Mysteries and Histories

This week we're taking a look at the Dane County Chimney Doe, a skeleton found in a chimney in Madison, Wisconsin in 1989 that still remains unidentified. This is a Doe case that's proving particularl...

14 Jan 202224min

This week we're travelling back in time to the early 10th century, when Theodosia Burr, the only surviving daughter of Vice President Aaron Burr, boarded a ship to New York only for it to never arrive...

7 Jan 202225min

Two days before Christmas in 1974, three girls went to do some last minute Christmas shopping at their local mall in Fort Worth, Texas, but they never came home. The next day a mysterious letter arriv...

31 Dec 202131min

This week we're taking a look at a historical story, with the invention of vaccines by a man called Edward Jenner to put an end to 'the scourge of the earth' (as he put it) smallpox - because apparent...

24 Dec 202124min

This week we're taking a look at a small, unknown case from the sleepy village of Eversley in Hampshire. Jacqueline Palmer-Radford was found murdered in her own kitchen in 1992, and despite some inter...

17 Dec 202118min

This week we're going back to the 1970s to take a look at the case of Margaret Ellen Fox, a 14 year old who disappeared from New Jersey after going to meet a man called John Marshall about a babysitti...

10 Dec 202119min

In late 2006, the bodies of four women were found in a drainage ditch behind a motel just outside of Atlantic City, New Jersey. They were all facing east, towards the city, all murdered under very sim...

3 Dec 202133min

Be warned: this week's episode is not one for the faint-hearted as we are venturing into the world of parasites with a look at how hookworm led to the negative stereotypes of the American south.

26 Nov 202131min