Eight of the Strangest Unsolved Murders of the 20th Century

Murder can be a tricky business to unpick, and the real world rarely offers as neat a conundrum to unravel as those cases faced by Sherlock Holmes, or those cracked by the brilliant mind of Columbo. Often when a case is solved the murderer is revealed to be someone who was not even considered a suspect, and clues upon which an entire case seems to revolve can turn out to be only a distraction.

For all this confusion however, the majority of murders are actually quite straightforward affairs, and once the world of the victim is unpicked and understood there are usually clear answers. However, some cases seem so willfully obscure and confusing that a logical solution seems outright impossible.

Here are eight of the strangest murders that remain unsolved.