Unresolved
Every day, stories unfold that have no resolution. Unresolved is an immersive look at those stories, as host Micheal Whelan tries to determine why these stories - unsolved crimes and other unexplained phenomena - have no ending.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved--3266604/support.
Episodes
Thurston County Cat Killer
"Serial killers in the past have often been found to have started with animal torture."In October 2017, the mutilated body of a cat was found in a rural area outside of Olympia, Washington. At the time, people tried to explain it away. Mayb…
Phantom Clowns
“... to date, there are no confirmed reports of any clowns actually abducting, harming, or killing kids… There just aren’t. There are zero.”Do you remember when there were a bunch of clown sightings a few years back? It seemed like every we…
Preview: Resolved #24
This is a preview for the 24th episode of the Patreon-exclusive show Resolved. To access the rest of this episode - as well as the other bonus material available to supporters of Unresolved Productions - head on over to Patreon and help sup…
GirlsDoPorn (Update: August 2025)
There has been an update in the GirlsDoPorn story (episode #156 from 2020). In June 2025, Michael James Pratt pleaded guilty to sex trafficking charges. This follows guilty pleas from the rest of the conspirators linked to the site that was…
The University of Idaho Murders (Final Update)
There has been an update in the University of Idaho murder case (episode #226 from 2022). Following his admission of guilt, Bryan Kohberger has been sentenced to four life sentences for the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalvez, Xana K…
The Butcher Baker (Part Four: Unfinished)
“On this day we should only remember his many victims and all of their families... As far as Hansen is concerned, this world is better without him.” In August 2014, 75-year-old Robert Hansen took his last breath at a hospital in Anchorage, …
The Butcher Baker (Part Three: In Plain Sight)
"You can't r*** a prostitute, can you?"In the Fall of 1983, Robert Hansen was arrested after the daring escape of 17-year-old Cindy Paulson. With Paulson’s testimony and an FBI profile pointing squarely at Hansen, Alaska State Troopers obta…
The University of Idaho Murders (Update: July 2025)
There has been an update in the University of Idaho murder case (episode #226 from 2022). In July 2025, Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalvez, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. While final sentencin…
Bardstown: Crystal Rogers (Update - July 2025)
There has been an update in the story of Crystal Rogers (episode #8 from 2016 as well as episode #88 from 2019). In July 2025, ten years after she went missing, three men were convicted of conspiring to kill Crystal Rogers. One of the men c…
The Butcher Baker (Part Two: Catch & Release)
"Guys, I've got a map here... with a lot of X's."Just after 5:00 AM on 13 June 1983, police in Anchorage, Alaska arrive at a seedy motor inn on Gambell Street. Inside room 110 is a young girl huddled on the bed, barefoot, shivering, and sti…
The Butcher Baker (Part One: The Less Dead)
"Workers and drug dealers and dancers came and went, many with few ties to the state and no one to notice if they went missing..."In the early 1980s, a quiet pattern had begun to form: women were disappearing in the region surrounding Ancho…
D.B. Cooper
"Miss, you’d better look at that note. I have a bomb."In November 1971, a man in a suit boarded a flight from Portland to Seattle, calmly handed a note to a flight attendant, and claimed he had a bomb. He demanded $200,000 in cash, four par…
The Zone of Silence
"I don't believe in any nonsense... but I'll keep an open mind. Out here, who knows?"In July of 1970, an Athena RTV rocket was launched from Green River, Utah. Containing the radioactive element cobalt-57, the rocket was supposed to arc har…
Laura Howard
"We have no idea how many other victims are out there, past and present."In April 2013, relatives of 53-year-old Laura Howard began to grow concerned. She wasn't responding to any phone calls, and the tone of her text messages changed. It f…
The Dardeen Family
"I believe it was a very personal, deliberate thing."On 16 November 1987, the three-member Dardeen family returned to their rural home in Ina, Illinois after a weekend away. As Thanksgiving approached, 30-year-old Elaine, 29-year-old Keith,…
"The Buzzer" (UVB-76)
"There's absolutely no information in the signal."For decades now, an odd and mysterious audio signal has operated on the shortwave spectrum. Since the late 1970s, a strange pulsating sound has repeated at 4625 kilohertz. There is never a f…
The Lead Masks Case (Part Two: Seekers)
"I have no doubt they died of an experiment with psychic forces for which they were ill-prepared and which turned out to be fatal."By the end of 1967, the official investigation into the Lead Masks Case was brought to a close. The final pol…
The Lead Masks Case (Part One: Vintém Hill)
“16:30 be at the specified location. 18:30 ingest capsules, after effect protect metals await signal mask.”On 20 August 1966, a teenager was flying a kite on Vintém Hill, a rural location outside of Niterói, Brazil. He wasn't looking for an…
REWRITTEN HISTORY: How the Confederacy Won the Narrative (Post-Truth II)
Here is the second episode of Post-Truth. Make sure to subscribe to Post-Truth on your podcast app of choice to stay up to date on every new episode as it comes out. And if you want to get early access to new & bonus episodes, please suppor…
TEST SIGNAL: The First American Myth (Post-Truth I)
Hey y'all. Unresolved will return next week, but in the meantime, here is the first episode of the newest podcast from Unresolved Productions: Post-Truth. Hope you enjoy. If you do, please go and subscribe to Post-Truth on your podcast app …
Toyah Cordingley (Update: March 2025)
There has been an update in the story of Toyah Cordingley (episode #169 from 2021). In February 2025, 40-year-old Rajwinder Singh's trial for Toyah's 2018 murder began, leading to an unexpected outcome...Researched, written, hosted, and pro…
Toyah Cordingley (Re-Release)
"Finding her body has burnt an indelible image in my mind. It is something a father should never have to suffer."On the morning of 22 October 2018, family and friends of missing 24-year-old Toyah Cordingley would scour the area around Wange…
Susan & Jeffrey Klungness (Update)
There has been an update in the story of Susan & Jeffrey Klungness (episode #241 from 2023). This week, authorities in Pierce County announced that they were closing the case, having discovered remains belonging to Jeffrey Klungness back in…
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"... they don't say whether she's still alive or where she is or what her name is. They don't tell you anything but that she was a middle-aged woman who was inspired by God and God spoke to her, so she started speaking God's word."In Septem…
POST-TRUTH
Truth isn't dead - it's been rewritten.A corrupted broadcast. A signal breaking apart. An urgent message struggling to get through. Post-Truth is a new podcast that uncovers the moments in American history when facts were distorted, reality…
Deputy Jeffrey Mitchell
"OFFICER SHOT. WHITE CHEVY VAN. NO PLATE."In the early morning hours of 27 October 2006, Deputy Jeffrey Mitchell of the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office told dispatchers that he was pulling over a white Chevy van off of rural Highway 16. …
Lina Sardar Khil
"... it's baffling. I've never come across a case where someone just vanished. And we have no clue, no reports of where she might be or what might have happened to her. I've not come across a case like that."On the afternoon of Monday, 20 D…
Estrella Carrera (Update)
There has been an update in the story of Estrella Carrera (episode #222 from November of 2022). On Thursday, January 30th, 2025, agents with Mexico's FGR and Interpol announced that they'd detained Arnoldo Jimenez in Monterrey, Mexico...Res…
N-44 (Karel Novák)
"His personal details were never known to him, and he could only assume his origins based on a nameplate he had as a child."On 24 June 1955, a Czechoslovakian State Security Patrol detained an unknown man near the Slovak-Polish border. Carr…
Chip Campbell (Re-Release)
"At this point, I just want closure for the family... I just want to be able to bury my friend."When 36-year-old Chip Campbell vanished from his Florida home in 2016, his life was already spiraling out of control. His house was found in dis…
Bumble Bee Road Murders
"Do we believe that it was a random act and that there is a crazy person out there? Not necessarily. Can we rule it out? Not necessarily."In October 2003, 20-year-old Brandon Rumbaugh and 19-year-old Lisa Gurrieri were celebrating a milesto…
The Delphi Murders (Final Update)
There has been an update in the story of the Delphi Murders (episode #100 from May of 2019). On Friday, December 20th, Richard Allen was sentenced to 130 years in prison, bringing to a close the stories of Liberty German and Abigail William…
Holiday Special: Die Hard (Re-Release)
This is a re-release of the 2017 holiday special, in which I'm joined by a wonderful collection of podcast hosts as we try and determine whether or not Die Hard is, in fact, a Christmas movie. Happy Holidays! Become a supporter of this podc…
The Springfield Three (Part Five: "Closure")
"It's like those three missing girls from Springfield that still haven't been found... it's just been an ongoing thing."On 7 June 1992, Sherrill Levitt, 47, her daughter Suzanne Streeter, 19, and Suzanne’s friend Stacy McCall, 18, vanished …
The Springfield Three (Part Four: No End)
"All we could say is missing. There's no end. There's no end to that story."In November of 1995, the Missouri Violence Crime Support Unit finalized a review of Springfield P.D.'s investigation into the disappearance of Sherrill Levitt, Suza…
The Springfield Three (Part Three: Steven Garrison and the Galloping Goose)
"... we've run out of leads to work... there's just nothing coming in."In 1995, authorities decided to suspend the investigation into the disappearance of three women from Springfield, Missouri. This decision followed years of sporadic prog…
The Springfield Three (Part Two: 92-40169)
"I'm beginning to think they're probably at the bottom of a lake somewhere. If they were alive, I'm sure, surely by now, somehow they would have contacted us."In the days, weeks, and months following the disappearance of three women from Sp…
The Springfield Three (Part One: Disappeared)
"The only thing unusual about this house was that three women were missing from it. You had this feeling as you looked around that something was missing, that something had to be missing. But there wasn't. Just them."On the afternoon of Sat…
Room 1046 (Part Two: Artemus Ogletree)
"Love for ever - Louise"Throughout 1935, investigators in Kansas City struggled to not only determine the identity of the man calling himself "Roland T. Owen," but also had to untangle the strange circumstances that had led up to his death.…
The Delphi Murders (Update)
There has been an update in the story of the Delphi Murders (episode #100 from May of 2019). On Monday, November 11th, 2024, 52-year-old Richard Allen was convicted of killing both Liberty German and Abigail Williams...Researched, written, …