# Which ONE Crime Would You Like The True Answer To? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 8, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101 "2010-01-08T00:25:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Chihuahua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@Chihuahua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chihuahua)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/221 "2016-09-04T18:23:26Z")
Casey Anthony. I don’t particularly care about the killing; I just want to understand Casey herself. At every stage of the incident she seemed to act like it was just a giant joke, and I can’t comprehend what was running through her head. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/222 "2016-09-04T20:36:57Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > I’d like to know who stole my dad’s full-sized van 15 years ago and took it on a goddamn joyride. Bueller? Butler? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/223 "2016-09-04T23:42:15Z")
What really happened that night in Chappaquiddick? What really happened to TWA 800? To MH370? Who really pushed the “fire” button and on whose orders for MH17? Where did this one go, and who took it: [2003 Angola Boeing 727 disappearance - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Boeing_727-223_disappearance) ? What really happened to [Harold Holt - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt) ? To Jimmy Hoffa? I know the long-departed OP didn’t want to talk about disappearances that might possibly not be crimes. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/224 "2016-09-05T01:58:33Z")
I’d really like to know who’s been stealing our “Hillary” yard signs. Each one costs almost $32, and we’re seriously considering some sort of alarm. After that, it’s JonBenet Ramsey. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/225 "2016-09-05T21:00:12Z")
I suggest you put up JonBenet Ramsey signs and see what happens. A little surveillance footage could be YouTube gold. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/226 "2016-09-05T21:29:50Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I’d really like to know who’s been stealing our “Hillary” yard signs. Each one costs almost $32, and we’re seriously considering some sort of alarm. It is operatives working for Bill Clinton. They are reselling the signs in an endless loop to fund the ultimate interns gone wild scholarship program. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/227 "2016-09-05T22:29:22Z")
> [@Orionizer](#): > > Adam Walsh [Solved.](http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28257294/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/police-killing-adam-walsh-solved/) Some weird choices in this thread: 9/11? TWA800? Really??? The one that practically kills me is Malaysia 370. I’m 90% certain it was the pilot, but what I’d really like to know is _how_ he did it. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/228 "2016-09-05T23:08:00Z")
If you think it was one of the pilots then how he did it is trivial. Bust the other guy over the head with the axe then fly towards wherever. Once pointed out to sea put on your oxygen, disable the passenger oxygen, then depressurize the airplane. Wait 45 minutes for everybody to be dead, even any clever FA’s who might’ve grabbed a portable O2 bottle. Then take off your mask. You’ll be unconscious in 15-20 seconds and the airplane will keep autopiloting nice and straight out into the middle of the Indian Ocean, then run out of fuel a couple or few hours later. Somewhere out there. Or fly it yourself to fuel exhaustion then ride it in. Easy peasy. This doesn’t take great planning by somebody who already knows how it all works. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/229 "2016-09-05T23:43:00Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Easy peasy. This doesn’t take great planning by somebody who already knows how it all works. Perhaps the new locks for the cockpit doors isn’t such a Great Idea. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/230 "2016-09-05T23:49:59Z")
No safety improvement is without adverse consequences. What matters is the net. You might recall two 737s that rolled over and dove into the ground from a few thousand feet during the arrival. This was back in the late '80s / early '90s. It was later determined to be a defect in the rudder control hydraulics that could jam the rudder full over the opposite way from the control input. Oops. At that time they had \*several hundred million \*hours of fleet experience on the device. And two failures, both with catastrophic consequences. Once they identified the failure mode it took Boeing two years to come up with an improvement that they could prove to the FAA was at least as trouble-free as the device it replaced. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/231 "2016-09-05T23:55:23Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > But isn’t OJ himself out there, trying to find the \*real \*killer? :rolleyes: I liked what Jay Leno said about _that._ “O.J. says he can’t afford to search for the real killer anymore. C’mon, how much does a mirror cost?” ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/232 "2016-09-05T23:58:34Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I’d really like to know who’s been stealing our “Hillary” yard signs. Each one costs almost $32, and we’re seriously considering some sort of alarm. I’d sort of like to know what criminal could charge $32 for an HRC yard sign (or any political candidate’s sign), but it’s small potatoes compared to the other crimes mentioned here. I still want the Ripper murders solved. I mean, can we really be _sure_ Kaiser Wilhelm II wasn’t involved? ---
**Author:** ![digitalskeeza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@digitalskeeza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digitalskeeza)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/233 "2016-09-06T00:20:36Z")
The Roanoke Colony mystery…has fascinated me since I was little. I’m surprised no one mentioned it… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/234 "2016-09-06T01:01:57Z")
> [@Blackberry](#): > > She was at a park in Seattle during the time that he was active, and she fit the description of his victims exactly (oddly enough, a few years ago a Criminology professor of mine was talking about Ted Bundy for some reason and mentioned that I fit the profile of his victims) Shortly before Bundy got pre-heated for his trip to Hell I worked with a woman who thought he was too handsome to be guilty. I told her that, being slender, pretty, and with long, brown hair, she was just his type. I hope that made her more circumspect about the guys she dated. > [@ekedolphin](#): > > I’d like to know who stole my dad’s full-sized van 15 years ago and took it on a goddamn joyride. Was it a white cargo van? If so, it was probably a serial killer. > [@Jackmannii](#): > > I still want the Ripper murders solved. I mean, can we really be _sure_ Kaiser Wilhelm II wasn’t involved? With his bum arm? Probably not. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/235 "2016-09-06T01:44:32Z")
> [@digitalskeeza](#): > > The Roanoke Colony mystery…has fascinated me since I was little. I’m surprised no one mentioned it… That’s because there’s very little mystery about it. The colony starved until the remaining members left to live with Native Americans. There are all kinds of small clues including (IIRC) people encountering white “Indians” in the years afterwards. The thing that makes it a mystery to modern audiences (by which I mean early 20th century, when it was first made a big deal in books and such) is that we had forgotten that the natives had a sophisticated and flourishing culture at the time, and it wasn’t a matter of the colonists running off to play savage, which would seem dark and inexplicable. (Much the same is true of the Borden murders - a well-bred white woman simply couldn’t have done such a thing, so.) ---
**Author:** ![spike\_beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@spike\_beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spike_beagle)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/236 "2016-09-06T16:37:15Z")
I really want to know who the original nighstalker was. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101.md?page=11)