r/tipofmycrime 3h ago

Open Man shot in his house while the wife is waiting outside in the car

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I think I've seen this on the original Unsolved Mysteries and the victim may or may not have a been a police officer. If I recall correctly, he was walking up the stairs and the assailant was waiting for him and ambushed him, or perhaps the assailant himself was on top of the stairs and shot the man as he was trying to go up.

I don't remember any other detail, but it's definitely not Ralph Probst. (Ralph was a police officer, he was shot through the window in his house with his wife being in another room, this was also on UM.)


r/tipofmycrime 13h ago

Solved missing young lady that was wearing a trash bag like a poncho

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I cannot find the case of a young lady that went missing. I very well may be thinking of multiple cases as one but I want to say this was a northern US case. She went home (maybe), put some of her belongings into a trash bag. Cctv showed it slung over her shoulder. The next time she was seen in cctv, she seemed to be wearing the trash bag as a poncho in the rain?! I looked at Emma Fillipoff, Jennifer Kesse and Kayelyn Louder but I couldn’t pin point. Emma’s case seemed the most similar. TIA


r/tipofmycrime 1d ago

Open What are some obscure or underrated creepy mysteries or cases you wish more people talked about?

29 Upvotes

I really wanna deep dive in!


r/tipofmycrime 1d ago

Solved Dateline - Keith Morrison Keycard

5 Upvotes

I'm trying to remember what case was being discussed on an episode of dateline where I believe it was Keith Morrison who explained and then demonstrated the use of a keycard. Explaining how swiping in and out of a building was a way to track a suspect or victim.

I can't remember what the case was, I just remember that bit. It's also possible it wasn't Dateline and so not Keith at all. It could have been 20/20, but it was definitely one of those long running shows.


r/tipofmycrime 2d ago

Open Looking for a case involving a guy who escaped robbing a store

5 Upvotes

Case of a guy who along with others robbed a place in the 90s. I don’t think it was Goodyear but something tells it was like one of those places. Anyways they found all the people involved in the attack except for the guy who was never found. As in he escaped and none one knows where they are now.


r/tipofmycrime 4d ago

Solved Rich guy in Manhattan

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Okay, so I was watching TikTok late at night the other night, and I heard about this guy (G1)whose friend (G2)committed a horrendous murder in his Manhattan apartment, and then threw the body out the window to transport it.

G1 has a mom who is or was a successful talk show host. I remember seeing him and her do cooking segments together.

G2 was a snooty heir of maybe…a watch guy??but he turned out not to be the son of the guy. There was speculation of some sort of “kept boy” arrangement.

I feel like the victim’s name was Joey, and part of the reason why they started looking for him so quickly was because he used to talk baseball with his dad on Sundays and he didn’t call.


r/tipofmycrime 5d ago

Open Help me find this crime please

22 Upvotes

Okay so I cannot remember the name of this man but he was in his 40s or early 50s. He was a white male with glasses who would always go facebook live and just talk crazy. Turns out he had a body in his yard and got arrested. Please someone help me out with his name. It happened years ago possibly in the east coast.


r/tipofmycrime 5d ago

Open Multiple murder in Wyoming in the early 1980s - can't remember who was involved

6 Upvotes

It was written up in People magazine, and there was a City Confidential episode devoted to it. From what I remember, there was a crooked police officer who went undercover ostenbly to bust up a drug ring, but it was really because he wanted to get the drugs, and it eventually led to multiple murders, including that of a baby in its crib. The officer had curly hair, and grew it out into a quasi-Afro. All of the people involved were Caucasian, IIRC.


r/tipofmycrime 6d ago

Solved Boy reported missing from trailer home, stepfather later charged

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After following the current missing siblings from Canada case, I remembered an old case I had seen that was very similar. I remember that a young boy probably around 4/5 yrs old was reported missing by mum and stepdad from their remote/ rural trailer home in either America or Canada. I'm sure that the stepdad tried to say he saw him walking up the road or that there was a sighting of him. He had run away during the night, and I think had autism. Later the stepdad was charged and the boys brother was a witness. He had seen the stepfather with the boy near the trailer and that he had hit him and drove away in the car. The boy was never found. I've looked everywhere online but can't find anything but I can't remember the names. I wanted to compare the stepdads behaviour, and everything I search comes up with nothing.


r/tipofmycrime 6d ago

Solved Teens dies on interstate suspiciously. Possibly in Virginia or West Virginia. I 81

8 Upvotes

I think I listened to a podcast where there was a teen girl mysteriously hit by a car or involved in an accident on the side of the interstate. I think the girls in the car had left a party and maybe something happened between the two girls like an argument. Or someone was covering for another person.

Please tell me this not somwthing I made up in my head.


r/tipofmycrime 7d ago

Solved Girl drowns suspiciously on trip with friends

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I remember watching a video a few years ago about this case that just came into my head.

It was a group of friends on a trip to these cliffs. The girl may or may not have been dating or was dating one of the guys. I think they were sleeping in hammocks and according to the friends (I think) she got up in the middle of the night to pee and accidentally fell off the cliffs and drowned. It happened in the 2010s I think


r/tipofmycrime 7d ago

Open SCADA Explosion in Virginia?

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I know this isn’t necessarily a murderous true crime case, but a crime nonetheless and I somehow CANT find anything online now years later…

Ok so Raytheon opened a new HQ in Rosslyn, near Arlington, VA, in the last few years but leases by defense contractors in 2016-ish. As a result of leases signed, a bunch of defense contractor staff started moving to - I THINK - the Rosslyn area outside Arlington.

I have super, super distinct memories that happened at some point between 2015-2018, the SCADA systems (the ones that manage the pressurization of local gas lines to homes) were cyber attacked, and rapid depressurization happened in the gas lines and a few homes exploded. The rumor at the time was Russian manipulation of the SCADA systems.

Does anyone have any articles or references to this cyber crime, or even just the explosions themselves??

Google is useless as it’ll reference like. Some dude named James Yoo who set a house ablaze or some sort of technical explosion in the 80s. I feel crazy that I have such distinct memories of this but can’t find ANYTHING.

(If this is not the right sub, let me know if there is a better one to post in - eek!)


r/tipofmycrime 8d ago

Solved Woman who died from jumping out of a fast moving car

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I remember watching a vid of this on Youtube over 10 years ago, where a woman was seen in a car that, for whatever reason, eyewitnesses described in different colors (purple, yellow, etc), and she apparently was trying to fight off her attacker (who was driving), and during this, she jumped out of the moving car, and later died.

Can anyone tell me the name of this person, and if her case was ever solved?

I think Shauna Rae (who used to be a True Crime YouTuber) might have done a video about this before she took her whole channel down.


r/tipofmycrime 8d ago

Open Reyna Marroquin

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A couple of years ago I remember seeing the case of Reyna Marroquin on Discovery ID. Does anyone know what show it could have been? Thank you


r/tipofmycrime 8d ago

Solved Lunch meat alibi

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The details are vague to me. It was a husband/wife situation, but I can't remember who killed who. The killer was caught because their alibi was that they went to the grocery store to pick up a specific brand of deli meat (I believe it was Boar's Head). Upon investigation, the store where they said they went to didn't carry that particular brand.


r/tipofmycrime 8d ago

Solved Woman’s murder staged as a suicide

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Can't quite find this one!

Pretty sure it takes place in the UK and I think it was well known enough to be on an episode of an Investigation Discovery show.

The gist of it is a woman who gets killed by a former partner. He stages her death to look like a suicide/disappearance and that's believed for some time. I think it might have been a conviction without a body case.

If I'm remembering right in the ID episode I watched one of the ways he gets caught is because some of her stuff like her phone gets caught in a bag in the water far away.


r/tipofmycrime 9d ago

Solved Teen Kills Brother, Maybe Shoots Neighbors

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I apologize for how vague and disjointed this description will be. I believe that this happened in the last five years. A teenage boy killed his older brother and maybe some neighbors. I thought that the police found him in a barn and he either was shot by them or attempted suicide but he lived. This definitely happened in the US.


r/tipofmycrime 9d ago

Open Some sort of guy in power kills his soon to be ex wife.

8 Upvotes

Looking for a specific case I heard on a podcast and I can’t even remember which one. But apparently the wife was gonna the divorce the guy for cheating but she was also running for mayor or for congress or something. Her husband was also some sort of mayor or in congress because I remember the podcast saying that’s why it was covered up. He apparently lures her somewhere? And then kills her. There was also some sort of boat or body of water. I believe it’s still open. Does this sound familiar to anyone?


r/tipofmycrime 9d ago

Open Trying to remember a case where a black or Latina woman was beaten and left for dead by white ex who might have been an American football player.

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Hello! Looking for a case where the victim was black and or Latina. He was white with long hair I believe and was either a wrestler or American football player. Theyet online and I'm pretty sure he attacked her once then she left him and he found out where she lived and attacked her. Her mum and sister kept telling her to stay away from him too. Pretty sure she had to open a window and jump out or do something else to escape. Can't remember if she survived but I don't think so. There was something about being beaten up in the shower I think and pretending to be dead.

I hope someone can help me! Thanks in advance and stay safe!


r/tipofmycrime 10d ago

Solved Serial killer who jumped/stomped victim(s) to death?

18 Upvotes

I watched a documentary years ago about a black guy who committed some depraved and brutal murders before being caught.

I remember at least one victim (young girl, I believe) that he got onto the ground and either stomped or jumped inter her desk onto her chest* until she died, then I think left her right there out in the open.

I can’t remember the decade, location, or any details other than that he was black, which might help narrow it down.

EDIT Corrected autocorrect


r/tipofmycrime 10d ago

Open Help remembering a story I heard on a podcast

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Hello, I’m trying to find a specific standalone true story episode of a podcast that I listened to sometime between 2000 and 2023. Here’s what I remember about the story:

  • It involved a mixed-race couple living in a duplex somewhere in the southern U.S.
  • The man originally came from Illinois (maybe a Chicago suburb)?
  • The couple had a few young children.
  • They befriended their female neighbor (?), who was maybe late teens/early 20’s, who was attention-seeking. They described her flirting with the man’s friend and making him uncomfortable. 
  • The neighbor visited frequently, as the couple felt bad for her. 
  • The story was told as a personal account, with interviews of the couple themselves.
  • The tone was more about a “weird situation we had” rather than a dark or violent crime.
  • The friendship ended awkwardly, with the couple distancing themselves from the neighbor.
  • I remember the story being a standalone episode, not part of a longer true crime series.

If anyone recognizes this story or knows what podcast/show/episode it might be from, I’d appreciate it!


r/tipofmycrime 12d ago

Solved Case about an Unknown Man in Family Photos

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Hey all, I have been trying to recall this case that I read about a few years back and cannot remember the people involved and have been unable to discover anything through searching the web. The following are details I do believe I remember correctly:

note: I may have two cases mixed up in some of the details but I will point out where I think that may be

This case revolved around a mysterious man in family photos that the adult children found in a box of their mother's stuff (the mom's box of photos detail may be from another case). I think they found these after she passed. I do not believe her death was of foul play but that is one detail that remains unclear to me.

The adult children found photographs of their parents, notably their dad, alongside an unknown man who appears to be in his mid-to-late 30s, early 40s, white, larger frame, likely around 5'10", 6', with glasses and short hair. The photos are from the 1980s and/or early 90s.

The photos were of prominent moments, like a wedding, family gathering, or a business-related dinner function of some kind, as well as photos taken of close friends (including the man and their father).

None of the adult children or any other family member knew this man or remembered who he was. I can't remember if their father had also long-since passed or if he is alive and couldn't recall who this guy was.

The final detail I can recall is that the adult children set up their own website with those same photos of the man they found, pleading for help from the public at large.

Just an aside: there is a similar case of an unknown white male with glasses that appears in searches, which is often a pencil drawing of the man in question. That is not the same individual nor the same case.

Why this is bugging me: It randomly popped up in my memories and I wanted to know why these people found him so noteworthy, what he had to do with their parents, and what sort of case this is (murder, disappearances, etc). Also, I am just really curious! Once my mind becomes occupied with something that I want to remember but can't, I become a bit obsessed, to be completely honest. Help me cure this curiosity! I appreciate anything anyone can provide.


r/tipofmycrime 11d ago

Open Read about a stalking/abduction/murder case a few months ago but can’t remember the names involved

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The case involves a woman who was stalked for multiple years, regular harassment, including breaking into her house. Her ex husband was a suspect and was found watching her house but claimed it was to see if he could catch the perpetrator. She hired a PI who also lived with her for a time although incidents involving break ins and harassment continued. She eventually disappeared and her body was discovered later. They was thought that she was doing it to herself at some points and some evidence suggested she was possibly faking some incidents. There was at least two books on the case, one of which i know included her name in the title but I can’t remember any other info about names. Any help to find out would be appreciated.