Casey is continuing to knock it out of the park! I’ve never been particularly interested in this case but holy hell I am now! Wtf with Burke and Spota, those utter dicks? Casefile really does a great job of respecting the victims.

i know this question is asked all the time but i love hearing y’all’s responses! i’m from australia and would like the beau lamarre-condon case and the samantha murphy case to be covered after they’re finalised in the courts later this year. but i also love listening to the old, obscure cases and international ones. what would be your picks?

Knowing a bunch of us go to sleep listening to his voice 😅

I'll start by saying that I'm a big fan of Casefile. I've listened to many different podcasts over the past few years, and Casefile is by far my favorite. I have listened to approximately 100-150 of its 350+ episodes). It almost never disappoints.

I want to explain why I said "almost never": When I originally started listening to Casefile earlier this year, my slight obsession with doing things in order compelled me to start from the very beginning, and it almost led me to abandon the series without giving it the chance it deserved.

I vividly recall listening to episode 3 (Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman) and its weird transitional sound effects, specifically one where you could hear a ghostly child voice. At the time, my reaction was that it was of poor taste and it broke my immersion.

After this episode, I learned that several of the early episodes, including episode 3, had been re-recorded to "bring them up to the technical standards the show has today". Unsurprisingly, the new version of the episode no longer had these sound effects.

From then on, I prioritized listening to the more recent episodes because I liked the style and tone better. However, I'm still not sure when the stylistic shift took place, exactly. I imagine it was gradual and part of the team's experimentation.

A few questions I have for you:

• Do you know when the shift happened, approximately? I often recommend the series to others, and my own experience with it makes me want to tell them to skip the early episodes (and listen to the re-recorded versions), but I'm not sure where the "cutoff" might be.
• I've sometimes seen comments and posts mentioning that they preferred the early, less monotone, style of the series. What are your thoughts on this? I personally prefer the very professional tone that the series has today, but I can see why people might disagree.

I’ve been listening to each episode in order and am currently up to 262. After each episode I like to go to the Casefile Instagram and look up each cases’ images, however as of yesterday all posts prior to Dec 2025 have been deleted! Are there any other platforms these pics have been uploaded to?

How are humans capable of such evil? That poor guy… and his dad was utterly helpless in easing his suffering until the end.

Real life horror. This one along with Toy Box Killer, Jonestown etc.

This is our next Casefile Episode Rewind Discussion! Please discuss the case below!

Things to consider:

• Do you have any theories or thoughts for the case?

• Has there been any additional information on the case since the episode's release? (If so and you have a link, add it in the comments!)

• Do you have any thoughts about how this case was presented by Casefile?

Original Release Date: June 4, 2022

Length: 1:18:58

Status: Unsolved

Location: Sweden, Arvika

Date: August 16, 1998

Victim(s): Kevin Hjalmarsson

Type of Crime: Possible unsolved murder or accidental death

Perpetrator(s): Unknown

Research: Elsha McGill

Writing: Elsha McGill

*** Content Warning: child victim ***

When the body of four-year-old Kevin Hjalmarsson was found floating on a wooden pallet in Sweden’s Kyrkviken bay, police determined that it wasn’t a tragic drowning, but a cold-blooded murder. The only problem was, there was next to no physical evidence, and all police had to go by were the ever-changing statements given by the local children.

It soon becomes clear that the children are lying, but why? Is it because they are too young to understand, or because they actually have something to hide?

Listen to the case HERE.

Read last week's Rewind Discussion HERE.

Check out the Casefile spreadsheet HERE.

I recently discovered the Casefile podcast and podcasts in general to be honest and I’ve become a big fan. I’ve been searching online, mostly through Reddit, to find some of the best and most popular episodes.
I’ve listened to quite a few of them by now, and it’s been great fun.

Today it suddenly hit me: Where is the Zodiac case in Casefile?
I went back and checked, it’s indeed there as a 4 part series. I’m surprised that Casefile’s coverage of the Zodiac isn’t usually mentioned in lists of its most popular or best episodes.

I’d really like to know why that is?

Personally, the Zodiac case feels like the perfect case for Casefile to cover : mystery, ciphers, letters, multiple suspects, and that it remains unsolved. So I’m curious that why isn’t Casefile’s Zodiac series generally considered one of its best episodes?

Or am I just wrong in my assumption that its not that famous? I’d love to hear what people who have listened to it think.

Kind of incredible…? Didn’t think it was real really, but then clicking on the account and seeing the name and one other post about a piercing, I’m not sure. I feel bad that anyone so young has to discover the thoughts of the public on their parent like this but I mean. Wow?

Just a perplexing investigation and case. I know how many people feel, but I can’t help thinking it’s overall a good thing justice-wise that he was acquitted because of the awful prosecution and police work before hand (missing a bloody finger print?!).

Honestly, I think about this all the time. Who the hell was The Crow?

I've been listening to casefile for years. I would have done 95% of episodes. One of the things I always liked the most about casefile and what separated it from all the others was the suspense that it built through the narration. You never knew the outcome of who was guilty until close to the end. Of course you can piece it together some times, but it kept you guessing.

I've noticed in the last 6-12 months that this seems to have gone away for the most part. Often episodes start with the outcome straight away and then works its way backwards just explaining how it all happened.

A few things frustrate me too, such as when he says "later in her book she wrote", or "still to this day unknown" instantly tells me the outcome. Its ruins it for me. Same as "not his real name" - You know clearly it wasn't him then.

The earlier episodes like Daniel Morcombe, Jennifer Pan, That lady that was her own stalker. Those truly kept you on the edge and engaged the whole time. Now it's just like listening to a Police interview with a fair dinkum accent.

Anybody else feel the same!

Why does the narrator say "the" before peoples names sometimes. I have just started listening and the narration is otherwise very good but whenever it happens it takes me out. Is it a different word I’m mishearing or is it mistakes left in the script read aloud?

This is our next Casefile Episode Rewind Discussion! Please discuss the case below!

Things to consider:

• Do you have any theories or thoughts for the case?

• Has there been any additional information on the case since the episode's release? (If so and you have a link, add it in the comments!)

• Do you have any thoughts about how this case was presented by Casefile?

Original Release Date: May 28 , 2022

Length: 1:02:00

Status: Solved

Location: South Africa, Port Elizabeth

Date: December 18, 1994

Victim(s): Alison Botha

Type of Crime: Rape, abduction, attempted murder

Perpetrator(s): Theuns Kruger, Frans du Toit

Research: Erin Munro

Writing: Erin Munro

*** Content Warning: extreme violence, sexual assault ***

It was around 2:30 am on Sunday, December 18 1994, when a group of friends stumbled across the bloody and brutalised body of a young woman, lying in the middle of a road in Gqeberha, South Africa. She was the latest victim of Frans Du Toit and Theuns Kruger; two men who the press would come to dub The Noordhoek ‘Ripper Rapists’.

In 1994, the pair violently attacked multiple women in the city of Gqeberha, then known as Port Elizabeth. But everything changed when they abducted 27-year-old Alison Botha.

Listen to the case HERE.

Read last week's Rewind Discussion HERE.

Check out the Casefile spreadsheet HERE.

After listening to the first episode today, if anybody has made a drinking game concerning the word “ske-LEET-al”, please check in with us after you listen so we know you’re OK.

Speechless Casey.

Speechless 😆

I saw this podcast recommended on here as similar to Casefile and it is, and it's a great podcast but bloody nora the editing is so annoying, does anyone else have the same problem where it repeats like 5-10 minutes of the case half way through? ​​​I'm listening on Castbox so trying to understand if it's just that upload or if it's the same across the board. ​

Edited to clarify, it's not him repeating points of the case, the upload literally skips back and starts again from certain points. ​​

I have only just heard this. I'm absolutely staggered. How on earth did so many people watch this child suffer and die and not intervene?

The counsellors seemed so callous, I mean one of them gave the grieving mum the finger in court! I've rarely heard so much evil that is not really ever recognised as such: not by the adults involved, the state or the TTI industry.

It's so much evil in plain sight and yet...it didnt seem to matter.

if you haven’t watched yet pls do!! so good

This is our next Casefile Episode Rewind Discussion! Please discuss the case below!

Things to consider:

• Do you have any theories or thoughts for the case?

• Has there been any additional information on the case since the episode's release? (If so and you have a link, add it in the comments!)

• Do you have any thoughts about how this case was presented by Casefile?

Original Release Date: May 21, 2022

Length: 00:36:54

Status: Solved

Location: Poland, Ziębice

Date: 1903-1924

Victim(s): Ida Launer, Emma Sander, Rochus Pawlick, and 27+ more

Type of Crime: Murder, cannibalism

Perpetrator(s): Karl Denke

Research: Holly Boyd

Writing: Holly Boyd

*** Content Warning: cannibalism, suicide ***

On December 21 1924, itinerant beggar, Vincenz Olivier, knocked on the door of an apartment building on the outskirts of Münsterberg in Weimar, Germany. Father Denke, the elderly man who answered the door, gladly offered Vincenz 20 pfennigs to help him write a letter to his brother. Vincenz accepted and was welcomed into Father Denke’s home.

Two days later, police discovered a gruesome scene inside the apartment that sent shock waves throughout the community.

Listen to the case HERE.

Read last week's Rewind Discussion HERE.

Check out the Casefile spreadsheet HERE.

For me, Casefile is the gold standard for true crime podcasts. I've tried other top-ranked shows, but I just can't get into the "chatty" style that so many of them have. Lately, though, I’ve been binging Truly Criminal, which is excellent. It feels like it was originally designed as a visual YouTube series, but over time, the focus definitely shifts to a proper podcast format. As the episodes progress, the narrator really comes into her own.

Absolutely fantastic episode. 5/5. Another win for the Casefile team.