What are some of the most bizarre unsolved crimes/cases
Dec 9, 2019 7:22:19 GMT
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Post by hi224 on Dec 9, 2019 7:22:19 GMT
On December 12th, 2014, a teenager in Pennsylvania called 911 after he stumbled across a woman's head in the woods near a rural road. The head had been professionally embalmed, but curiously, the eyes had been replaced with rubber balls. The entire cervical spine had been carefully cut out and removed, leading detectives to believe that the head was involved in the sale and trade of human body parts. Authorities were unable to obtain DNA from the head due to the embalming chemicals that were used, but they were able to obtain the victim's dental records. A sketch and a bust of the woman were released in an attempt to identify her. Despite these efforts, law enforcement has not been able to figure out who the head belonged to in life or how it came to end up in the woods.
www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-bodies-head-specialreport-idUSKBN1D21B4
In June, 1836, three Scottish boys stumbled upon a small cave with slabs of rock covering the entrance. When they moved the slabs aside to look inside, they found what appeared to be a shrine of some sort, complete with 17 dolls inside of miniature coffins. Whoever made the dolls and the coffins had put considerable time and effort into their craftsmanship. Each doll had been carefully carved out of wood, and wore a complete set of cotton clothes. The coffins were carved out of wood, and decorated with pieces of tin. They had seemingly been put inside the cave over a period of time; some of them were old and rotted, while some appeared to have been placed there recently. To this day, no one is quite sure who made the dolls and the coffins, or why they were placed inside the cave.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/edinburghs-mysterious-miniature-coffins-22371426/
On May 6, 2014, in a quiet neighborhood on Lake Oconee in Georgia, two friends of Russ and Shirley Dermond came to their house to check up on them after the couple had failed to show up to a party several days earlier. They called 911 after making a grisly discovery in the garage. Behind one of the couple's cars lay the body of 88 year old Russ. He had been decapitated. He was lying in a small pool of blood, and towels had been placed under him to prevent blood from seeping out of the garage door. Detectives at the scene were unable to find anything out of place in the house; nothing was stolen, and there were no signs of forced entry. 87 year old Shirley was still missing until her body was discovered ten days later in Lake Oconee, 5 miles away from the Dermond house. She had died of blunt force trauma to the head, and her body had been weighted down with cinderblocks before being dumped in the lake. Detectives were unable to determine where exactly the murders occurred, as little to no forensic evidence was found on the Dermond property. The Dermonds had no known enemies, and while they were well off financially, they were not ostentatiously rich. The case remains unsolved, and no leads have been made public.
www.macon.com/news/local/crime/article228972684.html
www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-bodies-head-specialreport-idUSKBN1D21B4
In June, 1836, three Scottish boys stumbled upon a small cave with slabs of rock covering the entrance. When they moved the slabs aside to look inside, they found what appeared to be a shrine of some sort, complete with 17 dolls inside of miniature coffins. Whoever made the dolls and the coffins had put considerable time and effort into their craftsmanship. Each doll had been carefully carved out of wood, and wore a complete set of cotton clothes. The coffins were carved out of wood, and decorated with pieces of tin. They had seemingly been put inside the cave over a period of time; some of them were old and rotted, while some appeared to have been placed there recently. To this day, no one is quite sure who made the dolls and the coffins, or why they were placed inside the cave.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/edinburghs-mysterious-miniature-coffins-22371426/
On May 6, 2014, in a quiet neighborhood on Lake Oconee in Georgia, two friends of Russ and Shirley Dermond came to their house to check up on them after the couple had failed to show up to a party several days earlier. They called 911 after making a grisly discovery in the garage. Behind one of the couple's cars lay the body of 88 year old Russ. He had been decapitated. He was lying in a small pool of blood, and towels had been placed under him to prevent blood from seeping out of the garage door. Detectives at the scene were unable to find anything out of place in the house; nothing was stolen, and there were no signs of forced entry. 87 year old Shirley was still missing until her body was discovered ten days later in Lake Oconee, 5 miles away from the Dermond house. She had died of blunt force trauma to the head, and her body had been weighted down with cinderblocks before being dumped in the lake. Detectives were unable to determine where exactly the murders occurred, as little to no forensic evidence was found on the Dermond property. The Dermonds had no known enemies, and while they were well off financially, they were not ostentatiously rich. The case remains unsolved, and no leads have been made public.
www.macon.com/news/local/crime/article228972684.html