The Missing and Unexplained Podcast

Derek Ritz, also known as Ritzy, disappeared at the age of 51. He was last seen at 3 a.m. on Dec. 31 at a home on Avonton Road in Sebringville, Ontario. The police investigation into Ritz's disappearance is ongoing, and no official conclusion has been reached. However, a private investigator from Please Bring Me Home, a Canadian organization, is actively working on the case. This investigator, who...

James Hunter, 54, has been missing in Central West New South Wales for four years. He was last seen in Dubbo in February 2020, and his blue 2005 Toyota Hilux was found in Mendooran in March 2022. His family, friends, and the police are appealing for any information about his disappearance. A company called Working Drones Australia has taken tens of thousands of images of an area where they think J...

54-year-old James Hunter has been missing for four years, vanishing in the Central West of New South Wales. James is described as Caucasian, about 175cm tall, with brown hair and eyes and a medium build. James is the son of famous award-winning Australian actor Bill Hunter, who died in 2011. Bill has been in movies like Gallipoli, Murie's Wedding, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,...

On this week's show, I attempt to shed some further light on the case of Camille Dotson, a woman who disappeared in Las Vegas in September of 1994. Camille was 30 years old at the time of her disappearance and is described as a white woman with hazel/brown eyes and brown hair, which she sometimes lightened. She stood at 5'7" and had a tattoo on her hip that reads "Cruz." Camille weighed between 12...

Camille Dotson went missing in Las Vegas in September of 1994. She was 30 years old at the time. Camille is described as a white woman with hazel/brown eyes and brown hair, which she sometimes lightened. She stood at 5'7" and had a tattoo on her hip that reads "Cruz." Camille weighed between 125-145 lbs and had an athletic build. She had a recently broken nose and slightly discoloured teeth, and s...

Jennifer and Adrianna Wix were last seen on March 25, 2004, at the Benton residence, Jennifer's boyfriend's family's house, in Springfield, Tennessee. On that day, Jennifer's father, Michael Wix, spoke with Jennifer on the phone, making him the last relative to have contact with her. Joey Benton, Jennifer's boyfriend at the time, and his parents, Joe and Cindy Benton, are allegedly the last known...

Jennifer and Adrianna Wix were last seen on March 25, 2004, at the Benton residence, Jennifer's boyfriend's family's house, in Springfield, Tennessee. On that day, Jennifer's father, Michael Wix, spoke with Jennifer on the phone, making him the last relative to have contact with her. Joey Benton, Jennifer's boyfriend at the time, and his parents, Joe and Cindy Benton, are allegedly the last known...

This week, I have a baffling case for you. The last time Natalie saw her sister, Katherine Berry, was when she was only a few months old. When Natalie became a teenager, she was told that Katherine was missing, and her heart was shattered.  Natalie has dedicated many years to searching, praying, and thinking about Katherine. In December 2022, she discovered that a missing person's report was...

Today's show focuses on the missing person, Ian Indridson. Ian is a 56-year-old Caucasian man who is five feet, eleven inches tall and has a slim build. He has salt-and-pepper hair, short at the time of his disappearance. On January 10, 2022, Ian disappeared in the Fairfield area of Victoria. At that time, he wore a dark-coloured Eddie Bauer sweater, sweatpants and rubber boots. I worked brie...

Today, I have a very special guest: Amanda Knox. For those of you who don't know Amanda, she is an exoneree, journalist, public speaker, and author of the best-selling memoir, "Waiting to Be Heard."   Between 2007 and 2015, Amanda spent nearly four years in an Italian prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn't commit. The controversy over Amanda's case made international headline...

I have a very intriguing episode for you this week; I interviewed Dr. Rachael Hanel about Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). Rachael is a former newspaper reporter and copy editor and teaches Creative Writing at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She is the author of more than 20 nonfiction books for children. Her first adult book is "We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: M...

On October 22, 2013, Dean Kelly Morrison disappeared after leaving his job as a painter at the 2600-hectare Stump Lake Ranch between Merritt and Kamloops. He is a 44-year-old father of three who had been living in a trailer on the ranch's property. Despite extensive search efforts, Morrison's disappearance remains a mystery to his family. It's alleged that on the day he was let go, he had an alter...

Today, on the show, I have Canadian author Tim Marczenko. Tim has written two books, "Disembodied Voices: True Accounts of Hidden Beings" and "Gone Cold: Death and Disappearances in the Northwoods." I wanted Tim on the show to talk about his latter book, "Gone Cold," which looks at cold, missing person cases in my home province, Ontario. Tim's book is incredibly gripping and exhaustively researche...

Happy New Year! I wanted to start 2024 with a mystery I have always been fascinated with. In December of 1900, in the Flannan Islands on Eilean Mor, three lighthouse keepers, James Ducat, Thomas Marshall, and Donald MacArthur, vanished in stormy weather and without a trace off the remote northwest coast of Scotland. Theories range that the men perished due to supernatural forces, inhabiting the Is...

51-year-old Patricia Duncan, a mother of seven, went missing from Buckie, a coastal Scottish town, sometime on November 16, 2002. It’s reported she walked out of her home into the cold and rain with her cigarettes and brown sheepskin jacket. It’s believed she was also wearing black pants and black shoes. Patricia is approximately 5’4 in height, with a slim build and fair complexion. Her family say...

I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of Laurah Norton's new book: "Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless." Laurah, also the host of The Fall Line and One Strange Thing Podcasts, has written a riveting book about how investigators, experts, and forensic scientists identify Jane or John Doe Cases. In her book, she focuses on one case in particu...

Natana (or Tana) Lynn Thomas went missing sometime in 1978, maybe in the summer, somewhere in Alaska or British Columbia. Natana and her husband, Mike Staso, who was stationed in the Army in Bremerton, Washington, went to Alaska to visit Mike's family. She told the family that on the way home to Tacoma, Washington, they would stop in B.C. and other places to do some sightseeing. Natana, who is Ind...

Danielle Sleeper has been Missing from Magnolia, Texas, since March 22, 2015. She was last seen at a barbecue in a trailer she attended with her son and husband, whom she invited later into the evening. At some point, her husband wanted her to leave, but Danielle wanted to stay and stay over with their friends. An argument broke out, and Danielle acquiesced in going with her husband. She left her...

16-year-old Damien Nettles went missing on a cold, rainy night on November 2, 1996, in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, an Island just off the southern coast of England. His movements were well documented by CCTV camera footage up to midnight on November 2. That night, Damien had gone to a party with a friend. Later that evening, Damien and his friend left the party early and headed over to West Cowes,...

Today, I have a very unique episode for you. I saw a post on a cold case Facebook page that intrigued me. Angie has been searching for her mother, Connie Johnson, for decades. Angie was given up for adoption at a young age and only recently, after exhaustive genealogical research, pieced together that her mother might be missing. Angie has spent years doing ancestral research, tracking down her bi...

Patricia Marie Small went missing near Liberty, Texas, on May 11, 2002. The circumstances surrounding her disappearance are murky, but likely, she was last seen around the 2400 block of Beaumont Avenue in Liberty, Texas. It's unclear whether she was abducted or left of her own volition. Patricia was 18 at the time. She's a white female who is approximately 5'6 and weighs around 110 pounds. She has...

CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNING: The following episode may contain references to drugs, abuse, and assault. Patricia Marie Small went missing near Liberty, Texas, on May 11, 2002. The circumstances surrounding her disappearance are murky, but likely, she was last seen around the 2400 block of Beaumont Avenue in Liberty, Texas. It's unclear whether she was abducted or left of her own volition. Patricia was...

A couple of years ago, I did a series on Kris Fowler, who went missing hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 2016. One of the interviews I did right before the series came out was with former Park Ranger Andrea Lankford, who wrote the bestseller "Ranger Confidential." At the time, Andrea alluded to me that she was researching another book about missing persons on the PCT. Well, Andrea's latest book, "...

Michael Bryson went missing from a campground near Dorena, Oregon, on Aug. 5, 2020, during a party. He was 27 at the time. It's reported that Michael wandered away from the campsite sometime around 4:30 a.m. Some report he was upset when he left, although it's unclear why. He was last seen by his parents, Tina and Parrish, on Aug. 3, 2020, when he stopped by their house before heading to the party...

Twenty-eight-year-old Bernard "Bernie" Grempel went missing on May 14, 2021. That evening he took the SkyTrain from Surrey to New Westminster before boarding the 340 bus to North Delta around 11 p.m. No one has ever determined if he got off the bus or where. He's 30 years old, 6' tall, and has a slim build, curly brown hair and brown eyes. I talked to his older sister Ettie Shurack who is searchin...