Cold cases

[Kaptain slow]

Anyone interested in or follow any police cold cases from around the world ?

Lots of websites ,YT channels etc on various well know investigations.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Jen...

This is a puzzling one. Seemed to have vanished into thin air ?!

[dukeboy749r]

Of all the ‘missing people’ reported annually and globally, what particularly attracted you to this case, may I ask?

[Kaptain slow]

dukeboy749r said:

Of all the ‘missing people’ reported annually and globally, what particularly attracted you to this case, may I ask?

It’s in the top ten mysterious disappearances on most sites ? Websleuths etc ? That’s how i became aware of it.

[Gareth1974]

Big list of them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_d...

[AllyM]

As a regular visitor to Nairn, this one fascinates me.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_do...

[Kaptain slow]

AllyM said:

As a regular visitor to Nairn, this one fascinates me.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_do...

Intriguing case for sure.

Read a weird suggestion that “Paul” on the envelope could mean “ Pay And U Live “ ?

Unlikely sounding tbh.

[Jim H]

Yup, that murder in Nairn has always fascinated me also.

This one is very strange, Peter Bergman.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bVOZ7YPOakI

And as for Larrs, the mind truly boggles..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2hGDz07w6Bg

[sutoka]

Northern Ireland as you can imagine has a lot of cold cases and some not related to the Troubles.

I remember this one vividly as I use to do a lot of photography and film work around the docks area from about 2004 until 2006.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmuo2x5H5qA

It's New Years Day 2006 in Belfast. 21 year old Martin Kelly is out with friends at a bar in the docklands area watching a game of football. Somehow his friends leave the bar without him – perhaps assuming he got into the other of the two taxi’s they were taking. They realized he wasn’t with them when they reached their destination. They called his phone- he answered and said he'd join them after finishing his pint. He never did.

They found nothing despite weeks of searches and still nothing after 16 years.

[Dynion Araf Uchaf]

Kaptain slow said:

Anyone interested in or follow any police cold cases from around the world ?

Lots of websites ,YT channels etc on various well know investigations.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Jen...

This is a puzzling one. Seemed to have vanished into thin air ?!

The police couldn’t interview the foreign labour being used to build a home opposite, of which there was evidence of sexual harassment of the missing woman, because they didn’t have an interpreter. It’s unsolved because lazy coppers….

[Google [bot]]

Very old, and the reverse of a disappearance but the Somerton Man case fascinates me

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case

[Google [bot]]

Dynion Araf Uchaf said:

The police couldn’t interview the foreign labour being used to build a home opposite, of which there was evidence of sexual harassment of the missing woman, because they didn’t have an interpreter. It’s unsolved because lazy coppers….

I thought the same, how hard can it be to get an interpreter in a murder investigation?

[S100HP]

Google [bot] said:

Very old, and the reverse of a disappearance but the Somerton Man case fascinates me

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case

That is fascinating.

[Dynion Araf Uchaf]

Google [bot] said:

I thought the same, how hard can it be to get an interpreter in a murder investigation?

If the lead investigator is 'sure' its the boyfriend, then I guess very hard.
I suspect a couple of officers were dispatched to the building site, made a half assed attempt at interviewing the foreign builders then wrote up in the report that none of them could speak English. It might be that the majority of the builders were involved in harmless cat calling, but there will be the quiet one at the back, studying her movements. Suspect the woman is buried in the building site somewhere, and the car was moved as a decoy.

I just need to join the police force....

[dundarach]

Really interesting some of these, many thanks for the links, I'm off down a rabbit hole for a while...

However, if we apply Occam's razor, most look pretty obvious, if still unsolved...

First girl, clearly murdered and dumped, I know that's not an answer, however not really mysterious.

Lars Mittank looks strange, however was probably adverse reaction to his pills, he'll be in a ditch somewhere.

Peter Bergmann's a good one, thanks!!

[Jim H]

Brian Shaffer is a bloody odd one too.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OW9RESb-JHE

[Kaptain slow]

I recommend websleuths if you are interested in any cases. Usually a thread on the majority of well known ones.

[Truckosaurus]

There is a multi-part documentary on one of the Sky catch-up channels about this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Mau...

Student crashes her car in rural New Hampshire and disappears in the few minutes between locals phoning the Police and the Police turning up....

Edited by Truckosaurus on Monday 31st January 13:55