News & Events Crime/Mystery solving thread.

[Ghostwriter]

Not sure how this will go but an idea i've thought of for a thread is that we use it to solve crimes and mysteries which are published on news websites around the globe, the idea is people can forward thier ideas, theories as to what happened and then as the case unfolds more news items would be added until the case is solved and ends up in court. Not sure if ive explained it very well or that its posted in the correct forum, mods please help wrt that.

Here's one to get started,
http://abcnews.go.com/US/TheLaw/missing-mcstay-family-mexico-willingly/story?id=10239508

A California family that has been missing for nearly two months may have left their San Deigo home and fled to Mexico on their own accord, according to authorities.

Evidence from the McStay family computer show that Joseph McStay and his wife Summer may have been researching travel to Mexico, according to ABC News' San Diego affiliate KGTV...

There's other articles on this story and I haven't read them all but last night I read about it and thought it strange that a whole family would go missing and why to Mexico?

 

[Stats Man]

Good thread.

this one is one that intriuges me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Sarah_MacDiarmid

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/10/1089000397377.html

what do people remember of this case? What may have happened?

 

[Hard Ball Get]

I think there may have been a thread on unsolved threads a while back. Could be good to dig it up and find interesting ones.

 

[Ghostwriter]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/mystery-grows-in-outback-manhunt-for-missing-man-jason-richard/story-e6frea83-1226085161138

This is the one about the Ballarat bloke who's gone missing near Pimba, his boat was found burned out and they can't find Jase, sounds to me like a drug run gone wrong, stayed at Coober Pedy overnight, someone stole the boat with the drugs stashed inside, took the goods and burned the boat, Jase is now wandering around the outback looking for the readies.

 

[grizzlym]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/...an-jason-richard/story-e6frea83-1226085161138

This is the one about the Ballarat bloke who's gone missing near Pimba, his boat was found burned out and they can't find Jase, sounds to me like a drug run gone wrong, stayed at Coober Pedy overnight, someone stole the boat with the drugs stashed inside, took the goods and burned the boat, Jase is now wandering around the outback looking for the readies.

Or a Wolf Creek scenario. Did anyone see the guy who's doing a Seti like project to try to break The Zodiac's cypher?

 

[RU_]

Never seen that movie.

 

[twarby]

Good thread.

this one is one that intriuges me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Sarah_MacDiarmid

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/10/1089000397377.html

what do people remember of this case? What may have happened?

Paul Denyer, however if he did do it you'd think they would have found the body

 

[Kram]

Did anyone see the guy who's doing a Seti like project to try to break The Zodiac's cypher?

Who is that?

 

[cats81]

Who is that?

A serial killer in the United States during the late 60s/early 70s who sent crypic messages to news organisations....he was never caught

 

[Kram]

^ Yeah I know all about it I just was wondering what he meant about the guy trying to break the cipher.

 

[Ghostwriter]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/mystery-grows-in-outback-manhunt-for-missing-man-jason-richard/story-e6frea83-1226085161138

This is the one about the Ballarat bloke who's gone missing near Pimba, his boat was found burned out and they can't find Jase, sounds to me like a drug run gone wrong, stayed at Coober Pedy overnight, someone stole the boat with the drugs stashed inside, took the goods and burned the boat, Jase is now wandering around the outback looking for the readies.

The trail's gone cold on this one, where is his vehicle, his dog, where is he?
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/the-road-to-nowhere-for-jason-richards/story-e6frf7jo-1226091026947
At least we know now what he was carrying in the boat, sounds like he panicked.