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As the search into the disappearance of three-year-old William Tyrrell reaches its third fruitless year, the investigation takes turn after turn until a coronial inquest is eventually called. The inquest aims to figure out what happened to William once and for all, but will it succeed or raise more questions than it answers?

Team:

Anonymous Host - narration

Elsha McGill  - research, writing

Milly Raso - creative direction

Mike Migas - production, music

Anthony Telfer - audio editing

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Bob Trenwith

Ahhhh ... wait .... I promised myself an early night .....

Natalie Stratton

I know right! This is why Casefile is the best!

High Tea with Monsters, Rebel Scum, and Vigilantes

I’m sorry I’m not from Aus but is this like an unusual concentration of sex offenders in one neighborhood?!? There’s at least three repairmen and three+ neighbors who’ve been in jail or accused of SA of minors??? And three of them are in some grandparents association? Does no one do background checks?

David Knight

Team Should probably win an award for coverage of this one 👏

AR

this is a master-class in how not to conduct a police investigation?! seems entirely based on vibes?! "he lives nearby and he's kind of strange, let's surveil his property." "oh wow he saw something white on the ground he must be guilty." ?!?!

Rosie Overell

Great two parter. Unfortunately case was fumbled from the start.

Rosie Overell

Yes that was certainly creepy! I think the houses sounded relatively far apart as it was a country town

AR

"when the inquest resumed in early 2020" i believe you meant early 2021! not a big deal, just thought i'd point it out if you're doing edits.

AR

i'm sorry in what universe is putting your hands around a child's neck considered "lawful correction" ?!

Jays

Detective Gary Jubelin said Kendall : “attracted sex offenders 'like mosquitoes',” 😖

Jessamyn Fields

So glad case file is back up and posting new content. You really really do very stellar coverage of all of the cases you research.

Suicide Sauce

I will admit that I really have no idea about AUS laws and regulations regarding where sex offenders can live, but in the US, the combination of strict rules about the distance required from schools and parks and Megan's Law, which dictates that a community must be informed whenever a sex offender moves into the area, means that the places available *and* with landlords willing to rent to people on the registry are very few. There are certain apartment blocks and neighborhoods that social workers know are in the clear, so to speak, and steer clients toward them. (I am going to take a moment for everybody to remember that in the US, you can end up on the sex offender registry for *life* for the crime of urinating in public. You can be charged with a felony for taking nude photos of *yourself* as a minor. Has everyone decided not to say something like 'they deserve to live in filth and squalor on the street'? Okay good.) Anyway that might be why the area where William vanished seemed to have 60 pedophiles per square kilometer

Suicide Sauce

I think that every time a team of policemen in Australia think about trying to charge a child's mother with their murder or disappearance using the flimsiest circumstantial evidence possible, all of the detectives involved should have a photo of a dingo stapled to their face. You don't wanna meet Mr. Dingo, maybe you think twice about your "she hid the body in the bushes but then an eagle swooped down and carried it away" theory. also I know that as a true crime enjoyer I am absolutely complicit in the exploitation of tragedy for views/subs/clicks/ad revenue, but I kind of wish the media didn't breathlessly report on every new wrinkle of a case involving a (presumably) dead kid. I realize Casey and Friends would be out of a job, but in these situations, where the case drags on for years and years and leaves dozens of lives and reputations ruined in its wake, you start to consider going back in time to keep Baby Jessica from falling into that well and giving birth to the 24 hour news cycle. I dunno, I almost died recently so I've been thinking about a lot of things lmao

Lauren

Oh I'm devastated. I'd never heard of this [American] and I kept my hopes up that there would be a last minute development all the way to the end. Good lord what a horrific mystery.

Lauren

Also, incredible work on this one though.

Jennifer Stark

Casefile is always worth the wait. Brilliant two-parter.

Jennifer Stark

It is the BEST! I also love 'Generation Why' and 'Canadian True Crime'. I would love to hear what other podcasts you enjoy in the genre of True Crime.

Niki Walkey

So nice to have 'The Voice' back 😊👍🏽🩷

Demi V

What's mind-boggling to me is there's a bunch of pedophiles living in a close community with an overwhelming police investigation and the police didn't stumble across a single additional crime. Like, sure, maybe they were on their best behavior when the police were around BUT I think it more points to a lack of serious investigation. I feel like there should have been an "oops, we stumbled across some people from Operation CACAM while investigating. "

Monica

Unpopular opinion maybe but I find it pretty rich that the biological mother and father said it was the foster parent’s job to keep the children safe. Like yea that’s true but if you had done your job as their parents correctly they would never have been in foster care to begin with. It was your job to protect them first and you failed.

Megan

Yeah, they physically and verbally abused these children, plain and simple. They thought no one was watching and even with the audio evidence they still got away with it. Absolutely disgusting behavior. I don't think it's any coincidence that William had a black eye shortly before he 'disappeared'.

mint mate

I reckon that's a really unfair thing to say. It's obvious they had serious mental health issues and struggled financially. There were a lot of things outside of their control that lead them to have their kids taken away. It's obvious they loved the kid and were just venting their frustration and heartache of losing William.

mint mate

They did look into that angle and didn't find any evidence that there was an organised ring. A lot of sex offenders move to rural areas to avoid being around schools.

Ben

🥸

Brittany Matherson

I could never be on a jury. Nothing at this stage could convince me the foster parents aren’t involved. The audio of her abusing other foster kids is too damning. How is putting your hands around a child’s throat or hitting them with a wooden spoon hard enough to leave welts reasonable correction?

Green Thumb

This one had more twists and turns than a cheap garden hose. Thanks team <3 Glad you're back

Natalie Stratton

Last podcast on the left...honestly I am kinda ride or die. Wicked and Grim. They walk among us. Also, disgraceland is really good too, but it's not exactly true crime

kanejm85

I want Casefile to know that I love their production and I put them in the top 3 podcasts I listen to. With that said, I hate unsolved episodes, especially after waiting over a month for a new episode. I'm sure I'll catch hell for this but had to say it.

pain

I agree, but thats just real life, Kane :/ they’ve gotta talk about them all. Our subscriptions and pleasure be damned, these are real people experiencing real tragedies that we’re consuming. More often than not, just for entertainment.

Monica

I’m sure there was a lot going on but I thought it was stated in the episode that if the bio mom left her husband she would’ve been able to keep the kids and she refused. I’m sure she was scared given he was allegedly abusive but she chose him over her kids… Then to blame the foster parents completely as if her and her husband didn’t also fail those children. The poor children deserved better and they’re the true victims here.

Mr Chips

I have to take notes of all the names of people in this episode… I’m lost! 😂

Demi V

Oh, I'm not saying it's a crime ring in the community. I thinkbthey can work completely independent. I mean that of the many, not one of them had images on their computer, or a parole violation, or inappropriate contact with a child while the police were there. It wasn't an in-and-out procedure, they were there for years, and no one stepped out of line?

Gay Barrie

Ultimately, losing a child is one of the most devastating tragedies a parent can endure. The uncertainty surrounding such a loss only deepens the pain. Grieving a child is an unimaginable journey of survival. To harm a child is an act of true evil. Very very sad 😢

Mr Chips

Thank you for the fascinating comment. I completely agree! For me, cases about missing people are my preference. One down side is that sometimes not enough information is known to “create content” for a full length episode. Once a program touches that topic, it becomes their responsibility to explain any debunked theories, individuals cleared of suspicion, and such things to prevent the public from running wild with speculation. Though for the real life humans involved in those cases, sadly, it is a permanent part of their life especially now with the internet.

Mr Chips

I don't know if this is an error or maybe I am confused by the phrasing at the 40:20 minute mark??? Casey says that a photo taken 11 days before William's disappearance showed a TV clock with a time "118 minutes earlier than that shown by the camera's timestamp," which supported the foster mom's claim of a misconfigured camera clock. However, camera's metadata shows timestamps 118 minutes earlier than the actual time (e.g., William's photo, taken at 9:37 AM, was stamped 7:39 AM). For the TV photo, the news program's clock should show a time 118 minutes later than the camera's timestamp, not earlier, to confirm the camera's clock was consistently 118 minutes behind.

Ripley's Jaye

Urinating in public and ending up on the sex registry is from a movie, not real life.

Ernesto Ortiz

Tough case. Ultimately I lean towards Abbott being guilty

Alan

What a case, what a return. RIP little one. In a small town, so many interesting characters. Couldn't believe how many possible suspects there were!

Chapo

what a nothing burger of a case

Nicola Carroll

Maybe I missed this - but did Lindsay get taken off the foster parents when they were convicted?

Tessa

This is such a dystopian complaint... Regardless, I consider William akin to Australia’s Madeleine McCann, so this case is huge for us.

Hannah

Well written but to come back after break to a bungled police investigation and cold case involving a child ain’t it.

Lisa

Fantastic podcast as always

Mark Ofmalovia

Very well done on thoroughly representing a very misrepresented case. The biggest fear to come from this podcast was the Gary Jubelin ordeal, and that police will fabricate evidence, lie under oath, and destroy innocent people's lives based on a hunch. This scares the shit out of me.

AR

judging from the other reactions to this case you're firmly in the minority. maybe your discomfort isn't about the podcast and you shouldn't blame them.

AR

no, it seems like she remained with the family.

Hannah

Key word in your reply is “judging” I Don’t think I said anything to fault anyone. 100% I stated my feeling about first one after the break. I’m sorry you felt the need to assume.

aurelius

yeah i think you should be allowed to state your feelings about a case. just because your feelings are in the minority doesn’t mean they’re not allowed to be shared. you stated your preference and it’s as valid as someone saying they don’t mind this

Ashley Batton

I was utterly shocked by that revelation. Yelling every once in a while can happen. All parents get frustrated. But screaming for an extended period of time, swearing and berating a crying child, hitting with a spoon, kicking, CHOKING?!?! this is abuse flat out and if they’re willing to do that who knows.

Ripley's Jaye

Apparently you've got random rules or guidelines that exist only in your head, that determine what kind of case is allowed, or should be released after a break. You sound utterly asinine.

pain

Like do people forget that a case is a case 💀 casefile has been in this industry for years, they don’t just half ass the content they release. If the team thought it was worth sharing the case then that’s just it. Sure people have the right to whine about what they don’t like but we also have the right to tell them to shut up lmao

Hannah

Y’all realize this isn’t Reddit right? lol bye

AR

exactly, it isn't reddit, we're all here *on patreon* because we explicitly wanted to support this podcast. holding them to really subjective individualized criteria for content isn't supportive, and you deserve the reactions you get for being unsupportive in this space. if you want to whine, go to reddit.

AR

CRIMELINES!!!! charlie is the most ethical one-man-show podcast out there, and if you like gen why and canadian true crime you will definitely appreciate her approach to cases. also have come to really enjoy True Crime Campfire for that old-school true crime narrative vibe. also Swindled, obviously. i've never heard of wicked and grim before, will have to check that one out!

Hannah

lolololol maybe I’m allowed to have my opinion on a case while supporting my fav podcast. Sorry you have no life keyboard ninja twat

Amanda Locke

I could not agree more. They have to be involved. How is going for a drive more important then alerting the authorities?! Their identities being kept secret at the beginning was the undoing of this case being solved, imo.