New Orleans Unsolved

Anna Christie and Thanh Truong have built something remarkably personal here. Christie works as an investigator, Truong brings decades of journalism experience, and together they spend months -- sometimes years -- pulling apart cold cases from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. This is not the kind of true crime show that recaps Wikipedia articles over spooky music. Each season is a sustained investigation into a single case or connected series of cases, and the reporting often turns up information that law enforcement missed or chose to ignore. Season 1 follows the 1982 death of Eddie Wells, a 17-year-old whose body was pulled from the Mississippi River in the Upper 9th Ward. The coroner said drowning. A detective said murder. Christie and Truong spend the entire season trying to figure out which answer is true, and they do it by tracking down witnesses, digging through decades-old records, and sitting with the family members who never stopped asking questions. Season 2 shifts to The Rope Murders, a set of cold cases involving victims found ritualistically bound in rural Louisiana and Mississippi -- the kind of cases that fell through jurisdictional cracks between sheriff's departments. With 82 episodes, a 4.8-star rating from nearly 1,000 reviewers, and episodes still dropping as of March 2026, this show has real staying power. Christie and Truong narrate with restraint rather than sensationalism. They treat victims as people first and case files second. The production quality is solid without being overproduced, and the pacing lets the story breathe. New Orleans has plenty of ghost tour fodder, but this podcast is doing actual accountability journalism about real people who deserved better.