Shooting
Case 180: Bill Payne & Billie-Jean Hayworth
When Bill Payne met Billie-Jean Hayworth, his life changed for the better. He drank less, quit partying, and had eyes only for her. When Billie-Jean discovered she was pregnant, Bill was overjoyed…
Case 178: The Woman Without a Face
Between 1993 and 2009, over 40 crime scenes across Germany, Austria, and France were linked by DNA from one offender. It belonged to a woman of eastern European descent…
Case 175: Gail & Rick Brink
When newlyweds Gail and Rick Brink failed to show up to their respective jobs on the morning of November 23 1987, the alarm was immediately raised…
Case 174: Vicki Arnold & Julie-Anne Leahy
One cold winter night in 1991, best friends Vicki Arnold and Julie-Anne Leahy vanished from their town of Atherton, Queensland. The two women had left for a late-night fishing trip…
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 135: The Santa Claus Bank Robbery
On December 23 1927, the streets of Cisco, Texas were full of festive cheer as residents prepared for Christmas…
Case 90: Hoddle Street
19-year-old Julian Knight was obsessed with war and combat from a young age. He enrolled in the Royal Military Academy of Duntroon…
Case 70: The Kimberley Killer
In June 1987, the bodies of Phillip Walkemeyer, Julie Warren and Terry Bolt were found shot dead at a campsite at the Pentecost River…
Case 67: The Battle of Alcatraz
In the 1940s, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in the San Francisco Bay was a state-of-the-art facility. Deemed to be completely escape-proof…
Case 57: Walsh Street
At 11 PM on October 11 1988, Victoria Police Constables Steven Tynan and Damian Eyre began working the night shift in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran…
Case 45: Port Arthur
On April 28 1996, a lone gunman entered the Broad Arrow Café in Tasmania’s historic Port Arthur site and opened fire…
Case 18: The North Hollywood Shootout
When Larry Phillips Junior and Emil Mătăsăreanu entered the North Hollywood branch of the Bank of America on February 28 1997, no one could have predicted the chaos that was about to ensue…
Case 13: The Family Court Murders
In the 1980’s in Sydney Australia, Justice David Opas was shot dead outside his home and bombs were exploded at the homes of Justice Richard Gee and Justice Ray Watson…