Casefile True Crime Podcast
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Casefile (True Crime Podcast) | |
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Presentation | |
Hosted by | "Anonymous host" |
Genre |
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Language | English |
Production | |
Production | Mike Migas |
Theme music composed by | Mike Migas, Andrew Joslyn |
Audio format | Podcast |
No. of seasons | n/a |
No. of episodes | 79 + updates |
Publication | |
Debut | January 2016 |
Website | Official website |
Casefile True Crime Podcast, or simply Casefile, is a weekly (sometimes fortnightly) true crime themed podcast that first aired in Australia in January 2016 hosted by Brad from a town north of Sydney. He is known as the Anonymous host. Website freshlyworded.com revealed his anonymity was vital to the show continuing. The series deals with solved or cold criminal cases, often related to well-known murders and serial crimes. Most of the cases relate to Australian cases (e.g. Port Arthur), although notable crimes from the UK and the USA are also regularly featured,[1] and cases from Canada, New Zealand, Poland, Italy, and Guyana have also been included. Unlike a number of other podcasts, the series is scripted and narrative, relying primarily on original police or mass-media documents, eyewitness accounts, and interview or public announcement recordings.[2] Larger and more-complex cases, such as The Yorkshire Ripper, The Moors Murders, and The East Area Rapist, have received multiple-week serialised broadcasts, and case updates to previously aired cases are also provided from time to time. The series has been well received, and has won a number of awards since its debut, including Best of 2016 (iTunes).
Contents
Production
The podcast first aired on 9 January 2016[3] and was conceived by an "anonymous" Australian host who started producing the show in 2015 in his spare room.[1] The host had just had surgery and was listening to a lot of podcasts and true-crime shows (e.g. The Joe Rogan Experience, Hardcore History, Serial and Making A Murderer) at the time, and was encouraged by Joe Rogan to make his own based on in-depth research and a storytelling style.[4] According to one source, the host remains anonymous because "he wants the stories, facts, and questions speak for themselves"[5] and "It makes the show about the stories and that's it."[4] According to another review, the podcast's:
deliberately sparse production value became its strongest asset, plunging listeners into a pool of ambient silence with a host neither named nor contextualized. ... the podcast does not go the typical route of parading listeners through a montage of primary source material like evening news reports or interviews with now-wizened investigators; instead, the stories are unfolded slowly and methodically by the anonymous host, with just enough editorializing to make it feel like a friend or a witness is relaying the tale.[6]
In its current format, the 2018 Casefile team now consists of three researcher/writers, two composers, a designer, and the host/narrator.[7] It has also has a producer, Mike Migas, since about episode 7, which led to episodes 1.–6 being reworked.[4] Researchers have also travelled internationally to access primary resources in some cases, such as researcher and co-writer Anna Priestland, who travelled from Melbourne to visit the national archives in Kew in 2017 to examine police files on Myra Hindley.[1]
Each case includes a corresponding page on the podcast's official homepage, which details information such as special thank yous, official support phone numbers and websites (for Australia, UK, US, Canada, NZ), other credits, and resources (such as books, websites, videos, documents, articles, maps, wanted posters, and suspect sketches), as in this example. Warnings are regularly given at the start of podcasts due to the graphic content. It is available via numerous sites.[8] One episode, Case 55 (Simone Strobel, released 15 July 2017), has been removed due to legal issues, although general details of the case itself are publicly available.[9][10][11]
Episodes
(Note: release dates are based on the official website.)
2016
- Case 01: The Wanda Beach Murders - 9 January 2016
- Case 02: The Somerton Man - 16 January 2016
- Case 03: Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman - 23 January 2016
- Update - 24 April 2018
- Case 04: Who Put Bella In The ‘Witch’ Elm - 30 January 2016
- Case 05: Donna Wheeler - 6 February 2016
- Case 06: Roger Dean - 13 February 2016
- Case 07: Julian Buchwald and Carolynne Watson - 20 February 2016
- Case 08: Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman - 27 February 2016
- Case 09: Jonathan Luna - 5 March 2016
- Case 10: Peter Shellard - 12 March 2016
- Case 11: Anneliese Michel - 19 March 2016
- Case 12: Katherine Knight - 26 March 2016
- Case 13: The Family Court Murders - 2 April 2016
- Case 14: Helen Munnings - 9 April 2016
- Case 15: The Weepy Voiced Killer - 16 April 2016
- Case 16: Chris and Cru Kahui - 23 April 2016
- Case 17: The Eriksson Twins - 30 April 2016
- Case 18: The North Hollywood Shootout - 7 May 2016
- Case 19: Snowtown - 14 May 2016
- Case 20: Stoni Blair and Stephen Berry - 21 May 2016
- Case 21: Pamela Lawrence - 28 May 2016
- Case 22: Marguerite Edwards - 11 June 2016
- Case 23: The Frankston Serial Killer (Parts 1, 2) 18, 25 June 2016
- Case 24: Russell Street Bombing (Parts 1, 2) - 2, 9 July 2016
- Case 25: Prue Bird - 16 July 2016
- Case 26: Lisa Marie Young - 23 July 2016
- Update - 23 December 2016
- Case 27: The West Mesa Bone Collector - 30 July 2016
- Case 28: Lindsay Buziak - 6 August 2016
- Update - 24 August 2016
- Case 29: The Burgate House Murders - 13 August 2016
- Case 30: The Claremont Serial Killer - 20 August 2016
- Update - 23 December 2016
- Case 31: The Killer Couple - 27 August 2016
- Case 32: Grace and Kathleen Holmes - 4 September 2016
- Case 33: Jaycee Lee Dugard - 17 September 2016
- Case 34: The Catholic Mafia - 24 September 2016
- Case 35: Operation Mayan - 8 October 2016
- Case 36: Amok - 15 October 2016
- Case 37: The Yorkshire Ripper (Parts 1, 2, 3) - 22, 29 October, 5 November 2016
- Case 38: The Pikuls - 12 November 2016
- Case 39: Janelle Patton - 3 December 2016
- Case 40: John Newman - 10 December 2016
2017
- Case 41: Mr Cruel - 7 January 2017
- Case 42: Sherri Rasmussen - 14 January 2017
- Case 43: Keith Warren - 21 January 2017
- Case 44: Peter Falconio - 28 January 2017
- Case 45: Port Arthur - 11 February 2017
- Case 46: The Frankston and Tynong North Serial Killer - 18 February 2017
- Update - 22 October 2017
- Case 47: Yara Gambirasio - 25 February 2017
- Case 48: Suzy Lamplugh - 4 March 2017
- Case 49: The Moors Murders (Parts 1, 2, 3) - 18, 25 March, 1 April 2017
- Case 50: Jennifer Pan - 15 April 2017
- Case 51: Tina Watson - 22 April 2017
- Case 52: Mary & Beth Stauffer, Jason Wilkman - 6 May 2017
- Case 53: The East Area Rapist (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) - 14, 21, 27 May, 3, 4 June 2017
- Bonus Interviews (1, 2) - 15 June 2017
- Update - 25 April 2018
- Case 54: Daniel Morcombe - 1 July 2017
Case 55: Simone Strobel - 15 July 2017(removed from the official website, and unavailable from affiliates)- Case 56: Anita Cobby - 22 July 2017
- Case 57: Walsh Street - 29 July 2017
- Case 58: Shannon Matthews - 12 August 2017
- Case 59: Amy Lynn Bradley - 18 August 2017
- Case 60: Jonestown (Parts 1, 2, 3) - 16, 23 September 2017
- Case 61: The Lin Family - 30 September 2017
- Case 62: The Honolulu Strangler - 7 October 2017
- Case 63: Catherine Holmes and Georgina Watmore - 14 October 2017
- Case 64: Peter Weinberger - 28 October 2017
- Case 65: Allison Baden-Clay - 4 November 2017
- Case 66: The Black Widow - 11 November 2017
- Case 67: The Battle of Alcatraz - 18 November 2017
- Case 68: Escape from Alcatraz - 25 November 2017
- Case 69: Gary Patterson - 2 December 2017
- Case 70: The Kimberley Killer - 9 December 2017
- Case 71: Elodie Morel - 16 December 2017
2018
- Case 72: Wilhelmina Kruger and Anna Dowlingkoa - 13 January 2018
- Case 73: The Lady in the Barrel - 17 January 2018
- Case 74: Eric Coy - 20 January 2018
- Case 75: Graeme Thorne - 27 January 2018
- Case 76: Silk Road (Parts 1, 2, 3) - 10, 17, 24 February 2018
- Case 77: Mia Zapata - 11 March 2018
- Case 78: The Janabi Family - 17 March 2018
- Case 79: Rayna Rison - 25 March 2018
- Case 80: Beth Barnard - 8 April 2018
- Bonus Interview - 11 April 2018
- Case 81: Brian Wells - 15 April 2018
- Case 82: Maria Korp - 22 April 2018
Reception
Along with the recent rise in true crime podcasting, as seen in Serial or S-Town, the series has been reviewed positively by several sources:[12][4]
Rolling Stone (22 July 2016):
As Casefile points out in their tagline, fact is scarier than fiction. But what the podcast might really prove is that fact is even scarier when told in a thick Australian accent – especially when accompanied by ambient, pulsing noise from a trio of professional sound designers and musicians. In each weekly episode, which can run anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour and a half, the narrator... calmly tells a story of a devastating Australian crime. The podcast expertly covers murder and abduction, sometimes walking the listener through the criminal's trial, and other times discussing potential theories for a crime whose perpetrator was never caught.[13]
Evening Standard (28 March 2017):
The Australian-made show, which launched in January last year, has regularly featured in the UK’s top 10 podcasts on iTunes in recent months. It also regularly reaches the top 50 in the US chart, rising as high as fourth last July. ... Its mini-series on Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe received 5.8 million downloads — the most for a single case since the launch. Its most popular single episode was on British tourist Peter Falconio ... [which] has more than 4.2 million downloads. A series covering the Moors Murders ... had more than a million downloads in four days.[1]
Wicked Horror (13 November 2017):
...Casefile put an incredible amount of work into this series, treating it with the respect and attention it deserves. It is this kind of care that really shows why Casefile is my favorite true crime podcast.[14]
Awards
- Best of 2016 (iTunes)[15]
- CastAway 2017 Australian Podcast Awards[15]
- Discover Pods award (Most Innovative Podcast 2017)[16]
- Off the Charts 2017[15]
See also
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