Detectives were about to seek an arrest warrant. The man they wanted had died two days earlier. How a rearview-mirror fingerprint and a piece of twine solved a 1962 double murder near Battle Ground, Washington. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
Two federal agents watched a black triangle rise silently over a western ridge. On thermal, it had no engine heat. The next morning, there was no trace. Inside the Pentagon’s seventh UFO file release. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
In September 2026, a 14-second video of lights over Tehran went viral. It surfaced almost exactly 50 years after Iranian fighter jets chased a UFO over the same city and lost their weapons. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
In 1960, an 8-year-old girl walking to church in Chicago never arrived. 65 years later, a fingerprint on her purse strap led to the killer: a former Chicago police detective.
A trail camera near El Paso caught something pale and hairless climbing a farm wall. A famous UFO investigator called it a predator. The authorities say no one ever reported it.
In 1982, someone laced painkiller capsules with cyanide and put them back on Chicago-area shelves. Seven people died. More than 40 years later, no one has been charged.
In 1967, a man climbed through a window in Bristol and left a palm print on the glass. Fifty-eight years later, DNA from a blue skirt kept in an evidence box finally gave it a name.
In 2006, Chris Jarvis left for work in rural Australia and vanished, the day before a $2,210 rent hearing. Twenty years later, a jury found his landlord, a former police officer, guilty of murder. His body has never been found.
On Easter Sunday 1967, Jim Thompson, the American who made Thai silk famous, went for a walk in the Malaysian hills. More than 500 searchers never found a trace of him.
In 2006, Rey Rivera ran out of his Baltimore home after a phone call. Eight days later he was found beneath a man-sized hole in a hotel roof. His glasses were not even scratched.
In 2004, cheap baby formula with almost no protein was sold in village shops around Fuyang, China. Babies starved while being fed. Four years later, the melamine scandal followed.
In 1880, a crowd of neighbours killed five members of the Donnelly family in Ontario and burned their farmhouse. A boy saw it all from under a bed. No one was ever convicted.
In 1932, a silent stranger led the Mounties on a 48-day chase across the frozen Arctic. Nearly a century and a DNA investigation later, no one knows who he was.
For up to seven years, Thai garment workers were held behind razor wire in a Los Angeles suburb, sewing clothes for American stores. One escape and a hand-drawn map ended it. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
A Florida police officer found a man dead on a welfare check. Investigators say he then spent nearly four years quietly taking over the dead man’s house. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
In 2007, teenage boys vanished from a Chinese train station and ended up in illegal brick kilns. The police did not find most of them. Their parents did. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
A homeless man was sold to a salt farm on a remote Korean island. Escape was impossible, because everyone on the island was watching. Then he drew a map and mailed it to his mother. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
In 1995, the story goes, the last bus to Beijing’s Fragrant Hills picked up three men in Qing dynasty robes and vanished. Here is the legend, and what the records actually show. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
In 1991 a calm, polite man called a Seoul family more than 60 times about their kidnapped son. Police recorded his voice. He was never found. The true story behind Voice of a Murderer. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
Fishermen were locked in a cage on a remote Indonesian island, and the fish they caught reached American supermarkets. The true story behind the AP’s Seafood from Slaves investigation. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
Police once stopped him while he wore a victim’s watch, and let him go. The true story of South Korea’s Hwaseong serial murders, the case behind Memories of Murder. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.