Mysteries and Histories
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Mysteries and Histories
Join Georgia as each week she talks you through important pieces of history that more people should know about or true crime cases that require more public attention - awareness and education are key!
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The People Who Believe They're DEAD : The Walking Corpse Syndrome
Imagine waking up convinced you’re dead. Walking Corpse Syndrome, or Cotard’s Syndrome, is a rare condition where people genuinely believe they have n...
MURDERED By A Stranger On Her Own Driveway
On the morning of January 25, 2019, 29-year-old Liz Barraza was shot and killed in front of her own home while setting up a garage sale. The suspect w...
Body Found In An Impossible Place... Could ALIENS Be Responsible?
On a June afternoon in 1980, coal miner Zigmund Adamski vanished after popping out for a quick trip to the shops and was found days later on top of a...
The Tragic Murder of Rachel Nickell and How Police Destroyed the Case
On a July morning in 1992, 23‑year‑old Rachel Nickell took her young son and their dog for a walk on Wimbledon Common and never came home. She was bru...
The First Murder Case Ever SOLVED Using DNA
Two schoolgirls, one quiet English village, and a killer who thought he’d gotten away with murder, until science caught up with him. In the 1980s, the...
The Weekend Away That Ended In MURDER By Friends?
On a summer weekend in 2015, 21‑year‑old Lauren Agee headed to a cliff‑side campsite at Center Hill Lake for a party, by Sunday morning, her body was...
What Caused The 'Madness' Of King George III?
For centuries, Britain watched its king slowly unravel. George III, once seen as a dutiful, steady ruler, began to speak in torrents, pace through the...
151: The unsolved case of Vera Anderson
32 years ago, much-loved mum Vera Anderson received a phone call that resulted in her leaving her home at 10pm on a Saturday night and driving to a qu...
The Craziest CULTS That You've Probably Never Heard Of
Hidden away in suburbs, small towns, and rented halls, some of the strangest cults in history never made the headlines but their stories are wilder th...
Who Is The Cheerleader In The Trunk?
In 1982, a steamer trunk abandoned near a quiet Maryland roadside was opened to reveal the decomposed body of a young woman, nicknamed the “Cheerleade...
Just How Gay WAS Ancient Rome?
Just how gay was Ancient Rome? To answer that, you have to step into a world where desire wasn’t neatly labelled, and power mattered more than gender....
A MOTHER Forced To Find Her DAUGHTER'S Remains Under The Bath Tub
In December 1989, 22‑year‑old pizza delivery girl Julie Hogg vanished from her home in Billingham, Teesside, leaving behind a locked house, an unfinis...
The DARK HISTORY Of Birth Control
Long before the pill became a symbol of choice and freedom, birth control was built on secrets, lies, and experiments done on bodies that never truly...
Teenage Girl ABDUCTED From Her Own Home : The Leigh Occhi Case
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Leigh Occhi or details about her disappearance is asked to call the Tupelo Police Department at (662) 84...
The Serial Killer Who Never Touched Her Victims
Giulia Tofana was the whispered secret of desperate wives: a woman who bottled death and sold it as salvation. Her creation, the infamous Aqua Tofana,...
How Can A CHILD Be Murdered And No-one Notice?!
In 1984, the body of an unidentified man was found in Volusia County, Florida, leaving behind almost no clues to who he was, how he lived, or why he d...
The Freeway Phantom: A Name That Still Haunts The Highway
One killer, six young girls, one city gripped by fear. In the early 1970s, an unknown predator stalked the highways around Washington, D.C., snatching...
The Nightmare Of The Magdalene Laundries
Magdalene laundries were so‑called “refuges” or institutions where women and girls were sent for moral “correction”, often made to work long hours in...
209: The Tylenol Murders
FROM THE VAULT | In 1982, a series of sudden, unexplained deaths in the Chicago area sparked nationwide panic and forever changed how consumer product...
208: The Murder of Adrienne Shelly
Adrienne Shelly was a gifted actress and filmmaker, best known for her work both in front of and behind the camera. In 2006, her life was tragically c...
207: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood
FROM THE VAULT | Natalie Wood was one of Hollywood’s brightest stars - a child actress turned icon whose career spanned decades and generations. But i...
206: The (probable) crimes of Dr Crippen
n 1910, Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen was convicted of murdering his wife and became the first criminal ever captured with the help of wireless technology...
205: The Irish Vanishing Triangle
FROM THE VAULT | In the late 20th century, a chilling pattern emerged in Ireland. Young women vanished without warning from a small geographic area st...
204: The Disappearance of Ben McDaniels
In August 2010, experienced cave diver Ben McDaniels entered the depths of Florida’s Vortex Spring and was never seen again. What began as a routine d...
202: The Disappearance of Leah Roberts
In 2000, 23-year-old Leah Roberts packed up her Jeep and set out on what seemed to be a spontaneous road trip across the American Northwest. Searching...
203: Aileen Wuornos
Aileen Wuornos is one of the most polarising figures in American true crime; a woman whose life story is as tragic as the crimes that made her infamou...
200: The Ruxton Murders
In 1935, a quiet English town was rocked by one of the most notorious forensic cases in British history. When dismembered remains were discovered in a...
199: Patty Stallings: an innocent mother in prison
In 1989, Patty Stallings rushed her sick infant son to the hospital, unaware that this desperate act would ignite one of the most shocking wrongful co...
198: Guilia Tofana: the woman who killed 600 men
In 17th-century Italy, whispers spread of a mysterious woman whose 'beauty' potions promised freedom. Her name was Giulia Tofana, and she turned the a...
197: Case Updates | Yogurt Shop Murders, Bear Brooks Murders, LISK & more
A few times a year, I like to take a look back at old cases I've covered and give you the latest updates: new evidence, solves, identifications, big n...
196: The Monster with 21 Faces
In the 1980s, Japan was terrorized by an invisible enemy. A shadowy group calling itself The Monster with 21 Faces taunted police, blackmailed corpora...
196: the girl who survived rabies
Rabies is one of the deadliest viruses on Earth, almost always fatal once symptoms appear. But in 2004, a teenage girl in Wisconsin did the impossible...
195: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service launched what they claimed was a study on “bad blood” in rural Alabama. In reality, it was a 40-year-long lie:...
194: Mr Cruel
FROM THE VAULT | In the late 1980s and early 90s, Melbourne, Australia, was gripped by fear as a masked predator known only as Mr. Cruel stalked the s...
193: The Lead Mask Men
In 1966, two Brazilian electronics technicians were found dead on a hill outside Rio de Janeiro, wearing strange lead masks and formal suits, with a c...
192: The case of Sherri Rasmussen
In 1986, Sherri Rasmussen, a 29-year-old newly married nurse, was found brutally murdered in her Los Angeles home. The case stunned her family and baf...
191: The DARK HISTORY of birth control
From ancient herbal remedies to modern-day contraceptive pills, the history of birth control is as fascinating as it is complex. In this episode, we t...
190: The Sweating Sickness
In the late 15th and 16th centuries, a terrifying illness swept through England with brutal speed - striking healthy people in the morning and leaving...
189: The truth behind THAT McDonald's Lawsuit
You’ve heard the punchline: a woman spills McDonald’s coffee in her lap and sues for millions. But behind the jokes and late-night talk show fodder li...
188: The Death of Joan Robinson Hill
Joan Robinson Hill had it all: wealth, beauty, and prestige as a celebrated equestrian in Houston’s high society. But in 1969, her sudden and suspicio...