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

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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?

I still think about the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey at least half a dozen times a year.

The general "internet sleuth" consensus seems to have settled on the brother killing her accidentally, and the parents covering it up so as not to lose 2 children that night. Poor little thing has been gone a long time now... 1996 I think it was.

And of course, Madeline MacCann. So weird and sad on so many levels.

The Casey Anthony case, didn’t miss a single day of the court case, couldn’t believe it when she got off

@CauliflowerBalti whenever I see either of his parents on tv I am struck by their dignity and their determination to get justice for James. I just don't know how anyone can be so brave.

Several years ago I was in Lancashire over a long weekend near Preston. On the drive up there, there was a news report that a womsns body had been found in another Lancashire town, and I remember thinking how awful it was, and relatively close as well. Some time later after the trial, a documentary about the perpetrators of this woman's murder was on TV ( the murder of Sadie Hartley), it was the most bizarre story and unfortunately true.
I watched the documentary 3 times, trying to understand the individuals involved and the lady's boyfriend as well.
It's an extremely sad story, but had me obsessed like it was a novel, for some time.

Peter Falconio in the outback.

Anyone read about Elizabeth Barraza, who was shot and killed while setting up a garage sale in Texas in 2019?
Very very strange, unsolved case.

They reckon there are other victims of Fred West buried, I read a lot of books on them, and Rose all safe in prison watching “come dancing” her favourite tv programme! I also read a lot of books on Jeremy Bamber case.

Always found this story fascinating..
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a60471844/barry-honey-sherman-billionaire-murder-mystery-aftermath-explained/

Daniel Morgan’s murder.

it ties in with so many other crimes and incidents from the Brinks Mat robbery to NoTW phone hacking to Leah Betts death

I often think about the mystery that is Andrew Gosden's disappearance. The police still talk about him as if they think he is alive. I am baffled by this one.

I’m from Doncaster and I think about this one too. There was something on the news last year where they arrested 2 men in connection with the kidnap and human trafficking but haven’t heard anything since.

I also regularly think about Ben Needham. Not confirmed dead but missing all this time. His poor mum 😢

Title please?

Netflix have got a new documentary coming out about the Mendenez case

The two men were cleared completely by the police.

Yes and he admitted to going back downstairs after everyone was in bed. They think the flashlight was possibly the murder weapon. And there were marks on her skin that fitted his toy train tracks. I can imagine the parents panicking and trying to cover it up when they found out even though he was actually too young to be prosecuted. There's interviews of him as a kid and he didn't really seem bothered about his sister's death at all-I know people grieve in different ways but you'd think he'd be terrified if he knew an intruder had killed his sister. I would be scared as an adult if it happened to someone another street away never mind my own house and family member.

Same here. That case total got me and still has. I feel so much for the parents. They made a mistake and paid for it so dearly.

I'm NOT getting into ins and outs of it to anyone who wants to turn my post into a war.. I won't engage. This post is about those cases we can't forget.

Played out in the court of media and public opinion is an utter nightmare for them.

I empathise because I have a personal story that people would judge knowing nothing about us.

Thank God mine played out in the private arena and not the public arena

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The murder of little Lesley Molseed is very sad, they also convicted the wrong man for letting her real kill roam the streets for years.

The Charlene Downes case baffles me, terrible policing means we will probably never know what really happened to her.

Rhys Jones, murdered while riding his bike. My son was a similar age. The drama Little Boy Blue was heartbreaking. Often think of his parents.

I was thinking about Lesley earlier too, this thread has got me thinking back to cases in the news when I was a kid. So sad, and as you say, such a screw-up with the wrongful conviction of Stefan Kiszko.

One that always got me was little Logan found in the river.

And then the review of his murderers. That poor boy. What things he saw and experienced in his young life.

Sarah Payne is 1 I always think of. Her case had huge media coverage from the day she disappeared in July 2000. Her body was found in a field and I remember driving past the location about a week after she'd been found. there were hordes of people who'd parked up on the field opposite and were crossing to lay flowers. So many people they'd had to put up temporary traffic lights to let people cross. Paedophile Roy Whiting was arrested in Crawley where I lived at the time.
Also still think about Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, utterly shocking that 2 girls were killed together.

Ted Bundy. I think because he appeared so ‘normal’. I watch the Netflix documentary every year to keep me on my toes…I can see myself as one of those women helping him.

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Sophie: A Murder in West Cork

Outstanding programme making. If you're interested in the case, please watch it.