Casefile True Crime

Searching For Sarah MacDiarmid - Episode 1

27 Dec 2025

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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 ma...

The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron - Episode 1

13 Dec 2025

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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 ma...

The Detective's Dilemma - Episode 1

29 Nov 2025

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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 ma...

Matty - Episode 1

15 Nov 2025

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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 ma...

Writers Needed (Casefile Job Ad)

12 Nov 2025

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If you have experience in true crime, documentary or narrative non-fiction, and you can demonstrate strong research and writing skills, we’d love to...

Message to Casefile Listeners (End of 2025 Season)

08 Nov 2025

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Thank you to each of you for listening and supporting the show for all these years. Have a happy and healthy holiday season. Casefile will return...

Case 336: Tyler Clementi

01 Nov 2025

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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 s...

Case 335: Linda Brown

25 Oct 2025

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*** Content warnings: Child sexual abuse, grooming, domestic violence ***In the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 19 1985, police were s...

Case 334: Nicole Meyer, Dassi Erlich & Elly Sapper

18 Oct 2025

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When renowned teacher Malka Leifer joined the staff at Adass Israel School in the Melbourne suburb of Elsternwick, she was welcomed by the entire comm...

Case 333: Dianne Babcock

11 Oct 2025

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On the evening of Sunday, August 22 1982, a Cessna C150 disappeared during a flight to Vancouver, Canada. On board were 19-year-old pilot Jerry Ambroz...

Case 332: Bruce Miller

04 Oct 2025

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In November 1999, Bruce Miller, a scrapyard owner in Michigan, was found murdered in what looked like a robbery gone wrong. After three months with no...

Case 331: Girl Meat Hunter

27 Sep 2025

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In 2010, a user known as Girl Meat Hunter joined The Fetish Network, a website where people with extreme sexual fetishes could connect and intera...

Case 330: David Birkett

20 Sep 2025

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*** Content warnings: Animal cruelty ***After respected dermatologist Dr David Birkett was found bludgeoned to death in his Middlesbrough ho...

Casefile Presents: Suing Diddy

18 Sep 2025

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For the past three years, Jack Laurence has gone behind the bars of America’s toughest prisons, hearing the stories of robbery, arson, murder, and e...

Case 329: Roseanne Beckett

13 Sep 2025

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*** Content warnings: Domestic violence, child sexual abuse, sexual assault, animal cruelty***In mid-1989, in the small New South Wales Town of T...

Case 328: Kirsty Jones

06 Sep 2025

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*** Content warnings: Sexual assault ***23-year-old Welsh backpacker Kirsty Jones had her whole life ahead of her when she set out for a two...

Case 327: Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano

30 Aug 2025

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*** Content warnings: Gun violence ***Early on the morning of Sunday, May 10 2009, corporate attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano left home to...

Case 326: Cooper Harris

23 Aug 2025

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*** Content warnings: Child victim ***When doting mother Leanna Harris arrived to pick up her 22-month-old son Cooper Harris from daycare in...

Case 325: The Gilham Family

16 Aug 2025

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23-year-old Jeff Gilham showed up on his neighbours’ doorstep in the early morning hours of August 28 1993, with a shocking claim. His older brother...

Case 324: Khalil Rayyan

09 Aug 2025

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*** Content warnings: Terrorism, gun violence ***In late 2015, a young pizza delivery man named Khalil Abu Rayyan from Dearborn Heights, Mic...

Case 323: The GPO Girl

02 Aug 2025

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*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, child abuse, child sexual abuse ***On Thursday, October 10 2013, passersby noticed a distraught-lookin...

Casefile Presents: Julie's Gone

30 Jul 2025

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Julie Ann Garciacelay was not quite 20 when she vanished from her inner-city apartment in Melbourne 50 years ago.Three men who&nbs...

Case 322: William Tyrrell (Part 2)

26 Jul 2025

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[Part 2 of 2] *** Content Warning: child victims, child sexual assault, child abuse***As the search into the disappearance of three-year-old...

Case 322: William Tyrrell (Part 1)

19 Jul 2025

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[Part 1 of 2]*** Content Warning: child victims, child sexual assault ***It was a peaceful morning on Friday, September 12 2014, as thr...

Troubled Waters - Episode 1

05 Jul 2025

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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 ma...

The Frankston Murders - Episode 1

28 Jun 2025

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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 ma...

The Bakersfield Three - Episode 1

21 Jun 2025

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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 ma...

Missing Niamh - Episode 1

18 Jun 2025

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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 ma...

Case 321: Vincent Viafore

31 May 2025

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When 46-year-old Vincent Viafore disappeared while kayaking on the Hudson River with his fiancée, 35-year-old Angelika Graswald, it was initially bel...

Case 320: Veronica Abouchuk & Kathleen Henry

24 May 2025

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In late September 2019, a woman reported that she had discovered evidence of a brutal crime. A discarded memory card she’d found on a street in Down...

Case 319: Theresa Feury

17 May 2025

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*** Content warnings: child abuse, sexual assault, child victims, stalking ***In Paterson, New Jersey, during the early 1980s, Marie Moore w...

Case 318: Tay Chow Lyang & Tony Tan Poh Chuan

10 May 2025

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On September 15 2003, Singaporean student Ram Tiwary awoke in his Sydney apartment to find his two flatmates, Tony Tan Poh Chuan and Tay Chow Lyang, h...

Case 317: Thomas Perez

03 May 2025

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When 71-year-old Thomas Perez Senior failed to return home after a short walk to his mailbox in Fontana, California, his son Tom wasn’t overly conce...

Case 316: Gilbert Bogle & Margaret Chandler

26 Apr 2025

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When the bodies of Doctor Gilbert Bogle and Margaret Chandler were found along the banks of Sydney’s Lane Cove River on New Year’s Day 1963, scand...

Case 315: Operation Cacam

19 Apr 2025

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*** Content warnings: child victims, child abuse, child sexual assault, child exploitation ***In 2013, a forum appeared on the dark web called Hurt2th...

Introducing Aftermath: Hunt for The Anthrax Killer

17 Apr 2025

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Episode 1: Isolated Incident. Right after 9/11, the FBI scrambles to stop a second-wave attack using a deadly toxin. When a Florida photo editor is po...

Case 314: Yarmila Falater

12 Apr 2025

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On a January night in 1997, Yarmila Falater was brutally stabbed and drowned in the family’s backyard pool. Her husband, Scott Falater, was caught r...

Case 313: Keith Hibbins

05 Apr 2025

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*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, homophobia***On Anzac Day of 1999, life partners Keith Hibbins and David Campbell were walking through the ...

Case 312: Dustin Wehde

29 Mar 2025

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*** Content warnings: Sexual assault ***When first responders arrived at the Roberts family home in the small town of Early, Iowa, on Decemb...

Case 311: Russell Hill & Carol Clay

22 Mar 2025

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*** Content warnings: Gun violence, animal cruelty ***When 74-year-old Russell Hill and 73-year-old Carol Clay vanished while camping in Victoria’s ...

Case 310: Kalinka Bamberski

15 Mar 2025

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*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, child victims ***After 14-year-old Kalinka Bamberski is found dead in her own bed in the German town o...

Case 309: Lindsay Jellett

08 Mar 2025

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When 41-year-old Lindsay Jellett failed to return home from his evening walk around the Victorian town of Ararat in May 1994, staff at his residential...

Case 308: Ruth Finley

01 Mar 2025

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*** Content warnings: Sexual abuse ***In the late 1970s, Wichita secretary Ruth Finley began to receive cryptic letters and chilling threats from...

Case 307: The Night Caller (Part 2)

22 Feb 2025

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[Part 2 of 2]*** Content Warning: Sexual assault, gun violence, child victims ***By mid-1963, The Night Caller’s reign of terror had alter...

Case 307: The Night Caller (Part 1)

15 Feb 2025

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[Part 1 of 2]*** Content Warning: Sexual assault, gun violence, child victims ***The city of Perth in Western Australia is sometimes describ...

Case 306: Ina & David Steiner

30 Nov 2024

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In 1999, Ina and David Steiner founded an online newsletter called eCommerceBytes. The couple worked hard to establish themselves as knowledgeable, tr...

Case 305: Marshall Street

23 Nov 2024

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*** Content warnings: Extreme sexual violence, torture, captivity, racism, domestic violence ***When 25-year-old Josefina Rivera accepted a ride with ...

Case 304: The Staudte Family

16 Nov 2024

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*** Content warnings: Self-harm ***When 60-year-old Mark Staudte of Springfield, Missouri, fell ill in early April of 2012, he suspected he just had a...

Case 303: Duncan MacPherson

09 Nov 2024

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When 23-year-old Canadian ice hockey player Duncan MacPherson accepted a coaching job in Scotland, he was ready for his next adventure. But when Dunca...

Case 302: The De Gruchy Family

02 Nov 2024

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*** Content warnings: Child victims ***Wayne and Jennifer De Gruchy lived a comfortable life in the New South Wales suburb of Albion Park Rail with th...

Case 301: Michella Welch & Jennifer Bastian

26 Oct 2024

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*** Content warnings: Child sexual assault, child murder ***In 1986, two pre-teen girls from Tacoma, Washington, were abducted and murdered mere month...

Case 300: Tegan Lane (Part 2)

19 Oct 2024

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*** Content Warning: Child victim ***[Part 2 of 2]When Keli Lane is charged with the murder of her newborn baby Tegan in 2009, the circumstantial case...

Case 300: Tegan Lane (Part 1)

12 Oct 2024

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*** Content Warning: Child victim ***[Part 1 of 2]After 24-year-old Keli Lane gave birth in 1999, she began the process of placing her newborn son for...

Case 299: Olga Chardymova

05 Oct 2024

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*** Content warnings: Child victims ***In 2002, 10-year-old Russian girl, Olga Chardymova was allowed to walk to her grandmother’s house unaccompani...

Case 298: Bonnie Hood

28 Sep 2024

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On August 19 1990, the tiny mountain town of Camp Nelson, California was stunned when the owner of the Camp Nelson Lodge, Bonnie Hood, was found shot ...

Case 297: Bluebelle

21 Sep 2024

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*** Content warnings: Mass murder, suicide ***When the crew of an oil tanker discover a man lost at sea on November 13 1961, he tells them a harrowing...

Case 296: Aaron Bacon

14 Sep 2024

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*** Content warnings: Child abuse, sexual assault ***On an early morning in March 1994, two strange men entered 16-year-old Aaron Bacon’s bedroom an...

Case 295: Nadia Kajouji & Mark Drybrough

07 Sep 2024

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*** Content warnings: Suicide, self-harm, pregnancy loss ***When retired schoolteacher Celia Blay stumbled across an online forum where suicidal indiv...

Case 294: Ray & Jennie Kehlet

31 Aug 2024

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When married couple Ray and Jennie Kehlet went on a prospecting trip to the Western Australian outback in March 2015, they had one thing on their mind...

Case 293: Jamie Faith (Part 2)

24 Aug 2024

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[Part 2 of 2]After arresting Darrin Lopez for the murder of Jamie Faith, detectives were confident they had solved the case – but the biggest revela...

Case 293: Jamie Faith (Part 1)

17 Aug 2024

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[Part 1 of 2]Married couple Jamie and Jennifer Faith lived a comfortable and happy life together in Oak Cliff, Texas. That all changed on the morning ...

Case 292: Monster of the Andes

13 Jul 2024

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*** Content warnings: Child abuse, child victims, sexual assault ***In the late 1970s, young girls along the Andes mountain range in Ecuador began to ...

Case 291: David Pauley, Ralph Geiger & Timothy Kern

06 Jul 2024

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In October of 2011, an advertisement was posted on the website Craigslist. It read: Wanted: Caretaker For Farm. Simply watch over a 688 acre patch of ...

Case 290: The Crawford Family

29 Jun 2024

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** Content warnings: Child victims ***When a Holden belonging to Glenroy man Elmer Crawford was found at the bottom of the Loch Ard Gorge in July 1970...

Case 289: Stephen & Carol Baxter

22 Jun 2024

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When Mersea Island couple Stephen and Carol Baxter were found dead in their favourite recliner chairs in April 2023, there were no visible injuries or...

Case 288: Mark Van Dongen

15 Jun 2024

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*** Content warnings: Domestic violence, suicide ***Dutch national Mark van Dongen met South African Berlinah Wallace in 2010 in Bristol, England. Aft...

Case 287: Half & Susanne Zantop

08 Jun 2024

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When Half and Susanne Zantop were found brutally stabbed to death in their Etna, New Hampshire home, friends, colleagues and investigators were all at...

Case 286: The Survivors' Network

01 Jun 2024

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After two planes struck New York City’s World Trade Center on September 11 2001, Tania Head was one of the lucky few who managed to escape from abov...

Case 285: Louise Ellis

25 May 2024

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*** Content warnings: Domestic violence ***When freelance writer Louise Ellis disappeared after leaving her Ottawa home on April 22 1995, the person l...

Case 284: Widden Hill Farm

18 May 2024

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*** Content warnings: Animal cruelty, gun violence ***43-year-old Graham Backhouse lived a peaceful life with his wife and children on Widden Hill Far...

Case 283: Kris Kremers & Lisanne Froon

11 May 2024

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When Dutch friends Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon set out for a six-week adventure in Panama in 2014, they were ready for the trip of a lifetime. But ...

Case 282: April Tinsley

04 May 2024

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*** Content warnings: Child victim, sexual assault ***In 2004, several young girls around Fort Wayne, Indiana received handwritten letters threatening...

Case 281: Bibaa Henry & Nicole Smallman

27 Apr 2024

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*** Content warnings: Racial violence, sexual assault ***In June of 2020, London social worker Bibaa Henry decided to celebrate her 46th birthday with...

Case 280: The Stockton Arsonist

20 Apr 2024

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*** Content warnings: Animal cruelty ***On a hot summer’s day in 1989, a father and son travelling through Stockton, California, discover a VHS tape...

Case 279: Zebb Quinn

13 Apr 2024

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In early January 2000, residents of Asheville, North Carolina were told to be on the lookout for 18-year-old Zebb Quinn after he failed to return home...

Case 278: Alma Tirtschke (Part 2)

06 Apr 2024

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*** Content warnings: Child victim, sexual assault ***[Part 2 of 2]Colin Ross maintained his innocence for the murder of Alma Tirtschke right up until...

Case 278: Alma Tirtschke (Part 1)

30 Mar 2024

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*** Content warnings: Child victim, sexual assault ***[Part 1 of 2]When 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke failed to return home after running an errand for h...

Case 277: Linda Slaten

23 Mar 2024

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*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, domestic violence ***Jeff and Tim Slaten woke on the morning of Friday, September 4 1981, to find their home tee...

Case 276: Claire Acocks & Margaret Penny

16 Mar 2024

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May 3 1991, was a typical Friday for 58-year-old Margaret Penny. In the afternoon, she visited the Old London Coiffure in the heart of Portland, Victo...

Case 275: Michelle Hadley

09 Mar 2024

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*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking ***When Angela Connell met Ian Diaz, the pair began a whirlwind romance that quickly...

Case 274: Benjamin Amato

02 Mar 2024

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*** Content warning: Child victim ***On November 16 2001, two state troopers from the Pennsylvania State Police arrived to conduct a welfare check at ...

Case 273: The Beast of Mława

24 Feb 2024

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*** Content warning: Child victims, serial rapist, stalking ***When the Koneva family fled to England to escape the war-torn Balkans, their hopes for ...

Case 272: The Annecy Shootings

17 Feb 2024

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On September 5 2012, a cyclist driving through the French Alps came upon a shocking scene. Married couple Saad and Iqbal al-Hilli, along with Iqbal’...

Case 271: Bonnie Clarke

10 Feb 2024

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*** Content warning: Child victim, child sexual assault, sexual assault/rape ***When six-year-old Bonnie Clarke is murdered in her bed in the middle o...

Case 270: Meredith Kercher

03 Feb 2024

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*** Content warning: Sexual assault ***For 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher, spending a year studying in Italy was a dream come true. But ...

Case 269: Caroline Crouch

02 Dec 2023

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*** Content warning: Animal cruelty ***In May 2021, residents of the affluent Athens suburb of Glyka Nera were left shaken by news of a violent home i...

Case 268: Colleen Stan (Part 2)

25 Nov 2023

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*** Content warning: Extreme sexual violence, captivity ***[Part 2 of 2]As the years of abuse, torture and confinement to the bed box continued for Co...

Case 268: Colleen Stan (Part 1)

18 Nov 2023

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*** Content warning: Extreme sexual violence, captivity ***[Part 1 of 2]When Colleen Stan’s family received an unexpected phone call from Colleen in...

Case 267: Brian Barrett

11 Nov 2023

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In the spring of 2005, two 18-year-olds met in an online chat room and immediately hit it off. Jessi went by the username TalHotBlond, while her new f...

Case 266: Circleville Letter Writer

04 Nov 2023

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In March 1977, school bus driver Mary Gillespie started receiving threatening letters delivered to her home in Circleville, Ohio. It wasn’t long bef...

Case 265: Marea Yann

28 Oct 2023

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For Marea Yann, two things mattered most in life - family and community. When the 69-year-old was found violently bludgeoned to death in her Healesvil...

Case 264: Andrew Gosden

21 Oct 2023

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*** Content warning: Child victim, child abuse, suicide, grooming ***When 14-year-old Andrew Gosden mysteriously disappeared from his home in the UK s...

Case 263: Kim Barry

14 Oct 2023

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When Brian and Beverly Barry returned from a weekend away to discover their 19-year-old daughter Kim was gone, they initially assumed she was out with...

Case 262: Samia Shahid

07 Oct 2023

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*** Content warning: Domestic violence, sexual assault ***In Pakistani culture, arranged marriages are common.  So when the parents of Samia Shahid c...

Case 261: Shari Smith & Debra May Helmick (Part 2)

30 Sep 2023

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*** Content warning: Sexual assault ***[Part 2 of 2]When nine-year-old Debra May Helmick was abducted from the front of her family’s trailer in Rich...

Case 261: Shari Smith & Debra May Helmick (Part 1)

22 Sep 2023

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*** Content warning: Sexual assault ***[Part 1 of 2]When 17-year-old Shari Smith disappeared from the end of her family's driveway in Lexington, South...

Case 260: The Alpine Manor Murders

16 Sep 2023

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*** Content warning: Elder abuse ***The Director of Nursing at the Alpine Manor Nursing Home in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was thrilled when Catherine Wo...

Case 259: Jamie Lavis

09 Sep 2023

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*** Content warning: Child victim, child sexual abuse ***When eight-year-old Jamie Lavis failed to return home on Monday, May 5 1997, his family quick...

Case 258: Kay Mortensen

02 Sep 2023

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On November 16 2009, a 911 call was placed to the Utah County Sheriff’s Department by 34-year-old Pamela Mortensen. According to Pamela, her father-...

Case 257: Joe Gliniewicz

26 Aug 2023

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After a routine check on suspicious activity turns to tragedy for Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz, Fox Lake locals struggle to come to grips...