Australia seems to have a lot of prominent cold cases. The one I'd heard about (in relation to the Human Centipede) were the three Beaumont kids who disappeared after being seen at the beach with a "strange tall man." Any missing children's reports that go unsolved always have an air of creep to them, but this one particularly struck me as they were seen multiple times by several witnesses, yet no one can account for their whereabouts.
It's pretty fucking creepy. There's been several
very high profile child killers that have been listed as suspects, but none of them quite 'fit'. It's entirely possible that the murderer/murderers who took the children was someone that was never on the radar. That leads to the inevitable assumption that more children were taken, but it never became public. If that's the case, then it's entirely likely that the children taken before/after the Beaumont case were Aboriginal or from an undesirable immigrant community, as opposed to the Beaumonts who were Caucasian, attractive, and from a moderately well off background. Because there absolutely would have been more. And chances are good that simply no one cared.
One mystery that has always got to me is
Taman Shud; that shit's freaky.
The Family. Holy fuck.
The Beast of Gevaudan is fascinating. There's so much that just doesn't add up. Absolutely there are many accounts in Europe where places had been terrorised by wolves for months or even years on end, but the Beast makes no sense. The temptation is to just brush the thousands of loose ends off with a, "The uneducated superstitious peasants were just too stupid to know a wolf when they saw one", but the thing with peasants around then is that while they may indeed have been uneducated and superstitious,
they also knew bloody well what a wolf looked like because their lives quite literally depended on it. Multiple wolf or wolf/dog hybrids tend to get the most mainstream support, but Michel Louis suggested that it was in fact a wolf/dog hybrid owned and trained by Jean Chastel, the man ultimately credited with killing the Beast, and thus making him one of the most creative serial killers ever. Dunno if it's true, but it makes for a cool story. What I want for Christmas is the graves of some of the known victims exhumed and the bones examined for teeth marks. Maybe put those pesky
Mesonychid theories to sleep once and for all.
Going back to more conventional murder mysteries is the very recent
Kehlet case, still under investigation. I'm in no way, shape, manner or form an investigator, but if murder hasn't been done, I'll eat my glasses.
Arguably the most well known true crime mystery, that of Jack the Ripper, has had a comparatively recent new suspect brought forth, that of
Charles Allen Lechmere. There's been a quite decent documentary
and it was pretty legit.
Lizzie Borden is always interesting.
People keep bringing up
Harold Holt's disappearance. Places like the ABC keep saying that he was almost certainly swept out to sea when he went swimming in heavy seas and with a bung shoulder, but everyone knows that's just a guv'ment consperacy 'cause he was really kidernapped by Rusha wh tok im to china in a submerwhatchermercallit an thy jus dunt wanna a'mit it.
I want them to demolish that fucking bridge already.
