In June of 2020, London social worker Bibaa Henry decided to celebrate her 46th birthday with a picnic at scenic Fryent Country Park. Celebrations continued late into the night, until Bibaa and her younger sister Nicole Smallman were the only partygoers remaining. When both failed to return home the following day, their famil...
2024-04-20 07:02:34 +0000 UTC View Post
On a hot summer’s day in 1989, a father and son travelling through Stockton, California, discover a VHS tape left by the side of a road. When they take it home and decide to watch it, they make a disturbing discovery. The tape contains footage of a house burning to the ground and was apparently filmed by the arsonist who li...
2024-04-20 06:59:53 +0000 UTC View Post
When 41-year-old Lindsay Jellett failed to return home from his evening walk around the Victorian town of Ararat in May 1994, staff at his residential care unit were immediately worried. As well as being intellectually disabled, Lindsay had epilepsy which required nightly medication and it wasn’t like him to lose track of t...
2024-04-13 06:58:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In early January 2000, residents of Asheville, North Carolina were told to be on the lookout for 18-year-old Zebb Quinn after he failed to return home after finishing his shift at Wal-Mart. A co-worker of Zebb’s, Robert Jason Owens, claimed that Zebb had sped off after receiving a mysterious message on his pager.
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Seventy-one years later in 1993, a retrospective exhibition on Australian artist Charles Blackman was held at the National Gallery of Victoria. Titled ‘Schoolgirls and Angels’ it featured a series of paintings and drawings Blackman produced in the 1950s depicting bleak, deserted cityscapes reminiscent of Melbourne in the ...
2024-03-30 08:33:50 +0000 UTC View PostHello Patreon supporters. The team is ready to record the next instalment of Behind The Files and the general Q&A. The four cases being discussed this episode are; 274 Benjamin Amato, 275 Michelle Hadley, 276 Claire Acocks & Margaret Penny and 277 Linda Slaten. If you have any questions specific to those cases or any ...
2024-03-25 07:09:21 +0000 UTC View Post
When 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke failed to return home after running an errand for her family, they were immediately concerned. Alma was a dutiful child who did what she was told and respected her elders.
Alma’s final movements were retraced to an infamous saloon in the heart of Melbourne and its problematic owner, a m...
2024-03-23 09:10:18 +0000 UTC View Post
It was early on Friday September 4 1981 when Jeff Slaten woke to a strange sound. It was the crackle of a police radio. Jeff quickly realised that several officers had gained access to his home and were quietly moving about. “What’s going on?” he asked. Jeff was told to get dressed and go outside. He did so, co...
2024-03-23 09:07:44 +0000 UTC View Post
In 2002, 10-year-old Russian girl, Olga Chardymova was allowed to walk to her grandmother’s house unaccompanied for the very first time. Her journey barely began before she met a monster.
For years after her death, Olga’s parents were continually tormented by another kind of monster. What authorities eventually disc...
2024-03-16 08:36:49 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patreon supporters!
This is just a quick update. Tomorrow, we are releasing the Patreon Pick episode; however, we will also be changing the name (and number) to 'Premium episode'.
This is because we call these episodes 'Premium' on Apple and Spotify.
Nothing will change apart from that name and the ...
2024-03-15 17:20:23 +0000 UTC View Post
May 3 1991 was a typical Friday for 58-year-old Margaret Penny. In the afternoon, she visited the Old London Coiffure in the heart of Portland, Victoria for her weekly hair appointment with 49-year-old Claire Acocks. But when the two women are found stabbed to death in the salon’s shampoo room, the Portland rumour mill goes...
2024-03-09 08:31:19 +0000 UTC View Post
In February 2024, Behind the Files and the Q&A, the Anonymous Host is joined by Milly, Elsha and Erin to answer your questions and discuss the making of:
Case 270 - Meredith Kercher
Case 271 - Bonnie Clarke
Case 272 - The Annecy Shootings
C...
2024-03-07 17:31:57 +0000 UTC View Post
When Angela Connell met Ian Diaz, the pair began a whirlwind romance that quickly led to marriage and a growing family. But their newfound happiness was soon disturbed by a cyberstalking campaign with real world consequences. Angela and Ian told detectives from the Anaheim Police Department that they knew exactly who was behi...
2024-03-02 08:45:16 +0000 UTC View PostHello Patreon supporters! It is time to send in your questions for the first edition of Behind The Files and the general Q&A for 2024. The team will be covering the following cases; 270: Meredith Kercher, 271: Bonnie Clarke, 272: The Annecy shootings and 273: The beast of Mlawa. If you have any specific questions related ...
2024-02-25 23:10:51 +0000 UTC View Post
On November 16 2001, two state troopers from the Pennsylvania State Police arrived to conduct a welfare check at the Poconos Mountains home of 52-year-old Benjamin Amato. Friends and neighbours had reported their concerns after noticing Ben’s car in his driveway for several days, but no sign of Ben himself.
What they ...
2024-02-24 08:16:47 +0000 UTC View Post
This was Patreon Picks #29, released in May 2023. It is not new content, it is the same episode, but as Patreon picks episodes are now going to be released on the main feed months after their initial Patreon release, we had to repost it so that all episodes can keep the same numbering on the main feed and the Patreon feed...
2024-02-24 08:14:36 +0000 UTC View Post
It was just after 8.30AM on Wednesday March 13 1996 when a team of eight detectives were called to a residence in the New South Wales suburb of Albion Park Rail. Detective Sergeant Danny Sharkey, who headed the crew, quickly drove to the address in Shearwater Boulevard accompanied by several colleagues.
Te...
2024-02-17 08:20:09 +0000 UTC View Post
On September 5 2012, a cyclist driving through the French Alps came upon a shocking scene. Married couple Saad and Iqbal al-Hilli, along with Iqbal’s elderly mother Suhaila al-Allaf were shot execution style while sitting in their BMW in a secluded parking spot in the woods surrounding Chevaline. 7-year-old Zainab al-Hilli ...
2024-02-10 08:11:32 +0000 UTC View Post
When six-year-old Bonnie Clarke is murdered in her bed in the middle of the night just four nights before Christmas in 1982, Melbourne detectives are certain they know who’s responsible: Bonnie’s mother, Marion. Yet Marion insists an intruder must have broken into their home while she was sleeping. It would take 20 years,...
2024-02-03 09:51:28 +0000 UTC View Post
For 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher, spending a year studying in Italy was a dream come true. But within months of arriving to the medieval town of Perugia, that dream quickly turned to a nightmare. What unraveled next was one of the most polarising murder cases in Italy’s history, with one young American woman...
2024-02-03 08:30:39 +0000 UTC View Post
In January 2024, Behind the Files and the Q&A, the Anonymous Host is joined by Milly and Erin to answer your questions and discuss the making of:
Case 267 - Brian Barrett
Case 268 - Colleen Stan
Case 269 - Caroline Crouch
2024-01-30 10:23:50 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patrons,
The team is getting ready to record the next episode of Behind The Files and the general Q&A.
If you have any questions relating to the cases of Brian Barrett, Colleen Stan, or Caroline Crouch or any general questions for the team, put them in the comments below.
2024-01-09 23:08:54 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon supporters!
As we gear up for 2024, we have a question for you.
We have an opportunity to move from Patreon to Supercast, a subscription platform specifically made for podcasts.
It means that you could easily take the premium RSS and listen to the app of your choice, like Apple, Spotify, or oth...
2024-01-06 08:05:52 +0000 UTC View Post
In December 2023 Behind the Files and the Q&A, the Anonymous Host is joined by Elsha and Erin to answer your questions and discuss the making of:
Case 260 - The Alpine Manor Murders
Case 263 - Kim Barry
Case 264 - Andrew Gosden
Case 265 - M...
2024-01-01 17:05:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe team is getting ready to record the next episode of Behind The Files and the general Q&A. If you have any questions specifically relating to the cases of Kim Barry, Marea Yann, Andrew Gosden or Circleville Letter Writer, or you have any general questions for the team, put them in the comments below!
2023-12-16 03:02:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This was Patreon Picks #28, released in April 2023. It is not new content, it is the same episode, but as Patreon picks episodes are now going to be released on the main feed months after their initial Patreon release, we had to repost it so that all episodes can keep the same numbering on the main feed and the Patreon fe...
2023-12-02 11:22:50 +0000 UTC View Post
In November 2023 Behind the Files and the Q&A, the Anonymous Host is joined by Elsha, Erin and Holly to answer your questions and discuss the making of:
Case 261 - Shari Smith & Debra May Helmick
Case 262 - Samia Shahid
Casey's Insta:
When retired schoolteacher Celia Blay stumbled across an online forum where suicidal individuals shared their innermost thoughts, she had no idea that she was about to encounter a serial predator. Li Dao was a young nurse who trawled the forum looking for people to push over the edge. She encouraged other posters to take thei...
2023-11-25 09:23:40 +0000 UTC View Post
As the years of abuse, torture and confinement to the bed box continued for Colleen Stan, she remained paralysed by her fear of The Company. But one thing changed. Her captors Cameron and Janice Hooker slowly started granting Colleen small privileges, including time outside of their Red Bluff trailer. Did this mean they were ...
2023-11-18 10:13:34 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
The team is getting ready to record the next instalment of Behind the files and the Q&A. If you have a question relating to the following cases; Samia Shahid, Shari Smith & Debra May Helmick, or The Alpine Manor Murders, or have a general question you'd like to ask the team, please write them in ...
2023-11-15 00:56:54 +0000 UTC View Post
