District Dark

On a dark, rainy morning in Midlothian, Texas, security cameras inside a church captured a strange figure in tactical gear wandering the empty halls before dawn. Minutes later, fitness instructor Missy Bevers arrived to set up for her early-morning class — and never made it out alive. In this episode, we examine the chilling surveillance footage, the unanswered questions, and the haunting mystery that still surrounds one of Texas’s most unsettling unsolved murders.

In 2014, 28-year-old Lars Mittank vanished from Varna Airport in Bulgaria after a holiday with friends took a strange turn. Injured, anxious, and acting increasingly afraid in the final hours before his flight, Lars was captured on airport surveillance suddenly running out of the terminal and disappearing into the surrounding area. He has never been found. In this episode, we trace Lars’s last known movements, the fear that seemed to follow him, and one of Europe’s most unsettling unsolved disappearances

In April 1991, 20-year-old Angela Hammond vanished from a payphone in downtown Clinton, Missouri while talking to her fiancé. During the call, she described a green pickup truck that had been circling the block. Moments later, she screamed, and the line went dead. Her fiancé raced to the scene, saw the truck speeding away with Angela inside, and chased it until his own transmission failed. In this episode, we trace the final call, the truck, the chase, and the case that still has no answer.

The Al Kite case centers on the 2004 murder of 53-year-old Al Kite in Aurora, Colorado. After advertising a room for rent, Al accepted a tenant using the name “Robert Cooper.” Days later, Al was found murdered in his home. Investigators later discovered the tenant’s identity appeared to be completely fake. The suspect allegedly used false paperwork, false background details, and vanished after the killing, leaving behind one of the most chilling unsolved deception murders in modern true crime.

On New Year’s Day 1998, Ben Smart and Olivia Hope disappeared after a party in New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds. They were last seen in a water taxi with a lone man, heading toward a boat in the early hours of the morning. Their bodies have never been found. In this episode, we follow the case in order — the party, the final boat ride, the search, the police investigation, the trial, and the case that still divides New Zealand.

He walks in, pulls a gun, forces the clerk into the back room, and shoots him execution-style in the back of the head… exactly the same method as the I-70 Killer. He takes very little money and calmly walks out.

In December 2017, 70-year-old Paddy Moriarty vanished from the tiny outback town of Larrimah in Australia’s Northern Territory. He was last seen leaving the Pink Panther Hotel on his quad bike with his dog Kellie riding behind him. He never came back. In this episode, we trace Paddy’s final day, the feud that divided the town, the search that found nothing, and the case that still has no body, no dog, and no charge.

In 1989, Patricia Meehan disappeared after a crash on a lonely Montana highway near Circle. Witnesses saw her step out of the wreck, stare silently, and then walk away into the dark. She was never found. In the years that followed, there were thousands of reported sightings across Montana and beyond, but no clear answer ever emerged. In this episode, we follow the crash, the search, the sightings, and one of the most mysterious adult disappearances in the northern United States.

In 1970, the burned body of an unidentified woman was found in Norway’s Ice Valley. She carried no ID, but police soon uncovered a trail of false names, coded notes, wigs, foreign money, and hotel stays across Europe. Witnesses remembered a woman who was elegant, private, and always seemed on guard. In this episode, we follow the evidence, the witness accounts, and the questions that still surround one of Europe’s most haunting unsolved mysteries: who was the Isdal Woman?

In 2000, Ukrainian journalist Heorhiy Gongadze disappeared after leaving a colleague’s apartment in Kyiv. Weeks later, a body believed to be his was found outside the city, and the case exploded into one of the biggest political scandals in modern Ukraine. Secret recordings, accusations of state involvement, and years of obstruction turned one journalist’s disappearance into a national crisis. In this episode, we trace Gongadze’s final days, the investigation, and the case that changed Ukraine forever.