Faceless Evil: 9 of the Most Mysterious Unsolved Crimes from Around the World (16 photos)

Every country is interesting for its cultural heritage, historical sites, and natural and architectural attractions. But even the most prosperous society has its dark side.





1. The Tragedy of a Nameless Woman (Norway)



Norway, 1995. The body of a young woman with a gunshot wound to the head was found in an Oslo hotel. The investigation immediately hit a dead end: she had checked into the hotel under a false name and address.

She had no identification documents, and, strangest of all, no one had ever reported her missing or come to identify her body.





The circumstances of her death only deepened the mystery. The pistol was in her hand, her finger on the trigger, and the barrel was pointed at her head. But everything was so unnaturally placed, as if the gun had been planted after the shot had been fired. The door was locked from the inside.

The final detail that turned this story into an insoluble puzzle was her clothing: all the tags and labels had been carefully removed. Not a single clue remained that could shed light on the identity of the mysterious stranger.

2. The Unsolved Mystery of the Deaths of Children (South Korea)



In 1991, five children from the city of Daegu went to a nearby mountain in search of salamander eggs and disappeared without a trace. Their disappearance shocked the entire country and sparked an unprecedented nationwide search operation.

These efforts, unfortunately, were unsuccessful, largely due to the blatant incompetence of local police, who lost time and crucial evidence.

The case remained unsolved for decades until 2002, when the remains of all five boys were discovered on the same mountainside. Forensic examination confirmed they were the victims of deliberate murder.

But the story didn't end there. It became one of the darkest mysteries in South Korean history. The murder weapon, the identity of the killer, and his motives were never established. The lack of answers gave rise to numerous theories and speculations that continue to haunt society to this day.

3. Gloomy Lake Bodom (Finland)



In the summer of 1960, four teenagers—two boys and two girls, aged 15 to 18—pitched a tent on the shores of picturesque Lake Bodom near Helsinki.

That night, when everyone was already asleep, an unknown assailant attacked the camp. The sleeping teenagers were beaten with a stone and stabbed to death. Three of them died instantly from multiple stab wounds and head injuries. The fourth teenager, also beaten with a blunt object, was found alive. He was lying on top of a collapsed tent.



The killer was never found. The sole survivor claimed to remember absolutely nothing—neither the attack nor the events of that night. His first memory after falling asleep was of being in a hospital room.

The complex case attracted dozens of suspects, but none yielded sufficient evidence. The only time the case went to trial was 44 years later, in 2004, when police advanced the theory that it was a quarrel between friends. According to this theory, the surviving teenager may have taken revenge on his friends for an argument that had occurred earlier that evening. However, the court acquitted him completely, and the mystery of the bloody night on Lake Bodom remains unsolved.

4. The Disappearance of a Young Genius from Malaga, Spain



David Guerrero Guevara was a nine-year-old boy with an extraordinary artistic talent, whose drawing skills attracted the attention of the press. In 1987, he disappeared without a trace, and the investigation into his case became one of the "most mysterious" in the history of Europol.



On April 6, 1987, around 6:30 PM, David left his house. He was heading to the center of Malaga by bus to meet a journalist named Paco Fadon, but he never arrived. He never waited for the bus. The traces of the talented boy were lost forever.

5. The Lindbergh Child (USA)



The famous aviator's son, eighteen-month-old Charles Lindbergh Jr., was kidnapped from his bedroom in early 1932. A window was open, and a ladder was found near the house. Shoe prints led from the ladder toward the woods.

A note demanding a ransom of $50,000 was left on the windowsill. Later, through intermediaries, an agreement was reached with the kidnappers to deliver the money. The ransom was successfully delivered.



However, the child was not found at the agreed-upon location. The kidnappers never contacted them again. About two months after the kidnapping and a month after the ransom was paid, the boy's body was discovered.

6. Murder in the Alps (France)



The murder took place in the French Alps in 2012. The victims were three British men from the same family and a passing cyclist. Two little girls from the family were miraculously found alive: one was a toddler, and the other, although seriously injured, survived but barely remembers what happened.

More than 10 years have passed, but it is still unknown who committed this crime and why.

In September 2017, after a five-year investigation, French police announced they had "no working theory" to explain the murders and no suspects. Prosecutor Véronique Dizot suggested the family "could have been the victims of a random attack."

7. The Crew Family Murders (New Zealand)



On June 22, 1979, the disappearance of Harvey and Jeanette Crew, a Waikato farming couple, was discovered. Their disappearance was solved when their two-year-old daughter, Rochelle, was found starving to death in her home by her grandfather.

The couple's bodies were discovered only three months later in the Waikato River.

In 1971, Arthur Allan Thomas was convicted of the crime. However, serious doubts about the police methods and the authenticity of the evidence presented by the investigators arose almost immediately. After a lengthy public campaign and a retrial nine years later, Thomas was pardoned and awarded nearly a million dollars in compensation.

To this day, it remains unknown who is truly responsible for the murder of the Crewe family.

8. The Burnt Jolanta Brzeska (Poland)



She was an activist fighting against the eviction of elderly people from their homes. She started the movement after her own apartment was "returned to its rightful owner," and her rent exceeded her pension. This was all part of a dubious scheme in Warsaw, whereby municipal housing was "returned" to its "rightful" private owners, and then the tenants were forced out by raising rents to unaffordable levels until they were forced out. The entire process was, to put it mildly, legally, morally, and formally questionable.

She was burned alive. Her body was found in Kabatsky Forest in 2011. It was charred beyond recognition, and her identity was established only through DNA testing. No one has ever been convicted of her murder.



Most likely, this was a brutal, planned murder intended to cover up this very dark scheme, which involved some members of the elite.

9. The Miyazawa Family Murder in Setagaya Ward, Japan



A man broke into a house and brutally murdered the entire family, then remained there for some time, acting with cold-blooded calm at the crime scene. The killer ate food from the refrigerator and used the house's computer as if nothing had happened. He even took a shower and left his DNA everywhere in the house.



Despite a huge amount of evidence (including DNA samples, fingerprints, and personal belongings left behind by the perpetrator), his identity was never established, and he was never caught.