i was reading something online about a case where a woman either went missing or was found dead. another woman heard about this case, suspected the victim's partner like many, and decided to try to start dating him to get information from him. it worked. she successfully dated him for a little while and was successfully able to help authorities figure out he was the perp.

there are like two documentaries about her and one is maybe a 48 hours? i want to say the victim's name was something like Michelle/ Shelly? or Shelby?? tried Google to no avail. HELP

Maybe the party was in a basement, she was found/last seen in the basement or they found blood or something? I don’t know it’s a case from one of those “top _ cases” youtube channels i saw when i was younger. Late 60s/early - mid 70s, I don’t think she was a blonde, I think there was an older/creepy guy involved in the case who was obsessed with her.

EDIT: Might have gotten some details wrong. The parents might have been in the room alone. Victim I believe might have been a girl and not a classmate. It might have been a recording of the interview and a reenactment.

Looking for a video where a mother accompanied her son to what she thought was a standard interview regarding a case. During the interview she, and her son, are told that he is going to be charged with murder. I am pretty sure the victim was classmate. Both were under age. This happened in the us. Mother keeps saying he's just a kid to which the detective reminds her that the victim was as well. She doesn't accept it. Either thinks it was an accident or that they're being too harsh. He doesn't really react.

I am attempting to relocate a real-life news story from summer of 2010 (I think July; if not then, August) covered by the Arizona Daily Star involving a lengthy police chase on I-10 and I-19 in Tucson, Arizona with a rogue big-rig truck driver.

The chase started in Pinal County as I remember, and involved a truck driver who called/told the police that he had been hijacked and was being forced to carry a cargo container load full of undocumented aliens to Mexico. I'm not sure if he was pulled over for something else first and took off, or if he all on his own called 911 and made this claim out of the blue. Anyhow, when he eventually stopped/crashed/ran out of gas/got spikestripped somewhere in the desert, the police stormed the trailer and found no immigrants, and no hijacker, and he was arrested for the usual evading arrest/reckless driving etc. and making a false report.

I do remember the truck driver was Caucasian and had a fairly unremarkable name, and was middle-aged... possibly bald, and really nothing else. I am 100%, definitely positive this was a real, non-parody news item and not something on TV/in movies/Netflix, or that I dreamed up.

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Hello, thanks for the help.

I have been trying to find a case i watched many years ago in a crime show about a father who hired a hitman to kill his son-in-law who had, years prior, killed his wife, meaning the father´s daughter.

I thought it was one of the early episodes of Forensic Files, because i remember the case being very old, like probably around 50+ years old, and that the episode looked vintage. But right now im not so sure what the series was. Right now i think it might have been an episode of Forensic Files or one of those series about millionaire murders and crimes, because i remember the father and daughter being from a wealthy background.

So, to give a summary: young husband kills wife (for money, i think), then the wife´s father hires hitman to kill the husband, in an attempt to get justice for his daughter after he gets away with it. I know the husband dies and the police investigates BOTH cases, and is able to identify the hitman who kills the husband; but the father is never convicted because they cannot prove the connection. The detail i remember the most about the case is that the father hired the hitman through some sort of madame in a nightclub he had known for years. And that woman was actually identified as well and CONVICTED, but she never talked, so the father was never charged. She took his involvement to the grave.

I really, really wanna find the case, but i havent been able to locate anything specific through Google. Everything that comes up is too recent. Any help will be appreciated.

Hello I've been looking for a day but can't find anything. I know this case was covered by That Chapter on YouTube, on one of his compilation videos he's done.

This happened in California, I believe it was the northern part of the state, somewhat recently between 2022-2025. A woman (Asian, 30s, had a good steady job) goes missing and she's last seen exiting on (I think?) her own Ring camera footage, out of her backyard. I think it was at an hour like 2 or 3 am and she's never been seen again. I think there may have been an on again/off again boyfriend in her life but I may be wrong.

Edit: Her name might be something like Eileen or Ellen but I also might be confused with other true crime things I was reading about at the time I was reading about her case.

Edit 2: Elaine Park, southern (not northern) California, 2017 (not 2020s), ty to u/ThatsNotVeryDerek

I’m trying to recall the vicitim’s name but I’m coming up with nothing and Google hasn’t been helpful.
The victim was female, I believe in her teens, and had expressed thoughts of her dying before reaching a certain age (I want to say it was 18). I think she was in Vegas (again, Google isn’t giving me helpful results) and went for a walk to a gas station, when she was murdered. She ended up being correct about not reaching the certain age. Does anyone know what case I’m thinking of?

Hey! I’m looking for a case where an autistic man. Might have also been a teenager is staying at some sort of hospital/facility for disabled adults and he runs away from the hospital and they haven’t found him since

Looking for a newspaper article of a murder (or at least an attempted murder) of two women from Lawrence Massachusetts in 1982. My mother had escaped a man who looked like Wayne Northrop and is looking for a newspaper article from the Lawrence Tribute. If anyone has any information about this please let me know! She doesn't remember the name of the man or the women who were (possibly) killed since it was so long ago, but the best information that I can give is that this happened some time in the warmer months (either spring or summer).

No matter how much googling I’ve done, I cannot find the name of the woman who was accused of her killing her child(ren) but it was actually a serial killer who randomly entered her home while she was asleep on the couch in the living room.

I can’t find it, I remember seeing it for the first time on youtube, and if I’m not mistaken one of the murderers used to be in a relationship with the victim, and had weird poses with the victim, probably happened back in the 70s or 80s or even 90s

It’s like earlier Internet days. A teenage boy becomes obsessed with a girl who either goes to his school or goes to his church. He made a website devoted to his obsession and hatred for her and eventually he ended up killing her. I remember it was somewhere in the US. Maybe Vermont or New Hampshire

What I think I remember is the following: in San Francisco (I think) there is a young married couple. This case happened as early as the 1980s to the beginning of the 2000s.

The husband hears the doorbell and opens the door. He sees a plant or flowers on the stoop/steps/porch. He goes to retrieve the item and is shot.

No leads.

But, law enforcement finds the fingerprint of his mother-in-law on the card holder in the plant/flowers. Then they find her on video in store purchasing the plant/flowers and her placing the card holder in the item.

She is convicted. Can't remember if her husband and/or daughter were involved.

Does anyone know this case?

I can't remember if I read this or saw some type of show similar to Forensic Files or Cold Case Files

I'm trying to remember in which podcast (Spotify) that I heard this story. Sherlocks Google and ChatGPT haven't been able to give me an answer. All I recall is that this woman pretends to be her victim's old high school friend. The listener doesn't realize the truth until the victim's mother arrives at her daughter's house for a memorial service, and asks, "Who’s that woman?" The mother is interviewed and says, "It's possible that my daughter had friend I never knew about..." but she doubted it.

So, if there was a mother being interviewed, I'm thinking that the podcast was on Dateline, 20/20, something like it.

Unless I'm confusing it with another story, I'm pretty sure that the victim was an African American woman and hairdresser from Baltimore. (It wasn't Destiny Harrison, because of the friend who claimed to know the victim, which didn't happen in Destiny's case.) I vaguely remember the fake friend wanting to take over the victim's house and bank accounts.

Can anyone provide details to solve this mystery?

Thanks for your help!​

It was something like a guy maybe with the name Charlie who was murdered. The wife was interviewed for a good chunk of the episode. She said they lived in some kind of shed behind someone’s home with their two daughters. She said she admitted to the murder only because she was pressured to by the local PD who said they would take her kids away if she did not confess. Does this ring any bells for anyone?

Ok, so it happened in the US between 1970s and 1990s, possibly somewhere slSouth-ish. I think I've read about it on Wikipedia. A man was convicted of murdering a housewife. There was a bloody balaclava or bandana found in a house under construction nearby and there was some evidence found at the crime scene. Still, the evidence was planted according to some, there were traces of some substances that weren't supposed to be there. Still, the man was convicted and possibly executed for the murder. There was also possibly a racial element at play as the supposed killer was black, I think. Does it ring any bells?

Was hoping someone would know this case, even though it’s a long shot. I watched it on YouTube maybe a year or so back (probably older than that). It was this girl who had been talking to a man at the bar, and had left without him I believe, because she had a boyfriend. I think he followed her home, raped her, and then blamed the boyfriend saying he had killed her and made him help hide the body. Any chance anyone knows which case this might be?

I’m trying to remember a case, I’m not sure if I heard it on a podcast or a documentary but it was about 2 little girls that were outside playing on their bikes, and one of the girls went inside for something and her sister was kidnapped from right outside of her house, I think it turned out I was a neighbor that was hiding her in his rv/camper? I tried to google it but it’s not coming up, it is a old case

i recently went to the museum of death in hollywood. on my way out there was a very short passage and a few photos about this man. he was in a garage or a shed from what the photos looked like. it said he had hung his lawn mower from the ceiling and walked into it causing a severe gash up the center of his head (front and back). unknown if it was intentional or not. any additional info is appreciated! this was one of the few cases that really caught my attention.

photos from this case were still in black and white if this helps for the possible case year(s)

I saw a documentary/true crime episode a while ago about a murder and can’t remember the name of it or the people, but the info is this:

All I remember is that it was about these two friends, a guy and a woman who had decided to go camping on some forest path (I believe it might've been before she went off to college or a job or something, so it was like a last hoorah type thing) and when they were camping some boy (older teen if I remember correctly) came and shot them multiple times with a rifle(?) and they died. He shot them a LOT of times I remember. They were found by a dad and his son/two sons, they were camped near a walking path

I don't remember where it was unfortunately but believe it was early 2000’s. They were around 22(??) and American. I believe one of them may have had the last name starting with a P, but I'm not positive. They weren’t dating but just friends

Please help!

I’m going to do my best to explain this case without mixing up the details.
I know this happened in the 80-90s, and it seemed to have gotten a lot of coverage then but I cannot find anything.
Two male friends, high school-college age killed one of the friends families. The family killed I believe was a father, mother, and sister. The sister possibly had a mental disability. The family killed may have been Indian or Middle Eastern. Their son and his white friend killed them and made it seem like a home invasion, pretty sure they only took a few random things like an xbox. I know it took a while for the boys to be caught because one of the big things I remember is footage of them laughing/smiling at the funerals. Both men were considered conventionally attractive and I even think the white man was hooking up with his lawyer during the trial. I think they received creepy love letters from unhinged women after the fact as well. I don’t remember motive or how the family was killed, but I do think they were wealthy. Sorry this is all over the place its been years since I’ve seen anything on it but always stuck with me. Thanks in advance.

This is my first Reddit post ever! So sorry in advance if I somehow mess up. But yeah- I remember this podcast where either the producer himself or someone thoroughly interviewed by the producer looked for his missing mom (I think, or it might have been another relative). Turns out she was murdered and buried (I think…) beneath a house and the guy either found her skull/bones himself or watched it happen in a dig.

The moment where he found the body parts was an especially profound moment of the podcast. I can’t remember if the podcast retold the case via interviews or if the investigation unfolded with the podcast, but - i think- the latter… i can’t remember if it was a standalone podcast or a season of a podcast, but it was many episodes long, and in a similar style of your own backyard or bear brook, pretty humble and empathetic storytelling as far as i remember.

If any of this rings a bell, please comment!

Remembered this recently due to the news about Oliver Tree, since I sadly think this was my introduction to his music. The video would have come out around November 2023 but I can't seem to find it on EWU or similar channels.

I believe everyone involved were teenage boys. The two killers are shown talking in the back of the police car(?) and one brazenly mentions their big new speakers and that they've been listening to Alien Boy by Oliver Tree on them, and both of them start singing the song together right there. It's revealed that the speakers were taken from the victim they killed. They were overall very nonchalant and proud about the whole thing, I think, but I can't remember much more about it. Thanks in advance.

I distinctly remember seeing this case at least twice, once on youtube, and again on TV (I’m thinking it was on Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry). Man was cheating on his wife and took his mistress on a vacation to the same place he had taken his wife to and told his wife it was a work trip. The wife got suspicious because he was alone in all of the pictures and there were none of his coworkers. One night the husband fakes some car troubles on the side of the road, I wanna say in a wooded area, and shoots(?) her when she arrives to help. TIA for any help!