What crime stories have you been obsessed by?

[WomenHour]

I was griped by the James Bulger murder 25 years ago

Fred and rose west. I still watch the documentaries if they are on the tv to this day. Unbelievable what some people are capable of!

The toolbox killers. I don’t know why because they’re utterly horrendous, but I listened to a podcast about it and was gripped.

A few.

Madeline McCann
Ted Bundy
Steve Wright

The Twin Towers attack. Still too insane to begin to understand what people went through.
Also the Soham murders. I remember seeing Ian Huntley talking in a news interview and thinking 'i bet he did it'. So freaked out when it turned out to be true.

Claudia Lawrence.

Obsessed? None. I did listen to a fascinating podcast about the wests that gave me a more adult insight into what happened. Very interesting.

Peter sutcliffe - the Yorkshire ripper

@Notgoingonholiday - me too! At the time there appeared to have been a sighting after the one Ian Huntley was talking about. I remember being really confused by this, because I was so sure it was him (based on a couple of minutes of interview footage).

The murder of Kim Wall a couple of years ago now, very surreal and horrible circumstances, poor lady. I just remember seeing her picture on the BBC news homepage and wondering what it was about and became hooked by it.

The torture and murder of Sylvia Likens.

Fred and Rose West..I read all the books, watched all the programmes.

The White House farm murders. Regardless of whether you think Bamber did it, there’s just no way it was a fair trial and I find it utterly bizarre that Essex police have refused to release all the documents relating to the case and apparently destroyed a load of evidence ‘without realising’ it was needed. The whole thing is such a mystery. Every party Involved seems completely suspicious, from the weird cousins ‘finding’ key evidence that police missed, to the severely mentally ill sister who had told her psychologist that she could kill her children, To the key witness who admitted she hated Bamber so much she considered smothering him, to Bamber himself (who I think probably is psychopathic). I would really love to know what happened that night.

@notgoingonholiday I thought the same about Huntley. I think a lot of people thought the same to be honest. It was the glib way he was talking.

None and I think that people who are, are a bit strange. There are whole subs devoted to it on Reddit though, I think it’s a bit odd. But I accept that it’s rude of me to come on to this thread and say that.

@MissCadoganTate

Claudia Lawrence.

Me too. I really feel for her and her family, I hope they find her sometime

@MissCadoganTate me too. I saw her dad beung interviewed last year & just felt terribly sad for him.

Jack the Ripper
Claudia Lawrence
Madeline McCann
Fred & Rose West
The Soham murders
Mick Philpott
April Jones
Megan and Harry Tooze

Jonbenet Ramsey

The Manson family killings.

I've always found crime stories interesting (although devastating too of course) and it kind of bothered me why I found them so interesting but apparently true crime does appeal especially to women. They Walk Among Us is a good podcast.

Not obsessed, but I do enjoy listening to unsolved crime and missing people podcasts.

I'd love it if the Claudia Lawrence and Madeleine McCann cases were solved, but there are hundreds of similar cases that haven't had the attention they have, that I'd equally like their families to have some resolution.

I love true crime but I'm not that interested in Fred and Rose. It's obviously very sad for the victims and their families but the story itself is a bit 'meh' to me. I've read the books by both of the parents of James Bulger. Awful. Peter Sutcliffe fascinates me and I've watched 'this is personal' so many times. I really feel for George Oldfield but the police work was atrocious.

The farmville USA murders.

Sophie Hook.
Ill think of others.

I like the missing persons and unsolved crime podcast on youtube 'True Evidence'. Working my way through it slowly. So sad.

Another vote for JonBenet.
Read all about it as a teenager and still think about those footprints in the snow.

She was the only person in America with that name too. So sad.

I'm reading the book by jonbenets father at the moment @pixiemeat, have you read it? I'm an atheist so the constant god references are a bit tiresome for me but it's still a very well written book.