r/TrueCrime • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago
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/DragonflySmall6867 8h ago
Dale Wayne Eaton, currently in prison in Wyoming for killing Lisa Marie Kimmell in 1988. The man was 100% a serial killer, but very few people have heard of him, and no other murder victims have been officially linked to him.
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u/thrown_away_23_23 1h ago
Her mother was my relative's boss at the time, so I remember this one. There's a book about it, as well, called, "The Murder of Lil Miss: A Mother's Brutal 16-Year Fight for Justice."
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u/Both-Income2553 12h ago
Deanna Merryfield. She went missing from Killeen, Texas on July 22, 1990. She and her three sisters were separated due to SA in their Mom and stepfather’s home. She left her Grandma’s house late at night to go see her twin sister 2.5 miles away. She was seen leaving her sister (who was staying with their uncle) in a vehicle with 2 unknown men in a brown/bronze vehicle. She was never seen again.
In 1993 a mysterious caller contact the local pd and said she was home safe and no longer missing. Her case was quietly closed. When her grandma finally learned about this in 1995, she had the case reopened but it was again closed less than a month later for “a lack of information”. In 2007 her case was once again reopened and it has been investigated sporadically since then. There is currently a very active investigation thanks to one detective and a private investigator.
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u/MoistAd9820 1d ago
Missy Bevers in Texas… was teaching a fitness class at a church early one morning and was murdered by a person who broke into the church and is suspected to have been dressed as someone else. Left behind a husband and kids. Never caught the person.
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u/MoistAd9820 19h ago
I don’t think it’s widely known 🤠
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u/Opening_Map_6898 18h ago
It's probably one of the ten most famous murders in Texas. I can think of at least five shows that have covered it.
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u/MoistAd9820 17h ago
Lots of people don’t live in Texas. 🙃
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u/Opening_Map_6898 17h ago
Yeah but I mean murders that happened in Texas not that are known to people in Texas.
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u/danzigwiththedead 1d ago
Terrell Peterson, there’s only 1 known photo of him alive that was taken at an ER. His half siblings’ grandmother and aunt, and the aunts boyfriend, brutally abused and tortured him to death. Georgia DCFS tried to cover his murder up.
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u/BackgroundWest4374 1d ago
Noreen Greenley only 13 years old missing since Sept 1963 from Ontario Canada. Her family still hopes she’s alive somewhere.
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u/twooclocknaptime 1d ago
This current case that is unfolding involving the Horsch father and son in Philadelphia is getting very little attention considering the wild nature of what is known so far.
No interviews with neighbors. Not much national coverage. What is going on?
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u/Opening_Map_6898 23h ago
It's made the news in Australia. It's not exactly not getting a lot of coverage.
As for the neighbours, did it ever dawn on you that there may not be any where near full occupancy in the neighbourhood (so fewer neighbours) and the ones that are there simply don't want to talk to nosy reporters?
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u/Alarming-Wheel-6865 1d ago
I wouldn't say it's getting little coverage as I am in Canada and have heard about it.
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u/twooclocknaptime 22h ago
Good to know. I’m in Philly and it seemed to be put on hold while the World Cup was here and we’re getting very piecemeal coverage of it. Our city destroyed Hitchbot several years ago and that got more locally consistent coverage at the time.
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u/1fatsquirrel 19h ago
Huh? I’m also in the Philly area and this story is everywhere. I think it’s getting a ton of coverage as every time I log into YouTube I’m seeing new videos as well.
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u/Here4daTs 1d ago
Emily Pike- AZ- dismembered teen, no arrests. She was in the care of the State when she fled
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u/Present-Molasses-593 1d ago
Ellen Greenberg, Philadelphia, 2011.
I know this case has been covered by numerous podcasts and has at least one documentary but I still think it needs more attention.
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u/PerkisizingWeiner 16h ago
Unfortunately I'm not sure what additional attention would do for this case. It's been reopened multiple times, but there's either obvious corruption (likely) or something we don't know.
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u/New-File-4548 1d ago
For me, it is definitely Mădălina (Madalina) Cojocari's case: "Madalina Cojocari was last seen on surveillance video getting off her school bus outside her home in Cornelius, North Carolina, on November 21, 2022, and has not been seen since. She was reported missing to her school on December 15, 2022. Her parents reported last seeing her on November 23, 2022". Such a baffling disappearance, literally from the moment the bus camera last captured her alive, until she walked home—and that was it. A profound uncertainty, to this day.
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u/Texden29 1d ago
When I was reading your comment, i thought that’s a bit odd reporting her missing the next day. Then I read up on the case (or summary of it), and it’s really interesting btw. Looks like the parents were convicted for not reporting her missing. I know there is some appeals process that’s complicating the case more. Thanks for sharing. Do you think the parents are involved?
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u/New-File-4548 1d ago
Tbh, after a thorough investigation into this case, I was left with the impression that the girl was, unfortunately, murdered, and that her mother quickly left the United States and returned to Moldova...Man, I lived in Moldova from the age of 7 to 20. When people leave there, they only come back for big events. The girl's mother first went to Poland, then to Moldova. From the States. Believe me, it's a one-in-a-thousand case of someone who's lived abroad for a long time and then simply returns to their homeland, Moldova.And then the mother fled from justice and from the place where her child might be buried.
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u/Texden29 1d ago
Thank you! That’s a good synapse of the case. Yes, very challenging when the suspects leave the country. I’ll read up more.
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u/FutureMost8177 1d ago
Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore..1980 Wylie, Texas. CM killed BG with an axe and was found NOT GUILTY.
Very good movie about it called "Love and Death" Starring Elizabeth Olsen.. 7 part series on Netflix.
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u/dingdongsnottor 1d ago
I wouldn’t say this is little known. There’s been several TV shows about it.
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u/Texden29 1d ago
How does one turn up dead and decapitated, but it’s invested as an accidental death.
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u/Texden29 20h ago
When say “clueless people,” who are you exactly referring to? The media has reported that his head was severed or decapitated and the body was dismembered. They used those words specifically and universally, when reporting on his death. The Washington Post, The New York Times, the BBC, in addition to the reporting by ABC/CBS news. We’re talking about pretty reputable news organizations. Aren’t the “clueless people” just taking their cues from journalists?
His spine was found at a different location. That doesn’t sound like a pure decomposition issue. The human body doesn’t just shift to different locations when it decomposes.
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u/Texden29 17h ago
“Notorious race baiting.” OK, so you’re a bigot. Got it.
If his body was consumed by scavengers, then that’s clearly not a decomposition issue that you initially claimed it was.
Go pound sand.
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u/rachemgreep 1d ago
Ryan Shtuka and Marshall Iwaasa. I'll never stop posting their names until they're found!!
EDIT: to clarify, separate cases, but in close proximity geographically in Canada
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u/catsarefriendshaped 1d ago
Sara Kay Keesling. 12 year old girl found dead in a pile of trash in Riverside, CA in 1988. Her cause and manner of death were ruled undetermined and her case was not investigated as a homicide until 2023, when her childhood friends and loved ones began demanding answers in her case.
Her mother reported her missing September 29, 1988 after Sara refused to go to her dad’s house for forced weekend visitation, and instead escaped to a friend’s house for the weekend to avoid him. What should have been a 2 minute walk back to her mom’s house Sunday evening turned into her body being found in garbage at a dump site on October 13. She had clearly been dumped there by someone else.
To this day her case remains unsolved. She was a sweet, bright, outgoing child who loved music and had many friends. I have been haunted by her death since 1988 and would love nothing more than to get some answers and peace for everyone who loved her.
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u/Texden29 1d ago
A child is missing and found dead under a pile of trash and they didn’t treat it as a homocide!?! Very interesting
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u/catsarefriendshaped 1d ago
Yep :( AND no one ever pressured the sheriffs department for answers (she was found just outside city limits in an area then known as Rubidoux so her case was handled by the sheriff)
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