Geli Raubal
Nobody, not a soul yet, has said 9/11? Not one?
OK, we’re all sane people and we pretty much knew how it went down (although if you spread the tentacles out far enough, you’ll get into the juicy questions, ie “How much did Bush really know?”), and this board is relatively free of “Truthers”, but they are out there, surely we can’t have had the good fortune of banning all of them?
FWIW, I don’t really care, I’ll happily swallow the Kool-Aid on this, even go as far as to agree with the MSM on how much Bush knew. Really, I don’t care. But I know plenty do, which is why I’m surprised it wasn’t brought up.
My personal inquiries were all covered in the OP. Including my first thought, which was shot down in the final paragraph.
If this were a real offer, I’d have to pick some recent unsolved murder in the hope of bringing a criminal to justice. But for purely theoretical knowledge, I’d go with Jack the Ripper.
It’s not a competition. The killer with the highest bodycount isn’t the most interesting case.
The Ripper murders are interesting because they happened at a fascinating time and place in history and they made a large impact. In many ways, that particular crime was the beginning of modern criminology. It drew attention to the conditions of the London poor, and it undoubtedly helped to push through reforms in that society which reverberated through the entire British Empire for decades.
In case anyone is interested, the motherlode of Jack the Ripper information is here:
http://www.casebook.org/
Warning: if you’re interested in the case and you haven’t seen this site, you’re going to be pretty busy for quite a while.
Simply because it is local, the Claremont Killings.
This isn’t famous beyond Chicago, but since the North Side’s long unsolved Peterson/Schuessler Murders were fairly recently resolved, it’d be nice to see the big unsolved murder case from the South Side put to rest as well.
I’d go purely personal. A friend of mine was mugged and murdered a few years ago, right in front of his own home. Killed for $20 and a cheap watch. I’d like to know who did it and why they had to kill him so pointlessly.
I’d like to know who stole the cookies from the cookie jar!
JonBenet Ramsey, for sure.
And for a more local case, the Jacob Wetterling disappearance.
Yeah, that’s more than one. You wanna make somethin’ of it?
Am I the only one who suspects that the actual reason would be dissatisfying? I think we think about the crimes way more than the criminals actually did, in most cases.
Not a crime, but I’d like to know what really happened to Amelia Earhart.
I’d like to take the ‘unknown’ out of ‘murder by person or persons unknown’ that’s on my Grandmother’s death certificate. She was beaten to death.
As for famous stories, I would like to know what actually happened to Madelaine McCann, partly to get it out of the newspapers.
The “little gregory” murder case.
“The body of four-year-old Gregory Villemin was found tied up and drowned in the Vologne River, in the Vosges Mountains in eastern France, in October 1984.
The following day, a letter arrived at the home of his parents - who had been receiving anonymous hate mail - claiming responsibility for the murder, and calling it “revenge.”
Gregory’s killing sparked a 17-year legal saga that transfixed France but the case was wrapped up in 2001 without identifying either the murderer or the sender of the mysterious letters.”
“A cousin of the child’s father, Bernard Laroche, was charged a month after the murder, based on evidence given by a teenaged sister-in-law.
He was released after she withdrew her claims, only to be shot dead in March 1985 by Jean-Marie Villemin, who spent two and a half years in prison for the crime. The poison-pen letters did not stop with Laroche’s death.”
All very mysterious and complicated.
Diane Downs & Alice Crimmins. Either they were guilty and punished, or they suffered the worst ordeal any mother could–being unfairly convicted and locked up for killing their children when they were innocent.
I would love to know the truth about Spring Heeled Jack.
I have been fascinated with him since i was a wee lad.
I want to know who killed Firefly before it even finished its 13 episode run.
This one. I personally would like to believe he got off scot-free and lived happily ever after.
“The Princes in the Tower.” I’d like to see Richard III exonerated. I firmly believe that it was done on Henry VII’s behalf, with his mother most likely being the brains of the outfit.