Robert Pickton is one of Canada's most notorious serial killers and he confessed to killing as many as 49 women from Vancouver's Downtown East Side. In episode two we take a look at the ways that the police continued to mismanage this case and overlook certain things and people because of their own backgrounds. They also continued to cast a wide ne…

Robert Pickton is one of Canada's most notorious serial killers and he confessed to killing as many as 49 women from Vancouver's Downtown East Side. In episode one we take a look at the early life of Robert and a couple of the triggers that may have had a part in making him into the monster that he ultimately became. We also look at some of his ear…

So often in life we hear about shenanigans within politics but one of the things that perhaps doesn’t get as much attention in the mainstream world as it could is the shenanigans that go on in a court room. In recent episodes we have covered some killer tandems who have done the unthinkable to friends, lovers and family and we have even talked abou…

On the night of March 11th, 2011 two employees were working together at the Lululemon store in Bethesda, Maryland and they closed the store together. When the employees left the store one of the women reportedly left her purse behind in the store by accident and made contact with the second employee to meet her at the store so that she could retrie…

Emily Bailey has been missing since January 1st, 2022 when she disappeared in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Emily is a daughter, a sibling, a friend and most of all a mother. This week we are going to cover her case and appeal to the public to keep her name, her face and her story out in the public eye so that hopefully, mercifully, this tragic case w…

Just over 63 years ago now a young 12-year-old girl would go away to spend some time with her grandmother in Wilmer, British Columbia and she would go to play with some of the local children and wind up spending the night. The following day however circumstances would lead to her disappearance and even though one of the largest searches in British …

As we have covered in recent episodes, people are seemingly killing one another for reasons that are frankly stupider and stupider. Murder has become an answer to struggles, strife and issues that many people face daily in their lives. This week we are going to look at a case where two young men, Dominic Russo who was 20 and his friend Davion Flana…

On April 15th, 2014 the city of Calgary Alberta Canada would be absolutely rocked with the news of the deadliest mass murder in the city’s history. One young man would stab five young adults to death at a house party that was being held to celebrate the end of the winter semester at the University of Calgary. One man was responsible for the lives o…

High school can really and truly be some of the hardest years of a young person’s life. Within those walls teenagers are trying to find out who they are, who they want to be and where they fit into the world around them. Usually that includes making a tight knit group of friends and those people generally become your ride-or-die partners, if not fo…

Over all of the episodes that we have talked about here on the podcast I don’t think that we have ever covered one that is quite like this one in so many ways. This week we are going to talk about a young woman who went missing not once, not twice, but three different times within her life and sadly she has not been heard of or found since her last…

In a world that is filled with crime and murder and people doing unexplainable and awful things to one another one of the worst things that I can find to read and write about is the killing of children by other children. As we are going to see in this case today our children are growing up in a world that is sick and our children are growing up in …

There have certainly been cases where entire family’s have disappeared under strange circumstances over the years. In many case it is believed that the family’s simply needed to, or wanted to, start a new life and went off the grid to do so. This week though we are going to look into a case that is certainly much more sinister than that and even th…

Out of the 51 States that make up the United States of America, Oklahoma is ranked 14th highest when it comes to their Crime Index rating. Oklahoma had a violent crime rating of 4.20 which is just above the national median of 4. The odds of becoming a victim of a violent crime are approximately 1 in 238 in the state. Last year there were 270 report…

Much of humanity is driven by some combination of the desire to make a lot of money and the desire to be recognized, known and remembered in some way, shape or form, long after their time here on this earth has come to an end. It is believed that part of the reason for those desires is that people inherently quest for immortality. The unfortunate t…

On December 1st, 2020 the culmination of months of what was known as "trash streaming" would come to a head for a streamer who went by the name "ReeFlay", Stanislav Reshetnikov. For many months Stanislav had been abusing his girlfriend, his supposed friends and any people that he could convince to be put on display and himiliated online while he ma…

Almost every single parent that lives in this world will tell you that their child, or children, are the most important things in their life. They will do everything for their kids and they will do anything to ensure their safety. If you are one of the people in this world though that has been unfortunate enough to lose a child, those feelings ampl…

A lot of the criminal violence that we see around us is actually because of conflict and is even moralistic in nature. Often times the criminal that we learn about is someone who has been wronged or they have at least perceived that they were wrong, and therefore they are doling out their own brand of justice in some regard. This is largely why thi…

Throughout history we can find a lot of cases of things like Munchausen Syndrome where a person suffers from a psychological condition where they pretend to be sick so that people can care for them because they seek the attention that would come, or comes with that. This week though we are going to look at a case where a woman went way above and be…

Welcome to Episode 119 of our series, "Gone But Never Forgotten", where we unpack the heartbreaking yet inspiring tale of Adam Simji, a 22-year-old finance student whose life was tragically cut short when he tried to help two seemingly stranded women. Known for his selfless heroism, Adam's story is a chilling reminder of the dystopic state of our s…

Domestic Violence is unfortunately one of the fastest rising crimes in the entire world and that was really just exasperated during the pandemic, especially in countries where families were essentially told to stay in their homes, only leaving home for essential things in order to stop the spread of the virus. That meant that countless people who h…

It is so easy to point fingers and poke holes in the ways that law enforcement, lawyers and the system deal with cases, criminals and victims. I have done it here on the show and people have likely been doing it since the advent of laws and punishments for crimes. One thing that most of us don’t lend enough credence to is the fact that it can be in…

Immerse yourself into the shocking and terrifying world of murder and cannibalism in the latest episode of Gone But Never Forgotten. This spine-tingling episode delves into the horrific story of Armin Meiwes, the infamous 'Master Butcher' whose chilling deeds defied the boundaries of human comprehension. Follow the disturbing journey of Armin Meiwe…

We live in a broken and increasingly broken world, of that there is little doubt when you take a look around yourself. You see mental and physical health struggles, you see death and assaults everywhere. Within our homes we see divorces, domestic assaults and even murder. I think for a lot of us true crime lovers out here, one of the most baffling …

Over six hundred thousand people go missing within Europe each and every year on average. Thankfully, many of those cases go resolved when the person in question is found by either the police, the family, or both. There are of course though plenty of cases that go unsolved for a time and plenty of cases that remain unsolved forever. This week we ar…

The foolish game goes by many names. In Canada we call it Ding Dong Ditch or Knicky, Knicky, Nine Doors. In The US it’s called Doorbell ditch and Ring and Run and in Europe it goes by names like Chapppy, Knock Off Ginger and more. Most people know the premise. You get dared by a friend to run up to a stranger’s house and either knock on the door or…

No story that we could tell would be anything except for mortifying when it deals with the death, the kidnapping or the sexual assault of a child. This weeks case unfortunately deals with all three of those things and centers around a sexual predator who was known to police and who had served time previously for sexually assaulting minors. It took …

Something that I have talked about a lot on this podcast is the fact that I do believe that internet sleuths and podcasts like this one are something that can be an assistance to open cases. However, much on the flip side there are many, many times throughout history where we have seen that the victims of crimes and the families of victims of crime…

Have you ever hit that point in a case where you just go ick? What is it about a case that makes you realize that this one hits a little bit differently than the other ones? What is it that truly makes your skin crawl? For Julie, I know that it’s cases when children get hurt, kidnapped or murdered. That was a line in the sand for her. For me, it’s …

As someone who was attended church for most of his life and someone that was indoctrinated with the beliefs and the rules that come along with being a Christian I have seen many a marriage over my years start, finish and face a lot of tumultuous times because two people starting a life together become completely inundated with information and guide…

We have done a few episodes now on serial killers and we have previously done one covering a female serial killer. Today we are going to look at a case of a serial killer from The United Kingdom who is known now as “Britain’s Most Dangerous Female Prisoner”. Joanna Dennehy is one of only four women in the United Kingdom to ever have been sentenced …

I think that most of us know of stories of families that have split up and we are aware that even in the most amicable of situations those setups can certainly be difficult on our children. This week we are going to look at a case where in hindsight it seems that the system that we put into place to protect our children may have had a hand in forci…

Many times in the past we have covered cases of missing people and we have covered cases of victims who were not identified after years had gone by. This week we are going to cover something a little bit different. One of Canada’s longest standing mysteries encircles the case of Canada’s first ever suicide bomber in Kenora, Ontario. The man entered…

On November 16th, 2012 a dispatcher would pick up a 911 emergency call in Lake County, Ohio and everything that happened after that call was picked up would take everyone that came into contact with the case by surprise. On the other end of the line was a young girl who was in hysterics as she screamed into the phone and tried to express what was g…

One thing that is common across true crime stories, especially those that have to do with missing people, is that there are often complaints about how the police took charge of a case and even how they treated the people reporting their loved one as missing. It is a sad reality, as we have covered here on the podcast, that certain things like race,…

I think that we have covered on this podcast very well that criminals come in all shapes and sizes. One thing that does seem to come up fairly often, especially when it comes to killers, is the fact that many of them have higher than average IQ’s. This week we are going to look at a man who had a good life, had a heck of a lot of brains and then se…

Two of the arguments that I think that I have presented both sides of and felt both sides of over the life of this podcast are the argument over whether a criminal deserves a second chance at life and the argument over whether mental health patients should serve time within mental health facilities or prisons. This episode is going to focus on both…

It is a certain fact that I could continue to write and record episodes of GBNF forever and I would quite literally never run out of stories to tell or horrors to relay. Perhaps the saddest part is that there are so many stories that nobody is able to tell because of the complete lack of information and reporting and there are also so many crimes t…

When I was younger I attended a youth conference that was named “Reverse the Curse” and the underlying theme of the conference was that you do not have to be all of the things that happened to you and you don’t have to become the people who raised you. One of the things that we see a lot when studying true crime is that often people are unable to r…

I once had someone say something that really stuck in my brain for one reason or another and that was you believe that you have done just about all that you can do when your child reaches the age of 18. You figure that you have helped them navigate some of the worst things that will happen to them when they were very vulnerable. We talk a lot about…

We talk a lot about the things that make true crime attractive to it’s fans. For some people it is the psychology, for some people it is the human interest but I think for each and every person that loves true crime it really comes down to at least one common denominator. Each and every one of us love to listen to a good story. This week I am going…

Here on the podcast we have covered many cases that are unsolved and many cases that seem as though they COULD get solved if the right information or the right evidence came to light. Today we are going to climb into the way-back machine and head to 1920’s Germany though to take a look at what may be Germany’s most well-known unsolved murder. This …

It feels like since the dawn of time we have, as a society, tried to find ways to make ourselves feel better than others or tried to find ways to make others look worse than us. That shows itself in every kind of prejudice that we see around us in our every day lives. Unfortunately, if you know much at all about true crime you also know that this s…

One of the things that people complain about most within legal systems in their countries are the delays in the legal process that are brought on by endless paper-pushing, endless hurdles and what seems to amount to mindless defense in order to keep some of the worst criminals from the worst charges possible for the crimes that they have committed.…

So many nights on the town end with stories of merriment, joy and good times and yet at the same time there are many nights on the town that wind up with the complete opposite kinds of stories. When you add alcohol to a situation unfortunately the events of an evening can change at a moment’s notice. Sadly, no matter how you look at this week’s sto…

Certainly one of the most baffling crimes that you can learn about are the cases where parents kill their own child or children. It is hard enough to fathom that we live in a world where anyone believes that they can take a life, or lives, and they will get away with it or they simply do not care what the repercussions will be. When someone takes t…

As we have seen in the plethora of murder cases that we have covered on this podcast killers, and even serial killers, come in all shapes and sizes. There is no defining characteristic that is seen across the board in the case of all, or even most, killers. One of the things that is certainly seen in more murderers than not though is a progression …

Children are our most important commodity. Full stop. We live in a world where it seems that everyone forgets that and our children are not as protected or as cherished as they should be. Far too often there are stories all over the news of children being beaten, kidnapped and killed and it seems that we have almost been desensitized to it on some …

As our listeners who are in Canada would know, one of the things that is on the minds of many people who are into true crime, in this country especially lately, is the way that criminals are treated when in prison and the ways that they are sometimes seemingly lost in the system when they get out. In Canada we have recently had Paul Bernardo, a con…

When we talk about killers there are always words and statements that seem to float around the killers themselves. Things like psychopath, sociopath, abuse, escalation of crime, lack of emotion and so on and so forth. But, if you are into the psychology of true crime you are very well aware of the fact that we barely know what makes a killer tick a…

If you are listening to this podcast I reckon that that means that you have taken in your fair share of true crime in your life. You then know that nearly any podcast has taken the time to warn people against the pitfalls that can come in the world of online dating. Sites like Tinder and every other dating site that has popped up essentially have t…