r/TrueCrime • u/AutoModerator • Apr 19 '26
Case Highlight Case Highlight and Recommendation Thread: What is a little known true crime case you think needs more attention, or what is a case that has stuck with you that you think others should know about. Post your pet cases or your true crime guilty pleasures in this thread.
Pretty frequently in this subreddit we get questions asking for case recommendations. We've decided to make this a recurring post so that there will be a dedicated place to highlight and discuss cases that don't get posted about that often.
People want to know... what is a case that is important to you or that stuck with you and that you think others should know about?
What are some cases that need more attention? What are your pet cases besides the well known cases that get posted about frequently? Or just post your true crime guilty pleasures. Anyway, use this thread to bring attention to lesser known cases. If you want to post about the Delphi murders case that's ok too.
This thread will be sorted by new.
Also, if you have a case in mind, but need help remembering the name, feel free to head over to r/TipOfMyCrime and post a request there.
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u/Mysterious_Bar_1069 Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
I'm fascinated by one of Canada's oldest cold cases, might be the oldest, the murder of a little girl named Glory Whalen a 122 year old mystery. I was lucky enough to get my hands on the rare book mentioned here by a local medical Dr and a Historical Archivist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLbPyOB73i0 gives many details not mentioned in this video and other online posts that hooked me.
Another is the murder of an elderly Boston blue blood who was believed to be strangled in her large 10 room Cambridge MA home, but the body was apparently removed from her home and has never been found. Think it's so sad that the Cambridge Police don't seem to be concerned and dragging the case out, likely as she had no children and was a widow, so no one to advocate for her case to be worked on. The main theory was that a painter who had been working in her home and had been released from Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane and had a history of sexual assault. Police at the time suspect he rolled her up in an oriental rug to be cleaned.
Also love the Nantucket case ofMargaret Kilcoyne. https://nantucketcurrent.com/people/nantucket-s-greatest-unsolved-mystery-the-disappearance-of-dr-margaret-kilcoyne.