Casepin · About
What we are, and why we’re careful.
Casepin is a world map of documented crimes. Every pin opens a neutral, sourced case file — what happened, a timeline, the people involved with their real legal status — with the best existing coverage attached.
It is built victim-first, for adult readers, as a reference rather than a feed. This page explains what it is, why it exists, how cases are chosen, and exactly how we use AI.
What it is
An ethical discovery layer.
True crime is enormous and scattered across videos, threads, and articles of wildly uneven quality. Casepin is the layer that organizes it — three things, in order.
- Explore by place. Every case sits on the map where it happened. You browse geography — a city, a coastline, a street — not an algorithmic feed built to keep you scrolling.
- Read the verified record. Each pin opens a neutral case file: what happened, a timeline, the people involved with their real legal status, and the sources the file was written from.
- Find responsible coverage. The best documentaries, videos, and podcasts on a case are linked and embedded in context, credited to their makers, and never re-hosted.
Why it exists
The genre usually gets this wrong.
Much of true crime treats real deaths as entertainment. Cases get sensationalized, victims get flattened into plot, and people who were never charged get named by strangers online. Casepin exists to be the deliberate opposite: a calm, accurate reference that keeps the victim at the center and sends attention to the people who cover these cases responsibly.
In this genre, restraint is the whole point. What we choose not to build matters as much as what we do.
How cases are selected
Documented, sourced, and gated.
Documented, or it isn't here.
A case earns a place only if it is documented in public reporting or records. The catalog focuses on the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, plus globally notorious historical cases. Ongoing trials and very recent cases are held to a higher bar or deferred.
Two citations, at least.
No case file publishes with fewer than two independent citations, and every one is listed on the case page. Videos and podcasts are coverage we point you to — not what we cite facts from.
Gated before it appears.
Files are written as drafts, then move through a review queue before anything goes live. Only files marked published are ever visible; drafts and in-review files are not. If a file is later flagged or pulled, it leaves public view straight away.
How AI is used — and how it isn’t
How we use AI, exactly.
We use AI, and we are precise about how. Language models do two jobs here: they write a first draft of a case file from source material we have already retrieved, and they help match existing coverage to the right case. That is the whole of it.
Those drafts are grounded only in the source text we pass in — never the model’s own memory, and never the open web. The model is instructed to add no fact that is not in those sources, and if it cannot tie a named person to both a citation and a legal status, that person is removed from the draft.
The model never decides what goes live. Publication is under human control, and every file must first clear automated checks — that citations resolve, that dates parse, that banned language is absent, and that each person’s legal-status label is verified. Anything those checks flag is held for a person at the review desk, and a human-run corrections process continues after a case is public.
No invented facts. No invented people. Nothing on the map its sources don’t support.
Corrections and families
If we get something wrong.
A correction link sits on every case file, and anyone can use it. We aim to give a first response within 72 hours, we log every request, and when facts change we rewrite the file from updated sources and mark the date it changed.
Requests from victims’ families are handled first. For families we err toward the family: we will fix errors quickly, and we will consider de-emphasizing even accurate content when a family asks. Full removal is decided case by case, by a person, never automatically.
Request a correctionWho runs it
Who runs Casepin.
Founder details are being added
Casepin is an independent project. Details about who runs it are being finalized and will appear here: a name, a short note on the person behind it, the operating entity, and a way for press to make contact.
Contact
Reach a person.
The best way to reach us is the submission desk: suggest a case, point us to better coverage, or flag something that needs fixing. Every message is read by a person before anything changes on the site.
For press, a full kit — boilerplate, fast facts, and quotable positioning — lives on the press page, with a press contact and an asset pack available on request.