Case Zero
Case Zero
Every episode tells a true story. A disappearance. A crime. A case that was never resolved. No dramatization. No speculation. Only the facts, told with precision. Case Zero is a documentary true crime podcast narrated in the third person, designed to be listened to closely. New episodes every week.Social links:
The Footage No One Could Explain
In 2014, Lars Mittank, a young German man, was captured on security cameras at an airport in Bulgaria. The footage shows him visibly agitated, scanning the room as though he believed he was being watched. Without warning, he abandoned his belongings, ran out of the building, and disappeared. He has…
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The Man with No Name
In 1948, the body of a man was found on a beach in Australia. He carried no identification. Every label had been removed from his clothing. In one of his pockets, investigators found a small scrap of paper bearing a phrase in Persian: "Tamám Shud" — meaning "finished." The investigation uncovered e…
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The Signal No One Could Explain
In 1997, underwater sensors operated by NOAA detected an extraordinarily powerful sound in the Pacific Ocean. It was picked up thousands of miles away. Its origin was never definitively identified. Some scientists proposed a natural explanation. Others considered possibilities that remained inconc…
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The Locked Room
In 2006, Rey Rivera disappeared in Baltimore. Days later, his body was found inside a hotel — in an abandoned conference room he appeared to have fallen through from a considerable height. The room was locked. There were no witnesses. The trajectory of the fall did not quite fit the scene. Police …
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The Flight That Disappeared
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished from radar with 239 people on board. There was no distress call. There was no immediate explanation. In the days that followed, the search expanded across thousands of miles, while contradictory data emerged about the aircraft's trajectory. …
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The Colony That Vanished
In 1587, more than a hundred English settlers established a colony on Roanoke Island, in what is now the United States. Three years later, when a supply expedition returned, there was no one left. No bodies. No signs of struggle. Only a single word carved into a wooden post: "CROATOAN." The fate of…
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The Call That Went Silent
In 2008, Brandon Swanson called his parents in the middle of the night after his car went off the road in a rural area of Minnesota. He was walking and talking to them by phone, trying to get his bearings. Then, without warning, he said a single word: "oh, shit." The call went dead. He was never h…
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The Dyatlov Pass Incident
In 1959, nine hikers died under inexplicable circumstances in the Ural Mountains of the Soviet Union. Their tent was found cut open from the inside. Some had fled into extreme cold without adequate clothing. Others displayed injuries that were difficult to explain. The official investigation closed…
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The Woman from Isdal
In November 1970, the body of a woman was found in Isdalen Valley, in Norway. She was partially burned, and no documents were found to identify her. Her belongings shared a peculiar trait: labels had been removed, objects had been altered, and traces had been erased. The investigation revealed that…
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The Cecil Hotel Elevator
On January 19, 2013, Elisa Lam entered the elevator of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. She was never seen alive again. Weeks later, police released the security camera footage. The world watched. The world had no explanation. Case Zero reconstructs, episode by episode, the real cases that remain un…
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