I can't recall whether I read about this in a magazine or heard about it in a podcast, but it went something like this...

Back when people in the general public were just beginning to access special interest groups via bulletin boards on the World Wide Web, a woman was contacted by someone who claimed to be a long-lost relative and the two developed a friendship over time.

Then, other relatives got involved in the discussion, all online and/or email, and the situation devolved into harassment, stalking and even physical threats by this group of relatives.

Things got so bad this woman was really traumatized. She turned to her best (platonic) friend — I'm pretty sure he was a queer guy, and they'd known each other for many years. He was supportive, and I think she even stayed with him for a while.

It took law enforcement a LONG time to figure out what was happening, given the era and the technology. But they finally figured it out, and ALL these "relatives" turned out to be ... (you guessed it!) her best friend. Literally just to mess with her, and see what he could get away with. He might have gone to prison. But prior to this, LE had not encountered this sort of thing before.

I'm usually extremely good at tracking stories down online, but I've had no luck with this one. Thanks!

I recall seeing this years ago and all I remember is she had black hair, pinned one of murders on one of her kids who she said pulled the trigger while he was sleeping.

Also, she was American.

Edit: it was Sharon Kinne

I just randomly thought about a youtube true crime reaction video i've watched a few years ago, but i can't remember the name of the victims or the murderers. Only info i recall from the case is that it happened in the US, the two killers were females, they assaulted their vicitim (a man) while or after he was showering, and they dismembered his body in a bath. The main thing i also remember is that one of the girl took a cops gun and shot herself when they both got arrested. If anyone knows which case i'm talking about please let me know.

i cannot for the life of me find this case I’m looking for!

All I remember is there was a gay couple and one of them went missing. Turns out he was in the basement (or attic?) and had been killed.

Does anyone know anything about this? Been scouring google but can’t find it :(

So I am unsure if I am misremembering a handful of cases and they are combining in my mind. But I swear there was a case where a girl was assaulted/murdered and stuffed in a cluttered cupboard area in a basement of her (I believe) friends house. And was found a few days later. I believ it was in the 70s-90s. Not sure exactly which decade. When I try and Google about it none of the cases really fit.

A woman in her 20s(I think) she was seen at a motel and seen at an ice cream place(?) where she walked into the woods after and her boyfriend was later found out to be messaging her mom “ransom” type messages to try and get money through cashapp. This is all I can really remember, I think the woman might have a young child?

Does anyone remember a case where a woman was on her way to court for child abuse and was shot sitting in her vehicle? I don't remember if the woman killed her child or abused/tortured the child. It was on bodycam footage on youtube or on TV but I can't find it. Someone came and shot her the morning she had court. It was vigilante justice. Her 18 year old daughter was in the front seat while she was shot and said she had been getting threats for what happened to her sibling. I remember it was some of the worst child abuse i had ever seen. I have looked everywhere so if anyone knows the case i'm talking about, is appreciate it!

Hi all, I posted this a couple of years ago but still don’t know the answer so I’m trying again! This may be tough because I remember exactly no details aside from this quote but I watched some true crime thing ages ago and they were playing voicemail messages that the (deceased) victim’s friends had left on his phone before knowing he was killed - and I distinctly remember a male friend leaving a message saying “if you don’t call me back I’m coming to beat the hell out of the door,” like he suspected something bad had already happened. The only thing I know for sure besides the message is that the victim was male.

I’ve recently listened to voicemails friends left for Travis Alexander (Jodi Arias) and Ron Goldman (OJ Simpson) and they don’t fit but I have no idea what else it could be as I’ve consumed a lot of crime content over the years. It’s driving me crazy.

I read about this case online awhile ago. I believe this happened in the 90s but could've been anywhere from the 80s to early 2000s. I think this happened in Texas but I may just have Texas in my mind because the killer wore a cowboy hat. He hung around in bars. I think this was a serial killer that was sentenced to death but I'm not sure if he was actually executed.

This guy murdered two or three women with a mattock type of tool. I remember being shocked at his cruelty. He would lure these women into a room in a house and kill them with this mattock type of weapon. The killer was a white man in his 30s or 40s. I know I don't have much info to go on but thought I'd post and see if anyone knows what case this is.

I saw this case on Unsolved Mysteries a long time ago and I'm trying to remember what case it is. A man raped his sister in law. He blindfold her and put her in his car on the floor of the passenger seat. The victim recognized that it was her brother in-law. I can't remember if he murdered her or not but he was caught and went to prison. He would up escaping and went to visit his kids one time and disappeared. I believe this case happened in the 80s and I saw it on UM in the 90s.

This was covered on Sword & Scale way back in the day, I think a two part episode. The girl was pretty young, pretty sure they were both from the US, and they spoke online before meeting where the man shot her execution style. Any ideas?

I remember a story i heard about on YouTube whilst doing a deep dive into national park mysterys, but can't remember what channel and can't find the case anywhere.

From what I remember it was about a family of 3 Mother, Father and little girl who was a toddler.

They end up in the woods somehow can't remember if it was on purpose or forced.

There vehicle was found, but I can't remember if the parents ever were.

The little girl showed up at a petrol station unharmed, when asked by people where her parents were she said "the trees took them". Or something similarly creepy.

Does anyone kniw the story?

It was in a small town I believe. I think the guy was maybe a volunteer firefighter too. Anyways, when the body was found at the place he suggested the cops decided that he must be the killer. How else would he guess that is where the body was if he wasn't the one to put it there. I can't quite remember what happened after, I think he went to jail for a while until the real killer confessed. IDK. It was an old Sword and Scale episode I think. It was a lot of the interview. And poor sap you could tell was taught just to tell the truth and police are always on your side if you've done nothing wrong.

I saw it on New Detectives, the guy was a freeloader living off his secretary wife who was inexplicably in love with him despite him not giving anything in return in the relationship. One detective said his friends described him as "Wearing gaudy clothing and saying he'd do things he never did" and had multiple failed business ventures. I remember he killed his wife because he fell in love with a girl from the UK who broke up with him because he wouldn't leave his wife and the day after the murdered she had moved to the Philippines and got married

This is a shot in the dark, but I watched a video on YouTube a couple years ago about some violent murdered where someone murdered a family and their kids, and I guess one of the kids survived and was walking around the house covered in blood, left blood on the front door, then went back in to lay next to his dead mother where he died. Anyone know which case this is? Sorry it’s so vague. I think maybe EWU posted it but I couldn’t narrow it down to which it was. I remember the kid that survived the longest and then died by his mom was a boy. Any help is appreciated.

Two men get lost and maybe die, but are found near civilisation

Im struggling to recall a story I heard on a podcast (I thought it was NPAD) maybe last year. Ive googled all sorts of things and its not coming up.

It was about 2 friends that went to the near wilderness in a vehicle who were not prepared for a hike or an overnighter. I think they were just having a mini camp out or something.

They went for a walk but then couldn't find there way back to the vehicle, and over a period of a few days kept getting more and more turned around, maybe it was a desert setting, I do recall it mentioning the heat and the lack of water they brought.

When they were later found they were not that far away from the vehicle all along.

Does anyone know what case this was?

Am I tripping? I specifically remember listening to different podcasts , YouTube videos, and other documentaries about this case only a few years ago. I’m hoping you fellow unsolved missing person case addicts will be able to help me out. It was about a girl who if I remember correctly was maybe in her 20s, she was either in college or was traveling and I don’t remember how she ended up with a specific community that she met along the way, but I remember hearing that she did. She ended up with this community and had eventually drank a tea with the other community members. I have to assume, since I can’t remember the facts or rather, speculations, that this tea was laced with some sort of psychedelic. What I remember next, is that she fled soon after consuming this tea once she began to panic.

As is the case with many missing person cases that myself, and I’m sure many of you, tend to fixate on, besides the fact she vanished, was her bizarre, erratic, and very strange behavior that she displayed prior to going missing. I remember hearing that she wound up at some sort of facility/hospital and the staff there claimed that she was claiming that there were people that were demons after her, that they lived in the community she was staying with (same one she claimed to have had the tea party with), and that they could “hear” her words and her thoughts.

I do believe she made brief contact with her parents/family members. And I don’t know how she ended up leaving this facility she wounded up at, but she did and was never seen again. I do remember being told that the community members had been questioned, but of course, it didn’t go anywhere. I remember Many speculating that it was some sort of satanic cult but of course, we never knew for sure. Which case is this? It’s driving me nuts.

I swear I read about this in late summer of 2022, there was a case in England in the late forties to late fifties where a salesman/sales associate went out on business and was found murdered at the side of the road. He always had his fountain pen with him but it wasn't on his body when he was found. The only other thing I remember about the case is that the victim was Jewish, and I think middle aged.

I was watching a video about the Nikki Catsorus case and I remembered a very similar story that hit the media around fall 2010. It happened somewhere in the south, I want to say Georgia. A young woman was driving home and died in a one-vehicle crash, I think she hit a tree. The police filmed the crime scene and remarked that they smelled alcohol and that she must have been drunk, and made very cruel remarks about her alleged stupidity and the apparently horrific state of her face. They then proceeded to leak the footage online, including graphic views of her severely damaged body, all while their condescending commentary about her played over the gruesome images. Oh and that booze they thought they smelled? It was pickle juice, she had pickle jars in her car that had broken on impact, I think she was coming home from a farmer's market

Okay so like a few years ago i SWEAR i heard of a case from maybe nick crowley that was like a man with like a low iq who wrote a song that he thought was going to change the world and it was like really bad and i think about bunnies in some way?? and someone across the world paid him to come and play it at a club or something and they ended up killing him?? Is this a crazy dream or a real case!

when i was young i watch a YouTube vid. He talk about a crime of old men or something that He kills children or fetal He dissect them film the videos and post them on a cruelty website. i can't find this men or the video that i watched i remember He was wearing a black mask and glove and I couldn't see any details of his face. He was filming in a hospital but I don't remember which one. I need your help finding any information about him. I remember that all of that happened in america

This case involves a man and woman that marry, he’s in the army and she cheats on him left and right. I think she had a son from previous relationship. He bought a house for them to live in and she had a younger man move in with them and killed the army husband. I think I remember the name Kevin. Please help

I need help on a case about a young married couple, maybe high school sweethearts that had a son and then a daughter born with down syndrome and the mother wanted nothing to do with her and I think tried to kill her husband and daughter. I think daughters name was Brittany. TIA

[Solved] I remember reading about a case a while back about a man who posted an ad or something online, inviting men to come over and have sex with him… but he was posing as a woman. I’m pretty sure he did some shaving and whatnot, and basically his ass was the only exposed part of his body. To my recollection, one of the Johns found out and murdered the guy. I’m trying to find the case just to prove a bet that it’s an urban legend, but I can’t seem to find anything about it. Anybody know what I’m talking about?