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Ten minutes. One real case. Unclosed tells true crime stories from Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and beyond - cases that were never solved, or that were closed on the wrong person. Every episode is built from court records, investigation files and contemporary reporting. No invented dialogue, no guessing at what nobody witnessed. Where the record stops, we say so. New episodes weekly. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn© 2026 Unclosed Crimini reali
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  • Knoedler Gallery: A 165-Year-Old Gallery Sold $80 Million in Fakes, Painted in a Queens Garage

    Knoedler Gallery: A 165-Year-Old Gallery Sold $80 Million in Fakes, Painted in a Queens Garage
    Oct 29 2026
    👉 Support this show In New York, there was an art gallery that had been open for a hundred and sixty-five years. It opened its doors fifteen years before the American Civil War began, and its customers were the major museums and the richest families in America. On November 30, 2011, it suddenly announced that it was closing for good. The day before, a lab report had reached the gallery: a painting a client had bought there for seventeen million dollars was a fake. In all, this scheme sold more than eighty million dollars' worth of fake masterpieces, and every one of them was painted in a garage in Queens, New York. This episode is about the Knoedler Gallery forgery case, which has been called the biggest art forgery case in American history. Over more than a decade, sixty-three paintings came from the same hand: Pei-Shen Qian, born in 1940, who came to New York from Shanghai in 1981 and was paid only five thousand to eight thousand dollars a painting. The art agent who brought the paintings to the gallery pleaded guilty, and a court ordered her to pay about eighty-one million dollars. The Spanish businessman was arrested in Spain, and his extradition to the United States was refused. The painter went back to China before he could be charged; he was indicted in 2014 and has stayed in China ever since. What is still unclosed is the sixty-three paintings themselves. No one can say for sure whose walls they finally ended up on, or how many of them are still hanging today in the homes of the people who originally bought them. 【Timeline】 1981　A painter from Shanghai arrives in New York and paints portraits of tourists on the street 1994　An art agent walks into the Knoedler Gallery with a made-up history for the paintings 2004　A couple buys a "Rothko" for nearly eight and a half million dollars 2007　A hedge fund manager buys a "Pollock" for seventeen million dollars Nov 30, 2011　The day after the lab report arrives, the old gallery announces it is closing for good 2014　The United States indicts the painter, but he is already back in China, which has no extradition treaty with the United States 【This episode answers】 ・Why did the man who hired him want brand-new paintings instead of copies? ・For more than a decade, what held off every doubt? ・What one detail in the lab result made the whole story fall apart? 【Sources】 https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/8728596/de-sole-v-knoedler-gallery-llc/ https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/newyork/press-releases/2014/three-defendants-charged-in-manhattan-federal-court-in-connection-with-33-million-art-fraud-scheme https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-80-million-art-fraud-anderson-cooper/ https://news.artnet.com/art-world/glafira-rosales-knoedler-forgery-probation-840923 https://www.arcsinfo.org/news-events/entry/2253/how-science-uncovered-80-million-of-fine-art-forgeries — Background music: Unclosed Cases Intro, Unclosed Cases Underscore Bed (Google Flow Music) The narration and music in this show are AI-generated. The content is compiled from public sources, and the show contains no recordings of any real person. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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    21 min
  • The Murder of Yin Ching-feng: Taiwan's Biggest Arms Scandal and a Navy Captain Afloat

    The Murder of Yin Ching-feng: Taiwan's Biggest Arms Scandal and a Navy Captain Afloat
    Oct 26 2026
    👉 Support this show On the morning of December 10, 1993, fishermen found a man's body in the sea off Dong'ao, in Yilan, Taiwan, only about four hundred to five hundred meters from the shore. He was an active-duty captain in the Republic of China Navy. The morning before, he had disappeared at a soy milk shop in Neihu, in Taipei, and he never came back home. The first explanations the military gave came in two versions: one was suicide, the other an accidental fall into the water. This episode is about the murder of Yin Ching-feng. He was the executive director of the Navy's weapons acquisition office, and his work was the purchase of the Navy's second-generation warships, a batch of arms deals that came to 115.2 billion New Taiwan dollars. One of them was the deal for six Lafayette-class frigates bought from France. The money trail did produce results. The man who was France's foreign minister when the contract was signed confirmed to a French newspaper a commission of about 500 million US dollars. High-ranking Navy officers were impeached. Kuo Li-heng, the Navy captain who arranged to meet Yin Ching-feng in Neihu, went to prison for taking bribes, but no court ever found that he was connected to this murder. France returned 875 million US dollars. But how Yin Ching-feng died, and who he was with after he left that soy milk shop, still has no answer after more than thirty years. 【Timeline】 Aug 31, 1991　The Lafayette frigate contract is signed, for just over 2.5 billion US dollars Dec 9, 1993　In the morning, he disappears at a soy milk shop in Neihu Dec 10, 1993　Fishermen find his body in the sea off Dong'ao, in Yilan Around Dec 18, 1993　Kuo Li-heng, the section chief in the weapons acquisition office, is taken into custody on suspicion of taking bribes Dec 20, 1993　Andrew Wang, an arms dealer connected to the warship business, boards a plane and leaves Taiwan Aug 26, 2002　The Control Yuan votes to impeach high-ranking Navy officers Jul 12, 2011　France returns 875 million US dollars to Taiwan 【This episode answers】 ・He disappeared wearing a suit, but was pulled from the water in Navy uniform trousers and a white undershirt. What does that mean? ・In a contract of 2.5 billion US dollars, why was 500 million of it commission? ・The money side of the case produced results. Why is the murder still unsolved today? 【Sources】 https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/尹清楓 https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/拉法葉軍購案 — Background music: Unclosed Cases Intro, Unclosed Cases Underscore Bed (Google Flow Music) The narration and music in this show are AI-generated. The content is compiled from public sources, and the show contains no recordings of any real person. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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    17 min
  • The Isdal Woman: A Spy Burned Alive? Eight Fake Passports, 50 Years Without a Name

    The Isdal Woman: A Spy Burned Alive? Eight Fake Passports, 50 Years Without a Name
    Oct 23 2026
    👉 Support this show On the morning of November 29, 1970, in a valley just outside the city of Bergen, in Norway, a twelve-year-old girl hiking with her father and her younger sister saw the burned body of a woman among the rocks. As the police went through the things this woman had left behind, they found that every piece of clothing she was wearing had its label cut out, and that someone had scraped the prescription sticker off a jar of ointment in a suitcase she left behind. When she stayed at hotels, she had used at least eight different names. This episode is about the case of the Isdal Woman in Norway. In the end, the police closed the case and wrote down suicide as the reason, and more than fifty years later, no one knows who this woman really was. What this case leaves unanswered is not only how she died, but why the labels on her clothes were cut off. 【Timeline】 Nov 18, 1970　She checks into a hotel in central Bergen; the next day she moves to another hotel Nov 23, 1970　She checks out of room 407 at the second hotel, pays in cash, and asks the front desk to call a taxi Nov 1970　Five days before the body is found, a man hiking on the mountainside sees a woman walking in front of two men in overcoats Nov 29, 1970　A twelve-year-old girl hiking with her father and her sister finds the body among the rocks in the valley Feb 5, 1971　She is buried in a Catholic service, in a coffin lined with zinc 1991　A taxi driver says that after he picked her up, a man got into the taxi too 2017　An isotope analysis of her jawbone points to a birthplace in southern Germany, in the area around Nuremberg 【This episode answers】 ・What was recorded in the notebook filled with letters and numbers? ・Why was her coffin lined with zinc? ・More than forty years later, what did the teeth that were kept back reveal? 【Sources】 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isdal_Woman https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/伊斯達爾女子 — Background music: Unclosed Cases Intro, Unclosed Cases Underscore Bed (Google Flow Music) The narration and music in this show are AI-generated. The content is compiled from public sources, and the show contains no recordings of any real person. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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    17 min
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