Serial Killer
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…
Case 144: The Muswell Hill Murderer (Part 3)
As Dennis Nilsen prepares to face trial and the true extent of his murder spree begins to emerge, so many questions…
Case 144: The Muswell Hill Murderer (Part 2)
By the time Dennis Nilsen moved out of his flat at 195 Melrose Avenue in Cricklewood, he had already taken the lives of twelve victims…
Case 144: The Muswell Hill Murderer (Part 1)
When speciality plumbers arrived to inspect the drains at a property in the north London suburb of Muswell Hill…
Case 139: Beryl & Geraldine Evans (Part 2)
On March 24 1953, a tenant at 10 Rillington Place was renovating their kitchen when they made a shocking discovery…
Case 139: Beryl & Geraldine Evans (Part 1)
When newlyweds Beryl and Timothy Evans found out they were expecting their first child, they set about finding a place of their own to live…
Case 127: Killer Petey
Brazilian born Pedro Rodrigues Filho first felt the desire to kill at the age of 13. It wasn’t long before he gave into his desires…
Case 121: The Freeway Phantom
During the early 1970s in Washington, D.C, six black girls aged between 10 and 18 were abducted and murdered in separate brutal attacks…
Case 118: The Chicago Tylenol Murders
After seven residents of Chicago passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in 1982, authorities discovered they shared a common link…
Case 114: Elisa Claps & Heather Barnett
When teenager Elisa Claps mysteriously disappears after going to meet a friend in the Southern Italian town of Potenza…
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…