• 1 hour 1 minute
    Casefile Archives 11: North Hollywood Shootout

    *** Content Warning: gun violence ***

    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. What followed was 44 minutes of pure mayhem.


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    Casefile Archives is a series of special bonus releases revisiting the earliest years of the show. The re-run episodes have been completely edited, polished, re-recorded and freshly produced from start to finish to match our current production standards. They are not complete rewrites - our goal wasn’t to alter the cases or reshape the writing, but to preserve the original storytelling while giving the production the refinement it didn’t have when we started the show back in 2016. 


    Where appropriate, updates have been added, but the core structure and storytelling remain faithful to the originals. Because of this, these re-releases may sound a little different to our recent episodes, but they allow us to bring some of the earliest episodes up to the technical quality listeners expect today.


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    Narration – Anonymous Host

    Research & writing – Anonymous Host & Elsha McGill 

    Production & music – Mike Migas

    Audio editing – Anthony Telfer


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    23 May 2026, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    Casefile Archives 10: Ben McDaniel

    On Friday, August 20 2010, officers from the Holmes County Sheriff's Department were called to Vortex Spring, a commercially operated dive park just outside the Florida town of Ponce de Leon. A 30-year-old scuba diver from Tennessee by the name of Ben McDaniel had failed to resurface after diving into the narrow cave network under the basin of the spring two nights earlier, and nobody had seen or heard from him since. 


    When a recovery mission failed to find any sign of Ben, his loved ones and members of the cave diving community were left in shock. Was Ben stuck in an unexplored part of the cave somewhere, or was something else entirely at play?


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    Casefile Archives is a series of special bonus releases revisiting the earliest years of the show. The re-run episodes have been completely edited, polished, re-recorded and freshly produced from start to finish to match our current production standards. They are not complete rewrites - our goal wasn’t to alter the cases or reshape the writing, but to preserve the original storytelling while giving the production the refinement it didn’t have when we started the show back in 2016. 


    Where appropriate, updates have been added, but the core structure and storytelling remain faithful to the originals. Because of this, these re-releases may sound a little different to our recent episodes, but they allow us to bring some of the earliest episodes up to the technical quality listeners expect today.


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    Narration – Anonymous Host

    Research & writing – Elsha McGill 

    Production & music – Mike Migas

    Audio editing – Anthony Telfer


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    16 May 2026, 6:24 am
  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    Casefile Archives 9: The Frankston Serial Killer

    *** Content Warning: serial killer, extreme violence, animal cruelty ***

    In early 1993, Frankston resident Donna received a series of unnerving prank calls. Afraid of being home alone, she accompanied her boyfriend during his pizza delivery shift, only to return home to find her worst fears had come true. 


    Her pet cats had been killed, and written in blood on the lounge room wall were the words: ‘Donna, you’re dead.’ This marked the beginning of a five-month crime spree that terrorised locals and resulted in the murders of three young women – Elizabeth Stevens, Deborah Fream and Natalie Russell. 


    The perpetrator was dubbed ‘The Frankston Serial Killer’, but who was he, and when would he strike again?


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    Casefile Archives is a series of special bonus releases revisiting the earliest years of the show. The re-run episodes have been completely edited, polished, re-recorded and freshly produced from start to finish to match our current production standards. They are not complete rewrites - our goal wasn’t to alter the cases or reshape the writing, but to preserve the original storytelling while giving the production the refinement it didn’t have when we started the show back in 2016. 


    Where appropriate, updates have been added, but the core structure and storytelling remain faithful to the originals. Because of this, these re-releases may sound a little different to our recent episodes, but they allow us to bring some of the earliest episodes up to the technical quality listeners expect today.


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    Narration – Anonymous Host

    Research & writing – Anonymous Host

    Additional writing & editing – Erin Munro

    Production & music – Mike Migas

    Audio editing – Anthony Telfer


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    9 May 2026, 8:53 am
  • 1 hour 49 minutes
    Case 339: Waco (Part 3/3)

    [Part 3 of 3]

    *** Content warning: Gun violence, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, child abuse ***

    The standoff between the FBI and the Branch Davidians held firm for more than a month, with David Koresh and his followers refusing to surrender. After attempting both negotiation tactics and more aggressive approaches for 51 days, the FBI implements a plan to force the Branch Davidians out, a plan that will have devastating consequences and will change the face of the United States forever.


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    Narration – Anonymous Host

    Research & writing – Erin Munro

    Production & music – Mike Migas

    Audio editing – Anthony Telfer


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    2 May 2026, 7:23 am
  • 1 hour 29 minutes
    Case 339: Waco (Part 2/3)

    [Part 2 of 3]

    *** Content warning: Gun violence, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, child abuse ***

    In 1992, a chance discovery by a UPS delivery driver would lead to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives – commonly known as the ATF – launching an investigation into David Koresh’s activities at Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas. Upon discovering that Koresh’s Branch Davidians were stockpiling illegal weapons, the agency began planning a raid that was also intended to boost their image with the public… but the consequences would be disastrous.


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    Narration – Anonymous Host

    Research & writing – Erin Munro

    Production & music – Mike Migas

    Audio editing – Anthony Telfer


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    25 April 2026, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 29 minutes
    Case 339: Waco (Part 1/3)

    [Part 1 of 3]

    *** Content warning: Gun violence, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, child abuse ***

    In 1981, a 20-year-old named Vernon Howell drove more than two hours from his hometown in east Texas to visit a church near Waco that was home to a group known as the Branch Davidians. Vernon would be welcomed into the church’s fold, setting off a course of events that would ultimately end in tragedy and permanently alter the United States of America.


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    Narration – Anonymous Host

    Research & writing – Erin Munro

    Production & music – Mike Migas

    Audio editing – Anthony Telfer


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    18 April 2026, 7:28 am
  • 1 hour 41 minutes
    Case 338: The Folbigg Children (Part 2/2)

    [Part 2 of 2]

    *** Content warning: child victims ***

    As police looked into the deaths of Caleb, Patrick, Sarah and Laura Folbigg, they were introduced to Meadows Law – the theory that one infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious, but three is murder. With suspicion mounting against Kathleen Folbigg, years of investigation eventually led to a legal outcome that no one could have ever seen coming.


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    Narration – Anonymous Host

    Research & writing – Elsha McGill

    Production & music – Mike Migas

    Audio editing – Anthony Telfer


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    11 April 2026, 7:20 am
  • 1 hour 32 minutes
    Case 338: The Folbigg Children (Part 1/2)

    [Part 1 of 2]

    *** Content warning: child victims ***

    Married couple Craig and Kathleen Folbigg wanted nothing more than to be parents. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, Kathleen gave birth to four children—Caleb, Patrick, Sarah and Laura—but tragically, none of them survived past their second birthdays. While each death was initially attributed to natural causes, the question started to emerge – had Kathleen done something to harm her children?


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    Narration – Anonymous Host

    Research & writing – Elsha McGill

    Production & music – Mike Migas

    Audio editing – Anthony Telfer


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    4 April 2026, 8:48 am
  • 1 hour 31 minutes
    Case 337: Test A.rtf (Part 4/4)

    [Part 4 of 4]

    *** Content warning: child victims ***

    As police closed in on the elusive B.T.K, they received a floppy disk that contained some stunning information – including the name: Dennis...


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    Narration – Anonymous Host

    Research & writing – Milly Raso

    Production & music – Mike Migas

    Audio editing – Anthony Telfer


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    28 March 2026, 7:56 am
  • 1 hour 30 seconds
    Case 337: Test A.rtf (Part 3/4)

    [Part 3 of 4]

    *** Content warning: child victims ***

    B.T.K resumed his cat-and-mouse game with police, who raced to identify and capture the serial killer before he could strike again…


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    Narration – Anonymous Host

    Research & writing – Milly Raso

    Production & music – Mike Migas

    Audio editing – Anthony Telfer


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    21 March 2026, 7:00 am
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    Case 337: Test A.rtf (Part 2/4)

    [Part 2 of 4]

    *** Content warning: child victims ***

    After claiming seven victims and terrorising Wichita for nearly three decades, the unidentified killer known as B.T.K. suddenly fell silent.


    Then, in 2004, a letter bearing his unmistakable signature arrived at a local newspaper…


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    Narration – Anonymous Host

    Research & writing – Milly Raso

    Production & music – Mike Migas

    Audio editing – Anthony Telfer


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    14 March 2026, 5:30 am
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