Thanks again for joining us! Every day this week, we are releasing an episode of our adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1842 short story, which is considered to be one of the first murder mysteries to feature details from a real crime. Part Three: Detective C. Auguste Dupin criticizes three Parisian newspapers over their initial coverage of the crime, and continues his effort to get closer to the truth... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 06, 2020•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome back! Every day this week, we are releasing an episode of our adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1842 short story, which is considered to be one of the first murder mysteries to feature details from a real crime. Part Two: New physical evidence is discovered contradicting local newspapers’ recent reporting... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 05, 2020•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Every day this week, we are releasing an episode of our adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1842 short story, which is considered to be one of the first murder mysteries to feature details from a real crime. Part One: Bohemian detective C. Auguste Dupin and his assistant, our unnamed narrator, receive a puzzling request from the Parisian police... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 04, 2020•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 1838, the city of London was shocked by the gruesome killing of famous sex worker Eliza Grimwood. The investigation looked into her mysterious final client and her live-in boyfriend, but ultimately, the detectives would never discover who was responsible for the death of Eliza. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 28, 2020•47 min•Ep 197•Transcript available on Metacast We are thrilled to bring you a brand new episode of Unsolved Murders today and for the foreseeable future. We thank you for your patience during this unprecedented time. On May 27th, 1838, one of London's most popular courtesans, Eliza Grimwood, was brutally murdered in her own bedroom. She lived with four other people, yet none had noticed her death until the next morning—casting the whole house with suspicion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 21, 2020•41 min•Ep 196•Transcript available on Metacast If you enjoy the true stories told in Unsolved Murders, check out this episode from our series Female Criminals: After heiress Marjorie Congdon dodged prison time in 1977, she remarried and began to build a new life. But mysterious deaths continued to plague Marjorie, who would become a suspect in numerous murders and arsons for decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 14, 2020•43 min•Ep 195•Transcript available on Metacast If you enjoy the true stories told in Unsolved Murders, check out this episode from our series Female Criminals: Although she was adopted in 1932, Marjorie Congdon still suffered. Eventually she was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder. Her heiress mother, afraid of scandal, couldn't accept the diagnosis—and Marjorie was never treated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 14, 2020•46 min•Ep 194•Transcript available on Metacast In 1933, Alvira Johnson and her seven children were killed in a rapid blaze that burned down their Minnesota home. The family's patriarch, Albin Johnson, was strangely missing, and the police desperately searched for him as their number one suspect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 07, 2020•43 min•Ep 193•Transcript available on Metacast On April 10th, 1933, the small town of Harris, Minnesota was shocked to see the Johnson family's farmhouse burning down. They were horrified to discover that Alvira Johnson and her seven children all perished in the blaze. But a peculiar absence made some suspect that this fire was not an accident after all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 31, 2020•37 min•Ep 192•Transcript available on Metacast It was New Year's Eve 1997 in the Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand when 17-year-old Olivia Hope and 21-year-old Ben Smart enjoyed a long night of partying. When friends couldn't locate the pair the following day, they assumed the two may have gone off on their own. But after days without contact, it became evident that something was very wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 24, 2020•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Due to the unfortunate spread of COVID-19, Parcast has decided to halt recording for the time-being. This is a precautionary measure taken to ensure the safety of our hosts and staff. In the meantime, we're excited to share one of our classic episodes that we know you'll enjoy! It sounds like a traditional campfire story: Four teenagers camp along the shore of Finland’s Lake Bodom in July of 1960. But their weekend of fun turns dark when an unknown murderer commits a triple homicide—leaving only...
Mar 24, 2020•34 min•Ep 191•Transcript available on Metacast In late 1978, four teens from Indiana were abducted from the Burger Chef restaurant where they worked—and murdered later that same night. The investigation into their deaths would turn up many suspects, but disappointingly few answers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 17, 2020•49 min•Ep 190•Transcript available on Metacast On November 17th, 1978, four teens were working at the Burger Chef fast food restaurant in Speedway, Indiana. As they were closing up the restaurant, an unknown assailant abducted them at gunpoint. Their corpses would later be found in a forest the next town over. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 10, 2020•46 min•Ep 189•Transcript available on Metacast In the early morning hours of October 27th, 1961, 19-year-old student Betty Gail Brown went missing on her college campus. Her disappearance led to a campus wide-search, until she was eventually found in her car, strangled by her own bra. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 03, 2020•53 min•Ep 188•Transcript available on Metacast After a Washington D.C. intern disappeared in May 2001, her parents learned she was having a secret affair with a powerful politician. The case erupted into a nationwide scandal, but investigators were focused on all the wrong leads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 03, 2020•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 1560, scandal hits young Queen Elizabeth when the wife of her rumored paramour, Lord Robert Dudley, is found mysteriously dead from a fall. To this day, nobody can determine the true cause of her death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 25, 2020•42 min•Ep 187•Transcript available on Metacast On the last Sunday of every month, Parcast Rewind replays a classic episode of Unsolved Murders that you might have missed! Josslyn Hay was a British aristocrat who moved with his wife, Lady Idina Sackville, to Africa. There, they were part of the “Happy Valley Set,” a group of wealthy expats who lived to drink alcohol, do drugs and have sex. So when Hay was found miles from his home, dead of a gunshot wound, virtually everybody in their social circle was a suspect. Learn more about your ad choi...
Feb 23, 2020•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 1560, young Queen Elizabeth I's relationship with Lord Robert Dudley had one complication: his wife. Rumors that the two were plotting to poison her came to an abrupt end—when she was discovered dead from a fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 18, 2020•45 min•Ep 186•Transcript available on Metacast In 1968, a state trooper found the brutalized body of a young school teacher named Irene Izak on the side of the road. The investigation into her death would be hampered by weather, timing, and incompetence. But things became truly dark when the only evidence seemed to point to the state trooper who had found her in the first place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 11, 2020•39 min•Ep 185•Transcript available on Metacast On a lonely night in 1968, a young French teacher named Irene Izak was driving north, to Canada, for a job interview. The hopeful trip would take a turn for the worst, as her body was discovered the next morning—lying dead in a ditch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 04, 2020•37 min•Ep 184•Transcript available on Metacast After the bodies of Edward Nickols, Roy Wilson, and Dewey Morris were found in a frozen lake in 1924, investigators scrambled to find their killer. But though the investigation continued for years, the culprit remained elusive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 28, 2020•50 min•Ep 183•Transcript available on Metacast On the last Sunday of every month, Parcast Rewind replays a classic episode of Unsolved Murders that you might have missed! In 1922, Reverend Edward Hall and his lover Eleanor Mills were found dead beneath a crabapple tree surrounded by their shredded love letters. Their killer was never identified, but one woman claimed to have witnessed the crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 26, 2020•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 1924, Edward Nickols, Roy Wilson, and Dewey Morris spent the winter in a remote cabin in the Oregon wilderness, operating fur traps near Lava Lake. But weeks later the friends’ fateful trip would end in their disappearance, and soon, a horrifying discovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 21, 2020•44 min•Ep 182•Transcript available on Metacast In 1862, California wine grower and rancher John Rains was mysteriously murdered. In the wake of his death, the law struggled to find the culprit. While vigilante mobs wreaked havoc, his brother, Robert Carlisle, took advantage of Rains’ widow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 14, 2020•44 min•Ep 181•Transcript available on Metacast On August 20th, 1900, police responded to the home of wealthy industrialist Robert L. Fosburgh who lived with his wife and 27-year-old son. Fosburgh reported a break-in by three individuals, one of whom shot and killed his 24-year-old daughter May. But police weren’t so sure about his story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 07, 2020•47 min•Ep 180•Transcript available on Metacast Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: In the early 1800s, the Duke de Choiseul-Praslin was suspected of murdering his wife. However, a vial of arsenic and a corrupt government would prevent justice from being served. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 31, 2019•53 min•Ep 179•Transcript available on Metacast Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: In the early 1800s, Fanny, the Duchess of Choiseul-Praslin, and her husband Charles, the Duke, were highly regarded among the French nobility. From the outside, it appeared they had it all, but internally their marriage was filled with distrust and turmoil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 24, 2019•48 min•Ep 178•Transcript available on Metacast The mysterious circumstances surrounding Sonny Liston's death in 1971 from an alleged heroin overdose still drew suspicion. As police and journalists looked into his death years later, they discovered more than a few viable suspects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 17, 2019•41 min•Ep 177•Transcript available on Metacast Former heavyweight champion Sonny Liston had a drive and motivation that was infectious. So when Geraldine Liston hadn’t heard from her husband for a few days, she didn’t think much of it. Then she returned home from a trip and found him at the foot of their bed...dead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 10, 2019•47 min•Ep 176•Transcript available on Metacast In 1934, Elliott Speer was shot on the Mount Hermon School for Boys campus—a murder eerily similar to the plot of a novel found in his study. The case only became stranger when the school's dean tried to claim the headmaster position with a pair of suspicious letters from the deceased man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 03, 2019•49 min•Ep 175•Transcript available on Metacast 
