# 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:** 6
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/141 "2025-12-24T01:14:22Z")
Sad update to this one - the girl was found dead in Wayne County, UT, of a gunshot to the head. A spent shell casing of the same type was found in a search of the mother’s home and she has been arrested.
> **[Mother suspected of murder after officials find body of California 9-year-old...](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/body-missing-california-girl-melodee-buzzard-found-2-month-search-sour-rcna245290)**
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> Melodee, of Lompoc, was reported missing in early October as school district officials noted her "prolonged absence," they said.
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### Author:  [@Ancient\_Nerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ancient_Nerd)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2025, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/142 "2025-12-24T09:16:14Z")
JImmy Hoffa
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### Author:  [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2026, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/143 "2026-02-18T19:41:39Z")
This story has been getting a _ **lot** _ of publicity & news coverage over the past few days in the Greater Dayton, Ohio area. Googling it will being up dozens of news articles.
Tipp City is a small, quiet, and fairly affluent city just north of Dayton. A 37 year old woman was murdered in her home there (shot twice) on Monday at 2:30 in the morning. Her name is Ashley Flynn. She was a grade school teacher, and she lived with her husband and two young children in a nice house in a very quiet cul-de-sac. All four of them were home when it occurred. Her husband is a pastor & musician who once auditioned for American Idol ([video interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRuDgMW912Q)).
Reports indicate it was an apparent robbery. The investigation is ongoing. This is extremely unusual, as it’s almost unheard of for someone to break into a house when there’s a very high probability of it being occupied. Especially in this location.
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### Author:  [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2026, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/144 "2026-02-18T19:49:18Z")
Over 13 years ago a couple kids from this area went missing, or died and they never found the remains. The article mentions 12 years ago, but is over a year old.
> **['Bring them home': Tennessee mother says her kids are alive 12 years into...](https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/12-years-missing-tennessees-longest-active-amber-alert-for-two-kids-remains)**
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> Monday marks 12 years for one of the longest-running AMBER Alerts in Tennessee.
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### Author:  [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2026, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/145 "2026-02-19T15:42:12Z")
A recent TV series delved into a less famous late Victorian serial killer:
> **[Thames Torso Murders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Torso_Murders)**
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> The Thames Torso Murders, often called the Thames Mysteries or the Embankment Murders, were a sequence of unsolved murders of women occurring in London, England from 1887 to 1889. The series included four incidents which were filed as belonging to the same series. None of the cases were solved, and only one of the four victims was identified. In addition, other murders of a similar kind, taking place between 1873 and 1902, have also been associated with the same murder series.
> Speculations hav...
> **[Lucy Worsley's Victorian Murder Club](https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002phjy/lucy-worsleys-victorian-murder-club)**
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> The Thames Torso Murderer terrorised 19th-century London but escaped justice. Lucy Worsley unearths this dark and dangerous story - can she unmask a forgotten serial killer?
And for gruesome/bizarre (and a conviction despite the absence of a body), not to mention that there are ongoing legal ramifications to this day:
> **[Murder of Muriel McKay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Muriel_McKay)**
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> Muriel Freda McKay (4 February 1914 – c. 1 January 1970) was an Australian woman who was kidnapped on 29 December 1969 in the United Kingdom and presumed murdered in the first few days of 1970. She was married to Alick McKay (sometimes referred to as Alex), an executive at News Limited and deputy to media proprietor Rupert Murdoch. McKay was kidnapped after being mistaken for Murdoch's then-wife, Anna Murdoch. Two Indo-Trinidadian brothers, Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein, were convic The case wa...
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### Author:  [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2026, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-unsolved-or-otherwise-infamous-true-crime-cases-from-your-state-country/847890/146 "2026-05-14T01:18:13Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> Wow. Two innocent young men spent years in prison for those Austin murders, based only on false confessions.
> **[Men wrongly accused of grisly yogurt shop murders in Texas reach $35 million...](https://apnews.com/article/austin-yogurt-shop-murders-settlement-death-row-2cd7afde2d358088fc25a9733baa82cb)**
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> The city of Austin will pay $35 million to three men and the family of a fourth who were wrongly accused of the rape and murder of four teenage girls at a yogurt shop in 1991, a case that initially sent one of the men to death row and another to life...
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