Eventually it was discovered she was traveling around Europe with a number of forged passports containing different aliases. Later, a suitcase belonging to the woman was found containing money from multiple countries. An autopsy indicated she had ingested sleeping pills before she died, inhaled carbon monoxide, and had been burned alive. The charred body of a woman was found in a remote section of Norway in 1970 at the height of the cold war. STEPHEN MISSAL Who Burned the Isdal Woman to Death? What follows are some of the most vexing cases in history that, despite the best efforts of professionals and amateur internet sleuths, remain completely unsolved. The hivemind, as it turns out, is pretty good at playing gumshoe. Outside of infotainment docuseries like Unsolved Mysteries, internet detectives have dedicated many hours, words, and posts to solving cold cases that have been long forgotten. Of the 1300 mysteries that were highlighted on the show, some 260 were eventually resolved after the episodes aired-much of it due to regular people coming forward with new evidence, testimony, or homebrewed detective work. The original Unsolved Mysteries which ran from 1987 to 2002 actually yielded some impressive results. On July 21, the body of Alonzo Brooks-whose murder was highlighted in the fourth episode of the series-was exhumed and his case reopened by the FBI who is now looking at new evidence and considering the homicide a hate crime.

NetflixвЂ™s rebooted version of Unsolved Mysteries is already on the path of, ahem, solving one of its more vexing cases.

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