Most people die without a fuss. Most often this comes from illness or old age, but sometimes the death of a loved one is accompanied by tragic circumstances. RuNews24 recalled five unsolved high-profile deaths.
Günter Stoll and YOGTZE
A half-dead man was pulled from his damaged car on the side of a highway in 1984. Günter Stoll died on the way to the hospital from his injuries.
At first, authorities believed the man had died in a drunken crash. However, upon closer inspection, it was revealed that he had been hit by a car and then placed back in his own vehicle.
A scrap of paper found at the crime scene added an element to the story that no one could explain. On it was written a word in a language no one had ever heard: YOGTZE.
Tom Thomson and fishing line
On July 8, 1917, Canadian artist Tom Thomson died in a boating accident. Only a bag of food and one oar were found on his boat – everything else was gone.
An autopsy revealed that Tom had been in the water for at least two days before his body was found, and there were no signs of drowning. The bruise on his temple was 10 centimeters in size, and the fishing line was wrapped tightly around one ankle 16 times.
A close friend and relatives of Tom did not accept the version of events in which he accidentally became entangled in the line, insisting that Tom was an experienced fisherman who would never have been taken by surprise in this way.
There are many other hypotheses about what happened to Tom Thomson: that he was killed by runaway workers or poachers who were afraid of him because they saw them. Or perhaps “enemy spies” hiding in the woods – Thomson’s mysterious death will forever remain a mystery.
Mary Arcuri and the find 54 years later
In 1964, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Albert Arcuary told his friends and family that his wife, Mary, had left him.
Since then, no one has seen her relatives and friends, and only recently the remains of a woman were found in the courtyard of one of the houses.
Police Chief Teresa Rocco, a former assistant police chief of Pittsburgh and a longtime friend of the Arcuri family, learned that Albert once owned the house.
And so Teresa thought that the remains might belong to her friend Maria Arcuri, but since she was an experienced detective, she decided to keep this guess to herself. On February 21, 2019, the results of the examination confirmed the version of the investigation.
Mary’s death has been a mystery, but evidence collected over 54 years suggests that there was no foul play involved.
Superstition and Vampire Hunting
In 1990, children playing near an abandoned sand pit in the US found human bones. Archaeologists began excavations at the old cemetery after it was found that it was used for burials.
During the year, the remains of fifteen children and adolescents, six men, eight women, who died no later than the nineteenth century, and one empty grave were discovered.
But the most mysterious was the burial of a middle-aged man, found in an underground stone tomb with the inscription JB55.
An examination showed that five years after the burial, someone opened the grave and broke the lid of the coffin. The body was cut into pieces and buried again.
It turned out that from 1784 to 1892 there were about eighty cases related to vampires. Folklorist Michael Bell says that Americans took ghouls seriously – and believed that they sucked the juices of living people!
This popular belief made it difficult to understand how consumption spread. Patients with blood on their lips who coughed up might think they were coughing up bits of lung tissue, when in fact it was sputum mixed with blood.
The most terrible thing in all this was bleeding hearts: it seemed to people that demons were drawing blood. This fear led everyone to believe that the ghouls were using occult powers to draw blood from still-living victims.
Julia Wallace and the Mystery Killer
In 1931, an unidentified man who identified himself as R. M. Qualtre contacted the Liverpool Chess Club and asked club member Herbert Wallace to immediately go to No. 25 East Menlove Gardens.
The man said he wanted insurance for his daughter, but Mr. Wallace couldn’t find the right house at the address given to him.
As a rule, there were three streets in the area: North Street, South Street and West Street.
Returning home late one evening, Herbert Wallace found that both the front and back doors were locked. He tried to open the door with the key, but it wouldn’t open.
Five minutes after the alarmed insurer called the neighbors, who were about to break down Mrs. Wallace’s door, it was suddenly opened from the inside, and her tortured body lay on the living room floor.
After the police were called, they discovered that the killer had left a large sum of money untouched.
He burned Julia’s pillow in the fireplace, turned her two handbags and three hats inside out, and left them all in the closet. The police believe that a missing fire poker was used to commit this crime; there were no signs of a struggle or forced entry anywhere.
The authorities decided that Wallace himself killed his wife, and sentenced the unfortunate man to death. Later, for the first time in history, a British court acquitted a man of murder without any evidence.
Herbert later claimed to know the name of his wife’s killer, but was afraid to say it out loud.
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