70case filesUpdated Jul 16, 2026
Casepin holds 70 solved cases in Australia. A solved case is one the record closes with a conviction or an equivalent legal finding; each file names who was convicted only where a court did.
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.
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.
SOLVEDListenSS Yongala wreck site, near Townsville, Queensland, Australia · 2003
Tina Watson, a 26-year-old American on her honeymoon, drowned while scuba diving at the SS Yongala wreck off Queensland, Australia, in October 2003. Her husband, Gabe Watson, was tried in Australia and pleaded guilty to manslaughter, serving prison time; a later Alabama murder prosecution ended in his acquittal by a judge for lack of evidence.
SOLVEDListenWieambilla, Queensland, Australia · 2022
On 12 December 2022, the three residents of a rural property in Wieambilla, Queensland, fatally shot two police constables and a neighbor before being shot dead by police after an hours-long standoff that a 2025 coronial inquest later attributed to shared delusion rather than terrorism.
SOLVEDListenOrelia, Western Australia (body found); Rockingham, Western Australia (disappearance) · 2016
Aaron Pajich, an 18-year-old man with autism, disappeared from Rockingham, Western Australia on 13 June 2016 and was found buried in the backyard of a nearby house days later. Two women, Jemma Lilley and Trudi Lenon, were convicted of his murder 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.
Credit: Period press photo via Wikipedia (Murder of Phyllis Reiger)Public domainSourceSOLVEDListenRockhampton, Queensland, Australia · 1934
Phyllis Reiger, 22, was strangled by her former boyfriend, prison warder Jack McQuade, in his car in Rockhampton, Queensland in the early hours of 16 January 1935, two days after McQuade married another woman.
Credit: Danny RopisCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenCorner of Barrack and Wellington streets, Perth, Western Australia · 1978
Andrew Pea, a 22-year-old labourer, was stabbed to death outside a Perth betting shop in 1978 after a brief street fight; the case remained unsolved for nearly a decade until Peter Munckton was arrested in 1987 and convicted of murder in 1988.
The files run from 1804 to 2024. The 2010s hold the most, with 17 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 (17), Queensland (16) and Victoria (8). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (53), kidnapping and abduction cases (11) and domestic violence cases (7).
26 files of the 70 have coverage attached: 69 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 14 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. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
Daniel morcombe — Credit: www.derwan.com/images/view/Daniel_Morcombe.jpgEditorial useSource
Tiahleigh Palmer — Credit: ABC News (Australia), via English WikipediaEditorial useSource
Allison Baden-Clay — Credit: English WikipediaEditorial useSource
Jgb-Monument to Anita Cobby — Credit: Jgb23CC BY-SA 4.0Source
Snowtown former bank — Credit: Fairv8CC BY-SA 3.0Source
Heritage buildings on Sydney Road, Brunswick — Credit: Philip Mallis, via Wikimedia CommonsCC BY-SA 2.0Source
Janine Balding — Credit: English WikipediaEditorial useSource
AU-Qld-Brisbane-Camp-Hill-park Hannahs-Place 2025 — Credit: Q8682CC BY-SA 4.0Source
Supreme Court of Tasmania building in Hobart — Credit: BarrylbPublic domainSource
CarlyRyanPortrait — Credit: UnknownEditorial useSource
OIC claremont hotel 1 — Credit: User:OrderinchaosCC BY-SA 3.0Source
Searching Cheviot Beach — Credit: National Archives of AustraliaPublic domainSource
Phyllis Reiger — Credit: Period press photo via Wikipedia (Murder of Phyllis Reiger)Public domainSource
Murder of Andrew Pea - Murder Location — Credit: Danny RopisCC BY-SA 4.0Source
North Stockton Surf Club 2014 — Credit: Freikorp (talk)Public domainSource
File:Monash University Menzies Building.jpg — Credit: MelburnianCC BY 2.5Source
File:2b Graeme-Thorne150.jpg — Credit: http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/classics/thorne/2.htmlEditorial useSource
These files are published and cited but are kept out of search listings for now, either because they fall outside Casepin’s true-crime scope or because they are still being deepened.
70. 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 (9 cases), Dr. Todd Grande (7 cases) and That Chapter (7 cases), among 14 creators in all.
New South Wales (17), Queensland (16) and Victoria (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.
