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If you could solve one unsolved mystery

384 replies

shessocool · 02/03/2025 00:02

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

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AnneElliott · 02/03/2025 12:28

PurpleFlower1983 · 02/03/2025 07:26

Ben Needham and Madeleine McCann. The families deserve closure.

Agree but also Katrice Lee who is the other British child who went missing abroad.

Charcadet · 02/03/2025 12:29

One of my friends went backpacking in Asia and vanished in the 90's. Not a mainstream name. I'd love to know what happened but mainly for his parents who are still in limbo

Judgejudysno1fan · 02/03/2025 12:33

There was a boy, can anyone help me remembr his name. Might have been Luke or Lee. And he disappeared after he may have found something out about he dodgy church youth group where young girls were abused there and he had been perhaps trying to expose it and he might have been killed as they Found a bloody mattress at the church. It was a story on a documentary and his dad was a choir singer singing a song about missing children and that he hoped he was still alive and safe and well. Heartbreaking story.

Pandakoala8 · 02/03/2025 12:35

SwingLifeAway · 02/03/2025 09:50

I don’t have one! I listen to a lot of missing people podcasts and this one has stayed with me as a genuinely do not know what happened. If I had to bet, I think he got out and left of his own accord, but I also don’t think that happened! Do you have a theory?

Same, it’s stuck with me ever since I watched that episode, if you get chance definitely give it a watch I think it’s on YouTube. I go between theories! I don’t think he’s down there, but if he’s not I find it odd how they found discarded oxygen bottles etc. I don’t think he’d have disappeared on purpose because of his dog and also I think they’d recently been grieving his brother so I don’t know if he’d do that to his family? But then if it was foul play it doesn’t really explain away some things like why his truck was there etc. So puzzling

Judgejudysno1fan · 02/03/2025 12:36

thaegumathteth · 02/03/2025 02:19

Noah donohue

Was that a mixed race boy from Northern Ireland ad was seen on a bike and then a long time after seen running away naked and scared?

2dogsandabudgie · 02/03/2025 12:37

Judgejudysno1fan · 02/03/2025 12:33

There was a boy, can anyone help me remembr his name. Might have been Luke or Lee. And he disappeared after he may have found something out about he dodgy church youth group where young girls were abused there and he had been perhaps trying to expose it and he might have been killed as they Found a bloody mattress at the church. It was a story on a documentary and his dad was a choir singer singing a song about missing children and that he hoped he was still alive and safe and well. Heartbreaking story.

Lee Boxall

Judgejudysno1fan · 02/03/2025 12:39

user4434 · 02/03/2025 00:57

Disappearance of Lee Boxell, he was a friend of my cousin.

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Oh , I think this is the sad one and his parents are still now hoping he's OK and singing songs in a choir for him.

He went to some grubby youth group at a church and was going to expose the pigs for raping young girls and poor Lee was murdered after. I think that's the speculation.

Very heartbreaking story

Judgejudysno1fan · 02/03/2025 12:39

2dogsandabudgie · 02/03/2025 12:37

Lee Boxall

Thank you. Looked like a lovely boy. A family boy.

NZDreaming · 02/03/2025 12:44

ConcernedOfClapham · 02/03/2025 01:08

Many, very many cases have piqued my interest down the years and I can often go down rabbit holes exploring them.

But, if I had to pinpoint one to find the story of what really happened, it would have to be the mystery of D.B Cooper

Endlessly fascinating that one, particularly some of the theories that have cropped up and deathbed confessions.

@ConcernedOfClapham there is strong new evidence that DB Cooper was Richard McCoy Jr. He was responsible for a similar plane hijacking and his children have recently given the fbi a parachute found in the family home thought to be from the DB cooper case.

Judgejudysno1fan · 02/03/2025 12:45

MermaidMummy06 · 02/03/2025 02:21

I'm in Australia so only Australians would know about the Beaumont children.

Three siblings taken at once, in the 60's, South Australia. Every time it comes back into the news, my parents, who were locals at the time, talk about how the crime caused people to start dead locking their doors & keep kids inside. They're still looking, although have a pretty good idea who took them.

I remember this sorry and I think it was aussie youtuber Bella that told the story..

This bit I just read on Wikipedia is so bizarre

Several months later, a woman reported that on the night of the disappearance, a man, accompanied by two girls and a boy, entered a neighbouring house that she had believed empty. Later, the woman said she had seen the boy walking alone along a lane where he was pursued and roughly caught by the man. The next morning the house appeared to be deserted again, and she saw neither the man nor the children again. Police could not establish why she had failed to provide this information earlier.

Judgejudysno1fan · 02/03/2025 12:47

Tradersinsnow · 02/03/2025 04:53

Sadly the latest dig this week has shown nothing. It was awful how their parents have died with no resolution.

And also who let's a 9 year old go to the beach on their own. Regardless if its busy or not.

x2boys · 02/03/2025 12:55

Sherrystrull · 02/03/2025 07:56

Amy Bradley

Yes this one haunts me I hope she went overboard in a tragic accident, rather than the sex trafficking theory.

Wehavealaughdontwe · 02/03/2025 12:57

So many but I don't think little Daniel Entwhistle got nearly as much coverage as he deserved and would love to have his disappearance solved

x2boys · 02/03/2025 12:59

BelleDeJourRose · 02/03/2025 11:59

Could he have been preyed on by someone he met online?

I dont.think he has access to the.internrt and I think it was in the very early days of social media.?

Wehavealaughdontwe · 02/03/2025 13:01

If anyone else follows the Bear Brook/ Allenstown Murders I would also love the mystery of the middle child to be solved. She deserves her name back. A very long rabbit hole to go down if anyone isn't familiar with the case

BornSandyDevotional · 02/03/2025 13:04

Christopher Marlowe. His exact involvement with the secret service, the whole goings on in Rheims. The Raleigh stuff. Was it really a case of a murderous row over splitting the bill? Did he collaborate with THE Bill? Could he have written the sonnets? Nothing like an Elizabethan pre-internet, internet style mystery to inspire a pre-internet childhood! 😂

x2boys · 02/03/2025 13:06

Asha Degree the.official explanation of her disappearance makes no sense
Why would a nine year old leave the house in the dead of night a
In apparently appalling weather ?

BunnyLake · 02/03/2025 13:09

As there are so many unsolved murders I can’t prioritise one over the other so I think I’d choose Marilyn Monroe’s death. That’s always going to be a mystery, full of contradictions so it would be nice to clear that up once and for all.

BelleDeJourRose · 02/03/2025 13:14

x2boys · 02/03/2025 12:59

I dont.think he has access to the.internrt and I think it was in the very early days of social media.?

Thanks. I did wonder if it was too early

Pasithean · 02/03/2025 13:16

Mallory and Irvine. Did they, didn’t they.

Goodtick · 02/03/2025 13:20

Jack O’Sullivan, just seemed to disappear into thin air, really feel for his family who are trying to keep him in the news.
of course Madeline

ARichtGoodDram · 02/03/2025 13:21

Allan Bryant's disappearance and assumed murder.

His father has done so much campaigning to keep his name known and the police let the family down so badly.

BornSandyDevotional · 02/03/2025 13:21

Pasithean · 02/03/2025 13:16

Mallory and Irvine. Did they, didn’t they.

Also fascinating!

Goodtick · 02/03/2025 13:22

Also Emile Soleil

WatchOutMissMarpleIsAbout · 02/03/2025 13:22

x2boys · 02/03/2025 12:55

Yes this one haunts me I hope she went overboard in a tragic accident, rather than the sex trafficking theory.

As a regular cruiser occasionally with my DCs this one haunts me often.

There is another where a passenger was attacked by her cabin steward and I think was heard by next door cabin so I don’t think it’s out of realms that could have been attacked. And another incident on a Disney cruise I think