Weeknight Mysteries Podcast

Weeknight Mysteries Podcast

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True crime, talked through carefully.

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Weeknight Mysteries Podcast follows Juras and Rain as they work through disappearances, suspected abductions, and unresolved case details. The appeal is in the back-and-forth: timelines are rebuilt slowly, assumptions get challenged, and uncertainty stays visible.

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About Weeknight Mysteries Podcast

Weeknight Mysteries Podcast is a true-crime conversation centered on missing people, cold cases, and unresolved disappearances. Juras and Rain lead the show as a complementary duo, with one voice often moving the timeline forward and the other stopping to question the logic. That rhythm matters. The episodes feel less like finished essays and more like two people sorting through a case in real time. A typical installment starts with the basic facts, then circles through family context, location details, last known movements, police searches, and reported oddities. The show is especially drawn to the point where facts become interpretation. In the Gus Lamont episode, the discussion weighs walking distance, timing, a possible abduction window, and a footprint found near the homestead. In the Mary Shin case, the hosts linger over the unidentified man from E-Z Mart and whether a remark before the meeting sounded like a joke or a warning. The Lisa Irwin episode turns on household layout, nighttime access, reported sightings, and the possibility of someone knowing the father was away. The Kierra Coles episode picks at phone calls, apartment keys, a television left on, and gaps in what was released publicly. These are not tidy mystery recaps. They are exploratory conversations where a theory can be raised, doubted, revised, and left unresolved within a few minutes. The tone stays accessible and human. It can also be repetitive, because the hosts often restate a detail until the uncertainty around it becomes clear. That habit is part of the show's identity. It foregrounds confusion instead of hiding it behind confident narration. The cases are serious, including missing children, suspected abductions, and pregnancy-related disappearance, but the delivery remains plainspoken rather than sensational. Listeners who want heavily produced storytelling may find the looseness noticeable. Listeners who like case discussion, unresolved questions, and theory testing will find a steady, engaged format. Weeknight Mysteries Podcast works best as a thinking-aloud true-crime companion, built around doubt, detail, and the stubborn absence of answers.

Made for: For true-crime listeners who prefer conversational case analysis, unresolved timelines, and theory testing over highly produced narration. It especially fits fans of missing-person cases and cold-case discussion.

What sets it apart: The show stands out through its visible reasoning process: Juras and Rain question each other, revise theories midstream, and leave uncertainty intact. The back-and-forth makes small details feel consequential without forcing a clean conclusion.

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Welcome to Weeknight Mysteries Podcast where we discuss mysteries and share our perspectives and opinions. Contact us at: [email protected]

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One suspicious detail becomes the kitchen-table theory session you were hoping for.

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  • to compare competing explanations instead of being handed a verdict
  • Juras and Rain testing each other's hunches against awkward case details
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#59 The Disappearance of Mary Shinn: The Man From E-Z MartMar 11, 2026

A restrained, host-led missing-person discussion that stays with the case's unresolved gaps.

Mary Shin's disappearance is treated as a plainspoken missing-person case: a 25-year-old art teacher from Arkansas who has been missing since the summer of 1978 after meeting a man about a real-estate showing.

#57 The Disappearance of Baby Lisa Irwin: The Midnight CallFeb 26, 2026

A conversational missing-child case study that stays focused on the unanswered questions.

Weeknight Mysteries centers episode 57 on the disappearance of Lisa Irwin, a 10-month-old who went missing from her home in Kansas City, Missouri in 2011.

#43 The Vanishing of Kierra Coles: Pregnant & Gone Without a TraceNov 26, 2025

A conversational missing-persons case that keeps the timeline and the unease in view.

Weeknight Mysteries takes a careful missing-persons approach to Kiara Coles, anchoring the story in her last known day, her pregnancy, and the unsettled details left in her Chicago apartment.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    #77 What Really Happened to Rey Rivera? | The Belvedere Hotel Case

    Jul 15, 2026·1h 40m
  2. 2

    #76 What Happened to Joseph Balderas at Mile 44? | Alaska's Unsolved Mystery

    Jul 8, 2026·1h 45m
  3. 3

    #75 Who Was Mr Cruel? | Melbourne's Unsolved Nightmare

    Jul 1, 2026·1h 18m
  4. 4

    #74 What Happened to Claudia Lawrence? | York's Unsolved Mystery

    Jun 25, 2026·1h 47m
  5. 5

    #73 Who Took the Beaumont Children? | A 60 Year Mystery

    Jun 17, 2026·1h 44m
  6. 6

    #72 The Adelaide Oval Abductions | Multiple Suspects

    Jun 10, 2026·1h 31m
  7. 7

    #71 The Disappearance of Tina Lim | Who made those calls?

    Jun 3, 2026·1h 29m
  8. 8

    #70 The Disappearance Jack O'Sullivan | Did Jack Fall In The Water?

    May 27, 2026·1h 18m
  9. 9

    #69 The Erika Ansermin Investigation | Did She Jump?

    Hidden gem

    Weeknight Mysteries Podcast examines the disappearance of 27-year-old Erika Ansermann, who vanished in northern Italy on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2003.

    May 20, 2026·1h 41m·5 clips
  10. 10

    #68 The Trenny Gibson Disappearance | The Jacket Mystery

    May 13, 2026·1h 29m
  11. 11

    #67 The Disappearance of Rebecca Reusch | Is Florian Responsible?

    May 6, 2026·1h 22m
  12. 12

    #66 The Katelin Akens Investigation | The Stepdad Timeline

    Apr 30, 2026·1h 14m
  13. 13

    #65 The Disappearance of Sandy Davidson | The Strange Man Theory

    Apr 22, 2026·1h 8m
  14. 14

    #64 The Dale Kerstetter Case | The Night Shift Mystery

    Co-hosts Juras and Rainn discuss the mysterious case of Dale Kerstetter, a night watchman who disappeared from a glassworks plant.

    Apr 15, 2026·1h 17m
  15. 15

    #63 The Jessica Zrinski Investigation | CCTV Evidence Decoded

    The hosts discuss the case of Jessica Zrinski, a 30-year-old woman who went missing in Australia in 2022 after being seen getting into a car driven by Paul Jones.

    Apr 8, 2026·1h 14m
  16. 16

    #62 Russell Marsom: The Cambridge Night Mystery

    Apr 1, 2026·55m
  17. 17

    #61 What Happened to Vitória Barreto?

    Mar 25, 2026·1h 8m
  18. 18

    #60 The Murder of Amy Mihaljevic: The Phone Call Trap

    Mar 18, 2026·1h 44m
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    #59 The Disappearance of Mary Shinn: The Man From E-Z Mart

    Hidden gem

    Weeknight Mysteries Podcast covers the disappearance of Mary Shin, a 25-year-old art teacher from Magnolia, Arkansas, after a July 1978 house viewing.

    Mar 11, 2026·1h 21m·5 clips
  20. 20

    #58 What Happened to Emma Fillipoff?

    Mar 4, 2026·1h 41m
  21. 21

    #57 The Disappearance of Baby Lisa Irwin: The Midnight Call

    Hidden gem

    The Perskal couple saw a man carrying a diapered infant at 12:15 a.m., then regretted not calling police.

    Feb 26, 2026·1h 49m·2 clips
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    #56 Liam Toman: Disappeared in a Ski Resort

    Feb 18, 2026·1h 21m
  23. 23

    #55 Ashley Summers: Vanished in Cleveland

    Feb 11, 2026·1h 25m
  24. 24

    #54 The Disappearance of Laureen Rahn

    Feb 4, 2026·1h 25m
  25. 25

    #53 The Disappearance of Kortne Stouffer

    Jan 28, 2026·1h 28m
  26. 26

    #52 What Happened to Bill Shipley?

    Jan 21, 2026·1h 3m
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    #51 The Murder of Arpana Jinaga: Halloween Horror in Redmond

    Jan 14, 2026·1h 34m
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    #50 The Disappearance of Allan Bryant Jr: The Night He Never Came Home

    Jan 7, 2026·1h 24m
  29. 29

    #49 What Happened to Katrin Konert?

    Dec 31, 2025·1h 24m
  30. 30

    #48 What Happened to Matilda Rooney?

    Dec 28, 2025·56m
  31. 31

    #47 Who Killed Paul Logan? The Takeaway Driver Lured to His Death

    Dec 24, 2025·54m
  32. 32

    #46 Who Killed Lindsay Buziak? A Perfectly Planned Murder

    Dec 18, 2025·1h 17m
  33. 33

    #45 Disappearance of Terrence Woods: Vanished in Front of a Film Crew

    Dec 11, 2025·1h 22m
  34. 34

    #44 What Happened to Adrienne Salinas?

    Dec 4, 2025·1h 15m
  35. 35

    #43 The Vanishing of Kierra Coles: Pregnant & Gone Without a Trace

    Hidden gem

    The $400 Walgreens ATM withdrawal is described as Kiera Coles's last confirmed sighting alive.

    Nov 26, 2025·1h 10m·2 clips
  36. 36

    #42 What Happened to Alan White?

    Nov 19, 2025·1h 24m
  37. 37

    #41 The Disappearance of Terri Ackerman: Hidden in Her Own Home

    Nov 12, 2025·55m
  38. 38

    #40 The Vanishing of Elizibeth Green: Gone in the Utah Desert

    Nov 2, 2025·39m
  39. 39

    #39 Vanished in Nannup: Simon Kadwell, Chantelle & Leela McDougall and Tony Popic

    Oct 15, 2025·56m
  40. 40

    The Vanishing of Attiin Shaw

    Oct 13, 2025·50m
  41. 41

    #38 Trevor Elias: Vanished After a Night Out

    Oct 8, 2025·51m
  42. 42

    The Strange Motel Disappearance of Henry Fermino

    Oct 3, 2025·26m
  43. 43

    #37 What Happened to Stefanie Damron?

    Oct 1, 2025·1h 16m
  44. 44

    #36 Who Killed Vishal Mehrotra? The 1981 London Abduction Mystery

    Sep 24, 2025·1h 23m
  45. 45

    #35 What Happened to Kayla Berg?

    Sep 18, 2025·1h 26m
  46. 46

    #34 Daniel Robinson Case: Accident or Foul Play?

    Sep 10, 2025·1h 7m
  47. 47

    #33 disappearance of Patricia Meehan

    Sep 3, 2025·1h 10m
  48. 48

    #32 disappearance of Scott and Amy Fandel

    Aug 27, 2025·1h 27m
  49. 49

    #31 Khamar Daban incident

    Aug 20, 2025·1h 21m
  50. 50

    #30 Dyatlov Pass incident

    Aug 13, 2025·1h 37m
  51. 51

    #29 Lead masks case

    Aug 2, 2025·1h 17m
  52. 52

    #28 what really happened to Annie Borjesson?

    Jul 26, 2025·1h 12m
  53. 53

    #27 Marshal Iwaasa disappearance

    Jul 16, 2025·1h 9m
  54. 54

    #26 strange case of Pat Mullins

    Jul 9, 2025·1h 19m
  55. 55

    #25 What happened to Tiffany Valiante?

    Jul 2, 2025·1h 18m
  56. 56

    #24 The Bakersfield 3

    Jun 25, 2025·1h 24m
  57. 57

    #23 bizarre Phoebe Handsjuk case

    Jun 19, 2025·1h 26m
  58. 58

    #22 Murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley

    Jun 13, 2025·1h 20m
  59. 59

    #21 Terry McSpadden vanishing

    Jun 6, 2025·1h 14m
  60. 60

    #20 What happened to Lilly and Jack Sullivan?

    May 28, 2025·1h 2m
  61. 61

    #19 Who killed the Moffatt family?

    May 22, 2025·1h 3m
  62. 62

    #18 Where is Erin Gilbert?

    May 14, 2025·1h 8m
  63. 63

    #17 what happened to Leigh Occhi?

    May 9, 2025·1h 43m
  64. 64

    #16 Flora fire

    May 3, 2025·1h 36m
  65. 65

    #15 Mélanie Ethier disappearance

    Apr 26, 2025·1h 43m
  66. 66

    #14 Who Killed Trude Espås?

    Apr 16, 2025·1h 26m
  67. 67

    #13 What Happened to Lauren Spierer?

    Apr 9, 2025·1h 34m
  68. 68

    #12 The Vanishing of Lisa Stebic

    Apr 2, 2025·1h 31m
  69. 69

    #11 Yuanlin Elevator Incident

    Mar 26, 2025·1h 22m
  70. 70

    #10 what happened to Brianna Maitland?

    Mar 19, 2025·1h 27m
  71. 71

    #9 Maura Murray Disappearance

    Mar 12, 2025·1h 44m
  72. 72

    #8 Bennington Triangle

    Mar 1, 2025·1h 5m
  73. 73

    #7 Molly Bish - last seen at Comins Pond

    Feb 16, 2025·1h 29m
  74. 74

    #6 What Happened Kurt Sova?

    Feb 5, 2025·1h 23m
  75. 75

    #5 Jennifer Fairgate Incident

    Jan 29, 2025·1h 32m
  76. 76

    #4 Flannan Isles Lighthouse

    Jan 23, 2025·1h 22m
  77. 77

    #3 The Isdal Woman

    Jan 15, 2025·1h 21m
  78. 78

    #2 The Enfield Monster

    Jan 9, 2025·59m
  79. 79

    #1 What happened to Dorothy Arnold?

    Jan 4, 2025·1h 20m