UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast
UNMARKED is a new true crime podcast and YouTube series built on rare interviews, real police evidence, and never-before-heard audio from some of the most infamous cases in North America. From inside prison phone calls to lost tapes and forgotten case files, these are the stories that were never meant to be heard — told by award-winning true crime filmmaker James Buddy Day. REAL CASES. REAL TAPES. NEVER-BEFORE HEARD. Exclusive interviews & archival recordings No reenactments. No gimmicks. Just the truth. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
Episodes
In 1992, I wrote to the Milwaukee Police Department and asked for the Jeffrey Dahmer case files. Weeks later, they mailed me his full confession.
In this episode of UNMARKED, I go inside Jeffrey Dahmer’s confession—page by page—to understand how one of the most notorious serial killers in history developed, escalated, and ultimately got caught.
Using Dahmer’s own words, police reports, and expert insight from forensic psych...
Ted Bundy didn’t begin with murder. Long before the headlines, before the trials, before the mythology took hold, there were patterns—behaviours that escalated, fractures that widened, and warning signs that, in hindsight, feel impossible to ignore.
In this episode of UNMARKED, we step back from the crimes themselves and examine Bundy at the point of origin. Drawing from psychological analysis, original records, and the wo...
Danny Rolling’s murders in Gainesville shocked the country. But they didn’t begin there. In this episode, I travel to Florida to investigate the Gainesville Ripper — speaking with journalists, authors, and witnesses who lived through the panic — and trace the case back to where it really starts.
Long before the murders, there were warning signs: documented abuse, escalating behavior, and multiple points where intervention ...
In the final year of his life, I spoke with Charles Manson on the phone multiple times. Those conversations became the foundation of a decade-long investigation into the people who once called themselves the Manson Family.
In this episode, I track down the surviving members of the Manson Family — speaking with former followers, examining trial records, and revisiting the places where the group formed, radicalized, and ulti...
Serial killer Hadden Clark is one of the most unsettling figures in modern criminal history — a man whose crimes, confessions, and psychological unraveling have baffled investigators for decades.
In this episode of UNMARKED, we examine the case through the original record. Former FBI agents, primary documents, and Clark’s own words reveal a deeply fractured personality and a disturbing window into the mind of a killer.
Clar...
I’m in Phoenix, Arizona, sitting down with a group called “Jodi Arias Is Innocent.” They aren’t arguing that Travis Alexander wasn’t killed — they’re arguing the case is more complicated than the verdict suggests.
For this episode, I read Jodi Arias’ full appeal (300+ pages), spoke with her supporters, revisited the evidence, and re-examined what the trial did — and what it may have failed to weigh.
We walk through the re...
Celeste Beard Johnson appeared to live a life of privilege and stability — marriage to a millionaire, social status, financial security.
But beneath that image was something far more complicated.
After Steven Beard was shot, attention initially focused on the woman who pulled the trigger. But the trial would hinge on a deeper question:
Who created the circumstances that made the crime inevitable?
In this episode of UNMARKED we ex...
Scott Kimball wasn’t just a fraudster or a murderer—he was a paid FBI informant.
For over a year, I corresponded with Kimball from prison. Phone calls. Letters. Recorded conversations. What he told me—and how he told it—reveals how a career con artist convinced federal agents to release him without probation, and how that decision allowed him to murder at least four people.
Beginning in 2003, Kimball used his position as an inf...
Aileen Wuornos is one of the most infamous killers in American history, often reduced to a label and a caricature. This episode of Unmarked examines what actually happened—and why.
Through on-location reporting in Florida, primary source interviews, and a close analysis of the crimes, this episode traces Wuornos’s trajectory from lifelong abuse and instability to a clear pattern of escalating violence. It focuses on the moment...
The justice system assumes that when two people commit a crime together, one will eventually betray the other. Amanda Logue didn’t.
In this episode of Unmarked, we examine a case defined not just by violence, but by loyalty—how emotional dependency, fear, and identity can bind people together even when silence becomes self-destructive.
Using rare audio recordings and court records, this episode explores the prisoner’s dilemma a...
For decades, the Grim Sleeper terrorized South Los Angeles — killing women in neighborhoods he knew by heart, often within miles of his own home. Lonnie Franklin Jr. wasn’t a criminal mastermind or a drifter moving between states. He was a neighbor. A city worker. A man who lived quietly beneath the LAX flight path while violence unfolded around him. In this episode of UNMARKED, we break down how Franklin was able to operate ...
On April 6th, 2009, a man vanished in Lakeland, Florida. Seven months later, investigators uncovered one of the most shocking fraud-to-murder cases in modern true crime.
This episode of Unmarked investigates the con, the deception, and the killing of lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare—through prison interviews, interrogation recordings, recovered police files, and a psychological analysis of the woman at the center of the case...
In part 2 we dig deeper into Bob’s Diaries and into the years that his fantasies darken into a calculated pattern.
This episode of Unmarked investigates the crimes of “Bizarre” Bob Berdella, City’s first documented serial killer—using never-before-heard material, recovered police files, and an AI restoration of Berdella’s sealed confession.
For decades, the confession was believed lost.
The tapes were ordered destroyed.
...
On July 5th, 1984, a man vanished in Kansas City.
Four years later, police would uncover one of the most bizarre cases in American history.
This episode of Unmarked investigates the crimes of “Bizarre” Bob Berdella, City’s first documented serial killer—using never-before-heard material, recovered police files, and an AI restoration of Berdella’s sealed confession.
For decades, the confession was believed lost.
The tape...
Before his death, Robert Pickton calls from prison.
The recording he leaves behind — never before heard — reveals a man who still believes he hasn’t been caught.
In this episode of Unmarked, we uncover the story of Canada’s most notorious figures through his own words, and through the detectives who tried to stop him.
Lead investigator Lorimer Shenher recounts the warnings that were ignored, the evidence that was misse...
Through the phone lines from his cell, Charles Manson spoke to me in one of his final recorded conversations. What he said about power, fear, and the truth behind the Manson Family has never been heard publicly—until now.
Unmarked takes you inside the cases you thought you knew, through exclusive calls, original recordings, and firsthand reporting from inside America’s most notorious investigations.
Extended interviews, primary...
Don’t miss the entire season of Unmarked. We’re opening our archives one case at a time. Subscribe so you never miss what we uncover next. First three episodes drop on Jan 7th 2026!
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