My
first example of an unsolved mystery is commonly known as the boy in the box. It
was first brought to my attention when the television series Cold Case based an
episode off of it. The boy in the box is an unsolved murder from 1957 in which
a young boy was found naked, wrapped in a blanket, and placed in a large
cardboard box. I find this mystery fascinating because it was such a young
child, and yet he could not be identified. I can understand how independent
people can go missing, and others simply assume they moved on with their lives.
However, a child is extremely dependent on others, and therefore cannot go
missing coincidentally. I do not understand how it is possible that no one
reported that this boy was missing or identified his body. It seems as though
someone should have known him.
My
second example is more of a general mystery: our justice system. Our justice
system is based off the belief that it is better to let a thousand guilty
people go free than imprison one innocent person. Many people will argue that
we carry out the former part of that belief by letting people such as OJ Simpson
and Casey Anthony go free. However, the Innocence Project has also shown that
we have failed to fulfill the latter part of that belief. Mistakes have been
made and innocent people end up in prison. Therefore the mystery is how to
implement an effective justice system: one which imprisons guilty people and
lets the innocent go or at least doesn't imprison innocent people. I find this
fascinating because a lot of effort is already exerted to make our system work,
but it doesn’t. Putting guilty people in prison does not seem like a
complicated concept, but it is much easier said than done. Is our current
system the best we can do? Or is there a mystery to be solved? Or is it simply unsolvable?
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