Strangest unsolved murders in history
The Black Dahlia
The Black Dahlia case, which took place in LA in Jan 1947 is of great psychological interest. The murder was exceptionally violent and cruel-the body had been cut in two at the waist, and the girl (Elizabeth Short) had been suspended upside down while still alive.After much investigation nothing turned up. However a large number of false confession to the murder were made-curious evidence of how far it exerted a kind of morbid fascination. The murderer actually send the police the girl's address book and every name of a man mentioned in the address book was followed up to no effect. Significantly one page of the address book had been removed.
Jack the Ripper
He is probably the murderer whose name is known in some form in almost every country of the world. He was the unknown killer who brutally stabbed to death atleast five prostitutes in the Whitechapel section of east London. The bodies were horribly mutilated and various internal organs were removed, indicating that the murderer was a doctor or a medical student.
The Cleveland Torso killer
The unknown killer was obviously a sadistic maniac of enormous strength. What seems curious is that he frequently killed two people at a time, chopped up their bodies, and left them in a heap mixed up together and often did not keep the heads !
The Brighton Trunk murderer
On June 17, 1934, the smell coming from a plywood trunk at the Brighton Railway Station aroused suspicion. It proved to contain the naked torso of a woman ; the legs were found in another suitcase at King's Cross Station. Years of investigation have failed to reveal the slightest clue about the or to the identity of the girl. It has been called the perfect murder.
The Wallace Case
This case reads exactly like a detective story....... The mysterious phone call to Chess Club asking Wallace to visit an address that later turned out to be non existent, the murder of his wife while he was out looking for the non exstent address, the extremely violent nature of the murder and the complete
absence of motive.
Lizzie BordenLizzie Borden, a 32 year old spinster, was tried for the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother. Although she was found not guilty it was known that she bitterly resented her stepmother and that she had predicted a family disaster a day before the murders. Here it was fairly certain that Lizzie committed the murders, no one has ever quite been ble to prove it.
The Melbourne Mystery
Fourteen year old Shirley Collins set out to go to her first grown up party on Sept 12, 1953. The boy who had invited her was due tio meet her at the Richmond Station, Mel at 8'o clock that evening. She never arrived and on next morning her naked body was found forty miles from Mel. She had been battered to death with beer bottles, and then slabs of concrete had been dropped on her head, completely crushing it.
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