Alabama Cold Case Advocacy
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Unforgotten is intended to give voice to the voiceless: Alabama’s missing and murdered victims. Sellers and Stormy of the Alabama Cold Case Advocacy nonprofit organization put an emphasis on ethical research, bridging the gaps between law enforcement and families, and sharing each story in a respectful, victim-facing manner in an effort to ensure these cases - these individuals - remain unforgotten. To learn how you can further support ACCA and Unforgotten's mission, please visit alcoldcase.com and be sure to follow us on social media. You can also reach out to us directly at [email protected]. Content for th...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Sellers and Stormy make Alabama cold cases legible through patient timelines, careful questions, family perspectives, and attention to unresolved evidence.
Unforgotten follows unresolved Alabama cases by keeping records, family memory, and open questions in the same conversation. Sellers and Stormy work patiently through phone activity, financial movements, GPS data, witness accounts, and press coverage, showing how an…
Those ATM withdrawals look different when Sellers and Stormy make you ask who last spoke to him.
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A candid season reset on case visibility, advocacy's limits, and the damage careless speculation can do.
Unforgotten begins season four by folding the time away into the story. Sellers and Stormy return with a clear update on Alabama Cold Case Advocacy, placing awareness, media outreach, and cooperation with law enforcement at the center of the work.
A staged-looking car scene and a vehicle discrepancy sharpen the questions around Steven Pearson's disappearance.
Unforgotten returns to Steven Pearson's disappearance by treating a remote car scene less as a discovery than as a question of appearances. A Grand Bay resident found a car deep in the woods behind her home on Henderson Farms Road, with items such as a bucket of tools giving the…
A steady missing-person rewind that keeps early assumptions, stalled searches, and unanswered questions in focus.
The episode returns Brittany's stalled missing-person case to a hard, uneasy spotlight. A guest walks through the first response after she was reported missing, including an officer's view that a 19-year-old adult could leave if she chose and the way a misdemeanor warrant became…
A clear look at how one death became crime coverage in some papers and a remembered life in another.
A newspaper can make the same death feel like public spectacle, or like a life held in view. This episode traces that divide through coverage of Debra Mullis Gunter, who was taken hostage during a robbery in Gaucher and later found dead near Mobile.
An unresolved Alabama double murder, a discarded revolver, and a missing witness leave this case caught between evidence and answers.
Unforgotten uses an Alabama double murder as a spare, unsettling frame. Matt and Scott were last heard from around 10 p.m. on a Monday night, and by Tuesday morning neither had shown up for work.
A grounded missing-person portrait that keeps Felicia Martin Cochran's daily life at the center.
This piece keeps Felicia Martin Cochran's life before the disappearance in steady view, and that choice gives the story its weight. It moves through family ties, school years, cheerleading, early motherhood, college plans, a stretch in Texas, a return to school, and her job at…
A careful look at confusion, records, and the damage left behind.
Paula Ellis sits at the center of a case that keeps circling the same hard question: who handled what, and when. The strongest passage follows the confusion without flinching, especially around the Tuscaloosa County Homicide Unit, the paper records that stayed with the Sheriff’s…
A blunt, procedural look at a jail assault that stays tightly on the sequence of events.
The piece keeps its focus on a jail assault case and lets the plain legal language do the heavy lifting. It tracks a pre-trial detainee in an overcrowded cell, the complaint that draws a hostile response, and the moment restraint gives way to force.
Evidence first, rumors on trial.
On a cold Mississippi night in 1978, 20-year-old Deborah Gunner was working the graveyard shift alone — and she would never come home.
Unforgotten's Season 2, Episode 1, Part 2 follows the July 17, 2018 timeline around Daniela Vian's last known movements in Mobile, including the Shell gas station on Government Boulevard, the final GPS ping at 11:07, and the Facebook Messenger voicemails at 11:11 and 11:12.
Brad Golson says he is Mary Faye Hunter’s fourth cousin and explains how family ties, journalism, and a co-written book led him back into her case.
Unforgotten S3, Ep 1: Debra's Story follows the disappearance of 20-year-old Debra Gunner from the Little General on Ladner Road in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on December 5, 1978.
Unforgotten S3, E5, “The Names In The File,” follows the paper trail around Norman David Taylor and Dr.
Season 2 Episode 2 of Unforgotten examines Mary Faye Hunter's unsolved 1967 disappearance in Morgan County Alabama.
This episode of Unforgotten covers three Alabama cold cases: the 2017 murder of Curtis Crear in Wilcox County, the 2001 disappearance of Randy Whitfield, and the 2001 murders of Elmer and Joette Thrasher in Winston County.
Unforgotten Talk - Season 1 Finale centers on Tony Mitchell, Joshua Connor Jones, and a federal plea agreement that spells out alleged deliberate indifference at the Walker County jail.
True crime investigation episode focusing on Steven Pearson's unsolved 2000 disappearance (Part 3 of multi-part series).
This episode investigates the unsolved 2015 murders of Ryan King and John Lowe in Alpine, Alabama, detailing their lives, the tragic events of that night, and the ongoing efforts by families and Alabama Cold Case Advocacy to find justice.
Brittany Wood was 19 years old, a mother, and a Mobile County missing-person case that the family revisits 12 years after her disappearance.
This Unforgotten episode centers on Shanna Hayden discussing Daniela Vian’s case, including how the two met at Hurricanes, Grill & Wings in Mobile and how Hayden became vocal after seeing Facebook posts on the night of July 19, her birthday.
Sellers and Stormy use this Unforgotten Talk to explain why season four is shifting back to one case per episode, while Rhonda Morrison’s case and the paused Debra Ruh season remain under active review.
Unforgotten Rewind: S1 E2 revisits Rakeem Samuel, who was 20 years old when he disappeared from Montgomery on April 2, 2016, after finishing a night shift at Globus.
Unforgotten’s S2 Ep 5, “Stephen Pearson, Part 2,” follows the trail from Steven Pearson’s December 27, 2000 disappearance to the blue Chevrolet Impala found in the woods at Henderson Farms Road.
Shawna Hayden, speaking on Unforgotten with Stormy, revisits the timeline around Daniella Vianne’s disappearance and the later recovery of her blue 2014 Chevy Cruze from Bayou Sarah.
The episode follows Daniela as she carries the strain of raising children, trying to stay afloat, and making choices that never feel clean.
The conversation stays on the physical problem of the attack, with the hosts walking through how a knife, blood, and repeated stabbing would play out in real life.
This episode centers on Felicia Cochran.
Paula Ellis’s murder pulls the discussion into local law enforcement and the confusion around the case.
Unforgotten’s Season 2, Episode 4 centers on the 2007 double homicide of James Matthew Helms, known as Matt, and his roommate Scott Allen Hybe in Enterprise, Alabama.
Unforgotten’s “S2 Ep 5: Steven Pearson, Part 1” centers on a December 2000 disappearance in Grand Bay, where Steven Pearson was linked to a package containing roughly 10 pounds of marijuana and then left behind an abandoned car in the woods.
Unforgotten Episode 40: 'Donna Duran.' The podcast examines a 2019 suspicious death in Tallapoosa County, Alabama.
True crime podcast hosts sit down with Lt.
Dana joins Sellers and Stormy as they open on the state of 2025 casework, including how often Does are being identified and crimes are getting solved through IGG.
Sellers and Stormy open their second Season 2 Unforgotten Talk with Dan back in the room.