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?

How is an admission not enough evidence for a conviction?

I think the main suspect in this case is guilty. I wonder if she stood up to him and threatened to go to the police or expose him in some way, and there was a confrontation. The history of that guy is outrageous, and he was never charged or punished for any of his crimes.
I also wonder if there are other victims we don’t know about.

Malaysia Airlines flight 370 and spontaneous human combustion is the wick effect. You can prove this with a slaughtered pig.

With Claudia Lawrence the Police have said they believe that some of those close to Claudia have lied to them and won't say what actually happened as this would reveal things in their own lives they do not want known. Poor Claudia and her family.

This is the latest I can find on Gareth Williams.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57448396

Claudia Lawrence is the one that gets me. Her so called friends know what happened to her but are refusing to say. How they can live with themselves is beyond me.

There was a lot to the Ruth Wilson case that points to her suicide, very little was revealed by the police at the request of her family. If you went deep into those woods she vanished in, experts said it would be nigh on impossible to find her. The police found empty pill boxes, alcohol bottles and I think their was a note left to her dad.

MansfieldLark · Yesterday 19:05
Jonbenet Ramsey. Poor poor child. 😢

Yes - an intriguing case for many reasons. I think it's pretty much accepted that the older brother killed her (probably accidentally - a game that went too far) and the parents conspired to conceal this. There are several docs on YouTube.

The older brother seems to have issues - and the 'ransom note' has been convincingly discredited. The recording of the initial phone call to the police is also incriminating because of what you can hear in the background.

A horrible case all round, though.

Only started reading the thread but we lived near Fairy Meadow at the time Cheryl Grimmer was taken. It shook the British community (many had gone on the "£10 Pom scheme), and quite a few returned to the UK soon after. We stayed for a couple of years afterwards but the whole placed seemed to change.

Murder of Jill Dando. None of it makes any sense. It was clearly a professional hit job. Why her?

@SurprisedWithAHorse
It was ruled inadmissible as he was 17 when he made the confession and no parent or guardian was present.

Quite a few women have gone missing in the east of Ireland over several decades. In some there are strong suspects but incompetence from the Gardai meant no convictions.

In others, it’s a total mystery:

• Deirdre Jacob went to a village bank in Co Kildare to pay for her nursing accommodation in London and was never seen again; presume murdered
• Jojo Dullard: hitchhiking to Wicklow and went missing on the final leg
• Annie McCarrick: an American living in Dublin who went hiking and wnt missing, now presumed murdered.

I guess women go missing all the time and are murdered but Ireland is a small country where people tend to know everyone around. How these things happen and no-one knows anything is a mystery.

@HuwEdwardsBottom
One theory is that she was trying to investigate a possible paedophile ring at the BBC.

There are a bunch of conspiracy theories about this. One was that she was trying to expose paedos at the BBC. She also fronted a Kosovo appeal and some people believe she was killed for political reasons. I think she was killed due to her work on Crimewatch. Pissed off the wrong criminal gang or something. Her murder was very much like an execution.

@ZeldaWillTellYourFortune
I'm honestly convinced that JonBenet's brother killed her by striking her on the head, accidentally or not, and their parents covered it up. Agree that there was no intruder. He was heard in the background of the 911 call when the parents insisted he was in bed.

Suzy Lamplugh's parents have passed away now. Her case always sticks in my mind: she lived in the same road in Putney as some friends of mine, and up until 18 months before she disappeared, I worked as a negotiator, too. I used to do viewings with male buyers all the time and it never occurred to me to think it might be risky.

Iirc, the police think she was probably murdered by a man called John Cannan who is currently in prison for rape and/or murder, but iirc he'll be eligible for parole some time soon

It’s in the fridge or freezer. He went looking for snackage when he got home…

JonBenet Ramsey didn't die from being struck on the head. The official cause of death was strangulation via ligature. You do not accidentally build a device and put it around someone's neck and strangle them.

The only reason people believe Burke is guilty is because of his flat affect and behaviour in that interview, before the interview the BDI theory was not especially widespread.

It's not impossible that Burke killed her but it's unlikely. The parents sent him away to a friend's house straight away and didn't seem worried about him telling anyone.

The autopsy showed that JonBenet had been serially sexually abused, which for me is the biggest piece of evidence and points to an adult man who had regular access to her (which would seem to rule out a stranger).

On the other hand, it's perhaps dangerous to assume that whoever was regularly abusing her killed her. The two girls murdered at Delphi were chatting online with a pedophile and it turned out he wasn't involved at all, it was just bad luck that they'd come in contact with two separate and unrelated predators.

Patrick Warren and David Spencer. Families completely let down because they were from a poorer area/demographic.

Nicola Payne in Coventry.

Also the scientist guy who was said to have committed suicide but everyone thought he'd been murdered. Ian Kelly?

I think it's more likely to be a Karman vortex street than an avalanche but I agree that it was caused by a natural phenomena and not anything spooky or criminal.

A lot of the details that make it sound spooky were invented years after the fact and don't appear in any of the original Russian news reports, and people forget that the bodies lay undiscovered for months, which would explain stuff like the tongue being missing. Leave a body lying in wilderness for months and of course soft tissue will have decayed or been eaten.

I'm going to put in a word for the many missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada. The "scariest" part for me is not just the murders, but that so many of them don't even get a proper investigation. It's like they don't even matter.

Patrick Warren and David Spencer, also known as the Milk Carton kids. Disappeared from my local area in 1996 aged 11 and 13. Nobody knows what happened to them. Poor family recently started a new campaign to find them and dug up a few spots but nothing found.

I think this was Terry Hobbs and associates. Some evidence points towards him.

It is far more likely Amy Bradley fell off the ship.