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Case Files brings you the most shocking true crime stories ever told — serial killers, unsolved murders, cold cases and criminal investigations. Every season covers one complete case, with new episodes published daily. Subscribe for your daily dose of true crime.
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S6 E1: The Man Who Escaped
On 22 July 1991, Tracy Edwards escapes from Apartment 213 with a handcuff on his wrist and flags down two Milwaukee police officers — ending thirteen years of murder. This is the night the door opened on …
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On 22 July 1991, Tracy Edwards escapes from Apartment 213 with a handcuff on his wrist and flags down two Milwaukee police officers — ending thirteen years of murder. This is the night the door opened on Jeffrey Dahmer, the Milwaukee Cannibal, and the seventeen young men who never came home. Season 6 opens with the arrest that exposed it all. New episodes daily — one complete case every season.
Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S5 E8: The Names That Remained
In 2011, eight of John Wayne Gacy's victims still had no names — until DNA, a sheriff's reopened investigation, and one family's cheek swab began bringing them home. This season finale traces how William Bundy …
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In 2011, eight of John Wayne Gacy's victims still had no names — until DNA, a sheriff's reopened investigation, and one family's cheek swab began bringing them home. This season finale traces how William Bundy, Jimmie Haakenson, and Francis Wayne Alexander were identified decades later, and why five young men are still waiting for their names. New episodes daily — one complete case every season. Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S5 E7: Fourteen Years on Death Row
John Wayne Gacy spent fourteen years on death row at Menard Correctional Center — appealing his sentence, painting hundreds of clown portraits that sold at auction, and insisting on his innocence while victims' …
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John Wayne Gacy spent fourteen years on death row at Menard Correctional Center — appealing his sentence, painting hundreds of clown portraits that sold at auction, and insisting on his innocence while victims' families waited. This episode traces those fourteen years, from the 1980 death sentence through the denied appeals to his execution on 10 May 1994, and asks what justice meant for the families left behind. New episodes daily — one complete case every season. Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S5 E6: The Trial
In February 1980, John Wayne Gacy stood trial in Chicago on thirty-three murder charges — the largest number ever brought against one person in the United States. This episode follows the five-week trial: the …
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In February 1980, John Wayne Gacy stood trial in Chicago on thirty-three murder charges — the largest number ever brought against one person in the United States. This episode follows the five-week trial: the families who testified, the insanity defence, the survivor who broke down on the stand, and the jury that took less than two hours to return guilty verdicts on every count. How did a respected neighbour, businessman and clown convince a courtroom he was insane — and why did the jury reject it so fast? Marcus traces the prosecution's case for planning and control, the battle of the psychiatrists, and the death sentence handed down on 13 March 1980. New episodes daily — one complete case every season. Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S5 E5: The Crawl Space
In December 1978, investigators digging beneath John Wayne Gacy's Chicago house found not one grave, but dozens — 26 bodies in a dirt crawl space, more on the property, and four more recovered from the river …
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In December 1978, investigators digging beneath John Wayne Gacy's Chicago house found not one grave, but dozens — 26 bodies in a dirt crawl space, more on the property, and four more recovered from the river. This episode follows the weeks-long excavation and the painstaking work of naming the victims through dental records, X-rays, and the families who never stopped looking. A flashlight in the dirt. A grid mapped in the ground. Names, one by one, coming back into the light. New episodes daily — one complete case every season. Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S5 E4: The Vanishing Years
Between 1975 and 1978, young men kept vanishing around Chicago contractor John Wayne Gacy — employees arguing over unpaid wages, teenagers digging trenches in a crawl space, friends out together — and nobody …
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Between 1975 and 1978, young men kept vanishing around Chicago contractor John Wayne Gacy — employees arguing over unpaid wages, teenagers digging trenches in a crawl space, friends out together — and nobody connected the disappearances until it was far too late. This episode traces the vanishing years: John Butkovich, Gregory Godzik, John Szyc, and the warnings their families gave that went unheard. A car with the keys still in the ignition. A dead boy's car, sold on. How many warnings does a city need? New episodes daily — one complete case every season. Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S5 E3: The First Victim
It is three in the morning in a Chicago bus terminal, and a sixteen-year-old boy waiting for his bus home will never board it. In this episode, Marcus tells the story of Timothy McCoy — John Wayne Gacy's first …
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It is three in the morning in a Chicago bus terminal, and a sixteen-year-old boy waiting for his bus home will never board it. In this episode, Marcus tells the story of Timothy McCoy — John Wayne Gacy's first known victim — and the long, quiet years when young men vanished around Chicago and nobody saw the pattern. How did a boy on a layover become Body Nine, and why did the warnings keep arriving alone? New episodes daily — one complete case every season. Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S5 E2: The Search Warrant
Ten days after Robert Piest vanished, police finally got inside the house on Summerdale Avenue — and what they found in the crawl space changed everything. In this episode, Marcus follows the first search …
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Ten days after Robert Piest vanished, police finally got inside the house on Summerdale Avenue — and what they found in the crawl space changed everything. In this episode, Marcus follows the first search warrant of 13 December 1978, the photograph receipt, the week of surveillance, and the second warrant on 21 December that uncovered human remains beneath the floorboards. New episodes daily — one complete case every season. Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S5 E1: The Man Next Door
He was Pogo the Clown, a respected contractor and the neighbour everybody trusted — until a fifteen-year-old boy walked out of a Des Plaines pharmacy and never came home. In this season opener, Marcus traces …
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He was Pogo the Clown, a respected contractor and the neighbour everybody trusted — until a fifteen-year-old boy walked out of a Des Plaines pharmacy and never came home. In this season opener, Marcus traces how John Wayne Gacy built his respectable double life, and how Robert Piest's disappearance on 11 December 1978 finally brought police to the house on Summerdale Avenue. A mother waited in the pharmacy for her son; the answers waiting under that house would shock America. New episodes daily — one complete case every season. Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S4 E8: The Confession and the Sentence
Thirty-one years after the first murder, Dennis Rader stands in a Wichita courtroom and pleads guilty to ten murders — then describes them in a flat, chilling voice. In this season finale, Marcus follows the …
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Thirty-one years after the first murder, Dennis Rader stands in a Wichita courtroom and pleads guilty to ten murders — then describes them in a flat, chilling voice. In this season finale, Marcus follows the thirty-two-hour confession, the families' devastating courtroom statements, the August 18, 2005 sentencing to ten consecutive life terms, and Kerri Rawson's journey from disbelief to speaking out. The case is closed, but the names of the ten victims are the ones worth remembering. New episodes daily — one complete case every season. Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S4 E7: The Arrest
A purple floppy disk, a deleted file, and a name hidden in its metadata — this is how thirty-one years of fear in Wichita ended. In S4 E7, host Marcus traces the nine days from the disk's arrival on February …
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A purple floppy disk, a deleted file, and a name hidden in its metadata — this is how thirty-one years of fear in Wichita ended. In S4 E7, host Marcus traces the nine days from the disk's arrival on February 16, 2005 to Dennis Rader's quiet arrest near his Park City home on February 25, 2005, and the DNA match that made it possible. New episodes daily — one complete case every season. Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S4 E6: The Taunt
Thirty years after his first murders, BTK could not stand being forgotten — so he wrote again, and asked police one fatal question: can a floppy disk be traced? In this episode, Marcus follows the 2004 taunt …
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Thirty years after his first murders, BTK could not stand being forgotten — so he wrote again, and asked police one fatal question: can a floppy disk be traced? In this episode, Marcus follows the 2004 taunt that ended a thirty-one-year hunt: the anniversary story, the cereal-box packages, the classified-ad trap, and the deleted file whose metadata named Dennis and Christ Lutheran Church. New episodes daily — one complete case every season. Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S4 E5: The Double Life
The killer installed burglar alarms in homes terrified of BTK — because he was BTK. In this episode, Marcus uncovers Dennis Rader's double life: fourteen years at ADT Security, president of his church council …
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The killer installed burglar alarms in homes terrified of BTK — because he was BTK. In this episode, Marcus uncovers Dennis Rader's double life: fourteen years at ADT Security, president of his church council, Cub Scout leader, and Park City's feared compliance officer, hiding in plain sight for thirty-one years. New episodes daily — one complete case every season. Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S4 E4: The Return
Seventeen years, ten lives: in this episode, Marcus follows BTK's return — Shirley Vian in 1977, Nancy Fox the same year, then the long silence before Marine Hedge in 1985, Vicki Wegerle in 1986, and Dolores …
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Seventeen years, ten lives: in this episode, Marcus follows BTK's return — Shirley Vian in 1977, Nancy Fox the same year, then the long silence before Marine Hedge in 1985, Vicki Wegerle in 1986, and Dolores Davis, his final victim, in 1991. The pattern held even when the calendar went quiet. New episodes daily — one complete case every season. Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S4 E3: The Letters
October 1974: a phone call to the Wichita Eagle leads police to a letter hidden inside a library book — the letter in which a killer gave himself the name BTK. In this episode, Marcus follows the letters of …
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October 1974: a phone call to the Wichita Eagle leads police to a letter hidden inside a library book — the letter in which a killer gave himself the name BTK. In this episode, Marcus follows the letters of 1974 to 1979: the library book, the 1978 KAKE television package, the poems, and the 1979 packages sent to Anna Williams, the woman who was not home — and why the letters stopped, and what they left behind. New episodes daily — one complete case every season. Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S4 E2: Project Lights Out
April 4, 1974: Kathryn Bright, 21, comes home with her brother Kevin — and walks into the killer's trap. In this episode, Marcus tells how Kevin Bright became the first person ever to survive BTK and describe …
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April 4, 1974: Kathryn Bright, 21, comes home with her brother Kevin — and walks into the killer's trap. In this episode, Marcus tells how Kevin Bright became the first person ever to survive BTK and describe him, the composite sketch that flooded Kansas with tips, and why the sister who fought back matters more than the killer's name. New episodes daily — one complete case every season. Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S4 E1: The Otero Family
Wichita, Kansas, January 15, 1974: four members of the Otero family are murdered in their own home, and the city has no suspect, no motive, and no witness. In this season opener, Marcus traces the crime that …
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Wichita, Kansas, January 15, 1974: four members of the Otero family are murdered in their own home, and the city has no suspect, no motive, and no witness. In this season opener, Marcus traces the crime that started it all — the weeks of watching, the cut phone lines, the three children who came home from school — and the letter nine months later in which the killer gave himself a name: BTK. New episodes daily — one complete case every season. Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S3 E8: The Confessions
Ted Bundy spent ten years denying everything — then, with the execution date set, he finally started talking. In this season finale, we follow his last interviews, the confession to thirty murders, the morning …
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Ted Bundy spent ten years denying everything — then, with the execution date set, he finally started talking. In this season finale, we follow his last interviews, the confession to thirty murders, the morning of January 24, 1989 in the Florida death chamber, and the astonishing 2026 DNA breakthrough that closed Laura Ann Aime's case fifty-two years after her death. The man is gone, but the evidence keeps speaking.
New episodes daily — one complete case every season.
Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S3 E7: The Trial
Miami, summer nineteen seventy-nine: Ted Bundy walks into court in a suit, defends himself, and becomes the first murder defendant broadcast live on national television. Tonight on Case Files: the Chi Omega …
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Miami, summer nineteen seventy-nine: Ted Bundy walks into court in a suit, defends himself, and becomes the first murder defendant broadcast live on national television. Tonight on Case Files: the Chi Omega trial, the bite-mark evidence that convicted him, the witnesses who refused to look away, and the Orlando trial where he married a witness on the stand — and earned his third death sentence. New episodes daily — one complete case every season.
Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S3 E6: The Final Victim
February ninth, nineteen seventy-eight: twelve-year-old Kimberly Leach walked out of her first-period class at Lake City Junior High — and never came back. Tonight on Case Files: the abduction of Ted Bundy's …
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February ninth, nineteen seventy-eight: twelve-year-old Kimberly Leach walked out of her first-period class at Lake City Junior High — and never came back. Tonight on Case Files: the abduction of Ted Bundy's youngest and final victim, the seven-week search, the stolen orange Volkswagen Beetle, and the one o'clock in the morning traffic stop in Pensacola where Officer David Lee finally put a name to the most wanted man in America. New episodes daily — one complete case every season.
Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S3 E5: Tallahassee
January fifteenth, nineteen seventy-eight: just two weeks after escaping jail, Ted Bundy slipped into Florida State University's Chi Omega sorority house — and committed the crimes that would finally convict …
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January fifteenth, nineteen seventy-eight: just two weeks after escaping jail, Ted Bundy slipped into Florida State University's Chi Omega sorority house — and committed the crimes that would finally convict him. Tonight on Case Files: the murders of Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy, the two survivors who lived to testify, the one eyewitness on the stairs, and the bite-mark evidence that matched Bundy's teeth in court. New episodes daily — one complete case every season.
Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S3 E4: The Escapes
He jumped from a second-story courthouse window in Aspen, then starved himself thin enough to slip through a hole in his jail cell ceiling. Twice, Ted Bundy escaped — and twice, the system let it happen. In …
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He jumped from a second-story courthouse window in Aspen, then starved himself thin enough to slip through a hole in his jail cell ceiling. Twice, Ted Bundy escaped — and twice, the system let it happen. In this episode, Case Files traces the six days on the run in Colorado, the months of sawing in the dark at Garfield County Jail, and the FBI's Ten Most Wanted poster that never reached Florida — where a college town had no idea what was coming.
New episodes daily — one complete case every season.
Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S3 E3: The Utah Years
Ted Bundy came to Utah to start over — law school, church, a quiet rented room. Instead, Utah became the place his mask cracked. A fake police officer in a mall parking lot, a seventeen-year-old who escaped a …
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Ted Bundy came to Utah to start over — law school, church, a quiet rented room. Instead, Utah became the place his mask cracked. A fake police officer in a mall parking lot, a seventeen-year-old who escaped a handcuffed nightmare, the police chief's own daughter, and a Halloween night that stayed unsolved for fifty-two years. This is the story of the Utah years — where the survivors began to talk, and the killer learned the walls were closing in.
New episodes daily — one complete case every season.
Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S3 E2: Lake Sammamish
On the fourteenth of July, nineteen seventy-four, Ted Bundy abducted two young women from a crowded beach in broad daylight — Janice Ott, twenty-three, and Denise Naslund, nineteen. This episode reconstructs …
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On the fourteenth of July, nineteen seventy-four, Ted Bundy abducted two young women from a crowded beach in broad daylight — Janice Ott, twenty-three, and Denise Naslund, nineteen. This episode reconstructs that hot Sunday afternoon at Lake Sammamish State Park: the sling, the sailboat that never existed, the eight witnesses, the two hundred tips a day, and the composite sketch on the evening news that his own girlfriend, professor, and coworkers recognized — while detectives insisted a clean-cut law student could not be the killer.
New episodes daily — one complete case every season.
Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S3 E1: The Man Behind the Smile
Season 3 opens on the Ted Bundy case — the most infamous name in true crime. This episode peels back the mask: the law student, the crisis-hotline volunteer, the charming boyfriend — and the winter of 1974 …
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Season 3 opens on the Ted Bundy case — the most infamous name in true crime. This episode peels back the mask: the law student, the crisis-hotline volunteer, the charming boyfriend — and the winter of 1974, when young women began vanishing across Washington state. From the folded nightgown in Lynda Ann Healy's bedroom to the crowded beach at Lake Sammamish, where a handsome stranger called himself "Ted," hear how police got his name, his car, and his face — and still looked the other way.
New episodes daily — one complete case every season.
Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S2 E8: Justice, Forty Years Late
After forty years and eighty-seven victims, the Golden State Killer finally faces the people he destroyed. This episode takes you inside the extraordinary sentencing at Sacramento State — three days of survivor …
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After forty years and eighty-seven victims, the Golden State Killer finally faces the people he destroyed. This episode takes you inside the extraordinary sentencing at Sacramento State — three days of survivor statements, a guilty plea to thirteen murders, and eleven consecutive life sentences without parole. Hear how Joseph DeAngelo was caught, what he admitted, and why the victims' voices — not his — close this case. The season finale of the Golden State Killer arc.
New episodes daily — one complete case every season.
Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S2 E7: The Arrest
The manhunt lasted forty-four years. In S2 E7, it ends with a trash bag on a Tuesday morning — investigators watch 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo wheel his bin to the curb in Citrus Heights, and discarded …
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The manhunt lasted forty-four years. In S2 E7, it ends with a trash bag on a Tuesday morning — investigators watch 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo wheel his bin to the curb in Citrus Heights, and discarded DNA finally names the Golden State Killer. The quiet grandfather arrested in his own driveway, the cop-turned-predator's unmasking, and the survivors who waited decades for this moment.
New episodes daily — one complete case every season.
Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S2 E6: The Family Tree
The Golden State Killer hunted California for more than a decade — then vanished for forty years. In S2 E6, investigator Paul Holes and genetic genealogist Barbara Rae-Venter build a family tree from a single …
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The Golden State Killer hunted California for more than a decade — then vanished for forty years. In S2 E6, investigator Paul Holes and genetic genealogist Barbara Rae-Venter build a family tree from a single DNA sample, tracing distant cousins through public genealogy databases to one quiet suburban man. This is how forensic genetic genealogy cracked the most famous cold case in American history.
New episodes daily — one complete case every season.
Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S2 E5: The Writer Who Named Him
Before Joseph James DeAngelo was caught, one woman hunted him for five years — writer Michelle McNamara, who coined the name "Golden State Killer" and gave forty years of scattered crimes a single identity. Her …
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Before Joseph James DeAngelo was caught, one woman hunted him for five years — writer Michelle McNamara, who coined the name "Golden State Killer" and gave forty years of scattered crimes a single identity. Her book I'll Be Gone in the Dark became a bestseller after her death in 2016 — and two months after it was published, the killer was finally arrested.
She never saw the arrest. She never wrote the ending. But she dragged the case into the light anyway. New episodes daily — one complete case every season.
Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).S2 E4: The Cold Decades
For thirty-two years, the man behind the Golden State Killer case was a ghost — a DNA profile with no name. This episode traces the cold decades: the 2001 DNA breakthrough that proved the East Area Rapist and …
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For thirty-two years, the man behind the Golden State Killer case was a ghost — a DNA profile with no name. This episode traces the cold decades: the 2001 DNA breakthrough that proved the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker were one man, the national database that came back empty, the detective who never stopped working the boxes, and the California DNA system this case helped build.
New episodes daily — one complete case every season.
Music by SINIUS (Free Music Archive, CC-BY 4.0).
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