solved without conviction

Ashley Flowers and Audiochuck are behind a new weekly podcast, The Deck, presenting one unsolved cold case to listeners around the world every single week.

Alissa Marie Turney disappeared on May 17, 2001, from Phoenix, Arizona at age 17. Her stepfather Michael Turney was charged with second-degree murder in 2020 but the case ended without conviction.

The Crystal Theobald case is a 2006 mistaken-identity gang shooting in Riverside, California, where a 24-year-old mother was killed in a drive-by attack later solved through her family's MySpace investigation.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist is an unsolved 1990 art robbery in Boston, where two men posing as police officers stole 13 artworks worth an estimated $500 million.

The Kaitlyn Arquette case is a 1989 American murder in which 18-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette, daughter of author Lois Duncan, was shot in her car in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The podcast episode delves into the historical case of Manden i Kanalen, one of Denmark's most puzzling criminal cases.

Rebecca Reusch, a 12-year-old German-Danish girl, disappeared from her family home in Berlin's affluent Lichterfelde district on February 18, 2019. The disappearance triggered Germany's most high-profile missing person investigation in two decades, with police focusing on her 27-year-old cousin. The case remains unsolved to this day, with no body found and no charges filed.

On 22 June 1983, 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi disappeared from a bus stop in Rome after a flute lesson, sparking a mystery that has consumed investigators, Vatican officials, and true crime researchers for over four decades. The daughter of a Vatican clerk, her vanishing would trigger terrorism claims, alleged mob connections, and a case that remains officially unsolved.

On the night of April 11–12, 1981, three people were brutally murdered at Cabin 28 of the Keddie Resort in California. Despite decades of investigation, the case remains unsolved, leaving a community searching for answers.

On March 31, 1922, six people were brutally murdered at the Hinterkaifeck farmstead near Munich, Germany. Their bodies lay undiscovered for four days. Nearly a century later, the case remains unsolved.

On March 18, 1990, two men posing as police officers executed what the FBI calls history's largest known art theft at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Thirteen masterpieces worth approximately $500 million vanished in a single night—and have never been recovered.

On 20 December 2004, £26.5 million in cash disappeared from Northern Bank headquarters in Belfast after armed gang members took bank employees' families hostage. Despite decades of investigation and intelligence pointing to IRA involvement, no criminal conviction has ever been secured for the robbery itself.

On August 14, 1962, robbers dressed as police officers stopped a U.S. Postal Service armored truck on Route 3 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and made off with $1.5 million in cash. Six decades later, the money remains missing and no one has ever been convicted.

On Christmas morning 1945, fire broke out at the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Five children vanished without a trace, their remains never found — and despite an official ruling of accident, the family always suspected arson.

On the morning of December 26, 1996, JonBenét Patricia Ramsey, age 6, was reported missing from her family's Boulder, Colorado home. Hours later, her father discovered her body in the basement. The case has never been solved.

Christopher Wallace, known as the Notorious B.I.G., was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997. The 24-year-old rap icon was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after being struck by four bullets from a 9mm pistol. More than two decades later, the case remains unsolved.

After seven decades, DNA analysis has reportedly identified the Somerton Man found dead on an Adelaide beach in 1948 as Carl 'Charles' Webb, though South Australia Police await official confirmation of one of the world's most baffling unsolved cases.

Italian-American Ylenia Maria Sole Carrisi vanished on January 6, 1994, in New Orleans. The daughter of famous Italian singers was declared dead in 2014, but the mystery of her fate has never been solved.