The 300 million yen robbery, also known as the 300 million yen affair or incident, was the single largest heist in Japanese history at the time. It occurred on the morning of December 10, 1968, in Tokyo, Japan. Half a century later, the case remains unsolved.
That morning was December 10, 1968. A young man in police uniform stopped his motorcycle at an intersection. A speck of snow fell from the sky. Offices and a number of shops have just opened. Christmas baubles look lively on sale in some stores. Soon the year-end holiday will arrive.
The policeman's view was…
Five men went fishing in the Hawaiian Islands on a sunny day. They then rushed off with a borrowed ship without the slightest clue that it would be a fateful day that would put them in one of the unsolved mysteries of maritime history to this day.
That day on February 11, 1979, five construction workers, Scott Moorman (27), Benjamin Kalama (38), a tile installer, Peter Hanchett (31), a plumber, Patrick Woessner (26), a gardener, and Ralph Malaiakini (27) a haulage business had just completed their work building a house in Maui, Hawaiian Islands.
Sunny days, blue skies, and calm…
February 20, 1959, a search team was deployed to search for missing climbers in Russia's Ural Mountains. Initially, the search team consisted only of lecturers and students of the Ural Polytechnic Institute. Then police and soldiers were also deployed to assist with the search using planes and helicopters. But what they found would be the most horrific and mysterious climber incident ever.
In late January 1959, a group of climbers from the Ural Polytechnic Institute set off for the Ural Mountains led by Igor Dyatlov (who later became the name of the incident). The climbers numbered ten people consisting of…
The Dutch government was shocked by the news of the disappearance of two of its citizens in Panama. Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon were reported missing while exploring the forest. After eight months, a backpack was found belonging to one of the victims with skeletal remains nearby. What exactly happened to the two women? Let’s go further.
Kris Kremes and Lisanne Froon are two women who are both from Amersfoort. The two had just finished studying in different places and then returned home and lived together.
They worked at a restaurant called In den Kleinen Hap for six months to…
A dog brought home a piece of rotting meat one day in August 1972. That piece of meat turned out to be the lower part of a human arm! The dog’s owner then immediately reports it to the police. The arm's owner turned out to be a young girl who had died a few months earlier. After the body was found, the case became more complicated.
On the afternoon of Monday, August 7, 1972, 16-year-old Jeannette DePalma said goodbye to her mother to go to a friend’s house. Jeannette then left her home on Clearview Road in Springfield Township, New…
Sheila Sharp returned to her home in Cabin 28, Keddie, after a night out at a friend’s house. That morning was a Sunday where she hurriedly wanted to get her clothes to go to church. Upon entering her not-so-large home, she was surprised by the sight in front of her eyes. Her mother, brother, and brother’s friends were lying on the living room floor-bound, covered in blood, and lifeless!
Glenna Sharp, or familiarly called Sue, was a mother of 5 children. In 1979, she was driven away by her husband, James Sharp, a notoriously temperamental and abusive marine. Sue then…
On a cold night in December 1926, Agatha Christie was reported missing from her residence. This woman known as the queen of mystery has indeed made many fictional novels about mysterious cases during her lifetime. But the most mysterious case of Agatha Christie actually happened in her own life.
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller or better known as Agatha Christie was born on September 15, 1890. At first, she lived a life as a romantic novelist under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. …
The city of Manhattan, New York in 1910 was already very busy and bustling. It’s strange to imagine that until there’s a famously beautiful woman can disappear in the crowd in broad daylight. It was on December 12, 1910, Dorothy Arnold vanished.
Dorothy Harriet Camille Arnold was born July 1, 1886, in New York to Francis Rose and Mary Parks Arnold. His father was a Harvard graduate who became a senior partner of FR Arnold and Co, a perfume business, and imported cologne. The Arnold family was extraordinarily wealthy.
Dorothy was the eldest daughter. He completed his studies at Bryn…
A murder case is a criminal case that will always attract anyone’s attention. Because there is a challenge when those who investigate the case must find out how the victim was killed and why there are people who can take the lives of victims. It is even more dizzying if the identity of the victim can not be immediately known and the victim killed unnaturally.
That’s the kind of thing that’s the Rack Man case, the case of the discovery of the body of a murder victim in Australia in 1994. …
Frank Fournier reached Armero at dawn on November 16, 1985. Three days earlier there had been a devastating volcanic eruption in the village. Not far he stepped, a farmer told him about a girl who had been trapped for nearly three days under the rubble of her home.
Frank Fournier was a French reporter assigned to Armero following the volcanic disaster that hit the region on November 13, 1985. Fournier landed in Bogotá on November 15 and reached Armero at dawn the next day.
The eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano caused pyroclastic flows to burst from the crater…
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