What crime stories have you been obsessed by?

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I was griped by the James Bulger murder 25 years ago

Oh God - I meant Hindley, not Huntley. Apologies.

Yes, possibly. Fred very probably wasn't the brains of that, although obviously I don't know.

@The80sweregreat I think that's CTE concussion - what they said Aaron Hernandez had?

@PhilSwagielka when I looked after her she wasn't involved in any drug use or anything of concern, she was moved from the area where she was looked after and taken to Ipswich by family - sorry can't say any more but being in care wasn't the source of her problems

In America they studied serial killers and a lot of them where found to have frontal lobes be injuries.
Henry Lee Lucas was hit a few times on his head,so severe he lost an eye.

So I do think there's some truth in it.

I've not heard of Aaron Hernandez but this man in Cumbria in the U K ( Lake District) he went on a shooting spree one morning and ended up killing himself. He was a taxi driver.
They were discussing it on the radio and it transpires he had trauma to his head from a few years before when someone hit him and they think this may have been a factor as to why he did this.
It was horrible : he killed family members and random people on the street.

Being an Aussie, I have followed the Azaria Chamberlain case. Lyndy and the dingo. 40 years ago this month.
Peter Falconio in the outback, and his girlfriend Joanne Lees.
And the Beaumont children. The 3 children who went to the beach alone in 1966, and were never seen again, and no bodies ever found.

The Isdal Woman case in Norway is one which has intrigued me for a long time.

Arabia Chamberlain was solved though
The Beaumont children was also shed light in recently wasn't it?

Some info on killers and head injuries. Interestingly Ted Bundy was examined after death and found to have none
www.murdermiletours.com/blog/serial-killers-murderers-and-their-head-injuries-as-a-child#

There was another Australian mystery that was a drama on itv a few years back. Something about a young girl and her boyfriend out in the bush who hitched a ride with a man who had a truck. The boyfriend was killed but she got away.
The truck had a strange way of getting in and out of it so they initially thought she had killed her boyfriend because they thought she was lying ? The man got away.? It's vague. but a bit of a mystery.
The dingo case was also very strange.
I went to Aus in 1986 and they were all talking about it then.

Since I started sertraline .... none !

Begone dark dark thoughts

I’m sure I read they wouldn’t allow Aileen Wornos’ brain to be examined. They expected there to be damaged/underdevelopment due to abuse/starvation as a child.

I think Ted Bundt was a narcissistic. There is an interesting update of the Beaumont children, two more cases with a similar MO and witness description of the abductor, so sad. They also pretty much think they know who did it now but he is dead. So sad, poor little babies all of them 💕💕 such a horrendous waste, how can people just rape and throw little kids away like rubbish.

People who just disappear without a trace are the most baffling to me.

The Springfield Three – disappeared in June 1992 from Springfield, Missouri.

Asha Degree – disappeared in Shelby, North Carolina, February 2000.

It was the Peter Falconio case I was thinking of. Did a bit of reading just now.
That was very odd indeed.

I have read lots about The Moors Murders but the case I am most interested in at the moment is the Clydach Murders. They happened around 2000 near Swansea when two young children, their mother and grandmother were murdered. A recent book suggests there may have been a miscarriage of justice. Not sure the truth will ever be known though.

I think this has been said already....but does anyone else wonder what someone else would think if they looked at recent search history on Google

I know I was looking and some the sites you get lead onto ...there was one that had a sidebar of links leading to Animal Cruelty , I skim read the titles and thought "The Hell am I clicking on any of these" ...though animal based crimes are often a precursor .

When i think of the Moors Murders i always think of Keith Bennett and i really hope hes found some day.

@70isaLimitNotaTarget

One more that really haunts me, and I shouldn't even share it because it's so vile, is Amora Bain Carson. Murdered by her father

Not the father , he was the mothers boyfriend .
He was sentenced to death in the State of Texas but had a stay of exucution because there was question over his Mental Capacity . / Intelligence .

No-one sane would believe that a toddler was possessed and would be better to die than live with a demon in their soul.
But the evidence of injury was horrfic - and they blamed a car injury , the dog biting and even the baby hitting herself with a hammer .

The mother should;ve had the seat right next to him in the Exucution Chamber but as he has been spared death, it's unlikely she would be sentenced .

Makes you weep for humanity

He hasn’t been spared death. He got a temporary stay to file a new appeal but a new date has been set for January next year. He has already lost his federal appeal and I don’t see anything changing in his state appeal.

'Close encounters ..' was a big film in the early 80s about alien abductions and I often used to think that maybe those that just disappear may have ended up in space! I'm older and wiser now of course but people that have never been seen again are a mystery especially as rivers and lakes are generally searched ( if missing near to water) and it's also a full on search for days. Where do these people end up? Some may plan it out and have a new identity but that must be harder to do these days surely? Things are easier to track and trace.
It is weird that a living breathing human can just disappear without any trace at all.