Philip Onyancha
Unresolved
Unresolved Productions
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Onyancha had come into police cross-hairs during a kidnapping investigation, exploring the circumstances in which a nine-year old boy had gone missing. Weeks after the boy disappeared, a ransom note appeared, demanding money be sent through a mobile application.
Unbeknownst to Philip Onyancha, police were tracking the money. Within days, it led straight to him and his associates. But Onyancha had some secrets of his own, including the largest one: that he belonged to a murderous cult, and was well on his way to becoming Kenya's most infamous serial killer...
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Music Credits
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Chris Zabriskie - "I Used to Need the Violence"
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ROZKOL - "Turn the Whole World to Rust"
Alan Piljak - "Something Wonderful"
Andrew Reddy - "A Breath"
How the Night Came - "IV C6H807"
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ROZKOL - "Spider's Web"
Dexter Britain - "Seeing the Future"
Other original music created by Ailsa Traves
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Katherine Chalongat was a 32-year-old mother of one in 2008 when she disappeared. |
| 0:25.2 | She had just finished college at the Cabete Technical Institute earlier that year, in Nairobi, |
| 0:30.6 | the capital city of Kenya. |
| 0:32.9 | Katherine lived in a suburb of Nairobi called Karen, where she had several family members |
| 0:37.5 | living nearby. |
| 0:39.1 | The day that Katherine disappeared, November 2, 2008 seemed like every other Sunday. |
| 0:46.0 | Nothing seemed out of the ordinary in the neighborhood that Katherine was staying in. |
| 0:49.8 | According to one of her relatives, a man named Wesley Roddich. |
| 0:53.6 | Wesley was the last relative to see Katherine alive, as she left his home in the early |
| 0:58.4 | evening. |
| 0:59.4 | Quote, it was on a Sunday. |
| 1:02.0 | She left my house around 9pm, saying she was going to spend the night at her brother's |
| 1:06.8 | house. |
| 1:08.6 | Katherine went to go visit this other family member, but never arrived. |
| 1:13.5 | Worried friends and family tried to retrace her steps in the coming days, weeks, and |
| 1:18.2 | months, but they found nothing. |
| 1:21.0 | Wesley, the same relative that saw her last, described what happened next. |
| 1:26.7 | Quote, we heard nothing from her captors for the next three months. |
| 1:31.2 | They called us on the phone and demanded 30,000 shillings. |
| 1:35.4 | We pleaded for time as we did not have the money. |
| 1:38.6 | We reported it to police. |
| 1:41.1 | The extortion attempt came three months after Katherine's disappearance and the early |
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