Major Crimes and True Crime

A Yelp User Guessed At The Identity Of A Veteran's Killer This is Army Veteran Marbel Ramos with her roommate KC Joy. After Disappearing in May 2013, Ramos's body later turned up in Silverado Canyon. Police had no leads, until an intrepid yelp user noticed strange comments from Joy that seemed to implicate him in his roommate's death. There was a missing person report filed for California resident Maribel Ramos in May 2013, after Ramos failed to show up for several events. The body of the 36-year-old US Army veteran turned up two weeks later in Silverado Canyon. Before investigators found the veteran's body, Ramos's roommate, KC Joy, discussed the case with strangers on a Yelp thread. Yelp user Grant K. noticed how Joy referred to Ramos in the past tense and found the oversight disconcerting, as it implied the roommate was possibly nefariously involved.  Though others online defended Joy, authorities later arrested him and convicted him of murdering Ramos, ...

The disappearance of Lars Mittank in 2014 In June 2014, 28-year-old German tourist Lars Mittank traveled to the popular Golden Sands resort in Varna, Bulgaria, for a holiday with friends. After displaying unusual behaviour on the trip following a suspected beating, he bolted from the airport and was captured by cameras disappearing into a field of tall sunflowers. No trace of him has ever been found. Footage of his final known movements has been viewed over a million times on YouTube, leading to him being named ‘the world’s most famous missing tourist’. Mittank and his friends arrived in Varna, a city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, on 30th June 2014. A week later, while drinking in a bar with friends, Werder Bremen fan Mittank got into an altercation with fans of rival Bundesliga team Bayern Munich. After leaving the bar, Mittank disappeared, with his friends unable to locate him for the rest of the night.  However, he turned up at their resort room the following mornin...

The Disappearance of Brandon Swanson On May 14th, 2008, just before 2 a.m., 19-year-old Brandon Swanson drove his car into a ditch on his way home from a party in Marshall, Minnesota. Unharmed, he decided to call his parents and told them he was near Lynd, since he was unsure of his exact location. His parents Annette and Brian Swanson drove out to find Brandon, while they stayed with him on the phone. Despite his parents intensively searching for him around the area and Brandon signaling them by flashing car lights, they were unable to spot each other. Brandon decided to leave the car and walk towards the lights in the distance which he thought were of a small town of Lynd. They decided that his parents would wait for him at a parking lot of a local bar, but shortly after 2:30 am, 47 minutes into the call, they heard Brandon shout "Oh, shit!", and the connection was lost. At 6:30 am, his parents reported Brandon missing, and later that day a big search began, howeve...

Malaysia has always been known for its beautiful beaches, secluded islands, heritage sites, food and unity. But like every other country and cities in the world, Malaysia also has its own dark tales. Malaysia has its fair share of infamous murders that are downright disturbing, knowing the fact that this vast majority of murder cases could go unsolved for such a long time is indeed difficult to fathom. Here, we revisit five brutal murder cases that have dominated headlines in Malaysia in the past but are still yet to be resolved;  Nurin Jazlin Nurin JazlinSource: Lobak Merah One of the most tragic high-profile kidnapping cases that shook citizens and still remain unsolved to date is the abduction of Nurin Jazlin Binti Jazimin. On the evening of 20 August 2007, 8-year old Nurin Jazlin Jazimin requested her mother’s permission to run down to the neighbourhood’s night market and buy herself some hair clips. Her mother, Norazian Bistaman, was entertaining a guest at that time...

In 2009, Gergely Barki, a Hungarian art historian, made a remarkable discovery while watching the movie "Stuart Little" (1999). He noticed a painting titled "Sleeping Lady with Black Vase" by Róbert Berény, which had been missing for 90 years and had been used as a prop in the film. Barki, who had only seen a faded black-and-white photo of the painting from an exhibition in 1928, immediately recognized it as the original artwork. Realizing the significance of his finding, Barki promptly reached out to the film's production companies, Sony Pictures and Columbia Pictures, via a series of emails. However, it took two years for him to receive a response, which came from a former set designer who had worked on the film. According to Barki, the set designer informed him that she had acquired the painting from an antiques shop in Pasadena, California, at a bargain price. Unaware of its true value, she had thought its avant-garde elegance would be a perfect fi...

Serial killer in Japan preyed on suicidal women on twitter, kept 240 human bones at his home Twitter serial killer admits befriending victims online after nine dismembered bodies found chopped up in freezers Nov 3, 2017 - A man who allegedly hid nine dismembered bodies in his house in Tokyo’s suburb has confessed to preying on vulnerable people on social media. Police arrested 27-year-old Takahiro Shiraishi on Tuesday after an investigation into a missing woman’s case led the authorities to his door. The remains of eight women and one man were discovered in cooler boxes stored in the basement. Over the course of the past few days, Shiraishi confessed to killing and dismembering the bodies, telling the authorities he would use several Twitter accounts to seek out women with suicidal tendencies and lure them to the apartment he moved into last August. It was Shiraishi’s social media activity that eventually helped police link him to a 23-year-old woman. Worried about her disappearance, h...

The Dyatlov Pass Incident: The Mysterious 1959 Tragedy That Left 9 Dead On January 27, 1959, nine Soviet college students embarked on a journey into the Northern Urals. When they were all found dead, some had major chest fractures that could only have been caused by an immense force, comparable to that of a car crash. And in the most gruesome instance, one was missing her tongue, eyes, part of the lips, as well as facial tissue, and a fragment of her skull bone.⁠ In January of 1959, nine young Soviet hikers died under mysterious circumstances while trekking through the Ural Mountains in what's now known as the Dyatlov Pass incident. In January 1959, a 23-year-old hiker named Igor Alekseyevich Dyatlov led a journey to reach the peak of Otorten, a mountain in the Northern Urals of Soviet Russia. The young man brought a team of eight experienced hikers, many from the Ural Polytechnical Institute, along with him for the adventure. Before he left, Dyatlov had told his sports cl...

Go inside the half-century-long mystery of the Dylatov Pass Incident. On January 27, 1959, nine Soviet college students embarked on a journey into the Northern Urals. When they were all found dead, some had major chest fractures that could only have been caused by an immense force, comparable to that of a car crash. And in the most gruesome instance, one was missing her tongue, eyes, part of the lips, as well as facial tissue, and a fragment of her skull bone.⁠ Go inside the half-century-long mystery of the Dylatov Pass Incident.⁠ Aron Ralston — the man behind the true story of 127 Hours — drank his own urine and carved his own epitaph before amputating his arm in a Utah canyon. After seeing the 2010 film 127 Hours, Aron Ralston called it “so factually accurate it is as close to a documentary as you can get and still be a drama,” and added that it was “the best film ever made.” Starring James Franco as a climber who is forced to amputate his own arm after a canyoneering accide...

Have you guy's heard of this case? It's a wierd one. Christopher Thompkins was a 20 year old young man living with his mother. He was working in a wooded area near County Line Road off of Warm Springs Road in Harris County, Georgia, on January 25, 2002.  He was accompanied by three co workers, all of whom worked approximately 50 feet from one another. One of the co workers looked away from Christopher for a split second; by the time he glanced at his area again, Christopher had disappeared. His tools were scattered, and he was nowhere to be seen. It didn't make any sense to the co workers as they would have seen him, It was flat terrain. The co workers called his name and searched for him but what they found is quite strange. They found one of Christopher's work boots on top of a barbed wire fence that ran through the area as well as his work pants on the same barbed wire fence with 12 cents scattered on the ground. The co workers called police approximately...

Death of Lazarus Averbuch "This is an account of a 1908 murder in Chicago.  But is also the story of what may be the most bizarre newspaper photo ever published (that’s Averbuch’s corpse in the photo). Lazarus Averbuch was an 18 year old immigrant from Ukraine. One morning he went to the home of Chicago’s police chief.  The police chief shot the young man dead in his doorway.  Was it self defense, as the chief claimed?  Or “profiling” of a poor, Eastern European immigrant?" Lazarus “Jerome” Averbuch (1889–1908) was a 19-year-old  Russian-born Jewish immigrant to Chicago who was shot and killed by Chicago Chief of Police George M. Shippy on March 2, 1908.. The incident occurred during an era of public fear of foreign-born anarchists in the United States, following their involvement with the Haymarket affair in 1886. The exact circumstances of the shooting remain contested, but Averbuch's death has inspired speculation, ideological arguments, and works o...

This picture shows the sadistic killer viewing the headless body of his victim in the morgue This man, named Arthur Eggers, was convicted of brutally killing his wife after an argument and going into a fit of rage. He was known as a mild mannered and friendly man by others who knew him. He beheaded his wife, Dorthey Eggers, cut off her hands and drove her to the mountains to dispose her remains in several places. He wanted to cover his tracks anyway he could by taking her miles away from the crime scene and hiding her where he thought she could never be found. Fortunately her body was recovered but the head and hands were not found as he had disposed of them in the heavily wooded mountain ravines in different locations.  is a woman, it is the right picture I researched it more to make sure) Investigation In January 1946, hikers came across a woman’s body, wrapped in a blanket, in a very remote area of the San Bernardino Mountains in California. The head and hands had been ...

A woman who went missing more than four decades ago in upstate New York has been found in an assisted-living facility in Massachusetts, authorities said. Florence “Flora” Stevens was 36 when she disappeared on Aug. 3, 1975, the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office said. “She had been dropped off by her husband for a doctor’s appointment at Community General Hospital, which was located in Monticello at the time,” police said in a statement. “When her husband returned to pick her up, she had vanished.” Detectives periodically reviewed the case to find the missing woman, who was an employee at the Concord Hotel, but were never able to develop leads. On Sept. 15, the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by a New York State Police investigator who said a set of unidentified skeletal remains was found in southern Orange County. The woman whose body had been dumped roughly matched Stevens’ general characteristics, and the investigator was hoping that any living relatives could...

Child Murdered By His Father For Discovering Disturbing Images In 2012, Dylan Redwine was a 13 year old boy living with his mother Elaine and brother Cory, in Monument, Colorado. His parents had divorced and so he had court ordered visits to his father Mark Redwine, who lived in La Plata County, a rugged and mountainous area of Southwest Colorado. However, Dylan did not enjoy these visits and in fact had avoided seeing his father for months. This was due to an incident which had occurred at his father’s home the year prior, this incident had ruined both the relationship and the image that Dylan had of his father. In June of 2011, Dylan had visited his father’s home with his older brother Cory and had been using their father’s laptop, when the boys had accidentally discovered some disturbing images on there. As Mark Redwine slept, the boys locked themselves in the bathroom to look more closely at the shocking images. There on the screen was their father Mark dressed in a wig and women’s...

In 2000, a seven years old Brittany Renee Williams vanished in Virginia. But now, she's just been found - by herself  While researching information on her biological family, Kaylynn Stevenson began to remember long-forgotten details of her childhood. Though she grew up in an independently-run foster home in Henrico, Virginia, she remembered the name Williams. And when she did a quick Google search for “Williams” and “missing children,” she saw her own childhood photo appear. All at once, she realized that she was Brittany Renee Williams, the 7-year-old who vanished in 2000.  See the photos and learn more about how Kaylynn Stevenson cracked her own 21-year-old cold case — by clicking the link in our bio. In August 2000, seven-year-old Brittany Renee Williams vanished into thin air. She had been living at an independent foster home in Henrico, Virginia, where its owner, Kim Parker, treated her for AIDS. Presumed dead without her medication, Williams hadn’t been seen in 21 years ...

Tourist in Bali Caught On Closed Beach In Tabanan 2 years ago, Tourist in Bali Caught On Closed Beach In Tabanan Some tourists still aren’t getting the message that beaches are closed in Bali.  An unidentified female tourist in distress was spotted by locals using the beach in Tabanan. A local Bali resident at the scene reported that when they approached the woman to find out why she was digging frantically in the sand, she told them she had lost her phone.  The tourist said that she had buried her phone so that she could swim in the ocean but when she returned to retrieve it, the waves had gone over where she had burried it.  Instead of being scolded by residents for using the beach, locals helped join the hunt for the missing phone with one resident even getting a shovel to help dig.  There is no word on if the woman found her phone or why she was in her underwear on the beach.  Last month, tourists caught surfing by local officials refused to st...

Missing Florida Woman Found Inside Her Car After 9months Underwater(Pics) The nearly nine-month search for a missing Boca Raton, Florida woman came to a close this weekend, thanks to Hurricane Irma preparations. Workers were draining the Boca Rio Canal on Saturday, ahead of the big storm, when they discovered a car that was hidden beneath the surface of the water. Inside the car was the body of 47-year-old Lori Feliciano-Pino, who had been missing since December. Lori's family learned about the discovery on Facebook, after gathering together to wait out the storm. Lori's sister Rosannie Feliciano says she was cooking food when the power went out, and another sister saw a photo of the car on Facebook. People had started commenting on the photo that it looked like the 2011 gray Toyota RAV4. Rosannie called the detective assigned to her sister's case, but didn't get an answer so she left a voicemail. She says she wanted to drive out to see the car, but it was 3pm ...

Woman Laid Dead In Walmart Bathroom For 3 Days, Cops Check Her Car When a woman’s body was found locked in a Walmart bathroom, where it had been for three days, the public quickly lambasted the store, with some even blaming the big box chain for the death. Then, cops revealed what they found when they looked in the deceased woman’s car. After the discovery, should the store still carry any blame? Katherine Caraway, a 29-year-old mother-of-one in Muskogee, Oklahoma, stunned the world when she was found dead in a Walmart bathroom just outside of Tulsa. Making the discovery even more horrific, the deceased woman’s body had been locked in the private family bathroom of the Sand Springs store for three days before she was found. Immediately, the public wanted answers as many pointed the finger at Walmart. Although it was initially unclear how long the mother had been in the bathroom when her body was found, it was soon revealed that employees discovered Caraway three days after she...