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The Unsolved Files explores real mysteries that remain unexplained, from disappearances and lost expeditions to strange signals and unexplained events.
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JonBenét Ramsey: What Happened Inside the Ramsey House That Night? (opens the original)
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On December 26, 1996, John Ramsey and family friend Fleet White went downstairs to search the Ramsey home in Boulder, Colorado. For hours, the household had been treated as the scene of a kidnapping. Patsy Ramsey had found a three-page handwritten ransom note demanding $118,000 and called 911 at 5:52 that morning. Police arrived, friends entered the house, and an earlier basement search failed to locate six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey. At about 1:00 p.m., John Ramsey turned on the light in a small
Flight 19: How Did Five Navy Bombers Disappear Over the Atlantic? (opens the original)
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On December 5, 1945, five United States Navy TBM Avenger bombers left Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale for a routine navigation and practice-bombing exercise over the Bahamas. Fourteen men were aboard. The flight reached its target, completed its bombing run, and then became lost during the return portion of the mission. Its leader, Lieutenant Charles Carroll Taylor, reported that both compasses in his aircraft had failed. He believed the formation was over the Florida Keys. But the planned rou
The Zodiac Killer: The Ciphers Were Solved—but the Killer Never Was (opens the original)
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Between December 1968 and October 1969, five people were killed and two survived a series of attacks across Northern California that authorities came to associate with an unidentified offender calling himself Zodiac. David Faraday, Betty Lou Jensen, Darlene Ferrin, Cecelia Shepard, and Paul Stine were killed. Michael Mageau and Bryan Hartnell survived and gave investigators rare firsthand accounts. The case changed after the attacker began calling police and writing to Bay Area newspapers. His l
Jack the Ripper: The Name That Turned Murder Into a Global Mystery (opens the original)
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In 1888, a series of murders in London’s East End became one of history’s most famous unsolved cases. Five women—Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly—are traditionally grouped as the canonical victims of Jack the Ripper. But that label was created after the killings began, and the name itself came from an anonymous letter whose author was never identified. This episode follows the documented chronology: Nichols’s final search for lodging money
The West Mesa Bone Collector: The Desert Burial Ground Nobody Solved (opens the original)
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On February 2, 2009, Christine Ross and her dog, Ruca, found a human bone protruding from the ground on Albuquerque’s West Mesa. The discovery near 118th Street Southwest led investigators to an isolated burial area containing the remains of 11 women and the unborn child of Michelle Valdez. The women had disappeared years earlier, many during the period from 2003 through 2005. Every victim was eventually identified, but no one has been charged with their murders. This episode examines the discov
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