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What’s the scariest unsolved mystery you know?

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Mimmy352 · 02/09/2023 18:17

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

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LadyEloise1 · 02/09/2023 19:11

Raggammuffin · 02/09/2023 18:29

I'd love to know what happened to Raonaid Murray.

She was stabbed to death near her house on a road I know well. The gardai may have hinted that they think a woman did it. There were a lot of 'shallow'' stabs. There have been several new appeals for information where they suggested that whoever did this may have gone to the Uk, may be struggling to live with what he or she had done and may be using alcohol to cope. It sounded specific. If they have a suspect, why can't they just go to the uk and ask the UK police for assistance interviewing her?

It happened so close to her home.

I would also like to know what happened to
Annie Mc Carrick
Jo Jo Dullard
Deirdre Jacobs
Katrice Lee
Trevor Deely
Phillip Cairns
Ben Needham
Madeleine Mc Cann
Bernadette Connolly
Mary Boyle
Andrew Gosden

Some I have an idea who I he suspects are but others I have no idea.

My heart goes out to those who loved them. Sad

catscatscurrantscurrants · 02/09/2023 19:12

There are plenty I wonder about, but two are : who was Jack the Ripper? and what really happened in the Dyatlov Pass incident?

Tatslookawful · 02/09/2023 19:13

@SecretVictoria Penny Bell, there’s a
fairly obvious suspect, his prints were all over the car & he had changed his name prior. Criminal family. Said a hit man did it/was in touch with him.

LadyEloise1 · 02/09/2023 19:13

@CaveMum the BBC did a podcast on the Cheryl Grimmer case.

BarelyLiterate · 02/09/2023 19:15

MH 370.

Modern airliners with outstanding safety records operated by established, professionally run international carriers do not just disappear, but this one did. We know it ended up at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, but we don’t know how, or where or why. And until we do, aviation is less safe for everyone because we can’t learn the lessons.

Riapia · 02/09/2023 19:16

April Fabb 13 cycling to see her sister. She was seen by several people shortly before she disappeared. Her bike was found in a field at the side of the road.
disappeared afternoon April 8th
1969.

MrsMitford3 · 02/09/2023 19:16

So many on this thread I feel the same way about-

I want a definitive answer about Madeline McCann

Can't remember the estate agents name (feel awful) who went missing

Have read about those 3 children on the beach on Australia-awful

Again-want to actually know what happened to poor JonBenet

Jill Dando

Elisa Lam-footage so scary

808KateO · 02/09/2023 19:19

I'd just like to know definitively what happened to Richey Edwards.

@catscatscurrantscurrants The Dyatlov Pass incident was wild eh.

Suzy Lamplugh? @MrsMitford3

WorriedMillie · 02/09/2023 19:20

Many of the above
plus
Amy Lynne Bradley’s disappearance
and the case of a (then) local woman who was murdered while walking her dog. The poor dog took itself home and alerted the family. This must have been 20 odd years ago and afaik, nobody was caught 😭

Namechanger0oo · 02/09/2023 19:20

The murder of Dawn Shields. She was only 19, was prostituted and strangled to death.
I know who her murderer is, quite a few people do/ did. People were too scared at the time to say anything so sadly Dawn will probably never get justice now.

MrsMitford3 · 02/09/2023 19:20

Ah @808KateO thank you!!!

oh and is the Dyatlov pass thing the camping trip?? Fascinating!!

BSintolerant · 02/09/2023 19:20

The Hinterkaifeck case fascinates me.

I’d like to know what happened to Claudia Lawrence, and who killed Lynne Trenholme.

SabrinaThwaite · 02/09/2023 19:23

I’ll add the Isdal Woman.

SecretVictoria · 02/09/2023 19:23

@Tatslookawful I had read about him before. Strange how he was completely cleared given everything he said and the prints.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 02/09/2023 19:23

Allthecatsandcosyblankets · 02/09/2023 18:32

The case of Elisa Lam who was found dead in a water tank on a ship always freaked me out as well, especially the footage of her in the lift running from something 😳 so scary

I just saw someone who was very mentally unwell, it can look scary if you haven't seen someone behave like that before. Poor thing 😢

Tatslookawful · 02/09/2023 19:26

SecretVictoria · 02/09/2023 19:23

@Tatslookawful I had read about him before. Strange how he was completely cleared given everything he said and the prints.

Yes. There was a recent reinvestigation I think & her daughter possibly alluded to him & unrequited love or similar/black
mail. He also, I believe, said he was the one that met her that morning.

JohnNolan · 02/09/2023 19:27

Suzy Lamplugh and Claudia Lawrence. I think that there have been no bodies found must make it even harder for their families.

PuttingDownRoots · 02/09/2023 19:30

The little boy who went missing earlier this summer in the Alps... was there any conclusion to it?

Missing children always stick.

TheShapeOfAnOwl · 02/09/2023 19:30

@Riapia believed to have been Robert Black

SecretVictoria · 02/09/2023 19:30

Tatslookawful · 02/09/2023 19:26

Yes. There was a recent reinvestigation I think & her daughter possibly alluded to him & unrequited love or similar/black
mail. He also, I believe, said he was the one that met her that morning.

Yes, her daughter said she was convinced it was a crime of passion and “someone who wanted her but couldn’t have her”. And he did say he was the one who met her that morning. The cash she had withdrawn was never found/traced either. Whole thing is very odd.

Squirrelsnut · 02/09/2023 19:31

BarelyLiterate · 02/09/2023 19:15

MH 370.

Modern airliners with outstanding safety records operated by established, professionally run international carriers do not just disappear, but this one did. We know it ended up at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, but we don’t know how, or where or why. And until we do, aviation is less safe for everyone because we can’t learn the lessons.

I was under the impression they'd figured out what happened- the pilot caused it all deliberately.?

YukoandHiro · 02/09/2023 19:31

Namechanger0oo · 02/09/2023 19:20

The murder of Dawn Shields. She was only 19, was prostituted and strangled to death.
I know who her murderer is, quite a few people do/ did. People were too scared at the time to say anything so sadly Dawn will probably never get justice now.

Have you been to police with this information? Please do if not. It's not too late.

whatever1980 · 02/09/2023 19:32

Noah donohoe and Claudia Lawrence - in this day and age with cctv and mobile phones monitoring our every move it seems unbelievable that we don't know what happened to these people or who did it - no clues at all. I'm aware the Claudia Lawrence case is a lot older than Noah's case.

Twoshoesnewshoes · 02/09/2023 19:32

Sister Cathie Cesnik, on The Keepers on Netflix, and another young woman found murdered in the same town.
it’s a really amazing documentary series. I found it almost implausible at times, until I remembered two women were killed and the murders were never solved.

YukoandHiro · 02/09/2023 19:33

I think about Claudia Lawrence a lot. I was a single woman living alone at the time she disappeared and it felt very close to home.

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