Your favourite unsolved mystery?

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

There were 643 suicide attempts on the tube in 2000-2010.

Or maybe the Dead Man's Handle can't handle all eventualities.

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Don't think this one has been mentioned before but I've followed it as it has meandered along over the years, not quite believing that no real progress as ever been made with regards to finding out what exactly happened to her.

It's quite disturbing and so best stop reading now if easily upset by discussions of sexual abuse and the like.

Anyway, the girl on the left in the picture below is Brittney Wood (alongside her daughter Payton) and she has been missing since the summer of 2012. She is considered to have been murdered by her extended family but no body has ever been discovered so far.





It all pretty much began around 2003 (possibly before) when her step-grandfather abused her and then subsequently was jailed for it a couple of years later. Then her two aunts (her mother's twin sisters) along one of their husbands (who was actually seeing both of the twins since they were very young themselves) began holding barbecue parties at which they would abuse many of the local neighbourhood kids (Brittney is thought to have been one of them).

Jump forward to 2012 and Brittany's uncle (her Mother's brother) goes to the Police and tells them that a 13-year-old family member (he is seeing) is being abused (I know, doesn't make much sense and he is jailed himself as a result).

While that investigation is taking place Brittany messages one of the girls who had been abused at the parties and tells her she is going to the police and blowing the whole thing open. She then drives to the Uncle's house and confronts him about what he did but is never seen again. A few days later the uncle is found with a gun shot wounds to the head consistent with suicide. The gun used was Brittney's.

I watched much of the media reports of this over the past five years or so and Brittney's mother was always very vocal about how poor a job she felt the cops knew were doing even though they jailed both her twin sisters in 2015. Then all of a sudden they arrested her and charged her with abusing kids shortly after that (which most people were shocked about) but eventually all charges were dropped.

Most of the family are locked up now for sexual abuse of minors apart from the mother but they still do not know what happened Brittney. Her mother has pretty much said publicly she believes her sister and her brother in law killed her.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a high profile documentary made about the case tbh. There certainly seems to be enough material there to fill many hours.


Heartbreaking seeing her daughter in the following recent clip mark the 5th anniversary of her disappearance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqRZvykwESM