GBNF: A True Crime Podcast

Welcome to Episode 119 of our series, "Gone But Never Forgotten", where we unpack the heartbreaking yet inspiring tale of Adam Simji, a 22-year-old finance student whose life was tragically cut short when he tried to help two seemingly stranded women. Known for his selfless heroism, Adam's story is a chilling reminder of the dystopic state of our society, yet also highlights the resilient human sp...

Domestic Violence is unfortunately one of the fastest rising crimes in the entire world and that was really just exasperated during the pandemic, especially in countries where families were essentially told to stay in their homes, only leaving home for essential things in order to stop the spread of the virus.  That meant that countless people who had suffered domestic abuse in the past were essen...

It is so easy to point fingers and poke holes in the ways that law enforcement, lawyers and the system deal with cases, criminals and victims.  I have done it here on the show and people have likely been doing it since the advent of laws and punishments for crimes.  One thing that most of us don’t lend enough credence to is the fact that it can be incredibly difficult to sift through the truths of...

Immerse yourself into the shocking and terrifying world of murder and cannibalism in the latest episode of Gone But Never Forgotten. This spine-tingling episode delves into the horrific story of Armin Meiwes, the infamous 'Master Butcher' whose chilling deeds defied the boundaries of human comprehension. Follow the disturbing journey of Armin Meiwes, from an ordinary childhood marred with tragedy...

We live in a broken and increasingly broken world, of that there is little doubt when you take a look around yourself.  You see mental and physical health struggles, you see death and assaults everywhere.  Within our homes we see divorces, domestic assaults and even murder.  I think for a lot of us true crime lovers out here, one of the most baffling things is when you hear about a parent taking t...

Over six hundred thousand people go missing within Europe each and every year on average.  Thankfully, many of those cases go resolved when the person in question is found by either the police, the family, or both.  There are of course though plenty of cases that go unsolved for a time and plenty of cases that remain unsolved forever.  This week we are going to look at a mysterious case where the...

The foolish game goes by many names.  In Canada we call it Ding Dong Ditch or Knicky, Knicky, Nine Doors.  In The US it’s called Doorbell ditch and Ring and Run and in Europe it goes by names like Chapppy, Knock Off Ginger and more.  Most people know the premise.  You get dared by a friend to run up to a stranger’s house and either knock on the door or ring the doorbell and then you, and your amus...

No story that we could tell would be anything except for mortifying when it deals with the death, the kidnapping or the sexual assault of a child.  This weeks case unfortunately deals with all three of those things and centers around a sexual predator who was known to police and who had served time previously for sexually assaulting minors.  It took eight years and a lot of elaborate work for the...

Something that I have talked about a lot on this podcast is the fact that I do believe that internet sleuths and podcasts like this one are something that can be an assistance to open cases.  However, much on the flip side there are many, many times throughout history where we have seen that the victims of crimes and the families of victims of crimes can have their lives SEVERELY damaged and even...

Have you ever hit that point in a case where you just go ick?  What is it about a case that makes you realize that this one hits a little bit differently than the other ones?  What is it that truly makes your skin crawl?  For Julie, I know that it’s cases when children get hurt, kidnapped or murdered.  That was a line in the sand for her.  For me, it’s cases like this one.  Grooming seems like suc...

As someone who was attended church for most of his life and someone that was indoctrinated with the beliefs and the rules that come along with being a Christian I have seen many a marriage over my years start, finish and face a lot of tumultuous times because two people starting a life together become completely inundated with information and guidelines by everyone from every corner.  You are told...

We have done a few episodes now on serial killers and we have previously done one covering a female serial killer.  Today we are going to look at a case of a serial killer from The United Kingdom who is known now as “Britain’s Most Dangerous Female Prisoner”.  Joanna Dennehy is one of only four women in the United Kingdom to ever have been sentenced to a whole-life order, meaning that she will be...

I think that most of us know of stories of families that have split up and we are aware that even in the most amicable of situations those setups can certainly be difficult on our children.  This week we are going to look at a case where in hindsight it seems that the system that we put into place to protect our children may have had a hand in forcing an issue that led to the death of a very young...

Many times in the past we have covered cases of missing people and we have covered cases of victims who were not identified after years had gone by.  This week we are going to cover something a little bit different.  One of Canada’s longest standing mysteries encircles the case of Canada’s first ever suicide bomber in Kenora, Ontario.  The man entered the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce with th...

On November 16th, 2012 a dispatcher would pick up a 911 emergency call in Lake County, Ohio and everything that happened after that call was picked up would take everyone that came into contact with the case by surprise.  On the other end of the line was a young girl who was in hysterics as she screamed into the phone and tried to express what was going on in her home.  Finally, the dispatcher was...

One thing that is common across true crime stories, especially those that have to do with missing people, is that there are often complaints about how the police took charge of a case and even how they treated the people reporting their loved one as missing.  It is a sad reality, as we have covered here on the podcast, that certain things like race, class and gender can make a difference on how a...

I think that we have covered on this podcast very well that criminals come in all shapes and sizes.  One thing that does seem to come up fairly often, especially when it comes to killers, is the fact that many of them have higher than average IQ’s.  This week we are going to look at a man who had a good life, had a heck of a lot of brains and then seemingly after what appears to be years of resear...

Two of the arguments that I think that I have presented both sides of and felt both sides of over the life of this podcast are the argument over whether a criminal deserves a second chance at life and the argument over whether mental health patients should serve time within mental health facilities or prisons.  This episode is going to focus on both of those questions in a very different way and a...

It is a certain fact that I could continue to write and record episodes of GBNF forever and I would quite  literally never run out of stories to tell or horrors to relay.  Perhaps the saddest part is that there are so many stories that nobody is able to tell because of the complete lack of information and reporting and there are also so many crimes that remain open because of the inability to find...

When I was younger I attended a youth conference that was named “Reverse the Curse” and the underlying theme of the conference was that you do not have to be all of the things that happened to you and you don’t have to become the people who raised you.  One of the things that we see a lot when studying true crime is that often people are unable to reverse that curse and they either are doomed to r...

I once had someone say something that really stuck in my brain for one reason or another and that was you believe that you have done just about all that you can do when your child reaches the age of 18.  You figure that you have helped them navigate some of the worst things that will happen to them when they were very vulnerable.  We talk a lot about jobs that are underpaid and overworked and pare...

We talk a lot about the things that make true crime attractive to it’s fans.  For some people it is the psychology, for some people it is the human interest but I think for each and every person that loves true crime it really comes down to at least one common denominator.  Each and every one of us love to listen to a good story.  This week I am going to serve you up a story that covers a whole lo...

Here on the podcast we have covered many cases that are unsolved and many cases that seem as though they COULD get solved if the right information or the right evidence came to light.  Today we are going to climb into the way-back machine and head to 1920’s Germany though to take a look at what may be Germany’s most well-known unsolved murder.  This week’s case has six murders, strange circumstanc...

It feels like since the dawn of time we have, as a society, tried to find ways to make ourselves feel better than others or tried to find ways to make others look worse than us.  That shows itself in every kind of prejudice that we see around us in our every day lives.  Unfortunately, if you know much at all about true crime you also know that this systemic way of thinking seems to creep into ever...

One of the things that people complain about most within legal systems in their countries are the delays in the legal process that are brought on by endless paper-pushing, endless hurdles and what seems to amount to mindless defense in order to keep some of the worst criminals from the worst charges possible for the crimes that they have committed.  Two of the defenses that are very contentious de...