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Some true crime cases continue to mystify investigators and the public alike, leaving crucial details unresolved. Join us as we explore some of the most perplexing unanswered questions that keep these stories alive. From unexplained evidence to mysterious disappearances, these unresolved elements make the cases all the more haunting and intriguing.
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00:00Then, something stops them in their tracks.
00:02All three of the women's purses are neatly lined up beside each other.
00:07Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:08And today, we're counting down our picks for the most perplexing, unresolved details in true crime cases.
00:14His friends are seen leaving, but he is not seen on any of the cameras.
00:20Number 10. Why did the security guard open and close the door?
00:24The Gardner Museum heist.
00:26On March 18, 1990, two thieves entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,
00:31bound the security guards with duct tape, and stole artwork worth millions of dollars.
00:36When it was over, the thieves made off with 13 objects, estimated worth $200 to $300 million.
00:46The heist is considered one of the most infamous in history, and none of the stolen pieces has been recovered.
00:51Early in the investigation, suspicion fell on security guard Richard Abath,
00:56who had opened and closed the side door the thieves later used to enter.
01:00The Gardner Museum could have been as secure as Fort Knox,
01:03but that does no good if the guard's going to let the thief in.
01:06Many believe this action signaled the robbers parked outside,
01:10but Abath claimed it was a routine move.
01:12However, a colleague refuted this,
01:14saying such behavior would have drawn the attention of their supervisors.
01:17Abath passed away in 2024 without clarifying his actions,
01:22leaving suspicions about his involvement unresolved.
01:25The robbers say to both guys before leaving them,
01:29keep your mouth shut, and you'll get your reward in a year's time.
01:32Number 9.
01:33Who was Don?
01:34Murder in Room 1046.
01:36On January 2, 1935,
01:39a man checked into the hotel president in Kansas City, Missouri.
01:42Three days later, he was dead.
01:44During his stay, a maid once found him alone in his room,
01:47with the door locked from outside.
01:49She also overheard him speaking on the phone to someone he called Don.
01:53Other guests reported hearing voices and a possible argument coming from the room.
01:57When a bellhop later found the man severely injured,
02:00he refused to tell anyone what happened.
02:02Even stranger, the name he used at check-in turned out to be fake.
02:06It took nearly a year before he was identified as Artemis Ogletree.
02:10Who was the mysterious Don and what transpired in that room?
02:13It seems we may never know.
02:15Number 8.
02:16What happened to the victims' heads?
02:18The Hinterkaifeck murders.
02:20One of the most chilling murder mysteries in German history
02:23unfolded at an isolated farmstead named Hinterkaifeck in 1922.
02:27The family that lived there largely kept to themselves,
02:30so no one suspected anything was wrong until their mail began to pile up at the post office.
02:35When a group went to investigate, they discovered everyone had been murdered.
02:39Odd occurrences haunted the farm just before the killings.
02:41Noises in the attic, missing house keys, and mysterious footprints in the snow.
02:46Even more disturbing, the killer clearly remained on the farm for days after the murders.
02:51Further complicating the strange case,
02:53officials sent the victims' heads to a clairvoyant for additional examination,
02:57but they were eventually lost during the chaos of World War II.
03:02Number 7.
03:02Why did she pack her bag and leave in the middle of the night?
03:05The disappearance of Aisha Degree.
03:07On the night Aisha Degree disappeared from her Shelby, North Carolina home,
03:11there were no signs of forced entry and no indications of foul play.
03:15It appeared Degree woke up, packed a few belongings in her book bag,
03:19and walked out into the dark.
03:20It was stormy that evening,
03:22and eyewitnesses spotted Degree walking alone in the rain along the side of a rural road.
03:27A truck driver saw her around 4 a.m.,
03:29but when Degree realized she had been spotted,
03:31she took off into the woods and disappeared.
03:33When her mother went to wake her up for school that morning,
03:37Aisha didn't answer.
03:39Months later, her book bag was found miles from where she was last seen.
03:43A man clearing brush found Aisha's book bag just off the highway.
03:47Inside was a library book Aisha had not checked out,
03:50and a shirt that did not belong to her.
03:52She's the last thing I think of when I go to sleep.
03:55First thing I think of when I wake up.
03:57Number 6.
03:58Who was Joseph Augustus Zarelli living with at the time of his death?
04:01The boy in the box.
04:03On a chilly day in February 1957,
04:06a grisly discovery on the side of an isolated Philadelphia road shocked the entire nation.
04:11A boy's body was found tucked away inside a cardboard box.
04:15In 2022, after decades without a name,
04:18the boy in the box was identified through genetic genealogy as Joseph Augustus Zarelli.
04:23But while his identity has finally been uncovered,
04:26his murder remains unsolved.
04:29Little is known about Zarelli's life leading up to his tragic demise.
04:32Officials have reason to believe he was given away or placed for adoption after he was born.
04:37If so, where did he live?
04:39And who was responsible for him before his death?
04:42We've learned Joseph Zarelli's biological mother and father are deceased.
04:47Number 5.
04:48Who was behind the strange phone calls?
04:50The disappearance of the Springfield Three.
04:52On the day of their high school graduation,
04:54Suzanne Streeter and Stacey McCall celebrated by attending several parties in their town of Springfield, Missouri.
05:00They planned to sleep at Streeter's house that night before heading to the water park with friends the next day.
05:04You say, I love you again on the phone, and I had no idea that was the last time I was going to hear for her voice.
05:11When the pair didn't show up the following morning, their friends went looking for them,
05:15but discovered that McCall, as well as Streeter, and her mother, Cheryl Levitt, were gone.
05:19No signs of struggle.
05:21Everything was nice and neat.
05:22The only potential clues were a strange message on the answering machine
05:26and a series of obscene phone calls made to the house on the day the women were discovered missing.
05:31The identity of this caller may provide insight into the disappearances,
05:35but sadly, it has never been uncovered.
05:38This room is dedicated to the nearly 10,000 tips that have come in over the past quarter century.
05:44Number 4.
05:45Why did she drive to New Hampshire?
05:47The disappearance of Maura Murray.
05:48It's been over two decades since college student Maura Murray left her dorm in Amherst, Massachusetts,
05:54got into her car, and disappeared.
05:56No one knows Murray's intended destination,
05:59but she ended up stranded on a remote road in New Hampshire after crashing her car.
06:03A few eyewitnesses saw her there, but by the time police arrived on the scene, Maura was gone.
06:08I think the most likely thing is that she was picked up by a local.
06:13Unanswered questions swirl around the case,
06:15generating countless headlines and spawning dozens of theories from amateur sleuths all over the world.
06:21They haven't ruled out really anything, so everything's still on the table.
06:28Why did Maura travel out of state without telling anyone?
06:30Was she meeting someone somewhere?
06:32And what happened to her on that desolate stretch of road after she wrecked her car?
06:36And Julie says her sister's actions leading up to the disappearance still don't make sense.
06:42Number 3.
06:43Was the fire deliberately set?
06:45The Sauter children disappearance.
06:47On Christmas Eve 1945, the Sauter family went to bed,
06:51only to wake up a few hours later to find their house engulfed in flames.
06:55George and Jenny Sauter managed to escape the flames with four of their children.
06:59However, despite their attempts, George was unable to save his remaining five kids.
07:04Officials attributed the incident to faulty wiring,
07:07but Jenny recalled hearing a loud thud followed by a rolling sound on the roof before the fire broke out.
07:13This led many to wonder if the flames had been deliberately ignited.
07:16Adding to the mystery,
07:18the human remains of the five missing children were never recovered at the site.
07:22Was the fire actually arson?
07:24Your guess is as good as ours.
07:26Number 2.
07:27How did he leave the bar without being caught on camera?
07:29The disappearance of Brian Schaefer.
07:31In 2006, Ohio State University medical student Brian Schaefer went out to celebrate the beginning of spring break.
07:38Before the night was over, he got separated from his friends and was assumed to have gone home without telling them.
07:44When the lights come on at 2 a.m., he's nowhere to be found.
07:48However, he was never seen again.
07:51Police reviewed the security footage and saw Schaefer and his friends entering the bar.
07:55The footage later showed his friends leaving.
07:57But other than a brief interaction between Schaefer and two ladies, there was no record of him exiting.
08:03After the women leave, Brian is seen re-entering the bar just before 2 a.m.
08:08The only unmonitored way out was through a construction area,
08:12which investigators believe Schaefer couldn't have navigated at night.
08:16So how and when did Schaefer leave the bar?
08:18And more importantly, where did he go?
08:21Brian's remaining loved ones continue to search for answers.
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08:41Number 1. Did he survive the jump?
08:44D.B. Cooper
08:45Just before Thanksgiving in 1971, a man going by the name of Dan Cooper purchased a one-way ticket from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington.
08:54Mid-flight, he threatened to detonate a bomb if he wasn't given $200,000.
08:59This is no joke. There's a bomb in here.
09:02Once the ransom money was secured in Seattle, Cooper took it and parachuted from the plane somewhere over southwestern Washington.
09:09Decades later, many aspects of the case remain unsolved.
09:12Cooper has never been identified, and his fate, along with that of the ransom money, is unknown.
09:25While some of the cash was eventually recovered, a sizable portion is still missing.
09:30The pressing question that remains today is whether Cooper even survived the jump from the aircraft.
09:36As long as a man's got a knife, a cigarette lighter, and the clothes on his back, he could have lived indefinitely out there.
09:43Can you unravel the mystery of these unsolved details?
09:46What are your theories? Let us know in the comments.
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