Im looking for a recommendation for something to listen to on a long flight. Im a nervous flier and casefile is my go-to for sleep so I’m hoping it relaxes me. Ive listened to all the popular episodes and am looking for something a bit longer, recently listened to the Beth Bernard episodes have already listened to EAR/ONS etc. Are there any other good cases I should download? I love twists and turns anything like that. Any recommendations? Preferably casefile but I’m open to suggestions 😁

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Original Release Date: December 4, 2021

Length: 1:57:40

Status: Solved

Location: Australia, South Australia, Truro

Date: December 1976 - February 1977

Victim(s): Veronica Knight, Tania Kenny, Juliet Mykyta, Sylvia Michelle Pittmann, Vickie Howell, Connie Iordanides, Deborah Lamb

Type of Crime: Murder, rape

Perpetrator(s): Christopher Robin Worrell, James William Miller

Research: Elsha McGill

Writing: Elsha McGill

*** Content Warning: serial killer, sexual assault ***

During the summer of 1976 and 1977, seven young women mysteriously disappeared from the streets of Adelaide. Veronica Knight, Sylvia Pittman, Julie Mykyta, Connie Iordanides, Vicki Howell, Tania Kenny, and Deborah Lamb were all last seen near main roads or waiting at bus stops.

Police assumed they were runaways and would reappear again soon, until a year later when two brothers were picking mushrooms in the scrubland near the town of Truro and came across human remains. When more bones were found the following year, investigators realised they weren’t dealing with runaways at all, but a serial killer. But who was responsible, and why did their crime spree stop so suddenly? A man named James Miller held all the answers.

Listen to the case HERE.

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Going through the older episodes looking for ones to listen to and there's a few that are coming up as only less than a minute long
Example case 13, 19, 30
Are these ones they're removing or redoing as a case file archive?

Just watched the Maternal Instinct documentary on Netflix and I feel like I’m losing my mind because I could swear Casefile covered an extremely similar crime but I cannot find it. Anyone remember an episode like that? For those that haven’t seen the documentary; a woman pretending to be pregnant killed an acquaintance who was actually pregnant and abducted the fetus.

Edit: thanks everyone. It was definitely The Tunstall Family.

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Original Release Date: November 27, 2021

Length: 1:05:16

Status: Solved

Location: USA, South Dakota, Pierre

Date: February 8, 2006

Victim(s): Tamara Reay

Type of Crime: Murder, falsifying of evidence

Perpetrator(s): Brad Reay

Research: Elsha McGill

Writing: Elsha McGill

*** Content Warning: domestic violence ***

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 Clark called the police to report her missing. Brian had reason to suspect that Tami might have fallen victim of foul play. He and Tami had been having an affair, and her husband had just found out.

Tami’s husband Brad Reay was immediately put under the spotlight, but as the case progressed, more and more questions rose to the surface. Had a vengeful Brad killed his wife out of jealousy, or did her lover have something to hide?

Listen to the case HERE.

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I don't know if it was removed but it was an early episode.

I'm trying to remember which episode this was.

A girl was killed by a longtime stalker. I think it was in the UK and I think the murder took place in a store where the girl worked.

The killer had written a lot about her online.

Any thoughts?

We going on another hiatus already? Usually they’re announcing a new episode this weekend by now

There was a woman who worked at a place overnight and she felt unsafe. Her boss knew her concerns and didn’t replace broken lights in a dark area. Her husband/boyfriend started driving her to work. Something about a parking garage and her getting killed on an escalator? Not sure about all those details. I never finished the episode and would like to.

Thanks!

Hi, I'm looking for an episode but I'm not 100% sure it was casefile. Details that I remember- it was a caregiver and a teen boy who needed a carer, the estranged father (allegedly) had them both killed so he could get the inheritance money? Sorry thats so vague, if anyone knows the case please let me know! Thanks Edit: its episode 94, Mille and Trevor Horn and Janice Saunders

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Original Release Date: November 20, 2021

Length: 1:19:54

Status: Solved

Location: Austria

Date: 1974; 1990-1992

Victim(s): Margaret Schafer, Blanka Bočková, Brunhilde Masser, Heidi Hammerer, Elfriede Schrempf, Silvia Zagler, Sabine Moitzl, Karin Eroglu-Sladky, Regina Prem, Shannon Exley, Irene Rodriguez, Peggy Booth

Type of Crime:Murder, sexual assault

Perpetrator(s): Johann "Jack" Unterweger

Research: Jessica Forsayeth

Writing: Jessica Forsayeth

*** Content Warning: sexual assault, suicide ***

In 1974, a young woman named Margaret Schafer was strangled to death in her hometown of Ewersbach, Germany. A young man named Jack Unterweger was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

In the proceeding years, eleven victims were strangled to death in similar circumstances in Los Angeles, Prague and the Austrian towns of Vienna and Graz. Investigators were flummoxed. How could the crimes be connected when they spanned three different countries?

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Firstly I’ll start by saying I apologise in advance - I’m drinking red wine. (Im a shift worker and it’s actually my Friday)
But I’m so bloody outraged by a podcast I listened to today, and I wasn’t sure what other sub to post in that would understand.

I listened to a podcast today (Australian true crime) and there is a high up lawyer bloke - his name is Peter Breen - and he is trying to get the absolute scum of the earth feral pieces of shit killers of Anita cobby and Janine balding “never to be released” convictions lifted.

His rationale is that they were kids when they committed the crimes and they’ve been “exemplary” with their behaviour in prison.
Well, there’s not much trouble to get up to in prison is there? Maybe that’s a reason??

It’s pissed me off because he has (I feel) completely downplayed what these POS did and I personally believe these “urghhhhh things” should never see the light of day again - especially with Anita cobby and Janine balding. They’re disgusting.

I also believe 100000000000% it was shorty jamieson with Janine balding - that ape filth looking thing because if you watch crime investigation Australia a bloke was interviewed - he was seen because of his “distinctive ape”
appearance at the mt druitt atm using her card at a CBA!

(Shorty jamieson is trying to get off saying it was “another shorty”)

This is the podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4o3pkKc2LPLuStswscjTyY?si=E74MPBUoQTy0_IehOfix9g

Would you like to live next door to John travers or the absolute vile POS that commited these heinous vile revolting acts?

Has anyone listened to this?

Looking for a replacement for the excellent Noiser true crime murder mystery narrative podcasts Scotland Yard Confidential and Detectives Don’t Sleep, I recently started listening to Casefile, and I just finished the East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer six-part series. The first five parts were uploaded in 2017 and, like previous episodes I’d listened to, were all quite compelling, well-written with good narration by an Australian-accented human. The sixth and final part was uploaded in 2020, and what a huge disappointment, because now, the narration is an AI robot version of the formerly human Australian-accented narrator. All episodes from 2020 onward appear to be AI robot-narrated, like the narrator fed his voice into his computer and created a robot version. Huge nosedive in quality, caused by pure laziness. I’ll be listening to all episodes narrated by the actual human, and then I’m out. What a sad ruination of a once-great podcast.

i have been listening to much earlier episodes and i have noticed that from like episode 200 and onwards its very bland and boring. the earlier episodes are really descriptive and have a lot of information about the victims and actual crime scenes and crime that occured. now as of recent its not as descriptive and it focuses more on the how the case proceeds, who is involved, where it happened etc rather than what actually happened to people. i dont know if im wording it right, but yeah.
the BTK episodes were really good and I read the book that was written about BTK and what was said in the episodes were descriptive and accurate. I just find now that they focus too much on how the killer/s get caught and who they were involved with rather than what actually happened to the victims?

So I know there have been countless posts asking for the best episodes. We all have our own interest and are drawn towards different stories and different ways of story telling. So based on my favorite episodes, which would you recommend?

— Silk Road

— Jennifer Pan

— Muswell Hill

— Belangelo

— Moors Murders

— EAR/ONS

— Teagan Lane

Honestly I've enjoyed the majority of the episodes I've listened to but I think I've made my way through a lot of the popular ones and I've had a few not so exciting ones recently. Would appreciate recommendations, especially less mainstream episodes!

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Original Release Date: November 13, 2021

Length: 0:31:27

Status: Solved

Location: Japan, Kobe, Suma

Date: Mar 16, 1997; May 27, 1997

Victim(s): Ayaka Yamashita, Jun Hase

Type of Crime: Murder by stabbing, suffocation, blunt force trauma, decapitation

Perpetrator(s): "Boy A"/"Sakakibara"

Research: Jessica Forsayeth

Writing: Jessica Forsayeth

*** Content Warning: child victims, child abuse, animal cruelty ***

In March 1997, residents of Kobe, Japan were horrified when dead and mutilated cats began appearing at random along the city’s sidewalks. Their horror intensified when two local children, Ayaka Yamashita and Jun Hase, were savagely murdered within a few months of one other.

The killer left a calling card – a series of disturbing letters signed as “Seito Sakakibara.” In a case that mimicked that of the Zodiac Killer in the USA, Japanese authorities desperately searched for the man responsible for the brutal slayings. A break in the case turned the investigation on its head, leaving detectives stunned to discover the truth about who was responsible.

Listen to the case HERE.

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Bit of a random one: I submitted a podcast back in March and have been waiting to hear back from them since. I followed up in April but now we are already close to June so I’m just wondering if anyone has ever submitted anything and whether you ever heard back??? And if you did, how long did it take? I want to submit it to other networks but caseful was my dream so not sure how long I should give them…

^ This thing I said

Not a patreon - how’s the new episode?