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?

The Springfield 3 - so bizarre and can’t imagine how three women were kidnapped from their home with no clue who did it to this day.

Me too. Just listening to the podcast featuring her sister for the second time.

Jon Benet Ramsey - there was a really good Vanity Fair article that went into so much detail - it was crazy - the ransom note

April Fabb disappeared in Norfolk in 1969.
No trace of her has been found.

The Delphi murders

it’s so shocking that they had a video and a voice recording and no one apparently knew him in such a small town
Those poor girls would have been beyond terrified

Down The Hill is a really good podcast on the case

That ransom note made no sense at all. No criminal would go to those lengths surely?

Jayden Parkinson age 17 murdered by the father of her unborn child.

I went down all the rabbit holes with this one too. The Facebook groups were crazy everyone blaming Shanann to start with. I knew it was him from the first interview he did.

Yes - I remember this well. Also Caroline Hogg. I grew up in the Scottish Borders at the time she was taken. I remember crossing a bus station area and a white van did a big loop U-turn right around me when i was on my way to primary school. It scared and unnerved me at the time. However, it was a very open area. I've always wondered ...

I love true crime. The most disturbing case I ever watched on YouTube is the murder of Junko Furuta. The poor girl was kidnapped, held for 40 days, whilst being perpetually raped, tortured and eventually killed by a gang of young men. It is the single most horrific thing I have ever seen and I've watched a lot. It has stuck with me.

Not technically murders, but

Mark van Dongen
Abigail Witchalls

I think about them most weeks.

absolutely not ever

Arthur Labinjo Jones. One of the most heartbreaking news stories. He is still in my thoughts to this day . RIP Arthur xxx

Some cases get more attention than others for some reason.

This little girl never gets mentioned. I remember reading about this case in a newspaper. Social workers were too scared to go to their flat. Imagine how scared that little girl was being tortured and starved.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2002/sep/21/childrensservices.childprotection1

Not obsessed as such but I've always wondered about Ames Glover the 5 month old baby boy that went missing when his Father, Paul Glover left him in the car to go to the cashpoint
Southall
About 35 years ago
He's never been heard of since

Sophie Hook kidnapped out of a tent. There was a girl called Caroline as well raped and murdered in a french youth hostel.

Yes I often think of that little boy. He's had nowhere near as much media attention as Ben Needham Charlise Lee or Madeline McCann.

That Mitchell documentary is a load of biased, baseless tripe, paid for by his own family, and features a pair of former police officers who were booted out of the force for taking bribes and planting fabricated evidence, and yet portrays them as "experts" and says nothing about their histories.

Mitchell and his mother always had an extremely "odd" relationship, and he's as guilty as sin.

This is the one that gets to me too. It's like they just evaporated into thin air, so bizarre.

I wouldn’t say obsessed but I’m certainly interested in what humans are capable of.

one I’m keeping tabs on and reading about is the murder of Christina Parcell in the US. A Juilliard-trained concert pianist was arrested and at first unclear why, he did not seem a likely killer. The stuff that’s come out since has been completely left field. There had been an ongoing custody battle with the father of her child with him at one point kidnapping the child, but it’s since come out that Christina and her boyfriend were likely involved in making child sex abuse and bestiality videos.

The accused killer seems to have been friendly with Christina’s ex (child’s father) and I can only think that the concerns of abuse are linked to her death somehow. It will be an interesting trial for the lawyers.

Definitely not an obsession but the Lucy Letby case makes me shiver yet I take it all in. If there is even a slight chance she is innocent as many professionals have stated, it would be an absolute abomination of our justice system.

Several people have mentioned it, but the Claudia Lawrence case still sticks in my mind.
I moved to York 12 years ago, three years after she went missing, and there was still a 'Missing Person' poster of her in Waitrose at the time.
I didn't realise for a while, but l didn't live far from her home, my local post office was the one she was seen at on CCTV the day before she disappeared, posting a letter. Also l used to drive past her house to go to and from work, but that didn't register with me until much later on.
That's a busy road, and often l'd be in traffic and my eye was always drawn by the green door. It was a bit of a shock when l realised why. I actually lived very close to the route she took to and from the college.
Unfortunately l don't think we'll ever find out what happened to her. I'm pretty sure some people (and the police) know, but the evidence isn't there, and supposedly there was a 'wall of silence' in the area. One tv journalist said he was 'warned off' in her local pub.

The unsolved murder of British woman Yvonne O'Brien in Majorca.

She was left murdered, mutilated, hanging from a wire and the words "love, peace and sex" were written on the nearby wall in her blood.

Really sad.

Bless her heart ... she'd be 24 now.

It was a C5 ‘documentary’ but yes, agree with it was all a farce.

I know detectives who worked on the original case and they are hardworking decent people. He is guilty as sin and a lot of the case never made it into the public domain.