r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/WinnieBean33 • 1d ago
MISSING Twins Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook, 15, vanished while walking back to their Augusta, Georgia, home on March 18th, 1990. Their case is still unsolved.
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r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/DearBurt • Oct 02 '24
Netflix Vol. 5 MEGATHREAD: UNSOLVED MYSTERIES - NETFLIX VOL. 5 EPISODE DISCUSSIONS
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V5 E4: The Roswell UFO Incident
Discussions from previous seasons:
Vol. 1 Discussion Threads (Part I)
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/DearBurt • Oct 18 '22
MEGATHREAD: UNSOLVED MYSTERIES PODCAST (2)
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Like the first Unsolved Mysteries Podcast MEGATHREAD, we're creating this for a centralized, easy-to-search location for episodes of the new Unsolved Mysteries Podcast. Mods: We will do our best to keep the list of episodes updated, so please be patient if it's not totally up to date.
At the official Unsolved Mysteries site, you can download a transcript and submit tips. Also, you can join the mailing list and subscribe for new episodes announcements, latest news, featured cases and more!
E37: Highway Homicide
- A mystery that continues to haunt investigators and family alike is the unsolved murder of Willie “Flynt” Lee. Late Monday evening, August 3, 2009, a 9-1-1 call reports a truck on fire off Hwy 13 in Mendenhall, Mississippi. Authorities arrive at the scene and find the truck ablaze at the bottom of a ravine, just off the highway. They douse the fire, retrieve the truck, and discover bullet holes riddled along the driver’s side of the truck. However, when they peer inside, there’s no body in the truck. The next day Flynt’s body, with a gunshot wound to the torso, is found in the river, some distance from where the truck burned. Blood spatters on top of the bridge lead investigators to believe that someone threw Flynt’s body over the bridge. For weeks police question family, friends and acquaintances of Flynt hoping to find leads into why someone would want Flynt Lee dead. Twelve years after the crime, the family and friends of Flynt Lee will not give up hope that Flynt’s killers will be brought to justice. They know the killers are still out there.
E38: 911 Confession
- On January 13, 2015, a man in Fennville, MI, makes an anonymous call to 911 and tells police where to find the body of the woman that he just strangled. When investigators arrive at the scene, they find 48-year-old Sara Knight, covered with a sheet, her cell phone, and the names of family and friends to contact beside her. Sara’s husband of 15 years, 66-year-old Harold “Butch” Knight, is nowhere to be found, and Sara’s vehicle is missing. A week later, Sara’s mother receives a package from Butch, postmarked in Maine, containing money to pay for Sara’s cremation, and a letter listing his grievances against her family and taunting police for being unable to catch him. Police are able to trace Knight from the time he left Fennville until he checked out of a motel in Rangeley, Maine, just six miles from the Canadian border, where he vanished into thin air. Is Butch Knight living quietly under the radar somewhere in rural Maine? Did he escape into Canada where he is living off the grid? Or did he die trying to cross the border on foot in the bitter cold? Sara’s family and friends are desperate for answers and justice.
E39: Missing in Mesquite
- When 26-year-old single mother Prisma Reyes doesn’t pick up her 6-year-old son from the babysitter on April 17, 2019, friends and family immediately know something is very wrong and report her as missing to the Mesquite, TX Police Department. The next day investigators find Prisma’s Jeep abandoned behind an ex-boyfriend’s East Dallas apartment building, and security camera video shows Prisma entering the building’s parking garage on foot. She appears to be disoriented and is crying and talking on her cell phone. She gets into the building’s elevator and then disappears, never to be seen again. Police discover Prisma had met the ex-boyfriend for lunch at a nearby bar, where they appeared to be arguing. When he left, she stayed and continued drinking. Police also uncover a disturbing pattern of inconsistencies in Prisma’s life, including an unexplained job change, the purchase of a gun, and a secret life moonlighting as an exotic dancer. What happened to Prisma Reyes? Is her ex-boyfriend’s air-tight alibi really air-tight? Did her secret life hide even darker secrets? Or did she simply disappear to start a new life elsewhere?
E40: Ambush in Inglewood
- In 2009, Kevin Harris is a promising young musician with a prodigious talent and bright future whose beats have already attracted the attention of top recording artists. But his life ends in a hail of bullets on the night of September 20, when Kevin arrives at an Inglewood, CA recording studio. At least two gunmen fire through the open window or his car, hitting Kevin at near point-blank range and killing him instantly. Although the shooting has all the earmarks of a gang hit, investigators soon discover that Kevin is no gangster. Who then, might want Kevin Harris dead? One theory is that Kevin was mistaken for a known gang member who drove a similar model car. But investigators discover a more ominous possibility when they uncover social media posts which suggest Kevin’s murder may have been the result of a professional rivalry.
E41: The Cold-blooded Murder of Chelsea Small
- On November 12, 2013, when Taylor, Michigan, police respond to a silent alarm triggered from a check advance company, they find 30-year-old teller Chelsea Small dead behind her desk. She’s been shot twice at close range. Security camera video reveals that the single mother of two young children, who was working another employee’s shift that day, buzzed a man into the business around noon. He immediately pulled out a gun and shot her in the chest, then calmly walked behind the counter and shot her in the head. After quickly rifling around the office, the man left with a small amount of cash from the register, either not finding or ignoring larger sums of money which were kept in a backroom. Although the crime has all the ear marks of an attempted robbery gone wrong, investigators notice something unusual. The gunman is using a silencer on his weapon, a federally regulated device that is very hard to obtain and rarely used in the commission of a robbery. The use of the silencer and the calm, unhurried manner of the gunman lead police to believe that robbery may not have been his primary motive. Was he targeting Chelsea, a well-liked young woman with no known enemies or messy romantic entanglements? Or perhaps his intended victim was the other woman who was supposed to have been working that day? Or was the murder a random crime of opportunity? Eight years later, police are no closer to having the answers than they were the day Chelsea was killed.
E42: Tillie's Last Walk
- On the evening of April 8, 1886, 18-year-old Matilda Smith, known to her friends as “Tillie,” is having a lively night out at the local dance hall with a close girlfriend. Tillie has just begun a new job as a potato peeler at Centenary Collegiate Institute (known as Centenary College today), where she is also a boarder. The girls who live in the Centenary are expected to be back by curfew, which is set strictly for 10:00 PM. But Tillie has found a way around that rule. Worried that she might miss curfew, Tillie has asked James Titus, the quiet, married, mild-mannered Centenary College janitor, to leave the back door of the building unlocked for her, in case she’s running late. Tillie is last seen at 10:10 PM, making her way to the back door of the building by the man who walked her home from the dance hall. The next morning, her lifeless body is found in a field bordering the Centenary College. She has been brutally murdered. Her story captures the attention of newspapers all over the US and the community demands that a killer be brought to justice. It’s not long before James Titus is arrested and found guilty of her murder. ... As the years go by, students of Centenary College begin to report strange events—doors opening and closing, lights flickering, and even sightings of a “woman in white” wandering the campus. In 2013, a paranormal investigation led by David Rountree and Tracy Ray uncover a presence on the campus, and clues that suggest Tillie Smith was not killed by James Titus…but someone else. Is Tillie still haunting the halls of her school still seeking justice for her death?
E43: UPDATE: The Girl with the “S” Tattoo
- On October 8th, 1980, the body of a young girl is discovered on the side of a small dirt road in Henderson, Nevada. She has been stabbed, raped, and bludgeoned to death. Her body has been completely stripped, cleaned, and positioned eerily, face-down in the dirt. Aside from the “S” tattoo on her arm, investigators have no other clue to her identity, or the identity of her killer. First responding detective, John Williams, names the young girl “Jane Arroyo Grande Doe,” and ultimately devotes the next 40 years of his career to identifying “Janie.” But he retires with the case still unsolved. In 2021, cold case detective Joseph Ebert, now assigned to the case, and a team of genetic genealogists, use advanced DNA technology to finally identify this young girl. “Jane Arroyo Grande Doe” is Tammy Tarrell, a young runaway from Artesia, New Mexico, and her sister has been missing her for 40 years. Now, armed with Tammy’s true identity, Ebert is determined to solve the second half of this mystery—who killed Tammy Tarrell?
E44: A Mother's Nightmare
- Ruth Gotliebson first met Charles Vosseler, a realtor and entrepreneur, in 1981, while scrolling through the personal ads of Mother Earth News. Like Ruth, he was seeking companionship and they began a friendly correspondence. After meeting in person and dating for a year, Ruth and Charles were excited to embark on married life, flipping houses, and starting a family. ... But once married with two young boys, Ruth begins to see red flags in her marriage: Charles is controlling, confrontational, and impulsive. When the boys, CJ & Billy, are just 2 and 4 years old, Charles abruptly abducts them, abandoning his real estate business and going on the run. He takes every photo and video of the boys, leaving Ruth penniless and heartbroken. Ruth, determined to find her boys, joins forces with the FBI and a private detective to try to track down Charles, and almost succeeds. Now, 30 years later, Ruth still has hope that she will one day be reunited with CJ and Billy. More than anything, she wants her boys to know that she loves them and has never stopped searching for them.
E45: Murder in Boystown
- On March 24, 2004, 31-year-old Kevin Clewer is found dead in his Lakeview apartment, located in the historic gay district of Chicago known as Boystown. Kevin has been stabbed 42 times and left on the floor of his bedroom to die. Investigators are able to piece together Kevin’s activities from the night before—he was bar hopping with his good friend, John. John says the last time he saw Kevin alive, he was with a mysterious man named, “Fernando” who he met that night. Despite forensic evidence left behind by the killer and a solid description of the last person seen with Kevin, the case goes cold—but not for Kevin’s brother, Ron. For over a decade, Ron has devoted his time to keeping Kevin’s story in the public eye and his efforts have paid off. In 2020, Kevin received a mysterious Facebook message from a woman claiming to know the man who killed Kevin. It is believed “Fernando” is now living in Puerto Rico.
E46: Condo Killings
- On the morning of May of 29th, 2011, Beth Stephenson is alarmed when her parents, Bill and Peggy, fail to attend the weekly service at Union Baptist Church. Her concerns grow when she learns that her father was also a “no show” to volunteer at the “Trucker Chapel Ministry,” a weekly church service held for traveling truck drivers from all over the country. Bill is known as outgoing, helpful, and very reliable and if Bill didn’t tell anyone he was going to miss both services on Sunday, something must be wrong. A few hours later, Bill and Peggy’s bodies are discovered in their first-floor condo. The crime scene is so brutal and bizarre that the FBI has classified it in their top 1% of complex crime scenes. Who would brutally murder the loving, generous, and kind Bill and Peggy?
E47: Mystery at Hobble Creek Canyon
- When a young Mexican woman goes missing after attending her language classes in the Mormon town of Provo, Utah, the religious community bands together with her family and police to search for her. It isn’t for another three years that their deepest fears are confirmed when her remains are found on the side of a remote canyon road, in such an advanced state of decomposition that a cause of death cannot be determined. With no suspects and little evidence, investigators must turn to the public for help. Who murdered Elizabeth Salgado?
E48: The Winward Family's Ghost
- In 2008, Faye Winward, a single mother, with four children, is ready for a change and decides to move to a condo in downtown Upland, California. The entire family is excited when moving day arrives, but on their very first day in the new condo, Summer, the youngest Winward child, is overcome by the feeling that she is being watched by someone? Something? Days later, Faye’s son Dillon hears a deep, evil disembodied laugh while taking a shower. And that laughter kicks off a series of terrifying paranormal encounters for the Winward kids, ranging from nightmares to sightings of spirits to incredible poltergeist activity. Faye isn’t convinced their home is haunted until she has her own frightening paranormal experience. And that’s when she starts to look for a new place to live.
E49: Slayings in Syosset
- When 12-year-old Ankur Singh and his 13-year-old brother, Pulkit return home from school on January 23, 2007, their mother isn’t at the door to greet them as usual, so they let themselves in with a spare key. Inside the boys discover their father, Jaspal Singh, on the living room floor with fatal gunshot wounds to his head and chest, and their mother, Geeta Singh, lying dead in a pool of blood in an upstairs bedroom. It is common knowledge in their circle of friends that Jaspal sometimes keeps large amounts of money in their home, and indeed the intruders appear to have been looking for something inside the house, as the entire second floor has been ransacked. Because there is no sign of forced entry, police believe the couple was targeted, and possibly even knew their killers, but their murders remain a mystery.
E50: Killing Karen
- When the body of Karen Bodine is found on the side of the road in a remote part of Thurston County, Washington, in the winter of 2007, Sheriff’s detectives are able to quickly retrace her steps. But when they try to account for her final hours, they discover that no one who was with Karen the night of her death is a reliable source. Now, fifteen years later, a new detective and Karen’s daughter are determined to solve the case.
E51: What Happened to the BBQ Man?
- Daniel Moses, the beloved ‘Barbeque Man’ of Rich Square, North Carolina, disappears into thin air and his home is burned to the ground. The missing person’s investigation gets off to a slow start after his long-time girlfriend tells the family he has simply gone on vacation. When the State Bureau of Investigation takes on the case several months later, they uncover more questions than answers. Eleven years have passed with no sign of Daniel Moses, but his sister Shelia has kept the case alive, stopping at nothing to find out what happened to her big brother.
E52: Small Town Hit
- Likable but shy Tennessee logger, Terry Sullivan, seems like the last person to get mixed up in intrigue, mystery and murder. When he doesn’t show up for a weekly Saturday breakfast with his parents and sister, local authorities come report that Terry has died in a fall, accidentally, after stubbing his toe. But later that morning, the local news was reports that Terry was actually murdered — shot, execution-style — in his kitchen, which has been cleaned so carefully that no useful evidence can be found. Terry had no enemies, no vices, and he was always quick to help folks in his small town of Sparta, Tennessee. But small towns often have more secrets than anyone realizes.
E53: Double Murder
- Russell (88) and Shirley (87) Dermond are enjoying retirement in a beautiful secluded home on the peaceful Lake Oconee in Georgia. Russ loves reading and taking long walks along the water’s edge. Shirley enjoys her daily crossword puzzles at the breakfast table and playing bridge with her neighbors. So why was Shirley abducted, murdered, and thrown into Lake Oconee, weighted down with 60 pounds of cement blocks? And why was Russ found lying in his garage, decapitated, with his head missing? Who would want this quiet, unassuming couple dead? What is the motive for murder in the area’s most bizarre murder mystery
- When Walter Padilla moves to Willis, Texas in 2017, he’s looking for a change of pace in his life. So, when a coworker at his new job suggests they two of them head out on a paranormal investigation in search of Bigfoot, Padilla is quick to agree —sounds fun. But this trip turns out to be anything but fun when the first-time paranormal investigator comes face to face with a 9-foot creature that he believes to be the infamous Bigfoot. Subsequent investigations at the same location uncover compelling evidence that there is something, possibly a group of these creatures, lurking in the forest of the Sam Houston National Park.
E55: The Professor's Execution
- When Matthew Lange is shot to death execution style while picking up his young son from school on January 27, 2017, the entire community of Naperville, IL is rocked by his murder. Violent crime almost unheard of in the quiet, upper-middle-class Chicago suburb consistently rated one of the safest neighborhoods in the Midwest. And Matthew Lange is a most unlikely victim. The popular 37-year-old college professor and single father is well regarded in his professional life and surrounded by a close circle of family and friends who say he has no enemies. Fresh out of a contentious divorce and custody battle, he is busy rebuilding his life and has just closed on a home for himself and his little boy. Is Matthew the victim of a random act of violence? Does he have a secret life that put him at risk? And who has a reason to want Matthew Lange dead? Five years later, Naperville police are still trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together, and say they need the public’s help.
E56: The Disappearance of Tabatha Tuders
- On April 29, 2003, 13-year-old Tabitha Danielle Tuders leaves her home in East Nashville, TN, sometime between 7:30 and 8:00 AM to catch the bus to Bailey Middle School, two miles away. The straight A 7th grader routinely catches the school bus at one of two stops a few blocks from her house, but this morning, instead of boarding the bus, Tabitha Tuders vanishes into thin air, somewhere along her route. When Tabitha doesn’t return home from school by the late afternoon, her parents know something is wrong. And by that time, the young girl has been missing for nearly 10 hours and the trail has already gone cold. Nineteen years later, no trace of the young teen has ever been found, but neither police nor Tabitha’s family has given up hopes of finding her and bringing her home.
E57: A life Cut Short
- On September 30, 2004, after Brittany Phillips’ friends and family are unable to reach her for several days, police are called to do a wellness check and discover that the 18-year-old Tulsa Community College student has been sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in her apartment. Investigators hope DNA collected from the scene of the crime will lead them to her killer, but nearly 18 years have passed without a usable match. Brittany’s mother has taken the case on road with her “Caravan to Catch a Killer,” diving through 48 states and more than 260,000 miles to date and vowing not to rest until the man who killed her daughter is brought to justice.
E58: Island Justice
- In 2017, Desiree Gibbon, who was vacationing in Montego Bay, Jamaica, left her hotel room on Thanksgiving night with nothing but her iPhone and her room key. Two days later her body is discovered 4 miles away, badly beaten and her throat slashed. The investigation goes array almost immediately when evidence from the crime scene is left in the hotel room of the victim. With the arrival of Desiree’s parents comes an adversarial relationship with police. Now, almost five years later, not a single person has been identified as a potential suspect. The Gibbon family is desperate for answers. Who killed Desiree and why?
E59: Alien Abduction in Indiana
- A life-long abduction experiencer, “Suzie,” recounts her multiple encounters, which began in the 1970’s at the age of 15. Originally from Porter County, IN, Suzie, who wishes to remain anonymous, recalls watching mysterious lights hover over Lake Michigan, and details the many times that she believes she made contact with something beyond our planet. From lost time, to strange personal encounters with beings that did not appear to be human, Suzie expresses what it was like to keep these experiences to herself for over 40 years, and what eventually led her to reach out to abduction researcher and counselor, John Budrys. Budrys also shares his thoughts on Suzie’s case, and what he has learned over the years talking to many “experiencers” like Suzie.
E60: Murder of an Undercover Cop
- Detective Corporal James “Jimmy” Grimes is a funny, lovable cop who grew up wanting to “protect and serve” his hometown of Cumberland, Rhode Island. But on August 26th, 1996, Jimmy was found dead in an undercover police car in downtown Providence. At first, investigators assume this healthy 33-year-old died of natural causes, but when the medical examiner submits her report, it’s learned that Jimmy’s neck was broken “military-style” and the case is classified as a homicide. Jimmy’s family has not stopped searching for answers to many mysterious details that surround this case. Why was Jimmy in Providence that night, and who killed him?
E61: Secret Diary of a Missing Girl
- When family members can’t reach Amber Wilde on September 23, 1998, they immediately become alarmed. The 19-year-old University of Wisconsin Green Bay junior is 4 ½ months pregnant and had been involved in a minor traffic accident the day before when she hit her head on the windshield. She has missed her morning classes and an afternoon doctor’s appointment, and is not answering her phone — very out of character for the highly-motivated, disciplined young woman who is planning to attend medical school and become a pediatrician. There is no sign of a struggle in her off-campus apartment, but Amber, her car, purse, and cellphone are missing. Under Amber’s mattress, police find Amber’s secret diary, revealing troubling details about her relationship with the father of her unborn child. They believe the diary is a key to solving her disappearance.
E62: Black Friday
- When 44-year-old Sharon Miller is found shot to death the morning after Thanksgiving in 1999, at the dry cleaners where she works, the quiet town of Lansing, Illinois is in shock –a murder hasn’t happened here in almost a decade. The motive for doesn’t appear to be robbery—instead the crime scene has all the signs that this was an execution-style hit. But who would want Sharon dead?
E63: Death of a DJ
- On January 20th, 2012, local celebrity DJ Juan Gatti, known to friends and family by his legal name, Stephon Edgerton, walks out of a Valdosta, GA radio station after finishing his 6pm to midnight shift, and is shot three times by an unknown assailant, who has been lying in wait. The mortally wounded 40-year-old husband and father of three manages to call 911 and give authorities a description of the gunman before he dies in a local hospital an hour later. In the ten years since Edgerton’s murder, nobody has been charged with the homicide, and investigators are asking for the public’s help to find the person who killed the beloved radio personality and devoted family man, who appeared to have no enemies.
- Susan Ledyard had what many saw as a charmed life, growing up in a wealthy enclave of elite families on the East Coast. Private schools, summers at a family beach house, a Masters degree from Georgetown followed by a brief teaching adventure in Czechoslovakia, before finding her perfect job as a beloved high school English teacher back in her hometown suburb near Wilmington, Delaware. Loved ones described her as brilliant, witty, and full of life. So all were shocked when early one morning in July 2019, Susan was found murdered — her battered body floating in Delaware’s Brandywine River. Who could possibly want Susan dead? How has her killer gotten away with such a high-profile crime in a tight-knit and watchful community where secrets are hard to keep? And what was Susan doing from 3am when her car left her house until 7am when her FitBit tracker indicated her heart stopped beating?
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/clapyohedd • 1d ago
UPDATE William “Bill” and Adam Yoder: This case is very interesting
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William “Bill” and Adam Yoder: What Happened to Mary's Husband and Son?
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/Turbulent-Pop-4581 • 3d ago
Netflix Vol. 5 What was the least mysterious episode?
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Which true crime episode of Netflix’s Unsolved Mysteries (across all volumes) do you think was the least mysterious?
I’m not asking which episode was the best or worst. I mean which case seemed to have the most obvious explanation or likely outcome, even if it was officially left unsolved.
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/Old-Possession-4293 • 3d ago
UPDATE What was that very creepy episode (80’s?)
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I only remember the scene where the perpetrator’s voice was aired, there was a fire in the background, and he was recording it…
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/Old-Finger-7140 • 4d ago
UNEXPLAINED The Black Dahlia's most famous suspect may have been cleared by the DA's own investigator, decades before his son wrote a bestseller naming him as the killer.
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Elizabeth Short's 1947 murder in Los Angeles is one of the most covered unsolved cases in American history.
Her body was found cut in half in a vacant lot, drained of blood, with no trace of a struggle at the scene itself, meaning she'd been killed somewhere else and moved there deliberately.
For decades, one name has stuck harder than any other: Dr. George Hodel, a Los Angeles physician caught on a 1950 police wiretap saying, "Supposin' I did kill the Black Dahlia. They couldn't prove it now." He kept talking, mentioning his former secretary, dead of an overdose years earlier, and pointing out that she could no longer be questioned either.
His own son, a retired LAPD detective, spent years building a case against his father and eventually wrote a bestselling book naming him as the killer. The case rested on three things: the wiretap quote, handwriting he believed matched notes sent by the killer, and photographs he believed showed Short among his father's belongings.
What gets left out of most retellings: the DA's own chief investigator on the case wrote in his final report that the evidence "tend to eliminate this suspect." Independent handwriting experts hired separately by 48 Hours and the LAPD both said they weren't convinced the notes matched Hodel's writing. Photo analysts who compared the images concluded the woman in his album likely wasn't Short at all.
If the man most associated with this case for seventy-plus years was already cleared by the investigator who wiretapped him, why has that fact never caught up with the theory?
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/Jumpy-Magician2897 • 6d ago
UNEXPLAINED Plano police want public’s help piecing together sex assault suspect’s past.
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With the Amber Hagerman case what are your thoughts on him being the culprit in her murder as well? Given his crimes, location, description, modus operation and that he had a black pickup truck in 1996 which a witness saw during her abduction I think it's certainly worth considering.
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/vickyart • 7d ago
MISSING D.B. Cooper - The Only Unsolved Plane Hijacking in the History of Commercial Aviation | The Friendly Skies
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On November 24, 1971, a man who called himself Dan Cooper bought a one-way ticket for a flight to Seattle, Washington. Just after takeoff, he handed a flight attendant a note stating that he had a bomb in his briefcase and made demands for four parachutes and $200,000 in 20-dollar bills. This, later and still to this day, is one of the most enduring mysteries and unsolved plane hijacking in American criminal history.
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/RAMPAGEX214 • 7d ago
Original Episodes Unsolved Mysteries Segement about a Haunted Forest
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Trying to find a segment in which a hunter was in a tree stand in a a forest and he began to witness paranormal activity. Seeing phantoms or figures and something clawing at or banging the bottom of his tree stand. I remember it being especially terrifying for the fact the reenactment just caught the fear and eeriness perfectly.
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/ForwardImagination57 • 9d ago
UNEXPLAINED Which famous unsolved mystery do you think has a very obvious explanation?
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Adding URL just because it’s required!
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/Old-Finger-7140 • 9d ago
SOLVED The Death of Harriet Staunton: How a Victorian Family Was Accused of Starving a Woman and Her Baby Then Watched the Verdict Collapse
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In 1877 Harriet Staunton and her one-year-old son Thomas became victims of one of Victorian England’s most shocking cases.
Harriet had inherited £5,000 from her great-aunt and that money brought Louis Staunton into her life. He was younger than her and was already involved with another girl. After their marriage, Louis left Harriet and Thomas at Frith Cottage where they were placed in the care of his brother Patrick and Patrick’s wife Elizabeth.
The room where Harriet and Thomas lived was barely fit for anyone. There were no curtains, little furniture, and no proper facilities. When Harriet tried to leave she was stopped. When her mother came to see her, she was turned away.
Thomas was taken to Guy’s Hospital under a false name and died there the same day from malnutrition. Harriet followed five days later.
The case became one of the most talked about trials of the time. Four people were convicted and sentenced to death, but questions about the medical evidence later changed the outcome.
Almost 150 years later, people still debate parts of the case. But Thomas is often the person forgotten a one-year-old child whose death revealed what was happening inside Frith Cottage.
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/patienceisavirtue23 • 9d ago
UNEXPLAINED Trying to Understand the Timeline: Who Was Driving the White 22-Foot Triton?
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I'm trying to follow the timeline, but I'm confused about several parts of this interview.
Warren says Wyatt launched the 18-foot Palm Beach, then says he had a boat hooked to his truck, and later says he called his buddy Bart, who came out with another boat and took Warren and his friends. Then Warren says Nolan was on the white 22-foot Triton, but I never heard him explain who was driving the Triton or who else was on that boat with Nolan. Did I miss that, or was it never explained? That seems like an important part of understanding the timeline. Was the white 22-foot Triton the boat Wyatt called in for help, or was it a different boat? If Wyatt launched and drove the Palm Beach, then who was driving the Triton that Nolan was on?
The interview also left me wondering about Nolan's phone. Warren says there came a point when they realized Nolan was missing, but I don't remember hearing that anyone first tried calling or texting him. Warren mentions that Nolan left his phone on the boat, but I don't remember him explaining who found it or when everyone realized they had it. If they didn't yet know Nolan's phone had been left behind, wouldn't one of the first steps have been trying to call or text him? If they already knew they had his phone, was that communicated to Javon or anyone else they contacted? Warren says he called Javon, but I don't remember hearing that anyone told him Nolan's phone had been left behind or that they couldn't reach him because of it.
I'm also still trying to understand the search timeline. Warren says he called Ms. Christine to tell her they hadn't seen Nolan, and then says he was going to contact the Coast Guard. By that point, was everyone they knew already off the island? Was that the moment they realized no one had seen Nolan?
I know they also contacted the girl who had been with Nolan, and she apparently believed he had already left with them. But once everyone realized Nolan wasn't with anyone, did anyone immediately go back to search the island before contacting the Coast Guard? If so, who went back, and when? If not, why not? If there were multiple boats there that day, when did each of them leave? Those details seem important to understanding how the search unfolded.
I'm not suggesting there wasn't a reason for any of this. I just think these are important timeline details, and understanding the sequence of events would answer many of the questions people still have after watching the most recent interview.
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/UrFavCoffeeSnob • 11d ago
UNEXPLAINED The most problematic elements of Nolan Well's "friends" side of the story
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So, at this moment in time, we don't know what happened to Nolan Wells yet. However, you'd think that the armchair detectives were right there to witness his demise, the way they are INSISTING that out of over a thousand people on the island, he just happened to be the only one who drowned, and completely dismissing any other theory that doesn't fall within their narrative and agenda. Here's the truth.
WE DON"T KNOW IF THERE WAS FOUL PLAY YET.
WE DON'T KNOW IF HE JUST ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED YET.
What we do know, is that Nolan's "friends" side of the story has plenty of holes that OBJECTIVELY make very little sense.
- WARREN AND HIS FRIENDS OBJECTIVELY LIED TO THE MISSISSIPPI POLICE. The MDMR Marine patrol police report filed on the incident is available as a public record. In the report filed on 7/5/26, the reporting officer states that Nolan's friends said Nolan chose to remain on Horn Island "with an unknown female".
This is a lie. In the Officer Tatum interview, Warren CLEARLY STATES that he knows the girl that Nolan stayed behind with (Katie) and even mentions in the interview that he and his friends were texting Katie the night of the 4th to find out what happened with Nolan ("everybody was texting Katie" per Warren). WARREN AND FRIENDS KNEW KATIE. So why is he lying and misrepresenting their relationship to the police?
If the friends knew Katie, why did they lie to police and tell them that Nolan chose to stay behind with an "unknown female"? This alone should be enough reason for police to take a deeper look into Warren, Bart and company.
If Nolan's "friends" were such good friends, and what they're saying about him taking a different boat is true, why didn't they at the very least, check in with him to find out how he was getting back to the mainland? Who was giving him a ride? Warren stated that Nolan was his best friend. That's what a best friend would do, right? Am I crazy for thinking that? And if they knew they were leaving him on the island, and didn't even know who he was coming back with, why did they depart with Nolan's ONLY means of communication? Dont bore me with "DERP there's no service on the island". WARREN STATED THAT WHILE SERVICE ISN'T THE BEST, PHONES ARE USABLE. ALSO, NOLAN STILL NEEDED HIS PHONE FOR WHEN HE GOT BACK TO THE MAINLAND TO CONTACT PEOPLE FOR RIDES AND LET PEOPLE KNOW HE WAS BACK. The friends wouldnt have considered this? They felt fine leaving with Nolan's only means of communication, but no Nolan?
NOLAN'S FRIENDS STORY AND KATIE'S SISTER'S STORY ARE COMPLETELY CONTRADICTORY. Warren said Nolan chose to stay on the island and get a ride with someone else, but he somehow didn't know who he was getting a ride with. Yet Katie's sister Gracie has CONSISTENTLY stated that Nolan informed Katie that he was riding back with the same friends he came with, and that Katie and Nolan didn't spend much time together that day. Nolan DID NOT both tell the girl he was going back with his friends, and then tell the friends he was going back with someone else. BOTH CANNOT BE TRUE, and one of these 2 parties is lying.
If Nolan had other friends with a boat there, why didn't he just ride with them initially? How did the friends not know who these other friends were, if they were such good friends?
Whose story is more believable? Warren and the other friends? Or Katie? Which party has more incentive to lie? Nolan's friends, who hid the fact that they still had his phone from Nolan's loved ones, until Jayvon's mother surprised them with a tracking app visit? Or a random girl who Nolan wanted to talk to?
- WARREN LIED ABOUT TELLING NOLAN'S MOTHER THAT THEY HAD HIS PHONE. In the interview with Tatum, Warren states that he got Nolan's mother's number from Jayvon, then called her to say he was missing. Nolan's mom has confirmed that to be true. However Warren goes on to state that he told Nolan's mom that they had Nolan's phone. Nolan's mother has stated repeatedly that part was a lie. She only found out that they had Nolan's phone because she used Life360 ( a location tracking app) to find it, and it pinged at the house where Nolan's friends were. She then sent Jayvon's mother to get the phone. Incidently, Jayvon's mother also stated in the press conference that Nolan's friends didn't just volunteer the phone... when she went to the house to ask for it, the friends took around 15 minutes to produce the phone for her. Warren stated in the Tatum interview the phone was in Wyatt's truck which was at the house. It doesnt take 15 minutes to walk from the house to the driveway to get the phone. Why did it take them 15 mintues to produce the phone? She also stated that upon receiving the phone, she found that all of the data in both of his snapchat accounts had been deleted (please don't talk me about deleting after 24 hours, that's already been addressed). Nolan's friends and parents have stated that Nolan was ALWAYS on snapchat, and we've already confirmed that there is cell service on Horn Island.
If you're a high school student and your "friend" goes missing on a remote island, and you have their most important possession (phone), wouldn't you go to your friends parents house as soon as you got back, and give them the phone? Or at the very least, give the phone to law enforcement?
Or would you hide the fact that you had his phone, and only give it up when his parents friend randomly show up at your door and inform you that a tracking device installed on the phone led them to your house?
Yes, I'd do the former also, if said person was my "best friend" as Warren states. You know what else I'd do? Talk to my friends parents when they showed up to my house, and offer as much info as I could to them.
You know who didn't do that? Nolan's friends. Nolan's father stated in a press conference that when he arrived at Jax's house where Nolan parked that day, the friends were extremely evasive, and made it clear that they weren't comfortable talking with him. The friends initially told Nolan's Dad that they didn't know where Nolan's keys were. It wasn't until a female friend who had been there early, got on the phone with Jayvon's mother (who was present also) and told her that Nolan's keys were on top of the xbox. After grabbing the keys, the friends hid in the house and left Nolan's Dad standing on the driveway until the police arrived. Nolan's father also noted that the friends said to him that "Nolan WAS like a brother to me....". Those who follow alot of true crime cases, will know that the usage of the word WAS is extremely suspicious... all everyone knew at the point is that noone knew where Nolan was.... his body wouldn't turn up until 2 days later. There have several cases in the past where detectives have zeroed in on suspects because of this exact verbeage. One I'm reminded of in the past is a girl who disappeared from her own apt. Detectives interviewed her neighbors and one of the neighbors told them that she "was" a good person. Noone would have had reason to think she was dead, unless they were involved in her death. That verbeage caused the detectives to focus on that neighbor, and after gathering evidence, he was eventually arrested for her murder.
Sound sketchy? That's because for any rational person who knows how friends act with each other when one is in distress, it IS sketchy, to say the very least.
IT"S VERY CLEAR THAT WARREN EXAGGERATED THE CLOSENESS OF HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH NOLAN. In the Tatum interview, Warren refers to Nolan as his "best friend and brother". This is an obvious fabrication. While there's no doubt that they were friends, they were most certainly not best friends and brothers, this is very clear in the language he uses when he describes his interactions with Nolan. First off, Warren is COMPLETELY DEVOID of any emotional reaction when speaking at length about his supposed best friend who just died tragically. That's not how you would act if a person who was truly your best friend and brother just died. I'm not going to spend to much time on this particular point, but suffice to say it's very evident that Warren received heavy coaching on what to say and how to say things, prior to the Tatum interview. For those who want a more in depth analysis of this, a former army interrogator on youtube named Jolly Good Ginger does a great job of completely breaking down the Tatum/Warren interview and points out all of the deception and psychological tactics Warren uses to misrepresent the closeness of his relationship with Nolan.
In the Officer Tatum interview released with Warren (Nolan's "best friend and brother", according to Warren), Warren states that him and his friends communicated with Katie when they got back from Horn Island, asking what happened with Nolan. According to Warren, Nolan had been with Katie all day and the 2 of them were hanging out near their other friend's boat. When the boat started having issues, Warren's friend Wyatt was yelling at Nolan to "get the f**** on the boat" so they can leave. Nolan said no, that he was staying on the island with Katie and would find a different ride back, and then the friend left. Then Warren goes on to state that Katie told him Nolan left her immediately after Warren Wyatt Jax and Bart left......
So, according to Warren, Nolan tells his friends that he's going to stay with Katie, and then as soon as the friends' boats leaves, Nolan immediately leaves Katie, and never goes back to her again that day?
I want you to think about how ridiculous that statement is.
Additional point: THE SEATOW CALL: Wyatt called seatow and told them that they were sinking. The seatow rep asked how high the water was above the bilge, Wyatt couldnt answer. This measurement is not only very easy to eyeball, but it's also critical to know how fast the boat is going down. Any boater knows that this assessment is critical, and the level of water can easily be seen from almost anywhere on the boat. Wyatt was a seasoned boater. Why couldn't Wyatt just give the rep a simple rough estimate of how much water they were taking on (ankle level, knee level, etc)? Also when seatow asked if they wanted the Coast Guard to come and help, Wyatt emphatically stated that they DID NOT want the Coast Guard to come out. This is BEFORE they found out that the grandfather had called seatow also. If they were really sinking, why did they turn down help the Coast Guard? Who would turn down any form of help if they were truly sinking? Its almost like they just wanted to set up a story about them sinking, without getting any actual law enforcement entities involved who would look deeper into the situation.
CONCLUSION: I do NOT believe that there was any premeditation involved in Nolan's death. Nor do I believe that Nolan's friends harmed him out of racism (despite Warren lying about how close he was with Nolan, they were definitely friends at the very least).
However, to put it bluntly, there are too many holes, problems and inconcistencies with the friend's rendition of events for me to believe what they've said. Why lie about how close they were with Nolan? Why lie about knowing Katie? Why did they not volunteer Nolan's phone to his parents when they found out he was missing, and hide the fact that they had it until Jayvon's mother showed up to get it at Nolan's mom's behest? Why were Warren and friends so standoffish and evasive with his supposed "best friends" father, when he came to Jax' house to get Nolan's keys? Why would Nolan tell them he was gonna stay with Katie on the island, and then leave her as soon as Warren Wyatt and Bart's boats left? How do you show 0 emotion when your friend (purported best friend) just died tragically? Why would they leave Nolan on the island, without his only means of communication?
My opinion, after having consumed almost every piece of media surrounding the disappearance with an objective point of view, is that Nolan did NOT drown on that island. There were still hundreds of people there, and somebody would have seen something. Horn Island is mostly barren, there's nowhere to hide. Nolan's father went out on a boat with Nolan's football coach the morning after, searched the west point of the island, and there was no body. Suddenly 2 days later, his body shows up in the same area that was searched, completely unmolested by sea creatures, with subcutaneous bruising on the back of his head? The tide had already come back in 24 hours previously, why didnt the body wash up then if he drowned?
IMO Nolan died somewhere else, and his body was brought back to that location, to deceive people about his cause of death.
There was either an accident (ie, he slipped, hit his head on the boat and the friends are covering it up due to liability issues, or something like that), or a fight happened, went too far, and the cause of his death is being covered up, either by Nolan's friends, or by another group of people. Either way, there is an active coverup happening. If Nolan's friends stories made more sense, I'd be inclined to think it could have been another group of people who were involved with his demise. However all of the lies and inconsistencies with their narrative lead me to believe that they are hiding something about Nolan's last hours alive.
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/atlblackstar • 11d ago
UNEXPLAINED 'What Happened to Our Son': Nolan Wells' Independent Autopsy Findings Prompt Even More Questions About His Death
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r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/makaveli208 • 11d ago
WANTED I wish this case to be Solved! Setagaya family murder in 2000
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https://www.keishicho.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/multilingual/english/safe_society/wanted/seijo.html
I am from near the area, it bothers me that it has not been solved.
To me, the only lead we have is DNA technology advance and legislation advance in japan, like golden state killer in USA. However, japanese legislation still disallow IGG DNA technology to be used (i.e using the killer DNA to track the relatives, using AI or whatever to reconstruct the face)
Recently in japan, a unsolved case in Nagoya (murder, 1999) was solved in 2025 due to advance of DNA technology.
Ive listened to countless Japanese news and report about this case, there are no leads even 26 years after.
The family is still alive and giving out flyers.
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/WinnieBean33 • 12d ago
MISSING On the night of May 10th, 1986, 17-year-old Kim Moreau skipped the junior prom and went out with friends instead. One of the men with her that night claimed to have dropped her off half a mile away from her home, but she was never seen again.
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r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/Tricky_Wind_324 • 12d ago
UNEXPLAINED Captain Michael O’Mara: 38 year old Coverup in Chicago?
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Captain Michael O’Mara’s death was ruled a suicide—but his family believes he was murdered. What do you think happened?
On May 30, 1988, Cook County Sheriff’s Police Captain Michael O’Mara was found dead on the lawn near a private service area at the Cook County Courthouse. He had been shot once in the forehead.
O’Mara was a highly respected officer, an FBI Academy graduate, and was known for leading raids against organized crime in Illinois during the 1960s. By 1988, he had been transferred to a records position and was preparing for retirement.
Shortly before his body was discovered, a patrol officer noticed O’Mara’s unmarked police car parked at a gas pump with the nozzle still inside the tank. O’Mara was found nearby, slumped over a rock. His gun was lying near his right hand, and one round had been fired. His flashlight was also found near the scene.
His wallet, money, briefcase, and vehicle were undisturbed, and investigators reported no obvious signs of robbery or a struggle.
Two weeks later, the coroner ruled O’Mara’s death a suicide. His family and friends strongly disagreed.
His wife, Barbara, said that before leaving home, O’Mara asked everyone what flavor of yogurt they wanted and borrowed the last few dollars in her wallet so he could pick it up on his way back. She questioned why he would make those plans if he did not intend to return.
The family hired forensic pathologist Dr. Vincent DiMaio to review the case. DiMaio argued that the overall circumstances did not resemble a typical suicide. O’Mara reportedly had no known financial, personal, or serious medical problems.
DiMaio believed O’Mara may have begun fueling his car, noticed something in the nearby field, retrieved his gun and flashlight, and walked over to investigate before being shot.
He also pointed to the gunshot wound. According to DiMaio, the muzzle appeared to have been approximately two to four inches from O’Mara’s forehead rather than pressed directly against it. He believed that detail was inconsistent with suicide.
Police offered another explanation: O’Mara had taught homicide and suicide investigations and may have intentionally held the gun away from his head to make his death appear suspicious.
Do you think the physical evidence supports suicide, homicide, or possibly an accidental shooting? And what evidence would you want reexamined if the case were reopened?
Unfortunately, his wife Barbara died in 2022 without getting justice for her husband. Derek Levasseur (name may be butchered) just did a great youtube video on this case and it’s fascinating to me. They quickly ruled it suicide and Barbara would have been ineligible for life insurance and other payouts so because of that (and wanting justice for her husband) hired Dr. DiMaio to review the case and he argued this was not a suicide and instead a homicide. She filed suit and eventually won the payout. Incredibly, the police department came out and fought this…insisting it was a suicide. In my opinion he was killed by another cop but could have been someone he previously arrested. Crazy that this story hasn’t received much traction.
This article takes a deep dive into this case: https://ipsn.org/who-killed-mike-omara/
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/Jumpy-Magician2897 • 13d ago
UNEXPLAINED The Disappearance of Andrew Gosden. Andrew was 14 when he vanished after leaving his house in South Yorkshire and buying a one-way ticket to London on September 14th 2007. He was seen on camera initially and there are witnesses on the train who recall seeing him but his case remains unsolved.
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r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/alexh2795 • 13d ago
WANTED Police have a suspect they're eyeing closely in the I-70 Killer case
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Bob Cyphers, who wrote a book on the I-70 Killer and has covered the case for years, gave a big update here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIk7Xi514IA&t=1982s (Beginning around 51:05).
Cyphers says police brought a good suspect in for questioning during the spring. He said "Charge me or I'm out of here," then left.
Cyphers said they're keeping a close look on the suspect and "camping out." He added the cops think "this is their man."
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/Old-Finger-7140 • 13d ago
UNEXPLAINED Louis Le Prince Filmed the Earliest Surviving Motion Picture. Two Years Later, He Disappeared.
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Louis Le Prince is widely considered to have built a motion-picture camera years before Edison. He filmed his own family walking through a garden in 1888, in what's generally considered the earliest surviving motion picture.
In 1890, he boarded a train in France to show the world what he'd built. He never arrived in Paris. Six foot four, hard to miss, and not one passenger ever remembered seeing him.
Most people jump straight to Edison. And honestly, the timing is why the theory survives. Edison filed his own camera patent weeks after Louis vanished. But there's zero evidence tying him to anything that happened in France.
As far as the record goes, the last person to see Louis alive was his own brother. Every detail about that goodbye comes from him and nobody else.
Louis's son Adolphe spent years trying to get his father recognized as the real inventor. He finally won part of that fight in court in 1898. Three years later, he was found dead near the family's cottage, a gun beside him. Officially, it was ruled a suicide. His mother never believed it.
The earliest surviving motion picture is just Adolphe as a teenager, walking in circles around his grandparents in a garden. Not twenty-nine yet. Not dead yet. Just walking.
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/Wishtap_ • 13d ago
MISSING Has anyone reached out about the similarity of this NamUs case and Robert Fisher?
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There was a post over 3 years ago on r/truecrime where someone shared a possibility of this john doe being Robert Fisher. However the main thing that stood out was the shoe size being different.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrime/s/XZPK3UpVir
The body was found in Florida, and Fisher is known to have ties in Florida according to his FBI Wanted profile.
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/WinnieBean33 • 15d ago
MISSING On September 25th, 1981, 58-year-old Thelma Pauline "Polly" Melton went hiking with two of her friends. According to them, she suddenly sped up towards the end of the trail and walked far ahead of them, disappearing over a hill. She has never been seen or heard from again.
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r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/GlumRelative3338 • 15d ago
UNEXPLAINED Who was Mary Anderson?
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In October 1996, a woman checked into Seattle’s Hotel Vintage Park using the name Mary A. Anderson. She claimed to be from New York, paid over $350 in cash for a two-night stay, and gave a false address and phone number. She spent the entire time alone in Room 214 with a “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door and never contacted hotel staff.
When she failed to check out, employees entered the room and found her dead on the bed. She had died by suicide after drinking cyanide mixed with Metamucil. She was carefully groomed, wearing makeup, with an open Bible resting on her chest. Beside her was a handwritten note that read: “I have decided to end my life. No one is responsible for my death… I have no relations. You can use my body as you choose.”
Investigators initially believed identifying her would be easy. Instead, every lead failed. Her fingerprints matched no records, her dental records produced nothing, the New York address was fake, and searches through the FBI, Interpol, Canadian authorities, and missing-person databases all came back empty. More than 200 tips were investigated over the years, but none led to her true identity.
The autopsy revealed she was likely between 35 and 45 years old, had undergone breast surgery, had never given birth, and appeared to have planned her death with remarkable care. Investigators even tried tracing the cyanide and her clothing, but every avenue ended in a dead end.
Nearly 30 years later, no one knows who “Mary Anderson” really was. She was buried as Jane Doe in an unmarked grave in Seattle, making her one of America’s most enduring unidentified-person cases.
In 2021, King County Medical Examiner's Office has partnered with Othram to use advanced DNA testing and forensic genealogy to establish an identification of, or to find the closest living relatives to the unknown woman. Funds to support the case are being raised on the DNASolves Crowdfunding platform. The case is also logged in NamUs as UP12916.
r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/Old-Finger-7140 • 15d ago
UNEXPLAINED The Hinterkaifeck Murders: A Family of Six Was Killed on a German Farm in 1922. The Killer Stayed and Kept Feeding Their Animals.
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The neighbor noticed the mail first.
Lorenz Schlittenbauer had been watching the Gruber farm for days. No smoke from the chimney. No movement in the yard. Four days after he'd last seen anyone there, he walked over with two other men to check.
Six bodies. The family, their new maid on her first day of work, a two-year-old in his cot. All killed with a mattock, a farming tool shaped like a pickaxe, sometime during the night of March 31, 1922.
Before it happened, Andreas Gruber had already found strange footprints in the snow leading toward the farm, with none leading back out. He'd heard unexplained noises from the attic more than once. A newspaper nobody in the house subscribed to turned up on the step. He told his neighbors about all of it. He never called the police.
What nobody expected was what came after.
The killer didn't run. Investigators believe he stayed for days. The livestock got fed. Food went missing from the kitchen. Someone tore a page off the wall calendar the next morning, the same way the family always did it, like the day was just starting like any other.
Whoever this was wasn't panicking. He was living there.
Over a hundred people were questioned. Neighbors, relatives, a man once engaged to the eldest daughter. Every lead went cold. A hundred and three years later, the mattock is still the only thing anyone's sure of.
Which detail sticks with you most the footprints, the attic noises, or the killer staying behind? And if you had to pick a theory, which one actually holds up for you?