25case filesUpdated Jul 16, 2026
Casepin holds 25 case files in Victoria. By legal status, 13 marked unsolved, 1 marked cold, 2 marked ongoing, 8 marked solved and 1 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: National Archives of AustraliaPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenCheviot Beach, Portsea, Victoria, Australia · 1967
Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt vanished while swimming in rough seas off Cheviot Beach, Victoria, on 17 December 1967; despite a massive search, his body was never found, and a 2005 coronial inquest concluded he drowned.
UNSOLVEDListenPyramid Hill, Victoria, Australia · 2009
Krystal Fraser, a 23-year-old pregnant woman with an intellectual disability, vanished from Pyramid Hill, Victoria on 20 June 2009. A 2022 coronial inquest concluded she was likely killed and found evidence supported the conclusion that Peter "PJ" Jenkinson was involved in her disappearance, though he has not been charged and her body has never been found.
SOLVEDListenMelbourne, Victoria, Australia · 1998
A series of at least 36 murders of underworld figures in Melbourne, Australia, between January 1998 and August 2010, driven by rival criminal factions fighting for control of drug trafficking and related rackets.
SOLVEDListenRussell Street Police Complex, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 1986
A car bomb exploded outside Victoria Police headquarters on Russell Street, Melbourne, on 27 March 1986, killing Constable Angela Rose Taylor and injuring 22 others. Stanley Taylor and Craig Minogue were later convicted of murder over the attack.
OVERTURNEDListenCochranes Road, Moorabbin, Victoria, Australia · 1998
Victoria Police Sergeant Gary Silk and Senior Constable Rodney Miller were shot dead during a stakeout in Moorabbin, Australia, in August 1998; a lengthy investigation led to convictions in 2003, but one conviction was later quashed over evidence tampering and overturned at retrial in 2022.
Credit: ABC Gippsland / East Gippsland Historical Society (via The Line-Up; also captioned in…Public domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenWonnangatta Valley, East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia · 1916
In late 1917 and 1918, station manager Jim Barclay and cook John Bamford were murdered in the remote Wonnangatta Valley, Victoria, Australia. Both men were shot and their bodies found separately months apart; the case remains unsolved.
UNSOLVEDListenJuliet Crescent, Healesville, Victoria · 2003
Marea Yann, a 69-year-old nurse and charity volunteer, was found beaten to death in her Healesville, Victoria home in September 2003. Her former son-in-law was charged in 2006 but acquitted at trial in 2008, and the case remains unsolved with a $1 million reward on offer.
UNSOLVEDListenConvincing Ground, Portland Bay, Victoria, Australia · 1833
Around 1833–1834, British whalers based at Portland Bay killed a large number of Kilcarer gundidj clan members of the Gunditjmara people in a dispute over a beached whale, in what historians describe as one of the earliest recorded massacres in Victoria's colonial history.
COLDListenNorth Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 1975
Julie Garciacelay, a 19-year-old American woman living in North Melbourne, vanished from her apartment on 1 July 1975 after three men visited her that evening; police treated the case as a homicide, and a 2018 coronial inquest found her deceased, but no one has been charged.
The files run from 1830 to 2024. The 1830s hold the most, with 5 files. The oldest is Warrowen massacre, from 1830.
They are spread across 18 cities and towns; the most are in Melbourne (8). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (17), disappearance cases (7) and robbery and burglary cases (2).
2 files of the 25 have coverage attached: 9 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 6 creators. The most covered is Leongatha mushroom murders, with 8 items to watch or hear. Dr. Todd Grande, Coffeehouse Crime and 7NEWS Spotlight 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.
Searching Cheviot Beach — Credit: National Archives of AustraliaPublic domainSource
1 flinders st station melb — Credit: Adam.J.W.C.CC BY-SA 2.5Source
SamanthaMurphy — Credit: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-11/vigil-for-samantha-murphy/103453308. This image…Editorial useSource
Easey Street, Collingwood — Credit: CanleyCC BY-SA 3.0Source
Acland Street in St Kilda — Credit: BidgeeCC BY-SA 3.0Source
James (Jim) Barclay, John Bamford — Credit: ABC Gippsland / East Gippsland Historical Society (via The Line-Up; also captioned in…Public domainSource
25. By status: 13 unsolved, 1 cold, 2 ongoing, 8 solved and 1 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Warrowen massacre, from 1830. Open the file
Leongatha mushroom murders, with 8 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
Dr. Todd Grande (2 cases), Coffeehouse Crime (1 case) and 7NEWS Spotlight (1 case), among 6 creators in all.
Melbourne (8).
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.
