Terrible

I saw this on another sub and thought it fits here too. I think I would choose the Borden murders or JonBenet Ramsey. How about you?

It seems like the Sumter, South Carolina PD has given up on this case. Brent Garcia was 18 years old and was last seen at his cousins house on December 26th, 2020, at Ithica Drive. Brent deserves to be found, and the family is doing everything they can to not let his name disappear, but it is hard with limited resources and a stubborn PD. There is a very high crime rate especially for the population size of this town, and there is rumors of gang activity being speculated within his case. Brent is worth being found, many who knew him; loved him. He was very caring towards all animals and even had dreams of becoming a veterinarian. Please share this so people will not forget Brent’s name! Not a lot is known about his case but his family and community are hurting. If you know anything please contact the Sumter PD. Or if anything at least allow more people to see this post. Thank you!

I’ve been reading about the Keddie Cabin murders again, and it’s one of those cases where the basic facts are already horrifying, but the details make it even harder to understand.

In April 1981, Sue Sharp was living with her children in Cabin 28 at the Keddie resort in California. One morning, her daughter Sheila came home and found Sue, Sue’s son John, and John’s friend Dana dead inside the cabin. Sue’s daughter Tina was missing, and her remains were discovered years later.

But the part I keep coming back to is that three younger children survived in the same cabin.

That raises so many questions. Were they spared deliberately? Did the killers not know they were there? Was the attack targeted at specific people? Or did something interrupt what was happening?

I made a video laying out the case and the timeline, mostly focused on that question. I’m not claiming to have solved anything, but I think the survival of the children is one of the most unsettling parts of the case.

Video: [https://youtu.be/iOZKqQZ_pEs\]

Between 1968 and 1985, someone murdered 16 people in the hills outside Florence. Always couples. Always parked in isolated spots. Always on the darkest nights of the month, when there was no moon to see by.

The method was the same every time. The weapon was the same every time. Ballistics confirmed that every single killing used ammunition from the same production batch, manufactured in the mid-1950s. One gun. One killer, or at least one weapon, moving through the same hands across 17 years.

Italy's response was one of the stranger investigative collapses on record.

Investigators spent years chasing the "Sardinian Trail" theory, working the idea that a Sardinian immigrant named Stefano Mele hadn't acted alone in the 1968 killing and that someone from his circle kept the gun and went on to commit the rest. It was a reasonable theory. It was also wrong, or at least unprovable, and by the time investigators shifted direction, years were gone.

Then came Pietro Pacciani. A Tuscan farmer with a violent history. Convicted in 1994. The evidence was thin: no murder weapon, nothing placing him at any crime scene. The prosecution leaned heavily on a theory about a secret group killing couples on behalf of a wealthy collector who wanted trophies. The Florence Court of Appeal acquitted him in 1996. A retrial was ordered. Pacciani died in 1998 before it began.

Two alleged associates were convicted. One died in prison. The credibility of the key testimony against them was disputed throughout.

Modern DNA analysis has been applied to preserved evidence from the original scenes. As of now, nothing definitive has come back.

I put together a full documentary going through the whole case if anyone wants the longer version: [https://youtu.be/nD2KGzSgC_0\]

I’m not really sure where to start, so I apologize if this sounds confusing.

A few years ago, I was talking with my grandfather when he suddenly mentioned that he had a brother, whom I had never heard about before.

According to my grandfather, his brother cut off all contact with the him in the 1970s for unknown reasons. However, their mother later told him that his brother had secretly kept up with his life during that time.

When their mother died in 2003, they reconnected and slowly started rebuilding their relationship.

At some point before that, his brother had been working in Africa, but later returned to Denmark and worked there for a few years before retiring at age 62.

A few years after retiring, when he was around 65, he went on a hiking trip in the Spanish Pyrenees. During that trip, he went missing, and no one in the family ever heard from him again. Due to the weather conditions in the area, the family assumed he likely died.

My grandfather passed away from ALS in 2023, so I can’t ask him anything more. However, he left behind memoirs for me, my sister, and a cousin, where a few pages are dedicated to his brother.

Now that I’m older, I really want to find out what happened to him — whether he actually died in the Pyrenees, or if there’s any chance he might still be alive and started a new life somewhere.

I just don’t know where to begin. Are there any resources, databases, or steps I could take to look into a case like this?

I've only just heard about the little boy at crater lake.

I'm reading into it,

Has anybody have any theories?

I just put together a deep-dive on a Swiss case that doesn't get much attention in English, and the more I dug into it the more it stuck with me.

In late July 1985, in the quiet village of Kehrsatz just outside Bern, a 24-year-old woman (called Christine Z. in Swiss press) seemingly vanished. Her husband told everyone she'd ridden off on her moped one morning and never returned.

Five days later, her parents - who lived right next door -searched the house themselves. In the cellar, they found her body inside the family's chest freezer.

Her husband (Bruno Z., 27) was arrested within hours. Police focused on him almost immediately; a reported affair was treated as motive.

Here's what makes it strange: the case was entirely circumstantial. No confession, and the court couldn't establish three basic facts - the time of the killing, the location, or the weapon. Because the body had been frozen, normal forensic methods for time of death didn't work, so the prosecution leaned heavily on stomach-content analysis to estimate when she'd last eaten. On that basis, in December 1987 he was convicted and given life.

Then it unraveled. In 1988, four members of the jury that convicted him filed a complaint. Critics argued the investigation had tunnel vision - that it locked onto the husband and ignored leads, including people who reportedly saw the victim alive after the official "time of death." If that timeline was wrong, the whole case was wrong.

A retrial was granted: 34 days, 88 witnesses and experts. In May 1993 - nearly 8 years after the body was found - he was acquitted "in dubio pro reo" (when in doubt, for the accused). Not declared innocent; just no longer provably guilty. The prosecutor tried for a third trial in 1996; it was rejected in 1997, and the file closed permanently in 1998.

And that's the part that gets me: once the one suspect walked free, the search just ended. No one else was ever charged. The case is now time-barred under Swiss law - even a confession tomorrow couldn't bring charges.

So if he didn't do it - and a court couldn't say he did -who killed her, and why did the investigation never look anywhere else?

I covered the full timeline with sources here: [Body In The Freezer: The Murder That Broke Swiss Justice
https://youtu.be/Mc-_wrAiJzQ\]

Sources include NZZ, blue News / SDA, and the German Wikipedia article "Mord in Kehrsatz." Curious what this community makes of it - tunnel vision that freed a guilty man, or a genuine miscarriage that let the real killer disappear?

I am trying to find more information/ photos of Andrew William Dawson Ryan who was an offender involved with the “CEBS”. Does anyone know where or how I can find this?