Murder Mystery facts
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An aquarium shark sparked a murder mystery when it puked up a human arm in its tank
A mysterious unsolved murder where two dead men were found wearing lead masks and suits next to a notebook that said "Be at the place arranged at 16.30. Take capsules at 18.30. After feeling the effects, protect half the face with lead masks. Await the agreed signal."
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 38 of the best facts about Murder Mystery I managed to collect.
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Famous murder mystery author Anne Perry writes from experience, as she herself spent five years in prison at age fifteen for murdering her friend's mother
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A woman's skull was unearthed in David Attenborough's back garden, solving a 130 year old murder mystery.
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The Unsolved Hinterkaifeck Mystery. German farmer found footprints leading from the woods to his farm, but no footprints going back. Days later he was murdered along with his whole family.
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"The Tent Girl", a young woman whose murdered body was found in Kentucky in 1968 and her identity was a mystery for 30 years until a man found the woman's sister on the internet after a 10 year long search.
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That, 2 years ago, a nuclear scientist and a whole family of bystanders were mysteriously murdered by what appeared to be professionals in the French Alps in what is known as the "Annecy Shootings." No suspects were ever found to this day.
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The mysterious death of Cindy James appeared, at first, to be a murder following years of stalking... but all evidence suggests that she made up the stalking, killed herself and made it look like a murder
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In Norway, a contemporary tradition is to read or watch murder mysteries at Easter.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once solved a real-life mystery case and helped clear an innocent man of murder but he didn't pay Conan Doyle's legal fees even though he was awarded £6,000 in compensation.
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The Agatha Christie books published in the 1920s include The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), The Secret Adversary (1922), The Murder on the Links (1923), The Man in the Brown Suit (1924), The Secret of Chimneys (1925), The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), The Big Four (1927), The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928), and The Seven Dials Mystery (1929).
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Snoop Dogg was acquitted of murder in part because the prosecution's evidence mysteriously disappeared.
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In 2011 the FBI attempted to use crowdsourcing to decrypt a mysterious code found on a murder victim. The code has yet to be decrypted and the murder case remains unsolved.
World’s Oldest Murder Mystery Was Dated to Have Happened 430,000 years ago. - source
In 1946, the King of Thailand was found shot in his bed at the age of 20 and his death is still a mystery and is not openly discussed in Thailand. It is still not conclusively proven if his death was a murder or suicide. - source
Over 100 trees in Perryville, Maryland, are covered in mysterious messages from mentally ill veterans from the nearby Perry Point Veteran's Center. The carvings include "Nelson Jochnou 1958", "Help", "Murder", and "Eddie Kenny did not want to murder George Norris but St. Ignatius made him".
Matthew McConaughey's first professional acting gig was playing a murder victim (shirtless, of course) in an episode of Unsolved Mysteries. - source
In 1846, Abraham Lincoln wrote a murder mystery starring himself as the detective
The Parker–Hulme murder case where two teenage girls committed murder. After serving her sentence one of the girls changed her name and became a successful author of murder mysteries. Her real identity was revealed publicly when Peter Jackson made a film about the events, Heavenly Creatures.
Hogan's Heroes" star Bob Crane was found bludgeoned to death in his apartment in 1978 and his friend, John Carpenter was suspected of his murder. Carpenter was tried but he was found not guilty. He died in 1998. Crane's murder is still a mystery despite new DNA tests
Matthew McCounaughey's first professional acting gig was playing a murder victim on Unsolved Mysteries
Two of the first ever books featuring Hercule Poirot - "The Mysterious Affair At Styles" and "Murder On The Links" - are now in the public domain and can be read for free online.
The original pitch for Toy Story 3 was a Direct to Video Murder Mystery pastiche, in which the toys are sent to Andy's Grandmother's old scary attic.
