Oakey "Al" Kite

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In 2004, 53-year old Oakey "Al" Kite was a middle-aged bachelor living in Aurora, Colorado. He had been living in the area for six years, working for a local Denver-based consulting firm.

On May 22nd, Al dropped off his girlfriend at the airport. A few hours later, she called to let him know that she had made it safely. She recalled Al sounding fine on the other end of the phone, and all seemed to be well.

But just two days later - on May 24th - Al failed to show up for work. When his employer contacted his sister, police were called to perform a wellness check. What they found inside Al's home was a terrifying mystery, and questions were raised about a mysterious man that inserted himself into Al's life the week prior...

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ROZKOL - "Hell Slime"

Robert Farmer - "I Wonder What The World Is Doing Now"

Xenojam - "Towards Death"

Gallery Six - "Hydroscope"

Rotten Bliss - "Under The Branches"

Kai Engel - "Sunset"

Magna Ingress - "Anahata II (The Longing)"

Mutant Data Orchestra - "Zzyxx"

Joao Picoito - "Untitled"

Ailsa Traves - "Unresolved"

Transcript

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0:00.0	On the morning of May 24th, 2004, an engineering consulting firm in Denver, Colorado, named
0:15.7	Carter Douglas, noticed the absence of an employee.
0:19.7	The employee, a man named Al Kite, was a warm and friendly guy who was normally a beacon
0:25.2	of responsibility.
0:26.7	He was rarely late, if ever, let alone without prior warning.
0:31.2	When minutes began to turn into hours, the co-workers of Al began to grow worried.
0:36.2	They decided to give Al's home and cell phone a shot, hoping he'd pick up and explain
0:40.0	his absence on this Monday morning.
0:42.8	Multiple calls yielded no results, and the office finally decided to phone Al's emergency
0:48.1	contact.
0:49.5	His emergency contact was his sister, Barbara, who lived thousands of miles away in Virginia.
0:55.5	Barbara answered the call, but insisted that she had not heard from Al or anyone else that
1:00.2	morning.
1:01.2	So now she began trying to contact her younger brother, trying to reach the same phone
1:05.2	numbers that the office had tried beforehand.
1:08.3	In desperation, Barbara eventually turned to the one resource that she had, the police.
1:14.2	She knew that this absence was very unlike Al, so she got in touch with the Aurora Police
1:18.8	Department to pay her brother a visit and perform a welfare check.
1:22.6	Later that afternoon, Aurora Police responded to Al Kite's residence.
1:27.2	It was a residential townhouse, which didn't look too abnormal.
1:31.2	They knocked at the door multiple times, which earned them no response.
1:35.5	Fearing that Al might be in some kind of danger, officers made the decision to enter the
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