Echoes of the Unknown
A podcast where we’ll be exploring some of the world’s most fascinating unsolved mysteries.
Episodes
The Final Party: Who Killed Donna Dustin?
In today's episode, we’re traveling to the close-knit suburban town of Bowie, Maryland, to explore a chilling crime that left an indelible scar on that community. This is the tragic story of the murder of a teenage girl named Donna Dustin f…
Cross-Continental Enigma: The Bizarre Murder of Blair Adams
In today's episode, we're traveling back to 1996, when a strange series of events unfolded that led to one of Canada's most perplexing unsolved murders. A young man from British Columbia was found dead — half naked and brutally battered — i…
The Unluckiest Footage Ever: Who Abducted Jennifer Kesse?
In today's episode, we’re traveling back to 2006 to delve into the disappearance in Orlando of a young woman named Jennifer Kesse. To this day, it remains one of the most baffling missing persons cases in modern American history. The only c…
Backcountry Farmhouse Mystery: What Happened to Brianna Maitland?
In today's episode, we’re delving into the mysterious disappearance of Brianna Maitland, which stands as one of Vermont's most perplexing cold cases. One March day two decades ago, the teenage girl's car was found abandoned in front of a co…
Silenced Secrets: The Mysterious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen
In today's episode, we're digging into the death of the trailblazing media figure Dorothy Kilgallen, which remains one of journalism's most compelling mysteries. She was found dead one morning in her Manhattan townhouse, her death the resul…
Campsite Nightmare: Double Murder at Staley Creek
In today's episode, we’re looking back at a haunting case from the emerald green woods of western Oregon. In July 2005, two respected educators — Jeanette Bauman and Steve Haugen — hiked into the pine forest for a peaceful weekend camping t…
Christmas Inferno: What Happened to the Sodder Children?
In today's episode, we're traveling back to Christmas Eve 1945, where we'll investigate the baffling disappearance of five children in Fayetteville, West Virginia. What started out as a festive holiday evening for the Sodder family was tran…
The Man Who Ran: The Baffling Disappearance of Lars Mittank
In today's episode, we’re traveling to a resort town on the Black Sea coast of northern Bulgaria, where a young German man named Lars Mittank was enjoying a summer vacation with friends. What followed is one of the strangest disappearances …
Liquid Gold: The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist
In today's episode, we’re plunging into a story that’s sticky, sweet, and criminally Canadian. We’re heading to the quiet forests of Quebec, where one of the strangest and most lucrative thefts in modern history took place. Not diamonds ...…
Halloween Horror: The Haunting Murder of Arpana Jinaga
In today's episode, we’re revisiting the haunting murder of Arpana Jinaga — a young woman whose life was brutally taken in her own apartment in Redmond, Washington, on Halloween night in 2008. This case represents one of the most perplexing…
Playground Mystery: The Abduction of Michael Dunahee
In today's episode, we’re revisiting one of Canada’s most heartbreaking and perplexing cold cases — the disappearance and presumed abduction of four-year-old Michael Dunahee. The young boy vanished without a trace from a playground in broad…
Justice Melts Away: The Yogurt Shop Murders
In today's episode, we’ll be traveling back more than three decades to revisit one of Austin's most heinous crimes. The 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders has long been seared into the city's collective memory. The deaths of four teenage girls had ri…
The News Anchor Who Vanished: What Happened to Jodi Huisentruit?
In today's episode, we’re diving into a chilling case that left an entire town on edge and continues to puzzle investigators 30 years later: the disappearance of Iowa news anchor Jodi Huisentruit. This is a story about ambition, community, …
Into the Fog: The Flannan Isles Lighthouse Mystery
In today's episode, we're setting sail for a place known as one of the loneliest places on Earth: a rocky island off the coast of Scotland, where three lighthouse keepers vanished without a trace. This story stands as one of Scotland's most…
Stalked to Death: The Haunting Mystery of Cindy James
In today's episode, we’re delving into one of Canada’s most perplexing and haunting cases: the bizarre death of Cindy James. On a warm June day in 1989, the 44-year-old nurse was found dead under circumstances so strange they seemed straigh…
Vanished Without a Trace: The Brian Shaffer Mystery
In today's episode, we’re diving deep into the mysterious disappearance in 2006 of Brian Shaffer, a 27-year-old medical student at Ohio State University who seemingly vanished into thin air. This case has haunted Columbus, Ohio, for nearly …
Chilled to the Bone: The Icebox Murders
In today's episode, we’ll be looking back at a grisly double murder that occurred in Texas one sweltering summer day in 1965. A gruesome discovery in a quiet Houston home sent shockwaves throughout the city. The Icebox Murders stands as one…
Crime of the Century: The Antwerp Diamond Heist
In today's episode, we’re investigating one of the greatest robberies in history — the 2003 Antwerp Diamond Heist. A break-in so elaborate, so brilliantly orchestrated, that it's been dubbed "the heist of the century." The thieves managed t…
Silent Screams: The Villisca Axe Murders
In today's episode, we’re revisiting one of America's most haunting unsolved murders. Some crimes are so brutal, and so confounding, that they transcend time. The Villisca Axe Murders are one such case. It's a story of a peaceful Iowa town …
Arctic Mystery: The Village That Vanished
In today's episode, we’re taking you to the vast, frozen wilderness of northern Canada — far from the bustling cities, deep into a remote area. This chilling story unfolds near Lake Anjikuni, one of several lakes located along the Kazan Riv…
The Torso Murders: The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run
In today's episode, we’re traveling back to the 1930s to explore a case that still sends shivers down spines — the unsolved mystery of the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. This is the story of one of America’s most elusive serial killers, a sp…
Secrets at the Dome: Who Murdered Michael Francke?
In today's episode, we’re traveling back to 1989, to a cold winter night in Salem, Oregon. That's when a man named Michael Francke - director of the Oregon Department of Corrections - was brutally murdered. This truly baffling case has no s…
Cold Clues: A Double Murder and a Disappearance
Today, we're presenting a special episode that will discuss two separate yet equally perplexing cases that have left communities searching for answers for many years. These intriguing mysteries - one a double murder and the other a disappea…
Silent Secrets: The Murder of William Desmond Taylor
In today's episode, we’re looking back at a famous case that’s one of Hollywood’s greatest unsolved crime puzzles — the murder of famed silent film director William Desmond Taylor. This case — full of scandal, cover-ups, and intrigue — has …
Frozen in Time: The Unsolved Murder of the Grimes Sisters
In this episode, we're digging into a case that has haunted Chicago for nearly 70 years — the unsolved murder of teenagers Barbara and Patricia Grimes. It’s a story of innocence lost, strange sightings, and a mystery that refuses to die. Th…
The Last Gamble: The Disappearance of Lord Lucan
In this podcast, we’re delving into an unsolved crime mystery that has haunted investigators for more than half a century. This strange story is filled with a multitude of cryptic clues that have left experts baffled to this day. The case i…