Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast

There has been another major update in the story of Toyah Cordingley (episode #169 from 2021). After a trial earlier this year ended in a mistrial, the case against Rajwinder Singh was sent back to the Cairns Supreme Court. In November 2025, a four-week trial began to decide his fate... Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan If you would like to support this podcast and others...

"If Jeffrey was the enigma, she was the translator." On the morning of 5 November 1991, a body was found floating in the Atlantic near the Canary Islands. It was Robert Maxwell, one of Britain's most famous and controversial businessman. Hours earlier he had vanished from his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine , anchored off the Spanish coast. His death immediately became front-page news in the UK and acro...

"He stood out as this young guy in this weird coat." In 1991, business magnate Leslie Wexner signed a general power of attorney that gave Jeffrey Epstein authority to act on his behalf in nearly all matters of business and finance. The document allowed Epstein, a young financial consultant that Wexner had just met a few years prior, to sign checks, open and close bank accounts, buy and sell proper...

"No fiction author would have had the temerity to invent a disorder of such incredible clinical diversity and puzzling behavior." In the winter of 1916-1917, as World War I raged, physicians in Europe began noticing bizarre cases of brain illness. Thousands arrived at hospitals with high fevers, headaches, confusion, and a host of other factors - suspected at first to be meningitis or even poisoni...

"The slaying of the entire family promises to become a mystery which will take much time to unravel..." By the first anniversary of the Villisca murders, the Moore house stood shuttered. The local sheriff had nothing new to add to the case file. Evidence had spoiled, witnesses had drifted, and rumor had begun to harden into folklore. In the years that would follow, several suspects would be presen...

"Call the marshal. Tell him to come quick. There's something awful in there." On the morning of 10 June 1912, Mary Peckham stepped out her back door to hang her laundry. Her house stood next to the Moore family's home in Villisca, Iowa; close enough that she could usually hear the soft chaos of their mornings. The Moores were early risers, and their routine rarely varied. That morning, though, the...

On this special episode of Unresolved, Micheal is joined by bestselling author and CNN lead anchor Jake Tapper to discuss his new book, Race Against Terror , a nonfiction thriller that begins on a crowded refugee ship in the Mediterranean and ends in a courtroom in Brooklyn. The book revolves around Ibrahim Sulieman Adnan Harun, also known as Spin Ghul ("The White Rose"), an al-Qaeda jihadist who...

"We just want our daughter's remains returned so we can have some closure to our grief." On 15 August 2015, employees at the Mission Park Funeral Chapels North in San Antonio, TX closed up for the evening. They'd just held a service for a young woman named Julie Mott who had perished after a lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis. By 4:30 PM that Saturday, the doors were locked and the ADT alarm sys...

There has been an update in the Austin Yogurt Shop Murders (episodes #133 - #135 from 2020). In September 2025, authorities announced that they had identified a suspect in the 1991 murders of four teenage girls in Austin, Texas... If you would like to support this podcast and others, consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod  to become a Patron or Producer Become a supporter of thi...

"State officials have probably noticed an increase as well as an unusual distribution of Medfly infestation in Los Angeles County since March 1989. This was no coincidence." The Mediterranean fruit fly, better known as the medfly, is about as unassuming as an insect can get. But the pest, native to sub-Saharan Africa, comes with enormous stakes. The medfly can infest more than 200 plant species, p...

"It was clearly part of our investigation that she was killed prior to the fire, and the fire was used to cover up her murder." On the morning of 20 October 2016, firefighters were called to a quiet suburban neighborhood in Lockport, New York. There, they found a small fire burning in the front bedroom of a duplex, which was easily quelled. However, amidst the charred linens was the body of the ho...

"Serial killers in the past have often been found to have started with animal torture." In October 2017, the mutilated body of a cat was found in a rural area outside of Olympia, Washington. At the time, people tried to explain it away. Maybe it was a car. Maybe coyotes. Nobody wanted to consider the alternative. But as winter turned into 2018, more fragments turned up. Severed limbs in a field ou...

“... to date, there are no confirmed reports of any clowns actually abducting, harming, or killing kids… There just aren’t. There are zero.” Do you remember when there were a bunch of clown sightings a few years back? It seemed like every week brought new reports of creepy clowns lurking at the edge of woods, roaming neighborhoods, and leering from parking lots. They waved at startled onlookers, c...

There has been an update in the GirlsDoPorn story (episode #156 from 2020). In June 2025, Michael James Pratt pleaded guilty to sex trafficking charges. This follows guilty pleas from the rest of the conspirators linked to the site that was shut down by federal authorities in 2019... If you would like to support this podcast and others, consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod  to...

There has been an update in the University of Idaho murder case (episode #226 from 2022). Following his admission of guilt, Bryan Kohberger has been sentenced to four life sentences for the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalvez, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin... If you would like to support this podcast and others, consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod  to become a Patron...

“On this day we should only remember his many victims and all of their families... As far as Hansen is concerned, this world is better without him.”  In August 2014, 75-year-old Robert Hansen took his last breath at a hospital in Anchorage, Alaska. The notorious serial killer spent his final decades alive incarcerated, first in Pennsylvania and then in Alaska, saying little of importance to anyone...

"You can't r*** a prostitute, can you?" In the Fall of 1983, Robert Hansen was arrested after the daring escape of 17-year-old Cindy Paulson. With Paulson’s testimony and an FBI profile pointing squarely at Hansen, Alaska State Troopers obtained a warrant and uncovered damning evidence in Hansen’s home. There, they found a hunting rifle linked to multiple murders, jewelry and other belongings from...

There has been an update in the University of Idaho murder case (episode #226 from 2022). In July 2025, Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalvez, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. While final sentencing won't take place until later this month, he is expected to spend the rest of his life behind bars... Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whel...

There has been an update in the story of Crystal Rogers (episode #8 from 2016 as well as episode #88 from 2019). In July 2025, ten years after she went missing, three men were convicted of conspiring to kill Crystal Rogers. One of the men convicted was none other than Brooks Houck, Crystal's boyfriend at the time of her disappearance and father of her youngest child... Researched, written, hosted,...

"Guys, I've got a map here... with a lot of X's." Just after 5:00 AM on 13 June 1983, police in Anchorage, Alaska arrive at a seedy motor inn on Gambell Street. Inside room 110 is a young girl huddled on the bed, barefoot, shivering, and still wearing a pair of handcuffs. Her name is Cindy Paulson, and minutes earlier she had made a run for her life. Through Cindy's extraordinary account, police l...

"Workers and drug dealers and dancers came and went, many with few ties to the state and no one to notice if they went missing..." In the early 1980s, a quiet pattern had begun to form: women were disappearing in the region surrounding Anchorage. Many had come to Alaska in order to escape their problems or to otherwise have a fresh start in the "Last Frontier." But amidst a transient population, t...

"Miss, you’d better look at that note. I have a bomb." In November 1971, a man in a suit boarded a flight from Portland to Seattle, calmly handed a note to a flight attendant, and claimed he had a bomb. He demanded $200,000 in cash, four parachutes, and a fuel truck on standby. Hours later, somewhere over the dense forests of the Pacific Northwest, he opened the rear stairway of the plane and vani...

"I don't believe in any nonsense... but I'll keep an open mind. Out here, who knows?" In July of 1970, an Athena RTV rocket was launched from Green River, Utah. Containing the radioactive element cobalt-57, the rocket was supposed to arc harmlessly down in White Sands, New Mexico. But instead it went rogue, streaking south over the Mexican border to a desolate area near the Durango-Chihuahua state...

"We have no idea how many other victims are out there, past and present." In April 2013, relatives of 53-year-old Laura Howard began to grow concerned. She wasn't responding to any phone calls, and the tone of her text messages changed. It felt as if someone else was texting with her phone. She'd even failed to pick up her son from the airport and wasn't responding to any of her neighbors' knocks...

"I believe it was a very personal, deliberate thing." On 16 November 1987, the three-member Dardeen family returned to their rural home in Ina, Illinois after a weekend away. As Thanksgiving approached, 30-year-old Elaine, 29-year-old Keith, and 3-year-old Peter spent two days visiting with Elaine's family in nearby Albion. Elaine, nearing the end of her second pregnancy, expected to give birth to...