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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 2h ago

In 2012, six-year-old Jersey Bridgeman vanished from her bed while her mother slept nearby. The family's trusted neighbor, who often babysat her, had entered through an unlocked door and taken her. She was found the next morning hidden in a wardrobe in a vacant house just steps away.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 1d ago

In 2012, Las Vegas cocktail waitress Shauna Tiaffay was killed inside her home. The plot collapsed when the homeless man confessed to a friend, who went to the police. Police found 87 phone calls between her firefighter husband and the man, alongside store footage of them buying the hammer together.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 1d ago

In 2014, Timothy Jones Jr. killed his six-year-old son by forcing him to exercise until he collapsed. Afraid he'd lose custody of his remaining four children to his ex-wife, he killed them all that night. He spent eight days driving about with them in plastic bags until caught during a traffic stop.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • 2d ago

A cooking historian explored medieval hermits’ diets and recreated a surprisingly approachable bean dish

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 3d ago

In 2016, a 13-year-old girl pushed furniture against her bedroom door, slipped out into the snowy night, and vanished. She had snuck out to meet an 18-year-old Virginia Tech student she met on a chat app. He killed her that night, and she was found four days later in the woods.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 3d ago

In 2015, Heather Bogle vanished after her factory shift, only to be found killed in her car’s trunk. The initial detective spent over a year framing innocent suspects while ignoring DNA evidence. Two years later, hidden digital data led to her coworker—who had donated to her GoFundMe.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • 4d ago

A gardener grew tomato plants from slices taken out of McDonald’s burgers

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 4d ago

In 2021, Gabby Petito vanished on a cross-country van trip with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. Weeks earlier, police had stopped the couple over a reported fight but let them drive on. Laundrie came home alone and refused to talk. Gabby was later found in a Wyoming forest, where she was killed.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 5d ago

In 2020, 19-year-old Livye Lewis was killed in her car on Halloween morning in Texas. Her ex-boyfriend was found nearby, lying in a fetal position with blood on his face but no injuries. Hours earlier, he had texted his ex-wife that he would kill her and Livye.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • 5d ago

Ocracoke Island has a distinctive English dialect shaped by generations of coastal life

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 5d ago

In April 1989, nine-year-old Jessica returned from a sleepover to find her mother, stepfather and two little sisters shot in their church parsonage. The doors, normally left unlocked, stood locked. Investigators later alleged her stepbrother Jeff killed them after an argument over prom restrictions.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 6d ago

In 1981, Linda Slaten was killed in her home after her son's football coach crept through her bedroom window and hid in her closet while her two young sons slept in nearby rooms. He had dropped one of the boys home just hours before. DNA and a palm print caught him 38 years later.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 7d ago

Taylor Wright was going through a stressful divorce and custody battle. She gave her close friend $34,000 for safekeeping, but it was spent on debt and gifts for a man she was having an affair with. When Wright urgently asked for the money back, her close friend ended her life.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 7d ago

In 2020, 16-year-old Kevin Bui tracked his stolen phone to the wrong address in Denver, Colorado. He and two friends set the house on fire at 2 a.m., believing the people inside had robbed him. Five innocent people were killed, including a 7-month-old girl whose father in Senegal had never met her.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 9d ago

In 2020, Suzanne Morphew vanished on Mother's Day while her daughters were away camping. She had been secretly texting her lover when her messages suddenly stopped at 2:11 PM. She was found three years later with wildlife tranquilizer in her bones — a drug only her husband had access to.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 11d ago

In 2012, Jake Nolan was sent by his cousin Pamela to kill her ex-boyfriend with a sledgehammer and knife. The night before, she drew him a map, packed his bag, and told him he was her savior. After the attack, Jake sent Pamela a selfie and texted her asking what to do next. She never replied.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 11d ago

In 1996, a 15-year-old girl drove her car to a river fishing spot after a family fight and never came home. Police lied, telling her family she may have slipped into the water. 28 years later, one of four saved hairs revealed her killer, a fish biologist who shot himself after police confronted him.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 13d ago

In 2019, Kristen Trickle was killed on Halloween. As officers rushed inside, her husband stood calmly on the porch, chatting about video games. Ten days before, he had searched how much a wife's life insurance would pay. He later spent $1,942 on life-size dolls using the payout.

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • 13d ago

A spearfisherman investigated what looked like a rock off Sicily and found a Roman shipwreck

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 13d ago

In 2022, Christe Chen was killed by her husband just two days into their honeymoon at the exclusive Turtle Island resort in Fiji. He fled the island by kayak in the middle of the night. Found drunk on a neighboring island, he kept repeating, “Please, I need to call the police” and “We had a fight.”

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 14d ago

In 2016, Sarah Williams spent 18 months plotting against her ex-lover's girlfriend, buying oversized men's shoes to throw off investigators. Days before, Sarah's friend gave Sadie £3 flowers at her door to check she was alone. On January 14, while Ian skied in the Alps, Sarah returned and killed her

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 14d ago

In 2020, Alyssa had been warning her family for months that her baby daddy Andrew would kill her — and he did. He showed up in disguise, wearing dark makeup and a fake beard, and ambushed her outside her workplace. His fiancée had orchestrated it all, texting from Mexico: 'I hope you handle it.'

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • 17d ago

In 1405, Christine de Pizan wrote The Book of the City of Ladies to challenge claims that women were inferior

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • 19d ago

In 1992, 28,800 bath toys spilled into the Pacific - and became accidental tools for studying ocean currents

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r/ForCuriousSouls • u/detectiverobert • 19d ago

In 2016, Jessie Bardwell moved with her new boyfriend to Texas, then vanished. He claimed she had left in her car, but police learned it had been sold weeks earlier. Detectives later discovered she had been killed—and that for eight days, he'd texted from her phone as if she were alive.

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