The Sinister Valentine’s Day Murders - Unsolved Deep Dive
Hot On The Case
Breanna Heim
5.0 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s investigation Hot On The Case travels back to Valentine’s Day weekend 1971, when teenagers Patricia Mann and Jesse McBane were brutally murdered in an unsolved double homicide that still haunts investigators decades later.
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| 0:00.0 | Over 50 years ago, a beautiful young couple left a Valentine's Day dance and was never seen alive again. |
| 0:09.1 | I've never had a case quite like this one. |
| 0:11.0 | The case that continues to elude authorities, a young couple with a promising future abducted, tortured, then murdered. |
| 0:17.4 | Over two weeks later, their bodies were discovered and what they found was horrific. |
| 0:23.6 | This is a story that is impossible, impossible not to get drawn into. |
| 0:28.6 | Why, why, why? |
| 0:29.6 | And as you uncover one why, you uncover ten more. |
| 0:33.6 | Not only was this beautiful, young, happy couple with promising lives ahead of them murdered, |
| 0:40.3 | but they were tortured for hours before they died. |
| 0:44.3 | Strangled and then let down, strangled and let down over a period of time. |
| 0:48.3 | It's been over half a century, and this case still remains unsolved. |
| 0:51.3 | There's a lot we have to go over today. |
| 0:53.3 | There's some pretty bad police work, |
| 0:56.3 | a couple different theories, and three possible suspects that all look just as guilty as the last. |
| 1:04.5 | This is the unsolved Valentine's Day murders of Patricia Mann and Jesse McBain. And my name is Brianna and I'm hot on the case. |
| 1:22.7 | Valentine's Day began as a strange collision of ancient rituals and forbidden love, evolving from Roman |
| 1:31.3 | fertility festivals into a holiday named after the martyr who defied an empire, all in the |
| 1:38.5 | name of love. Today, Valentine's Day is a billion dollar industry, red roses flown across continents, |
| 1:48.2 | prefixed dinner menus, and the pressure to prove your love and devotion with gifts, of course. |
| 1:56.6 | But in February of 1971, Valentine's Day brought something a lot different. |
| 2:01.5 | And it all started with two high school sweethearts planning a date for Valentine's Day. |
| 2:07.6 | 20-year-old Patricia Mann was a very sweet, caring girl. |
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