Tracing Darkness

The killing of 13-year-old Tristan Brübach is one of the most famous murders in Germany. Someone killed Tristan in the middle of the day near a busy train station in the city of Frankfurt. Although good clues have been obtained about the suspect, the case is still unsolved.

Produced by: Podster

Host: Lanie Hobbs

Sound design: Gustav W. Leth

Cover art: Johanne Rode Axelberg

A man, woman and small baby are murdered in the summer of 1990 when an unknown person breaks into the family's home next to a forest in Vols, a hamlet near Kirkkonummi, 35 km west of Helsinki. Despite the remote location and no witnesses, the lead investigator believes that the crime can be solved and the perpetrator caught.

Produced by: Podster

Host: Lanie Hobbs

Sound design: Gustav W. Leth

Cover art: Johanne Rode Axelberg

The two young Swedish backpackers Heidi Paakkonen and Urban Höglin wrote many letters and postcards from their trip to their friends and family in the late 1980s. But one day they wanted to go hiking in the New Zealand wilderness and that’s when the correspondence dried up.

Whether the right perpetrator was held responsible was considered questionable when Urban's body was discovered some time after the trial.

Produced by: Podster

Host: Lanie Hobbs

Sound design: Gustav W. Leth

Cover art: Johanne Rode Axelberg

Bill, Bridget and Caleb Harrison were a well-loved family in Pitch Pine Crescent in Mississauga, Canada. When Bill died mysteriously at home due to illness, no one but Bridget suspected anything bad. But a year later, a second death occurred in the house. Now others also started to become suspicious.

Produced by: Podster

Host: Lanie Hobbs

Sound design: Gustav W. Leth

Cover art: Johanne Rode Axelberg

In 1976, the residents of the small town of Circleville in the US state of Ohio found ghostly letters in their mailboxes for the first time. The writer threatened to reveal their greatest secrets. He also made it clear that he knew things about the recipients' lives that they did not want to make public.

The letters influenced the lives of many people and were probably the reason for at least one death. Who wrote them, however, was never found out.

Produced by: Podster

Host: Lanie Hobbs

Sound design: Gustav W. Leth

Cover art: Johanne Rode Axelberg