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*** Content warnings: Animal cruelty *** After respected dermatologist Dr David Birkett was found bludgeoned to death in his Middlesbrough home, police struggled to uncover a motive or identify a suspect for what appeared to be a targeted attack. As the months passed by with no arrests, it began to look like the assailant had succeeded in his plan to pull off the perfect murder. But then...

*** Content warnings: Domestic violence, child sexual abuse, sexual assault, animal cruelty*** In mid-1989, in the small New South Wales Town of Taree, local residents and law enforcement alike began investigating a woman named Roseanne Catt. There were allegations that Roseanne was a violent and cruel woman, intent on killing her husband: it was reported that she had thrown a rock at his hea...

*** Content warnings: Sexual assault *** 23-year-old Welsh backpacker Kirsty Jones had her whole life ahead of her when she set out for a two-year trip across Asia, Australia and South America. Tragically, that trip was cut short just two months in when Kirsty was found strangled to death in her room at The Aree Guesthouse in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Thai police anticipated a quick arrest,...

*** Content warnings: Gun violence *** Early on the morning of Sunday, May 10 2009, corporate attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano left home to take a bike ride around his neighbourhood in Guatemala City. Within minutes, he’d been shot dead. Rodrigo’s friends and family were left reeling by the violent murder, but their shock would only increase when a video emerged one day later of Rodrig...

*** Content warnings: Child victim *** When doting mother Leanna Harris arrived to pick up her 22-month-old son Cooper Harris from daycare in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 18 2014, she was shocked to find that Cooper wasn’t there. She soon discovered that her husband, Ross Harris, had made a fatal mistake, leaving Cooper to die in the backseat of his hot car after forgetting to drop him off...

23-year-old Jeff Gilham showed up on his neighbours’ doorstep in the early morning hours of August 28 1993, with a shocking claim. His older brother Christopher Gilham had just killed their parents, Stephen and Helen, and set their bodies on fire. In return, Jeff had stabbed Christopher to death.  The tragic news left residents of the Sydney suburb of Woronora in disbelief as they struggled t...

*** Content warnings: Terrorism, gun violence *** In late 2015, a young pizza delivery man named Khalil Abu Rayyan from Dearborn Heights, Michigan, met and fell in love with a woman he met online. Jannah Bride had approached Khalil via the social media platform Twitter, and the two soon became close. Over the course of several months, Khalil would start admitting disturbing things to Jan...

*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, child abuse, child sexual abuse *** On Thursday, October 10 2013, passersby noticed a distraught-looking teenage girl, crying and shivering outside of Dublin’s General Post Office building. When police officers approached the girl, she either couldn’t, or wouldn’t, talk. The mystery teenager – soon dubbed the GPO girl – was taken into care, and exper...

[Part 2 of 2] *** Content Warning: child victims, child sexual assault, child abuse*** As the search into the disappearance of three-year-old William Tyrrell reaches its third fruitless year, the investigation takes turn after turn until a coronial inquest is eventually called. The inquest aims to figure out what happened to William once and for all, but will it succeed or raise more que...

[Part 1 of 2] *** Content Warning: child victims, child sexual assault *** It was a peaceful morning on Friday, September 12 2014, as three-year-old William Tyrrell played happily in the backyard of his grandmother’s home in the small New South Wales town of Kendall. One minute, William roared like a tiger, posing for a photo in his favourite Spider-Man costume. Moments later, he va...

With Casefile on a short break, we thought this would be a great time to shine a light on some of the shows that may have flown under the radar for many of you. These are shows we've put our hearts into and are really proud of. Today, we’re showcasing Troubled Waters – a powerful, deeply moving series that brings Louisa Ioannidis’s life and the unanswered questions surrounding her death into full...

With Casefile on a short break, we thought this would be a great time to shine a light on some of the shows that may have flown under the radar for many of you. These are shows we've put our hearts into and are really proud of. Today, we’re showcasing The Frankston Murders . When Vikki Petraitis and I found out that Paul Denyer, the man convicted of the Frankston serial murders, had applied for pa...

With Casefile on a short break, we thought this would be a great time to shine a light on some of the shows that may have flown under the radar for many of you. These are shows we've put our hearts into and are really proud of. Today, we’re showcasing The Bakersfield Three . The Bakersfield Three is our most successful limited-run series to date. The series reached number one on the overall podcas...

With Casefile on a short break, we thought this would be a great time to shine a light on some of the shows that may have flown under the radar for many of you. These are shows we've put our hearts into and are really proud of. First up is Missing Niamh—a story that’s very close to me personally. I spent years researching the case and working directly with Niamh’s family to shape the series, which...

When 46-year-old Vincent Viafore disappeared while kayaking on the Hudson River with his fiancée, 35-year-old Angelika Graswald, it was initially believed to be a tragic accident. However, Angelika’s story and behaviour soon raised troubling questions about what really happened. --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Milly Raso Creative direction – Milly Raso Production & musi...

In late September 2019, a woman reported that she had discovered evidence of a brutal crime. A discarded memory card she’d found on a street in Downtown Anchorage, Alaska had video and image files depicting the torture and murder of an Alaska Native woman. The investigation that followed revealed the stories of three women – Kathleen Henry, Veronica Abouchuk and Cassandra Boskofsky – who had all f...

*** Content warnings: child abuse, sexual assault, child victims, stalking *** In Paterson, New Jersey, during the early 1980s, Marie Moore was seen as the neighbourhood’s ‘cool mum’. The 35-year-old allowed her 12-year-old daughter Tammy to have friends over as often as she liked, and would even take the pre-teen and her friends out on fun excursions. But the tide turned one day when Ma...

On September 15 2003, Singaporean student Ram Tiwary awoke in his Sydney apartment to find his two flatmates, Tony Tan Poh Chuan and Tay Chow Lyang, had been brutally murdered. A suspicious car seen in the area leads police on a hunt for the killers, until another suspect emerges closer to home. --- Narration – Anonymous Host Research & writing – Elsha McGill Creative direction – Milly Raso Pr...

When 71-year-old Thomas Perez Senior failed to return home after a short walk to his mailbox in Fontana, California, his son Tom wasn’t overly concerned. He suspected his father had just gone to visit friends or family and would return home of his own accord. But when police arrived at the Perez home to complete a missing person’s report, they came to suspect something else entirely. --- Narration...

When the bodies of Doctor Gilbert Bogle and Margaret Chandler were found along the banks of Sydney’s Lane Cove River on New Year’s Day 1963, scandal and suspicion erupted. The two were married – but not to each other – raising immediate questions of foul play. Yet as investigators peeled back the layers of this bizarre case, they found themselves tangled in a mystery far stranger than anyone had i...

*** Content warnings: child victims, child abuse, child sexual assault, child exploitation *** In 2013, a forum appeared on the dark web called Hurt2theCore. Run by an anonymous user known only as Lux, it was a digital cesspool dedicated to one of the most vile subgenres of illicit pornography. It quickly became Lux’s most notorious creation and drew the attention of global law enforcement. As inv...

On a January night in 1997, Yarmila Falater was brutally stabbed and drowned in the family’s backyard pool. Her husband, Scott Falater, was caught red-handed, but claimed he had no memory of the crime. What followed was a high-profile trial that pitted science against suspicion, as experts debated whether Yarmila’s death was a tragic accident or deliberate murder.  --- Narration – Anonymous H...

*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, homophobia*** On Anzac Day of 1999, life partners Keith Hibbins and David Campbell were walking through the Fitzroy Gardens in Melbourne when they were approached by two agitated young men, John Whiteside and Kristian Dieber. The young men claimed they were on the lookout for a pair of rapists who had just sexually assaulted a young woman nearby, but were...

*** Content warnings: Sexual assault *** When first responders arrived at the Roberts family home in the small town of Early, Iowa, on December 13 2001, they found 20-year-old Dustin Wehde lying in a pool of his own blood. The homeowner, Tracey Roberts, claimed she’d shot Dustin in an act of self-defence after he and another unknown assailant broke in and threatened to kill her and her c...

*** Content warnings: Gun violence, animal cruelty *** When 74-year-old Russell Hill and 73-year-old Carol Clay vanished while camping in Victoria’s rugged High Country, their disappearance brought many hidden secrets to light. People theorised that the pair had run away together, were the victims of a murder-suicide, or had accidentally been killed by hunters. But there was only one person out th...