Newlyweds Dean and Tina Linn Clouse and their baby disappeared only months after leaving Florida for Texas. Had they left voluntarily, like officers suggested? Or was something more sinister at play? For decades, their families searched for answers. Until the bodies of two unidentified victims were discovered in a swampy wooded area north of Houston, Texas. AND we highlight another solved cold case in the news! Let’s Mourn… CBS Interactive. (2025, April 22). Man convicted of murdering Connecticu...
Apr 25, 2025•22 min
Mami Matsuda disappeared from a pachinko parlor in Japan in 1990 sparking a decades-long mystery of murders and cover-ups. Without the critical investigative work done by Kiyoshi Shimizu the wrong man would be behind bars and the world would have long forgotten this case. Today, I bring you the story of the North Kanto Girls. Plus, a man tried to toss his wife off of a cliff in Hawaii!? Let’s Mourn… Bartos, M., & Bortz, S. (n.d.). Former UPMC doctor accused of trying to push his wife off Haw...
Apr 07, 2025•17 min
A small area within Glasgow dubbed “The Square Mile of Murder,” hosted four of Scotland’s most notorious murders. From poisonings to meat cleavers to human crocodiles, these city blocks have seen it all. However, one such case is still considered unsolved even though somebody was sentenced to hang for their “crimes.” Today, I bring you the murder of Jessie McPherson. Plus, an “Indiana Jones of the Art World” true crime extra! Let’s Mourn… CBS Interactive. (n.d.). “Indiana jones of the Art World”...
Mar 12, 2025•19 min
Nearly three decades ago in Dublin, a young woman was found murdered along a canal. Identified as a 21-year-old sex worker, authorities struggled to piece together what happened to her. Today, I bring you the unsolved murder of Sinead Kelly Plus, another cold case solved! Let’s Mourn… Breen, K. (n.d.). Murder suspect confesses to decades-old Florida cold case after DNA leads to arrest, Sheriff’s Office says . CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/murder-suspect-confesses-florida-cold-case-dna/ ...
Feb 27, 2025•18 min
Over a century ago, one of Montreal’s most powerful families, the Redpaths, suffered an unimaginable tragedy. The youngest son Clifford and his mother were murdered in June of 1901. Oddly, authorities were never called and the deceased were buried in record time. Some speculate that Clifford killed his mother before turning the weapon on himself, while others believe the opposite. However, I believe there is more to this story than meets the eye. Today, I bring you the Redpath Mansion Murders. P...
Feb 21, 2025•17 min•Ep. 131
Decades ago, the city with the most serial killers per capita was London…Ontario! In a mere 25 years, 29 people were murdered in the area, of which 16 remain unsolved. A minimum of three serial killers were identified, however, the true number may never be known. Today, I bring you Murder City. Plus another cold case has been solved! Let’s Mourn… Sources: Blanco, J. I. (n.d.). Christian Magee: Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Murderers . Christian Magee | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murdere...
Feb 01, 2025•20 min
24-year-old Aryndel Castro vanished under mysterious circumstances in the Fall of 2008. For nearly a decade his disappearance remained unsolved until one person caved and came forward with crucial information. Plus an update on Jack the Ripper!! What?! Let’s Mourn… Sources: CBS Interactive. (n.d.). Jack the Ripper victim’s relative demands new inquest after possible DNA breakthrough: “A form of justice.” CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jack-the-ripper-victim-relative-new-inquest-dna-evide...
Jan 15, 2025•15 min
49-year-old mother and grandmother Jannell Martensen disappeared in November 2023 after she left for a camping trip with her boyfriend Colton Russell. When she failed to show up for a holiday party, her family knew something terrible had occurred. But what they didn’t realize is that one death would lead to more. Plus an update on serial killer Herb Baumeister! Let’s Mourn… CBS Interactive. (n.d.). All of Indiana serial killer’s victims could be identified as renewed investigative push plays out...
Jan 08, 2025•23 min
As far as missing person cases go, Chance Englebert is not your typical victim. While on Holiday in Nebraska, the 25-year-old husband and father disappeared while on an evening walk. No one has ever seen or heard from him again. While the years have stretched on, not every lead has been exhausted. Plus an update on an assassination case! Let’s Mourn… Sources: Missing: Chance englebert: Terrytown, NE. Uncovered. (n.d.). https://uncovered.com/cases/chance-leslie-englebert New leads in the disappea...
Dec 16, 2024•18 min
A college sophomore at St. John’s in Minnesota, Joshua vanished without a trace after attending a card game in November of 2002. Not a single shred of evidence has ever been recovered, however, plenty of signs point in a certain direction. That direction? A religious community of monks who live and work on the college campus. A community home to 18-plus monks who have been accused and charged with sexual abuse since the 80s. Plus an update on a decades-old cold case! Let’s Mourn… CBS Interactive...
Nov 21, 2024•27 min
People don’t just disappear, right? A man with a 17-year-long commitment and steadfast routine suddenly vanished. Mark Ramin, a single 40-year-old, disappeared without a trace in the early 2000s. But why? What in Mark’s life led to this decades-long mystery? Let’s Mourn… Sources: Bierce, K. (2009, January 21). Still a mystery . Ithaca Times. https://www.ithaca.com/news/local_news/still-a-mystery/article_460bddfa-2a56-570b-9bff-bdd3923543a1.html CBS Interactive. (2024, September 12). Skeletal rem...
Nov 13, 2024•15 min
In terms of serial killers you’ve “never heard of,” this case may be the one. Dismembered body parts, hacked apart with saws, began appearing in Hanover, Germany during the 1970s. First, a torso, followed by a leg, and then arms and a thorax! The atrocities only kept coming. This “human puzzle” has confused investigators for nearly half a century. Sources: Breen, K. (n.d.). 3 charged in connection with One direction star Liam Payne’s death in Argentina . CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/li...
Nov 10, 2024•18 min
53 years ago the body of Theresa Rodger was found bound and bloodied atop a Brooklyn rooftop. According to the autopsy she was murdered in broad daylight, but not one record of an investigation exists. Police told her family that because she wasn’t sexually assaulted, a group of girls must be responsible! I find that hard to believe. Plus, a bit of positive true crime news! Let’s Mourn… Sources: (N.d.). https://m.facebook.com/Justice.for.the.Unforgettable/?profile_tab_item_selected=about Baker, ...
Oct 29, 2024•14 min
Sokrat Kirshveng, Bulgaria’s first serial killer, loved women almost as much as he hated them. Throughout the early 1900’s Sokrat lied, manipulated, and murdered women in a gruesome fashion. This is the story of The Adze Killer. Plus an update on the Delphi Murders and Abercrombie and Fitch! WHAT?! Let’s Mourn… Sources: R/serialkillers - Bulgaria’s serial killers: Sokrat Kirshveng “the killer with the adze.” (n.d.). https://www.reddit.com/r/serialkillers/comments/9mibm0/bulgarias_serial_killers_...
Oct 22, 2024•23 min
Nearly 65 years ago, Nancy Eagleson was abducted and killed only yards from her home in Spaulding, Ohio. The only witness–her 5-year-old sister. However, this wasn’t the first young girl to be attacked, or even killed, in that same area. The man who murdered her has evaded capture for decades. But, has he been aided in this escape? Let’s Mourn… 11 investigates: Former Paulding-area resident says alleged abuse by deputy could be clue in 1960 murder of Nancy Eagleson. (n.d.). https://www.wtol.com/...
Oct 16, 2024•15 min
In September of 1949, 11-year-old Joanne Ena Lynn was abducted while walking to school in Hemlock New York. Although her body was found days later, her case consumed investigators for years. Decades later a man emerged as her prime suspect after he was found guilty of similar crimes, but do investigators have enough to convict him? Let’s Mourn… CBS Interactive. (2024, October 8). Interpol seeking public’s help to identify women in 46 cold cases: “help uncover the truth.” CBS News. https://www.cb...
Oct 09, 2024•19 min
Nearly three decades have passed since Morgan Nick was abducted from a local Little League game. On June 9th, 1995, witnesses recall seeing a man next to a red pickup eyeing the six-year-old girl before she vanished forever. However, this morning October 1st, 2024, police have named an official suspect after 29 years without answers! Let’s Mourn… CBS Interactive. (n.d.). 81-year-old man sentenced to prison for cloning giant “montana mountain king” sheep for captive trophy hunting . CBS News. htt...
Oct 02, 2024•20 min
D’Lisa Kelley made a terrifying phone call to her sister before she was murdered. Police wouldn’t take Kelley’s family seriously and decided to ignore their pleas. Had they listened, D’Lisa may still be alive. Plus an update on a 70-year-old missing person case!! Let’s Mourn… Mothers share grief after sergeant’s indictment | wfaa.com. (n.d.-a). https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/mothers-share-grief-after-sergeants-indictment/287-498106216 Murdered: D’lisa Kelley: Dallas, TX . Uncovered. (n.d.). h...
Sep 25, 2024•24 min
MAJOR UPDATE in the missing persons case of Asha Degree!! Over twenty years ago Asha mysteriously up and left her bedroom late at night, telling no one. She was last seen wandering a nearby highway before disappearing forever. Decades later she remains missing, BUT, new DNA evidence and search warrants released this week may lead to solving her case, soon! Let’s Mourn… Johncox, C. (2024, September 16). Cleveland County Investigators think missing girl asha degree was killed, warrants reveal . ht...
Sep 18, 2024•23 min
I promise you haven’t heard of this German serial killer. Active for nearly two decades throughout the 50s and 60s, this murderer targeted young children and evidence points to hundreds of possible victims. After suffering a traumatic injury during childhood, Franz Josef Ludy spent his life torturing others. This is the story of serial killer Franz Josef Ludy. Let’s Mourn… Sources: Chibelushi, W. (2024, September 13). DR Congo coup attempt: Thirty-seven sentenced to death . BBC News. https://www...
Sep 15, 2024•15 min
In the late 1990s, a French-born man murdered multiple women. Often striking the unsuspecting victim from behind before further attacking them. He struck often and without warning–evading the police for years earning the nickname The Ghost of Kehl. After intense investigations, multiple trials, and more attacks, you’d never imagine where the Ghost is today. Plus an update on Marcel Brown!! Let’s Mourn… Blanco, J. I. (n.d.). Jacques Plumain: Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Murderers . Jacques Pl...
Sep 12, 2024•23 min
Over 100 years have passed since Tom Thomson’s puzzling death. The renowned Canadian painter had only just started his journey as an artist when tragedy struck. It came as quite a surprise when the lifelong woodsman and lover of the Canadian wilderness was found floating face down in a lake he once loved to paint. Locals say it was murder or possibly suicide, while authorities want to believe it’s an accident. Let’s Mourn… Sources: CBS Interactive. (2024, September 4). Missouri man arrested in 1...
Sep 09, 2024•20 min
When a man’s passion becomes an obsession, murder is never too far away. Maribel Ramos lovingly opened her home to a stranger, offering him a safe place to stay. Tragically, this stranger was not a decent man. He was a killer. Let’s Mourn… Sources: CBS Interactive. (2024, September 2). Man accused of holding woman captive in Poland for over 5 years, abusing her with “special cruelty.” CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/woman-captive-abused-5-years-poland-special-cruelty/ Flowers, A. (2023, J...
Sep 06, 2024•19 min
Whether you call them The Mineral Murders or The Tube Sock Killings , the deaths of 8 people consumed every person living in Washington. Between 1985 and 1987 four separate couples were hunted and killed by two or more murderers. Over the next 3 decades, investigators followed hundreds of clues–leading them to half of the answer. The question is, has the other half already been answered? Let’s Mourn… CBS Interactive. (n.d.). Killer eludes police for 31 years – how did one woman find him in two h...
Sep 03, 2024•24 min
In 1980 an unknown male murdered a young woman in her Washington condo. The only evidence left behind was a microscopic amount of the killer’s DNA. 44 years later investigators would get a match. THIS TUESDAY police arrested the man responsible for a decades-long cold case!! Let’s Mourn… Breen, K. (n.d.). 44 years after woman murdered in suburban Seattle, DNA on cigarette leads to suspect in Arkansas . CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dorothy-silzel-1980-murder-solved-dna-kenneth-kundert-a...
Aug 29, 2024•15 min
On a sunny August morning in 2001, Bruce Koklich dialed 911 to report his wife Jana missing. When investigators arrived they found blood in her bedroom and blood in her car, but no sign of Jana. To this day, 20 years later, her body has yet to be recovered. But, has her true killer been brought to justice? Let’s Mourn… Baker, K., & Acosta, N. (2024, August 7). Arrest made in killing of Detroit neurosurgeon who was shot, then dragged naked to Attic Crawlspace . Peoplemag. https://people.com/a...
Aug 10, 2024•19 min
Viciously attacked, mutilated, and murdered–Katie Janess never stood a chance of survival as she lay bleeding out in Piedmont Park. In the early morning hours of July 28th, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia Katie was stabbed over fifty times in the face, neck, and torso. Investigators say this aggression hints at a familiarity between victim and killer–yet three later, no arrests have been made. However, this hadn’t been the first brutal attack to occur in the same Atlanta park. Roughly fourteen years ea...
Jul 23, 2024•28 min
Lucas Shortreed, described as a giant, loving teddy bear by his family, was killed in a hit-and-run during a 2008 Oktoberfest celebration. For over a decade, Lucas’s case stumped investigators. Fourteen years after his death, in June of 2022, an anonymous tip broke this case wide open! Let’s Mourn… After a shocking court case, here’s how Lucas Shortreed’s family wants to remember him | CTV news. (n.d.-a). https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/after-a-shocking-court-case-here-s-how-lucas-shortreed-s-famil...
Jul 09, 2024•21 min•Ep. 107
Vermont, known for its impressive greenery and sweet maple syrup, holds a mysterious and sinister history. From the oddities of the Bennington Triangle to the countless unsolved vanishings, this small state captures terror of every kind. Roland and Mara Hanel–an idyllic retired couple residing in a handmade, mountaintop chalet–were brutally murdered in 1984. The FBI is certain they knew their killer…but who was it? Let’s Mourn… CBS Interactive. (2024, June 29). North Carolina Police Charge Mothe...
Jul 03, 2024•21 min
Melanie Ethier vanished without a trace from a remote Canadian town in September of 1996 while walking home alone. Investigators suspect foul play, however, in the twenty-five years since her disappearance, they have yet to make an arrest. Worse yet, her mother and the community genuinely believe they know who’s responsible for Melanie’s disappearance. Let’s Mourn… AP News. (2024, June 27). Giant sinkhole swallows the center of a soccer field built on top of a limestone mine. AP News. https://ap...
Jun 30, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 105
