Abduction
Case 176: Yingying Zhang
On June 9 2017, Yingying Zhang vanished on her way to an appointment in Urbana, Illinois. The Chinese visiting scholar missed…
Case 172: Michael Gregsten & Valerie Storie
In August 1961, a couple by the name of Michael Gregsten and Valerie Storie were sitting in their Morris Minor car in Dorney Reach, UK, when an intruder forced his way into the back seat brandishing a gun…
Case 171: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis
Unlike most Casefile episodes, which cover events that span years or even decades, the Gladbeck Hostage Crisis focuses on a 54-hour time period…
Case 166: The Family
In 1979, young men began to go missing in and around Adelaide. It began with the disappearance of 17-year-old Alan Barnes, then 25-year-old Neil Muir…
Case 154: Steven Stayner
When seven-year-old Steven Stayner fails to return home from school on December 4 1972, life changes irrevocably…
Case 147: Julie Dart & Stephanie Slater
On July 10 1991, 18-year-old Julie Dart disappeared after a night out in Leeds. Two days later, her boyfriend Dominic Murray…
Case 116: Chloe Ayling
British glamour model Chloe Ayling was ecstatic to be hired for a photoshoot in Milan. But after failing to return to…
Case 109: Belanglo (Part 5)
Accused serial killer, 51-year-old Ivan Milat sat motionless before the court as he faced trial for what became known as ‘The Backpacker Murders.’..
Case 109: Belanglo (Part 4)
At 6:36 am on May 22 1994, a team of heavily armed police surrounded the Cinnabar Street home of Ivan Milat…
Case 109: Belanglo (Part 3)
After a witness comes forward to report a suspicious incident that occurred near Belanglo years earlier, the investigation quickly gains momentum…
Case 109: Belanglo (Part 2)
After the remains of two bodies are found in Belanglo State Forest, New South Wales police establish a task force to oversee the investigation into the double homicide…
Case 109: Belanglo (Part 1)
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, backpackers from across the globe flocked to Australia in search of sun, surf and adventure…
Case 75: Graeme Thorne
On June 1 1960, Sydney resident Bazil Thorne received a phone call informing that he’d just won one hundred thousand pounds…
Case 71: Elodie Morel
On May 2 2005, an officer at the Aigues-Mortes police station in Southern France received a phone call from a panicked man who warned, “A guy who just left my place is about to kidnap a girl. He’s armed, and I think he’s about to do something horrific.”
Case 64: Peter Weinberger
The Weinberger family was emblematic of 1950s suburban America. Husband and wife Betty and Morris lived in a modest home in Wesbury…
Case 58: Shannon Matthews
Nine-year-old Shannon Matthews lived with her family at the Moorside Council Estate in West Yorkshire, England…
Case 52: Mary & Beth Stauffer, Jason Wilkman
In May 1980, Mary Stauffer was a happily married mother-of-two, living in Minnesota. She and her family were about to make a big move to the Philippines, where Mary and her husband…
Case 33: Jaycee Lee Dugard
In the early 1990s, South Lake Tahoe was considered a safe and sheltered place to live. All that changed on June 10 1991, when 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard…
Case 25: Prue Bird
On February 2 1992, 13-year-old Prue Bird was preparing lunch in the kitchen of her family home in the Melbourne suburb of Glenroy…
Case 07: Julian Buchwald & Carolynne Watson
On March 4 2008, Julian Buchwald invited his girlfriend Carolynne Watson for a romantic picnic at his family’s property in Gippsland, Victoria…