Case Files: True Crime Stories

Rehan Ahmed

Case Files brings you the most shocking true crime stories ever told — serial killers, unsolved murders, cold cases and criminal investigations. Every season covers one complete case, with new episodes published daily. Subscribe for your daily dose of true crime.

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S3 · E3
Today · 10 min
S3 E3: The Utah Years
Ted Bundy came to Utah to start over — law school, church, a quiet rented room. Instead, Utah became the place his mask cracked. A fake police officer in a mall parking lot, a seventeen-year-old who escaped a handcuffed nightmare, the police chief's...
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S3 · E2
Today · 10 min
S3 E2: Lake Sammamish
On the fourteenth of July, nineteen seventy-four, Ted Bundy abducted two young women from a crowded beach in broad daylight — Janice Ott, twenty-three, and Denise Naslund, nineteen. This episode reconstructs that hot Sunday afternoon at Lake Sammamish...
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S3 · E1
Today · 11 min
S3 E1: The Man Behind the Smile
Season 3 opens on the Ted Bundy case — the most infamous name in true crime. This episode peels back the mask: the law student, the crisis-hotline volunteer, the charming boyfriend — and the winter of 1974, when young women began vanishing across...
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S2 · E8
Yesterday · 11 min
S2 E8: Justice, Forty Years Late
After forty years and eighty-seven victims, the Golden State Killer finally faces the people he destroyed. This episode takes you inside the extraordinary sentencing at Sacramento State — three days of survivor statements, a guilty plea to thirteen...
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S2 · E7
Yesterday · 10 min
S2 E7: The Arrest
The manhunt lasted forty-four years. In S2 E7, it ends with a trash bag on a Tuesday morning — investigators watch 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo wheel his bin to the curb in Citrus Heights, and discarded DNA finally names the Golden State Killer....
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S2 · E6
Yesterday · 10 min
S2 E6: The Family Tree
The Golden State Killer hunted California for more than a decade — then vanished for forty years. In S2 E6, investigator Paul Holes and genetic genealogist Barbara Rae-Venter build a family tree from a single DNA sample, tracing distant cousins...
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S2 · E5
Wednesday · 9 min
S2 E5: The Writer Who Named Him
Before Joseph James DeAngelo was caught, one woman hunted him for five years — writer Michelle McNamara, who coined the name "Golden State Killer" and gave forty years of scattered crimes a single identity. Her book I'll Be Gone in the Dark became a...
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S2 · E4
Wednesday · 11 min
S2 E4: The Cold Decades
For thirty-two years, the man behind the Golden State Killer case was a ghost — a DNA profile with no name. This episode traces the cold decades: the 2001 DNA breakthrough that proved the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker were one man,...
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S2 · E3
Wednesday · 10 min
S2 E3: The Original Night Stalker
He stopped leaving survivors. After three years of terror in Sacramento, the East Area Rapist moved south down the California coast and became the Original Night Stalker — the prowler who murdered couples in their beds across Goleta, Ventura, Dana...
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S2 · E2
Tuesday · 11 min
S2 E2: The East Area Rapist
After Visalia, the prowler became a predator. This episode follows the East Area Rapist's reign of terror over Sacramento from 1976 to 1979 — the taunting phone calls, the prowler's meticulous home invasions, the stacked plates, and the more than...
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S2 · E1
Tuesday · 10 min
S2 E1: The Visalia Ransacker
Before the Golden State Killer haunted California, he was a masked prowler terrorizing the farm town of Visalia — stealing coins and personal keepsakes while a young police officer by day became the Ransacker by night. This episode traces the...
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S1 · E8
Tuesday · 11 min
S1 E8: Justice and Reckoning
The Yorkshire Ripper faces justice — the May nineteen eighty one Old Bailey trial, the rejected insanity plea, twenty life sentences, Broadmoor, the whole-life order, and the DNA unmasking of Wearside Jack twenty five years later. The season finale of...
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S1 · E7
Monday · 10 min
S1 E7: The Arrest
The Yorkshire Ripper is caught — not by a detective, but by two traffic cops checking number plates. On the second of January, nineteen eighty one, Peter Sutcliffe is stopped in Sheffield, weapons dumped in the dark beside him. Hear how a fifteen-hour...
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S1 · E6
Monday · 10 min
S1 E6: The Final Victims
By 1979, the Yorkshire Ripper's victim profile had collapsed — no longer just the women the police expected, but a bank clerk crossing a park, a university student leaving a pub, a civil servant strangled on her way home from work. Host Marcus traces...
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S1 · E5
Monday · 11 min
S1 E5: The Hoax
In June 1979, the biggest manhunt in British police history pivoted on a single cassette tape. The voice on it — a slow, mocking Wearside accent calling himself 'Jack' — sent two hundred detectives chasing a ghost in Sunderland while the real...
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S1 · E4
Sunday · 11 min
S1 E4: The Manhunt Goes Wrong
In 1978, the Yorkshire Ripper manhunt became the biggest in British police history — 200 officers, over 130,000 interviews — and still let the killer walk away. Host Marcus follows the 1978 victims Yvonne Pearson, Helen Rytka, and Vera Millward, the...
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S1 · E3
Sunday · 10 min
S1 E3: A City Under Siege
The Yorkshire Ripper's deadliest year so far. In 1977, Peter Sutcliffe murdered three women in four months — Irene Richardson, 28, Patricia Atkinson, 32, and 16-year-old Jayne MacDonald, a schoolgirl walking home from a night out. Her death shattered...
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S1 · E2
Sunday · 9 min
S1 E2: The Pattern Nobody Saw
On the night of January 20, 1976, 42-year-old Emily Jackson gets into a stranger's car outside a Leeds pub — and becomes the Yorkshire Ripper's second murder victim. Host Marcus traces her story, the surviving witnesses of the 1975 hammer attacks that...
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S1 · E1
Saturday · 11 min
S1 E1: The First Victim — Leeds, 1975
Leeds, 1975. A young mother of four is found murdered on a playing field in Chapeltown — and the press gives the killer a name that will haunt Britain for five years: the Yorkshire Ripper. In this first episode of Case Files Season 1, host Marcus...
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