Cold cases, held close to home.
Island Crime follows unresolved Vancouver Island cases through interviews, records, expert context, and careful scene-setting. It treats victims as full people while tracing timelines, police communication, family memory, and the painful space where answers should be.
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Island Crime is a Vancouver Island true-crime series with a steady commitment to unresolved cases and the people still living inside them. Its center is not spectacle, but absence. Laura Palmer follows missing person and murder cases through interviews, scene-setting, records, expert context, and careful returns to questions that have not been answered. The island setting matters throughout. Cherry blossoms, ferry routes, small homes, lakes, forests, parking lots, and police files all sit beside grief, rumor, and procedural uncertainty. The show often begins with one human image and lets that image carry weight. Willow waiting for Ian Indredson at the door says as much about his disappearance as any theory can. Bree's ring opens onto friendship, loyalty, family memory, and the refusal to let a murder reduce a life to a file. Episodes make room for relatives and friends to speak at length. That choice gives the show a rawness that more tightly packaged true crime often loses. It also means the reporting can feel patient, sometimes almost documentary in its willingness to sit with partial recall and emotional pauses. The series is skeptical, but not theatrical. Its skepticism is aimed at gaps in process, unclear timelines, silence, and conclusions that arrive too easily. When outside expertise is needed, the show uses it to steady the listener rather than decorate the story. Dr. Spiegel's explanation of dissociative fugue, for example, helps frame one possible reading of Ian's disappearance without turning rarity into certainty. The Michael Dunahee material brings behavioural analysis into contact with public memory and the long persistence of hope. The Bree episodes keep returning to the tension between a person's bright public presence, private pain, and the aftermath of violence. Island Crime is best for listeners who can tolerate ambiguity. It does not promise closure where none exists. Instead, it builds a record of what is known, what has been said, who is still asking, and why these cases continue to matter on Vancouver Island.
Made for: For listeners who prefer careful true-crime reporting over sensational storytelling, especially those drawn to unresolved disappearances, family testimony, and local investigative detail.
What sets it apart: Island Crime stands apart through its Vancouver Island focus and its willingness to let sources speak at length. The show treats unanswered questions as part of the story, not as bait for artificial suspense.
Each season of Island Crime delves into an unsolved murder or missing person case on Vancouver Island. Host/Producer Laura Palmer updates the cases when she finds new evidence or fresh perspectives. Original journalism, leaving no stone unturned.Season 8: 'My Best Friend Bree' -the unsolved murder of Bree Gamble (Lozano)Season 7: 'Evaporated' explores the disappearance of Victoria's Ian Indridson.Season 6: ‘Sweethearts’ examines the unsolved cases of three teenage girls who were murdered in Victoria, Canada between 1990 and 1991.Season 5: ‘Whiskey Creek’ is the untold story of a Halloween night massacre.Season 4: ‘Finding Amber’ follows the case of a Port Alberni woman who disappea...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Island Crime combines careful sourcing with family testimony, keeping unresolved Vancouver Island cases grounded in the lives behind them.
Laura Palmer keeps Island Crime close to Vancouver Island, following unsolved murders and disappearances through serialized true crime reporting.
A missing-person theory gets the same care as the dog you cannot forget waiting at the door.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A patient, grief-heavy update that treats disappearance as a question, not a stunt.
An Island Crime update returns to Ian Indredson's disappearance with a measured, grave tone. Laura Palmer moves from Willow waiting at the door to johatsu in Japan, then settles into a steady look at what disappearance, anonymity, and psychiatric theory can explain, and what…
A grief-forward true crime hour that keeps Brie human through memory and testimony.
Island Crime stays with the aftermath of Brie’s murder, beginning with the early misread of her body near a homeless encampment before settling into the harder truth that followed.
A patient hour about evidence, memory, and the limits of what can be proved.
This case focused hour keeps returning to what can actually be checked. It moves from a spring West Coast setting into interviews and recordings, then into the slower work of tracing details back to where they came from. That process gives the episode its shape.
A reflective true-crime conversation that stays grounded in island life and the ethics of reporting.
Laura Palmer, host of Island Crime, sits down with Catherine Marlowe on This is Vancouver Island for a conversation that moves between island life and true crime.
A careful profile that favors method over melodrama and keeps the case concrete.
Island Crime keeps this chapter tightly focused on Michael Dunahee's disappearance and lets routine activities theory carry most of the argument. The basics do the work here: a motivated offender, a vulnerable child, and no capable guardian nearby.
Crime stories with impact and consequence.
Epstein-case coverage with teeth.
Betrayal, evidence, and the breaking point.
Willow is still waiting.
Brie has been gone almost five years.
Spring arrives on Vancouver Island, but the quiet opening does not stay quiet for long.
Island Crime podcast host Laura Palmer appears as a guest on This is Vancouver Island, hosted by Catherine Marlowe, to discuss her five years of investigative true crime work on Vancouver Island cold cases.
Michael Dunahee is missing.