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

[sheknoedidhitit]

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?

@sheknoedidhitit i think thats why I am too, same age as James would be. The sentences that the 2 boys got, the amount of footage and sightings. It was so preventable, not the change of identity and rumours of sex offending after. My mum always said she strapped me into my buggy for months afterwards. Jonbenet Ramsay's murder aswell. The mum was so awkward in interviews. Tbh i listen to truecrime alot, so loads intrigue me but yes James Bulger always stood out to me.

The Irish missing girls in the mid 90s, now believed to be victims of a serial killer. Its believed the killer is known, i wont name him here. No bodies ever found and i suspect massive police cock ups with the investigations.

Deirdre Jacob in particular was my age and looked at bit like me. I still think of her friends and family often and wonder what on earth happened.

Trevor Deeley missing in Dublin, I was out that night near enough the area, it's always troubled me that he disappeared without a trace.

The Murdaugh family murders and the Doomsday couple Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell. Both cases were American and I followed them on YouTube.

Yabu.

Claudia Lawrence.

The Vanishing Trinangle women in Ireland - ll possibly linked to one man who is now free and roaming the U.K. and Ireland. Hopefully someone, somewhere will give enough information that they can pin at least one on him to put him away and give one family closure.

The Elaine O Hara case - another irish one. Interesting in the sense her killer was only caught because of a dog walker and a heat wave. He has appealed multiple times and shows no remorse only rage at being caught.

How his wife and kids get their heads around living with and surviving that monster I don’t know.

Madeleine McCann - same age as my youngest, will we ever find out what happened?

No that one affected me too. It was just sickening and anger inducing that he was failed by so many professionals.

I know life isn’t as simplistic as this but it makes you think how much you’d lovingly take in that child for them to grow up knowing what it’s like to be safe and loved.

Too many cases like it.

Isn’t this widely accepted to be John Cannan? Even though he’s not admitted it it seems likely.

Trevor deeley and Sandra Collins I think of them often

@Marinade there is a podcast called "Over my dead body" which covers this story.

pca.st/podcast/36f04d40-066d-0137-f265-1d245fc5f9cf

Not 'obsessed', no. But for various reasons some cases do hold their own particular power to shock.

Since the day I read of the murder of Sophie Lancaster, it's been a story I've never been able to forget.

The Peter Falconio murder was also tragic, as was the horrible treatment his partner Joanne Lees received at the hands of a sceptical media. She was never guilty of anything yet she was treated a criminal, not as the victim she was, and not only received no sympathy but also no victim care. The nutcase armchair detectives were out in force on that one, pointing the finger of blame squarely at her and insisting that the maniac (and already-convicted rapist) Bradley Murdoch, who killed her lover and attempted to abduct her, was 'innocent'. All this was in the face of Lees's own witness testimony. She must have felt the world was against her and she was astonishingly brave.

There was also a little-known murder in the US which felt much closer to me for particular reasons. I lived there at the time and the victim was my age. Her name was Palestina Isa (Tina). The perpetrators were her parents and their apartment was bugged as her father was a suspected member of an ANO terrorist cell. It was the first time I'd ever heard of an honour killing. They caught the whole horrific scene on tape.

She was 16 and would be 52 now if she had been allowed to live. This happened in 1989 and it's never left me.

The Chillenden murders in 1996. So senseless and horrific 😢

Generally speaking I would say the casual reader assumes they got lost and died of exposure but plenty of people knew where they were going (taxi driver, people who saw them set off). With the clean, dry backpack being found, the cleanly severed foot and the night photos - plus the photos potentially showing they reached the summit, went a little way then went back to the summit, I don't buy it.

I have watched so many murder cases, but the ones involving children I simply cannot watch.

That was an horrific case which actually made me stop walking alone in the countryside

I need to know who killed Claudia Lawrence and Suzy lamplugh

Sadly yes. The killings of the Zodiac - who was the killer? Why did he do it? There didn’t appear to be a sexual element (no attacks/assaults). Why did he suddenly stop?

And more recently the Idaho 4. 4 college kids senselessly stabbed to death in their home in the middle of the night by the suspect Bryan Kohlberger. He only had a window of 9 or so minutes. Just why?

So many!
Christopher Foster who killed his wife and daughter and then himself
The women in Panama
Meredith Kercher
The Menendez brothers
White House Farm
Jonbenet Ramsay

I have a weird obsession about serial killers full stop. Half of my Kindle books are these, listen to murder podcasts. One of my things at the moment is reading the Shipman Inquiry online into the deaths of Harold Shipman's patients. The thing is how on earth did he get away with it for so long?

Also Yorkshire Ripper as lived near to some of his victims killings - Wilma McCann, Jayne McDonald and Jacqueline Hill

The menendez murders
Jon-benet Ramsey
Disappearance of Amy Bradley
Ben Needham

Same! I thought it was just me

Oh yes, many times. When I was off sick I went down a huge rabbit hole with the Manson murders and Myra Hindley and Brady.

Asha degree baffles me 😔

I've watched the Netflix documentary way too many times and I don't really know why? I think because of all the social media she posted it feels so "real" for want of a better word.

The way he lies on camera on the afternoon of the murder, pretending he wants his daughters back when he smothered them and pushed them into an oil tank hours before. Absolute monster of a man.