Driven by the belief that there’s always more to the story, Unseen delves beyond the headlines to uncover the quiet resilience, courage, and humanity at the heart of real cases. With a focus on the untold and the overlooked, Unseen shines a light on what’s often left in the shadows, creating moments of connection and understanding.
Driven by the belief that there’s always more to the story, Unseen delves beyond the headlines to uncover the quiet resilience, courage, and humanity at the heart of real cases. With a focus on the untold and the overlooked, Unseen shines a light on what’s often left in the shadows, creating moments of connection and understanding.
On October 12th, 1980, a typical day turns into a lifelong mystery for 4-year-old LaLana Bramble and her older brother Donald. Their mother, Marlene Oakes, who vanishes earlier that same day without a trace. There are no signs of struggle, no clues pointing to her whereabouts, and no immediate suspects. Left to grow up with unanswered questions, Lalana and her brother are burdened with the emotional weight of their mother’s disappearance, which remains shrouded in secrecy for years.
As LaLana grows older, she refuses to let the mystery of her mother’s disappearance fade into the past. Driven by a deep need for closure, she begins to piece together fragments of her childhood and pursue any lead that could shed light on what happened that day in 1980. What she uncovers is far darker than she could have imagined: disturbing family secrets buried for decades, pointing to hidden motives and a tangled web of betrayal, leading back to clues she finds in her mother's diary involving her father, Bill Major.
Through years of persistence, LaLana ultimately answers the question haunting her since childhood: What really happened to her mom—and why did someone want her to disappear?
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Driven by the belief that there’s always more to the story, Unseen delves beyond the headlines to uncover the quiet resilience, courage, and humanity at the heart of real cases. With a focus on the untold and the overlooked, Unseen shines a light on what’s often left in the shadows, creating moments of connection and understanding.
In 1999, Sherry Leighty disappeared without a trace. Her father-in-law, Kenneth Leighty, reported that she'd run off with a boyfriend, but Shelly Nagle, Sherry's sister, knows something isn't right.
13 years after her little sister disappeared, Shelly hasn't given up--and she receives a notification from an anonymous Facebook account, with a disturbing message reading “she’s still alive, but you’ll never see her again”. When the police refuse to investigate, Shelly knows it’s up to her to find her sister and the man responsible for her disappearance: a killer who is now watching her every move.
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Driven by the belief that there’s always more to the story, Unseen delves beyond the headlines to uncover the quiet resilience, courage, and humanity at the heart of real cases. With a focus on the untold and the overlooked, Unseen shines a light on what’s often left in the shadows, creating moments of connection and understanding.
On October 22, 1989, 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling disappeared into the night after a masked gunman intercepted him while he was biking home with friends. The case shocked the small community of St. Joseph, Minnesota, sparking one of the largest manhunts in the state’s history. But despite desperate efforts, Jacob’s fate remained a mystery for decades.
Nine months before Jacob’s disappearance, 12-year-old Jared Scheierl had his own terrifying encounter. After a simple trip to get ice cream, Jared was abducted. Somehow, Jared managed to escape hours later, but the trauma of that night stayed with him.
For 27 years, these two cases seemed connected only by fear—until Jared’s courage to speak out became the key to unraveling the mystery of Jacob’s fate. His account reignited the investigation, revealing shocking new evidence and exposing one of Minnesota’s most dangerous predators, Danny Heinrich.
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Driven by the belief that there’s always more to the story, Unseen delves beyond the headlines to uncover the quiet resilience, courage, and humanity at the heart of real cases. With a focus on the untold and the overlooked, Unseen shines a light on what’s often left in the shadows, creating moments of connection and understanding.
After years of searching for her daughter Annette Craver, Mary Vail stumbled upon a disturbing secret in her husband Felix's past. As she dug deeper, she uncovered chilling details—Annette wasn’t the only woman to vanish. Felix’s first wife had drowned under mysterious circumstances, and two others had gone missing without a trace. What was Felix hiding, and what happened to the girls?
Fueled by a growing sense of dread and desperation, Mary decided to take matters into her own hands. She would no longer rely on the authorities; she would investigate her husband’s dark past herself. The more she uncovered, the clearer it became: Felix Vail was a man who had left a trail of secrets, lies, and disappearances in his wake. As Mary unraveled the mystery, she uncovered the chilling pattern behind Felix’s past, and in doing so, she unlocked the terrifying truth about what really happened to Annette—and the others who had vanished without a trace.
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Driven by the belief that there’s always more to the story, Unseen delves beyond the headlines to uncover the quiet resilience, courage, and humanity at the heart of real cases. With a focus on the untold and the overlooked, Unseen shines a light on what’s often left in the shadows, creating moments of connection and understanding.
On July 31, 1970, in the quiet town of Price, Utah, four-year-old Heidi awoke to an unsettling stillness. Something felt wrong. Creeping to her bedroom door, she peeked through the keyhole, only to witness a horrifying scene that would haunt her forever—the brutal murder of her mother.
Chaos erupted, but justice never came. The case grew cold, and over time, the questions surrounding that tragic night faded into whispers. Before the file was officially marked "unsolved," Heidi’s grandmother captured a haunting moment: a photo of the little girl standing in front of the crime scene outline. The image seemed like a solemn tribute to a life lost.
Decades passed, and the truth remained buried. Heidi grew up under the shadow of her mother’s unsolved murder, carrying the weight of unanswered questions. But in 2016, a seemingly innocuous detail hidden in that photograph—something overlooked for nearly half a century—helped Heidi crack the case wide open.