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17-year old Raonaid Murray was stabbed and killed 50 yards from her family home in Dublin after a night out. The crime scene did not yield many clues and the case remains unsolved. What happened to Raonaid on that September night in 1999? If you have information contact the Garda Incident Room at Dun Laoghaire Garda Station, phone 01-6665000 / 6665012, the Garda Confidential line at 1800 666 111 o...

When wealthy banker Édouard Stern failed to show up for a meeting at his office in Geneva, his colleagues were concerned when they could not get a hold of him. On the same day, his body was discovered inside his penthouse apartment, clad in a skin-coloured latex suit with other BDSM elements in his bedroom. They immediately looked at a female companion he nicknamed Latex: Cécile Brossard. Promo: C...

Just before New Year in 2000, a family of four was brutally slain inside their house. The killer spent the whole night with them inside their home. He made no effort to conceal his identity, leaving his fingerprints and DNA throughout the house. He ate food from their fridge, used their bathroom, logged on to the computer and slept on their sofa. This killer was callous and confident, like he knew...

In 1932 a local newspaper editor wanted to bring joy to the town of Mesa. He arranged for a man dressed as Santa to parachute from a plane to join the Christmas parade. But everything did not go according to plan and for the rest of his life, the editor was called: The Man Who Killed Santa Claus… Christmas music: Santa Claus is Coming to Town   Here We Come a-Caroling   For pictures and more infor...

Beer tycoon Freddy Heineken and his driver were kidnapped as Heineken left his office in Amsterdam. They were held in captivity for three weeks. This is the incredible story of how a gang of friends saw an opportunity to make money, no matter what.  For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook Want to become a Patron of the podcast? Visit our page at Patreon For a full list of resources...

On the 22nd of July 2011 a car bomb exploded outside of a government building in the center of Oslo. Hours later police were informed about a mass shooting at a youth camp on an island to the city’s north. At the end of the day, 77 lives were lost at the hands of far-right terrorist. Anders Behring Breivik painstakingly documented his preparations for the worst terror attack in Norwegian history i...

Two teenage girls were dating the same young man. Instead of turning on him, Sarah Ludemann and Rachel Wade embarked on a bitter feud on MySpace. Tensions rose until the early morning hours of April 15th 2009 when they came face to face. One of them would not live to see sunrise… Sponsored by: The Bouqs Company Visit bouqs.com/evidence for 25% off your order For pictures and more information, join...

When a former British diplomat’s daughter was found brutally murdered near the Fox Tower in Peking with her heart ripped out of her chest, both Chinese and British investigators were appointed to solve the case. Theories led the investigation to a nudist group, an ex-boyfriend, as well as a Japanese soldiers seeking revenge after an international incident. But nothing could ever be proven. To this...

André Stander was a police captain who robbed banks in his lunch hour then resumed his afternoon shift as an investigator. Hero or villain? This week’s sponsors: HelloFresh are offering our listeners £60 off 4 boxes. Promo code: EVIDENCE For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook Want to become a Patron of the podcast? Visit our page at Patreon For a full list of resources and credits...

The investigation exposed the underbelly of Florence. Behind the façade of art and beauty lay a sinister world of perversion, violence, jealousy, extortion and ritualistic practice. The problem was… Nobody knew exactly what it was that drove The Monster of Florence to kill. Was he acting on the orders of a Satanic cult? Was he part of a crime family? Perhaps it was the work of more than one killer...

A series of brutal killings haunted the Tuscan countryside from 1968 to 1985. Over the span of two decades, at least 16 people lost their lives to a sadistic prowler who hunted his victims, all young lovers in parked cars, on moonless summer nights. This is a case that has baffled investigators and the public for years. Was the wrong man made to pay for the crimes of The Monster of Florence? For p...

Urban legend ‘The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs’ inspired the 1979 horror film When a Stranger Calls . But what if there was some truth to the legend? In 1950, 13-year-old Janett Christman was brutally raped and strangled while babysitting in Missouri. Three years later 15-year-old Evelyn Hartley was babysitting when she disappeared, leaving nothing but a broken eyeglasses and a trail of blood…...

The bodies of Neelma (24), Kunal (18) and Sidhi (12) Singh were found in a spa bath tub inside their family home in Bridgeman Downs. Each victim had a different cause of death. Suspicions quickly fell on Neelma’s boyfriend, 31-year-old Max Sica. He had a criminal record, was a compulsive liar and very possessive of Neelma. Was Sica the man behind these brutal and senseless murders, or was there so...

32-year-old Marianne Bachmeier took the law into her hands by shooting her daughter’s murderer in the courtroom on the third day of his trial What was it that caused Marianne to snap? Revenge? Or was there something more to it? And how would German law enforcement handle this high profile case of vigilante justice? This week’s sponsor: Grass & Co – use discount code: EVIDENCE at checkout to cl...

Gareth Williams was a Welsh-born crypto-analyst who worked in London on secondment from the Government Communications Headquarters in Cheltenham. A week after he failed to show up for work at MI6, he was reported missing. Police discovered his body inside a locked sports bag in the bathroom of a government-leased apartment in Pimlico. Was this talented code-breaker’s death the work of internationa...

18-year-old Zebb Quinn left work one night, hoping to look at a car he was interested in buying. His friend followed in a separate car, but along the way, Zebb signaled for him to pull over. He had received a message and changed his plans about viewing the new car. Zebb rear-ended his friend’s truck as he drove off, clearly upset about the message he had received. Zebb was never seen again. 17 yea...

The love affair between Andrew and Eunice came to a boiling point during one of the most turbulent moments in Kenyan political history. It is a love story gone terribly wrong in a time and place when it seemed like everything in the world had turned upside down. Andrew saw Eunice with another man and shot and killed them both. The other man was local MP David Too – and his death sparked a period o...

On November 8, 2000, 27 year old former footballer Einar Örn Birgisson disappeared without a trace. He had recently opened a GAP store in Reykjavik – a dream come true. But everything was not what it seemed to be. On closer investigation, police suspected that Einar’s business partner, former national soccer hero Atli Helgason, knew more than he was letting on.  For pictures and more information,...

The Marlborough Sounds hold one of New Zealand’s biggest mysteries: what happened to Ben Smart and Olivia Hope in the early hours of new year’s day 1998? Scott Watson, was behind bars for two counts of murder. He was convicted, even though no bodies were ever recovered, there was no crime scene and no murder weapon. Watson always proclaimed his innocence. Twenty years after that fateful morning, t...

Two attractive and talented young people disappeared after a New Year’s Eve party in the Marlborough Sounds. With no sign of them after months of searching, they were presumed murdered. With 1500 witnesses who saw nothing, no bodies, no murder weapon and no crime scene – does anyone really know what happened to Ben Smart and Olivia Hope? For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook Want...

Archbishop Valerian Trifa was the head of the Romanian Orthodox Church of America and Canada. But this pious man was hiding a dark secret about his past in Europe. When members of his congregation informed US authorities that he was in fact the leader of the fascist group, The Iron Guard, he denied it. But with evidence proving the contrary, he had no other choice but to relinquish his US Citizens...

Anatoly Moskvin exhumed bodies from local cemeteries and then mummified them himself. He dressed them up and painted their faces, put them on display in his home, which he shared with his parents. For years everyone thought he had made the ‘dolls’ himself and even though they looked a bit odd, no one realised what they were.   For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook Want to become a...

The bodies of two women were found within 300 yards of each other, raped and strangled. The only thing is, the murders occurred 157 years apart. With many uncanny similarities one cannot look at the one without considering the other. In both cases, the women were 20 years old, in fact, they had the same birthday. In both cases, a man by the name of Thornton was arrested and later acquitted. Was th...

Between January and March of 2003, six people were brutally murdered in the city of Madrid. The attacks seemed to be unrelated at first, then the killer started leaving calling cards at each scene. He left a playing card from a deck of Spanish Barajas – the first one was an ace of cups, the second one a two of cups. Police realized they were hunting a serial killer, a man who became known as ‘ The...

When Ron Ruse left his girlfriend of six years, he could never have imagined that his life was to become a living nightmare. Linda Ricchio became obsessed with stalking him and threatened to kill him. Ron moved out of his apartment and lived like a fugitive, but around every corner, Linda was waiting for him. This is a tragic story of what happens when attraction turns fatal.  For pictures and mor...