Episode 520: Paul Isaac Holmes: Breaking The Cycle, Pt. 1

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

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🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Paul Isaac Holmes was a 33 year old from Durham, NC. He was an avid bike rider with an older brother and younger sister. On November 13, 2023, Paul was captured on video at a store near his parents’ house, despite him having seemingly disappeared two weeks before that. He was never seen again. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/missing.paul.homes NAMUS: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/112983?nav Website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/paul-isaac-holmes-breaking-the-cycle/ Article: https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/durham-county-news/durham-police-looking-for-man-last-seen-near-atm-at-store-on-n-roxboro-st/ If you have any information concerning the disappearance of Paul Holmes, please contact the Durham Police Department at (919) 560-4600.. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz4bh2ppqACeF7BdKw_93eA/join --Unfound plays on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, Instagram, Twitter, Podbean, Deezer, Google Play and many other podcast platforms. --on Monday nights at 9pm ET, please join us on the Unfound Podcast Channel for the Unfound Live Show. All of you can talk with me and I can answer your questions. --Contribute to Unfound at Patreon.com/unfoundpodcast. You can also contribute at Paypal: paypal.me/unfoundpodcast --email address: unfoundpodcast@gmail.com --the website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/

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0:00.0	Paul Isaac Holmes was a 33-year-old from Durham, North Carolina.
0:06.4	He was an avid bike rider with an older brother and younger sister.
0:12.0	On November 13, 2023, Paul was captured on video at a store near his parents' house,
0:19.6	despite him having seemingly disappeared two weeks before that.
0:25.5	He was never seen again.
0:30.8	I'm Ed Dunsell, and this is unfound.
0:47.4	Thank you. And this is unfound. As many of you know, I really, really, really try to stay out of the this is how kids should be raised debate.
0:56.4	I'm not a parent. I probably will never be a parent.
1:00.5	Thus, I'm not going to try to tell somebody else
1:02.8	how to do something that I have never done.
1:06.2	This goes for friends, family, and unfounds guests.
1:12.5	And even if I were that kind of person, I don't think I could offer up much insightful help.
1:18.1	Because from the outside, it all looks like somewhat of a crapshoot.
1:22.1	Great adults having troubled kids.
1:24.5	Troubled adults having great kids.
1:27.3	Who knows? Yet, if we're to stick to
1:30.4	disappearances, we have a lot of parents with guilt. Could they have done something differently
1:36.0	that would have put their children on different paths that wouldn't have ended up with them
1:41.4	going missing? Frankly, I have my doubts. Even if we're to take two missing
1:47.3	people who are on each end of the extremes, let's say Jody Hoosentrute on one end and Karina
1:54.1	Slesser on the other, my impression is that the parents of these women could not have changed
2:00.2	the outcomes.
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