Riddle Me That! True Crime

Sources are listed at the beginning of part one.

On May 3rd 2007, 3 year old Madeline McCann would go missing from her family's holiday condo at the Ocean Club Resort in Portugal. What happened? Was this an accident and a cover up? Or did a pedophile abduct Madeline?

In 1943 Birmingham, England was in the grip on WW2. Four teenage boys are passing through Lord Cobham's estate in the west Midlands. The boys were hoping to hunt rabbits, they had no luck. Instead the boys thought they spotted a bird's nest and one of the boys climbed the tree. He wasn't prepared for the hollow eyes that stared back at him. The boys had found the remains of a woman. Explicit Language in this episode.

Sources:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/418441.stm

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bella-wych-elm-unravelling-mystery-skull-found-tree-trunk-8546497.html

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/does-graffiti-hold-the-answer-to-this-73yearold-murder-mystery/news-story/829fafafc67ae1e94580e4e6756a939c

https://yesterday.uktv.co.uk/shows/nazi-murder-mystery/


https://strangeremains.com/2015/04/24/who-put-bella-down-the-wych-elm/

https://www.stourbridgenews.co.uk/news/16048176.face-bella-wych-elm-revealed-first-time-75-year-hagley-wood-murder-mystery-continues-intrigue/

https://www.josefjakobs.info/2016/09/clara-bauerle-is-finally-laid-to-rest.html

https://www.josefjakobs.info/2017/12/clara-bauerle-declassified.html

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/revealed-after-75-years-face-14329271

https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/who-put-bella-in-the-wych-elm/

https://medium.com/the-true-crime-edition/who-put-bella-in-the-wych-elm-1b69a2870114

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/31-days-of-halloween-who-put-bella-down-the-wych-elm

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnsolvedMysteries/comments/8zkll9/who_put_bella_in_the_wych_elm/

https://www.josefjakobs.info/2019/08/bella-in-wych-elm-solved.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04c9dfn

Shout Outs In This Episode:

Maggie Freleng: Unjust and Unsolved

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unjust-unsolved/id1527777879

The Deep Dark Truth

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deep-dark-truth/id1486640668

The Innocence Project

https://innocenceproject.org/

That's So Fucked Up the podcast

https://tsfuthepodcast.com/

January 14, 1953 two bodies of young children Who found in Stanley park. Strange clues surround the body, such as a woman's fur coat and a penny loafer, size 7.5. These clues point investigators towards a mother murdering her children. Who were these children?

Sources:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/unsolved-stanley-park-babes-in-the-woods-case-still-haunts-a-city/article16122339/

https://globalnews.ca/news/4611940/babes-in-the-woods-case-dna/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/4x0j0h/vancouvers_babes_in_the_woods/

https://evelazarus.com/s1-e12-the-babes-in-the-woods-part-1/

https://morbidology.com/the-babes-in-the-woods/

http://babesinthewoodsmurdercase.blogspot.com/

https://mysteryrepeatsitself.blogspot.com/2019/01/murdered-unidentified-children-babes-in.html

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/courier-archive/news/archives-babes-in-the-woods-discovered-in-stanley-park-2992170

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/vancouver-feature-babes-in-the-woods-discovered

http://evelazarus.com/?s=Babes+in+the+Wood

https://www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/post/murder-mystery-and-intrigue-in-review-babes-in-the-woods

https://theprovince.com/entertainment/books/about-those-babies-found-buried-in-stanley-park-qa-with-cold-case-vancouver-author-eve-lazarus

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bizarre-murders-bc-history

https://muckrack.com/eve-lazarus/articles

https://horrorhistory.net/2018/01/14/the-babes-in-the-wood-stanley-park-are-found/

https://bcbooklook.com/2015/12/13/we-dont-catch-the-smart-ones/

https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Case-Canada/dp/B08K56RQWB

A continuation of part one. Sources listed in episode one.

Jane, Arna and Grant Beaumont would disappear from Glenelg Beach on Australia Day 1966, in Adelaide. They were never seen again.Were the children groomed by a pedophile? What could have become of the children? A new suspect would emerge in 2007. He had...

Join me, as well as my friends Robin Warder from the Trail Went Cold and Criminologist Dr. Ashley Wellman as we tell you this mystifying story of what happened to Blair Adams.

Sources:

https://www.trailwentcold.com/2018/05/16/the-trail-went-cold-episode-72-blair-adams/

https://web.archive.org/web/20180612144437/http://etspj.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/BlairAdams.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20171223081559/https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2017/09/11/unsolved-canadian-blair-adams-raced-knox-county-slain-half-nude-his-gold-untouched/610262001/
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/appalachian-unsolved-cross-country-trip-ends-in-canadians-mysterious-death-in-knoxville/51-527201537

https://torontosun.com/news/crime/crime-hunter-death-far-from-home

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25682538/the-tennessean/

https://unsolved.com/gallery/blair-adams/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25682770/the-vancouver-sun/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25682689/surrey-leader/

https://medium.com/true-crime-addiction/the-strange-and-unexplained-murder-of-blair-adams-true-crime-48452d9d83e7

https://www.historicmysteries.com/blair-adams-unsolved-mystery/

Music by @PaulRich_Actor from the podcast Cold Callers Comedy @coldcallers
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/cold-callers-comedy/id437588267

Art by @fleshwadYT
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March 26,Owen 2020 Owen Harding walked out of his Saltdean home, in Brighton, England. He had been fighting with his girlfriend Meg and his mother Stella. The lockdown had just kicked in all throughout England, this would cut Owen off from Meg 280 miles...

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18927851.mum-missing-saltdean-teen-owen-harding-prepares-christmas/

https://www.brightonandhoveindependent.co.uk/news/people/mum-missing-owen-harding-marks-sixth-months-disappearance-2984532

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13449079/missing-owen-harding-teenager-lockdown-christmas-mum-stella/

https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/people/mystery-missing-saltdean-teenager-owen-harding-who-vanished-five-weeks-ago-2598047

https://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/people/girlfriend-missing-sussex-teenager-owen-harding-issues-emotional-video-appeal-2540538

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52386283

https://www.kentlive.news/news/sussex-news/sussex-teenager-owen-harding-16-4107858

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2020-12-07/mother-of-owen-harding-says-first-christmas-since-his-disappearance-will-be-devastating

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/desperate-hunt-teenager-16-who-21919645

The year was 1945, Christmas Eve. George and Jenny Sodder and their nine children would go to sleep. Strange events would happen throughout the night. An unnerving phone call, a loud bang that was heard on the roof, the door being left unlocked, the phone lines being cut and subsequently a fire that would ravage the home. In the chaos five of the children are missing. What happened to the children, had they perished in the fire? or had the fire been meant to cover up a kidnapping?

Sources:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-children-who-went-up-in-smoke-172429802/

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5067563

http://sites.rootsweb.com/~wvrcbiog/WhatReallyHappenedToChildrena.html

https://archive.is/20131014191841/http://www.register-herald.com/local/local_story_358182913.html

https://books.google.com.my/books?id=gijG7fSwvjAC&pg=PA349&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/life/christmas-eve-tragedy/article_12d6ec57-63a7-5902-b3c7-c85cd6b3bfff.html

https://stacyhorn.com/2005/12/28/long-long-long-sodder-post/

https://www.nytimes.com/1945/12/26/archives/11-children-die-in-4-home-fires-weather-mans-christmas-greetings-to.html

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/what-happened-to-the-five-sodder-children/news-story/861777f8c048b45241d42dd9fc4d5ee0

https://thoughtcatalog.com/emily-madriga/2018/03/35-puzzling-facts-about-the-sodder-children-disappearance/

https://www.utdailybeacon.com/opinion/columns/killer-conversations-the-disappearance-of-the-sodder-children-was-not-an-accident/article_8d3edfe6-6bc4-11eb-b20e-6b2282258bf9.html

https://www.clermontsun.com/2018/08/30/marc-hoover-disappearance-of-the-sodder-children

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/mystery-5-children-killed-house-14235748

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/522074/enduring-mystery-sodder-childrens-christmas-disappearance

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/8zdk13/where_are_the_sodder_children/

March 29, 2017, 20 year old Vogue Cover Model Raudha Athif is allegedly found hanging in her dorm room at Islami Bank Medical College, in Bangladesh. The scene is suspicious. There are many inconsistencies in the evidence at the scene. Leading up to her death she believed her best friend was trying to poison her. The witness statements appear coached and nothing seems to fit the narrative put forth by authorities.

Sources:

60 Minutes Australia 'What Happened to the Maldevian Girl With the Blue Eyes'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T8u-KTHCoU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoP3_vfUcTs

http://justice4raudha.blogspot.com/

https://www.thedailystar.net/country/news/raudha-gave-her-despair-pbi-final-report-1750687

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/father-of-maldivian-model-accuses-her-indian-friend-of-murder-1679966

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/maldivian-model-s-father-accuses-kashmiri-best-friend-of-murdering-her-in-college-hostel/story-ESWOPTunVqIk68DQB8fanJ.html

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/crime/2017/10/18/many-questions-still-left-unanswered-surrounding-raudhas-death

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/2017/10/18/raudha-father-reject-charge-sheet

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/10/15/australian-journos-investigating-raudha-athifs-murder-allegedly-forced-out-of-bangladesh

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/crime/2017/09/27/60-minutes-australia-makes-docu-maldivian-model-raudhas-death

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/2017/04/24/family-reports-raudhas-diary-missing

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/04/24/raudha-body-exhumed-second-autopsy

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/crime/2017/04/23/raudha-father-death-strangulation

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/crime/2017/04/22/raudha-really-kill

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/2017/04/16/cid-examine-raudhas-phone-laptop

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/2017/04/01/raudha-athif-buried-rajshahi

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/2017/03/30/untimely-death-raudha-athif

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/2017/03/31/autopsy-performed-maldivian-model-raudha-athif

https://www.facebook.com/JusticeForRaudhaAthif/