[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ray.

I'm not nearly as deep and tend to treat unsolved mysteries as akin to a good campfire ghost story. Some of them really do send a chill up the spine. That obviously doesn't rob me of my ability to empathise with any victims in such cases, but my motive in watching/reading true crime is unashamedly morbid curiosity.

….ahhhhh, I think though that whatever our specific fascination, it’s a good thought that those stories do find a way of making themselves known, rather than forgotten moments in time, you know…any curiosity that brings to mind is no bad thing…

[Ray.]

Originally Posted by Merry Mockmas

I'm more mixed about them tbh.

I'm more mixed about secondary (leaning negative tbh), but thought primary school was a joyous time. Our class was like one close knit family for all those years.

[Ray.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

….ahhhhh, I think though that whatever our specific fascination, it’s a good thought that those stories do find a way of making themselves known, rather than forgotten moments in time, you know…any curiosity that brings to mind is no bad thing…

Yes, especially the John/Jane Doe cases. There are one or two such cases where I check back every few years (usually when the case rears itself in my mind again tbh) to see if the subject has finally been identified.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ray.

Yes, especially the John/Jane Doe cases. There are one or two such cases where I check back every few years (usually when the case rears itself in my mind again tbh) to see if the subject has finally been identified.

…it’s strange…(…and random…)…to have this conversation in the random thread……about unsolved cases in general and you then you saying that there are a couple of cases that you tap in on every now and again…?…when I went on my email page earlier and looked at the news section and this story was ‘randomly’ there…

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/aristocrat...170000084.html

…and the randomness of it is that this is a story from 2011 and there are no updates to it so it just felt quite a ‘random’ thing for it to appear at all and at a specific time when we were chatting about unsolved cases…it’s actually a story that I found particularly disturbing and that we were discussing here on the forum …and that I also ‘tap into’ now and again for any possible updates as to if Xavier DuPont was ever located/which he hasn’t been …it’s a bit Lord Lucan-ish in his disappearance …he executed his wife, his four children and the family dogs and buried their bodies under the house and then completely disappeared…if I recall, with one of the children…he called him home from resident boarding school to execute him…it’s a case that stayed with me for a long, long time and one I still think about from time to time…and just so bizarre that it should ‘randomly’ appear this morning as if it was a new story and without it even having any update added to it either…