me

The Beaumont Children :-(

The 'Green bicycle Murder' a mill worker was found shot in a rural Leicestershire village in 1919. The prime suspect was seen riding a green bike, which was later found in the canal. He was acquitted, but probably only because he had Marshall Hall defending him. I'm
100% certain it was him. There was evidence that the victim may have met the accused before and spurned him.

Suzy Lamplugh and Lee Boxell.

The JonBenet Ramsay case has always interested me.

Julia Wallace murdered in Liverpool . I think in the 1920s

@Saucepanlid it was 1931 - yes, an absolutely fascinating case. Have you read Dorothy Sayers’s essay about it? I’ve literally just read it. I’d read about the case years ago and it stuck in my mind. In case you haven’t read it, the essay is in a collection called The Anatomy of Murder - essays by members of the Detection Club on real life cases, including another famous head scratcher, the Adelaide Bartlett case. Well worth a read.

stellabelle This one fascinates me too.
So many unanswered questions. The level of trauma some suffered was horrific too. One with blunt force trauma to the head, one with a tongue missing and one vomitting blood.

Police think John Cannan murdered Suzy Lamplugh. The Casefile episode on it was very good. Her parents were incredibly inspiring and brave.

Any missing persons cases are always so sad. A woman in her 60s went missing in a state forest a few hours away, she was just out on her normal afternoon walk. She was seen by a ranger on a well-used walking track and seen by other walkers. She never turned up back home. The forest was scoured repeatedly but there was no trace of her found again. Her husband died last year never knowing what happened.

As others have said Suzy Lamplugh and JonBenet Ramsey. I've also read a lot of stuff about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and the most in-depth by far is the investigation by Richard D Hall. Just google his website and there's around 8/9 hours of documentaries on her disappearance. Certainly an eye-opener.

The Springfield Three is another one that frustrates me. The whole thing was mishandled from the start and what could have been valuable evidence was lost forever.