George Thuku

Sleuths Unveil: Underbelly Mysteries

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In a world often shrouded in secrecy, detectives and amateur sleuths alike delve deep into the enigmas that lie within the criminal underworld. These captivating riddles encompass an array of perplexing situations—from unsolved disappearances to cryptic messages left by elusive figures. Each mystery unfolds a story rich with intrigue, illuminating the complex lives of those who navigate the dangerous intersections of crime and justice. As they sift through clues and explore shadowy alleys, these modern-day sleuths uncover not just the facts of a case, but also the intricate web of motives, rel...

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George Thuku

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News

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www.spreaker.com

Latest episode

Jul 30, 2025

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Episodes

Case 191: Sheree Beasley 09.10.2021

Melbourne psychotherapist Margaret Hobbs was used to dealing with sex offenders. Many of her clients were men who had been referred to her through the court system after committing terrible crimes... --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Erin MunroCreative direction – Milly Raso Production and music – Mike Migas Music – Andrew D.B. Joslyn For all credits and sources please visit...

Case 190: The Butcher Baker (Part 2) 02.10.2021

[Part 2 of 2]In June 1983, Cindy Paulson ran out onto a highway in Anchorage, barefoot and handcuffed. She was the prized prey of a prolific serial killer who was plaguing the region and had escaped his plans to hunt her down in the Alaskan wilderness – something he had done with many other women... --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Erin Munro and Milly RasoCreative direction...

Case 190: The Butcher Baker (Part 1) 25.09.2021

[Part 1 of 2]During the 1970s and ’80s, a predator was stalking the streets of Anchorage, Alaska. By day, he was a respectable family man who ran his own business. But at night, he would prowl Anchorage’s infamous Tenderloin District, looking for vulnerable or destitute women... Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Erin Munro and Milly RasoCreative direction – Milly Raso Production...

Case 189: JoAnne Chambers 18.09.2021

When JoAnne Chambers was hired to teach at Coolbaugh Learning Centre in Pennsylvania she arrived with glowing reviews from her former school. So when an anonymous harasser began targeting the popular school teacher, she was left stunned... --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Jessica ForsayethCreative direction – Milly Raso Production and music – Mike Migas For all credits and s...

Case 188: Robert Wone 10.09.2021

On August 2 2006, 32-year-old lawyer Robert Wone knocked off after a long day at his office in Washington DC. To save making the journey home so late at night, he arranged to stay at a friend’s house... --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Jessica ForsayethCreative direction – Milly Raso Production and music – Mike Migas Music – Andrew D.B. Joslyn For all credits and sources ple...

Case 187: Peter & Joan Porco 04.09.2021

In the early hours of Monday, November 15 2004, husband and wife Peter and Joan Porco were savagely attacked with an axe while they slept... --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Jessica ForsayethCreative direction – Milly Raso Production and music – Mike Migas Music – Andrew D.B. Joslyn For all credits and sources please visit casefilepodcast.com/case-187-peter-joan-porco Hosted...

Case 186: The Bowraville Murders 28.08.2021

When 16-year-old Colleen Walker suddenly vanished from the New South Wales town of Bowraville in September 1990, her family and friends knew something was terribly wrong. But local police dismissed their concerns, suggesting that the Indigenous teenager had simply “gone walkabout”... --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Erin MunroCreative direction – Milly Raso Production and mu...

Case 185: Kim Chol 21.08.2021

When Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong were offered the chance to star on a prank show that aired on YouTube, the young women thought it was the opportunity of a lifetime. All they had to do was approach strangers on the street and rub oil on their faces... --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Erin MunroCreative direction – Milly Raso Production and music – Mike Migas Music – Andre...

Case 184: Gay Gibson 14.08.2021

Early on the morning of October 18 1947, a stewardess working on the ocean liner Durban Castle discovered something strange. The cabin belonging to an actress named Gay Gibson was empty... --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Erin MunroCreative direction – Milly Raso Production and music – Mike Migas Music – Andrew D.B. Joslyn For all credits and sources please visit casefilepod...

Case 183: The MacKenzie Family 07.08.2021

Karen MacKenzie resided in Greenough with her three children - Daniel, Amara, and Katrina. The 31-year-old single mother had recently gotten together enough money to rent a small house on the rural outskirts of town... --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Elsha McGillCreative direction – Milly Raso Production and music – Mike Migas Music – Andrew D.B. Joslyn For all credits and...

Case 182: Freda Burnell & Florence Little 31.07.2021

On February 5 1921, eight-year-old Freda Burnell went missing in the small coal-mining town of Abertillery, Wales. The unusual disappearance reached a tragic conclusion when her bound and beaten body was found dumped inside a sack in an alleyway... --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Jessica ForsayethCreative direction – Milly Raso Production and music – Mike Migas Music – Andr...

Case 181: The Vampire of Nuremberg 26.06.2021

During the early ’70s, cemeteries and mortuaries throughout Germany were targeted by a particularly disturbing grave robber. Not only did he steal the personal belongings of the dead, but he also exhumed, mutilated, molested, and gnawed upon the bodies... --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Milly RasoCreative direction – Milly Raso Production and music – Mike Migas For all cred...

Case 180: Bill Payne & Billie-Jean Hayworth 19.06.2021

“This is going to be the stupidest thing you’ve ever heard. This is going to be the craziest thing you’ve ever heard. There is nothing in your lives or background that has prepared you to understand the Potter family. You have never seen anybody like them.” --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Eileen OrmsbyCreative direction – Milly Raso Production and music – Mike Migas Music –...

Case 179: Christie Marceau 12.06.2021

On the morning of September 6 2011, Auckland teenager Christie Marceau was woken by a troubling phone call from an acquaintance named Akshay Chand. The two 18-year-olds had previously worked together at a supermarket, and Chand was now threatening to take his own life. --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Erin MunroCreative direction – Milly Raso Production and music – Mike Miga...

Case 178: The Woman Without a Face 05.06.2021

Between 1993 and 2009, DNA discovered at 40 crime scenes across Germany, Austria, and France were linked to an unknown woman of eastern European descent. Dubbed ‘The Woman Without a Face’, her crimes ranged from petty theft to murder. After her DNA was linked to the murder of Heilbronn police officer, Michele Kiesewetter, the suspect was renamed ‘The Phantom of Heilbronn’. --- Narration – Anonymou...

Case 177: 657 Boulevard 29.05.2021

Married couple Derek and Maria Broaddus were house hunting when a property in the affluent neighbourhood of Westfield, New Jersey immediately caught their attention. 657 Boulevard was a striking six bedroom, four bathroom Dutch Colonial style home that was the perfect place to raise their family – or so they thought. --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Jessica ForsayethCreative...

Case 176: Yingying Zhang 22.05.2021

On June 9 2017, Yingying Zhang vanished on her way to an appointment in Urbana, Illinois. The Chinese visiting scholar missed her bus and after she failed to return to work that day, her colleagues quickly raised the alarm... --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Erin MunroCreative direction – Milly Raso Production and music – Mike Migas Music – Andrew D.B. Joslyn For all credits...

Case 175: Gail & Rick Brink 15.05.2021

When newlyweds Gail and Rick Brink failed to show up to their respective jobs on the morning of November 23 1987, the alarm was immediately raised. The couple’s bodies were discovered at the ranch house they had only just purchased. Both had been shot multiple times in the head, execution-style. The slayings shocked the quiet community of Holland, Michigan, and everyone had a theory as to what mig...

Case 174: Vicki Arnold & Julie-Anne Leahy 08.05.2021

One cold winter night in 1991, best friends Vicki Arnold and Julie-Anne Leahy vanished from their town of Atherton, Queensland. The two women had left for a late-night fishing trip but never came home. Two weeks later, their bodies were found in Julie-Anne’s car on a remote bushland track, in the opposite direction from where they’d been headed.  --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writi...

Case 173: Rocio Wanninkhof & Sonia Carabantes 24.04.2021

When 19-year-old Rocio Wanninkhof failed to return home after a night out with friends, her mother Alicia was immediately worried. The family lived in the small town of La Cala de Mijas, Spain – where teenagers felt safe going out alone. Alicia’s concern quickly turned to distress when she discovered Rocio’s shoes lying abandoned in a clearing near their home, alongside a pool of blood. --- Narrat...

Case 172: Michael Gregsten & Valerie Storie 17.04.2021

In August 1961, Michael Gregsten and Valerie Storie were sitting in their car in Dorney Reach, UK when an intruder forced his way into the backseat brandishing a gun. After driving them around the English countryside for hours, the intruder shot both Michael and Valerie, leaving them on the side of the road at a location known as Deadman’s Hill. --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writin...

Case 171: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis 10.04.2021

On August 19 1988, two armed offenders entered a branch of the Deutsche Bank in Gladbeck, West Germany with the intention of holding it up. Hans-Jürgen Rösner and Dieter Degowski planned to steal a large sum of money, then make a quick getaway. --- Special thanks to Stef for her assistance in the creation of this episode Narration – Anonymous Host Research – Milly Raso and Erin MunroWriting – Erin...

Case 170: The Caffey Family 27.03.2021

On February 29 2008, members of the Caffey Family were sleeping soundly in their Texas home when intruders suddenly stormed in and launched a brutal attack. After setting the house on fire, the intruders fled, unaware that one family member was still alive. Patriarch Terry Caffey emerged from the burning building barely clinging to life, his body riddled with bullet wounds. --- Narration – Anonymo...

Case 169: Corinna Mullen 20.03.2021

On October 2 1987, a council employee in Central City, Kentucky called police after finding an abandoned, blood-smeared Pontiac outside his workplace. When Lieutenant Billy Fields arrived at the scene, he found the savagely assaulted body of 20-year-old Corinna Mullen in the boot. Corinna hadn’t been seen since the previous night when she’d gone out drinking with her roommate Angela Smith. --- Nar...

Case 168: Guðmundur & Geirfinnur Einarsson 13.03.2021

In January 1974, 18-year-old Guðmundur Einarsson enjoyed a night out with friends in the town of Hafnarfjordur, Iceland. At the end of the evening, he walked into a wild snowstorm and was never seen again. Ten months later, in November 1974, 32-year-old Geirfinnur Einarsson (no relation) also disappeared from the Icelandic fishing town of Keflavik. In a country with next to no homicide, foul play...

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