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In April 1981, 22 year old old student Caroline Harris-Reed went to stay with a friend in South London. Her friend was nervous about being alone in her new flat and Caroline thought the short visit would be a good opportunity to look for a summer job. On the evening of the 8th the pair were in the flat waiting for a mutual friend to join them when …
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Early in the morning of November 1st 1986 the body of 15 year old Chaim Weiss was found in his dorm room at Long Beach Yeshiva. He had been bludgeoned to death with a heavy, bladed weapon in a frenzied attack. The bright and gifted teenager had been at the Torah High School for two and a half years and on the surface it seemed he didn't have an ene…
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This is part 2 of Betty Shanks (Unsolved Murder). If you haven't done so already, please make sure you listen to part 1 first. In Part 2 the many theories and persons of interest surrounding this cold case will be explored. Sources for the epsiode can be found here Promos Support the show Follow Persons Unknown: Instagram and Facebook Email: person…
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At 9.32 on the evening of Friday September 19th 1952, Betty Shanks stepped off the tram at the Grange terminus, in the Brisbane suburb of Wilston. The 22 year old had spent the evening with some colleagues attending a lecture at a local technical college. She was a couple of minutes walk from her parents home as she headed down Thomas Street. Betty…
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Tuesday July 30th 1985 was a hot day in Toronto, Canada. 8 year old Nicole Morin made plans to go swimming with a friend in one of the outside pools at the apartment complex where she lived. Nicole said goodbye to her mother at 11am, stepped into the hallway of the penthouse and vanished. The friend waited in the lobby for Nicole to come down in th…
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On the evening of Tuesday December 9th 1975, Hugh Watson enjoyed a pint and a game of dominoes at the Pen-y-Bryn Hotel bar in Llanrwst, North Wales. At 9.30pm the 77 year old grabbed his two walking sticks and set out back to his makeshift home in a stable on a nearby farm. Many people saw the well-known figure of Hugh walking the short distance th…
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In 1985 two 16 year olds from the same high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania vanished within eight months of each other. Allen Briscoe Jr and Christine Green have not been seen or heard from since. Sources for the episode can be found here Support the show Follow Persons Unknown: Instagram and Facebook Email: personsunknownpod@gmail.com Website…
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The New Years holiday is a celebration of new beginnings. With that in mind, we know this collaboration will introduce you to several amazing new true-crime podcasts that will quickly become your newest true-crime binges as we enter 2024 because, let’s face it, we know that’s exactly what you needed! With tons of episodes each, investigative curios…
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The New Years holiday is a celebration of new beginnings. With that in mind, we know this collaboration will introduce you to several amazing new true-crime podcasts that will quickly become your newest true-crime binges as we enter 2024 because, let’s face it, we know that’s exactly what you needed! With tons of episodes each, investigative curios…
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In mid 1995 Italian law student Victoria Cafasso decided to defer her studies and take some time out. The 20 year old travelled to Tasmania, Australia, staying with a distant relative while she thought through her options. She arrived in Beaumaris, a small seaside town on the north east coast of the island state, on October 6th. Five days later Vic…
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It was nearly 2am on Sunday November 15th 1970 when 18 year old college freshman Robin Graham ran out of petrol on Hollywood freeway, California. A couple of highway patrol officers pulled up to assist her and directed Robin to the nearest emergency phone, from where she called her parents' home. They had not yet returned from an evening out so Rob…
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Part 2 of the episode Kyllikki Saari (Unsolved Murder). If you haven't already, please go back and listen to part 1 before continuing. See show notes in Part 1 for episode desription. All sources for the episode can be found here Support the show Follow Persons Unknown: Instagram and Facebook Email: personsunknownpod@gmail.com Website with Transcri…
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*PART 1 of Kyllikki Saari (Unsolved Murder). Part 2 will be released Friday Nov 17th, 5:00am GMT. Though it was 10pm it was still light as 17 year old Kyllikki Saari and her friend Maiju started their cycle home. It was Sunday May 17th 1953 and the pair had just attended a church youth event near the rural town of Isojoki, in southwest Finland. At …
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Sandy Drummond was a down to earth, bright and likeable former British soldier. The 33 year old worked at a paper mill and shared an isolated cottage with his brother just outside St Andrews in Fife, eastern Scotland. In the spring of 1991 Sandy’s relaxed demeanour suddenly altered and a cloud of sadness seemed to descend on him. A few months later…
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Segametsi Mogomotsi lived in the village of Mochudi, just outside the capital city of Gabarone in Botswana. On a Saturday in November 1994 the 14 year old disappeared while selling oranges to raise funds for an upcoming church excursion. Less than 24 hours later her dismembered body was found a short distance from her home. It appeared Segametsi ha…
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Dr Danuta Kaczmarska was loved and respected by her patients. In January 1986 the 52 year old was found brutally murdered at her home in Hall Green, Birmingham, in what looked like a frenzied but premeditated attack. The community and police were baffled. Then sensational and often judgemental stories began to surface that the kind, amiable doctor …
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Brian McDermott left his home in East Belfast and promised his mum he would be back for Sunday lunch. It was the last day of the summer holidays in 1973 and the 10 year old was headed to the playground at nearby Ormeau park. Brian was spotted there by several witnesses but he never returned home. Six days later his partial remains were found in a h…
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On an early spring evening in 1982, 8 year old Toya Hill went out to play in front of her family's apartment block in south eastern Baltimore. At some point she wandered to a local grocery store to buy some sweets. Toya never returned home and it was as if the thrid grader had walked off the face of earth. No sign could be found and the police were…
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The evening of December 18th 2008 was Mellory “Mel” Manning’s first shift on the streets of Christchurch’s red light district for months. The 27 year old had turned to sex work at a young age to fund a destructive drug habit. Recently a family tragedy had led Mel to take steps to change her life. Tonight was a one off, she was off the drugs but wan…
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10 year old Adre’anna Jackson disappeared on a snowy morning in December 2006. She had left her family apartment in Lakewood, Washington State early to see if classes were still on for the day. The fourth grader never made it to the school. A desperate search began but it was as if Adre’anna had vanished off the face of the earth. Four months later…
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Born in the first decade of the twentieth century, siblings Martha (known as Patti) and Griffith Thomas lived together their entire lives. By 1976 both Patti and Griff were retired and, although relatively wealthy, they led a simple and frugal life in their farmhouse near Llangolman, West Wales. In December that year the siblings were both found de…
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*This episode deals with a crime committed against a child. Please exercise self-care when choosing to listen. At 8.30pm on Wednesday 22nd April 1981, 15 year old Kelly Cook left her house in the village of Standard, Alberta for the last time. She got into a waiting car driven by a man she had never before met and disappeared into the night. That m…
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Florence Broadhurst was a flamboyant artist and designer. On the afternoon of October 15th 1977 the 78 year old was working in the office of her luxury wallpaper factory situated in Paddington, Sydney, NSW. Florence was left alone on the premises at 4pm. The following morning, after a report that the door to the premises had been open all night, Fl…
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Between 1978 and 1996 eight infant abductions were connected to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. All the children were black and the average age of their mothers was just 18. Six of the infants were found safe and well and returned to their families. Two of the babies remain missing. Raymond Lamar Green was abducted in November 1978 and…
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On a damp autumn evening in 1945, Caroline Evans made her way on foot from her home in Coedpoeth, North Wales to the neighbouring village of Minera. Since her father died the 38 year old school teacher made the trip every Saturday evening to visit her mother. She always took the same shortcut on a narrow, secluded footpath through Pant Tywyll, or D…
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In March 1980 19 year old Marine Alan Addis travelled to the Falkland Islands with the Royal Navy. The remote archipelago lies 480km east of the southern tip of Argentina. Alan was there as part of a detachment to train local volunteers in defence skills and equipment. Five months later, after an evening out at a social club in North Arm settlement…
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On the morning of July 21st 1961, six year old Hattie Jackson and her older brother Herbert, set off with a packed lunch for Rock Creek Park. It was just a six block walk from the siblings’ home in north Washington D.C. After meeting up with Herbert’s friends the group played on the playground and then went swimming in the creek. After a little whi…
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On the evening of November 9th 1995 Jo Jo Dullard found herself stranded in Dublin after she missing her last bus home. The 21 year old had just moved back to her family home in Callan and was determined to make the 145km journey that night. Through a combination of bus journeys and hitchhiking she made it as far as the town of Moone. Still an hour…
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On a cold and foggy night in November 1967 Rita Ellis made her way across a road to an awaiting red car. The 19 year old then disappeared into the gloom and was never seen alive again. Rita was a cook at RAF Halton in Herefordshire and lived in the women’s accommodation block onsite. That evening she had arranged to babysit for Wing Commander Watso…
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Kirsty Jones dreamed of seeing the world. In May 2000 the 23 year old left her home in mid Wales and embarked on a global trip of a life time. After visiting Singapore and Malaysia, Kirsty travelled to Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand. Kirsty had been in the city less than a week when a maid found her murdered body in her bedroom at the backpack…
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Guistina Macari was known as Christina by family and friends. On May 17th 1941 the three year old disappeared from outside her family’s fish and chip shop in Swansea, South Wales. Her little body was found 5km away in a wood the following day. Many witnesses came forward to say they had seen the little girl in the company of a man with long hair wh…
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At approximately 1.25am on January 27th 1974 the San Francisco police received an anonymous call saying a man’s body was lying near the water line on Ocean Beach. The police arrived and discovered the caller was telling the truth. It was the start of a reign of terror targeting the LGBT+ community that would leave at least six gay men murdered and …
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In the spring of 2001, 9 year old Peggy Knobloch vanished from the small Bavarian town of Lichtenburg on her walk home from school. Despite a massive search operation no trace was found of the little girl. Three years later a neighbour of Peggy’s with pronounced learning difficulties was found guilty of her murder. The local community felt a miscar…
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In the early hours of September 1st 1990 a person or persons unknown entered the Sousa family home in Cumberland Beach, Ontario, Canada. 13 year old Leah was assaulted in the living room before being dragged to the yard and killed. Her mother Lora was beaten and left for dead, but miraculously survived. Lora’s nine month old baby son was left unhar…
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The last official sighting of 26 year old Maria Christina Requena was on New Year’s Day 1991. A week later her dismembered body was found at a beauty spot 24 km away. The location was only a couple of km away from where the mutilated body of 31 year old Linda Donaldson had been found in October 1988. Both women were sex workers and worked opposite …
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At 4.15pm on Monday 26th September 1994 the Pacey’s 14 year old daughter arrived home from school to be met by silence. She looked for her mother Julie throughout the large house which was situated in an affluent part of Grantham, Lincolnshire. In the upstairs bathroom the teenager found her 38 year old mother unresponsive on the floor. The brave g…
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Six year old Ludovic Janvier was abducted in the early evening of 17 March 1983. He and his two brothers had left the apartment where they were staying in Saint-Martin-d'Hères to run an errand for their father. On their way home the boys were approached by a man wearing a motorcycle helmet who asked for help looking for his dog. The man took Ludovi…
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Early on the morning of 11 February 1987 a cyclist on their way to work in Fort Collins, Colorado, discovered the mutilated body of an auburn-haired woman lying in a field. 37 year old Peggy Hettrick had last been seen leaving a local pub, six hours previously, to make the short walk home to her apartment. Several clues were left at the crime scene…
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Five year old Renee Aitken was abducted from her bed on the night of 16/17 February 1984. Her older brother Bradley was asleep in the same bedroom just feet away. The coastal village of Narooma, NSW and the surrounding bushland was searched dozens of times, but no trace of Renee was found. Two years later Renee’s mother Morna said publicly that she…
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It was a little after midnight on September 17th 1959 when Kelso Cochrane was attacked and murdered on his way home to his home in North Kensington, Notting Hill in West London. The 32 year old Antiguan carpenter was set upon by a group of white youths just a short distance from the bedsit that he shared with his fiancé Olivia. Despite evidence to …
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52 year old Phillip Saunders owned several newsagent kiosks around Cardiff city centre. On the evening of October 12th 1987 he completed his daily routine by collecting the takings from his kiosk near the Central Bus Station. After a quick drink in a local pub he headed by car back to his home in nearby Canton. As he walked from the car into his ga…
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21st March 1972, in hot rural Queensland it was sports day at North Mackay High. 14 year old Marilyn Wallman set off on her push bike just before 7.45am to catch the bus to school. The teenager never made it to the stop. Her two younger brothers, who had left the house 10 minutes later, found her bike discarded on the side of the road, 800m from ho…
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Kayo Matsuzawa had always wanted to travel overseas. In November 1997 she finally got her wish and left her home in Japan for a year-long visit to Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island. Ten months into her stay, on 11th September 1998, the 29 year old flew to Auckland on the North Island for a short break. Kayo booked into a hostel and set out…
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Every Father’s Day the males in the Martin family would head to the Smoky Mountains National Park for a weekend of camping and hiking. The weekend of the 14th June 1969 was to be the first such trip for 6 year old Dennis, who was very excited about the little adventure. At the campsite Dennis, together with his older brother Douglas and two friends…
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It was a damp August evening in 1925 when 21 year old Iris Watkins made her way to the post box at the end of the lane. The two letters that she posted made it to their destination the next day, but Iris never returned home. The small South Wales town of Blackwood became a hive of activity, with many locals joining in the search and the community f…
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The last official sighting of Yvonne Fitt was on 16th January 1992 when she signed on for benefits at the Bradford DSS offices. Following this the 33 year old single mother seemed to drop off the face of the earth. Over the late spring and summer of that year a few sporadic sightings of Yvonne were reported around Leeds and Bradford, sometimes in t…
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It was a Saturday afternoon in October 1965 and 14 year old Elsie Frost spent it as she had many others before; sailing on Horbury Lagoon in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. At around four o’clock in the afternoon she moored the boat and said goodbye to her instructor to make her way home on foot. The teenager hadn’t gone far when she was attacked and mu…
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It was a rainy March evening in the Tiger Bay area of Cardiff. 41 year old Lily Volpert was sitting down to her evening meal when there was a knock at the shop door. It had been a long day serving customers but she didn’t like letting people down and besides, 1952 had been a tough year so far and every penny counted. She headed back into the front …
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Svetlana Stepanova was enjoying a leisurely walk to the beach with her sister and friend when in the blink of an eye the trio found themselves in a living nightmare. In a matter of seconds Svetlana was attacked and murdered, after lagging just a short distance behind her companions. The death of the 19 year old would would expose further crimes and…
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It should have been a happy day. The 28th November 1981 saw the Lee family, celebrating the second birthday of their youngest daughter, Katrice. The Lees lived in West Germany as Richard, Katrice’s Father, was stationed there with the British Army. A party was planned later that day but first they needed some supplies from the British Forces superm…
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