Established
Details supported by primary records, reliable contemporaneous reporting or multiple consistent sources.
Independent documentary archive
Every storyleaves a case.
YouTube is where Case: Unrested tells the story. This is where you enter the case: the record, the timeline, the sources and the questions that refuse to settle.
Casebook preview · Archive being assembled
01 Source-led
02 Uncertainty labelled
03 Corrections logged
04 People remembered
01 / The archive
Recently investigated
Not a news feed. Not an endless content machine. A considered library of the stories we have already committed to telling—each one built to grow when the record changes.
01
Janet Murgatroyd
A final walk through Preston, a conviction later quashed, and an active appeal thirty years after Janet was killed.
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02
The Ormesher Sisters
Documentary, source record and unresolved questions—collected in one permanent file.
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03
Whittingham
A location with more than one history—and a record that deserves to be kept intact.
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04
Carol Morgan
The story as told on film, supported by a chronology and transparent source trail.
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05
The Widow’s Web
Jennifer Faith, a murder outside a family home, and a private story that became a weapon.
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06
Lancashire After Dark
Cases, local histories and strange accounts connected by place rather than headline.
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02 / The standard
One file. Three states of truth.
A confident documentary should still tell you where confidence ends. Every case file separates what the record establishes from what has only been reported—and from what nobody can yet answer.
Reported
Claims attributed clearly to the person, publication or account that made them—without quietly turning repetition into fact.
Unresolved
Contradictions, missing evidence and open questions preserved honestly, ready to be revisited if something changes.
03 / Geography of the archive
The case atlas
Stories rarely belong to a category as neatly as they belong to a place. The atlas turns the archive into a landscape—revealing connections between cases, institutions, roads and communities.
Documentary case file
Place or institution file
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Archive region / North West Preston Cases + local history Whittingham Place file Blackpool Cases + locations North Wales Extended region Not to scale · Concept view
Archive region / North West Preston Cases + local history Whittingham Place file Blackpool Cases + locations North Wales Extended region Not to scale · Concept view
04 / The research desk
Beyond the final cut
The archive carries the work a video cannot: production notes, source decisions, corrections and meaningful developments—published only when there is something worth adding.
From the field · Editorial note 001
“The aim is not to keep feeding a website. It is to give every finished story somewhere permanent to live.”
The story continues off-platform
Watch the story.Enter the case.
Case: Unrested makes careful documentaries about crimes, mysteries, people and places that still deserve attention. YouTube brings the story to life. The casebook makes sure the work remains searchable, sourced and yours to explore.