Weeknight Mysteries Podcast

In June 2016, 36 year old law clerk Joseph Balderas disappeared after setting out for a hike near Mile 44 on Alaska's remote Nome–Council Highway. His truck was found abandoned, extensive searches uncovered no trace of him. Police never named any suspects and Joseph's disappearance remains unsolved.  On the podcast, we discuss Joseph's final known movements, we also talk about his r...

Between 1987 and 1991, an unidentified offender known only as Mr Cruel terrorized Melbourne, Australia, carrying out a series of meticulously planned home invasions, child abductions, and assaults. Despite one of Australia's largest investigations, Mr Cruel has never been identified. On the podcast, we look at the evidence that Mr Cruel left behind, and take a closer look at several of the le...

On 18 March 2009, 35 year old chef Claudia Lawrence was last seen after finishing work and returning to her home in Heworth, York, England. She failed to report for work the following morning and has never been seen again. Despite many clues including CCTV footage, multiple arrests, and years of searches, Claudia's fate remains unknown. On the podcast, we discuss the many clues, sightings, ve...

On 26 January 1966, Jane (9), Arnna (7), and Grant Beaumont (4) were last seen at Glenelg Beach in Adelaide, South Australia. Multiple witnesses reported seeing the children in the company of an unidentified man described as being in his mid thirties with a sun tanned complexion. The children were later seen at nearby locations, including a local bakery, before they vanished without a trace. On th...

On 25 August 1973, 11 year old Joanne Ratcliffe and 4 year old Kirste Gordon vanished while attending a football match at Adelaide Oval in South Australia. Despite multiple witness sightings of the girls after they left their seats, including reports of them appearing distressed alongside an unidentified man, neither child was ever seen again. On the podcast, we talk about the multiple suspects in...

In June 2002, 14 year old Tina Lim disappeared after leaving her home in Singapore, on a short trip to visit her grandfather. She never arrived, and no confirmed sightings of her were ever made after she left. In 2003, the family received a series of disturbing phone calls during her grandfather’s funeral wake from a caller believed by relatives to be Tina. On the podcast we talk about the potenti...

In March 2024, 22 year old Jack O’Sullivan disappeared after leaving a house party in Bristol following a night out with friends. After an apparent disagreement at the party where Jack may have sustained a head injury he was seen on CCTV walking close to the Cumberland Basin area before vanished without a trace. Jack's phone showed activity several hours after he was last captured on CCTV, th...

On Easter Sunday in 2003, 27 year old Erika Ansermin vanished while travelling through the Italian Alps to meet her boyfriend for lunch. After returning movies to a Blockbuster and making one final phone call to her boyfriend, Erika disappeared and was never seen again. In this episode, we explore the theory that Erika may have jumped from a bridge near Avise and the possibility that Erika ran int...

16 year old Trenny Gibson Disappeared during a school trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on October 8, 1976. After separating from classmates on the trail back to the bus, she was last seen just 40 minutes before the group was meant to leave. Despite a massive search Trenny was never found, on the podcast we discuss suspicious details, and new theories about what may have happened tha...

15 year old Rebecca Reusch disappeared from her older sister’s home in Berlin, Germany, on the morning of February 18, 2019. She was last known to be inside the house with her brother in law, Florian, who later became the prime suspect in the investigation. While German police believe Rebecca never left the house alive, her family strongly disagrees and continues to defend Florian’s innocence. As...

18 year old Katelin Akens vanished on December 5, 2015, after being dropped off at her former stepfather’s home before a scheduled flight to Arizona. Although he claimed to have taken her to the airport, Katelin never checked in, and cell phone data later showed neither of them left the local area. Strange and inconsistent text messages were sent from her phone throughout the day, and her suitcase...

3 year old Sandy Davidson disappeared on April 23rd, 1976, while playing in the garden of his grandparents home in Irvine, Scotland. He was outside with his younger sister and their dog when the garden gate suddenly opened and the dog ran out. Sandy followed the dog and was never seen again. Witnesses later claimed they saw Sandy calmly walking away with a man, getting into a car—but no one raised...

50 year old maintenance man Dale Kerstetter disappeared on the night of September 12th, 1987 from his work post, he was guarding the Corning Glassworks plant in Bradford, PA. Dale showed up to his night shift as usual, however 10 minutes into his shift Dale was seen on CCTV talking with a masked intruder. 5 Minutes later Dale was captured by security cameras for the last time, he was looking direc...

30 years old Jessica Zrinski from NSW, Australia was last seen on the morning of November 29th, 2022, she was captured on CCTV footage in the passenger seat of a car driven by 40 year old man Paul Jones. The car had pulled up to a gas station in Mount Victoria, Paul Jones purchased strawberry milk and a donut, then they left. Later that same day, the vehicle was caught on a camera travelling westb...

29 year old Russell Marsom from a small town in Norfolk, UK drove to Cambridge for a night out on the 30th of March 1996. His body was found the next day laying in a ditch filled with water next to a highway right outside of Cambridge. Russell's t-shirt had been ripped and his jeans had been found hundreds of yards away into the forrest. Russell's arms were folded and it was reported tha...

A 30 year old phycologist from Brazil, Vitoria Barreto has vanished in a small coastal town in the UK during the night of March 3, 2026. Vitoria was reportedly acting strange during lunch with her friend, afterwards she took a bus to Brightlingsea, where she was captured on a door bell camera, standing around on the side of the road. Around 9 hours later, at 00:16am Vitoria climbed over the fence...

10 year old Amy Mihaljevic was adducted from Bay Square Shopping Center in Bay Village, Ohio on October 27, 1989. Amy was last seen with a man in the parking lot of the shopping center, we strongly suspect that this was Amy's killer. The unidentified man had convinced Amy to meet him in the shopping center after school so that they could pick out a gift for Amy's mother. Contact us at: ...

25 year old Mary Shinn was last seen on July 20th, 1978 as she was going to pick up a man who had called her about buying a house that Mary was trying to sell. Mary picked up this man close to E-Z Mart in Magnolia, Arkansas around noon and she was never seen again, Mary's car was found the same day, close to where she had picked up the unidentified man, most of her personal belongings were st...

26 year old Emma Fillipoff was last seen by 2 police officers close to the Empress hotel in Victoria, British Columbia in the evening of November 28, 2012. Police officers were assessing Emma's state, she had been reported acting strange multiple times that day. After 45 minutes of talking with Emma, police officers decided to let her walk away and Emma has not been seen since. Multiple peopl...

Lisa Irwin was a 10 month old baby when she went missing from her own home in Kansas City, Missouri on the night of October 3, 2011. Lisa's mother Deborah was the only adult in the house and she cannot fully remember that night due to her intoxication. It seems that 3 phones were also taken from the Irwin residence, one of them was used to make a 50 second phone call to a number at a nearby t...

22 year old Liam Toman went missing from Mont-Tremblant, Quebec in Canada on February 2, 2025. Liam was last seen walking towards his hotel after he was asked to leave a club in the Canadian ski resort. For some unexplained reason, Liam did not enter his hotel and walked behind it towards the road leading away from the resort where his wallet was found several months later. He never came back to h...

14 year old Ashley Summers disappeared in Cleveland Ohio in July of 2007, she was last seen leaving a pool party hosted by her relatives. Ashley was supposed to make the 10 minute walk to her Aunt, who lived nearby, but she never made it. Several interesting details came up in Ashley's case, such as the phone call that was made to her mother 1 month into her disappearance by someone claiming...

14 year old Laureen Rahn vanished from her own home sometime during the night on April 26th, 1980. She was last seen by a male friend of hers who remembers Laureen letting him out trough the backdoor and locking the door behind her. However when Laureen's mother came back home later that same night, she found the backdoor open and her daughter Laureen was missing, she has not been seen ever s...

21 year old Kortne Stouffer disappeared from Palmyra, PA in the early morning hours of July 29, 2012. She was last seen by her friend Cody Pruett, who was staying in with Kortne after a wild night out. Cody claims that he woke up and left Kortne's apartment before checking in on her as they were sleeping in separate bedrooms. Kortne was reported missing the next day and has never been seen ag...

Bill Dwayne Shipley was a 47 year old contract painter who was last seen in Goldsby, Oklahoma, on July 19, 2011. The final confirmed sighting of Bill was captured on a Sonic Drive In surveillance camera, which showed him picking up an order alongside an unidentified passenger. Nearly a month later, Bill’s family went to check on his home and found it in disarray. The front door was unlocked, and b...