42 Netizens Share Their Most Interesting Local Unsolved Mysteries

The r*pe and murder of Rachel Hurley in Jupiter Florida, USA in 1990. It happened in the middle of the day, walking from one part of the beach to another to meet her mom. No eye witnesses or anything. She was only 14 years old.

ETA: it happened on St. Patrick's Day, a generally busy day at Jupiter Beach/Carlin Park. I've been there literally hundreds of times and it's shocking how close other people had to have been. It's also a relatively open area. While there are trees and other foliage on the path she took, it's not dense at all.

Couple off top of my head:

-Disappearance of Catherine Sjoberg outside of Oconomowoc, WI in 1974. Vanished from a party at the Concord House and place notable due to another double murder that happened there 6 years later which has been solved. I've been in that general area for work, strangely unsettling feeling when I'm there.

-Karl Lotharius in Milwaukee, 1981. Murdered with a crossbow. 2 prime suspects, 1 of whom was an ex lover with crossbow experience but as Karl lay dying he identified the other suspect. The ex lover k**led himself months later, other suspect vehemently denies involvement.

Oregon, the Kyron Horman case. Hoping they find him someday.

Maryland, USA Sister Catherine Cesnik, Netflix docuseries, The Keepers is about her unsolved m****r.

Chelsea Small’s murder in 2013. She was a single mom who was gunned down while working at a check cashing place. The suspect is on video but the police don’t think he has a previous connection to her.

Germany - the YOGTZE case.
It is an unsolved m****r case where the victim wrote down a "word" with unknown meaning.

Also the unsolved disappearance of Lars Mittank (although it happened in Bulgaria).

Oh my god this:

I didn't know them or anyone who knows them personally but I heard about this and it's bothered me. 

Basically, two twins, one died of unknown causes and the other outed herself, probably when she found her sister dead. They were incredibly close. Even though they seemed to have friends and did activities outside the house regularly, people who knew them said it was only really on a surface level. No one really knew anything about their childhood or anything else personal. Only family was someone a bit distant (neither married or had kids.) Their house was designed for a lot of privacy from the street. Someone who worked with them (a dr, I think, also per a different article) said he always thought if one of them died, the other would take herself out, which is what happened. 

So it's not just mysterious that the one twin's death was unknown causes, but their whole lives were very secretive. Just another case of twins who kept almost entirely to themselves. I've checked periodically over the years for any update or anything new on them. It's been mostly crickets. .

North-East France : "Le petit Gregory".

A little boy found dead in a stream near his parents' home, where he was playing under their supervision. Hands and feet tied, and a hood on the head

A mysterious raven who sends anonymous letters before and after the incident to taunt parents.
After 37 years of investigation, we still haven't found the culprit. Part of the family was suspected, the father k**led an alleged culprit..

British Columbia -- the disappearance of the Jack family, 1989. This case is unusual even in a province that has a lot of missing persons cases, compared with the rest of the country. (A lot of sparsely-populated terrain that's difficult to search due to rugged topography, dense forests, and coastlines/lakes is a major factor.) Multiple people disappearing at the same time is much less common than individuals going missing -- an entire family, including the kids, is very strange. I don't think there's another case like it in Canada. The circumstances suggest they didn't go out camping/boating and have an accident -- the fact that other people, who have not been identified, were involved is rather ominous.

Austin, TX - 1991 Yogurt shop murders. Unsolved quadruple homicide. Victims were 13-17 year old girls.

North Carolina - Asha Degree. I grew up in a neighboring county and have always wondered what happened to her.

Jefferson Davis parish, Louisiana.

Jeff Davis 8, 8 girls k**led by a serial k**ler right? Well…all the girls knew each other, all were in p**********n and d***s, all witnessed a cop k**l a d**g d****r in a d**g den.

After that it just gets even weirder, from dirty cops, to a local criminal, to a politician who was supposedly running a d**g and p**********n ring and had national ambitions for congress.

Watch m****r on the bayou or read the book. This story is crazy and unsolved.

The disappearance of Dennis Martin in the Great Smokies.

Where I come from in Central Scotland has low crime and the inhabitants generally have their feet on the ground so there is a lack of mystery ... with one striking exception: Roughcastle Brickworks m****r (1949)

This is a fantastically obscure case.

Washington State here : D.B. Cooper!

Phoenix AZ area. Mikelle Biggs. It has always bugged me because she was my age and the short amount of time she disappeared was just scary.

I’m from Maryland. The m****r of Kanika Powell (in August 2008) is both baffling and terrifying.

Who k**led 11 year old Heidi Seeman.

Yuba County Five, Brian Shaffer.

This is from just down the road from where I live. I believe law enforcement has an idea of who did it, but doesn't have the evidence for arrest.