Unsolved... by Mrs. Etter https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes Here are a few ideas to help you choose a topic for your project. en-us 2021-11-11 01:13:25 UTC 2026-02-05 16:49:46 UTC hello@padlet.com Keddie Cabin Murders etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1882875625 A family’s brutal murder rocks a tiny California town and leaves behind too many unanswered questions.]]> 2021-11-11 01:33:33 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1882875625 Tommy Zeigler's Furniture Store etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1882891399 Tommy Zeigler was sentenced to death for the incident that occurred at his furniture store in 1976. He’s still on death row today - 45 years later. But did he do it? And could DNA evidence exonerate him?]]> 2021-11-11 01:40:15 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1882891399 Missing: Lauren Spierer etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1882928502 In the early morning hours of June 3, 2011, Lauren Spierer went out and celebrated the end of a semester by partying with friends. It should have been like so many weekends before. But on this morning Lauren would leave the company of her friends and walk off alone in the direction of her apartment, never to be seen again.]]> 2021-11-11 01:55:15 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1882928502 JonBenét Ramsey etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1903172134 For 22 years, the JonBenét case has gripped the world, leaving everyone asking the same question: Who killed JonBenét Ramsey? The six-year-old's death shocked the nation. The circumstances surrounding her murder, horrific. Now, for the first time ever, JonBenét Ramsey's father and brother are armed with the original suspect list from Lou Smit, the late lead investigator on the case. Will they finally track down JonBenét's killer to solve one of the nation's most infamous crimes? The Killing of JonBenét: The Final Suspects is narrated by Danielle Robay. Buzzfeed has an episode on this case too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiQ4t2EuhKU

]]> 2021-11-20 02:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1903172134 Zodiac Killer etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1903172246 The self-proclaimed Zodiac Killer was directly linked to at least five murders in Northern California in 1968 and 1969 and may have been responsible for more. He taunted police and made threats through letters sent to area newspapers from 1969 to 1974, before abruptly ceasing communication. Despite intensive investigations, no one was ever arrested for the crimes and the case remains open.]]> 2021-11-20 02:34:47 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1903172246 D.B. Cooper etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1903184464 On the afternoon of November 24, 1971 a man using the name Dan Cooper boarded a passenger flight at Portland international airport, and hijacked the plane. He demanded $200,000 in cash and 4 parachutes. And then, money in hand, he jumped out of the plane at 10,000 feet. No trace of Cooper was ever found—though some of the money eventually was. For nearly 50 years, people have been OBSESSED with this case. Did Cooper survive the fall? And who the hell was he—or she! And that is what this documentary attempts to find out.]]> 2021-11-20 02:53:32 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1903184464 Natalie Wood etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1903184628 An A-List Hollywood actress vanishes from a yacht and her body washes ashore the following morning. Her leading man husband — and a legendary actor who accompanied them on a pleasure cruise — claim she accidentally fell overboard. But questions — terrible ones — linger. A brutal argument. A skipper who overheard violence. A coroner who’s ruling of "accidental drowning" is overturned — and Los Angeles homicide detectives who are still running the case to ground almost four decades later. The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood is a 12 part audio documentary series that breaks new ground on Hollywood’s most enduring murder mystery. Buzzfeed has a great video on this case too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5_HVUS1l0Y

]]> 2021-11-20 02:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1903184628 Black Dahlia etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1903184803 When Elizabeth Short, also known as The Black Dahlia, was brutally killed in 1947, it gripped the entire country. More than 70 years later, it remains America's most infamous unsolved murder. Many believe Dr. George Hodel was the killer, thanks to an investigation by Hodel's own son. But murder is just part of the Hodel family story, one filled with horrifying secrets that ripple across generations. Now, through never-before-heard archival audio and first-time interviews, the Hodel family opens up to reveal their shocking story. In this eight-part documentary series, sisters Rasha Pecoraro and Yvette Gentile, the great grand daughters of George Hodel, take a deep dive into their family history to try to figure out what really happened, and where do they all go from here? Buzzfeed has an episode on this case too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gM6NG2PN4Q

]]> 2021-11-20 02:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1903184803 Marilyn and Sam Sheppard etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1904340528 Marilyn Reese Sheppard was four months pregnant when she was murdered on July 4, 1954. The cause of death: twenty-seven blows to the head with a heavy instrument. Her husband Dr. Sam Sheppard was convicted of her murder in 1954 and then acquitted during a second trial in 1966. For many: Dr. Sam Sheppard was the murderer. 
In the year 1997, Samuel Reese Sheppard, the couple's son filed a civil lawsuit against the state of Ohio for wrongful imprisonment seeking millions of dollars in damages and attempting to prove that his father was innocent.
Was Dr. Sheppard the killer? Was the killer a bushy-haired intruder" as claimed by Dr Sheppard? or could have been Richard Eberling, the window washer who worked for the family?]]> 2021-11-21 12:21:47 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1904340528 Gardner Museum Heist etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1904351283 Are you looking to win $10 million dollars? What about $100,000? This episode covers America’s biggest property crime ever and the biggest museum art heist in the world - the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Heist. The museum theft of 1990 remains unsolved to this day despite ongoing international searches by the FBI. The artwork stolen from the historic museum located in Boston is worth more than $500 million dollars, yet this crime still remains unsolved.]]> 2021-11-21 12:34:45 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1904351283 Darlie Routier etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1904356726 In 1996, a small Texas community was rocked by the tragic slaying of two young boys. The police and prosecution had their sights set on one person as the perpetrator: the boy’s mother, Darlie Routier. They would work tirelessly to make sure she paid the price.]]> 2021-11-21 12:41:13 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1904356726 OJ Simpson etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1904357758 June 12th marks twenty-five years since the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. O.J. Simpson's arrest for the murders catapulted the United States into the "Trial of the Century". Now, Kim Goldman, sister of Ron Goldman, is going back to the vicious crime that changed her life forever. Finally, Kim gets answers to the questions that have been haunting her since the trial. She sits down with prosecutors, investigators, witnesses who never got to speak, and jurors who voted not guilty. Buzzfeed has a good episode on this case too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLmDE_JYUNU&t=4s

]]> 2021-11-21 12:42:19 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1904357758 Sodder Children etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1904358381 In 1945 a house fire took the lives of five children - except that their bodies were never found. In this classic episode, dive into the longstanding mystery of the odd circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the Sodder children.

Buzzfeed also did a great episode on this unsolved crime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AKoCMydkc

]]> 2021-11-21 12:43:05 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1904358381 FBI Crime Document Vault etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1904359771 The Vault is our new FOIA Library, containing 6,700 documents and other media that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them.

]]> 2021-11-21 12:44:42 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1904359771 The case of Curtis Flowers etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1904725091 In this season, we investigate the case of Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Winona, Mississippi, who was tried six times for the same crime. Flowers spent more than 20 years fighting for his life while a white prosecutor spent that same time trying just as hard to execute him.

]]> 2021-11-21 19:22:48 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1904725091 Tylenol Murders etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1904988037 After seven residents of Chicago passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in 1982, authorities discovered they shared a common link. In the hours before their deaths, each of the individuals had taken Tylenol branded paracetamol. 

It’s immediately clear that this was no coincidence. Testing reveals that the Tylenol packages had been tampered with, and some of the capsules replaced with cyanide. As panic ensues throughout the United States, investigators are left to discover what motivated the Chicago Tylenol Murders and find out who is to blame.
]]> 2021-11-22 01:16:27 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1904988037 Charles C Morgan Murder etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1905016421 The mysterious case of Charles Morgan, an alleged secret agent who appears to have committed suicide, or was it perhaps murder?]]> 2021-11-22 01:35:38 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1905016421 Strange Death of 9 Hikers of Dyatlov Pass etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1905051792 In the winter of 1959, nine experienced hikers died in a remote section of the Ural Mountains. The mysterious nature of these deaths was compounded by the cloak and dagger nature of the Soviet government. Details of the event were kept under lock and key until the collapse of the Soviet Union in August of 1991. In the records we found that the nine victims were found scattered all over the mountainside in various states of undress and having suffered all manor of injury from deep frostbite to sever internal damage and missing tongues. This mystery became so ubiquitous throughout Europe and Asia that, in 2019, the Russian government officially reopened the investigation. While we may never know what happened on that snowy mountainside, one thing we certainly do know is..
IT WAS NOT A HURRICANE!

Buzzfeed Unsolved also did a show on this topic. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQpNdevrtiM

]]> 2021-11-22 01:58:57 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1905051792 Kaysera Stops Pretty Places etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1906367895 When 18-year-old Kaysera Stops Pretty Places disappears after a night with friends in Hardin, Montana, her family and friends hold their breath waiting for answers. As the months pass, the story that starts to emerge is one so inconceivable, it will have you wondering: what exactly is going on in Big Horn County?]]> 2021-11-22 15:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/1906367895 Mysterious Death of Kendrick Johnson etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/2462194624 2023-01-30 23:17:43 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/2462194624 Boys on the Track etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/2462195433 2023-01-30 23:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/2462195433 The Disappearance of Brandon Swanson etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/2463185061 On May 14, 2008, Brandon was driving home from a party and drove into a ditch. He called his parents seeking help and they set out to find out. Brandon was sure he knew where he was, but when his parents arrived, he was nowhere to be seen. Brandon decided to walk back to his friend's place and stayed on the phone his his father. Brandon was trying to direct to direct his father where he was walking, suddenly Brandon yelled, "Oh shit!" and the line went dead. They never heard from him again. ]]> 2023-01-31 15:26:35 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/2463185061 Barry and Honey Sherman etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/2463201456 On December 15, 2017, their realtor found them dead in the basement pool of their mansion in Toronto with belts around their necks that were connected to the railings. There was no sign of a break-in. Police initially claimed their deaths were believed to be a murder-suicide, but the couple's children hired their own private investigators. ]]> 2023-01-31 15:35:35 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/2463201456 Erdington Murders etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/2463207336 The "coincidental" murders of Mary Ashford and Barbara Forrest. Both females were 20 years old and killed on the same day. They were also both found in Pype Hayes Park in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Their bodies were found in ditches and showed signs of rape. They had gone out dancing the night they were murdered and the main suspects of both of their cases had the last name "Thorton." Both women expresses having senses of dread leading up to their deaths. The only difference was that their murders occurred 157 years apart. ]]> 2023-01-31 15:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/2463207336 Unsolved Slaughter At Hinterkaifeck Farm etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/2786827454 2023-11-13 05:40:32 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/2786827454 Sinister Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa etterml https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/2786830692 2023-11-13 05:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/etterml/UnsolvedCrimes/wish/2786830692