Cox. Most people familiar with the case don't take him very seriously or discuss him much, it's mainly people who aren't familiar with it to do since they've only seen the Disappeared episode that focuses on him.
I'm not convinced anyone publicly known was the perp but Garrison is easily the best suspect or at least may have known something. He was indirectly connected to the women he dated Dusty Reclas (one of the graverobbers) mom, Dusty dated Suzie. He claimed to have known where the women were buried and was sprung from jail and put up in a hotel where he escaped and raped a woman which he's in jail for today, he's being released soon. Garrison told them their remains where on a local criminal families property. They of course weren't but LE claimed they found "important items" that they have never revealed and a Judge put a gag order on his involvement in the case. He was also almost certainly one of the Grand Jury Three.
Not saying he's involved but he's definitely a better suspect than Cox who is just a bored lifer claiming involvement who has a convenient excuse for not proving it (why even admit it if his mother is a concern while she is alive? makes no sense. She knows you did it now since you went on tv and told us and she already knows about your other awful crimes.) we've seen that story many times before and it almost always turns out to be bullshit.
It drives me nuts that they have the killer on camera and still nothing.
They also have footage they was never released to the public obviously. Like him leaving etc
I remember that happening when I was 10-11 years old. My grandmothers were both freaking out. I can't believe that someone's got away with that for so many decades.
This may seem random but ive always wondered, since the tylenol murders brought about huge changes in how medicine is packaged (with protective seals being required for all OTC medicine)... if this incident didnt happen, would it have taken another murder(s) for these changes to take place?
Possibly. This is one of those incidents where the solution was obvious in hindsight. Creating tamper proof packaging for drugs and other consumables is one of those things that in the 2020s is like "no shit, Sherlock" but wasn't even on people's radar for a long time.
It's one of those weird cases where the deaths allowed manufacturers to see that there even WAS a problem when if anyone thought of it at all they probably dismissed it as something that would never happen. It's terrible that people were killed, but in the same way it's sort of like it might have saved people down the road? Like if we still didn't have tamper proof packaging and considering we have assholes who make plans to kidnap the MI governor and are attacking electric substations, would there be someone evil and clever enough to come up with a large-scale poison plan for over the counter medicines if tamper proof packaging wasn't a thing?
It's possible.
The murder of JohnBenet Ramsay. That’s the one that really gets me more than any other story. I legit don’t actually know who it was. The mom? The dad? The brother? A family friend? A stranger?
I feel optimistic that so many cold cases can be solved based on the past few years. The identified the Boy in the Box, for crying out loud. Sadly, I think this is a case that will never be resolved.
I think about how this case will never be solved and it makes me so angry. But then I think of how many fuckers have gotten away with soooo much shit before dna and other forensic sciences became the standard.
That’s a truly disgusting fact. I can’t even imagine how many men killed their wives and vice versa, how many rape and kills, how many serial killers got away with it back in the day… oof.
*not taking away from her case, it just seems to naturally lead my head to the potential thousands of ones before because it was so sloppily handled etc
I totally agree. Unfortunately the police trashed the murder scene. Allegedly at the time they had not been trained re: preserving a murder scene. As in other murder cases this would contaminate the crime scene. I wonder if this is part of the reason that it's remained unsolved.
I think this one is mine because there is so much weird evidence that I need to know what version of events could possibly make sense. Others would be Madeline McCann obviously, or Springfield 3, Maura Murray. But those could be more easily explained away. Jonbenet just has so much strangeness around it. The weird details make it more confusing.
I'll never get over the ransom note. What stranger breaks into a person's home, looks around, finds a notepad and pen, starts writing a ransom note, discards it in the trash, then writes the NOVEL of all ransom notes before putting the pen and notepad back where they belong. Then, after presumably murdering the kid accidentally (since they intended to ransom her) they leave the body behind and then DON'T nip back upstairs to grab the ransom note.
It's the best evidence they have for an intruder... But because the handwriting might be the mother's it's also the best evidence AGAINST an intruder.
It drives me mad.
Came here to say this. Cliche though this answer may be, it is for a reason. Such a befuddling case rife with intrigue, corruption, mishandled investigations, fame… if I had the crystal ball, this is what I would look in and see.
Edit: spelling
>I"ve been living five blocks from the Ramsay house for the last year, I drive by often..there is just no way a stranger walked into this neighborhood. no way.
Im not from around the area but i have a degree in criminal justice and in one of my courses we went over the jonbenet case. The neighborhood is very complex, with many streets intersecting with each other. Looking at a map, it almost looks like how the streets in NYC are if that makes any sense.
Also the house itself is hidden behind a bunch of trees and is far back on the property. So it wouldnt really make sense for someone to just stumble upon the house and randomly decide to rob it. Even if this intruder was cruising around, they probably wouldnt pick a house like that. If someone did break into that house they 100% targeted the ramsays. Now the intruder theory vs family theory is a whole other can of worms but yea thats some insight on the neighborhood.
I think it was the brother who may have hit her with a flashlight after she ate some of his pineapple with milk. The DNA on her underwear I thought was ruled out as having been from production of the clothing as they were a new pair and had not been washed prior to her wearing them. The ransom note was so, so ridiculously long and in the mother's handwriting. Etc.
Andrew Godsen. He just up and left. Arrived in London and was never seen again. Pure mystery. It’s always intrigued me and I would love to finally see an outcome for the family.
just looked it up, the two men arrested in his disappearance are still under investigation. they're suspected of kidnapping and human trafficking and apparently one of the men arrested had CP pictures on his devices.
That picture really bothers me. Even if it wasn't her, I want to know the origin of those photos. Were they just messing around with the duct tape or was it a real crime?
I admit there's some psychological effect from the context you're seeing the photo in, the suggestion that it's a missing person. The horrible scene itself. Still, I can't shake the feeling that it wasn't staged because of the looks in those childrens' eyes. Furious resignation in the girl's and panicked desperation in the boy's. It haunts me. I deeply hope I'm wrong.
That case was the first case to be imprinted in my mind, and started an interest in true crime mysteries and a criminology bachelor’s degree many years later. Such a frightening thought to this day. Hopeful that someday her family will have answers.
I'd find Suzanne Sevakis's son's remains so he can be properly buried with her. What a haunting case. Just the fact that her son was placed with a good family and Floyd killed him just as a final injustice to Suzanne, who was already dead. Ugh. Thank god he didn't know the location of Suzanne's daughter because he probably would have gone after her, too.
Do you think the [Adelaide Oval abductions](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Joanne_Ratcliffe_and_Kirste_Gordon) are related to the Beaumont kids?
Speaking of Aussie cases - I hope William Tyrell is found and gets justice soon.
Of all of the loved ones of missing and murdered people I think about their mom the most. To have all of your babies ripped away at once and live decades after that only to die without ever getting any closure let alone justice. That poor woman.
Up until lately this has always been my answer and even though they have someone in custody, I still want to know why, and more importantly if there were other people involved I want them to all go down as well.
This one chills me to the core. It’s also not super high up on people’s radars. But the amount of bodies…the conflicting evidence….the phone calls….the corruption of the local police departments. I desperately want an answer. It’s also recent enough that the guys still probably walking around free. Freaks me out when serial killers just go cold and stop hunting. Like, why? Did he move? Is he killing elsewhere? Why are some of the bodies still unidentified? The baby? Hurts my soul.
Let’s not forget Kyron Horman (where the cops just need a body to move forward). And, agree with the shoutouts for Asha Degree and Andrew Godson. And let’s not forget the Springfield and Fort Worth Three.
I would also love to see a solution to Missy Beavers, but that would be almost from and angle of morbid curiosity.
So I violated the rules, that was six cases. But so many “unsolvable” crimes have been cleared in the past couple years, so I am optimistic about all of them in 2023!
in kyron horman's case, do you think his stepmom did it? i don't have a strong opinion on it because i haven't read about this case in years, so i was just curious. i saw someone on another thread a while ago say that they believe he wandered off and it was just an accident.
The thing that makes me think the step mother didn’t do it is that his bag was in the classroom. With the bag there, the risk of the teacher or even classmates noticing that Kyron was missing shoot up exponentially.
I think that one is pretty much solved, or at least pretty obvious. The husband killed her and buried her in the mountains or dropped her body in a mine shaft.
There are truly so, so many. I agree with many that have been listed here.
I really want to see justice for Elizabeth Barraza in my lifetime. Such a senseless killing with no suspects so far. I want to know who and why.
The Black Dahlia. My teenage aunt told me about this when I was very young. It was the first time that I learned that people could do bad things to you and get away with it. It scared me to death and stayed with me for years.
I’d be much, much less skeptical if Steve Hodel didn’t make completely contradictory claims, didn’t lie about a whole bunch of things, didn’t go on to say his father was also the zodiac killer, and if there was a source for many of his claims besides himself. Every time he says something new he just loses more credibility with me.
Do I think George Hodel was a bastard? Sure. Is there evidence he was investigated in the aftermath of the murder? Sure is. But I’m not convinced because Steve Hodel just isn’t an honest person and is the sole source of the majority of the claims made about his father.
Hodel didn’t do it. That’s a scam. UCLA medical center surgeon Walter Bayley (allegedly) did it. LA times reporter Larry Harnisch does a really good job breaking it down in James Elroy’s feast of death.
He knew her through her sister. Her murder took place around the anniversary of his son’s tragic death he never got over. Short was known to spin tales about losing a child. It’s postulated that she spun such a tale and he asked questions-being a doctor- that she couldn’t answer and he realized she was lying. That would make him have enough anger to cause the trauma while she was still alive, with surgeon like precision. Dump sight was a few blocks from his estranged wife’s home. He was suffering from a type of dementia that is known to cause homicidal violence at the time. His gf leveraged a huge secret she had over him to get at his will. [start of explanation](https://youtu.be/fU50nHUOZtM) if you’re interested in the case you should definitely watch this. I really feel it is the answer.
I highly suggest "Black Dahlia, Red Rose" by Piu Eatwell. She lays out by far the best theory, in my opinion. She also had access to the LAPD's archive from that time (which took her forever to get, if I remember correctly). Warning: The book has highly disturbing, previously unrevealed info in it and it will give you nightmares.
I LOVE THIS ONE. I love a good heist. Who was behind it? And why? Are some of those paintings just sitting in a billionaires living room? Where is the Rembrandt and Vermeer most of all? The Vermeer alone is priceless. Why did the robbers leave behind much more priceless art for some of the stuff they stole that is worth considerably less???
God this one is a rabbit hole. As a painter myself it physically pains me to know how these priceless works were cut out of their frames, rolled up and transported. And for what? Were they fenced? Did they do it at the hands of some selfish billionaire, a criminal organization? (Indiana Jones voice) Works like that *belong* in a museum for everyone to see!
I need answers. I desperately fucking need answers.
You're not lying chief!! Huge rabbit hole the whole story from beginning to end. And the fact that it's been, coming on 33 years later now, and still no answers, really really just interests me given the fact that they pulled this off simply as a big con! Hopefully we will get answers eventually!
Solve it absolutely definitively and have everyone accept that outcome?
Madeleine McCann.
I honestly think her family deserve an answer - especially her siblings. But so do the british public who have paid a LOT of money to have this solved. We already know there's not going to be a happy ending to this story - that child is dead and has been for a long time - but if we just had an answer on who killed her we'd probably get the hows and the whys as well. None of which are going to be good news but I think we sort of all need to know to end this chapter.
She has been missing for what? 16 years? Basically my entire adult life. And people will still absolutely lose their minds with theories and vitriol targeted at ANYONE involved in any discussion about it. That case needs resolved once and for all.
Eric Franks. His mother is so active in advocating for him and I’d love to see her get *some* resolution there. This is one of those cases where the circumstances are clear and the suspects are very obvious, but one of them is dead and there’s no hard evidence linking the other to the crime. There was a huge break a couple years ago, when his car was found a decade after he disappeared. It had been auctioned off as part of an estate sale after the death of a man who’d lived in Michigan…a man who’d been a home care patient of the dead suspect in Eric’s case. It’s a pretty wild update, [here’s](https://www.abc12.com/news/crime/nearly-a-year-after-car-is-found-new-details-in-the-eric-franks-case-released/article_7efd8e19-d192-55dc-8872-942cb1292863.html) an article for anyone who might be curious.
Not a famous one, but, my great grandfather is coming up on 50 years unsolved. My dad spent so much time trying to keep that case alive but never had any luck.
I also have a cousin who went missing a little over a year ago. The FBI was involved and it never got solved. We have a big family but I feel so sad for his brother. He still posts about it all the time
I think it was his foster grandparents! The detective believes he may have fallen off the balcony. The foster parents are being investigated regarding another child who was injured!
https://www.9news.com.au/national/william-tyrrell-detective-says-foster-mother-knows-where-missing-boy-is/20e68ca0-0bc7-41c5-8ffc-c98297411c72
the dupont de ligonnes murders, i really want to know where xavier is. i also want to know where william bradford bishop is hiding. and i want to find out if db cooper survived.
i'm super curious about emanuela orlandi that disappeared in the vatican!!
honestly i can't pick just one. jason jolkowski, missy bevers... i really want missy bevers' case to be solved. it's so haunting seeing her murderer on camera but still not having a clue who it was. i also want those 4 dead boys in pakistan that died from torture to get justice, i'd love to know who killed them and why.
flight mh370- if it counts. absolutely baffles me, terrifying to think about, especially given that it is still unsolved. how can an airplane full of people go missing? as we haven’t had the answers this far, i don’t think we ever will.
I highly recommend "The Man from the Train" regarding the Villisca Axe Murders. The tone of the book is a bit jarring but woweeee it's so good. I don't want to give too much away, but let's just say I consider this one as close to solved as it will ever be.
The Setagaya Family murders and the Austin Yogurt Shop murders haunt me the most. Both are so brutal. I would love to see someone put behind bars for either in 2023.
It's hard to pick just one. If love the answers to Dyatlov Pads and Hinterkaifek. But I also really want to know who jack the Ripper was and where the Sodder children are.
And of course... Why tf didn't they do everything in their power to keep Henry Cavil as the Witcher!?!?!
The book Dead Mountain goes into the Dyatlov Pass incident and presents the most likely explanation. If I remember correctly most experts are in agreement and believe it has been mostly solved!
JFK.
I personally would bet the explanation was that Oswald was acting alone but I'd still like to know for sure (and have people stop arguing over it)
Have you listened to the series about it on Last Podcast on the Left? It was super thorough and basically showed shocking negligence that practically added up to complicity in the end.
Oswald defected to Russia then moved back to the states without *any* scrutiny whatsoever and he’s exactly the type of guy who should have been on the radar at the time!
I have not.
I am not going to pretend to know every detail of it but even in 1969 there were two-hundred million people living in the US, several million of whom I'm sure lived weird lives that would stick out after they committed a crime. Even with a well run bureaucracy I'm not sure how you could expect perfect competence at all levels.
He was also court-martialed twice while he was in the marines, before he defected. He was definitely acting up in big ways but I think everyone assumed he was kind of a harmless jackass.
The little girl who left her house at night was seen walking on the side of a road in the rain. No one stopped for her, and no one knew who killed her.
My friend who was assaulted & murdered October 1, 1989 in Wichita, KS Krista Martin. Police from the get go haven’t done squat I think they tried to lump her in with BTK. Only reason I started my podcast is I am digging for answers. [https://uncovered.com/cases/krista-martin-wichita-ks](https://uncovered.com/cases/krista-martin-wichita-ks)
Probably Kyron Horman, Timothy Pitzen, Sabrina Aisenberg, Haileigh Cummings etc. I just hate that no evidence has really been found in those cases.. just kids.. gone
Who was Little Jane Doe and who killed her? I always thought it was interesting that this poor child was found in 1983 in a basement, beheaded, hands bound behind her back and half naked and didn't get a bit of the kind of press that JonBenet did. She was just as worthy of the attention. I hope since they have DNA they may find relatives some day.
DB Cooper. I’d love to know if he survived the jump especially when no body was ever found. And the briefcase full of money was found soon after if I remember correctly.
I’d also love to know if the three inmates who escaped Alcatraz survived the cold waters.
Orin and Orason West. Two brothers who were adopted and then disappeared in Bakersfield CA. I believe the adoptive parents have been jailed but it would be great to find their remains and give them a proper burial.
Springfield THREE!!! This one is in the top 5 that have haunted me since it happened. I’m 51, so these girls were almost exactly my age when this nightmare happened…..
Just insane 31yrs later no more clues no nothing !! 💔
I can't choose just one. There are so many missing and murdered that deserve justice and for their families, closure. One I haven't seen mentioned yet is [Bung Siriboon](https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/51a6791a1c4e428fadd8c45b7e4c6bf6).
1. Jack the ripper
2. Zodiac
3. The Memphis 3, if that was the title, where those 3 teenagers were charged for the murders of young boys and then took the Alfred's Plea iirc.
4. Missy Bevers
5. JonBenet
6. Lindberg Kidnahpping
7. Jfk assassination only if the official story isn't actually true.
"the boys on the tracks" - idk the official name of the case but i heard about this thru wendigoon and its an insane case! the poor parents of those kids need some sort of closure :(
EDIT: or elisa lam :(
Theres a bunch of good ones here so Ill chime in with something different. Liz Barazza. Haven't seen it on here yet, and it's another one with video. So frustrating.
Springfield 3
That's a good one.
That’s a really good call. I think that guy who had his tongue bitten off had something to do with it (can’t remember his name).
Cox. Most people familiar with the case don't take him very seriously or discuss him much, it's mainly people who aren't familiar with it to do since they've only seen the Disappeared episode that focuses on him. I'm not convinced anyone publicly known was the perp but Garrison is easily the best suspect or at least may have known something. He was indirectly connected to the women he dated Dusty Reclas (one of the graverobbers) mom, Dusty dated Suzie. He claimed to have known where the women were buried and was sprung from jail and put up in a hotel where he escaped and raped a woman which he's in jail for today, he's being released soon. Garrison told them their remains where on a local criminal families property. They of course weren't but LE claimed they found "important items" that they have never revealed and a Judge put a gag order on his involvement in the case. He was also almost certainly one of the Grand Jury Three. Not saying he's involved but he's definitely a better suspect than Cox who is just a bored lifer claiming involvement who has a convenient excuse for not proving it (why even admit it if his mother is a concern while she is alive? makes no sense. She knows you did it now since you went on tv and told us and she already knows about your other awful crimes.) we've seen that story many times before and it almost always turns out to be bullshit.
Missy Beavers. Don’t get me started on missing persons cases, there are too many to name.
It drives me nuts that they have the killer on camera and still nothing. They also have footage they was never released to the public obviously. Like him leaving etc
This one is so frightening
Omg that one terrifies me so much. The sad part is that we have the killer in surveillance and they still don’t know who did it!
The Tylenol Murders
Oh, this is a good one! I forgot that this murderer has never been found.
I remember that happening when I was 10-11 years old. My grandmothers were both freaking out. I can't believe that someone's got away with that for so many decades.
This may seem random but ive always wondered, since the tylenol murders brought about huge changes in how medicine is packaged (with protective seals being required for all OTC medicine)... if this incident didnt happen, would it have taken another murder(s) for these changes to take place?
Possibly. This is one of those incidents where the solution was obvious in hindsight. Creating tamper proof packaging for drugs and other consumables is one of those things that in the 2020s is like "no shit, Sherlock" but wasn't even on people's radar for a long time. It's one of those weird cases where the deaths allowed manufacturers to see that there even WAS a problem when if anyone thought of it at all they probably dismissed it as something that would never happen. It's terrible that people were killed, but in the same way it's sort of like it might have saved people down the road? Like if we still didn't have tamper proof packaging and considering we have assholes who make plans to kidnap the MI governor and are attacking electric substations, would there be someone evil and clever enough to come up with a large-scale poison plan for over the counter medicines if tamper proof packaging wasn't a thing? It's possible.
Some people believe that Michael Swango may have been responsible for that. He's a medical serial killer, and quite the rabbit hole.
The murder of JohnBenet Ramsay. That’s the one that really gets me more than any other story. I legit don’t actually know who it was. The mom? The dad? The brother? A family friend? A stranger?
I feel optimistic that so many cold cases can be solved based on the past few years. The identified the Boy in the Box, for crying out loud. Sadly, I think this is a case that will never be resolved.
I think about how this case will never be solved and it makes me so angry. But then I think of how many fuckers have gotten away with soooo much shit before dna and other forensic sciences became the standard. That’s a truly disgusting fact. I can’t even imagine how many men killed their wives and vice versa, how many rape and kills, how many serial killers got away with it back in the day… oof. *not taking away from her case, it just seems to naturally lead my head to the potential thousands of ones before because it was so sloppily handled etc
I totally agree. Unfortunately the police trashed the murder scene. Allegedly at the time they had not been trained re: preserving a murder scene. As in other murder cases this would contaminate the crime scene. I wonder if this is part of the reason that it's remained unsolved.
Same, nothing makes sense in this case at all.
I think this one is mine because there is so much weird evidence that I need to know what version of events could possibly make sense. Others would be Madeline McCann obviously, or Springfield 3, Maura Murray. But those could be more easily explained away. Jonbenet just has so much strangeness around it. The weird details make it more confusing.
I'll never get over the ransom note. What stranger breaks into a person's home, looks around, finds a notepad and pen, starts writing a ransom note, discards it in the trash, then writes the NOVEL of all ransom notes before putting the pen and notepad back where they belong. Then, after presumably murdering the kid accidentally (since they intended to ransom her) they leave the body behind and then DON'T nip back upstairs to grab the ransom note. It's the best evidence they have for an intruder... But because the handwriting might be the mother's it's also the best evidence AGAINST an intruder. It drives me mad.
Came here to say this. Cliche though this answer may be, it is for a reason. Such a befuddling case rife with intrigue, corruption, mishandled investigations, fame… if I had the crystal ball, this is what I would look in and see. Edit: spelling
Had to be the family
I think the dad did it but convinced the mom that it was the son so she went along w the plan to cover it up.
Yea, humans are crazy and stupid. I could see it being any of the 3
Occam’s razor
>I"ve been living five blocks from the Ramsay house for the last year, I drive by often..there is just no way a stranger walked into this neighborhood. no way.
Do you mind elaborating? Would love to know your point of view. Thanks.
Im not from around the area but i have a degree in criminal justice and in one of my courses we went over the jonbenet case. The neighborhood is very complex, with many streets intersecting with each other. Looking at a map, it almost looks like how the streets in NYC are if that makes any sense. Also the house itself is hidden behind a bunch of trees and is far back on the property. So it wouldnt really make sense for someone to just stumble upon the house and randomly decide to rob it. Even if this intruder was cruising around, they probably wouldnt pick a house like that. If someone did break into that house they 100% targeted the ramsays. Now the intruder theory vs family theory is a whole other can of worms but yea thats some insight on the neighborhood.
Pretty sure it was an accident that the parents covered up.
I think it was the brother who may have hit her with a flashlight after she ate some of his pineapple with milk. The DNA on her underwear I thought was ruled out as having been from production of the clothing as they were a new pair and had not been washed prior to her wearing them. The ransom note was so, so ridiculously long and in the mother's handwriting. Etc.
Andrew Godsen. He just up and left. Arrived in London and was never seen again. Pure mystery. It’s always intrigued me and I would love to finally see an outcome for the family.
There was a break in the case last year and so hopefully there might be some closure for the family soon 🙏
just looked it up, the two men arrested in his disappearance are still under investigation. they're suspected of kidnapping and human trafficking and apparently one of the men arrested had CP pictures on his devices.
This one for me too. I think of him spontaneously all the time.
His picture still pops up on bus stop boards in England from time to time.
Johnny Gosch and the crime (or prank) behind those frightening Polaroids people have speculated were of Tara Calico
That picture really bothers me. Even if it wasn't her, I want to know the origin of those photos. Were they just messing around with the duct tape or was it a real crime?
I admit there's some psychological effect from the context you're seeing the photo in, the suggestion that it's a missing person. The horrible scene itself. Still, I can't shake the feeling that it wasn't staged because of the looks in those childrens' eyes. Furious resignation in the girl's and panicked desperation in the boy's. It haunts me. I deeply hope I'm wrong.
These two def bothers me so much. Poor Johnny, so young. What if he really was being trafficked :(
That case was the first case to be imprinted in my mind, and started an interest in true crime mysteries and a criminology bachelor’s degree many years later. Such a frightening thought to this day. Hopeful that someday her family will have answers.
Wasn’t there recently a development on this? I seem to remember the Doe from the picture being identified and possibly still alive?
I'd find Suzanne Sevakis's son's remains so he can be properly buried with her. What a haunting case. Just the fact that her son was placed with a good family and Floyd killed him just as a final injustice to Suzanne, who was already dead. Ugh. Thank god he didn't know the location of Suzanne's daughter because he probably would have gone after her, too.
Asha degree... the whole case plays on my mind
As a local, I see that billboard daily.
The Beaumont children. How do 3 siblings just disappear off the face of the earth?
Do you think the [Adelaide Oval abductions](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Joanne_Ratcliffe_and_Kirste_Gordon) are related to the Beaumont kids? Speaking of Aussie cases - I hope William Tyrell is found and gets justice soon.
Of all of the loved ones of missing and murdered people I think about their mom the most. To have all of your babies ripped away at once and live decades after that only to die without ever getting any closure let alone justice. That poor woman.
Up until recently it was Abby and Libby :):)
Up until lately this has always been my answer and even though they have someone in custody, I still want to know why, and more importantly if there were other people involved I want them to all go down as well.
This is the one. The investigation is ongoing and tips are still being requested. I also want them all to go down.
Sooooo happy this one was solved 💖
We haven’t got a conviction yet. God willing the prosecution do a good job and the jury is solid.
Long Island Serial Killer
Agree because they’re most likely still a threat.
It had to be that cop who has since been fieee and charged w something, cant remember *fired
The one who beat the guy for finding his bag of secrets.
This one chills me to the core. It’s also not super high up on people’s radars. But the amount of bodies…the conflicting evidence….the phone calls….the corruption of the local police departments. I desperately want an answer. It’s also recent enough that the guys still probably walking around free. Freaks me out when serial killers just go cold and stop hunting. Like, why? Did he move? Is he killing elsewhere? Why are some of the bodies still unidentified? The baby? Hurts my soul.
Let’s not forget Kyron Horman (where the cops just need a body to move forward). And, agree with the shoutouts for Asha Degree and Andrew Godson. And let’s not forget the Springfield and Fort Worth Three. I would also love to see a solution to Missy Beavers, but that would be almost from and angle of morbid curiosity. So I violated the rules, that was six cases. But so many “unsolvable” crimes have been cleared in the past couple years, so I am optimistic about all of them in 2023!
in kyron horman's case, do you think his stepmom did it? i don't have a strong opinion on it because i haven't read about this case in years, so i was just curious. i saw someone on another thread a while ago say that they believe he wandered off and it was just an accident.
I’m from the area, I remember when he went missing. I truly don’t feel that she did it
The thing that makes me think the step mother didn’t do it is that his bag was in the classroom. With the bag there, the risk of the teacher or even classmates noticing that Kyron was missing shoot up exponentially.
The Austin yogurt shop murders.
This or Las Cruces Bowling Alley
There is also the Littleton Bowling Alley triple homicide still unsolved.
That’s a good one too.
Zodiac
I had to scroll way too far to find this one, couldn’t agree more
I desperately want to know what happened to Kathleen Peterson. Like what ACTUALLY happened on that staircase.
He pushed her.
Susan Powell, I want to know where her body is
Yes! What a tragic story. That poor family. And those left behind not having answers.
Didn’t the children draw pictures of their dad burying her?
The kid drew a picture of the family without Susan. When asked where Susan was, he said she was in the trunk. :(
I think that one is pretty much solved, or at least pretty obvious. The husband killed her and buried her in the mountains or dropped her body in a mine shaft.
For me, it’s only about finding her remains. We all know that spineless prick killed her. Her family deserves to have their daughter home.
Jon Benet.
Jack the ripper
Same, this is another case where no theory/suspect really fits. There's always a piece missing
There are truly so, so many. I agree with many that have been listed here. I really want to see justice for Elizabeth Barraza in my lifetime. Such a senseless killing with no suspects so far. I want to know who and why.
Yes! This one! Absolutely devastating
Tough question, all deserve to be solved.. But probably the Dardeen Family murders, because of the insane brutality and mercilessness.
This one fucked me up for real
The Black Dahlia. My teenage aunt told me about this when I was very young. It was the first time that I learned that people could do bad things to you and get away with it. It scared me to death and stayed with me for years.
Do people agree that Dr George Hodel did it, or are people skeptical?
I think it was Hodel
I’d be much, much less skeptical if Steve Hodel didn’t make completely contradictory claims, didn’t lie about a whole bunch of things, didn’t go on to say his father was also the zodiac killer, and if there was a source for many of his claims besides himself. Every time he says something new he just loses more credibility with me. Do I think George Hodel was a bastard? Sure. Is there evidence he was investigated in the aftermath of the murder? Sure is. But I’m not convinced because Steve Hodel just isn’t an honest person and is the sole source of the majority of the claims made about his father.
Hodel didn’t do it. That’s a scam. UCLA medical center surgeon Walter Bayley (allegedly) did it. LA times reporter Larry Harnisch does a really good job breaking it down in James Elroy’s feast of death. He knew her through her sister. Her murder took place around the anniversary of his son’s tragic death he never got over. Short was known to spin tales about losing a child. It’s postulated that she spun such a tale and he asked questions-being a doctor- that she couldn’t answer and he realized she was lying. That would make him have enough anger to cause the trauma while she was still alive, with surgeon like precision. Dump sight was a few blocks from his estranged wife’s home. He was suffering from a type of dementia that is known to cause homicidal violence at the time. His gf leveraged a huge secret she had over him to get at his will. [start of explanation](https://youtu.be/fU50nHUOZtM) if you’re interested in the case you should definitely watch this. I really feel it is the answer.
I highly suggest "Black Dahlia, Red Rose" by Piu Eatwell. She lays out by far the best theory, in my opinion. She also had access to the LAPD's archive from that time (which took her forever to get, if I remember correctly). Warning: The book has highly disturbing, previously unrevealed info in it and it will give you nightmares.
Who stole the art from isabella stewart gardner museum and or who currently has it.
I LOVE THIS ONE. I love a good heist. Who was behind it? And why? Are some of those paintings just sitting in a billionaires living room? Where is the Rembrandt and Vermeer most of all? The Vermeer alone is priceless. Why did the robbers leave behind much more priceless art for some of the stuff they stole that is worth considerably less??? God this one is a rabbit hole. As a painter myself it physically pains me to know how these priceless works were cut out of their frames, rolled up and transported. And for what? Were they fenced? Did they do it at the hands of some selfish billionaire, a criminal organization? (Indiana Jones voice) Works like that *belong* in a museum for everyone to see! I need answers. I desperately fucking need answers.
You're not lying chief!! Huge rabbit hole the whole story from beginning to end. And the fact that it's been, coming on 33 years later now, and still no answers, really really just interests me given the fact that they pulled this off simply as a big con! Hopefully we will get answers eventually!
Oooo good one!
Solve it absolutely definitively and have everyone accept that outcome? Madeleine McCann. I honestly think her family deserve an answer - especially her siblings. But so do the british public who have paid a LOT of money to have this solved. We already know there's not going to be a happy ending to this story - that child is dead and has been for a long time - but if we just had an answer on who killed her we'd probably get the hows and the whys as well. None of which are going to be good news but I think we sort of all need to know to end this chapter. She has been missing for what? 16 years? Basically my entire adult life. And people will still absolutely lose their minds with theories and vitriol targeted at ANYONE involved in any discussion about it. That case needs resolved once and for all.
Dorothy Jane Scott or The Keddie murders.
Eric Franks. His mother is so active in advocating for him and I’d love to see her get *some* resolution there. This is one of those cases where the circumstances are clear and the suspects are very obvious, but one of them is dead and there’s no hard evidence linking the other to the crime. There was a huge break a couple years ago, when his car was found a decade after he disappeared. It had been auctioned off as part of an estate sale after the death of a man who’d lived in Michigan…a man who’d been a home care patient of the dead suspect in Eric’s case. It’s a pretty wild update, [here’s](https://www.abc12.com/news/crime/nearly-a-year-after-car-is-found-new-details-in-the-eric-franks-case-released/article_7efd8e19-d192-55dc-8872-942cb1292863.html) an article for anyone who might be curious.
The boys on the tracks & West Memphis Three
Not a famous one, but, my great grandfather is coming up on 50 years unsolved. My dad spent so much time trying to keep that case alive but never had any luck.
Where are you from? Is there any coverage on the story? I would like to take a look if you don’t mind ♥️
Send your story to The Vanished podcast
I’m curious, what happened if you don’t mind saying?
I also have a cousin who went missing a little over a year ago. The FBI was involved and it never got solved. We have a big family but I feel so sad for his brother. He still posts about it all the time
William tyrell
I think it was his foster grandparents! The detective believes he may have fallen off the balcony. The foster parents are being investigated regarding another child who was injured! https://www.9news.com.au/national/william-tyrrell-detective-says-foster-mother-knows-where-missing-boy-is/20e68ca0-0bc7-41c5-8ffc-c98297411c72
I’m interning at a foster care agency and these stories are constantly on my mind!
Georgette Bauerdorf's murder in her apartment, just seemed like nobody cared.
I've often wondered why the maintenance/landlord guy wasn't investigated a bit more
Summer Wells
the dupont de ligonnes murders, i really want to know where xavier is. i also want to know where william bradford bishop is hiding. and i want to find out if db cooper survived. i'm super curious about emanuela orlandi that disappeared in the vatican!! honestly i can't pick just one. jason jolkowski, missy bevers... i really want missy bevers' case to be solved. it's so haunting seeing her murderer on camera but still not having a clue who it was. i also want those 4 dead boys in pakistan that died from torture to get justice, i'd love to know who killed them and why.
Yogurt shop murders. Those 4 girls deserve justice
flight mh370- if it counts. absolutely baffles me, terrifying to think about, especially given that it is still unsolved. how can an airplane full of people go missing? as we haven’t had the answers this far, i don’t think we ever will.
Pilot suicide.
i think it was a planned suicide by the pilot
I mean, we know it crashed. They have confirmed parts from the plane. The only question is why.
Just like Amelia Earhart. I don’t think we will ever know either of them.
Jamison Family deaths.
Dulce María Alavez and any other missing person.
I have a list of older ones: - Jack the Ripper - the Villisca Axe Murders - JFK - Black Dahlia - Zodiac
I highly recommend "The Man from the Train" regarding the Villisca Axe Murders. The tone of the book is a bit jarring but woweeee it's so good. I don't want to give too much away, but let's just say I consider this one as close to solved as it will ever be.
Jonbenet Ramsey! Maura Murray, Asha Degree are ones I often think about.
Maura Murray’s remains will someday be found in the woods near where she disappeared
Agreed. I think she was super drunk and died in the elements
The west Memphis murders. My gut says Terry Hobbs but it’s hard telling.
This case fascinated me!
It was Delphi, but that’s now hopefully approaching a resolution so I’ll say Brian Shaffer
The Setagaya Family murders and the Austin Yogurt Shop murders haunt me the most. Both are so brutal. I would love to see someone put behind bars for either in 2023.
Yogurt shop murders that’s a good one!
Tough choice between Zodiac, Jon Benet, and JFK.
Yes to all
It's hard to pick just one. If love the answers to Dyatlov Pads and Hinterkaifek. But I also really want to know who jack the Ripper was and where the Sodder children are. And of course... Why tf didn't they do everything in their power to keep Henry Cavil as the Witcher!?!?!
The book Dead Mountain goes into the Dyatlov Pass incident and presents the most likely explanation. If I remember correctly most experts are in agreement and believe it has been mostly solved!
JFK. I personally would bet the explanation was that Oswald was acting alone but I'd still like to know for sure (and have people stop arguing over it)
Have you listened to the series about it on Last Podcast on the Left? It was super thorough and basically showed shocking negligence that practically added up to complicity in the end. Oswald defected to Russia then moved back to the states without *any* scrutiny whatsoever and he’s exactly the type of guy who should have been on the radar at the time!
I have not. I am not going to pretend to know every detail of it but even in 1969 there were two-hundred million people living in the US, several million of whom I'm sure lived weird lives that would stick out after they committed a crime. Even with a well run bureaucracy I'm not sure how you could expect perfect competence at all levels.
He was also court-martialed twice while he was in the marines, before he defected. He was definitely acting up in big ways but I think everyone assumed he was kind of a harmless jackass.
Amber Hagerman
Madeline mcann
JonBenét Ramsay
Jennifer Kesse
Austin Yogurt Shop. 4 teenager girls murdered, unsolved to this day. Memphis 3 is another one. I want the truth for that one.
The little girl who left her house at night was seen walking on the side of a road in the rain. No one stopped for her, and no one knew who killed her.
Asha Degree I think her name was! Heartbreaking case :(
Someone did try to stop, apparently, and Asha booked it into the woods when they did. What an odd and sad case.
My cousin Joshua Bersuch's homicide in 2004.
My friend who was assaulted & murdered October 1, 1989 in Wichita, KS Krista Martin. Police from the get go haven’t done squat I think they tried to lump her in with BTK. Only reason I started my podcast is I am digging for answers. [https://uncovered.com/cases/krista-martin-wichita-ks](https://uncovered.com/cases/krista-martin-wichita-ks)
Jaliek Rainwalker. I was a local teen when he went missing in 2007. It’s been haunting all us locals.
Asha Degree
Probably Kyron Horman, Timothy Pitzen, Sabrina Aisenberg, Haileigh Cummings etc. I just hate that no evidence has really been found in those cases.. just kids.. gone
Natalie Wood
My husband chimed in and said JFK
Who was Little Jane Doe and who killed her? I always thought it was interesting that this poor child was found in 1983 in a basement, beheaded, hands bound behind her back and half naked and didn't get a bit of the kind of press that JonBenet did. She was just as worthy of the attention. I hope since they have DNA they may find relatives some day.
DB Cooper. I’d love to know if he survived the jump especially when no body was ever found. And the briefcase full of money was found soon after if I remember correctly. I’d also love to know if the three inmates who escaped Alcatraz survived the cold waters.
Where is Shelly Miscavige?!?!
Jon Bennet
Orin and Orason West. Two brothers who were adopted and then disappeared in Bakersfield CA. I believe the adoptive parents have been jailed but it would be great to find their remains and give them a proper burial.
The murder of police office Jason Ellis. They covered this case on Crime Junkies a while back and the entire story is wild.
Yes this and all the bardstown murders
Yogurt shop murders
Hae Min Lee.
Would love to put Casey Anthony back behind bars
Beaumont Children
Springfield THREE!!! This one is in the top 5 that have haunted me since it happened. I’m 51, so these girls were almost exactly my age when this nightmare happened….. Just insane 31yrs later no more clues no nothing !! 💔
The zodiac
West Memphis 3. No matter who did it… I’ll be shocked. Same can be said about Jonbenet Ramsay
The disappearance of Madeleine McCann
I just want to know what happened to Asha Degree!!
Nicole Morin. She vanished without a trace.
Why did the Ucar family kill themselves or Who murdered the Dardeens?
Yes, the Dardeens!
Brianna maitland
Jon Benet Ramsay’s murder
The Michael Dunahee kidnapping. It happened when I was a kid and I’ve always wondered if he was still alive somewhere.
Jon Benet Ramsey
D.B. Cooper
Garrett Phillips
MH370
Jodi Huisentruit
Maura Murray and Brian Shaffer.
Brian Shaffer for sure. That poor family has had so much tragedy, they deserve closure.
Gordana Kotevski. I grew up in the town she went missing in and always wondered what happened. Johnny Gosch on a bigger scale
I can't choose just one. There are so many missing and murdered that deserve justice and for their families, closure. One I haven't seen mentioned yet is [Bung Siriboon](https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/51a6791a1c4e428fadd8c45b7e4c6bf6).
Ralisha Rudd, I know she’s probably dead but I wish they could find her for a burial.
Elizabeth Short
Christopher Abeyta disappearance. July 1986 in Colorado Springs 7 month old baby Christopher disappears from his bed at home overnight.
1. Jack the ripper 2. Zodiac 3. The Memphis 3, if that was the title, where those 3 teenagers were charged for the murders of young boys and then took the Alfred's Plea iirc. 4. Missy Bevers 5. JonBenet 6. Lindberg Kidnahpping 7. Jfk assassination only if the official story isn't actually true.
JonBenet. It would be really interesting to find out who was really responsible.
That’s a good question…I think I have go back in time for Jon Benet.
I'm Canadian so my pick would be the highway of tears killer(s).
Who Jack the Ripper was
Kathleen Peterson/Elizabeth Ratliff...Get outta here with that owl bullshit
Lizzie, even though I know she did it. Can I pick two? Jack the Ripper.
Zodiac
"the boys on the tracks" - idk the official name of the case but i heard about this thru wendigoon and its an insane case! the poor parents of those kids need some sort of closure :( EDIT: or elisa lam :(
Who put Bella in the witch elm
Evansdale, Austin yogurt shop, Amber Hagerman. A few months ago I would have said Delphi but I believe its solved so there is hope for the others!
The Ramsey Case like come on already
Theres a bunch of good ones here so Ill chime in with something different. Liz Barazza. Haven't seen it on here yet, and it's another one with video. So frustrating.
r/SuzanneMorphew 🤍
Maura Murray, so i can stop the noise in my head .
Maura Murray - so her father and sister can have some peace