What is the most vexing true crime case in your life? What is the one case that you need to know how it ends?

[61Montcalm]

1.) Tom Bearson
2.) Russell and Shirley Dermond
3.) Ben Tyner

 

[technicallymissing]

The Flora fire sisters. It might be a silly/arbitrary thing to say but it really feels solvable... which makes it all the more frustrating.

Thread 'IN - Four sisters, ages 5-11, die in Flora house fire, Nov 2016'

Mar 10, 2020

Four sisters died in Flora house fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PATU6yG267o Published November 21 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f-l5wduJBY Update, victims identified

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQdBT9iCebM Deputy Drew Yoder speaks about the fire

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[wendi.Uk]

I think of the 2012 abduction and murder of 10-year-old Lyric Cook-Morrissey and 8-year-old Elizabeth Collins often.

 

[snooptroop88]

Want to add Springfield 3

 

[pukasonqo2]

Jaliek Rainwalker
Tionda and Diamond Bradley

 

[ilovewings]

Paige Renkosi
Elizabeth Barazza
Ben Tyner

 

[MrsWatson]

Paige Renkowski.
Oakland County Child Killer.
Summer Wells
Danille Imbo and Richard Petrone.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Also Inga Gehricke. Was someone living or working on that property involved in/responsible for her disappearance? Who abducted her and how did they get away with it? I hope she will be found soon and justice pursued.

 

[snooptroop88]

Adding again, the Grimes sisters/Chicago IL, very old case

 

[cheshire84]

Debra Horn in Allenstown-disappeared from her house after being home sick in the winter of 1969. Barely any clues. Found a few months later in the trunk of a car 20 miles away.

 

[FromGermany1]

Audrey Gleave, CA
Sonia Varaschin, CA
Shelley Loder, CA

Missy Bevers, TX
Liz Barraza, TX

Claudia Lawrence, UK

Gus Lamont, AUS

and many, you named already. I can't limit myself to one case.

 

[Spy Versus Spy]

Maura Murray. Maura Murray

Suzie Lamplugh, missing English Estate Agent, possibly a victim of John Cannan,1980's

Claudia Lawrence, York, England. LE probably know who and why.

Also, the incredible thread here on WS on American tourist Susan McLean that @CoverMeCagney pointed me towards.

Thankfully, I no longer have to list as #1 Abby and Libby, Delphi.



ETA: Ann Heron. Darlington, England.

 

[ilovewings]

Paige Renkowski.
Oakland County Child Killer.
Summer Wells.
Danille Imbo and Richard Petrone.

Thanks for mentioning Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone- I think about them often--it really seems like an insolvable mystery

 

[iamshadow21]

Someone's already mentioned St Louis Jane Doe, so here are a couple of others less well known.

Quanne Diec. Australia - Australia - Quanne Diec, 12, Granville, NSW, 27 Jul 1998 *Arrest*

Madison Doe. TX - TX - Madisonville, UnkFem 2-6, UP15905, feeding tube, in suitcase, clothes, blankets, Sep'16

NC '83 Christmas Jane Doe. NC - NC - Northampton Co, Christmas Doe, Blk/WhtFem, UP2196, 4-7, near I-95 rest area, Dec'83

Kids shouldn't go missing without a trace, but it's equally obscene when they get dumped like garbage and absolutely nobody knows who they are or seems to be missing them.

 

[MinnyPin]

Maura Murray

And Then She Was Gone

A version of this story was originally published in Kernel Magazine, although this version has been updated. Important note: August 2, 2020 This story was first published in Kernel Magazine and then …

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[Skigh]

Glenis Caruthers.
This case seems to have flown under the radar compared to some of the other cases. I first became aware of it when following the Joanna Yeats case. We now know that it was not the same killer.

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UK Post in thread 'UK - Glenis Carruthers, 20, Clifton, Bristol, 19 Jan 1974'

Sep 9, 2025

8 January 2011

'Whoever killed our daughter may have murdered Jo Yeates' say family of student found dead in 1974

The family of a woman strangled close to Joanna Yeates' flat in the 1970s today said both victims could have been killed by the same person.

www.dailymail.co.uk

• Both strangled, clothed and NOT sexually assaulted
• Officers dredge drains outside Joanna's home
• Police tracing victim's 200 Facebook contacts
• Groundsman may have heard killer dumping Joanna's body
• Chris Jefferies expects to be cleared as suspect 'in days'

''The family of a woman strangled close to Joanna Yeates' flat in the 1970s today said both victims could have been killed by the same person - because there are such...

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[DianeElaine]

Ryan Shtuka

 

[Baba O'Riley]

The murder of my doctor, Dr. Teresita Valera-Costello. She practiced in New York City. Her body was found stuffed in the trunk of her car in the Bronx in 1995. Two years later, her troubled son James would be tried for her murder. He was acquitted. I met James when he was a little boy at his mom's office. James died when he jumped in front of an oncoming Long Island Railroad train in 2019.
Cleared in Forest Hills killing of his mother 14 yrs ago; James Costello found dead on train tracks

 

[violet67]

Haleigh Cummings

 

[MesquiteO21]

Want to add Springfield 3

yes i think about this one a lot. i've seen some speculation that the man who was just found to be responsible for the Yogurt Shop Murders could be responsible for Springfield 3 and i hope it's looked into