Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast

"When you get stabbed in the manner that he was, you're going to be out in seconds."

On the evening of 30 August 2025, tens of thousands of people gathered around a seventy foot wooden figure that was slowly being engulfed in flame. It was the culmination of Burning Man, an annual festival held in Nevada's Black Rock Desert that is centered around concepts like radical self reliance and self expression. Participants are encouraged to help in the building of the temporary city that is the foundation of the entire festival, and urge to leave behind no trace when it's all over.

But on this night, as the flames start to climb, a Pershing County Sheriff's deputy working the perimeter gets flagged down by a participant with a very different kind of urgency in their voice...

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"Perpetrator and victim drove out almost daily in the late evening hours in a vehicle and later returned."

In the summer of 2006, Germany was hosting the World Cup. Cities and towns throughout the country were energized, and on the evening of 20 June 2006, 21-year-old nursing student Frauke Liebs went to a pub in the city of Paderborn to watch the England-Sweden match with friends. While there, she visited and texted until her phone battery died. She stayed until just after 11:00 PM, then headed home with less than five euros in her pocket.

The walk home was a little over a kilometer and a half. It should have taken her fifteen minutes or so, and on a warm summer evening with the streets lit up by the glow of the World Cup, no less. But she never made it home and nobody saw her walking that night. Yet over the next week, her loved ones would receive strange phone calls and texts from Frauke, claiming that she'd be home soon...

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"He actually shot her twice. He didn't need the second shot. But he did it anyway."

November 12th, 2013 was supposed to be Chelsea Small's day off. The 30-year-old single mother of two worked at an Advance America check cashing store in Taylor, Michigan. She was attending Wayne County Community College full-time in the hopes of becoming a physical therapist, but had taken the full-time job after she separated from her longtime boyfriend the year prior. And in November of 2013, she swapped shifts so that she could have her son's 5th birthday off.

That Tuesday, Chelsea was working alone. At around 10:00 AM she called her mother, venting about some things that had gotten dumped on her at work. Then, at around 12:04 PM, she buzzed in a customer through the security entrance. Surveillance footage shows that within seconds, he'd pull out a .45-caliber handgun equipped with a suppressor...

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Taylor Police Department: (734) 287-6611 or +17342876611
Crime Stoppers: 1-800-SPEAK-UP

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"You just don't think that kind of thing can happen to people you know."

At 1:30 in the morning on 24 October 1992, Jeremy Rolfs and Heather Uffelman loaded an Apple Quadra 950 into their car and set off from Murfeesboro, Tennessee for Marietta, Georgia. Jeremy worked for a small music and video production company that had recently placed a classified ad for the computer, receiving a response from a prospective buyer with an office in an industrial park in Marietta. Jeremy was tasked with arranging the sale and delivery. Heather was Jeremy's fiance, who agreed to go with him on the drive to make sure he didn't fall asleep at the wheel.

They arrived at their destination at approximately 7:30 in the morning, having driven through the night. They were tired and exhausted, but they had made it. It wasn't long until they met their buyer, a man calling himself "Tom Johnson," who evidently had plans of his own...

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Marietta Police Department: (770) 794-5300 or +17707945300

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