Most interesting unsolved non-serial killer cases

[sdreid]

G'day Stan

Of course there was a confession in Shirley Collins' case, but police didn't accept that he was the killer.

Of interest is that about 4 different descriptions were provided of men she was seen with over the two days!

Hi GUT:

It's certainly an interesting case with mysteries within mysteries. I first heard of the Collins case about 30 years ago.

[GUT]

G'day Stan

There was actually a write up in the paper [Melbourne I think] about a Month ago on it.

[GUT]

Stan

http://www.news.com.au/national/new-evidence-over-the-murder-of-susan-oyston-the-daughter-of-sheila-florence/story-e6frfkp9-1226532264510

A link to a news report of a couple of years ago that may [and I repeat MAY] shed some light on the case.

[sdreid]

Thanks GUT; that's interesting - like you say - "may".

[Harry D]

There are too many unexplained disappearances and murder cases to name. Here's some unsolved mysteries that have kept me up till the early hours. In no particular order:

1. Somerton Man
2. DB Cooper
3. Voynich manuscript
4. Dancing Plague of 1518
5. Toynbee Tiles
6. Elisa Lam
7. Kendrick Johnson

[sdreid]

Isdal Woman has some similarities with Somerton Man

[Harry D]

Isdal Woman has some similarities with Somerton Man

THANK YOU! I was trying to reacquaint myself with this case the other day but couldn't for the life of me remember her "name".

[Harry D]

Not technically a murder case (as far as we know), but Tara Calico's disappearance is pretty haunting. In Belen, New Mexico on September 1988, Tara Calico (then aged 19) was going for her usual bike ride and had told her mother to come pick her up if she wasn't back by noon. When noon came her mother drove out to get her but Tara was nowhere to be found. She alerted the police and during the search they found pieces of Tara's Sony Walkman and a cassette along the route, but there was no other trace of Tara. Several witnesses testified to seeing Tara on her bike and several reported that she was being followed by a pick-up truck.

Around a year later, an ominous polaroid was found in the parking lot of a convenience store in Port St. Joe, Florida. It pictured an unidentified young girl and boy bound and gagged, the girl bearing a resemblance to Tara. I won't link to the pic but it's easily Googled. Tara's mother believed it to be her missing daughter, since the girl appeared to have a scar on her leg similar to the one Tara got in a car accident, and the photo features the book 'My Sweet Audrina', said to be one of Tara's favourite reads. Apparently there are two more polaroids that might be Tara but the police have yet to release them publicly.

However, twenty years after her disappearance, Rene Rivera, then-sheriff of Valencia County, claimed that he knows what happened to Tara. According to his sources, two boys from Tara's school accidentally hit Tara with their truck and they then panicked and disposed of her body. Rivera claims to know the names of the two men involved but said he's unable to make a case without a body.

[Cogidubnus]

Poor kid...

[GUT]

There was some talk earlier of the Shirley Collins case from the '50's earlier in the thread.

A friend of mine is married to a cold case detective who was telling me that the Victorian Cold Case squad has this as their top priority.

[GUT]

I've also heard that a new book is coming on the Gatton murders naming a Priest, I think a priest has already been a suspect so I'll be interested to see if it has anything new.

[sdreid]

There was some talk earlier of the Shirley Collins case from the '50's earlier in the thread.

A friend of mine is married to a cold case detective who was telling me that the Victorian Cold Case squad has this as their top priority.

That's good to know although the perp is likely deceased.

[sdreid]

That's good to know although the perp is likely deceased.

Or maybe they are interested because a suspect is still alive; hard to say.

[Mycroftacd]

A case I haven't seen here yet.

I found out about this case about six months ago, Al Kite in Aurora, Colorado in 2004. There are so many things about this case I find puzzling from the victimology to the suspect to the methods used. Anyone have any thoughts?

[sdreid]

That was a new one for me Mycroftacd-a real puzzler.