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

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.

The Bowraville Murders.

Within a short period of time, three indigenous teenagers (2 female and one male) went missing in the small town of Bowraville, NSW, Australia.

A white man named Jay Hart lived on the edge of the mish there, and a great deal of evidence pointed him to be very related to all of the crimes.

The police and prosecution, due to racial bias, didn't perform a bang up job in investigating the crimes. The suspect walked free, and any accomplices (he was believed by locals to have some) weren't revealed.

He fled the area, and lives free, but is no doubt always looking over his shoulder.

Linda Sherman's disappearance and m****r.

Her husband clearly k****d her. Her daughter clearly saw her body. Don clearly placed her skull outside of his favorite restaurant and sent anonymous letters to the police so she could be legally declared d**d.

It's so clear what happened, which makes it all the more infuriating that no one has been charged.

There are quite a few cases on The Vanished podcast that fit exactly into this mold. Too many to list specifically, but in at least 3 cases I've listened to it is abundantly obvious the husband/wife/girlfriend/significant other is responsible, but due to a combination of lazy/bad police work and a lack of evidence, no charges are ever brought. One case I do recall is a guy named Chance (I forget the last name). He was with his wife's male family members golfing most of the day in their home state, one away from his home state, and ended up hanging out with some of them after. He got into some sort of argument with one of them, got picked up by his wife, got out of the car once they got back to the house, walked away and has never been seen again. She asked police for a d***h certificate the next day. She also claimed their relationship was super but everyone else interviewed said it was rocky at best. He was unfamiliar with the area but she was familiar. It was just him and her entire family. She knows what happened. She's never been charged with anything and probably never will be.

Kyron Horman. Stepmom did it. Edit: since people keep replying the same thing, he did go to the science fair at school, but did not go to class even though his stepmother said that she watched him go to class. He was never in the CLASSROOM.

The 1981 mystery d***h of actress Natalie Wood (there's actually an easter egg in Trantino's *Once Upon A Time In Hollywood* ).

"She drowned off the coast of Catalina Island in California in November 1981 after she went missing from the Splendour, her family's yacht. Also aboard that night were Captain Dennis Davern, Natalie Wood's husband Robert Wagner and her friend, fellow actor Christopher Walken. The next day, the actress was found floating in the water wearing a red down jacket and flannel nightgown. After a two-week investigation, the d***h was ruled an accident. But in 2011 the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reopened the d***h investigation. And in 2012, the Los Angeles Coroner's Office amended the d***h certificate, changing the manner of d***h **from an accidental drowning to "drowning and other undetermined factors.**

In 2018, after a seven-year investigation, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Detective Ralph Hernandez and Lieutenant John Corina told "48 Hours" exclusively that they now **had enough new evidence to officially name Wood's then-husband, actor Robert Wagner, often called RJ, a "person of interest" in the d***h of his wife. Wagner has refused to speak with investigators since the case was reopened. "

Not sure if this meets the 99% sure criteria but I was left with cold chills after listening to S2 of Someone Knows Something. Either way the boyfriend (Michael Lavoie) has never been arrested.

From Wikipedia...
The story covers the disappearance of Sheryl Sheppard in Hamilton, Ontario. Sheppard went missing on January 2, 1998, two days after her boyfriend, Michael Lavoie, offered a proposal of marriage on a live TV broadcast. With some assistance from Sheppard's mother, Odette Fisher, Ridgen looks into the case as well as the backgrounds of both Sheryl and Michael, who has been the only person the Hamilton Police Service has named as a suspect in Sheryl's disappearance.

The very few posts I’ve ever cared to make is about Michelle O’Connell . Fl mother breaks up with an a*****e small town sheriff’s deputy. He played it off as s*****e and remains on the force today.

The Robinson/Good Hart murders. The entire family was m******d in their lake house and everyone could tell it was a business associate of the father, Joseph Scolaro. He was unaccounted for for 12 hours the day of the m****r, his multiple alibis fell through, and there was proof of him buying the guns and ammunition (one of which was apparently rare and limited edition) that would have been used to k**l the family/matched the shells found. But the m****r weapons couldn’t be found at the scene or with Scolaro, and there were no fingerprints at the scene so they didn’t charge him. Also they found proof $60k+ was taken from Robinson’s businesses, which Scolaro had been left in charge of before the murders.

Bison Dele/Brian Williams. Former NBA player went sailing with his brother, his girlfriend, and a skipper. Only the brother came back. FBI & French authorities agree the brother likely m******d all 3 & dumped the bodies in the ocean, but with no physical evidence and only the brother's account to go on, the case remains "unsolved." The brother committed s*****e after being caught forging his d**d brother's signature to buy gold.

Jamie Harper and Heather Zimmermann. Two women who went missing 10 years apart. They were both seen in the company of the same man before their disappearances. Heather's husband was in the military but was AWOL during the time of her disappearance. Her husband and the other guy were good friends even though they claimed to not know each other.

Lynn Messer.

Lynn went missing in July 2014. The morning she went missing her husband had his son move their herd of cows to a different field which ruined the scent trail. He had also recently cleaned the bed of his truck, stating he’d washed the dog there. Shortly after her disappearance he married another woman. Her remains were found on the edge of the farm in November 2016.

I know I listened to a podcast about this that had way more info that made it seem pretty obvious that the husband was involved. I think it was Crime J****e. His own sons thought his behavior afterwards as well as answers he gave to the police were suspicious. He lied to the police about Lynn taking antidepressants. It seemed as though he was ashamed of that fact. The coroner wasn’t able to determine how she died but it is believed her body was on the farm the entire time.

Martha Moxley. Everyone pretty much knows Michael Skakel did it, he even bragged to school mates that he was going to get away with m****r because he was a Kennedy, yet the whole case has been going in and out of the courts for years. As of right now, the prosecutors have the option to retry the case, but who knows what’ll happen. As of now, Martha Moxley’s m****r is technically unsolved.

Lauren Spierer's disappearance. I think it's pretty clear she died either from o******e or from her earlier fall, she died in either the Beth/Rossman apartment or the Rosenbaum apartment, and some combination of those three got rid of her body. Sure it's *possible* she was abducted elsewhere, but the fact is she was incapacitated and with those three men, then never seen again.

Niqui Mccown.
Niqui disappeared in Richmond, Indiana on July 22, 2001.
She was soon to be married, and her fiancé was suspected at first but later cleared .

It turns out Niqui was having an affair with a man named Tommy L. Swint.

In 2010, Swint was indicted for m****r in the d***h of Tina Marie Ivery, a prostitute from Dayton who was beaten and strangled to d***h in 1991. Authorities planned to question him about other homicides as well.

We will probably never know however because he k****d himself before he was arrested.

I have a personal one. There were a series of issues with my son's car at two separate locations over the course of two weeks that didn't make much sense. My son was convinced somebody was messing with the car. He had evidence of a piece of cut line in the backseat that I intended to examine when he got home from work to see if it really was deliberately cut, but, that morning, his car went up in flames on his way to work and he narrowly escaped it.

I later came to find out that the previous owner's estranged family member, out of the blue, had asked a relative about vandalism to the car a couple of days after it had been damaged but before my son had driven it again. None of us can figure any way for this person to have known anything at all happened to the car. She didn't even know my son's friend had sold it to my son and she is the only person who has any affiliation with both locations where the vandalism occurred. I am convinced she was trying to cause harm to her family member who recently became estranged from her and nearly k****d my son in the process, but the evidence of the cut line burned up in the car fire. I don't think there's enough hard evidence to prove a criminal case, but I gave every bit of information I had to the investigator anyway. My real concern is that she'll try something again and cause real harm to my son or his friend.

Lewiston Idaho serial killer. 5 people d**d. One guy to blame. He lives on the east coast now. Cops know who he is but don't have enough to nail the sob.

Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace A.k.a. Notorious BIG. It’s pretty widely accepted that Orlando Anderson k****d Pac and a guy recently came out admitting some crucial info from being involved in it with him in the drive by vehicle. Biggie’s m****r has a lot more questions but heavily revolves around LAPD corruption, the Rampart Scandal and a hitman being hired to take him out. Detective Russell Poole was told to shut down his investigation into it and there has been documentaries exposing it all.

Woodrow_1856:

Surprised I had to go this far down to find mention of this case. It's pretty well established that Orlando Anderson and the South Side Crips shot Tupac (most likely due to 'encouragement' from Puffy), but the Biggie case is still a little weird. Not sure I completely believe Greg Kading's theory, but I believe the full truth could be some sort of combination of Poole and Kading's theories. Whoever it was, I don't think they could have acted alone. The question then becomes: out of whoever was aiding the shooter, were any of them off-duty/former LAPD?

Local to me, unknown to most...Kimberly Kersey , missing from Vancouver, Wa. While there were some very wild rumors at first as to who took her, who k****d her, and at some times, was she even really d**d?


I think most of us believe the kidnapper and killer was Russell Stenger, who has since passed, so we will never know for sure. I personally believe it was Russell, and do not believe any of the fanciful rumors that I heard as a young teen. I knew Kim, she was a beautiful, bright spot, and anyone from my era will tell you, this story haunts us all. Her vanishing affected us all, in our little neighborhood, and while we know who probably did it, there is always that niggling thought of what if....

Jaidyn Leskie.

A one year old boy was probably m******d by his mother's boyfriend and babysitter Greg Domaszewicz in Moe, Victoria, Australia in June 1997, Jaidyn's body wasn't found until January 1998. Domaszewicz was charged with m****r but found not guilty due to mishandling of forensic evidence by Victoria Police. And due to double jeopardy laws, Domaszewicz will probably never be charged for the crime. It's very similar to the Casey Anthony case.

One of the things that complicated this case was the fact that his house happened to be vandalised that night, by a group of kids who broke the windows of his house and threw a pig's head on his front lawn. They inadvertently became witnesses in the case.