New Orleans Unsolved by Anna Christie, Thanh Truong

04.24.2024

Episode 27, Write the Wrongs

New Orleans Unsolved began as a deep dive into one mysterious death. But in the six years Anna dedicated to investigate the cases that eventually became the basis for both seasons of the podcast, she discovered that rarely were the...

04.17.2024

Episode 26, Yet Again

The path of Anna's investigation takes her back to Pass Christian, Mississippi for a second look at the location where Mark Richardson's body was discovered. We also hear about a more sinister undercurrent of what ties these cases together and...

04.10.2024

Episode 25, Take The Long Way Home

The Rope Murders took place at a time which preceded what we've all come to know as forensic science. The murders of Dennis Turcotte, Mark Richardson and Daniel Dewey were also comitted before the internet age . Anna's investigation of...

04.03.2024

Episode 24, The Dead End Road

Dead end roads don't always lead to dead ends, sometimes they lead to answers. Anna takes a trip to meet a listener that helps connect the dots to a location she has been searching for for years.

03.27.2024

Episode 23, The Map

From digging into old records and newspaper archives to tracing faded genealogy lines, Anna has used different investigative techniques and tools. But the one tool that perhaps produced the most revelatory information has been a map that became available through...

03.20.2024

Episode 22, The Photos

Over the course of six years and two seasons of the podcast, Anna has been trying to decipher the identities of the murdered teenage boys who ended up in the photos that were eventually shown to other children. The individual...

03.13.2024

Episode 21, Devil in the Detail

Anna unexpectedly connects with a woman who had information that sent her reeling. The years Anna has spent investigating the Rope Murders have been filled with attempts to connect deaths, details and decades. It’s been a constant pursuit of...

03.06.2024

Episode 20, The Leak

During Anna’s investigation of the Rope Murders, she found correlations to the mysterious case of Eddie Wells, the pedophile operation ran by Boy Scout Troop 137, and one person who seemed to have tentacles touching all those elements. But...

02.28.2024

Episode 19, The Footlocker

Anna’s investigative focus stays on the Orange Grove Plantation as she sits down with a woman who, as a young girl, lived near the plantation in Plaquemines Parish and visited its grounds. Through Anna’s yearslong investigation of the Rope...

02.21.2024

Episode 18, The Shell Road

Fragmented memories, fading landmarks and decades old newspaper articles have been among the puzzle pieces Anna has had to work with as her investigation of the Rope Murders took her deeper into Plaquemines Parish…and some of its troubled history. One...

02.07.2024

Episode 17, The Dark Star

The bodies of Dennis Turcotte, Mark Richardson and Daniel Dewey may have been found north of New Orleans, but as Anna as got deeper into her investigation of their murders and the crimes of Boy Scout Troop 137, her findings...

01.31.2024

Episode 16, King of the Bayou

So far, Anna’s investigation of the Rope Murders has uncovered links to the pedophile cell that was Boy Scout Troop 137. While that troop may have been based in New Orleans East, Anna found that its tentacles reached outside of...

01.24.2024

Episode 15, Be Prepared

The Boy Scout motto of “Be Prepared” predates the founding of the organization in 1910, but preparedness became a cornerstone of Scouting for the century that followed. In the case of Boy Scout Troop 137 in New Orleans, the...

01.17.2024

Episode 14, Scout's Dishonor

Over the two seasons of the podcast, Anna’s investigations have involved the mysterious deaths of teenage boys and the abuse of young children. As she continued her work on the Rope Murders, she kept finding a connection to an organization...

01.10.2024

Episode 13, The Trapper

Anna begins to lay out her four-year investigation of the Rope Murders. It includes a familiar person from season one who said he was shown photographs of dead boys tied up and left in rural settings. Anna analyzes the locations...

01.03.2024

Episode 12, The City

It took almost 30 years for investigators to identify Daniel Dewey’s body. For almost as long, a narrative kept repeating in newspapers and online articles that Dewey and the two other victims of the rope murders may have been male...

12.20.2023

Episode 11, Texas

In the summer of 2000, the remains of John Doe were exhumed from his grave at Pine Hill Cemetery in St. Helena Parish. He had been buried for more than 20 years. Back in 1979, his body had been tied...

12.13.2023

Episode 10, The FACES Lab

For roughly 20 years, John Doe’s body had been buried at Pine Hill Cemetery in St. Helena Parish. At the time of his burial and in the two decades that followed, there wasn't much progress in finding a suspect in...

12.06.2023

Episode 9, Baton Rouge

In 1997, after almost 20 years of cold case status, the murders of Dennis Turcotte, Mark Richardson and John Doe would get renewed interest. Dennis Stewart was a relatively new detective with Louisiana State Police, but his knowledge of one...

11.29.2023

Episode 8, The Quarter

When each victim of the rope murders was found, investigators didn’t make any public mention of a serial pattern or perpetrator. But, within a month after the discovery of John Doe’s body in St. Helena Parish, at least one newspaper...

11.22.2023

Episode 7, Pine Hill

In 1979, Jack Foster was assigned the case of a teenaged boy who had been ritualistically tied up, murdered and left at a local garbage site in St. Helena Parish. Foster was a self-taught detective working part time with the...

11.15.2023

Episode 6, St. Helena Parish

On November 12, 1979, the tiny sheriff’s department in St. Helena Parish was just beginning its investigation of a body that had been ritualistically tied-up and left at a garbage dumpsite. The body was decomposing. Identifying the victim was difficult....

11.08.2023

Episode 5, Greensburg

Following a coroner’s inquest jury in Harrison County, it was determined that Mark Richardson’s death was the result of a homicide. The coroner presumed Richardson died from a possible overdose of injected drugs, but the actual cause of death was...

11.01.2023

Episode 4, Biloxi

Two days after a tied-up body was found in a wooded area near coastal Mississippi, a family from Biloxi believed it was that of their teenage son. Only weeks separated the discoveries of his body and Dennis Turcotte’s. The fact...

10.25.2023

Episode 3, Pass Christian

Soon after Dennis Turcotte’s body was discovered, the working theories about his death and disappearance revolved around New Orleans’ French Quarter. A New Orleans bellhop was said to be the last person who saw Turcotte alive. In this episode, Turcotte’s...

10.18.2023

Episode 2, Slidell

After Dennis Turcotte’s body was discovered bound and dumped in 1978, New Orleans Police Detective Frank Weicks traveled out of his jurisdiction to the rural area of Talisheek to assist in the case. The working theory was Turcotte had spent...

10.11.2023

Episode 1, Talisheek

The creators of New Orleans Unsolved are finally back with their second season. This time, they’re investigating a set of truly mysterious murders. In 1978, hunters found the body of a teenager in a rural area of Louisiana. His hands...

09.29.2023

The Rope Murders Trailer

Investigative producer Anna Christie and veteran journalist Thanh Truong are back with the second season of their independent true crime podcast. Season 2 of New Orleans Unsolved, The Rope Murders, begins October 11th, 2023.

12.21.2021

Episode 18: Raleigh

The finale to season 1 has been more than a year in the making. Will Stanley Burkhardt remain in prison or go free? The judge's ruling finally comes down.

06.25.2020

Episode 17: Urquhart Street

In the season finale, Stanley Burkhardt gets arrested again, but will he stay in prison? His testimony in a court hearing weighs heavily in that decision. The testimony includes details in Eddie Wells’ case.

06.18.2020

Update on episode 17

Episode 17 is still in production. Release date: June 25th, 2020

06.11.2020

Episode 16: The Lower 9th Ward

On the very same day of the jailhouse interview, a second interview followed. It was unexpected and took place in the Lower 9th Ward. What did one of Eddie's closest friends say to him before he disappeared?

06.04.2020

Episode 15: St. Bernard Parish

A man who says he was one of Eddie Wells’ best friends cautiously shares what he knows of a fateful day in 1982. He claims he was with Eddie the day he disappeared. To get his story, we go inside...

05.28.2020

Episode 14: Haney Drive

New Orleans is in the 1980’s was a very dark place and time for one man. As a boy, he lived in New Orleans East, not far from Stanley Burkhardt’s home. His memories of certain events are some of the...

05.21.2020

Episode 13: Southeast Louisiana

Robert details a set of serial killings that predates the death of Eddie Wells. He believes all the cases could be linked to Stanley Burkhardt, but is there evidence to support any of it?

05.14.2020

Episode 12: Orleans Parish

Two people with intimate details of Stanley Burkhardt’s career as a New Orleans police detective are coming forward. They both believe Burkhardt is capable of murder. They only agreed to speak under a cloak of anonymity.

05.07.2020

Episode 11: The Upper 9th Ward

After revealing her story about her time with Stanley Burkhardt, Kristin now is ready to detail what she knows about the death of Eddie Wells. Her accounts seem to build a stronger connection between Burkhardt and Eddie’s mysterious death in...

04.30.2020

Episode 10: Florida

A woman who has never spoken publicly about her alleged ordeals with Stanley Burkhardt finally comes forward. Her revelations about Burkhardt and Eddie Wells are shocking. We travel to Florida to get her story.

04.23.2020

Episode 9: Kenner

As the current cold case investigation into Eddie Wells’ death continues, we hear from a woman who has intimate knowledge of the man whom multiple people believe had a role in Eddie’s death in 1982. She is also the man's...

04.16.2020

Episode 8: Dallas

In the aftermath of the prison system releasing Stanley Burkhardt multiple times, Richard decides to go on the offensive. He begins what he calls “the crucible.” It set off a chain of events that ultimately leads to the cold case...

04.09.2020

Episode 7: Vaughan's Lounge

The law catches up with Stanley Burkhardt, but not before a shocking a conversation Richard says he had with him. That conversation supposedly took place at Vaughan’s Lounge in the Bywater, and it revolved around the death of Eddie Wells.

04.02.2020

Episode 6: New Orleans East

The narrative shifts to New Orleans East. Vic’s family moves to that neighborhood and he believes he can avoid Stanley Burkhardt. He’s proven wrong and something proves to be even more chilling when he says Burkhardt shows him a set...

03.26.2020

Episode 5: North Carrollton and Banks

An already twisted situation for Richard worsens and it begins to unfold just blocks away from his home in Mid-City. Meanwhile, Vic recalls the first time he met Eddie Wells. All of this takes place with Stanley Burkhardt looming over...

03.19.2020

Episode 4: South Broad and Gravier

Detailed accounts and accusations of corruption deepen. Serious questions about a New Orleans Police Detective are swirling. It’s the same detective who was adamant that Eddie Wells was murdered back in 1982.

03.12.2020

Episode 3: Mid-City

The current cold case investigation into the death of Eddie Wells began after complaints filed with the New Orleans Police Department by two men. They believe one man killed Eddie. The accounts of what they endured and witnessed begin to...

03.05.2020

Episode 2: The Bywater

We get a clearer picture of the life Eddie Wells led in the neighborhood where he grew up: Bywater. Eddie was portrayed in a less than favorable way in the newspaper, but those who grew up with him paint a...

02.27.2020

Episode 1: Piety and Desire

The death of Eddie Wells in 1982 would seem like a straightforward case. His body was found floating in the Mississippi River in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. The coroner determined he likely drowned, but a police detective believed the...

02.13.2020

New Orleans Unsolved Trailer

The new podcast is a narrative dive into the decades old case of a 17-year old boy who drowned in New Orleans. The investigation into the mysterious death uncovers a web of crime, corruption and cover up. At the center...