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Unsolved Cases

Unsolved Cases

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Summary
 Are you ready to confront the chilling truth behind the world's most baffling mysteries? Unsolved Cases invites you to explore the cold cases, mysterious disappearances, and unexplained phenomena that defy logic and remain open.

Each episode meticulously dissects real-life true crime stories, historical enigmas, and paranormal events that have perplexed investigators and captivated the public for decades. We dive deep into the evidence, theories, and unanswered questions, separating fact from fiction and presenting every angle of these compelling whodunits.

New episodes of Unsolved Cases are released daily, Monday through Sunday, at 7:00 PM EST, offering a fresh investigation into a different perplexing case. Expect detailed research, expert analysis, and a narrative that respects the gravity of each mystery.

This podcast is for anyone fascinated by the unknown, for armchair detectives, and for those who believe that every secret deserves to be uncovered. If you're drawn to complex puzzles and the darker side of history, you’ve found your next obsession.

Press play and join the search for answers.© 2026 OBOMEDIA Creators
Episodes
  • The Dry Tote on the Lock Gate: Why Janet's Bag Didn't Get Wet

    The Dry Tote on the Lock Gate: Why Janet's Bag Didn't Get Wet
    3 Nov 2026
    The Dry Tote on the Lock Gate: Why Janet's Bag Didn't Get Wet

    The dry cream canvas tote sat upright on the lock gate while the grass around it was soaked - inside: $62 cash, apartment keys, and a planner open to the week of May 5. How did the bag remain untouched by dew while Janet Russo’s body turned up 400 yards downstream less than three hours later?

    In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the morning the tote was found to the details that sat hidden in police files for nineteen years, asking how a single overlooked witness report and a small-claims record ultimately pointed investigators to the answer.

    Person: Janet Russo
    Age: 26
    Location: Briar Canal towpath, Caldwell Falls, South Carolina
    Date: May 8-9, 2003
    Event: Bag found at lock gate; body found 400 yards south in shallow water

    - The tote contained sixty-two dollars in cash, a half-used bottle of hand lotion, apartment keys, and a spiral planner.
    - The planner was open to the week of May 5 when found on the stone capstone of the lock gate.
    - Janet Russo’s body was found two hours and fifty-seven minutes after the tote was discovered.
    - A retired machinist, Frank Wills, reported seeing Janet that night and described the man and his shirt in a supplemental report filed six days after her body was found.
    - The case remained unresolved for nineteen years until an anonymous tip, a public records request, and a maintenance complaint log helped place the right man in custody.

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    20 min
  • Locked Room, Clean Mug: The Judge Who Meant to Speak

    Locked Room, Clean Mug: The Judge Who Meant to Speak
    2 Nov 2026
    Locked Room, Clean Mug: The Judge Who Meant to Speak

    A judge found dead in a locked office, a clean coffee mug, and a key ring left in his jacket - details that made the official story impossible to hold. Sixteen years later, a cache of letters exposing a construction fraud resurfaces and forces investigators to ask: who silenced Kent Tate?

    In this episode, we outline the timeline from the morning Kent Tate was found through the discovery of his letters and the reopening of the case, showing how a sealed archive and a graduate researcher's curiosity changed everything. What did Tate intend to reveal to the attorney general that made his death so inexplicable?

    Person: Kent Tate
    Date: April 14, 2003
    Location: Courthouse annex office, Calhoun County
    Case: Letters documenting an investigation into the Pallard Group
    Investigator: Norman Fisher

    - Tate was forty-eight years old and an associate judge of the Calhoun County Common Pleas Court for eleven years.
    - The final letter to attorney Gerald Stout was written six days before Tate’s body was found and stated he was "frightened but resolved."
    - The office door was locked from the inside, the sole window latched, the key ring remained in Tate’s jacket pocket, and the coffee mug on the desk was clean and dry.
    - Gerald Stout died in 2018; his files were donated to Bridgeway University and left uncatalogued until 2019.
    - Graduate researcher Abby Simms found fourteen letters from 2001-2003 in the donated files, which led the university to notify the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office and cold-case investigator Norman Fisher.

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    20 min
  • The Photo That Proved the Payroll Killer Walked In Free

    The Photo That Proved the Payroll Killer Walked In Free
    1 Nov 2026
    The Photo That Proved the Payroll Killer Walked In Free

    The idea that a soaked payroll bag and a dry birthday photograph could contradict each other is chilling: twenty-two thousand dollars found waterlogged in a ditch while a five-by-seven print tucked above the waterline remained perfectly dry. Which man in that kitchen photo holds the key to who walked into a locked industrial building and killed William Evans at 3:15 a.m. on March 4, 1971?

    In this episode, we lay out the facts from the original file and the overlooked evidence that never made detectives look twice, following the timeline from the night of the murder to the photograph’s thirty-one-year stay on a property-room shelf. Could a single studio print - stamped Walcott Photo and Portrait, 114 Crestview Drive - solve a case that sat cold for decades?

    Person: William Evans
    Date: March 4, 1971
    Location: Carver Industrial Supply, Drummond Avenue
    Case: Payroll robbery and homicide
    Item: Item 14-C, five-by-seven gelatin print

    - Victim found dead on stair landing at approximately 3:15 a.m., two blows to the back of the skull.
    - Payroll bag recovered at 8:47 a.m. in a drainage ditch contained roughly $22,000 in cash and was waterlogged.
    - Rain began around midnight; investigators estimated the bag had been in the ditch since between 2:00 and 4:00 a.m.
    - A five-by-seven studio photograph was tucked in a dry side pocket above the waterline and showed three men around a birthday cake.
    - The photograph bore a blue rubber stamp: Walcott Photo and Portrait, 114 Crestview Drive.

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