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5 Shocking Cases of Disappearing
5.
Ireland’s Vanishing Triangle
The island nation of Ireland was gripped with fear, curiosity and paranoia in the 1990s
when women began to disappear.
The case, unsolved to this day, intrigued the country and the wider world.
Though it was never proven that the disappearances were related, the most widely accepted theory
is that the same perpetrator was behind the eight kidnappings.
The women disappeared between 1993 and 1998.
The Irish police exhausted every available avenue in the hunt for each of these girls
but all leads lead to dead ends.
4.
The Indiana Dunes Women
What started out as a fun, carefree day ended in tears in Indiana back in 1966.
Three women vanished in the blink of an eye while enjoying a day on the beach.
Renee Bruhl, Patricia Blough and Ann Miller packed up their stuff and headed for Indiana
Dunes State Park on July 2nd, 1966.
After driving to the park, they spread their stuff out on the beach and went into the lake
together around noon, for a swim.
Witnesses said the women were seen climbing into a white boat with a young, tanned man.
There was a reported sighting of the women later that day, walking along the sand dunes
and stopping to talk to another unidentified man.
Though never substantiated, this was considered a reliable sighting.
3.
Moors Murders
This case was one of the most chilling disappearance cases the world has ever seen.
Between July 1963 and October 1965, five young people went missing from the Greater Manchester
area of England.
The victims were aged between 10 and 17 and vanished one by one over the space of the
two years.
After a call to the police from a witness to the final victim’s demise, Ian Brady
and Myra Hindley were arrested.
The couple had been picking off local youths for two years and burying them on Saddleworth
Moor.
The sickening crimes included sexual assault, kidnap and eventually murder.
While Brady mainly carried out the crimes, Hindley was instrumental in the kidnapping
and disposing of their young victims.
2.
Madeleine McCann
This case has been described as the most heavily reported missing person case in modern history.
In 2007, 3-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished without a trace from the bedroom she shared
with her twin siblings in a holiday apartment in the Algarve, Portugal.
The adults in the group decided to go for dinner,leaving the children alone.
The case went public with appeals for information and it became a wild media frenzy.
Several theories were put forward on the young girl’s vanishing.
Initially, abduction was the main theory.
Soon after, the investigation seemed to suggest that she had died in the apartment; which
led to her parents being suspects.
The parents were later cleared but Madeleine’s whereabouts remain a mystery.
1.
Elisabeth Fritzl
In 2008, the police came knocking at Josef Fritzl’s door, asking to speak to him about
his daughter, Elisabeth.
Hours later, the disturbing story was heard across the world.
On August 29th, 1984, Josef Fritzl lured Elisabeth into the basement of the family home.
There, she was confined to the underground living quarters for 24 years.
Over the years of her confinement, Elisabeth was subject to persistent sexual abuse at
the hands of her father.
He fathered seven children with his victim, six of whom survived their infancy.
Bafflingly, Fritzl brought three of his children/grandchildren upstairs to live with him and his wife, telling
people Elisabeth had left them at their doorstep, unable to care for them herself.
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