Midnight Mystery Archive

On the evening of August 6, 1930, New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater finished dinner at a West 45th Street chop house, said goodbye to two companions, and walked out of the historical record. The police weren’t told for 28 days. The case stayed open for nearly 50 years. Tonight’s story follows the documented trail: Crater’s rise through Tammany Hall’s Cayuga Democratic Club, his ap...

On December 12, 1910, Dorothy Arnold, a 25-year-old Bryn Mawr graduate and aspiring writer from a prominent Manhattan family, left home to go shopping. A little before two that afternoon, she spoke with a friend outside Brentano’s bookstore on Fifth Avenue. The friend waved goodbye from the corner. No one has been documented seeing Dorothy Arnold since. Her family waited roughly six weeks to go pu...

This is the final episode of the Midnight Mystery Archive. In Part 1, we covered who Kerryn Tate was and what happened on December 29, 1979: a 22-year-old woman hitchhiking southeast of Perth, a deliberately set fire, a body found in bushland near the Canning Dam catchment. 45 years of the case staying open. And the biological evidence recovered at the scene in 1979 that police kept, year after ye...

This is the final series of the Midnight Mystery Archive — the last two-parter before the podcast goes on hiatus. It ends in Australia, one of MMA's largest listener bases, with a case that captures something essential about why this show existed: what happens when a young woman's life is cut short, and what forensic science can now do that nobody could have imagined when the crime occurred.   Ker...

For 23 years, investigators and the public assumed the dark figure captured walking behind Trevor Deely on Haddington Road — 34 seconds after Trevor passed the camera — was the same man who had waited outside his office for 34 minutes in the rain. In December 2023, that assumption was definitively disproved.   Enhanced CCTV analysis, using the same UK-based company that had processed the footage i...

An important update for every Midnight Mystery Archive listener. Kevin announced on social media Thursday, August 20th that MMA is going on extended hiatus. This episode is his direct message to the listeners — what happened, why, and what's still coming before the feed goes quiet. A major professional opportunity that Kevin has been working toward for years has arrived, and producing MMA at the l...

He was nine minutes from home. A man in dark clothing had been standing outside his office for 34 minutes before he got there. That was December 8, 2000. Trevor Deely has never been found.   Trevor Deely was 22 years old, working at the Bank of Ireland Asset Management office in Dublin. On the night of December 7, 2000, he attended his office Christmas party — drinks on Harcourt Street, dinner at...

Trevor Deely Part 1 drops this Friday. The Louisa Dunne two-parter is wrapped. And the Amy Bradley work is far from over.   A quick Monday update on where we are and what's coming.   Louisa Dunne. A 1967 murder in Bristol that went cold almost immediately and stayed cold for 56 years. Three things made the eventual conviction possible: officers in 1967 who processed that crime scene at a standard...

Part 1 covered the night of June 28th, 1967: Louisa Dunne, 75 years old, murdered in her home in Easton, Bristol. Part 2 covers how they finally found him.   It started with a question asked in 2023 by the Avon and Somerset Police Major Crime Review Team (MCRT): for every unsolved murder in their records, one by one are there forensic opportunities we have not pursued? For Louisa's case, the answe...

She was the last friend to see Amy Bradley in Richmond — the night before the cruise. She's here to talk about the book. Stacie was Amy Bradley's best friend. On the night before she left for the cruise, Amy asked her to come over. They sat in Amy's apartment, talked, and made plans for when Amy got back. The "angst" Kevin has described in prior episodes — the nervousness Amy's family spoke about...

A murder from 1967. A 92-year-old man convicted in 2025. And DNA evidence recovered from a skirt that sat in storage for 57 years. Louisa Dunne's case isn't just a remarkable true crime story — Kevin thinks it's a preview of what's about to happen to dozens of cases that everyone has quietly accepted will never be solved.   First, some follow-up on the James Renner special from last Wednesday. Kev...

Something different for the Midnight Mystery Archive: this case is solved. That's not how these episodes usually start. But the fact that it was solved is not the end of the story — it's why the story matters.   Louisa Dunne was murdered in Bristol, England on June 28th, 1967. She was 75 years old. In November 2024, 57 years later, a 92-year-old man named Ryland Headley was arrested at his home in...

James Renner's Amy Bradley book is out. Kevin has read it. And there are things that need to be addressed. Kevin spent months on the Amy Bradley series — working directly with her family, friends, eyewitnesses, and the former U.S. assistant attorney who convened a grand jury and got eyewitness statements under oath. He approached this book with that context in hand. This special episode isn't abou...

Kevin wraps up the Barbara Chapman two-part series — and makes his first declarative statement of the international summer series.   He's been careful throughout both Barbara Chapman episodes not to speculate. No wild claims, no overreach. That's been his policy since day one. But in this mini, he breaks from that stance and says it directly: he believes the Ontario Provincial Police know who kill...

Part 1 covered January 23rd, 1984 — the ordinary morning, the phone call with her mother, the seven-hour window, the twelve-year-old daughter who found her in the garage. Barbara was 38 years old. Her murder has never been solved. Forty-two years later, no one has been charged.    Part 2 is about what those 42 years actually looked like — and why the Ontario Provincial Police's behavior in the pub...

Today is the day. Echo 1953, The Hollis Files Book 1, is officially available on Amazon. If you like crime fiction - a private investigator team working a difficult, layered case? Kevin promises it delivers. Every early reader so far has given it five stars, and Kevin is quick to note: he doesn't know any of them. Total strangers. Order on Amazon now. On the podcast front: we're between Barbara Ch...

On the morning of January 23rd, 1984, Barbara Chapman made breakfast for her two children in a small house north of Frankford, Ontario. She helped them get ready for school. She watched them board the school bus. Then she went inside and called her mother - they spoke while Barbara did chores around the house. That phone call was the last contact anyone had with Barbara Chapman alive. At four o'cl...

I am on vacation — this was pre-recorded before he left, and the full episode schedule runs as normal in his absence.   Two things this week.   First: the Michael Dunahee series is complete. Part 1, the Witness Wednesday with his mother Crystal Dunahee, and Part 2 are all in your feed. I say out loud what listeners will likely have sensed: the conversation with Crystal was one of the hardest he ha...

Part 1 covered the afternoon of March 24th, 1991 — the playground, the fifty people who saw nothing, the boy who was there and then wasn't. Part 2 picks up where that left off, with 35 years of investigation, the leads that closed without answers, and where the case stands in 2026.   The investigation that followed Michael Dunahee's disappearance was one of the largest missing child responses in C...

On March 24th, 1991, Crystal Dunahee drove to a women's flag football game in Victoria, British Columbia. Michael — her four-year-old son with blonde hair, blue eyes, and freckles — asked if he could play at the park. She looked. There were a couple of kids already there. It was a normal Sunday afternoon.   She said yes. It was the first time she had ever let him go to the park by himself.   When...

A few things to catch you up on before the week ahead - and it is a big one. The Gina Bos case is officially wrapped. If you have not yet heard last Wednesday's Witness Wednesday with Jannel Rap, Gina's sister, go back and listen before you do anything else this week. It was one of the most meaningful interviews Kevin has done for this podcast. Jannel took her grief over Gina's disappearance and t...

On March 24th, 1991, a four-year-old boy named Michael Dunahee disappeared from a school playground in Victoria, British Columbia. It was 12:30 in the afternoon. There were approximately fifty people in the immediate area. He vanished within meters of his parents. Not one of those people saw it happen. Thirty-five years later, Michael Dunahee has never been found. Michael Wayne Dunahee was born on...

Jannel Rap built a foundation that has helped locate over 3,000 missing people. Her sister Gina Bos disappeared twenty-six years ago. Gina's case is still open. Jannel joins Witness Wednesday for her full interview and the complete conversation behind the clips you heard in Part 2 of the Gina Bos series. She talks about growing up in a family of seven kids, four girls who sang together at church,...

TONIGHT - AMY BRADLEY LIVE Q&A (8:30PM ET) The Amy Bradley series just wrapped, and the questions since the finale have been significant. I will be going live tonight at 8:30pm Eastern to answer them. Watch live (or the replay) on YouTube. Can't make it? Send your questions to midnightmysteryarchive@gmail.com , the Facebook Group, or X and I will cover them on the broadcast. GINA BOS - SERIES...

Eighteen years after Regina "Gina" Bos vanished outside Duggan's Pub in Lincoln, Nebraska, Detective Greg Sorensen said on the record: "Do I think I know who killed her? Yes." Then, in the same conversation: "We don't have enough probable cause to arrest somebody." This episode is built around the gap between those two statements. Gina Bos — a 40-year-old single mother of three and musician — walk...