Threads of Truth

Fourteen years after Bobby, Sherilynn and Madyson Jamison vanished in the Oklahoma wilderness, the case remains surrounded by unanswered questions. Their truck was found abandoned. Their belongings remained inside. Years later, their remains were discovered. But what happened during those missing years? In Episode 214, Threads of Truth returns to the Jamison family case and examines the landscape...

On a wet December night in Dublin in 2000, 22-year-old bank employee Trevor Deely went to his work Christmas party, spent part of the night at a nightclub, and then disappeared. What makes the case particularly haunting is that much of Trevor's final journey was captured on CCTV. After leaving Buck Whaley's nightclub in the early hours of December 8, Trevor went to his workplace to collect an umbr...

Robert Pickton became one of Canada's most notorious convicted serial killers after six counts of second-degree murder led to a life sentence in 2007. But the case was never simply about one man or one farm. For years, women were disappearing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, many of them vulnerable women whose disappearances generated repeated concern from families, friends and communities. Pic...

Between 1963 and 1965, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley murdered five young people in and around Greater Manchester. Three of the victims were children. The crimes became known as the Moors Murders, and the bleak landscape of Saddleworth Moor became inseparable from their story. In 1966, Brady and Hindley were convicted of three murders. Years later, they admitted responsibility for two additional victi...

In Rajasthan, India, surrounded by the Aravalli hills, lies the ruins of Bhangarh Fort a place that has become almost synonymous with curses, ghosts and forbidden places. According to legend, Bhangarh's destruction began with a mysterious ascetic known as Balu Nath, who supposedly allowed the city to be built on one condition: its buildings could never cast a shadow over his home. Another legend t...

In the rural community of Biddulph Township, Ontario, the Donnelly family had become infamous. For decades, disputes over land, religion, crime, family rivalries and accusations of violence had poisoned relations between the Donnellys and their neighbours. Then, on the night of 4 February 1880, an armed group descended on the Donnelly homestead.

In January 2025, Nguyễn Xuân Đạt was killed in Lạng Sơn, Vietnam, in a case that would eventually become known online as the “Vietnamese Butcher.” What made the case extraordinary was not only the murder itself, but what happened afterward. Images and video of the killing circulated through encrypted online communities. Before Vietnamese authorities publicly announced the investigation, internet u...

On the night of 11 April 1981, Cabin 28 at the Keddie Resort in California became the scene of a brutal attack that left three people dead and another seriously injured. The victims were Glenna Sharp, John Sharp, and Dana Wingate. Glenna's young son Rick survived the attack. But what made the case particularly disturbing was what investigators found and what they didn't. There were indications tha...

In March 1922, six people were murdered at the isolated Hinterkaifeck farm in Bavaria, Germany. But the killings were surrounded by details that seemed almost impossible to explain. Days before the murders, Andreas Gruber reported strange footsteps in the snow leading toward the farm but apparently not away from it. A mysterious newspaper appeared. Someone seemed to have been moving around the pro...

On 29 November 1970, the burned body of an unidentified woman was discovered in Isdalen, a remote valley outside Bergen, Norway. She carried no identification. The labels had been removed from her clothing. Two suitcases found at Bergen railway station contained wigs, cosmetics, foreign currency and other belongings. Hotel records revealed that she had travelled under multiple names, and investiga...

On Christmas Eve 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Five children Maurice, Martha, Louis, Jennie and Betty Sodder were never seen again. The official conclusion was that the children died in the fire. But the Sodder family never accepted that explanation. What made their doubts particularly enduring was the absence of conclusively identified human remains...

In February 1959, nine experienced hikers died in the remote northern Ural Mountains of the Soviet Union. Their tent was discovered abandoned on the slopes of Kholat Syakhl, with the hikers' belongings still inside. The tent had been cut open from within, and the group had apparently fled into the freezing darkness without adequate clothing. What followed became one of the most enduring mysteries...

In the late sixteenth century, an English settlement was established on Roanoke Island, off the coast of what is now North Carolina. Then, seemingly overnight, its inhabitants disappeared. When Governor John White returned in 1590 after being forced away for several years, he found the settlement abandoned. There were no bodies, no obvious signs of battle, and almost none of the clues he expected....

On Australia Day, 1966, three siblings Jane Beaumont, Arnna Beaumont, and Grant Beaumont vanished from Glenelg Beach in Adelaide without a trace. What followed was one of Australia’s most extensive missing persons investigations, spanning decades, borders, and countless alleged sightings. From crowded shopping centres to distant rural towns, witnesses came forward claiming they had seen the childr...

Between 1976 and 1977, four children vanished from the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Days later, each was found murdered under circumstances that deeply unsettled investigators. The victims had not simply been abandoned. Evidence suggested they had been fed, bathed, cared for, and dressed in clean clothing before being left where they would eventually be discovered. The unknown offender became kno...

On the morning of 26 April 1999, Jill Dando arrived at her home in Fulham, London, carrying shopping bags and preparing for an ordinary day. Moments later, she was shot once in the head at point-blank range. The murder of one of Britain's most recognizable television presenters stunned the nation and launched one of the largest homicide investigations in the history of the Metropolitan Police Serv...

Just days before Christmas in 1996, Sophie Toscan du Plantier arrived at her secluded holiday home near Toormore in West Cork, Ireland, expecting a peaceful winter retreat. Instead, she became the victim of one of Ireland's most enduring unsolved murders. The investigation crossed international borders, generated multiple documentaries and podcasts, and eventually led to the conviction of journali...

On 7 August 1985, police arrived at White House Farm in Essex expecting to find the aftermath of a tragic murder-suicide. Instead, the investigation would evolve into one of Britain's most debated criminal cases. Five members of the same family were dead, including Sheila Caffell, her twin sons, and her adoptive parents, Neville Bamber and June Bamber. Within weeks, suspicion shifted to Jeremy Bam...

A week before one of Germany's most infamous unsolved murders, something strange happened at the isolated Hinterkaifeck farm. Fresh footprints appeared in the snow leading toward the farmhouse but none led away. The family reported hearing unexplained footsteps in the attic. A set of house keys disappeared. Newspapers that no one recognized appeared inside the home. Yet daily life continued. Days...

Since Madeleine McCann disappeared from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on 3 May 2007, investigators have examined dozens of persons of interest, conducted multiple international investigations, and pursued countless leads. Some suspects were publicly named and later cleared. Others remained under scrutiny for years. More recently, German investigators identified Christian Brückner as their pr...

On December 1, 1946, Paula Jean Welden, an 18-year-old student at Bennington College, left campus for what was expected to be a peaceful afternoon hike along Vermont's famous Long Trail. She was seen by several witnesses as she walked into the mountains. Then, she simply vanished. Her disappearance became one of America's earliest high-profile missing person cases, triggering an enormous search, i...

In February 1957, a discarded suitcase was discovered in a wooded area of northeastern Philadelphia. Inside was the body of a young boy, estimated to be between four and six years old. Despite one of the largest identification efforts in American history, no one came forward to claim him. For more than six decades, he became known simply as the Boy in the Box a heartbreaking symbol of every uniden...

In the spring of 1946, the people of Texarkana weren't just afraid of a killer they were afraid of a pattern. Young couples were attacked on secluded roads under the cover of darkness. The assailant struck quickly, disappeared without a trace, and seemed to understand exactly when and where his victims would be alone. The press dubbed him the Phantom Killer, and before long, fear itself became one...

In October 2009, the Jamison family set out to inspect a remote piece of land in the Sans Bois Mountains of Oklahoma. Days later, their pickup truck was found abandoned. Inside were their wallets, mobile phones, identification, GPS, the family dog still alive and more than $30,000 in cash. But there was no sign of Bobby Dale Jamison, Sherilynn Jamison, or their six-year-old daughter, Madyson Jamis...

In 2010, Dilip Patidar disappeared after becoming a key witness in the investigation into the 2008 Malegaon bombings one of India's most politically sensitive terrorism cases. According to official records, Dilip was last seen after being questioned by investigators. His family insisted he never returned home. As the years passed, allegations of enforced disappearance, conflicting official account...