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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Matt pairs structured case narration with guest reactions that clarify how evidence, uncertainty and speculation interact in enduring unsolved mysteries.
Cold Case Chase turns unsolved cases into conversational case studies, with Matt guiding guests through timelines, evidence and competing explanations.
An Alcatraz accordion may hide drilling; Matt and Renee make you pick a side on survival.
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A brisk, jokey Mary Celeste take that still lands the shipboard details.
Cold Case Chase gives the Mary Celeste a brisk, mischievous treatment, folding in jokes about cargo, McBean, and an early theory that points back to Captain Briggs and boat maintenance.
Poe's final mystery gets a joke-prone retelling that still keeps the facts in view.
The episode gives Edgar Allan Poe's final Baltimore mystery a clear, energetic retelling and keeps the central question steady: what happened to him?
A missing boy, a false identification, and police eager to close the case.
Cold Case Chase treats Walter Collins' disappearance in 1920s Los Angeles as a story about people wanting the wrong answer to feel good enough.
A steady cold-case listen that keeps the mystery moving without losing the eerie edge.
Cold Case Chase keeps the Somerton Man mystery moving instead of letting it go stale. John steps in as the season's writer, and the episode moves from setup to reaction to fallout with a light touch.
A lively Hoffa mystery that keeps the case moving without sanding off the weirdness.
Cold Case Chase takes on Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance with a steady, readable pace. It moves through the Hoffax Memo, the Teamsters angle, and a book-based theory that Hoffa may have been willing to trade information with authorities to get back into union leadership.
A museum heist told with real detail, sideways jokes, and enough chaos to keep it moving.
The Gardner Museum Heist gets a lively, theatrical turn. It opens with code names, then moves through the robbery, the guards in handcuffs, and the baffling aftermath.
A brisk, banter-heavy OJ recap that keeps the case moving without sanding off the show's personality.
Cold Case Chase starts with a mock quarterfinals setup around OJ Simpson, then settles into the case and trial with a lighter touch than the subject might suggest.
A brisk, chatty cold-case opener that keeps grim material moving with real momentum.
Cold Case Chase opens with a quick sweep through unsolved and cold cases before settling on Brian Schaefer's disappearance. It moves at a brisk pace, and the host keeps the tone conversational without flattening the grim subject matter.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
Payne Lindsey's season-long investigation into two disappearances from Nome, Alaska.
CBC's true crime feed tracing Cleo's case into cold cases across its investigative podcast network.
Journalists chase a decades-long trail through a coronial inquest and Rick Bloom's dozens of aliases.
A New York Times reporter reinvestigates Laramie's unsolved 1985 murder of Shelley Wiley.
Cold Case Chase follows the 1928 disappearance of nine-year-old Walter Collins in Los Angeles, starting with his walk to a Mount Washington movie theater and Christine Collins’s delayed missing-person report five days later.
The episode covers the unsolved 1990 Gardner Museum heist in Boston, where 13 artworks worth over $500 million were stolen.
SpookFest 24 brings the monologue buffet.
Open ocean, empty ship, vanished people.
Cold Case Chase covers the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, tracing his rise as Teamsters president from 1957 to 1971 and his claim that he grew the union from 800,000 to more than 2 million members.
Cold Case Chase opens like a parody fight card before snapping back to the OJ Simpson case.
The episode opens with a content warning and a joke-heavy warm-up before settling on Alcatraz.
This marathon episode of Cold Case Chase presents three distinct unsolved true crime cases: the 2006 disappearance of college student Brian Schaefer from an Ohio bar, a historical deep dive into the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888 London, and the 1981 quadruple homicide at Keddie Cabin in California.
The case turns ugly fast.
Poe arrives already haunted.
Cold Case Chase covers the Somerton Man, a dead man found on Somerton Beach in Adelaide on December 1, 1948, dressed in a clean suit with no tags, no identification, and no fingerprints in any database.