A Steve Cote production
Unsolved cases from around the world.
Disappearances nobody can explain, deaths where the official story falls apart, and the strange details in between. Alex Sloane takes one case at a time — the files that never closed, the names we still don't know. A sister show to Strange Skies. New episodes weekly.
Hear the trailer Show trailer · 1:34
One case at a time, told quiet and respectful, with real sources and nothing invented. Episodes land on or near their case's anniversary — because some dates refuse to close.
November 29, 1970. A hiker and his two daughters find a woman's burned body on a scree slope in Isdalen — "Ice Valley" — outside Bergen, Norway. Every label cut from her clothes. Eight false names. A coded notebook. Fifty-six years, DNA work, and an Interpol Black Notice later, she still has no name.
Who was she — and why did she erase herself?
First episode — coming November 29.
December 1, 1948. A well-dressed man is found dead against the seawall on Somerton Beach, Adelaide. No wallet, no ID, every label cut from his clothes. In a fob pocket: a scrap of paper torn from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Tamám Shud, "ended." In 2022, DNA gave him a name. The code is still unread, the death still unexplained.
A mystery that got a name — and kept its secret.
Coming December 1.What this show is
Weird unsolved true crime from around the world — not the famous killers you've heard a hundred times, but the cases most people have never heard of: a woman with no name in a Norwegian valley, a man with a code in his pocket on an Australian beach, a family in Tokyo, five friends on a mountain road. Real victims, real files, nothing invented. Speculation is marked as speculation, and no living person is ever named as a killer.
"Some cases never close. We keep the file open."
Follow free so the first case lands in your library the moment it drops.
From the makers of
UFOs, the paranormal, and the cases that never quite closed.
Strange Crimes comes from the same studio as Strange Skies — short episodes on UFO cases and the declassified record, hosted by Alex Sloane, with Jack Sterling After Dark on Friday nights. Same voice, different dark.
Alex reads the case files. Jack keeps the dark. Steve built the studio they live in.
Strange Crimes · the regular show
"One case at a time. In the order it happened. With the theories marked as theories."
She's the calm voice in the dark — curious, dry-witted, and allergic to hype. On Strange Skies she reads the declassified files; here she reads the case files — the disappearances, the deaths nobody can explain, and the strange details in between. Her happy place is an archive; her fuel is coffee, black, late.
Featured in the trailer
"This is Strange Crimes. Some stories don't end. They wait."
He's the voice you hear after midnight — slow, low, and unhurried, like a man who's in no rush because the dark isn't going anywhere. Jack joins Alex in the trailer, and more from Jack on Strange Crimes is on the way. On Friday nights he hosts Strange Skies After Dark.
The producer · Behind the console
"Alex and Jack got the AI treatment — so I joined them."
Creator & producer, ex-paranormal investigator. He's the one at the console putting it all together — LA cap on, coffee nearby. He also produces Strange Skies. Follow along at Instagram @stevecote1974.
How the show is made: Alex Sloane and Jack Sterling are AI-voiced hosts. Steve Cote is the real person behind Strange Crimes — he creates and produces every episode.
Know an unsolved case from your corner of the world — or have a tip on one we've covered? Our contact details are coming soon. In the meantime, you can reach Steve through the Strange Skies show.
Follow Strange Crimes on Spotify — following is free. The first case drops November 29, the 56th anniversary of the Isdal Woman.