Episodes

  • Case 283: Kris Kremers & Lisanne Froon

    Case 283: Kris Kremers & Lisanne Froon
    May 11 2024
    When Dutch friends Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon set out for a six-week adventure in Panama in 2014, they were ready for the trip of a lifetime. But after failing to show up for a planned tour in the mountain town of Boquete, search parties sprung into action.

    Had the two young women gotten lost while hiking the popular Pianista trail, or was something more sinister at play?

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    Narration – Anonymous Host
    Research & writing – Elsha McGill
    Creative direction – Milly Raso
    Production and music – Mike Migas
    Music – Andrew D.B. Joslyn

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Case 282: April Tinsley

    Case 282: April Tinsley
    May 4 2024
    *** Content warnings: Child victim, sexual assault ***

    In 2004, several young girls around Fort Wayne, Indiana received handwritten letters threatening that they would be the next victim of a child killer.
    Authorities were immediately concerned. DNA from the letters matched samples they had stored from an unsolved crime that was committed more than a decade earlier – the murder of eight-year-old April Tinsley.

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    Narration – Anonymous Host
    Research & writing – Milly Raso
    Creative direction – Milly Raso
    Production and music – Mike Migas
    Music – Andrew D.B. Joslyn

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Case 281: Bibaa Henry & Nicole Smallman

    Case 281: Bibaa Henry & Nicole Smallman
    Apr 27 2024
    *** Content warnings: Racial violence, sexual assault ***

    In June of 2020, London social worker Bibaa Henry decided to celebrate her 46th birthday with a picnic at scenic Fryent Country Park. Celebrations continued late into the night, until Bibaa and her younger sister Nicole Smallman were the only partygoers remaining. When both failed to return home the following day, their family was quick to raise the alarm. Their search would lead to a teenager who believed he’d made a deal with the Devil…

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    Narration – Anonymous Host
    Research & writing – Erin Munro
    Creative direction – Milly Raso
    Production and music – Mike Migas
    Music – Andrew D.B. Joslyn

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Case 280: The Stockton Arsonist

    Case 280: The Stockton Arsonist
    Apr 20 2024
    *** Content warnings: Animal cruelty ***

    On a hot summer’s day in 1989, a father and son travelling through Stockton, California, discover a VHS tape left by the side of a road. When they take it home and decide to watch it, they make a disturbing discovery. The tape contains footage of a house burning to the ground and was apparently filmed by the arsonist who lit the fire.

    When investigators looking into the tape hit a series of dead ends, they enlist the help of popular television series Unsolved Mysteries, and the case becomes known as that of the infamous Stockton Arsonist.

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    Narration – Anonymous Host
    Research & writing – Erin Munro
    Creative direction – Milly Raso
    Production and music – Mike Migas
    Music – Andrew D.B. Joslyn

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    26 mins
  • Case 279: Zebb Quinn

    Case 279: Zebb Quinn
    Apr 13 2024
    In early January 2000, residents of Asheville, North Carolina were told to be on the lookout for 18-year-old Zebb Quinn after he failed to return home after finishing his shift at Wal-Mart. A co-worker of Zebb’s, Robert Jason Owens, claimed that Zebb had sped off after receiving a mysterious message on his pager.

    Two weeks later, an unexpected breakthrough in the case presents some bizarre clues. But as twist after twist emerges, the prevailing question remains - did Zebb Quinn leave of his own accord, or was he the victim of foul play?

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    Narration – Anonymous Host
    Research & writing – Elsha McGill
    Creative direction – Milly Raso
    Production and music – Mike Migas
    Music – Andrew D.B. Joslyn

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Case 278: Alma Tirtschke (Part 2)

    Case 278: Alma Tirtschke (Part 2)
    Apr 6 2024
    *** Content warnings: Child victim, sexual assault ***

    [Part 2 of 2]
    Colin Ross maintained his innocence for the murder of Alma Tirtschke right up until his execution. Could he have been telling the truth?

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    Narration – Anonymous Host
    Research & writing – Milly Raso
    Creative direction – Milly Raso
    Production and music – Mike Migas
    Music – Andrew D.B. Joslyn

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Case 278: Alma Tirtschke (Part 1)

    Case 278: Alma Tirtschke (Part 1)
    Mar 30 2024
    *** Content warnings: Child victim, sexual assault ***

    [Part 1 of 2]
    When 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke failed to return home after running an errand for her family, they were immediately concerned. Alma was a dutiful child who did what she was told and respected her elders.

    Alma’s final movements were retraced to an infamous saloon in the heart of Melbourne and its problematic owner, a man named Colin Ross.

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    Narration – Anonymous Host
    Research & writing – Milly Raso
    Creative direction – Milly Raso
    Production and music – Mike Migas
    Music – Andrew D.B. Joslyn

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Case 277: Linda Slaten

    Case 277: Linda Slaten
    Mar 23 2024
    *** Content warnings: Sexual assault, domestic violence ***

    Jeff and Tim Slaten woke on the morning of Friday, September 4 1981, to find their home teeming with police. Their mother, Linda, had been raped and murdered during the night. Neither brother heard a thing, and despite the killer having left pivotal evidence behind, it quickly became clear that this wasn’t an open-and-shut case.

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    Narration – Anonymous Host
    Research & writing – Milly Raso
    Creative direction – Milly Raso
    Production and music – Mike Migas
    Music – Andrew D.B. Joslyn

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    45 mins