In July of 1984, a story originating from Long Island, New York began to make headlines throughout the world. The body of 17-year-old Gary Lauwers was found in a shallow grave in the Aztakea Woods, just outside of the sleepy harbor village of Northport. Police would quickly narrow in on the person they believed to be responsible for this violent crime: 17-year-old Ricky Kasso, who they alleged had participated in a cult ritual during the commission of this vile act. While the story would fade fr...
Nov 07, 2021•44 min
"I thought they were sleeping in the sun. After I got a bit closer I saw the clothing of the girls was disarranged, and then I could see the ants crawling all over them..." On the evening of 26 December 1898 (Boxing Day) a trio of siblings departed their farmhouse in rural Queensland, headed for a dance nearby in the small town of Gatton. The following morning, their brother-in-law headed out on a horse to find them or the cart they had borrowed. He eventually found tracks from the cart, which v...
Oct 31, 2021•40 min
“He’s vain, proud. He doesn’t want to lose face. He doesn’t want his children to find out he’s got no money, that he’s ruined.” On 7 April 2011, the patriarch of the aristocratic Dupont de Ligonnès family, Xavier, packed up his car with several large bags and set off for parts unknown. His home in Nantes, France - where he lived with his wife and four children - would remain still and quiet for days after. Eventually, police were called to check in on the home, after a series of mysterious lette...
Oct 17, 2021•49 min
"Don't look anything like yourself. We'll meet you at the station. Leave everything behind that might remind you of your past life, including pictures and credit cards and your driver's license. Forget who you are." On 22 June 1990, five-year-old Therese Vanderheiden-Walsh was abducted from a daycare center in Kaneohe, Hawaii. From the jump, authorities believed that her estranged mother, Merle Vanderheiden, was responsible. However, Merle proved elusive for authorities to track down, utilizing ...
Oct 03, 2021•33 min
1978 was a challenging year for the Indianapolis, Indiana enclave of Speedway. In a town that boasted less than two homicides in collective memory, a sudden bizarre string of crimes that year left residents shaken. First, a 65-year-old woman had been shot in the head and killed in her own garage. Then, in September, a series of small explosions known as the Speedway Bombings rocked the town for a full week, injuring two people and leaving everyone a bit twitchy. However, these incidents were not...
Sep 19, 2021•25 min
"Bad people attacked and killed many people in New York on this day. Other bad people killed your father this same day. He wasn't alone." On the morning of September 11th, 2001, 46-year-old Henryk Siwiak fled from a construction site in lower Manhattan. The Polish immigrant made his way back to his apartment in Far Rockaway Beach, spoke to his family, and made plans to begin a second job that evening. Siwiak, a desperate father of two looking to send cash back home to his family in Poland, made ...
Sep 12, 2021•29 min
“We said we weren’t going to speak to anybody. We stopped talking altogether—only us two, in our bedroom upstairs.” Born in April of 1963, June and Jennifer Gibbons were twins born to a pair of immigrants that relocated to the U.K. during their childhood. There, however, the twins - who already suffered from a speech impediment - were treated unfairly because of the color of their skin and bullied significantly by their peers. Over the next several years, June and Jennifer would begin to close o...
Aug 29, 2021•37 min
"We presume that she was kidnapped, abducted from her own home after her parents were killed and taken against her will." On 15 August 2002, the bodies of 50-year-old Michael Short and 36-year-old Mary Short were found in their southern Virginia home. Each had been shot in the head once while sleeping. However, missing from the scene entirely was the couple's 9-year-old daughter, Jennifer. Over the next several weeks, a panicked search would ensue throughout the region, hoping to uncover any tra...
Aug 15, 2021•49 min
“Women serving in the U.S. military are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq.” On 19 July 2005, Private First Class LaVena Lynn Johnson was found dead in a contractor’s tent on an Army base in Balad, Iraq. The Army officially ruled her death a suicide, but when her father, Dr. John Johnson, saw LaVena’s body and spoke with the doctor who performed her autopsy, something didn’t quite add up. He started asking questions. What followed were years of administ...
Aug 01, 2021•28 min
In the waning days of 2003, a mysterious entity would begin a short-lived campaign of terror. Using the name "Fallen Angel," this mysterious group or individual sent two letters - one without a destination and the other addressed to the White House - which demanded an end to upcoming trucking regulations. Included in the two envelopes were sealed vials containing ricin, a dangerous poison created from castor beans. Months later, trace amounts of ricin would be found in the Washington D.C. mailro...
Jul 25, 2021•47 min
On the evening of 2 August 2006, a 32-year-old lawyer named Robert Wone was finishing up work at his office at Radio Free Asia in Washington D.C. That evening, instead of commuting back to his home in Oakton, Virginia, Robert decided to crash with a college friend of his: another young lawyer named Joseph Price, who happened to live in D.C. The two had been longtime friends, and Price was well-liked by both Robert and his wife, Kathy. However, within two hours of arriving at Joseph's $1.2 millio...
Jul 18, 2021•41 min
Between 1934 and 1938, at least 13 men and women were murdered in or around Cleveland’s Kingsbury Run. Dubbed “the Cleveland Torso Killer,” “the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run,” and less commonly “The Headhunter,” the murderer was known for expertly decapitating and dismembering his victims before dumping their body parts in various areas around Cleveland’s eastside. As Cleveland’s Public Safety Director, famed Prohibition-era detective Eliot Ness drove an exhaustive investigation during which ove...
Jul 11, 2021•36 min
This is a brief preview for the 15th episode of my Patreon-exclusive show, Resolved, which is available now for all $5+ supporters. 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/53432183 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved--3266604/support ....
Jul 08, 2021•4 min
"In my 10 years in law enforcement, never have I see a slaying of this type nor has anyone on my staff... This was a brutal slaying done by a very sick individual." On 12 October 1978, 12-year-old Linda Pikuritz rode her bike from her family's home in Port Charlotte, FL to a convenience store about one mile away. This was a trip that Linda had been making regularly for months. But on this night in particular - right before Friday the 13th - Linda never returned home. Firefighters battling a brus...
May 30, 2021•58 min
"The ritual of her death is probably not too different from how she lived her life. She is very careful, methodical. She goes to great lengths to hide how she dies, but none of us, no matter what we do, can disappear without a trace." On 9 October 1996, a woman checked into Seattle's Hotel Vintage Park, a boutique hotel located a stones throw away from the city's many tourist attractions. Under the name "Mary A. Anderson," she paid for a single room for two nights using cash. Two days later, sta...
May 16, 2021•27 min
"I know he's not coming home. I know something horrible has happened to him." On 7 February 1999 in Westminster, Colorado, 38-year old Paul Skiba, his 9-year-old daughter Sarah Skiba, and his employee, 36-year old Lorenzo Chivers, all disappeared from the yard of Paul's moving company, Tuff Movers. Presumed to have been murdered, there's been no sign of this unfortunate trio since their mysterious disappearance over 20 years ago... To learn more about Private Investigators For the Missing, pleas...
May 09, 2021•38 min
"Dad, mom came back. Give the boys lots of kisses and hugs, and also you too - Love, Annette." On the morning of 4 October 1988, 11-year-old Annette Deane Sagers was last seen standing at a bus stop near her home in Mount Holly, South Carolina. Annette's stepfather Steven reported her missing that afternoon, after it was determined that she never arrived at school that morning. Despite Annette reportedly leaving behind a note explaining her absence, she has not been seen or heard from in over 30...
May 02, 2021•30 min
"How do I explain getting rid of a body?" On 19 June 2001, 25-year-old Shelton Sanders disappeared en route to his family's home in Rembert, South Carolina. Shelton, who lived with his family, worked and went to school in Columbia, and had spent the evening with his friends, planning a bachelor party. In the immediate aftermath of Shelton's disappearance, it became clear that an individual that had been with Shelton that evening was the primary suspect. But despite him eventually standing trial ...
Apr 18, 2021•45 min
This episode contains two separate, unrelated stories from the Patreon archive. In February of 1994, 31-year-old Gloria Ramirez was admitted to the hospital in Riverside, CA with bizarre symptoms. Several of the doctors and nurses treating her came down with similar symptoms, and were unable to save Gloria, who ultimately perished from this bizarre sickness. In May of 1995, 62-year-old Graig Anderson and his 60-year-old wife Anita were executed inside of their home along Puyallup, WA's "Street o...
Apr 11, 2021•41 min
"My silent understanding that I was worthless, a throw away... The foundations laid in my youth never went away." In June of 2016, 41-year-old Jason Vukovich found the addresses of local sex offenders, assaulting and robbing them inside of their own homes. Attacking late at night - armed with a hammer - Jason told one of his victims that he was "an avenging angel" that was there to "mete out justice for the people" he had hurt. Now behind bars, Jason has come to know a younger sister he never kn...
Apr 04, 2021•40 min
In honor of April Fool's Day and MLB Opening Day I bring you a very special bonus episode about the man, the myth, and the legend... Wade Boggs. Music Credits Mystery Mammal - "All Your Organs Get A Laugh" Kevin MacLeod - "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved--3266604/support ....
Apr 01, 2021•10 min
"At this point, we're hoping that she did run away and that she's safe and sound somewhere. What we're afraid of is that someone came up to the house, found her alone here and took her." On 10 July 1990, 13-year-old Rachanda Pickle was last seen inside her mother and stepfather's home in Santiam Junction, Oregon. This was an incredibly small community located roughly halfway between Sweet Home and Sisters, at the junction of Highways 20 & 22. While tipsters would claim to see the missing tee...
Mar 28, 2021•40 min
"I would not consider him a sociopath because the thing he is doing is almost bizarre, and on a psychotic level..." Between October and November of 1977, a series of car bombs would kill and injure multiple people in eastern Missouri. The victims were middle-class individuals living in apartment buildings in southern St. Louis County, who appeared to have no connection to one another. As federal investigators began to look into these separate-yet-similar explosions, they began to question whethe...
Mar 21, 2021•43 min
"I've prosecuted over 50 murders. This is the most horrific crime scene I've ever witnessed." On 23 August 2009, pastor Carol Daniels drove from her home in Oklahoma City to the Worthy Temple in Anadarko, which she had been presiding over for the better part of the previous decade. Despite the church no longer having an active congregation, Carol made this lengthy trip every Sunday just in case anyone felt compelled to worship. Less than two hours later, Carol's mutilated body would be discovere...
Mar 07, 2021•43 min
"It was very quick, it was very calculated, very cold-blooded (in) how it was done... I do believe that more than one person was involved in this..." On the morning of 25 January 2019, 29-year-old Elizabeth Barraza was gunned down in her own driveway. Her husband, Sergio, had departed for work just four minutes earlier, and Elizabeth - who had begun preparing for a garage sale - had called out for work that morning. In the two years since this bizarre and tragic act of violence, investigators ha...
Feb 28, 2021•44 min
"...the Unknown Person considers himself to be the director of a play and Canadian authorities are but actors subject to his direction." In April of 2013, following an investigation into a "black money" scam, Toronto Police Services arrested 32-year-old Herman Emmanuel Fankem, a French citizen that had overstayed his visitor's visa and supposedly gotten caught up in an organized crime ring. However, as police began to dive into this man's backstory, they discovered that his passport was a total ...
Feb 21, 2021•38 min
"Finding her body has burnt an indelible image in my mind. It is something a father should never have to suffer." On the morning of 22 October 2018, family and friends of missing 24-year-old Toyah Cordingley would scour the area around Wangetti Beach, a quiet and secluded stretch of sand not too far away from Toyah's hometown of Cairns. There - partially buried in sand dunes - Toyah's body would be found, having endured "visible, violent injuries" before her death. In the years since, police off...
Feb 14, 2021•54 min
"... the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the (power) grid that has ever occurred." In the early morning hours of April 16th, 2013, a group or individual would attack an electrical substation just outside of San Jose, California. Armed with at least two rifles, this mysterious entity would open fire on the station's transformers, destroying more than a dozen and causing more than $15 million in damages. Years later, federal officials still have no idea who perpetrated th...
Feb 07, 2021•43 min
This is a brief preview for the fourteenth episode of my Patreon-exclusive show, Resolved, which is available now for all $5+ supporters. 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/47136496 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved--3266604/support ....
Feb 05, 2021•6 min
Between 1972 and 1973, at least seven women were murdered in California's Sonoma County. The discovery of three bodies in July of 1979 - after years of inactivity in this case - would bring about a new wave of speculation in the press. Despite investigators hoping that these discoveries could help provide answers for the numerous unsolved cases, all they did was end up creating even more questions. In the decades since, investigators have pondered whether this case could be connected to some of ...
Jan 24, 2021•55 min
