Casefile

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.

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.

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.

runningbuddy · 14-02-2021 1:23am

The latest episode is very good but what an absolutely mental story.

how the **** can you not recognise your own kid?? And with a French accent

pc7 · 14-02-2021 8:24am

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 wrote: »

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

This week was just a one parter I thought Nicholas Barclay, it was very well told but absolutely heartbreaking

pc7 · 14-02-2021 8:27am

runningbuddy wrote: »

The latest episode is very good but what an absolutely mental story.
how the **** can you not recognise your own kid?? And with a French accent

Id say the guilt and sadness of him going missing and the wish that it was him? I don’t know? With the mam being a drug addict and that who knows. Very sad the other brother dying too. Your man was a sh1t trying to blame the family then.

pc7 · 14-02-2021 9:50am

Duke maybe spoiler that so as not to give too much away

DukeCaboom · 14-02-2021 9:51am

pc7 wrote: »

Duke maybe spoiler that so as not to give too much away

Sorry pc7, I deleted it altogether.

There's a movie called The Imposter about it.

pc7 · 14-02-2021 9:56am

Cheers will check it out.

pc7 · 14-02-2021 9:57am

Felt it was back to Casefile of old, like he was more into it and not just reading a script.

runningbuddy · 14-02-2021 1:13pm

pc7 wrote: »

Id say the guilt and sadness of him going missing and the wish that it was him? I don’t know? With the mam being a drug addict and that who knows. Very sad the other brother dying too. Your man was a sh1t trying to blame the family then.

I don't believe someone could be that stupid. I think the older brother killed Nicholas and they covering up

14-02-2021 7:37pm

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 wrote: »

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

what 3-parter?

the only 2 episodes so far in 2021 have been 1-parters.

21-02-2021 3:17pm

Casefile 166 about the family murders was very gruesome and tough listening.

To think that at least one of the victims was vilely raped and abused over 5 weeks.

Then that animal got erectile-dysfunction medication given to him inside in prison and raped another inmate.

pc7 · 21-02-2021 6:49pm

Absolutely awful. I wasn’t aware of it. Sometimes you forget there are animals out there

I’d say there were a lot more victims than they even know about.

runningbuddy · 21-02-2021 10:07pm

glasso wrote: »

Casefile 166 about the family murders was very gruesome and tough listening.

To think that at least one of the victims was vilely raped and abused over 5 weeks.

Then that animal got erectile-dysfunction medication given to him inside in prison and raped another inmate.

This was horrendous. What was the justification for giving a convicted rapist this medication??

And absolutely no way this case is restricted to this animal. No doubt the highest echelons of society included

alan partridge aha · 21-02-2021 10:11pm

Haven't listened to the latest, very boring in the last while and his voice is really grating on me now.

runningbuddy · 21-02-2021 10:20pm

alan partridge aha wrote: »

Haven't listened to the latest, very boring in the last while and his voice is really grating on me now.

Some episodes have been very hit and miss but the new one is excellent but a harrowing story

alan partridge aha · 21-02-2021 10:21pm

runningbuddy wrote: »

Some episodes have been very hit and miss but the new one is excellent but a harrowing story

OK cheers I'll have a listen

21-02-2021 11:58pm

runningbuddy wrote: »

This was horrendous. What was the justification for giving a convicted rapist this medication??

And absolutely no way this case is restricted to this animal. No doubt the highest echelons of society included

There was a wealthy businessman mentioned but I'm not sure about the supposition that it's the high and mighty involved in these things

that's like something out of Line of Duty and the sort of thing that got started that Qanon rubbish started

mainly it's just evil facking freaks.

They don't have to be upper class and usually aren't

Like in the UK - that terrible Rotherham case

In 2014, revelations that as many as 1,400 children were sexually abused by gangs of predominantly Asian men in Rotherham shocked Britain. Eight men were found guilty in 2016 of waging what prosecutors called an “utterly abhorrent” campaign of sexual violence and intimidation against girls in the Rotherham area.

they were just average sick facks

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-45980210

runningbuddy · 22-02-2021 12:59am

glasso wrote: »

There was a wealthy businessman mentioned but I'm not sure about the supposition that it's the high and mighty involved in these things

that's like something out of Line of Duty and the sort of thing that got started that Qanon rubbish started

mainly it's just evil facking freaks.

They don't have to be upper class and usually aren't

Like in the UK - that terrible Rotherham case

they were just average sick facks

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-45980210

The Police believe that high profile Austrialians were involved. The Family Murders is probably as grim as it gets

PropJoe10 · 22-02-2021 1:00am

Three cracking episodes to start 2021 for Casefile. The Nicholas Barclay one was mad stuff.

22-02-2021 1:11am

runningbuddy wrote: »

The Police believe that high profile Austrialians were involved. The Family Murders is probably as grim as it gets

wikipedia ->

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_Murders

Police believe that up to 12 people, several of them high-profile Australians, were involved in the kidnappings.[2] The suspects and their associates were linked mainly by their shared habits of "actively [having] sought out young males for sex," sometimes drugging and raping their victims.[3]

then you go to the quoted article for the "high-profile" connection citation

and it's no actual quote from the police at all just the journalist who wrote

The killings of Alan Barnes, Neil Muir, Mark Langley, Peter Stogneff and Richard Kelvin were dubbed the Family murders because of suggestions a group of closely-connected, high-profile men were involved.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/reward-doubled-to-solve-family-murders-20081028-5a84.html

whenever there's a pedo ring there's always some suggestion that they are all "high-profile" with probably some assistant police commissioner involved covering it up

Casefile didn't use the term "high-profile" afair except mentioning the wealthy businessman who liked trying to get his rocks off in the public jacks every day

pc7 · 07-03-2021 9:53pm

Absolutely heartbreaking this week, usually try skip kiddie ones but was our for a long walk so just listened. Felt it was well told and Casefile of old, but just fooking tragic. Reminded me of similar case here in Ireland

Kingp35 · 08-03-2021 11:28am

Maybe it's because I don't have kids but I felt the opposite, boring enough episode where it was blatantly obvious from the start what happened.

I think I'm getting a bit fatigued with Casefile at this stage.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 15-03-2021 4:28am

17 minutes. That's how long I lasted with the new episode.

Beyond convoluted. I've no more interest in this pod. It's gone from one of the best around there go utter garbage.

I'm out.

DMcL1971 · 15-03-2021 10:34am

I really enjoyed this weeks episode. The story changes around half way through to be about

false confessions

. This has always interested me.

I admit it was very difficult to follow as there were a lot of people involved, tricky Icelandic names (sons and dottirs) and a few people with similar names. I recommend a pen and paper to keep track.

Jim Root · 15-03-2021 1:11pm

I liked the Icelandic one, something different.

pc7 · 15-03-2021 9:01pm

Another podcast covered it recently, so I just didn’t bother this week

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 15-03-2021 10:37pm

pc7 wrote: »

Another podcast covered it recently, so I just didn’t bother this week

I'm sure there was a documentary done on this a few years ago. It rings a bell with me anyway.

Arghus · 16-03-2021 1:07am

Kingp35 wrote: »

Maybe it's because I don't have kids but I felt the opposite, boring enough episode where it was blatantly obvious from the start what happened.

I think I'm getting a bit fatigued with Casefile at this stage.

I hate to say it - I started the thread after all - but, the quality of the shows has dropped an awful lot from what it once was.

Every case they did for the first year or so was dynamite. I find most of them these days not that interesting and overly convoluted. Here and there the quality returns.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 16-03-2021 1:28am

Arghus wrote: »

I hate to say it - I started the thread after all - but, the quality of the shows has dropped an awful lot from what it once was.

Every case they did for the first year or so was dynamite. I find most of them these days not that interesting and overly convoluted. Here and there the quality returns.

I've noticed whoever scripts the shows never heard of spoilers.
You're about two minutes into the current pod and one of the lines is "and we never knew who the identity of the man in the yellow top was".... I mean wtf, this pod always kept you guessing, it was more of a "who done it" pod, now it's like they're reading newspaper articles, it's so so lazy now.

Arghus · 16-03-2021 3:18am

It's probably to be expected the longer a show like this runs and runs. There's only so many wildly interesting crime stories out there that haven't been covered elsewhere already - eventually the material is going to suffer a bit.

Though, I think the overall quality of the script writing has dropped a bit as time has gone on. I'm often left confused at who exactly is who in the stories and what exactly is the significance of each detail in the tale in the wider context, it can get murky. Now, maybe that's just me, but it felt like he cut to the chase with more precision and clarity back in the day.

It's still up there in terms of True Crime podcasts. The narrator isn't annoying, doesn't crack jokes about the crimes and the production quality is good and some episodes hit the mark - The Dennis Nielsen mini-series was excellent.

My main hate with true crime shows is when the host(s) are irritating, fond of their own voices and it all comes across as a right old laugh - I can not stand something like My Favourite Murder, but there's loads just like it - Casefile, at least, doesn't fall victim to this.

Though, as of late, I'd probably listen to They Walk Among Us instead of it. He's even drier and just the bare bones facts, with zero extraneous bullshít.

pc7 · 16-03-2021 9:11am

It is such a pity, I absolutely loved Casefile but it has dropped and as mentioned above still a rare good one interspersed.

16-03-2021 4:40pm

a case of fatigue on the part of the listeners and the makers coupled with fact that a lot of the more interesting cases have been done.

DukeCaboom · 16-03-2021 8:53pm

glasso wrote: »

a case of fatigue on the part of the listeners and the makers coupled with fact that a lot of the more interesting cases have been done.

I think that's it really. Casefile was the first true crime pod I listened to. My first case was Port Arthur, my heart was actually racing listening to it. I think 168 cases in I can't be shocked anymore.

carrollsno1 · 28-03-2021 9:54pm

I thought it was just myself finding it a bit more boring as of late, glad im not the only one. It was a pretty poor year as a whole last year and i went back through last years episodes for pig iron and i reckon i didnt listen to the half of them. I remember when i first started listening i often wondered how i slept at nighttime while listening to case after case playing catch up, at the time i was also lving in whats best described as a timber tent with no real security not far from where one of the early episodes was based on Tasmanias North West Corner. The German Exorcism one at the start was tough listen too.
I saw i hadnt listened to the Stony Blair case either during the week due to the warnings, im sorry now i did listen to it that was tough going.

PropJoe10 · 28-03-2021 10:27pm

I still greatly enjoy Casefile but the cases they're covering these days definitely aren't as interesting as that middle period. Still one of the best true crime podcasts out there though.

maebee · 29-03-2021 12:41am

I barely knew what a podcast was until I stumbled upon this thread a few months ago. Thanks to the posters on this thread, I've just finished every episode of Casefile and have to say I enjoyed it. As others have said, it was WAY better in the earlier episodes. The ones I liked the most were:

North Hollywood shootout
Jaycee Lee Dugard
The Catholic Mafia
Amok
Jennifer Pan
Daniel Morcombe
Jonestown
The 2 Alcatraz episodes
Silk Road

I would rate an episode as very good when I immediately find the need to google after I've listened to it.

PropJoe10 · 29-03-2021 11:35am

maebee wrote: »

I barely knew what a podcast was until I stumbled upon this thread a few months ago. Thanks to the posters on this thread, I've just finished every episode of Casefile and have to say I enjoyed it. As others have said, it was WAY better in the earlier episodes. The ones I liked the most were:

North Hollywood shootout
Jaycee Lee Dugard
The Catholic Mafia
Amok
Jennifer Pan
Daniel Morcombe
Jonestown
The 2 Alcatraz episodes
Silk Road

I would rate an episode as very good when I immediately find the need to google after I've listened to it.

I would highly recommend two of my favourites, "Belanglo" and the Muswell Hill Murderer. Two absolutely fantastic jobs.

PropJoe10 · 29-03-2021 10:27pm

That new one is rough - The Caffey Family. Pretty hard hitting stuff.

carrollsno1 · 29-03-2021 10:41pm

PropJoe10 wrote: »

That new one is rough - The Caffey Family. Pretty hard hitting stuff.

Grim enough but nothing like the previous ones all the same.

Suckler · 30-03-2021 7:00am

maebee wrote: »

I barely knew what a podcast was until I stumbled upon this thread a few months ago. Thanks to the posters on this thread, I've just finished every episode of Casefile and have to say I enjoyed it. As others have said, it was WAY better in the earlier episodes. The ones I liked the most were:

North Hollywood shootout
Jaycee Lee Dugard
The Catholic Mafia
Amok
Jennifer Pan
Daniel Morcombe
Jonestown
The 2 Alcatraz episodes
Silk Road

I would rate an episode as very good when I immediately find the need to google after I've listened to it.

PropJoe10 wrote: »

I would highly recommend two of my favourites, "Belanglo" and the Muswell Hill Murderer. Two absolutely fantastic jobs.

The "East Area Rapist" five part one was gripping and chilling at the same time.

pc7 · 30-03-2021 7:34am

Tina Watson was a great tell too, the imagery was so vivid.

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