Missing people or murder cases you want to be solved

[Columbo]

I wasn't sure about mentioning this as it's very recent but since the family are pleading for information and trying to raise awareness I think it's OK to post.

Noah Donohoe went missing in Belfast in June and his disappearance sparked one of the biggest missing person searches in NI's history. 6 days later his naked body was found in a storm drain. The police have said there was no foul play. He was only 14 years old. There is so much that is strange about this case, he left home on his bike and was seen shortly afterwards cycling naked. A witness claimed to see him falling off his bike so the police went with the theory that he'd hit his head and was confused and disorientated. His post mortem revealed he didn't have a head injury. There are many rumours circulating and his Mum has now hired a well known lawyer to investigate what happened, they're also pushing for an inquest into the police investigation. There's so much strange about the case and sadly it all feels like one big cover up. You can search the hashtags #justicefornoah or #mynoah

He was an only child and his poor mum has had her whole world ripped away. Really hope the truth will out and she gets justice

 

[Londoncailín]

Suzy Lamplugh. This case has always stood out for me.

 

[orangelolly]

I wonder if there are cases where someone has simply walked away from their life. Where they've left everything behind, moved away and completely changed who they are. I've wondered how easy it is to do something like that, not for myself, but they always make it look so easy on TV. I do wonder for example, how do they get a job with no national insurance number? How do they get paid with no bank account? And so on, there must be ways around it I guess. Clearly being furloughed I have too much time to ponder these things.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

Yes to Andrew Gosden! That case has always haunted me, and I don’t know why?

Also Claudia Lawrence. I wonder why the police have been so vague about what they think happened to her? This has led to all kinda of unhelpful speculation about her personal life.

 

[Scubasf]

Leah Croucher - disappeared over a year ago in Milton Keynes. Was allegedly having an affair with a married colleague. Sounds a lot like an honour killing but nobody can prove his involvement.

Claudia Lawrence - disappeared in York what must be over 10 years ago now. It’s widely believed that the patrons of the local pub hold the key but nobody is talking.

Ruth Wilson - last seen taking a taxi to
Box Hill in the 90s, completely vanished. Very complex back story with her family.

Lindsay Rymer - disappeared in Hebden Bridge in 1994 and her body was actually found 6 months later but the killer has never been caught. There was speculation about a conspiracy of silence of the other teenagers of Hebden Bridge about her death and disappearance at the time but I don’t know if they ever broke the pact of silence.

 

[Upintheair83]

One that I find shocking is 3 year old William Tyrell. An Australian little boy who literally just vanished into thin air.
He was playing at his grandmas house with his mum and nan, wearing a distinctive spider man costume- they were playing hide and seek and the last thing they heard was him going ‘rarrrrrr’ and then that was it, gone. The Australian interview with his parents (who adopted him) was heartbreaking and even the interviewer broke down. They chased up on the biological family but there was nothing to suggest they took him, one line of enquiry was a suspicious car in the neighbourhood that the neighbours saw but other than that, I don’t think they have much to go on.
I’m always shocked the Mc Cann case was much more high profile than this, because it’s just as sad. I hope to God they find him one day. Xx

 

[sararamirez]

Nothing would fill me with more satisfaction than finding out what truly happened to Madeleine McCann, that girl has been in my thoughts for so many years I really just feel as though the system has failed her massively. Her parents should be held completely accountable.

There was one I was following that was literally solved a week or so ago after thirteen years. It was very sad but it was good that his family got the closure they so desperately needed.

 

[Meh]

Andrew Gosden - Yes! I’m sure there was an article in the last couple years where his family suspect he could have run away to restart his life. Very sad case all round.

Meredith Kercher - Always makes me mad that media circus and US publicity machine around Knox took over. It’s like people forgot that a poor girl was murdered so hideously. She’s a forgotten victim with no justice

Richie Edwards - Manic Street Preachers guitarist. Disappeared in 90/ and long suspected suicide but would love to get the closure on that one.

 

[Meh]

So many of these cases are so old and seem like an impossibility of being solved.

Never give up hope though; I live in Central Scotland and Vicky Hamilton’s missing case was always talk/locally publicised here. The shock when she was found buried in Kent at the hands of Peter Tobin. Horrific but glad she finally got brought home

Peter Tobin: I would LOVE to know more about him. He’s clearly a high number serial killer and rapist. His lifestyle is a dead give away. Suspected highly of being Bible John (infamous 60’s serial killer who murdered women he met at Barras Ballroom dancing in Glasgow.) Police had to run a uk wide operation (operation anagram) to piece together his movements; he was transient lifestyle, used aliases, bounced from job to job and had been in jail for rape/attempted murder etc. This operation started after he was caught having killed a Polish girl in Glasgow and hiding her in a church. Poor girl. Far too sophisticated a crime for a first time murderer apparently (according to detectives who investigated it.)

Peter Tobin is v v creepy. Seriously, if you don’t know who he is. Go look at his image. Listen to the testimony of his ex wives. He is a full blown psychopath.

 

[Be More Pacific]

I actually have a list on my phone

 

[Aceofspades]

Definitely Claudia Lawrence. I was at university in York at the time of her disappearance and it's just so sad. As with all the missing person cases, I just don't understand how someone can disappear...someone must know something

 

[Maisie842]

I really hope that Keith Bennett's remains are recovered. Its unthinkable what all the victims families have gone through, but it's just so sad that the Bennetts haven't been able to give Keith a proper burial. Even though he's sadly gone, every time I think of him, I just think of a scared little boy who's all alone somewhere in the moors and it's just heartbreaking.

 

[50sGirl]

What SHOULD have happened is that the McCann's shouldn't have left three small children alone in an apartment in a foreign country.

But it was just like they were eating in their back garden and the children in the house...

What I cannot understand is why they’ve never held their hands up and said “We are sorry. We were wrong. We should never have left them”. But they haven’t - well not to my knowledge anyway. Take the majority of the blame ffs. They allowed whatever happened to happen to their poor, innocent daughter. Shame on them.

Filling their bellies and socialising was way more important than their children.
The wouldn’t have left their money and passports lying on the bed of an unlocked apartment, but their children? Yeah, no worries.

 

[DCICassieStuart]

Would u mind saying what happened to him?

Spoiler: Behind a spoiler just in case anyone doesn't want to read it.

John Jones was in a cave in Utah with his brother. He ventured into an area that he thought was 'the birth canal' (a known part of the cave) but it wasn't. It was just a very small crevice. He'd gone in head first and couldn't get back out. He brother had to leave him to try and get help. They tried to get him out with a pulley system and had started to succeed when the rope broke and he fell in again, this time down further. He was headfirst down in a tiny crevice. They couldn't pull him out by his legs as they were at an angle to the ceiling. They would have had to break them in order to do that and if they did, he would probably have died from pain or his body would have gone into shock. Fluid started to pool in his lungs and brain. It took him 25 hours to die (while upside down all the time) and it was so unsafe for the rescuers to try and get his body out (one rescuer was injured while trying to help) that they had to leave his body in there and cement the entrance to the cave so that nobody would ever go in again. It's basically his tomb now. He had a one year old baby and his wife was pregnant again when he died

 

[Ekkwhine]

I’m also praying Keith Bennett is found. I’m friends with his brother and the time he spends searching the moor for him when Brady could have just said is heartbreaking

 

[cushtybert]

Genette Tate, always remember my parents talking about this and horrified by the fact this little girl just disappeared. Apparently the wheels on her bicycle were still spinning when they found the bike on its side. Very strange

Disappearance of Genette Tate - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Raininvain]

Madeline Mcann. That poor girl. No sympathy for the parents but my heart goes out to that little girl.

The McGann's are a total, utter disgrace and how they never got done for child neglect beggars belief. Kerry Needham has got nothing like the support this odious pair have had over the years.

 

[Polkadot123]

So many cases!

The beaumont children - 3 children don't just dissappear without a trace from a packed beach

Asha degree - seen at the side of the road, car saw her run off into the wood. Her backpack was found as if she was running away and then went cold.

Lisa Irwin - taken from her crib. Definitely feel like there's more to that story

Jonbenet - this one has just never sat right with me. Something always feels off, and I know everyone else sees it. But don't think we will ever know the truth

Zodiac killer - I believe they are dead now but would be a big solve if we ever find out

Maura murrey - I am not convinced it was suicide and she definitely didn't just vanish.

Susan Cox Powell - her body has never been found. It seems clear her husband did it, but since he is now dead aswell. Her poor parents deserve some closure after they so cruelly lost their grandkids and their daughter.

Delphi murders

The Indianna dunes disappearance - this is an old one from the 60s. 3 women went on a boat ride and never came back. So many twists and turns with this one. Belongings have been found but they never were.

I have so many!! I spend alot of time listening to true crime podcasts and watching documentaries.

 

[Polkadot123]

This may be in interest to some. A well known YouTube chanel that does environmental dives and pulls up cars etc. They did a live a couple of weeks ago and the car had a body in the front seat. And they inadvertently solved a 12 year old missing person case. There is two videos, I linked the first one which is the live, they cut the camera as soon as they realise and they have since edited and blurred it out. They then did a 2nd video that goes into more detail with the police etc.
The man was presumed to have committed suicide as he left a note. The man was called Timothy Robinson.



The you tubers also helped a family with another missing person case last year. Where the family actually approached the team and asked them to look in a river. Its quite sad when the man dives down, he can't see anything so had to feel and you just hear him say 'aww shit' when he feels thr body.
Link here -

The team are also supporting police with a 30 year missing person case so that could be interesting.

Everything is handled respectfully and the human remains are blurred.

 

[BettyCrocker]

Corrie McKeague - vanished on a night out a few years ago.

I’ve always thought that he faked his own disappearance/death so that he could leave the armed forces.... so much about it just doesn’t add up