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Top 10 Unsolved Murders; Don't read if murder upsets you.
Topic Started: Jan 7 2010, 04:56 PM (310 Views)
Miranda
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10. The Axeman of New Orleans.

On May 23, 1918, an Italian grocer named Joseph Maggio and his wife were butchered while sleeping in their apartment above the Maggio grocery store. Upon investigation, the police discovered that a panel in the rear door had been chiseled out, providing a way in for the killer. The murder weapon, an axe, was found in the apartment, still coated with the Maggios' blood. Nothing in the house had been stolen, including jewelry and money that were nearly in plain sight. The only clue that was discovered was a message that had been written in chalk near the victims' home. It read: "Mrs. Joseph Maggio will sit up tonight. Just like Mrs. Toney."

Almost exactly a month after the Maggio murder came a second crime. Louis Bossumer, a grocer who lived behind his store with his common law wife, Annie Harriet Lowe, was discovered by neighbors one morning, lying in a pool of blood. The Axeman murdered a total of eight people before the killings stopped. There was no evidence to link the only suspect, Joseph Mumfre, to the crimes.

9. JonBenét Ramsay.

JonBenét Ramsay was a six-year-old girl known for her participation in beauty pageants in the United States. She was found murdered in the basement of her parents' home in Boulder, Colorado, nearly eight hours after she was reported missing. The case is notable in both its longevity and the media interest it has generated in the United States. After several grand jury hearings the case is still unsolved.

In December 2003, forensic investigators extracted enough material from a mixed blood sample found on JonBenét’s underwear to establish a DNA profile. The DNA belongs to an unknown Caucasian male. The DNA was submitted to the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), a database containing more than 1.6 million DNA profiles, mainly from convicted felons. The sample has yet to find a match in the database, although it continues to be checked for partial matches on a weekly basis.

8. Jack the Stripper.

Jack the Stripper was the nickname given to an unknown serial killer responsible for what came to be known as the "nude murders" between 1964 and 1965. His victimology was similar to Jack the Ripper’s. He murdered six, possibly eight, prostitutes, whose nude bodies were discovered around London or dumped in the River Thames. The victim count is ambiguous because two of the murders attributed to him did not fit his modus operandi.

Like the Jack the Ripper killings, the Stripper’s reign of terror seemed to cease on its own, and there were few solid clues for police to investigate. Though his identity remains unknown, crime writer Donald Rumbelow notes that the killer could have been a young man who committed suicide in south London. This main suspect, who was also a favorite suspect of Chief Superintendent Du Rose, was a security guard on the Heron Trading Estate in Acton whose rounds included a paint shop where one of the bodies was thought to have been hidden after the crime. Though there was never any hard evidence to link him to the crimes, his family found his suicide inexplicable, and his suicide note cryptically said only that he was unable to take the strain any longer.

7. The Black Dahlia.

Elizabeth "Beth" Short was a twenty two year old American woman who was the victim of a gruesome and much publicized murder. Nicknamed the Black Dahlia, Short wanted to be an actress and always dressed in black, with blood red lipstick. She was found cut in half and severely mutilated on 15 January 1947 in Leimert Park, Los Angeles. The murder, which has remained unsolved, has been the source of widespread speculation as well as several books and film adaptations. Sensational and sometimes inaccurate press coverage, as well as the horrible nature of the crime, focused intense public attention on the case. About sixty people confessed to the murder, mostly men, as well as a few women. As the case continues to command public attention, many more people have been proposed as Short’s killer.

6. The Zodiac Killer.

The Zodiac Killer is one of the great unsolved serial killer mysteries of all time, taking only second place to Jack the Ripper. Even though police investigated over 2,500 potential suspects, the case was never officially solved. There were a few suspects that stood out, but the forensic technology of the times was not advanced enough to nail any one of them conclusively. The Zodiac murdered five known victims in Benicia, Vallejo, Lake Berryessa, and San Francisco between December 1968 and October 1969. Four men and three women between the ages of 16 and 29 were targeted. Others have also been suspected to be Zodiac victims, but there has been thus far no conclusive evidence to link them to the killer. The Zodiac always signed his letters with a distinctive symbol like a rifle sight, and sent some in a complex code.

5. Marilyn Sheppard.

Cleveland neurosurgeon Dr. Sam Sheppard was charged with the July 1954 murder of his 31-year-old pregnant wife, Marilyn, while their seven year old son slept in the next room. Sheppard maintained his innocence and implicated a dark-haired intruder; the "one-armed man" of "The Fugitive" TV series and movie that this case inspired. Nonetheless, Sheppard was found guilty. He appealed, and eventually the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his conviction on the grounds that excessive publicity unfairly influenced his trial. He was acquitted at a retrial. Until his death in 1970, Sheppard sought to find his wife's killer, a mission his family continues to this day.

4. Jimmy Hoffa.

Deposed Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa vanished in July 1975 from a Detroit restaurant. Guessing the whereabouts of his corpse (Hoffa was declared dead in 1982) has since been a national pastime. Under Giants Stadium, down a Pennsylvania mineshaft or buried in Northern Michigan are popular options. Thanks to his strong-arm tactics, Hoffa had many enemies, including government officials, labor leaders and mobsters, who presumably rubbed him out. The 2004 book "I Heard You Paint Houses" claimed that the late hit man Frank Sheeran shot Hoffa outside Detroit, and left the body there.

3. Bible John.

This killer had three victims between February 1968 and October 1969. Bible John was so called cuz he quoted from the Bible. Described as a six foot very handsome man with well kept short red hair, he disappeared as quickly as he came. The murders all seemed pointless and without motive; strangely all were menstruating at the time they were killed. Scottish police have no evidence at all, and even now some thirty years on there is still no clue as to the identity of Bible John. All three victims were found lying in door ways or corridors. They had all been raped before being strangled. All three victims had been spending an evening at the Barrowland Ballroom. The police staked the place out, in the hopes of finding the mysterious killer, but were unsuccessful. Bible John apparently vanished without trace.

2. The Boy in the Box.

In 1957, an unidentified Caucasian male, probable age 4 to 6 years, whose nude body, wrapped in a cheap flannel blanket, was found lying face up inside a large cardboard carton just a few feet from the edge of Susquehanna Road in Northeast Philadelphia. The body was dry and clean. The boy’s arms were carefully folded across his stomach. The finger and toenails had been recently trimmed short and neat. His hair had been cut recently – very close to the head, in a crude, hurried way, perhaps as a deliberate attempt to conceal the child’s identity. Small clumps of cut hair clung to his entire body, suggesting that someone had groomed him while he was unclothed, probably either shortly before or immediately after death. There were many bruises all over the child’s body; particularly on the head and face. All of the bruises appeared to have been inflicted at the same time. Despite recent DNA investigations in to the crime, it remains unsolved.

1. Jack the Ripper.

Traditionally, Jack the Ripper is considered to have killed five women, all London prostitutes, during 1888. The Ripper generally killed by strangling his victims, then laying them down and cutting the arteries in their throats; this was followed by a varied process of mutilation, during which parts of the body were removed and kept. All save the last victim were murdered in the street, with no witnesses. The Ripper's last victim, Mary Kelly, was murdered and mutilated in her own room with the Ripper leaving unheard and unseen.

During the autumn and winter of 1888/89 a number of letters circulated among the police and newspapers, all claiming to be from the Whitechapel murderer; these include the "From Hell" letter and one accompanied by part of a kidney. Ripperologists consider most, if not all, of the letters to be hoaxes. Over a century later Jack’s identity has never been wholly proven (there isn’t even a leading suspect), most aspects of the case are still debated and the Ripper is an infamous cultural bogeyman.
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I saw a special about Jack the Ripper; there's speculation that he was James Kelly, an insane asylum patient who escaped in his twenties. He murdered his wife prior to his incarceration (and later escape); the murders in Whitechapel stopped, but similar - nearly identical - murders popped up in America, and one of the ones over here had an X on her body; possibly even signifying a 10 in roman digits, as 9 victims of Jack the Ripper were found if the ones in America are to be included in the case. Kelly reportedly wrote a confession as to what he did while he was out of the asylum, as he turned himself in awhile before he died as an old man; in it he detailed all the cities he went to, and around the time that the killings stopped in London, he'd gone to America - where the killings continued.

It's really interesting. ^__^

As for Jon Benet; I don't think they're ever going to find the poor girl's killer. :(
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Miranda
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Especially since most of the police are convinced that her parents killed her. Altho a lot of parents do murder their own children; why would they kill JonBenet? All reports state that her parents loved her. And the evidence points to a male killer; in any case the DNA taken from her underwear would have matched with her parents when they checked it recently.

I read an article in a magazine on Bible John; it sends shivers up your spine. O_o He could still be out there.
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The Black Dahlia seems the most intresting to me is the utter lack of evidence and why people are confessing. It seems so random, what reason could someone try to kill her? Its more disturbing to me to have a case with no evidence, rather than being able to solve the case and being able to rest in peace.
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... Wait, I though the Black Dahlia was found in a field, looked like a mannequin, and was drained of blood somehow. O_o;
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She was sawed in half and drained of blood, among other things(facial mutilation). The detectives said it was done in a way that would've required medical knowledge. I would recommend that no one google her name, they will come up with incredibly unpleasant images of the body, which disgusted even me.

One that wasn't included on here was these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keddie_Murders

Basically, a woman and her children were brutally murdered in a cabin they had been staying in. That's the cleaner version, I'm not even describing the brutality of them. They were bludgeoned, stabbed, the walls and furniture slashed, and one daughter was missing, the only part of her that was found was her dismembered head. The cabin was supposed to be one of the most haunted places on the planet, but it was torn down a few years ago. Definately was a sad one, they have never really had any leads and no arrest has been made. Its been cold for ages.
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I've read up on the Black Dahlia case; but then again, I've got a strong stomach. O.o There were quite a few I wanted to include, but I decided to just pick the most fascinating ones. I also made it a good mix of Brit and American cases.
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You have to have a strong stomach for that case. It certainly is one of the most gruesome ones I've ever read up and reading up on crimes is my side hobby.

You did pick some good ones! I never heard of Jack the Stripper before, now I am considering reading up on it. I recognized most of these, but that one really caught my eye. Must be the stripper part :lol: Kidding!
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Yeah. XD Jack the Stripper is, like Bible John, one of the lesser known Brit serial killers.
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