On the day before her 21st birthday party, Leigh Matthews was abducted from the parking lot at Bond University in Johannesburg. Her parents received a call from the kidnapper, demanding a large sum of money. Her father paid, but 10 days later, there was still no sign of his daughter. This became one of the most publicised cases in South Africa and it seemed like everyone was looking for Leigh.

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When family physician Dr John Schneeberger was accused of drugging and raping a patient, people in the small town of Kipling, Saskatchewan refused to believe it. He volunteered a blood sample to be tested against DNA evidence and it was not a match. However, the victim refused to give up. Two further tests showed that he was innocent, but was he?

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Kate and Adrian Prout lived on Redhill Farm in the idyllic Gloucestershire countryside. He arranged pheasant shoots and ran a pipe-laying business. She catered for the shoots, arranged flowers in the local church, walked her dogs and did pottery. Life seemed like it couldn’t get any better, but behind closed doors, it was everything but perfect. Then Kate vanished. Adrian believed that she had left him and staged her disappearance simply to ‘wind him up’. But no one ever heard from Kate again…

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When an outspoken journalist and political commentator failed to return home after a day’s work, his wife knew he had been kidnapped in an attempt to silence him. Four months later his decapitated body was found in the woods outside Kyiv. This is the story of Georgiy Gongadze, whose death brought about historical change in a country in turmoil.

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Dear Evidence Locker listeners,

Unfortunately, there will be no regular episode this week, as we've had some technical difficulties in recording remotely. 

We’ll be back next week with a new case!

Meanwhile, here is a Q&A episode, phone conversation between Noel and Sonya, answering questions from listeners.

Links to the episodes discussed in the conversation:

1. Sweden - The Tent Killings at Lake Appojaure

20. Mexico - The Black Magic Murders of Matamoros (Adolfo Constanzo)

28. USA - North Pole Slaying Plot

32. Australia - The Backpacker Murders (Ivan Milat)

37. Poland - The Skink Suit Case of Krakow

41. The Netherlands - Gone in the Morning (Nicky Verstappen)

45. Belgium - Almost Flawless

64. Iceland - Bad Blood

71. Italy - The Monster of Florence

73. South Africa - The Stander Gang

78. USA - The Day Santa Died in Arizona

82. Russia - Sasha the Siberian Cannibal (Alexander Spesivtsev)

85. Germany - The Confessions of Bruno Lüdke

87. Mexico: La Mataviejitas

My Passion Case by Bill Huffman

Stay safe - and see you next week!

In 1984, the Oregon town of The Dalles suffered a mass outbreak of food poisoning. More than 700 of its residents were affected. Health officials looked at hygiene in local restaurants, but an investigation led them to a local spiritual commune who had a plot to taking over the city’s government.

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It was a Sunday night like any other in the Wilson home. Alistair, the 30-year-old father of two, was reading bedtime stories to his young sons when an unknown man rang the doorbell. Moments later, Alistair was dead – shot three times on the doorstep of the family home. Alistair's murder would become one of Scotland's most puzzling unsolved mysteries.

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Aurore Martin and Marc De Beers got married in May 1995 and honeymooned on the French island of Corsica. A romantic late-night drive ended in a tragic accident, costing Marc his life. But something didn’t quite add up and when investigators learnt about a similar accident in their home country of Belgium three years before, they knew there was more to this untimely death than met the eye… 

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When Dorothy Donovan was found brutally murdered in her Delaware home suspicion fell on her son, Charles. He had a bizarre story and everyone thought he was guilty. Until DNA proved otherwise...  

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Unsolved Mysteries

Delmar Man Pleads Guilty in 1991 slaying

When the body of a young Japanese woman was found in a hidden storage room in a building in Auckland’s CBD, police were stumped. Once they identified her, they learnt she was Kayo Matsuzawa, a 29-year-old English student who had worked and studied in Christchurch. She disappeared hours after she arrived for a weekend of sightseeing in Auckland. She was found eleven days later and her state of decomposition made it impossible to determine her cause of death. What happened to Kayo?

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