
Cold cases. Buried voices. Forgotten victims.
I’m Joey Grimes, and this is The Grimes Files: Gone, Not Silent—a true crime podcast exposing cases that never got justice. Season one reopens the 1998 murder of Helen Eskew in Douglasville, Georgia, where silence and fear still surround the truth.
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 21 | Founded | a year ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | True Crime | |||

A woman leaves for work.
And disappears… in the most ordinary moment of her day.
On January 24th, 2006, 24-year-old Jennifer Kesse vanished from her condo complex in Orlando, Florida. There were no signs of forced entry. No obvious struggle inside ... more
Three women vanished from a home in the early hours of the morning.
No signs of forced entry.
No clear struggle.
No confirmed sighting of what actually happened inside that house.
At first glance, it looks like nothing happened at all.
But when ... more
On March 31, 2006, Brian Shaffer went out with friends in Columbus, Ohio.
It was a normal night. Bar hopping, drinks, a crowded city full of people.
At 1:55 a.m., Brian is seen on surveillance footage entering the Ugly Tuna Saloona.
He never comes... more
In May 2008, residents of an apartment building in Zagreb, Croatia forced open the door to a small attic apartment that had remained closed for decades.
Inside, they found human remains.
The woman who lived there had never left.
Her name was Hedvi... more
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The stories are well written but Joey has the most weirdly robotic voice and you can tell he’s just stressed out while reading the script word for word. It almost sounds like an AI voice.
Thank you for your tireless efforts to shine light on all the dead and abused women that you have. There are so many but I appreciate your tenacity.
I really want to like this podcast. I feel like the speaker can cleanly tell the story, but he is way too theatrical and dramatic for me. If he turned it down a notch, this podcast would be great.
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Apple Podcasts | #250 |
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A seasoned true crime podcast that focuses on cold cases, disappearances, and overlooked victims, often centering on systemic failures, investigative gaps, and the human impact of unresolved cases. Episodes span missing persons, serial patterns along highways, domestic violence, and historic injustices, offering a mix of narrative reconstruction, victim-focused storytelling, and discussions of potential systemic improvements. The show benefits from a steady host who emphasizes careful storytelling and accountability, with a distinct emphasis on cases that remain unresolved or misunderstood. Noteworthy is its ongoing focus on highway-related disappearances and the long arc of cases that reappear through new evidence or survivor testimony, ma... more
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