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.

Came on to say Delphi Bridge as well. They have video and sound of the guy and it’s still not solved. Awful case

The Oslo Plaza mystery woman. Intriguing but very sad that she has never been identified.

Came on to say Delphi Bridge as well. They have video and sound of the guy and it’s still not solved. Awful case

Just looked that up, how tragic that they even have video footage of the suspect and no further with the case in finding him. How did he know they were on the bridge? Bizarre if it was all just a horrible coincidence.

Placemarking!

JonBebet Ramsay

Just thought of another - Betsy Aardsma. She was murdered in the library of her university and the killer was never found.

Jon benet Ramsey - 2was it not the brother

I think with JonBenet it was one of the parents, possibly the mother. Not a purposeful murder but a hit/push with bad consequences. Covered it up and staged a break in.

Another missing person one is the guy from the Manic Street Preachers.

Honey and barry sherman, went from murder/suicide to straight murder. So much bitterness and one upmanship its hard to see wtf.

Abby and libby, it's UNREAL no one has been caught. The face, the voice and just nowt.... blows my mind

IMO the problem with all the documentaries on MMC is that they’re all so completely outlandish.

From the ones which suggest she was abducted to order by pedophiles or by someone looking to adopt a child to the ones who suggest that the parents were wrong which make constant references to e.g.the sniffer dogs and so on or that they hid her in the hire car for ten days before driving her over the border to Spain.

So whenever the topic comes up people say “Oh I’ve watched x and y documentary and it’s really compelling,” only to be challenged by someone else saying “No, you need to watch A documentary because that evidence is far more compelling than the other theory....”

In most disappearances there’s a general hypothesis as to what happened,but in this one there are so many different ones that it’s impossible to really form an opinion or believe that we’ll ever know or even be able to know with any clarity what happened.

The Al-Hilli family

Yes, I was just thinking about this the other day! What the fuck was that? It was all over the news for ages and then suddenly nothing?

Surely he was a spy, it must be?

It was awful

I thought it had been pretty much concluded now that MH370 was a suicide by the pilot? They found flight simulator footage in his computer of almost the exact route that the plane ended up going before it crashed. And the way that they crossed between airspaces and communicated suggests deliberate foul play (I can't remember exactly what it was, it was on a podcast!)

And then they think that a plane diving into the sea at that speed would pretty much disintigrate on impact, hence not finding much?

The Black Dahlia (Elizabeth Short).

Another case that has always baffled me is Judy Smith. So much that just doesn’t add up.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Smith_homicide

@1FootInTheRave. There was a podcast about a woman who thought that the Black Dahlia murderer was her dad (or granddad). I’m buggered if I can remember what it was called but it was so good.

'The lost girls of Panama' - Lisanne Froom and Kris Kremer, dur=tch tourists who disappeared on a hike around 2013/2014 - belongings were found and partial bone fragments months later the photos left on their camera are so eerie.

I spent a whole morning once reading about this after seeing it on one of these MN threads. It was very creepy because of the camera being found and the photos and the stick shapes and the remains. But I think in the end they concluded that the girls had got into difficulties in a ravine and were stuck and were trying to use the flash of the camera to signal for help. The stick shapes were to try and signify where they were stuck and the remains were scattered because they had been eaten by animals.

An awful case though, their poor families.

The Princes in the Tower

Claudia Lawrence. I’m sure the police know exactly what happened but they just need definite evidence.

Adam, the child in the Thames , has been identified, there is a book about the painstaking work undertaken by UK police and other police forces in Europe and Africa to name that poor wee boy. I can’t remember what it’s called but it was a fascinating and very sad read.

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.

@Samtsirch I haven't read the full thread yet so forgive me if I'm saying things other people have said

I grew up in a tiny town surrounded by huge amounts of countryside in the south, and once when I was out walking with a friend when I was 9, we both saw something in a bush that was huge, black and shaped like a dog on four legs. We didn't move, and it slunk off into the bushes but it was way too quiet and big to be any dog, and looked exactly like a black panther. Both of us agreed that it wasn't a dog and that we wouldn't walk that way again!

@FlamingoAndJohn
@1FootInTheRave the podcast was called Root of Evil. That was one messed up family.

That was it. Amazing podcast. Well worth a listen.

The burning of Evelyn Foster - unsolved case from 1931. A young woman gave someone a lift in her car and was found dying (having been badly burned). It took place in Otterburn, Northumberland and is fascinating.