Credit: Caroline CrouchEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListen
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Indexed coverage from June 2022 to June 2026 · about 27 hours in total
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The Casual Criminalist, by the numbers
Casepin has matched 20 videos from The Casual Criminalist, the YouTube channel, to 20 published case files. The indexed videos were published between June 2022 and June 2026. Together they run to about 27 hours of viewing and listening.
The cases span 5 countries, led by United States (13), United Kingdom (4) and Austria (1). They range in date from 1906 to 2021. The earliest is Murder of Grace Brown (1906); the most recent case is Murder of Caroline Crouch (2021). Within United States, the most-covered places are California (5), New York (2) and Colorado (1). By decade, the busiest are the 1990s (4), the 2010s (3) and the 2000s (3).
By the legal status recorded on each file, 14 are solved and 6 unsolved. New to the catalog? Kyoto Animation arson attack is a good first file.
Other creators in the index covered many of the same cases; the largest overlaps are with Dr. Todd Grande (3), That Chapter (2) and Kendall Rae (2). The average indexed video runs about 81 minutes. The newest one matched so far is “Caroline Crouch: The Murder That Shook Greece”, from December 2025.
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New to The Casual Criminalist? Begin with Kyoto Animation arson attack.
On 18 July 2019, an arsonist set fire to Kyoto Animation's Studio 1 building in Kyoto, Japan, killing 36 people and injuring 34 others in one of the deadliest attacks in Japan since World War II. Shinji Aoba was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in January 2024.
The Horrifying Kyoto Animation Massacre2 hr 14 min · 28 Feb 2025· Watch on the creator’s channel Most recent from The Casual Criminalist
Most recent from The Casual Criminalist
- Credit: Caroline CrouchEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListen
13 Dec 2025 · Caroline Crouch: The Murder That Shook Greece
Credit: L26CC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListen28 Feb 2025 · The Horrifying Kyoto Animation Massacre
6 Mar 2024 · The Shocking Case of the Suffolk Strangler
Credit: Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons infobox portraitPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListen24 Apr 2023 · The Murder of Grace Brown #shorts
Credit: Wikimedia Commons (Nicole Brown Simpson); Ron Goldman portrait via English WikipediaEditorial useSourceUNSOLVEDListen16 Jan 2023 · Revisiting the Infamous Trial of OJ Simpson: A Look Back at the 'Trial of the Century
Every case The Casual Criminalist covered
One row per case. Video titles are the creators' own words; tap Listen for Casepin's narration of the cited file.
JonBenét Ramsey grave — Credit: TaurusrusCC BY-SA 3.0Source
Ocean Parkway, Long Island — where the victims' remains were foundCC BY-SA 2.0Source
Kyoto animation arson attack 3 20190721 — Credit: L26CC BY-SA 4.0Source
Paul Stine, late 1950s — Credit: Stine family scrapbook, via zodiackiller.comEditorial useSourceUNSOLVEDZodiac Killer caseSan Francisco Bay Area, California (multiple crime scenes including Benicia, Vallejo, Napa County, and San Francisco) · 1960s
Keddie murders victims (Sharp family and Dana Wingate) — Credit: Via Wikipedia ; portraits published on Find a Grave and Plumas County news outletsEditorial useSource
Cobbins, Davidson, Thomas, Lynn Coleman — Credit: Nate HooperCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Nicole Brown Simpson, Ron Goldman — Credit: Wikimedia Commons (Nicole Brown Simpson); Ron Goldman portrait via English WikipediaEditorial useSourceUNSOLVEDKillings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman875 Bundy Drive, Brentwood, Los Angeles · 1994
Sylvia Likens Stokes High School portrait — Credit: Stokes school faculty members (c. 1962).Public domainSourceSOLVEDMurder of Sylvia LikensFormer residence on East New York Street (near-east side), Indianapolis, Indiana · 1965
Robison Family Murders Crime Scene Bullet Hole Window July 22 1968 — Credit: Press photographer Fred LovelacePublic domainSource
2014 Isla Vista Killings Map Layout — Credit: Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s OfficePublic domainSource
Atlanta murders geographical analysis negative exponential ring 2 — Credit: MerikantoCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Yeoman hey and dovestones from hollin brown knoll — Credit: Parrot of DoomCC BY-SA 3.0Source
Virgil Starks' Grave Marker — Credit: JeremeKCC BY-SA 3.0Source
Claudia Maupin and Oliver Northup, both victims (a married couple)Editorial useSource
Grace Brown — Credit: Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons infobox portraitPublic domainSource
File:Caroline Crouch.png — Credit: Caroline CrouchEditorial useSource
SOLVEDMurder of Muriel McKayRooks Farm (later Stocking Farm), Stocking Pelham, Hertfordshire, England · 1969
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Creators who covered the same cases, by how many they share.
- Dr. Todd GrandeCompare
3 shared cases · 148 in all
- That ChapterCompare
2 shared cases · 133 in all
- Kendall RaeCompare
2 shared cases · 106 in all
- Coffeehouse CrimeCompare
2 shared cases · 68 in all
- 48 HoursCompare
2 shared cases · 55 in all
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