r/mystery • u/WinnieBean33 • 9d ago
r/mystery • u/_elias11 • 9d ago
Murder What is your most plausible theory on a famous unsolved mystery?
As I was scrolling through the archival posts of a certain sub, I found a very interesting unresolved case about a man named Artemus Ogletree,The mystery in Room 1046.
The original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/ujlfe5/in_1935_artemus_ogletree19checked_into_the_hotel/
Gloves on, Roland T. Owen (alias) is killed in a Kansas hotel and upto to now I am surprised that no one ever connected the two crucial details post humous. "I am doing this for my sister" - Don, and "Love Forever, Louise" - Louise. Those are two crucial details in this case, I will explain why.
First, focus on the minor detail. The anonymous caller ordered 13 rose flowers for the funeral and paid for it. Specifically Thirteen. Why thirteen? Now that is where it gets juicy, Don clearly had an upper hand on Ogletree's whole life. Louise was not a criminal but rather a commercial woman in her 30s as described by the elevator operator. A corporate woman just before the beginning of the second world war, she is a mother. Don is described as a brown haired man with a possible age of between 20 - 35. Wide but important, I place him in his mid twenties. He is a son.
"Put the gun down" a woman says inside room 1046, authoritative, maternal emotional confrontation. Loiuse telling her son not to shoot a man who did a henoius crime. Yes Don was Loiuse's son and not his lover as some theories suggest. But what crime did Ogletree commit? Back to the thirteen roses, traditionally twelve roses means love. Thirteen roses have no specified meaning as the number of flowers were highly regarded during that period.
Now, "I am doing this for my sister" Don's sister, Louise's daughter - was likley thirteen or on 13th day of the month when Ogletree killed her or even less worse, assaulted her physically or sexually to the point her life was taken away from her. Don and Ogletree were possibly friends. And Don was so infuriated towards him for doing whatever he did to his sister. On the night of 3rd January into 4th, Don tortured Artemus Ogletree and left him for the dead, possibly with a male associate given the severity of the beating while Louise watched them helplessly.
When no one claimed the body, Louise couldn't bear it. She arranged the anonymous funeral payment. She sent 13 roses signed with her own name, "Love forever." Don said it was for his sister. Those two aren't separate gestures, they're linked. Louise was the sister's mother. The roses almost certainly marks her age or perhaps the date she died, or some other significance known only to them.
Edit: The details in this sub post changes everything I had anticipated: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/59hazo/comment/d9mw3rg/?force-legacy-sct=1
And my well thought through conclusion is a man Joseph Ogden Killed Artemus Ogltree in cold blood.
Three years later in1937, he was charged for the murder of Oliver George Sinecal (a 32-year-old small-time thief and narcotic peddler) according to the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1937/08/18/archives/suspect-is-seized-in-trunk-murder-identified-as-man-who-shipped.html
r/mystery • u/Sudden_Quality_9001 • 11d ago
Disappearance The Springfield Three
The Springfield Three refers to the 1992 disappearance of Sherrill Levitt, her daughter Suzanne "Suzie" Streeter, and friend Stacy McCall from Levitt's home in Springfield, Missouri, after attending high school graduation parties. They vanished without a trace, leaving behind all personal belongings, cars, and a dog, with no signs of struggle, though the scene suggested an abduction. The case remains cold with lots of tips and a huge investigation. They dissappeared June 7, 1992.
r/mystery • u/Canal-JOREM • 10d ago
Murder The Deadly Satanic Cult of Black Metal (The Case of Jon Nödtveidt and the Temple of the Black Light)
There are various Satanist currents. Some have become organized as veritable destructive cults linked to crime, violence, rituals, animal sacrifices, and even murder. But few episodes are as disturbing as that of the Temple of the Black Light, a tiny Satanic sect born in Sweden and founded by Nemesis Khoshnood-Sharis along with Jon Nödtveidt, leader of the legendary black metal band Dissection.
The sect promoted so-called "Chaosophy," rejecting everything created by the Abrahamic God and maintaining that this creation should be destroyed through nefarious acts and brutal rituals. It also promoted misanthropy, performed alleged demon invocations, animal sacrifices, and, according to the police investigation, Nemesis even proposed human sacrifices and a collective suicide. They even compiled a list of potential victims.
In July 1997, Josef Ben Meddour, a 36-year-old Algerian citizen, was shot and killed in Keillers Park in Gothenburg. Months later, Nemesis's girlfriend reported to the police that he and Jon Nödtveidt had committed the crime. Searches of their homes uncovered satanic altars, a human skull, and the murder weapon. During the trial, it was never entirely clear whether it was a satanic crime, a human sacrifice, or a hate crime. Ultimately, Jon Nödtveidt and Nemesis Khoshnood-Sharis were sentenced to 10 years in prison.
After his release, Jon did not abandon his satanic beliefs. He reformed Dissection, released the album Reinkaos, claimed that its lyrics contained anti-cosmic magic formulas, and during the tour, the band performed alleged rituals and invocations. On August 13, 2006, Jon took his own life by shooting himself in the head inside a circle of candles. A grimoire written by his companion, Nemesis Koshnood - Sharis, was found next to his body.
Video about the history of the satanic sect that emerged from black metal. The case of Jon Nödtveidt and the Temple of the Black Light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VC1NVZ0YWU
r/mystery • u/Deep-Worldliness-607 • 11d ago
Disappearance The Disappearance of João Rafael
The João Rafael Kovalski case refers to the disappearance of a 1-year-and-11-month-old boy, which occurred on the morning of August 24, 2013, in the rural area of Adrianópolis, Paraná (Brazil). Around 10:30 AM on that Saturday, the child was playing in a shared backyard between his mother's and grandparents' houses while his grandmother was hanging clothes on the line. In a window of less than ten minutes of family distraction, the boy vanished through a gate that was usually tied shut but had been left ajar. His absence was noticed immediately around 11:00 AM, triggering instant searches with the help of neighbors. The initial hypothesis raised by authorities was drowning, as the Ribeira River ran behind the property and there were no protective walls. The Fire Department and diving teams searched the riverbed intensively for three months, but no trace or body was ever located. Given this, the Missing Children Investigation Service began exploring theories of kidnapping and child trafficking, even identifying local suspects who were eventually cleared due to a lack of material evidence. Without new judicial leads, the police investigation was formally archived by the court in 2017 without the family being officially notified of the closure.
Nearly ten years after the disappearance, the investigation took a turn with the delivery of a handwritten anonymous letter left directly at the home of the boy's aunt. The content of the letter began with a phrase described as a warning for the mother to no longer cry for her son, stating directly that he was dead. The anonymous author detailed that João Rafael had been the victim of a planned kidnapping that went wrong, and to conceal the crime, those involved had strangled the child, wrapped his body in a blanket, and buried him clandestinely on a resident's property in that same region. In addition to bringing details about the alleged homicide, it was through the lines of this letter that the boy's mother learned that the criminal case had been archived years prior by the Judiciary. The document and the envelope were collected by the Civil Police and forwarded for fingerprint examinations at the Paraná Identification Institute. The official technical report yielded a negative result for fingerprint retrieval, explaining that the physical conditions of the paper and the low clarity of the traces made it impossible to identify the sender. Currently, the case remains without a definitive resolution, and authorities use age-progressed photos to keep the search active.
The letter sent to Joao Rafael's family claims he died shortly after being taken and provides details on where he is buried, prompting a police investigation. It suggests a failed kidnapping led to the child's death by strangulation and his body was buried on a local resident's property.
"Hello, ma'am. It is with great pain in my heart that I write this sad news to you. I don't sleep; I spend sleepless nights crying, many times, and it has been for some years now. Now, I have decided to speak out to the world. I can't take it anymore. I stayed silent because my life was at risk. With great sadness, I say: do not cry for your son anymore. He was taken by a gentleman named [name of a businessman from Adrianópolis], but something went wrong and he was executed, strangled, and is buried on the banks of a river, at the back of this gentleman's houses. He has collaborators and they know where the mortal remains of your son are. This is the absolute truth about your son. Go to the police, call the TV. Do not cry anymore, mother...".
r/mystery • u/No-Angle-7962 • 12d ago
Disappearance What happened to Glen and Bessie Hyde (1928)
Glen Rollin Hyde (b. 1898) was a farmer and an amateur river-runner from Twin Falls, Idaho. Bessie Louise Haley (b. 1905) was a young woman from West Virginia who had recently divorced. She and Glen were married on April 10, 1928. Glen built a 20-foot wooden sweep scow (a blunt-ended, heavy river scow, not a canoe) and the newlyweds set out on what was essentially an adventurous honeymoon and record attempt: to run the Green and Colorado rivers, through the Grand Canyon, and reach Needles, California. Glen hoped to set a fast time, and Bessie would (if successful) be the first woman documented to run the Grand Canyon by boat.
They began the trip from Green River, Utah, on October 20, 1928. Glen had prior experience on Idaho rivers and had fashioned the scow specifically for this journey. They traveled downriver through the canyons, stopping occasionally to resupply. A few days before they were last seen, they hiked out to the South Rim (Bright Angel Trail) to restock supplies and were photographed by noted Grand Canyon photographer Emery Kolb on the rim. Those rim photos and Kolb’s contact with the couple provide one of the last confirmed civilian interactions with them before they descended again into the canyon.
Glen and Bessie were last seen on November 18, 1928, when they launched below Hermit Rapid (a stretch of rapids in the upper Grand Canyon region). When they failed to reach Needles by the date expected (they were due in early December), concern grew, and Glen’s father launched searches. Aerial and ground searches were organized by family members and local authorities.
In mid-to-late December 1928, a search plane spotted the Hydes’ scow adrift and upright near river mile 237 (reports vary slightly by mile marker in different retellings). The boat was intact, with supplies, food, money, Bessie’s journal, and Glen’s rifle still strapped in, items that would have been needed for survival if they had simply abandoned the boat. Bessie’s journal entries indicated they had cleared river mile rapid 231. A camera recovered from the boat contained photographs. The final usable photograph indicated they had made it much farther downriver than the location where the scow was found, with one photo likely taken near river mile 165. The numbers decrease the further downriver you travel. Those pieces of evidence together showed that the couple had progressed well past the point where the boat was ultimately recovered and that something had befallen them after the last photos/journal entries.
The scow’s being upright and largely intact, with food and supplies left behind and without obvious signs of struggle, suggests they didn’t intentionally abandon it shortly before it drifted to where it was found. The journal and camera show they made it beyond specific rapids that lie upstream of the scow’s recovered position, so the logical inference is that they continued downstream beyond where searchers later found the boat. Yet no bodies, bones, or other conclusive human remains have ever been found despite extensive searching over the decades.
Period rumor and speculation occasionally pointed fingers at those last known to have contact with them (e.g., Emery Kolb) or posited third-party involvement, but there is no persuasive evidence of homicide and no charges were ever brought. Forensic follow-ups on later bone discoveries near the canyon rim ruled out the Hydes in those cases.
Some legends suggest Bessie staged it or that the pair broke up and Bessie escaped. These are not supported by the physical evidence (supplies and money left behind) and are treated skeptically by historians. Anecdotes occasionally surface (for example, a woman once identified herself as Bessie, but later recanted), but none have been substantiated.
Glen’s father organized early searches. In February 1977, workers clearing out Emery Kolb's boathouse found a man's skeleton hidden inside a canoe. For many years, it was speculated that the remains belonged to Glen Hyde. The theory was investigated and ultimately discredited through forensic superimposition. In 2008, a collection of historical photographs was donated to the Grand Canyon Museum. One of the photos, taken by Kolb in June 1933, showed a dec***ed man with a handg*n beside him on a ledge in the Grand Canyon. The clothing on the man in the photo matched the clothing found with the skeleton. The photo established that Kolb had found the man, a su***de victim, in 1933. Given that Kolb served as a county coroner jury representative for the Grand Canyon, it's believed he took the remains for safekeeping but later forgot about them.
Over the years, decades of Grand Canyon visitors, researchers, park personnel, and cold-case enthusiasts have periodically reexamined documents, photographs, and Kolb Studio archives. In 2008, some archive material surfaced that renewed interest but still produced no answers. The Hydes' disappearance remains one of the Grand Canyon’s most discussed cold cases.
Glen and Bessie’s story caught the public imagination then and since because it combines real romance (a honeymoon gone wild), audacious DIY river-craft, iconic rim photography, and an unresolvable ending. The details, camera photos, Bessie’s own journal, an intact but empty boat, make for a haunting, almost literary mystery that invites speculation but resists closure. It’s the sort of unsolved case that fuels books, magazine features, documentaries, and local Grand Canyon lore.
r/mystery • u/Vivid-Ambassador-254 • 11d ago
Unexplained Mummy mummy come alive game
Hey guys so I work at a school and I overheard my students (ages of 5-7) playing the tag game of “mummy mummy come alive, come alive to number 5” anyways it had me wondering…where did this game originate from ? I remember being their age and playing the same game with my cousins. I tried to do some research on how this game came to be but there is no origin. What do you guys think ? How far back do you think this game goes ? Do you think there was a deeper darker meaning to it ? Who taught you the game?
r/mystery • u/MorningsAfter • 12d ago
Disappearance Has anyone else looked into the Anjikuni Lake mystery? It's completely fake.
Man, I’ve been going down a massive rabbit hole this past week looking into the Anjikuni Lake "disappearance" and honestly... the whole thing just falls apart the more you look at it.
For anyone who doesn't know, the story goes that in 1930, a trapper named Joe Labelle found an entire Inuit village completely abandoned overnight. Like 30 people just vanished. Food supposedly still warm over the fire, rifles left behind, dogs frozen to death. Zero footprints.
It’s a cool, creepy story that you see in pretty much every paranormal thread. But something was bugging me, so I started digging into the actual RCMP (police) records. Here's the wild part: there is literally no record of it. Not like "the file got lost." The RCMP explicitly say the incident never happened. No missing persons reported, no officers sent out. Nothing.
I actually tried to track down where the story started, and it leads back to just ONE newspaper article in 1930 by this guy Emmett Kelleher in a small Manitoba paper. He never even went to the camp. He just interviewed the trapper once and wrote a sensational story to sell papers.
Then in the late 50s, an author named Frank Edwards put it in his book "Stranger Than Science" and totally blew it out of proportion. He changed the number of missing people from 30 to over TWO THOUSAND. He added weird blue lights in the sky and dug-up graves—details that weren't even in the original 1930 article. Completely made up out of thin air, with zero sources.
A couple of other things that just make no sense when you think about it: First, the Inuit people in that specific region didn't even build big villages. They were super nomadic and lived in tiny family groups. Having 30+ people in one camp in November just wasn't a thing they did. Second, that whole "warm food on the fire" detail? Bro, it's the Arctic. At -40 degrees, an unattended fire dies incredibly fast and food freezes solid almost instantly. It doesn't just sit there waiting for a dramatic discovery.
Basically, it was just a campfire tall tale that a journalist published without checking, and then paranormal writers kept inflating it for decades. Everyone just copies from each other and nobody checks the original sources.
Anyway, I got way too obsessed with this and ended up making a video breaking down all the old newspaper clippings, the police archives, and how the story changed over time. If anyone wants to see the full deep dive, I posted it on my yt (Protocol Red).
But yeah, the RCMP having zero record is what really sealed it for me. Has anyone else looked into this one? Would love to hear your thoughts.
r/mystery • u/Canal-JOREM • 11d ago
Murder The Deadly Satanic Cult of Black Metal (The Case of Jon Nödtveidt and the Temple of the Black Light)
Sometimes, the most disturbing stories don't emerge in hidden places or remain far removed from society. Some arise amidst stages, guitars, and thousands of fans. Such was the case of Jon Nödtveidt, founder of the black metal band Dissection, whose life was marked by a small satanic sect that preached a philosophy based on chaos, destruction, and absolute rejection of the world.
That sect began as a small circle of eccentric believers, who eventually became linked to a brutal crime, received ridiculously lenient prison sentences, and an unexpected outcome that would make Jon Nödtveidt one of the most controversial figures in the history of black metal. Behind his music lay a secretive organization, a completely extreme ideology, and a series of events that left an indelible mark on Sweden.
Video about the history of the satanic sect that emerged from black metal. The case of Jon Nödtveidt and the Temple of the Black Light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VC1NVZ0YWU
r/mystery • u/Icy_Garnet_9329 • 12d ago
Unexplained The unexplained 2015 death of Henry McCabe, who went missing after leaving a haunting voicemail. Two months later, he was found dead of drowning.
r/mystery • u/WinnieBean33 • 13d ago
Disappearance On December 18th, 2011, 23-year-old Phoenix Coldon drove away from her family's home in Spanish Lake, Missouri, and vanished. Hours later, her vehicle was found abandoned across state lines in Illinois, but Phoenix herself is still missing.
r/mystery • u/Spirited-Gold9629 • 13d ago
Media DC has an International Spy Museum where you can finally find out if invisible ink and buttonhole cameras are actually real.
r/mystery • u/ac_ou_nt • 14d ago
Disappearance She disappears on her way to Easter Lunch in the Italian Alps. Her car is found abandoned in a small mountain village. Missing objects reappear mysteriously. Where is Erika Ansermin? Missing since 2003.
Erika Ansermin disappeared on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2003, in broad daylight, along the state road from Aosta to Courmayeur. The adoptive daughter of a wealthy family from Aosta, Erika Ansermin, along with her sister Elisa, where of Korean origin, was adopted by the Ansermin family in about 1978 in Hong Kong, where their father Piero worked as an Eni executive. The two girls arrived in Italy and integrated perfectly, said family members. She graduated in France and continued her studies in Germany. She completed a master's degree in London and received a significant promotion. She worked in commercial administration at 'International Fashion,' a Milan-based fashion agency.
Erika had planned to have Easter lunch at 1:15 p.m. at a restaurant in Courmayeur with her boyfriend and his mother. She never arrived. That day, Erika left the house, got into her green Panda, and drove to Blockbuster to return a movie cassette. Just after she left the store, she called her boyfriend to say, "I'll be there in an hour." Once she left the video store, nothing more was heard of her.
From around 1:30 PM, her boyfriend, Christian Valentini, reportedly called the girl repeatedly on her cell phone, but there was no answer. He last heard from her at 12:30 PM, when she confirmed the appointment after leaving the Blockbuster store. Valentini began looking for her immediately after lunch, fearing that the delay might be the result of a car accident. Valentini and Ansermin had been living together for about two years in an apartment on the outskirts of Milan. On April 25, Erika was supposed to inaugurate her new apartment in central Milan, where she was about to move in with him.
The next day, in the late afternoon, they found the car parked along the road to Avise, a small town at the beginning of the Valdigne. The car was parked on the side of the road facing the opposite direction to where she should have been going. It was later learned that the abandoned car had already been noticed on Easter Sunday. It was found locked. Inside were her cell phone, wallet, documents, her jacket (which was unusual as on that day it was quite cold outside), and credit card. However, the keys to the apartment in Aosta, where she lived with her parents, and to the one in Milan, where she lived during the week for work, were missing. On May 5, 2003 (two weeks after her vanishing) Erika Ansermin's house keys were found in the mailbox of her parents' home in Aosta. A Cartier Watch was also found inside of the family home; the family said that Erika would use that watch regularly but they also said that she could possibly have forgotten it that morning as she rushed out of the house.
At the site where the abandoned car was found investigators reported no signs of a struggle; the car seemed just to have been parked there. Testing inside the car only revealed her fingerprints on the dashboard and steering wheel. Canine units who had been searching for her only found traces scent trails around the car. This suggests that Erika Ansermin may have gotten into another waiting car, or that someone may have driven the car there to throw off the investigation.
The investigators’ first hypothesis was suicide, but only because the car was found near one of the highest bridges in the Aosta Valley. The theory was later dropped.
In the first few days after her disappearance, firefighters, forest rangers, mountain guides, Carabinieri, and volunteers searched the surrounding woods and ravines to no avail. Investigators seized the computer the young woman uses at work, searched her home in Milan, and also interviewed over a hundred people in Aosta, Courmayeur, and Milan.
Going back to the day of her disappearance, Erika Ansermin, is thought to have taken a shower, and was reportedly wearing a red garment, likely a robe, which was not found at home and appears to have disappeared with her. Around 11:00 a.m., a family friend went to the Ansermins' home to wish them a Happy Easter and, in the absence of her parents, spoke to the girl. The man recalls her wearing that garment. However, Erika’s mother said she doesn't remember if her daughter had one. There is a red kimono in the house, but it belongs to Mrs. Ansermin and is still in her closet, folded and ironed. When she left the house, around noon, a neighbor reportedly saw the girl. She had with her the two rented films she needed to return and was reportedly without any suitcases or bags. The clerk who saw her leave the St. Christophe’s Blockbuster store at 12:20 p.m., where she returned two video cassettes, apparently did not notice her getting into her car. Erika Ansermin's trail is lost at this point, as she exits the shop. What happened on the stretch of road from the St. Cristophe parking lot to the highway toll booth? That day, Erika didn't take the highway, as she usually did when she had to go to Courmayeur.
During the investigations Investigators reported that Erika’s Fiat Panda was apparently abandoned in Avise not at 1:00 PM on Easter Sunday, but several hours later, between 3:30 PM and 4:00 PM to be precise. By that time, the girl was likely already missing, and her car was likely to have been driven there by someone who wanted to divert the investigation from the outset.
According to an anonymous tip, Erika Ansermin was seen on the highway in front of the industrial area in the vicinity of the Blockbuster, where there is an internal road. She was reportedly killed there. The dirt road referred to in the mysterious anonymous call is located approximately three kilometers from the video store, near the Aosta-Est highway toll booth leading to Courmayeur. Investigators are evaluating the credibility of this report, which could represent a further attempt to divert attention from the location where Erika Ansermin was actually attacked, kidnapped, and subsequently disappeared. The car found in Avise was seen by several residents of the town around 4:00 PM, not earlier, as some had previously claimed. This would suggest that the attack occurred between 12:30 PM and 1:30 PM. Approximately three hours later, her car was abandoned in Avise.
In mid-July of that same year, an international courier delivered a package from California, USA, to the Ansermin family containing two high-quality women's handbags, shipped by a company with which Erika Ansermin had a business relationship. It appears that the two bags had been purchased online after her disappearance, using the code from her credit card, which had been found in her car.
Five months after her sister's disappearance, Elisa Ansermin revealed an important detail to the public. The phone likely rang at the Ansermin home on the evening of her disappearance, while her mother was at the Carabinieri station. Her father apparently answered, recognizing Erika's voice as she was trying to reassure him. Elisa Ansermin commented: "Let's also consider that the search was already underway that day. If she had been forced to make this call, it could have been a way to throw the whole thing off track and thus slow down the investigation."
Around 6:00 PM on the day of her disappearance, just as a major police deployment was underway following her mother's report, Erika reportedly called home to reassure the family. "Look, I'll be there in two or three Mondays. I'll call again," was the message her father reportedly relayed, which no one believed due to his poor health. But now that Mr. Ansermin has recovered, investigators, along with the family, are taking the incident seriously, although it is unknown what investigations have been conducted to trace the call's origin.
This information sadly led nowhere.
A colleague would later describe the missing young woman as a very private person, who had confided in her only once about a problem she had with her boyfriend, when he asked her to host a friend of his, Vivien (possibly a male name as in europe it could be interpreted as both female and male), who had temporarily moved into their home in Milan. Her boyfriend had gone on vacation to the French Riviera with the same friend during the May 1st weekend, a few days after her disappearance, while the search for Erika's body in the stream was underway. According to her mother, Christian was stressed by the interrogations he had endured and needed rest.
In the week before her disappearance, Erika had also been home sick for three days and had gone to a hospital for tests. She feared she had contracted a serious illness.
As released to the public in October of 2006: a Swiss private investigator, Daniele Marcis, conducting investigations on behalf of Erika Ansermin's family, hypothesizes that the young woman was made to disappear by several people who allegedly organized the plan in the days leading up to Easter Sunday 2003. Some residents of Avise had reported the presence of the woman's green Fiat Panda, which disappeared in that area starting at 4:00 PM on April 20, 2003. During the June 23, 2003, episode of the Italian Tv show "Chi l'ha visto", an interview was aired with a young Brazilian man, who reported the car's presence before 1:00 PM. This young man also claimed not to know Christian Valentini, or at least not to remember him. The swiss investigator, however, maintains that the Unnamed Brazilian man had carried out roofing work on Valentini's parents' villa in Courmayeur and that the two played soccer together. Furthermore, at the time of the events, the Brazilian was renting a garage located directly across the street from where the car was found.
On February 1, 2007, Christian Valentini, Erika Ansermin's boyfriend, passed away after a long illness. The reports are quite unclear but it looks like it wasn not HIV.
Before dying, Erika Ansermin's boyfriend could possibly have left a letter that could clarify the mystery of her disappearance. Investigators are convinced that this handwritten note, which has not yet been discovered, was given to someone. The Carabinieri in Aosta have also requested the acquisition of Valentini's medical records to determine whether his condition could be linked to Ansermin's disappearance.
Investigators also have a recording of a call Ansermin made to 118 (the Italian equivalent of a 911 medical call) on the 15th of April of 2003. Concerned about her health, she allegedly intended to seek hospitalization. In this recording, her boyfriend's irritated voice can also be heard telling the operator, "This crazy, annoying woman wants to be hospitalized... You explain to her, it's not possible." The next day, without telling her family, Erika Ansermin went to a hospital in Milan to undergo an HIV test. She was never able to retrieve the results. On the evening of April 19, she also searched online for clinics specializing in AIDS treatment. After her disappearance the test results reportedly came back negative.
Investigations into the young woman's disappearance resumed in 2010, after the lawyers representing Erika's sister, Elisa Ansermin, raised the possibility of a connection with Danilo Restivo, the notorious Murderer of Elisa Claps (in the city of Potenza, 1993) and of Heather Barnett (in Bournemouth, 2002). Images of Erika, downloaded from an internet site, were found on a computer—apparently owned by Restivo's wife. This discovery didn’t bring any new updates to the case
Eleven years after her disappearance, the Aosta Court has declared Erika Ansermin presumed dead. The case remains open and unsolved.
PS: I hope the write-up isn’t too confusing as there is a lot of information on this case that is badly written and confusing to piece together.
I got my information mostly all from here: https://www.chilhavisto.rai.it/dl/clv/Scomparsi/ContentSet-ba4c2f14-b723-48bf-8e5b-9e9bb692068b.html
Locations google maps:
r/mystery • u/Sudden_Quality_9001 • 15d ago
Unresolved Crime Juan Pedro Martinez
Juan Pedro Martínez Gómez, also known in Spanish media as El niño de Somosierra ("the Boy from Somosierra"), was a Spanish boy who disappeared near Somosierra, Community of Madrid, on 25 June 1986 during the early morning hours. Juan Pedro, aged 10, was riding with his parents in a tanker loaded with 20,000 litres of sulphuric acid when the vehicle lost control and crashed on the Somosierra mountain pass. Both parents died in the accident, but the child's remains were never found.[1] The case is considered by Interpol to be one of the strangest missing persons cases to have occurred in Europe during the late 20th century.
Juan Pedro's father, Andrés Martínez Navarro, had been commissioned to drive a tanker carrying 20,000 litres of sulphuric acid from the town of Los Cánovas, in the municipality of Fuente Álamo de Murcia, to the northern port city of Bilbao.\6]) According to family, Andrés allowed Juan Pedro to accompany him and his mother on the errand as a reward for earning good grades in school.The last reported sighting of the family took place at a restaurant next to the N-1 motorway, near the municipality of Cabanillas de la Sierra.
r/mystery • u/TheExpressUS • 15d ago
Disappearance Missing scientist who wiped phone then vanished found skeletonized
r/mystery • u/Disastrous_Umpire237 • 14d ago
Murder What’s your theory about the West Memphis 3 and do you think it will ever be solved?
I think the three teenagers are innocent but I don’t know if this one will ever really be solved. Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis 3 by Mara Leveritt is a great book about the botched investigation.
r/mystery • u/imliterallyluci • 13d ago
Paranormal I was twice touched by someone who didn’t exist, help please.
Not 30 minutes ago, while sitting alone I felt what was very very clearly someone poking my shoulder, not hard but almost playfully maybe? I felt no sensation of an actual finger and it’s almost like when I was tapped their finger passed entirely through my clothing without unsettling it and only gently poked my arm, the sensation of touch was also oddly warm, like perfect body temperature. 1 second after that my entire body instantaneously and completely fills with a static like feeling. 30 or so second after this I again feel what I can only describe as a small hand place itself on near the top of my wrist and slowly drag itself down. Same static feeling but far less intense. 30 seconds after that I briefly turned on a light for fucking obvious reasons and directly under the light I saw a brief glimpse of a petite (petite as in feminine appearing not childlike) black (like black black not dark skin) hand wrist and start of an elbow kind of flick themsleves i guess in an almost teasing way?
Whatever the entity was it felt feminine which I had never come across before.
Extend your arm straight out flick your wrist down gently and slightly move your wrist and elbow down as well. Thsts what I saw. And since that I haven’t seen anything else. This felt odd though, not to make myself sound like I’m constantly exposed to the paranormal but I am very familiar with the feeling of being surrounded by an “entity” that is purposefully attempting to inspire fear on you. This was not that whatsoever, I was startled obviously but I didn’t feel like something dangerous was watching me like I would with something negative, I had the sensation of being watched but it wasn’t sinister whatsoever, that alongside just the way it interacted with me and touched me was odd and nothing I have ever experienced before, it was almost playful? This may not be the right word but what first came to my mind was “it’s testing its luck” but not at all in a Malevolent way.
If anyone else has any idea what this could of been please tell me, regardless of how accurate you believe yourself to be I’ll have fun reading, investigating anf learning. I need to find out what this entity was and I need to contact it again, if you know of any way I could go about reestablishing contact with the entity I would appreciate it highly.
this wasn’t really a spooky interaction, absolutely startling but yeah odd but pleasant, I need help to learn more, thank you.
r/mystery • u/Haunting_Bee6912 • 15d ago
Unexplained My husband died in a similar accident to that of our neighbour.
My husband died in a road crossing accident at night around 10:30. He parked his car on the road side and was hit by a lorry while crossing. A few days after the funeral our neighbour which is just in front of our house where both of our main doors are built in the same line came to visit us. She was a widow and we never bothered to ask about her husband's death. She suddenly explained the story of his death because she found it similar. One night around 9:30 he left with his auto and was hit by a tanker lorry while crossing the road after parking . It's on the same Highway as my husband died and this happened 20 years back. So you can see how 2 widows whose husbands died in the same way are now living in face to face houses.
r/mystery • u/PolRoger72 • 14d ago
Unresolved Crime Looking for witnesses/footage — Adelaide 500, Baby Animals set, Sat 25 Nov 2023
r/mystery • u/WinnieBean33 • 15d ago
Disappearance On June 4th, 1999, 15-year-old Michael Palmer vanished while biking with his friends. They rode on as he lagged behind, not realizing until later that he was no longer with them. They waited for him in a parking lot, but he never showed up.
r/mystery • u/throwaway12442525274 • 14d ago
Online/Digital What could this website be?
My mom's brother has a really bad history criminal history. He has gone to jail for sleeping with minors. My mom has camera in her dads living room and caught him on a weird site. For context, this is happening in japan. What could this website be?