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#423
Yesterday · 1 hr 23 min
Case 352: Gregory Smart
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 in the public eye as a newly...
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#422
September 5 · 1 hr 40 min
Case 351: Neelma, Kunal & Sidhi Singh
*** 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 Sidhi Singh, had been killed while...
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#421
August 29 · 1 hr 23 min
Case 350: Alice Sebold & Tony Broadwater
*** 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. Alice later wrote a powerful memoir...
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#420
August 22 · 1 hr 23 min
Case 349: Michael Wallace & David Castor
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 vomit, apparently the result of...
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#419
August 15 · 1 hr 31 min
Case 348: Toyah Cordingley
*** 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 last seen. In the early morning hours...
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#418
August 8 · 1 hr 2 min
Casefile Extra: Maria Cruz
Casefile Extra features bonus episodes exploring compelling cases, stories and topics beyond our regular weekly releases. When 35-year-old Maria Cruz failed to show up for work on April 14 2003, her colleagues immediately knew something was wrong. A...
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#417
August 1 · 1 hr 27 min
Casefile Revisited: Pamela Lawrence
Casefile Revisited features newly re-recorded versions of classic episodes, revisiting the stories with enhanced production, fresh narration, and updated research where possible. When Mosman Park jewellery store owner Pamela Lawrence was late to...
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#416
July 25 · 51 min
Casefile Extra: Greg Fleniken
Casefile Extra features bonus episodes exploring compelling cases, stories and topics beyond our regular weekly releases. When 55-year-old Greg Fleniken was found dead inside his hotel room in Beaumont, Texas, nothing about the scene appeared...
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#415
July 18 · 1 hr 49 min
Case 347: Zahra Baker
*** 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 sparked the largest missing...
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#414
July 11 · 1 hr 26 min
Case 346: Megumi Yokota
*** 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, Japan, conducted one of the city’s...
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#413
July 4 · 1 hr 42 min
Case 345: The Barking Murders
*** 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 unusual circumstances in the East...
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#412
June 27 · 2 hr 3 min
Case 344: Amerithrax
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 ordinary people and spreading fear...
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#411
June 20 · 1 hr 47 min
Case 343: John Zera
*** 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 a local park. The teenager hadn’t...
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#410
June 13 · 1 hr 44 min
Case 342: Julia Wallace
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 a mysterious figure known only...
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#409
June 6 · 1 hr 50 min
Case 341: The Christchurch Civic Creche
*** 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 Ellis, a 33-year-old employee at the...
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#408
May 30 · 1 hr 38 min
Case 340: Elisabeth Membrey
*** 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 confirmed their suspicions when...
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#407
May 23 · 1 hr 6 min
Casefile Revisited: North Hollywood Shootout
Casefile Revisited features newly re-recorded versions of classic episodes, revisiting the stories with enhanced production, fresh narration, and updated research where possible. *** Content warnings: Gun violence ***When Larry Phillips Junior and...
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#406
May 16 · 1 hr 17 min
Casefile Extra: Ben McDaniel
Casefile Extra features bonus episodes exploring compelling cases, stories and topics beyond our regular weekly releases. On Friday, August 20 2010, officers from the Holmes County Sheriff's Department were called to Vortex Spring, a commercially...
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#405
May 9 · 1 hr 7 min
Casefile Revisited: The Frankston Serial Killer
Casefile Revisited features newly re-recorded versions of classic episodes, revisiting the stories with enhanced production, fresh narration, and updated research where possible. *** Content warnings: serial killer, extreme violence, animal cruelty...
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#404
May 2 · 1 hr 52 min
Case 339: Waco (Part 3/3)
[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 followers refusing to surrender. After...
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