Casefile Archives 7: Nicky Fleming

Casefile Archives 7: Nicky Fleming

Author: Casefile Presents February 21, 2026 Duration: 45:22

*** Content Warning: Crime against a child ***

In 1998, the Easter holiday in Victoria, Australia, got off to a tragic beginning when 12-year-old Nicky Fleming was killed in a car accident while travelling to a family camping trip. But what initially looked like a single vehicle tragedy turned out to be a crime. And whoever had hit the Fleming family’s car had fled the scene…


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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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Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

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Case 272: The Annecy Shootings [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:18:24
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 sitti…
Case 271: Bonnie Clarke [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:14:05
*** Content warning: Child victim, child sexual assault, sexual assault/rape ***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 detec…
Case 270: Meredith Kercher [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:24:29
*** Content warning: Sexual assault ***For 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher, spending a year studying in Italy was a dream come true. But within months of arriving in the medieval town of Perugia, that dream…
Case 269: Caroline Crouch [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 38:49
*** Content warning: Animal cruelty ***In May 2021, residents of the affluent Athens suburb of Glyka Nera were left shaken by news of a violent home invasion. Three masked intruders had killed 19-year-old Caroline Crouch…
Case 268: Colleen Stan (Part 2/2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:27:40
*** Content warning: Extreme sexual violence, captivity ***[Part 2 of 2]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…
Case 268: Colleen Stan (Part 1/2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:17:46
*** Content warning: Extreme sexual violence, captivity ***[Part 1 of 2]When Colleen Stan’s family received an unexpected phone call from Colleen in June 1980, they were stunned. No one had seen or spoken to Colleen sinc…
Case 267: Brian Barrett [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 52:01
In the spring of 2005, two 18-year-olds met in an online chat room and immediately hit it off. Jessi went by the username TalHotBlond, while her new friend Tommy called himself MarineSniper. It wasn’t long before the two…
Case 266: Circleville Letter Writer [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:12
In March 1977, school bus driver Mary Gillespie started receiving threatening letters delivered to her home in Circleville, Ohio. It wasn’t long before her husband, Ron Gillespie, also received the letters which accused…
Case 265: Marea Yann [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:23
For Marea Yann, two things mattered most in life - family and community. When the 69-year-old was found violently bludgeoned to death in her Healesville home, the small Victorian town was left shaken. It seemed impossibl…

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