Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories

In 1979, a Seattle psychic who studied psychedelics went missing. Her brother suspected she’d been kidnapped by a cult, but other theories leaned toward the more mystical.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

By 1973, the Boston Strangler was behind bars — but the killing wasn't over. The notorious murderer became the victim of a jailhouse homicide that has yet to be solved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Between 1962 and 1964, Massachusetts was terrorized by a serial killer known as the Boston Strangler. Officers raced to discover his true identity and put an end to his murder spree. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As babysitters became horror movie tropes, the real-life terror didn't slow down. In 1981, 15-year-old babysitter Kelly Cook was murdered by a man who called himself "Bill Christensen." To this day, his true identity remains a mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1953, 15-year-old Evelyn Hartley left to babysit a neighbor's child – but she never came home. Following a trail of bloodstains and clothing scraps, police led a fruitless search for her killer. Today, some believe Evelyn might've been the victim of one of the most terrifying serial killers in American history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A 1950 crime in Missouri may have inspired the urban legend about the babysitter and the man upstairs. When the Romacks returned from a night out, they found their 13-year-old babysitter, Janett Christman, dead in their living room — and police had reason to believe it was an “inside job.”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a beachcomber discovered Starr’s body, it took two autopsies to determine foul play. Was Starr’s childhood abuser — and former mayor of Boston — behind her death? Did Starr decide to take her own life that night on the water, as some of her private letters suggested? Or did she get wrapped up with a notorious gangster in a blackmail scheme gone wrong? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

In 1931, the body of a young woman washed up on the shores of Long Island. Starr Faithfull had spent the Roaring Twenties chasing glamor, partying in speakeasies and sneaking aboard cruise ships. Her mysterious death became a tabloid sensation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After more than a decade of setbacks and hurdles, researcher Silvia Pettem was finally able to confirm Jane Doe's identity, and it happened in the most mysterious of ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1954, two college freshmen found the body of a young woman in a creek near Boulder, Colorado. Unable to identify her, police simply referred to her as Jane Doe. Over 50 years later, authorities were still unable to track down her name… or her killer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the coroner’s inquiry underway, damning evidence reveals the nature of Diana Yeates and Dr. Eric Hedberg’s relationship — but it’s not enough to secure a conviction. The police’s prime suspect walks away, leaving more than one mysterious death in his wake.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On an early September morning in 1960, surgeon Jim Yeates was found dead in the garage with a pool of blood around his head. The well-respected doctor had no known enemies, so police were left with few suspects. But when the coroner's report came in, a different cause of death was determined — and it would shift the entire investigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a...

Diamond didn’t make many friends as a bootlegger and racketeer. Anybody could have been responsible for his death… including the police themselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

During the 1920s and ‘30s, his rap sheet had everything from robbery, to bootlegging, to drugs. Jack “Legs” Diamond was wanted by law enforcement and wanted dead by other gangsters. After surviving four assassination attempts, he wouldn’t survive the fifth.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1908, a young domestic servant was found murdered in upstate New York. Almost a century later, Hazel Drew’s mysterious death — and secret double life — inspired David Lynch and Mark Frost’s “Twin Peaks” television series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When Peter Reilly became the main suspect in his mother’s murder, his Connecticut hometown rallied around him. Police pursued him relentlessly, but further investigation would reveal how little they actually knew about Barbara Gibbons’ death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On September 28th, 1973, 51-year-old Barbara Gibbons was discovered dead in her home by her teenage son. He reported her death to the police, but the police soon became convinced that he had killed his own mother. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As police find — and lose — leads in the Casanova card player’s murder investigation, a housekeeper hides evidence, a countess provides an alibi, and a business partner changes his story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The most famous bridge player in the world rubbed elbows with New York’s elite and tutored the likes of King Edward VII and Harold Vanderbilt before he was fatally shot in his Manhattan brownstone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When a fading porn star became desperate enough to help the Wonderland Gang steal from a Hollywood mogul, revenge and murder followed.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The trial of Edmund Pook ignited a groundswell of working class support for the murdered Jane Clousen. But police struggled to make a convincing case against Pook, spurring a mob to descend on Greenwich.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When a young British maid is found savagely beaten in 1871, police trace clues back to the wealthy family that employed her.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Decades of investigations yielded multiple confessions and a tangled picture of a deadly conspiracy, but the bomber responsible for the deaths of the Moores was never caught. Their daughter Evangeline worked to ensure their legacy would not be forgotten. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For nearly two decades, a Black couple in Florida took on some of the state’s most insidious civil rights violations. Leveraging the political power of the NAACP, Harry T. Moore advocated for fair elections, equal pay, and on behalf of the Groveland Boys in the notorious rape case. On Christmas Day 1951, the Moores were murdered after a bomb exploded under their house.  Learn more about your ad ch...

In 1971, a mangled body was found in a Ventura County creek. It belonged to Ronald Hughes, the unlikely criminal defense lawyer who represented members of the Manson family until his disappearance.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices