What’s the scariest unsolved mystery you know?

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Whether it’s personal or well known, which unsolved case makes your brain sound like dial up?

@GingerLiberalFeminist I was just about to post that!!

So weird.

I went down the rabbit hole of trying to find out what happened to them. My blood ran cold that one blog said they were maybe killed for body parts....

I'd give anything for poor little keith Bennett to be found. It's something I've always thought about. He needs to be brought home. My brain goes into overdrive wondering where he is on the moors

This breaks my heart too. The only comfort I get that he and his mum are together now in another dimension. Call it heaven if you will.

Nicola Payne went missing in Coventry walking from her boyfriend's family home to her family home. It was a short walk through some scrub land that was well used by the community. Her father was looking for her within minutes when she didn't arrive as expected.

Local thugs were expected and they were seen in the local area around the time but nothing has ever been proved.

A mothers agony.

Speaking to BBC's Crimewatch Live last year,,_ Robert's mother, Cheryl Davies said: "He was a character, he always made you laugh. He loved his sport; he was never without a ball, a rugby ball or a football, he just loved everything about it. The morning Robert went missing was just like any other morning. He said, 'I am off out mam, see you later' and he looked so happy going around the corner. Just every day I think about that because that is the last time I have ever seen him.
"I never did see him. I never could find him. I still have to look out the window of my home, it is like a comfort for me. Every night I still look, every morning I look. It is just something I feel I have to do. We know Robert is no longer here any more, and we accept that, we have no choice. There is not a day goes by when I do not think about him".

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/police-speak-agony-family-20-23467767?intsource=amppcontinuereading&inttmedium=amp&intcampaign=continueereadingbutton#amp-readmore-target

Watch Sound of Freedom - currently showing in cinemas now in the UK.
Sadly, you’ll see how easy it is to ‘disappear’ children 😢

I used to live on the island, there was a documentary made and the same characters who were dealing and into all sorts back when I was there who claimed they knew nothing about his disappearance were interviewed. I bet my mortgage they know exactly what happened. The police force is shocking and there's a very dark side to the island that you aren't aware of when you go for a holiday, it's an odd place. His poor mother 😢

Not scary as such but very sad, the disappearance of Elizabeth Chau and Lola Shenkoya in Ealing and of course, Claudia Lawrence. There are many more which have already been mentioned. I can't really comprehend how parents/family members manage to ever come to terms with it.

Noah Donohue - terrifying that this case is still not solved.

I agree. I find it really weird what with the PSNI having dealt with 50+-odd years of terrorism can't seem to solve this..... (first civil rights march in NI in 1968).

There have been suggestions that Nicola Payne was a victim of Fred West. Apparently there's evidence he was working in Coventry at the time. Could just be people clutching at straws though and I do hope, for her sake it wasn't true.

Although thinking of the Wests, I wonder how many of these missing persons will later be found to be the victims of an as-yet unknown serial killer. Just occurred to me that there was a huge publicity campaign for Lucy Partington in the 70s when she disappeared but she wasn't found until they dug up Cromwell Street in the 90s. Along with those other poor women who, heartbreakingly, didn't have the same public interest at the time of their disappearances, presumably because their families weren't rich or middle class enough to generate it. But anyway ' if there had been a 70s MN, I imagine Lucy Partington's name would have been mentioned a fair few times.

Oddly chilling.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisappearanceoffTaraCalico

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisappearanceoffJohnnyGosch

@CassiniG - yes, Tara Calico. That photo! Shivers.

Also, Amy Lynne Bradley. Also that photo. Also shivers.

How the SNP have been in power for so long

The Beaumont children I watched a documentary about this and the five Sodder children. There father was not liked in the town the house burned 4 children escaped but the bodies of the other 5 were not recovered. There was a rumour that they were taken before the fire and brought up by other Italian families living in America.

Another one I find intriguing is the disappearance of Natalie Putt. A 17 year old who was mother to a young baby. Allegedly went out for cigarettes and never came back, however I believe it IS known what happened but due to a lack of evidence the person responsible has never been held accountable. A blood stained Tshirt was found in a loft which was confirmed to have her blood on it. Just heartbreaking for her family, it will be 20 years now.

@SecretVictoria as soon as I saw the title I thought of Alistair Wilson!

Suzy Lamplugh

Arlene Fraser is another one. I know the assumption was she was fed to the pigs but who knows!

And obviously Maddie McCann!

There is one local to me, a taxi driver on the 80's was strangled with cheese wire by a fare. A person went into what is now my local chipper with blood on them (not massively far from the murder and the timing tied in) but never identified.

I recently listened to a podcast series about a local murder from the 70s. The whole way through I kept thinking bloody hell it's the ex husband. Murdered in 1978 and found guilty in 2023.

Makes you wonder how many murderers used to walk free due to lesser technology and science.

This was local to me at the time…it was presumed to be a case of a contract killing by a drug syndicate with a mistaken address. This woman had done nothing you or I wouldn’t have done every day. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jane_Thurgood-Dove

..and sometimes eventually a serial killer case gets solved. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_serial_killings

The Mary Celeste
Jack the Ripper
Bella in the Wytch Elm
Beaumont children
Madeleine McCann
Amy Lynn Bradley - that’s the one I’ve found scariest to be honest and I told my DD she was absolutely banned from cruises for life. Poor girl, greatest probability is she was abducted from cruise ship for use in sex slave trade. People think they did see her subsequently (and one I can’t fathom where a woman claimed she begged for help in a woman’s bathroom saying she was being held, and the woman dismissed her). I’m guessing it got to a point her use was up and she was disposed of. So awful. I also read that it’s not the only case, not unheard of for young women to go ‘missing’ from cruise ships in those parts and police/ships don’t investigate with the line ‘they must have met someone and ran off, or didn’t want to go back home and ran off’, yeah right. I’ve no doubt those local police are likely in on these rings.