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In January 1989, Oregon's Director of Corrections was stabbed to death outside his office, the night before he was set to expose corruption inside his own department. The state convicted a man with no physical evidence tying him to the crime. Thirty years later, he walked free — and the case remains unsolved. If you like true crime that stays close to the evidence, subscribe for more case files like this one. 🎙️ Listen to the Northern Crimes Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4nl...

Starting in 1997, women from Edmonton's streets began turning up in the farm fields outside the city. One man was convicted in a single death; most of the cases remain unsolved, and no one agrees on how many women belong on the list. If you like true crime that stays close to the evidence, subscribe for more case files like this one. ❤️ Become a Northern Crimes Patreon member: ⁠https://patreon.com/northerncrimes⁠ 📺 Watch Northern Crimes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/northerncrimes...

Oregon is one of the most beautiful states in America. But it also has it's fair share of true crime stories. This 4 hour Oregon true crime compilation covers dark tales from across the state - ranging from unexplained disappearances and cold cases, to murders and unsolved mysteries. If you like true crime that stays close to the evidence, subscribe for more case files like this one. 🎙️ Listen to the Northern Crimes Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4nlZlbD Spotify: https://bit....

In 1993, a bankrupt Calgary penny-stock company announced the largest gold discovery in mining history - a find so extraordinary it would eventually be worth $6 billion on paper and turn ordinary investors into overnight millionaires. It was all a lie. This was a fraud so disciplined it fooled the best geologists in the world. And the one man who could have explained everything, boarded a helicopter over the Indonesian jungle in March of 1997 - and was never seen again. 🔎 Become a Northern...

This video covers 5 cold cases and unsolved mysteries from the often overlooked state of Idaho. From strange disappearances, to unsolved murders, these cases have baffled investigators and left families devastated - sometimes for decades. Become a Northern Crimes Patreon supporter: https://patreon.com/northerncrimes Listen to the podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/50H4Yft3nccm9lItffSl13 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/northern-crimes/id1800606508?ls=1 ⭐️ Leave a c...

In April 2001, a house in Scottsdale, Arizona exploded. Inside, investigators found a mother and her two children, killed before the fire was ever set. Her husband, Robert Fisher, was gone — and more than two decades of searching have never confirmed whether he's dead or alive. If you like true crime that stays close to the evidence, subscribe for more case files like this one. 🤝 Subscribe to our sister channel, Northern Crimes: / @northerncrimes 🎙️ Listen to the Northern Crimes Podcast: ...

Alaska is one of the most beautiful places on the planet. But it's also one of the darkest - especially when it comes to true crime stories. Join Northern Crimes as we take you on a journey covering some of the strangest unsolved murders, disappearances and mysteries from the 49th state. 🔎 Become a Northern Crimes Patreon member: ⁠https://patreon.com/northerncrimes⁠ 📺 Subscribe to Northern Crimes on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@northerncrimes⁠ 📺 Subscribe to our sister channel, Southern...

This 2 hour compilation video covers some of Washington's darkest true crime stories. Ranging from the most populated regions like Seattle, to little known areas and smaller towns in eastern Washington. 🔎 Become a Northern Crimes Patreon member: ⁠https://patreon.com/northerncrimes⁠ 📺 Subscribe to Northern Crimes on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@northerncrimes⁠ 📺 Subscribe to our sister channel, Southern Crimes: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@SouthernCrimesYT⁠ ⭐️ Leave a comment and revi...

June 11th, 1986. Pelican, Alaska. A 17-year-old cannery worker named Wade Tackett takes a borrowed skiff out alone for an afternoon cruise near Junction Island and never comes back. Searchers find the boat first - throttle open, engine in gear, fuel nearly full, two unused life jackets still aboard, along with a rifle no one ever tested for gunfire. The Coast Guard calls it a drowning. Wade's parents struggle with that conclusion. Over the next decade, strangers across two countries — a haird...

Oregon’s true crime history is shaped as much by its geography as by the predators who exploit it. West of the Cascades, crimes disappear into misty rainforest. East of the crest, bones bleach in the cracked high desert. This is a landscape that doesn’t forgive. Today, we’re covering four stories that show how dangerous it can be - from hikers who vanish to families murdered in cold blood - and how they’ll change the way you see the Pacific Northwest. ℹ️ Sources: https://shorturl.at/FiNrL ...

A state official with a past intelligence career walks into Olympic National Park for an afternoon hike and disappears. No trace of him is ever found. Was it a tragic accident? Or a run in with one of North America's most notorious serial killers? 🔎 Become a Northern Crimes Patreon member: ⁠https://patreon.com/northerncrimes⁠ 📺 Subscribe to Northern Crimes on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@northerncrimes⁠ 📺 Subscribe to our sister channel, Southern Crimes: ⁠https://www.yout...

Two hours. Six provinces of unresolved history - from the fog-locked inlets of British Columbia to the flat, wind-scoured highways of Alberta. A hiker vanishes from a marked trail. A farmhouse sits untouched for decades. A body is found; a name is never confirmed. Some of these cases closed with a conviction. Most did not. This compilation moves through Canada's coldest files - murders, disappearances, mysteries investigators still quietly discuss - without pretending any of them are settled. 🔎...

December 14, 1981. A 14-year-old girl in St. John's raises her hand for a bus, then sticks out her thumb instead. A sedan pulls over, the driver reaches across to open the door from the inside, and she's gone. Four days later she's found arranged in the woods, her schoolbooks tucked under her arm. She is one of seven. A mother walks into a snowstorm to reach her infant son and never arrives. A hunter parks his truck, locks his rifles inside, and disappears unarmed into the bush. A father calls h...

Five hikers vanished across the Pacific Northwest: Vancouver Island, the Chilliwack backcountry, Oregon's forests, and the open snowfields of Mount Shasta. Search teams found scattered gear, a snow angel, an abandoned campsite. In every case, the person was never found. If you like true crime that stays close to the evidence, subscribe for more deep dives like this. Northern Crimes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@northerncrimes 🎙️ Listen to the Northern Crimes Podcast:Apple Podcasts: ht...

Northwest Territories, Canada, 1908. A search party finds two skeletons on a riverbank — prospectors Frank and Willie McLeod, both missing their heads. One brother had died reaching for his gun, arm still outstretched, as if he'd seen it coming and simply wasn't fast enough. Over the following decades, more men vanish into the same valley: a trapper found frozen mid-motion with a matchbook in his hand, cabins burned to ash with no survivors, a pilot's 42-day survival journal that stops without...

A two-hour compilation of Alaska's most unsettled cases - disappearances and homicides spanning decades across North America's most remote terrain. Most remain unsolved: no suspect, no body, no explanation. A few were eventually solved, sometimes years later, through evidence no one expected to find. Each case file traces what investigators found, what they couldn't explain, and how - or whether - it ended.🔎 Become a Northern Crimes Patreon member:https://patreon.com/northerncrimes 📺 Subscrib...

On May 31, 1995, a young woman checked into Oslo’s luxury Plaza Hotel under the fictional name "Jennifer Fairgate," providing a fake Belgian address and completely bypassing standard identification checks. Days later, a security guard knocked on her room door to collect payment, only to immediately hear a violent sound ring out from the double-locked room. Inside, investigators found her deceased, holding firearm with its serial numbers professionally erased via acid. The mystery deepened as pol...

The Pacific Northwest is a region defined by a haunting duality -where millions of acres of breathtaking wilderness sit alongside a dark legacy of some of the most chilling mysteries in North American history. The dense canopy of old-growth forests and sprawling mountain ranges offer an ideal sanctuary for outdoor enthusiasts, but they also possess a quiet, terrifying gravity. This compilation dives deep into the cold case archives to examine six baffling disappearances and murders that shattere...

In July 1931, a heavily armed fugitive calling himself Albert Johnson arrived in Canada's remote Northwest Territories, eventually sparking a brutal 49-day manhunt across 150 miles of frozen wilderness after shooting an RCMP constable and later killing Constable Edgar Millen. Utilizing elite cold-weather survival skills, Johnson survived a dynamite blast to his fortified cabin, scaled a 7,000-foot mountain peak during a blinding sub-zero blizzard, and successfully outmaneuvered a massive 40-man ...

The outdoors are a place that should give us solace. But sometimes, it's a place of true terror. This episode covers dozens of stories of camping and hiking gone wrong. From the vast wilderness of Alaska, to remote roads of British Columbia, and the scenic hiking trails of Washington and Oregon, these stories will chill you to the bone, and make you question whether or not you'll ever want to pitch a tent again. Like Northern Crimes? Give us a follow, comment, or give us a review! Support Nort...

Belfast, December 2004. As festive crowds filled the city center for Christmas, a white van quietly backed into the loading bay of the Northern Bank headquarters. What appeared to be a routine rubbish collection was actually the final phase of a military-grade operation that secured twenty-six and a half million pounds in cash—marking the largest bank robbery in British and Irish history.This investigation strips back the meticulous planning behind the heist, which began the night before with t...

On July 24th, 1997, Olympic hopeful and distance runner Amy Wroe Bechtel drove into Wyoming's Shoshone National Forest to map a race route. Her car was found on the Loop Road with a to-do list on the passenger seat, every item crossed off except one. The FBI deployed infrared sensors and requested satellite imagery from NASA and the Russian space station Mir. Over 200 searchers combed the Wind River Range. They found nothing. Dale Wayne Eaton - later convicted of abducting and murdering 18-year-...

On March 25th, 2022, Finn Creaney - co-founder of Wildcat Bushcraft survival school and one of Scotland's most experienced wilderness instructors - was dropped off at Loch Naver in the Scottish Highlands to begin a planned 40-mile solo hike to Golspie. He was 32 years old, married, the father of a four-year-old daughter, and two weeks removed from learning his wife was pregnant with their son. He left a voicemail for his wife at 12:52 PM. His phone went offline at 1:47 PM. He has not been seen s...

On June 18th, 1977, the body of Tucson escrow agent Charles Morgan was found 40 miles west of the city in the Sonoran Desert — wearing a bulletproof vest in 110-degree heat, a .357 Magnum nearby, and a $2 bill pinned inside his underwear, covered in coded names and hand-drawn smuggling routes. Pima County ruled it a suicide. His family never accepted that conclusion. This documentary examines five unresolved cases from across Arizona — a double homicide of a young couple stargazing in the high ...