Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Message to Casefile Listeners (End of 2025 Season)
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you to each of you for listening and supporting the show for all these years. Have a happ...
Case 336: Tyler Clementi
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When 18-year-old Tyler Clementi began his freshman year at Rutgers University in 2010, he was eager ...
Case 335: Linda Brown
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Child sexual abuse, grooming, domestic violence ***In the early morn...
Case 334: Nicole Meyer, Dassi Erlich & Elly Sapper
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When renowned teacher Malka Leifer joined the staff at Adass Israel School in the Melbourne suburb o...
Case 333: Dianne Babcock
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the evening of Sunday, August 22 1982, a Cessna C150 disappeared during a flight to Vancouver, Ca...
Case 332: Bruce Miller
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In November 1999, Bruce Miller, a scrapyard owner in Michigan, was found murdered in what looked lik...
Case 331: Girl Meat Hunter
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2010, a user known as Girl Meat Hunter joined The Fetish Network, a website where people wit...
Case 330: David Birkett
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Animal cruelty ***After respected dermatologist Dr David Birkett was...
Casefile Presents: Suing Diddy
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the past three years, Jack Laurence has gone behind the bars of America’s toughest prisons, he...
Case 329: Roseanne Beckett
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Domestic violence, child sexual abuse, sexual assault, animal cruelty***I...
Case 328: Kirsty Jones
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Sexual assault ***23-year-old Welsh backpacker Kirsty Jones had her ...
Case 327: Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Gun violence ***Early on the morning of Sunday, May 10 2009, corpora...
Case 326: Cooper Harris
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Child victim ***When doting mother Leanna Harris arrived to pick up ...
Case 325: The Gilham Family
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
23-year-old Jeff Gilham showed up on his neighbours’ doorstep in the early morning hours of August...
Case 324: Khalil Rayyan
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Terrorism, gun violence ***In late 2015, a young pizza delivery man ...
Case 323: The GPO Girl
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, child abuse, child sexual abuse ***On Thursday, Octo...
Casefile Presents: Julie's Gone
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Ann Garciacelay was not quite 20 when she vanished from her inner-city apa...
Case 322: William Tyrrell (Part 2)
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
[Part 2 of 2] *** Content Warning: child victims, child sexual assault, child abuse***As t...
Case 322: William Tyrrell (Part 1)
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
[Part 1 of 2]*** Content Warning: child victims, child sexual assault ***It was a pea...
Troubled Waters - Episode 1
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Casefile on a short break, we thought this would be a great time to shine a light on some of th...
The Frankston Murders - Episode 1
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Casefile on a short break, we thought this would be a great time to shine a light on some of th...
The Bakersfield Three - Episode 1
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Casefile on a short break, we thought this would be a great time to shine a light on some of th...
Missing Niamh - Episode 1
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Casefile on a short break, we thought this would be a great time to shine a light on some of th...
Case 321: Vincent Viafore
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When 46-year-old Vincent Viafore disappeared while kayaking on the Hudson River with his fiancée, 3...
Case 320: Veronica Abouchuk & Kathleen Henry
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In late September 2019, a woman reported that she had discovered evidence of a brutal crime. A disca...
Case 319: Theresa Feury
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: child abuse, sexual assault, child victims, stalking ***In Paterson,...
Case 318: Tay Chow Lyang & Tony Tan Poh Chuan
10 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On September 15 2003, Singaporean student Ram Tiwary awoke in his Sydney apartment to find his two f...
Case 317: Thomas Perez
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When 71-year-old Thomas Perez Senior failed to return home after a short walk to his mailbox in Font...
Case 316: Gilbert Bogle & Margaret Chandler
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When the bodies of Doctor Gilbert Bogle and Margaret Chandler were found along the banks of Sydney’...
Case 315: Operation Cacam
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
*** Content warnings: child victims, child abuse, child sexual assault, child exploitation ***In 201...
Introducing Aftermath: Hunt for The Anthrax Killer
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Episode 1: Isolated Incident. Right after 9/11, the FBI scrambles to stop a second-wave attack using...
Case 314: Yarmila Falater
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On a January night in 1997, Yarmila Falater was brutally stabbed and drowned in the family’s backy...
Case 313: Keith Hibbins
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, homophobia***On Anzac Day of 1999, life partners Keith Hi...
Case 312: Dustin Wehde
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
*** Content warnings: Sexual assault ***When first responders arrived at the Roberts famil...
Case 311: Russell Hill & Carol Clay
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
*** Content warnings: Gun violence, animal cruelty ***When 74-year-old Russell Hill and 73-year-old ...
Case 310: Kalinka Bamberski
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, child victims ***After 14-year-old Kalinka Bamberski...
Case 309: Lindsay Jellett
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When 41-year-old Lindsay Jellett failed to return home from his evening walk around the Victorian to...
Case 308: Ruth Finley
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
*** Content warnings: Sexual abuse ***In the late 1970s, Wichita secretary Ruth Finley began to...
Case 307: The Night Caller (Part 2)
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
[Part 2 of 2]*** Content Warning: Sexual assault, gun violence, child victims ***By mid-19...
Case 307: The Night Caller (Part 1)
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
[Part 1 of 2]*** Content Warning: Sexual assault, gun violence, child victims ***The city ...
Case 306: Ina & David Steiner
30 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1999, Ina and David Steiner founded an online newsletter called eCommerceBytes. The couple worked...
Case 305: Marshall Street
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Extreme sexual violence, torture, captivity, racism, domestic violence ***When...
Case 304: The Staudte Family
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Self-harm ***When 60-year-old Mark Staudte of Springfield, Missouri, fell ill ...
Case 303: Duncan MacPherson
09 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When 23-year-old Canadian ice hockey player Duncan MacPherson accepted a coaching job in Scotland, h...
Case 302: The De Gruchy Family
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Child victims ***Wayne and Jennifer De Gruchy lived a comfortable life in the ...
Case 301: Michella Welch & Jennifer Bastian
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Child sexual assault, child murder ***In 1986, two pre-teen girls from Tacoma,...
Case 300: Tegan Lane (Part 2)
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content Warning: Child victim ***[Part 2 of 2]When Keli Lane is charged with the murder of her n...
Case 300: Tegan Lane (Part 1)
12 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content Warning: Child victim ***[Part 1 of 2]After 24-year-old Keli Lane gave birth in 1999, sh...
Case 299: Olga Chardymova
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Child victims ***In 2002, 10-year-old Russian girl, Olga Chardymova was allowe...
Case 298: Bonnie Hood
28 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On August 19 1990, the tiny mountain town of Camp Nelson, California was stunned when the owner of t...
Case 297: Bluebelle
21 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Mass murder, suicide ***When the crew of an oil tanker discover a man lost at ...
Case 296: Aaron Bacon
14 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Child abuse, sexual assault ***On an early morning in March 1994, two strange ...
Case 295: Nadia Kajouji & Mark Drybrough
07 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Suicide, self-harm, pregnancy loss ***When retired schoolteacher Celia Blay st...
Case 294: Ray & Jennie Kehlet
31 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When married couple Ray and Jennie Kehlet went on a prospecting trip to the Western Australian outba...
Case 293: Jamie Faith (Part 2)
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
[Part 2 of 2]After arresting Darrin Lopez for the murder of Jamie Faith, detectives were confident t...
Case 293: Jamie Faith (Part 1)
17 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
[Part 1 of 2]Married couple Jamie and Jennifer Faith lived a comfortable and happy life together in ...
Case 292: Monster of the Andes
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Child abuse, child victims, sexual assault ***In the late 1970s, young girls a...
Case 291: David Pauley, Ralph Geiger & Timothy Kern
06 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In October of 2011, an advertisement was posted on the website Craigslist. It read: Wanted: Caretake...
Case 290: The Crawford Family
29 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
** Content warnings: Child victims ***When a Holden belonging to Glenroy man Elmer Crawford was foun...
Case 289: Stephen & Carol Baxter
22 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Mersea Island couple Stephen and Carol Baxter were found dead in their favourite recliner chair...
Case 288: Mark Van Dongen
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Domestic violence, suicide ***Dutch national Mark van Dongen met South African...
Case 287: Half & Susanne Zantop
08 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Half and Susanne Zantop were found brutally stabbed to death in their Etna, New Hampshire home,...
Case 286: The Survivors' Network
01 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After two planes struck New York City’s World Trade Center on September 11 2001, Tania Head was on...
Case 285: Louise Ellis
25 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Domestic violence ***When freelance writer Louise Ellis disappeared after leav...
Case 284: Widden Hill Farm
18 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Animal cruelty, gun violence ***43-year-old Graham Backhouse lived a peaceful ...
Case 283: Kris Kremers & Lisanne Froon
11 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Dutch friends Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon set out for a six-week adventure in Panama in 2014...
Case 282: April Tinsley
04 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Child victim, sexual assault ***In 2004, several young girls around Fort Wayne...
Case 281: Bibaa Henry & Nicole Smallman
27 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Racial violence, sexual assault ***In June of 2020, London social worker Bibaa...
Case 280: The Stockton Arsonist
20 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Animal cruelty ***On a hot summer’s day in 1989, a father and son travelling...
Case 279: Zebb Quinn
13 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In early January 2000, residents of Asheville, North Carolina were told to be on the lookout for 18-...
Case 278: Alma Tirtschke (Part 2)
06 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Child victim, sexual assault ***[Part 2 of 2]Colin Ross maintained his innocen...
Case 278: Alma Tirtschke (Part 1)
30 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Child victim, sexual assault ***[Part 1 of 2]When 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke f...
Case 277: Linda Slaten
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, domestic violence ***Jeff and Tim Slaten woke on the morning o...
Case 276: Claire Acocks & Margaret Penny
16 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
May 3 1991, was a typical Friday for 58-year-old Margaret Penny. In the afternoon, she visited the O...
Case 275: Michelle Hadley
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking ***When Angela Connell met Ian Dia...
Case 274: Benjamin Amato
02 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Child victim ***On November 16 2001, two state troopers from the Pennsylvania S...
Case 273: The Beast of Mława
24 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Child victims, serial rapist, stalking ***When the Koneva family fled to Englan...
Case 272: The Annecy Shootings
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On September 5 2012, a cyclist driving through the French Alps came upon a shocking scene. Married c...
Case 271: Bonnie Clarke
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Child victim, child sexual assault, sexual assault/rape ***When six-year-old Bo...
Case 270: Meredith Kercher
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Sexual assault ***For 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher, spending a ...
Case 269: Caroline Crouch
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Animal cruelty ***In May 2021, residents of the affluent Athens suburb of Glyka...
Case 268: Colleen Stan (Part 2)
25 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Extreme sexual violence, captivity ***[Part 2 of 2]As the years of abuse, tortu...
Case 268: Colleen Stan (Part 1)
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Extreme sexual violence, captivity ***[Part 1 of 2]When Colleen Stan’s family...
Case 267: Brian Barrett
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the spring of 2005, two 18-year-olds met in an online chat room and immediately hit it off. Jessi...
Case 266: Circleville Letter Writer
04 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In March 1977, school bus driver Mary Gillespie started receiving threatening letters delivered to h...
Case 265: Marea Yann
28 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For Marea Yann, two things mattered most in life - family and community. When the 69-year-old was fo...
Case 264: Andrew Gosden
21 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Child victim, child abuse, suicide, grooming ***When 14-year-old Andrew Gosden ...
Case 263: Kim Barry
14 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Brian and Beverly Barry returned from a weekend away to discover their 19-year-old daughter Kim...
Case 262: Samia Shahid
07 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Domestic violence, sexual assault ***In Pakistani culture, arranged marriages a...
Case 261: Shari Smith & Debra May Helmick (Part 2)
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Sexual assault ***[Part 2 of 2]When nine-year-old Debra May Helmick was abducte...
Case 261: Shari Smith & Debra May Helmick (Part 1)
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Sexual assault ***[Part 1 of 2]When 17-year-old Shari Smith disappeared from th...
Case 260: The Alpine Manor Murders
16 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Elder abuse ***The Director of Nursing at the Alpine Manor Nursing Home in Gran...
Case 259: Jamie Lavis
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Child victim, child sexual abuse ***When eight-year-old Jamie Lavis failed to r...
Case 258: Kay Mortensen
02 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On November 16 2009, a 911 call was placed to the Utah County Sheriff’s Department by 34-year-old ...
Case 257: Joe Gliniewicz
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a routine check on suspicious activity turns to tragedy for Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gli...
Case 256: Jill Rosenthal
19 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Crimes against children, child abuse, domestic abuse, alcoholism ***On April 27...
Case 255: Rudolf Rupp
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When 52-year-old German farmer Rudolf Rupp failed to return home from a night out drinking in the to...
Case 254: Winsie Hau
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: child victim ***On the afternoon of January 14, 2012, 15-year-old Winsie Hau wa...
Case 253: Aarushi Talwar & Hemraj Banjade
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: child victim, sexual assault ***When Rajesh and Nupur Talwar went to wake their...
Case 252: Margaret Maher, Mersina Halvagis & Nicole Patterson
24 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: serial rapist and killer, sexual assault, stalking ***When Melbourne women Marg...