5 Four-year-old Paulette Farah was reported missing from her room, but nine days later, her body was found in her bed where previously experts had come with trained dogs and where her mother had given interviews.

Paulette Gebara Farah was a four-year-old Mexican girl who was reported missing by her parents on March 22nd, 2010. Since she was a kid with a physical and language disability, they claimed that there was no way for her to leave by herself. After an entire search of the building, they found that there were no signs of any intruder breaking in as the locks were very much intact, and so were all the windows and other entries to their house. Even the surveillance camera showed nothing suspicious.

Nine days later, she was found in her own bed, which was in the same room where her mother Lizette and a lawyer had given multiple interviews, and where experts from various agencies had searched the place with search and rescue dogs. They found her underneath her sheets, between the mattress and the foot of her bed.

The official reports stated that the death was an accident that occurred when she moved on the bed and accidentally fell headlong into space at the foot of the bed. They declared the cause of death as asphyxiation caused by obstruction of nasal cavities and thorax- abdominal compression. The autopsy also reported that her death occurred between five and nine days before the report was made, which means that she could have died on the first day itself.

Though it was declared as an accident, there were suspicions. A psychiatrist for the attorney general’s office described the mother as very intelligent and capable but seemed cold and lacked emotions. The parents and the nannies were taken into custody a week after the disappearance. The first suspect identified in the case was the mother. The inconsistencies in the stories shared by the parents and the nannies caused a lot of suspicion among the media and public.

There were even undercover recordings of a conversation between Paulette’s parents and their other daughter, which sounded like Lizette telling her daughter not to admit anything to the investigators, otherwise, she’d get in trouble. All these instances made the case remain controversial and mysterious even to this day, and even though it was ruled as an accident. (source)

6 A Japanese criminal dubbed the “Monster with 21 Faces” was responsible for the Glico Morinaga case where he kidnapped the president of Glico, and after that harassed and extorted millions from Glico and other major food companies in Japan.

The “Monster with 21 Faces” is a reference to ”Kaijin 20-Menso,” a villain in famous detective novels by Edogawa Rampo. This name was used as an alias for a person or group of people responsible for the Glico Morinaga case in Japan, 1984. The Glico Morinaga case involved two separate companies, Ezaki Glico and Morinaga, who were famous for their confectioneries.

On May 10, 1984, they kidnapped the president of Glico, and after his subsequent escape, they sent a letter stating that they had laced $21 million worth candies with potassium cyanide and threatened to put them on store shelves. None of the poisoned candies were found, however, all the Glico products were removed from stores which resulted in a $20 million loss and 450 people laid off.They even sent taunting letters directed at the police for not being able to find the culprits.

They did the same with the Morinaga Company where they laced several candies and wrote a letter addressing the “Moms of the Nation.” In it, they stated that they had poisoned 20 packages of Morinaga candy with sodium cyanide and placed them on grocery store shelves. Police managed to recover more than 21 tampered packages containing poison. The tampered candies had been labeled as “Danger: Contains Toxins.”

Other food companies were also blackmailed similarly. The investigators had their suspicions on a man with fox-like eyes, whom they found behaving strangely when they were riding the train for money exchange. They tried to trail him, but he escaped.

Ultimately, when a police superintendent named Yamamoto of Shiga Prefecture committed suicide because he couldn’t capture the suspect, the “Monster with 21 faces” sent their final message saying they give their condolences and that they will forget about torturing food-making companies any further. They were never heard from again, no suspects were caught, and their identity still remains a mystery. (1, 2)