Your favourite unsolved mystery?

Creol1

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

I can't use the word 'favourite' as it is heartbreaking for the families... but the disappearances of multiple women in Leinster during the mid 1990s, including.

Annie McCarrick
Jo Jo Dollard
Fiona Pender
Deirdre Jacob
Fiona Sinnott

There's always the throwaway line that it was Larry Murphy with zero evidence.

What became of these women? Was it a series of unconnected circumstances or was a single person involved?

Back then, mobile phones were rare or non-existent. You couldn't text to say that you were in Town X with Mr. Y. It was phone boxes and precise meeting times. Otherwise you were off the grid.

I hope their families find closure one day.

Operation Trace sought to establish if there was a connection but the received wisdom is that the cases are unconnected; hanging unsolved mysteries on known rapists/murderers is easy, hence Larry Murphy, and ditto with Eamon Cooke in the Philip Cairns case and Robert Black in the Mary Boyle case, but we have to remember most murder victims are known to the perpetrator.

oneilla

Collar bomb heist

Man walks into a bank with a bomb locked around his neck, demands money, shortly after when found by police the bomb detonates and instructions are found on him detailing instructions of a savaging hunt to find out how to remove the collar bomb.

Not sure if this qualifies as a mystery per se since there was a lengthy investigation and a successful prosecution but it's too strange to really learn exactly what roll each of the participants had.

Fanny Wank

oneilla wrote: »

Collar bomb heist

Man walks into a bank with a bomb locked around his neck, demands money, shortly after when found by police the bomb detonates and instructions are found on him detailing instructions of a savaging hunt to find out how to remove the collar bomb.

Not sure if this qualifies as a mystery per se since there was a lengthy investigation and a successful prosecution but it's too strange to really learn exactly what roll each of the participants had.

Have watched the first two episodes about this on Netflix. Interesting alright

Joeseph Balls

Fanny **** wrote: »

Have watched the first two episodes about this on Netflix. Interesting alright

What's it called?

oneilla

Joeseph Balls wrote: »

What's it called?

Evil Genius

bear1

Binged it in one evening, poor guy.
I'd advise anyone that decides to watch to be aware that they do show the death of the pizza guy as it was caught on film.

deco nate

The sudden disappearance of the poor girl that was taken away in Wicklow and the guy was killed yet the tread was wiped on here why?

Really

bear1

deco nate wrote: »

The sudden disappearance of the poor girl that was taken away in Wicklow and the guy was killed yet the tread was wiped on here why?

Really

You mean the thread that was made a sticky and is readily available for viewing? Mystery solved.

fxotoole

oneilla wrote: »

Collar bomb heist

Man walks into a bank with a bomb locked around his neck, demands money, shortly after when found by police the bomb detonates and instructions are found on him detailing instructions of a savaging hunt to find out how to remove the collar bomb.

Not sure if this qualifies as a mystery per se since there was a lengthy investigation and a successful prosecution but it's too strange to really learn exactly what roll each of the participants had.

Theres a documentary on Netflix about this case called Evil Genius. Fascinating watch.

markodaly

Deleted User wrote: »

We've had the 'Paradise Papers'; it's long past the time we in Ireland had the Informers' Papers. More specifically, confirmation of the names of the journalists in Independent Newspapers, particularly in the Sunday Independent, and The Irish Times who've been in the pay of British Intelligence throughout the Troubles would be the greatest news scoop in Irish history.

Hopefully for the sake of democracy and truthful history, we'll have our Leonard MacNally moment and the names of these people will be remembered very differently to how they'd like.

I can safely propose a certain mentally unstable former senator from Cork at the top of the list, however. And his ex-wife, and her second husband...

Conspiracy thread is this way ---->>

Naid23

bear1 wrote: »

Binged it in one evening, poor guy.
I'd advise anyone that decides to watch to be aware that they do show the death of the pizza guy as it was caught on film.

Wish I had known that before watching. Watched the first 2 eps this evening and was shocked that they actually showed it.

jr86

Was just watching something on Claudia Lawrence, in her mid 30s, who seemingly vanished from thin air in York in March 2009.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Claudia_Lawrence

Bizarre case - a full time worker, fully 'normal', extremely popular, close with family, with no apparent reason in the world for wanting to suddenly disappear or start a new life

There was a lot of publicity generated about her "double life" and flings with married men. It appeared a lot of those connected with her were unwilling to come forward to help with the investigation - for fear of being 'outed' to their spouses or whatever. Seemed a messy investigation overall

I do think there may be significant info that the public haven't been informed of on the case however, and there is speculation that the police may indeed know the perpetrator, but don't have enough evidence.

From reading online there are some speculating that the perpetrator(s) may even be common knowledge among some locals and there's an element of "protection" at play. You wouldn't know what to believe

It would appear to me however from what I've read/seen, that there is credence in the theories she was either picked up by someone she knew on her way to work in the early hours of the morning, or else she spent the night with someone where the incident then took place. Her work clothes and phone were missing from the house (and I believe a hair straightener) but her wallet, bank card and ids (incl passport) were left behind - this was apparently consistent with what she usually brought to work and didn't bring

Bizarre case though. So little evidence

bear1

Naid23 wrote: »

Wish I had known that before watching. Watched the first 2 eps this evening and was shocked that they actually showed it.

The moment the timer started ringing I turned away.
He survived it as well which is amazing but then died cause they hadn't called the ambulance.
What they had to that poor guy to get the collar off was just heart breaking.

Steve The Barman

bear1 wrote: »

Binged it in one evening, poor guy.
I'd advise anyone that decides to watch to be aware that they do show the death of the pizza guy as it was caught on film.

Poor Guy???!!!

he was up to his neck in it...... no pun intended

sentient_6

Second time in this thread I'm mentioning this podcast, check out Casefile ep 81 Brian Wells.

Stigura

Why " Enfield ", this weekend, will be sleeping in an underground billet, in an old military/naval location 100's of years old, overlooking the sea. And does this about eight times a year. He always bring someone with him too. Because of the strange noises.

See? He won't tell us

Dohnjoe

sentient_6 wrote: »

Second time in this thread I'm mentioning this podcast, check out Casefile ep 81 Brian Wells.

I don't think that's a mystery any more. Marjorie planned, Rothstein built the bomb. And they used a few "extras" to help.

chicorytip

Padre Pio. How have so many been fooled by this aul fraud? That's a real unsolved mystery.Stigmata, how are ya. He was cutting himself. About as genuine as an apparition of the Virgin Mary appearing on a gable wall in Knock.

Cheerful Spring

For those of you who are fascinated by Ancient Egypt. Robert Schoch was on the Joe Rogan Podcast discussing the issues with Egyptologists dogma and the dating of the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Schoch is an academic who teaches at Boston University. When he went to Egypt and carried out scientific experiments he dated the Sphinx to about 10,000 years old ( 7,000 years before the accepted dogma date)

fxotoole

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

For those of you who are fascinated by Ancient Egypt. Robert Schoch was on the Joe Rogan Podcast discussing the issues with Egyptologists dogma and the dating of the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Schoch is an academic who teaches at Boston University. When he went to Egypt and carried out scientific experiments he dated the Sphinx to about 10,000 years old ( 7,000 years before the accepted dogma date)

So the 7000 year figure might be out by a couple of thousand years. Big whoop. It's still a fairly accurate estimate. What's 3000 years between friends?

ohnonotgmail

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

For those of you who are fascinated by Ancient Egypt. Robert Schoch was on the Joe Rogan Podcast discussing the issues with Egyptologists dogma and the dating of the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Schoch is an academic who teaches at Boston University. When he went to Egypt and carried out scientific experiments he dated the Sphinx to about 10,000 years old ( 7,000 years before the accepted dogma date)

Who thinks the sphinx is only 3000 years old? 4500-5000 is closer to the generally accepted age. Schoch is also not an egyptologist and nobody really takes him seriously.

kirk buttercup

fxotoole wrote: »

So the 7000 year figure might be out by a couple of thousand years. Big whoop. It's still a fairly accurate estimate. What's 3000 years between friends?

its out by "at least" 7000 years and if you listen to the show this changes a lot of what was believed ,Also he was fairly ridiculed throughout his career for making these claims . It's a very interesting podcast .

Are Am Eye

Stone Age, Hunter Gatherers built the Pyramids. Fair play to them. They must
have had help from aliens.

Zubeneschamali

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

When he went to Egypt and carried out scientific experiments he dated the Sphinx to about 10,000 years old ( 7,000 years before the accepted dogma date)

I think you mean 10,000 BCE rather than 10,000 years ago.

Schoch does not understand about the aliens and stargates, though.

Ipso

This is discussed in more detail in the History forum.
Schoch also seems to have some new agey influences which is always a good sign of an attention seeker.
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/robert-schoch-visits-joe-rogan-to-relive-the-past-and-rehash-old-ideas

Are Am Eye

The pyramids didn't happen in isolation.
They were part of a chain of events. Development of farming in the Nile Valley.
Large pubic engineering projects - Irrigation.
Outside the harvesting season burgeoning population now kept busy at public engineering project ie building a pyramid.
They had their own chronology based on the reign of their Pharaohs. Both in their own writing and in the writing of other peoples these Pharaohs are referenced and also overlap with other known kings and dated events.

oneilla

Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion

A bizarre disruption of a US broadcast that's never been explained. Statue of limitations have passed and noone has claimed credit for it.

NoviGlitzko

The Voynich manuscript

Capt'n Midnight

How hats were placed atop the Easter Island statues

"Even in the case of the most massive pukao that was brought to the top of the tallest statue, 10 people likely could have rolled it up a ramp with reasonable dimensions," Mr Hixon explained.

Ipso

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

How hats were placed atop the Easter Island statues

By people, he obviously meant Alien people.