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[Part 1 of 2]Haros Avenue in Nunawading (Melbourne) presented a problem for the police surveillance team following the red Jaguar. It was a small dead-end street. No way to observe the house there bank robbery suspect was heading to, without being obvious…To avoid being detected the police had no choice but to let the suspect out of there sight. There was only one way in and out of Haros Avenue, so the suspect would have to come back past them eventually…For all credits and sources please visit casefilepodcast.com/case-24-russell-street-bombing-part-1 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

[Part 2 of 2]Part 2 of the Frankston Serial Killer. At the end of part 1 police had found out who owned the suspicious vehicle parked on Skye Road at the time of Natalie Russell's murder. Will it get them anywhere though?For all credits and sources please visit casefilepodcast.com/case-23-the-frankston-serial-killer-part-2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

[Part 1 of 2]Donna had recently received a few prank calls and she was getting nervous. She had a young baby and didn’t like the idea of being alone at night. Her boyfriend Les worked as a pizza delivery driver, and she decided to spend the night driving around in the car with him, rather than stay home alone.The first thing Donna saw when she returned home was her cat on the lounge room floor, dead. The words “Donna you’re dead”, were written in blood up on the wall. In the bathroom were Donna’s two kittens. Both also dead.For all credits and sources please visit casefilepodcast.com/case-23-the-frankston-serial-killer-part-1 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It was Wednesday the 2nd of August 1989. 41-year-old Marguerite Edwards started the day like any other. Making sure her three daughters were up, and ready for school.Marguerite was happily married to Iain Edwards, a successful orthodontist with a surgery in Bondi. They lived in a two-storey house on Victoria Road, Woollahra in Sydney’s Eastern suburbs.After getting her daughters organised, Marguerite dropped them at Ascham school, in the nearby suburb of Edgecliffe. She then made her way to an aerobics class, before doing some shopping at Bondi. She returned to her Woollahra home sometime after midday.Later that afternoon, Marguerite's three daughters were waiting. School had finished, and they were wondering where mum was…For all credits and sources please visit casefilepodcast.com/case-22-marguerite-edwards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On Monday the 23rd of May 1994, a violent storm hit the city of Perth, Western Australia. Peter Lawrence was starting to become concerned.It was getting late and his wife Pamela Lawrence hadn’t gotten home from work yet. He called her at 6:15 pm, when he didn’t get an answer he decided he had better go down and check on her….For all credits and sources please visit casefilepodcast.com/case-21-pamela-lawrence Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The details of this case are extremely difficult to hear. Extreme child abuse and child murder are involved. This episode won't be for everybody. There is far more courtroom audio than narration. It is a one-off for this episode. It is not something that will be a regular feature in the future. The courtroom confession is detailed and horrific. Listener discretion is advised.For all credits and sources please visit casefilepodcast.com/case-20-stoni-blair-and-stephen-berry Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Living in Australia, I had heard of the Snowtown case. I knew it as the bodies in the barrels case. But that’s all I knew. I had no idea about the who, the what, the why, or the when.So I didn’t know it was the worst case of serial killing in Australia’s history, involving torture and dismemberment. None of the murder victims are children. However, child sexual abuse is prominent throughout.It is a deeply disturbing, depraved case. I didn’t know any of that when I started looking into Snowtown, but now you do, and you can make an informed decision if you want to listen or not.For all credits and sources please visit casefilepodcast.com/case-19-snowtown Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the 28th of February 1997 Los Angeles police officers, Perello and Farrell were on routine patrol driving along Laurel Canyon Blvd, North Hollywood.As they were driving past the Bank of America they saw two large figures enter the bank. Both were dressed in black, both were wearing ski masks and both were carrying automatic rifles. What followed, was 44 minutes of mayhem…For all credits and sources please visit casefilepodcast.com/case-18-the-north-hollywood-shootout Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the 17th of May 2008, two motorway patrol officers attended to a call that a pedestrian had been hit by a vehicle on the M6 motorway, near the city Stoke-on-Trent, in England.Expecting the worst, the two officers were surprised when they arrived to see two pedestrians standing calmly and uninjured on the shoulder of the motorway. It didn’t look like much was going on at all…For all credits and sources please visit casefilepodcast.com/case-17-the-eriksson-twins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris and Cru Kahui were twins, aged just three months old when they died in hospital, both suffering from traumatic brain injury. Their death was the result o a severe impact, either from direct blows or being hit, thrown or slammed against a hard surface.Violent shaking was another possible cause, and couldn’t be ruled out. What was clear was that the twins' injuries weren’t accidental…For all credits and sources please visit casefilepodcast.com/case-16-chris-and-cru-kahui Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.