The Unseen Podcast

The Unseen Podcast

Host: The Unseen Podcast

A Podcast dedicated to UK missing people and unresolved cases.

Episodes

Zigmund Adamski
01October 19, 2025 5:30am

Zigmund Adamski

On June 11th 1980, a man was found lay on top of a coal pile in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. The man was 56 year old Zigmund Adamski who lived in Wakefield, 38 miles away. His death was full of so many odd aspects and questions that led some …

Zoe Simpson
02September 21, 2025 5:00am

Zoe Simpson

In October 1996, 24 year old Zoe Simpson disappeared from her home in Longsight, Manchester. She left behind her clothes, any money she had, along with her two young children. There have been no sightings of her since then and police are no…

Janet Murgatroyd
03August 24, 2025 5:00am

Janet Murgatroyd

The 15th of June 1996 was a memorable day for many people in the UK. The country was hosting the Euro football championships with England and Scotland playing against each other that day as well as the tragic IRA bomb that detonated in Manc…

Jacqueline Thomas
04August 03, 2025 5:00am

Jacqueline Thomas

On August 18th 1961, 15 year old Jacqueline Thomas went to a funfair with her sister in a suburb of Birmingham. She did not return and her body was found in some long grass a week later, she had been murdered. Her case would be extensively …

Davina Mcmillan
05July 20, 2025 5:00am

Davina Mcmillan

In December 1993, 36 year old Davina McMillan was reported missing from her home in Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire. She left behind her four year old daughter with no message or indication as to where she was going. In 2025, she is still m…

Jacqueline Johns
06June 29, 2025 5:00am

Jacqueline Johns

On October 1st 1973, workers close to Battersea power station found the nude body of 16 year old Jacqueline Johns by a railway siding. She had attended a wedding two days before her body was found. She never made it home. Despite 52 years p…

Peter Rasini
07June 15, 2025 5:00am

Peter Rasini

On the 24th of March 1991, 44 year old Peter Rasini was found on the doorstep of his home in Palmers Green, North London. Despite witnesses giving a description of the killer, no one has been brought to justice for his murder.Important info…

Cheryl Shackleton
08June 08, 2025 5:00am

Cheryl Shackleton

On February 3rd 1991, 34 year old Cheryl Shackleton was found dead in Telegraph Hill Park in South London. She was far away from her home in Nelson in Lancashire. To the present day, her case is still unsolved.Important information provided…

Edmund Simpson
09May 11, 2025 5:00am

Edmund Simpson

On the 9th August 1982, 58 year old Edmund Simpson was working in the book shop that he had been working in for the past 36 years in Manchester city centre. His friend and partner found him in a pool of blood in the mid afternoon after he h…

Camille Gordon
10April 27, 2025 5:00am

Camille Gordon

On the 1st of March 2004, 23 year old Camille Gordon was working at the Blue Bunny club in Soho to fund her studies to become a nursery assistant. At just after 7pm, she was fatally stabbed in the doorway. The killer has never been brought …

Andrew Bedford
11April 12, 2025 4:00am

Andrew Bedford

On September 28th 1990, 27 year old Andrew Bedford left his home in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire and did not return despite telling his girlfriend he would be home that night. Andrew has still never been found and the police believe that somethin…

Jimming Zhang
12March 16, 2025 6:00am

Jimming Zhang

On February 9th 2022, a man entered a flat in Digbeth in Birmingham and stabbed 41 year old Jimming Zhang. He died from the fatal wounds and despite an extensive investigation by West Midlands police and obtaining a DNA profile, the killer …

Joy Hewer
13March 09, 2025 6:00am

Joy Hewer

On the 17th of October 1995, 52 year old Joy Hewer had spent the day helping out at a Christian mission in Walthamstow in London where she was a volunteer. That night Joy would be found murdered in her home. Why had someone committed this c…

Phillip Nickson
14March 02, 2025 5:00am

Phillip Nickson

On November 6th 1985, 32 year old Phillip Nickson headed out to do his shopping in Stoke Newington, London. He never returned as on the short walk he suffered a violent blow to the head which killed him. There is very little information abo…

Freda Green and the Wark Forest man
15February 16, 2025 5:00am

Freda Green and the Wark Forest man

Today we are covering two appeals: Freda Green who has been missing since 2nd April 1972 and The Wark Forest man who has been unidentified since 1990. Both cases have had recent new appeals and are important to cover.Important information p…

Caroline Harris-Reed
16February 09, 2025 5:00am

Caroline Harris-Reed

On April the 8th 1981, 22 year old Caroline Harris- Reed travelled to London to see her friend Catherine. While in Catherine's home, the two women were attacked and Caroline was killed. A suspect was taken to trial for the murder but was no…

Day 12- Iwona Kaminska
17January 01, 2025 6:00am

Day 12- Iwona Kaminska

Day 12 of 12 missing person episodes in December. On the 13th of July 2000, Iwona Kaminska travelled to her job in Hammersmith, London from her home in Wandsworth. She had only arrived in the UK 4 days earlier from her home country of Polan…

Day 11- Lester Mclennan
18December 31, 2024 9:00am

Day 11- Lester Mclennan

Day 11 of 12 days of missing person cases throughout December. On November 1st 2024, 20 year old Lester McLennan went to visit the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. He never returned to where he was staying in Belfast and despite his ba…

Day 10- Sonica Hans
19December 31, 2024 4:00am

Day 10- Sonica Hans

On the 26th of December 2012, 35 year old Sonica Hans left the flat in Bedford where she lived with her sister and brother in law. She was just nipping out to the shop but she never returned and hasn't been seen since. Important information…

Day 9 - Anthony Stammers
20December 30, 2024 4:00am

Day 9 - Anthony Stammers

On the 27th of May 2012, 27 year old Anthony Stammers left his home in Colchester to go and visit friends in London. He was due to attend his grandfather's funeral the next day but did not turn up. He hasn't been seen since.Important inform…

Day 8- Cathryn Holdsworth
21December 29, 2024 4:00am

Day 8- Cathryn Holdsworth

On the 9th of September 2017, 72 year old Cathryn Holdsworth went to her local Tesco supermarket in Halifax town centre. She got the bus home as usual. 10 days later her neighbour entered her home and found that she hadn't been there for se…

Day 7 - Margate man
22December 28, 2024 6:00am

Day 7 - Margate man

On the 24th of September 1996, a man checked in to the Jolly Roger guest house in Margate in Kent. He gave his name and only checked in with a carrier bag and no other luggage. He was later found deceased in the room 3 days later. Authoriti…

Day 6 - Matthew Reilly
23December 27, 2024 4:00am

Day 6 - Matthew Reilly

On January the 14th 1999, Matthew Reilly left his parents house in Barnstaple, Devon to go on his usual daily walk. He never returned though and his family have been searching for him ever since.Important information provided by: Matthew's …

Day 5 - Andrew Dill
24December 26, 2024 6:00am

Day 5 - Andrew Dill

On the 28th of April 2003, Andrew Dill got off a train at Birmingham New Street. A witness spotted him on the Soho Road area of the city next day and he continued to text his family for just under a month before he went missing. Were these …

Day 4 -James Harmon
25December 21, 2024 6:00am

Day 4 -James Harmon

On the afternoon of Saturday January the 24th 1998, 30 year old James Harmon left his girlfriend's home in Romford in Essex to go and see a friend. He never returned and his car was later found abandoned. Police now believe that James' disa…

Day 3 - Patricia Finnie
26December 17, 2024 1:00am

Day 3 - Patricia Finnie

Day 3 of 12 days of missing person episodes throughout December. On the 11th of May 2017, 64 year old Patricia Finnie went to visit a friend on Riviera Drive in Southend on Sea where she lived. She has not been seen or contacted anyone sinc…

Day 2 - Alan Murray
27December 09, 2024 9:00am

Day 2 - Alan Murray

Day 2 of 12 days of missing person episodes throughout December.On April 12th 2010, 64 year old Alan Murray left his home in Northfield in Birmingham and hasn't been seen since. He was considered vulnerable and left behind a son. His family…

Day 1-The Chorlton Mystery
28December 05, 2024 4:00am

Day 1-The Chorlton Mystery

In March 2024, a woman's body was recovered from the River Mersey close to Chorlton Water Park in South Manchester. This woman had no identifying belongings on her and Greater Manchester Police have since created a facial image reconstructi…

Stephanie Whittaker
29November 24, 2024 4:00am

Stephanie Whittaker

On the 23rd of March 1990, 34 year old mother of 3 Stephanie Whittaker left her home in Newport to go out with friends. Her journey was just a 10 minute walk down the road however she never made it. She hasn't been seen since. Important inf…

Herbert Wilkinson
30November 17, 2024 4:00am

Herbert Wilkinson

On October the 9th 1967, a decomposed body was found in a copse close to Middlewich in Cheshire. It was found to be Herbert Wilkinson who had gone missing in June of that year. His murder is still unsolved and many questions remain. Importa…

James Keltie
31November 10, 2024 4:00am

James Keltie

On the 11th January 1971, 52 year old James Keltie was found in the garage of his home. He had been bound, gagged and beaten in what officers believed was a robbery gone wrong. Despite a large investigation, his murder remains unsolved over…

Brian Hardwick
32October 20, 2024 4:00am

Brian Hardwick

On the 21st of November 2001, 50 year old Brian Hardwick was found dead in the garage in Huddersfield where he had worked for 23 years. Brian had no enemies and was loved by his family and those that he worked with. Since 2001, Brian's case…

Nigel Bostock
33October 13, 2024 4:00am

Nigel Bostock

On December the 20th 1986, 31 year old Nigel Bostock was found in his home. He had been strangled and stabbed in his own bathtub. There were many mysteries surrounding how this murder had happened, who could have committed it and even how. …

Patsy Morris
34September 22, 2024 4:00am

Patsy Morris

On the 16th of June 1980, 14 year old Patsy Morris left Feltham Comprehensive school in West London and disappeared. Her family and police searched for her and 2 days later she was found murdered on Hounslow Heath. Despite possible connecti…

Douglas Mortimer
35September 15, 2024 4:00am

Douglas Mortimer

On December 3rd 1981, 44 year old Douglas Mortimer failed to turn up to meet his friends at his local social club in a suburb in Birmingham. His family haven't seen him since and there has been no trace of him or his car in the years that h…

Diana Maw
36September 08, 2024 4:00am

Diana Maw

When Diana Maw was found murdered outside her flat in Ealing in London in 1988, no one could understand why. Diana was responsible and professional and no one had a motive to kill her. Things would unfold however in a very different way and…

The Ballast Quay and Boston man
37June 30, 2024 4:00am

The Ballast Quay and Boston man

In 2011 and 2018, two men were discovered who have yet to be identified. There are several identifiable aspects of both of these people that could help someone to remember them or recognise them and their stories are so important.Important …

Phillip John Jones
38June 16, 2024 4:00am

Phillip John Jones

On the 24th of November 1987, 72 year old Phillip John Jones went for his usual sunday morning walk in Crynant in the Welsh Valleys. He did not return. His family and the police have been looking for him ever since and despite an extensive …

Patricia Lashley
39June 02, 2024 4:00am

Patricia Lashley

In September 1998, 33 year old Mum of 7 Patricia Lashley disappeared from her home in Dudley in the West Midlands. Her disappearance did not raise concerns until nobody had heard from her by the next summer. Despite police searches and appe…

Beverley Trendall
40May 26, 2024 4:00am

Beverley Trendall

On the 29th of November 1984, 37 year old Beverley Trendall's body was found in flat in Northolt in West London. She had been stabbed through the heart and her personal diaries had been stolen. Who wanted to murder this private and reserved…