Casefile True Crime

*** Content warning: Extreme sexual violence, captivity ***[Part 2 of 2]As the years of abuse, torture and confinement to the bed box continued for Colleen Stan, she remained paralysed by her fear of ...

*** Content warning: Extreme sexual violence, captivity ***[Part 1 of 2]When Colleen Stan’s family received an unexpected phone call from Colleen in June 1980, they were stunned. No one had seen or sp...

In the spring of 2005, two 18-year-olds met in an online chat room and immediately hit it off. Jessi went by the username TalHotBlond, while her new friend Tommy called himself MarineSniper. It wasn’t...

In March 1977, school bus driver Mary Gillespie started receiving threatening letters delivered to her home in Circleville, Ohio. It wasn’t long before her husband, Ron Gillespie, also received the le...

For Marea Yann, two things mattered most in life - family and community. When the 69-year-old was found violently bludgeoned to death in her Healesville home, the small Victorian town was left shaken....

*** Content warning: Child victim, child abuse, suicide, grooming ***When 14-year-old Andrew Gosden mysteriously disappeared from his home in the UK suburb of Doncaster, evidence emerged to indicate t...

When Brian and Beverly Barry returned from a weekend away to discover their 19-year-old daughter Kim was gone, they initially assumed she was out with friends. Then news broke that a body had been fou...

*** Content warning: Domestic violence, sexual assault ***In Pakistani culture, arranged marriages are common.  So when the parents of Samia Shahid chose a husband for her, Samia agreed to the marriag...

*** Content warning: Sexual assault ***[Part 2 of 2]When nine-year-old Debra May Helmick was abducted from the front of her family’s trailer in Richland County, South Carolina, there were immediate co...

*** Content warning: Sexual assault ***[Part 1 of 2]When 17-year-old Shari Smith disappeared from the end of her family's driveway in Lexington, South Carolina, there were immediate concerns for her w...