Alan Holmes
Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast
Unresolved Productions
4.5 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
53-year-old Alan Holmes was living a quiet life in the winter of 1995. A longtime resident of Camden Town, Alan was unmarried and had no children. He had spent nearly two decades working as a garage hand at Kentish Town Police Station, where he was widely regarded as a gentle giant who was beloved but very quiet. He normally kept to himself.
That Christmas, a longtime friend invited Alan over to her family's house for Christmas. He accepted, and spent that evening with her and her family. She'd later drop him off back at his flat in Camden, which sat above an empty shop. That would sadly be the last time any of his friends or family would see him alive...
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains graphic content that may not be suitable for all ages. |
| 0:08.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:10.0 | If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. |
| 0:15.0 | Call or text 988 or chat with someone at 988 lifeline.org. Those outside of the U.S. |
| 0:22.6 | reach out to someone at your local crisis center or hotline. |
| 0:25.6 | Please do not suffer in silence. |
| 0:28.6 | Camden Town is a neighborhood in North London, about a mile and a half north of the city |
| 0:44.4 | center if you're orienting yourself on a map. |
| 0:47.4 | It's the kind of place that shows up in travel guides. |
| 0:50.1 | It has a famous outdoor market, a music scene that has produced some of the most recognizable names in British Rock, |
| 0:56.4 | and a high street that's almost aggressively busy on a weekend. |
| 1:00.0 | Tourists come from all over the world to walk through the stalls. |
| 1:03.4 | Locals used the tube station to get on with their lives. |
| 1:06.4 | Camden is loud and colorful, and depending on the hour, either charming or exhausting. |
| 1:12.3 | If you've ever watched the series trying on Apple TV, it's that neighborhood, just to give |
| 1:16.5 | you some context. |
| 1:17.9 | If you walk up parkway from Camden High Street today, past the cafes and the restaurants, |
| 1:23.2 | past the Sandsbury's on the left, you have no idea what happened here 30 years ago. The building |
| 1:28.7 | at number four is gone. The block has been demolished and redeveloped. Where there was once |
| 1:34.2 | a flat above an empty shop, there's now retail space. But there was a time, in the first week |
| 1:40.3 | of January 1996, when this stretch of pavement was crowded with something else entirely, |
| 1:47.0 | detectives, speaking in front of television cameras and reporters, making solemn promises into microphones. |
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