The Unseen Podcast

On Sunday 17th December 1989, 38 year old Keith Burgess went to church to attend Mass in Clifton in Bristol. He worked as a railway steward for British Rail and was due on a shift later that afternoon. At 2pm the Bristol to London train departed however Keith was not on it. He had not turned up for his shift. It would later turn out that Keith had been murdered in his flat in a window of time only...

On the 20th June 1931, Hubert Chevis was enjoying an evening with his wife Frances at his home in Camberley, Surrey. The newly married couple had hosted a cocktail party and when their friends left sat down for their dinner. The cook had prepared a Manchurian partridge and Frances carved it putting some on her husband's plate and some on hers. Hubert ate some of the meat and complained that it tas...

On the 23rd July 1983 Diane and her husband Robert drove to the local pub in Coggeshall in Essex called the Woolpack. They had a drink and then travelled home. Diane got out of the car outside her house while Robert parked the car. When Robert went back to the house, Diane had disappeared. 9 days later he walked into the police station and reported his wife as a missing person. This case caused a...

It is our 100th episode this week and I have been taking listener suggestions for the case we should cover. The disappearance of Trevaline Evans has been suggested to me many times. On Saturday the 16th of June 1990, 52 year old Trevaline left her shop, Attic Antiques, in Llangollen and left a note in the window 'Be back in two minutes.' Sadly the shop never reopened and Trevaline has never been s...

There are currently 17 unidentified people whose bodies have been discovered in the area of Yorkshire in the North of England. Who are these people? Where have they come from? What are their stories? Important information provided by: https://missingpersons.police.uk/en-gb/home https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/mystery-man-whose-body-washed-16687791 More listening on the subject: Ep...

Margaret was waiting for her twin sister Ann to come around on Sunday 25th March 1973. They had plans to take their children to the beach that day. The time they had arranged came and went and Ann had not arrived. She knew something was wrong. When she went to Ann's house she was told by her husband Gilbert that she had simply left the house the night before and had not returned. She didn't even t...

On the 7th October 1977, Brenda Evans was on her way back from her lunch hour in the area of Poulton and Pulford in Cheshire. 17 year old Brenda had recently got engaged, bought a new house and found herself a new job. 1977 had been a very happy year for her. She was a reliable employee so when her boss realised she had not returned to work that afternoon he told her mother. A search party set out...

On January 12th 1920, Florence Nightingale Shore boarded a train to take her to the seaside resort of St Leonards in Hastings in Sussex. This was a journey many people took every day but today this one would be different. When the train pulled in at Bexhill a couple of hours later other passengers would realise Florence wasn't reading or sleeping, she was unconscious. She had been beaten around th...

On the 24th August 1991, a silver Vauxhall Nova GTE Saloon car was found by locals on a housing estate in Slough. The car attracted attention as the keys were left in the ignition, the sunroof was left open and it had not been seen on the estate before. The registration plate was ran by police and it was found to be registered to 21 year old Andrew Elphick who lived in the village of Normandy, Sur...

On the 2nd October 1988,  23 year old Laurence Winstanley had been working at his garage in Oldham, Greater Manchester. During his lunch break he popped into the local pub. While he was there he received a phone call which his friends say made him agitated. He returned to the pub that evening but this would be the last time anyone would see him alive. That night he disappeared. A year later Lauren...

A quick update on the episodes in the coming weeks!  To all my listeners have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! See you in 2020 :) 

In January 1953, aircraftsman Iain Hay Gordon was arrested on the charge of murdering 19 year old Patricia Curran close to her home in the village of Whiteabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Police were proud of their conviction and were glad that a brutal murderer was off the streets. Gordon was released quietly in 1960 and returned to Scotland. The communities in Northern Ireland continued t...

In the early hours of the 12th November 1953, Desmond Curran set out to look for his younger sister. She had not returned from university in Belfast, Northern ireland as she normally did and the family were concerned. As he set out into the grounds of their large home he had an awful shock. Lying in the undergrowth just short of their driveway was Patricia. She had been stabbed and it would later...

In the course of 6 months between 1983 and 1984, two taxi drivers were murdered in the same area of London and their cabs were abandoned in the same area. Stephen Sylvester and Pardeep Sangha were both brutally stabbed to death.  A year prior the murder of Gurcharn Singh Landa was committed in very similar circumstances in Nottingham. Were any of these unsolved murders connected?  Important inform...

On the 23rd March 1988 Deborah Linsley boarded a train headed for London Victoria. She had been visiting family in Bromley, South East London and was heading back up to Edinburgh where she worked as the head receptionist at a hotel. She boarded the train at 2:18pm and it pulled up to Victoria as planned at 2:50pm that afternoon. Staff went to check the train carriages for lost luggage but instead...

On the 13th July 1889, Edwin Rose was on holiday on the Isle of Arran in Scotland. He decided to climb the mountain of Goatfell as many other tourists were doing at the time. His trip appeared to be going as planned however when he did not return to London as scheduled on the 18th of July his brother and his friends became concerned. The police got involved in the search for the missing tourist an...

On the 4th October  1949, Stanley Setty disappeared from London with £1500 in his pocket and simply vanished. His car was in its usual parking space and Scotland Yard could find no indications as to where he might have gone. Stanley was a used car dealer and it was feared he may have been robbed. Just under 3 weeks later a discovery was made by a man at the local salt marshes called Dengie Flats....

On the 30th of September 1975, cowman Jock Stewart was walking just outside of the town of Ecchinswell in Hampshire. As he walked along he noticed something in an open drain behind a demolished cottage. As he got closer he noticed that it was a partially naked woman wrapped up in a bed blanket. The investigation began into who this woman was and due to her small features she became known as the Ec...

On the 6th June 1958, Harry Baker set out to visit his customers in the town of Bootle, just 3 miles from the city of Liverpool. He worked as a credit draper selling clothes door to door and collecting the money. He was reliable and punctual and was known as a kind man. After 1pm that day however he simply vanished. The investigation that followed was one of the largest the North West had ever see...

67 year old Jean Milne lived in a large mansion called Elmsgrove in Broughty Ferry, in the suburbs of Dundee, Scotland. Miss Milne was wealthy and loved to dine out at expensive restaurants. She also had quite an eccentric lifestyle living in what some people had labelled her 'Bleak House.' At the start of November 1912, the postman alerted police to the fact that her letterbox was full and he was...

On the 14th September 1954, 21 year old Jean Townsend was walking home from South Ruislip train station in Greater London. She was returning home from an evening out with her friends. She did not make it home. The next morning her body was found a piece of wasteland only a few streets away from the station. An investigation into her murder would uncover a number of other worrying incident in what...

On the 12th September 1907, Bertram Shaw returned home to find his mother waiting on his doorstep at St Pauls Road in Camden Town, London. She told him she couldn't get in and his common law wife Emily wasn't answering the door. Bertram forced the door open and when inside he found a horrible scene. Emily was in their bed and she had been murdered. An investigation ensued and a trial would happen...

On the 20th November MP for Walsall North ,John Stonehouse went for a swim on the beach close to the Fontainbleu Hotel in Miami, Florida. When he didn't return for an appointment, his business associate James Charlton went out to look for him but found only a pile of his clothes in a beach hut. The police, Scotland Yard and the FBI became involved in searching for him and a huge investigation was...

Foulness Island is located on the East Coast of Essex close to the seaside town of Southend On Sea. As the island only has around 150 residents, it is largely unknown to the average person however in 2014 it was thrust into the national headlines. This was due to a discovery that was made and the investigation that followed. Arrests and appeals would be made by the police in the years that have fo...

On the 29th September 1935, Susan Haines Johnson was walking over a bridge in Moffat, Dumfriesshire in Scotland. She noticed a parcel floating in the ravine. She was horrified to see that there was a human arm sticking out of it. When the ravine was examined, the police found a number of other parcels with body parts in. The investigation that was carried out would lead to other parts of the UK an...