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Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories is a podcast drama with a modern twist on old time radio that delves into the mystery of true cold cases and unsolved murders. With the help of an ensemble cast, follow our hosts as they take you on an entertaining journey through the crime scene, the investigation and attempt to solve the case. With many surprising plot twists, it’s important you start listening from the first episode of a cold case. New episodes are released every Tuesday. Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories is a Spotify Original.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Historical context, dramatized reconstruction, and clear forensic explanation give old murder cases renewed shape without pretending every question has an answer.
Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories reconstructs historical cases through narration, acted scenes, and close attention to the worlds surrounding a death.
Greystone's powder burns interrupt a neat story just when you've settled into it.
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A fortress-like mansion, an oil fortune, and a death bound up with Los Angeles wealth and political power.
Ned Doheny's death sits inside the shadow of Greystone, a mansion whose smoky limestone walls and fortress-like profile make its wealth feel staged for public view.
A theatrical Thanksgiving setup leads into arsenic, agency, and dark historical comedy.
Arsenic gets a Thanksgiving makeover in this darkly playful episode, opening on mashed potatoes, candles, and old resentments before the family-table tension tips into murder fantasy.
A Christmas fire leads into a tense Staten Island murder story shaped by silence, absence, and careful dramatic staging.
Christmas Day 1843 in Graniteville, Staten Island, shifts from holiday bustle to dread when smoke rises from the quiet Houseman home. Captain George Houseman is away at sea, and Emmeline and her infant daughter should already have arrived; after unanswered knocks, neighbors…
A cold case reopens as one journalist follows an underground-crime theory toward a guarded witness.
Valerie Percy's cold case gains new force when investigative journalist Art Patak decides that nearly 14,000 interviews and more than 1,300 leads still leave room for another look.
A Kenilworth dream collapses into a brutal unsolved murder and a family's frantic first response.
A Kenilworth mansion becomes the setting for a shattered American dream when 21-year-old Valerie Percy is killed in her bed on September 18, 1966.
A forensic case study that turns grief into doubt.
The episode follows Edward Doheny, Ned Doheny, Hugh Plunkett, and detective Leslie White through a bleak Beverly Hills death case that begins in family shock and settles into a forensic puzzle.
A landmark DNA case told with steady suspense and real forensic weight.
Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories follows the case that pushed DNA fingerprinting into murder work, beginning in 1980s England with the killings of Linda Mann and Dawn Ashworth.
Outdoor mysteries, mapped with human common sense.
Georgia politics from inside the room.
True crime measured by the evidence.
Mysteries, lore, and nervous laughter.
This episode investigates the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, focusing on police interrogations of PKK members as suspects.
This episode investigates the 1929 deaths of Ned Doheny and Hugh Plunkett at Greystone Mansion, exploring forensic inconsistencies that challenge the official murder-suicide narrative.
This episode explores the first murder case solved using DNA analysis in 1980s England, focusing on the killings of Linda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in small villages.
Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories follows the Doheny family from Edward Doheny's Los Angeles oil fortune to the Teapot Dome scandal and the Greystone deaths.
Greg Poulsen opens Serial Killers' Thanksgiving special, "Just Add Arsenic," with the line "What if I slipped something in the dessert to make it all stop?" and ties holiday conflict to poison.
["A Christmas Day 1843 fire in Graniteville, Staten Island, exposed Emmeline Houseman and 18-month-old Anne Eliza Houseman under a bed, both killed with an axe.", "Polly Bodine spent the same morning moving between Manhattan, George Waite's apothecary, and the Houseman cottage after buying a dark green hood and matching veil.", "Police recovered Emmeline's gold pocket watch from a pawn shop and found Polly's letter asking Waite to say they were together all day, which triggered arrests.", "The case then became a public spectacle of mistrials, courtroom rumors, and P.T.
Art Patak of the Chicago Sun-Times gets a break when Leo Rugendorff, a dying Chicago loan shark, says Francis Hoheimer confessed to killing Valerie Percy.
Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories opens on the September 18, 1966 killing of 21-year-old Valerie Percy at Windward in Kenilworth, Illinois, where Chuck Percy woke to Lorraine Percy’s screams.
Major Calvin Goddard's forensic ballistics matched Fred Burke's Thompson submachine guns to bullets from the massacre.
Forensic expert Paul Kirk said the blood patterns pointed to a left-handed attacker using a cylindrical weapon.