Unsolved Episodes

Jan. 24, 2024

45. The Mysterious Death of Smith Reynolds

Accident? Suicide? Or Murder? The question of "Z" Smith Reynolds' death is still not answered to this day more than ninety years later. The wealthy heir of the RJ Reynolds Tobacco fortune was shot on his sleeping porch after…
Nov. 8, 2023

36. The Natalie Wood Thanksgiving Tragedy

In 1981,  Hollywood darling Natalie Wood invited friends to spend the after-Thanksgiving weekend with her and her husband Robert Wagner on their yacht Splendour.  Most invitees declined due to bad weather but current co-star…
Oct. 25, 2023

35. Lizzie Borden Took An Axe

In 1892, in the town of Fall River, Massachusetts, a wealthy older couple was axed to death in their own home in broad daylight. Almost immediately their thirty-two-year-old daughter, Lizzie Borden,  is suspected of the brut…
Sept. 27, 2023

31. Nell Cropsey: A Murder That Still Haunts North Carolina

On the night of November 20, 1901, Nell Cropsey vanished from her family's home in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Thirty-seven days later her body was found floating in the Pasquotank River. There was only ever one real sus…
Sept. 13, 2023

29. The Hanging of Thomas Bowman

In 1877, 47 year old Thurza Bowman died a violent death. An autopsy revealed she had been poisoned by strychnine. Suspicion would immediately fall on her husband. After many conflicting testimonies and two trials, Thomas Bo…
Aug. 23, 2023

27. Poor Naomi Wise

Naomi (Omie) Wise was an orphan girl. She fell in love with a young gentleman named Johnathan Lewis. Naomi found out she was pregnant. When she told Lewis, he told her to meet him that night so they could run away and get…
July 6, 2023

20. Who Took The Lindbergh Baby?

One evening in 1932, a baby was taken from his crib as he slept. The child was Charles Lindbergh Jr., son of the infamous Atlantic crossing aviator, Charles Lindbergh. The crime became an instant sensational case. When sever…
June 22, 2023

18. The Girl Scout Camp Murders

In the summer of 1977, three young girls are murdered in their tent on the first night at summer camp. The tragic aftermath ended with the closing of the camp never to reopen and left parents wondering if the camp experience…
May 25, 2023

15. Brenda Holland: The Outer Banks Murder

In the summer of 1967, on a small island off the coast of NC a young intern at the outdoor drama, The Lost Colony, vanished. Nineteen year old Brenda Holland's body was found five days later in the Albemarle Sound. The suspe…