“What Are Some Crimes That Will Most Likely Never Get Resolved But Are 99% Sure Who Is Responsible?” (56 Answers)

Personal, but my Aunt.

Lived with s*****g boyfriend after leaving strict conservative upbringing. She was paying her way through nursing school by dancing at less than reputable establishments.

Boyfriend was older and a*****e. She was packing a bag one night, supposedly to leave. There's two 911 calls, one of her saying he was threatening to shoot her, which got cut off. One a few minutes later of him saying she shot herself.

My dad and grandpa cleaned out the apartment, holes with hair in the wall from where he slammed her, and the half packed suitcase on the bed.

She was shot in the temple, and was braindead, removed from life support a week later. No one did anything, not the cops or family. No one pursued it and dude just dipped town. My mom was deeply upset and went to the cops a few times for records, trying to push the case, got blown off. They even ended up asking how (boyfriend) was. They were all buddies.

She was only 20.

Sandra Lynn Kerby, school teacher from my hometown who disappeared in 1999. Her husband is the prime suspect, as he stopped cooperating, and proposed to his girlfriend, with whom he’d been having an affair for years, not long after his wife’s “disappearance”. My best friend of 22 year’s dad is a police sgt and he says they all know it’s her husband.

I'm never going to stop saying Cody Haynes.

His dad k****d him. Shoddy small town police work let him walk free. Cody went missing in September 2004. His father died January 2019 and we'll likely never know where Cody's body is.

Kristine Kupka. Pregnant Brooklyn college student missing since 1998, last seen with the father of her child—also her professor—who wanted her to have an abortion (she refused).

Patricia Adkins. Had an affair with co-worker. Lent him close to $100k. Asks for it back. He invites her on a camping trip. She never comes back. When questioned he claims to not even know her, though it's proven he does. No body, no case. He walks away a richer m******r. Not even shamed publicly, because police withhold his identity. Screwy case.

Kathy Page. It is so obvious her p.o.s. husband m******d her and the police are letting him get away with it. I'd hate to perpetuate a stereotype but I am surprised her family hasn't had an "accidental" hunting or fishing accident and gotten rid of him.

The Doodler was a serial killer in the 70s who k****d up to 14 people, mostly gay men. He was named that because sketches of the victims would often be found near their bodies.

The police at the time had one suspect that they were convinced was responsible, and after he was arrested the murders stopped. However, because some of his surviving victims were still in the closet and therefore unwilling to out themselves by testifying against him, he was never charged and to this day his name has never been released.

Kathleen McCormack Durst

Blind Freddy in a cellar full of water can see that her husband Robert Durst was 100% responsible. A truly vile human being; a serial killer and dog killer, only acquitted of m****r because of his wealth and social status.

The "Dupont de Ligonnès" case, France, 2011. The whole family was found d**d, burried under the terrace, *except the dad.* He had written an email 1 year before, stating that he had financial & professional issues and was considering a collective s*****e of his family. Weeks before the m****r he had inherited his dad's 22 long Rifle and started going to the shooting range. The week before the m****r, he had bought lime, big trash bags, shovels, a silencer, rifle bullets. The bank accounts were closed, the lease on the house ended, etc.

He was last seen on a surveillance footage in the Var, and was never ever heard of again.

About a month ago a man was seized at Glasgow airport, they believed it was him, but no.

So yeah, and the crime remains "unsolved".

Dottie Caylor case. A shy, agoraphobic home-sitting woman is dropped off at a train station by her husband never to be seen again.

The husband was interviewed in one of the earliest episodes of UnresolvedMysteries and he is guilty as f. I never seen so "who cares?" guy speaking about disappearance of his wife. It is a known fact he had an affair while she disappeared and shortly after he married the other woman. I am skeptical in 99% of cases, but here I am certain that a husband is involved. Anyway he is an official POI, just no-one has enough evidence to make a case.

Alissa Turney

The details of this one are insane. On May 17th, 2001, 17 year old Alissa Turney was removed from school in Phoenix, Arizona early on the last day of classes by her stepfather Michael Turney. While at lunch, Mr. Turney alleges that they had argued about Alissa getting extra privileges over the summer. Upon returning home at around 11 am, Alissa stormed upstairs to her room, and Michael left to run errands and pick up Alissa's younger sister Sarah. When he and Sarah got home, Alissa was nowhere to be found. She left behind 1800 dollars in cash, and many personal belongings.

Despite the signs that Alissa had not left of her own accord, when Michael Turney reported his stepdaughter missing to the police, he stated to them that he knew exactly where she was, and was only calling in to make sure a search didn't occur if somebody else noticed her missing. And then he turned around and told the family that he didn't know where Alissa was, and they needed to look for her. A few weeks passed, and Turney claimed that he had received a call from Alissa stating she was in California, and ok. I'll come back to that phone call in a second, because I need to get into motive.

When the police finally began to investigate Alissa's d***h properly, after someone else had claimed to k**l her, the case against Michael Turney began to strengthen. Over 20 statements were gathered from Alissa's boyfriend, friends, family, and a teacher Michael was dating alleging that Mr. Turney had s******y a****d Alissa. There is evidence that Michael treated Alissa more like a girlfriend he was possessive of then a daughter. Alissa worked at a local Jack-in-the-Box, and there is surveillance of Michael sitting in his car, watching her at work. In addition, he forced Alissa to sign 'contracts' preventing her from reporting his a***e, and a home video includes her saying, "Sarah, Dad's a pervert." Finally, Michael took the step of calling CPS himself, and stating that his stepdaughter was using allegations of s****l a***e to get what she wanted, and not to believe her if she reported him. (How the f**k this didn't trigger an investigation is one of this case's biggest mysteries).

In addition to watching Alissa at home, Michael also watched her at home. His house was rigged up with surveillance cameras, one of which was placed in a vent and recorded her bedroom, without Alissa's knowledge of this camera. (This also strengthens the s****l a***e claims). However, all of these cameras were 'mysteriously' not working the day that Alissa went missing. And this wouldn't be the only technology 'failure' that occurred. Remember Alissa's alleged phone call from California? Well Michael also had a system that recorded all incoming calls, except this one particular call that proved his missing daughter was alive. He would later claimed the system wasn't working, but you had to physically turn it off for it not to record calls.

This is only the tip of the iceberg, all pointing towards the fact Michael Turney k****d Alissa Turney, and hid her body somewhere in the desert. If you want more information and to go further down the rabbit hole, Alissa's sister Sarah has a website called Justice for Alissa, where I sourced much of my information. In addition, Sarah Turney helped create a podcast dedicated to the case called Missing Alissa.

Unfortunately, presumably due to the lack of a body, the police are reluctant to move forward with the case and make an arrest, and the desert is so vast that it would be almost impossible to find Alissa's remains.

Sandra Bertolas. Teenager in Wisconsin who vanished in 1988. She told friends she was pregnant and had told her boyfriend, although the pregnancy wasn't confirmed. Sandra then found out her boyfriend was in another long-term relationship. She had his license plate run, and found out he wasn't even using his real name and address. After the fallout, he begged her to meet him so they could talk, and she reluctantly agreed. She drove to a bowling alley, a half-way point where they'd meet, and disappeared.

In the investigation, the cops met with the boyfriend, who is never publicly named. The night she disappeared, the boyfriend called out sick for his work shift of 4pm-midnight. He admits to calling Sandra a couple times that day, but denies ever meeting with her. After his initial interview with police, he refused to cooperate further in the investigation. Police and family are sure he is responsible, but there wasn't enough evidence to pursue the case. His father worked on the grounds of a local cemetery, and the boyfriend had worked there temporarily. Dogs tracking Sandra's scent from a hairbrush led them to that same cemetery. It is assumed the boyfriend and/or his father buried Sandra on the cemetery grounds. They even exhumed a local cemetery plot that was open at the time Sandra disappeared, but didn't find her body. This is a case of no-body, no-crime.


From The Charley Project: *Police believe foul play was involved in Bertolas's case, possibly at the hands of her boyfriend, who now works as a firefighter. Prosecutors conducted a 21-month John Doe probe into the case in 2002 and over fifty witnesses testified before a grand jury, but the probe concluded without any indictments being issued.*

Her family is still looking for Sandra, and answers. J-S News Article: *"Was she buried alive? Did she lie there in pain? How were those final moments? You don't know how it happens. Every scenario is the last chapter written in your mind, you want the closure that you need."*.

Susan Powell. It's so infuriating that we will never get definitive answers on this, but all signs point to her husband Josh Powell k*****g her. I highly recommend Dave Cawley's podcast Cold about the case, even if you're familiar with the case. It sheds a lot of light onto the Powell family and how most of them probably covered for Josh before he took his life and the lives of his children.

anon:

I don’t think her husband would’ve blown the house up with both him and his kids in it if he wasn’t guilty. Plus the sketchiness of his side of the family... I feel horrible for her parents losing their daughter and grandkids. I just hope they find her someday.

Terrance Williams (2004) and Felipe Santos (2003). Deputy Steve Calkins is 100% responsible.
In separate incidents, both men were last seen after having been arrested by Calkins, who claimed he had "changed his mind" about the arrests and dropped the men off at Circle K convenience stores. Neither man has been seen or heard from since.

Rebecca Zahau. Her body was found n**e, bound at the wrists and ankles and hanging by the neck from her balcony. Police ruled it a s*****e. The only other person at the mansion was her brother in law. At the scene of the crime they found two knives and a cryptic message written on the wall, along with men's boot prints on the balcony.
Bailey Sarian made a really informative video covering the case.

Sherese Walker Bingham. Walking her two GSDs when she was shot with her own pistol which was then left at the scene. All evidence points to her husband who was having a 14 year affair that involved property ownership with his mistress. They have been trying to nail him for years, but much of the evidence is circumstantial.

JESSICA CHAMBERS- she was set on fire in her car after a late night rendezvous with Quinton Tellis who was tried twice but ended up in hung jury both times.

Cold case in my city. Elizabeth Salgado arrived in Provo Utah to study English. She had I think two uncles who lived here, but her remaining family was in Mexico.

She was here 18 days. She had the same routine every day. She didn’t speak much English and she didn’t know hardly anyone. She would walk from her apartment to the Nomen Global school which I believe is where she was learning English.

Her body was missing for three years before someone found her remains in Hobble Creek Canyon. Her front teeth were busted out, so she was fighting for her life. Her last message to her sister lacked her usual overly affectionate tone, and simply said she was walking home from school. Her family believes that message was sent by the killer to give them more time.

A lot of people for a long time scrutinized the uncles. I’m pretty sure the police investigated them heavily. My personal suspicion is that it may have been another student at the school or someone who had met her at her apartment complex, because I believe I read a story about how some of them would cook meals together.

Really freaking sad. Her family is destroyed over it. There was a huge reward for info that led to the killer.

Jonbenet Ramsey. Pretty sure it was a family member (I'm leaning towards the son, followed by parents covering it up). The ransom note is definitely written by mom or dad. I think they'll all take whatever really happened to the grave.

zighawk:

I think this one was the dad. Many years ago I took a week-long class on handwriting analysis, specifically for written statements. It is far from an exact science, but it's meant to find "tells" in the statements to use in follow-up questioning. Anyway, the instructor used the father's statement as an in-class example for talking us through the process. The instructor, this old Israeli guy (wonder what he used to do) kept making these coy remarks about the father's choice of phrase and stuff. By the end we were all like WTF? It was the dad? And the instructor just gave this shrug, like, ho-hum, who can say? Problem is, this kind of analysis isn't usually persuasive in court, but this old dude had been doing it so long we were convinced.

This happened in my state back in 1993. A teenage girl named Hang Lee went with a friend of hers to interview for a job where her friend worked. On her way out, she told her brother that if she didn’t come back, he should go look for her. She was never seen again after that night.

The interview was with a guy named Mark Steven Wallace. He had some prior convictions for a*****t in the 80s, and in 2016 he was arrested after holding a girl hostage, s******y assaulting her, and beating her. She was a friend of his daughter and originally started staying with him because she had some other personal stuff going on. At one point she apparently found out about Hang Lee and asked him about it. He said, “She walked into my business and never came out.” Eventually he started telling her he knew how to cut through bone and how to dispose of a body without leaving any evidence, and even started threatening her by saying he’d do the same thing to her as he did to the other girl.

It’s pretty obvious that he k****d Hang Lee, but there was just no physical evidence. It’s also worth noting that the friend who took her to the job interview refuses to cooperate or talk to police.