What crime stories have you been obsessed by?

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I was griped by the James Bulger murder 25 years ago

The Krays
Great Train Robbery
Yorkshire Ripper

Hillsborough- bbc doc now on YouTube.

Chilling that is/was so horrific :(

Jeffrey dahmer

Asha Degree has always chilled me.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Asha_Degree

Where did she go? Why did she pack a back? Was she due to meet someone? Did she know where she was going or did she just wing it or get lost?

I find it very upsetting, can’t imagine the pain of her family.

Definitely jonbennet- i feel like it was likely the brother. But will it ever be totally solved? Unlikely, especially once the 3 are gone (I know the mother died, not sure about the dad)

I've always been interested in true crime and true crime podcasts are often fascinating to me.

I've just started listening to a true crime podcast, and while it's fascinating, the main people in the case are adults, and had some pretty unappealing lifestyle choices. But the case in Serial Season 1 still intrigued me. It was the first podcast I listened to. The main players are so young:- the victim was 18 and the convicted offender was, I think 17.

Elsie frost

*still intrigues me

The original night stalker. I’d read a great book on it and just finished a very detailed podcast when he was arrested!

The zodiac killer.

Charlene Downes. Such a horrifically sad case.

Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon disappearing while hiking in Panama. They found a foot and a camera with mysterious photos on it. Like something out of Blair Witch.

I tend to be interested in the unsolved ones. I would still like to know the real story of Meredith Kercher/Amanda Knox as I was studying abroad myself at the time.

Like you OP James Bulger. I was around the same age as the two boys that killed him and couldn’t get my head around it.

Fred and Rose West too - in fact I’ve literally just finished reading their daughters autobiography.

Following for podcast recommends?

@chilling19 and Hillsborough for me as well. I remember sitting on the floor reading all the newspaper coverage
i am also starting to think my parents let me read/watch far too much news for my age

James bulger, such a horrible crime

John Wayne Gacy
Ronald DeFeo jnr
Aileen Wuornos
Belle Gunness

I have to skip anything related to James Bulger now I have a toddler DS.

Another vote for Jon bennet -

I really feel for the West's daughter. She had to endure a lot of finger pointing and gossip. She worked in Morrisons in Gloucester and was such a lovely person.
It affected her so badly she tried suicide a couple of times.

The Moors' Murderers

@Thatbliddywoman the Sophie Hook murder still haunts me absolutely horrific.

Not obsessed but D.B Cooper is very interesting. I think he died landing\injured in the wilderness

Also, not obsessed with but one that's haunted me for a long time: Kelly Anne Bates.

Peta Frampton and Chris Farmer. There is a podcast on BBC sounds (😩) called Paradise about this case and I can’t stop thinking about it.
But I struggle with murder as entertainment. Instead of spending so much money making programmers/firms (money) from it, we should spend money on why it happens/trying to stop it.

A little known case. Suzanne Lawrence, who disappeared in Essex in the late 1970s. Seems incredible a girl could just vanish with barely a glance but I suppose it was the 70s.