The Joan Bernal Case: No Body, No Crime?

🕯️ A Question at the Heart of This Episode

There’s a quiet question that sits at the centre of this week’s episode.

What happens when someone disappears — and never comes back — but there’s no crime scene, no physical proof, and no clear ending?

In true crime, these are known as no-body cases. And they’re some of the most unsettling stories we encounter, not because they’re dramatic, but because they’re incomplete.

No-body cases aren’t about what we can see.
They’re about what stops happening.

Phone calls that never come.
Routines that never resume.
Lives that simply… pause, and never restart.

For a long time, silence is treated as uncertainty. But as years pass, that silence begins to take on a different weight. It stops feeling neutral. It starts to feel deliberate — or interrupted.

This episode explores that shift.

Not with graphic detail or courtroom theatrics, but by sitting with the idea that absence itself can tell a story, if we’re willing to listen long enough.

No-body cases ask us to rethink what “evidence” really means. They challenge our instincts. And they remind us that some truths don’t arrive loudly — they arrive slowly, over time.

That’s all I’ll say for now.

Thank you for being curious.
And thank you for being willing to sit with the unanswered.

You're all amazing, and thank you so much for your fantastic support!

— Your Tale Teller