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The Cold Ledger: Unsolved Case Files

The Cold Ledger: Unsolved Case Files

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Unsolved cases, heists, and disappearances, read from the record. An anonymous narrator opens the ledger on cold cases built from court documents and archival reporting. Weekly.

Episodes are produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review. A Talking Labs production.© Talking Labs True Crime
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  • The D.B. Cooper File

    The D.B. Cooper File
    21 Sep 2026
    On Thanksgiving eve in 1971, a passenger using the name Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305, obtained ransom money and parachutes, and disappeared through its rear stair. This episode follows the crew, the FBI's NORJAK investigation, the money found years later on the Columbia River, and the limits of what the evidence can establish. His identity and fate remain unknown.

    Sources: FBI case history https://www.fbi.gov/history/cases-and-criminals/db-cooper-hijacking ; National Archives case file https://www.archives.gov/seattle/highlights/d-b-cooper ; HistoryLink chronology https://historylink.org/File/1997

    This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    28 mins
  • The Somerton Man: A Name, Still No Final Answer

    The Somerton Man: A Name, Still No Final Answer
    15 Sep 2026
    In 1948, an unknown man was found dead at Somerton Beach. Decades later, genetic-genealogy researchers identified him as Carl ‘Charles’ Webb. This episode follows the evidence behind that conclusion, the limits of the famous clues, and the questions that remain. As of 15 September 2026, no public coronial finding had formally confirmed the identity, and the cause and manner of death remained undetermined. No person is accused.

    This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    29 mins
  • The Isabella Gardner Museum Heist

    The Isabella Gardner Museum Heist
    12 Sep 2026
    In March 1990, two men in police uniforms talked their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and left eighty-one minutes later with thirteen works of art — a Vermeer, three Rembrandts, five Degas sketches, a Shang dynasty beaker and a brass eagle off a flagpole. They walked straight past the Titian. Thirty-six years on, nobody has been charged, nothing has been recovered, and the empty frames still hang where Isabella Gardner's will requires them to hang. Why the thieves' choices are the best evidence in the case, why there is no buyer for a stolen Vermeer, and why stolen masterpieces are recovered by executors rather than detectives.

    Nobody has ever been charged with this robbery and the theories discussed remain theories.

    This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.
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    25 mins
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