8case filesUpdated Sep 29, 2026
Casepin holds 8 case files in Paris. By legal status, 7 marked solved and 1 marked overturned.
OVERTURNEDListenParis, France · 1894
Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French artillery officer, was wrongfully convicted of treason in December 1894 on forged and disputed evidence and exiled to Devil's Island; a cover-up by military leadership suppressed proof of his innocence for years until his 1899 pardon and 1906 exoneration.
SOLVEDListenBelleville, Paris · 2017
Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old retired Jewish physician, was beaten and thrown from the window of her Paris apartment in April 2017 after her neighbor broke in; the neighbor was charged with homicide, but courts ultimately ruled he was not criminally responsible due to a cannabis-induced psychotic episode, a finding upheld by France's highest court in 2021.
SOLVEDListenParis, France · 1984
Between October 1984 and November 1987, at least 18 elderly women were robbed and killed in Paris, mostly in the 18th arrondissement, in a series of attacks French police linked by fingerprint evidence, a survivor's description, and a confession to nightclub performer Thierry Paulin. Paulin died of AIDS-related illness in April 1989 before he could stand trial; his former partner, Jean-Thierry Mathurin, was later convicted as an accomplice in the first nine attacks and was released from prison in 2009.
SOLVEDListenParis and Saint-Denis, France · 2015
Coordinated attacks claimed by the Islamic State struck the Stade de France, several restaurants and cafés, and the Bataclan theatre in Paris and Saint-Denis on 13 November 2015, killing 130 people and injuring 416 — the deadliest attack in French history. A 2021–2022 Paris trial convicted all 20 defendants, including sole surviving attacker Salah Abdeslam, who was sentenced to life without parole.
SOLVEDListenHôtel de Pourtalès, 7 rue Tronchet, 8th arrondissement, Paris · 2016
In the early hours of 3 October 2016, armed men posing as police tied up Kim Kardashian in her Paris residence at the Hôtel de Pourtalès and stole jewellery worth about €9 million; in May 2025 a Paris court convicted eight defendants, four of them of the armed robbery and confinement, and acquitted two.
The files run from 1894 to 2022. The 2010s hold the most, with 4 files. The oldest is The Dreyfus Affair (Paris, 1894–1906), from 1894.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (4), robbery and burglary cases (3) and hate crime cases (2).
2 files of the 8 have coverage attached: 2 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 2 creators. Annie Elise and Bailey Sarian 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. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
This page updates from the published files, so counts and statuses change the day a record does. Open any file for its timeline, its sources and the coverage worth your time, or play it as a narrated case file.
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8. By status: 7 solved and 1 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
The Dreyfus Affair (Paris, 1894–1906), from 1894. Open the file
Annie Elise (1 case) and Bailey Sarian (1 case).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Sep 29, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
