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00:00Today's August 1st. He wants his coat in the afternoon edition.
00:03Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks
00:06for the most unnerving and unsolved questions involving famous murder cases.
00:11This is just a lot of parts of that story that are fascinating
00:14that we don't know a lot of the answers to.
00:16Number 10. What is Ted Bundy's actual kill count?
00:20This next girl...
00:23We're still not sure if she died from strangulation or the blow to her head
00:28that left a baseball-sized hole in her skull.
00:30Arguably the most notorious serial killer in history,
00:32Ted Bundy has officially claimed the lives of 20 individuals.
00:36But those are just the identifiable victims that investigators have linked him to.
00:41The real number is likely much, much higher.
00:44For the record, you are guilty of killing many women and girls.
00:51Yes. Yes, that's true.
00:53Bundy himself confessed to 30 kills,
00:56but experts and historians believe that even that number is too low.
01:00Indeed, some people think it could even climb into the hundreds.
01:03This was personally referenced by Bundy on a few occasions,
01:07and he remains a suspect in a number of unsolved homicides throughout the country.
01:11With the age of the case and the elusive nature of the killer,
01:14it's possible that we'll never know the true tally.
01:17The only people that ever saw the diabolical Bundy were his victims.
01:24Who committed the Little Rock stabbings?
01:26Today, the Little Rock police issue a safety alert
01:28after multiple knife attacks in the city.
01:30Three of those attacks are homicides.
01:32Thanks to the advent of certain investigative techniques,
01:35serial killing has become less pronounced.
01:38But that's not to say it has stopped completely.
01:41Many killers are still out there,
01:42including one who stabbed four people in Little Rock, Arkansas between 2020 and 2021.
01:48After you catch the story and you're in a day center or something like that,
01:51be aware and consider going to a different part of town until this is resolved.
01:55It would be my encouragement.
01:56Three of the four victims passed away,
01:59and both Little Rock police and the FBI believe that a serial killer may be involved.
02:03The lone survivor described her attacker as a young Black man over six feet tall,
02:08but despite a reward of $20,000, he has yet to be identified.
02:13As of 2024, the killings seem to have stopped,
02:16which only begs a further question.
02:19Why?
02:19The department is now asking for the public's help
02:22in finding the man who left three people dead.
02:25Number eight.
02:25What's happening on the Highway of Tears?
02:28Nine women have gone missing or been murdered along that specific stretch of highway.
02:32If you ask First Nations groups or just the communities along this route,
02:37they'll tell you that number is much higher.
02:39Stretching nearly 450 miles across British Columbia, Canada is the Highway of Tears.
02:45So named because of the tears it has elicited in so many wronged individuals.
02:49The highway was completed back in 1970 and has remained a hotspot of crime ever since.
02:55If they were actively investigating, someone would say,
02:57oh, I just talked to the RCMP.
02:59So do you have a sense of how active these investigations are?
03:01I don't think they're active now at all.
03:03In the five-plus decades it's operated,
03:06the Highway of Tears has seen dozens of murders and disappearances,
03:09with the most recent occurring in 2023.
03:12Three different serial killers have been charged in relation to crimes
03:16that occurred along the highway.
03:17But as they are still continuing to this day,
03:20it's obvious that they were not solely responsible.
03:23I did learn some things today.
03:24I think it went well.
03:26What'd you learn?
03:28I don't want to say.
03:30But I have.
03:31I've learned some things which in the future are going to help me.
03:34Number seven.
03:34Who filled the Janihal grave?
03:36Well, the Pakistani Taliban has been fighting the government in Islamabad
03:40for more than 15 years,
03:41trying to impose its hardline interpretation of Islamic law.
03:44On March 21st, 2021,
03:47a mass grave was found in the town of Janihal, Pakistan,
03:50containing the corpses of four individuals.
03:53And judging by the state of the bodies,
03:55it was obvious that they had been murdered.
03:57The victims were identified as four local teenage boys
04:00who enjoyed hunting in the area
04:01and had gone missing three weeks before the grave was found.
04:04The find sparked great outrage in the region,
04:07and thousands of protesters marched with the boys' bodies to demand justice.
04:12They believed the Taliban was responsible,
04:14as the region was plagued by violent militants
04:16and the boys had previously been abducted by the Pakistani Taliban or TTP.
04:21Unfortunately, this is just a theory,
04:23and the case remains unsolved.
04:25We must underline that Pakistan is facing a sort of proxy terrorism.
04:32It has been facing this proxy terrorism for more than a decade.
04:36Number six.
04:37What is the Axeman's connection to jazz?
04:39I am what you Orleanians call the Axeman.
04:43New Orleans is known for its jazz,
04:45so much so that the Axeman actively promoted it during his reign of terror.
04:49He killed six in the late 1910s,
04:52and on March 13th, 1919,
04:54a person believed to be the Axeman wrote to local papers
04:57claiming that he would kill someone in the early hours of March 19th.
05:01However, he would spare anyone playing or listening to jazz music.
05:05I swear by all the devils in the nether regions
05:09that every person shall be spared
05:11in whose house a jazz band is in full swing by the time I have just mentioned.
05:15So, on the night of March 18th,
05:17people crammed the city's dance halls
05:19and attended parties in which jazz music was being played.
05:22True to his word, the Axeman did not attack that night.
05:26Some believe that the killer wished to promote jazz music,
05:29but of course, it's also possible the letter was a hoax.
05:33Number 5.
05:34Who are the Gacy John Does?
05:42One of America's most prolific killers,
05:45John Wayne Gacy took the lives of a confirmed 33 individuals.
05:49However, only 28 of them have been conclusively identified.
05:53The other five remain John Does even to this day.
05:56And when you look over the photos,
05:59I have no recollection of any of them.
06:01Never met them.
06:02Three of the five victims were killed in 1976,
06:05with one occurring the year prior and one the year after.
06:08All are males.
06:10And that's about all we know for sure.
06:12Facial reconstructions have been made of all five victims
06:15and DNA has been taken and tested.
06:18In fact, said reconstructions have been updated as recently as 2018.
06:23Unfortunately, nothing has come of the work
06:26and the victims remain unidentified.
06:29Number 4.
06:30What did the Zodiac's cryptogram say?
06:43The Zodiac remains an enduring part of American culture,
06:46thanks in large part to his brazen correspondence
06:49and the fact that he was never caught.
06:50He was known for writing taunting letters
06:52which were published in local newspapers,
06:55and he also produced four cryptograms
06:57that he encouraged the public to solve.
06:58Hey, take a gander at this code thing.
07:01Okay.
07:07You want to give it a go?
07:08However, he may have made them a little too hard.
07:11The first was quickly cracked in 1969,
07:14but that would be it for another 51 years.
07:17A second cipher was solved in December of 2020,
07:20with the Zodiac proclaiming that he was,
07:22quote,
07:22not afraid of the gas chamber.
07:24The other two remain unsolved,
07:27despite the dedicated efforts of private citizens
07:29and professional codebreakers.
07:31As of now, we can only imagine what they say.
07:34Number 3.
07:35What happened to Belle Gunness?
07:43One of America's earliest serial killers,
07:45Belle Gunness was known for killing men
07:47after luring them to her Indiana farmhouse.
07:50She claimed at least 14 lives,
07:52but the true number could actually be closer to 40.
07:55Gunness' crimes finally came to light in April of 1908,
07:58when her farmhouse burned down
08:00and revealed a number of human remains.
08:03Investigators found what was thought to be
08:04the body of Gunness herself,
08:06but now we're not so sure.
08:08The story itself is,
08:11it's kind of stranger than fiction.
08:13The coroner strongly implied that it was not Gunness,
08:16as the corpse was both shorter and lighter than she was.
08:19Furthermore,
08:20people around the Chicago area reported seeing Gunness
08:23long after her supposed death.
08:25As it stands,
08:26we may never know what truly happened to Hell's Belle.
08:34Number 2.
08:35Did Jack the Ripper write the From Hell letter?
08:45In the midst of Jack the Ripper's 19th century killing spree,
08:49a team of private citizens started
08:50the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee
08:52in order to patrol the streets of East London
08:55and keep the people safe.
08:56It was led by a builder named George Lusk,
08:59who on October 16th received the infamous From Hell letter.
09:07Of the many pieces of correspondence,
09:09this is widely considered the most authentic.
09:12In it, Jack taunts Lusk,
09:14telling him to quote,
09:15catch him when he can,
09:17and claiming that he ate half of a human kidney.
09:20The other half was included with the letter.
09:22The organ was found to be real,
09:24and numerous discrepancies between this letter and the others
09:27led many to believe that it was genuine.
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10:02The infamous group led by Charles Manson
10:04murdered at least nine individuals in the late 1960s.
10:07And despite their notoriety,
10:09we still have no firm idea of why they did it.
10:12Of course, there are numerous theories,
10:15including the famous Helter Skelter proposed by Vincent Bugliosi.
10:18He posits that the family was attempting to incite a race war.
10:22To Manson, Helter Skelter meant the black man
10:24rising up and destroying the entire white race.
10:29That is with the exception of Charles Manson and his chosen followers.
10:32Others, including various family members,
10:34claim that they wanted to get Bobby Beausoleil out of jail.
10:37Beausoleil was a family member imprisoned for the murder of Gary Hinman,
10:41and the family wanted to make it seem like the real killer was still loose.
10:44Susan Atkins stated that she just wanted to, quote,
10:47shock the world.
10:49Even if that wasn't their true motive,
10:51it's certainly what they accomplished.
10:53One of the most horrific things I've ever seen
10:55in the whole time I was a policeman,
10:58and nothing compares to it,
11:00to that murder scene.
11:02What are your theories on these mysteries?
11:04Let us know in the comments below.
11:05But all it did was really complicate the investigation.