Jack the Ripper
The most famous cold case in history. Back in the 1890s, prostitutes in London's Whitechapel district starting showing up with their throats slashed. The public quickly dubbed the culprit "Jack the Ripper". The scenes left behind by this fiend were truly horrific. Below is an actual autopsy photo from one of Jack's victims (viewer warning).
As we all know, the true identity of Jack was never discovered although various modern day sleuths have come up with their own theories as to whom he really was. Some say he lived until 1912 when he went down with the Titanic.
"Jack!!!"Others say, he went on to become a famous animal hunter.
The most intriguing was that he was actually a mad prince living in Buckingham Palace, from whence he ventured out at night seeking his prey, but that was never proven. Imagine if Jack the Ripper was actually an ancestor of.........
The Black Dahlia
Los Angeles' most famous unsolved case. In the late 1940s, the nude body of Elizabeth Short was discovered lying next to a sidewalk on a residential street in central Los Angeles. She had been cut in two. Through the decades, the case was never solved. There were suspects, but all were cleared. Several books have been written about the case offering various theories and even a Hollywood movie. In one recent book, a retired LA cop with time on his hands, wrote a book naming his dear old dad as the murderer. I've read the book, and it is far from convincing, not even as convincing as the above Ripper theories.
Nicole Brown Simpson
Nicole Brown Simpson was stabbed to death in West Los Angeles along with a male friend back in the 1990s. Police quickly arrested her ex-husband, some guy named Orenthal, based on a mountain of DNA evidence. Trouble was, Orenthal had an iron-clad alibi. He was in Chicago when the body was discovered and a glove found at the scene of the murder didn't fit. During the trial, it was learned that one of the LAPD detectives had used the N-word about 10 years previous, and the jury needed only an hour to come back with a verdict of "Not Guilty".
Orenthal: The search coninues.In the ensuing years, Orenthal dedicated his life to finding the real killer. He searched through the roughs of every golf course in Los Angeles without success. Eventually, he took his search to Florida because he got a tip the real killer was hiding on some Florida golf course. Eventually, he heard that the real killer was in a Las Vegas hotel room. In his efforts to hunt down the real killer there, he was once again framed by racist cops and is now residing in a Nevada prison, where he debriefs all the inmates as to whether they know the identity of the real killer.
Who Hired Craig Livingstone?
Perhaps, the spookiest of all, was during the Clinton presidency, when a young barroom bouncer named Craig Livingstone showed up at the White House one day and began working as head of White House security. He was involved in that little Filegate scandal where 900 files of Republican opponents turned up in the White House and nobody could explain why. What's worse, nobody could explain who exactly had hired Livingstone in the first place. Even Livingstone didn't know who had hired him. To this day, along with the question of who poisoned Warren G. Harding, it is one of Washington's most enduring mysteries although there are rumors that Craig's Mom had a friend in a very high place.
Finally, there is what promises to be one of the murkiest of all time. It is still current, and it involves an ATF office in Phoenix arranging to allow purchases of automatic weapons from licensed gun dealers to straw buyers (under ATF surveillence, of course). At that point, however, the bad guys were dropped from surveillance and allowed to take the guns into Mexico, where they were delivered into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. A couple of hundred deaths later, Congress is trying to get to the bottom of it. Problem is that the higher ups in Washington including the attorney general disclaim any involvement. What's really boffo, however, is that nobody-I mean nobody- can say who in the Hell came up with the idea in the first place.
So there they are folks, some of histories most baffling cases. From Jack the Ripper to Fast and Furious. The burning question is whether one hundred years from now, we will still be asking, "Who in the Hell thought up Fast and Furious in the first place?"
2 comments:
If the time frame wasn't off, I would be fairly certain that Obama and his cronies were behind the Jack the Ripper killings. I do have reason to believe that his ancestors were behind it in some way.
The Kenyans, or the southern slaveowners, or some other branch? He has a rather diverse family tree. Was it within the third and fourth generation?
(Anyone but Miggie would have the good grace to be embarrassed by their own nonsense right about now).
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