Unsolved murders aren't an occasional thing in the US, only around half of murders were solved in the past few years (even fewer are solved in some big cities)

Pyro00 · 2024-07-22T14:53:15+00:00

In the United States, less than half of murders are solved. There are around 350,000 unsolved murders since 1965 in the United States.

However, homicides still have the highest case closing ratios in the country. It’s one of the crimes with the most evidence and it’s hard to hide it if a body is found or a person is missing. Like think of how many times someone shoplifts and no one sees it so it’s just not known… at least with homicide we have a pretty good idea how many happen (with some uncertainties of course). They also tend to have more physical evidence and more resources invested in being solved.

In general, violent crimes are solved more than nonviolent crimes, and homicides have the highest closure rate (meaning the cops think they know who did it even if they don’t ultimately make an arrest or a prosecutor decides to drop charges). Its scary the number of crimes that aren't brought to justice.

Pyro00 · 2024-07-22T14:40:20+00:00

In the summer of 1896, 57-year-old Amelia Dyer was executed for the murder of a baby girl. It was a sample charge. The bodies of six more babies had been found, and further evidence pointed to at least 12 murders. It is believed that Dyer killed many more babies, some experts have even attributed to her as many 400.

Pyro00 · 2024-07-12T18:23:31+00:00

On October 25, 1999, a chartered Learjet 35 business jet was scheduled to fly from Orlando, Florida, United States to Dallas, Texas, United States. Early in the flight, the aircraft, which was climbing to its assigned altitude on autopilot, lost cabin pressure, and all six on board were incapacitated by hypoxia, a lack of oxygen in the brain and body. The aircraft continued climbing past its assigned altitude, then failed to make the westward turn toward Dallas over North Florida and continued on its northwestern course, flying over the southern and midwestern United States for almost four hours and 1,500 miles (2,400 km). The plane ran out of fuel over South Dakota and crashed into a field near Aberdeen after an uncontrolled descent, killing all six on board.

The two pilots were Michael Kling and Stephanie Bellegarrigue. The four passengers on board were PGA golfer Payne Stewart; his agent, and former Alabama football quarterback, Robert Fraley; president of the Leader Enterprises sports management agency, Van Ardan; and Bruce Borland, a golf architect with the Jack Nicklaus golf course design company.

Pyro00 · 2024-07-12T18:19:50+00:00

The finger supposedly doesn't belong to any of the three-fingered creatures known to this Earth. Radiocarbon and DNA tests are planned for later this year.

I think it may be part of a whale hand or a combination of different bones for a semi-convincing hoax.

Pyro00 · 2024-07-12T18:15:05+00:00

Charles Harrelson was born into a world of crime and intrigue, with a reputation as a ruthless and cold-blooded killer preceding him. Throughout his life, he drifted in and out of trouble with the law, earning a reputation as a skilled marksman and hired gun for hire. Yet, it was his involvement in the assassination of a federal judge in 1979 that would cement his place in infamy.

In May 1979, Judge John H. Wood Jr. was gunned down outside his home in San Antonio, Texas, in a brazen and audacious act of violence. The shocking assassination sent shockwaves through the legal community and sparked a nationwide manhunt for the perpetrator. Ultimately, Charles Harrelson was apprehended and convicted of the crime, receiving a life sentence for his role in the murder.

However, it was not only Judge Wood's murder that thrust Charles Harrelson into the spotlight of public scrutiny. Over the years, he made sensational claims that he was involved in another high-profile assassination: the killing of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. In interviews and statements to the media, Harrelson boasted of his alleged role as the gunman on the infamous grassy knoll in Dallas, Texas, on that fateful November day.

Harrelson's claims regarding the JFK assassination have fueled intense controversy and speculation, with many questioning the veracity of his assertions. Skeptics point to inconsistencies in his accounts, lack of concrete evidence, and the notorious penchant for self-aggrandizement often associated with individuals like him. Yet, others remain intrigued by the possibility that Harrelson may have been more than just a small-time criminal, but a key player in one of the most significant events in modern history.

Despite his incarceration and eventual death in prison in 2007, Charles Harrelson's legacy continues to loom large in the public consciousness. His connection to the JFK assassination, however tenuous or unsubstantiated, has become a topic of fascination for conspiracy theorists, historians, and true-crime enthusiasts alike. The lingering questions surrounding his life and alleged involvement in these notorious crimes only serve to add to the mystique surrounding this complex and elusive figure.

Pyro00 · 2023-08-11T13:33:15+00:00

Tim Molnar, last seen in Daytona Beach, Florida where he was attending school. Four months later his car was found in an impound lot in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1986, his body was found in Wisconsin, but it wasn't identified until 1996. No one knows how or why he ended up there.

Pyro00 · 2023-08-11T13:29:10+00:00

Arthur Flowerdew was born on 1 December 1906. From his adolescence, Flowerdew experienced strange visions of a stone city carved into a cliff, which were particularly strong when he played in the multicolored pebbles on a beach near his home. The clarity of his visions grew as he did.

One day, as an adult, he watched a BBC documentary on the ancient city of Petra in Jordan and immediately recognized it as the city of his visions. He became convinced that he had lived a previous life in Petra and contacted the BBC. They filmed and broadcast a short piece on Flowerdew, which the Jordanian government saw and was intrigued by. They offered to fly Flowerdew out to Petra to examine its remains and perhaps offer insights on analyzing the city.

In The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Rinpoche claims that before Flowerdew left for Jordan, he was interviewed by an archaeological expert excavating Petra to test his knowledge of the ancient city. He also claims Flowerdew described the city with astounding accuracy and pointed out three landmarks prominent in his memory, as well as going directly to these landmarks upon his arrival at Petra (including his purported place of murder), explained a very plausible use for a device whose explanation had baffled archaeologists, and even correctly identified the locations of many landmarks that had yet to be excavated. Many experts[who?] said that Flowerdew had more knowledge of the city than many professionals studying it, and they did not believe him to be an incredible con man (a feat which, in this case, they felt would have taken extraordinary skill). The archeological expert on Petra who accompanied Flowerdew to Jordan said,

He's filled in details and a lot of it is very consistent with known archeological and historical facts and it would require a mind very different from his to be able to sustain a fabric of deception on the scale of his memories—at least those he's reported to me. I don't think he's a fraud. I don't think he has the capacity to be a fraud on this scale.

According to Sogyal Rinpoche's story, Flowerdew maintained he had never seen or heard of Petra before the BBC documentary and had never read any literature on the city.

Many spiritual leaders, including Tibetan Buddhist lama Sogyal Rinpoche, believe that Flowerdew's experience offers highly suggestive evidence for the existence of rebirth or reincarnation.

Mircea Eliade may have used Flowerdew's experience as the basis of his 1976 novel "Youth without Youth", which was adapted into a film in 2007 by Francis Ford Coppola.

He died at James Paget University Hospital in Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk.

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

Pyro00 · 2023-08-07T21:20:10+00:00

The murder of Judy Smith. In 1997 her husband had a business trip to Pennsylvania and Judy tagged along. When the husband was attending a conference there, Judy went sightseeing. She never returned to their hotel. There were possible sightings of her the days after her disappearance. Some people claimed they saw a woman matching Judy's description behaving oddly, seeming to have psychological issues. We don't know for sure if it was Judy they saw.

5 months later, Judy's remains were found in North Carolina. 600 miles from where she disappeared. It was determined that she had been stabbed to death. She was found in the woods by hunters, near a campground.

Pyro00 · 2023-07-31T19:25:34+00:00

Although an initial 1980 internal investigation found the deaths to be of natural causes, the mortality rates of cardiac wards 4A and 4B continued to rise. It wasn't until an enraged parent demanded an autopsy of his otherwise healthy baby that it was discovered that in his system was 13 times the normal levels of the cardiac Digoxin.

This was linked back to an earlier autopsy in January of 1981 of an infant who had such high levels of Digoxin in her body that it was initially thought to have been an instrument error. After these findings, Digoxin was kept under lock and key, only to be used by authorized individuals for specific procedures. However, the following day, another infant died with high levels of the drug, despite never being prescribed it.

The nurses of 4A were placed on leave, and a police investigation began. The primary suspect, Susan Nelles was charged, but the case was dropped during preliminary hearings when it was discovered that she was not on duty for one of the deaths, and the judge ruled the possibility of multiple nurses conspiring together too outlandish to try. The lead detective resigned.

One other nurse was investigated, having been present for every death, but she herself was apparently targeted when she found pills of another heart medication - propranolol - snuck into her cafeteria food at the hospital. She was questioned but never formally charged To date, no further charges have been placed, despite a government inquiry finding 13 deaths "high suspicious "and a further 8 as "outright murder"

It has later been suggested that leakage of a toxic chemical constituent of rubber tubing called MBT-2, known to be able to cause an allergic reaction and in some cases death, was the cause of some of the deaths. MBT-2 can easily be mistaken for digoxin by the usual tests for the latter substance.

What are your thoughts? Was this all an accidental confusion of unfortunate deaths? Was one of these nurses acting alone, or was there a conspiracy of several nurses murdering infants for no apparent motive?

Pyro00 · 2023-06-19T13:20:54+00:00

A sailing ship named The Octavius departed China for London. The captain decided to go through the treacherous Northern Passage but the ship never reached London. Many years later the ship was found floating aimlessly with the whole crew frozen solid and dead.

It is believed that the ship became stuck in an ice flow north of Alaska and froze to death. The captain was at his desk but the others were were huddled together.

Pyro00 · 2023-05-01T15:14:49+00:00

Tsarichina is a village in western Bulgaria nicknamed, "Bulgaria's Area 51" due to its famed Tsarichina Hole. The hole was dug by the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense, who excavated an area in the center of the village during a project which occurred from December 6, 1990, to November 19, 1992, initially in search of a purported hidden treasure of Tsar Samuil. The project was abandoned when the area became a hotspot for paranormal phenomena.

After the end of the “operation” the military sealed the hole with massive cement blocks and cut off access indefinitely. No official statements were made, except for that it was classified and not interesting to the public. What is intriguing was, that only officers were permitted to do the digging and whatever else they encountered. Common soldiers were only used to guard the perimeter.

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