The Unseen Podcast

The families of the missing are constantly trying to find out what happened to their loved ones and need the public's help to find out new information and to get their story out there. In today's bonus episode we are covering the stories of Leah Croucher and John Tossell who both went missing in 2019. Find all information relevant to their investigations below. Important information provided by: h...

On the 4th February 1975, one of Ivy Davies' neighbours entered her home in Holland Road in Westcliff-On-Sea. She had become concerned, along with some of Ivy's employees at the cafe she owned, that she had gone into work that day. As she entered the home her screams could be heard around the street. Ivy lay dead on the living room floor and the scene was bloody and violent. The police discovered...

Jaime Cheesman was 16 years old in 1993 when she decided to live her friend and her family in Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire. Jaime was from Wellingborough in Northamptonshire and travelled regularly between the two places to see her parents who she was close to. Jaime was due to see her parents on Saturday the 5th of November that year and had arranged this with them. Her parents however rece...

On Wednesday the 11th of July 1917, Eli Glasspool and his daughter Edith retraced the route usually taken by their daughter and sister Vera May Glasspool. She was working at a local estate called Longwood House in Owslebury, near Winchester in Hampshire. She regularly returned home a short distance away on her days off on Sundays and Tuesdays. That previous Tuesday however she did not arrive and h...

On Wednesday May 21st 1986, 72 year old Georgina, or Jean as she was known to her friends, did not turn up for her shift as a nurse in Broughton in Salford. She had retired 18 months previously but still had patients who she treated and visited regularly. When her boss could not get in touch with her, she went out to her home to find that the pane of her window was broken. The police were quickly...

On Monday 26th July 1993, Harry and Megan Tooze went about their usual day in the village of Llanharry in South Wales. The couple left their 10 acre farm called Ty Ar y Waun and carried out some errands; visiting the post office to get their pensions and going to the supermarket. Neighbours saw them return at about 11am. That afternoon neighbours heard their phone ringing in the house but nobody a...

On the 12th November 1989, locals in Rodborough near Stroud in Gloucestershire saw smoke billowing from a neighbouring cottage. They phoned the Fire Brigade who came out to the scene and sadly found the body of a woman in the wreckage. The surprising thing was that she had not died in the fire; she had been murdered before it had been started. What happened to Carmel Gamble and why? Important info...

Elizabeth Sutherland lived and grew up in the small Highland village of Culbokie in Scotland. She lived with her husband and two children just yards away from her childhood home and her parents. In 1984, she took her daughter to school and got on with some errands. When her daughter returned from school she found her mother on the floor of her bedroom. She had been stabbed multiple times. Elizabet...

On the 22nd August 1986, a cleaner entered the public toilets on Midsummer Common in the city of Cambridge. They discovered something shocking and horrific. A man's body lay on the floor of the toilets with both his trousers and one shoe missing. The police were able to establish that the man was 55 year old John Malthouse however the question was what had happened to him? Important information pr...

On Saturday the 10th September 1983, Janice Weston spent the day shopping, carrying out errands and working in the Notting Hill area of London. Janice was a successful solicitor and her friends described her as ambitious with a wide circle of friends. On Sunday the 11th September, a cyclist travelling along the A1 motorway near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire stopped at a lay-by on the side of the road...

18 year old Carol Lannen and 20 year old Elizabeth McCabe were both living in Dundee, Scotland during the 1970's. Tragically both women were murdered within 11 months of each other and their bodies were discovered just 150 yards away in Templeton Woods. The tragic murders of two young women caused panic and concern in the local area as questions of whether a serial killer could be on the loose cir...

Lillie Yolande Marie Rochaid was just 18 years old in 1906 and regularly travelled between her home in Dinard, France and her school in Rugby, Warwickshire in England. Princethorpe Priory was a religious school that Lillie had attended for most of her life. She was a seasoned train user and travelling between the two countries was not unusual for her. On the 18th January 1906, she was returning to...

Warren and Elizabeth Wheeler led a very quiet life in the hamlet of Boars Hill in Oxfordshire, just 10 minutes outside the city centre. Warren had spent most of his life working in the Navy as a stoker and as the 1970's came around the couple spent most of their time pottering around. They were now in their 70's and 80's and Elizabeth was suffering from arthritis which meant she spent most of the...

On Friday June 8th 1996, Melanie Hall went out with her boyfriend Phillip and two of their friends to a nightclub called Cadillacs in Bath. The night was like any other however Monday came around and Melanie did not turn up for her shift at the hospital where she worked with her Mum. Her car remained in the car park of the hospital but there was no sign of Melanie. The case hit headlines across th...

24 year old Rebecca Coriam was an adventurous young woman who loved to travel. In June 2010, she got a job working for Disney Cruise Lines after beating hundreds of other people at the interview. She went to work as part of the Youth Activities team and enjoyed her first contract on the ship which saw her travelling to the Bahamas. During her second contract travelling from Los Angeles to Mexico,...

In October 2016, Scottish Police got a phone call from a social worker telling them that there was a woman at risk and was potentially seriously unwell at a home in Inverkip, Scotland. The woman's named was Margaret Fleming. When the police attended the scene in the village they discovered a very strange situation but they did not find Margaret. Just two days later she was listed as a missing pers...

On the 7th December 2002, Debbie Remorozo went to work at Royal Oldham Hospital as a coronary care nurse as usual. She had moved from the Phillipines to Manchester just 2 years prior and was dedicated to her job, working hard to send money back home to her family. When she did not return to the hospital for her shift the next day her friends went to her flat and discovered a horrific sight. Import...

Arthur Brumhill was 76 years old and had officially retired however his love of animals was his passion. He worked part time at the local pet shop on Wellingborough Road in Northampton. He worked there for 11 years and was a well loved member of the community. On the 21st of January 1993, Arthur was brutally attacked and murdered in the shop. The investigation would span a number of years until as...

23 year old Maureen Mulcahy went to the local pub in Aberavon, Wales in February 1976 after a night out with friends. This wasn't unusual for Maureen who was a regular at the Green Meadow Pub. The next morning her body was found 600 metres away from the pub. She had been strangled. The investigation into her murder reminded the community that she was the 4th woman killed in the same way in the las...

On the 12th December 1945, a man walking along the foreshore of a beach in Aberdeen, Scotland came across something he wasn't expecting to see. There, lying amongst the boulders was a severed arm and hand. The police took only 4 hours to identify the remains however would spend much longer trying to figure out what happened to Betty Hadden. Important information provided by: https://www.findmypast...

On Sunday 15th June 1919, Mabel Greenwood was at home with her husband Harold and her children. She had not attended the normal Sunday church service which was unusual but she did not feel well that day and decided to stay at home. Her heath deteriorated throughout that Sunday and by 3:30am on Monday morning she sadly passed away. The events of that day would later be analysed intensely after the...

13 year old David Spencer and 11 year old Patrick Warren lived on the Chelmsley Wood housing estate in Solihull in the West Midlands. They were good friends who spent a lot of time together playing in the neighbourhood. On Boxing day 1996, the two boys were out playing the neighbourhood as usual and Patrick was excited to show off his new red Apollo laser bike he had received for Christmas. They w...

Fred Handford disappeared from his farm in New Mills, Derbyshire in 1976. There was no sign of foul play or a struggle. His beloved dogs had been left behind along with his distinctive flat cap. The police had no leads to go on. In 2011, a surprise confession would lead people to wonder what really happened to Fred Handford? Important information provided by: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IROfOj...

On the 12th September 1985, 66 year old Alexander 'Sandy' McClelland had been shopping in Brighouse, West Yorkshire with his stepson Brian and his wife Elizabeth. They returned to Brian and Elizabeth's house at 8:15pm and Sandy drove off to go around the corner to his own home. He returned 5 minutes later with some cigarettes that Brian had left in his car and then left once again. It was a routin...

On the 5th November 1961, 3 potholers were exploring the area of Brandy Cove on the Gower Peninsula in Wales. They entered a narrow mineshaft and found a skull, some bones and some jewellery hidden behind a rock. Little did they know that they had just discovered something that would unlock the 40 year old mystery of what happened to 26 year old Mamie Stuart. From a tumultuous marriage to a strang...