In Search of Lost Crime

In Search of Lost Crime

Liz Luyben

Episodes 36
Avg. Duration 30m
Activity Dormant
Since Dec 2022
Latest Episode Aug 2025

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Every 2 Weeks
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Episodic
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About This Podcast

In search of lost crime focuses on lesser known, historical, European mysteries: a missing aviator in Amsterdam in 1915, a forgotten cannibal on the Polish/German border in 1925, or a gruesome wooden box with a headless corps inside that gets delivered to a train station in Madrid in 1929.... Please subscribe for these and many other Lost Crimes!

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Recent Episodes

Murder on New Year's Eve: the Death of Jacques Wijsman (part 1 of 3)

Aug 08, 2025 26m

New Year's Eve 1921 At Hollandspoor Station in The Hague, the train from Amsterdam has just arrived. A passenger about to board the first-class compartment sees a body on the floor. In a pool of…

Goeie Mie: the mad mass poisoner of Leiden

Jul 18, 2025 31m

Maria Catherina van der Linden-Swanenburg, also known as Goeie Mie, or 'Kind Mary', was a Dutch mass murderer who killed at least 27 people and was suspected of killing over 90. Mostly her own family…

The Manuscript Mystery: The Unholy Theft of the Codex Calixtinus (part 2 of 2)

Jun 28, 2025 31m

In a plotline that seems to come straight out of a Dan Brown movie, in 2011 a priceless medieval manuscript is stolen from the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. What follows is a web of bizarre…

The Manuscript Mystery: The Unholy Theft of the Codex Calixtinus (part 1 of 2)

Jun 16, 2025 25m

In a plotline that seems to come straight out of a Dan Brown movie, in 2011 a priceless medieval manuscript is stolen from the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. What follows is a web of bizarre…

S3 The Dark Side of the Calle Beltrán: The Parking Garage Murders (Part two of two)

Jun 01, 2025 18m

On January 11th, 2003, Maria Angels Ribot leaves work at the usual time. She parks her car in her usual parking space: number 15, on the fourth floor of Calle Beltran in the posh Putxet district of…

The Dark Side of the Calle Beltrán: The Parking Garage Murders (Part one of two)

May 27, 2025 26m

On January 11th, 2003, Maria Angels Ribot leaves work at the usual time. She parks her car in her usual parking space: number 15, on the fourth floor of Calle Beltran in the posh Putxet district of…

S3 The Lost Children of Estación de Francia

May 11, 2025 26m

On April 22nd, 1984, a man in his forties drives a white Mercedes to Estación de Francia, a busy railway station in Barcelona. He has three children in the car with him: five-year-old Ramón,…

S2 The Enigmatic End of Public Enemy Number One: Alvin Creepy Karpis

Apr 27, 2025 29m

In 1979, one of the biggest criminals from the 1930s died quietly in a fancy apartment in Torremolinos. Alvin "Creepy" Karpis was behind countless bank robberies, kidnappings, and murders. For years,…

S3 Madrid's Atocha Station: The Box of Horrors

Apr 23, 2025 30m

In December 1928, a large crate arrives at Mediodía station in Madrid, nowadays known as Atocha Station. The paperwork shows that the crate was sent from Barcelona on December 7 and has been sitting…

S2 The Bloodbath in the Barn: The Malladas Crime (part 2 of 2)

Apr 15, 2025 28m

In the early morning of July 15, 1915, sixteen-year-old Joaquín Barniello walks into the Finca de Malladas, a huge manor farm. The Count of Malladas's farm is one of the biggest employers around,…

S2E26 The Bloodbath in the Barn: The Malladas Crime (part 1 of 2)

Apr 01, 2025 32m

In the early morning of July 15, 1915, sixteen-year-old Joaquín Barniello walks into the Finca de Malladas, a huge manor farm. The Count of Malladas's farm is one of the biggest employers around,…

S2E25 The Van Eyk Riddle: The World's Most Stolen Painting (part 2 of 2)

Mar 24, 2025 31m

On the night of April 11th, a priceless, 15th-century masterpiece is stolen from Saint Bavo Cathedral in Ghent. Thieves manage to run off with a side panel of the Ghent Altarpiece. What follows,…

The Van Eyk Riddle: The World's Most Stolen Painting (part 1 of 2)

Mar 17, 2025 26m

On the night of April 11th, a priceless, 15th-century masterpiece is stolen from Saint Bavo Cathedral in Ghent. Thieves manage to run off with a side panel of the Ghent Altarpiece. What follows,…

S2E24 Fatal Climb: the Mysterious Death of King Albert I of Belgium

Mar 07, 2025 28m

On February 17, 1934, the lifeless body of King Albert I of Belgium was discovered at the foot of a peak in Marche-les-Dames. The king has a large head wound and has clearly been dead for some time.…

S2E23 Lost Bones: The Vanished Remains of Blas Infante

Mar 02, 2025 31m

The Ibis hotel on Avenida Kansas City in Sevilla may look like your average hotel. It has hot showers, friendly staff and cold, if indifferent, beer. What makes this hotel more memorable is that it…

S2E22 Madness at Sea: The Blood Bath on the Dutch Herring Lugger (part 2 of 2)

Mar 01, 2025 24m

(Part 2 of 2) 🐟 On September 13th 1915 a Norwegian steamship comes across a drifting herring lugger in the middle of the sea. The ship, from the Dutch port of Katwijk, has been dismantled, the crew…

S2E1 Madness at Sea: The Blood Bath on the Dutch Herring Lugger (part 1 of 2)

Feb 28, 2025 37m

(Part 1 of 2) 🐟 On September 13th 1915 a Norwegian steamship comes across a drifting herring lugger in the middle of the sea. The ship, from the Dutch port of Katwijk, has been dismantled, the crew…

S1 Goeie Mie: the mad mass poisoner of Leiden

Nov 09, 2023 31m

Maria Catherina van der Linden-Swanenburg, also known as Goeie Mie, or 'Kind Mary', was a Dutch mass murderer who killed at least 27 people and was suspected of killing over 90. Mostly her own family…

S1E19 Deadly love triangle the downfall of Aviations Golden couple (part 3 of 3)

Oct 31, 2023 30m

In the early morning of 21 April 1932, a gunshot rings out in a bungalow in the small Florida town of Coral Gables. The victim is a young man, one Haden Clarke and he appears to have committed…

S1 Deadly Love Triangle: the rise and fall of Aviation's Golden Couple (part 2 of 3)

Oct 11, 2023 22m

In the early morning of 21 April 1932, a gunshot rings out in a bungalow in the small Florida town of Coral Gables. The victim is a young man, one Haden Clarke and he appears to have committed…

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