Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast

"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...

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"As we face this shock... there's something that rises up and says it can't be, it shouldn't have happened."

West Memphis, Arkansas was, in a lot of ways, the kind of American small town that people often romanticize. And like all romanticized places, it had its dark spots - such as poverty, underfunded social services, domestic troubles, and a police department under investigation by the Arkansas State Police for suspected mishandling of drug task force money. It was not a perfect place. But for the children who lived there, it was the only place.

In the spring of 1993, three eight-year-old boys lived in that world. They rode their bikes through the neighborhood and explored the woods behind their houses. On the evening of May 5th, 1993, those three boys went out to play and never came home...

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This is a preview for the 27th episode of the Patreon-exclusive show Resolved. To access the rest of this episode - as well as the other bonus material available to supporters of Unresolved Productions - head on over to Patreon and help support this show. 

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Patreon - Amityville (Resolved #27)

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The Van Meter Visitor - Unresolved (Patreon)

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There has been an update in the story of Morgan Violi (episode #252 from 2023). After nearly three decades, an arrest has been made in the July 1996 abduction and murder of 7-year-old Morgan Violi from Bowling Green, Kentucky. The suspect, 62-year-old Robert Scott Froberg, has been linked to the case through DNA evidence and has already confessed...

Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

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