If you could solve one unsolved mystery

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Which one would it be? Missing persons, unsolved murders or even random unexplained events.

@Maitri108 that's been solved!

Ok this is a personal to me kind of mystery but I would love to know what has happened!
DS2, always a bit crazy and scatterbrained, when he was aged 8, came out of school one day with DS1. It was a warm day so I held his backpack while he took off his jumper and put it in the backpack, and then we walked the 5 minutes home. Across a busy road, round the corner, down the street and through a small park and home.
By the time we arrived home he had lost his backpack. Completely disappeared! We retraced our steps, absolutely no sign of it, it had just vanished. It never got handed into school (his jumper had the school name on). He lost the jumper, his PE kit, library book and all kinds of random shite he used to collect.

DS2 is now 22 and every now and again one of us says "I wonder what happened to that backpack"

Jack the Ripper?! Who?

Richard III

@WhineAndWine1 accidental deaths. There are rumours of serial killer "pushers" in all sorts of places across Europe and the US. All have in common large numbers of pissed up young men and rivers for them to fall into, usually while trying to pee.

Muriel McKay's body.

There's a really good BBC podcast on this. I think the journalist might be called Audrey? She puts forward a really compelling case for there being more than one murderer. She looks at the victims first and talks to their families. It's lovely and illustrates how in accurately these poor women were portrayed in popular culture at the time.

Lars Mittank is an interesting one!

My camping one did too!

As did my smart watch, from in my re tent whilst volunteering at a festival. Plugged it in to charge at night. Not there in the morning. Only a cheap one. Power bank would have been worth more. But I secure my tent anyway. Aaaargh!!

@BornSandyDevotional I think I have listened to that. I listen to so much true crime it's hard to remember. I just think the posters for bible john look a lot like Peter Tobin.

Interested in the new doc that's coming out about him this week.

Andrew Gosden.

They often say a few people know what happened to Claudia but they won’t talk which is the frustrating thing in most cases. It would take one person to speak up and save their families from torture.

The best true crime podcast I've ever listened to

This is very true and I believe also the case with Nicola Payne, missing since the early 90s. Her parents were always the definition of dignity and resilience but how people can knowing put families through decades of agony is beyond me. I believe Nicola's mother has died now so hopefully they are together again.

My brain hurts after reading that 😂

Another one is Peter Falconio. Missing, presumed murder in the Australian outback 24 years ago this year.

@WhineAndWine1
what/where doc Is that please

A few more.
Katrice Lee.
Genette Tate.
Also what happened to the bodies of Helen McCourt and Danielle Jones. Their murderers have been convicted but won't say where they put the bodies.
Melanie Hall.
Natalie Pearman and Joanna Young. Two young girls who lived in Norfolk about 20 miles apart and died within a couple of weeks of each other.. Steve Wright is thought to be responsible for poor Natalie, who frequented the red light district in Norwich, where Steve Wright had a pub. She was only 15. Joanna was 14 and drowned in a pool of water. She was found to have a fractured skull.
I lived in the same town as Joanna at the time and it had a devastating effect on the local community as well as her family.
I would love to see both mysteries solved for the sake of the families.

Yeah I wonder about that one too it's feasible drunken men could have fallen into the canals after casual sex buy it's also feasible a persistent killer could have been looking out for drunken men to push them in.

Corrie McKeague

Who was the Zodiac??

I was coming to say Ruth Wilson too.

@countingthedays945
there has been some dna analysis that suggests it was Aaron Kosminski a barber who was investigated at the time.

The dna however came from a shawl which was said to have been owned by Catherine Eddowes and bought more recently at an auction.
Nothing has been verified legally although family members have asked for this.

It’s definitely not conclusive, there was a doc on TV a while ago about it

What happened to Robert Nairac?
Numbers stations.

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Is the case still open

I feel like this article gave some pretty strong indications:-

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/11/mount-everest-sandy-irvine-george-mallory-remains?CMP=ShareiOSAppp_Other