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To ask if you’ve ever become obsessed with a murder case?

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sheknoedidhitit · 16/09/2024 20:26

I was watching a true crime podcast on YouTube and it finished and went to a random suggestion and it was a 2 minute video of a crime scene inside a subway from the 80s on an ordinary news channel.

I looked into the case and there’s nothing on it apart from a one column blurb in the newspaper at the time and the victims photo being sold on Amazon. It’s so weird .. and I can’t stop thinking about it.

Anyone else?

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seasonalnamepending · 16/09/2024 20:27

What is the case?? I love a good true crime story to look into 😨

Marinade · 16/09/2024 20:28

Yes I am completely obssessed with the case of the murder of Dan Markel, a law professor, in Florida. His ex wife's family ordered a hit on him and the machinations of the case are just fascinating.

Eyesopenwideawake · 16/09/2024 20:30

I was obsessed by the Reeva Steinkamp murder and followed the trial Oscar Pistorius trial every day. Weird to think it was 10 years ago and he's now out.

itsgettingweird · 16/09/2024 20:32

Eyesopenwideawake · 16/09/2024 20:30

I was obsessed by the Reeva Steinkamp murder and followed the trial Oscar Pistorius trial every day. Weird to think it was 10 years ago and he's now out.

Wow can't believe it was that long ago.

I also become very invested in certain stories. I think when something doesn't quite make sense you want to find answers.

When you feel like that as a bystander i find it really helps me empathise with the poor families who have no idea what happened to their loved ones. And I hope they appreciate stories being kept current on peoples minds as it means people haven't stopped looking for answers.

AGirlInACountrySong · 16/09/2024 20:33

You would love the 'websleuths' website

American, but with U.K. cases on there

Paul2023 · 16/09/2024 20:34

The disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh. No one will ever know I don’t think..

Or who ‘Mr Kipper’ really was.

RosesAndHellebores · 16/09/2024 20:35

I wouldn’t say obsessed but the Bamber murders pique my interest. Did he or didn't he? I'm not persuaded he did.

Suzuki70 · 16/09/2024 20:37

Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon in Panama. There is no way they got lost. I've read books/watched documentaries/scoured Reddit.

Also the Delphi murders. I'm amazed they caught him.

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sheknoedidhitit · 16/09/2024 20:38

seasonalnamepending · 16/09/2024 20:27

What is the case?? I love a good true crime story to look into 😨

Ooh if you could find anything. I can’t think of anything else.

I’ve attached the only news article I could find. The crime scene is unsettling, just how people were walking by it going about their day.

To ask if you’ve ever become obsessed with a murder case?
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fuckssaaaaake · 16/09/2024 20:39

The French alps thing: still don't know what happened it kind of disappeared

Shrewsbury247 · 16/09/2024 20:40

The Idaho student murders, just can’t get my head round a person killing these lovely bright beautiful kids. So sad.

poppyzbrite4 · 16/09/2024 20:40

Yes all the time.The Meredith Kutcher case was one I followed. But there have been loads, I get really into them.

cerebuswannabe · 16/09/2024 20:40

Claudia Lawrence case baffles me. So sad her dad died without knowing what happened to his daughter.

WhiteTowel · 16/09/2024 20:41

James Bulger.

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sheknoedidhitit · 16/09/2024 20:43

Chris Watts murder also very much intrigued me. Murdering a spouse isn’t that shocking but the fact she was pregnant and he killed his little girls too.

And that his family has forgiven him and I saw a YouTube video of the sister telling him whilst on a prison call about the tribute the family had to the girls and how the CD kept skipping and it was the girls spirit playing with it - like they were laughing and joking like it was a normal every day conversation.

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Beaverbridge · 16/09/2024 20:43

The Nairn banker. Funnily enough was on the news tonight, the case is being reviewed.

Marinade · 16/09/2024 20:43

Suzuki70 · 16/09/2024 20:37

Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon in Panama. There is no way they got lost. I've read books/watched documentaries/scoured Reddit.

Also the Delphi murders. I'm amazed they caught him.

The women who died in Panama is such an eerie and sinister case. Is the overriding theory that foul play was involved?

Richard Allen and Delphi - he confessed numerous times. Seems very odd thing to do if you were innocent.

Missy Beavers is another very intriguing case as is the case of Rey Rivera and Nora Quoririn, the girl who died in Malaysia and whose body was seemingly located by a Shamen who did an exchange with a Jin or genie.

RIP.

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sheknoedidhitit · 16/09/2024 20:44

WhiteTowel · 16/09/2024 20:41

James Bulger.

Yeah this one, I’m the same age as James so it’s sad to think he’d be my age and what he missed out on.

Would be life long torment to have been one of the people that saw them and stopped them.

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Sinisterdexter · 16/09/2024 20:46

sheknoedidhitit · 16/09/2024 20:43

Chris Watts murder also very much intrigued me. Murdering a spouse isn’t that shocking but the fact she was pregnant and he killed his little girls too.

And that his family has forgiven him and I saw a YouTube video of the sister telling him whilst on a prison call about the tribute the family had to the girls and how the CD kept skipping and it was the girls spirit playing with it - like they were laughing and joking like it was a normal every day conversation.

I often look at you tube videos of Shanaan Watts and the dc.
I just can’t believe the cruel way Watts murdered and disposed of his family in a few hours.

AGirlInACountrySong · 16/09/2024 20:46

Definitely the Delphi Murders!!

They had a video of him.... they had a voice recording of him.....yet NOBODY in that small town knew him??

His wife? Apparently not.

Look it up!

SpagBolBowl · 16/09/2024 20:47

George Floyd. I watched the entire case.

Also not a case but listened to a fascinating talk by an undercover police officer who then went on to campaign for legalisation of drugs. He was also of the mindset that it would solve deforestation and help prevent climate change.

sosshouldhavebrushed · 16/09/2024 20:48

Bianca devins murder, really affected me and I go back and re read it every six months. Poor girl

Swanbeauty · 16/09/2024 20:50

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maddening · 16/09/2024 20:51

I like the EWU covering of the scream murder in 2006 - the police interviews of both the murderers and the videos that the murderers took in the lead up to and following the murder. They have done a follow up interviewing one of the murderers in prison - very interesting

WetBandits · 16/09/2024 20:53

Joshua Maddux. How did he get there?