Lessons in loss…

In January 1981, two bodies were discovered in the brush along a Texas backroad. A man, bound and beaten. A woman, strangled. They had no names, no IDs, and were buried as John and Jane Doe.At the same time, hundreds of miles away, a young husband and wife suddenly stopped writin ... Show More

On a quiet Monday morning in August of 2024, a Florida man climbed into his white pickup truck and left for work. He picked up his tools. He waved to his mother.And then… he was gone.Surveillance footage caught his truck entering a public park.But it never showed him leaving.No p ... Show More

A late-night phone call.A young man steps out of a house in Marshall, Texas — into the darkness of Victory Drive — and is never seen again.What was said on that call?Why did he leave with no explanation?And how could someone vanish from a well-traveled road without a single trace ... Show More

On a scorching summer day in Adelaide, January 26, 1966, the Beaumont children—Jane, Arnna and Grant—left for Glenelg Beach and never came home. In a crowd of hundreds, they vanished without a trace, no evidence at all. Nearly 60 years on, the mystery still grips Australia, it's ... Show More

<p>Rumours swirled about a group who were kidnapping children for rewards, but there was no trace of Willie.&nbsp;One year later, a small skeleton was found two and a half miles from the missing boy's home.&nbsp;Willie's father identified the remains when he saw the hobnails he h ... Show More

Susan Cox Powell disappeared 15 years ago. The day after she turned up missing, her four-year-old son Charlie Powell spoke to a detective from the West Valley City, Utah police department. Charlie told the detective his mommy had joined him, his little brother Braden and their da ... Show More

<p>Of all the stories that we have featured during this season of the podcast, this one may be one of the strangest. It’s a story of holiday heartbreak and tragedy and of five children who went missing from their West Virginia home on a cold December night.</p><p>Or is it?</p><p> ... Show More

The 1974 murder of ‘Shotgun Johnny’ Regan has never been solved. Now, his family wants answers. That’s where The Australian’s new cold case investigation The Gangster’s Ghost comes in.  Subscribers can listen to Episodes 1 and 2 now at gangstersghost.com.au. This episode of The A ... Show More

<p>When a series of mysterious disappearances and gruesome murders happened on the American Frontier in the 19th century, fingers started to point in the direction of not one murderer…but a family of killers. As the case unraveled, their grisly crimes cemented their place in hist ... Show More

<p>When the Jamison family of Eufala, Oklahoma, vanished in October 2009, it got the attention of the entire country. They seemingly disappeared without a trace one night, which was strange enough, but the story that led up to their disappearance was outright bizarre. </p><p>Chec ... Show More

<p>In 1980, a family of three disappeared. Though two would later be found murdered, it took 4 0 years to solve what happened to the third. But as often happens in unsolved cases, one answer just leads to more questions but in this case, it leads to another very important thing: ... Show More

In this two-part series, we enter the haunted heart of Southern Vermont—a place where the line between reality and the supernatural disappears as quickly as the people who dare to step off the trail. Welcome to The Bennington Triangle, where ancient curses, vanishing hikers, and ... Show More