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  • S3 E7: The Trial

    October 25, 2026 · 11 min

    Miami, summer nineteen seventy-nine: Ted Bundy walks into court in a suit, defends himself, and becomes the first murder defendant broadcast live on national television. Tonight on Case Files: the Chi Omega trial, the bite-mark evidence…

  • S3 E6: The Final Victim

    October 25, 2026 · 10 min

    February ninth, nineteen seventy-eight: twelve-year-old Kimberly Leach walked out of her first-period class at Lake City Junior High — and never came back. Tonight on Case Files: the abduction of Ted Bundy's youngest and final victim, the…

  • S3 E5: Tallahassee

    October 24, 2026 · 11 min

    January fifteenth, nineteen seventy-eight: just two weeks after escaping jail, Ted Bundy slipped into Florida State University's Chi Omega sorority house — and committed the crimes that would finally convict him. Tonight on Case Files: the…

  • S3 E4: The Escapes

    October 24, 2026 · 11 min

    He jumped from a second-story courthouse window in Aspen, then starved himself thin enough to slip through a hole in his jail cell ceiling. Twice, Ted Bundy escaped — and twice, the system let it happen. In this episode, Case Files traces…

  • S3 E3: The Utah Years

    October 23, 2026 · 11 min

    Ted Bundy came to Utah to start over — law school, church, a quiet rented room. Instead, Utah became the place his mask cracked. A fake police officer in a mall parking lot, a seventeen-year-old who escaped a handcuffed nightmare, the…

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  • S3 E2: Lake Sammamish

    October 23, 2026 · 11 min

    On the fourteenth of July, nineteen seventy-four, Ted Bundy abducted two young women from a crowded beach in broad daylight — Janice Ott, twenty-three, and Denise Naslund, nineteen. This episode reconstructs that hot Sunday afternoon at…

  • S3 E1: The Man Behind the Smile

    October 23, 2026 · 12 min

    Season 3 opens on the Ted Bundy case — the most infamous name in true crime. This episode peels back the mask: the law student, the crisis-hotline volunteer, the charming boyfriend — and the winter of 1974, when young women began vanishing…

  • S2 E8: Justice, Forty Years Late

    October 22, 2026 · 11 min

    After forty years and eighty-seven victims, the Golden State Killer finally faces the people he destroyed. This episode takes you inside the extraordinary sentencing at Sacramento State — three days of survivor statements, a guilty plea to…

  • S2 E7: The Arrest

    October 22, 2026 · 11 min

    The manhunt lasted forty-four years. In S2 E7, it ends with a trash bag on a Tuesday morning — investigators watch 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo wheel his bin to the curb in Citrus Heights, and discarded DNA finally names the Golden…

  • S2 E6: The Family Tree

    October 22, 2026 · 10 min

    The Golden State Killer hunted California for more than a decade — then vanished for forty years. In S2 E6, investigator Paul Holes and genetic genealogist Barbara Rae-Venter build a family tree from a single DNA sample, tracing distant…

  • S2 E5: The Writer Who Named Him

    October 21, 2026 · 10 min

    Before Joseph James DeAngelo was caught, one woman hunted him for five years — writer Michelle McNamara, who coined the name "Golden State Killer" and gave forty years of scattered crimes a single identity. Her book I'll Be Gone in the…

  • S2 E4: The Cold Decades

    October 21, 2026 · 11 min

    For thirty-two years, the man behind the Golden State Killer case was a ghost — a DNA profile with no name. This episode traces the cold decades: the 2001 DNA breakthrough that proved the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker…

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Case Files brings you the most shocking true crime stories ever told — serial killers, unsolved murders, cold cases and criminal investigations. Every season covers one complete case, with new episodes published daily. Subscribe for your daily dose of true crime.