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The Quiet File

Real cases. Carefully sourced, carefully told, never sensationalized for the sake of it.

The Quiet File covers true crime the way it should be told — with respect for what actually happened and who it happened to.

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S1 · E56
Yesterday · 5 min
The Quiet File — The Barrowland Nights
Three women went dancing at the same Glasgow ballroom in the late 1960s, and none of them came home. One witness spent part of a night beside the man police believed was responsible, and her description is still the heart of the file.
S1 · E55
Wednesday · 6 min
The Quiet File — The Antiques Shop Door
Trevaline Evans disappeared from her Welsh shop in 1990. Decades later, her family learned the original police file had simply been lost.
S1 · E54
Wednesday · 6 min
The Quiet File — The Last Shift in York
Claudia Lawrence vanished walking home from a university kitchen shift in 2009. Police say they know who's responsible. No charge has ever followed.
S1 · E53
Wednesday · 6 min
The Quiet File — The Bath Road File
Melanie Hall was last seen getting into a car outside a nightclub in 1996. Her remains weren't found for thirteen years, and the driver was never identified.
S1 · E52
Wednesday · 6 min
The Quiet File — The Supermarket in Paderborn
Katrice Lee disappeared from a German military base supermarket at not yet two years old, in a case split for decades between two countries' jurisdictions.
S1 · E51
Wednesday · 6 min
The Quiet File — The Farm on Kos
Ben Needham vanished at twenty-one months old from a Greek island farmhouse in 1991. A 2016 excavation searched for his remains and found nothing.
S1 · E50
Wednesday · 6 min
The Quiet File — The Chessboard Telephone
A call from a man who may never have existed sent William Wallace searching for an address that didn't exist, while his wife was murdered at home.
S1 · E49
Wednesday · 6 min
The Quiet File — The Peer Who Vanished
Lord Lucan was named his children's nanny's killer by a British inquest. He has not been seen since the night it happened.
S1 · E48
Wednesday · 6 min
The Quiet File — The Missing Heiress
Dorothy Arnold walked out to buy a book in 1910 and never came home. Her family's six-week silence before contacting police may have cost the case its best chance.
S1 · E47
Wednesday · 7 min
The Quiet File — The Dahlia File
The 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short became one of America's most famous unsolved cases, and buried the real woman beneath decades of myth.
S1 · E46
Wednesday · 7 min
The Quiet File — The Colonial Parkway Route
Four couples vanished along the same Virginia parkway over eighteen months in the 1980s. Nearly four decades later, the case remains unsolved.
S1 · E45
Wednesday · 7 min
The Quiet File — The West Mesa Graves
Eleven women and girls found buried across a stretch of Albuquerque desert, years after they disappeared. No arrest has ever been made.
S1 · E44
Wednesday · 9 min
The Quiet File — The Oakland County Files
Four children abducted and killed across Oakland County, Michigan in 1976-77, each found deliberately cleaned and displayed. Decades of reopened investigation, a prime suspect who died before charges, and a case still officially unsolved.
S1 · E40
September 17 · 51 min
The Quiet File — Episode 40
Episode 40 of The Quiet File.
S1 · E43
September 16 · 52 min
The Quiet File — Episode 43
Episode 43 of The Quiet File.
S1 · E42
September 15 · 53 min
The Quiet File — Episode 42
Episode 42 of The Quiet File.
S1 · E41
September 14 · 53 min
The Quiet File — Episode 41
Episode 41 of The Quiet File.
S1 · E39
September 13 · 50 min
The Quiet File — Episode 39
Episode 39 of The Quiet File.
S1 · E35
September 12 · 56 min
The Quiet File — Episode 35
Episode 35 of The Quiet File.
S1 · E38
September 11 · 5 min
The Quiet File — Episode 38
Episode 38 of The Quiet File.

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