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The City of Baltimore is no exception when it comes to open homicide cases. The Land of the Unsolved explores the mysterious, nefarious and unresolved killings that remain caught in the murky shadows of the city’s conflicted psyche.Investigative reporters Stephen Janis and Taya Graham go beyond the evidence, talking with homicide detectives, reporters, relatives and residents, exploring the trenchant politics and communal chaos that feeds the vicious cycle of unavenged violence and murder cases left unsolved that continue to haunt the city. Contact us [email protected]
Two deaths in one building's trash chute, and your questions have plenty of company.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A forensic look at Jonathan Luna's death keeps the case's unanswered questions sharply in view.
The death of federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna is framed through a careful reading of recently released autopsy evidence. Investigative reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis focus on injuries they argue strain the official suicide theory: blunt-force trauma, deep stab wounds,…
A scientist's unresolved killing becomes a careful study of police silence and the cost of unanswered questions.
The Land of the Unsolved turns Molly McCauley's unresolved killing into a measured look at what silence does to a case and to the people left around it.
A clear-eyed look at how Baltimore's crime messaging can strain both public safety and public trust.
Baltimore's handling of crime information sits at the center of this PlayNext single-episode review, as Stephen Janis and Taya Graham connect two cases: one at least partly solved, one still unresolved.
A fire alarm, reported sleepwalking, and two similar deaths keep this trash-chute case unsettled.
The episode revisits the deaths of Emily Howes and Harsh Kumar in a Baltimore high-rise trash chute by staying with the details that make a closed explanation feel uneasy.
A police interview turns Emily Howes's last known movements into a quiet study of unanswered questions.
Emily Howes's death anchors a tight, uneasy episode built around what police asked the last person known to have seen her alive, as far as the reporting can establish.
Case documents and apparently unpulled phone records renew questions about Emily Howes's death.
Emily Howes's death, after she was found in a trash dumpster at the Park Charles apartment, is treated as a case defined by what remains out of reach: her final hours, the medical examiner's accident ruling, and a file that appears to show more than the public record once did.
A donut-shop boast turns storytelling into a murder investigation.
A cop's boast in a donut shop pulls a homicide investigation toward his claim that he killed two teenage girls. The episode tracks the story as it moves from a supervisor's skeptical chuckle to district headquarters, where the self-described sociopath arrives disheveled, takes…
New England cold cases, carefully told.
Cold cases kept in public view.
Folklore, cryptids, and cautious wonder.
One reads the case notes, one hears them fresh.
["The Land of the Unsolved revisits Jonathan Luna, a Baltimore federal prosecutor whose body was found in Reading, Pennsylvania after a December 5 drive through Delaware and Pennsylvania.", "Taya Graham and Stephen Janis focus on the newly released autopsy, obtained by Lancaster Online after years of secrecy, and on the missing $36,000 in cash evidence from a bank-robbery case Luna prosecuted.", "Janis says the FBI and U.S.
The Land of the Unsolved focuses on Molly McCauley, a Baltimore space economist stabbed to death while walking her two Weimaraners near Roland Park on July 8, 2016.
Baltimore police knew Jason Billingsley was a suspect in a September 19 West Baltimore rape-arson attack, but they did not release his name or photo before Pava LaPere was found dead in Mount Vernon on September 25, 2023.
The Land of the Unsolved returns to the Park Charles trash-chute deaths of Emily Howes in 2011 and Harsh Kumar in 2010, with Taya Graham, Stephen Janis, and Jane Miller revisiting the case file.
Emily Howes was last seen leaving a Baltimore party with a man she had just met, then found dead in a dumpster beneath a Park Charles trash chute in Mount Vernon.
The Land of the Unsolved examines the 2011 death of 23-year-old Loyola University graduate Emily Howes, whose body was found in a dumpster beneath the 25-story Park Charles apartment building's trash chute.
The Land of the Unsolved examines a 1973 double homicide involving Peggy Pumpian and Kathleen Cook, whose bodies were found near Baltimore’s I-695 Beltway.
The Land of the Unsolved examines how Maryland medical examiner David Fowler's rulings shaped homicide investigations and police-custody death cases.
The Land of the Unsolved examines a newly disclosed Maryland State Police review of Baltimore detective Sean Suiter's 2017 death.
Taya Graham, Stephen Janis, and Jayne Miller revisit the 2006 death of 32-year-old filmmaker Ray Rivera beneath a hole at Baltimore's Belvedere Hotel.
The Land of the Unsolved announces an investigation into Robert Clay, a prominent Baltimore contractor and political insider who died in 2005 after police ruled his shooting a suicide.
Taya Graham reads Stephen’s novella This Dream Called Death, set in Belays, a decaying city where the Bureau regulates citizens’ dreams and remands them for treatment.
The Land of the Unsolved examines Ray Rivera’s 2006 death at Baltimore’s Belvedere Hotel through missing homicide-file materials and injury evidence.
The Land of the Unsolved revisits Ray Rivera’s death through Baltimore City Police documents, unanswered witness questions, and reporting by Stephen Janis and Taya Graham.
The Land of the Unsolved revisits the 2006 death of 32-year-old filmmaker Ray Rivera, whose body was found beneath a hole in the Belvedere Hotel roof eight days after he disappeared.
The Land of the Unsolved presents a Truth and Reconciliation episode about Baltimore policing, media accountability, and the arrest of Baltimore Examiner editor Frank Kagan.
The Land of the Unsolved presents a Truth and Reconciliation episode about Stephen Janis’s reporting on alleged serial-killer fears in Baltimore’s Lower Park Heights during 2006 zero-tolerance policing.
The Land of the Unsolved presents the second part of its Baltimore serial-killer series through a rebroadcast of Truth and Reconciliation hosted by Stephen Janis, Taya Graham, and Sean Yost.
The Land of the Unsolved presents a rebroadcast from Truth and Reconciliation about alleged serial killings of women in Northwest Baltimore and the media's role in framing the story.
Jenny, the twin sister of Jody Le Cornu, describes placing billboards reading “find my killer” after Jody's murder remained unsolved for 23 years.
Stephen Janis and Taya Graham examine why Baltimore recorded more than 300 homicides for four consecutive years despite declining population.
The Land of the Unsolved examines why Jody LeCornu was shot through the back of her car in a Baltimore County parking lot at about 3 a.m.
Stephen Janis and Taya Graham interview Justine Barron about Detective Sean Souter’s unsolved death in West Baltimore and the IRB conclusion that he likely killed himself.
The Land of the Unsolved examines Ray Rivera’s 2006 disappearance and death at Baltimore’s Belvedere Hotel through Makita Brotman’s book An Unexplained Death.
Investigative reporters explore unsolved homicides in Baltimore, examining the cases and their effects on the community.
Investigative reporters explore unsolved homicide cases in Baltimore, examining evidence and community impact.
Investigative reporters explore the epidemic of unsolved homicides in Baltimore, examining the systemic and communal factors behind the cases.