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runningbuddy · 12-09-2020 10:10pm

Today's one is excellent. Shergar. Such an intriguing sad story.

Jim Root · 13-09-2020 7:54am

Anyone care to so speculate why they pulled and reposted the Shergar Episode 3 weeks later? The Patreon post mentions an “error” without going into specifics. Just curious as nothing jumped out at me as wrong when I listened to it first time around.

[Deleted User] · 13-09-2020 10:35am

Jim Root wrote: »

Anyone care to so speculate why they pulled and reposted the Shergar Episode 3 weeks later? The Patreon post mentions an “error” without going into specifics. Just curious as nothing jumped out at me as wrong when I listened to it first time around.

here's where the 2-euro big-ballers step in and enlighten us - if they can break the fight club rule that is lol!

Fr Tod Umptious · 15-09-2020 2:58pm

Jim Root wrote: »

Anyone care to so speculate why they pulled and reposted the Shergar Episode 3 weeks later? The Patreon post mentions an “error” without going into specifics. Just curious as nothing jumped out at me as wrong when I listened to it first time around.

When talking about Derek Thomson in the Europa hotel and Downpatrick he more than once mentions the Gardai, it would of course have been the RUC rather than the Gardai involved in NI

beans · 27-09-2020 8:30pm

Re: the Strip Search Scam, I'm 15 minutes in but what the absolute fukc is wrong with everyone in this story?

pc7 · 27-09-2020 9:10pm

beans wrote: »

Re: the Strip Search Scam, I'm 15 minutes in but what the absolute fukc is wrong with everyone in this story?

It’s absolutely bonkers, the poor girl. What where the so called managers thinking.

el_gaucho · 27-09-2020 10:06pm

pc7 wrote: »

Teachers Pet guy has a new one called the Night Driver out, he’s a nice voice.

Hunting Warhead is one of the best of ever listened too, chasing a paedophile ring on the dark web. Hard listen but amazing work.

Thanks. I’ll try that. Teacher’s Pet is outstanding. Still one of my favourites.

Jim Root · 28-09-2020 6:32pm

Just been re-listening to some of my favourite earlier episodes, I think Daniel Morcombe and Port Arthur stand out episodes for me. Moors Murders also fantastic.

el_gaucho · 28-09-2020 10:33pm

Jim Root wrote: »

Just been re-listening to some of my favourite earlier episodes, I think Daniel Morcombe and Port Arthur stand out episodes for me. Moors Murders also fantastic.

Daniel Morcombe is one of the best in my opinion. I also like The Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Nielsen, The Silk Road, and The Tylenol Murders. Does anyone remember the Tylenol copycat one?

Arghus · 28-09-2020 11:34pm

pc7 wrote: »

It’s absolutely bonkers, the poor girl. What where the so called managers thinking.

I was familiar with the story from having watched a movie called Compliance from a few years back, which is loosely based on the story -

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/compliance_2012

LilacNails · 30-09-2020 11:04pm

beans wrote: »

Re: the Strip Search Scam, I'm 15 minutes in but what the absolute fukc is wrong with everyone in this story?

I stopped listening to it after 20min found it really disturbing. How fcuking thick were those. people, I find it so hard to believe.

fixXxer · 01-10-2020 9:46am

LilacNails wrote: »

I stopped listening to it after 20min found it really disturbing. How fcuking thick were those. people, I find it so hard to believe.

Different society I think. Low paid americans more worried about losing their jobs and with a minimal safety net. Who knows about the managers who willingly went along with it though.

pc7 · 04-10-2020 8:06am

Thought this weeks was very repetitive this week, kept saying the same things over and over, bit sloppy.

DMcL1971 · 04-10-2020 1:42pm

I know the general opinion is the show isn’t as consistently great as it used to be but I still very much enjoy it every week. However this week was the first episode I was genuinely disappointed by. It was pointless. Wife says husband left her and no one has seen him since. By the end there was no difference.

You could say that is the same for all missing persons cases but here there was nothing to hang a possible story on. No strong indication of foul play, no contradictory evidence, no mystery. If the wife killed him there’s no indication and if the police or drug dealers or wife’s lovers or a stranger killed him there is no indication. I was waiting for a revelation where there was some even vaguely convincing indication of what might have happened, but nothing at all. Coming towards the end I thought it might be a two parter because nothing had happened yet.

So a guy disappears under not suspicious at all circumstances and a bunch of people make guesses as to what might of happened if it had have been suspicious and there is no evidence support any of their guesses. That is not a mystery.

[Deleted User] · 04-10-2020 1:57pm

pc7 wrote: »

Thought this weeks was very repetitive this week, kept saying the same things over and over, bit sloppy.

Uninteresting stuff on the whole.

The only thing that I can take away from it is that when some unimportant "lower-class" person goes missing, maybe the full effort of the law doesn't go into finding out what happened.

Obviously very much sounds like it was the bike of a wife with some assistance from someone who was getting up on her at the time.

Jim Root · 04-10-2020 4:04pm

DMcL1971 wrote: »

I know the general opinion is the show isn’t as consistently great as it used to be but I still very much enjoy it every week. However this week was the first episode I was genuinely disappointed by. It was pointless. Wife says husband left her and no one has seen him since. By the end there was no difference.

You could say that is the same for all missing persons cases but here there was nothing to hang a possible story on. No strong indication of foul play, no contradictory evidence, no mystery. If the wife killed him there’s no indication and if the police or drug dealers or wife’s lovers or a stranger killed him there is no indication. I was waiting for a revelation where there was some even vaguely convincing indication of what might have happened, but nothing at all. Coming towards the end I thought it might be a two parter because nothing had happened yet.

So a guy disappears under not suspicious at all circumstances and a bunch of people make guesses as to what might of happened if it had have been suspicious and there is no evidence support any of their guesses. That is not a mystery.

Fair analysis. My issue with the episode is that the guy himself wasn’t too endearing by the sounds of it so I wasn’t personally invested in caring about what happened to him.

[Deleted User] · 04-10-2020 5:08pm

As said he was very violent so the fact that the wife moved another guy in to the house after a few weeks tells me that she knew with certainty that he wasn't going to reappear at any point.

BettePorter · 04-10-2020 10:53pm

pc7 wrote: »

It’s absolutely bonkers, the poor girl. What where the so called managers thinking.

watched the surveillance footage on an nbc piece after seeing this. what the actual f !!! the manager woman shuld have got jail. this was no naive teenager ... she was a 51 year old woman who worked there for over 20 years. Mcdonalds didnt cover themeselves in glory either contesting the poor girls lawsuit and then appealing. I'm honestly surprised this wasn't more publicised .

Deeper Blue · 30-10-2020 3:13am

I listened to the first 45 episodes or so and it's been brilliant for the most part.

I skipped ahead to the Shergar episode recently and I couldn't help but notice that the narrator was talking much much slower and sounded almost robotic. I couldn't get used to it at all. Did anyone else notice this when comparing the early episodes to more modern ones?

Maybe if I listen to the episodes in sequence the voice will change gradually and I won't notice!

Arghus · 30-10-2020 3:41am

I usually listen to them at about 1.5 speed - at normal speed he sounds unbearably sluggish to my ears!

ILikeBoats · 30-10-2020 10:13am

Most podcast players will allow you speed up to x1.25 or x1.5 , very handy for the slower talkers

DukeCaboom · 27-11-2020 9:28pm

Great early Christmas present from Casefile.
Its the last episode of the year.

tomwaits48 · 27-11-2020 9:58pm

DukeCaboom wrote: »

Great early Christmas present from Casefile.
Its the last episode of the year.

What a great surprise, can’t wait to listen to it.

[Deleted User] · 29-11-2020 12:32am

poor enough year for Casefile on the whole, being honest.

PropJoe10 · 29-11-2020 12:58am

Arghus wrote: »

I usually listen to them at about 1.5 speed - at normal speed he sounds unbearably sluggish to my ears!

I would say he's slowed down the speech due to how popular the podcast is across the world. Make it easier for people that don't speak English as their first language to understand him.

I've enjoyed Casefile's output this year, I must say. Some uninteresting episodes but some fantastically well done stuff as well. The Muswell Hill series was as good as anything Casefile has done in the past.

[Deleted User] · 06-02-2021 1:42pm

Casefile are back today after their break

hoping for an uplift this year.

pc7 · 06-02-2021 2:04pm

Disappointing start for me, think Gen Why did it recently so I’m familiar with it but its very repetitive and I’ve actually turned it off after an hour. Might try again later.

beans · 08-02-2021 10:20am

Cindy James was, for me, a poor story well presented.

pc7 · 13-02-2021 1:02pm

This week

Don’t usually listen to kiddy ones but decided to cause it is about him being found. Wasn’t familiar with the story at all, mad stuff, very sad.

wtf is wrong with people

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 13-02-2021 3:04pm

Is the new three parter worth listening to? Been burnt so bad by this pod lately... Really has nosedived in the content.

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