# Bizarre, Unsolved or Otherwise Infamous True Crime Cases From Your State / Country
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 13, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890 "2020-02-13T18:45:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/101 "2020-02-27T19:16:25Z")
> [@Meatros](#):
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> [Bunnyman Bridge](https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/bunnyman-bridge-the-scary-truth-behind-an-infamous-urban-legend/article_a27c7000-dca4-11e8-ad84-af51d935cbcb.html):
Dammit, I wanted to mention Bunny Man! Growing up in Prince William County VA, every sleepover included the Bunny Man story and then when we could drive we’d go to the bridge.
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### Author:  [@Kovitlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kovitlac)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/102 "2020-02-27T19:19:15Z")
Holy shit Skywatcher, was that a rollercoaster to read! Imagine being so entitled and obnoxious that you’re accused of stalking neighbors who dare to make improvements to their own property. That Hanlon guy sounds like a reach peach to live next to - NOT.
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### Author:  [@Kovitlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kovitlac)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/103 "2020-02-27T19:50:39Z")
Welp, this is certainly a, er, horrifying case…
[Hello Kitty Murder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Kitty_murder)
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### Author:  [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/104 "2021-09-14T23:33:52Z")
> [@dorvann](#):
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> **Maura Murray** —a 21 year old college student who disappeared after a car accident in the northern part of the state
> [Disappearance of Maura Murray - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Maura_Murray)
Possible solution:
> **['This Is Gut Wrenching,' Family Of Woman Missing 17 Years Waits For Tests On...](https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/maura-murray-missing-woman-new-hampshire-state-police-bone-fragments-loon-mountain/)**
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> Maura Murray's family is anxiously waiting to hear back from New Hampshire State Police about human bone fragments found recently on Loon Mountain.
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### Author:  [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/105 "2021-09-15T02:07:17Z")
Re. the Maura Murray case, I remember reading about it years ago. I wonder how they made a connection between bone fragments 20+ miles away from where she was seen.
And cases not far from where I live on Long Island in NY, since Topologist already mentioned the Gilgo Beach murders above:
The Kelly Ann Tinyes case: there’s ongoing suspicion that the convicted killer didn’t act alone, that his younger brother was involved too
> **[Kelly Ann Tinyes](https://www.chillingcrimes.com/blogs/news/kelly-ann-tinyes)**
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> ''Unfortunately, the sentence options given to me by law fall far short of the sentence which you truly deserve. No dictionary contains sufficient words to describe the brutality of your acts." - Judge Marvin I. Goodman It was the 3rd of...
The Martin Tankleff case: he was convicted of murdering his parents and spent 17+ years in jail; he’s been exonerated. Supposedly one of the detectives on the case was friends with the possible killer, a business partner of the elder Tankleff. The case is still unsolved.
> **[Martin Tankleff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Tankleff)**
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> Martin H. Tankleff (born August 29, 1971) is an American man who was wrongly convicted of murdering his wealthy parents, Seymour and Arlene Tankleff, on September 7, 1988, when he was 17 years old. After serving almost 18 years of imprisonment, his conviction was vacated and he was released from prison in 2007. He is now an attorney.
> Tankleff was convicted of killing his parents, Seymour and Arlene Tankleff, on June 28, 1990, and sentenced to two consecutive terms of 25 years to life in prison...
And the missing van fiancee in this thread is from Long Island:
> [@Van lifer goes missing on cross country trip with fiancee](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/van-lifer-goes-missing-on-cross-country-trip-with-fiancee/950604):
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> Van lifers customize vans as traveling homes. Posting their adventures on social media is a big part of the current lifestyle. Gabby Petito was on a cross country trip with Brian Laundrie. They were traveling in Utah. Her last phone call with family was Aug 24. Laundrie returned to Florida in the van and has retained an attorney. Yeah, this doesn’t sound good. It’s more unsettling (to me) because of the social media posts. They’re hugging and smiling. The perfect couple. The girl’s family h…
> **[Mom of missing Long Island woman: ‘I believe she’s going to come home’](https://nypost.com/2021/09/13/mom-of-missing-long-island-woman-i-believe-shes-going-to-come-home/)**
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> The distraught mother of a Gabby Petito, who mysteriously disappeared during a cross-country trip with her boyfriend, said she’s convinced her daughter will come back home.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2021, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/106 "2021-09-15T05:31:53Z")
I’ve been following the Suzanne Morphew disappearance in Colorado. She supposedly went for a mountain bike ride Mothers Day 2020. Her husband Barry claimed he left the house about 5AM and went to a landscaping job about an hour away. Their 2 adult daughters were on a out of state trip.
There were extensive searches by police and volunteers for months. Her body hasn’t been found. Barry was arrested in early May 2021. A 4 day preliminary hearing was held in August. There was no smoking gun. No blood in the home or vehicles. GPS ruled out using Barry’s bobcat to dig a grave. The DA doesn’t have a body, crime scene or witnesses. There’s no prior record of domestic violence.
The judge is expected to rule that this case goes to trial based on circumstantial evidence. Barry is the most obvious suspect. Suzanne was involved in a long distance affair for 2 years. Barry is allegedly aggressive and controlling.
I’m pessimistic that he’ll be found guilty unless the DA finds new evidence. Suzanne may never be found and what happened will never be known.
Its another example of how easy it is to disappear and never be found. Colorado has a lot of mountain wilderness.
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### Author:  [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2021, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/107 "2021-09-15T06:24:57Z")
A curious old case - drunken antics gone wrong? spy mystery? why the belated appearance of graffiti?
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who\_put\_Bella\_in\_the\_Wych\_Elm?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_put_Bella_in_the_Wych_Elm?)
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### Author:  [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2021, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/108 "2021-09-15T07:05:13Z")
a goofy non-crime reported in the early 20s antelope valley press paraphrased by me
Let’s see if you can spot why this is news …
One Saturday night one of the prominent civic groups held a barn dance and about 11 o clock it was breaking up and there was a bit of a scuffle as a man identified as marion morrison from Los Angeles was apprehended by a group of ladies that represented a local anti-animal cruelty group. on the suspicion of his horse being drunk since it didn’t walk a straight line… apparently, the horse had a known vision problem and after a few minutes of chit chat he was released and the ladies were “mollified”
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2021, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/109 "2021-09-15T07:31:05Z")
> [@Kovitlac](#):
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> Villisca, Iowa (Midwest US)
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> [Villisca axe murders - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villisca_axe_murders)
Also known as [The Man From the Train](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_the_Train). One of his purported crimes took place in Rochester, WA, out in the sticks of the county I reside in.
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### Author:  [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2021, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/110 "2021-09-15T08:17:47Z")
> [@nightshadea](#):
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> Let’s see if you can spot why this is news …
Marion Morrison was the real name of John Wayne
Is there a prize?
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### Author:  [@Tilt-A-Whirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tilt-A-Whirl)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2021, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/111 "2021-09-15T08:24:02Z")
This one always intrigued me, a couple walk out of a bar in Philadelphia and vanish without a trace.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance\_of\_Danielle\_Imbo\_and\_Richard\_Petrone\_Jr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Danielle_Imbo_and_Richard_Petrone_Jr).
If that link doesn’t work, as it appears not to be doing here, maybe this one will
> **[The Baffling Disappearance of Danielle Imbo & Richard Petrone](https://medium.com/@jennbaxter_69070/the-baffling-disappearance-of-danielle-imbo-richard-petrone-bb6edfb4ebaf)**
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> Their case is one of Philadelphia’s biggest mysteries.
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### Author:  [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2021, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/112 "2021-09-15T14:21:48Z")
[https://www.wral.com/police-lawyer-murdaugh-arranged-own-death-but-shot-grazed/19876731/](https://www.wral.com/police-lawyer-murdaugh-arranged-own-death-but-shot-grazed/19876731/)
guy hires bad hitman to kill himself.
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### Author:  [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2021, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/113 "2021-09-15T19:49:47Z")
I bet the SC “hit man” got cold feet and that’s why he only grazed the guy.
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### Author:  [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/114 "2021-09-16T02:57:38Z")
yep… your right … you get a Noprize 🤣 (its a marvel comic joke …)
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### Author:  [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2021, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/115 "2021-09-17T04:01:02Z")
It looks like an infamous unsolved crime in North Carolina may have been solved – [earlier today police announced an arrest for the murder of University of North Carolina student Faith Hedgepeth](https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article254291273.html). She was a sophomore at the university when she was found beaten to death in a friend’s apartment nine years ago. The case has been much discussed in true crime communities, with odd clues like a scrawled note by the body and a pocket-dialed voice recording she left on a friend’s phone the night of the murder.
Ultimately it looks like the suspect was caught through a DNA match collected from a DWI stop last month. Interestingly, in their statement about the arrest Chapel Hill police said that, “This investigation is not complete. Our work is not done. . . [until] any parties that have a role in or knowledge of this tragedy are brought to justice,” suggesting they may have evidence that there was someone else involved.
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### Author:  [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2021, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/116 "2021-09-17T18:36:14Z")
An interesting case indeed. To make two bodies and a truck disappear would seem to require the efforts of more than one perpetrator (assuming murder) and multiple perps make the secret harder to keep. Plus not even a whiff of motive.
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### Author:  [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/117 "2021-09-18T12:06:44Z")
Almost nine years ago, I had just moved “here” and this happened.
Two children living with their grandparents.
The house burned down - either set on purpose or accidental.
They found the remains of the grandparents but not the children.
The remains of the children could have been destroyed, or they left, or were taken.
From the article it looks like this was on the Unsolved Mysteries show earlier this year.
> **[Mother's plea in missing children case makes Unsolved Mysteries show](https://www.local3news.com/local-news/whats-trending/mothers-plea-in-missing-children-case-makes-unsolved-mysteries-show/article_3bc73029-9fd0-53a0-9ec8-57d3061e5a0d.html)**
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> Eight-and-a-half years ago Cheryl Daniel's children went missing. They lived with their grandparents in Bedford County when their house burned to the ground. It killed the grandparents, but the children's
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### Author:  [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/118 "2023-07-14T22:18:07Z")
> [@Topologist](#):
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> The [Gilgo Beach murders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_serial_killer) (what they’re generally known as on Long Island).
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> While searching for Shannan Gilbert, who disappeared in the area in 2010, 10 bodies were found (separately, not in a group) dumped in a marshy area off Ocean Parkway on the South Shore of the Island. Gilbert’s body was found later. None of these murders has yet been solved, but speculation of course is that it’s the result of one or more serial killers.
[https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/14/us/gilgo-beach-murders-suspect-arrest/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/14/us/gilgo-beach-murders-suspect-arrest/index.html)
So he is a suspect in 4 of the 10 bodies found.
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### Author:  [@Topologist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Topologist)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/119 "2023-07-14T22:58:57Z")
Thanks for posting that, I’d forgotten about this thread. Just saw the story breaking myself. This is going to be the leading new story in this area for a while.
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### Author:  [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2023, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/120 "2023-07-14T23:21:56Z")
One from my childhood was the case of Dr. James Klindt. He was a prominent chiropractor in Davenport Iowa. One day in the early 1980s his wife goes missing. A few days later, fishermen find body parts in the Mississippi river that are shown to be Mrs. Klindt’s, by an early version of genetic testing.
Klindt was tried. The first trial was a hung jury. The second one found him guilty, and he was sentenced to 50 years. He ended up serving 20. He denied his guilt at trial, but later admitted that he had done it.
After serving his time he opened a restaurant, having learned how to cook as a prisoner.
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