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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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    • kuontom@kbin.socialOP
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      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.

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        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.

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    The Death of Cindy James

    Nurse from Canada who reported to police that she was being stalked and harassed by someone she didn’t know. She made a bunch of reports over 7 years but police never found any evidence of stalking. She then disappeared in 1989 and was found dead two weeks later tied up and choked. Cause of death was found to be a drug overdose.

    Police suspected she staged the disappearance and being tied up/choked and actually committed suicide, since she had a history of depression and prior police investigations into a stalker always turned up dry.

    There is some evidence suggesting she was murdered like the fact the blood in her body settled in the opposite side of the one she was found laying on, indicating she was relocated after she died.

    We still don’t know the exact circumstances leading up to her death.