So, in an attempt to reassure each other that society can protect its innocent members from the vile ones, Reddit usershave been sharingcreepy and puzzling mysteries that were eventually cracked.
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In Pennsylvania there was an urban legend of a thing called “The green man” or Charlie no-face". For many years people would say they had seen this weird human like creature wandering through the streets at night. It had no face, and had green skin.After sighting became more and more common, some people started investigating. That was when they discovered Raymond “Ray” Robinson, the man behind the urban legend. Due to an accident with a power line, he became severely deformed. Because the way he looked people would cause panic whatever place he’d go. His only choice was to walk at night. He was so scary that, more than one time, people tried to hit him with their cars, thinking they had found the famous monster “Green Man"Search his name and you will understand why people were scared of him.
The Body in Room 348.This is another one I’ve posted about, but it’s such a good mystery. Really, don’t read my summary -go for the article.A man is found dead in his hotel room. He enjoys drinking and eating less than healthy and has been a lifelong smoker. It looks like natural causes from a lifestyle that caught up with him. He was found lying on the floor as if staggering for the door.The autopsy says otherwise. He’s got a laceration in his sm and it’s bruised and swollen as if he’d been given a hard kick. There’s bruising in his groin that rises up through his hips and abdomen. Inside, his organs are bruised and lacerated. It looks like he was brutally beaten. However, his hotel room was normal, except, ya know, for his corpse. Nothing out of order, no blood, no signs of anything foul.Case goes cold. A new detective is brought in, one known for solving the unsolvable. He sits down with the medical examiner to go over autopsy photos and such. Then, he figures it out. The man had been shot. Through his sm. That was the laceration and the wrinkled skin folded to obscure the bullet hole. The bullet had traveled up through his body causing the other injuries.So, who did it?There had been a group of men in the room next door and one of them pulls out a gun and starts playing with it. It went off, firing through the wall into the victim’s room where it hit him. The men used toothpaste to fill the bullet hole, which had been through a part of the wall that wasn’t easy to notice.
I grew up in Nashville, TN in the 1970s. Terrible crimes were rare.The disappearance of 9yo Marcia Trimble.She was delivering Girl Scout cookies a couple of doors down from her home and vanished.The case was strange from the beginning, and went unsolved for 33 years.I called my older sister when I heard the news and we both just cried even though it had been so long ago. We had friends close to the case and my folks were friends with the police chief at the time. The entire city felt the same way; we all felt she was one of us, and that’s what made the whole thing so scary and sad.There were several suspects, and many theories of the case, but none ever panned out.It turns out a local man had murdered a Vanderbilt student and raped a Belmont student just days before killing Marcia Trimble. He was arrested in March for those crimes and was imprisoned. He eventually confessed to Marcia’s murder to other inmates who turned him in.Her parents both died before her case was solved.
The McStay family disappearance & murder. I’m going to f**k it up if I fully explain but the short version is a family of four is found missing, nothing disturbed in their home, it looked like they just up and left. A search is performed and their car is found near the Mexico border. Border surveillance is checked and a family of four who resembles them (on grainy video) is found so everyone thinks they were running away from something/one. A few years later, someone off roading in the California desert stumbles upon their remains. After digging deeper into the family’s relationships, they arrest the business partner of the slain father of the family. And if I’m not mistaken, the trial is just starting or has been postponed to start very soon.
This one’s pretty widely known on Reddit, but Lori Erica Ruff.Short version is that she was a Texas mother and wife whose past was shrouded in mystery from her husband and in-laws, who suspected she was hiding something and felt that she was lying about her age (she appeared older than she was claiming to be). Her behavior became increasingly erratic, and her husband filed for divorce. She killed herself on Christmas Eve 2010, after which her in-laws went through her private belongings and found a birth certificate for a Becky Sue Turner and documents requesting a name change from Becky Sue Turner to Lori Kennedy (her maiden name).It was discovered that Becky Turner had actually died in a fire at the age of 2 in the 70s. From what people were able to dig up, “Lori” had somehow obtained Becky’s birth certificate and used it to petition a name change for herself to Lori Kennedy. Investigators were able to find only a few people who knew her before she married her husband.Her identity was finally discovered in 2016 thanks to forensic DNA evidence and Social Security records–she was Kimberly McLean, a Pennsylvania woman who had run away as a teenager. We still don’t know what she was up to in the two years between when she left Pennsylvania and when the next sightings of her show up in California two years later.I’m probably messing up the details of the story. It’s an interesting one, though.
I remember being pretty terrified after I read a bunch of stuff about Albert Fish, aka The Gray Man.He killed, tortured and ate a bunch of people in the early 20th Century.He would send obscene letters to the police, the victims families and random women, baffling police for years.
Dr Harold Shipman.A family General Practitioner that made unsolicited house calls on his patients, some with no physical ailments. He would murder them,alter their medical records, then sign their death certificates stating natural causes and organising their cremation to cover his tracks.
This one stuck with me since I saw one of those Identification Discovery shows detailing the story. It’s not as much of a mystery as some cases, since it didn’t make national or international news while being solved. But I’m damn sure it was a clusterfuck of a mystery for people that knew this couple and police investigating it.Police were called to a hotel because a man jumped to his death. He had a lonnnng suicide note in his pocket, and it said something to the effect of “I’m ending my life because I’m so sorry for the one I took.” (super paraphrased here)So police went to his address and found crazy rantings spray painted on the wall including “look in the oven.” Oh, what did they find in the oven, you wonder? It’s body parts belonging to his girlfriend. Her head was in a pot on the stove, and some of her was in the fridge. He strangled her, dismembered her, and cooked her. Supposedly, he wasn’t planning to eat her, he was trying to get rid of evidence until his conscience caught up with him.The couple was Zach Bowen and Addie Hall who had met in New Orleans and weathered Hurricane Katrina together and stayed in the area after the storm. If you google them, you can find a picture that made it into some sort of magazine or newspaper that was a little fluff piece showing young lovebirds dealing with Katrina aftermath.Apparently Zach Bowen had spent time in the military and had a wife he was separated from. Zach and Addie bartended together and drank a lot. Some people said Addie was a nasty drunk that could be abusive. Also there were rumors that they were doing a lot of cocaine. The substance abuse issues and the possibility that Zach may have had undiagnosed mental issues after his military experience are the theories for possible motive of the crime.Edit - I just posted this as a reply to a comment, and wanted to add it here because it adds to how interesting and insane this case is.Also on the show I saw, they had a friend of theirs giving an interview just kind of giving her opinions on their character and how it was super shocking and batshit crazy for this to happen.The friend was Margaret Sanchez and she herself wound up pleading guilty to manslaughter in an unrelated case. She and her boyfriend apparently stabbed and dismembered an exotic dancer. Margaret’s boyfriend, Terry Speaks, was found guilty of second-degree murder, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice. The victim’s name in that case was Jaren Lockhart.The story for that one is that the couple was at a gentleman’s club and offered Jaren Lockhart money to come back to their place for a private party. They stabbed her, dismembered her, and she washed up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.In the couple articles I skimmed, I couldn’t find a motive for this.
Claremont killings.3 women in the late 90s all disappeared from the same suburb in Perth. It was well known and a lot of people stopped going out. Then he just stopped.Well a few years back they actually caught him. And he’s the most unassuming person you’ll ever see. Ran his Little Athletics club, was quite popular. I know people who know him through sport and to say they were stunned was an understatement.They finally charged him with the third murder not long ago.
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Charlie Brandt. He & his wife stayed at her nieces house in Orlando, Florida, because of Hurricane Ivan.3 days later, Charlie is found hanging in the garage, his wife stabbed to death and the niece had been decapitated & her heart removed.Very freaky story, with lots of twists. Turns out Charlie had murdered his 8 month pregnant Mom & attempted to kill his Dad & sister as a child .Dr’s could not figure wtf was wrong with him, or how to even label it- I believe he was 12 at the time. He served no jail time & his records were sealed.Another twist! He grew up to become a serial killer too. Married and lived a semi normal life with his wife - or so everyone thought. While apparently obsessing over his wife’s niece.Think 48 hours did an episode & it can be found on Youtube.
Walking rocks of Death Valley. Intriguing, with a great explanation and no ETs involved.
Jacey Dugard. everyone expected that she had been taken and was long dead. The real story is honestly far worse than that. She’s such an incredible person.
I’ve posted this before I think on the same question or similar,The Cleveland house of horrors,3 kidnapped girls found alive that were kidnapped after 10 years.
Similar to Jaycee Dugard, is the Shawn Hornbeck story.I remember reading details, when he was found, that while he was missing Shawn posted a message to his family through the Internet asking how long they planned to look for their son.I think it was his dad that answered back (thinking it was just a cruel comment). “We will never stop looking.”.
I believe they worked out that Amelia Earhart had crashed somewhere but survived for a good while. Rescue never came…. THAT is nasty. Dying alone and helpless waiting for help that never arrives.
Ted f***g Bundy.go watch the Ted Bundy movie…. holy st.. this guy was something else… and women loved him.
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