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July 26, 2019. American tourists Finnegan Elder, 19, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 18, commit a murder while staying in the Italian capital, Rome. The killing shook the ancient city, and followers of the case were torn on what the punishment should be and what the truth was. This month, the young men returned to court for sentencing. This is the story of Finnegan Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth. Theme music: ⁣ Undertow by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud...

July 26, 2019. American tourists Finnegan Elder, 19, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 18, commit a murder while staying in the Italian capital, Rome. The killing shook the ancient city, and followers of the case were torn on what the punishment should be and what the truth was. This month, the young men returned to court for sentencing. This is the story of Finnegan Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth. Theme music: ⁣ Undertow by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud...

December, 2016. Japanese student, Narumi Kurosaki, 21, vanishes from her halls of residence in a small city in France, where she is studying. What happened to Narumi? Is her new boyfriend responsible for her disappearance? Her ex boyfriend in Japan? Or someone else? And did Narumi leave of her own accord, or did someone do something to Narumi? Theme music: ⁣ Undertow by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley⁣ Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com⁣ Attribution 4...

Mary Gregory. Hugh Nolan. Kieran Burke. Michal Krowczynski. David O’Sullivan. Five international tourists that disappeared of the nearly 80 million that visit the United States each year. Each received little media coverage and the details of their disappearances are scarce. Let’s take a look at these Irish, Polish and Canadian tourists missing in the USA. Theme music: ⁣ Undertow by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley⁣ Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music...

December, 2018. Turkish-born Canadian professor Ramazan Gençay, 57, disappears from a bar in the notorious Colombian city of Medellin. Weeks later, his body is found in a remote area outside the city. What happened to Ramo? Theme music: ⁣ Undertow by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley⁣ Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com⁣ Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)⁣ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

May, 1979. British nurse Helen Smith, 23, is found dead after a party at a colleagues home in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The notoriously strict kingdom sentences other guests for breaking Islamic law, and mark Helen’s death as an accident, but Helen’s father doesn’t accept the official narrative. Ron Smith would wage a decades-long fight in both Britain and Saudi Arabia to find the truth about what happened to his daughter. Theme music: ⁣ Undertow by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud...

Talking about British-born mother Caroline Crouch, 20, whose husband has now confessed that he was the one to kill her and the family dog in Greece. Rest easy, Caroline. Some further notes: Babis blamed Albanians only adding to further division. Caroline was 16 and Babis almost 30 when they got together, and 17 when she got married. She dropped out of university at his request and he moved her away from her friends and family...

On this bonus episode, guest Laura and I discuss some psychological disorders named after cities and why they are. Listen to Laura’s podcast The Serial Monogamist on major podcast platforms. Theme music: ⁣ Undertow by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley⁣ Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com⁣ Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)⁣ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

August, 1934. The body of an unidentified young woman is found off the side of a rural road in Australia, beaten, shot and set alight. She is wearing bohemian pyjamas, so the press nickname her “Pyjama Girl”. It would take 10 years for the identity of “Pyjama Girl” to be discovered. But many believe that this identification was an error and that she is still a Jane Doe. Who is “Pyjama Girl”? Theme music: ⁣ Undertow by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud...

June, 1982. Welsh nanny working in Canada Christine Prince, 25, vanishes while walking home after a night out. Christine’s drowned body would be found. Almost 40 years on, the mystery of what happened to Christine would become entwined with other unsolved murders of women in the busy Canadian city. Theme music: ⁣ Undertow by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley⁣ Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com⁣ Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)⁣ https://creativecommons...