Bizarre Mysteries That Remain Unsolved to This Day

Judge Crater

Deemed "the most missingest man in New York," 41-year-old Joseph Crater, a Supreme Court Justice, was last seen leaving a restaurant on August 6, 1930. After that, he vanished without a trace. Nobody knew whether he had fled with a mistress or been killed by an enemy, and for a while, the phrase "pulling a Crater" became slang for suddenly disappearing.

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