Historical Episodes
Case 212: The Forgotten Cannibal
On December 21 1924, itinerant beggar, Vincenz Olivier, knocked on the door of an apartment building on the outskirts of Münsterberg in Weimar, Germany…
Case 182: Freda Burnell & Florence Little
On February 5 1921, eight-year-old Freda Burnell went missing in the small coal mining town of Abertillery, Wales…
Case 150: The Murchison Murders
After the Western Australian gold rush of the late 1800s, there was little work available in the isolated Murchison region…
Case 138: The Batavia
In October of 1628, the newly constructed Batavia embarked on its maiden voyage from the shores of The Netherlands, setting sail for the Dutch East Indies…
Case 135: The Santa Claus Bank Robbery
On December 23 1927, the streets of Cisco, Texas were full of festive cheer as residents prepared for Christmas…
Case 124: Hinterkaifeck
The small rural property of Hinterkaifeck lay approximately 70 kilometres north of the German city of Munich…
Case 73: The Lady in the Barrel
On September 15 1878, three teenage boys were tending to cattle in the woods near Silver Lake in Staten Island when they discovered a wooden barrel sticking out of the mud…
Case 04: Who Put Bella In The ‘Witch’ Elm
On April 18 1943, four local boys were out looking for bird nests on a property in Hagley Woods, England when they came across a large wych elm tree…
Case 02: The Somerton Man
In December 1948, the body of an unidentified male was found on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, South Australia…
Case 01: The Wanda Beach Murders
On the 11th of January 1965, two fifteen-year-old schoolgirls Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt were found murdered in the Wanda sand hills, just north of Cronulla beach In Sydney’s south…