Casepin, the map of true crime.
A world map where every pin is a real, sourced case, with the best video and podcast coverage attached.
Casepin is an educational true-crime reference built as a world map. Every pin is a documented case with a cited, victim-first case file — timeline, people, sources — and the best existing coverage from YouTube creators and podcasters, linked and embedded rather than re-hosted. A calm archive for adult readers, not a feed engineered for dread.
Restraint as a product.
True crime is enormous and mostly sensational. Casepin is the deliberate opposite: an ethics-forward reference that treats the genre's subjects as people. The product enforces that stance in software.
Victim-first by construction.
Cases are framed around victims, never perpetrator mythology. A title says “murder” only when a court has; otherwise “killing,” “death,” or “disappearance.”
No guilt the record doesn't support.
Legal status is a database field, and people who have not been charged are never named.
Coverage is a feature, not a dumping ground.
The best storytellers' videos and podcasts are embedded in context and credited. Casepin sends traffic to creators, and never re-hosts their work.
What it refuses to build.
No likes, no comment threads on real people's worst days, no play-detective mechanics, no tip collection, no gore, no notifications engineered for dread. A correction link sits on every case.
That restraint-as-a-product position is the story, not just the app.
What it is.
- A world map of real cases — explore by place, pan and zoom.
- Sourced case files: what happened, a timeline, the people involved with real legal status, and the citations each file was written from.
- The best true-crime video and podcast coverage, embedded per case.
- Near me — cases around you, with location that never leaves your device.
- Follow cases; read saved and featured cases offline.
The essentials.
- Casepin
- Educational true-crime reference, as a world map
- Web, iOS, Android (one codebase)
- Free
- Reference (iOS) / Books & Reference (Play)
- Adults (18+)
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia (v1)
- Published journalism, court and government records, encyclopedic sources; at least two citations per case; Wikipedia-derived prose attributed under CC BY-SA.
- Official embeds and links only (YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts) — never re-hosted.
Usable pull-quotes.
- “Every pin is a real case.”
- “A map, not a feed.”
- “We point you to the best coverage — we never re-host it.”
- “Victim-first, always.”
For verified press.
A press contact and a downloadable asset pack are being finalized. Until then, the boilerplate, features, and positioning lines above are public and quotable, and every claim on Casepin is sourced and correctable.
- Press contact
- Founder or spokesperson quotes
- Screenshot and preview pack (real, code-rendered UI)
- Operating entity