Shadows Of Crime - True Crime Revisited

Season 2, Episode 8 — The Somerton Man Adelaide, Australia. 1948. A well-dressed man is found dead on a quiet beach, leaning against a seawall as if he had simply fallen asleep. There are no signs of violence. No identification. And no clear cause of death. As investigators begin to search for answers, the case takes a strange turn. Labels have been removed from his clothing. A suitcase linked to...

Season 2, Episode 7 — The Setagaya Family Murders Tokyo, Japan. December 2000. In a quiet suburban neighbourhood, a family of four is murdered inside their own home. The crime is brutal, shocking, and unlike anything the area had ever seen. But what makes this case truly disturbing is what happened after the murders. The killer didn’t flee. He stayed. He used the family’s bathroom. He ate food fro...

Season 2, Episode 6 — The Sodder Children Disappearance West Virginia. Christmas Eve, 1945. A house fire breaks out in the middle of the night, quickly engulfing the Sodder family home. Parents George and Jennie Sodder manage to escape with some of their children. But five of them are never seen again. As the flames die out, investigators search the ashes expecting to find remains. They find nothi...

Season 2, Episode 5 — The Cleveland Torso Murders Cleveland, Ohio. 1930s. During the height of the Great Depression, a series of brutal murders began to terrify the city of Cleveland. Bodies were discovered along the banks of the Cuyahoga River — dismembered, decapitated, and left in places where they would be found. The victims were never identified. The killer was never caught. As the number of...

Season 2, Episode 4 — The Yuba County Five California, 1978. Five friends leave a college basketball game and begin the drive home. But instead of returning to their small town, they travel deep into the mountains — far from their intended route. Days later, their car is found abandoned on a remote road. The vehicle is not damaged. There is fuel in the tank. And their belongings are still inside....

Season 2, Episode 3 — The West Mesa Bone Collector Albuquerque, New Mexico. 2009. What began as a routine walk through the desert quickly turned into one of the most disturbing discoveries in modern true crime. Buried beneath the sand on Albuquerque’s West Mesa were the remains of multiple women. As investigators searched the area, the number grew. Eleven victims. All hidden in shallow graves. Man...

Season 2, Episode 2 — The Boy in the Box Philadelphia, 1957. A young boy is found abandoned in a cardboard box in a quiet wooded area. He has no identification, no missing persons report, and no one comes forward to claim him. For decades, he is known only by a haunting name — The Boy in the Box. Investigators release his image across the country, hoping someone will recognise him. Thousands of ti...

Season 2, Episode 1 — The Springfield Three Springfield, Missouri. June 1992. After a night celebrating their high school graduation, two friends return home to a quiet suburban house. Inside is one of their mothers. Everything appears normal. By morning, all three are gone. No forced entry. No signs of a struggle. No clear evidence of what happened. Suzie Streeter, Stacy McCall, and Sherrill Levi...

Episode 11 — The D.B. Cooper Hijacking United States. November 1971. On the day before Thanksgiving, a man boarded a short commercial flight using the name Dan Cooper. He appeared calm, well dressed, and completely unremarkable. Shortly after takeoff, he handed a note to a flight attendant. Inside the note was a chilling message. He claimed to have a bomb. What followed would become one of the mos...

Episode 10 — The Disappearance of Maura Murray New Hampshire. February 2004. On a cold winter night, a car crashes on a quiet rural road. When police arrive just minutes later, the driver is gone. No footprints. No signs of a struggle. No clear explanation. The driver was 21-year-old college student Maura Murray. In the days leading up to her disappearance, Maura had abruptly left her university,...

Episode 9 — The Hinterkaifeck Murders Bavaria, Germany. March 1922. In the days before the murders, strange things began happening on an isolated farm known as Hinterkaifeck. Footprints appeared in the snow leading toward the farmhouse — but none leading away. The family reported hearing unexplained noises in the attic. And a house key mysteriously went missing. Then, sometime during the night, si...

Episode 8 — The Dyatlov Pass Incident Ural Mountains, Soviet Union. February 1959. Nine experienced hikers set out on a winter expedition across one of the most remote mountain regions in Russia. Led by Igor Dyatlov, the group was well trained and fully prepared for the harsh conditions of the journey. But when they failed to return home, a search team was sent into the mountains. What rescuers di...

Episode 7 — The JonBenét Ramsey Mystery Boulder, Colorado. December 26th, 1996. On the morning after Christmas, a family awoke to every parent’s worst nightmare. A six-year-old girl had disappeared from her bedroom, and a ransom note demanding $118,000 had been left inside the house. The girl was JonBenét Ramsey. What initially appeared to be a kidnapping quickly turned into something far more dis...

Episode 6 — The Villisca Axe Murders Villisca, Iowa. June 1912. In the early hours of the morning, someone entered a quiet family home and committed one of the most shocking crimes in American history. Inside the house, eight people were murdered while they slept — including six children. The victims were members of the Moore family and two young sisters who had been invited to stay the night afte...

Episode 5 — The Isdal Woman Mystery Bergen, Norway. November 1970. When hikers discovered the burned body of a woman in a remote valley outside the city of Bergen, police initially believed it might be a tragic suicide. But as investigators began examining the scene, the case quickly became far more mysterious. The woman carried no identification. Labels had been removed from her clothing. And hid...

Episode 4 — The Keddie Cabin Murders Keddie, California. April 1981. In a quiet forest community in the Sierra Nevada mountains, a brutal crime inside a small wooden cabin would leave an entire town in shock. Inside Cabin 28, three people were found murdered in a violent and disturbing scene. Bound and attacked during the night, the victims included a mother, her teenage son, and his friend. But t...

Episode 3 — The Disappearance of Brian Shaffer Columbus, Ohio. March 2006. A 27-year-old medical student heads out for a night of drinks with friends near the campus of Ohio State University. Security cameras capture him entering a crowded bar shortly after 1 a.m. But he is never seen leaving. That student was Brian Shaffer. Despite extensive searches, police investigations, and years of speculati...

Episode 2 — The Zodiac Killer Northern California. 1968. On a quiet road outside Vallejo, two teenagers parked beneath the night sky are suddenly attacked by an unknown gunman. Months later, another couple is shot in a similar attack. Then the letters begin to arrive. Sent to local newspapers, the messages contain strange symbols, coded ciphers, and chilling claims of responsibility. The writer gi...

Welcome to Shadows of Crime . A podcast that explores the darker side of history through the stories of real crimes that shocked communities, baffled investigators, and in many cases… were never solved. Each episode takes you inside a different case. From infamous murders to strange disappearances and mysteries that remain unanswered decades later. Who was responsible? What really happened? And wh...

**Episode 1 — The Black Dahlia** Los Angeles. January 1947. On a quiet morning, a woman walking with her child noticed what she thought was a discarded mannequin lying in an empty lot. But as she moved closer, the truth became horrifyingly clear. The body belonged to a 22-year-old woman named Elizabeth Short. The murder scene shocked even the most experienced detectives. Elizabeth’s body had been...