A podcast discussing mysteries and disappearances around the world.
Chris Churchill & Callum Wills
Macin Smith was a 17 year old boy who disappeared on the morning of September 1st 2015. Believed to be heading to school, he never made it in that morning. Despite multiple alleged sighting, he has not been found since. We discuss this case today and what may have occurred. We also say our goodbye's to what has been four series worth of unsolved discussion. We thank everyone who has taken the time to listen and follow along with us, we are forever grateful.
The Axeman of New Orleans was an unidentified American serial killer active in New Orleans, Louisiana, and surrounding communities, including Gretna, from May 1918 to October 1919. Thanks for joining us for our penultimate episode and we will be back next week for the final episode of the CC Unsolved podcast.
The Cash–Landrum Incident was an unidentified flying object sighting in the United States in 1980, which witnesses claimed was responsible for causing health and property damage. Uncharacteristically for such UFO reports, this resulted in civil court proceedings, though the case ended in a dismissal.
On the afternoon of 23 March 1988, Deborah Linsley was murdered on a train between Petts Wood and London Victoria stations in Greater London. Although there were about 70 people on the train, and Linsley apparently fought and injured her attacker, only one passenger reported hearing anything suspicious.
In an episode recorded before Christmas, we discuss the case of Tom Johnson. It begins with the sale of an expensive computer, leading to murder and a tragic outcome for poor Jeremy Rolfs and Heather Uffelman, who was the mysterious 'Tom Johnson?' and what were his motives?
As we return after a break, we cover the case of Branson Perry. Branson Perry is an American missing person who vanished under mysterious circumstances from his residence at 304 West Oak Street in Skidmore, Missouri. His disappearance received national media coverage.
Jason Anthony Jolkowski is an American man from Omaha, Nebraska who went missing while walking towards his former high school to meet a co-worker for a ride to work.
The Burger Chef murders took place at a Burger Chef restaurant in Speedway, Indiana, United States, on the night of Friday, November 17, 1978. Four young employees went missing in what was initially thought to be a petty theft of cash from the restaurant's safe.
Gloria Ramirez was a woman from Riverside, California, who was dubbed "the Toxic Lady" or "the Toxic Woman" by the media when several hospital workers became ill after exposure to her body and blood. She had been admitted to the emergency department while suffering from late-stage cervical cancer.
Our apologies as we are a week late with this one, in this one off special episode we sit down to discuss four spookier real life mysteries including The Green Man, the beast of Bodmin Moor, Spring Heeled Jack and The Mysterious Children of Woolpit. We hope you enjoy the episode and we'll be back to normal next week with a new case. Stay safe!
The Chicago Tylenol murders were a series of poisoning deaths resulting from drug tampering in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1982. The victims had all taken Tylenol-branded acetaminophen capsules that had been laced with potassium cyanide.
On October 27, 2007, 38-year-old Joel Lovelien and his fiance Heather donned costumes to attend a Halloween party at the Broken Drum lounge in North Dakota. At 11:30 PM, Joel went outside to answer a call on his phone, after returning to Heather to tell her he needed to help someone outside, he left the bar. Shortly afterward, he was found in the parking lot severely beaten and choked to death on his own blood.With a list of witnesses and suspects at the bar that night, we discuss what could have happened to Joel and how an evening that should have been a celebration ended so tragically.
Overtoun Bridge is a category B-listed structure over the Overtoun Burn on the approaching road to Overtoun House, near Dumbarton in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It was completed in 1895, based on a design by the landscape architect H. E. Milner.Since the 1950s, numerous reports of dogs either falling or jumping from the bridge have been reported. With the incidents often resulting in serious injury or death upon landing on the rocks some 50 ft (15 m) below, the bridge has been nicknamed the "Dog Suicide Bridge". Various explanations for these deaths have been proposed, ranging from natural accidents to paranormal activity.
For our series 4 opener, we discuss flight MH370. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was an international passenger flight operated by Malaysia Airlines that disappeared on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia to its planned destination, Beijing Capital International Airport.
The Dupont de Ligonnès murders and disappearance involved the murder of five members of the same family in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France, followed by the disappearance of the patriarch of the family, Xavier Pierre Marie Dupont de Ligonnès.Thanks for listening and your support, we will be back on October 9th for the Series 4 Premiere!
Though she lived alone, Army veteran, Kanika Powell, was intelligent and cautious, and not one to be easily victimized. On the evening of Saturday, August 22, 2008, a bizarre chain of events, which seem like something more befitting of a spy movie than reality, began with a knock at her apartment door...All credit to https://truenoirstories.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/kanika-powell/ for the report.
On the evening of November 18, 1987, police went to the mobile home of Russell Keith Dardeen, 29, and his family outside Ina, Illinois, United States, after he had failed to show up for work that day. There, they found the bodies of his wife and son, both brutally beaten. Keith was missing, and so a search began which turned up some upsetting results.Disclaimer: Please be advised this is a violent and disturbing case and may be upsetting to some listeners.
Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon were Dutch students who disappeared on 1 April 2014, while hiking the El Pianista trail in Panama. After an extensive search, portions of their bodies were found a few months later.
On August 20, 2010, Ben McDaniel, of Memphis, Tennessee, United States, was reported missing after employees in the dive shop at Vortex Spring, north of Ponce de Leon, Florida, noticed that his pickup truck had remained in the shop's parking lot for the previous two days.www.ccunsolved.com
In 2015, 32-year old Henry McCabe, a Liberian immigrant who worked as an auditor for the Minnesota Department of Revenue went out with friends for a night out as his wife was away with the children. Late that evening, his wife received a strange voicemail from Henry and the strange noises meant it was not clear what the message left was. Later that year, Henry's body was found in a lake with the cause of death ruled as accidental drowning. But what really happened?
Ursula Eriksson and Sabina Eriksson (born 3 November 1967) are Swedish twin sisters who came to national attention in the UK in May 2008. There are many twist and turns in this one, so we'll just let you listen and hear for yourself what unfolded that year.As always, thank you for all your support!
The Alphabet Murders (also known as the Double Initial Murders) are an unsolved series of child murders which occurred between 1971 and 1973 in Rochester, New York. All three victims were girls aged ten or eleven whose surname began with the same letter as that of her first name.
In June 2006, Yoon-hee Lee, then 29 years-old Veterinarian Student at Jeonbuk National Univeristy, was at a party at a local bar with rest of her colleagues and some of the professors after making it through second-to-last semester at the school. The party lasted all night, and winded down around 06/06 at 2:30 AM. Her place was about 1.5 km (.9 miles) from the bar, about 30 min away, and the last time any of them saw Youn-hee was her leaving the bar with Hwang, one of the colleagues who lived close to her and offered her to walk her home.
This week on the podcast we discuss these mysterious disappearances. Three women disappeared in broad daylight while relaxing on the beach at Indiana Dunes State Park in Porter County Indiana on July 2, 1966. What was supposed to be a celebration of America's independence and freedom, turned to a massive manhunt. New episodes on Sundays at 8.00pm GMT.Find us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
The Peter Bergmann case pertains to the mysterious death of an unidentified man in Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland, on or around 16 June 2009. The man, using the alias "Peter Bergmann", had checked into the Sligo City Hotel on 12 June, where he stayed during the majority of his visit to Sligo.Find us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
Dennis Lloyd Martin is an American child who disappeared on June 14, 1969 in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee at the age of six. The search effort was the most extensive in the park's history, involving approximately 1,400 searchers and a 56-square-mile area.Find us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
Back in 1976, residents of Circleville, Ohio began receiving threatening handwritten letters detailing personal information about their lives. The letters then continued for 25 years all the while resulting in a suspicious death, an attempted murder, and a possible wrongful conviction. So, who really wrote the infamous Circleville Letters?Find us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
Martin Allen is a British teenager who mysteriously disappeared on 5 November 1979. No trace of Allen has been found and his fate remains unknown.. At around 3:50pm, he said goodbye to some school friends at King's Cross station and set off in the direction of the Piccadilly line platform to travel home. Initial reports state that this was the last confirmed sighting of Allen. Later reports state that he came home around 5pm as witnessed by his brother, Kevin, but went straight out again.Find us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
Luke Durbin disappeared during the early hours on Friday 12 May 2006 from Ipswich, Suffolk. Durbin vanished after a night out with friends and was reported missing by his mother on the afternoon of Saturday 13 May 2006. Find us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
Corrie McKeague went missing in the early hours of 24 September 2016 in the Bury St Edmunds area of Suffolk, England. Before disappearing, he worked as a Royal Air Force Regiment gunner. McKeague was last seen, on town centre CCTV footage, entering a cul-de-sac which contained a number of wheelie bins.First released CCTV footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CucZDlUXhQ0Second released CCTV footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQeg4dz-nggFind us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
This week we discuss the mysterious disappearance of Thelma Pauline "Polly" Melton, who vanished while hiking with friends on September 25, 1981.Find us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder residence in Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States. At the time, it was occupied by George Sodder, his wife Jennie, and nine of their ten children. During the fire, George, Jennie, and four of the nine children escaped. The bodies of the other five children have never been found. The surviving Sodder family believed for the rest of their lives that the five missing children survived. But did they? here we discuss the case in more detail and give our thoughts.Find us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
The Yuba County Five were all young men from Yuba City, California, United States, all with mild intellectual disabilities or psychiatric conditions, who attended a college basketball game at California State University, Chico. On the night of February 24, 1978. Four of them—Bill Sterling, 29; Jack Huett, 24; Ted Weiher, 32; and Jack Madruga, 30—were later found dead; the fifth, Gary Mathias, 25, has never been found.Find us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
For our series 3 opener, we discuss famous journalist Jill Dando's unsolved murder. Jill Wendy Dando was an English journalist, television presenter and newsreader. She spent most of her career at the BBC and was the corporation's Personality of the Year in 1997. At the time of her death, her television work included co-presenting the BBC One programme Crimewatch with Nick Ross.Find us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
For our series 2 finale we are discussing Jennifer Kesse. Jennifer Kesse is an American woman from Orlando, Florida, who has been missing since January 23, 2006. Shortly after she vanished, Kesse's car was discovered parked around a mile from her home. Security footage recorded a person parking Kesse's car and walking away; the person could not be identified due to poor camera quality and the person's face and any distinguishing physical features being obscured. The case received local and national press attention. So far no arrests have been made and Kesse's whereabouts remain unknown. Thanks to all for listening and supporting us over the last two series. We will now be taking a two week break and will return for Series 3 on Sunday 17th April.CCTV of the person of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUwhUPGXeUEFind us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
Terri 'Missy' Bevers was an American fitness instructor who was brutally killed in Creekside Church in the early hours April 18th 2016 as she was setting up a class. Her killer, clad in a SWAT uniform and captured on CCTV, has never been identified. We give our thoughts on another tragic case whilst contemplating who this murderer could be and what their motive was.CCTV; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQuTLqDNQjU&ab_channel=GumshoeStoriesFind us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
Natalee Ann Holloway was an 18-year-old American woman whose mysterious disappearance made international news after she vanished on May 30, 2005, near the end of a high school graduation trip to Aruba in the Caribbean. Throughout the investigation, one name gets repeatedly mentioned, Joran Van Der Sloot. Known as the main suspect, he has many versions of what happened to Natalie, but are any of them close to the truth? Join us as we discuss the disappearance.Find us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
The disappearance of Trevaline Evans is a missing persons case from 1990, concerning a 52-year-old woman who vanished without trace from her antiques shop in Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom.www.ccunsolved.com
Shortly after midnight on May 14, 2008, Brandon Swanson of Marshall, Minnesota, United States, drove his car into a ditch on his way home from celebrating the end of the spring semester with fellow students from Minnesota West Community and Technical College's Canby campus. Uninjured, he got out and called his parents on his cellphone. Unsure of his exact location, he told them he believed he was near Lynd, and they drove out to pick him up; however, they were unable to locate him. Swanson remained on the phone with them until he went silent 47 minutes later after exclaiming "Oh, shit!" He has not been seen or heard from since.Find us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
Callum is back and we go a little different this week as we discuss the Flannan Isle Lighthouse mystery. The mystery of Flannan Isle Lighthouse was first discovered when the steamer Anchtor made note in its log that the light was not working in bad weather conditions. This was further confirmed when the relief vessel Hesperus arrived at the island, and found the island in a mysterious state of disarray and the three men tasked with manning the lighthouse had also mysteriously disappeared.Find us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
This week we take a look at the UK case of Chad Gibson. Chad Gibson, then 32, was last seen on December 19, 2015 in Newquay, Cornwall. He was in a pub with a friend but left around 6 p.m. after apparently having a confrontation with a group of men over a woman he had recently met. He was last seen on CCTV after leaving the pub just before 6pm. This is the last known sighting of Chad. Our thoughts go out to his heartbroken mother, we hope that one day she can find answers. Join us as we take a more in depth look at the events that evening.Credit to Reddit user Mertzon for the report.Find us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
Amy Lynn Bradley is an American woman who went missing during a Caribbean cruise on the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas in late March 1998 at the age of 23 while en route to Curaçao. Her whereabouts remain unknown as of this day.Callum is off this week so Emma joins the discussion regarding the possible theories and we give our own thoughts.Credit to thehueandcry.com for the report- Apologies for any interference near the end of the episode, not sure why there were technical issues towards the end.Find us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
This week on the podcast we are discussing Brian Shaffer, a medical student and Ohio State University. On the night of March 31, 2006, Shaffer went out with friends to celebrate the beginning of spring break; later he was separated from them and they assumed he had gone home. However, a security camera near the entrance to a Columbus bar recorded him briefly talking to two women just before 2 a.m., April 1, and then apparently re-entering the bar without any evidence of him leaving the area. Shaffer has not been seen or heard from since. Police have several theories about what happened, Sunday night we give our thoughts on what may or may not have occurred that night.Find us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com
This week on the podcast, we are discussing the case of Nicholas Barclay, aged 13 at the time he went missing, was last seen playing basketball with his friends in his home town of San Antonio, Texas, on 13 June 1994. Barclay never made it home and has not been seen or heard from since. In 1997 however, a boy in Linares, Spain claimed to be Nicholas Barclay and was promply flown to the USA to reunite with his family. But was this really Nicholas? Or an imposter? Join us as we give our thoughts on a very unique and incredible case.Credit to QuinnZaneAuthor on Reddit for the report.Check out our new website at ccunsolved.com
D. B. Cooper is a media epithet used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in United States airspace between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on the afternoon of November 24, 1971. He extorted $200,000 in ransom and parachuted to an uncertain fate over southwestern Washington. Here we look at how exactly he did it and what we think happened to D.B Cooper.Find us on our socials;Website: www.ccunsolved.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccunsolved/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccunsolvedTwitter: https://twitter.com/ccunsolvedEmail: ccunsolved@gmail.com