This is an update for episodes #39-41, which covered the 1990 disappearance of twin sisters Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook. The sisters, who lived in Augusta, Georgia, have been missing for almost three decades, and a recent TV special indicated that their father, John Millbrook, might know more about their disappearance than he's let on... Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan This is Day #11 of my new holiday-themed series, the 12 Days of Updates. Tomorrow will wrap up ...
Dec 26, 2019•8 min
This is an update for episode #42, which detailed the disappearance and death of 9-year-old Tiffany Nelson from Augusta, Georgia. Tiffany disappeared in June of 1994 and her remains wouldn't be found until 2005, but her case continues to be looked at... Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan This is Day #10 of my new holiday-themed series, the 12 Days of Updates. Over the next couple of days, I'll continue catching up on some stories I've previously covered and detail what w...
Dec 25, 2019•5 min
This is an update for episode #62 of the podcast, which covered the life and mysterious death of 39-year-old Andrya DeGhelder. Andrya - a divorcee that was living in Grovetown, Georgia - went missing in July of 2018, and her body was found about a week later. Police remain convinced that her neighbor, 55-year-old Christopher Gibson, was involved in her death, but charges have yet to be filed... Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan This is Day #9 of my new holiday-themed se...
Dec 24, 2019•8 min
This is an update for episode #94, which detailed the murders of LaQuetta Gunther, Julie Green, Iwana Patton, and Stacey Gage. In the months since my coverage, Florida officials have announced the arrest of a suspect, Robert Tyrone Hayes, who was linked to at least 3/4 of the murders with genetic testing... Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan This is Day #8 of my new holiday-themed series, the 12 Days of Updates. Over the next few days, I'll be catching up on some stories...
Dec 23, 2019•26 min
This is an update for episode #37 of the podcast, which covered the grisly murders of Danny and Kathy Freeman, as well as the related disappearances of their teenage daughter, Ashley, and her friend, Lauria Bible. I brought you an update in this case back in April of 2018, but the trial for the case's only living suspect, Ronnie James Busick, is now finally set to begin in February of 2020. Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan This is Day #7 of my new holiday-themed series...
Dec 22, 2019•9 min
This is an update for episode #54, which detailed the life and death of 53-year-old Oakey "Al" Kite, a Colorado man who was tortured and murdered in his own house. I speculated about Al's potential killer, but a recent television program has breathed new life into the investigation... and might provide some answers in the near-future. Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan This is Day #6 of my new holiday-themed series, the 12 Days of Updates. Over the next two weeks, I'll b...
Dec 21, 2019•6 min
This is an update for episode #105, which covered the tragic story of 18-year-old Brittany Phillips, whose body was found in her Tulsa, Oklahoma-apartment more than 15 years ago. In my original episode, I remained hopeful that DNA testing might provide answers for the 2004 murder, but now that no longer looks to be the case. Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan This is Day #5 of my new holiday-themed series, the 12 Days of Updates. Over the next two weeks, I'll be catching...
Dec 20, 2019•6 min
This is an update for episode #21, which detailed the 2014 disappearance of an Army veteran. 26-year-old Chase Massner went missing in March of that year, and the last person to have seen Chase has since been arrested and charged. Now, that case has reached a resolution, and Chase been been laid to rest. Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan This is Day #4 of my new holiday-themed series, the 12 Days of Updates. Over the next two weeks, I'll be catching up on some stories I...
Dec 19, 2019•10 min
This is an update for episode #80, which detailed the tragically misguided investigation into the death of 19-year-old Carina Saunders. The remains of Saunders, an Oklahoma native, were found in a wooded area just outside of Oklahoma City, and her grisly death remains a mystery to this day. Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan This is Day #3 of my new holiday-themed series, the 12 Days of Updates. Over the next two weeks, I'll be catching up on some stories I've previously...
Dec 18, 2019•9 min
This is an update for episode #93 of the podcast, which was centered around intelligence contractor Robert Levinson. Levinson, who disappeared while visiting Iran's Kish Island, has become the longest-held captive in American history; and his story has once again become the focus of international relations. Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan This is Day #2 of my new holiday-themed series, the 12 Days of Updates. Over the next two weeks, I'll be catching up on some storie...
Dec 17, 2019•10 min
This is an update for episode #96 of the podcast, Quadriga, which was originally published in April of 2019. I cover what we've learned in the months since, and discuss the current petition to have Quadriga founder Gerald Cotten's remains exhumed. Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan This is Day #1 of my new holiday-themed series, the 12 Days of Updates. Over the next two weeks, I'll be catching up on some stories I've previously covered and detail what we've learned in th...
Dec 16, 2019•13 min
In the summer of 2016, a police shooting would spark protests all across America. Philando Divall Castile was a 32-year-old African American man that lived in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. A model citizen, Philando also had a concealed carry permit, which legally allowed him to carry a handgun. On July 6th, Philando was pulled over while driving by St. Anthony Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez, who believed that Philando matched the description of a local robbery suspect. Despite being well-documented ...
Dec 08, 2019•1 hr 41 min
17 years ago, two lives were lost in a tragic holiday shooting in Tacoma, Washington. On November 28th, 2002, the paths of 19-year-old Kimberly Riley and 5-year-old Jeremy Britt-Bayinthavong would converge at a house in Tacoma's South End. Jeremy was the grandson of the homeowners, who were hosting a large Thanksgiving party, while Kimberly (an out-of-state student attending the University of Washington) was a family friend. As the evening began to die down, a shooter would open fire into the ho...
Nov 28, 2019•22 min
In 2008, an unknown gunman would commit one of the few unsolved mass shootings in U.S. history. February 2nd of that year was a cold and blustery day in the region of Tinley Park, Illinois. That morning, two Lane Bryant employees and four customers would be taken captive by an armed gunman just after the store opened. The gunman, who posed as a delivery man, would loiter in the store for upwards of 40 minutes, before shooting the six female hostages and making off with a little more than $200. D...
Nov 24, 2019•46 min
The disappearance of a child would kick off one of Australia's most scandalous chapters. On June 14th, 1997, Greg Domaszewicz offered to babysit for his girlfriend, Bilynda Murphy. He drove off with her 14-month-old son Jaidyn that afternoon, promising to drop off the boy with a babysitter later in the evening. However, Jaidyn would never be seen by another living soul again. Whatever happened during that fateful day would lead to the disappearance of poor Jaidyn, whose body wouldn't be discover...
Nov 17, 2019•1 hr
On the morning of September 23rd, 2012, officials were dispatched to a patch of woods in northern Georgia to find a lost hunter. 35-year-old Jeffrey "Pooh" Gebhardt had gotten lost while out on a hunting trip with his friend. Both had attempted to call authorities to seek help for Jeffrey that Saturday, but it wasn't until the early morning hours of Sunday that he was finally found. When his remains were found in a clearing, it became clear that Jeffrey had endured a violent and mysterious death...
Nov 10, 2019•20 min
This is a brief preview for the seventh episode in my new series, Resolved, which is available now on Patreon. To learn more about this series - and how you can listen - consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod This episode can be found at the following link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31335127 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved--3266604/support ....
Nov 05, 2019•15 min
A mysterious death at the South Pole would spark a nearly decade-long international investigation. Rodney Marks was a 32-year-old astrophysicist, who worked at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. There, he had been working on a project to help map the stars, and not only did he take great pride and enjoyment in his work, but he also enjoyed the isolated culture down at the South Pole - where he would live for months at a time. On May 11th, 2000, Rodney began to complain of illness. Over the n...
Nov 03, 2019•50 min
In April of 1981, a violent crime would tear apart a quiet town in northern California. Keddie is a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains, located roughly halfway between Redding and Reno. Originally established as a stop along the railroad, the area was in the middle of a total transition when the Sharp family moved there in the latter half of 1980. On the morning of April 11th, 1981, 14-year-old Sheila Sharp was returning from a neighbor's house following a sleepover. That was when she dis...
Oct 27, 2019•1 hr 5 min
In the early morning hours of November 25th, 2010, the bodies of two teenage girls would be found in an abandoned lot in Augusta, Georgia. 19-year-old Angela Brooks and 17-year-old Nancy Cushman had become fast friends, growing incredibly close through 2010. While they both lived a few miles north (up in South Carolina), they had close ties to Augusta and its surrounding area. The discovery of the teenage girls' bodies early on Thanksgiving morning prompted a widespread canvas and high-profile i...
Oct 20, 2019•35 min
Through the latter half of the 1830's, an urban legend began to take shape on the rooftops and in the foggy alleyways of London. First came rumors of an entity named "Steel Jack," who assaulted people (primarily women) in the dark of night. Over time, though, the rumors began to evolve, with the shadowy figure assaulting men and women alike throughout all of England, and engaging in physical feats deemed inhuman. Decades later, the myth of "Spring-Heeled Jack" continued to live on, with the enti...
Oct 13, 2019•32 min
The enigmatic Shadow Brokers, who seemingly disappeared in January of 2017, would break their silence just three months later. Following the destruction of a Syrian airbase in April 2017, the Shadow Brokers returned to continue their campaign of cyber-terror. They lashed out at President Trump (and others) in deranged posts online, and began to leak more exploits and tools allegedly stolen from the NSA's most secretive units. This time, however, the intelligence they leaked would go on to have d...
Oct 06, 2019•47 min
This is a brief preview for the sixth episode in my new series, Resolved, which is available now on Patreon. To learn more about this series - and how you can listen - consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod This episode can be found at the following link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/30473155 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved--3266604/support ....
Oct 03, 2019•6 min
In August of 2016, a mysterious hacker collective began releasing files and folders stolen directly from the NSA. Many of the programs this person or group released appeared to be legitimate cyber-weapons, which had been developed by U.S. intelligence. Despite the audaciousness of their posts - which became more immature and unhinged as time went on - the files they released seemed to have come directly from an NSA server. A leak of this magnitude had never been seen before, and the cyber-intel ...
Sep 29, 2019•44 min
Between 2005 and 2007, a serial killer targeted sex workers in the Daytona Beach region. Laquetta Gunther, Julie Green, and Iwana Patton all fell prey to this killer in successive months, and roughly two years later, the remains of Stacey Gage were found in nearly-identical circumstances. Now, police believe that they have the killer in-custody, who has been linked to the case through DNA testing. For more information about the original episode, please head to: https://unresolved.me/the-daytona-...
Sep 16, 2019•30 min
In the decade since eleven bodies were found in Albuquerque, a task force has worked to identify the mysterious West Mesa Bone Collector. The 118th Street Task Force is a combination of officers from Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, and the FBI. Together, they have worked exhaustively to identify and apprehend the unknown killer of eleven women, who murdered and buried them over a roughly two-year period between 2003 and 2005. Over the past ten years, detectives have thoroughly investigated numer...
Sep 15, 2019•1 hr 1 min
Through 2009, police would continue to unearth a mass grave along the western edge of Albuquerque. Following the discovery of eleven female bodies, investigators set out to identify the remains. The first four victims - Victoria Chavez, Michelle Valdez, Cinnamon Elks, and Julie Nieto - would be identified within the first month or so. They were all young women that had lived in the region and had gone missing between 2004 and 2005 (who had prior histories of sex work and drug use). However, the ...
Sep 08, 2019•54 min
On February 2nd, 2009, a woman walking her dog would stumble upon the largest crime scene in Albuquerque history. In the years prior, this once-desolate corner of ABQ had been ground zero for rapid expansion. Housing developments had been popping up left and right, but the 2008 recession caused a vast amount of land to remain undeveloped: in particular, a roughly 100-acre lot located just west of 118th Street. While out on an evening stroll, a woman's dog would unearth a human bone. Before long,...
Sep 01, 2019•37 min
In July of 1974, a young college student from Memphis State University was sentenced to 40 years in state prison for his involvement in an illegal narcotics ring. Larry Chism was a bright, unassuming young man who was nearing his graduation from law school when he was arrested and thrown into prison... a sentence that many assumed would consume a large chunk of his life. However, Larry had other plans. This sentence was merely a setback for him. Between September and December of 1978, Larry woul...
Aug 18, 2019•43 min
On the morning of July 28th, 1984, Judy Weichert set off on a jog, unaware that it would be her last. Judy, a 33-year-old Oklahoma native, had been married to her husband for less than a year. The two were happy together, and seemed to have built a nice life for themselves in OKC. However, on this random Saturday morning, it would all fall apart. While out on her jog, Judy would be attacked by a vicious stranger. After being raped and stabbed numerous times, Judy was left for dead... yet she wou...
Aug 11, 2019•53 min