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What makes a case remain unsolved long after the first questions were asked? Mystery Stories and Unsolved Cases explores puzzling events that continue to resist a clear explanation and the...
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What makes a case remain unsolved long after the first questions were asked? Mystery Stories and Unsolved Cases explores puzzling events that continue to resist a clear explanation and the details that keep those mysteries alive.
We follow the evidence without forcing an answer where none is confirmed. As you listen with us, you can examine the gaps that matter and see how one overlooked detail can change the way an entire case is understood.
We publish new episodes daily so you can return to another mystery that still leaves room for doubt. Each episode gives you a new chance to consider what is known and what remains uncertain while following the clues with us.
Some cases stay open because the missing piece has never been found. Others remain unresolved because the truth may be hidden inside details that once seemed unimportant, and with us you can keep looking for the clue that changes everything.
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We follow the evidence without forcing an answer where none is confirmed. As you listen with us, you can examine the gaps that matter and see how one overlooked detail can change the way an entire case is understood.
We publish new episodes daily so you can return to another mystery that still leaves room for doubt. Each episode gives you a new chance to consider what is known and what remains uncertain while following the clues with us.
Some cases stay open because the missing piece has never been found. Others remain unresolved because the truth may be hidden inside details that once seemed unimportant, and with us you can keep looking for the clue that changes everything.
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30 SEP 2026 · The Badge That Shouldn't Exist: How Shelby Creek Lied to Killers
A laminated badge found on a murder victim’s chest in 1973 carried a name and a lamination date stamped December 4, 1973 - almost eleven months after the body was discovered. How could a badge that could not have existed be placed on Patricia Bishop, and what hidden records finally unraveled the lie?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from Patricia Bishop’s last drive to work to the moment a detective pulled a decades-old employment record and noticed one small, decisive line. The episode traces the unusual clue of a Shelby Creek Municipal Water Authority badge and asks: who used access to the water authority to disguise a killer?
Person: Patricia Bishop
Date: January 14, 1973
Location: Shelby Creek
Item: Laminated badge - Name: Donald Pratt
Record discovery: 2003
- Patricia Bishop was 54 years old and had lived in Shelby Creek for 19 years.
- Her body was found on a frozen lot by Kenneth Tucker on the morning of January 14, 1973.
- The badge on her chest read Donald Pratt and had a lamination stamp dated December 4, 1973.
- Thomas Edwards ran Edwards Maintenance Services and held the contract for maintenance at the Shelby Creek Municipal Water Authority.
- Detective Lloyd Sullivan noticed the badge’s lamination date while reviewing the case file in 2003 after Beth Sandoval’s digitization project. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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29 SEP 2026 · Skull in the Clay: The 32‑Year Secret on Cellar Road
A skull sitting upright in fresh clay, forty feet from a construction road, waited thirty-two years for someone to notice - and the photograph that finally did exposed an unexamined maintenance contract, an unopened evidence bag, and a missing college student. How did a reddish soil sample and a name in a county file outlive every lead, and who knew more than they told?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of discoveries from the morning a passerby found a skull to the detective who reopened boxed files and cross‑checked land records, following the trail that raises the question: what thread did the original investigation miss that connects a farm, a maintenance contractor, and Kelly Berry's disappearance?
Person: Kelly Berry
Date: Last seen December 17, 1991
Location: Fenwick Market parking lot; skull found December 4, 2023 on Cellar Road Bypass Extension
Evidence: Reddish clay vacuumed from driver's side floor mat and later found in an evidence bag
Investigation: Original file contained more than sixty interviews; lead Detective James Corbin
- The skull was discovered facing east in fresh clay forty feet from the edge of a construction road.
- Brenda Graham photographed the skull on the morning of December 4, 2023 after noticing something pale on a raw clay embankment.
- Kelly Berry was last seen saying goodnight at approximately 10:15 PM on December 17, 1991 after leaving Fenwick Market.
- A reddish soil sample was vacuumed from the driver's side floor mat of Kelly’s 1988 Dodge Hatchback on the morning after her disappearance and was never analyzed.
- Holt Property Services held a seasonal maintenance contract with landowner Roy Durbin from 1989 through 1993; Robert Holt had worked at Fenwick Market until September 1991. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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28 SEP 2026 · The Forgotten Tape That Sent a Killer to Prison After 33 Years
A single four-minute twenty-second microcassette sat untouched in a detective's box for thirty-three years while the wrong man lost everything; a fleece-lined brown glove, a porch light still on at 6:17 a.m., and a utility vehicle "on and off" in the alley were all recorded in the files. Who made the April ninth, 1983 call to the Water Authority that preceded a witness recantation and ultimately reopened the case?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of evidence pulled from old canvass notes, employment records, and the microcassette that changed the investigation's course. Listen for the detail that tied a parked vehicle, a recorded caller, and a recanted eyewitness together into a new line of inquiry.
Person: Paula Riley
Date: November 14, 1982
Location: Kellum Avenue
Case: Homicide by blunt-force trauma
Recording length: 4 minutes 20 seconds
- A single right-handed brown fleece-lined leather glove was found on top of an unread newspaper at 6:17 a.m, on November 14, 1982.
- Detective Raymond Purcell charged Terry Schiff in February 1983, then charges were dropped after two witnesses recanted in April 1983.
- A microcassette labeled with a phone call to the Water Authority on April 9, 1983, sat in Purcell's files for thirty-three years.
- Officer Jim Betz noted a utility vehicle parked in Kellum Alley "on and off for several days before the incident" in a November 15, 1982 canvass entry.
- Detective Valerie Armstrong listened to the April 9, 1983 tape twice, noted the caller asking about Frank Obert, and marked one word in her notes: "who". To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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27 SEP 2026 · The Purse in the Snow: How a Notary's Stamp Brought Her Home
Cold proof in deep snow: a burgundy leather handbag with a Missouri driver's license for Rebecca Ann York was found under 35 centimeters of compacted snow nine years after she vanished - and beside it a library card renewed weeks before her disappearance. How did documents bearing a notary's stamp help convince a county she had left when the paper trail said otherwise?
In this episode, we follow the case file from the morning Rebecca York was last seen to the discovery that reignited the investigation, outlining the key documents, the people involved, and the genealogist whose records search pulled on a thread that unraveled a decade-long assumption. What did the notary stamp and those three notarized documents really hide?
Person: Rebecca Ann York
Date: October 8, 2009 (last seen); February 11, 2019 (purse found)
Location: Millburn Road, Drennan County, Ohio
Case: Missing person filed October 2009; declared probable voluntary departure in 2013
Other Person: Wayne Casey
- Purse discovered by a snowplow operator at 7:14 AM on February 11, 2019, under 35 centimeters of compacted snow.
- Missouri driver's license inside purse identified as Rebecca Ann York with address on Millburn Road six-tenths of a mile away.
- Library card found beside license had a renewal sticker dated September 2009 and a note that she expected large-print mysteries in November.
- Three notarized documents dated October 6, 2009 (letter of intent, change-of-address, testamentary codicil) were presented by neighbor Wayne Casey.
- Roy Sefton, a mobile notary, acknowledged notarizing paperwork for Casey; Casey signed a lease on a climate-controlled storage unit in October 2009 and later transferred Rebecca's estate in 2011. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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26 SEP 2026 · The Harbor's Hidden Skeleton: Lobsterman Found Sealed in Wall
The calm of a Maine harbor hid a 23-year secret until Tropical Storm Bette peeled open a seawall and revealed a nearly complete male skeleton with bound wrists and a skull fractured from a single blunt strike-how did a lobsterman end up sealed inside masonry mixed for a harbor project? Who used the project's own materials to bury him and why was the death ruled an accidental drowning for decades?
In this episode, we follow the facts uncovered at Carvell Cove: the discovery, the forensic details, the 1996 harbor project, and the ledger entry that reopened the case-what does the evidence suggest about who had the access, the materials, and the motive?
Person: Duane R. Hansen
Date (disappearance): September 7, 1996
Discovery date: September 4, 2019
Location: Carvell Cove harbor wall, mid-coast Maine
Status: Previously ruled accidental drowning; skeleton identified with bound wrists
- Skeleton found in a cavity four feet across and three feet deep inside the seawall.
- Orange nylon dock line looped twice and knotted bound the wrists of the skeleton.
- Commercial fishing license issued to Duane R. Hansen, expiration October 1996, recovered in left rear pocket.
- Skull showed a single fracture at the base consistent with one blunt-force impact from behind.
- Contractor Richard Norris recorded a $1,200 "materials cost" entry on September 9, 1996, in his business ledger with no supplier or invoice. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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25 SEP 2026 · Watch Stopped at 11:47: The Jar That Reopened a Murder
The discovery of a mason jar on a roadside marker in August 2022 held a crisp 1991 document and a Seiko watch stopped at 11:47 - items impossible to have sat there for three decades on a marker installed in 2016. Why did a watch stopped at a specific minute resurface evidence that would unravel a thirty-one-year-old suicide ruling?
In this episode, we present the timeline and key discoveries that led detectives to reopen a closed case, tracing the missing complaint, the crossed-out note in the original file, and the links between a landlord's observation and a mysterious visitor at the victim's door. How did those details change the story investigators accepted in 1991?
Person: Kevin Richardson
Date: August 17, 1991
Location: apartment where Kevin was found
Case: initially ruled suicide after 23 days of investigation
Detective: Iris Navarro reopened the case in 2022
- The jar was found by Linda Farrell at 6:00 AM on August 14, 2022 on a concrete drainage marker installed in 2016.
- Inside the jar was a document dated August 9, 1991 and a Seiko wristwatch with hands stopped at 11:47.
- Kevin Richardson was 48 years old in summer 1991 and had worked 11 years at Portsmith Community Health Clinic.
- Kevin filed a Bureau of Indian Affairs complaint on August 9, 1991 and planned to hand-deliver it on August 20, 1991; the complaint was not found in his apartment after his death.
- Original lead Detective Thomas Bellew closed the case in 23 days; a blue-pened line in his file noted "Garza - no gas insp, scheduled. Unknown man w/toolbox, Aug 14" which had been crossed out. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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24 SEP 2026 · The Dry Shoe on Birchmore Lane: What It Hid for 31 Years
A dry pink canvas sneaker with a hand-drawn yellow daisy and a folded $400 bill tucked under the insole sat alone on a concrete platform two nights after a storm - and the house behind it had been empty for weeks. Thirty-one years later a partial fingerprint from that scene finally gets run through the right database, but what did the shoe, the money and the empty house really hide?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from the morning the shoe was found to the disappearance and return of seven-year-old Megan Murphy, the anonymous $8,000 demand, and the overlooked decisions that shaped the investigation - could one small, dry shoe change everything about what was missed?
Person: Megan Murphy
Date: June 22, 1991
Location: Ridgemont subdivision, Denton, Ohio
Event: Disappearance and return (13 days)
Amount: $8,000 demand in plain paper note
- The shoe found on July 14, 1991 was a size five pink canvas sneaker with a yellow daisy drawn on the toe.
- Under that shoe’s insole were four $20 bills totaling $400, folded flat against the sole.
- Megan Murphy, age seven, disappeared from her front yard on June 22, 1991 and came home thirteen days later.
- An unpostmarked plain white-paper note demanding $8,000 was left in the Murphy mailbox two days after Megan disappeared, with a specific park, table, night, and an underlined warning.
- On July 3, Dennis Murphy withdrew $8,400 from two accounts at First Federal Savings - $8,000 plus an extra $400. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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23 SEP 2026 · The Barn Watch: 17 Years, One Key, A Ruled Accident Reopened
A perfectly preserved Seiko watch, hands stopped at 10:02, is found in the dirt of a barn that had been locked and vacant for 17 years - and it is registered to a woman from a neighboring county who reported it stolen in 1993. How did a stolen watch from Garvin Township end up on a Pennock County property sealed since 1994, and what question in a 1994 file finally needs answering?
In this episode, we walk through the chain of events tied to a single object and the old accidental-death ruling it unsettled. We cover the discovery, the tied reports from two counties, and the one overlooked sentence about a lent key that sat dormant for nearly two decades - could that key be the missing link?
Person: Holly Anne Taylor
Date: June 9, 1994
Location: Sentinel Creek Road farmhouse
Status: Death ruled accidental
Item: Seiko watch found June 14, 2011
- The watch was found in the dirt near a water trough in a barn on Sentinel Creek Road on June 14, 2011.
- The barn property had been locked and vacant since 1994, the year Holly Taylor died.
- The watch face was oval with a brown leather strap, crystal unscratched, hands stopped at 10:02.
- The Seiko watch was registered to Patricia Owens of Garvin Township and was reported stolen in October 1993.
- Neighbor Linda Marsh noted in her 1994 statement that Holly had lent a key to a contractor earlier that spring. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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22 SEP 2026 · The Brass Key: How One Odd Clue Broke a Cold Murder
A dead woman found with a brass key standing upright between her fingers - a detail so precise it froze a passerby and haunted investigators for nearly twenty years. The key matched no lock, the car had a punctured tire with an intact valve stem, and the time of death placed her alive hours after her last normal phone call; who put the key there and why did the case stall for decades?
In this episode, we tell the story of Amanda Foster’s disappearance and death, the early leads and missteps, and the one overlooked clue that changed everything - could a pawn receipt and a dusty evidence box finally answer what happened between May 9 and May 14, 2001?
Person: Amanda Foster
Date: May 14, 2001 (body discovered); May 9, 2001 (last phone call)
Location: Perch Creek Greenway, Vance Mills, North Carolina
Cause: Strangulation
Investigator: Detective Sergeant Frank Odle
- Amanda Foster was 46 years old and had worked at Kellner Fabric for 19 years.
- Her mustard-colored Buick was found abandoned on County Road Seven with a completely flat right rear tire on May 11, 2001, about 4 miles from the greenway.
- Time of death was estimated 10 to 14 hours before discovery, placing it on the evening of May 9, 2001.
- A brass hardware-store key was balanced upright between Amanda’s index and middle fingers and matched no known lock after canvassing three of four county hardware stores.
- Eddie Pruitt, seen near Kellner Fabric on May 8, was arrested May 22 but held 11 days then released due to no DNA, fibers, or fingerprints linking him to the body. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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21 SEP 2026 · The Calendar That Proved a Judge's "Suicide" Was Murder
A river returned a clean, unreadable-by-water leather calendar that belonged to a judge declared dead three days earlier, and on its April 7 page someone had written a name, a time, and the chilling order: "Do not log." How did that small, dry object survive the Marne and sit unnoticed in evidence for nineteen years while a cold case called a suicide stood? What did that entry mean, and who left it?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of discovered facts from April 2001 that were recorded, stored, and later re-examined: the state of the calendar when recovered, the courthouse routines that morning, the medical examiner’s time window, and a maintenance sign-in that contains a second, overlooked line. Could those details overturn the original ruling?
Person: Ronald Watson
Age: 28
Location: Calloway County courthouse, Illinois
Date found: April 6, 2001 (body); April 9, 2001 (calendar)
Status: Ruled suicide in August 2001; questioned later
- Watson was the youngest sitting judge in Calloway County, sworn in at age 27 and dead at 28.
- The calendar resurfaced from the Marne River on the morning of April 9, 2001, three days after the body was found.
- The calendar’s leather spine was intact, ribbon markers had no mud, and the ink on every page was readable.
- Paula Greer found Watson at his desk at 7:15 a.m. on April 6, 2001; the coffee machine was cold and the filter basket clean with no grounds.
- Howard McCarthy signed into the courthouse at 4:00 p.m. and out at 4:50 p.m. on April 5, 2001, but a second line on the sign-in sheet was overlooked. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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What makes a case remain unsolved long after the first questions were asked? Mystery Stories and Unsolved Cases explores puzzling events that continue to resist a clear explanation and the...
show more
What makes a case remain unsolved long after the first questions were asked? Mystery Stories and Unsolved Cases explores puzzling events that continue to resist a clear explanation and the details that keep those mysteries alive.
We follow the evidence without forcing an answer where none is confirmed. As you listen with us, you can examine the gaps that matter and see how one overlooked detail can change the way an entire case is understood.
We publish new episodes daily so you can return to another mystery that still leaves room for doubt. Each episode gives you a new chance to consider what is known and what remains uncertain while following the clues with us.
Some cases stay open because the missing piece has never been found. Others remain unresolved because the truth may be hidden inside details that once seemed unimportant, and with us you can keep looking for the clue that changes everything.
show less
We follow the evidence without forcing an answer where none is confirmed. As you listen with us, you can examine the gaps that matter and see how one overlooked detail can change the way an entire case is understood.
We publish new episodes daily so you can return to another mystery that still leaves room for doubt. Each episode gives you a new chance to consider what is known and what remains uncertain while following the clues with us.
Some cases stay open because the missing piece has never been found. Others remain unresolved because the truth may be hidden inside details that once seemed unimportant, and with us you can keep looking for the clue that changes everything.
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