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Casefile Archives 11: North Hollywood Shootout

Sat, 23 May 2026

*** Content Warning: gun violence ***

When Larry Phillips Junior and Emil Mătăsăreanu entered the North Hollywood branch of the Bank of America on February 28 1997, no one could have predicted the chaos that was about to ensue. What followed was 44 minutes of pure mayhem.

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Casefile Archives is a series of special bonus releases revisiting the earliest years of the show. The re-run episodes have been completely edited, polished, re-recorded and freshly produced from start to finish to match our current production standards. They are not complete rewrites - our goal wasn’t to alter the cases or reshape the writing, but to preserve the original storytelling while giving the production the refinement it didn’t have when we started the show back in 2016.

Where appropriate, updates have been added, but the core structure and storytelling remain faithful to the originals. Because of this, these re-releases may sound a little different to our recent episodes, but they allow us to bring some of the earliest episodes up to the technical quality listeners expect today.

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Narration – Anonymous Host

Research & writing – Anonymous Host & Elsha McGill

Production & music – Mike Migas

Audio editing – Anthony Telfer

For all credits and sources, please visit https://casefilepodcast.com/casefile-archives-11-north-hollywood-shootout

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Casefile Archives 10: Ben McDaniel

Sat, 16 May 2026

On Friday, August 20 2010, officers from the Holmes County Sheriff's Department were called to Vortex Spring, a commercially operated dive park just outside the Florida town of Ponce de Leon. A 30-year-old scuba diver from Tennessee by the name of Ben McDaniel had failed to resurface after diving into the narrow cave network under the basin of the spring two nights earlier, and nobody had seen or heard from him since.

When a recovery mission failed to find any sign of Ben, his loved ones and members of the cave diving community were left in shock. Was Ben stuck in an unexplored part of the cave somewhere, or was something else entirely at play?

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Narration – Anonymous Host

Research & writing – Elsha McGill

Production & music – Mike Migas

Audio editing – Anthony Telfer

For all credits and sources, please visit https://casefilepodcast.com/casefile-archives-10-ben-mcdaniel

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Casefile Archives 9: The Frankston Serial Killer

Sat, 09 May 2026

*** Content Warning: serial killer, extreme violence, animal cruelty ***

In early 1993, Frankston resident Donna received a series of unnerving prank calls. Afraid of being home alone, she accompanied her boyfriend during his pizza delivery shift, only to return home to find her worst fears had come true.

Her pet cats had been killed, and written in blood on the lounge room wall were the words: ‘Donna, you’re dead.’ This marked the beginning of a five-month crime spree that terrorised locals and resulted in the murders of three young women – Elizabeth Stevens, Deborah Fream and Natalie Russell.

The perpetrator was dubbed ‘The Frankston Serial Killer’, but who was he, and when would he strike again?

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Narration – Anonymous Host

Research & writing – Anonymous Host

Additional writing & editing – Erin Munro

Production & music – Mike Migas

Audio editing – Anthony Telfer

For all credits and sources, please visit https://casefilepodcast.com/casefile-archives-9-the-frankston-serial-killer

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Case 339: Waco (Part 3/3)

Sat, 02 May 2026

[Part 3 of 3]

*** Content warning: Gun violence, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, child abuse ***

The standoff between the FBI and the Branch Davidians held firm for more than a month, with David Koresh and his followers refusing to surrender. After attempting both negotiation tactics and more aggressive approaches for 51 days, the FBI implements a plan to force the Branch Davidians out, a plan that will have devastating consequences and will change the face of the United States forever.

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Narration – Anonymous Host

Research & writing – Erin Munro

Production & music – Mike Migas

Audio editing – Anthony Telfer

For all credits and sources, please visit https://casefilepodcast.com/case-339-waco-part-3-3

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Case 339: Waco (Part 2/3)

Sat, 25 Apr 2026

[Part 2 of 3]

*** Content warning: Gun violence, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, child abuse ***

In 1992, a chance discovery by a UPS delivery driver would lead to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives – commonly known as the ATF – launching an investigation into David Koresh’s activities at Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas. Upon discovering that Koresh’s Branch Davidians were stockpiling illegal weapons, the agency began planning a raid that was also intended to boost their image with the public… but the consequences would be disastrous.

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Narration – Anonymous Host

Research & writing – Erin Munro

Production & music – Mike Migas

Audio editing – Anthony Telfer

For all credits and sources, please visit https://casefilepodcast.com/case-339-waco-part-2-3

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