re: Any true crime cold cases interest you, involve or bother/terrify you?

Finding out what really happened in the West Memphis 3 case, too bad the police screwed it up so bad.

I'm watching a documentary on Sundance about the killing of Ken Rex McElroy in Skidmore Missouri.

He was a horrible person. So the entire town decided to kill him. And it left a stain on the town and people that never did anything about it.

It's a fascinating story.

Eta: it's called No One Saw a Thing

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Listening to a podcast now on the Zodiac Killer. Dude was a crazy mother fricker

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Zodiac is the one that intrigues me the most. Nobody knows for sure who he is/was and as long as it's been unsolved I seriously doubt it will be solved------much like Jack The Ripper who terrorized London in the late 1800's.

There's lots of theories about who the killer may have been, but no definitive proof, so the Zodiac goes unsolved for the time being.

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Susan Powell

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I remember this case. The husband ended up killing himself and the kids.

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Was your ex also a hooker? 

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She was very involved in the east coast music scene in the early 1990s, knew a lot of people. Think "discount courtney love", and that sums her up. She was also 11 years older than me, I was 24 at the time of our relationship.

She had a lot of pictures with the girl, and that girls ex who was involved in a well known band in the area.

Johnny Gosch

12 year old paperboy kidnapped during his route in West Demoines, Iowa, and one of the first children to be featured on the missing children milk cartons. Quite a few documentaries, podcasts, and youtube series about this kid. There's a Netflix documentary called "Who Took Johnny" that's pretty good.

Explanations for his kidnapping are all over the place...anything from a random guy to a victim of an underground sex ring run by politicians

Missing 2 year old Sky Metawala

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On the morning of November 6, 2011, Sky Elijah Metalwala of Washington,disappeared. Reportedly sick, his mother Julia Biryukova said she put him and his older sister in the car along a Bellevue street to go to a nearby hospital; along the way she stated that she ran out of gas, leaving Sky in the car while she went to get help. She said that when she returned after being gone about an hour and a half, he was gone. He has not been seen since.

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The mom is certifiably nuts ( seriously, mentally ill and obsessive) and was never charged with anything. Her story is a lie, was proved to be a lie and they just let her get away with it all.

shite there's so many good ones. Most of my favs were covered by Unsolved Mysteries in the 80's and 90's.

Here's some random ones:

1) Rhonda Hinson - 1981 in Valdese, NC. Leaving a Christmas party late one night, 19 year old Hinson was shot and killed while driving her car. The round was fired from a high powered hunting rifle. The bullet penetrated her trunk, went through her seat and hit her in the chest. Witnesses reported seeing two white males sitting suspiciously in a car under an overpass shortly before she would have turned off the freeway onto the street. Another driver saw her car in the ditch shortly after the shooting and witnessed two white males looking at her body and trying to pull it out of the car. (The driver at the time thought it was a simple car accident and kept driving). These males were never identified nor is any motive known. Police have searched for decades for a motive and can find none. Today the PD says they believe it was a random shooting, perhaps even accidental. There were no hunting areas anywhere near so it seems unlikely to be a hunting accident - that is unless people were illegally spotlighting or something.

Hinson case on Unsolved Mysteries: Youtube

2) Mary Morris murders - 2000 in Houston, Texas. Two women by the name of Mary Morris were murdered within a short time of one another. Mary Morris (#1) was killed and her body found in a burned out car. Four days later, the second Mary Morris was also found shot in her car. One theory is that one of their husbands hired a hitman and the hitman killed the wrong Mary Morris the first time. (Oops). The husband under suspicion appeared on the UM episode to plead his case.

Morris case on Unsolved Mysteries: Youtube

3) Cindy James - Vancouver, Canada, early 1980's. Cindy James was a recent divorcee in her mid 30's. She claimed that someone was harassing her and making death threats. They would knock on her door, throw stuff through her windows, make obscene calls at all hours, leave notes on her porch, etc. The police investigated for a year and couldn't find any suspects. They spent over $1 million on the case and never witnessed an event even after countless hours of stake outs. One night Cindy was found lying on the floor in her living room with a knife stuck through her hand into the floor. Later her house was lit on fire. Finally, in 1989 Cindy was found dead. She was bound in rope, hands behind her back tied to her feet. But the cause of death was an overdose on opiates. Personally, I think this is a classic case of Munchausen's syndrome. If any of you baws think you've seen crazy, watch this case. (Even Druid Focket ain't on par with her). Honestly, I am not laughing. The poor woman was pretty sick, imo. Had a breakdown after her divorce. (Notice her ex husband never appeared on the segment).

Cindy James case on Unsolved Mysteries: Youtube

Some strange unsolved murders in Bardstown, KY

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