For some reason this case really niggles away making me wonder what actually happened:
The polaroid photo is utterly chilling, and then there’s the sheriff who says he knows what happened but won’t tell anyone.
This isn’t a mystery to me at all, but I agree it wasn’t “just” one simple reason.
Who stole my Redline BMX in 1976 or if not that then the Beaumont Children murders.
Yes, that one is intriguing. From what I have read those Amercian detectives were on the take as well (at least later on).
Didn’t Karr kill JonBenet? He confessed to it and his handwritting matched the randsom note pretty clearly, just because he didnt leave any DNA doesnt mean he didnt do it
My vote goes to RFK, a sound recording shows more shots were fired then reported. As well as the entry points and the fact the one of his body gaurds owned a .22 and told police that he sold it before the weapon months before the murder even though that was found out to be a lie.
Interesting. The girl in that photo doesn’t appear (to my eyes) to be under any duress whatsoever. There is nothing in her eyes that says to me “I can’t get free.” Her eyes say to me “Hurry up and take the damned picture so I can get up.”
The 2001 terrorist attacks. Not the ones that always get talked about, but the ones that really put people over the edge of fear – the anthrax mailings.
I like this taxonomy of unsolved crimes: the organically unsolved, the bungled, the “obvious suspect obsessively rejected” and the “obvious suspect can’t be convicted”. Not that the categories are mutually exclusive; I think the JonBenet case is a combination of bungling and obsession.
To the organically unsolved you can add the Jill Dando case, now that the only named suspect has been acquitted on retrial. And Philadelphia’s “Boy in the Box” murder. Dando and the Mary Celeste would be my top choices for finding out what happened.
To the “obvious suspect rejected/no real mystery” list add another Philadelphia stinker, Mumia Abu-Jamal. The man’s own brother witnessed the killing, and no matter how many well-heeled and prominent people (who could protect him from the Evil Po-Lice) rally to the cause, he has never uttered one peep in his defense; what does that tell you?
Oh, and OJ: I don’t doubt he carried out the killings unassisted. What I’d like to know is who helped him clean up and dispose of evidence afterwards.
Not just that, but according to a liberal, anti-death penalty, prisoners’ rights volunteer (who became a friend of Mumia’s, visiting him in prison several times) Abu-Jamal actually admitted to the killing in a candid moment between them.
Who put Bella in the Wych Elm? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_put_Bella_in_the_Wych_Elm%3F
The skeletonized remains of a woman are found crammed into a tree- questioning graffitti appears and continues from 1943 until the present.
Whoa! I’d never even heard of this case, and it happened right around my neck of the woods. Creeeeepy.
I’d vote to find out who the real Zodiac killer was (is?). Jerks like him make me scared to park in a deserted field and make out with my husband in the backseat of a car.
The hanging of Roberto Calvi.
There was absolutely no question of their guilt. The jury found the evidence to be “overwhelming”. From the local newspaper Rafay, Burns are convicted of murder
The only evidence the defense could come up with pointing away from the boys (who had told others of their desire to kill the family) was a single hair in the house that didn’t match anybody’s. That’s all. After a 6-month trial, the jury took only 3 and 1/2 days to convict. They had some of the best, highly respected criminal defense attorneys in the business, one of whom I’m personally familiar with and respect to no end. The website proclaiming their innocence is simply their appeal campaign, hence the name rafayburnsappeal . com.
The Hwaseong murders - 10 women were raped and killed from 86-91. They were all found strangled with their panties around their necks, all within a 2km radius. Their genitals were mutilated and some of them were stabbed violently in the chest multiple times, others with cigarette butts stuffed into their vaginas. Out of the 10, one was believed to be a copycat (they found a hair in the victim’s vagina that was later traced to a local) but the remaining 9 were never solved.
It was terrifying for people back then because the killer would strike just as everyone thought he’d stopped/gone away. Since there have been no further killings after 1991 it’s possible he is actually dead this time, from an illness or an accident or who knows what.
My friend Devan was found dead in her car a couple weeks ago. It looks like it could be an overdose, but very fishy right now.
Sorry about your friend. It doesn’t sound like it’s a cold case, though, so maybe information can still come to light.
Zombie thread, but like many others who posted originally, I would like to know who really killed JonBenet Ramsey.
If I could have some freebies, I’d like to know who Jack the Ripper really was, and I’d also like to know what the heck happened to Kyron Horman. Would also like for it to be revealed who killed Caylee Anthony, even though it wouldn’t make a difference because I’m 99.9% sure it was her mother, who has already been acquitted.
The guy who caused my grandmother’s wreck many years ago. Her death caused reverberations throughout my family 51 years later. Her death has led to suicide, child molestation, mental and physical abuse of kids, rape, murder, broken families, etc.
Laurie Bambenek. Did she actually kill her husband’s ex-wife, for which she was convicted, sent to jail from which she escaped, got re-captured, then eventually pled no contest in exchange for a time-served sentence? Or was it, as many people think, a conspiracy involving her husband and the Milwaukee Police Department, against which Bambenek had a federal sex-discrimination suit? Many people maintain she got a raw deal, and even the judge who presided over her second hearing said the investigation had egregious errors, to say the least.
FWIW, Hodel is back in the news.
I read about half of his book when it came out and then lost interest in it.
Regarding the question in the OP, I’ve been interested in the Zodiac Killer for 10-15 years, so I would probably choose that.
I don’t think we know the whole story of the MLK, Jr. assassination.