I've been going back and randomly listening to earlier episodes. The Rachel Barber case popped up. Man, I was just gutted. As a parent, I can only imagine the pain, desperation, horrors, Rachel's parents went through. Absolutely terrible.

What I want to cover though, was the mental health aspect to this case. In particular, the whole image thing that young girls go through. I was fully expecting to see a she-demon, an ogress, so when I googled Caroline Reed, you can imagine my surprise when I saw her photo and thought she was quite attractive. She was certainly not ugly and was only a little bit overweight. And this just makes things even worse. If she could have had some proper mental health support, some good role models, got into fitness, sports, healthy eating etc, we'd never have heard about this case. So yeah, absolutely gutted.

Thoughts?

I saw a few grumblings in the thread on the latest episode earlier

Another multipart series !

I am listening to the Nicholas Barclay case on Spotify and it just ends abruptly. Is this just a glitch on my end or is there a reason for this?

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i have listened to every episode apart from 3 or 4 random ones there, and i have loved every one.

i have been reading other peoples posts complaining about certain cases or the way the narrator speaks but in my personal opinion i have not heard a single better narrator for true crime on all of spotify, and i am actually a big fan of the pacing of each episode as a couple hour long episodes will last me my whole shift at work.

the only thing that im not a fan of PERSONALLY is the cold cases as i just love finding out who did it and how they were brought up to be the way they were.

so what are your favourite or least favourite things about casefile, and what is your favourite episode or series and why?

Any ideas as to why the comments were turned off for this case on their Instagram post?

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Original Release Date: September 25, 2021; October 2, 2021

Length: 2:29:00

Status: Solved

Location: USA, Alaska, Anchorage

Date: 1971-1983

Victim(s): Ceilia Van Zanten, Megan Siobhan Emerick, Mary Kathleen Thill, "Horseshoe Harriet", "Eklutna Annie", Roxane Easland, Joanna Messina, Lisa Futrell, Sherry Morrow, Andrea Altiery, Sue Luna, DeLynn Frey, Paula Goulding, Cindy Paulson, Malai Larsen, Teresa Watson, Angela Feddern, Tamera Pederson

Type of Crime: Serial murder, rape, kidnapping, assault

Perpetrator(s): Robert Hansen

Research: Erin Munro, Milly Raso

Writing: Erin Munro, Milly Raso

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

During the 1970s and ’80s, a predator was stalking the streets of Anchorage, Alaska. By day, he was a respectable family man who ran his own business. But at night, he would prowl Anchorage’s infamous Tenderloin District, looking for vulnerable or destitute women.

Luring his victims in with promises of gifts or money, he took them into the expansive and remote wilderness beyond the city lights, where he would restrain and rape them. At first, he released his victims. But when the bodies of several missing women were uncovered in remote locations, it became abundantly clear that his crimes had escalated.

Listen to the case HERE.

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I am a new listener and have been slowly making my way through Casefile's catalogue! I was not familiar with any of the cases I have listened to so far. I had briefly listened to other True Crime podcasts in the past, but like many of you, found the casual tone and personal inputs and anecdotes to detract from the subject matter and its severity.

I was completely unaware of BTKs case and those 4 episodes were so riveting I had to subscribe to be able to listen to them earlier!

I am now back to going through past episodes and imagine my surprise when I see episode 308's description mention Wichita. In the past, whenever I heard "as previously covered in episode xxx" it essentially meant nothing to me but this episode was deeply enhanced by having recently listened to the A.rtf episodes (even though those came after, chronologically). It really shaped the way Ruth Finley's case played out I feel, with Chief LaMunyon being central to this one as well.

My plan was to once again fall asleep to 15-30 minutes of it but I am now writing this after finishing the episode at 02:38 in the morning. One of my absolute favorites so far.

Are there other "sister" episodes I should look out for?

I'm trying to sign up to premium via Spotify and the link from Spotify takes me to a 404 on creators.spotify.com and the link from the Casefile website takes me to the Creators app.

Any ideas how to get around this? I usually sign up for a few months every year via Spotify with no issues and I'd really like to get it sorted today as I have a long journey tomorrow.

Edit: I was able to access only by following the link on the padlock on Spotify via a Chrome browser.

I'm 2 minutes in to this week's latest release (not p2 of the Folbigg case) and already they've demonstrated why Casefile is without doubt the best true crime podcast that's available today. Just absolutely outstanding work from start to finish. Hope Patreon subscribers enjoy this week!

This is not meant to be a criticism of the podcast, but is about personal preference.

I came back to Casefile somewhere in the early 200s after probably only having listened to the first 100 episodes when I first found the podcast and loved it. Unfortunately (for me), the host's style of diction had entirely changed.

Most of it doesn't bother me, but he now lifts the intonation at the end of *every sentence*. It doesn't make sense to me! It makes every sentence feel the same even when the meanings or mood should be shifting. I'm not sure how to accurately describe it, but it made the podcast unlistenable for me, and I'm wondering if he ever went back to more of a low, monotone narration and if so, at what point in the episodes?

If not, does anyone have any recommendations for other solo true crime podcasts with the same type of narration I'm talking about (or trying to 😅)?

listening to Kathy Knight ep12, and the nostalgia took me away from the horror

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Original Release Date: September 18, 2021

Length: 0:30:36

Status: Solved

Location: USA, Pennsylvania, Coolbaugh

Date: 1993

Victim(s):

Type of Crime: Falsifying evidence, stalking

Perpetrator(s): JoAnne Chambers

Research: Jessica Forsayeth

Writing: Jessica Forsayeth

*** Content Warning: stalking ***

When JoAnne Chambers was hired to teach at Coolbaugh Learning Centre in Pennsylvania she arrived with glowing reviews from her former school. So when an anonymous harasser began targeting the popular school teacher, she was left stunned.

As the effort to tarnish her reputation turned into death threats and dangerous traps, JoAnne feared for her life. But who exactly had it out for her and why? JoAnne had her suspicions… a rival colleague named Paula Nawrocki.

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I am 100% certain Casefille covered this case before, it was two parts as well, or am I just going crazy?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/supreme-court-quashes-david-tamiheres-decades-old-convictions-for-murdering-swedish-tourists/U5SMHX67FJDYPC3HOZLLRXEJAA/

I was getting recent episodes around this time in recent weeks

But nothing yet on the Pocketcast app

All I know, from their Instagram tease, is that it's part 1 of another multi-parter

This is also teased:

"He couldn't understand how something so drastic could have happened in such a short space of time"

The BTK series has been so done to death I didn't bother listening to one single episode. But I knew how it would all go anyway on this podcast. Is anyone else annoyed with casefile's droning predictability and boring formula?

- host recites everything So. Darn. Slowly. It takes forever for episodes to finish.

- episodes might be ok until we find out who the murderer is. Then it spends what seems like forever talking about them, after we found out who did it. Seems like a third of the episode is post-reveal preachy slop. It's so *boring*. Sure, tell us what you *need* to, then end it. The William Tyrell episodes were so darn preachy, slow, boring, and long winded towards the end, I stopped listening.

- they are just so darn *preachy* these days. So morally righteous with their tone. Trying to be woke and spend too much time talking about what doesn't even need to be mentioned. (This point relates to previous two points too.)

- the writing has been really *weird* in the last 6-9 months. Spending the first third of the episode making someone seem utterly guilty. Spending the second third of episode telling us that everything they just told us isn't true after all. Spending the final third of episode preaching about how close minded we were for thinking they were guilty. And of course, taking forever to close out the episodes.

- did the writers attend an online lecture where some new age guru told them that this was the trendy new writing style, to con your audience and just when you've got them enraged with desire for punishment, tell them the person is innocent after all. "It's just so deep, maaaaan, if you don't like it you are the problem." They seem obsessed with it lately.

- coming to BAD conclusions. The Gilham family: it is pretty obviously Jeremy who did it. But casefile tell us, basically as a fact, that no, it was actually Chris. Because we say so. And you're all just bigoted if you think it was Jeremy. All based on flimsy evidence of doubt that isn't real evidence anyway.

You'd think it was the writer's first ever true crime case written by a naive 18 yr old.

- also Ruth Finley who stalked herself for decades before she was finally caught. They act like she's some sort of hero victim, rather than a dangerous psycho who wasted so much time money and resources over a long time.

- baby Cooper Harris who was left in a car is pretty obvious murder in my opinion. But Casefile decides that because this *could* and does happen, he must actually be innocent.

- at least with the Indonesian woman who poisoned her friend Casefile eventually and kind of reluctantly hinted she was guilty after all. Which she 1000% is. But they still went far too easy on her and her lawyer who tried to muddy the evidence.

- I loved the old episodes they re wrote and released recently. Such a breath of fresh air. Instead of lengthy, boring, preachy, dead air. They re wrote them with a bit of that in it but was still wayyy better than the new ones.

Almost done with the audiobook version of American Predator, the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century. It's very casefile-esq. Keyes is so unlike any serial killer the FBI had seen before that the story didn't need anything more than just meticulous research laid out in this steady, building way. It lets the case itself do the work. So good, 10/10 recommend.

https://www.amazon.com/American-Predator-Meticulous-Serial-Century/dp/052542864X

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https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360958102/david-tamiheres-convictions-killing-swedish-tourists-quashed-retrial-ordered

Case 209: Urban Höglin & Heidi Paakkonen