According to statistics, most of the murders are solved without delay, with fresh traces. Most of the missing people are found dead or alive after a certain period of time. However, some murders and disappearances do not find their logical solution. A number of such crimes occurred in the past century, and until that time they have not left indifferent many researchers and forensic experts.
The Gruber family murder mystery
In Germany, on the outskirts of Munich in the village of Hinterkaifeck, on the night of April 1 in 1922, a brutal murder was committed. The victims turned out to be a family of six people: Cecilia and Andreas Gruber, their children Victoria, Josef, Cecilia, as well as a girl working as a cleaner in the family - Maria Baumgartner.
All of the victims had their heads smashed with a sharp object. Despite the large sums that were given for any information about the incident, as well as the interrogation of more than a hundred witnesses, the police could not determine either the motives for the murder or the suspects.
The mystery of the murder of the "Black Dahlia"
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In January 1947, near Los Angeles, the dismembered corpse of 20-year-old Elizabeth Short was found on an uninhabited plot of land. The girl's corpse was chopped to pieces, her breasts and reproductive organs were missing, and her mouth was mutilated.
The police found out that Short wanted to be a star and worked as a waitress. She was very fond of walking in black dresses, therefore she was called "Black Dahlia" (black dahlia). The girl was last seen a week before her death at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.
The Man from Somerton
At dawn on December 1, 1948. in the city of Adelaide, on a city beach called Somerton, the body of a man, 45 years old, and dressed fairly decently, was discovered. There were no signs of damage on the body. Identification failed. Autopsy revealed that the man's stomach was filled with blood.
According to experts, the cause of death could have been poisoning, but no traces of the poison were found. A surprise for the police was the dead man's lack of money and the fact that the tags on his clothes were cut off. One got the impression that someone strongly wished that the corpse could not be identified.
Further it became known that the day before at the station in the lockers, someone had left a suitcase without a tag. It was filled with wardrobe items that were the size of a beach murderer, and there were no tags on either. Still, a couple of things bore the name T. Keane and were stamped with dry cleaning. But this did not help the investigators in any way.
A page from a book with the words "tamam shud" was found in a secret pocket of his trousers. It turned out that she was torn out of the book "Rubai" (a collection of poems by the famous poet O. Khayyam). Translated from Persian "taman shud" is complete. The edition from which the page was torn was found with a doctor who lived in Glenelg. He said he found the Rubai in his car on November 30th. It was determined by the forensic experts that the sheet was ripped from this particular book. The collection was studied in detail. On the back spread, notes were found that looked like a code. In addition to them, Jessica Powell's phone number was recorded there. The woman explained that before the book was hers, but back in 1945. she gave it to a friend - Alfred Boxall. The police found Alfred, but he showed them the Rubai book, all the pages of which were in their place.
The mystery of the disappearance of the Beaumont children
Another unsolved crime that occurred in Adelaide in January 1966 is the disappearance of three children, Nancy and Jim Beaumont. On the day of the accident, Jane (9 years old), Arna (7 years old) and Grant (4 years old) drove to Glenelg Beach, which was a 15-minute bus ride from their home.
However, in the evening, the children did not return home from the beach. The parents wrote a statement to the police on the evening of the same day. An elderly witness said that she saw children playing near a drinking fountain with a young man. An identikit was drawn up according to her testimony. They considered the kidnapping version. More than 1000 volunteers were involved in the search for children, and journalists also helped. However, the search returned no results.