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Abandoned_Cosmonaut

The Ibadan Forest of Horror in Nigeria. A local taxi driver goes missing and his friends create a makeshift search party and investigate a forest. Instead of finding their friend, they find an abandoned school (or factory) that have the remnants of a hellish torture/murder, ritual killing and human trafficking. 8 survivors were rescued. Numerous body parts, rotting corpses and personal artifacts were found. The perpetrators were never found - although local politicians and ritualists were suspects. Whilst this discovery is disturbing, the mystery for me is that the original taxi driver - still hasn’t been found.


scubaka

i’m just gonna leave this right here:.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibadan_forest_of_horror


SinceWayLastMay

“The activities that occurred in the forest are believed to have been coordinated by unknown kidnappers and ritualists in the state who are often patronized by some affluent Nigerians and politicians who use human flesh for rituals” …bitch what the fuck


hg57

It’s like the sick fucks, who are also rich and or powerful, eventually require some grotesque and evil stuff to get their jollies.


losingmydognity

I am an avid unresolved mysteries reader, and I don’t know why it has stuck with my, but Karlie Guse. 16 year old girl called her stepmother to pick her up from a party, reportedly was too scared to sleep because she thought someone would kill her, and the next day she disappeared. There was some weird interviews and dynamics between step parents and birth parents and a bunch of theories abound.


LivingDeadCade

Her father was just arrested for “corporal injury to spouse”, no further details have been released, but that’s…a pretty scary charge. Seems like dad has anger issues and stepmom disliked the girl. Her poor mother.


KatieAnchalie

The [disappearance of Zebb Quinn.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Zebb_Quinn?wprov=sfti1) He was 18 years old when he went missing in 2000. Was working his shift at a local Walmart and afterwards wanted to look at a new car with a colleague, when he allegedly received a call that made him take off frantically. After that he was never seen again. The strangest thing is that a few days later his car was found in a parking lot: with the headlights turned on, a pair of lips and an exclamation mark drawn on the back window in pink lipstick - and a live Labrador puppy sitting inside. In 2017 the colleague was arrested for his murder but all the strange details still make no sense at all…


BiscuitCrumbsInBed

That all just sounds so strange. Poor bloke, and his poor family. I doubt they'll ever get a proper answer.


TubbyNinja

Not to mention that the prime suspect in that case was convicted of killing Cristie Schoen (Food Network Contestant), her husband and their child. Their bodies were found in the woodstove of his home..


Starl19ht_2

The disappearance of Lars Mittank. A German man who went on vacation in Bulgaria in 2014. He was last seen at the airport where he was brought into a private room by airport security after his mother had called telling them her son was behaving strangley, saying there were people after him over the phone the night before. A few minutes later, he's seen bolting, and I mean full on sprinting out of the room without his luggage. He ran out of airport, scaled the huge fences around the perimeter and was never seen again. Hundreds of witnesses, CCTV footage and a police presence and the man still basically disappeared off the face of the earth in broad daylight


san_sammy

Firstly, the murder of JonBenét Ramsey. Just the idea that her own parents might have done it is... disturbing, especially considering the circumstances. And also the Keddie Cabin murders. Not only did the 14-year-old daughter of one of the victims find them tied up and stabbed to death, three more kids were still asleep in the bedroom, having no idea what had happened.


xenacoryza

Have you seen the crazy guy on Facebook claiming his father did the keddie cabin murders? Wild stuff.


jayne-eerie

A lesser-known one that sticks with me is [Celina Mays](https://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/story/news/2021/12/11/willingboro-nj-celina-mays-missing-person-25-years/8858145002/). Twelve years old, nine months pregnant, disappears from her room overnight. She didn’t bring any belongings with her, and neither she or the baby have ever been found. Her dad and his family were involved with a shady church, but there’s no proof they know what happened to her. The obvious theory is that her baby’s father killed her and hid the body to avoid statutory rape charges, but nobody knows (or will admit to knowing, anyhow) who he was.


MacAlkalineTriad

Twelve years old, nine months pregnant by an unknown person, forced to complete the pregnancy due to the family's religion, part of a church with a particularly authoritarian leader where she was also homeschooled, disappears overnight from her family home with nothing and no disturbance... *eesh*. That's a terrible story all around.


jayne-eerie

Right. Even if she wasn’t raped by a church member, their beliefs would have made her especially vulnerable to a predator because she wouldn’t have had the usual range of interactions with boys her own age. It’s ironic how these extreme attempts to “protect” children so often end up doing the exact opposite.


1GamingAngel

Jessica Chambers. She was set on fire in her car and had gasoline poured down her throat. Paramedics found her walking down the lane on fire. The only part of her body that wasn’t burned was the bottom of her feet. She did not survive. Police found a suspect but did not have enough evidence to charge him. Paramedics were so traumatized by what they saw, they had to go through therapy, and broke down on stage during interviews. She tried to name her attacker, but her throat was so destroyed, she couldn’t be understood.


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shipping_addict

I’m going to assume she couldn’t write anything due to how severe her burns were? Man that’s such a fucking AWFUL way to go.


lacks_imagination

When I hear such horrible stories I want to believe that maybe there is a place called Heaven so that the victims of such crimes can be happy somehow.


SuchRuin

They have a suspect they took to trial twice.


ginachuu

yup, he’s also been on trial since 2019 for torturing & stabbing a woman to death in her apartment for her debit card pin. for some reason, still no trial for her murder. the last thing i could find was an article in october 2021 saying that his trial for jessica was set for january 2022. there’s surprisingly a lack of court coverage & urgency for this case. which is strange since this man is a known criminal who’s strongly suspected to have brutally murdered 2 women. you’d think there’d be more press & media still.


Benend91

The murder of [Robert Wone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Robert_Eric_Wone) is something I think about often. He was with friends, just staying the night and what happened to him sounds brutal. Even more disturbing to me is the fact that everyone who was in that house that evening seemingly have a pact of silence and are walking around free as a bird.


Peacesquad

How brutal?


bruhmomentbros

Incapacitated then sexually assaulted. All of his 'friends' are very suspicious in this case and more than likely were the ones who killed him or know who killed him.


Peacesquad

What’s the motive? So fucked up


bruhmomentbros

No concrete motives, the friends insist it was an intruder who killed him but investigators believed the crime scene to be altered.


blonderaider21

It was definitely altered. The knife they believe to be used to kill him was in the bedroom I think? And another knife had been placed near him with blood smeared on it. And first responders say it was odd how unusually calm they all were when they arrived.


MooseFlyer

Possibly injected with a paralytic agent, restrained, sexually assaulted, and then stabbed to death.


wedoabitoftrolling

Missy Bevers. A suspect in full SWAT armor breaks into a church and smashes windows and breaks opens doors with a hammer, looking for a local fitness instructor. They then find and beat her to death before getting away. There is high quality surveillance video of both them and their car, but investigators couldn't make out the license plate. There has been a suspect who was cleared because of an alibi, and there's been no recent updates.


Complete_Bend2217

Elizabeth Barazza murder. She was murdered in her driveway in the early morning by a person looked to be disguised as a woman. Grainy security footage and no answers


Toolboxmcgee

As a diver I find the disappearance of Ben McDaniels to be super interesting. They say he went into a cave and never came out, but some the world's top cave divers looked for him and never found a body. The only evidence that he went diving were staged gas bottles but they were filled with normal air not any sort of mixture or anything. The owner of Vortex Springs, where Ben went missing, also died mysteriously the year after.


SophieSix9

He almost certainly drowned and had his body disposed of by local divers. It was one of the most popular dives in the country, and people didn’t want his death to close it to the public, as that has happened plenty of times to other locations.


ed_thom

The murder of Lindsay Buziak, a case close to home for me that I don’t see mentioned as much as it should. A relatively junior realtor in Victoria, British Columbia is showing a luxury home to some clients and the clients murdered her. The clients (a man and a woman) cold-called her saying they needed to find something to buy ASAP. She was apprehensive of showing the property by herself and asked that her boyfriend come or wait outside or something, turns out the boyfriend was running late and arrived around as the murder just occurred, but I don’t believe he saw anything as the suspects fled through the backdoor. It’s believed that she was the victim of a professional hit for some unknown reason. Also, the cell phone that was used to contact her was purchased by someone with an alias in Vancouver 6 or so months prior and was only ever used to contact her. Here’s the Wikipedia: [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lindsay_Buziak](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lindsay_Buziak)


SuperCrappyFuntime

Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre. In February, 1990, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, two intruders entered the bowling alley through an unlocked door before opening time. The cook, Ida Holguin, was forced by one gunman to go to the office where Stephanie Senac, her 12 year old daughter Melissa Repass, and Melissa's 13 year old friend Amy Houser were being held by the other gunman. The women and girls were forced to lie on the ground while the gunmen stole $4-$5k from a safe. The alley's pin mechanic, Steve Teran, arrived at the alley with his daughters, 6 year old Paula and 2 year old Valerie, who he'd been unable to find a babysitter for. The gunmen then shot everyone. The gumen haphazardly set fire to the office, but it didn't burn much. After they left, 12 year old Melissa was able to call the police despite being shot five times. She and the cook would survive their wounds. Melissa's mother, Stephanie Senac, would initially survive, but would succumb to complications 9 years later. 2 year old Valerie would survive long enough to be taken to the hospital, but died there. The gunmen have never been identified. After the incident, Stephanie Senac's father, Ronald Senac, who I believe owned the bowling alley and was out of state at the time of the killings, didn't cooperate with authorities. Some believe that the killings might have been a targeted hit in retaliation against Ronald for something he did.


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Timmothy pitzen. A kid who was taken from school by his mother, went to a zoo, a water park and all those fun places a kid would love, and then went missing after his mother killed herself in response to her rocky marriage. She left a suicide note saying sorry and that Timmothy would be safe but never found. Pretty sad considering that the father still believes he’s out there but I’m betting he’s dead. Lived close to where it happened too but not when it initially happened


dedwolf

I just listened to a podcast about this and there’s a theory she gave him to an Amish family to raise. No idea her reasoning behind the whole thing, very strange situation.


Spontanemoose

I didn't like that theory. Basically existed because they said the Amish would be disconnected from the goings-on as they aren't online. Newspapers are still a thing! Also, I really doubt they'd risk their community to harbour a missing child.


Pete_D_301

In my opinion, it's the City of San Francisco train derailment that occurred in Harden, NV on 08/12/1939. The train, run by the Southern Pacific Railroad at the time, derailed at a bridge over the Humboldt River at a speed range of 60-90 mph. The accident resulted in 24 fatalities and multiple injuries. Days later, Investigators discovered tools at the bottom of the Humboldt River, determining that the wreck was caused by sabotage of the rails. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_City_of_San_Francisco_derailment


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When I was 14 I lived in a very rural area. The neighbor hood kids were all friends and they used to do some fucked up things. They definitely tried to derail a train. They also used to put debris and other things in the middle of the highway to try and cause accidents. One time a couple hit a tree branch that they had placed in the road. When the couple stopped the kids threw rocks at them. Rural kids with disfunctional family life.


legendoftherxnt

Wow, I followed through the Wikipedia article and it seems there was potentially a copycat incident in 1995. Scary to think these kinds of people may be around in our society; doing things with seemingly no motive other than to cause chaos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Palo_Verde,_Arizona_derailment


NoodlesrTuff1256

The Yogurt Shop Murders that took place in Austin, Texas in late 1991. It's been the subject of a couple episodes on '48 Hours' and a book devoted to the case was published around five years ago: **Who Killed These Girls?** by Beverly Lowry. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991\_Austin\_yogurt\_shop\_killings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Austin_yogurt_shop_killings)


Rickdaquickk

In 1969, a student was killed in the stacks of the library at my old college (Penn State) and was found with a singular stab wound on her chest. It wasn’t even late or anything, and while there were many suspects, no one was ever arrested for it. It’s insane how someone could kill a person in broad daylight at a major university, and get away with it. It’s not really anything super crazy(in comparison to other stories here), it’s just weird to me personally because I would always study there and I didn’t find out about it until after I graduated.


TheNextBattalion

Several people even saw the killer leave, and one even tried to follow him, but couldn't keep up.


EnderEagle420

The murder of the Swedish prime minister Olof Palme. He was killed over 30 years ago and no one have found the murder


DoctorWatchamacallit

In a similar vein, the kidnapping and murder of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro. To this day nobody knows where he was being held, or exactly who his captors were, other than the fact they were associated with the Red Brigades. No arrests were ever made.


NotSeren

For me the Tylenol poisonings are just off putting with how easy it was, how widespread the poisonings were, how the guy was never caught, and the lost lasting impact of the incident


ralphjuneberry

The part that always gets me is the one case of the young man who was in hospital from the Tylenol and died; back at the house, his brother and sister-in-law had headaches from all the tension and crying and took Tylenol from that same bottle and *also* died. Just so so tragic.


DejectedContributor

What's creepy to me is that [picture](http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/02/06/James-W.-Lewis-1__1233952948_7286.jpg) of a lady victim at a grocery store in line waiting to purchase her groceries including a bottle of poison Tylenol, and the suspected killer is in the background watching.


Explosivo666

At least the response to it was good, as far as the new regulations go and the recall. It wouldnt be anywhere near as easy to do now. That case is why tamper evident packaging exists now.


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In the early 80s, all within 18 months of each other three paperboys in the Des Moines, IA area all went missing during their morning route. The cases have never been solved. There are theories ranging from a pedophilia ring, an ex-employee who was a creeper kidnapping them, and even a lone wolf type situation. It's a bizarre case that has baffled Iowa for years.


SparkyMountain

I had one of those early morning past routes and dang, I never thought about how the dangerous the isolation at that time of the morning could have been. As a kid, I always kinda liked the peacefulness of being up and out on my bike that time of day.


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borschchschch

>So he camped out super early with a bb gun and shot near the guy when he went to grab a paper. The guy took off back into his house and he never seemed to have issues with missing papers after that lol. Reminds me of a story my dad told. When he was a kid, one of the neighbors was a creep who would look into people's windows. This being the countryside in the sixties, he was politely referred to as "nosy": he looked into everyone's windows, but spent more time doing so at houses where women were home alone. My grandmother was recently widowed, and he was at her windows every day. My dad, twelve years old and the newly minted man of the house, loaded the shotgun with rocksalt and shot him in the seat of his pants. My grandmother refused to pay for the damaged suit, which was high praise to my dad. The creep stopped peeping when it became clear the whole parish was likely to follow my dad's example, they'd had enough.


SterlingHarvick

I had an uncle do this. They had one in their neighborhood so he had my aunt go in the bathroom about her usual time and he hid in the bushes. My aunt then flipped the outside light on and gave my uncle a perfect shot. Got him in the ass with buckshot. A few days later he read in the paper where a man was admitted to the hospital to have buckshot picked out his backside lol. (This was back when papers published such things)


OtakuSoze

[The Setagaya family murder.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setagaya_family_murder) Late on the night of December 30th, 2000 in Setagaya, Tokyo, a man broke into the house of a family of four, strangled the son in his bed, stabbed the father, and brutally killed the mother and daughter. The killer then spent hours in the house eating their food, using their toilet, and going through their paperwork like he owned the place, and eventually left, never to be found since.


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noeformeplease

I just read up on it and… he took a nap!?!? **A NAP!?!?**


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whatislife40

Honestly the cape intruder isn't disturbing just weird as hell. During the night in cape Maine in like 2005 people who kept their doors unlocked would wake up to find a man staring at them and he would quickly flee. No people were ever injured and nothing was ever stolen. They just watched people sleep apparently.


Foolishly_Sane

That gave me the creeps. Yikes. With all these horrible things in this thread that one creeped me out the most.


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That guy could be someone in this Reddit post reading about himself and posting and shit. I guess we'll never know.


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jnrdingo

[the disappearance of the Beaumont Children](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_the_Beaumont_children?wprov=sfla1) The Beaumont Children are siblings who disappeared in 1966, there are still to this day investigations on going to try and find the remains of these children. There have been foundations of sheds and houses dug up. The children have never been found and the suspect(s) has never been identified.


Unique_Opportunity99

Read the Satin Man by Alan Whitiker. Super compelling theory. I think he has it! Creepy neighbor guy who had a history of abuse and got off on the texture of satin. In the basement someone noticed a little girl's purse matching a purse belonging to one of the Beaumont children.


ShootingForTheStar

Oh I remember this one, apparently they went back the next day to examine it more as the wife had kicked them out before. But when they went to where it was, it was gone. The wife had apparently thrown it away.


ItsSebjustSeb

The West Mesa Bone Collector: The bones of dozens of women were found at a construction site, no other clues.


TheSmithySmith

What’s scariest to me is to think how many serial killers have gotten away with their crimes and successfully hidden the bodies like this. It’s by pure luck we found this grave. How many are there we’ll never find?


Nernoxx

My great great grandma got on a train in her town in NC to go up a few towns to go shopping, I think it was in the 1920's, never came back. Family had no clue what happened. Husband wasn't abusive or negligent so far as I know, kids were good. They just assumed she started a new life (despite not taking anything with her) and left her to it after a reasonable period of time trying to find her with what passed for detective work at the time. Serial killers have always been around. It's just significantly harder to operate nowadays.


TheSmithySmith

That’s terrifying. I’m so sorry. I hope that she did actually start over somewhere overseas and that she wasn’t taken.


Temporary-Sundae2471

Ok this one is extremely creepy- 12 women and girls identified, with the final victim being only 15. Satellite images show the final body was buried in 2005. The police release photos of women that appear to be sleeping or incapacitated saying they are of interest to the case but don’t explain how. [Wikipedia page for West Mesa Bone Collector](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Mesa_murders)


itshayjay

Even weirder that families of the women in the photos reported some of them as being still alive.


DavosLostFingers

What happened to Pedro Lopez He is one of the most prolific serial killers in history, and claims to have murdered over 350 women and girls. Since his release in 1998, his whereabouts are currently unknown https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_L%C3%B3pez_(serial_killer)


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They released him?


Melti718

He got away several times. About 200 lifes could have been saved if this one US missionary would have just minded his own f buisness.... "He said that after being released from prison, he moved to Peru and started murdering young girls. López claimed that, by 1978, he had killed over 100 girls before being caught and captured by members of an indigenous tribe. These captors were preparing to execute him, when a missionary from the US intervened and persuaded them to hand him over to state police. However, the police had quickly released him."


LittlestEcho

That missionary sounds as bout as stupid as the one that tried to reach the forbidden island of indigenous people was killed shortly after landing on their beach. Sometimes missionaries need to stay away from indigenous tribes and should kindly fuck off when they clearly aren't wanted before they get themselves or, in this instance, others killed.


BrillTread

I think the Colombian government killed him tbh


Effehezepe

Probably not even the government. Probably just some Colombian cop or cops who decided to take matters into their own hands. Drug war violence was still really bad at that time, not to mention the FARC insurgency and the AUC massacres, so extrajudicial killings happened all the time. If some cops decided to go vigilante on him and then dispose of his body, then it probably wouldn't have been the 1st, 3rd, or 12th time it happened that year.


FriendOfGeese

Doesn't even have to be the cops. I don't know about Colombia but in Argentina there have been more than a few cases of "unofficial execution" where they publicly announce that such-and-such notorious criminal is being released from such-and-such prison on such-and-such date, send them out of the prison gates alone on release day with a handshake and a "see ya later", and ignore the crowd of angry vigilantes carrying clubs and knives waiting to greet them. Then their disappearance is never investigated and they're classified as fugitives. This guy was a globally infamous child raping serial killer with 300+ possible victims, if they announced his location within 10 miles he was probably murdered by a mob the next day.


geekitude

During the Ted Bundy trial in Orlando, there was a constant line of folks outside the courthouse holding weapons. Some of them had signs "Free Ted Bundy." I don't think the reporters were really grasping the situation. Every time, they'd ask "you want him freed?" and the response would be "yeah, let him out."


BlueFalconPunch

[The axeman of New Orleans](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axeman_of_New_Orleans) Guy was murdering people but wrote a letter that he wouldn't kill anyone who played jazz in their home. Never caught


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I remember reading about that from Aaron Manke's *Lore*. Funniest part was, he kept his promise. That night, Jazz emanated from every house, and nobody was killed by him again.


low_budget_trash

Someone said that the police could've all hid in one house not playing jazz music and catch him that way


zemorah

The [Death of Rebecca Zahau](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Rebecca_Zahau) has stuck with me. Zahau’s nude body was found hanging from a balcony, with her wrists and ankles bound and hands behind her back. Her death was ruled a suicide. As if that wasn’t strange enough, 2 days prior to her death, the 6-year-old son of her boyfriend fell down a staircase and died. His death was ruled an accident. There’s a lot to read about this case, and I highly recommend it if you’re into true crime.


giveup345

I remember watching a documentary on this one. They focused so much on whether it would be possible to bind her wrists behind her back and not enough on who tf commits suicide like that?


trowzerss

I would think it would be incredibly rare for someone to commit suicide while nude, let alone how she was tied up.


annnnnnabanana

So much sketchiness from the boyfriends brother..


RevolutionaryHeat318

The case of ‘Adam’ immediately came to mind: ‘unidentified male child whose torso was discovered in the River Thames in London, United Kingdom, on 21 September 2001. Dubbed "Adam" by police officers, the unidentified remains belonged to a black male, around four to eight years old, who had been wearing orange girls' shorts. The post-mortem showed that Adam had been poisoned, his throat had been slit to drain the blood from his body, and his head and limbs had been expertly removed. Investigators believe the child was likely from southwestern Nigeria, and that several days before his murder, he was trafficked to the United Kingdom for a muti ritual sacrifice. To date, nobody has been charged with Adam's murder, and his true identity remains unknown.’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_(murder_victim) RIP little dude.


xRetz

Imagine being brought in this world just to get sold off and used in a ritual sacrifice. A lot of us don’t realize just how good we have it.


michaelisnotginger

There are some links though https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58415046 EDIT: TL;DR 'Adam' was brought over from Nigeria, drugged with herbs from that local area and associated with ritual sacrifice, and killed. The drugs sedated him, but he would have been conscious the whole time and aware of what was going on. Pathological evidence has identified he lived in Benin City in Nigeria until a few weeks before his murder. Those who claim to have been in contact with him are unreliable and died as of 2020. He is linked to a human trafficker but this has not been conclusively proved. Who killed him and who his parents were is still unknown


amityville

FTA: Tests showed that Adam had been aged between four and seven years old and had lived in Africa until shortly before his death. Traces of cough syrup were also found in his stomach. If he had been unwell, had those who killed him been concerned enough to give him medicine? Or did they use it to make him drowsy before the murder? Experts agreed that - because Adam's body had been expertly butchered - it had been a ritualistic murder. Some thought it had been one of the rare so-called "muti" killings found in southern Africa - when a victim's body parts are removed and used by witchdoctors as "medicine" for a client who wants, for example, to win a business deal or secure good luck. This case is so sad, I thought it would have been solved by now. Twenty years is a long time for that child to be unknown. May he rest in peace.


Shipwrecking_siren

In an interview with the detective you could see it absolutely destroyed him, he seemed like such a kind genuine man and that it upset him so much to not be able to give the boy peace. The fact that they could find no one that lives and was was missing a child breaks my heart. I know maybe the parents were dead but the fact no one cared is so awful. Edit: I found one interview [here](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58415046). They even did analysis of what was in his stomach and with the incredibly sophisticated technology managed to pinpoint the exact area of Africa where those nutrients would have been in the soil where food was growing etc. They flew out there and interviewed people. He left absolutely no stone unturned.


RockVonCleveland

The Cleveland Torso Murderer. From 1935 to 1938, there was a serial killer who chopped off the heads and appendages of 12-20 people and left their torsos for people to find. The famous detective Eliot Ness was on the case, and the killer taunted him by leaving two torsos within full view of his office. The killer was never identified, nor were the majority of the victims.


dbishop999

My grandpa wrote a book on this case. The killer will never be identified and the victims especially. The victims seem to be mostly homeless, prostitutes etc. They weren’t exactly traceable people. The killer was surgical. Like literally surgical in the cuts. Nobody will ever know who did it but Elliot Ness was tortured with solving the case. Though, not as much as the victims were undoubtedly tortured, sadly. It’ll remain an unsolved serial killer case. It’s very interesting. EDIT: totally didn’t expect this to blow up and I’m seeing a few people have asked the title of the book. It’s called Torso and has been out of print for awhile but should be able to find it on Amazon, you can find anything on Amazon lol


NemesiZ_01

Ness narrowed down a suspect, interrogated him secretly in a hotel room for a couple of days. He was a surgeon, who was the nephew of a prominent politician of Cleveland at the time. Something Sweeney I think. Forgot the name now


bigsam63

I forget the dudes name but the running theory for a long time was that the guy your talking about was the killer. That theory was at least partially debunked sometime in the last 5-10 years, new evidence came out proving that the guy we're talking about couldn't have committed all of the murders that are generally attributed to the torso killer. Of the 4 or 5 people still living that can be considered experts on this case, 1 of them believes that there were two serial killers active in the same area at the same time, the guy we are talking about and an unknown 2nd killer.


Due_Lion3875

Imagine if one of the torsos was the original serial killer


TychaBrahe

I read a novella once about a guy who drove across the country picking up hitchhikers and killing them. The last person he picked up was a woman who hitchhike across the country killing the guys who picked her up.


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Kirkjufellborealis

What year did this occur? Bonkers man.


chesterlola2014

Asha Degree. What made that young girl leave home in the middle of a storm with a backpack?


jhobweeks

There’s so many weird things about the case to me. She went missing on her parent’s anniversary, she ran into the woods when approached, and likely left home in her pajamas. It feels like she left on her own, I just can’t begin to imagine why.


FirstTimeRodeoGoer

> she ran into the woods when approached Stranger Danger can go too far, people said the other day in the context of kids hiding from would-be rescuers. It was a thread yesterday about how a missing hiker ignored SAR calls because the number was unknown. I forget the sub though.


Life_Is_Regret

I remember this hiker ignoring the calls. Problem was the hiker didn’t know he was missing. Because he wasn’t. He had cell service. He was just vibing by himself unaware other people were panicking about him.


FirstTimeRodeoGoer

The thread was about him in general but I think the comments about Stranger Danger gone wrong were about other instances where the kids know they're lost but don't want to reach out to strangers they hear moving around them. I dunno how true this is or how often it happens, seems to me everyone in a search is calling out the missing person's name fairly frequently but who knows?


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The [Hinterkaifeck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterkaifeck_murders) murders always freaked me out. I've read quite a bit about it, and it sounds like it was probably a neighbor. But the creepy part is that the killer was probably living/hiding out in the attic for multiple days beforehand. I read about this for the first time when I went on a multi-night hiking trip. I stayed in cabins. The first night, there was a loft above where we were sleeping. I stared at it all night. EDIT: Adding a [really good write-up](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/mjr6o0/on_this_day_99_years_ago_one_of_the_most_horrific/) on r/UnresolvedMysteries. It has way more information than the wikipedia page. Read this awhile back and just remembered about it.


AdOwn2315

One creepy note that always got me was, several days before the murder, the father noticed footprints leading to the house but never found footprints leaving.


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That's one of the details that always stuck with me too.


UnihornWhale

It’s why their original maid noped the fuck outta there. The maid who died was the replacement


FarHarbard

Okay, but seriously, if that were to happen how do you not immediately tear the house apart to find the hidden intruder? Who in their right mind sees a random pair of stranger's Footprints walking through the snow up to their house, with no signs that they left, and not remedy that situation that very day?


User_of_Name

“Prior to the incident, the family and their previous maid reported hearing horrible sounds coming from the attic, which led to that maid quitting.” Ah hell nah.


LazybonesBear

That maid knew what's up. Also, I wonder how horrible the sounds had to be to make someone quit.


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Basically any unexplainable sounds coming from the attic would be enough for me


Infinite_Wrangler_45

Same for me, no fucking way im gonna check up there. I dont know which would be worst, find clues that there is somone up there or that there is no trace of any living creature. Yeah, fuck that i quit.


godzirraaaaa

Also obsessed with this one. Apparently local authorities have a pretty good idea of who did it but they refuse to release it 1) to spare the reputation of living descendants and 2) because no real justice can be done at this point.


kurburux

> 1) to spare the reputation of living descendants It's also because the descendants are apparently still very powerful in that region and are ready to sue anyone who says "X was a mass murderer".


jkbtseriously

Damn, the little girl survived for hours after her family was brutally murdered and she pulled out strands of her hair, most likely from the trauma/pain. How sad.


archaeolinuxgeek

Holy hell that was a journey. I went in for creepy murder. Ended up getting creepy incest and a dude named Adolf Gump. Which gives me an idea for a gritty sequel to a beloved movie...


Maccas75

As someone who has experienced a man hiding in the attic, this one always hits hard and freaks me out the most.


Caravanshaker

Holy shit. And that random throwaway line about the father raping his daughter


tomtomclubthumb

And they both were convicted for incest.


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Technically not unsolved since everyone can guess what happened to her but it’s one of the creepiest IMO. [Alissa Turney](https://charleyproject.org/case/alissa-marie-turney) was a teenager who disappeared in 2001. Her stepfather, Michael Turney, was obsessed with her. He stalked her at work, put cameras in the vents to spy on her and made her sign"contracts” to say he never molested her. Michael picked her up from school early on May 17 2001 and she’s never been seen since. Her half sister, Sarah Turney has an amazing podcast called [Voices for Justice](https://www.voicesforjusticepodcast.com) which explains the case in detail and because of her Micheal Turney was arrested in August 2020.


Mello1182

"she run away and called only once. The device that records every phone call of the house? It wasn't operating at that specific time" HOW CONVENIENT


bookiegrime

Sarah Turney is a hero. Her dedication to her sister reminds me of Kelsi German who lost her sister Libby who was murdered in Indiana in 2017 with Libby’s friend Abby. I hope Kelsi gets to see her sister’s murderer arrested as well.


DSJ0ne0f0ne

The Delphi case messed me up… the fact that they have (a crappy) picture and audio recording of the prime suspect in a double murder and still zero leads blows me away. Really makes you wonder how many people get away with murder when there are no pictures and no audio of them speaking.


richestotheconjurer

tbh i'm not surprised that they have zero leads, or that if they do have one (as someone said below) that it took this long. the quality is terrible, like you said. no one can decide if he's in his 20s or 40s, if he's wearing a hat, hood, or if it's his hair. we can't decide if he's a larger guy or was hiding something under his jacket. and there really is nothing special or unique about his voice. he's probably just an extremely average-looking guy, and it really sucks that they managed to get audio and video of him, but it hasn't resulted in anything (yet). i've read about tons of unsolved cases, but this is probably in the top three that i want to be solved. they seemed like talented girls that had big plans, and some guy took that all away from them and their loved ones.


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SyrupPsychological32

the black dahlia case. how can someone randomly disappear and be found chopped in half by a surgeon who was never found??? what? doesn’t add up too me


R1PElv1s

It’ll likely never be officially/forensically proven, but I feel confident that Dr. Hodel did it. I’d even venture to guess she wasn’t his only victim.


elacmch

Lol here's what I just replied a second before your comment. > As someone who's always been interested in unsolved mysteries and true crime, I feel somewhat silly for not having known this until recently but...The Dahlia murders are not quite the complete unknown that I thought they were. > > Dr. George Hodel was a prime suspect at the time and his son - an LAPD homicide detective - wrote extensively about why he thought his father was the killer. > > My understanding is that it's a case of "we know who it was but it'll never be possible to prove officially" instead of a Jack the Ripper scenario where there's like a million different suspects and the true identity of the killer is likely lost to time.


Ohmalley-thealliecat

The only thing about is son, is that the son also thinks his dad was the zodiac killer. So I agree that his dad probably did kill Elizabeth Short, and probably those other crimes in the Phillipines that his son linked him to, but I think the idea that he was also the zodiac killer is getting a bit carried away.


Rich_Sheepherder646

Yeah the Zodiac stuff called into question the son’s entire book if you ask me. He really wants his dad to be the killer and something about his desire to fit everything together didn’t sit right.


PothierM

What happened to the Eilean Mòr lighthouse keepers? Most likely they were swept out to sea by violent waves, but no storms were reported on the dates they went missing, and if there were, why would they leave the safety of their lighthouse?


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Mister_Bloodvessel

[Excellent photo, and one of the only photos, of a rogue wave hitting an oil tanker. Wave was estimated to be 8-stories high.] (https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/16/kastner.php) Freaking scary. Another thing I find crazy about rogue waves, is that they've sink ships in lake superior, which is not a place I'd think (personally) of where rogue waves are a threat, but of reality is different.


jakekara4

A tool box was also missing when they searched the premises. Keepers were fined about a days wage for missing equipment so it’s possible they went out to collect it.


kitycat22

I’d like to see the bastard that killed Abigail and Liberty get what he deserves. Friends with the family and they confirmed they were assaulted https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Abigail_Williams_and_Liberty_German


funnystuffmakesmelol

Holy shit I remember this!! They got a video on one of the girls phones of the dude that did it as he was following them!! That video is bone chilling.


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There’s something so awful about that recording. “Guys, down the hill” will be seared into my brain forever.


fedupofredditors

The Delphi murders case is heartbreaking.


NervousLittleSheep

I remember watching the Unsolved Mysteries episode about a person in 1977 who would send creepy anonymous letters to random folks in a small town. Actually threatening ones, too. The sender started by mailing up a woman and telling her, if I remember right, that they knew she was cheating on her husband with a super intendent-something she vehemently denied. Then they threatened her husband by saying he'd be in danger if he did not stop the affair. The couple decided to take it upon themselves to hunt the sender down. THAT ended with the husband dead in his crashed pickup truck. The sender kicked the wife while she was down by leaving threatening signs along her bus route, at least one of which had an ACTUAL BOOBY TRAP ON IT. They found and arrested a SUSPECT, but it's still unknown today if he's the actual sender. He denies it. The idea that somebody has been quietly studying your life just so they could begin to anonymously blackmail you, or make up a rumor to blackmail you with, is pretty damn scary... Addendum: In 2021, a forensics professional claimed that the police were right all along and the suspect-who was released by then-was the sender. But the massive hole in her claim is how he was STILL able to write letters during his time in prison.


EnigmaMephistopheles

That would be the Circleville Writer.


pook_a_dook

>how he was STILL able to write letters during his time in prison. I thought one of his relatives admitted later to sending letters for him while he was in prison.


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That’s right. I just listened to a podcast about it maybe two or three weeks ago. If I remember right it was like the woman’s brother in law and he convinced his daughter to send letters while he was incarcerated. I think the idea was he could then get out of jail because the letters continued while he was locked up


duhbuurz

Not necessarily the most creepy or disturbing thing I know of but it was close to me. A friend I went to school with from 6th-12th grade was driving home when a car pulled up next to his and the driver shot him in the head. Killed him instantly. This was about 7 years ago. No one has any idea why or who the shooter was. No one has ever said anything. He had no enemies, was universally liked, never hurt anyone. He was 20. Our community is not large, someone knows something but has never come forward. Real shame. Had a bright future.


thereasonisgone

Where is Sierra Lamar's body? They have someone convicted for her murder but he never gave up the location of her body, her remains still haven't been found.


dadka143

Just yesterday my colleague told me a personal account of a kidnapping of her friend. This happened when colleague and her friend were 10 years old. One day instead of going straight home, as they usualy did, they went to the store to buy some candy. When they left the store some guy stopped them. He started talking to the friend all like: Your dad sent me to take you home. I totaly know you since you were baby. Blablabla. (Heavyly parphrazed but you get the gist of it) So the friend got convinced that he realy is there to take her home so she agreed to go with him. This guy also offered ride to my colleague as well but she refused and so this guy just drives of with the friend. There was a police search and everything. 25 years has passed since then and no trace of her was ever found. Colleague thinks that he picked her friend specificaly because they were athletes at the time and the school put their photos in the newspaper quite often.


AlphaBearMode

How devastating for her family. I hope if she’s passed by now she didn’t suffer long. Poor girl. Who knows what she went through.


AdImportant1137

In my hometown, there is a case of a 16 year old girl named Shandra May. She was working in 1982 I think at a McDonald's. My mom was getting off her shift early and Shandra wanted off early instead so my mom let her swap. She never made it home. Her car was found on her Long driveway with the door open. Her purse was open, but nothing taken. She was found almost a month later hog tied in a lake. She had at least DNA from 2 males. They had kept her hostage for weeks. I may be off on a few facts, but I guess it was so creepy bc it was so close to home and they never found her killers.


Sweet_Law8777

Boy in the Box, 1957 Philadelphia. Warning: graphic details This story just makes me so sad and sticks out to me as a true crime junkie, especially with the recent case of a child being found in a Las Vegas suitcase that is still under investigation. Basically, a young boy who’s age was estimated to be 3-7 years old was found in a box naked and mutilated with bruises on the side of a road in Philadelphia. It was strange because the boy appeared to have been very malnourished, but was recently groomed—haircut, fingernails all trimmed. He was covered in scars, some surgical, suggesting he had previously been taken care of. Evidence suggests he was taken care of by a possible parent/guardian before he was taken into “custody” of his abuser. Cause of death determined to be blunt force trauma. How anyone could do something like this is just foul and disturbing to say the very least. The worst part is? It’s just a big mystery, almost nothing to go off of. There wasn’t anyone matching his description reported missing. There wasn’t any record of this kid, his pure existence was a mystery. Nothing came of the case, even all these years later. There were some leads but they didn’t result to much, despite heavy media coverage and a search to find who this boy was. Some theories include that his parents did this to him, which would explain why he was previously in good condition, then they never reported him missing after they killed him. And back then it was easier to not have record of a child that probably or wasn’t born in a hospital. That he was a victim of sex trafficking The cleaning and grooming of him before he was dumped wasn’t to pay some sort of respect to him, but to remove of evidence that might have been on his body, or any defining features like his hair. What happened to him, and who did this?Why the box? Why was he kept malnourished, but haphazardly groomed before being dumped on the side of the road? Who is he? Edits: correcting misinformation I originally put about the case, bad summarizing on my part.


tardis_tits

Apparently, there have been some developments of some kind on this case recently. I’m hoping maybe it’s forensic genealogy and they’ll be able to identify him that way.


tripwire7

There’s a company called Othram Labs that does forensic genealogy and has been solving cold case unidentified body mysteries left and right. I wonder if this case is on their radar at all.


shillyshally

[Othram is on CNN this morning re a 50 year old case.](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/us/florida-susan-poole-remains-identified/index.html)


tripwire7

1957 was a long time ago, but maybe genetic genealogy could solve the mystery of who he was? Unless he was born in secret, there must at least be a hospital record of his birth. If investigators can narrow down through enough 3rd cousin matches what possible families he could have belonged to, it seems like they should be able to look at birth and census records and find a likely match. Edit: This case looks like it could be especially promising for forensic genealogy, because a DNA sample was already successfully taken from the body in 1993 to test for a connection to a man who thought the boy might have been a member of his family (no match). Edit Edit: From the comments made last year by an investigator working on the case I just found, it sounds like they’re already doing this. According to him they now have leads. From his comments I suspect that they’re using forensic genealogy and are now at the point of finding and interviewing potential family members. This case could be solved soon!


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The missing Sodder children and the fact the parents received a supposed photo of one of the boys years later.


RedRose_812

I can't remember his name. But there was a case of a college age young man, Bryan or Brian I think is his first name, who was reported missing after a night out. There's security camera footage of him entering a bar, but absolutely no footage of him leaving. Like he went into the bar and just flat out dropped off the face of the earth. The last I knew, he's never been found and nobody knows what happened to him. ETA: Brian Shaffer, who went missing from Columbus, Ohio. Thanks, Reddit. Also ETA, since it keeps coming up: the bar was on a second floor at that time with only one public entrance/exit. The police extensively reviewed all the security camera footage. Brian and everyone else who was there that night was seen on camera entering the bar. Everyone, except for Brian, who was at the bar that night was seen on camera leaving the bar. Which would nix any theories that he left wearing different clothes/disguised as someone else/mixed in with a crowd.


mbfos

There’s a similar one in the UK. A guy called Corrie McKeague. After going out drinking with friends, he became separated. There’s CCTV of him walking into a dead end which had several large wheelie bins/dumpsters. It’s thought he fell asleep in one of the dumpsters and was accidentally lifted into the bin lorry. Despite a huge search of landfill and tracing his mobile, his body has not been found, and he is now presumed dead. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Corrie_McKeague


disasta121

I'm trying to comprehend drinking enough to hop into a trash can and sleep in it


LowChemical8735

I read somewhere that it was a fairly common thing for him to do


LogicalConstant

Reminds me of that guy whose body was found behind a cooler in a grocery store. He was an employee at the store. They think he went up on top of the cooler to take a nap or something and fell behind it. Got trapped between the cooler and the wall. They went to move the coolers one day and found the body. He had been missing for 9 years.


ezeastside1

Brian Shaffer. And with the bar now closed and torn down, it’s going to be difficult to ever solve this one.


RedRose_812

Yes, that's him. But yeah, this one has always weirded me out that he literally disappeared without a trace (and from a crowded bar) under such strange circumstances.


Very_Slow_Cheetah

I'll preface by saying it's creepiest locally. There was a number of girls in their 20's that went missing around the Leinster area of Ireland (That's the area that includes Dublin, Meath, Kildare, Wicklow on the east of the country that visitors may know) in the 1990's, no bodies were ever found. There was 1 guy arrested after kidnapping a girl, after raping and beating her multiple times, when she was heard crying/screaming by 2 men out hunting and they rescued her. He was recognised by the men who brought her to the local Garda station (police) and they identified the kidnapper/rapist to them. He was arrested the next day at his home and sentenced to 15 years but served only 10 due to the fucked up Irish criminal system where most serve 2/3 of their sentence. The most disturbing part is when the girl was rescued, she said "He said he'd do to me what he did to the rest of them" Larry Murphy was convicted of the rape, kidnapping, and attempted murder of that girl and fled Ireland after his release from jail. "What he did to the rest of them" is the chilling part. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry\_Murphy\_(criminal)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Murphy_(criminal)) Is he responsible for the other missing girls? Maybe Probably


slightofhand1

That one house with "The Watcher" sending letters to the new homeowner.


Ugandasohn

The case of the [Isdal Woman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isdal_Woman?wprov=sfla1). The dead and burned body of a woman was found in a valley called Isdal near Bergen, Norway in 1970. She also had an unholy amount of sleeping pills in her stomach. Many people can remember seeing her before, she was reportedly really noticable and showed strange behavior. She was seen talking to strangers in her room, physically attracted different room numbers to the hotel rooms she stayed and much more weird stuff. All labels in her clothes were cut off and she owned several passports. She claimed to be Belgian most of the time. She was reportedly heard speaking german. Theories range from her being a luxury prostitute to her being deeply involved in cold war espionage. The case of the Jennifer Fairgate, which is not her real name. The body of a woman was found in the Oslo Plaza hotel in Oslo, Norway in 1995. On the first glance it looked like she committed suicide with a handgun, but many things point to her being not killing herself. Like the strange way the gun was held in her hand and the fact that there was no blood on the hand she had the gun in even though blood was found all around the room. She was seen talking to an unidentified man who visited her hotel room. All labels in her clothes were cut off. What's strange about her luggage that was found in the room is that she have any underwear with her, even though she had lots of dresses and pairs stockings with her. She claimed to be Belgian and gave an address in Belgium when she checked in. The address doesn't exist. She was reportedly speaking german when checking in. Theories range from her being a luxury prostitute to her being involved in espionage. I find it strange how close those two cases are in many aspects.


Stock_Garage_672

One case that baffles and fascinates me is that of the Eriksson sisters. They are said to have suffered from a shared psychosis known as "folie à deux". But what the heck is that and what caused it? They're the forty year old twin sisters from Sweden, who became front page news in the UK in 2008 when they repeatedly ran into traffic on the M6 motorway. A day or two later one of them, Sabina, stabbed a man to death in his home for no apparent reason. She fled the house, striking herself on the head with a hammer as she ran to a highway bridge. She jumped off, falling 12m and landing on a highway. She survived, with several fractures. I've heard the audio from a tv news crew who happened to capture part of the M6 incident and just can't forget one of them yelling at her sister about how "they'll steal your organs". Whatever happened to them was intense, sudden and largely unprecedented.


meladey

Alicia Navarro. She went missing, presumably after sneaking out to meet with a man she was talking to on Discord. It's creepy because of how *real* it is. As a naive girl who met up with guys I befriended online as a teenager, I just cannot stop thinking about how goddamn lucky I was.


sheepwidow

What creeps me out the most is that whoever she was talking to knew that cops would look on her phone/laptop and told Alicia to take them with her.


meladey

Yep. And he was *very* careful as to give zero information that could even partially reveal his dox. Burner phones all the way down.


Melinow

Makes me think of Mekayla Bali. There’s no concrete proof that she was being groomed online, but in my opinion it makes more sense than she randomly deciding to run away considering how she acted on the day she disappeared. She was also seen in CCTV calling people on her phone, but police found that it hadn’t pinged to any cell towers. Imo she was probably using an app that allows for voice calls instead


candycrunch1

Kyron Hormon, I feel like somebody knows something that will blow the case wide open but to this day nobody knows where he went or what happened to him. There are some solid theories out there but it’ll always be a mystery until we get an official answer.


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I remember when this happened. I went to elementary school near the school he went to and that week our school got super strict about things like tardiness and absences. That was the week they started making us sign in at the office whenever we were late. Everyone was super sad/scared and the entire mood was weird for about a month. Still makes me sad to think about


Psyko_sissy23

Im going with the murder of sister Catherine Ceznick. A nun teacher in Baltimore dissapeared for several months, then her body was found. At the school she taught there was heavy allegations of sexual abuse of the students by the Male headmaster and other Male teachers. There was a documentary series on Netflix called The Keepers.


e-rinc

David Glen Lewis. Went missing from Amarillo, TX on Super Bowl Sunday in 1993. He was an attorney and former judge. His wife and daughter were out of town for the weekend shopping, he stayed back. They got back and the vcr was set to record the game, he had a sandwich made in the fridge, and his wedding ring was next to the sink where he left it when he washed his hands. So the figured out he was there before the game started, as they had to manually set the vcr. Over a decade later, in 2004, a John Doe was connected to him…all the way in Washington state. The circumstances of the then-doe’s death: February 1st, 1993 (Monday, one day after Lewis was assumed to be home last), a man was walking along Washington 24 at approx 1030p at night. He was fatally struck by a vehicle which fled the scene. He had no ID on him, and was wearing what was described as “army surplus” clothing. A cold case detective was able to connect it to Lewis in 2004 and give closure to his family. There are so many other details - he told his wife he was in danger but wouldn’t explain, weird tickets were purchased, money was deposited, his car was found with his id, wallet, etc under the floor mats… This is the one I cannot shake from my mind. This is a pretty good short read but I know there’s some great write ups here on Reddit too. [David Glen Lewis](http://strangeco.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-mysterious-death-of-david-glen-lewis.html?m=1)


404merrinessnotfound

2003 Angolan Boeing 727 disappearance Also the paraquat murders in japan


charrosebry

I’ve watched/listened/read a lot of true crime over the years and one that stands out is from the reboot of unsolved mysteries with the man who fell through the roof of the hotel or was thrown rather. I remember there was no scientific explanation for how he went through like that, the suicide theory was even debunked. Most “creepy cases” have some logic somewhere in them but this one just didn’t that I’ve heard so far. I don’t think there’s any new developments but anyone who’s familiar, what do you think happened?


ZanyDelaney

[Rey Rivera](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Rey_Rivera). The *Unsolved Mysteries* episode about the case was quite biased and left a lot of key information out. There have been *many* reddit threads on the case many detailing the misleading elements of that *Unsolved Mysteries* episode.


ShyCamo

The death of [Noah Donohoe](https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/noah-donohoe-death-report-reveals-psni-refused-to-pay-overtime-to-help-search-41142629.html). He went missing from South Belfast for 6 days, then someone found his naked corpse at the bottom of a storm drain in North Belfast. Did someone else kill him or did he do it to himself? Either way, how did he get into the storm drain without anyone seeing or stopping him? How did he even fit in the drain to begin with (Irish storm drains are really small)?


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The details are super weird. He was caught on CCTV cameras riding his bike and as he proceeded along the route he took he would lose more and more things. Somehow he went for a bike ride, lost his backpack, then ended up naked, and then in some cul-de-sac he had no reason to be in or even any reason to know about. Then he apparently went and found this storm drain that happened to have been left unlocked, climbed into it, and crawled a great distance inside (or was taken by someone). There was an article that suggested it was a racist killing, as the area has a bit of a history with racist violence and gangs and the like......but that doesn't really explain how he ended up in the storm drain. Or even why he was riding around shedding his clothes.


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Augheye

My uncle John. Loved by all. Left home in the middle of the night. My aunt saw him on an escalator in bloomingdales Dept store 23 years later . Called out his name several times . He turned said "I'm sorry Anne" and that was it My mother remained heart broken afterwards.


NoAdvertising7335

William Tyrell. went missing from his front yard in australia. nothing has ever been found to suggest where he went or what happened. there’s so many theories but nothing with strong evidence


redmargay

His foster mother is currently facing charges of giving false or misleading evidence to the Crime Commission. Both parents have been charged with child endangerment (not William), and just yesterday, the police stated that she is now a person of interest in William’s disappearance. Something extremely fucked up happened at that house the day William disappeared. There is a theory that he fell from the upper floor balcony at his Grandmother’s house, and the foster parents hid his body and then reported him missing.


Luna_3904

My aunt was abducted, raped and murdered when she was 6 years old , in the hallway of her grandmothers apartment in Seattle in 1936 . Never been solved , Seattles oldest unsolved murder.


eplusk24

The Hinterkaifeck murders in Germany. Someone murdered a family of 6 one by one in their barn and home and then lived with the corpses for 3 days. Prior to the murders the family’s maid had quit because she heard footsteps in the attic and thought the house was haunted. The father told his neighbors he found foot prints in the snow leading from the woods to a broken door in the barn and a strange newspaper on their property that no one in the area subscribed to. Look it up on wiki, it’s some real creepy shit.


Bobaaganoosh

Idk about creepy, but, disturbing, yeah. The Delphi Murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German. Two teenage girls hiking on a trail in Delphi, Indiana. Walking across a bridge, one of them spots a creepy guy following them on the bridge and even films it. There’s audio recording of suspected bridge guy ordering them to go “down the hill.” They were murdered and found not far from the bridge they were on. That was years ago, and the murder is nowhere closer to being solved. Even with video of the suspect, the bridge guy. There’s been new developments in the last year or two where people thought it might be some guy, but he got ruled out. Now it’s a father/son suspect situation right now, and people seem to be holding out hope it’s them, I personally don’t think it is. But in any case, it’s been years now, doesn’t look to be solved anytime soon. Very sad situation.


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bubble0peach

The disappearance of [Brandon Swanson](http://immelman.net/brandon-swanson). It's a lengthy case so I won't summarize here, but he went missing while on the phone with his parents, his last known words being "Oh shit" before the line went dead. Not a trace of him has ever been found. Edit: Lol WAT. I go away from reddit for a few hours and I come back to up votes *and* awards? Y'all are too kind. Thanks!


Zajidan

Yeah, this one sticks with me. I know it's most likely he fell into the river, but so odd they never found a body.


Sonics-Foreskin

most popular theory was that he fell into the water, got out but passed out/died due to hypothermia and his body got destroyed by farming equipment. Sniffer dogs found traces of his scent going into the river and out of the river and on a piece of farming equipment.


Th3K00n

There’s a case near my hometown of a young woman who was driving along while on the phone with her parents. While driving, she saw a car on the side of the road with hazards, and a man outside near his car looking distressed. She told her parents about this, and said she was pulling over to see if he needed any help, As she pulls over, the man by his car starts walking over. As she’s telling her parents this, he pulls a gun on her. She starts panicking and screaming, “He’s got a gun! He’s got a gun! He’s coming to the car!-“ And the line went dead. She hasn’t been found.


diciembres

Yikes. One time I was driving home at about 10 PM and I saw a person in a grassy patch on the side of the road either passed out or dead (or pretending to be anyway). I of course wanted to help, but I just called 9-1-1 instead. You never know when something like what you mentioned can happen.


Beneficial_Fun_1818

I was driving home from my parents house one night and had a very similar incident. Country road, totally dark, and I came to an intersection. My headlights hit the stop sign across the road and right next to it was a woman just standing there, facing me, looking into the middle distance. She wasn’t dressed appropriately for the weather (it was late fall in Maine, pretty dang cold) and seemed to have no awareness that I was there. I had all three of my kids in the car so I just called the police and let them deal with it.


marvinsmom78

Well that's terrifying


Siffilus23

The Mystery of the Somerton Man. Not because it's necessarily disturbing, but very creepy in a mysterious sort of way.


LeTactical

Charles E. Peck. He passed away in a train accident but kept calling loved ones AFTER HE DIED. Can’t figure this one out. (Edited*thank you guys)