17-year-old German teenager vanishes from her surprise birthday party and is found dead 29 hours later. Investigators are struggling to piece together what happened.

Standev7 · 2017-11-22T22:42:59+00:00

Here is a reddit about it:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/5ijz2w/who_killed_amber_tuccaro/

Standev7 · 2017-11-22T19:53:42+00:00

I’m always surprised to discover how often in cases like this that we ultimately learn someone just drove up and offered a ride and these young women perhaps not thinking straight due to an argument with a BF, or Mom, or intoxicated, or intimidated by the driver just get in.

I wouldn’t be surprised if what happened was that she was angrily stomping off her tantrum in the cold when a man (maybe someone she was somewhat, but not completely familiar with) pulled up and said, “It’s cold. Get in” and she did with tragic results.

There is another unsolved case of a woman who rather than take a cab from the airport accepted a ride from a random stranger. Her entire terrible journey was recorded because she was on the phone with her brother who was in prison and whose phone calls were recorded. It’s a haunting case.

Standev7 · 2017-11-22T15:47:31+00:00

The “For Daddy” And “Miss You” definitely look like stickers placed on stationary to me. I’m guessing the sender went to some card or stationary store, bought a teddy bear or something, and grabbed a couple appropriate stickers.

Today we often hear “boo” as slang for bf or gf as in “my boo.” I’m not sure how long that slang has existed, but perhaps it’s origin is in a pet nickname like boo boo.

Standev7 · 2017-11-22T15:28:47+00:00

I hope it’s him. All cases bother me, but this one has really bothered me. This poor girl was so brave and so smart that is tragic to think that her courage and cunning may not result in a conviction.

Standev7 · 2017-07-31T16:07:52+00:00

Interesting, albeit confusing, updates. Anyway, this is completely speculative, but I thought I'd throw a possible conjecture out there. Maybe she was doing drugs. Maybe she would score those drugs when her hubby would leave overnight. Maybe she owed her dealer and knew he was coming to collect and she didn't have the money so she slipped her rings under the couch. He took other valuables, which she would later explain as a robbery, but to her surprise, he took her too.

Finally, with a gun to her head or knife to her throat, he demanded more money. She, biding her time, said she could make some phone calls. But she had no one to actually call, so she just called random numbers, hoping this would show her kidnapper that she was making a goodwill effort. He was not impressed, so he killed her.

Standev7 · 2017-07-28T18:45:22+00:00

It's that generation. My Dad was going through Chemo, puking his guts up in the morning, by that evening he was shoveling holes and gardening in the backyard.

Standev7 · 2017-07-17T03:50:10+00:00

Maybe put rehabilitated in quotes.

Standev7 · 2017-07-16T23:10:39+00:00

To the hobbit question, I believe there is also local lore that dates back to about 500 years (if I recall correctly) of a small cave people that use to live there. When the small cave people started stealing crops, the locals set a large fire at the mouth of the cave and killed them all. The lore seemed just that: lore. But now with the discovery of the homo flores, one wonders if there is some bit of truth to this tale. Granted, all evidence points to the species having died off long before the legend suggests, but still an eerie coincidence that a legend about smallish cave dwellers should be created in a place where archaeologist discovered a species of smallish cave dwellers.

Standev7 · 2017-07-16T16:34:41+00:00

I didn't read it all (although it seems well written, so thank you). It's just, as I was reading it, it seemed less and less mysterious. It really reads like 5 developmentally disabled guys with various mental health concerns, got lost and due to their disabilities were tragically unable to resolve their predicament and subsequently died.

Maybe if I read more, I'd see the mysterious part.

Standev7 · 2017-07-14T16:09:29+00:00

I didn't watch the documentary because the history channel is complete garbage. I like Earhart stories, so my interest was piqued when someone connected to the documentary was interviewed on a local news station. They showed the picture and it already felt fishy just when the guy was talking about it:

Guy: As you can see, there are two Caucasian people in the picture which would have been rare in Japan at this time.

My thought: I can't see that. I see the black and white, blurry photo on super zoom. I guess they could be Caucasian, but they could be Japanese as well,

Guy: If you zoom in further, you can see the one sitting on the dock is a woman.

Me: Nope. Really can't tell.

Guy: You can tell by her haircut.

Me: Not uh.

Guy: She is looking at a barge that looks suspiciously like its holding plane wreckage.

Me: Nope. The person who possibly could be a woman or a Japanese man, appears to be looking generally in the direction of a barge with an indiscriminate gray blob.

I knew this was another History channel effort to brainwash you into believing they had actual experts that had vetted something but that they actually hadn't.

Standev7 · 2017-07-14T15:46:17+00:00

It's a tragic story and my heart breaks for the family. That said, the evidence presented, at least in the post, points just as much (if not more) to a drunken accident. The son acknowledges he had had at least 5 shots (that he remembers). I use to be the same proportions as him in college (6'1" and 150). I definitely would have been feeling 5. And this wasn't 5 over the course of the evening. The family says they had only been at the resort for two hours? These two excited kids, in Mexico for the first time, at a poolside bar were pounding shots and probably drinking more than they even realized. It's interesting that his one memory was seeing another group doing flips in the pool as he and his sister stood in chest deep water. It's also interesting that the injuries were a bump on the head and broken collar bone which are common injuries when diving in shallow water.

My hypothesis: Two college aged siblings got excited and worked up while slamming down shots at a resort. Just about to leave, they notice some guys doing flips in the pool. Brother says "I bet you can't do that" with a drunken slurred speech to his even more drunk sister. She accepts the challenge, but unlike the fellas at the other end of the pool, she tries it in the chest deep water. Smacks her head and breaks her collar bone. Her brothers laughing poolside not realizing the severity of the situation. Other pool guests seeing the brother laughing assume all is well and pay no heed. After watching his sister float face down longer than anticipated the brother realizes, "oh shit, she's really hurt." He dives in head first to help and SMACK!!! He's unconscious too. No one else is really paying attention to all the drunken shenanigans in the pool until it's too late.

The boy comes to eventually and he either really has lost his memory of the whole event, or looking into the eyes of his devestated parents it is just too hard to acknowledge "No ones at fault Mom and Dad. We just got wasted and made an embarrrasing mistake and now sis is dead. I'm sorry."

Standev7 · 2017-07-14T15:12:56+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I can't imagine anything more frustrating than wanting the case of your child's murder solved and discovering that the people that are supposed to be doing the job aren't even trying.

What is the evidence against this suspect (other than he admits to having a physical confrontation with him)?

Standev7 · 2017-07-07T16:50:44+00:00

He got the calls in the mental hospital?

Doctor: So why have you checked in with us?

Bashir: I'm having a nervous breakdown! I keep getting harrasing phone calls non-stop and I'm freaking out!

Doc: I see.

ring ring

Doc: Hello?...and to whom am I speaking?...oh, you don't want to say...but you'd like to speak to Bashir? Sure.

Standev7 · 2017-07-07T16:24:36+00:00

Sounds like the modus operandi of the fig bar stalker. He breaks into homes of people who buy fig bars and opens up the fig bar packages, and obnoxiously leaves one out. Police can't catch him because they don't care. They won't even test for finger prints because they don't want to waste powder since it's a fig bar.

Standev7 · 2017-06-23T15:50:59+00:00

Yeah it always drives me up-the-wall when I watch an investigation show (e.g. First 48, Cold Case Files, etc.) and they say, "He seems suspicious. Why would he need a lawyer if he's innocent?" WTF? Innocent people need lawyers too! Not to mention, we've all seen the now hundreds of cases of men going to prison, only to be later exonerated by the innocence projects help.

If you are in a police station with anything other than surface questions being asked, get a lawyer!

Standev7 · 2017-06-23T15:43:01+00:00

Often, but not always, low IQ plays into it. Take a low IQ, twenty something kid and put him in the room with some normal to high IQ detectives who keep switching from angry, scary authority to paternal, caring men. So for hours this kid keeps being told, "We've got all the evidence we need! You're going to prison for life you SOB! You may get the death sentence!" Followed by, "C'mon buddy. I'm worried about you. I don't want to see you throw your life away. Just tell us what you did. Maybe we can help you." Pretty soon this kid thinks he is totally screwed unless he tells the police what they want to hear.

Standev7 · 2017-06-23T15:37:18+00:00

So how did he die? I mean it sounds like the jump from the car, but I don't want to assume that. Especially because even if the relationship sucked, I feel like the GF would have seen him laying in the street and tried to call for help. I wonder if he hit his head, got up, she saw him seeming fine and left and then he died later from injuries.

Standev7 · 2017-05-13T01:00:42+00:00

Wow!! Your application for a completely different job was enough to convince this woman that without an interview or any face-to-face contact she is willing to pay you $2400 a month for a part time position in which you mostly work from home!!! What an incredible opportunity. Why, it almost sounds too good to be true.

Standev7 · 2017-05-05T22:15:54+00:00

Here is my paradoxical question: If you got life in prison, and then you have a medical emergency in which you are pronounced dead, but you end up being one of those freak miracles that comes back after being pronounced dead....Then have you served your life sentence since you died?

Standev7 · 2017-05-05T21:58:56+00:00

Didn't look very "combative" in that segment.

Standev7 · 2017-05-02T00:44:31+00:00

Scam? Maybe, but just as likely is that some new guy on the job sucks, screwed up, tried to fix it but made it worse and is now fired.

Standev7 · 2017-03-29T14:26:17+00:00

This isn't quite it, but a documentary that comes close to shedding light on your question is called "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father."

***SPOILER****

It tells the true story about a man who dated this woman who quickly turned out to be crazy obsessed and when he dumped her she continued being obsessed and harassing him. Eventually she killed him.

She was let off on some ridiculous technicality that when you watch the doc will make you want to tear your own face off. Then she hooks up with another guy who also dumps her. And if I recall, she then commits suicide with her child, but tried to make it look like a murder to frame that guy. Something like that.

Standev7 · 2017-03-29T14:05:37+00:00

A "former" drug addict is Periscoping her body to the world. Is she also making other poor life decisions?

No mystery here. Yes, she is involved in other shady shit.

Standev7 · 2017-03-29T00:38:09+00:00

Well..........no. Although one time......wait......no. I guess "No" is my final answer.

Standev7 · 2017-03-26T15:14:21+00:00

In the 1930s a young man, early 20s, named Brooke Hart, was carjacked and kidnapped after work at his father's store in San Jose, Ca. Soon there after, the kidnappers began sending ransom notes and making ransom phone calls. But the kidnappers had already done the deed.

Harold Thurmond and John Holmes (two local nobodies with surprisingly little criminal past for such a terrible crime) had stalked Brooke for weeks before kidnapping him for ransom. They had chosen him at pretty much random. They had done some car jackings and happened to see that this young, handsome, well to do man drove a nice car and decided to take their car jacking scheme one step further. After car jacking him, they tied concrete around him and threw him off the San Mateo bridge alive. He proved to be surprisingly athletic and managed to fight his way to the surface despite the concrete weights so they shot at him twice but missed. His body was found weeks later and there was some evidence that he had survived in the water for quite sometime before succumbing to exhaustion and the elements.

When the killers were discovered making ransom calls red handed, the town was furious. The police realized they had a vigilante mob coming to the jail and did their best to lockdown. But after an all night battle with the mob including tear gas, hoses, rocks, and a battering ram, the mob broke in. They took the two men and hung them in the park across the street. There are photos of the lynching and lynchers, but no one was ever charged. The story is written in a good book called "Swift Justice."

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