Another Cold One

Philip Onyancha, 32, was arrested on kidnapping charges, and then proceeded to confess to killing 17 people, mainly women. He said he was recruited into a cult while at school by a teacher, who told him to kill 100 people and drink their blood for good fortune. Having a troubled and tramatic past as well as a major medical condition it is tough to pinpoint whether this is simply a deranged man, or the work of the occult.

Over a week-long period almost 62 years, the peaceful existence of the little Provençal town of Pont-Saint-Esprit in the Gard department was shattered by a catastrophic series of events where the entire settlement seemed to be overcome by insanity. The final tally was a grim: 5 people dead and more than 30 hospitalised, with over 300 sick people. What started as a seemingly normal but severe series of cases of mass food poisoning ended a few days later with a night of pure madness and scenes of hallucination.

Kirsty Marianne Bentley was a teenager living in Ashburton, New Zealand, who went missing while walking her family dog on the afternoon of 31 December 1998. After an extensive search lasting several weeks, her body was found in dense scrub approximately 40 km away placed in a fetal position and clothed. Special care was taken to preserve the body, and the father never had an alibi. Yet this remains one of New Zealand's most high profile unsolved cases.

The deaths of these five boys is shrouded in mystery and intrigue ranging from the actual search for these bodies, to their final moments, and the actual cause of death. The area where their bodies were found was searched over 500 times, and was a mountain well known to the boys. This case is not for the faint of heart, and neither is searching for frog eggs on Mount Waryong.

On June 3, 1995, a young woman was found dead at the Plaza Hotel in Oslo, Norway. She had been shot once through the head, the pistol in her hand indicating a clear case of suicide. Indeed, that’s exactly what the death was ruled. However, in a case that has eerie echoes of the Isdal Woman and Somerton Man affair, all the labels had been removed from her clothing and there were whispers of organised crime and international espionage at every turn. 25 years later, investigators may be about to find out the truth behind the woman in Room 2805, putting an end to one of the biggest mysteries in the history of Norwegian crime.

Despite over 20,000 people interogated, and multiple books being written Marie Lock Hansen's murder is unsolved with over a dozen workable theories. Almost every person in the town where this crime was committed has their own theory and evidence ranging from soviet spys to poisoned sausages to a love affair. Come listen and build your own theory as we talk about what could be the perfect crime.

The Another Cold One boys return from a hiatus this week with a new concept, and another chilling new case. Join us as we talk about the new, original, and exciting concept for the podcast while reporting on a cold case you haven't heard anyone else talk about. The Green Bicycle Case is one of the UK's most analyzed and controversial murder cases of the 20th century, this story sees a young woman going on a bike ride on a beautiful day in England where she would meet a strange man on an iconic Green Bicycle, as the story so often goes, she would unfortunately never be seen alive again. Her fresh corpse was found in the middle of the road, with a solitary bullet wound to her head. Despite both the disposed bike and murder weapon being found and traced to a single suspect, the case remains unsolved. What happened that fateful day, and what is the deal with that bike?

Valentich, a trainee pilot went out for one of his first solo flights at night. What should've been a routine evening in the skies, saw him flying into the sunset only to never be seen again. No major wreckage was ever found, and multiple UFO sightings were called in at the exact same time and place of his last radio transmission in which he mentioned seeing a large flying object overhead...

Mateusz was on his way to the hospital from work to support his wife in welcoming their first child when he suddenly disappeared. The family worked with police to find him, but there was no sign of him or his car. That is until six months later when his corpse was found rotting in his parents barn...