Unresolved Productions
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Some stories have no ending. Some questions never get answered. Since 2015, Micheal Whelan has made it his mission to ask them anyway. Unresolved is the podcast for those who believe every story is worth following, no matter where it leads. Join us as we dive into the cases that keep investigators up at night... cold cases, unidentified serial killers, unsolved disappearances, and other mysteries that refuse to stay buried.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved-a-true-crime-mystery-podcast--3266604/support.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Unresolved makes institutional failure legible by tracing how money, secrecy, legal decisions, and missed warnings shape cases that resist closure.
Unresolved builds its cases through chronology, documentation, and the decisions that allowed harm to continue. Micheal Whelan's measured narration follows the murder of Holly Seiler through two suspicious fires, while the multipart Epstein sequence tracks financial…
A secret legal deal becomes the plot twist when you want the paperwork behind the scandal.
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A California infestation turns into a paper trail pointing toward possible eco-terrorism.
The California Medfly Attack treats a crop crisis as something stranger than a stubborn infestation. It starts with the medfly itself, small enough to seem almost harmless but capable of serious damage, then tracks the 1989 California outbreak as quarantine zones keep spreading…
A late forensic breakthrough gives the Austin Yogurt Shop murders a name, while the cost of delay remains impossible to ignore.
The 2025 update treats the Austin Yogurt Shop murders as both a forensic breakthrough and a record of institutional failure. It opens with the December 6, 1991 fire at a northwest Austin frozen yogurt shop, then traces how retained swabs and cuttings, male DNA beneath Amy Ayer's…
A steady look at how clown lore, copycats, and social media turned uncertain sightings into a broader panic.
Phantom Clowns tracks the 2016 run of sinister-clown reports around woods, neighborhoods, and parking lots, then sets that panic against older clown lore, copycat pranks, and the internet's hunger for a scare.
Preserved evidence and new testing bring a long-delayed case back into focus without losing sight of Morgan herself.
This update on Morgan Jade Violi treats a decades-old kidnapping as both a forensic story and a family story. Morgan was seven when she disappeared from the Colony Apartments in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1996, and the episode follows the maroon Chevrolet van, the fiber…
A grim medical mystery that traces encephalitis lethargica from its eerie onset to its delayed aftermath.
The episode opens on a hospital ward in 1924 London and stays with a grim medical mystery: encephalitis lethargica, a condition that could leave patients in deep sleep, rigid stillness, or odd waking trances.
A correction-driven coda that treats transparency, power, and obfuscation with the right amount of suspicion.
This episode returns to the Epstein files to correct the Clay Higgins point, then opens into a tighter case for what transparency looks like when power tries to shape the frame.
A disappearance defined by absence, with rumor kept in its place.
Julie Mott's disappearance starts in a locked San Antonio funeral home, where a casket sat in a hallway and, by morning, the body was gone. The episode works because it does not dress that up as a neat puzzle.
A grave, methodical return to a case that refuses to become simple or solved.
Villisca opens in the sealed Moor House and keeps its focus on the details that made the crime so hard to absorb: the locked doors, the morning discovery, and the sharp contrast between a neat bed and the violence beneath it.
Crime stories with impact and consequence.
Epstein-case coverage with teeth.
Betrayal, evidence, and the breaking point.
This episode updates the Gilgo Beach serial murder investigation with a focus on the previously unidentified victims known as Peaches and Baby Doe, who were recently identified as Tonya Jackson and her daughter Tatiana Dykes.
Unresolved opens with a warning about graphic content and a reminder that crisis help is available before turning to West Memphis, Arkansas.
Three boys ride out on their bikes after dinner and never make it back home.
Jeffrey Epstein bought Little St.
A pre-dawn fire at Holly Seiler's house in Lockport first looks like an accident.
The episode follows Jeffrey Epstein's early rise through wealth, secrecy, and institutional access.
Palm Beach police show up at Jeffrey Epstein's house after a disturbing complaint.
The episode begins in a London hospital ward in 1924, where patients lie in deep, uncanny sleep or rigid stillness.
The episode opens with a graphic-content warning and then settles into Julie Mott's disappearance in San Antonio.
Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on the morning of August 10, 2019.
Morning light came late to Villisca, Iowa on June 10, 1912.
Michael returns with an epilogue to his Epstein series.
The episode follows the Villisca Axe Murders as the dawn of June 10, 1912 breaks over a town that feels ordinary.
Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast traces the 1989 California medfly outbreak, when Los Angeles County and Orange County were hit by clusters that triggered 70-square-mile and later 230-square-mile quarantine zones.
Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast episode “Phantom Clowns” connects the 1981 Boston clown reports, the 2016 clown panic, and the cultural fear built around John Wayne Gacy and Pennywise.
In spring 2008, inside the offices of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, a document was finalized that ended the federal government's investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.
Michael opens the episode by marking the tenth anniversary of *Unresolved* and thanking listeners for sticking with the show.
This episode provides the final update on the Toyah Cordingley murder case, detailing the investigation, forensic evidence, trial, and conviction of Rajvinder Singh.
This episode investigates the unsolved case of the Thurston County Cat Killer, who mutilated and displayed numerous cats in Washington state between 2017-2018.
This episode announces a major development in the 30-year-old cold case of seven-year-old Morgan Violi, who was abducted and murdered in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1996.
Robert Maxwell's death opens the story.
This episode details the 1991 Austin Yogurt Shop Murders where four teenage girls were bound, shot, and set on fire, following the case through wrongful convictions based on coerced confessions to a 2025 breakthrough using advanced DNA and ballistics technology that identified serial offender Robert Eugene Brashers as the likely killer.
The episode begins with a personal memory from the host's childhood on February 28, 2001, setting up a narrative about an unsolved case.
A true crime podcast episode about the unsolved disappearance of a geologist during Wyoming's energy boom in the 1970s.
This episode provides an update on the Long Island Serial Killer case, detailing the charges against Rex Heuermann and the evidence against him.
This episode recounts the 1974 Amityville murders, where six family members were found shot in their beds, and the investigation that followed.
This episode preview recounts the 1903 Van Meter, Iowa creature sightings, an unsolved mystery.
The episode recounts the story of Carlina White, who discovered she was abducted as a baby and raised by her kidnapper, leading to a reunion with her biological mother.
This episode features two Patreon-exclusive stories: a 1990s radio hijacking and an unsolved murder from Florida.
This episode explores a grisly 2008 homicide in Shelbyville, Kentucky, comparing it to a similar cold case.
This episode details the history and scientific achievements of NASA's IMAGE spacecraft, which studied Earth's magnetosphere.