Casefile Confidential - Real Crime Podcast

Under the cold and wet skies of a New England winter, a father stands at the center of a terrifying two-year silence regarding his missing daughter. While a desperate mother fights through a web of stonewalling and lies, authorities realize that five-year-old Harmony Montgomery has vanished from a city that has become a hub of secrets and horror. The race to find her begins in a quiet neighborhood...

In 1978, five friends vanished from a clear highway into the freezing Sierra Nevada mountains. They were last seen celebrating a basketball victory, yet their car was found abandoned in a snowstorm with fuel in the tank. Why would these men, including one who meticulously avoided rough roads, leave their warm vehicle for a grueling midnight trek through deep snow? Chilling clues discovered later i...

In the quiet Bleachery neighborhood of Waltham, three physically-imposing men, a personal trainer, a bodybuilder, and a professional MMA instructor, prepared for a night of football. They never saw the final score. What occurred at 12 Harding Avenue was described as the worst "bloodbath" in a veteran investigator’s career. Despite their immense strength, the victims were nearly decapitated, their...

In the shadows of Las Vegas, a single mother vanishes, leaving her children to find her most prized jewelry abandoned in a silent house. Her boyfriend, a charming personal trainer, is actually John Addis, a former Alaska State Trooper turned expert conman. Using his elite forensic training to mask his trail, Addis becomes a "ghost" fugitive, eluding the FBI for over a decade across international b...

As the world stood on the threshold of a new millennium, the Miyazawa family prepared for a quiet New Year's Eve in their Setagaya home. Their neighborhood had recently transformed into a ghost town due to a local park expansion, leaving them as one of only four families remaining in a once-vibrant community. While the rest of Japan celebrated the prestigious holiday known as Omisoka, a series of...

In the tiny, close-knit town of Skidmore, Missouri, everyone watches out for one another. With only 342 residents, secrets are rare and strangers are few. But on a quiet December afternoon, expectant mother Bobby Joe Stinnett, full of joyful anticipation for her first child, faces a nightmare inside the absolute safety of her own home. When her mother discovers a scene of unimaginable horror on th...

A long-term investigation into the 1994 murder of Andy Gasper, an Air Force veteran found stabbed in his truck in Yorkshire, New York. Initial suspicion fell on Randall Knight, a man involved in a secret affair with Gasper’s wife, Cheryl, yet a lack of forensic evidence led to Knight’s acquittal in 1995. The case remained cold for fifteen years until a joint task force between local police and the...

In April 2018, 49-year-old David Tronnes hysterically called 911 to report finding his wife, 39-year-old Shanti Cooper-Tronnes, dead in the bathtub of the garage apartment they shared during the years-long, gut-wrenching renovation of their historic Orlando home. David claimed it was a tragic accident, possibly related to her recent surgery. However, first responders quickly realized Shanti's body...

n the deep New England winter of 2025, a house fire erupted in a quiet Waterbury, Connecticut neighborhood, drawing swift police and fire response. Outside the burning colonial-style home, 57-year-old Kimberly Sullivan frantically worried about her pets and purse, barely mentioning her stepson was still inside. But when rescuers found 32-year-old John Sullivan, they realized the chaos was hiding a...

A decades-long investigation tears open one of Australia's darkest chapters: the murder of criminal lawyer Derrance Stevenson and its hidden connection to the "Family Murders", a series of brutal abductions, sexual assaults, and killings of young men in South Australia. David Szach, Stevenson's young lover, has spent 40 years in prison, insisting he's innocent. But as journalists dig deeper, the c...

A mother of four, Suzanne Simpson vanished from her exclusive San Antonio suburb a year ago, presumed dead after a fight with her husband, Brad, who now stands accused of her murder. The couple, who seemed to live a privileged life, were apparently unhappy. The case is chilling: Brad was arrested a month after Suzanne disappeared, indicted for murder despite her body never being found. Witnesses r...

A 911 call reporting an unresponsive child leads authorities to a Bella Vista home where 6-year-old Maurice Isaiah Torres lies lifeless. His parents offer flimsy excuses—he was "clumsy" and ran into door knobs—for the severe cuts and bruises covering his small body. First responders immediately suspect foul play, noting multiple injuries and puncture wounds consistent with long-term abuse. When in...

A quiet blue-collar town prepares for Christmas, but the holiday turns tragic when 26-year-old Joanne Katrine and her 4-month-old son, Alex, vanish without a trace on December 15, 1994. The husband, initially suspected, reports finding a rarely used basement door open, the lock pried away from the frame. Compounding the mystery, a crucial phone line was secretly cut. Were they abducted or victims...

Hastings, England, 1997: On a beautiful, sunny Saturday, 13-year-old Billy-Jo was left alone in her garden for a mere 40 minutes. She was found savagely murdered, bludgeoned by an 18-inch iron tent peg in a shocking act of brutality. With no evidence of a break-in, the crime occurred in broad daylight, shattering the calm of Lower Park Road. Lines of inquiry revealed disturbing prior reports of pr...

In the small, close-knit town of Raymond, Washington, David and Michelle Knotek appeared to live the epitome of a simple country life. Michelle was widely known as a Good Samaritan, often attracting and offering help to the vulnerable strays of society. Few realized that for those closest to her, including her daughters, the reality was far more hellish than holy. Their quaint farmhouse, situated...

Today's episode examines two chilling homicide cases involving  Arthur Gary Bishop and Christopher Porco . The first deals with Bishop, a seemingly quiet bookkeeper from Salt Lake City whose façade fell apart when investigators tied him to the murders of five boys across four years. His confession, delivered in an eerily flat voice to a seasoned detective, revealed the full extent of his actions....

In the quiet, family-oriented "village" of Southfields, terror unfolded for 21-year-old nanny Sophie Lionnet. Trapped by her glamorous, delusional employers, she endured weeks of starvation and brutal, filmed interrogations. Neighbors smelled the smoke from a garden fire. When firefighters arrived, they discovered charred human remains. The harrowing recordings reveal a quiet girl being harangued...

He killed without mercy, then spoke without remorse. In this chilling episode of Casefile Confidential, we revisit the brutal crimes of Arthur Shawcross, the man who terrorized Rochester, New York, leaving a trail of mutilated victims along the Genesee River. Through his prison interviews, psychological evaluations, and the raw police interrogations that followed his arrest, a disturbing portrait...

April 20, 1999. What began as an ordinary school day at Columbine High turned into a calculated massacre that would scar an entire generation. Two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, walked into their school armed, prepared, and determined to die — but not before taking as many lives as possible. Behind their cold plan lay two broken minds: one consumed by psychopathy, the other by despair. T...

The Bever family lived a life of quiet seclusion in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, isolated from the outside world by parents who sought to protect them. Yet, inside this large, silent house, an unthinkable plot was cultivated: two brothers shared a goal to achieve infamy by committing mass murder with the highest "kill count". Driven by dark inspiration, they gathered knives, ordered thousands of rounds...

Brescia, Northern Italy, 2005. The suburban calm of a peaceful dwelling was shattered when a relative arrived for a planned holiday visit and found the main entrance locked. Inside the lower apartment, the scene was unsettlingly pristine, described by one relative as being "like a dollhouse," though the two long-term occupants were nowhere to be found.  Crucial details immediately contradicted the...

In this episode we examine the cases of three women driven to murder by a desire for revenge. The first profile is on Carla Fay Tucker, detailing her troubled childhood involving drug abuse and prostitution, and her ultimate execution for a brutal double murder committed in a drug-fueled rage to avenge a friend and steal a motorcycle. The second case focuses on Jessica McCord, a woman with persona...

This case particularly captures the depths of human misery, where horror creeps in, silent and merciless, to the point of obliterating an innocent life with chilling coldness. It's the portrait of a world that, beneath its calm surface, hides the chill of indifference and the ferocity of destructive impulses. This is also the story of a dashed hope and a shattered dream, a journey in search of a b...

An extensive ainvestigation of the terrifying true story of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, detailing his life as a seemingly respectable Chicago businessman and his secret existence as a sadistic predator. It explains how Gacy, known as Pogo the Clown, targeted vulnerable young men in the 1970s and describes the disappearance of two victims, Johnny Buukovich and Robert Past, whose cases eventually...

At the first light of dawn, in a small house in the Lombardy province, a man's screams shatter the dawn silence. A balance as invisible as it is fragile collapses without warning. Via Torino 32, Samarate, northern Italy: a street like many others, where the houses all look alike and the gardens tell of quiet lives. But at the first light of dawn, the silence is shattered by desperate screams. A fa...