132case filesUpdated Jul 16, 2026
Casepin holds 132 case files in Australia. By legal status, 44 marked unsolved, 11 marked cold, 3 marked ongoing, 70 marked solved and 4 marked overturned.
SOLVEDListenLeongatha, Victoria, Australia · 2023
Erin Patterson murdered three relatives and seriously injured a fourth by serving beef Wellingtons laced with death cap mushrooms at a family lunch in Leongatha, Victoria, in July 2023. She was convicted on all charges in July 2025 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Credit: English WikipediaEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenBrookfield (family home), Brisbane · 2011
Allison Baden-Clay, a 43-year-old Brisbane mother of three, was murdered by her husband Gerard Baden-Clay in April 2012; his murder conviction was downgraded on appeal and then restored by the High Court of Australia in 2016.
Credit: Australian police, via English WikipediaPublic domainSourceCOLDListenSomerton Park beach, Adelaide, South Australia · 1940s
An unidentified man was found dead on an Adelaide beach in 1948, in a case that remains officially unresolved despite a 2022 genetic-genealogy identification claim.
Credit: Courtesy of the Hayez family / 'Looking for Théo Hayez' campaignEditorial useSourceUNSOLVEDListenCape Byron / Byron Bay area, New South Wales, Australia · 2019
Théo Hayez, an 18-year-old Belgian backpacker, vanished after leaving a bar in Byron Bay, Australia, on 31 May 2019; despite extensive searches, he has never been found.
SOLVEDListenSydney CBD, New South Wales, Australia · 2020
Lilie James, a student and water polo coach, was found dead at St Andrew's Cathedral School in the Sydney CBD on 25 October 2023; the man police named as the prime suspect was found dead by suicide two days later, and a coronial inquest into both deaths opened in March 2025.
Credit: BarrylbPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenMarieville Esplanade, Sandy Bay, River Derwent, Hobart · 2009
Bob Chappell disappeared from his yacht Four Winds in Hobart on 26 January 2009 and his body was never found; his partner Susan Neill-Fraser was convicted of his murder in 2010, a conviction upheld through multiple appeals despite ongoing controversy over DNA evidence and a key witness's recanted testimony.
Credit: Australian Department of TransportationPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenBass Strait, near Cape Otway and King Island · 1978
On 21 October 1978, 20-year-old pilot Frederick Valentich vanished over Bass Strait during a night flight to King Island after radioing air traffic control about an unidentified aircraft near his plane and reporting engine trouble. Neither he nor his Cessna 182L were ever found.
Credit: Contributor(s): The Courier-MailPublic domainSourceCOLDListenGrange, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · 2006
Betty Shanks, a young Brisbane public servant, was beaten and strangled while walking home in September 1952, in one of Queensland's oldest unsolved killings.
UNSOLVEDListenKings Park, Perth, Western Australia · 2007
Corryn Rayney, a Supreme Court of Western Australia registrar, disappeared on 7 August 2007 and was found buried in Kings Park, Perth; her husband Lloyd Rayney was charged with her murder but acquitted at trial, an acquittal later upheld on appeal, and her killing remains unsolved.
UNSOLVEDListenCoogee Aquarium Baths, Coogee, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 1935
In 1935 Sydney, a captive tiger shark vomited up a tattooed human arm, sparking a murder investigation into the death of James "Jimmy" Smith that led to a suspicious suicide attempt, a second man's unsolved murder, and an acquittal — leaving the case officially unsolved to this day.
The files run from 1804 to 2025. The 2010s hold the most, with 20 files. The oldest is 1804 Risdon Cove massacre, from 1804.
They are spread across 6 states and regions; the most are in New South Wales (26), Victoria (25) and Queensland (22). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (90), disappearance cases (24) and kidnapping and abduction cases (16).
41 files of the 132 have coverage attached: 98 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 16 creators. The most covered is Leongatha mushroom murders, with 8 items to watch or hear. 60 Minutes Australia, Dr. Todd Grande and That Chapter have covered the most of them.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
Bogle & Chandler bodies site Lane Cove River — Credit: Poyt448 Peter WoodardCC0Source
Moore Road Park, Reynella (48946445397) — Credit: Luke Anderson from Adelaide, AustraliaCC BY 2.0Source
132. By status: 44 unsolved, 11 cold, 3 ongoing, 70 solved and 4 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
1804 Risdon Cove massacre, from 1804. Open the file
Leongatha mushroom murders, with 8 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
60 Minutes Australia (15 cases), Dr. Todd Grande (10 cases) and That Chapter (9 cases), among 16 creators in all.
New South Wales (26), Victoria (25) and Queensland (22).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 16, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
