Serial Killer
Case 261: Shari Smith & Debra May Helmick (Part 2)
When nine-year-old Debra May Helmick was abducted from the front of her family’s trailer in Richland County, South Carolina…
Case 261: Shari Smith & Debra May Helmick (Part 1)
When 17-year-old Shari Smith disappeared from the end of her family’s driveway in Lexington, South Carolina, there were immediate concerns…
Case 260: The Alpine Manor Murders
The Director of Nursing at the Alpine Manor Nursing Home in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was thrilled when Catherine Wood and Gwen Graham joined their team of nursing aides…
Case 252: Margaret Maher, Mersina Halvagis & Nicole Patterson
When Melbourne women Margaret Maher, Mersina Halvagis and Nicole Patterson were found brutally murdered in the late 1990s…
Case 247: Nina Puganova, Irina Trasyn & Anastasia Mikhailova
In the summer of 1980, Theodosius Glukharev received a series of harrowing deliveries to his home in Kishinev, Soviet Moldova…
Case 235: House of Horrors (Part 3)
More disturbing secrets are unearthed at 25 Cromwell Street as the investigation into Fred West leads detectives into the remote English countryside…
Case 235: House of Horrors (Part 2)
By 1992, Fred and Rose West were raising their children at their Cromwell Street home. At first glance, the Wests appeared to be a model family…
Case 235: House of Horrors (Part 1)
In early 1969, 15-year-old Rose Letts was waiting alone at a bus stop in the English town of Cheltenham when she was approached by a much older man…
Case 232: Jo, Michelle & Christe Rogers
For Jo Rogers and her two teenage daughters, Michelle and Christe, a trip to Florida seemed like a dream come true. In May 1989, the trio left their dairy farm in Willshire, Ohio and set out on their first ever interstate holiday…
Case 229: The Killer Realtor
On November 6 2003, a customer entered the Superbike Motorsports dealership in Chesnee, South Carolina. Nothing could prepare them for the grisly scene inside…
Case 226: El Mataviejitas
In 2003, 12 elderly women were killed in their homes in Mexico City. Most were strangled and robbed. Fears arose that a serial killer was on the loose…
Case 218: The Blackout Killers (Part 2)
In Berlin, Germany at the height of World War Two, a man took advantage of the Blackout orders at night to frighten and assault women in an isolated garden colony…
Case 218: The Blackout Killers (Part 1)
At the height of World War Two in London, a serial killer roamed the streets. In just one week in February 1942, he killed four women…
Case 215: The One-Man Crime Wave
On May 26 1978, four-year-old Eric Christgen suddenly disappeared while playing in a park in St Joseph, Missouri. The next day, his body was discovered near the Missouri River…
Case 212: The Forgotten Cannibal
On December 21 1924, itinerant beggar, Vincenz Olivier, knocked on the door of an apartment building on the outskirts of Münsterberg in Weimar, Germany…
Case 200: The Zodiac (Part 4)
On March 22 1970, 22-year-old Kathleen Johns suffered a terrifying encounter when her car broke down on a California highway. Was it possible she’d encountered the Zodiac Killer?
Case 200: The Zodiac (Part 3)
On September 27 1969, friends Cecelia Shepard and Bryan Hartnell were relaxing at Lake Berryessa, California, when their afternoon was suddenly interrupted by the arrival of a menacing figure…
Case 200: The Zodiac (Part 2)
On December 20 1968, teenagers David Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen were gunned down in the middle of the night on a deserted road in Benicia, California…
Case 200: The Zodiac (Part 1)
During the 1960s, California saw a wave of senseless, unsolved slayings. Cab driver Ray Davis was murdered in cold blood after an anonymous killer warned of his intentions…
Case 199: Truro
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…
Case 197: The Austrian Ripper
In 1974, a young woman named Margaret Schafer was strangled to death in her hometown of Ewersbach, Germany…
Case 190: The Butcher Baker (Part 2)
In June 1983, Cindy Paulson ran out onto a highway in Anchorage, barefoot and handcuffed. She was the prized prey of a prolific serial killer who…
Case 190: The Butcher Baker (Part 1)
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…
Case 186: The Bowraville Murders
When 16-year-old Colleen Walker suddenly vanished from the New South Wales town of Bowraville in September 1990, her family and friends knew something was terribly wrong…
Case 178: The Woman Without a Face
Between 1993 and 2009, DNA discovered at 40 crime scenes across Germany, Austria, and France were linked to an unknown woman of eastern European descent…
Case 166: The Family
In 1979, residents of Adelaide were gripped by fear when several young men began to go missing under mysterious circumstances…
Case 53: The Golden State Killer (Part 6)
This is the final installment in a Casefile series that was first released in 2017. It covers recent developments in the case and mentions…
Case 161: The Yosemite Sightseer Murders (Part 2)
After the decapitated body of 26-year-old naturalist Joie Armstrong is found in Yosemite’s Foresta region, investigators are quick to…
Case 161: The Yosemite Sightseer Murders (Part 1)
Carole Sund and her teenage daughter Juli were excited to take their family friend and Argentinian exchange student…
Case 150: The Murchison Murders
After the Western Australian gold rush of the late 1800s, there was little work available in the isolated Murchison region…