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Some mysteries continue to baffle investigators and captivate the public decades later. Join us as we explore the cold cases from the 21st century that remain frustratingly unsolved. From vanished individuals to shocking crimes that stumped law enforcement, these cases have generated countless theories but no definitive answers. Which unsolved mystery do you think about the most?
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00:00There are two murderers running wild, and these two murderers are people that shot a kid in the back.
00:06Welcome to Miss Mojo.
00:08Today we're taking a look at the most notorious unsolved crimes from the year 2000 onward.
00:12Out of respect for those involved, this video is unranked.
00:15Please note that all entries to follow are listed in chronological order.
00:18Due to the sensitive nature of the events depicted, viewer discretion is strongly advised.
00:22They say that the man here, Tadishev, was actually filling out a confession,
00:26had been cooperative, then all of a sudden he turned and attacked the FBI agent.
00:32Zeb Quinn
00:33Cheryl, any new developments in the Zeb Quinn case?
00:38No, no new leads have developed for years in this case,
00:41but the teenager's mother is holding out hope that someday she'll have some answers.
00:45When a cold case reaches a legal conclusion, it isn't necessarily a relief to those affected by it.
00:5018-year-old Asheville, North Carolina native Quinn went missing just after the first New Year's Day of the millennium.
00:55Quinn, a Walmart employee, had coordinated with Robert Owens, a friend and co-worker,
00:59to buy a new car in neighboring Leicester.
01:01However, they never made it as planned.
01:02Owens claimed that Quinn began acting erratically and left, never to be seen again.
01:06There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about Zeb and wonder where he is.
01:13Owens was indicted for Quinn's murder in 2017,
01:15but has since asserted that his late uncle had been paid off to kill Quinn.
01:18The party who supposedly hired Owens' uncle has yet to be brought up on charges.
01:22Since we've never found his body, there's, in the back of my mind, there's always the possibility.
01:29Anthrax attacks.
01:30The Florida man has contracted a very rare and potentially deadly form of anthrax.
01:35Rare inhaled form of anthrax.
01:38Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson calls it an isolated case
01:41and says there was no threat of terrorism.
01:44The tragic events of the 9-11 attacks in New York City ushered in an entirely new American age,
01:49rife with widespread paranoia, escalating tension,
01:52and a heightened focus on improving security measures and dissipation of possible future attacks.
01:56No one could have predicted, however, just how soon those attacks would come.
02:00Now to the home front and those concerns over anthrax in Florida.
02:03After one man died from the illness and his co-worker was contaminated,
02:07the FBI has taken over the investigation.
02:10On September 18, 2001, the first of several waves of envelopes containing deadly anthrax spores
02:15arrived at the offices of two U.S. senators, as well as news media headquarters, leading to five deaths.
02:20Welcome back, everybody.
02:21It certainly has been a tough day and days for all of us at NBC News
02:25because, of course, the press conference that announced yesterday that an NBC News staff member
02:29actually had been tested positive for anthrax.
02:33The perpetrators have never been identified.
02:35In 2008, the FBI and DOJ concluded that Bruce Ivins, a U.S. Army biodefense researcher, was responsible,
02:41a controversial conclusion that is widely disputed to this day.
02:44Government scientist who took his own life rather than face charges of hatching the diabolical 2001 anthrax attacks.
02:52Chandra Levy.
02:52The story was a congressman with an intern.
02:55It wasn't the story about this poor girl being missing and all these families being destroyed over this.
03:00Levy's case is intricate and multifaceted.
03:03Filled with numerous complexities.
03:04An intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C., Levy vanished on May 1st, 2001.
03:10Her family later disclosed to authorities her affair with Democratic congressman Gary Condit,
03:14who represented their electoral district.
03:16Congressman Condit, do you know what happened to Chandra Levy?
03:20No, I do not.
03:21Did you have anything to do with her disappearance?
03:24No, I didn't.
03:25Did you kill Chandra Levy?
03:27I did not.
03:28We had a close relationship.
03:29An FBI informant alleged that Ingmar Guandique, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador,
03:34was hired by Condit to silence Levy.
03:36Guandique was convicted in 2010 and deported in 2017.
03:39However, it should be noted that in 2016, the charges against Guandique were dropped due
03:43to insufficient evidence.
03:45The FBI largely dismissed the Condit angle, citing Guandique's prior confessions to other
03:49assaults.
03:49The representative was never officially a suspect.
03:52The congressman was not a suspect before the meeting, he was not a suspect during the
03:57meeting, and he is not a suspect since the meeting.
03:59Elliot Smith.
04:00Something's happening, don't speak too soon.
04:05The widely beloved indie folk singer-songwriter was known for incorporating dark themes into
04:09his work.
04:09Smith had long struggled with substance use and his often fragile mental health.
04:13His October 21st, 2003 death, the result of a knife wound to the chest, has been classified
04:24as him taking his own life.
04:25Some may find this conclusion understandable given the consistently raw, vulnerable tone
04:29of his music.
04:30However, record producer and Smith archivist Larry Crane, along with Jennifer Chiba, Smith's
04:35then-girlfriend who discovered him dying, have expressed doubts.
04:38They point to Smith's improved mental state and excitement about working on new music
04:51at the time as factors that don't align with him as taking his own life.
04:55The Los Angeles Police Department has never formally closed Smith's case.
05:06The Jameson family.
05:07Jameson family lived here near Lake Eufaula, but Bobby's mom says they were looking to
05:12move to the mountains.
05:13In early October of 2009, they made the hour-long drive to Latimer County to look for property,
05:19but were never seen again.
05:21How does a family of three people simply vanish off of the face of the earth with no trace
05:25of what happened to them?
05:26That's what officials involved in the Jameson family disappearance wondered in October 2009
05:30after the Eufaula, Oklahoma native's pickup truck turned up abandoned save for the family
05:35dog, and crucially, IDs, phones, and over $30,000 in cash.
05:39Sky 5 flew over the Sands Boys Mountains where hunters found the skeletal remains of two adults
05:45and a child.
05:46This is the same area where Bobby and Sherilyn Jameson disappeared with their young daughter.
05:52Four years later, November 2013, the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office confirmed that the
05:56family's remains had been located but was unable to determine a specific cause of death.
06:01There's just partial skeletal remains and some clothing like shoes, things like that.
06:06Speculation persists as to why of it all, with theories including a family feud, a drug
06:11deal gone wrong, or a fear of evil spirits.
06:13Kyron Horman.
06:14Yeah, Kyron Horman was last seen here at Skyline Elementary on June 4, 2010.
06:20His mom drives up to the Portland area at least once a year, if not more, to work with law
06:24enforcement to keep this case active and to bring him home.
06:27Seven-year-old Portland, Oregon native Horman was last seen attending an early morning science
06:32fair chaperoned by his stepmother, Terry.
06:34After being informed by the school that he had been marked absent for the day after failing
06:37to appear in his first class, he was reported missing.
06:40The 10-day search for him was the largest ever of its kind in the history of the state.
06:43My life didn't really move on.
06:46My mission stays the same, and until I get to bring Kyron home, I just keep fighting for
06:54him.
06:54In a shocking development, investigators considered the possibility that Terry had conspired with
06:58a close friend of hers to orchestrate Kyron's kidnapping.
07:01A lawsuit filed by Desiree Young, Kyron's biological mother, against Terry, was dropped in 2013 to
07:07avoid conflict with the ongoing investigation.
07:09No new developments in the case have emerged since 2018.
07:12It has been nearly 13 years since Kyron Horman disappeared.
07:16His mom has not given up her search since the then seven-year-old went missing from his
07:21elementary school in Portland.
07:22Waltham triple murder.
07:24They say that the man here, Tanyshev, was actually filling out a confession, had been
07:28cooperative, then all of a sudden he turned and attacked the FBI agent.
07:32The circumstances surrounding this particularly gruesome case in the greater Boston area tend
07:37to raise more questions than answers.
07:39On September 12, 2011, the nearly decapitated bodies of Brendan Mess, Eric Weissman, and Raphael
07:45Tekken were found at Mess' apartment covered in $5,000 in cash, as well as several thousand
07:50dollars' worth of cannabis.
07:51Even more disturbing is the alleged involvement of brothers Tamerlan and Zakhar Sarnath, the
08:05terrorists responsible for the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
08:09The former was described as having an extremely close, though fraught, friendship with the
08:13deceased Brendan Mess.
08:14Ibrahim Todeshev, an associate of Tamerlan's, was fatally shot by the FBI in Orlando in May
08:192013 during questioning about the Waltham case in Boston bombing.
08:23He felt like there's going to be set up.
08:25He felt like there's going to be set up, bad set up against him, you know what I mean?
08:29Because he felt, he told me, like, they're making up such crazy stuff, I don't know why
08:33they're doing it.
08:34Keith Ratliff.
08:35Our current president made a remark that he'd like to renew the assault weapons ban, and based
08:39on previous conversations he had prior to being elected and while being a community organizer
08:45in Chicago.
08:46An employee of the now-defunct YouTube channel FPS Russia, Ratliff was discovered at his Karnsville,
08:51Georgia home on January 3rd, 2013, dead from a gunshot to the head.
08:55Thirty-year-old Ratliff co-owned FPS Industries, described by the Anderson Independent Mail as
09:00being concerned with the development and production of firearms and related items.
09:04So, they're a channel that's among the top ten and most subscribed, so it's obviously huge
09:10and they use a lot of weapons and they show you how to use the weapons.
09:13Apparently, one of the things they were proud of, of this guy who got killed, was that he could
09:17procure really exotic weapons.
09:19The deceased was in charge of securing the weapons that appeared in FPS Russia YouTube
09:24videos.
09:24Mike Ayers, Georgia Bureau of Investigations agent in charge, stated in March 2013 that
09:29it is the policy of the GBI that homicide investigations remain open and active until they're solved.
09:35Despite this, no potential assailants have been identified in the years since Ratliff's
09:38death.
09:39I went to the movies with my pistol in my pocket the whole time I was praying that somebody
09:45would try to pull a Batman.
09:46Seth Rich.
09:47It's been more than six months since Seth Rich was murdered.
09:50While the family grieves the loss of their son, they're also dealing with pressures out
09:54of their control.
09:55It's definitely not a cold case, nor will it ever be.
09:58The events surrounding 27-year-old Rich's 2016 murder have been widely scrutinized, analyzed,
10:03and poured over.
10:04Omaha, Nebraska native Rich lived and worked in Washington, D.C. at the time of his death.
10:08He was employed as the Voter Expansion Data Director of the Democratic National Convention.
10:12On July 10th, Rich's life was ended by two gunshots to the back in D.C.'s Columbia Heights
10:17neighborhood where he lived.
10:18There are two murderers running wild, and these two murderers are people that shot a kid in
10:24the back.
10:25Rich's killers haven't been brought to justice, and according to local police, they may have
10:28been attempting to rob him.
10:29Debunked social media posts and baseless conspiracy theories speculated that Rich's death was actually
10:35a political assassination, retaliation for supposedly leaking classified documents.
10:39There is no good, strong evidence.
10:43It was four in the morning, and not people walking by.
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11:04Barry and Honey Sherman.
11:05There's not a shred of doubt about the generosity of the Shermans.
11:09It is estimated they donated more than $100 million to various causes, and their daughter
11:14wants that work to continue.
11:16The founder and CEO of Canadian pharmaceutical giant Apotex, Toronto philanthropist Barry Sherman
11:22and Honey, his wife of 46 years, were found dead next to their pool by cleaning staff
11:26on December 15th, 2017.
11:28A reportedly unscrupulous businessman who had been routinely accused of unethical practices,
11:33even Sherman himself had publicly mused that his own murder wouldn't come as a surprise.
11:37It's definitely a big struggle.
11:40All my siblings and I have been struggling since, you know, for the past 18 months.
11:45For me, personally, it comes in waves.
11:48Apotex had a reputation for its litigiousness, not only toward government regulators, but also
11:53its own competitors.
11:54Barry was also embroiled in a legal battle with his cousins, the Winters, over unpaid royalties.
11:58He was reportedly also $1 billion in debt at the time of his death.
12:02The Toronto Police Service has confirmed that the investigation remains active.
12:06Did you mention anything about the investigation itself?
12:09Because that's still the big question mark here.
12:11Well, they wouldn't talk.
12:12As a family, they haven't spoken about the investigation, and that was certainly a ground rule
12:16going into the interview.
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