UNNERVING AND DISTURBING CRIMES

LAKE BODOM MURDERS

On June 5, 1960, four teenagers went camping on the shores

of Lake Bodom in Finland. Early in the morning 3 of them

were murdered with a knife. The survivor, Nils Wilhelm,

was charged 44 years later but then acquitted.

MURDER OF JONBENET RAMSEY

In 1996 police found the body of 8 year old JonBenet in the

basement of her family’s Colorado home. Initially the parents

were suspected on allegations of child abuse but the

controversial case has still not been solved.

ASSASSINATION OF OLOF PALME

Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was murdered on

February 28, 1986 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was fatally

shot while walking home from the cinema with his wife.

Even though more than 130 people have

confessed to the crime, it remains unsolved.

DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT

In 1959, nine skiers/hikers were killed in the northern Ural

Mountains of Russia. They had apparently cut open their

tents from the inside in order to escape whatever

eventually killed them. Theories range from

enraged local tribesmen to an avalanche.

THE MURDER OF KEN MCELROY

Ken McElroy was the town bully of Skidmore, Missouri.

One day he was shot in broad daylight in front of 46

witnesses, including his wife. Nobody called an ambulance

and upon being interviewed nobody except for his

wife could name a suspect. The DA declined to press

charges and no shooter was ever named.

WEST MESA MURDERS

This refers to the case of 11 women being found buried

in the desert outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico

in 2009. No suspects have been named.

DISAPPEARANCE OF MAURA MURRAY

Maura Murray disappeared on the evening of February 9,

2004 after crashing her car on route 112 in Haverhill,

New Hampshire. A nursing student at University of

Massachusetts, she had told her professors early in the

week that she had a family emergency. No such

emergency existed.

THE CASE OF BRADFORD BISHOP

A foreign service officer, in 1976 Bradford murdered his

wife and children in Maryland and then disappeared.

Since then numerous sightings have been reported in

Europe but because he worked for the foreign service and

immigration/air travel it was harder to track

back then, the case is cold for now.