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UNSOLVED MURDERS

UNSOLVED MURDERS

Written by: Circle Of Insight Productions
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Episodes
  • Two Princes Vanished in 1483: Was It a Royal Double Murder?

    Two Princes Vanished in 1483: Was It a Royal Double Murder?
    Oct 12 2026
    Two young brothers entered the Tower of London in 1483 and disappeared from the historical record. Their uncle inherited the crown, while rumors spread that the boys had been secretly murdered. Nearly two centuries later, workers discovered the remains of two children beneath a staircase. More than 500 years after the disappearance, historians continue to debate whether the princes were killed and who might have been responsible.
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    4 mins
  • Why "Organized vs. Disorganized" May Be Failing Cold Cases

    Why "Organized vs. Disorganized" May Be Failing Cold Cases
    Oct 11 2026
    For decades, investigators leaned on a simple framework to read crime scenes — organized killers who plan and control, disorganized killers who act on impulse and leave chaos. This episode traces how that model shaped early FBI behavioral profiling and became baked into how the public understands unsolved cases. But later research found that real offenders rarely sort that cleanly, raising real questions about how much weight this framework should carry in actual investigations. We examine what that means for cold cases built on profiles that may be more oversimplified than the field once believed.
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    3 mins
  • He Finally Has a Name — But Not an Answer: The Boy in the Box

    He Finally Has a Name — But Not an Answer: The Boy in the Box
    Oct 6 2026
    For more than six decades, he was known only as the "Boy in the Box," his battered body discovered outside Philadelphia in 1957 with no identity and no leads that held. This episode follows the case through 65 years of failed attempts, generations of detectives, and the eventual arrival of forensic genetic genealogy, which in 2022 finally gave the child a name: Joseph Augustus Zarelli. We look at what that breakthrough changed — and what it didn't. The identity has been found, but the person responsible for his death has never been identified, leaving this one of the longest-running unsolved murders in American history.
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    2 mins
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