Day 8 of 12 in our mini series focused on Missing People throughout the UK. On Sunday the 2nd of March 1986, 16 year old Kevin Hicks left his home in Croydon , South London to buy eggs for his home economics exam at school the next day. He left home with only £1 and the shop was only a few minutes away. He never returned. His younger sister has been advocating for him ever since and just wants answers. Important information provided by: https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/19127079.35-years-...
Dec 27, 2021•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Day 7 of 12 in our mini series focusing on missing people across the UK. On the 20th of May 2021, 19 year old Jamie Cannon left his home in Saltcoats in Scotland and hasn't been seen since. There has only been a few sightings of him in the local area but there has been no real information since then. Over 6 months later he has still not been found. If you know anything about the disappearance of Jamie Cannon please contact police on 101 and quote reference number 1623. Important information prov...
Dec 26, 2021•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Just a quick little Christmas message to say thank you for the year and that I hope you have a fabulous start to 2022! Music by DL Sounds Follow the Unseen Podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-unseen-podcast/id1318473466?uo=4 Follow the Unseen Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0xWK7Mu3bTP6oziZvxrwSK?si=QxvyPkZ2TdCDscnfxyeRaw Follow the Unseen Podcast on Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-unseen-podcast Join our Facebook group https://ww...
Dec 25, 2021•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Day 6 of 12 focusing on missing people in the UK. On the 12th of March 1999, Kevin Palmer travelled back from Spain to the UK to visit family and friends. He had been living there with his wife and daughter for about 10 years and flew back into Gatwick. He went for a night out with some friends that night but after that vanished. His family reported him missing with police believing foul play took place. Important information provided by: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-26045880 ...
Dec 24, 2021•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Day 5 of 12 in December focusing on missing people around the UK. In February 1990, Paul Glover parked up on South Road in Southall, London and got out to use the cash machine and collect a takeaway. He left his 5 month old son in the back of the car while he nipped out and he locked the car as he got out. When he returned 15 minutes later, he had disappeared. Where is Ames Glover and what happened to him? Important information provided by: https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/heartbr...
Dec 21, 2021•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is episode 4 of 12 in our mini series focusing on missing people throughout the UK. On the 24th January 1997, Marsha Wray took her two children to school just around the corner from their home in Harrogate in North Yorkshire. It was a Friday and the day was as normal as it usually was. She assured her children she would be there to pick them up when the school day ended and she drove away from the school gates. That would be the last time her family or anybody would see Marsha. The investig...
Dec 19, 2021•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is episode 3 of 12 in our mini series focusing on missing people throughout the UK. On August the 27th 1974, Pamela Exall was camping in Norfolk with her brother Peter and his friend after travelling with them on a tour of the UK. At around 11pm, Pamela decided to go for a walk to the beach however she never returned. Pamela has still not be found and she is still missing. Important information provided by: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/ - All contemporary news articles https://www.norfolk.p...
Dec 17, 2021•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is episode 2 of 12 in our Mini series focusing on missing people throughout the UK. In April 1999, 19 year old Elizabeth Chau disappeared from Ealing after handing in an assignment at Thames Valley University. She was last spotted on CCTV passing Ealing police station but was never seen again. In January 2000, 27 year old Lola Shenkoya travelled to Ealing on a bus after being unable to get into her sister's home. She was last seen getting on the bus and getting off close to Ealing Broadway ...
Dec 15, 2021•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is episode 1 of 12 of our mini series throughout December focusing on missing people throughout the UK. In the early hours of the morning on New Years Eve 2012, Alan Vaughn was woken up by police officers telling him he was being arrested for drink driving and leaving the scene of a collision. Alan had been in bed and hadn't been driving that night. When they mentioned a silver Peugeot, he knew it was his son Kyle's car they were talking about. It had been in an accident but Kyle wasn't in ...
Dec 13, 2021•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast On the 5th of November 1988, Father of 3 Derek Brann headed out for his shift as a taxi driver in Folkestone, Kent. He had been doing the job for 6 weeks to earn some extra money for his family. He never returned. Speculation was rife with some connecting the murder to other killings of taxi drivers throughout the 1980's. Important information provided by: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKazrIde564&t=89s - Crimewatch Reconstruction. http://www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=709&t...
Dec 05, 2021•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Thank you for supporting the podcast for 4 years! Patrons chose this bonus episode for you to hear on the anniversary of the release of the first ever Unseen Episode. On the 1st of February 1995, lyricist and frontman of the Welsh band Manic Street Preachers left his London hotel in his car and simply vanished without a trace. His car was later found however this just created more questions about what had happened. Richey was well known and the band had a huge fan base. His personality and his o...
Nov 29, 2021•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast On the 18th of January 1954, 44 year old Mother of two Penelope Mogano was found murdered in her own home in Coventry by her husband and son. Her injuries were extensive and the perpetrator had exerted a huge amount of force in the attack. The window of when this could have happened was at most 2 hours and no one could think of any reason why someone would have wanted to kill Penelope. She was well liked and had no enemies. Theories swirled including a scam artist, a random maniac or even her hu...
Nov 21, 2021•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast On April 18th 1979, 15 year old Sean McGann was found dead in a cobbled alleyway in Abington in Northampton. He had left his grandparents house to visit a funfair just 800 metres away from their home. He never made it home. What happened to Sean on the way to or on the way back from the funfair and did he come across a predator? Important information provided by: https://www.nnjournal.co.uk/p/exclusive-notorious-child-killer https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/crime/helpful-details-come-ligh...
Nov 07, 2021•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast On Friday the 23rd of September 2016, 23 year old airman Corrie McKeague went out with two of his friends to the town of Bury St Edmunds. He was stationed at RAF Honington airbase and was planning on going out for some drinks and having a good time. Corrie was told to leave Flex nightclub that night and became separated from his friends. He went to a local takeaway and had a nap for a few hours outside a local shop. He was last spotted on CCTV heading into an area called the Horseshoe where seve...
Oct 24, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast On the 25th of March 1990, two men in a boat on the River Cam in Cambridgeshire spotted a black plastic bag floating down the river. They went to get a closer look and found the horrifying sight of a decomposing male body inside. Dental records identified the victim as 44 year old Ian Murray Erskine who had been missing from his Notting Hill home since the previous December. The investigation would uncover a complicated series of events after his disappearance and the police would be left wonder...
Oct 10, 2021•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kyle Clarke was just 27 when he was killed on the night of January 10th 2017. He had been getting petrol at a petrol station in Bristol when an altercation occurred between him and a garage worker. Kyle was tragically ran over on the forecourt by the passenger in the car and died at the scene. The circumstances however of what truly occurred that night are very different to this initial account and cast doubt on whether 'a citizens arrest' was really the reason behind what happened. For this epi...
Sep 26, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast 22 year old student Jessie Earl left her bedsit in the town of Eastbourne on May the 15th 1980 and was never seen again. Her parents searched for her and contacted anyone that they could think of but she wasn't located. Sadly 9 years later, her body was recovered at Beachy Head in Eastbourne in suspicious circumstances. She was not the only young woman to go missing in the 1980's. 18 year old Louise Kay had vanished on June the 23rd 1988 and both her nor her car were ever seen again. The questio...
Sep 12, 2021•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah Millson worked as a housekeeper for the Bevington Brothers Leather Wholesalers which was based in Cannon Street in Central London. Sarah mostly kept to herself and didn't appear to receive many visitors. That was why it was strange on the 11th of April 1866, a stranger knocked on her door and she said she knew it was for her. After an hour her friend who was upstairs with her went down and found her dead body in the doorway. Despite the time that has elapsed Sarah's murder is still unsolve...
Aug 29, 2021•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ivy Davies was murdered in her home in Westcliff on Sea in Southend on Sea in Essex in February 1975. We covered this episode last year on the podcast and for this update episode I had the pleasure of speaking to Ivy's son Vic who has been fighting for justice for his mother for almost 50 years. Vic has relayed lots of new information to me about Ivy's case and the investigation and I hope that by putting these new details out to the public someone might come forward with information. It would h...
Aug 15, 2021•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dorothy Leyden was walking home from Manchester City centre to her home in Harpurhey in April 1971 after a night out with friends. She never returned home and was later found murdered on a piece of wasteland along the route to her house. Many people believed that the 'Beast of Manchester' was involved with the murder however speculation has continued to be rife in this case for the last 50 years. Sadly the case is still unsolved. Important information provided by: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...
Jun 27, 2021•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast One Thursday night in 1995, 34 year old Robert Higgins went out with friends in Kirkliston in Scotland. Robert worked at a demanding job Monday to Thursday and enjoyed a weekend out. One thing that Robert always did however was let his family know where has; especially his Mum who he lived with. He didn't contact anyone that weekend and sadly his body was found on the Monday morning. Robert had been murdered. Strangely Robert had been seen in many places that weekend but just not in any of his u...
Jun 13, 2021•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a special bonus episode for CrimeConversations where I talk to the fabulous Emily and Alisha from Murder in the Rain podcast. We talk about everything to do with True Crime; what got us interested in true crime, how we got into podcasting and the cases that have stuck with us. It's a great chat and I can't wait to have more chats like this in person at CrimeCon in September! CrimeCon is happening on the weekend of 25th and 26th of September at the Leonardo Royal hotel and Spa at St Pauls...
Jun 03, 2021•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast On the 8th of April 1969, 13 year old April Fabb got on her bicycle to go to her Sister and Brother in Law's house in Roughton in Norfolk, just 15 minutes ride from her house in Metton. This was just a routine trip which shouldn't have taken her long but she never returned and nobody has ever seen her again. April's case is often linked with Genette Tate's case which was covered in the previous episode. Important information provided by: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-47786398 htt...
May 30, 2021•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast On the 19th of August 1978, 13 year old Genette Tate was doing her paper round on her bike in the village of Aylsbeare near Exeter in Devon. She spoke to her friends on the lane and then rode on. Just a couple of minutes later her friends came across her bike lying on the lane and her papers all over the floor. Genette was nowhere to be seen. One of the most well known missing children cases began and Genette is still missing. Important information provided by: https://genettetate.devonlive.com/...
May 16, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast I spoke to Jules from Riddle Me That about the murder of Jill Dando in 1999. Jill Dando's death shocked the nation when she was shot on her doorstep by an unknown killer. Despite a conviction and an acquittal nobody else has been arrested for her murder. Part 3 of a 3 episode series Important information provided by: James Smith, D. (2002) All about Jill, The life and death of Jill Dando. London, Time Warner books UK. Quotes pages 205 and 217. Documentary- Crimes that shook Britain, Channel 5, 2...
May 10, 2021•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast I spoke to Jules from Riddle Me That about the murder of Jill Dando in 1999. Jill Dando's death shocked the nation when she was shot on her doorstep by an unknown killer. Despite a conviction and an accquital nobody else has been arrested for her murder. Part 2 of a 3 part bonus series Important information provided by: James Smith, D. (2002) All about Jill, The life and death of Jill Dando. London, Time Warner books UK. Quotes pages 205 and 217. Documentary- Crimes that shook Britain, Channel 5...
May 08, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast I spoke to Jules from Riddle Me That about the murder of Jill Dando in 1999. Jill Dando's death shocked the nation when she was shot on her doorstep by an unknown killer. Despite a conviction and an accquital nobody else has been arrested for her murder. This is the first of a 3 part bonus series. Important information provided by: James Smith, D. (2002) All about Jill, The life and death of Jill Dando. London, Time Warner books UK. Quotes pages 205 and 217. Documentary- Crimes that shook Britai...
May 06, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast On the 7th November 1994, 13 year old Lindsay Jo Rimer set out from her home in the West Yorkshire town of Hebden Bridge. It was around 10pm and she was heading to the Spar Supermarket to buy some cornflakes. It was around a 10 minute walk and CCTV showed she purchased these at 10:22pm. The next morning, Lindsay didn't turn up for her paper round and her family realised she had never returned from the shop. A huge missing person investigation was launched but 5 months later the worst was discove...
May 02, 2021•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode I speak to Jen Jarvie; a private investigator working with Ann's family to try and solve her case. I speak to Jen about her job role as a death investigator and she updates us on the new recent developments that could finally get Ann's case solved after over 30 years. If you think you know anything at all about Ann's murder on the 3rd of August 1990 please contact Jen Jarvie at her email: jarviedis@gmail.com . You can also contact the podcast confidentially and I will pass on any...
Apr 29, 2021•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast On the 18th of January 1976, 15 year old Peter Watts left his home in Colwyn Bay in North Wales. He left a note to tell his parents that he was going to meet a friend to do some revision. Peter never returned home. His body was later found in a vehicle underpass 200 miles away in Euston, London. To this day, no one knows exactly what happened to Peter or why. Important information provided by: https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/how-mysterious-death-teenager-peter-10758183 https://...
Apr 18, 2021•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast