The Generation Why Podcast Blog

On the 8th of December 2000, 22 year old Trevor Deely disappeared after a night out in Dublin, Ireland. (Trevor Deely. Source) The young bank worker from Naas, County Kildare, was described by friends and family as likeable, warm, friendly and very enthusiastic about his career. After a Christmas party and hitting the clubs with fellow colleagues from his job at the Bank of Ireland asset management, Deely left early and headed towards his office on Wilton terrace. Grainy CCTV footage showed Deely making his way to the office. The stormy weather is later evident in the footage as rain...

I read a news report about the kidnapping of a young British glamour model in Italy and thought I’d share it with you guys. Chloe Ayling, a 20 year old model from London, was kidnapped from what she believed was a legitimate photo-shoot at an apartment in Milan, Italy on July 11, 2017. She had traveled from a shoot in Paris to Milan with the intention of attending a session that had been booked through her agent back in England when she was attacked by two men. (source) The men restrained Ayling, injected her in the right forearm with Ketamine,...

On Valentine’s Day 2017, the bodies of two missing teenage girls from Delphi, Indiana (13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German), were found at the foot of a hill in the woods near Carroll County, Indiana. (source) (Abby and Libby. Source) Although their causes of death were not publicly released, foul play was evident and a video found on Liberty German’s cell phone (which was also uploaded to her snapchat account), showed the image of an unidentified man along with the audio of a male voice saying “down the hill”. According to this article the killer's DNA was found at...

A man was arrested and charged last week with the murder of four male acquaintances between the ages of 19 – 22. The man in question, 20 year old Cosmo DiNardo, murdered the four young men and buried them on his family’s farm in Pennsylvania. He told authorities that he lured the victims there under the assumption that he would sell them weed and then proceeded to pick them off one by one and dispose of them. His cousin, Sean M. Kratz, also partook in the killings and was charged for his involvement in the multiple murders. (Sean Kratz, left,...

On the 23rd of September 2007, 20-year-old Matthew Leveson was captured on CCTV leaving the ARQ nightclub in Darlinghurst, Australia, along with his older lover (then 45-year-old) Michael Atkins. (A still from the footage. Source) The surveillance footage would be the last time that anyone would see the 20-year-old alive again. Two days later, after failing to show up to work at the NRMA call center where he was employed, Mathew was officially reported missing. Suspicion naturally fell upon Michael Atkins, who was the last person to be seen in missing Matthew’s company. In later interviews, Leveson’s mother displayed disapproval...