Most intriguing unsolved non-JtR serial killer cases

[chrisjd]

No, not really. Most likely someone who knew the family.

[sdreid]

Yes Chris, I'm sure that is much more likely.

[sdreid]

Either that or some roving miscreant who flipped his wig and then when off and killed himself sort of like Richard Speck tried to do.

[sdreid]

... and I do believe that Speck was a serial killer.

[curious]

I have a list of what I like to call "History's Most Wanted". I thought is sounded catchy. There are other cases I'm interested in, but they're either solved, or pseudo-solved. I'll list them after the top ten, which comes in no particular order:


1.) Jack the Ripper
2.) Bela Kiss
3.) Axeman of New Orleans
4.) Cleveland Torso Murders
5.) Black Dalia
6.) JonBenet Ramsey
7.) Zodiac
8.) Dan (D. B.) Cooper
9.) Texarkana Moonlight Murders
10.) Jack the Stripper


Others I'm interested in are:
Lizzie Bordon
JFK
RFK
MLK
Son of Sam
Boston Strangler
Charles Manson

Have you seen the latest story on D.B. Cooper. I read a story in the last week or two that he is now dead, but apparently planned the escapade with one of his brothers and lived to spend the money.

A niece has come forward and told the story as well as provided a photograph of her uncle that is very close to the sketch.

Intriguing.

[curious]

Have you seen the latest story on D.B. Cooper. I read a story in the last week or two that he is now dead, but apparently planned the escapade with one of his brothers and lived to spend the money.

A niece has come forward and told the story as well as provided a photograph of her uncle that is very close to the sketch.

Intriguing.

sorry, went back and re-read the story. Cooper apparently lost the money on the way down.

[sdreid]

He definitely lost some of it.

[kensei]

That most recent claim by the neice of someone alleged to be D.B. Cooper has now been officially ruled out by the FBI. If you're looking for D.B. Cooper, look up the research of an investigator named Galen Cook on a suspect named William "Wolfgang" Gossett (who is now deceased). He was a trained military paratrooper, and he reportedly had some heavy gambling debts to repay to some shady characters. In my opinion after hearing the full story, he is a very likely suspect. And his resemblance to the witness sketches is- as a few other suspects have been- quite dramatic.

[sdreid]

... and I do believe that Speck was a serial killer.

He almost certainly murdered Mary Pierce in Monmouth, IL around April 9 of 1966. Speck is also a person of interest regarding the disappearance of 3 women at Indiana Dunes State Park on July 2 of that year and shortly before the final rampage with the nurses.

[sdreid]

Speck is not the only suspect in the Dunes Case.

[sdreid]

At one time I think he was the top suspect but I'm not so sure of that now.

[sdreid]

I have a list of what I like to call "History's Most Wanted". I thought is sounded catchy. There are other cases I'm interested in, but they're either solved, or pseudo-solved. I'll list them after the top ten, which comes in no particular order:


1.) Jack the Ripper
2.) Bela Kiss
3.) Axeman of New Orleans
4.) Cleveland Torso Murders
5.) Black Dalia
6.) JonBenet Ramsey
7.) Zodiac
8.) Dan (D. B.) Cooper
9.) Texarkana Moonlight Murders
10.) Jack the Stripper

I had a similar list that I assembled in 2001 called The World's Ten Most Wanted For All Time.

All your top 5 were on my list. My #1, #5 and #9 matched yours. I also had three others that were on both our lists except in different positions.

[sdreid]

My #2 was Osama bin Laden but he has been accounted for in the interim.

[sdreid]

In addition to the aforementioned, Carl Menarik, Alois Brunner and Belle Gunness were on my list. Ramsey and Cooper were not nor were Jack the Stripper or Zodiac although they just missed.

[sdreid]

Just in my case, I confined my wanteds to murderers.