Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast

"When you get stabbed in the manner that he was, you're going to be out in seconds."

On the evening of 30 August 2025, tens of thousands of people gathered around a seventy foot wooden figure that was slowly being engulfed in flame. It was the culmination of Burning Man, an annual festival held in Nevada's Black Rock Desert that is centered around concepts like radical self reliance and self expression. Participants are encouraged to help in the building of the temporary city that is the foundation of the entire festival, and urge to leave behind no trace when it's...

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"Perpetrator and victim drove out almost daily in the late evening hours in a vehicle and later returned."

In the summer of 2006, Germany was hosting the World Cup. Cities and towns throughout the country were energized, and on the evening of 20 June 2006, 21-year-old nursing student Frauke Liebs went to a pub in the city of Paderborn to watch the England-Sweden match with friends. While there, she visited and texted until her phone battery died. She stayed until just after 11:00 PM, then headed home with less than five euros in her pocket.

The walk home was a...

"He actually shot her twice. He didn't need the second shot. But he did it anyway."

November 12th, 2013 was supposed to be Chelsea Small's day off. The 30-year-old single mother of two worked at an Advance America check cashing store in Taylor, Michigan. She was attending Wayne County Community College full-time in the hopes of becoming a physical therapist, but had taken the full-time job after she separated from her longtime boyfriend the year prior. And in November of 2013, she swapped shifts so that she could have her son's 5th birthday off.

That Tuesday, Chelsea was...

"You just don't think that kind of thing can happen to people you know."

At 1:30 in the morning on 24 October 1992, Jeremy Rolfs and Heather Uffelman loaded an Apple Quadra 950 into their car and set off from Murfeesboro, Tennessee for Marietta, Georgia. Jeremy worked for a small music and video production company that had recently placed a classified ad for the computer, receiving a response from a prospective buyer with an office in an industrial park in Marietta. Jeremy was tasked with arranging the sale and delivery. Heather was Jeremy's fiance, who agreed to go with him on the...

"My father, behold, the enemy's ships came here. My cities were burned, and they did evil things in my country. Does not my father know that all my troops and chariots are in the land of Hatti, and all my ships are in the land of Lukka? The country is abandoned to itself. May my father know it: the seven ships of the enemy that came here inflicted much damage upon us."

Around the year 1185 BCE, Ammurapi, the last king of the ancient city Ugarit, urged the king of nearby Alashiya to send help. His city, which had...

"Why do that to such a gentle man? If they had wanted his money, he would have given it to them."

On the evening of 21 October 2009, 50-year-old Alan Wood dropped by his local pub, the Willoughby Arms, in the nearby town of Little Bytham. He had a pint and a snack while he read the newspaper, and then headed home to his bungalow in nearby Lound at approximately 6:30 PM. It was a typical night for him and nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary.

For the next three days, no one heard from him. He...

"We do have him making some purchases at a cleaners. Also, we have some activity on some local roadways, and then he vanishes."

On Saturday, 26 May 2012, 36-year-old Adrian Washington set out to take care of some things. First, he stopped by Planet Fitness on the north side of Austin, Texas, just after nine in the morning. Then, he dropped by Fine Dry Cleaners, where he was also a regular. After that, he made contact with some people by phone, including his sister, LaTeasha. But the normally-social Adrian was surprisingly curt and formal, and he cut their conversation short...

"I always thought she would walk through the door."

In late December 1976, a camper was spending time down in the Florida Keys. He was camping in an area known as the rock pit alongside US Route 1 on Grassy Key, a limestone quarry site used by campers and party-goers alike. While there, though, he was approached by a man he later described as a "hippie-type," who offered to show him a decomposing human body for a quarter. The camper declined and called the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.

On December 30th, Detective Richard Roth was dispatched to investigate...

"He got up, got ready for work and fell off the planet."

On the afternoon of Tuesday, 21 July 2015, 34-year-old Jeremiah Foco was working from home. His laptop's hard drive had crashed, and he told his manager that he would be coming into their Bellevue, Washington office the following day to get it repaired. It was a routine plan. Nothing about the conversation raised any red flags.

That night, surveillance camera footage from Jeremiah's apartment complex showed him pulling his car into the building's parking garage at 12:07 AM. He parked his car, and presumably went inside to...

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"Congress and the public deserve a clear answer about whether the Epstein Estate paid a settlement to an accuser who made serious allegations against Donald Trump, and who was interviewed four times by the FBI."

On 24 February 2026, NPR reporter Stephen Fowler published an investigative report comparing the public database of Epstein files released by the DOJ on January 30th with the Ghislaine Maxwell trial evidence index (handed to her defense attorneys in 2021 as part of standard discovery procedures). The two documents do not match.

According to the evidence index, the FBI conducted four interviews with a...

"Zorro Ranch was probably the most eerie place, just giant and quiet and literally in the middle of nowhere. Miles and miles of just mountains and dirt."

On the morning of 8 March 2026, a group of people gathered at a gate on a dirt road in the New Mexico desert, about 30 miles south of Santa Fe, in a place called Stanley. The gate leads to an extravagant property that sits on roughly 7600 acres of high desert scrubland. The nearest town is twenty miles away. If you screamed out here, no one would hear it.

The property used...

"We actually had a scene that was not a crime scene, but it was the scene that those killers wanted us to find."

On the morning of Sunday, 29 May 2011, Beth Stephenson-Victor sat in the pews at Union Baptist Church and looked around for her parents. Beth's father, Bill, never missed church. Her mother, Peggy, would occasionally miss a service with her fibromyalgia flared up, but Bill was always there, rain or shine. Beth had spoken to her mother the day before, and Peggy said they were planning to attend. But by the time the service ended, neither had...

We are back with a final update in the story of the Long Island Serial Killer (episodes #14-16 from 2016). Yesterday, on 17 June 2026, 62-year-old Rex Heuermann was sentenced to life in prison many times over for the deaths of eight women.

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"Apparently he left the house after I went to bed so I couldn't stop him and bring him back inside."

On the afternoon of 16 October 2018, Elizabeth Herbert called the Connecticut State Police and reported her husband, 44-year-old Oli, missing. Officers responded to the property on Hydeville Pond in Stafford Springs, where they searched the grounds. Eventually, they found the body of Elizabeth's husband at the edge of the pond, laying face down in just a few inches of water.

In the weeks and months to come, a bizarre story would begin to play out in the...

"It was like they left to go to the store and were coming right back. There was no reason to believe they were abandoning their home."

On 12 August 2023, officers from the Berkeley Police Department in Missouri arrived at a small rental house on Graham Lane, a quiet residential street located just a stone's throw away from St. Louis Lambert International Airport. They were there to conduct a welfare check. Family members of some of the home's residents had been calling, increasingly frantic, unable to reach their loved ones for weeks.

When investigators entered the house, they...

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"When I say she vanished off the face of this earth, I mean that."

At 9:44 PM on Thursday, May 29th, 2025, 15-year-old Kylie Arellano sent her mother a text that read simply "I love you, Mama. Goodnight." Her mother, Stephanie Coleman, replied "I love you too, baby girl." Eight minutes later, Kylie's phone went dark.

The last signal placed the device approximately three hundred feet from the family's home in Garden City, Utah. After that, nothing. Kylie was last spotted without shoes near her home, carrying a suitcase with a skull print. The direction she was headed...

"It was a brutal killing, a terrible way to die. The killer was cold and ruthless. He gave no consideration to Alan when he tied him up and stole his cards."

53-year-old Alan Holmes was living a quiet life in the winter of 1995. A longtime resident of Camden Town, Alan was unmarried and had no children. He had spent nearly two decades working as a garage hand at Kentish Town Police Station, where he was widely regarded as a gentle giant who was beloved but very quiet. He normally kept to himself.

That Christmas, a longtime...

"The child is fine. She was in good shape, but she's too young to talk."

On the evening of Thursday, December 12, 1985, shoppers at a K-Mart in Spanaway found a toddler loitering outside the entrance. She'd been spotted playing with two other children outside the store, but as shoppers came and went, the little girl remained outside. The store's assistant manager reported a missing child over the store's intercom, but that did nothing to rouse a parent or guardian.

Because of her difficulties communicating, the little girl was unable to say much about how she'd ended up...

"Not until those pictures came out... yeah, then the biggest rule was 'no fucking cameras.'"

In January 2007, a user named Deathlyillington posted a video to YouTube. Roughly three minutes long, the video didn't feature any visually graphic content. It was just three guys - two in front of the camera, one behind it - chatting about one's experiences over in Iraq. Specifically, during his time stationed at Abu Ghraib, the notorious prison outside of Baghdad that had become synonymous with human rights abuses during the war.

In this video, the young man details the casual...

"Somebody needs to pay for what happened. To be disposed of like garbage is so sad."

On August 28th, 2019, a construction crew arrived at a property just north of Lake Tapps in Pierce County, Washington, to clear and tear down a dilapidated trailer that had been abandoned for years. The lot had been vacant for some time and the structure was already coming down. It was, by all appearances, routine demolition work.

An excavator operator working the site noticed a blue yard waste bin on the property. It was sealed shut. Screwed closed, in fact, which...

“I try to picture where he was, what it might’ve been like, what circumstances would’ve made him sound like that.”

In September of 2015, 30-year-old Henry McCabe was preparing for a massive move. A Liberian immigrant living in Mounds View, Minnesota, Henry worked as a tax auditor for the state and was married with two children. His wife and he were preparing to move to California, and she'd already gone ahead with their two daughters while Henry wrapped some things up in Minnesota.

On the evening of Sunday, September 6th - Labor Day weekend - Henry de...

"The plan is now delayed, but not canceled. Be careful. I can't identify myself because they may find out and stop letting information slip."

In April of 2003, 54-year-old Philip Shue was nearing the end of his decorated military career. Having spent more than three decades in the Air Force, Philip and his wife Tracy were already making plans to move to Birmingham, Alabama. In fact, they'd just put down a deposit on their dream home and Philip had been selected for a prestigious fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Alabama.

But on the morning...

"At this point, investigators believe she was taken from her home against her will, possibly in the middle of the night."

At 1:47 AM on February 1st, 2026, a doorbell camera in the Catalina Foothills region of Tucson, Arizona transmitted disturbing images. It showed a masked figure wearing gloves, dark clothing, and a backpack approaching the front door. He had a gun holstered awkwardly near his groin and tried to obscure the camera before destroying it.

Hours later, the home's lone occupant, 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, would fail to appear for her church's virtual Sunday service. Members of the...

"People heard her screams, saw the car take off afterwards, were able to describe the car and able to provide images of the occupants of the car from their descriptions..."

On 24 November 1994, a warm summer evening in suburban Charlestown, New South Wales, a sixteen-year-old girl left a shopping center and began walking down a quiet, tree-lined street toward her aunt's house. She was carrying a plastic shopping bag with a new black dress and a pair of stockings inside, an outfit she planned to wear to her very first live concert just days away.

Somewhere along...

"We're talking about Katrina, Sandy, and Andrew combined, times maybe ten."

On 10:54 AM on 28 February 2001, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck western Washington. The epicenter was in the southern Puget Sound, but the quake originated roughly 32 miles beneath the surface, mitigating some shaking. While hundreds were injured and a woman even died as a direct result of the quake, many believe that the region got lucky that Wednesday morning and that the total damage (~$2 billion) could have been a lot higher had the quake's hypocenter been closer to the surface.

This region of the world is no stranger...

"We know he didn't disappear. He had too much going for him here. It's not like him. It's 100 percent not like him."

For a young geologist with the right skills and the right tools, 1970s Wyoming was a place of opportunity. The oil crisis of 1973 had sent shock-waves through the American economy and suddenly, the vast mineral deposits beneath the west's plains and hills were incredibly valuable.

In May of 1976, a twenty-five-year-old geologist from Mead, Colorado, drove his specialized geological truck into the open country around Gillette, Wyoming to conduct a routine exploration trip and was...

There has been an update in the story of the Long Island Serial Killer (episodes #14-16 from 2016). On April 8th, 2026, 62-year-old Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Sandra Costilla, Amber Costello, Jessica Taylor, and Megan Waterman. He also admitted to an eight murder that he hadn't yet been charged with: 34-year-old Karen Vergata, who had been known as "Fire Island Jane Doe" for years...



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"When we told prosecutors we were innocent, they put us in prison for life. Now when we plead guilty, they set us free."

On 19 August 2011, three men - Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr. - were transported from their respective facilities to a courthouse in Jonesboro, Arkansas. They were there to plead guilty to a crime they had spent the better part of two decades denying. At the same time, they were asserting their innocence and obtaining their freedom in an unusual legal maneuver called an Alford plea.

What led up to that decision...

"When we saw Damien and Jason being chained up and taken off, it was just so emotional, because we felt the wrong guys were being carted off."

In June of 1993, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky were two young filmmakers coming off their acclaimed breakthrough and looking for a new opportunity. That's when an executive from HBO told them about a new story that had just taken place down in West Memphis, Arkansas, in which three teenagers were accused of killing three eight-year-olds. They assumed it would be a pretty straightforward story of youth violence.

They spent...

“I think I was the closest thing he could come to conceiving of what he thought a Satanist would look like. All black was the only thing I ever wore. Ridiculous hairstyles. I was a stupid teenager.”

On May 6th, 1993 - the same day the bodies of three boys were found in West Memphis, Arkansas - a juvenile probation officer was standing at the crime scene as authorities gathered to process the evidence. In an offhand remark, he said that a local youth, Damien Echols, had "finally killed someone."

The bodies hadn’t been autopsied yet. No evi...

"One of my officers found a tennis shoe, and, inquisitive, he just jumped in the water and felt one of them."

On the evening of May 5th, 1993, three eight-year-old boys - Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers - went out to play in the neighborhood around Robin Hood Hills in West Memphis, Arkansas. They were supposed to be home by dark but never came home. By 8:00 PM, their families had contacted police and were beginning to search for them with flashlights, but held back by the creeping darkness and the elements.

The following morning, the...

"As we face this shock... there's something that rises up and says it can't be, it shouldn't have happened."

West Memphis, Arkansas was, in a lot of ways, the kind of American small town that people often romanticize. And like all romanticized places, it had its dark spots - such as poverty, underfunded social services, domestic troubles, and a police department under investigation by the Arkansas State Police for suspected mishandling of drug task force money. It was not a perfect place. But for the children who lived there, it was the only place.

In the...

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There has been an update in the story of Morgan Violi (episode #252 from 2023). After nearly three decades, an arrest has been made in the July 1996 abduction and murder of 7-year-old Morgan Violi from Bowling Green, Kentucky. The suspect, 62-year-old Robert Scott Froberg, has been linked to the case through DNA evidence and has already confessed...



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