By The Unseen Podcast
A Podcast dedicated to UK missing people and unresolved cases.
On Monday 26th July 1993, Harry and Megan Tooze went about their usual day in the village of Llanharry in South Wales. The couple left their 10 acre farm called Ty Ar y Waun and carried out some errands; visiting...
On the 12th November 1989, locals in Rodborough near Stroud in Gloucestershire saw smoke billowing from a neighbouring cottage. They phoned the Fire Brigade who came out to the scene and sadly found the body of a woman in the...
Elizabeth Sutherland lived and grew up in the small Highland village of Culbokie in Scotland. She lived with her husband and two children just yards away from her childhood home and her parents. In 1984, she took her daughter to...
On the 22nd August 1986, a cleaner entered the public toilets on Midsummer Common in the city of Cambridge. They discovered something shocking and horrific. A man's body lay on the floor of the toilets with both his trousers and...
On Saturday the 10th September 1983, Janice Weston spent the day shopping, carrying out errands and working in the Notting Hill area of London. Janice was a successful solicitor and her friends described her as ambitious with a wide circle...
18 year old Carol Lannen and 20 year old Elizabeth McCabe were both living in Dundee, Scotland during the 1970's. Tragically both women were murdered within 11 months of each other and their bodies were discovered just 150 yards away...
Lillie Yolande Marie Rochaid was just 18 years old in 1906 and regularly travelled between her home in Dinard, France and her school in Rugby, Warwickshire in England. Princethorpe Priory was a religious school that Lillie had attended for most...
Warren and Elizabeth Wheeler led a very quiet life in the hamlet of Boars Hill in Oxfordshire, just 10 minutes outside the city centre. Warren had spent most of his life working in the Navy as a stoker and as...
On Friday June 8th 1996, Melanie Hall went out with her boyfriend Phillip and two of their friends to a nightclub called Cadillacs in Bath. The night was like any other however Monday came around and Melanie did not turn...
24 year old Rebecca Coriam was an adventurous young woman who loved to travel. In June 2010, she got a job working for Disney Cruise Lines after beating hundreds of other people at the interview. She went to work as...
In October 2016, Scottish Police got a phone call from a social worker telling them that there was a woman at risk and was potentially seriously unwell at a home in Inverkip, Scotland. The woman's named was Margaret Fleming. When...
On the 7th December 2002, Debbie Remorozo went to work at Royal Oldham Hospital as a coronary care nurse as usual. She had moved from the Phillipines to Manchester just 2 years prior and was dedicated to her job, working...
Arthur Brumhill was 76 years old and had officially retired however his love of animals was his passion. He worked part time at the local pet shop on Wellingborough Road in Northampton. He worked there for 11 years and was...
23 year old Maureen Mulcahy went to the local pub in Aberavon, Wales in February 1976 after a night out with friends. This wasn't unusual for Maureen who was a regular at the Green Meadow Pub. The next morning her...
On the 12th December 1945, a man walking along the foreshore of a beach in Aberdeen, Scotland came across something he wasn't expecting to see. There, lying amongst the boulders was a severed arm and hand. The police took only...
On Sunday 15th June 1919, Mabel Greenwood was at home with her husband Harold and her children. She had not attended the normal Sunday church service which was unusual but she did not feel well that day and decided to...
13 year old David Spencer and 11 year old Patrick Warren lived on the Chelmsley Wood housing estate in Solihull in the West Midlands. They were good friends who spent a lot of time together playing in the neighbourhood. On...
Fred Handford disappeared from his farm in New Mills, Derbyshire in 1976. There was no sign of foul play or a struggle. His beloved dogs had been left behind along with his distinctive flat cap. The police had no leads...
On the 12th September 1985, 66 year old Alexander 'Sandy' McClelland had been shopping in Brighouse, West Yorkshire with his stepson Brian and his wife Elizabeth. They returned to Brian and Elizabeth's house at 8:15pm and Sandy drove off to...
On the 5th November 1961, 3 potholers were exploring the area of Brandy Cove on the Gower Peninsula in Wales. They entered a narrow mineshaft and found a skull, some bones and some jewellery hidden behind a rock. Little did...
On Sunday 17th December 1989, 38 year old Keith Burgess went to church to attend Mass in Clifton in Bristol. He worked as a railway steward for British Rail and was due on a shift later that afternoon. At 2pm...
On the 20th June 1931, Hubert Chevis was enjoying an evening with his wife Frances at his home in Camberley, Surrey. The newly married couple had hosted a cocktail party and when their friends left sat down for their dinner....
On the 23rd July 1983 Diane and her husband Robert drove to the local pub in Coggeshall in Essex called the Woolpack. They had a drink and then travelled home. Diane got out of the car outside her house while...
It is our 100th episode this week and I have been taking listener suggestions for the case we should cover. The disappearance of Trevaline Evans has been suggested to me many times. On Saturday the 16th of June 1990, 52...
There are currently 17 unidentified people whose bodies have been discovered in the area of Yorkshire in the North of England. Who are these people? Where have they come from? What are their stories?Important information provided by:https://missingpersons.police.uk/en-gb/homehttps://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/mystery-man-whose-body-washed-16687791More listening on the...
Margaret was waiting for her twin sister Ann to come around on Sunday 25th March 1973. They had plans to take their children to the beach that day. The time they had arranged came and went and Ann had not...
On the 7th October 1977, Brenda Evans was on her way back from her lunch hour in the area of Poulton and Pulford in Cheshire. 17 year old Brenda had recently got engaged, bought a new house and found herself...
On January 12th 1920, Florence Nightingale Shore boarded a train to take her to the seaside resort of St Leonards in Hastings in Sussex. This was a journey many people took every day but today this one would be different....
On the 24th August 1991, a silver Vauxhall Nova GTE Saloon car was found by locals on a housing estate in Slough. The car attracted attention as the keys were left in the ignition, the sunroof was left open and...
On the 2nd October 1988, 23 year old Laurence Winstanley had been working at his garage in Oldham, Greater Manchester. During his lunch break he popped into the local pub. While he was there he received a phone call which...
A quick update on the episodes in the coming weeks! To all my listeners have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! See you in 2020 :)
In January 1953, aircraftsman Iain Hay Gordon was arrested on the charge of murdering 19 year old Patricia Curran close to her home in the village of Whiteabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Police were proud of their conviction and were...
In the early hours of the 12th November 1953, Desmond Curran set out to look for his younger sister. She had not returned from university in Belfast, Northern ireland as she normally did and the family were concerned. As he...
In the course of 6 months between 1983 and 1984, two taxi drivers were murdered in the same area of London and their cabs were abandoned in the same area. Stephen Sylvester and Pardeep Sangha were both brutally stabbed to...
On the 23rd March 1988 Deborah Linsley boarded a train headed for London Victoria. She had been visiting family in Bromley, South East London and was heading back up to Edinburgh where she worked as the head receptionist at a...
On the 13th July 1889, Edwin Rose was on holiday on the Isle of Arran in Scotland. He decided to climb the mountain of Goatfell as many other tourists were doing at the time. His trip appeared to be going...
On the 4th October 1949, Stanley Setty disappeared from London with £1500 in his pocket and simply vanished. His car was in its usual parking space and Scotland Yard could find no indications as to where he might have gone....
On the 30th of September 1975, cowman Jock Stewart was walking just outside of the town of Ecchinswell in Hampshire. As he walked along he noticed something in an open drain behind a demolished cottage. As he got closer he...
On the 6th June 1958, Harry Baker set out to visit his customers in the town of Bootle, just 3 miles from the city of Liverpool. He worked as a credit draper selling clothes door to door and collecting the...
67 year old Jean Milne lived in a large mansion called Elmsgrove in Broughty Ferry, in the suburbs of Dundee, Scotland. Miss Milne was wealthy and loved to dine out at expensive restaurants. She also had quite an eccentric lifestyle...
On the 14th September 1954, 21 year old Jean Townsend was walking home from South Ruislip train station in Greater London. She was returning home from an evening out with her friends. She did not make it home. The next...
On the 12th September 1907, Bertram Shaw returned home to find his mother waiting on his doorstep at St Pauls Road in Camden Town, London. She told him she couldn't get in and his common law wife Emily wasn't answering...
On the 20th November MP for Walsall North ,John Stonehouse went for a swim on the beach close to the Fontainbleu Hotel in Miami, Florida. When he didn't return for an appointment, his business associate James Charlton went out to...
Foulness Island is located on the East Coast of Essex close to the seaside town of Southend On Sea. As the island only has around 150 residents, it is largely unknown to the average person however in 2014 it was...
On the 29th September 1935, Susan Haines Johnson was walking over a bridge in Moffat, Dumfriesshire in Scotland. She noticed a parcel floating in the ravine. She was horrified to see that there was a human arm sticking out of...
George Kelly and Charles Connolly had been arrested in the case of the Cameo Cinema Murders in 1949. They went to trial on the 12th January 1950 and it captivated the nation. The trial would lead to some surprising testimony...
On the 19th March 1949, a gunman entered the manager's office and opened fire on two of the managers. The man was seen by a number of employees but managed to flee before being caught. It was revealed that sadly...
On the 6th January 1931, Evelyn Foster worked as a taxi driver at her father's car hire company in Otterburn, Northumberland. She was an independent woman who ran her own part of the business. On that evening she took a...
On the 26th February 1889, 50 year old John Fletcher travelled into Manchester City Centre to attend a mill sale at the Mitre Hotel. He was later seen getting into a hansom cab with a younger gentleman. They did not...
On the 19th January 1974 Glenis Carruthers attended a 21st birthday party in central Bristol. She left the party at around 10pm and never returned. Her body was later found not far from the party but what happened to her?...