Solved Murders: True Crime Mysteries
To commemorate our fourth anniversary, Parcast and the team behind Unsolved Murders are taking a closer look at what it takes to catch a killer. In the new series Solved Murders: True Crime Mysteries, you'll follow the clues and uncover the missing pieces to some of history's most gripping cases. Every Wednesday, join Carter and Wenndy as they explore the days, months, and even years leading up to a killer being caught. Each episode plays out like a classic murder mystery—where the final reveal is nearly as shocking as the murder itself. Solved Murders: True Crime Mysteries is a Spotify Original.
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Francis Rattenbury Pt. 2
The atmosphere was tense as the trial against Alma Rattenbury and her 18-year-old lover began. After five days of testimony, the jury returned their verdict.
42 min
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Francis Rattenbury Pt. 1
Late one evening in March 1935, Alma Rattenbury found her husband barely alive in the drawing room of their Bournemouth, England home.
38 min
128
Patricia Walsh & Mary Anne Wysocki Pt. 2
By February 1969, Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki had been missing for weeks, and things were looking grim.
37 min
129
Patricia Walsh & Mary Anne Wysocki Pt. 1
On January 23, 1969, two college students went on a weekend trip to Provincetown, Massachusetts. They never returned.
35 min
130
Lord William Russell Pt. 2
The 1840 trial for the calculated murder of Lord William Russell had one defendant and multiple witnesses — but everyone seemed suspect: the housemaid who discovered his body, the valet who had been pilfering his money, even the police investigating the case.
41 min
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Lord William Russell Pt. 1
In May 1840, a well-known English aristocrat was found dead in his London home after what appeared to be a botched robbery.
41 min
132
Wilson Turner Pt. 2
After the slaying of Wilson Turner, the all-powerful bootlegger who killed him seemed untouchable.
36 min
133
Wilson Turner Pt. 1
On April 20, 1948, residents of rural Coweta County, Georgia, saw a man named Wilson Turner get chased down and beaten in the middle of a campground parking lot.
35 min
134
Bobby Franks Pt. 2
Just over a week after Bobby Franks’ body was found, his teenaged killers confessed, revealing a motive too callous to believe.
40 min
135
Bobby Franks Pt. 1
In the early 1920s, some of Chicago’s wealthiest families became horribly intertwined after the murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks.
37 min
136
Oceana Snead Pt. 2
The death of young Oceana Snead was dubbed a “bathtub tragedy” — but as investigators tracked her mysterious, veiled caretakers, they uncovered evidence of a callous crime.
42 min
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Oceana Snead Pt. 1
In 1909, 24-year-old Oceana Snead died of an apparent suicide — but the case was far less clear-cut than the woman’s aunt, Virginia Wardlaw, would have police believe.
43 min
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Jane Britton Pt. 2
After Jane Britton's death in 1969, police suspected that one of her instructors may have been responsible for her gruesome murder.
34 min
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Jane Britton Pt. 1
In January 1969, anthropology student Jane Britton was brutally murdered in her own apartment.
36 min
140
Martha "Mamah" Borthwick Cheney Pt. 2
It didn’t take long to find the perpetrator of the Taliesin massacre: 30-year-old Julian Carlton.
40 min
141
Martha "Mamah" Borthwick Cheney Pt. 1
In 1911, Frank Lloyd Wright built a mansion in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
36 min
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Robert Piest Pt. 2
As police zeroed in on a local contractor named John Wayne Gacy, they began to suspect they weren’t investigating the disappearance of one missing teenager — but the murders of several.
38 min
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Robert Piest Pt. 1
After ending his shift at Nisson Pharmacy in Des Plaines, Illinois, fifteen-year-old Robert Piest asked his mother to wait while he spoke to a man about a construction job.
37 min
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Captain Joseph White
The brutal murder of one of the wealthiest ship owners in the world shocked the town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1830.
40 min
145
David Blakely Pt. 2
After Ruth Ellis murdered her lover in April 1955, people throughout London thought she was guaranteed the death penalty.
43 min
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David Blakely Pt. 1
In 1955, wealthy racecar driver David Blakely was gunned down outside a bar in London.
35 min
147
Mary Hogan Pt. 2
Following a lead, police zeroed in on the home of one local man.
37 min
148
Mary Hogan Pt. 1
In 1954, a 55-year-old tavern owner in central Wisconsin went missing, leaving behind a disturbing crime scene.
32 min
149
Carol Thompson Pt. 2
When Carol Thompson’s murderer confessed to his crime, he implicated another person in the ordeal — and a shocking murder-for-hire plot began to unravel.
36 min
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Carol Thompson Pt. 1
In March 1963, a Minnesota housewife named Carol Thompson was attacked in her home, later dying from her wounds.
41 min