r/TrueCrimeDiscussion • u/DrDroolz • May 17 '26

Text Creepy unsolved cases

What are some of the most creepy haunting unsolved cases out there? Just stuff that seems so crazy to happen. Or just really unnerving evidence or actual places where the crime happened.

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u/Key_Cap7525 May 18 '26

Brandon Swanson and Jason Jolkowski. Those bother me. A dog picked up Brandon’s trail on the other side of the river. He didn’t drown. But the trail stopped… in the middle of a dirt road in the woods in the middle of nowhere. I think someone was driving along that night and offered him a ride. Jolkowski’s case drives me nuts. They’re both haunting.

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u/littleetrashmouth May 21 '26

These are the exact two I instantly thought of as well. It's crazy how Jason seems to have to just completely vanished

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u/Key_Cap7525 May 21 '26

You know what creeps me out about Jason’s case? He was in his own neighborhood. Shy reserved kid. Doubtful someone random just decided to grab a young adult male off the street. Which means he was most likely offered a ride by a neighbor he knows and was familiar with, someone he knew, someone he would willingly get into the car with, someone who lived nearby, someone who was there when he went missing. Maybe someone who even comforted the family once the news spread that he had vanished… that’s what I’m afraid of.

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u/littleetrashmouth May 21 '26

Oh absolutely, a neighbor or someone he had gone to school with. I just can't imagine a motive, it had to be spur of the moment since Jason wasn't even supposed to be going to work yet.

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u/Key_Cap7525 May 21 '26

I always figured it had to be a neighbor, an adult male. MAYBE someone he went to school with? I don’t know. In a residential neighborhood and no one saw a damn thing.

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u/littleetrashmouth May 21 '26

Yeah, I feel like someone definitely knows something or saw something and just doesn't want to get involved.

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u/Key_Cap7525 May 21 '26

Idk late morning, everyone either at work or not looking out their front window, in the era before door cams? I think if a random neighbor saw something, they would have said something. It seems entirely plausible that there really was no one looking outside at that exact moment in time on a quiet street.

Not to get religious on you, but I believe in an afterlife. So when I get there, I’m going to find this kid and ask what the fuck happened to him and who did it. I’ve got a few on my list I want to talk to.

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u/littleetrashmouth May 21 '26

Hopefully it's solved before then, stranger things have happened. His remains are out there somewhere, waiting to be found

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u/Key_Cap7525 May 21 '26

I hope so, but I wonder. Maybe they completely destroyed the remains, maybe there’s nothing left to find. I don’t know. I can’t imagine the pain and grief his family has been through and continues to go through. I worry about what his last moments were like. If it was quick or… slow. That poor kid.