Almost Unsolved
Upcoming episodes
Aug 1st
500p
Karma
A woman is discovered brutally murdered in her hotel room just as she is about to start a new chapter in her professional career. It will take several stages of technological advancement until forty years later the identity of her killer is finally revealed with the aid of genetic genealogy.
Aug 1st
600p
The Horseman
In Chicago in three boys go missing while on a trip downtown to see a movie. Two days later their lifeless bodies are found dumped in a ditch. The entire city is shocked and horrified – and demands justice for the three innocent children but it will be almost 40 years before answers start to come to light.
Aug 1st
700p
Reopened
A man is found dead in his apartment but the investigation quickly fizzles out. As more and more gay men are murdered around Toronto in the subsequent decades, his case is reopened. Finding the killer goes from not just being about one man to being about the safety of the entire gay community.
Aug 1st
800p
Wrong Man
A young girl vanishes from her rural Canadian home and the search makes national headlines, along with the discovery of her body a few months later. Police link evidence to the wrong man, who goes through a decade of trials and suspicion. It will take three decades of advances in forensic science to find the killer.
Aug 1st
900p
Lego
An elderly woman is killed with such ferocity police dig deep to find her enemies. With a serial killer on the loose who preys on seniors even the most seemingly insignificant, will play a part in this game of life and death.
Aug 1st
1000p
Knots
A roadside discovery in Utah reveals a murdered woman wrapped up in sleeping bags and blankets. Efforts to identify her and the killer prove almost impossible. For more than 20 years the identity of the woman – and killer – remain a mystery, until new DNA collecting techniques brings authorities closer than ever to finding the identity of the victim and her killer.
Aug 8th
500p
The Stereo
A young woman’s body is discovered murdered in her own home in what appears to be a burglary gone wrong. As one by one suspects are eliminated police fear that they have let the killer slip through their fingers for good until a new invention decades later points the finger directly at the murderer.
Aug 8th
600p
Closure
A worker in Vancouver's Stanley Park discovers a shallow grave with two small skeletons. The infamous case would remain unsolved for seven decades, until DNA analysis provides a startling revelation and genetic genealogy finally tracks down the names of the child victims.
Aug 8th
700p
Pop Bottle
In a Vancouver rooming house two people are found brutally murdered in a bizarre crime scene. Investigators search for answers, but it will be over 30 years before the investigation turns into a massive undercover sting operation designed to catch a killer. Will it work - and even if it does will it be too late to get a conviction and bring justice to the victims?
Aug 8th
800p
Keep Digging
A young woman is reported missing and then found days later in the elevator of a Seattle parking garage. A lack of evidence stalls the case for close to 50 years with only one suspect that turns out to be innocent. However, present-day advances in DNA tracing techniques bring forth a new suspect and authorities are closer than ever to finding out who the killer is.