Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast

The Long Island Serial Killer (Update: April 2026)

There has been an update in the story of the Long Island Serial Killer (episodes #14-16 from 2016). On April 8th, 2026, 62-year-old Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Sandra Costilla, Amber Costello, Jessica Taylor, and Megan Waterman. He also admitted to an eight murder that he hadn't yet been charged with: 34-year-old Karen Vergata, who had been known as "Fire Island Jane Doe" for years...If you would like to support this podcast and others, consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod to become a Patron or ProducerBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved-a-true-crime-mystery-podcast--3266604/support.

West Memphis Three (Part Five: Alford Plea)

"When we told prosecutors we were innocent, they put us in prison for life. Now when we plead guilty, they set us free."On 19 August 2011, three men - Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr. - were transported from their respective facilities to a courthouse in Jonesboro, Arkansas. They were there to plead guilty to a crime they had spent the better part of two decades denying. At the same time, they were asserting their innocence and obtaining their freedom in an unusual legal maneuver called an Alford plea.What led up to that decision was the culmination of years of painstaking progress. What had started back in 1996 as a single HBO documentary had become a movement by 2011 heralded by celebrity backers and advocates pushing new DNA evidence. Yet at the end of the day, three men regained their freedom at a cost while questions continue to linger about the deaths of three boys...Learn more about this podcast at http://unresolved.meCheck out the podcast store at unresolved.dashery.comIf you would like to support this podcast, consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod to become a Patron or ProducerBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved-a-true-crime-mystery-podcast--3266604/support.

West Memphis Three (Part Four: Trials & Tribulations)

"When we saw Damien and Jason being chained up and taken off, it was just so emotional, because we felt the wrong guys were being carted off."In June of 1993, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky were two young filmmakers coming off their acclaimed breakthrough and looking for a new opportunity. That's when an executive from HBO told them about a new story that had just taken place down in West Memphis, Arkansas, in which three teenagers were accused of killing three eight-year-olds. They assumed it would be a pretty straightforward story of youth violence.They spent their first few weeks with the victims' families and interviewed the prosecutors and police officials about the case. But then they met the defendants, everything changed for them. Over the next ten months, they were allowed unprecedented access to the courtroom, the families, the defendants, and the investigation...Learn more about this podcast at http://unresolved.meCheck out the podcast store at unresolved.dashery.comIf you would like to support this podcast, consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod to become a Patron or ProducerBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved-a-true-crime-mystery-podcast--3266604/support.

West Memphis Three (Part Three: The Devil In West Memphis)

“I think I was the closest thing he could come to conceiving of what he thought a Satanist would look like. All black was the only thing I ever wore. Ridiculous hairstyles. I was a stupid teenager.”On May 6th, 1993 - the same day the bodies of three boys were found in West Memphis, Arkansas - a juvenile probation officer was standing at the crime scene as authorities gathered to process the evidence. In an offhand remark, he said that a local youth, Damien Echols, had "finally killed someone."The bodies hadn’t been autopsied yet. No evidence had been processed and no interviews had been conducted. No suspects had been identified through any investigative means whatsoever. And a law enforcement officer was already naming a suspect at the crime scene. Not because of anything connected to this crime, but because of who that person was and what that person was rumored to believe...Learn more about this podcast at http://unresolved.meCheck out the podcast store at unresolved.dashery.comIf you would like to support this podcast, consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod to become a Patron or ProducerBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved-a-true-crime-mystery-podcast--3266604/support.

West Memphis Three (Part Two: 93-05-0666)

"One of my officers found a tennis shoe, and, inquisitive, he just jumped in the water and felt one of them."On the evening of May 5th, 1993, three eight-year-old boys - Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers - went out to play in the neighborhood around Robin Hood Hills in West Memphis, Arkansas. They were supposed to be home by dark but never came home. By 8:00 PM, their families had contacted police and were beginning to search for them with flashlights, but held back by the creeping darkness and the elements.The following morning, the community gathered to help participate in the search. Hours passed without any sign of the three. But at approximately 1:45 PM, a juvenile parole officer peered over the steep bank of a water-filled ditch near where the woods bordered the nearby Blue Beacon Truck Wash. He spotted something in the water...Learn more about this podcast at http://unresolved.meCheck out the podcast store at unresolved.dashery.comIf you would like to support this podcast, consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod to become a Patron or ProducerBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved-a-true-crime-mystery-podcast--3266604/support.