r/tipofmycrime 13h ago

Open YT true crime story?

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I'm trying to find a YouTube true crime video from the last few years. The story was about women who was violently killed by a neighbor while mowing her lawn, and while her adult son or daughter tried to help, but couldn't get there in time. Any help with this would be appreciated.


r/tipofmycrime 21h ago

Answered Man found with tooth in his mouth that wasn’t his?

8 Upvotes

Update/ I found it on tik tok. Timothy Dees case

I saw a video on Facebook about this case and can’t find the video now. There was a case where a man was missing/killed and months later was found in a place nearby that they had already searched as if his body was placed there. And he had a tooth in his mouth that wasn’t his??

Help, I want to learn more about this!


r/tipofmycrime 2d ago

Open Missing son found living as a homeless man and reunited with his parents.

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This case happened in 2010s in the US (possibly South-ish) and was one of the cases featured in a YT crime video (not sure whose). Man in his late teens or early 20s disappeared and his parents spent few years looking for him. He probably had mental health issues. The parents created a FB profile to help publicize the case. There were sightings of him suggesting that he's living on the streets among the homeless people. Finally, he was recognized in some homeless shelter. He was using an alias, but he recognized his parents immediately once they arrived and was overcome with emotions. He couldn't explain why he was using an alias. There was even a photo of him with his parents shortly after they were reunited and the look in his eyes was heartbreaking. The photos from the FB profile are still up but it wasn't updated in a long time. Does it ring any bells?


r/tipofmycrime 4d ago

Answered Need help identifying a serial killer.

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I’ve tried every google search imaginable trying to find a name but so far have been unsuccessful. I think this guy was located in either Texas or Arizona. His case was featured on a couple of true crime shows. The details I remember was he was a compulsive liar about his or his grandpa’s military service (sorry I can’t recall which) and that he claimed his victims were criminals or deviants and that’s how he justified it. I remember he killed one of his victims by shooting them through a window while they lie in bed and he was outside. I also believe his first victim was a really young man who he claimed was a gang member and who he picked up the day of and went to shoot guns with. I also seem to remember his girlfriend might have had some involvement. I know this isn’t a lot of information to go on but any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.


r/tipofmycrime 5d ago

Open Woman that goes missing after a concert

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Looking for information on a disappearance I saw on a Forensic Files type show around 2014-2015. Saw it on cable TV.

What I remember is that two girls were meeting up to go to a concert. They met halfway, one girl parked her car in a parking lot, and they carpooled in the other girl's car to the concert.
After the concert they drove back to the girl's car, she got out, got in her car, and then the other girl drove home.
The girl with the car in the parking lot never made it home, and they found her car in the parking lot.
I also remember them showing an image of the parking lot and it was very dark with a portion lit up by a single light post
Any leads or information would be great or even better the episode of the show. Been bothering me for over 10 years


r/tipofmycrime 5d ago

Open Father Convicted of Killing Mother and Kids Divided on Guilt

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I think this was a Dateline episode from several years back, so it might be a long shot. The father (who was white) was convicted of killing his wife/the mother (who I think was Asian). He originally said she had run away but then it became apparent that was not true as she was missing several years. They had two or three adult children who were split on the father’s guilt. One of the children (I think the son) originally thought the father was innocent but after the trial/evaluating all the facts decided he had to be guilty.


r/tipofmycrime 7d ago

Open Murdered swedish family in the US - Some wannabe vampires did it in the 90s-2000s

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From what I remember, it involved a group of teenagers who were obsessed with vampirism and murdered a family of four. The victims were Swedish immigrants (mother, father, daughter, and son) and I remember their last name starting with an “L.” I also recall the murders taking place in a park/campsite.

This case was featured in a true crime show but I cannot remember which one, it most likely aired in Investigation Discovery.


r/tipofmycrime 7d ago

Answered little girl missing for decades / father still looking

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I think I heard this on the Crimelines podcast, but can't find it on there. Can't remember state it happened in, but I think took place in the 80s. Mother and father have 2 kids, boy and a girl. Divorce. Mom keeps kids away from dad. She remarries man, I think he also has kids. They suddenly moved away. Dad tries to find them, police won't look for them since the mother has them, and don't consider it a kidnapping. He looks for years and years. I believe the brother and him eventually get in contact. I think the brother remembers a carpet being rolled up, or maybe just an odd box or something the night they just up and moved. No record of the girl since she went missing. Police interview mom and she's not concerned about her daughter's whereabouts. I think she was eventually charged with a relatively minor crime associated with it. I think the mom and step dad were also divorced at that point, but she still defended him. I think the mother tried to say that she was sent to live with relatives, but obviously wasn't true. The brother tried to get his mom to talk about it, but she refused. I think the girl was pretty young, like 5 or under. It's driving me nuts. Some cases that come up when I try to google, but aren't it are - Chris and Lisa Mae Zacharias and Elaine Yates.


r/tipofmycrime 8d ago

Open Socialite murdered and the town thinks a woman’s adopted son did it

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Im having a really hard time because every way i try and phrase this google AI say i am misremembering it and gives me a wrong answer. I have a very long project at work and i remember getting through like half of this podcast about this woman but stopped because the episodes were still ongoing at the time

I am pretty sure that it happened in a southern state. People really knew this woman for her big hair and makeup. She was found in her living room by a relative or neighbor i cant remember, but none of her things were taken. The town believes that it was this one woman’s son who did it and i remember them saying that they didn’t really like him because he was adopted and may have had some mental issues.

This wasn’t a one shot podcast but if someone could give me the name i can probably go from there.


r/tipofmycrime 8d ago

Answered Evansville, IN 1990s.

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My Google Fu is failing me so I figure i have some facts wrong. I am trying to find the details of a murder in southern Indiana in the mid to late 1990s. I believe it occurred in Evansville but it could have been Newburgh. A 15 year old girl went to a coffeehouse in the winter. She left after dark and didnt have a ride. Her ex boyfriend and his friend offered to drive her home. Instead, they beat her SA'ed her, beat her some more and i believe she wasnt dead yet when the 2 boys buried her (not well) in a snow bank. I believe the boys were driving a truck.

This case has haunted me for years without a way to find it. Does anyone know what i am talking about.


r/tipofmycrime 8d ago

Open Murder case where a husband a friend went over, unarmed, to talk to a neighbor about staring or harassing the mans wife. They dissapeared or were killed.

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There was a lot to this case and the neighbor was doing other crime too, and reading the case I remember thinking it seemed very naive walking over without being armed to this guy. They disappared or were killed. Must have been in the countryside, usa, from what I recall. Neighbor was acting bizarely and harassed other people too iirc.


r/tipofmycrime 8d ago

Answered Missing/murdered kids, dad responsible...what are the names?

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I'm trying to identify a true crime case that I watched on a daytime talk show years ago (I originally thought it was Dr. Phil, but it could have been Montel Williams, Maury, or a similar show with a male host).

Here's what I remember:

It was probably a case from the 1990s.

The missing children were a teenage daughter and her younger brother.

They disappeared at the same time, I believe, while they were with their father.

Pretty sure this was in Missouri but might have been Arkansas/Oklahoma area.

Their parents were divorced or divorcing.

The mother was convinced from the beginning that the father had killed the children and spent years trying to prove it.

The father denied any involvement for many years.

Several years later, I think the father confessed (or admitted what happened), the children's bodies were found, and he went to prison.

I also have a vague memory that there was some connection to a bookstore, but I can't remember if it involved the family, the investigation, or something else...maybe the mom worked at a bookstore?

I realize I may be mixing one or two details from different cases, but I'm hoping someone recognizes the story. Does this sound familiar to anyone?


r/tipofmycrime 9d ago

Open Home invasion/kidnapping case involving a winter ruse to lure victims outside

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Hi everyone, I've been trying to track down a specific true crime case for years that I probably saw on an Investigation Discovery show, but my memory of the exact details is a bit foggy. The case took place during a harsh winter with heavy snow on the ground, and it involved a group or duo of criminals targeting a house. From what I recall, the perpetrators used a specific ruse where they knocked on the door and asked for help, possibly claiming their car was stuck in the snow or broken down nearby. When someone went outside to assist, they were ambushed and captured. I remember the chilling detail being that they somehow managed to repeat this trick (or a very similar variation of it) to lure out or isolate the other people inside the house one by one until everyone was overpowered, like saying they needed the help of just one more person (probably another man in the house, to get the men out of the way so they wouldn't interfere) to manage to push the car out of the snow, or something like that. I might not have the exact modus operandi perfectly accurate, but it was probably a winter setting where the suspects used a deceptive plea for help right outside the home to systematically target the occupants. Because I don't remember the names or the location, my searches haven't brought up the right case, so I'm hoping this distinct scenario rings a bell for someone here. Any leads on the names of the victims, perpetrators, or even the documentary episode would be amazing. Thanks!


r/tipofmycrime 10d ago

Open woman dates partner of victim & successfully outs him as victims killer ?

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i was reading something online about a case where a woman either went missing or was found dead. another woman heard about this case, suspected the victim's partner like many, and decided to try to start dating him to get information from him. it worked. she successfully dated him for a little while and was successfully able to help authorities figure out he was the perp.

there are like two documentaries about her and one is maybe a 48 hours? i want to say the victim's name was something like Michelle/ Shelly? or Shelby?? tried Google to no avail. HELP


r/tipofmycrime 10d ago

Open Case where girl disappeared at a house party, something to do with a basement?

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Maybe the party was in a basement, she was found/last seen in the basement or they found blood or something? I don’t know it’s a case from one of those “top _ cases” youtube channels i saw when i was younger. Late 60s/early - mid 70s, I don’t think she was a blonde, I think there was an older/creepy guy involved in the case who was obsessed with her.


r/tipofmycrime 12d ago

Open Mother finds out her son is being charged with murder during interrogation.

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Looking for a video where a mother accompanied her son to what she thought was a standard interview regarding a case. During the interview she, and her son, are told that he is going to be charged with murder. I am pretty sure the victim was classmate. Both were under age. This happened in the us. Mother keeps saying he's just a kid to which the detective reminds her that the victim was as well. She doesn't accept it. Either thinks it was an accident or that they're being too harsh. He doesn't really react.


r/tipofmycrime 12d ago

Open [TOMC][NEWS][TUCSON][ARIZONA][2010][ARIZONA DAILY STAR][TRUCK DRIVER][ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION][POLICE][HI-SPEED CHASE]

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I am attempting to relocate a real-life news story from summer of 2010 (I think July; if not then, August) covered by the Arizona Daily Star involving a lengthy police chase on I-10 and I-19 in Tucson, Arizona with a rogue big-rig truck driver.

The chase started in Pinal County as I remember, and involved a truck driver who called/told the police that he had been hijacked and was being forced to carry a cargo container load full of undocumented aliens to Mexico. I'm not sure if he was pulled over for something else first and took off, or if he all on his own called 911 and made this claim out of the blue. Anyhow, when he eventually stopped/crashed/ran out of gas/got spikestripped somewhere in the desert, the police stormed the trailer and found no immigrants, and no hijacker, and he was arrested for the usual evading arrest/reckless driving etc. and making a false report.

I do remember the truck driver was Caucasian and had a fairly unremarkable name, and was middle-aged... possibly bald, and really nothing else. I am 100%, definitely positive this was a real, non-parody news item and not something on TV/in movies/Netflix, or that I dreamed up.

T.I.A., BrilliantRaccoon.


r/tipofmycrime 12d ago

Answered Old murder for hire case.

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Hello, thanks for the help.

I have been trying to find a case i watched many years ago in a crime show about a father who hired a hitman to kill his son-in-law who had, years prior, killed his wife, meaning the father´s daughter.

I thought it was one of the early episodes of Forensic Files, because i remember the case being very old, like probably around 50+ years old, and that the episode looked vintage. But right now im not so sure what the series was. Right now i think it might have been an episode of Forensic Files or one of those series about millionaire murders and crimes, because i remember the father and daughter being from a wealthy background.

So, to give a summary: young husband kills wife (for money, i think), then the wife´s father hires hitman to kill the husband, in an attempt to get justice for his daughter after he gets away with it. I know the husband dies and the police investigates BOTH cases, and is able to identify the hitman who kills the husband; but the father is never convicted because they cannot prove the connection. The detail i remember the most about the case is that the father hired the hitman through some sort of madame in a nightclub he had known for years. And that woman was actually identified as well and CONVICTED, but she never talked, so the father was never charged. She took his involvement to the grave.

I really, really wanna find the case, but i havent been able to locate anything specific through Google. Everything that comes up is too recent. Any help will be appreciated.


r/tipofmycrime 12d ago

Answered Missing woman in California within last few years (2022-2025), last seen on Ring camera leaving backyard?

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Hello I've been looking for a day but can't find anything. I know this case was covered by That Chapter on YouTube, on one of his compilation videos he's done.

This happened in California, I believe it was the northern part of the state, somewhat recently between 2022-2025. A woman (Asian, 30s, had a good steady job) goes missing and she's last seen exiting on (I think?) her own Ring camera footage, out of her backyard. I think it was at an hour like 2 or 3 am and she's never been seen again. I think there may have been an on again/off again boyfriend in her life but I may be wrong.

Edit: Her name might be something like Eileen or Ellen but I also might be confused with other true crime things I was reading about at the time I was reading about her case.

Edit 2: Elaine Park, southern (not northern) California, 2017 (not 2020s), ty to u/ThatsNotVeryDerek


r/tipofmycrime 13d ago

Answered Victim Had Premonition She’d Die Young

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I’m trying to recall the vicitim’s name but I’m coming up with nothing and Google hasn’t been helpful.
The victim was female, I believe in her teens, and had expressed thoughts of her dying before reaching a certain age (I want to say it was 18). I think she was in Vegas (again, Google isn’t giving me helpful results) and went for a walk to a gas station, when she was murdered. She ended up being correct about not reaching the certain age. Does anyone know what case I’m thinking of?


r/tipofmycrime 14d ago

Open Missing autistic man

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Hey! I’m looking for a case where an autistic man. Might have also been a teenager is staying at some sort of hospital/facility for disabled adults and he runs away from the hospital and they haven’t found him since


r/tipofmycrime 15d ago

Open Looking for a newspaper article of the murder of two women in Lawrence Massachusetts

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Looking for a newspaper article of a murder (or at least an attempted murder) of two women from Lawrence Massachusetts in 1982. My mother had escaped a man who looked like Wayne Northrop and is looking for a newspaper article from the Lawrence Tribute. If anyone has any information about this please let me know! She doesn't remember the name of the man or the women who were (possibly) killed since it was so long ago, but the best information that I can give is that this happened some time in the warmer months (either spring or summer).


r/tipofmycrime 16d ago

Answered Name of the woman who was accused of killing her child(ren) but it was actually a serial killer.

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No matter how much googling I’ve done, I cannot find the name of the woman who was accused of her killing her child(ren) but it was actually a serial killer who randomly entered her home while she was asleep on the couch in the living room.


r/tipofmycrime 16d ago

Answered What was that case where the murderer went to develop the film where the murder pictures are and the film lab guy saw it and reported it to the police?

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I can’t find it, I remember seeing it for the first time on youtube, and if I’m not mistaken one of the murderers used to be in a relationship with the victim, and had weird poses with the victim, probably happened back in the 70s or 80s or even 90s


r/tipofmycrime 17d ago

Answered Looking for a case that happened in the 90s-early 2000s

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It’s like earlier Internet days. A teenage boy becomes obsessed with a girl who either goes to his school or goes to his church. He made a website devoted to his obsession and hatred for her and eventually he ended up killing her. I remember it was somewhere in the US. Maybe Vermont or New Hampshire