The Baby in White Robes: The 42-Year Search for Holly Clouse
January 12, 1981. A dog wandered into the woods north of Houston and returned home carrying a decomposed human arm. Search parties found two bodies. A young man, bound and beaten to death. A young wom...
5 Touko 28min
The Man Who Walked Out: Death Row's Impossible Escape
On November 3, 2005, Charles Victor Thompson did something no death row inmate had accomplished in the 21st century: he walked out the front door of Harris County Jail using a fake badge and civilian ...
3 Touko 32min
The Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar:
In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar vanished beside Louisiana’s Swayze Lake. After eight desperate months, a child was found hundreds of miles away with a travelling handyman — and the Dunbars swore h...
2 Touko 31min
The Cinder Lady:
In the summer of 1951, 67-year-old Mary Reeser was found almost entirely incinerated in her armchair in St. Petersburg, Florida — in a fire so strange, the FBI was called in. The walls were untouched....
2 Touko 26min
The Mysterious Death of Richard Lancelyn Green:
Richard Lancelyn Green was the world’s leading expert on Sherlock Holmes. A lifelong collector, historian, and passionate Holmesian, he spent years uncovering long-lost treasures tied to Arthur Conan ...
2 Touko 26min
The Mystery of Overtoun Bridge:
Listener discretion advised: This story contains subject matter some may find upsetting.In the quiet Scottish countryside, just outside Dumbarton, lies an elegant stone bridge that has become infamous...
2 Touko 26min
Circleville: The Town Terrorised by Anonymous Letters
In 1976, the small town of Circleville, Ohio, began receiving letters, hundreds of them.Each one was anonymous. Each one accused neighbours, teachers, and officials of dark secrets. And each one carri...
2 Touko 27min
The Disappearance of Paula Jean Welden
In December 1946, 18-year-old Bennington College student Paula Jean Welden set out for a short hike on Vermont’s Long Trail. She was seen by motorists and hikers and then she was gone. Despite one of ...
2 Touko 26min
