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The Three Missing Women case in Springfield, Missouri, from 1992 is a big deal in those parts. Two of them had just graduated from high school the day before. Calling it my favorite seems weird, but it certainly is a bizarre mystery.
 
Endlessly curious about the JFK assassination and who else was involved. And hard to argue with DB Cooper.

One that has caught my interest is if Pat Garrett really killed Billy the Kid, or if The Kid survived and lived to old age.

Some theories have Butch Cassidy making it out of Boliva alive, but I'm not sure I buy into that one.
 
My hometown had a murder mystery that was solved after 5 years.

It gained some prominence because the murderer-- a guy I knew, and who my brother played softball with -- confessed in AA.

He had drunkly murdered the couple who lived in his childhood home. He was never a suspect, and, in fact, suspicion fell on the couple's own son.

Carpenter Guilty of Manslaughter in 1988 Slayings in Larchmont
 
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The podcast thread got me started to "Listening Sideways" which is different unsolved mysteries each week. So many I had never heard of.
 
The Burger Chef murders (Google it) in Indy are still unsolved; four employees kidnapped, killed and dumped in rural woods south of the city. All the local medias rehashed the mystery for 25th and 30th anniversary stories. Just strikes me as somewhat remarkable that it's never been solved.
 
Wikipedia isn't the most credible source, of course, but they have a page that links to hundreds of stories of unsolved disappearances going back thousands of years. One could spend several days reading them.
 
justgladtobehere said:
Dahmer doesn't make sense considering his other victims.
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Might not make sense, but I don't think there's a lot of "unsolved mystery" there. He was caught red-handed when a potential victim ran naked out of his apartment and flagged down the cops.
 
Baron Scicluna said:
Ken Rex McElroy, the Missouri town bully who was killed in front of 45 witnesses, with nobody coming forward to say who shot him because he was allegedly such as asshole.

The book and movie "In Broad Daylight" was based on the case.

In Broad Daylight - Wikipedia
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In my college days, there were two guys on my dorm floor from Skidmore. They absolutely refused to talk about this, and believe me we tried real hard to get them drunk enough to spill the beans to no avail. It really is an odd, odd case.
 
MUTigers said:
In my college days, there were two guys on my dorm floor from Skidmore. They absolutely refused to talk about this, and believe me we tried real hard to get them drunk enough to spill the beans to no avail. It really is an odd, odd case.
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One other fun story, possibly apocryphal, was how one time, McElroy was in a bar trying to bully elderly patrons to give him their social security checks. Also in the bar was pro wrestler Harley Race, who,legitimately was one of the toughest in the business. Supposedly, Race got pissed off seeing McElroy bullying the old men, so he went up to him and knocked him off the bar stool. McElroy recognized Race (who was also known for carrying a gun to ward off overzealous fans who thought wrestling was real), knew his reputation, and went away without the seniors' checks.
 
The Hoffa thing is really weird in that guys like frank sheeran (the irishman) and others made death bed or late life admissions of their role in his death. Has that happened with JFK? I'm not aware bc I don't think it's much of a mystery. Oswald acted alone IMHO.
 
swingline said:
Damned if "Unsolved Mysteries" isn't on Lifetime right now. With Dennis Farina as the host. I'm pretty sure he's dead -- and they never even investigate that on the show! Suspicious ...
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Also, the original Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack is on Amazon Prime now.

I'm a true crime junkie, so I have a lot of pet cases.

Maura Murray (21-year-old girl who told several lies, drove up into New Hampshire and crashed her car. No trace has been found of her since)
Ghost Blimp (2 guys in the Navy flew an airship around the San Francisco bay. It crashed with no one on board)
Springfield Three
Danny Casolero and the Octopus
Ray Gricar

One of the most baffling ones was Blair Adams. He was acting erratically in the days leading up to his death, bought a ticket to Germany, tried to drive across the border from Canada to the US, but was denied because they thought he was a drug trafficker. So he exchanged his ticket, got into the US, flew to DC, rented a car, drove to Knoxville, TN and was found dead from a ruptured stomach the next day.

If you'd like to sleep with the lights on a few nights, read up on the Original Night Stalker (not Richard Ramirez). Creeper raped women and then would call them weeks/years later and leave CREEEEEEEEEEPY voice messages on their answering machines.

Also, is Andy Kaufman dead?
 
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