S3 Ep37: Impossible Crimes: Locked Room Mysteries

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Some mysteries seem impossible, but few actually are. But with no logical explanation to be found, could you solve the unsolvable? Is there even such a thing? Today we look at two impossible cases. First, a man is found shot to death with three bullet wounds in his body, alone, with no gun, inside a locked and bolted room. What happened? Any guesses? How about this one: a woman boards a completely empty train car very much alive. Less than a minute later the still-empty train car pulls into the next station. Somehow she has been stabbed in the back, still alone in the car and now very much dead. Who done it? Your guess is as good as ours.

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0:00.0	Remember one minute mysteries? A man is found face down and dead in the desert with only a backpack on.
0:11.0	No footsteps near his body and nothing else around him for miles and miles?
0:16.8	What happened?
0:17.8	Or a woman is found hanging in a locked room with no furniture and only a puddle of water beneath her. What happened?
0:26.1	How about this one? A man is found shot to death with three bullet wounds in his body,
0:31.8	alone, with no gun inside a locked and bolted room.
0:37.2	What happened?
0:39.2	Welcome to Strange and Un explained with me, Daisy Egan.
0:42.2	I'm a fan of a good murder mystery and relish and I tap out after about 30 seconds and start thinking about napping. These conundra are usually
0:56.6	the stuff of fiction, but once in a while there is a real life murder mystery that bubbles
1:02.0	to the surface and appears utterly impossible to solve.
1:06.4	A real life one minute mystery that almost a century later remains unsolved. As you've probably already guessed, there's a lot more to the story.
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1:55.0	But now, back to this particular mystery. On March 10, 1929, the New York Times ran a story with this headline,
2:11.0	Laundry owner slain at work in his shop. The piece reported
2:16.0	quote Isador Fink 30 years old of 52 East 133rd Street was shot dead at 1030 o'clock last night in the rear room of the 5th Avenue
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