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What is the most unsettling/disturbing unsolved mystery that you are aware of? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by kuontom@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social

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Add a link to an article or other coverage of the mystery if you can.

Here's one: The Max Headroom signal hijacking incident

In 1987, two individuals hijacked television signals of two TV stations at night and broadcasted creepy footage of someone wearing a Max Headloom mask and costume to viewers. They were never identified.

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Video 2

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[–] kuontom@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The second case is infuriating.

Mendonça was 11 years old

A prostitute, Alcina Dias, confirmed that [Afonso Dias] had taken Mendonça to see her on the day he disappeared. [Afonso Dias] allegedly drove up to see her in his car and asked her if she was working. When she assented, he offered to pay her to have sex with Mendonça.

and later

police forces raided alleged members of an international child pornography ring known as the Wonderland Club. The operation was code-named Operation Cathedral and resulted in the confiscation of 750,000 images and videos depicting 1,263 different children. Mendonça was among the few children (16 only) that could be identified. However, his whereabouts remain unknown and police suspect that he was murdered by his abductors after being abused on camera for other members of the paedophile ring.

Top it off with the fact that the police refused to take his disappearance seriously initially and just assumed he was lost or injured and would eventually turn up.

Fucked up.

[–] asjkk8@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It really is. Police never confirmed that it was in fact Rui Pedro's photos, but it's the most believed theory here. That he was caught in child trafficking and murdered.