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  1. Casefile Presents: Ada

    · 4:02 · Explicit

    In 2011, the body of a woman was discovered in a California vineyard. The scene was utterly surreal. Disturbing, yet eerily clean. It was unlike anything investigators had encountered before. The killer had seemingly…

  2. Casefile Extra: Chad Shelton & Duane Johnson

    · 1 h 07 min · Episode 429 · Explicit

    *** Content Warning: Crimes against children, animal cruelty, suicide *** In September 1978, 11-month-old Chad Shelton is admitted to a Nebraska hospital with suspected food poisoning. Doctors are baffled when his…

  3. Casefile Revisited: Mr Cruel

    · 1 h 17 min · Episode 428 · Explicit

    *** Content Warning: Child sexual abuse, child abduction, murder of a child *** In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Melbourne was gripped by fear when a masked assailant began breaking into suburban family homes and…

  4. Casefile Extra: Elena Milagro Hoyos

    · 1 h 03 min · Episode 427 · Explicit

    When 20-year-old newlywed Elena Milagro Hoyos was diagnosed with tuberculosis in the spring of 1930, her family took her to the Marine Hospital in Key West, Florida, for treatment. There, they met a German-born…

  5. Case 354: The Gilgo Beach Serial Killings (Part 2/2)

    · 1 h 40 min · Episode 426 · Explicit

    [Part 2 of 2] *** Content warnings: Sexual assault, rape, femicide, child sexual abuse *** For more than a decade, the investigation into the Gilgo Beach serial killings was stalled by corruption and apathy. But in…

  6. Case 354: The Gilgo Beach Serial Killings (Part 1/2)

    · 1 h 53 min · Episode 425 · Explicit

    [Part 1 of 2] *** Content warnings: Sexual assault, rape, femicide *** In the late 2000s, women started going missing after travelling to Long Island, New York. Initially, their disappearances were only noticed by…

  7. Case 353: Jaidyn Leskie

    · 1 h 50 min · Episode 424 · Explicit

    *** Content warnings: Crimes against children *** In July 1997, residents of Moe, Victoria were left reeling after their town was put on the map for all the wrong reasons. A 14-month-old boy named Jaidyn Leskie had…

  8. Case 352: Gregory Smart

    · 1 h 19 min · Episode 423 · Explicit

    New Hampshire couple Pamela and Gregory Smart had only recently married when their lives took a shocking turn. Gregory was murdered in their home in what appeared to be a burglary gone wrong. As Pamela navigated life…

  9. Case 351: Neelma, Kunal & Sidhi Singh

    · 1 h 37 min · Episode 422 · Explicit

    *** Content warnings: Child victim, child sexual assault *** On April 22 2003, Queensland police arrived at a suburban home in Brisbane’s Bridgeman Downs to find a confronting scene. Three siblings, Neelma, Kunal and…

  10. Case 350: Alice Sebold & Tony Broadwater

    · 1 h 20 min · Episode 421 · Explicit

    *** Content warnings: Sexual assault, racism *** After college student Alice Sebold was violently raped in 1981, a 21-year-old man named Tony Broadwater was promptly arrested and subsequently convicted of the crime.…

  11. Case 349: Michael Wallace & David Castor

    · 1 h 19 min · Episode 420 · Explicit

    In 2000, the Wallace family is shattered when patriarch Michael dies of apparent heart disease. Years later, his widow Stacey remarries David Castor. Tragedy strikes again when David is found dead in a pool of his own…

  12. Case 348: Toyah Cordingley

    · 1 h 28 min · Episode 419 · Explicit

    *** Content warnings: Violence against women, femicide *** When 24-year-old Toyah Cordingley went missing while walking her dog, her loved ones quickly launched a search at Wangetti Beach near Cairns, where she was…

  13. Casefile Extra: Maria Cruz

    · 59 min · Episode 418 · Explicit

    When 35-year-old Maria Cruz failed to show up for work on April 14 2003, her colleagues immediately knew something was wrong. A visit to her Manhattan apartment revealed no signs of a struggle and no indication of…

  14. Casefile Revisited: Pamela Lawrence

    · 1 h 24 min · Episode 417 · Explicit

    When Mosman Park jewellery store owner Pamela Lawrence was late to return home from work on May 23 1994, her husband Peter went to check if everything was okay. There, he found Pamela clinging to life with serious head…

  15. Casefile Extra: Greg Fleniken

    · 47 min · Episode 416 · Explicit

    When 55-year-old Greg Fleniken was found dead inside his hotel room in Beaumont, Texas, nothing about the scene appeared suspicious. There were no signs of forced entry, no obvious wounds, and no indication of a…

  16. Case 347: Zahra Baker

    · 1 h 45 min · Episode 415 · Explicit

    *** Content warnings: Child abuse, crimes against children, sexual assault *** When 10-year-old Zahra Baker was reported missing by her father and stepmum in Hickory, North Carolina, one Saturday afternoon in 2010, it…

  17. Case 346: Megumi Yokota

    · 1 h 23 min · Episode 414 · Explicit

    *** Content warnings: Child abduction *** When 13-year-old Megumi Yokota failed to return home from her regular badminton practice on November 15 1977, her parents immediately raised the alarm. The police in Niigata,…

  18. Case 345: The Barking Murders

    · 1 h 38 min · Episode 413 · Explicit

    *** Content warnings: Sexual assault, drug use, suicide, homophobia *** Over a 16-month period between 2014 and 2015, four young men—Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor—each died under…

  19. Case 344: Amerithrax

    · 2 h 00 min · Episode 412 · Explicit

    In the tense weeks following the September 11 terror attacks in 2001, a new and invisible threat emerged across the United States. Letters laced with weaponised anthrax began arriving through the mail, infecting…

  20. Case 343: John Zera

    · 1 h 43 min · Episode 411 · Explicit

    *** Content warnings: Child victims, sexual assault *** On February 28 1976, the suburban community of Hales Corners, Wisconsin, was rocked when the body of missing schoolboy, 14-year-old John Zera, was discovered in…

  21. Case 342: Julia Wallace

    · 1 h 41 min · Episode 410 · Explicit

    When 52-year-old Julia Wallace was found brutally murdered in her Liverpool home in 1931, no one could have anticipated the complex and challenging investigation that would follow, centring on her husband, William, and…

  22. Case 341: The Christchurch Civic Creche

    · 1 h 46 min · Episode 409 · Explicit

    *** Content warning: Child sexual abuse *** Late in 1991, a child said something strange to his mother: ‘I don’t like Peter’s black penis.’ Believing this was an indication that her son was being abused by Peter…

  23. Case 340: Elisabeth Membrey

    · 1 h 34 min · Episode 408 · Explicit

    *** Content warning: Sexual assault *** When 22-year-old aspiring journalist Elisabeth Membrey failed to answer her phone on December 7 1994, her loved ones knew something was wrong. A visit to her Ringwood East unit…

  24. Casefile Revisited: North Hollywood Shootout

    · 1 h 02 min · Episode 407 · Explicit

    *** Content warnings: Gun violence *** When Larry Phillips Junior and Emil Mătăsăreanu entered the North Hollywood branch of the Bank of America on February 28 1997, no one could have predicted the chaos that was…

  25. Casefile Extra: Ben McDaniel

    · 1 h 13 min · Episode 406 · Explicit

    On Friday, August 20 2010, officers from the Holmes County Sheriff's Department were called to Vortex Spring, a commercially operated dive park just outside the Florida town of Ponce de Leon. A 30-year-old scuba diver…

  26. Casefile Revisited: The Frankston Serial Killer

    · 1 h 03 min · Episode 405 · Explicit

    *** Content warnings: serial killer, extreme violence, animal cruelty *** In early 1993, Frankston resident Donna received a series of unnerving prank calls. Afraid of being home alone, she accompanied her boyfriend…

  27. Case 339: Waco (Part 3/3)

    · 1 h 49 min · Episode 404 · Explicit

    [Part 3 of 3] *** Content warning: Gun violence, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, child abuse *** The standoff between the FBI and the Branch Davidians held firm for more than a month, with David Koresh and his…

  28. Case 339: Waco (Part 2/3)

    · 1 h 29 min · Episode 403 · Explicit

    [Part 2 of 3] *** Content warning: Gun violence, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, child abuse *** In 1992, a chance discovery by a UPS delivery driver would lead to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and…

  29. Case 339: Waco (Part 1/3)

    · 1 h 29 min · Episode 402 · Explicit

    [Part 1 of 3] *** Content warning: Gun violence, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, child abuse *** In 1981, a 20-year-old named Vernon Howell drove more than two hours from his hometown in east Texas to visit a…

  30. Case 338: The Folbigg Children (Part 2/2)

    · 1 h 42 min · Episode 401 · Explicit

    [Part 2 of 2] *** Content warning: child victims *** As police looked into the deaths of Caleb, Patrick, Sarah and Laura Folbigg, they were introduced to Meadows Law – the theory that one infant death is a tragedy,…

  31. Case 338: The Folbigg Children (Part 1/2)

    · 1 h 32 min · Episode 400 · Explicit

    [Part 1 of 2] *** Content warning: child victims *** Married couple Craig and Kathleen Folbigg wanted nothing more than to be parents. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, Kathleen gave birth to four children—Caleb,…

  32. Case 337: Test A.rtf (Part 4/4)

    · 1 h 31 min · Episode 399 · Explicit

    [Part 4 of 4] *** Content warning: child victims *** As police closed in on the elusive B.T.K, they received a floppy disk that contained some stunning information – including the name: Dennis... --- Narration –…

  33. Case 337: Test A.rtf (Part 3/4)

    · 1 h 01 min · Episode 398 · Explicit

    [Part 3 of 4] *** Content warning: child victims *** B.T.K resumed his cat-and-mouse game with police, who raced to identify and capture the serial killer before he could strike again… --- Narration – Anonymous…

  34. Case 337: Test A.rtf (Part 2/4)

    · 1 h 11 min · Episode 397 · Explicit

    [Part 2 of 4] *** Content warning: child victims *** After claiming seven victims and terrorising Wichita for nearly three decades, the unidentified killer known as B.T.K. suddenly fell silent. Then, in 2004, a…

  35. Case 337: Test A.rtf (Part 1/4)

    · 1 h 10 min · Episode 396 · Explicit

    [Part 1 of 4] *** Content warning: child victims *** The quiet suburban life of Wichita, Kansas, was shattered in 1974 when four members of the Otero family, Joe, Julie and their two youngest children, Josie and…

  36. Casefile Extra: The Tunstall Family

    · 34 min · Episode 395 · Explicit

    *** Content warnings: Child victims*** On September 15 2006, detectives began investigating the sexual assault of 24-year-old Tiffany Hall from East St. Louis, Illinois. The assault had caused Tiffany to miscarry her…

  37. Casefile Extra: Nicky Fleming

    · 45 min · Episode 394 · Explicit

    *** Content warnings: Crime against a child *** In 1998, the Easter holiday in Victoria, Australia, got off to a tragic beginning when 12-year-old Nicky Fleming was killed in a car accident while travelling to a…

  38. Casefile Revisited: The Eriksson Twins

    · 39 min · Episode 393 · Explicit

    *** Content warnings: Self-harm *** On May 17 2008, Swedish twin sisters Ursula and Sabina Eriksson boarded a bus from Liverpool to London. After a routine road stop, the bus driver noticed the twins were acting…

  39. Casefile Revisited: Lauria Bible & Ashley Freeman

    · 56 min · Episode 392 · Explicit

    *** Content warnings: Child victims *** Oklahoma teenager Ashley Freeman celebrated her sixteenth birthday by inviting her best friend, Lauria Bible, over for a sleepover. It was a pleasant yet uneventful evening,…

  40. Casefile Extra: Mirna Salihin

    · 1 h 25 min · Episode 391 · Explicit

    When school friends Jessica Wongso and Mirna Salihin caught up for coffee in Jakarta’s upscale Olivier Cafe in January 2016, it was supposed to be a friendly get together. Then, moments after taking a sip from her…

  41. Casefile Extra: Tina Herrmann, Kody Maynard & Stephanie Sprang

    · 1 h 08 min · Episode 390 · Explicit

    *** Content warnings: Sexual assault, child sexual assault, arson, animal cruelty *** When 32-year-old Tina Herrmann didn’t show up for work on Wednesday, November 10 2010, her manager immediately alerted the…

  42. Casefile Revisited: The Somerton Man

    · 52 min · Episode 389 · Explicit

    In December 1948, the body of an unidentified male was found on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, South Australia. It initially appeared the man had simply passed away in his sleep, but as police looked into his death, they…

  43. Casefile Revisited: The Wanda Beach Murders

    · 1 h 17 min · Episode 388 · Explicit

    *** Content warnings: child victims, child sexual assault *** On January 11, 1965, 15-year-old Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt spent the day at Cronulla Beach with Marianne's four younger siblings. After…

  44. Searching For Sarah MacDiarmid - Episode 1

    · 1 h 09 min · Explicit

    With Casefile on a short break, we thought this would be a great time to shine a light on some of the shows that may have flown under the radar for many of you. These are shows we've put our hearts into and are really…

  45. The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron - Episode 1

    · 41 min · Explicit

    With Casefile on a short break, we thought this would be a great time to shine a light on some of the shows that may have flown under the radar for many of you. These are shows we've put our hearts into and are really…

  46. The Detective's Dilemma - Episode 1

    · 33 min · Explicit

    With Casefile on a short break, we thought this would be a great time to shine a light on some of the shows that may have flown under the radar for many of you. These are shows we've put our hearts into and are really…

  47. Matty - Episode 1

    · 48 min · Explicit

    With Casefile on a short break, we thought this would be a great time to shine a light on some of the shows that may have flown under the radar for many of you. These are shows we've put our hearts into and are really…

  48. Case 336: Tyler Clementi

    · 1 h 39 min · Episode 387 · Explicit

    When 18-year-old Tyler Clementi began his freshman year at Rutgers University in 2010, he was eager to embrace his newfound independence. Before the semester began, Tyler applied for campus housing and was randomly…

  49. Case 335: Linda Brown

    · 1 h 50 min · Episode 386 · Explicit

    *** Content warnings: Child sexual abuse, grooming, domestic violence *** In the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 19 1985, police were summoned to a shocking scene at an ordinary suburban home in Garden Grove,…

  50. Case 334: Nicole Meyer, Dassi Erlich & Elly Sapper

    · 1 h 14 min · Episode 385 · Explicit

    *** Content warnings: Child sexual abuse, sexual assault, self-harm *** When renowned teacher Malka Leifer joined the staff at Adass Israel School in the Melbourne suburb of Elsternwick, she was welcomed by the entire…

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