Such an in depth review of this case! Thought it might interest you that my dad actually worked this case as an undercover officer and played a big part in rescuing slater! Very interesting to hear it from an inside POV and also through a podcast knowing my dads the one helping!
I have a caseworker who is getting to know me better. Today I told her about how much I love this show and she said, "I love Casefile!" So now I trust her more.
Your work is so thorough and vivid! And background music adds to the ambiance, and is just on the edge of audible! Conversely. YOUR voice is clear and audible, not an annoying ASMR murmur!!
@Andrew Phillips ... Actually after looking through your account and seeing your playlists I doubt I even want to know how *you* would have liked it worded. Andrew Philips' playlists include such classics as "Super Big Beautiful Women", "Hairy, sweaty women *and girls* ", "Hairy armpits are sexy", used panty reviews, etc. but what concerns me the most are the amount of videos of underaged girls dancing, having sleepovers, teenage girls in their underwear, children dancing half-naked, touching eachother sexually, etc. titled under "Other interests". Yikes. I don't know what your deal is but I'm afraid I might be aware of the possibilities. If your point is to show any anti-SW sentiments though... You are obviously far from a person who possesses the integrity and virtue needed to hold such opinions (especially if based on judgment). I doubt anybody could have the capacity for such cognitive dissonance. And if it's the other extreme - that you would have better liked a more explicit, mature or vulgar description in relation to a murder victim's intimate life... That wouldn't be any better. Crass, inappropriate and tasteless *at best* . Especially, when having in mind, your documented "interests" it would just make your situation and charecter *even* more creepy and concerning.
Another excellent episode, thank you Casefile. Your episodes on British crimes are exemplary. I've read and watched everything available on many of the cases you have covered and your work is thoroughly researched, well balanced and compellingly narrated.
despite having family from this area, I have never heard of this case, thank you for covering it, you really have one of the best true crime content online. I was sent over by a fellow true crime creators recommendation, Georgia Marie, and I an so glad she did because I can't stop listening and can't wait for the next episode to drop
I'm halfway through thanks for the up load guys great timing its like a storm outside so getting the notification has made my night once again! Never heard of this one n its just across from Ireland. Sounds like some lunatic very sad but interesting to see what happens hopefully this pos doesn't get away. Happy fathers day xxx RIP JULIE🌷
Casefile, you are outdoing yourselves each week with these British weirdo cases. By weirdo I mean the crim, not the titled victims. RIP, Julie, taken so young and Stephanie, such a shame you got through Sams' ordeal only to be claimed by cancer ❤️
This was a very well done podcast - I am horrified to say that I have never heard of these cases - I remember when murders etc were headline UK news and then they become so frequent it stopped being national news. What a world we live in - so sad and so scary. In my defence I have just heard when this murder and kidnapping took place, I wasn’t living in UK 🇬🇧
Fantastic work, you do, CF! This episode, should come with a disclaimer..... Water works ahead, proceed with caution! Your narration was so good, I began to even feel sorry for Michael! Anyone who can evoke this kind of response from his listeners, has truly attained mastery over them. In the end, it was Stephanie's tenacity that brought me to tears. So, CF.....be kind 😢, to us, ok? And keep up the good work!!!!!
This was FASCINATING. I remember this but so much detail not known then as you have portrayed I think. Jaw-dropping towards the end (last fifth section I think). Where is Crime Watch these days?.... Utterly compelling. Im not through it as yet....
Not having learned an accurate, more technical, description of Sams mental issues; I'm going to go with bat shite cray-cray. The best sentence is the classic: just lock him up & throw away the key.
show suggestion: John Ackroyd Oregon serial killer. There are a handful of unsolved murders in the (remote) area in which he operated. He was a highway worker who lived in between towns at a junctiion on Hwy 20 where he often hunted. Long lonely stretches of road of which he knew well. Tons of actual interviews available. started in the 70s. While incarcerated he most recently got convicted of murdering his lovely stepdaughter Rashandra Pickle thankfully. He has since died. Your treatment of the information and presentation of the facts would be amazing. (i hope i haven't missed episode if you've covered this)
I have heard about this case before, but not in so much depth. I'm sitting here getting ready for church, and I'm so emotional. Very good cover and the fact that when she got her confidence back and love for life she died... 😢
Casefile, you are outdoing yourselves each week with these British weirdo cases. By weirdo I mean the crim, not the titled victims. RIP Stephanie, such a shame you got through Sams' ordeal only to be claimed by cancer ❤️
I even like the adverts, they are a bit of a laugh sometimes. Like his style. Great stories, read with great detail. Was talking to someone who was in prison with Sam's. He said he was only a small bloke, but really nasty.
Well I decided to read the comments first since I'm new here. Hopefully it's as great as everyone is saying. Lol I'm sure it will be. Thanks for the entertainment from Columbus Ohio
The ineptitude of police yet again. What an insane level of incompetency from them during the would be sting operation. Easily could have ended with the death of Stephanie. I do not understand why society often seems to employ the dimmest bulbs to work in law enforcement.
Really quick I swear the speakers voice sounds oh so familiar...cld it be my favorite spooky story guy? Lol I'm not 100% but damn sure in my mind anyways sorry for the off the wall comment
OMG, I've NEVER empathized with one of these heinous criminals before!! Halfway through, I find myself hoping he'll get away with it! What have you done to me, Casey?!?!
Why the hell don't they just go to schools and ask if there's a kid named ( Mavis was it?) with the dad's name like what they traced from the notepad letter ?
Jim Can't Swim on UA-cam does an awesome interrogation analysis of Russell Williams, too. Someone should request Casefile cover William's via. their email addresses on their website that's solely for case requests.
The police: fumbled every single thing they could've done, failed multiple times to successfully do something relatively simple that pre-planning could've solved. And the only person in the operation to do something correctly was the father. Also the police: we did it boys we saved the day, all us.
I would never call the cops and get them Involved in the kidnapping if one ever happened with say 1 of my kids I would just pay the money and get my kid back Then i'd call the cops Not risking my kid's life Because every single time the cops are involved and the person doesn't get the money the kid is killed Or they even catch the guy and he doesn't tell them where the kid is and that kid just dies as well I have rarely seen a kidnapping happened and then the police catch the person and get the kids back alive It's usually because one of the kids end up escaping
@5:50 spot, i believe he killed her @7:26...it wouldn't surprise me if it was discovered that she signed the document saying she took tbe bosses credit. ard ut was truly covering for the abusive bf, n that he was who stole the c.c
Sams was a total nutcase. He should be known as harpic. Clean round the bend. He obviously wasn't doing it for money. He wouldn't have killed Julie Dart otherwise. Poor young women. RIP.
I swear I am not victim blaming, and I think all killers should spend the rest of their lives in jail. But I will never understand why women choose to be prostitutes. It's really not a safe occupation.
Men chose to be coal miners because it was the best option they had, even though it was almost universally deadly in the long run unless you quit early before the coal dust settled in your lungs. Sex work, by comparison, is probably safer, and chosen for similar reasons: it pays better than the options that person has in their current circumstances, and the risk of NOT doing it seems to be greater than the risk of doing it. If you can't understand it, you're probably not in a position where you've needed to consider it.
Is it true that it is the "same sentence for one or two murders" in England, and that you can't have a debt if you wanted to join the army. So weird that Julie would rather be a sex worker than ask her g-parents for money. I wonder if the g-parents were hiding something.
Gênerally speaking, this is true because life sentences run concurrently, not consecutively. Sadly, this isn't fair to the victims. For example, Sam's got 10 years for each blackmail incident, total 20 years but he was already condemned for Julie Darts murder, so he didn't serve any time for blackmail. Other things are considered when sentencing - previous crimes, remorse, and whether the defendant pleaded guilty or not. Where the totality of his crimes matter, including his conduct while in prison, is when he wants to apply for parole. For all these reasons, Sam's was denied parole in April 2022!
Tell us how you really feel about Coffindicker HARSH!!!!!!! 😂😂 I love it!!! SHES A FKN TOOLBOX AN X FKR NOT FBI!! Truly she sets a horrible example for the youth, kids if she has any, and students of law and due process.
Clearly Stephanie was a religious person, since she hallucinated seeing the character Jesus. And I highly doubt her hallucination was that of a curly haired, olive toned, Bronze Age Semitic man, it was very likely the Caucasian Jesus that people of the empire always depict in art and media.
Very enthralling but the pronunciation of route is driving me insane. I do not think the narrator is British, he would never mispronounce route like that, not American, maybe from Australia or New Zealand? I know I am being a Karen and I do not know why it is driving me so insane! My only complaint, good job
I chuckle when I encounter pronunciations different from my region (west coast of the US) Mike Holmes, of Canadian home improvement shows fame, and his pro-gress became a family fav..
Everyone praises every episode Casefile puts out, but I have to disagree. I think we are witnesing a steady decline in the quality of the episodes, especially in the last 20 or so episodes. The writing is not what it used to be. And the cases covered have mostly been covered by other podcasts. In some cases much better than here.
Currently binging, and I haven't noticed a thing. Also, "other podcasts have covered the materials"... So what? Who cares. I'm watching it here, not on other podcasts.
It's funny how much effort the narrator puts into trying to make the victims sound like good people. In reality missy of the cases involve trash people from trash families. Or the victims are prostitutes or drug addicts. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Such an in depth review of this case! Thought it might interest you that my dad actually worked this case as an undercover officer and played a big part in rescuing slater! Very interesting to hear it from an inside POV and also through a podcast knowing my dads the one helping!
That has to make you feel good.
Dude that's badass.
Your dad is 🕺🏽
A true crime addicts dream
Your podcasts help me fall asleep, and not in a bad boring way. I listen and listen and relax until I fall asleep. Thank you!
I have a caseworker who is getting to know me better. Today I told her about how much I love this show and she said, "I love Casefile!" So now I trust her more.
WOW!! I was mesmerized for the entire 2 hours and 17 minutes! I have the attention span of a gnat, so this is really saying something!
Your work is so thorough and vivid! And background music adds to the ambiance, and is just on the edge of audible! Conversely. YOUR voice is clear and audible, not an annoying ASMR murmur!!
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Oh my goodness! Over 2 hours of Casefile heaven. Just what I needed. Absolutely THE BEST true crime podcast, content and delivery. Thank you.
This crime podcast is second to none 💯
I love these and watch them every morning while I cook or clean!
@Andrew Phillips How would you have put it into words?
@Andrew Phillips ... Actually after looking through your account and seeing your playlists I doubt I even want to know how *you* would have liked it worded.
Andrew Philips' playlists include such classics as "Super Big Beautiful Women", "Hairy, sweaty women *and girls* ", "Hairy armpits are sexy", used panty reviews, etc. but what concerns me the most are the amount of videos of underaged girls dancing, having sleepovers, teenage girls in their underwear, children dancing half-naked, touching eachother sexually, etc. titled under "Other interests". Yikes.
I don't know what your deal is but I'm afraid I might be aware of the possibilities.
If your point is to show any anti-SW sentiments though... You are obviously far from a person who possesses the integrity and virtue needed to hold such opinions (especially if based on judgment). I doubt anybody could have the capacity for such cognitive dissonance.
And if it's the other extreme - that you would have better liked a more explicit, mature or vulgar description in relation to a murder victim's intimate life... That wouldn't be any better. Crass, inappropriate and tasteless *at best* . Especially, when having in mind, your documented "interests" it would just make your situation and charecter *even* more creepy and concerning.
@Andrew Phillips mmmmmmbnmbnnbbbmmmmmmnbcm
Another excellent episode, thank you Casefile. Your episodes on British crimes are exemplary. I've read and watched everything available on many of the cases you have covered and your work is thoroughly researched, well balanced and compellingly narrated.
Stephanie Slater is one of the most impressive persons I've come across. Deepest respect, I'm off to buy her book now.
Very, very good episode.
This episode kept me awake and alert for a long trek man. Love it!
despite having family from this area, I have never heard of this case, thank you for covering it, you really have one of the best true crime content online. I was sent over by a fellow true crime creators recommendation, Georgia Marie, and I an so glad she did because I can't stop listening and can't wait for the next episode to drop
It's a pleasure to listen to your podcasts. The stories are so well researched and narrated. Thank you.
I'm halfway through thanks for the up load guys great timing its like a storm outside so getting the notification has made my night once again! Never heard of this one n its just across from Ireland. Sounds like some lunatic very sad but interesting to see what happens hopefully this pos doesn't get away. Happy fathers day xxx RIP JULIE🌷
Omg it's 230am and i need to be up at 530....I cannot stop listening
Casefile, you are outdoing yourselves each week with these British weirdo cases. By weirdo I mean the crim, not the titled victims. RIP, Julie, taken so young and Stephanie, such a shame you got through Sams' ordeal only to be claimed by cancer ❤️
I'm stunned by the quality of your content. Thank you for respectfully and thoroughly sharing the stories of those whose lives were ended too don't.
Stephanie's PTSD shows how trauma afflicts victims often permanently. I regret that she needed to navigate her own treatment.
What a great episode! Wonderful job guys, congrats on the series! Thanks!
I live near Leicester yet have never heard this case. Thank you for shedding light on it. What an incredible woman
This was a very well done podcast - I am horrified to say that I have never heard of these cases - I remember when murders etc were headline UK news and then they become so frequent it stopped being national news. What a world we live in - so sad and so scary. In my defence I have just heard when this murder and kidnapping took place, I wasn’t living in UK 🇬🇧
I’m❤w😢😊
The murder rate has decreased over time you Tory twit
Great podcast. I hope your channel grows and recieves the recognition it deserves.
It seams I've missed this one, what a treat 🤗
Fantastic work, you do, CF!
This episode, should come with a disclaimer..... Water works ahead, proceed with caution! Your narration was so good, I began to even feel sorry for Michael! Anyone who can evoke this kind of response from his listeners, has truly attained mastery over them. In the end, it was Stephanie's tenacity that brought me to tears.
So, CF.....be kind 😢, to us, ok? And keep up the good work!!!!!
Fascinating story and very well told!
This was FASCINATING. I remember this but so much detail not known then as you have portrayed I think. Jaw-dropping towards the end (last fifth section I think). Where is Crime Watch these days?.... Utterly compelling. Im not through it as yet....
Not having learned an accurate, more technical, description of Sams mental issues; I'm going to go with bat shite cray-cray. The best sentence is the classic: just lock him up & throw away the key.
Hello from Canada, Thank you for this very interesting story. And, I love the two hour episode.
Poor Julie , she was trying to pay the bank debt and further her career .
show suggestion: John Ackroyd Oregon serial killer. There are a handful of unsolved murders in the (remote) area in which he operated. He was a highway worker who lived in between towns at a junctiion on Hwy 20 where he often hunted. Long lonely stretches of road of which he knew well.
Tons of actual interviews available. started in the 70s. While incarcerated he most recently got convicted of murdering his lovely stepdaughter Rashandra Pickle thankfully. He has since died.
Your treatment of the information and presentation of the facts would be amazing.
(i hope i haven't missed episode if you've covered this)
I never heard of that guy! Seems to be a higher than average number of serial killers in the western states.
Ghosts of highway 20 is a great example, however there's a lot of visuals that makes it impossible to relax with your eyes closed.
Two hrs .. we are spoilt ... Thank you
That was a good one. Steph was a hero... but I missed not learning more about Julie and her double life.
I have heard about this case before, but not in so much depth. I'm sitting here getting ready for church, and I'm so emotional. Very good cover and the fact that when she got her confidence back and love for life she died... 😢
Casefile, you are outdoing yourselves each week with these British weirdo cases. By weirdo I mean the crim, not the titled victims. RIP Stephanie, such a shame you got through Sams' ordeal only to be claimed by cancer ❤️
I even like the adverts, they are a bit of a laugh sometimes. Like his style. Great stories, read with great detail. Was talking to someone who was in prison with Sam's. He said he was only a small bloke, but really nasty.
Too many evil people in this world. Poor girls had to suffer.
Well I decided to read the comments first since I'm new here. Hopefully it's as great as everyone is saying. Lol I'm sure it will be. Thanks for the entertainment from Columbus Ohio
Im sure his accomplice was called Sam Michaels
Wow Thx for upload over 2 hours!
The ineptitude of police yet again. What an insane level of incompetency from them during the would be sting operation. Easily could have ended with the death of Stephanie. I do not understand why society often seems to employ the dimmest bulbs to work in law enforcement.
I not sure I agree. I'd say the dimmest bulbs are taken by our politicians. Most leave school with less than the entry level of a high street bank.
You go do it then if you think you can do better, typical keyboard warrior!
Cheers.. Thank You.
"I am zeroeth" said this insomniac
@Andrew Phillips I just got it lol
Love & respect 🇦🇺
The power of suggestion makes for an impossible return to normal for some.
Stephanie seems like a tough woman. She atleast put up a fight.
REST IN PEACE DEAR STEPHANIE ❤❤
Really quick I swear the speakers voice sounds oh so familiar...cld it be my favorite spooky story guy? Lol I'm not 100% but damn sure in my mind anyways sorry for the off the wall comment
I live in Glossop and remember Stephanie Slater
I see Peter Falconio story getting alot of new TV coverage..
Yes, I'm very interested to see what they have to say. I don't believe the story that was told.
Me Too.. Just a bit to rushed in finding a suspect
OMG, I've NEVER empathized with one of these heinous criminals before!! Halfway through, I find myself hoping he'll get away with it! What have you done to me, Casey?!?!
Who did you empathise with?
@@fiona-lyons with Steph
I was irritated that Sam's small kindnesses warmed me toward him
Why the hell don't they just go to schools and ask if there's a kid named ( Mavis was it?) with the dad's name like what they traced from the notepad letter ?
Must have been frustrating to work Julie's case being she lied all the time.
Please do a casefile on Russell Williams absolutely love casefile 😍and how excited do i get when its a long one heaven 😊
Jim Can't Swim on UA-cam does an awesome interrogation analysis of Russell Williams, too. Someone should request Casefile cover William's via. their email addresses on their website that's solely for case requests.
The police: fumbled every single thing they could've done, failed multiple times to successfully do something relatively simple that pre-planning could've solved. And the only person in the operation to do something correctly was the father.
Also the police: we did it boys we saved the day, all us.
I would never call the cops and get them Involved in the kidnapping if one ever happened with say 1 of my kids I would just pay the money and get my kid back Then i'd call the cops Not risking my kid's life Because every single time the cops are involved and the person doesn't get the money the kid is killed Or they even catch the guy and he doesn't tell them where the kid is and that kid just dies as well I have rarely seen a kidnapping happened and then the police catch the person and get the kids back alive It's usually because one of the kids end up escaping
2 hours!! Spoilt rotten 😄
Poor Julie ...and omg Stephanie 2:15:19 😭😭😭😭 so so so unfair! 😢
Put your adds in the beginning. Its crass in the middle
@5:50 spot, i believe he killed her
@7:26...it wouldn't surprise me if it was discovered that she signed the document saying she took tbe bosses credit. ard ut was truly covering for the abusive bf, n that he was who stole the c.c
Sams was a total nutcase. He should be known as harpic. Clean round the bend. He obviously wasn't doing it for money. He wouldn't have killed Julie Dart otherwise. Poor young women. RIP.
They really let him be acting police chief, sending cops all over town
SKIP
The ads go on and on and on and on and on and on and on....................
Please do the lululemon murder. Or Jessica patel (uk)
1:09:35
Oh God not this
I swear I am not victim blaming, and I think all killers should spend the rest of their lives in jail. But I will never understand why women choose to be prostitutes. It's really not a safe occupation.
Men chose to be coal miners because it was the best option they had, even though it was almost universally deadly in the long run unless you quit early before the coal dust settled in your lungs. Sex work, by comparison, is probably safer, and chosen for similar reasons: it pays better than the options that person has in their current circumstances, and the risk of NOT doing it seems to be greater than the risk of doing it.
If you can't understand it, you're probably not in a position where you've needed to consider it.
Is it true that it is the "same sentence for one or two murders" in England, and that you can't have a debt if you wanted to join the army. So weird that Julie would rather be a sex worker than ask her g-parents for money. I wonder if the g-parents were hiding something.
Gênerally speaking, this is true because life sentences run concurrently, not consecutively. Sadly, this isn't fair to the victims. For example, Sam's got 10 years for each blackmail incident, total 20 years but he was already condemned for Julie Darts murder, so he didn't serve any time for blackmail. Other things are considered when sentencing - previous crimes, remorse, and whether the defendant pleaded guilty or not. Where the totality of his crimes matter, including his conduct while in prison, is when he wants to apply for parole. For all these reasons, Sam's was denied parole in April 2022!
@@messrsandersonco5985 good! (I say maybe grandparents are hiding some5hing, because maybe she did hit them up for money and they said, "no."
Wow, these cops are idiots!
Tell us how you really feel about Coffindicker HARSH!!!!!!! 😂😂
I love it!!! SHES A FKN TOOLBOX
AN X FKR NOT FBI!! Truly she sets a horrible example for the youth, kids if she has any, and students of law and due process.
I was also born on March One, like Julie.
Holy adds batman. Next.
Clearly Stephanie was a religious person, since she hallucinated seeing the character Jesus. And I highly doubt her hallucination was that of a curly haired, olive toned, Bronze Age Semitic man, it was very likely the Caucasian Jesus that people of the empire always depict in art and media.
Her mother disgusts me how do you put your feelings about your child she went through pain not you ugh gross
Bob seems like a bit of a jerk.
Street cleaning is a public service! Julie played slag games and got a slag prize
lol. incel alert
@@pooglossop I'm married and I have a kid
@@ThugShakers4Christ That has no bearing, whatsoever. It's a mind set. You're an incel.
Very enthralling but the pronunciation of route is driving me insane. I do not think the narrator is British, he would never mispronounce route like that, not American, maybe from Australia or New Zealand? I know I am being a Karen and I do not know why it is driving me so insane! My only complaint, good job
Oz, I think. A terrific narrator - just the right amount of emotion.
I’m surprised you can’t recognize an Aussie accent. I thought most people could.
Yeah he's Aussie.
I chuckle when I encounter pronunciations different from my region (west coast of the US)
Mike Holmes, of Canadian home improvement shows fame, and his pro-gress became a family fav..
Oz,different pronunciation of some words to how you might say it doesn't make it wrong,just different.
Everyone praises every episode Casefile puts out, but I have to disagree. I think we are witnesing a steady decline in the quality of the episodes, especially in the last 20 or so episodes. The writing is not what it used to be. And the cases covered have mostly been covered by other podcasts. In some cases much better than here.
Currently binging, and I haven't noticed a thing.
Also, "other podcasts have covered the materials"... So what? Who cares. I'm watching it here, not on other podcasts.
"in some cases much better than here." - well, can I make a suggestion...
The narration sounds robotic compared to earlier episodes.
I find it a tad annoying but the content is generally topnotch.
It's funny how much effort the narrator puts into trying to make the victims sound like good people. In reality missy of the cases involve trash people from trash families. Or the victims are prostitutes or drug addicts. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Well, they do say that trash recognizes trash.
WOW!! I was mesmerized for the entire 2 hours and 17 minutes! I have the attention span of a gnat, so this is really saying something!