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Case 195: The Costa Mesa Murders
On the evening of May 22 2010, Steve Herr drove over to his son Sam’s apartment in Costa Mesa, California…
Case 193: Suesan Knorr & Sheila Sanders
On July 17, 1984, a deceased female was located in a deserted area near Lake Tahoe, California. Investigators were stumped as to her identity or her killer, who had horrifically murdered her by setting her alight…
Case 191: Sheree Beasley
Melbourne psychotherapist Margaret Hobbs was used to dealing with sex offenders. Many of her clients were men who had been referred to her through the court system after committing terrible crimes…
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 187: Peter & Joan Porco
In the early hours of Monday, November 15 2004, husband and wife Peter and Joan Porco were savagely attacked with an axe while they slept…
Case 185: Kim Chol
When Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong were offered the chance to star on a prank show that aired on YouTube, the young women thought it was the opportunity of a lifetime…
Case 184: Gay Gibson
Early on the morning of October 18 1947, a stewardess working on the ocean liner Durban Castle discovered something strange. The cabin belonging to an actress named Gay Gibson…
Case 183: The MacKenzie Family
In February 1993, a tragedy struck that would put a Western Australian town on the map for all the wrong reasons. 31-year-old single mother Karen MacKenzie and her three children, Daniel, Amara and Katrina were all sleeping peacefully…
Case 182: Freda Burnell & Florence Little
On February 5 1921, eight-year-old Freda Burnell went missing in the small coal mining town of Abertillery, Wales…
Case 181: The Vampire of Nuremberg
During the early ’70s, cemeteries and mortuaries throughout Germany were targeted by a particularly disturbing grave robber…
Case 180: Bill Payne & Billie-Jean Hayworth
When the bodies of Bill Payne and Billie-Jean Hayworth were discovered in their Mountain City, Tennessee home on January 30 2012, many questions were raised…
Case 179: Christie Marceau
On the morning of September 6 2011, Auckland teenager Christie Marceau was woken by a troubling phone call from an acquaintance named Akshay Chand…
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 176: Yingying Zhang
In 2017, the future looked bright for 26-year-old Yingying Zhang as she travelled from her hometown in China to study environmental science…
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 173: Rocio Wanninkhof & Sonia Carabantes
When 19-year-old Rocio Wanninkhof failed to return home after a night out with friends, her mother Alicia was immediately worried…
Case 172: Michael Gregsten & Valerie Storie
In August 1961, Michael Gregsten and Valerie Storie were sitting in their car in Dorney Reach, UK when an intruder forced his way into the backseat brandishing a gun…
Case 171: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis
On August 19 1988, two armed offenders entered a branch of the Deutsche Bank in Gladbeck, West Germany with the intention of holding it up…
Case 170: The Caffey Family
On February 29 2008, members of the Caffey Family were sleeping soundly in their Texas home when intruders suddenly stormed in and launched a brutal attack…
Case 169: Corinna Mullen
On October 2 1987, a council employee in Central City, Kentucky called police after finding an abandoned, blood-smeared Pontiac outside his workplace…
Case 167: Jai, Tyler & Bailey Farquharson
In Australia, Father’s Day falls on the first Sunday of September and is typically a time for families to gather together and celebrate…
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 162: Lawrence Haggart
In 1995, 15-year-old Scottish schoolboy Lawrence Haggart’s dreams came true when he was signed to join Celtic, an elite Scottish football club…
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 159: James Craig Anderson
When 47-year-old Mississippi resident James Craig Anderson realised he’d locked his keys in his car in the early morning hours of Sunday…
Case 157: The Strip Search Scam
The evening of April 9, 2004, started as a regular, uneventful shift for employees at a McDonald’s restaurant in Mount Washington, Kentucky…
Case 154: Steven Stayner
When seven-year-old Steven Stayner fails to return home from school on December 4 1972, life changes irrevocably…
Case 153: Anni Hindocha
Newlyweds Anni Hindocha and Shrien Dewani were looking forward to celebrating their honeymoon in South Africa…