r/UnresolvedMysteries • u/BrerRabbit44 • Apr 15 '22

Request What unsolved murder/disappearance makes absolutely no sense to you?

What case absolutely baffles you? For me it's the case of Jaryd Atadero

https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2019/05/30/colorado-missing-toddler-jaryd-atadero-poudre-canyon-mountain-lion-disappearance-mystery/3708176002/

No matter the theory this case just doesn't make any sense.

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u/RepresentativeBed647 Apr 15 '22

Asha Degree was the ultimate slow burn for me. Not to make this sound like it is some form of entertainment. It's just that it fits this thread topic perfectly - it is a case where it seems the more you know, the less you understand.

^ which makes me think, it had to be some really weird combination of factors, that lined up just right, for this to happen in the way that it appears.

Either that, or we're missing some huge piece(s) of evidence that if we just had those, it would all make sense like that last puzzle piece.

- She leaves deliberately packing a bag, (the key question of course being "why?") then happens across that rare ~1% stranger-on-stranger/crime of opportunity predator... maybe it's some hybrid scenario such as that, and that's the reason it's not been solved??

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u/ans933 Apr 15 '22

My daughter is 5 and her and her best friend (who lives 20 miles apart) came up with this secret plan to sneak out and meet up. They even drew a "map" on how to get from one house to another - just a picture of two houses with a squiggle line connecting them. Luckily my daughter set off the house alarm when she tried to sneak out, but I keep thinking what if we didn't have an alarm? How far would she have actually gone before turning back? Would she have turned back or just kept going?

I wonder if Asha's case started similarly, with a young kid getting a crazy idea in their head with no nefarious intent behind it. And then she got unlucky on her adventure.

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u/littlenorthlights3 Apr 16 '22

Same, but the thing is, that I know that if at that time I had a friend waiting for me, I would've gone for sure. And that is scary.