Casefile True Crime
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Case 256: Jill Rosenthal
19 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Crimes against children, child abuse, domestic abuse, alcoholism ***On April 27 1964, young mother Dora Fronczak was in her hospi...
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 town of Neuburg an der Donau, several questions were...
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 was attacked with a knife by a 14-year-old boy. Wins...
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 13-year-old daughter Aarushi on the morning of Fr...
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 Margaret Maher, Mersina Halvagis and Nicole Patterson ...
Case 251: The Caldwell Farmhouse Murders
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Child victim, animal cruelty ***When single mother Nadja Medley met an older man named Mike Bullinger, she finally found happines...
Case 250: Amy Boyer
10 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Mental illness, stalking, gun violence ***Amy Boyer was a popular teen in her hometown of Nashua, New Hampshire. Her life was bus...
Case 249: Lorraine Wilson & Wendy Evans
03 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Sexual assault ***When trainee nurses Lorraine Wilson and Wendy Evans failed to return to work in Sydney after a holiday around A...
Case 248: Abraham Shakespeare
27 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Content warning: Gun violence ***When 41-year-old Abraham Shakespeare won the 30 million dollar Florida Lottery prize, his underprivileged life ch...
Case 247: Nina Puganova, Irina Trasyn & Anastasia Mikhailova
20 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1980, Theodosius Glukharev received a series of harrowing deliveries to his home in Kishinev, Soviet Moldova. The contents ultimately...
Case 246: Grégory Villemin (Part 2)
13 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Part 2 of 2]*** Content Warning: child victim ***After grieving father Jean-Marie Villemin takes revenge for his son’s death into his own hands, th...
Case 246: Grégory Villemin (Part 1)
06 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Part 1 of 2]*** Content Warning: child victim ***The extended Villemin family lived in the Vosges region of north-eastern France. From 1981, several ...
Case 245: Sherri Papini
29 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When married mother of two, Sherri Papini, goes missing near her home in Redding, California, the community is gripped by fear. Suspicion immediately ...
Case 244: Engla Höglund & Pernilla Hellgren
22 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Warning: This case involves a child victim ***On April 5 2008, 10-year-old Engla Höglund went missing while cycling home from soccer practice nea...
Case 243: Deidre Kennedy
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Warning: This case involves a child victim ***On April 14 1973, the Kennedy family awoke in their Ipswich, Queensland unit to discover the unthink...
Case 242: The Investor Murders
08 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Warning: This case involves a child victim ***On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 7 1982, residents of the tiny Alaskan fishing village of Crai...
Case 241: Harry & Nicola Fuller
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On February 10 1993, East Sussex police were summoned to conduct a welfare check at the Wadhurst cottage of newlyweds, Harry and Nicola Fuller. What t...
Case 240: JasonInHell
25 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*** Warning: This case involves a child victim ***By late 2016, Jason and Brandi Worley’s marriage was crumbling. Regardless of what happened betwee...
Case 239: Peggy Carr
18 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When 41-year-old waitress Peggy Carr succumbed to a mysterious illness in October 1988, doctors in Alturas, Florida struggled to figure out what was w...
Case 238: Renae Marsden
11 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
20-year-old Renae Marsden was a bright and bubbly young woman who valued her family above all else. Her mother Teresa Marsden was therefore shocked wh...
Case 237: Rena & Danny Paquette
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In February 1960, the city of Manchester, New Hampshire, was rocked by the violent murder of teenager Sandra Valade. Three years later, another teenag...
Case 236: Sophie Lionnet
25 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When residents of the affluent Southfields area of south-west London notice foul smelling smoke coming from a home on Wimbledon Park Drive in Septembe...
Case 235: House of Horrors (Part 3)
18 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Part 3 of 3]More disturbing secrets are unearthed at 25 Cromwell Street as the investigation into Fred West leads detectives into the remote English ...
Case 235: House of Horrors (Part 2)
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Part 2 of 3]By 1992, Fred and Rose West were raising their children at their Cromwell Street home. At first glance, the Wests appeared to be a model ...
Case 235: House of Horrors (Part 1)
04 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Part 1 of 3]In early 1969, 15-year-old Rose Letts was waiting alone at a bus stop in the English town of Cheltenham when she was approached by a much...
Case 234: Franca Viola
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1963, on the Italian island of Sicily, a wealthy young bachelor named Filippo Melodia began a courtship with a teenager named Franca Viola, much to...
Case 233: Denise Amber Lee
26 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Nathan Lee arrived at his home in North Port, Florida, on January 17 2008, he immediately knew something was wrong. His two young sons were home ...
Case 232: Jo, Michelle & Christe Rogers
19 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For Jo Rogers and her two teenage daughters, Michelle and Christe, a trip to Florida seemed like a dream come true. In May 1989, the trio left their d...
Case 231: Anna-Jane Cheney
12 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1994, 29-year-old Adelaide lawyer Anna-Jane Cheney was looking forward to her dream wedding. But just six weeks before she was due to walk down the...
Case 230: Rubí Frayre & Marisela Escobedo
05 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When 16-year-old Rubí Frayre went missing from the Mexican city of Juarez, police showed little interest. Exasperated, Rubí's mother, Marisela Escob...
Case 229: The Killer Realtor
29 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On November 6 2003, a customer entered the Superbike Motorsports dealership in Chesnee, South Carolina. Nothing could prepare them for the grisly scen...
Case 228: The Harrison Family
22 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In April 2009, 64-year-old Bill Harrison, a much-loved member of the community of Mississauga, Canada, was found dead in his home. An autopsy revealed...
Case 227: Mike Williams
15 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The weekend of December 16 2000 was shaping up to be a good one for Tallahassee man Mike Williams. With a romantic getaway planned to celebrate his si...
Case 226: El Mataviejitas
08 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2003, 12 elderly women were killed in their homes in Mexico City. Most were strangled and robbed. Fears arose that a serial killer was on the loose...
Case 225: Raheel Siddiqui
01 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The United States Marine Corps is known for its tight-knit culture, as solidified in their motto, ‘Semper Fidelis,' which means ‘Always Faithful.’...
Case 224: Evelyn Hartley
24 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When 15-year-old Evelyn Hartley agreed to babysit for the Rasmussen family on the evening of October 24 1953, it sounded like a relatively easy job......
Case 223: The Kuřim Case
17 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
*** Warning: This case involves a child victim ***When Czech Republic man Eduard Trdý inadvertently intercepted the video feed of his neighbour’s s...
Case 222: Karina Holmer
10 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1996, Karina Holmer left her small Swedish village of Skillingaryd to travel to Boston, Massachusetts. The 19-year-old had plans to work as an au p...
Case 221: Frank & Carol Hilley
03 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In May 1975, 45-year-old Frank Hilley began experiencing severe nausea, vomiting and stomach cramps in his home in Anniston, Alabama. He died just ove...
Case 220: Hannah Witheridge & David Miller
27 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When the bodies of British tourists 23-year-old Hannah Witheridge and 24-year-old David Miller were found brutally murdered on the remote Thai island ...
Case 219: Doctor John
20 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr John Schneeberger’s charming and gentle manner made him a popular and trusted figure in the tiny Canadian town of Kipling. So when a young woman ...
Case 218: The Blackout Killers (Part 2)
16 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
[Part 2 of 2]In Berlin, Germany at the height of World War Two, a man took advantage of the Blackout orders at night to frighten and assault women in ...
Case 218: The Blackout Killers (Part 1)
09 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
[Part 1 of 2]At the height of World War Two in London, a serial killer roamed the streets. In just one week in February 1942, he killed four women and...
Case 217: Kathleen Marshall
02 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In March 1998, members of the Cat Protection Society in Brisbane, Australia were shocked at the murder of one of their own, a 52-year-old Veterinarian...
Case 216: The Itzkovitz Family
25 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eliahu Itzkovitz spent much of his childhood confined behind the walls of Romania’s Chișinău Ghetto – a place where he and other Romanian Jews w...
Case 215: The One-Man Crime Wave
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
*** Warning: This case involves a child victim ***On May 26 1978, four-year-old Eric Christgen suddenly disappeared while playing in a park in St Jose...
Case 214: Kevin Hjalmarsson
04 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
*** Warning: This case involves a child victim ***When the body of four-year-old Kevin Hjalmarsson was found floating on a wooden pallet in Sweden’s...
Case 213: The Noordhoek 'Ripper Rapists'
28 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was around 2:30 am on Sunday, December 18 1994, when a group of friends stumbled across the bloody and brutalised body of a young woman, lying in t...
Case 212: The Forgotten Cannibal
21 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On December 21 1924, itinerant beggar, Vincenz Olivier, knocked on the door of an apartment building on the outskirts of Münsterberg in Weimar, Germa...
Case 211: Cari Farver
14 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Omaha mechanic Dave Kroupa met Cari Farver in late 2012, he thought he’d found the perfect woman. Unfortunately, their relationship soon turned...
Case 210: Jayna Murray
07 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On March 11, 2011, two employees of the Lululemon Athletica yoga store in Bethesda, Maryland fell victim to a brutal attack carried out by two masked ...
Case 209: Urban Höglin & Heidi Paakkonen
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Swedish backpackers Urban Höglin and Heidi Paakkonen go missing during a camping trip around New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula, concerns are ...
Case 208: John Chau
23 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018, American missionary John Chau sailed out to North Sentinel, a forested island off the coast of India. He intended to spread the word of God t...
Case 207: Suzanne Armstrong & Susan Bartlett
16 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In early January 1977, residents of Easey Street in Melbourne’s inner-city suburb of Collingwood noticed they hadn’t seen the tenants at number 14...
Case 206: Julio & Candra Torres
09 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday, July 27 1976, 16-year-old Candra Torres and a man named Tom Brown showed up in an Oregon sheriff’s department to report a terrible incid...
Case 205: Bernd Brandes
02 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On March 9 2001, 43-year-old computer engineer Bernd Brandes disappeared from his home in Berlin, Germany. Although his absence was extremely out of c...
Case 204: The Glendale Train Crash
26 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On January 26 2005, 25-year-old Juan Alvarez parked his car on a railway line in Glendale, Los Angeles, causing an explosive train crash that killed a...
Case 203: Bob Chappell
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On January 26 2009, defacto couple Bob Chappell and Sue Neill-Fraser spent the public holiday working on their yacht, The Four Winds, in Tasmania’s ...
Case 202: Moira Anderson
12 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On Saturday, February 23 1957, 11-year-old Moira Anderson set out in a blizzard to run a quick errand. When she failed to return home, locals in her h...
Case 201: Janet Chandler
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When 22-year-old Janet Chandler was abducted while working the night shift at the Blue Mill Inn on January 31 1979, her disappearance appeared to be p...
Case 200: The Zodiac (Part 4)
26 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
[Part 4 of 4]On March 22 1970, 22-year-old Kathleen Johns suffered a terrifying encounter when her car broke down on a California highway. Was it poss...
Case 200: The Zodiac (Part 3)
19 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
[Part 3 of 4]On September 27 1969, friends Cecelia Shepard and Bryan Hartnell were relaxing at Lake Berryessa, California, when their afternoon was su...
Case 200: The Zodiac (Part 2)
12 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
[Part 2 of 4]On December 20 1968, teenagers David Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen were gunned down in the middle of the night on a deserted road in Benic...
Case 200: The Zodiac (Part 1)
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
[Part 1 of 4]During the 1960s, California saw a wave of senseless, unsolved slayings. Cab driver Ray Davis was murdered in cold blood after an anonymo...
Case 199: Truro
04 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During the summer of 1976 and 1977, seven young women mysteriously disappeared from the streets of Adelaide. Veronica Knight, Sylvia Pittman, Julie My...
Case 198: Tami Reay
27 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Kmart employee Tami Reay failed to show up at work in Pierre, South Dakota on the morning of Wednesday, February 8 2006, her co-worker Brian Clar...
Case 197: The Austrian Ripper
20 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1974, a young woman named Margaret Schafer was strangled to death in her hometown of Ewersbach, Germany...---Narration – Anonymous HostResearch &...
Case 196: Boy A
13 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
*** Warning: This case involves a child victim ***In March 1997, residents of Kobe, Japan were horrified when dead and mutilated cats began appearing ...
Case 195: The Costa Mesa Murders
06 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the evening of May 22 2010, Steve Herr drove over to his son Sam’s apartment in Costa Mesa, California. The 26-year-old college student was suppo...
Case 194: Lake Bodom
30 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Saturday, June 4 1960 seemed like the beginning of an idyllic summer break for Finnish teenagers, Nils Gustafsson, Seppo Boisman, Maila Irmeli Björkl...
Case 193: Suesan Knorr & Sheila Sanders
23 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On July 17, 1984, a deceased female was located in a deserted area near Lake Tahoe, California. Investigators were stumped as to her identity or her k...
Case 192: The Sodder Children
16 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On Christmas Eve 1945, while most citizens of the town of Fayetteville, West Virginia celebrated the end of World War Two, Italian immigrants - George...
Case 191: Sheree Beasley
09 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Melbourne psychotherapist Margaret Hobbs was used to dealing with sex offenders. Many of her clients were men who had been referred to her through the...
Case 190: The Butcher Baker (Part 2)
02 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
[Part 2 of 2]In June 1983, Cindy Paulson ran out onto a highway in Anchorage, barefoot and handcuffed. She was the prized prey of a prolific serial ki...
Case 190: The Butcher Baker (Part 1)
25 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
[Part 1 of 2]During the 1970s and ’80s, a predator was stalking the streets of Anchorage, Alaska. By day, he was a respectable family man who ran hi...
Case 189: JoAnne Chambers
18 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When JoAnne Chambers was hired to teach at Coolbaugh Learning Centre in Pennsylvania she arrived with glowing reviews from her former school. So when ...
Case 188: Robert Wone
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On August 2 2006, 32-year-old lawyer Robert Wone knocked off after a long day at his office in Washington DC. To save making the journey home so late ...
Case 187: Peter & Joan Porco
04 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the early hours of Monday, November 15 2004, husband and wife Peter and Joan Porco were savagely attacked with an axe while they slept...---Narrati...
Case 186: The Bowraville Murders
28 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When 16-year-old Colleen Walker suddenly vanished from the New South Wales town of Bowraville in September 1990, her family and friends knew something...
Case 185: Kim Chol
21 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong were offered the chance to star on a prank show that aired on YouTube, the young women thought it was the opportun...
Case 184: Gay Gibson
14 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Early on the morning of October 18 1947, a stewardess working on the ocean liner Durban Castle discovered something strange. The cabin belonging to an...
Case 183: The MacKenzie Family
07 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Karen MacKenzie resided in Greenough with her three children - Daniel, Amara, and Katrina. The 31-year-old single mother had recently gotten together ...
Case 182: Freda Burnell & Florence Little
31 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On February 5 1921, eight-year-old Freda Burnell went missing in the small coal-mining town of Abertillery, Wales. The unusual disappearance reached a...
Case 181: The Vampire of Nuremberg
26 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During the early ’70s, cemeteries and mortuaries throughout Germany were targeted by a particularly disturbing grave robber. Not only did he steal t...
Case 180: Bill Payne & Billie-Jean Hayworth
19 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“This is going to be the stupidest thing you’ve ever heard. This is going to be the craziest thing you’ve ever heard. There is nothing in your l...
Case 179: Christie Marceau
12 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the morning of September 6 2011, Auckland teenager Christie Marceau was woken by a troubling phone call from an acquaintance named Akshay Chand. Th...
Case 178: The Woman Without a Face
05 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Between 1993 and 2009, DNA discovered at 40 crime scenes across Germany, Austria, and France were linked to an unknown woman of eastern European desce...
Case 177: 657 Boulevard
29 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Married couple Derek and Maria Broaddus were house hunting when a property in the affluent neighbourhood of Westfield, New Jersey immediately caught t...
Case 176: Yingying Zhang
22 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On June 9 2017, Yingying Zhang vanished on her way to an appointment in Urbana, Illinois. The Chinese visiting scholar missed her bus and after she fa...
Case 175: Gail & Rick Brink
15 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When newlyweds Gail and Rick Brink failed to show up to their respective jobs on the morning of November 23 1987, the alarm was immediately raised. Th...
Case 174: Vicki Arnold & Julie-Anne Leahy
08 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One cold winter night in 1991, best friends Vicki Arnold and Julie-Anne Leahy vanished from their town of Atherton, Queensland. The two women had left...
Case 173: Rocio Wanninkhof & Sonia Carabantes
24 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When 19-year-old Rocio Wanninkhof failed to return home after a night out with friends, her mother Alicia was immediately worried. The family lived in...
Case 172: Michael Gregsten & Valerie Storie
17 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In August 1961, Michael Gregsten and Valerie Storie were sitting in their car in Dorney Reach, UK when an intruder forced his way into the backseat br...
Case 171: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis
10 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On August 19 1988, two armed offenders entered a branch of the Deutsche Bank in Gladbeck, West Germany with the intention of holding it up. Hans-Jürg...
Case 170: The Caffey Family
27 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On February 29 2008, members of the Caffey Family were sleeping soundly in their Texas home when intruders suddenly stormed in and launched a brutal a...
Case 169: Corinna Mullen
20 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On October 2 1987, a council employee in Central City, Kentucky called police after finding an abandoned, blood-smeared Pontiac outside his workplace....
Case 168: Guðmundur & Geirfinnur Einarsson
13 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In January 1974, 18-year-old Guðmundur Einarsson enjoyed a night out with friends in the town of Hafnarfjordur, Iceland. At the end of the evening, h...
Case 167: Jai, Tyler & Bailey Farquharson
06 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Australia, Father’s Day falls on the first Sunday of September and is typically a time for families to gather together and celebrate. But on Fath...
Case 166: The Family
20 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1979, residents of Adelaide were gripped by fear when several young men began to go missing under mysterious circumstances. 17-year-old Alan Barnes...
Case 165: Nicholas Barclay
13 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1994, 13-year-old Nicholas Barclay disappeared after playing basketball with his friends in his home town of San Antonio, Texas. Years went by with...