Colonel Philip Shue
Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast
Unresolved Productions
4.5 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In April of 2003, 54-year-old Philip Shue was nearing the end of his decorated military career. Having spent more than three decades in the Air Force, Philip and his wife Tracy were already making plans to move to Birmingham, Alabama. In fact, they'd just put down a deposit on their dream home and Philip had been selected for a prestigious fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Alabama.
But on the morning of April 16th, Philip's car was spotted by witnesses driving erratically, before careening from the road and crashing into a patch of trees. Philip was found at the scene, having been killed instantly by massive head trauma. What looked, at first, like a tragic accident would later be ruled a suicide, a conclusion made all the more difficult to accept when the full condition of Philip's body came to light. Whatever happened to him that morning, it hadn't started on that road...
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| 1:20.6 | Please do not suffer in silence. April 16, 2003. |
| 1:38.3 | It was just after dawn in Bernie, Texas, and inside their home, Colonel Philip Shoe brought his wife |
| 1:45.6 | Tracy her customary first cup of coffee. |
| 1:48.9 | They sat together in bed, talking about their pending move to Birmingham, Alabama, where |
| 1:53.5 | they planned to start the next chapter of their lives. |
| 1:56.6 | After more than three decades of military service, Philip was retiring from the military just |
| 2:01.4 | five months later. |
| 2:02.6 | He had already arranged for a fellowship in forensic psychiatry that would begin in September, |
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