9 Crazy Mysteries Solved On The Internet

Lots of interesting things have been discovered on Reddit, but this really takes the cake. The website helped find the identity of a skeleton based on research that was carried out a decade before the birth of the internet.

Back in 1975, a trio of boys found a skeleton in the woods of Strongsville, Ohio. They alerted the police, who were able to ascertain that the cause of death was a gunshot to the head. They further noted that the body was that of a white woman in her early twenties, but that was about all they could gather.

Fast forward a few decades and a woman called Christina Scates began uploading her research into the case on r/UnsolvedMysteries and another popular amateur detective site called Web Sleuths. Thanks to her information and images of the skull, an artist called Carl Koppelman was able to put together a reconstruction of what the skeleton may have looked like when alive.

The illustration ended up looking strikingly similar to Linda Pagano, a woman who had been reported missing a year before the skeleton was discovered. DNA testing put this theory to task and it was confirmed that the unidentified remains could now be identified as Linda. Thanks, reddit, for doing something useful for once!