Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast

"If this is a murder-suicide by hanging, it will be the first one recorded in history." On the morning of Friday, 15 December 2017, police in Toronto were contacted by multiple people at a residence in North York. The calls came in just before noon, and were from the housekeeper who cleaned the home every Friday, a real estate agent that was selling the property, and a contractor who took care of...

"I have never been able to get rid of the thought that [the 22nd September event] was some sort of joint operation between Israel and South Africa." At 00:53 Coordinated Universal Time on September 22nd, 1979, an aging American satellite called Vela 6911 recorded a double flash of light somewhere over the southern Indian Ocean. That same night, President Jimmy Carter wrote in his diary that there...

"There was indication of a nuclear explosion in the region of South Africa, either South Africa, Israel using a ship at sea, or nothing." In May 1969, Vela 6911 had been launched into the upper atmosphere to monitor a portion of the planet for any sign of a nuclear explosion. It was an Advanced Vela Satellite, carrying X-ray, gamma-ray, and neutron detectors. It was also armed with a pair of optic...

"At this point in time, all I want is what’s left of my son and put him to rest." On 22 June 2019, skeletal remains were discovered behind an abandoned house on Pecan Drive, in southwest Atlanta, partially covered up by a deflated air mattress. Despite the advanced decomposition of the remains, authorities quickly linked them to a man who'd gone missing after a bizarre shooting incident days earli...

"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 expre...

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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, sh...

"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 s...

"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...

"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, Am...

"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...

"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 t...

"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...

"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, s...

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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 Max...

"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 o...

"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 th...

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. If you would like to support this podcast and others, consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod  to become a Patron or Producer Become a support...

"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 hu...

"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 welfa...

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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 famil...

"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...