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Uncover Switzerland’s most enigmatic murder cases with our riveting investigative true crime podcast.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Rudolf Eisler turns one Swiss cold case into a detailed study of evidence, missed connections, and the uncertainty that survives both.
Swiss Murder Mysteries follows the Saven murder case as a serialized investigation, reconstructing the crime, the original police work, and the leads that emerged decades later.
Basel and Solothurn police missed each other's leads; you get to weigh what that cost.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A methodical case study that keeps the facts and uncertainty in view.
An initial disappearance in Basel opens into a grim rural murder case. Edith Sigrist cannot reach her parents, walks to their home, finds the green Opel gone and the house silent, then goes with a friend to the weekend cabin in the countryside.
A patient cold-case chapter where witness testimony sharpens a murky Swiss murder case.
A Swiss cold case is handled as a quiet study in how evidence slips away between Basel and Zoloturn, with repeated travel, remote places, and local witnesses gradually filling in the blanks.
A cold case revived by records, disappearance, and one late discovery.
Lead #9424 frames the case as attrition, paperwork, and one late discovery that will not stay buried. It is strongest when it shows how quickly the work thins out after about a year, then gives real weight to the 1996 finding that brings the investigation back into view, since…
A measured suspect study where family history, police procedure, and public scrutiny carry the weight.
Robert Sigrist, the murdered couple's son and the first suspect, is treated as the center of a careful account of how suspicion took hold around him.
A grim reconstruction of a notorious Swiss case, told with discipline and care.
The episode follows a small cabin, a family with a guarded past, and the slow reconstruction of how five people ended up dead in one of Switzerland's most infamous murder cases.
Hard evidence anchors the case, and the motive story broadens it through family history and careful inference.
The episode starts with hard evidence: the recovered rifle is confirmed as the weapon used in the slaying of the five victims at the cabin, and it is tied to Carl Dozer's Winchester.
Two friends narrate true crime cases, listener stories, and archived live-tour shows.
Multi-part true crime narration, from BTK's Wichita letters to Australian cold-case disappearances.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.
Eugene and Elsa Sigrist lived in Basel, but a small cabin Eugene built years earlier became the center of a murder case that settled into Swiss memory.
This final chapter returns to a Swiss unsolved murder.
Twenty years after the Säven murders, a construction worker discovers the murder weapon hidden behind a kitchen panel in Alten.
Carl Dozer’s trail ends with a neighbor in Basel seeing him ride a bicycle with a backpack in 1977, and the episode uses that disappearance to frame the unresolved murder case in Savon.
Robert Sigrist becomes the investigation's first target.
Edith Sigrist cannot reach her parents on June 6, 1976.