What’s the scariest unsolved mystery you know?

[Mimmy352]

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

Dyatlov Pass - I saw a documentary about,they were naked because in the final stages of hypothermia you actually be some very hot hence the removal of clothes. I can't remember the rest but it was all explained.

thanks I’ve listened to theWest Cork podcast and watched two documentaries and read one of the books 😳
It is the lack of definitive evidence to try and convict anyone in Ireland that is so frustrating. The violence to such a lovely woman is horrifying and for it to happen there in West Cork. Of course some people in that area do have form.

https://modernhiker.com/has-the-dyatlov-pass-mystery-finally-been-solved/#:~:text=Purzin%20and%20Gaume's%20theory%20is,the%20consciousness%20of%20hikers%20everywhere.

Thanks, again you’re right. With the critical mass at Ancestry though, (millions more on it than anywhere else) almost any Doe case could be solved by an expert in time, in theory. Caveat being if of an ethnicity that wasn’t well represented as yet on the database. Morals/ethics behind the evolving science.

USA ‘rape kits’ (DNA) re: crime aren’t routinely uploaded to a central ‘criminal’ DNA database, unlike the UK. Arguably They’d have caught the Golden State killer far sooner if they were. There’s a kit backlog in USA too.

If you are trying to solve unknown parentage cases/mysteries AncestryDNA the first place to test (critical mass/won’t accept third party uploads) & then upload elsewhere as you suggest, to ‘fish’ in other pools.

is there a chance that Lucy Letby could be innocent.

I very much doubt it.

Jennifer Fairgate/the Oslo woman. Found murdered and alone in a hotel room locked from the inside.

There was something about how the police examining her computer only checked internet explorer.

Afterwards, it was found that there have been searches about suffocation on Firefox but (I'm not sure why) that was inadmissible.

That was a theory that was never proven and his mother never believed.
She's currently asking for a river in Germany to be searched.

Haven’t read the whole thread but I’m so intrigued by missing person cases. Loads have already been mentioned but I thought I’d also add (all from USA)
Brian Schaffer
Bryce Laspisa
Brandon Swanson

One local(ish) to me is Luke Durbin. Stranded in Ipswich in the early hours with no money. What haunts me as a mother, is that he went in to a cab office to try and get a cab home but they wouldn’t let him because he had no money. They told him to call his mum to get her bank card details but he refused because he didn’t want to wake her. I will hammer in to my kids to never ever be afraid to call me whenever they need me whatever time of night. He was never seen again after last being seen on CCTV near the train station, except a scary sounding sighting of him inside a car.

Many would & could be solved if could be ‘uploaded’ to AncestryDNA database, but legally & morally you can’t. There’s an art to working with what’s on there & edging closer to solution.

Baby seafied.
Baby boy found dead next to rail tracks local to me. Mum was never found:(

I don’t think there’s a specific one on here but Reddit has several:

Cold Case Uk
Unresolved Mysteries
Unsolved Murders

Some of the details in this case are so bizarre I’ve never been able to get it out of my head:

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

That’s local to me too.

Although I grew up long before this case whenever I went out my dad would leave a £20 note (which was a good amount of money in those days) on the kitchen table. The reason being that if I got stuck somewhere without any money knew the taxi fare was there.

Where are Renee and Andrew Machrae’s bodies.

I was a young child and living in Scotland at the time. So sad.

@andjustlikethat1 I'm on the fence with the Steven Avery case. On the one hand, you think yes it's possible. Then you hear the evidence and think, no, he's innocent. It's a hard one.
Same with Lucy Letby for me.

The Somerton Man was the mystery that got me the most. When all was unravelled it was shocking.

Corrie McKeague, the young RAF lad who went missing following a night out is another head scratcher for me.

I've been following this case and the podcast for years. I really hope Sally Leydon gets some answers once the coroner reports her findings.

He was in the large wheelie bin which went to with the landfill site or the incinerator. If he’s in the landfill it would be next to impossible to find him, if he went to the incinerator then it’s far too late.

Lucy Letby is as guilty as they come!

I think they were the only pedestrians on the bridge, so no one to grab him. The worst part for me is that he returns 15 minutes later, the woman tries to get him to stop, but he ignores her. It’s so bizarre.

Evelyn Hartley
Joan Risch
Wanda Beach Murders
Beverly Potts

And many more Websleuths Missing but not forgotten is heartbreaking.

We must remember that there will have been many things presented to the jury or seen by police that we don’t know about. Don’t think just because she is young and pretty she couldn’t do it.

Can’t find the poster to tag but I read about Lola Shenkoya and Elizabeth Chau. There was thoughts of a link to Andrezj Kunowski; he was convicted of rape in 2002 and the 1997 murder of a 12 year old girl in her own home. He worked in a dry cleaners on Ealing Rd at the time both women went missing.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/serial-rapist-nicknamed-beast-who-25231271