8 Mysterious Unsolved Crimes

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Hah, I thought it was Frankie Muniz at first.

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/poopypooppooppoopy 📅︎︎ May 26 2016 🗫︎ replies

I only got through the top three... but so far none of these are 'crimes'.

Also, the bizarre de-sync of the guys voice with the video threw me off

👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/[deleted] 📅︎︎ May 26 2016 🗫︎ replies

I've watched most of his videos and his accent is pretty weird! I always hear 42 instead of thoughty2

👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/normaltypetrainer 📅︎︎ May 31 2016 🗫︎ replies
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Crime and Punishment; they go together like pen and paper, like summer and barbeques, and like bacon and…well… bacon goes with everything. But sometimes you get crime without punishment and society feels like it’s been hard done by. We all love a good bit of justice and there’s nothing quite like a great detective unravelling a criminal’s evil scheme, although it’s not always possible; a vital clue is missing, witnesses disappear or a bloody fingerprint turns out to be ketchup from a hungry detective’s lunch. So let’s get together Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Columbo and that guy from CSI Miami who was always taking off his sunglasses, and investigate some of the world’s greatest unsolved crimes. Elizabeth Short was a lot shorter when they found her since somebody had cut her right in half. She remains one of Los Angeles longest unsolved cases and The Black Dahlia, as she is commonly known, inspired many a good book, movie and TV show through the years. The nickname is likely linked to the 1946 film The Blue Dahlia, a crime thriller written by one of the greatest detective novelists of all time; Raymond Chandler. Elizabeth had a difficult life before her ugly death. She grew up in Massachusetts and when she was just six years old, her father’s car was found parked on a bridge and it was assumed that he had committed suicide after losing everything in the 1929 stock market crash. But a letter arrived from California, years later, with her father apologising and telling her he lived in California. He couldn’t find the “sorry I faked my death and ran away” apology card at the gas station. Elizabeth eventually moved to join her father in California and they lived together in LA for a while but she moved towns after they had an argument and she flitted around various California locations. Until she was found dead in Leimert Park, California. Right, I guess you want the grizzly details now, don’t you? Maybe load up a video of puppies, you know, as back up. So, when Betty Bersinger and her three-year old daughter found Elizabeth Short on 15th January 1947, they thought she was a shop mannequin since the top and bottom halves of her were over a foot apart and she was posed with her hands above her head. She had whole pieces of flesh removed and was largely drained of blood, some of which was found in a cement sack nearby. She also had a Glasgow Smile, where the corners of her mouth were sliced up to her ears. There have been many suspects over the years, including Walter Bayley, a surgeon; Norman Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times; Mark Hansen, a Hollywood nightclub owner and the most compelling suspect Dr George Hill Hodel. You can see why they made movies out of the story, can’t you? There are so many rumours about The Black Dahlia, such as her being a sex worker, and even the opposite, that she was unable to have sex due to a birth defect, none of which have ever been substantiated. Our next pair of murders involved a whole lot of beef. But it’s okay vegetarians, no cows were harmed, just two of the world’s greatest rappers; Biggie and Tupac. In 1994, Tupac survived a shooting outside New York's Quad Studios and he managed to get into an elevator and get back upstairs to where Biggie and some of his crew were. Tupac and Biggie were friends at this point but Tupac accused Biggie of knowing that the shooting was going to take place. Biggie denied it but soon after released the song “Who Shot Ya?” and, although probably just a taunt, Tupac took it to heart. Things escalated quickly into a full east coast - west coast rivalry. Rap beefs are pretty common, and they give the industry a lot of entertainment value, often becoming a sort of x-rated soap opera. But whereas these days, it probably ends with Azealia Banks being banned from twitter, Tupac and Biggie had a much more final ending when both were gunned down, 6 months apart in ‘96 and ’97. No killer has been brought to justice for either murder, there are just rumours of various gangsters and even the FBI being responsible. Let’s have a break from murder, shall we? No one died for this crime but, it could be said it actually represented a far more dangerous threat than everything else on this list. On Christmas Eve, 2000, a hacker named “Leaf” accessed a Navy computer in Washington and stole most of the source code for Exigent's OS/COMET software, which is used to guide satellites and missiles. Some geeks have a very weird idea of what makes a good present; what is wrong with reindeer print socks? The FBI’s Chris Murray played down the importance of the hack, saying it wasn’t an intelligence disaster since the data was unclassified. But it’s still pretty worrying that you could potentially have some thirteen-year-old kid sitting on classified military information. Although, to be fair, we did let George W Bush have the nuke codes, and he choked on a pretzel. Leaf’s identity has never been discovered. The hack was traced back to the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany but the trail went dead. This is not the only time an unknown hacker has messed with the US government. In 1989 a digital worm was created, called WANK, which stood for Worms Against Nuclear Killers. It infected NASA computers and cost half a million dollars of time and resources to fix. Computers infected with the virus were presented with a message onscreen that said “Your system has been officially WANKed”. It’s rumoured that one of the hackers, could have been Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange. A heist now, one of the biggest unsolved hauls in history. On February 25th 2005, men disguised in KLM uniforms, that’s the major Dutch airline, tricked their way out on to the tarmac of Amsterdam’s airport, Schiphol. They had a stolen KLM cargo vehicle and they managed to stop an armoured truck which was transporting uncut diamonds. They took the diamonds at gun point, although no shots were fired, and then made off. The truck was found abandoned but the identities of the robbers remains a mystery. It’s hard to estimate how much their haul was worth, since the diamonds were uncut and the cutting determines a lot of their value. But, it’s thought to haven been well over $100 million so that’s not bad for an afternoon’s work. It’s been noted that this heist bares a lot of similarities to the 2013 one in Antwerp, where men in security uniforms, driving the vehicles of Belgian security forces, raced out on to the runway and took 120 boxes full of diamonds that were being loaded onto a plane bound for Zurich. In both cases; no guns were fired, they knew the exact time and location of the diamonds and the diamonds were uncut, which also makes them harder to track. This one was only a haul of a meagre $50 million though, hardly seems worth the bother, doesn’t it? If there is one man you don’t want to mess with, it’s Vladimir Putin; he runs one of the world’s most powerful countries, and he rides a horse without his shirt on, he’s the manliest of men. But Alexander Litvinenko decided it would be a good idea to poke the angry bear, and, rather than ripping him in half, the great bear knocked him off with a sneaky bit of radioactive poisoning. This is all conjecture, of course. Alexander Litvinenko was a former Russian FSB officer, who ended up living in London. The Russian FSB are the successors of the infamous KGB. He left Russia under controversial circumstances, having been investigated when he publically accused his superiors of ordering the assassination of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky. Berezovsky had been a friend of Putin’s from the early 90s but their relationship deteriorated soon after Putin left his position as head of the FSB and became president in 2000. Litvinenko was acquitted twice, in ‘99 and 2000 and subsequently fled to London, where he worked with British intelligence and wrote two books, accusing the FSB of some shady behaviour which helped Putin claim power. On 1st November 2006, he fell ill and was hospitalised, quickly diagnosed as being poisoned by radioactive polonium-210, which is one of the most toxic substances known to mankind. Obviously, access to the substance is strictly controlled and there’s also the small fact that you need access to a nuclear reactor to actually obtain it. So if you happen to be at a business meeting with two other Russians and drink tea containing a lethal dose of polonium-210, just like Litvinenko did, then it’s probably no accident. He died on 23rd November. A British investigation pointed to Andrey Lugovoy, a Russian government agent, but nothing could be proven since Russia refused to extradite him, so the case remains open. The only thing we know for sure is if a Russian man offers you a glowing sandwich, politely tell him you’re not hungry. Okay, let’s play a quick game of odd one out. Which of these sounds like something you shouldn’t find at the beach; crabs, sand, seagulls, disembodied human feet, ice cream. If you said “ice cream”, you had a very depressing childhood. Along the coast of the Salish Sea, in British Columbia, Canada some 20 human feet have been found on the shore in the last 10 years. Almost all have been right feet. Also, almost all of the washed-up feet were wearing running shoes. What’s happening then? A serial killer? Fussy sharks? A really strong ankle high current? Well, a body can remain in the water for up to three decades and feet can easily become detached through natural decomposition. So the feet could have just washed up from bodies of people who have drowned at sea, but why British Columbia? Nowhere else in the world have feet washed up on beaches in one location with such frequency. Does British Columbia have its very own Dexter-style murderer on the loose? One of the biggest problems in identifying the source of the lost limbs is that the feet themselves become difficult to analyse, since they produce a lot of adipocere. Adipocere is known as corpse wax and it’s an organic substance produced by bacteria during the decomposition of body fat. It causes difficulties in forensics because it’s very temperature dependant so unless you know the exact environment the body was in during decomposition, it makes age estimation very difficult. Some feet are from people believed to have committed suicide. There’s was also a case of a missing fisherman in the area. It’s been suggested that some could have come from the 2004 Asian tsunami, which would match some of the running shoe’s production locations and the direction of the currents. Or perhaps it’s all the work of a serial killer who has a grave dislike for those blasted runners who keep treading up his front yard every morning. He did warn them! There’s a surprisingly large crime industry around our next topic; after drugs, money laundering and arms dealing, it’s one of the biggest illegal businesses in the game. What do you think it is? Carjacking? Armed Robbery? Really awful parking? It’s actually, the romantic world of art theft, which clocks in at about $6 billion annually. And the greatest art heist of all time was from The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in Boston, USA. In the early hours of 18th March 1990, two men dressed as local police arrived at the museum and told the security they’d been called for a disturbance in the yard. They then proceeded to truss up the guards and walked off with an incredible collection of work from master painters such as Degas, Rembrandt and Manet. It’s hard to put a price on it but some say it was almost half a billion dollars of classic art. There were no real leads and none of the art has resurfaced. The museum director Anne Hawley saw the bigger picture and went as far as to release details for the thieves as to how best to store the paintings, thinking it’s better that they at least survive intact, even if they are hanging in some shady billionaire’s pool room. It seems like it’s surprisingly easy to pick up a Picasso or steal a Schiele. In 2010, a lone thief just broke a window and cut a padlock, and that’s all it took to get into the Paris Museum of Modern Art and dance off with a Matisse and a Picasso, among others. Not exactly what I would call state-of-the-art security. But rather than cashing in on his millions, one of his accomplices claimed, while being questioned by the police, that he had panicked and just thrown the paintings into a rubbish truck, rather than paint himself into a corner and have a nasty brush with the law. We’re staying with art for our last crime but now, rather than stealing, the creating is the crime. It’s the world’s favourite graffiti artist, the mysterious Banksy. He’s a British artist that grew out of the underground scene in Bristol and his work, often highly political in nature, has appeared everywhere from London to Disneyland to the Gaza strip. Pieces of his work have sold for over $1 million and he’s even made an Oscar nominated documentary called Exit Through The Gift Shop. But he, or she or them, has never revealed their true identity, perhaps to enjoy the anonymity but probably due to the illegality of his work. It’s not just graffiti since he’s also done things like produce fake British bank notes with Princess Dianna replacing the Queen and “Banksy of England” written on them. He also messed with Paris Hilton’s album launch in 2006 by switching out her CDs and replacing them with his own remixed version, including tracks like Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For? A UK newspaper The Mail on Sunday claims to have proven that Banksy is actually a man called Robin Gunningham, using geographic profiling to match his locations and his activity, a process normally reserved for serious crime and tracking viral outbreaks. So maybe the writing is on the wall for his anonymity but, until he’s caught red handed, the mystery of this world-famous criminal-slash-artist will remain.
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Channel: Thoughty2
Views: 674,486
Rating: 4.9406219 out of 5
Keywords: unsolved crimes, mysterious, mystery, crime, criminal, unsolved, creepy, supernatural, unusual, bizarre, macarbe
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Length: 16min 1sec (961 seconds)
Published: Mon May 23 2016
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