Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories
Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories is a podcast drama with a modern twist on old time radio that delves into the mystery of true cold cases and unsolved murders. With the help of an ensemble cast, follow our hosts as they take you on an entertaining journey through the crime scene, the investigation and attempt to solve the case. With many surprising plot twists, it’s important you start listening from the first episode of a cold case. New episodes are released every Tuesday. Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories is a Spotify Original.
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“The Christmas Rapture” from Cults
On Christmas Eve nearly seventy years ago, Dorothy Martin and the Seekers stood outside in Chicago and sang carols. They were waiting for a spacecraft that would shepherd them away from Earth — and the impending apocalypse.
38 min
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E278: “Dead by Christmas” Édouard Jacottet
In late December 1920, six people in southern Africa sat down for lunch. Only five left alive. Swiss missionary and gifted linguist Édouard Jacottet was murdered — and he knew exactly what killed him.
43 min
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E277: Jacques Mossler
When the head of a business empire is found dead in Miami, investigators zero in on his wife Candy and her young nephew.
39 min
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E276: Gareth Jones
After a young Welsh reporter exposed the atrocities of the Soviet Union’s Great Famine to the world, he died suddenly and mysteriously.
36 min
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E275: “The Psychic's Skull” Marcia Moore
In 1979, a Seattle psychic who studied psychedelics went missing. Her brother suspected she’d been kidnapped by a cult, but other theories leaned toward the more mystical.
34 min
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E274: Death of the Boston Strangler Pt. 2
By 1973, the Boston Strangler was behind bars — but the killing wasn't over. The notorious murderer became the victim of a jailhouse homicide that has yet to be solved.
33 min
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E273: Death of the Boston Strangler Pt. 1
Between 1962 and 1964, Massachusetts was terrorized by a serial killer known as the Boston Strangler. Officers raced to discover his true identity and put an end to his murder spree.
35 min
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E272: Babysitters Pt. 3
As babysitters became horror movie tropes, the real-life terror didn't slow down. In 1981, 15-year-old babysitter Kelly Cook was murdered by a man who called himself "Bill Christensen." To this day, his true identity remains a mystery.
35 min
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E271: Babysitters Pt. 2
In 1953, 15-year-old Evelyn Hartley left to babysit a neighbor's child – but she never came home.
37 min
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E270: Babysitters Pt. 1
A 1950 crime in Missouri may have inspired the urban legend about the babysitter and the man upstairs. When the Romacks returned from a night out, they found their 13-year-old babysitter, Janett Christman, dead in their living room — and police had reason to believe it was an “inside job.”
36 min
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E269: “Body on the Beach” Starr Faithfull Pt. 2
After a beachcomber discovered Starr’s body, it took two autopsies to determine foul play. Was Starr’s childhood abuser — and former mayor of Boston — behind her death?
38 min
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E268: “Body on the Beach” Starr Faithfull Pt. 1
In 1931, the body of a young woman washed up on the shores of Long Island. Starr Faithfull had spent the Roaring Twenties chasing glamor, partying in speakeasies and sneaking aboard cruise ships. Her mysterious death became a tabloid sensation.
39 min
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E267: “Boulder Jane Doe” Pt. 2
After more than a decade of setbacks and hurdles, researcher Silvia Pettem was finally able to confirm Jane Doe's identity, and it happened in the most mysterious of ways.
34 min
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E266: “Boulder Jane Doe” Pt. 1
In 1954, two college freshmen found the body of a young woman in a creek near Boulder, Colorado. Unable to identify her, police simply referred to her as Jane Doe. Over 50 years later, authorities were still unable to track down her name… or her killer.
36 min
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E265: “The Needle in the Heart Murder” Dr. Jame...
With the coroner’s inquiry underway, damning evidence reveals the nature of Diana Yeates and Dr. Eric Hedberg’s relationship — but it’s not enough to secure a conviction.
33 min
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E264: “The Needle in the Heart Murder” Dr. Jame...
On an early September morning in 1960, surgeon Jim Yeates was found dead in the garage with a pool of blood around his head.
34 min
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E263: Jack "Legs" Diamond Pt. 2
Diamond didn’t make many friends as a bootlegger and racketeer. Anybody could have been responsible for his death… including the police themselves.
35 min
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E262: Jack "Legs" Diamond Pt. 1
During the 1920s and ‘30s, his rap sheet had everything from robbery, to bootlegging, to drugs. Jack “Legs” Diamond was wanted by law enforcement and wanted dead by other gangsters. After surviving four assassination attempts, he wouldn’t survive the fifth.
45 min
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E261: Hazel Drew
In 1908, a young domestic servant was found murdered in upstate New York. Almost a century later, Hazel Drew’s mysterious death — and secret double life — inspired David Lynch and Mark Frost’s “Twin Peaks” television series.
43 min
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E260: Barbara Gibbons Pt. 2
When Peter Reilly became the main suspect in his mother’s murder, his Connecticut hometown rallied around him.
38 min
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E259: Barbara Gibbons Pt. 1
On September 28th, 1973, 51-year-old Barbara Gibbons was discovered dead in her home by her teenage son.
30 min
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E258: "The Bridge King" Joseph Bowne Elwell Pt. 2
As police find — and lose — leads in the Casanova card player’s murder investigation, a housekeeper hides evidence, a countess provides an alibi, and a business partner changes his story.
40 min
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E257: "The Bridge King" Joseph Bowne Elwell Pt. 1
The most famous bridge player in the world rubbed elbows with New York’s elite and tutored the likes of King Edward VII and Harold Vanderbilt before he was fatally shot in his Manhattan brownstone.
34 min
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E256: The Wonderland Murders
When a fading porn star became desperate enough to help the Wonderland Gang steal from a Hollywood mogul, revenge and murder followed.
32 min
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E255: The Murder at Eltham Pt. 2
The trial of Edmund Pook ignited a groundswell of working class support for the murdered Jane Clousen.
32 min