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Unsolved
More often than we’d like to believe, people get away with murder. In cold cases, cops have retired. Witnesses have died. Evidence has disappeared. Unsolved: A murder mystery podcast is a true crime podcast series powered by investigative journalism from USA TODAY and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,...
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45 episodes
Introducing: Murder on Music Row, season 2
Murder on Music Row Season 2: The Skull at the End of the Rainbow" is coming October 7. An 8-part deep dive, this narrative podcast focuses on the 199...
Coming Sept. 3: Binge Untested for free!
On Sept. 3, you’ll be able to binge the entire season of USA TODAY's true crime podcast "Untested" – for free. Along with detectives who investigate c...
Introducing Suave
Seven years after his release from prison, former juvenile lifer Luis "Suave" Gonzalez seems to be thriving. His career has taken off, he’s in a commi...
Introducing Untested
A detective’s dogged pursuit of justice links two rape accusations 800 miles apart, and puts her on the path to catch a sexual predator. She’ll bring...
Coming soon: Untested
He terrorized women. He slipped through the cracks. But one detective refused to give up. Untested, an exclusive true crime podcast series from WITNES...
Introducing: My Cousin Augie
In 1978, Milwaukee tavern owner Augie Palmisano was killed in a car bombing. Although many suspected crime boss Frank Balistreri, the murder was never...
S4 Ep8: Be careful what you wish for
After more than 20 years of turning us down, the Milwaukee Police finally release more than 10,000 pages of records on their investigation of Alexis’...
S4 Ep7: A DNA discovery
After a three-year delay in reporting due to the pandemic, we ask the experts to evaluate the DNA profiles of Alexis' mother and the woman in Ohio to...
S4 Ep6: The road trip
Two reporters travel to Ohio to see if they can get to the bottom of the claims that a young woman there is Alexis Patterson.
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S4 Ep5: A package from Ohio
Fourteen years after Alexis Patterson disappeared, a man from Ohio comes forward to say he believes his estranged wife might be the missing girl.
S4 Ep4: A double life
Some witnesses say they saw a red truck outside Alexis' school around the time she vanished. Could it have belonged to a serial killer?
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S4 Ep3: Where would she have gone?
Police come up with the theory that Alexis ran away after her mom tells them about an argument over cupcakes.
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S4 Ep2: A guilty man walked free
Alexis’ stepfather, LaRon Bourgeois, has a troubled history with police. That is enough to raise their suspicions after she disappears.
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S4 Ep1: She never made it to school
Despite Milwaukee’s history of segregation and distrust between Black residents and police, the whole city comes together to search for 7-year-old Ale...
S4: Coming May 3: Season 4
Alexis Patterson’s walk home from school was just 242 steps. But on May 3, 2002, the 7-year-old never made it. The story of Alexis’ disappearance star...
S4: We're working on season 4
I’m working on a new investigation about missing children of color, and one of them is going to be the focus of Season 4.
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S3 Ep11: Bonus episode: Unsolved Live
Still have questions about the murder of Father Alfred Kunz? Want to hear more about what was going on behind the scenes of the podcast and of the inv...
S3 Ep10: 'Forgive offenses'
Twenty years after Kunz’s murder, members of his former parish gathered at Mass to pray for his soul. Police, who had launched a social media campaign...
S3 Ep9: 'Bear Wrongs Patiently'
Detective Wayne Honer was among those who did not believe teacher Brian Jackson killed Father Kunz. While Detective Kevin Hughes was chasing Jackson,...
S3 Ep8: 'Comfort the Sorrowful'
Immediately after Father Alfred Kunz’s death, St. Michael teacher Brian Jackson moved in with Kunz’s best friend, Father Charles Fiore. Detective Kevi...
Introducing: Case Closed
Here is another true crime podcast you might like. Season one of Case Closed tells the story of Erin Corwin, a young military wife who was murdered in...
S3 Ep7: 'Shelter the Homeless'
A Dane County sheriff’s deputy came to believe his nephew, Joe Cavanaugh, was Father Kunz’s killer. The attack on Kunz was similar to one Cavanaugh wa...
S3 Ep6: 'Counsel the Doubtful'
St. Michael had been robbed in the months before Father Alfred Kunz’s death, and police believed the robbery and Kunz’s murder may have been connected...
S3 Ep5: 'Pray for the Living and the Dead '
Police have evidence that Father Alfred Kunz had performed exorcisms without the support of the church hierarchy, which official Catholic exorcists ch...
S3 Ep4: 'Admonish the Sinner'
Father Alfred Kunz and Father Charles Fiore had reportedly been investigating sexual misconduct by priests without authorization from church leadershi...
S3 Ep3: 'Feed the Hungry'
Father Alfred Kunz met Mora Smith at Brian’s Diner, where she often served him breakfast. The two became close, with him helping her spiritually and f...
S3 Ep2: Instruct the Ignorant
On the last night of his life, Father Alfred Kunz taped a radio show with co-host Peter Kelly and best friend Father Charles Fiore. Sometime after 10...
S3 Ep1: Bury the Dead
Father Alfred Kunz was murdered on the night of March 3, 1998. His throat was slit and his body was found in a hallway at St. Michael School in Dane t...
S3: Season Three: The Devil You Know
The body of Fr. Alfred Kunz was found on the floor of St. Michael School in Dane on March 4, 1998. Twenty years later, his murder remains unsolved.
S2 Ep7: 'I'll see her in heaven'
Police investigate Edward Wayne Edwards in connection with Jefferson County’s unsolved deaths. Edwards once worked at the Concord House, where Timothy...
S2 Ep7: A troubled history
Police investigate Teri Mueller’s husband, Joe, who has a long criminal record and whom police suspect may have been involved in the death of his son...
S2 Ep6: Cults and witchcraft
Tipster Sharon Blasing gives police some of her ex-husband James Dunn’s books, which discuss black magic and the practice of baptizing Satanists with...
S2 Ep5: The girl in the café
Private investigator Norbert Kurczewski hires a police artist to come up with a sketch of the couple who was with the little girl in the Black Earth C...
S2 Ep4: Missing mom
Jan Manders can’t accept the finding that her daughter’s death was an accident. She walks away on her daughter Jennifer’s fifth birthday and declines...
S2 Ep3: Where's Michelle?
A couple of months before Michelle Manders disappeared, her mother Jan befriended a woman named Teri Mueller. Teri stayed at the Manders’ house one ni...
S2 Ep2: The shadow man
Watertown police investigate Michelle’s death on their own for 24 hours and find her mother’s purse about a block away. Police and her family search f...
S2 Ep1: 'Not my baby'
Two-and-a-half-year-old Michelle Manders disappears from her Watertown home in the middle of the night in October 1981. About three weeks later, her b...
Season Two: A toddler’s death, a tangled trail
Coming Aug. 30: Authorities quickly ruled the death of 2 ½-year-old Michelle Manders an accident. But there were shortcomings in the investigation. Th...
S1 Ep7: A new beginning
A new detective takes over the John Zera homicide investigation and discovers a serial killer with Wisconsin ties.
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S1 Ep6: Blinded by science
By 2009, Detective Kent Schoonover fears the chance to solve John Zera's murder has slipped away, in part because the eccentric medical examiner who d...