*WARNING* This episode discusses mental health, drug use and suicide.

Kurt Cobain, a name that many people will know and maybe you're one of the 36 million monthly listeners on Spotify of Nirvana.

Sadly, we've been left with three albums worth of music to listen to on a loop for 31 years because in April 1994, Kurt was found dead in his Seattle home. Police determined it to be a suicide, Kurt had taken a lot of Heroin and appeared to have shot himself - but for many years, this theory has been questioned, many people speculated as to whether he really did take his own life.

Last week, in February 2026 - news broke that a team of specialist forensics had re-looked into Kurt's case, and they believe the evidence strongly suggest her was in fact murdered.

In this weeks episode, we cover Kurt as a person, his life in the band, his death and these new theories.

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This week, The Unsolved Podcast is giving you a three for one with the mini series of Gareth Williams.

Gareth William's was a highly intelligent 31 year old, who was working for MI6 in 2010.

In August 2010, following a call for concern, police visited Gareth's London flat, what they found would be the start of a story that to this day, is no closer to having a resolve, because in Gareth's bath was red holdall bag, that had been zipped shut and a padlocked. Inside the bag, was Gareth's naked body.

Very little DNA was found at the scene, there were no fingerprints on or inside the bag, despite the city facing a heatwave, the flats thermostat had been left on high. Some items in the flat that were found flooded the news which led the story on a different path.

There were three main theories for Gareth, we'll explore these plus other areas of Gareth's life, work and potential connections to similar deaths in the years before and after.

Episode 1 covers who Gareth was, his intellegence and the job he held with GCHQ and MI6, plus the discovery of his body and the initial findings.

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This week, The Unsolved Podcast is giving you a three for one with the mini series of Gareth Williams. 

Gareth William's was a highly intelligent 31 year old, who was working for MI6 in 2010.  

In August 2010, following a call for concern, police visited Gareth's London flat, what they found would be the start of a story that to this day, is no closer to having a resolve, because in Gareth's bath was red holdall bag, that had been zipped shut and a padlocked. Inside the bag, was Gareth's naked body.

Very little DNA was found at the scene, there were no fingerprints on or inside the bag, despite the city facing a heatwave, the flats thermostat had been left on high. Some items in the flat that were found flooded the news which led the story on a different path. 

There were three main theories for Gareth, we'll explore these plus other areas of Gareth's life, work and potential connections to similar deaths in the years before and after.  

In Episode 2 we cover the three main theories considered to have happened to Gareth, from him getting into the bag himself, a consensual experiment or murder!

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This week, The Unsolved Podcast is giving you a three for one with the mini series of Gareth Williams. 

Gareth William's was a highly intelligent 31 year old, who was working for MI6 in 2010.  

In August 2010, following a call for concern, police visited Gareth's London flat, what they found would be the start of a story that to this day, is no closer to having a resolve, because in Gareth's bath was red holdall bag, that had been zipped shut and a padlocked. Inside the bag, was Gareth's naked body.

Very little DNA was found at the scene, there were no fingerprints on or inside the bag, despite the city facing a heatwave, the flats thermostat had been left on high. Some items in the flat that were found flooded the news which led the story on a different path. 

There were three main theories for Gareth, we'll explore these plus other areas of Gareth's life, work and potential connections to similar deaths in the years before and after.  

In the final episode, we tie in the links with Gareth's job and Russia, and the established 4th theory to come from the inquest. As well as looking at similar deaths around the timeframe that could be a connection.

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*WARNING* This episode covers the abduction and murder of a child, extra care must be taken prior to listening.

It was the 1970's when The Grimmer family decided to spend a hot Australian's summer day on Fairy Meadow beach but what started with sandcastles and splashing in the sea, ended with he disappearance of the a three year old girl.

The Grimmer family had not long moved to Australia from the UK due to dad, Vince, being in the army. Mum, Carole and her four children, Ricky, Stephen, Paul and Cheryl had decided to spend the hot day on the beach, when the weather suddenly took a dramatic turn, Carole started to tidy up their belongings whilst the children when the shower block to clean up, but when cheeky three year old Cheryl refused to come out of the woman's showers, older brother Ricky went to fetch Carole, when they returned to the changing rooms - Cheryl was gone.

Being the 70's police only had witness statements to go on, until 18 months later when a 17 year old boy voluntarily went to police with information on Cheryl's disappearance - but it wasn't just information he had...he also had a confession.

This week, I cover why 55 years after that confession there still hasn't been any charges brought against anyone in connection with Cheryl's abduction and murder.

60 Minutes Australia

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On the 30th June 1999, a badly decomposed body was found in a corn field in Missouri, through finger prints police were able to confirm it was the body of 41 year old Ricky McCormick, although there was a small suspicion that he had been murdered, due to the decomposition and the wobbly timeline around his date of death, the case fell cold.

To start with, Ricky's case wasn't well known, it got a small mention in a local newspaper - his family were told that no clues had been found in connection to his death, but behind the scenes police had found something, two handwritten notes that appeared to be in code or a cipher.

They handed them to the FBI who spent 12 years trying to crack the cipher in hopes it would give the answers around Ricky's potential murder, when they failed to crack they code, they made the notes public in March 2011 and suddenly, Ricky's death was thrown into the spotlight, amateur codebreakers around the world took the chance to beat the FBI to cracking the notes left - but to this day they have never been solved.

But, were they ever meant to be solved? Are they even a cipher at all?

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On the 26th January 2011, Sam Goldberg returned to his apartment he shared with his fiancé, Ellen Greenberg, following using the gym and found the door closed from the inside, he tired to gain access by calling Ellen's name, sending texts and banging on the door - eventually, he broke the door down and found Ellen lying on their. kitchen floor dead and surrounded by blood.

The autopsy that followed found that Ellen had 20 stabs wounds to her body, including 10 to back of her head and neck, with the final blow appearing to be to her heart, the first autopsy confirmed homicide as the cause of death - medical professionals over the years have stated that the areas stabbed to her neck would've left her incapacitated however, despite this, her cause of death was later ruled as suicide.

Nearly 15 years later, and with multiple reviews of the case - the cause of death has remained the same, but with police failings meaning that the apartment was search following crime scene clean up, and failing to obtain statements, could Ellen's death really be murder? Is there a plausible way that she could've taken her own life with what eventually turned out to be 23 stabs of a knife to herself?

This weeks episode tells the initial story Ellen's truly harrowing tale, and the covers what has been learnt in the 15 years that followed.

Full 911 call

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On the 31st March 2006, 27 year old medical student, Brian Shaffer decided to go bar hopping with a friend in Columbus, Ohio to celebrate the end of his mid terms.

On Monday 3rd April, he was due to fly to Miami with his girlfriend where it was thought he may propose, the vacation was a gift from Brian's mother who had recently passed away from cancer.

The evening of drinking was normal, two young men, hopping into bars, enjoying a drink. When they bumped into another friend, they headed back to the bar the two men started in, The Ugly Tuna Salooner, with CCTV picking up Brian and his friends entering at 1:15am on the 1st April 2006. At 1:55am, Brian is seen on the same CCTV talking to two women outside, before heading back into The Ugly Tuna Salooner - this is the last sighting of him, from this point on, Brian has vanished!

What happened to Brian? Where did he go? Is it possible for someone to just vanish into thin air?

20 years on, Brian's case still remains a mystery but is still widely spoken about with rumours and theories circulating on forums.

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On this weeks episode, I am joined by the wonderful Penny, Jo and Helen who have been fighting for over 30 years to get answers and be heard in relation to their Sister/Aunts unsolved murder.

Joy Hewer was just 52 when she was murdered in her own home on the evening of 17th October 1995 - Joy was a private and security conscious person, who had a small circle of friends, she was a devout christian, a teacher and spent time volunteering. There was no sign of forced entry meaning that it must have been someone close to Joy who is responsible.

Joy's story is easy to "research" - but the story you get in the newspapers and Crimewatch is actually very different to what happened to her.

Over the next three episodes, Penny, Jo and Helen decide now is the time to really tell all on the case, from the police failings, the theories and what really happened to Joy.

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*Warning, this episode contains details of sexual assault - extra care must be taken when listening*

In this episode, Penny, Jo and Helen join me and we cover Joy's family being denied access from seeing her body, the inquest and the theory of The London Healing Project.

We also talk about Joy's cause of death, which is not what is reported across news platforms, the inquest where the family where told to remain silent and not ask questions.

This episode is hard hitting, and makes reference to a potential cult.

Scottish Herald

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