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The Quiet File

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The Quiet File covers true crime the way it should be told — with respect for what actually happened and who it happened to.

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S1 · E64
October 5 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Empty Brigantine
On December fourth, 1872, a sailing ship crossing the Atlantic came upon another vessel drifting strangely under half-set sail, with no one at the wheel and no one answering their calls.
S1 · E63
October 4 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Last Transmission From Bass Strait
On a clear night over the Bass Strait in October 1978, a twenty-year-old pilot radioed air traffic control to describe a strange aircraft following him. Six minutes later, his voice was gone from the airwaves entirely.
S1 · E62
October 3 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Missing Airliner
At 1:19 in the morning on March eighth, 2014, a Boeing 777 carrying two hundred thirty-nine people said goodnight to Malaysian air traffic control. Two minutes later, its transponder went dark.
S1 · E61
October 2 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Navy Flight
At two in the afternoon on December fifth, 1945, five Navy training planes took off from Fort Lauderdale into clear Florida skies. By early evening, none of them were coming back.
S1 · E60
October 1 · 5 min
The Quiet File — The Lost Pilot
On the morning of July second, 1937, a radio operator on a Coast Guard ship in the central Pacific heard the most famous pilot in the world say she was running low on fuel. She was close, somewhere nearby, but she couldn't see the island. Then the radio went silent.
S1 · E59
September 30 · 5 min
The Quiet File — The Hammersmith Files
Between 1964 and 1965, the bodies of six women were found along the River Thames and in the streets of west London. The case led to one of the biggest police operations in the city's history, and then it simply stopped.
S1 · E58
September 29 · 5 min
The Quiet File — The Whitechapel Files
In the autumn of 1888, a series of killings in London's East End became the most retold crime story in the English language. The killer's nickname is known around the world. The names of the women he killed are much less familiar.
S1 · E57
September 28 · 4 min
The Quiet File — The Vanishing on the A9
On a November night in 1976, a car was found burning in a lay-by on the main road south of Inverness. The woman who had been driving it, and her three-year-old son, were never seen again.
S1 · E56
September 27 · 5 min
The Quiet File — The Barrowland Nights
Three women went dancing at the same Glasgow ballroom in the late 1960s, and none of them came home. One witness spent part of a night beside the man police believed was responsible, and her description is still the heart of the file.
S1 · E55
September 23 · 6 min
The Quiet File — The Antiques Shop Door
Trevaline Evans disappeared from her Welsh shop in 1990. Decades later, her family learned the original police file had simply been lost.
S1 · E54
September 23 · 6 min
The Quiet File — The Last Shift in York
Claudia Lawrence vanished walking home from a university kitchen shift in 2009. Police say they know who's responsible. No charge has ever followed.
S1 · E53
September 23 · 6 min
The Quiet File — The Bath Road File
Melanie Hall was last seen getting into a car outside a nightclub in 1996. Her remains weren't found for thirteen years, and the driver was never identified.
S1 · E52
September 23 · 6 min
The Quiet File — The Supermarket in Paderborn
Katrice Lee disappeared from a German military base supermarket at not yet two years old, in a case split for decades between two countries' jurisdictions.
S1 · E51
September 23 · 6 min
The Quiet File — The Farm on Kos
Ben Needham vanished at twenty-one months old from a Greek island farmhouse in 1991. A 2016 excavation searched for his remains and found nothing.
S1 · E50
September 23 · 6 min
The Quiet File — The Chessboard Telephone
A call from a man who may never have existed sent William Wallace searching for an address that didn't exist, while his wife was murdered at home.
S1 · E49
September 23 · 6 min
The Quiet File — The Peer Who Vanished
Lord Lucan was named his children's nanny's killer by a British inquest. He has not been seen since the night it happened.
S1 · E48
September 23 · 6 min
The Quiet File — The Missing Heiress
Dorothy Arnold walked out to buy a book in 1910 and never came home. Her family's six-week silence before contacting police may have cost the case its best chance.
S1 · E47
September 23 · 7 min
The Quiet File — The Dahlia File
The 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short became one of America's most famous unsolved cases, and buried the real woman beneath decades of myth.
S1 · E46
September 23 · 7 min
The Quiet File — The Colonial Parkway Route
Four couples vanished along the same Virginia parkway over eighteen months in the 1980s. Nearly four decades later, the case remains unsolved.
S1 · E45
September 23 · 7 min
The Quiet File — The West Mesa Graves
Eleven women and girls found buried across a stretch of Albuquerque desert, years after they disappeared. No arrest has ever been made.

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