Casefile True Crime

*** Content warnings: Animal cruelty *** After respected dermatologist Dr David Birkett was found bludgeoned to death in his Middlesbrough home, police struggled to uncover a motive or identify a susp...

*** Content warnings: Domestic violence, child sexual abuse, sexual assault, animal cruelty*** In mid-1989, in the small New South Wales Town of Taree, local residents and law enforcement alike began ...

*** Content warnings: Sexual assault *** 23-year-old Welsh backpacker Kirsty Jones had her whole life ahead of her when she set out for a two-year trip across Asia, Australia and South America. Tragic...

*** Content warnings: Gun violence *** Early on the morning of Sunday, May 10 2009, corporate attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano left home to take a bike ride around his neighbourhood in Guatemala Cit...

*** Content warnings: Child victim *** When doting mother Leanna Harris arrived to pick up her 22-month-old son Cooper Harris from daycare in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 18 2014, she was shocked to find...

23-year-old Jeff Gilham showed up on his neighbours’ doorstep in the early morning hours of August 28 1993, with a shocking claim. His older brother Christopher Gilham had just killed their parents, S...

*** Content warnings: Terrorism, gun violence *** In late 2015, a young pizza delivery man named Khalil Abu Rayyan from Dearborn Heights, Michigan, met and fell in love with a woman he met online. Jan...

*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, child abuse, child sexual abuse *** On Thursday, October 10 2013, passersby noticed a distraught-looking teenage girl, crying and shivering outside of Dublin’s Ge...

[Part 2 of 2] *** Content Warning: child victims, child sexual assault, child abuse*** As the search into the disappearance of three-year-old William Tyrrell reaches its third fruitless year, the inv...

[Part 1 of 2] *** Content Warning: child victims, child sexual assault *** It was a peaceful morning on Friday, September 12 2014, as three-year-old William Tyrrell played happily in the backyard of h...