These components are what make a mystery so spellbinding and captivating. A young boydisappears. There are no witnesses, no clues-only a note, cleverly taunting, casually cruel. As you see, this situation is not an everyday occurrence. This would be my defending point in why mysteries are so popular with American culture today.
Mysteries are the complete opposite of any rational experience the average person has encountered.
Don't get me wrong, there are a few exceptions to every rule. Relating to these gruesome, offensive, and definately scandalous real-life investigations, you see there is a certain parallel and underlying meaning in them that goes along with written and actual mysteries. In all the above cases there have been notions as to why these horrific crimes have had such intense time-consuming investigations, and endless hours of searching for a perbitrator that has yet to be found. One minute distinction that I see between actual and written mysteries is that actual mysteries are rarely ever solved, and written mysteries tend to end with a conclusion of the investigation. On the other hand, one relation between these two genres of mysteries is for the majority of the time mysteries are connected with the heinous crime.