- 1 hour 22 minutesCase 346: Megumi Yokota
*** Content warnings: Child abduction ***
When 13-year-old Megumi Yokota failed to return home from her regular badminton practice on November 15 1977, her parents immediately raised the alarm.
The police in Niigata, Japan, conducted one of the city’s largest ever investigations, but no trace of Megumi was ever found. Two decades later, the case took a shocking turn that would rock the entire nation of Japan and have geopolitical ramifications…
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Narration – Anonymous Host
Research & writing – Erin Munro
Production & music – Mike Migas
Audio editing – Anthony Telfer
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11 July 2026, 8:05 am - 1 hour 38 minutesCase 345: The Barking Murders
*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, drug use, suicide, homophobia ***
Over a 16-month period between 2014 and 2015, four young men—Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor—each died under unusual circumstances in the East London suburb of Barking.
While the police initially palmed the deaths off as isolated incidents, the families of the four men believed something suspicious was at play. All of the men had been found near or in a churchyard, all had died from dangerously high levels of GHB, and none had a reason to be in the area. When CCTV footage forced detectives to revisit the evidence, what they uncovered was shocking.
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Narration – Anonymous Host
Research & writing – Elsha McGill
Production & music – Mike Migas
Audio editing – Anthony Telfer
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4 July 2026, 8:40 am - 1 hour 59 minutesCase 344: Amerithrax
In the tense weeks following the September 11 terror attacks in 2001, a new and invisible threat emerged across the United States. Letters laced with weaponised anthrax began arriving through the mail, infecting ordinary people and spreading fear nationwide.
As the possibility of bioterrorism gripped the country, a massive federal investigation codenamed Amerithrax was launched to uncover who was behind the attacks…
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Narration – Anonymous Host
Research & writing – Milly Raso
Production & music – Mike Migas
Audio editing – Anthony Telfer
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27 June 2026, 9:32 am - 1 hour 42 minutesCase 343: John Zera
*** Content warnings: Child victims, sexual assault ***
On February 28 1976, the suburban community of Hales Corners, Wisconsin, was rocked when the body of missing schoolboy, 14-year-old John Zera, was discovered in a local park. The teenager hadn’t been seen for over a week, having gone missing in the middle of the school day without so much as a word.
Over the next few years, the investigation into John’s brutal murder was plagued by mistakes and misconduct before eventually going cold. Thirty years later, the case was resurrected after police discovered a chilling scene.
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Narration – Anonymous Host
Research & writing – Brianne Jaskulski
Production & music – Mike Migas
Audio editing – Anthony Telfer
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20 June 2026, 8:04 am - 1 hour 40 minutesCase 342: Julia Wallace
When 52-year-old Julia Wallace was found brutally murdered in her Liverpool home in 1931, no one could have anticipated the complex and challenging investigation that would follow, centring on her husband, William, and a mysterious figure known only as R. M. Qualtrough.
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Narration – Anonymous Host
Research & writing – Milly Raso
Production & music – Mike Migas
Audio editing – Anthony Telfer
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13 June 2026, 8:30 am - 1 hour 46 minutesCase 341: The Christchurch Civic Creche
*** Content warning: Child sexual abuse ***
Late in 1991, a child said something strange to his mother: ‘I don’t like Peter’s black penis.’ Believing this was an indication that her son was being abused by Peter Ellis, a 33-year-old employee at the Christchurch Civic Creche her son attended, the concerned mother quickly filed a report. The case would soon snowball into one of New Zealand’s biggest and most controversial criminal cases…
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Narration – Anonymous Host
Research & writing – Erin Munro
Production & music – Mike Migas
Audio editing – Anthony Telfer
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6 June 2026, 6:00 am - 1 hour 34 minutesCase 340: Elisabeth Membrey
*** Content warning: Sexual assault ***
When 22-year-old aspiring journalist Elisabeth Membrey failed to answer her phone on December 7 1994, her loved ones knew something was wrong. A visit to her Ringwood East unit confirmed their suspicions when blood stains were found on the carpet, but Elisabeth herself was nowhere to be seen.
With Elisabeth’s disappearance declared to be a homicide, her parents, Roger and Joy Membrey, refused to give up the search for answers. But with one twist after another, they could never have anticipated the journey that lay ahead.
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Narration – Anonymous Host
Research & writing – Elsha McGill
Production & music – Mike Migas
Audio editing – Anthony Telfer
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30 May 2026, 6:00 am - 1 hour 1 minuteCasefile Revisited: North Hollywood Shootout
Casefile Revisited features newly re-recorded versions of classic episodes, revisiting the stories with enhanced production, fresh narration, and updated research where possible.
*** Content warnings: 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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Narration – Anonymous Host
Research & writing – Anonymous Host & Elsha McGill
Production & music – Mike Migas
Audio editing – Anthony Telfer
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The North Hollywood Shootout episode was originally released in May 2016.
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23 May 2026, 6:00 am - 1 hour 12 minutesCasefile Extra: Ben McDaniel
Casefile Extra features bonus episodes exploring compelling cases, stories and topics beyond our regular weekly releases.
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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Narration – Anonymous Host
Research & writing – Elsha McGill
Production & music – Mike Migas
Audio editing – Anthony Telfer
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Ben McDaniel case was originally released as a premium episode in October 2025.
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16 May 2026, 6:24 am - 1 hour 3 minutesCasefile Revisited: The Frankston Serial Killer
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*** Content warnings: 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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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 minutesCase 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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