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On Buried Bones, journalist Kate Winkler Dawson and forensic investigator Paul Holes dissect some of history’s most compelling true crime cases from centuries ago. Together, they explore these very old cases through a 21st century lens. With their years of expertise and knowledge of modern forensics, they reflect on how far science has come and bring new insight to old mysteries. Together, Kate and Paul have examined many cases including the 1932 Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the first time fingerprinting was used as evidence in a courtroom and a possible serial killer in 1960s Nashville. They ask, was the right person conv...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Kate Winkler-Dawson and Paul Holes revisit historical cases by testing inherited conclusions against modern forensic reasoning and its limits.
Buried Bones turns historical cases into working conversations between Kate Winkler-Dawson and Paul Holes. Winkler-Dawson lays out the case history, while Holes tests original observations against modern forensic reasoning.
A patch of wet grass makes you question a murder timeline.
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Covered faces complicate a simple robbery theory.
Kate Winkler-Dawson and Paul Holes shape the household around a problem of motive. William comes through as a notably fair general-store owner and a devoted family man, while the home itself showed signs of comfort: silver plates, a good watch, horses, fowl, and pigs.
A ransacked laundromat and a ruled-out knife turn a forgotten killing into careful reconstruction.
A shocking public murder at City Hall becomes less a spectacle than a study in what a room keeps and what it gives away. The episode follows the body, the injuries, and the ransacked laundromat until the scene begins to sort itself into a readable case.
An 18-foot hallway turns the Woodward residence's layout into the episode's central question.
The Woodward residence sits at the center of this episode because the case turns, in part, on space: an 18-foot hallway between Billy's room and Anne's room inside a 12-room home.
A careful episode about when fiber evidence starts to matter.
This episode is at its best when it treats fiber evidence as useful but limited. It draws a clear line between blue cotton fibers, which can be too common to carry much weight on their own, and synthetic fibers that may become more meaningful when the type, cross-sectional…
A jealous murder case shaped by a divorce, a dead man, and a timeline that has to hold up.
Buried Bones follows a jealous murder case and keeps its focus on the questions that matter: what happened to Charles Littles, and how Sarah's divorce request fits the timeline.
A burned scene, a strange clue, and an autopsy that makes the ashes speak.
A burned scene, a more advanced autopsy, and the search for stomach contents give the case its shape. The strongest detail is the overalls buttons found in the ashes the next day, because that clue does not fit Alex, who is presented as successful, wealthy, and unlike a man who…
A tense farm visit follows Maria trying to reclaim her belongings as Ira's threats and a recovered handgun raise the stakes.
The episode centers on a tense visit to Ira's farm, where Maria arrives with two men to collect her belongings after placing trust in Rivera as a go-between.
A patient house-bound case study built from layout, cover, and forensic inference.
This episode stays inside a sleeping house, tracing how an offender could move from room to room, who was covered, and why the mirrors mattered.
Retired detectives and victims' families walk through Australian murder cases with host Meshel Laurie.
A dark calendar of consequential cases.
True crime with blunt questions and rough edges.
Appalachian case files, told from the record.
Southern cases, sharp context, steady storytelling.
Historical mysteries built from the smallest clues.
Buried Bones focuses on the 1912 Villisca, Iowa axe murders, where the Moore family, including four children under 11, and two girls sleeping in a guest room were killed in a contaminated farmhouse scene.
Kate Winkler-Dawson and Paul Holes cover the 1974 Cape Cod case known as the Lady of the Dunes, beginning at Race Point Dunes near Provincetown and a body found on July 26, 1974.
Buried Bones opens on the Dyatlov Pass case in the Ural Mountains of Russia, where a nine-person student expedition vanished after reaching height 1079 on January 31, 1959.
Buried Bones centers on the May 19, 1971 discovery of a shallow grave in a Yuba City peach orchard, where farmer Goro Kayiho found a pre-dug hole between the sixth and seventh rows and investigators recovered a rubber boot and a human foot.
Buried Bones turns to the Freeway Phantom murders in Washington, D.C., starting with the May 1, 1971 discovery of 13-year-old Carol Denise Spinks behind St.
Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes continue the Billy and Anne Woodward case, focusing on whether the 1955 shooting was an accident or murder.
Kate and Paul investigate the 1782 Beadle family murders in Connecticut, where William Beadle killed his wife and four children before apparently taking his own life.
Buried Bones examines the 1886 murder of Lee Ding Chong, owner of a Chinatown laundromat in Boston.
Kate and Paul investigate the 1955 shooting of wealthy playboy Billy Woodward by his wife Ann on Long Island's Gold Coast.
In part two of their Freeway Phantom coverage, Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes continue examining the 1971 Washington DC serial murders of young Black girls, now focusing on victim Nino Yates and a fifth victim Brenda Denise Woodard, an 18-year-old kicked out of high school who was found stabbed, strangled, and with a broken neck near Route 202 in Maryland.
Kate and Paul investigate the 1857 murder of Charles Littles in Rochester, New York, found beaten and thrown over a waterfall.
The episode opens on a burned scene.
Buried Bones hosts Kate Winkler Dawson, a journalist who has spent 25 years covering true crime, and Paul Holes, a retired cold case investigator, examine a historical true crime case through modern forensic techniques.
Cold case investigators Kate Winkler-Dawson (true crime journalist) and Paul Holes (retired case investigator) examine the 1912 Villisca, Iowa murders—eight victims including four children, two sleepover guests, and two parents.
Kate and Paul investigate the 1931 murder of Julia Wallace in Liverpool, examining forensic details like blood spatter and time of death.
The episode examines the 1914 San Antonio murder of millionaire brewer Otto Koehler, who owned Pearl Beer and was killed by his mistress Hedda Bergermeister.
On Christmas Eve 1945, George Sadu's house in Fayetteville, West Virginia caught fire after midnight, trapping five of his ten children on the second floor who could not be rescued.
Kate and Paul investigate the case of Dale Archer, a serial matrimonialist killer who used insulin injections to murder multiple people, including his wives and family members, for financial gain.
Buried Bones hosts Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes continue their series on historical true crime with Dead Weight Part 2, examining a case from the past with modern forensic techniques.
Kate and Paul investigate the 1931 case of two women found dead and dismembered in steamer trunks on a train from Phoenix to Los Angeles.
The episode opens with some brief banter before turning to the Elizabeth case.
Kate Winkler-Dawson and Paul Holes explore contemporary Halloween display controversy—family's realistic axe-murder scene frightening neighborhood children—before transitioning to 1873 Kansas frontier mystery.
Kate and Paul investigate the 1921 murder of Father James Coyle in Birmingham, Alabama, a Catholic priest shot on his church porch after marrying a young interfaith couple.
Kate and Paul analyze the 1970s Juan Corona serial murder case, where 25 transient men were brutally killed in California orchards.
True crime journalist Kate Winkler Dawson presents a cold case from New Year's Eve 1843 in Spragueville, Rhode Island to retired cold case investigator Paul Holes on Buried Bones.
Hosts Kate Winkler Dawson and retired cold case investigator Paul Holes open with Kate sharing a $3 bill from 1857 printed by Lumberman's Bank of Iowa -- found in her grandfather's farmhouse -- and using it as a bridge into this episode's case: the January 17, 1880 murder of Maria Crew at Libby Farm in Groton, Massachusetts, a sundown town with strong anti-immigrant and anti-Black prejudice.
Journalist Kate Winkler-Dawson and retired cold case investigator Paul Holes continue their analysis of the Boston Strangler case in part two of this historical true crime series.
Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes begin their analysis of the Boston Strangler case, starting with the 1962 murders of elderly women in Boston.
Kate and Paul investigate the 1949 crash of Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 108, which killed all 19 people on board.
Kate Winkler Dawson and forensic expert Paul Holes continue their investigation of an 1863 Colorado Territory murder spree in Part 2, with Paul recapping the victims: Franklin, Henry, John Adleton, Jacob Binkley, and Abram Shoup, each shot once.