Actually, there have been FBI profiles in serial killer cases that suggested black suspects.
Example: the Atlanta child murderer case in which Wayne Williams was ultimately convicted. Beyond the fact that such killers often stick to their own racial/ethnic group, it was determined that a white child abductor/killer would have stuck out and drawn suspicion in those predominantly black neighborhoods early on.
(Brookey Lee West - Wikipedia)
At the time the Las Vegas police found the decomposed body of Brook’s mother, Brook was living with a close friend of mine in San Jose. She’d periodically drive to Las Vegas to “take care of her mother.”
My friend knew that Brook’s ex-husband had been found murdered and the police never solved the case. He also knew she’d been trained to kill in the military. But still, he thought he was safe…
She’d insisted on buying him a large meat freezer which he didn’t want or need. He later heard that she’d intended to hide him in the freezer when she killed him (which may or may not have been true).
Still, @Crafter_Man provided a bit more info than your post did. Simply providing a list of your 15 favorite cases (with links) makes it easy to miss one out of all the rest. More description about these cases would have been appreciated.
Or a Hispanic man in a white van.
Well, the year WAS 1932.
Weren’t there some conspiracy theories that had Charles killing his kid, for whatever reason? Like the kid wasn’t up to snuff, genetically?
Living in Salt Lake City and growing up Mormon, I had two or three or four degrees of separation with Mark Hoffman through several channels, although I wouldn’t have been directly connected to him at all.
Hoffman mostly forged documents related to the early period in Mormon history and his most famous forgery was the salamander letter, in which a magical white salamander was said to be involved with the discovery of the Book of Mormon.
Several of the document had become quite famous in Utah because of their contraversial nature and that they contradicted the official LDS history.
The bombing was huge news, of course, and rumors where all over the place.
I personally know one of of these people who went into hiding. The guy grew up on our block and his father was our bishop (lay leader of our congregation) for a while. I heard about him going into hiding shortly afterwards.
One joke that quickly made the rounds was “Have you heard about the newest cocktail? It’s called the white salamander because one drink gets you bombed.”
The Aum Shinrikyo murders were huge news, of course. One of the stations in the sarin attack was close to my customer’s office.
On a lesser note, I was fascinated with the Rust shooting incident and followed the news and trials.
That’s pretty funny.
It was also a station a number of family members of the US military stationed in Tokyo, Yokosuka, and Atsugi traveled through on their commutes. The attacks happened while we were at sea.
They picked one of the stations because of the huge number of commuters traveling through it. The combined number of commuters for the three lines (with two of the lines being attacked on both directions) is in the millions.
As it was more of a terrorist attack rather than a simple crime, it was one of the biggest stories in the 90s.
Another Japanese story which was in the news was Tsutomu Miyazaki who murdered four young girls (age four through seven), molesting the corpses and dismembering them, keeping parts of them as trophies.
This story came out in 1989, while I was working in Tokyo. He was an otaku, and I wasn’t aware of the term before story. This was one of the first cases where I discovered some Japanese can be as fucked up as some Americans.
I believe at the very least they were being stalked. To listen to people, as soon as you step off the peak away from town you are immediately lost. But that is simply not true. The path is clear and it takes miles to get into the trees and they in no way intended for that long of a hike. So what stopped them from turning back?
That is correct; many people think his father had “something” to do with it.
Oh yeah. But I discovered that as well as other historial things much later.
I found a History Channel DVD at a thrift store, and was hesitant about watching it. Oh, boy, was it ever watered down.
About the ladder: was it ever suggested that whoever made the ladder could have done so when BRH wasn’t home? And were the boards removed in a way that called attention to their absence? I mean, a solid floor with a gap in the center where the boards used to be would be pretty obvious.
The biggest mystery for me is why people were so obsessed with this guy long after he made that flight.
Spending bills from a cache of ransom money does seem to additionally point to Hauptmann’s involvement.
The F.B.I. doesn’t buy the idea that Sharpe was an accomplice.
Based on what’s been written about the case (notably in The Airman and the Carpenter, which argues for Hauptmann’s innocence), there were sleazy shenanigans on the part of the prosecution including putting on dubious witnesses like Condon. However it may have been that the prosecution was trying to load the case against a guilty man, rather than framing an innocent one.
Issei Sagawa - (Issei Sagawa - Wikipedia) - the Japanese cannibal. This is a weird story where he invites a fellow student over to study, shoots her in the head then eats her over several days. The oddest part is he apparently never killed anyone else.
I don’t have a particular crime of interest, but for people who like true crime stories, I highly recommend “The Murder Room” by Michael Capuzzo
That’s a screwed up case.
In my opinion, though, the murder of Junko Furuta is even worse. Which is up there (for me, anyway) with the Sylvia Likens torture/killing.
The Likens case intrigues me because it happened in my home state, just like the Shanda Sharer case did.
I live in Kentucky now, where the most famous case is probably Mel Ignatow killing Brenda Sue Schaefer. He got away with the killing, only to be imprisoned for perjury for lying to the grand jury.
He was quite literally the most famous person in the world. Because of media saturation today there could never be an equivalent.
In front of my sister’s old house there was an unhoused gentleman of possible altered mental status that claimed to be the Lindbergh baby all grown up. Apparently there were a few claimants running around.