The most notorious unsolved crime in your area

[JennieM]

For me it's a case from my hometown in Massachusetts. A 16 year old lifeguard named Molly Bish was kidnapped from a local swimming spot called Comins Pond. I firmly believe it was someone who was familiar with our small town. The pond is not easy to find if you're not a local. There's a back way to get into it through the woods which leads to a cemetery that's very secluded. I think the person lured her from there. Her body was found 3 years later less than 2 miles away on Whiskey Hill Road (Ware Rd but us locals call it Whiskey Hill or Ware Rd.) Where my house was was on the other side of the mountain she was found on. I was one year younger than her. She was on my bus in elementary school. Her Mom was my substitute teacher from time to time. Nice family. We all still hold out hope her killer will be identified but it's been 24 years. Rest in Peace, Molly! We'll never stop praying for you and your families justice.

Welcome to WS, I am sorry about your school friend. There is a thread about Molly:

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MA Thread 'MA - Molly Bish, 16, Warren, 27 Jun 2000'

Aug 12, 2003

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/2258530/detail.html

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[xXxDeath_By_DecafxXx]

Welcome to WS, I am sorry about your school friend. There is a thread about Molly:

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MA Thread 'MA - Molly Bish, 16, Warren, 27 Jun 2000'

Aug 12, 2003

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/2258530/detail.html

• Doyle
• Replies: 940
• Forum: Cold Cases

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Thank you!! I'm going to go read that thread now.

 

[Jweaver2766]

In reference to the Missouri Jame Doe case mentioned first. I looked into her case, and it's just devastating! Not only was that baby brutalized and her body abused before and after her short life, but her case was just one fumble after another! They (the authorities) sent the sweater she was found wearing to a psychic in Florida and "never recieved it back"! According to them it "must've been lost in the mail". If that wasn't bad enough, they literally lost her after she was buried! It took them months to locate her body in order to do isotope testing on her bones, and the results are listed in direct opposite sides of each other in different places! I'll be starting a Facebook page that covers unsolved murders, primarily cold cases, and I'll be adding her case to my list because she deserves to be given her name back! The page is called "When Noone Was Watching" if anyone will be interested.

 

[SuperNovaRuby]

I grew up in Utah:

Susan Cox Powell (even though we all know who did it, it’s not known how or who else helped for sure, nor was her body found)
Rachael Runyan- before AMBER alert, it was known as “Rachael Alert” until 2003.
Hi-Fi Murders- the severe cruelty in this case still haunts us all.

 

[celinesleuth]

My hometown...Birmingham, UK. Not "notorious" to the vast majority, but has often been on my mind since learning about it a few years ago. Not much info available, but an elderly couple and their disabled son were murdered in their home in 1992.

Smith family murders: Fresh police appeal over 1992 Birmingham family killings

Maybe the most well known missing person(s) case in Birmingham is that of Patrick Warren and David Spencer in 1996. 11 and 13 respectively, known as the Milk Carton Kids and sadly presumed deceased. Would love for the families to get answers.

Milk Carton Kids: 'New evidence' into 25-year disappearance of Chelmsley Wood schoolboys

 

[Benthic Depths]

In California, nobody seems to know who killed Nichole Brown and Ronald Goldman, even if everyone else knows.

Everyone is wrong.
There is a member of that family who was stood up by NB the night of the murders. Someone with multiple convictions for stabbing women.
Someone close enough related to Famous Suspect for that susepct to take the blame by staying silent.
Someone who routinely received luxury hand-me-downs from famous suspect.

Like Bruno Magli shoes.

 

[friendlysleuther]

Oh, wow. I had never heard of the one for my state! Will dig into this later..
Thanks for this post!

 

[Rhysiare]

Haven’t seen anyone mention it yet, but I’d argue that IA’s biggest cold case is the Villisca Axe Murders Though, I don’t ever think it’ll be solved, it has been almost 113 years after all.

 

[Deleted member 235284]

My hometown...Birmingham, UK. Not "notorious" to the vast majority, but has often been on my mind since learning about it a few years ago. Not much info available, but an elderly couple and their disabled son were murdered in their home in 1992.

Smith family murders: Fresh police appeal over 1992 Birmingham family killings

Maybe the most well known missing person(s) case in Birmingham is that of Patrick Warren and David Spencer in 1996. 11 and 13 respectively, known as the Milk Carton Kids and sadly presumed deceased. Would love for the families to get answers.

Milk Carton Kids: 'New evidence' into 25-year disappearance of Chelmsley Wood schoolboys

Oh, never heard of the smith case before seems such an odd one for someone to do, will need to look into it more. Like I wonder what the motive was there.

Milk carton Kids I know I feel like that is very famous one. Very sad.

 

[Deleted member 235284]

Villisca Axe Murders

Wow thats a crazy one, Never heard of it before but just looked up up a little. Yeah no chance that is getting solved after 113 years.

 

[Keith417]

Boca mall murders

 

[Charlot123]

Perhaps not the most notable, but Lindsey Baum's disappearance has not been resolved yet.

Timeline in Lindsey Baum's disappearance and investigation

Articles and videos about Timeline in Lindsey Baum's disappearance and investigation on FOX 13 Seattle.

www.fox13seattle.com

I know they had a new suspect, arrested for kidnapping a 17-year old girl, but over two years, nothing new has been announced.

 

[CLeonidas]

John Spira Chicago suburbs.

 

[sportstergirl]

Unsolved murder of 74 year old Harry Howell, Blackpool 5/11/88. Harry Howell was beaten to death in his sheltered accomodation in Ibbison Court Blackpool on the above date. A Crimewatch appeal the following year found a possibilty soeone tried selling a watch similar to Harrys in Accrington.
On 3/8/89 career criminal Brian Newcombe killed 88 year old Jack Shuttleworth in a similar MO in Ingleton. Brian Newcombe also killed Margaret McOnie in a similar fashion in the Orkneys later the same month. Newcombe hung himself in prison before he could be itnerviewed about Harry Howell's murder.

 

[Bahshudc]

I’m originally from Brighton, UK - Owen Harding has always broken my heart, as well as Georgina Gharsallah.

 

[sportstergirl]

Unsolved murder of Harry Baines, 17-19th Februaray 1989 in my hometown of Fleetwood Lancashire. A mutual friend of Harry & myself passed away last month. Harry disappeared around the above dates in Fleetwood. No trace of him has been found.
I often saw him playing snooker in the Ship & Queens in Fleetwood in the 70s & 80s

 

[Dropdeadred]

The disappearance of 12 yr old Kimberly R Norwood on May 20, 1989 from Hallsville Texas. She had come to a break in the country road she and several friends were walking, and they all said goodbye and parted ways. This was my cousin's good friend and in 1989, I was living in Oregon as a 15 yr old girl. My grandparents had relayed the story to us from my cousin's family. Where I lived, people were all about Satanism being the big scary thing and we weren't supposed to drive down to a certain area because they supposedly had teens sacrificing animals and children there LOL. It was ridiculous. So the rumor mill about poor Kimberly was that she had been picked up by "4 teens in a car with Oklahoma plates," and was being sacrificed for some satanic holiday coming up in June. The reality is more likely that she was picked up by a local offering her a ride home, and she ended up becoming their victim instead. OR....I've looked at the Google maps of that road and it occurred to me that someone could have been driving drunk and hit and killed her, and was afraid of prison so they buried her somewhere. Back at the time of the incident, there were not very many mobile homes or houses, there were plenty of wooded areas and it was so isolated, only locals really needed to be back there. Both of her parents have passed, there's only a sister left looking for answers.

295DFTX - Kimberly Rachelle Norwood

 

[Austin023]

I live in southern Vermont, right on the Connecticut river and Massachusetts border. I'll admit murders and other serious crimes are uncommon in my area, this one old case definitely stands out!

Russell Colvin, then aged 40, went missing from his family's farm in Manchester, Vermont one afternoon in the Spring of 1812. While his body was never located (verifiable anyway), his two brothers in law, Stephen and Jesse Boorn, were later charged with, and convicted of his murder some 7 years later. This case I am quite sure was among the first homicides without a body that resulted in a conviction.

However, there was some doubt among locals as to the two brothers guilt. It was based entirely on circumstantial evidence. The Boorn brothers, and their large family, vigorously protested their innocence and claimed Russell Calvin had absconded, as he's done before over the years during his marriage, and thus abandoned his family. The convicted brothers were due to hang for the offense. Incredibly, within weeks of the execution date, a man claiming to be Russell Calvin arrived by Stage in Manchester village. Townspeople all gathered and there was what seemed to be unanimous agreement this man who's supposedly been dead over 7 years, was indeed a very much alive Colvin. The Boorn brothers were exonerated and their lives spared. This newly rediscovered Russell Colvin left town just as abruptly as he's entered it a couple of days earlier.
Or was it really Russell Colvin at all?

Links: the first link I have here is a short book written about the case, published in 1873, by Leonard Sargent, who was one of the attorneys who worked on the case in 1819. Loaded with information!

The Trial, Confessions and Conviction of Jesse and Stephen Boorn for the Murder of Russell Colvin

books.google.com

Second link is a nicely written article in a true crime blog:

The Dead Alive

A compendium of information, resources and discussion on notable nineteenth century American murders.

www.murderbygaslight.com

This third link also gives a good synopsis of the Boorn-Colvin case

First Known Exoneration, Center on Wrongful Convictions: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

www.law.northwestern.edu

 

[Krey44]

The most disturbing unsolved case in my area is the disappearance of Michael Bryson from a remote campground in the Willamette national forest.

 

[DogMom19]

Possibly you like to repost a case from your state to bring new life to cold case

The most notorious unsolved crime in every state

MISSOURI: A prepubescent girl was found decapitated in St. Louis in 1983 in a case that still haunts detectives.

On February 28, 1983, a female body with the head missing was found in an abandoned building in St. Louis. Police originally thought it was the body of a sex worker, but soon discovered that the victim was much younger than they expected —between 8 and 11 years old.

At the time, it was the only decapitation in the US that involved a person that young, according to the FBI.

The victim and the killer still remain unidentified. She is simply known as "Little Jane Doe" in the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database.

If this looks familiar or you have any info contact the proper authorities Thank you

I have been haunted by this case since I first heard about it a couple years ago. I'm always hoping that they will finally be able to identify her.