UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Direct access, documentary research, and competing accounts let UNMARKED test the explanations that harden around notorious murder cases.
UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast builds case narratives from correspondence, recorded calls, interviews, and documentary research. James Buddy Day speaks directly with convicted killers including Hadden Clark and Scott Kimball, while also bringing in law enforcement, journalists,…
James Buddy Day takes a serial killer's call; your neat explanation of evil may need a rewrite.
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A careful account of how Cottingham's driving, sleeplessness, and early violence begin to fit together.
PlayNext's take on The Times Square Killer tracks Cottingham from a creek-side death and his driver's license into habits that begin to read like method.
A Bundy origin story that treats campus drift as evidence, not backdrop.
Unmarked frames Ted Bundy as a problem in formation, with Dr. Al Carlyle's 1976 prison evaluation serving as an early warning rather than a closing note.
A roadside case study that keeps its central contradiction in view.
This episode stays firmly on the Florida roadside, moving along Interstate 95 near Daytona Beach and using the bridge, the motels, the roadside pull-offs, the woods, and the beige 1977 Cadillac Coupe de Ville to make its point with care.
A careful revisit of a case that stays with the relationship and the public trial.
Unmarked: A True Crime Podcast returns to Jodi Arias with a tight focus on Travis Alexander, the relationship that came before the killing, and the trial that unfolded in front of a national audience.
A grim escalation story that treats campus panic as part of the evidence.
Danny Rolling's road to the Gainesville Ripper is presented as an escalation, not a single outburst. It starts with the fear that gripped the University of Florida in 1990 and then works backward through peeping, watching women undress, robbery, armed robbery, rape, and murder.
A serial killer's access through federal protection becomes the story.
Scott Kimball sits at the center of an episode about a serial killer moving through the system as a paid FBI informant. The episode stays close to the documented facts: at least four murders from 2003 to 2006, Kimball's own claim that the toll was higher, and the disturbing…
A careful true-crime profile where Celeste Johnson's case, Susie Spencer's local ties, and Tracy Tarleton's history stay closely entwined.
Celeste Johnson's capital-murder conviction is presented as a story pulled between innocence claims, public image, and the way a town remembers its own.
A careful true-crime portrait that tests a confession against specific evidence.
Haddon Clark is treated less like a headline villain and more as a case for how a damaged family can shape a damaged life. The episode stays close to concrete details: Clark is convicted of two murders, suspected in others, and his brother Bradfield sits inside the same…
Podcast discovery from the Sherpa Chalet.
Witchy banter with glorious detours.
Female crime, told with grave attention.
The host recounts his early fascination with true crime and his acquisition of Jeffrey Dahmer's unredacted confession, setting up an analysis of the case through Dahmer's own statements.
This episode explores the life and crimes of Danny Rolling, the Gainesville Ripper, detailing his abusive childhood, escalation from peeping to murder, and the 1990 spree that terrorized the University of Florida.
This episode investigates the Jodi Arias case, exploring competing perspectives on her guilt and the trial's fairness.
Scott Kimball is cast as a man who should have had no room to keep moving.
This episode investigates the Manson family through interviews with former members, exploring how a loose commune evolved into a violent cult.
Unmarked: A True Crime Podcast centers on Haddon Clark, a convicted murderer tied to Laura Hodling, Michelle Dorr, and long-running suspicions about other deaths.
This episode investigates the case of Celeste Beard Johnson, convicted of capital murder for orchestrating the death of her husband Stephen Beard.
The episode opens with a blunt claim that serial killers live in the margins.
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It opens on I-95 in Florida.
A true crime podcast episode analyzing a rare murder committed by a couple, featuring separate confessions from each perpetrator.
This episode analyzes the case of the Grim Sleeper serial killer, featuring an interview with the perpetrator and discussion of how serial killers are made.
This episode continues the investigation into serial killer Bob Berdella, focusing on the escape of victim Christopher Bryson and the uncovering of evidence.
This episode reconstructs the full confession of serial killer Bob Berdella using recovered transcripts and recordings.
This episode examines the case of serial killer Robert Pickton, including his crimes, investigation, and death in prison.
The host recounts receiving a phone call from Charles Manson during a Thanksgiving dinner.