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Sat, 12 Apr 2025

On a January night in 1997, Yarmila Falater was brutally stabbed and drowned in the family’s backy...

Sat, 05 Apr 2025

*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, homophobia***On Anzac Day of 1999, life partners Keith Hi...

Sat, 29 Mar 2025

*** Content warnings: Sexual assault ***When first responders arrived at the Roberts famil...

Sat, 22 Mar 2025

*** Content warnings: Gun violence, animal cruelty ***When 74-year-old Russell Hill and 73-year-old ...

Sat, 15 Mar 2025

*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, child victims ***After 14-year-old Kalinka Bamberski...

Sat, 08 Mar 2025

When 41-year-old Lindsay Jellett failed to return home from his evening walk around the Victorian to...

Sat, 01 Mar 2025

In the late 1970s, Wichita secretary Ruth Finley began to receive cryptic letters and chilling threa...

Sat, 22 Feb 2025

[Part 2 of 2]*** Content Warning: Sexual assault, gun violence, child victims ***By mid-19...

Sat, 15 Feb 2025

[Part 1 of 2]*** Content Warning: Sexual assault, gun violence, child victims ***The city ...

Sat, 30 Nov 2024

In 1999, Ina and David Steiner founded an online newsletter called eCommerceBytes. The couple worked...

Sat, 23 Nov 2024

*** Content warnings: Extreme sexual violence, torture, captivity, racism, domestic violence ***When...

Sat, 16 Nov 2024

*** Content warnings: Self-harm ***When 60-year-old Mark Staudte of Springfield, Missouri, fell ill ...

Sat, 09 Nov 2024

When 23-year-old Canadian ice hockey player Duncan MacPherson accepted a coaching job in Scotland, h...

Sat, 02 Nov 2024

*** Content warnings: Child victims ***Wayne and Jennifer De Gruchy lived a comfortable life in the ...

Sat, 26 Oct 2024

*** Content warnings: Child sexual assault, child murder ***In 1986, two pre-teen girls from Tacoma,...

Sat, 19 Oct 2024

*** Content Warning: Child victim ***[Part 2 of 2]When Keli Lane is charged with the murder of her n...

Sat, 12 Oct 2024

*** Content Warning: Child victim ***[Part 1 of 2]After 24-year-old Keli Lane gave birth in 1999, sh...

Sat, 05 Oct 2024

*** Content warnings: Child victims ***In 2002, 10-year-old Russian girl, Olga Chardymova was allowe...

Sat, 28 Sep 2024

On August 19 1990, the tiny mountain town of Camp Nelson, California was stunned when the owner of t...

Sat, 21 Sep 2024

*** Content warnings: Mass murder, suicide ***When the crew of an oil tanker discover a man lost at ...

Sat, 14 Sep 2024

*** Content warnings: Child abuse, sexual assault ***On an early morning in March 1994, two strange ...

Sat, 07 Sep 2024

*** Content warnings: Suicide, self-harm, pregnancy loss ***When retired schoolteacher Celia Blay st...

Sat, 31 Aug 2024

When married couple Ray and Jennie Kehlet went on a prospecting trip to the Western Australian outba...

Sat, 24 Aug 2024

[Part 2 of 2]After arresting Darrin Lopez for the murder of Jamie Faith, detectives were confident t...

Sat, 17 Aug 2024

[Part 1 of 2]Married couple Jamie and Jennifer Faith lived a comfortable and happy life together in ...

Sat, 13 Jul 2024

*** Content warnings: Child abuse, child victims, sexual assault ***In the late 1970s, young girls a...

Sat, 06 Jul 2024

In October of 2011, an advertisement was posted on the website Craigslist. It read: Wanted: Caretake...

Sat, 29 Jun 2024

** Content warnings: Child victims ***When a Holden belonging to Glenroy man Elmer Crawford was foun...

Sat, 22 Jun 2024

When Mersea Island couple Stephen and Carol Baxter were found dead in their favourite recliner chair...

Sat, 15 Jun 2024

*** Content warnings: Domestic violence, suicide ***Dutch national Mark van Dongen met South African...

Sat, 08 Jun 2024

When Half and Susanne Zantop were found brutally stabbed to death in their Etna, New Hampshire home,...

Sat, 01 Jun 2024

After two planes struck New York City’s World Trade Center on September 11 2001, Tania Head was on...

Sat, 25 May 2024

*** Content warnings: Domestic violence ***When freelance writer Louise Ellis disappeared after leav...

Sat, 18 May 2024

*** Content warnings: Animal cruelty, gun violence ***43-year-old Graham Backhouse lived a peaceful ...

Sat, 11 May 2024

When Dutch friends Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon set out for a six-week adventure in Panama in 2014...

Sat, 04 May 2024

*** Content warnings: Child victim, sexual assault ***In 2004, several young girls around Fort Wayne...

Sat, 27 Apr 2024

*** Content warnings: Racial violence, sexual assault ***In June of 2020, London social worker Bibaa...

Sat, 20 Apr 2024

*** Content warnings: Animal cruelty ***On a hot summer’s day in 1989, a father and son travelling...

Sat, 13 Apr 2024

In early January 2000, residents of Asheville, North Carolina were told to be on the lookout for 18-...

Sat, 06 Apr 2024

*** Content warnings: Child victim, sexual assault ***[Part 2 of 2]Colin Ross maintained his innocen...

Sat, 30 Mar 2024

*** Content warnings: Child victim, sexual assault ***[Part 1 of 2]When 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke f...

Sat, 23 Mar 2024

*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, domestic violence ***Jeff and Tim Slaten woke on the morning o...

Sat, 16 Mar 2024

May 3 1991, was a typical Friday for 58-year-old Margaret Penny. In the afternoon, she visited the O...

Sat, 09 Mar 2024

*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking ***When Angela Connell met Ian Dia...

Sat, 02 Mar 2024

*** Content warning: Child victim ***On November 16 2001, two state troopers from the Pennsylvania S...

Sat, 24 Feb 2024

*** Content warning: Child victims, serial rapist, stalking ***When the Koneva family fled to Englan...

Sat, 17 Feb 2024

On September 5 2012, a cyclist driving through the French Alps came upon a shocking scene. Married c...

Sat, 10 Feb 2024

*** Content warning: Child victim, child sexual assault, sexual assault/rape ***When six-year-old Bo...

Sat, 03 Feb 2024

*** Content warning: Sexual assault ***For 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher, spending a ...

Sat, 02 Dec 2023

*** Content warning: Animal cruelty ***In May 2021, residents of the affluent Athens suburb of Glyka...

Sat, 25 Nov 2023

*** Content warning: Extreme sexual violence, captivity ***[Part 2 of 2]As the years of abuse, tortu...

Sat, 18 Nov 2023

*** Content warning: Extreme sexual violence, captivity ***[Part 1 of 2]When Colleen Stan’s family...

Sat, 11 Nov 2023

In the spring of 2005, two 18-year-olds met in an online chat room and immediately hit it off. Jessi...

Sat, 04 Nov 2023

In March 1977, school bus driver Mary Gillespie started receiving threatening letters delivered to h...

Sat, 28 Oct 2023

For Marea Yann, two things mattered most in life - family and community. When the 69-year-old was fo...

Sat, 21 Oct 2023

*** Content warning: Child victim, child abuse, suicide, grooming ***When 14-year-old Andrew Gosden ...

Sat, 14 Oct 2023

When Brian and Beverly Barry returned from a weekend away to discover their 19-year-old daughter Kim...

Sat, 07 Oct 2023

*** Content warning: Domestic violence, sexual assault ***In Pakistani culture, arranged marriages a...

Sat, 30 Sep 2023

*** Content warning: Sexual assault ***[Part 2 of 2]When nine-year-old Debra May Helmick was abducte...

Fri, 22 Sep 2023

*** Content warning: Sexual assault ***[Part 1 of 2]When 17-year-old Shari Smith disappeared from th...

Sat, 16 Sep 2023

*** Content warning: Elder abuse ***The Director of Nursing at the Alpine Manor Nursing Home in Gran...

Sat, 09 Sep 2023

*** Content warning: Child victim, child sexual abuse ***When eight-year-old Jamie Lavis failed to r...

Sat, 02 Sep 2023

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

Sat, 26 Aug 2023

After a routine check on suspicious activity turns to tragedy for Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gli...

Sat, 19 Aug 2023

*** Content warning: Crimes against children, child abuse, domestic abuse, alcoholism ***On April 27...

Sat, 15 Jul 2023

When 52-year-old German farmer Rudolf Rupp failed to return home from a night out drinking in the to...

Sat, 08 Jul 2023

*** Content warning: child victim ***On the afternoon of January 14, 2012, 15-year-old Winsie Hau wa...

Sat, 01 Jul 2023

*** Content warning: child victim, sexual assault ***When Rajesh and Nupur Talwar went to wake their...

Sat, 24 Jun 2023

*** Content warning: serial rapist and killer, sexual assault, stalking ***When Melbourne women Marg...

Sat, 17 Jun 2023

*** Content warning: Child victim, animal cruelty ***When single mother Nadja Medley met an older ma...

Sat, 10 Jun 2023

*** Content warning: Mental illness, stalking, gun violence ***Amy Boyer was a popular teen in her h...

Sat, 03 Jun 2023

*** Content warning: Sexual assault ***When trainee nurses Lorraine Wilson and Wendy Evans failed to...

Sat, 27 May 2023

*** Content warning: Gun violence ***When 41-year-old Abraham Shakespeare won the 30 million dollar ...

Sat, 20 May 2023

In the summer of 1980, Theodosius Glukharev received a series of harrowing deliveries to his home in...

Sat, 13 May 2023

[Part 2 of 2]*** Content Warning: child victim ***After grieving father Jean-Marie Villemin takes re...

Sat, 06 May 2023

[Part 1 of 2]*** Content Warning: child victim ***The extended Villemin family lived in the Vosges r...

Sat, 29 Apr 2023

When married mother of two, Sherri Papini, goes missing near her home in Redding, California, the co...

Sat, 22 Apr 2023

*** Warning: This case involves a child victim ***On April 5 2008, 10-year-old Engla Höglund went m...

Sat, 15 Apr 2023

*** Warning: This case involves a child victim ***On April 14 1973, the Kennedy family awoke in thei...

Sat, 08 Apr 2023

*** Warning: This case involves a child victim ***On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 7 1982, res...

Sat, 01 Apr 2023

On February 10 1993, East Sussex police were summoned to conduct a welfare check at the Wadhurst cot...

Sat, 25 Mar 2023

*** Warning: This case involves a child victim ***By late 2016, Jason and Brandi Worley’s marriage...

Sat, 18 Mar 2023

When 41-year-old waitress Peggy Carr succumbed to a mysterious illness in October 1988, doctors in A...

Sat, 11 Mar 2023

20-year-old Renae Marsden was a bright and bubbly young woman who valued her family above all else. ...

Sat, 04 Mar 2023

In February 1960, the city of Manchester, New Hampshire, was rocked by the violent murder of teenage...

Sat, 25 Feb 2023

When residents of the affluent Southfields area of south-west London notice foul smelling smoke comi...

Sat, 18 Feb 2023

[Part 3 of 3]More disturbing secrets are unearthed at 25 Cromwell Street as the investigation into F...

Sat, 11 Feb 2023

[Part 2 of 3]By 1992, Fred and Rose West were raising their children at their Cromwell Street home. ...

Sat, 04 Feb 2023

[Part 1 of 3]In early 1969, 15-year-old Rose Letts was waiting alone at a bus stop in the English to...

Sat, 03 Dec 2022

In 1963, on the Italian island of Sicily, a wealthy young bachelor named Filippo Melodia began a cou...

Sat, 26 Nov 2022

When Nathan Lee arrived at his home in North Port, Florida, on January 17 2008, he immediately knew ...

Sat, 19 Nov 2022

For Jo Rogers and her two teenage daughters, Michelle and Christe, a trip to Florida seemed like a d...

Sat, 12 Nov 2022

In 1994, 29-year-old Adelaide lawyer Anna-Jane Cheney was looking forward to her dream wedding. But ...

Sat, 05 Nov 2022

When 16-year-old Rubí Frayre went missing from the Mexican city of Juarez, police showed little int...

Sat, 29 Oct 2022

On November 6 2003, a customer entered the Superbike Motorsports dealership in Chesnee, South Caroli...

Sat, 22 Oct 2022

In April 2009, 64-year-old Bill Harrison, a much-loved member of the community of Mississauga, Canad...

Sat, 15 Oct 2022

The weekend of December 16 2000 was shaping up to be a good one for Tallahassee man Mike Williams. W...

Sat, 08 Oct 2022

In 2003, 12 elderly women were killed in their homes in Mexico City. Most were strangled and robbed....

Sat, 01 Oct 2022

The United States Marine Corps is known for its tight-knit culture, as solidified in their motto, ‘...

Sat, 24 Sep 2022

When 15-year-old Evelyn Hartley agreed to babysit for the Rasmussen family on the evening of October...

Sat, 17 Sep 2022

*** Warning: This case involves a child victim ***When Czech Republic man Eduard Trdý inadvertently...

Sat, 10 Sep 2022

In 1996, Karina Holmer left her small Swedish village of Skillingaryd to travel to Boston, Massachus...

Sat, 03 Sep 2022

In May 1975, 45-year-old Frank Hilley began experiencing severe nausea, vomiting and stomach cramps ...

Sat, 27 Aug 2022

When the bodies of British tourists 23-year-old Hannah Witheridge and 24-year-old David Miller were ...

Sat, 20 Aug 2022

Dr John Schneeberger’s charming and gentle manner made him a popular and trusted figure in the tin...

Sat, 16 Jul 2022

[Part 2 of 2]In Berlin, Germany at the height of World War Two, a man took advantage of the Blackout...

Sat, 09 Jul 2022

[Part 1 of 2]At the height of World War Two in London, a serial killer roamed the streets. In just o...

Sat, 02 Jul 2022

In March 1998, members of the Cat Protection Society in Brisbane, Australia were shocked at the murd...

Sat, 25 Jun 2022

Eliahu Itzkovitz spent much of his childhood confined behind the walls of Romania’s Chișinău Ghe...

Sat, 11 Jun 2022

*** Warning: This case involves a child victim ***On May 26 1978, four-year-old Eric Christgen sudde...

Sat, 04 Jun 2022

*** Warning: This case involves a child victim ***When the body of four-year-old Kevin Hjalmarsson w...

Sat, 28 May 2022

It was around 2:30 am on Sunday, December 18 1994, when a group of friends stumbled across the blood...

Sat, 21 May 2022

On December 21 1924, itinerant beggar, Vincenz Olivier, knocked on the door of an apartment building...

Sat, 14 May 2022

When Omaha mechanic Dave Kroupa met Cari Farver in late 2012, he thought he’d found the perfect wo...

Sat, 07 May 2022

On March 11, 2011, two employees of the Lululemon Athletica yoga store in Bethesda, Maryland fell vi...

Sat, 30 Apr 2022

When Swedish backpackers Urban Höglin and Heidi Paakkonen go missing during a camping trip around N...

Sat, 23 Apr 2022

In 2018, American missionary John Chau sailed out to North Sentinel, a forested island off the coast...

Sat, 16 Apr 2022

In early January 1977, residents of Easey Street in Melbourne’s inner-city suburb of Collingwood n...

Sat, 09 Apr 2022

On Tuesday, July 27 1976, 16-year-old Candra Torres and a man named Tom Brown showed up in an Oregon...

Sat, 02 Apr 2022

On March 9 2001, 43-year-old computer engineer Bernd Brandes disappeared from his home in Berlin, Ge...

Sat, 26 Mar 2022

On January 26 2005, 25-year-old Juan Alvarez parked his car on a railway line in Glendale, Los Angel...

Sat, 19 Mar 2022

On January 26 2009, defacto couple Bob Chappell and Sue Neill-Fraser spent the public holiday workin...

Sat, 12 Mar 2022

On Saturday, February 23 1957, 11-year-old Moira Anderson set out in a blizzard to run a quick erran...

Fri, 04 Mar 2022

When 22-year-old Janet Chandler was abducted while working the night shift at the Blue Mill Inn on J...

Sat, 26 Feb 2022

[Part 4 of 4]On March 22 1970, 22-year-old Kathleen Johns suffered a terrifying encounter when her c...

Sat, 19 Feb 2022

[Part 3 of 4]On September 27 1969, friends Cecelia Shepard and Bryan Hartnell were relaxing at Lake ...

Sat, 12 Feb 2022

[Part 2 of 4]On December 20 1968, teenagers David Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen were gunned down in t...

Sat, 05 Feb 2022

[Part 1 of 4]During the 1960s, California saw a wave of senseless, unsolved slayings. Cab driver Ray...

Sat, 04 Dec 2021

During the summer of 1976 and 1977, seven young women mysteriously disappeared from the streets of A...

Sat, 27 Nov 2021

When Kmart employee Tami Reay failed to show up at work in Pierre, South Dakota on the morning of We...

Sat, 20 Nov 2021

In 1974, a young woman named Margaret Schafer was strangled to death in her hometown of Ewersbach, G...

Sat, 13 Nov 2021

*** Warning: This case involves a child victim ***In March 1997, residents of Kobe, Japan were horri...

Sat, 06 Nov 2021

On the evening of May 22 2010, Steve Herr drove over to his son Sam’s apartment in Costa Mesa, Cal...

Sat, 30 Oct 2021

Saturday, June 4 1960 seemed like the beginning of an idyllic summer break for Finnish teenagers, Ni...

Sat, 23 Oct 2021

On July 17, 1984, a deceased female was located in a deserted area near Lake Tahoe, California. Inve...

Sat, 16 Oct 2021

On Christmas Eve 1945, while most citizens of the town of Fayetteville, West Virginia celebrated the...

Sat, 09 Oct 2021

Melbourne psychotherapist Margaret Hobbs was used to dealing with sex offenders. Many of her clients...

Sat, 02 Oct 2021

[Part 2 of 2]In June 1983, Cindy Paulson ran out onto a highway in Anchorage, barefoot and handcuffe...

Sat, 25 Sep 2021

[Part 1 of 2]During the 1970s and ’80s, a predator was stalking the streets of Anchorage, Alaska. ...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021

When JoAnne Chambers was hired to teach at Coolbaugh Learning Centre in Pennsylvania she arrived wit...

Fri, 10 Sep 2021

On August 2 2006, 32-year-old lawyer Robert Wone knocked off after a long day at his office in Washi...

Sat, 04 Sep 2021

In the early hours of Monday, November 15 2004, husband and wife Peter and Joan Porco were savagely ...

Sat, 28 Aug 2021

When 16-year-old Colleen Walker suddenly vanished from the New South Wales town of Bowraville in Sep...

Sat, 21 Aug 2021

When Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong were offered the chance to star on a prank show that aired on Yo...

Sat, 14 Aug 2021

Early on the morning of October 18 1947, a stewardess working on the ocean liner Durban Castle disco...

Sat, 07 Aug 2021

Karen MacKenzie resided in Greenough with her three children - Daniel, Amara, and Katrina. The 31-ye...

Sat, 31 Jul 2021

On February 5 1921, eight-year-old Freda Burnell went missing in the small coal-mining town of Abert...

Sat, 26 Jun 2021

During the early ’70s, cemeteries and mortuaries throughout Germany were targeted by a particularl...

Sat, 19 Jun 2021

“This is going to be the stupidest thing you’ve ever heard. This is going to be the craziest thi...

Sat, 12 Jun 2021

On the morning of September 6 2011, Auckland teenager Christie Marceau was woken by a troubling phon...

Sat, 05 Jun 2021

Between 1993 and 2009, DNA discovered at 40 crime scenes across Germany, Austria, and France were li...

Sat, 29 May 2021

Married couple Derek and Maria Broaddus were house hunting when a property in the affluent neighbour...

Sat, 22 May 2021

On June 9 2017, Yingying Zhang vanished on her way to an appointment in Urbana, Illinois. The Chines...

Sat, 15 May 2021

When newlyweds Gail and Rick Brink failed to show up to their respective jobs on the morning of Nove...

Sat, 08 May 2021

One cold winter night in 1991, best friends Vicki Arnold and Julie-Anne Leahy vanished from their to...

Sat, 24 Apr 2021

When 19-year-old Rocio Wanninkhof failed to return home after a night out with friends, her mother A...

Sat, 17 Apr 2021

In August 1961, Michael Gregsten and Valerie Storie were sitting in their car in Dorney Reach, UK wh...

Sat, 10 Apr 2021

On August 19 1988, two armed offenders entered a branch of the Deutsche Bank in Gladbeck, West Germa...

Sat, 27 Mar 2021

On February 29 2008, members of the Caffey Family were sleeping soundly in their Texas home when int...

Sat, 20 Mar 2021

On October 2 1987, a council employee in Central City, Kentucky called police after finding an aband...

Sat, 13 Mar 2021

In January 1974, 18-year-old Guðmundur Einarsson enjoyed a night out with friends in the town of Ha...

Sat, 06 Mar 2021

In Australia, Father’s Day falls on the first Sunday of September and is typically a time for fami...

Sat, 20 Feb 2021

In 1979, residents of Adelaide were gripped by fear when several young men began to go missing under...

Sat, 13 Feb 2021

In 1994, 13-year-old Nicholas Barclay disappeared after playing basketball with his friends in his h...

Sat, 06 Feb 2021

During the 1980s, Canadian nurse Cindy James was tormented by an unknown assailant at her home in Va...

Sat, 05 Dec 2020

[Part 6]This is the final instalment in a Casefile series that was first released in 2017.It covers ...

Fri, 27 Nov 2020

On August 25 1973, 12,000 South Australian National Football League spectators packed into Adelaide ...

Sat, 21 Nov 2020

In 1995, 15-year-old Scottish schoolboy Lawrence Haggart’s dreams came true when he was signed to ...

Sat, 07 Nov 2020

[Part 2 of 2]After the decapitated body of 26-year-old naturalist Joie Armstrong is found in Yosemit...

Sat, 31 Oct 2020

[Part 1 of 2]Carole Sund and her teenage daughter Juli were excited to take their family friend and ...

Sat, 24 Oct 2020

In late July 1990, siblings Steve and Jane McGowan both received a letter in the mail from their sis...

Sat, 10 Oct 2020

When 47-year-old Mississippi resident James Craig Anderson realised he’d locked his keys in his ca...

Sat, 03 Oct 2020

31-year-old Russell ‘Stabba’ Martin was well known around the small town of Stawell in Victoria’...

Sat, 26 Sep 2020

** Warning: This episode contains descriptions of sexual violence ***The evening of April 9, 2004, s...

Sat, 12 Sep 2020

In Ireland in 1968, a period known as The Troubles began. Years of extreme protesting and violence c...

Sat, 05 Sep 2020

It wasn’t unusual for 25-year-old Danniella Vian to lose her phone. So when her mother-in-law Juli...

Sat, 29 Aug 2020

When seven-year-old Steven Stayner fails to return home from school on December 4 1972, life changes...

Sat, 15 Aug 2020

Newlyweds Anni Hindocha and Shrien Dewani were looking forward to celebrating their honeymoon in Sou...

Sat, 08 Aug 2020

Note: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this episode contains the n...

Sat, 01 Aug 2020

Residents of Hudson, Wisconsin are left rattled when funeral director Dan O’Connell and his traine...

Sat, 18 Jul 2020

After the Western Australian gold rush of the late 1800s, there was little work available in the iso...

Sat, 11 Jul 2020

On the morning of September 15 2007, an elderly couple were walking through Melbourne’s Southern C...

Sat, 04 Jul 2020

The Miyazawa’s were a seemingly normal family who lived in a semi-detached, three-storey house in ...

Sat, 20 Jun 2020

On July 10 1991, 18-year-old Julie Dart disappeared after a night out in Leeds. Two days later, her ...

Sat, 13 Jun 2020

When 18-year-old Brittany Phillips enrolled to study at Tulsa Community College in Oklahoma, she was...

Sat, 06 Jun 2020

On the morning of August 5 2009, 26-year-old Dalia Dippolito was working out when she received a voi...

Sat, 23 May 2020

[Part 3 of 3]As Dennis Nilsen prepares to face trial and the true extent of his murder spree begins ...

Sat, 16 May 2020

[Part 2 of 3]By the time Dennis Nilsen moved out of his flat at 195 Melrose Avenue in Cricklewood, h...

Sat, 09 May 2020

[Part 1 of 3]When specialty plumbers arrived to inspect the drains at a property in the north London...

Sat, 25 Apr 2020

Teenagers in the New South Wales town of Stockton Beach were excited as they gathered at the North S...

Sat, 18 Apr 2020

Australia is no stranger to bushfires. But when Victorian Premier John Brumby warned residents that ...

Sat, 11 Apr 2020

18-year-old Natalee Holloway had been looking forward to her senior class trip to Aruba all year. Th...

Sat, 28 Mar 2020

Just after midnight on November 10 2012, a loud and frightening sound erupted in the Indianapolis su...

Sat, 21 Mar 2020

[Part 2 of 2]On March 24 1953, a tenant at 10 Rillington Place was renovating their kitchen when the...

Fri, 13 Mar 2020

[Part 1 of 2]When newlyweds Beryl and Timothy Evans found out they were expecting their first child,...

Sat, 29 Feb 2020

In October of 1628, the newly constructed Batavia embarked on its maiden voyage from the shores of T...

Sat, 22 Feb 2020

19-year-old Arlis Perry took her Christian faith seriously. After fighting with her husband Bruce on...

Sat, 15 Feb 2020

On August 17 1980, the Chamberlain family were camping at Uluru when Lindy Chamberlain went to put h...

Sat, 21 Dec 2019

On December 23 1927, the streets of Cisco, Texas were full of festive cheer as residents prepared fo...

Sat, 14 Dec 2019

16-year-old Martha Puebla was no stranger to gang violence. She lived in California’s San Fernando...

Sat, 07 Dec 2019

When American couple Tom and Eileen Lonergan set out to visit Australia, they were particularly look...

Sat, 30 Nov 2019

On March 4 1998, the parents of Rui Pedro Teixeira Mendonça grew concerned when their son failed to...

Sat, 16 Nov 2019

During the 1970s and 80s, a series of terrifying sexual assaults occurred inside homes throughout th...

Sat, 09 Nov 2019

On Sunday, October 26 1997, an emergency services dispatcher in Canberra received a hysterical call ...

Sat, 02 Nov 2019

In early April 2011, several friends and relatives of Nante’s Dupont De Ligonnès family received ...

Fri, 18 Oct 2019

When 49-year-old Joan Vollmer begins acting strangely, her husband Ralph blames spiritual problems a...

Sat, 12 Oct 2019

Brazilian born Pedro Rodrigues Filho first felt the desire to kill at the age of 13. It wasn’t lon...

Sat, 05 Oct 2019

After 38-year-old Johnny Altinger goes on a date with a woman he met online, his friends start recei...

Sat, 21 Sep 2019

In mid-July 2015, a motorist was travelling down the Karoonda Highway in South Australia when he pul...

Sat, 14 Sep 2019

The small rural property of Hinterkaifeck lay approximately 70 kilometres north of the German city o...

Sat, 07 Sep 2019

When 21-year-old Mark Kilroy and a group of his friends headed to South Padre Island in Texas for Sp...

Sat, 24 Aug 2019

In Australia, one woman is killed by her current or former domestic partner every week. So when 29-y...

Sat, 17 Aug 2019

During the early 1970s in Washington, D.C, six black girls aged between 10 and 18 were abducted and ...

Sat, 10 Aug 2019

On May 5 2004, the first of three suitcases containing dismembered human remains washed up on the sh...

Sat, 27 Jul 2019

Monday, February 13, 2017, was a bonus day off school for students in the small American town of Del...

Sun, 21 Jul 2019

After seven residents of Chicago passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in 1982, authorities discover...

Fri, 12 Jul 2019

At 11:00 PM on March 14 2003, an emergency services operator in the United Kingdom answered a phone ...

Sat, 29 Jun 2019

British glamour model Chloe Ayling was ecstatic to be hired for a photoshoot in Milan. But after fai...

Sat, 22 Jun 2019

In the mid-1990s, police caught wind of an online paedophile ring known as The Orchid Club, in which...

Sat, 15 Jun 2019

When teenager Elisa Claps mysteriously disappears after going to meet a friend in the Southern Itali...

Sat, 01 Jun 2019

In February 2015, Victorian police were called to the eastern banks of the Maribyrnong River in Moon...

Sat, 25 May 2019

15-year-old Rachel Barber was thrilled to make the move from a conventional high school to a special...

Sat, 18 May 2019

In 1992, the children of Oil City, Pennsylvania were excited as Halloween approached. But when 11-ye...

Fri, 03 May 2019

On December 29 1969, News of the World deputy chairman Alick McKay returned to his manor in London’...

Sat, 20 Apr 2019

[Part 5 of 5]Accused serial killer, 51-year-old Ivan Milat sat motionless before the court dressed i...

Sat, 13 Apr 2019

[Part 4 of 5]At 6:36 am on May 22 1994, a team of heavily armed police surrounded the Cinnabar Stree...

Sat, 06 Apr 2019

[Part 3 of 5]After a witness comes forward to report a suspicious incident that occurred near Belang...

Sat, 30 Mar 2019

[Part 2 of 5]After the remains of two bodies are found in Belanglo State Forest, New South Wales pol...

Sat, 23 Mar 2019

[Part 1 of 5]In the late 1980s and early 1990s, backpackers from across the globe flocked to Austral...

Sat, 02 Mar 2019

When three women – Mitra Simjanoska, Ljubica Licoska and Zivana Temelkoska – are murdered in the...

Sat, 23 Feb 2019

In early 2001, 21-year old Lucie Blackman left her job as a flight attendant for British Airways in ...

Sat, 09 Feb 2019

[Part 2 of 2]After 46-year-old Vitaly Kaloyev loses his entire family in the Überlingen mid-air col...

Sat, 02 Feb 2019

[Part 1 of 2]As midnight approached on July 1 2002, the German village of Owingen was disturbed by a...

Sun, 27 Jan 2019

This is an update on the Lindsay Buziak case in Case 28.For all credits and sources please visit cas...

Sat, 26 Jan 2019

During recess and lunchtime at Hackham West Primary School in 1982, teachers patrolled the schoolyar...

Sat, 22 Dec 2018

In the early 2000s, the internet became increasingly affordable and readily available, which led to ...

Sat, 15 Dec 2018

On 10 July 2001, New South Wales police received a frantic phone call from 21-year-old Sef Gonzales....

Sat, 01 Dec 2018

21-year-old Britt Lapthone developed a passion for travel at a young age, so it came as no surprise ...

Sat, 24 Nov 2018

12-year-old Sunshine Coast schoolgirl Sian Kingi was looking forward to her friend’s upcoming birt...

Sat, 17 Nov 2018

On January 26 1966, siblings Jane, Arna and Grant Beaumont joined the hundreds of Adelaide residents...

Sat, 10 Nov 2018

When Bristol teenager Becky Watts failed to show up for a planned lunch date with her boyfriend and ...

Sat, 27 Oct 2018

On the night of October 10 1984, a fire broke out at Ole’s Home Centre in South Pasadena that clai...

Sat, 20 Oct 2018

When aspiring actress Rebecca Schaffer secured the second lead in a new Hollywood sitcom, My Sister ...

Fri, 05 Oct 2018

[Part 3 of 3]While viewing a video of one of David Parker Ray’s assaults, investigators successful...

Sat, 29 Sep 2018

[Part 2 of 3]As the investigation into David Parker Ray’s alleged crimes continued, an officer rec...

Sat, 22 Sep 2018

[Part 1 of 3]On March 22 1999, Sierra County police were dispatched to conduct a welfare check at a ...

Sat, 08 Sep 2018

In 1964, an unknown offender took to the streets of Krakow to stab elderly women in what appeared to...

Sat, 01 Sep 2018

On the morning of March 3 1993, Vivian Rice pulled up outside the Silver Spring home of her sister, ...

Sat, 25 Aug 2018

When 40-year-old bank manager Susan Snow collapsed in her shower after complaining of a headache, th...

Sat, 11 Aug 2018

Throughout June and July of 2007, residents of the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk were gripped by ...

Sat, 04 Aug 2018

In 2006, Myspace was the biggest social media platform in the world, surpassing Google as the most v...

Sat, 28 Jul 2018

19-year-old Julian Knight was obsessed with war and combat from a young age. He enrolled in the Roya...

Sat, 14 Jul 2018

In September 2012, former Countdown champion Richard Britton walked into a pub and was served by a 2...

Sat, 07 Jul 2018

Most people who try skydiving do it just once – it’s something to tick off the bucket list. But ...

Sat, 16 Jun 2018

When Irish childcare worker Elaine O’Hara went missing in 2012, her family and friends feared she ...

Sat, 09 Jun 2018

When FBI agents received word that online hackers had cracked their way into the dark web and uncove...

Sat, 02 Jun 2018

When 18-year-old Canadian High School student Tom Brown failed to return home by his midnight curfew...

Sat, 19 May 2018

[Part 2 of 2]With Stefan Kiszko behind bars for the murder of Lesley Molseed, West Yorkshire and Gre...

Sat, 12 May 2018

[Part 1 of 2]On October 5 1975, April Molseed sent her 11-year-old daughter Lesley Molseed to the ne...

Sat, 05 May 2018

In 2007, 28-year-old Chantelle McDougall told her family she was moving to Brazil for spiritual purp...

Thu, 26 Apr 2018

This is an important update on the EAR-ONS/Golden State Killer case in Case 53 (25.04.18).For all cr...

Tue, 24 Apr 2018

This is an update on the Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman case in Case 03 (23.04.18).For all credits ...

Sat, 21 Apr 2018

50-year-old Maria Korp was a devoted mother of two, so when she went missing from her Mickleham home...

Sat, 14 Apr 2018

Around midday on August 28 2003, 46-year-old delivery driver Brian Wells clocked in for his usual lu...

Sat, 07 Apr 2018

The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron delves deep into the murder of Beth Barnard and the disappearance ...

Sat, 24 Mar 2018

16-year-old Rayna Rison was a devoted animal lover who dreamed of one day becoming a veterinarian. O...

Sat, 17 Mar 2018

During the Iraq War, four members of the Janabi Family were found brutally massacred in their farmho...

Sat, 10 Mar 2018

The evening of July 6, 1993, was a typical one for Mia Zapata. The 27-year-old was a staple of Seatt...

Sat, 24 Feb 2018

[Part 3 of 3]The investigation into The Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht heats to boiling point as Homela...

Sat, 17 Feb 2018

[Part 2 of 3]As The Silk Road continued to expand, problems started piling up for Ross Ulbricht, AKA...

Sat, 10 Feb 2018

[Part 1 of 3]Pennsylvania State University student Ross Ulbricht had been fascinated with mathematic...

Sat, 27 Jan 2018

On June 1 1960, Sydney resident Bazil Thorne received a phone call informing that he’d just won on...

Sat, 20 Jan 2018

On the morning of January 24 1987, nine-year-old Eric Coy hopped on his bike to make the one-mile jo...

Wed, 17 Jan 2018

On September 15 1878, three teenage boys were tending to cattle in the woods near Silver Lake in Sta...

Sat, 13 Jan 2018

For several weeks, 56-year-old Wilhelmina Kruger was unable to shake the feeling she was being watch...

Sat, 16 Dec 2017

On May 2 2005, an officer at the Aigues-Mortes police station in Southern France received a phone ca...

Sat, 09 Dec 2017

In June 1987,  the bodies of Phillip Walkemeyer, Julie Warren and Terry Bolt were found shot dead a...

Sat, 02 Dec 2017

On the morning of May 3 1997, 33-year-old Gary Patterson woke up early at his home in Waco, Texas. G...

Sat, 25 Nov 2017

Following the failed 1946 escape turned violent siege, safety measures at Alcatraz Federal Penitenti...

Sat, 18 Nov 2017

In the 1940s, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in the San Francisco Bay was a state-of-the-art facility...

Sat, 11 Nov 2017

North Carolina residents James Napoleon Taylor and Raymond Reid died 13 years apart from seemingly n...

Sat, 04 Nov 2017

When Brisbane based real estate agent Gerard Baden-Clay woke up at 6 AM on the morning of April 20 2...

Sat, 28 Oct 2017

The Weinberger family was emblematic of 1950s suburban America. Husband and wife Betty and Morris li...

Sun, 22 Oct 2017

An important update on the case from Victoria police on October 21st, 2017.MAPS: Frankston North Ki...

Sat, 14 Oct 2017

On the evening of April 14 1987, 28-year-old Catherine Holmes hosted a small party at her home in th...

Sat, 07 Oct 2017

Between 1985 and 1986, five young women went missing on the Hawaiian island of Honolulu. The victims...

Sat, 30 Sep 2017

On the morning of July 18 2009, customers gathered outside Min Lin’s news agency in North Epping, ...

Sat, 23 Sep 2017

[Part 3 of 3]On November 17 1978, Congressman Leo Ryan travelled to Guyana to inspect Jonestown for ...

Sat, 16 Sep 2017

[Part 2 of 3]In the late 1970s, Jim Jones and hundreds of his followers relocated to The Peoples Tem...

Sat, 16 Sep 2017

[Part 1 of 3]During childbirth, Lynetta Jones’ deceased mother appeared to her in a vision and pro...

Fri, 18 Aug 2017

In March 1998, 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley joined her parents and brother on a weeklong cruise thro...

Sat, 12 Aug 2017

Nine-year-old Shannon Matthews lived with her family at the Moorside Council Estate in West Yorkshir...

Sat, 29 Jul 2017

At 11 PM on October 11 1988, Victoria Police Constables Steven Tynan and Damian Eyre began working t...

Sat, 22 Jul 2017

On the morning of February 4 1986, a dairy farmer in the outer Sydney suburb of Prospect noticed his...

Sat, 01 Jul 2017

On December 7 2003, 13-year-old Daniel Morcombe set out from his home in Queensland’s Sunshine Coa...

Sat, 03 Jun 2017

[Part 5 of 5]In 1979, the East Area Rapist’s three-year-long crime spree came to an abrupt halt. R...

Sat, 03 Jun 2017

[Part 4 of 5]As the 1970s drew to a close, the East Area Rapist continued terrorising residents of N...

Sat, 27 May 2017

[Part 3 of 5]Throughout the summer of 1978, the East Area Rapist continued to stalk, attack and assa...

Sat, 20 May 2017

[Part 2 of 5]By the start of 1977, panic had well and truly set in throughout Sacramento County as n...

Sat, 13 May 2017

[Part 1 of 5]In the summer of 1976, a serial offender began terrorising several quiet, suburban comm...

Sat, 06 May 2017

In May 1980, Mary Stauffer was a happily married mother-of-two, living in Minnesota. She and her fam...

Sat, 22 Apr 2017

The Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven natural wonders of the world and one of Australia’s mos...

Sat, 15 Apr 2017

On the evening of November 8 2010, 25-year-old University of Toronto student Jennifer Pan was relaxi...

Sat, 01 Apr 2017

[Part 3 of 3]After Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are arrested for the string of horrific slayings dubbe...

Sat, 25 Mar 2017

[Part 2 of 3]Ian Brady had fantasies about committing the “perfect murder.” After sharing his se...

Sat, 18 Mar 2017

[Part 1 of 3]In 1963, two youths disappeared during separate incidents in and around the northern En...

Sat, 04 Mar 2017

At midday on July 28 1986, 25-year-old British real estate agent Suzy Lamplugh left work to attend a...

Sat, 25 Feb 2017

The Italian town of Brembate di Sopra is home to a quiet, close-knit community, and like the other l...

Sat, 18 Feb 2017

In the 18 month period between May 1980 and October 1981, six women went missing from the Frankston ...

Sat, 11 Feb 2017

On April 28 1996, a lone gunman entered the Broad Arrow Café in Tasmania’s historic Port Arthur s...

Sat, 28 Jan 2017

The desert roads of the Northern Territory are as long as they are desolate. If you stand still, the...

Sat, 21 Jan 2017

The summer of 1986 was a busy one for 19-year-old Silver Spring resident, Keith Warren. Having recen...

Sat, 14 Jan 2017

When 29-year-old Sherri Rasmussen married the love of her life, John Ruetten, the future looked prom...

Sat, 07 Jan 2017

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Melbourne was gripped by fear when a masked assailant began break...

Fri, 23 Dec 2016

This is an update on the Lisa Marie Young case in Case 26.For all credits and sources please visit c...

Sat, 10 Dec 2016

In the 1980s and 1990s, the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta was a hotbed for criminal activity. Heroin u...

Sat, 03 Dec 2016

After a string of failed relationships and other disappointments, Janelle Patton made the decision t...

Sat, 12 Nov 2016

Indiana born Diane Whitmore always dreamed of making it big in New York City. When she met Wall Stre...

Sat, 05 Nov 2016

[Part 3 of 3]With the West Yorkshire Police no closer to identifying The Yorkshire Ripper, the depar...

Sat, 29 Oct 2016

[Part 2 of 3]With the Yorkshire Ripper showing no sign of slowing down, police appealed directly to ...

Sat, 22 Oct 2016

[Part 1 of 3]West Yorkshire is a county in England that has a population of over 2 million people. I...

Sat, 15 Oct 2016

In late 2000, the owner of a Polish advertising company, Dariusz Janiszewski, went missing after goi...

Sat, 08 Oct 2016

On the evening of March 18 2001, 22-year-old Sian O’Callaghan enjoyed a night out with friends in ...

Sat, 24 Sep 2016

[WARNING – This episode deals with child sex abuse. It will not be suitable for all listeners.]In ...

Sat, 17 Sep 2016

In the early 1990s, South Lake Tahoe was considered a safe and sheltered place to live. All that cha...

Sun, 04 Sep 2016

After migrating from England to Australia after World War II, the Holmes family were looking forward...

Sat, 27 Aug 2016

Over a five-week period in 1986, four young women went missing from around Perth in Western Australi...

Wed, 24 Aug 2016

This is an update on the Lindsay Buziak case in Case 28.For all credits and sources please visit cas...

Sat, 20 Aug 2016

This episode of Casefile was released in 2016 when the case was still unresolved. Major developments...

Sat, 13 Aug 2016

The 80-year-old retired publisher Joseph Clever lived with his wife Hilda at Burgate House, a seclud...

Sat, 06 Aug 2016

24-year-old Lindsay Buziak loved her job as a Vancouver Island real estate agent and was looking for...

Sat, 30 Jul 2016

The eastern side of the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is closed in by mountains. On the city’s ...

Sat, 23 Jul 2016

Vancouver Island. Known for its breathtaking scenery, astonishing postcard beauty and amazing wildli...

Sat, 16 Jul 2016

“If any bastard ever thought about going to the cops about us, they’ll be killed and so will the...

Sat, 09 Jul 2016

[Part 2 of 2]We left part one just after the government announced a 500 thousand dollar reward for a...

Sat, 02 Jul 2016

[Part 1 of 2]Haros Avenue in Nunawading (Melbourne) presented a problem for the police surveillance ...

Sat, 25 Jun 2016

[Part 2 of 2]Part 2 of the Frankston Serial Killer. At the end of part 1 police had found out who ow...

Sat, 18 Jun 2016

[Part 1 of 2]Donna had recently received a few prank calls and she was getting nervous. She had a yo...

Sat, 11 Jun 2016

It was Wednesday the 2nd of August 1989. 41-year-old Marguerite Edwards started the day like any oth...

Sat, 28 May 2016

On Monday the 23rd of May 1994, a violent storm hit the city of Perth, Western Australia. Peter Lawr...

Sat, 21 May 2016

The details of this case are extremely difficult to hear. Extreme child abuse and child murder are i...

Sat, 14 May 2016

Living in Australia, I had heard of the Snowtown case. I knew it as the bodies in the barrels case. ...

Sat, 07 May 2016

On the 28th of February 1997 Los Angeles police officers, Perello and Farrell were on routine patrol...

Sat, 30 Apr 2016

On the 17th of May 2008, two motorway patrol officers attended to a call that a pedestrian had been ...

Sat, 23 Apr 2016

Chris and Cru Kahui were twins, aged just three months old when they died in hospital, both sufferin...

Sat, 16 Apr 2016

In the early 80’s a series of attacks occurred in the twin city area of Minnesota, USA. The victim...

Sat, 09 Apr 2016

On the 23rd of July 2008 young mother, Helen Munnings disappeared from the port city of Burnie, on t...

Sat, 02 Apr 2016

In the 1980's in Sydney Australia, Justice David Opas was shot dead outside his home and bombs were ...

Sat, 26 Mar 2016

The crime scene was described as looking more like the set of a horror movie, than real life. It is ...

Sat, 19 Mar 2016

First came the seizures and sleep paralysis. Then came the hallucinations and violent behaviour.Anne...

Sat, 12 Mar 2016

The 7th of May 2005 was a typical run of the mill day for Shirley Withers. She worked the full day i...

Sat, 05 Mar 2016

He was implicated in a case of missing money from a courthouse evidence vault. He was facing allegat...

Sat, 27 Feb 2016

On the 4th of August 2002, best friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman disappeared from the small t...

Sat, 20 Feb 2016

On the 4th of March 2008, Julian Buchwald and his girlfriend Carolynne Watson went for a romantic pi...

Sat, 13 Feb 2016

"You won't believe it, but it was like, satan saying to me that it's the right thing to do."In the e...

Sat, 06 Feb 2016

On Tuesday the 2nd of November 1999 Donna Wheeler was found murdered in her home in Berala, Western ...

Sat, 30 Jan 2016

On the 18th of April 1943, four boys discovered a skeleton buried in the hollow of a wych-elm tree i...

Sat, 23 Jan 2016

On the 29th of January 1999, best friends Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman had a sleepover at Ashley’...

Sat, 16 Jan 2016

On the first of December 1948, a body of a man was located along the seawall of Somerton Beach, just...

Sat, 09 Jan 2016

On the 11th of January 1965, two fifteen-year-old schoolgirls Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmid...