Midnight Mystery Archive

Kevin wraps up the Barbara Chapman two-part series — and makes his first declarative statement of the international summer series.
 
He's been careful throughout both Barbara Chapman episodes not to speculate. No wild claims, no overreach. That's been his policy since day one. But in this mini, he breaks from that stance and says it directly: he believes the Ontario Provincial Police know who killed Barbara Chapman...

Part 1 covered January 23rd, 1984 — the ordinary morning, the phone call with her mother, the seven-hour window, the twelve-year-old daughter who found her in the garage. Barbara was 38 years old. Her murder has never been solved. Forty-two years later, no one has been charged.
 
 Part 2 is about what those 42 years actually looked like — and why the Ontario Provincial Police's behavior in the public rec...

Today is the day. Echo 1953, The Hollis Files Book 1, is officially available on Amazon. If you like crime fiction - a private investigator team working a difficult, layered case? Kevin promises it delivers. Every early reader so far has given it five stars, and Kevin is quick to note: he doesn't know any of them. Total strangers. Order on Amazon now.

On the podcast front: we're between Barbara Chapman Part 1 and Part 2, which drops...

On the morning of January 23rd, 1984, Barbara Chapman made breakfast for her two children in a small house north of Frankford, Ontario. She helped them get ready for school. She watched them board the school bus. Then she went inside and called her mother - they spoke while Barbara did chores around the house.

That phone call was the last contact anyone had with Barbara Chapman alive.

At four o'clock that afternoon, her twelve-year-o...

I am on vacation — this was pre-recorded before he left, and the full episode schedule runs as normal in his absence.
 
Two things this week.
 
First: the Michael Dunahee series is complete. Part 1, the Witness Wednesday with his mother Crystal Dunahee, and Part 2 are all in your feed. I say out loud what listeners will likely have sensed: the conversation with Crystal was one of the hardest he has ever ...

Part 1 covered the afternoon of March 24th, 1991 — the playground, the fifty people who saw nothing, the boy who was there and then wasn't. Part 2 picks up where that left off, with 35 years of investigation, the leads that closed without answers, and where the case stands in 2026.
 
The investigation that followed Michael Dunahee's disappearance was one of the largest missing child responses in Canadian history. N...

On March 24th, 1991, Crystal Dunahee drove to a women's flag football game in Victoria, British Columbia. Michael — her four-year-old son with blonde hair, blue eyes, and freckles — asked if he could play at the park. She looked. There were a couple of kids already there. It was a normal Sunday afternoon.
 
She said yes. It was the first time she had ever let him go to the park by himself.
 
When h...

A few things to catch you up on before the week ahead - and it is a big one.

The Gina Bos case is officially wrapped. If you have not yet heard last Wednesday's Witness Wednesday with Jannel Rap, Gina's sister, go back and listen before you do anything else this week. It was one of the most meaningful interviews Kevin has done for this podcast. Jannel took her grief over Gina's disappearance and turned it into 411gina.org, an advoca...

On March 24th, 1991, a four-year-old boy named Michael Dunahee disappeared from a school playground in Victoria, British Columbia. It was 12:30 in the afternoon. There were approximately fifty people in the immediate area. He vanished within meters of his parents. Not one of those people saw it happen.

Thirty-five years later, Michael Dunahee has never been found.

Michael Wayne Dunahee was born on May 12th, 1986. He was blonde-haired...

Jannel Rap built a foundation that has helped locate over 3,000 missing people. Her sister Gina Bos disappeared twenty-six years ago. Gina's case is still open. Jannel joins Witness Wednesday for her full interview and the complete conversation behind the clips you heard in Part 2 of the Gina Bos series.

She talks about growing up in a family of seven kids, four girls who sang together at church, a grandfather who played the fiddle,...

TONIGHT - AMY BRADLEY LIVE Q&A (8:30PM ET)
The Amy Bradley series just wrapped, and the questions since the finale have been significant. I will be going live tonight at 8:30pm Eastern to answer them. Watch live (or the replay) on YouTube.

Can't make it? Send your questions to midnightmysteryarchive@gmail.com, the Facebook Group, or X and I will cover them on the broadcast.

GINA BOS - SERIES WRAP
Two parts. Three interviews...

Eighteen years after Regina "Gina" Bos vanished outside Duggan's Pub in Lincoln, Nebraska, Detective Greg Sorensen said on the record: "Do I think I know who killed her? Yes." Then, in the same conversation: "We don't have enough probable cause to arrest somebody." This episode is built around the gap between those two statements.

Gina Bos — a 40-year-old single mother of three and musician — walked out of an open mic on...

Patrick Kane punched a cab driver over 20 cents. Pat McAfee was arrested shirtless and soaking wet at 2am trying to break into the wrong car. One guy was arrested over 100 times. Another had no pants, no underwear, nothing. Five clues. Five athletes. Can you name them?

The Halls of Mediocrity launches July 14th, the second show from the Archive Podcast Network. In this preview clip, Kevin and his brother Jeff run a training camp dri...

Darsha Dodge has known about Gina Bos's case for 15 years. Last October, she stood at the Nebraska State Capitol in the rain and watched Gina's sisters sing for her under a rainbow umbrella. This is what she saw.

Darsha Dodge is the senior reporter at 1011 News (KOLN) in Lincoln, Nebraska. She grew up in Arkansas and, as a teenager going down internet rabbit holes about missing persons, stumbled across Gina Bos's disappearance rough...

The Amy Bradley series is done. Gina Bos is next. And this week is one of the most important weeks of the Summer Series and here's what's coming.

Gina Bos was 40 years old when she disappeared from Lincoln, Nebraska on October 17, 2000. She had just finished an open mic night at Duggan's Pub. Her guitar and sheet music made it into the trunk of her car. The trunk never closed. She has not been seen since. This past Friday's episode ...

Gina Bos packed her guitar. She walked to her car. The trunk was never shut. She has not been seen since October 17, 2000.

Regina "Gina" Bos was 40 years old on the night she disappeared — a musician, a mother of three, a woman with a new job lined up and a Habitat for Humanity house in progress. She had spent the evening playing open mic night at Duggan's Pub in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska. Multiple witnesses saw her leave aro...

Gina Bos disappeared from Lincoln, Nebraska on the night of November 11, 2000. She was 40 years old, a mother of three. She had just finished playing an open mic night at Duggan's Pub with guitar, sheet music, equipment loaded into the trunk of her car. The trunk was never shut. Her purse was not in the car. Nobody heard anything. Nobody saw anything. And in 26 years, no one has been charged.

It is the longest-running active missing...

The Amy Bradley series is complete. After eight months, thirteen episodes, multiple eyewitness interviews, and a federal grand jury, Part 12.2 was the final chapter. This Monday mini is a chance to step back, say what that series meant, and lay out what's coming next.

First — what's next on the cases. The Bridge Series begins this week with the disappearance of Gina Bos, who vanished in 2000 from Lincoln, Nebraska. Witness Wed...

Amy Bradley disappeared on March 24, 1998. Her family has never stopped searching — not even for a day. This is the final episode of the series.

Episode 12, Part 2 is the series finale of The Midnight Mystery Archive's Amy Bradley investigation — twelve episodes, multiple eyewitness inter...