Minisode 6: No Roads Lead Home

We’ve got that Friday feeling! In our latest Minisode Mystery we talk about hitch-hiking and Jonatan shares the murder of Lois Roberts. Was it a planned killing and was she the intended victim? Ana talks drink-driving and drinking culture, then introduces Brandon Swanson, a 19 year old who seemingly got lost on the way back from a graduation party.

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CN: missing person, murder, torture, driving under the influence

 

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Lois Roberts

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Brandon Swanson

Minisode 5: Late Check Out

It’s Friday! We debate American English v. British English and Jonatan tells the tale of Blair Adams, a Canadian who was killed in Seattle. Ana talks about a mysterious death by sucide where the victim wished to remain anonymous and recalls a strange tale of her own.

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CN: murder, suicide, cancer, wine, unsolved cases, missing persons

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Blair Adams

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The Comfort Inn where  Jane Doe spent her last day

Minisode 4: …and they were never seen again!

We begin this week’s mini with Jonatan’s story of Lars Mittank, a German tourist who disappeared in Bulgaria… seemingly with no one else involved. In the second half Ana tells the tale of Jim Donnelly, a New Zealand family man who went to work one morning and never came home.

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CN: wine, alcohol, cats, disappearances, head injuries, missing people

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Minisode 3: Spousal Support

It’s 4am and Valentine’s is over. Let’s discuss relationships gone wrong!

Ana talks about the most expensive divorce in British history (Young v Young) which is packed full of accusations, intrigue and conspiracies then rounded off with a mysterious death. Jonatan tells the tale of Dagmar Tauchenová’s reaction when her safe cracking husband is sent to prison.

Finally, we briefly touch on a missing canoer who returns from the dead but does his wife know more than she’s letting on?

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Minisode 2: The Kids Aren’t Alright

In the latest minisode mystery, Jonatan covers the 1979 (possible) revenge killings of four members of the Tan family in Geylang Bahru, Singapore. Later Ana covers the 1988 abduction of Michaela Joy Garecht.

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CN: Murder, children, missing persons

Minisode 1: Antiques Roadshow

For our first edition of Minisode Mysteries, Jonatan talks about the mystifying murder of Margareta af Forselles in what became known as ‘Koffertmordet i Göteborg’ or the Trunk Murder of Gothenburg (Sweden). Later, Ana tells the story of the curious disappearance of Trevaline Evans who failed to return to her antique’s shop on a busy Saturday afternoon. Plus a bonus Welsh lesson! (For any listeners in Wales, please send us pronunciation corrections and rarebit recipes).
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CN: Murder, dismemberment, missing persons, wine

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Margareta af Forselles
 

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Trevaline Evans