Partners in Crime

The Unsolved Murders No One Can Explain

·45 min·4 clips
If some unnamed, unknown masked intruders are in your house killing people and burning the place down, and you're standing right next to them, that they'd shoot you, too, wouldn't you?
This episode of Unsolved Mysteries presents three baffling cases: the bizarre 1990 kidnapping of bank executive John Grunhofer by an amateur criminal, the 1986 double murder of twin sisters Jill and Julie Hansen with their brother Donnie as the prime suspect, and Christoph Bauer's search for his biological father Michael Seymour after a secret 1955 romance.

As heard by us

A calm procedural tour through strange crimes that never quite resolve.

This Unsolved Mysteries episode unfolds with a steady, procedural calm as it moves through three unresolved cases: Maria Bauer and Michael Seymour's 1955 romance, John Grunhofer's 1990 kidnapping, and the Hansen house fire that ends in arson and shotgun murder.

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Why you'd press play

Three uneasy threads, one careful trail of clues, and no tidy answer waiting at the end.

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