I agree, so happy I came across it, BEST BY FAR, thanks Casefile narrator your voice is great, does not grate like many podcasters especially the women
I listen to many true crime podcasts. THIS is by far the BEST. Comprehensive, thorough, lengthy and the narrator is compelling. Thank you for a great 2 hours. Subscribed.
Was looking for content to tide me over until JCS/Matt Orchard/Bailey Sarian post, came across this channel and subscribed immediately. GREAT podcast- beautiful narrated and carefully detailed. Like everyone else, the lack of urgency by the local police is MADDENING, and as for the helplessness of the Lapthrone family- unearthly. My heart breaks for them but I marvel at their determination. I’m surprised forensic experts or detectives didn’t volunteer to aid in collecting/analyzing information.
I'm a huge true crime addict and run many groups, listen to podcasts and watch docs all the time and I can unequivocally say that YOURS ARE THE BEST and I am learning so much about cases I thought I knew well. Thank you so much!! A lot of hard work goes into these and it shows. They are riveting. Binging on them, feels like Christmas 😍
I love this podcast. I do have to take a break sometimes due to the dark and disturbing content. You do great work though. Good research, quality presentation, soothing and articulate voice. Keep them coming.
Poor girl 😢 I myself travelled in my 20”s and as much as it was a fabulous experience leaving or entering nightclubs alone is a big NO !! and socialising with locals especially in poorer countries was also off limits !! I think this girls drink was spiked which made it easy for her to be cohersed into a vehicle !! Her organs were harvested but the legs ?? This is horrific , RIP Britt xx
This is such a frustrating case. I cannot imagine the helplessness that her family must have felt. I hope they eventually get the answers and the justice they're entitled to. It is extremely scary to hear that there were men in a van masquerading as police officers (or scarier yet, were actually police officers) who were attempting to abduct young women. I can't imagine how terrifying that would be. A word of caution to travelers: Please be careful about going places with people you meet while abroad. Not everyone wants the best for you, and some are indeed looking to make you a victim. Completely avoid clubs and drinking. It takes only *one* drugged drink to render you unconscious and at the mercy of whoever gave it to you. Keep your wits about you by staying sober.
A good rule of thumb, especially when u travel alone. Don't go out to drink and party, and avoid taking taxi cabs late at night. You're extremely vulnerable in these 2 situations, and there's a lot of scatchy ppl who actively try to catch u in such a vulnerable state, especially in turist cities.
Nightclubs are inherently risky for women anywhere, it's so easy to get separated from your friends, and they're a haven for people with bad intensions
The surviving Lapthornes...your daughter's/sister's life was filled with the light of being greatly loved by you and she had experienced more joy than many who've lived a life in its entirety. God bless and His peace descend on you.
As a girl form Balkans, Serbia to be exact this screams organ trafficking to me!! Its quite common via Montenegro and Albania, and Kosovo,towards southern Italy. Her lungs missing??? They killed her for her organs then sold them on the black market. Tragic, it’s so sad, can’t believe what her family is going trough. I travel alone myself but find myself being extremely cautious of my surroundings due to the fact that i grew up in post civil war Balkans, because the worst things imaginable can happen here. Excellent podcast btw
@@sfletch3042 It is a treacherous place for everyone. Men get attacked and die very frequently as well, probably more frequently than women. Women get shorter sentences when committing a crime. Women get more help when they are wronged. When a man dies due to organ harvesting it gets less international attention because no one gives a shit about some random guy. A pretty girl though, and everyone goes nuts. Making this a 'woe is me being a woman is hard' issue is very silly in my opinion and i say that as a woman.
@@victoriapschen oooh someone's triggered. If you don't like it, do something about society. Rambling about it does not change shit, instead of blaming the victims why don't you fix the shit out of Croatia's kidnapping/trafficking problems, you know the actual culprit of this all.
I dont belive so. Australians Are too high profile targets for that. Eastern europeans are genetically similar enough to the consumers and have alot less money. Today organ theft is more of a scam. You tell some poor farmer that hes Gonna get 10 000 euro for his kidney then tell him the surgery went bad, dont pay him, while you sell the organs for 70 000 to Some rich american. I think the people behind this did it for their own amusement.
S some of us need to travel alone sometimes its not always the option to travel w someone. Neki od nas moraju da putuju sami ponekad, nemamo uvek opciju da putujemo s nekim. Stop victim blaming, just because u are a girl/woman u shouldnt have to restrain yourself. U might have a daughter one day, so i reccomend you be a little bit more compationate
Poor Britt. Sounds like the Croatian tourist board doesn't want Dubrovnik to be tainted by this case. It also sounds like the man at the hostel had someone to do with her disappearance , the phone points to this as well as the mother trying to get rid of the passport, perhaps to buy time and give the impression that she had left the area. It is also very suspicious that the club say their cameras were working and they had handed the footage to the police, yet the police say the cameras were not working. If Britt's camera was a decent one, it msy have been sold or pawned by the assailant. It reminds me of the Natalee Holloway case.
Just found this channel and have to say oh God bless you for making these videos. Crazy how majority of these cases I have never heard of and really brings it home just how much some countries favour money from tourists over lives of our daughters and sons
I got into trouble in Croatia in 2007. A taxi driver, an Oliver Tadic, who had done 4 years in San Quentin prison a few years earlier, pulled a gun on me. I can really relate to this tragedy. I will not return to Dubrovnik until the killers of Britt Lapthorne are brought to justice. Out of respect to her and her family. I pray justice is done here, she deserves it.
Doug styles Different it is Doug. On two occassions travelling abroad have I found myself in danger from another person. We're living in strange times where there is a general lack of regard for one another. I'm Australian too.
When I used to stay at hostels and some guests suggested going out to a bar or club, I usually refused to go because I know from experience that often, people will wander away and forget about safety, the more they drink and get in the party mood. I'd go only if there were 1 or 2 others going, but not a larger group.
So Bergavic's mobile phone number was used as the main (and only) contact number for anybody visiting the hostel to ring for help, support or in an emergency...and the fool puts it on silent when he goes to bed?!
Love the podcast! Do you take suggestions for cases? You do a great job covering lesser known cases. Several of these I had not heard of. That is saying something bc I have been a true crime buff for over 20 years.
I used to fantasize about backpacking through Europe when I was a teenager in the late 90's. I am thankful that I was not able to go. When I was young I was extremely naive and ignorant to the dangers in the world and to the evil in so many people. It is so sad that we really cannot pursue all of our dreams in this world simply bc it is not safe. Foreign countries...young adults who feel invincible...human trafficking...all come together to create situations in which these people become victims. It is so unfair that a young women like Britt was not able to follow her sense of adventure and experience this world the way she wanted to without being preyed upon by some evil, sick low lives. It's heartbreaking. I am afraid for my kids due to all the dangers in this world. Rip Britt. May she be at peace and happy in the next life. I hope she gets justice someday and that her family finds some measure of peace.
As a single woman, I backpacked my way around Europe several times between the late 80s and early 90s and never had a problem. There are plenty of places in small town USA I'd be more frightened to travel in or through. Unfortunately, criminals exist everywhere, even down the block from where we live or next door. Should we just lock ourselves in our homes and never leave? People get carjacked on their way to work or while out shopping at a local mall. Thinking we are safer at home than we are while traveling is short sighted.
@@astrid7080 Bullshit! Single relatively attractive white women backpacking round Africa are almost guaranteed to have serious problems - unless they are rich enough to travel privately in a car with security, even then they should avoid certain countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia... There are a lot of places in the world where you should not blindly wander around thinking the same rules apply as in the US. Actually, it's more than naive thinking you can just wander around pursuing your dreams through places where parents sell their own kids to child sex gangs in the hope their other kids might live, where governments are exporting food at the same time as the country suffers famines simply to buy weapons to fight powerful warlords and gangs beyond the limits of any laws, where people have no access to uncontaminated water, where old men still "marry" 12 year old girls (often kidnapped on the way to school). That being said, Europe is not that bad - she was unlucky.
@@pauljamessquibbs.3945Her claim isn't wrong. Most women are murdered by their husband, boyfriend or ex. She didn't mean home country or continent, she literally meant their home. Statistics bear this out.
I live in a country, and city, that thrive on tourist dollars. Though tourists may read the travel guides, the ones I've met, especially college kids, are naive and trusting. They shouldn't be. The poverty here, in some cases, extreme, is not mentioned in guide books or puff pieces, in the internet, or other media. Poverty drives crime, major and minor.
I met her in Zagreb on a main railway station while I was waiting my train to work. She was getting coffee on a coffee machine and we exchange few words.
Strange how life is. I was working in a tax accountant in Melbourne Australia and I came across her brother Darren's tax returns. My friend used to buy coffee from her while she worked making coffees in a cafe in Melbourne...small world
Stay in groups when you party. I went to a party university and we didn't dance or go to the bathroom without each other. Our drinks always went with us and we had a DD to corral us and make sure we didn't wander off (we'd take turns being the DD). We shouldn't have to do this, but we sadly do.
The call before she was last seen at the club along with the fact it was later found at the hostel means it was someone there. And I think it was the son of the owner after hearing everything here
Agreed! How many others have gone missing from that hostel, I wonder. Or other hostels; there could be a conspiracy between owner/operators; tracking possible targets . . .
From the begining of this case, & the attitude of the police, my 1st & immediate thought was, someone or more than one police officer was behind Britts disappearance. I also had a nagging suspicion regarding organ taking to sell on the Black Market as the whole area & countries surrounding Croatia are notorious for illegal human organ trading. I still think there were a group of officers involved in either abducting young Westerners ie English, French, German, Scandinavian or American & Australian women for the sex trade, their own personal use & disposal of or illegal harvesting of organs The fact she was so badly cut up or her remaining body missing so many of her limbs & internal organs as to cover up the retrieval of organs Its a highly paid business & if im not wrong, i'll bet the policemen of Dubrovnic arent well paid. The fact that BOTH the nightclub & the exterior facing CVTV cameras were unviewable or destroyed i find ludicrous The nightclub said their cameras were functioning as normal & were handed over to the police straight away. How the police got away with this I find utterly crazy! It was obvious they knew what was going on & tried to ignore or drag their heels hoping Britts friends & brother would give up. I also think the owner of the Hostels son was a tip off to the corrupt cops, telling them of suitable girls staying at the hostel & telling them of the girls movements. The phone call to his phone from Britts in the early hrs then her phone turning up back at the hostel seemed to have been ignored! The abductors or cops took her fone from her, THEY phoned the hostel owners son so hed know they had her, then they arranged for her phone to be dropped back To the hostel to Britts property Lastly her wallet & camera would have been sold immediately once the film inside was destroyed I know the corruption in eastern European police from a long time back & been told horrendous stories by friends in the English police This case was also tampered down because of political pressure too.
I find the repeated theme within true crime community of people thinking a young woman of western European descent who is an unsolved disappearance to be was sex trafficked to be exceedingly rare, if not impossible. The times I've encountered a story of a disappeared girl and woman ending in being sex trafficked are exceedingly rare, they're usually stories of young girls abducted such as Elisabeth smart, etc. And really none of those stories are the sex trafficking as business people think of when they mention it, they are literally a creepy dude keeping you prisoner. I mean struck by a lighting rare. Sex trafficking doesn't happen by abducting beautiful western white women with caring families off the streets. It's usually a lifestyle people from problem households/runaways are lured into. For those seeking unwilling white victims - Russia and post soviet block provide cheap, quality beautiful women who will be lured/abducted with no media circus or following issues associated with it. Sadly there really is a demand for white women doing sex work in middle eastern countries especially. They are either paid good money to be doing it voluntarily or lured in from Russia and post soviet block to work as a maid/nanny etc and then on arrival their passport is confiscated and they find out the job description is a bit "different" then previously promised.
Oh yeah, English cops are the best, they never rape and murder innocent women - oh wait, they do. Corruption is rife in the UK also, your bias is showing. Mafia expert’s research findings were that the UK is extremely corrupt.
So at 3 she or someone called the manager? With her phone? That was with her stuff at the dorm? But was last seen at the club at 330?..... Who used her phone or brought it back to the dorm? I would be very suspicious of anyone who knew she was at that club alone. Also the body that was missing organs, sounds like they went somewhere? I think the owners may have been working with the the kidnappers. Think about all the strange missing CCTV. I wonder if those other attempted abductions with that van were linked to the same hostile or ones the owners knew.
Setting your ad settings to nearly every five minutes is getting ridiculous. Most regular viewers aren't aware that creators set ad frequency. But I'm a creator and recognize your ad frequency as ad spamming. You can tell respectable channels by how they choose to space ads. Having ads every five minutes on such long videos is utterly annoying. Respect your viewership and make the spacing longer.
@cheryltanner3434 He is not exaggerating. It is too frequent, you rude thing. Mr. Ballen is still the best storyteller anyway. There are not a lot of ads on his UA-cam channel as he respects his subscribers.
I wish you could tape some sign on the vid as to when the ad ends. Other presenters do it by wearing a different shirt when they tape a promo. Then, I can fast-forward until I see the shirt change back, to know the ad is over. You could do it by showing a pic of the product during the ad. That way, anyone who is even vaguely curious about the product would have a photo, and the rest of us could scroll on past until we see your usual background reappear.
"There has never been crime in Dubrovnik. There can never be crime in Dubrovnik." What? What a stupid thing to say. I really feel for this young lady and her family because the keystone cops in that town really let them down. Bad things can happen anywhere. Also, politics has to be the most evil thing on the planet. Imagine worrying about relations with Croatia when a young woman is missing or worse. Lord help me, I despise politicians and their disgusting double-speak. Those jacka$$e$ should have thrown their full support around those parents, citizens of Australia, and not backed down. What a joke.
@@damirn.172 can you tell me one thing?? You hate everything that is of islamic/ottoman origin, Old Bridge of Mostar, old town of mostar, old mosques, old baths and other architecture but still when people from around the world like those sites, you are proud and you speak yeah that is "my" Mostar. Why is that??
@@hardver8855 i don't know where you got all that shit! I simply stated Mostar is city in Hercegovina. You can say city in Bosnia and Hercegovina, which is the name of the country or City in Hercegovina, which is region where Mostar is. When yoy say City in Bosnia you just wrong or muslim! Simple as that !
One of the worst investigated cases I’ve ever heard. Inspector Gadget probably would’ve done a better job than these clowns. The missing CCTV footage is the key. Also how can Britt be badly decomposed and missing limbs after only a few weeks? That couldn’t have happened if she slipped and drowned.
If the police were as incompetent as they appear to be and if they were as harrassed by the media, the family and the public as they were, I sincerely hope the family had dna tests performed in Australia. The appearance of such advanced decomposition could be explained if the body was just some cadaver they had lying around, the missing molars could have been the result of the effort to hinder the identification of the corpse. It could be that the police wanted closure as much as the family, and so just provided a corpse.
As someone from Croatia... there is no Conspiracy with the police. They most likely though that she ran away and ignored her missing since they never had such a case(or tough she ran away and didnt car, and when the body was found they tried to make it look like they where capable and shit. The police fucked up and blundered the case and tried to save face. I have seen it happen with our police lots of times but its usually not a high profile case. That's the reason the police is wierd as fuck in this case.
I'm 10 min in, how do young people afford to get up and travel??? 20 years old, sounds like she didn't have a job, and she's going to backpack across Europe?
If you fly with Aeroflot, Chinese Airways or any other low price airlines you can get to Europe fairly cheap and a pack packers train pass is also fairly cheap in Europe. It's kinda a thing going backpacking _(coming of age)_ though Europe for young Europeans in their 20th Edit But not nowadays I'll guess
Many people work their way round Europe doing casual labour. The initial cost would be for flights, and hostels are inexpensive. If she had savings or had been given some money by a relative she would have been able to go. At one point it was almost a rite of passage for Europeans to backpack around Australia and vice versa.
Another case of a young woman choosing to stay out alone to drink and dance and get home without her original group of revelers. It 's the excess and the self-isolating that so often changes a strong and intelligent person to a victim. When it's time to go, it's time to go.
She became careless. She is in fireign land wjth no real friends except her fellow hostel dwellers. She should have stayed close with her fellow hostel companions and hailed private taxi back to hostel
It isn't always rich people, and at one point it was extremely common. Parents have no say so over travel plans once their offspring turn 18. Stop being so judgemental.
Its sort of true. You dont hear inner city kids "backpacking" and falling prey overseas. Its usually preppy kids from affluent families etc. Most ppl from ghettos are street aware and dont get themselves going carefree alone or even comfortable doing this sort of stuff
As a former traveller , I think its important too stop with this garbage of travellers , especially young ones , teavellijg too see other cultures and find themselves etc lol thats not why we travell , its a part of it but the last reason , too party , drugs , sex , booze , get away from prying eyes and do what you couldnt at home , and within doing this , dangers come.....parents completely irresponsible and any parents that lets thier kid galavant around the world and third world gutters at 20 years old , i mean give me a break what kind of experience could a 20 year old have ? Complete malarkey
Falling asleep listening to you every night is a routine of mine ❤
This channel is my sleeping draught
Shout-out to the writers who do a phenomenal job keeping everything clear and unconfusing.
Casefile is the BEST Podcast out there!!!
Thanks for the great stories!!!
Thanks!
Casefile True Crime Podcast - Thank YOU!
I agree, so happy I came across it, BEST BY FAR, thanks Casefile narrator your voice is great, does not grate like many podcasters especially the women
I listen to many true crime podcasts. THIS is by far the BEST. Comprehensive, thorough, lengthy and the narrator is compelling. Thank you for a great 2 hours. Subscribed.
Was looking for content to tide me over until JCS/Matt Orchard/Bailey Sarian post, came across this channel and subscribed immediately. GREAT podcast- beautiful narrated and carefully detailed.
Like everyone else, the lack of urgency by the local police is MADDENING, and as for the helplessness of the Lapthrone family- unearthly. My heart breaks for them but I marvel at their determination.
I’m surprised forensic experts or detectives didn’t volunteer to aid in collecting/analyzing information.
I'm a huge true crime addict and run many groups, listen to podcasts and watch docs all the time and I can unequivocally say that YOURS ARE THE BEST and I am learning so much about cases I thought I knew well. Thank you so much!! A lot of hard work goes into these and it shows. They are riveting. Binging on them, feels like Christmas 😍
i somehow stumbled upon this channel i am soooo happy about it this stuff is the best, and this is GREAT quality
Thank you!
I love this podcast. I do have to take a break sometimes due to the dark and disturbing content. You do great work though. Good research, quality presentation, soothing and articulate voice. Keep them coming.
Poor girl 😢 I myself travelled in my 20”s and as much as it was a fabulous experience leaving or entering nightclubs alone is a big NO !! and socialising with locals especially in poorer countries was also off limits !! I think this girls drink was spiked which made it easy for her to be cohersed into a vehicle !! Her organs were harvested but the legs ?? This is horrific , RIP Britt xx
Chk out radio drama series Whitehall 1212. Omg so gd
Years later, but still golden.
Thank you for your excellent work on this sad story.
I really like how this podcast seems to focus more on the victims and their families. Well done to the writers!
💚💚🚸🐲🐲💚💚💚💚💚😍😗😗🤑🤑🤑😗😗😗🤑😗🤑🤭🤑🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤑🤑🤭😗😗😗😗😗😗😗🤭😗🤑🤑😗😗😗😊👩🏻🍳👩🏻🍳👩🏻🍳👩🏻🍳👩🏻🍳👩🏻🍳👩🏻🍳👩🏻🍳👩🏻🍳👩🏻🍳👩🏻🍳👩🏻🍳👩🏻🍳👩🏻🍳👩🏻🍳👩🏻🍳👩🏻🍳👩🏻🍳🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🚸🚸🚸🚸🚸😗😗🤑😗🏃🏻♀️😘😘🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️👩🍳😆
This is such a frustrating case. I cannot imagine the helplessness that her family must have felt. I hope they eventually get the answers and the justice they're entitled to. It is extremely scary to hear that there were men in a van masquerading as police officers (or scarier yet, were actually police officers) who were attempting to abduct young women. I can't imagine how terrifying that would be.
A word of caution to travelers: Please be careful about going places with people you meet while abroad. Not everyone wants the best for you, and some are indeed looking to make you a victim.
Completely avoid clubs and drinking. It takes only *one* drugged drink to render you unconscious and at the mercy of whoever gave it to you. Keep your wits about you by staying sober.
You're not entitled to justice,security,food,or love.
Common sense would do a lot of people much good.And some good parenting too.
I am a solo traveler, and i know how to conduct and care for myself. Sometimes, you just have to be your own keeper
Very well narrated and epic closing quote
A good rule of thumb, especially when u travel alone. Don't go out to drink and party, and avoid taking taxi cabs late at night. You're extremely vulnerable in these 2 situations, and there's a lot of scatchy ppl who actively try to catch u in such a vulnerable state, especially in turist cities.
Nightclubs are inherently risky for women anywhere, it's so easy to get separated from your friends, and they're a haven for people with bad intensions
The surviving Lapthornes...your daughter's/sister's life was filled with the light of being greatly loved by you and she had experienced more joy than many who've lived a life in its entirety. God bless and His peace descend on you.
As a girl form Balkans, Serbia to be exact this screams organ trafficking to me!! Its quite common via Montenegro and Albania, and Kosovo,towards southern Italy. Her lungs missing??? They killed her for her organs then sold them on the black market. Tragic, it’s so sad, can’t believe what her family is going trough. I travel alone myself but find myself being extremely cautious of my surroundings due to the fact that i grew up in post civil war Balkans, because the worst things imaginable can happen here. Excellent podcast btw
Stay safe:) the world can be a very treacherous place for us women.
@@sfletch3042 It is a treacherous place for everyone. Men get attacked and die very frequently as well, probably more frequently than women. Women get shorter sentences when committing a crime. Women get more help when they are wronged. When a man dies due to organ harvesting it gets less international attention because no one gives a shit about some random guy. A pretty girl though, and everyone goes nuts. Making this a 'woe is me being a woman is hard' issue is very silly in my opinion and i say that as a woman.
@@victoriapschen oooh someone's triggered. If you don't like it, do something about society. Rambling about it does not change shit, instead of blaming the victims why don't you fix the shit out of Croatia's kidnapping/trafficking problems, you know the actual culprit of this all.
I dont belive so. Australians Are too high profile targets for that. Eastern europeans are genetically similar enough to the consumers and have alot less money. Today organ theft is more of a scam. You tell some poor farmer that hes Gonna get 10 000 euro for his kidney then tell him the surgery went bad, dont pay him, while you sell the organs for 70 000 to Some rich american. I think the people behind this did it for their own amusement.
S some of us need to travel alone sometimes its not always the option to travel w someone. Neki od nas moraju da putuju sami ponekad, nemamo uvek opciju da putujemo s nekim. Stop victim blaming, just because u are a girl/woman u shouldnt have to restrain yourself. U might have a daughter one day, so i reccomend you be a little bit more compationate
Poor Britt. Sounds like the Croatian tourist board doesn't want Dubrovnik to be tainted by this case. It also sounds like the man at the hostel had someone to do with her disappearance , the phone points to this as well as the mother trying to get rid of the passport, perhaps to buy time and give the impression that she had left the area. It is also very suspicious that the club say their cameras were working and they had handed the footage to the police, yet the police say the cameras were not working. If Britt's camera was a decent one, it msy have been sold or pawned by the assailant. It reminds me of the Natalee Holloway case.
This was incresibly moving.
Thank you so much, casefile
Just found this channel and have to say oh God bless you for making these videos. Crazy how majority of these cases I have never heard of and really brings it home just how much some countries favour money from tourists over lives of our daughters and sons
Casefile is the goat❤
I got into trouble in Croatia in 2007. A taxi driver, an Oliver Tadic, who had done 4 years in San Quentin prison a few years earlier, pulled a gun on me. I can really relate to this tragedy. I will not return to Dubrovnik until the killers of Britt Lapthorne are brought to justice. Out of respect to her and her family. I pray justice is done here, she deserves it.
We're sorry to hear that Greg. She definitely does deserve it.
Casefile True Crime Podcast By the way, I'm a new subscriber. Love this channel. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for listening!
Is it really worth it? The world is very different now. Dangerous people take advantage of us American travelers.
Doug styles Different it is Doug. On two occassions travelling abroad have I found myself in danger from another person. We're living in strange times where there is a general lack of regard for one another. I'm Australian too.
When I used to stay at hostels and some guests suggested going out to a bar or club, I usually refused to go because I know from experience that often, people will wander away and forget about safety, the more they drink and get in the party mood. I'd go only if there were 1 or 2 others going, but not a larger group.
So Bergavic's mobile phone number was used as the main (and only) contact number for anybody visiting the hostel to ring for help, support or in an emergency...and the fool puts it on silent when he goes to bed?!
Bosnia ain't the West,dont go there expecting the FBI.I wouldn't go to that toilet anyway.
Love the podcast! Do you take suggestions for cases? You do a great job covering lesser known cases. Several of these I had not heard of. That is saying something bc I have been a true crime buff for over 20 years.
You can email us at submitacase@casefilepodcast.com
I used to fantasize about backpacking through Europe when I was a teenager in the late 90's. I am thankful that I was not able to go. When I was young I was extremely naive and ignorant to the dangers in the world and to the evil in so many people. It is so sad that we really cannot pursue all of our dreams in this world simply bc it is not safe. Foreign countries...young adults who feel invincible...human trafficking...all come together to create situations in which these people become victims. It is so unfair that a young women like Britt was not able to follow her sense of adventure and experience this world the way she wanted to without being preyed upon by some evil, sick low lives. It's heartbreaking. I am afraid for my kids due to all the dangers in this world. Rip Britt. May she be at peace and happy in the next life. I hope she gets justice someday and that her family finds some measure of peace.
As a single woman, I backpacked my way around Europe several times between the late 80s and early 90s and never had a problem. There are plenty of places in small town USA I'd be more frightened to travel in or through. Unfortunately, criminals exist everywhere, even down the block from where we live or next door. Should we just lock ourselves in our homes and never leave? People get carjacked on their way to work or while out shopping at a local mall. Thinking we are safer at home than we are while traveling is short sighted.
Statistically, the place where women are most at risk of violence is in their own homes.
@@astrid7080 Bullshit! Single relatively attractive white women backpacking round Africa are almost guaranteed to have serious problems - unless they are rich enough to travel privately in a car with security, even then they should avoid certain countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia... There are a lot of places in the world where you should not blindly wander around thinking the same rules apply as in the US. Actually, it's more than naive thinking you can just wander around pursuing your dreams through places where parents sell their own kids to child sex gangs in the hope their other kids might live, where governments are exporting food at the same time as the country suffers famines simply to buy weapons to fight powerful warlords and gangs beyond the limits of any laws, where people have no access to uncontaminated water, where old men still "marry" 12 year old girls (often kidnapped on the way to school). That being said, Europe is not that bad - she was unlucky.
@@pauljamessquibbs.3945Her claim isn't wrong. Most women are murdered by their husband, boyfriend or ex. She didn't mean home country or continent, she literally meant their home. Statistics bear this out.
Excellent Podcast
Great channel,great detail.
I ABSOLUTELY LUV YOUR CHANNEL ‼️ Definitely the go to podcasts on crime for me 👌🇨🇦
I really enjoy your podcasts &I just subscribed 🇦🇺
Love casefile!
I live in a country, and city, that thrive on tourist dollars. Though tourists may read the travel guides, the ones I've met, especially college kids, are naive and trusting. They shouldn't be. The poverty here, in some cases, extreme, is not mentioned in guide books or puff pieces, in the internet, or other media.
Poverty drives crime, major and minor.
I met her in Zagreb on a main railway station while I was waiting my train to work. She was getting coffee on a coffee machine and we exchange few words.
Strange how life is. I was working in a tax accountant in Melbourne Australia and I came across her brother Darren's tax returns. My friend used to buy coffee from her while she worked making coffees in a cafe in Melbourne...small world
Why aren't more people subscribed to this?? great listen
Stay in groups when you party. I went to a party university and we didn't dance or go to the bathroom without each other. Our drinks always went with us and we had a DD to corral us and make sure we didn't wander off (we'd take turns being the DD). We shouldn't have to do this, but we sadly do.
Really sad case. Brit's family and friends loved her so much. I hope they find out how she died and who killed her.
The call before she was last seen at the club along with the fact it was later found at the hostel means it was someone there. And I think it was the son of the owner after hearing everything here
Agreed! How many others have gone missing from that hostel, I wonder. Or other hostels; there could be a conspiracy between owner/operators; tracking possible targets . . .
RIP Britt 🖤🖤🖤🖤
I think if I had been her parents, I would have engaged a Croatian lawyer and Croatian PI immediately to try and get to the bottom of things..
From the begining of this case, & the attitude of the police, my 1st & immediate thought was, someone or more than one police officer was behind Britts disappearance.
I also had a nagging suspicion regarding organ taking to sell on the Black Market as the whole area & countries surrounding
Croatia are notorious for illegal human organ trading.
I still think there were a group of officers involved in either abducting young Westerners ie English, French, German, Scandinavian or American & Australian women for the sex trade, their own personal use & disposal of or illegal harvesting of organs
The fact she was so badly cut up or her remaining body missing so many of her limbs & internal organs as to cover up the retrieval of organs
Its a highly paid business & if im not wrong, i'll bet the policemen of Dubrovnic arent well paid.
The fact that BOTH the nightclub & the exterior facing CVTV cameras were unviewable or destroyed i find ludicrous
The nightclub said their cameras were functioning as normal & were handed over to the police straight away.
How the police got away with this
I find utterly crazy! It was obvious they knew what was going on & tried to ignore or drag their heels hoping Britts friends & brother would give up.
I also think the owner of the Hostels son was a tip off to the corrupt cops, telling them of suitable girls staying at the hostel & telling them of the girls movements. The phone call to his phone from Britts in the early hrs then her phone turning up back at the hostel seemed to have been ignored!
The abductors or cops took her fone from her, THEY phoned the hostel owners son so hed know they had her, then they arranged for her phone to be dropped back
To the hostel to Britts property
Lastly her wallet & camera would have been sold immediately once the film inside was destroyed
I know the corruption in eastern
European police from a long time back & been told horrendous stories by friends in the English police
This case was also tampered down because of political pressure too.
I find the repeated theme within true crime community of people thinking a young woman of western European descent who is an unsolved disappearance to be was sex trafficked to be exceedingly rare, if not impossible. The times I've encountered a story of a disappeared girl and woman ending in being sex trafficked are exceedingly rare, they're usually stories of young girls abducted such as Elisabeth smart, etc. And really none of those stories are the sex trafficking as business people think of when they mention it, they are literally a creepy dude keeping you prisoner.
I mean struck by a lighting rare. Sex trafficking doesn't happen by abducting beautiful western white women with caring families off the streets. It's usually a lifestyle people from problem households/runaways are lured into. For those seeking unwilling white victims - Russia and post soviet block provide cheap, quality beautiful women who will be lured/abducted with no media circus or following issues associated with it. Sadly there really is a demand for white women doing sex work in middle eastern countries especially. They are either paid good money to be doing it voluntarily or lured in from Russia and post soviet block to work as a maid/nanny etc and then on arrival their passport is confiscated and they find out the job description is a bit "different" then previously promised.
British police is not any better.
@@snowwhitebeautyful
Yes i agree with you entirely
Oh yeah, English cops are the best, they never rape and murder innocent women - oh wait, they do. Corruption is rife in the UK also, your bias is showing. Mafia expert’s research findings were that the UK is extremely corrupt.
@@snowwhitebeautyfulThank you!
Its a tragedy but traveling alone in unknown places is always dangerous.met new people is also not a safe.
Britt's father embarking on the same trip through Europe made me tear up.
So at 3 she or someone called the manager? With her phone? That was with her stuff at the dorm? But was last seen at the club at 330?..... Who used her phone or brought it back to the dorm? I would be very suspicious of anyone who knew she was at that club alone. Also the body that was missing organs, sounds like they went somewhere? I think the owners may have been working with the the kidnappers. Think about all the strange missing CCTV. I wonder if those other attempted abductions with that van were linked to the same hostile or ones the owners knew.
Setting your ad settings to nearly every five minutes is getting ridiculous. Most regular viewers aren't aware that creators set ad frequency. But I'm a creator and recognize your ad frequency as ad spamming. You can tell respectable channels by how they choose to space ads. Having ads every five minutes on such long videos is utterly annoying. Respect your viewership and make the spacing longer.
I'm 45 mins in and have not gotten any ads.
I agree with you 💯
Every 5 minutes? Exaggerate much? His ads are not frequent at all. Learn how to fast forward. Don’t like it, don’t listen.
@cheryltanner3434 He is not exaggerating. It is too frequent, you rude thing. Mr. Ballen is still the best storyteller anyway. There are not a lot of ads on his UA-cam channel as he respects his subscribers.
@cheryltanner3434 Actually, Mr. Ballen has no ads on his channel. He just mentions his sponsors.
People, if you must party and travel with strangers, stay in a group! What a tragic loss of a beautiful soul. God help her family.
I wish you could tape some sign on the vid as to when the ad ends. Other presenters do it by wearing a different shirt when they tape a promo. Then, I can fast-forward until I see the shirt change back, to know the ad is over. You could do it by showing a pic of the product during the ad. That way, anyone who is even vaguely curious about the product would have a photo, and the rest of us could scroll on past until we see your usual background reappear.
They wouldn't do that because they want you to watch the full ad.
UA-cam revanced is your friend. Honestly makes ads every 5 min more bearable
@@thecatatemyhomework well they know I am not gonna do that; I would rather miss part of the story than watch an ad.
"There has never been crime in Dubrovnik. There can never be crime in Dubrovnik." What? What a stupid thing to say. I really feel for this young lady and her family because the keystone cops in that town really let them down. Bad things can happen anywhere.
Also, politics has to be the most evil thing on the planet. Imagine worrying about relations with Croatia when a young woman is missing or worse. Lord help me, I despise politicians and their disgusting double-speak. Those jacka$$e$ should have thrown their full support around those parents, citizens of Australia, and not backed down. What a joke.
The cops are corrupt in a lot of places.
Sad coincidence I am watching this October 6 2022.. may Justice Prevail 🌹🌹🌹
So the emergency # hostel guests are instructed to use is turned off?!? That's convenient.
Tragic. 😭😭😭
Was the blue police van interior ever swabbed for DNA matching any of the victims?
I thought one of Britt's autopsies did show no alcohol in her system. And the legal inquest mentions apparent drinking but not that?
Good reply of events casefile. Good job.
Listening to the ignorance and incompetence of the police makes me physically sick. Security and trust my a**
how come you tube algorithm recommeded a year later am a true crime junkie
Club fugeo had the footage it's perfectly clear, the police know what happened.
It’s a shame Britt didn’t travel with her boyfriend. Or at least another friend to watch out for each other.
You'd be surprised at how little that acts as a deterrent, but I suppose it would have been something.
Mostar is a city in Hercegovina! How did you get "Bosnian City of Mostar" in there? That would be same as saying Victorian city of Sydney
It is bosnian city of Mostar. People know it.
@@hardver8855 the fact that "people know it" says a lot about "people"! Stay mentally challenged and enjoy your "mosque knowledge" 😉
@@damirn.172 can you tell me one thing?? You hate everything that is of islamic/ottoman origin, Old Bridge of Mostar, old town of mostar, old mosques, old baths and other architecture but still when people from around the world like those sites, you are proud and you speak yeah that is "my" Mostar. Why is that??
@@hardver8855 i don't know where you got all that shit! I simply stated Mostar is city in Hercegovina. You can say city in Bosnia and Hercegovina, which is the name of the country or City in Hercegovina, which is region where Mostar is. When yoy say City in Bosnia you just wrong or muslim! Simple as that !
One of the worst investigated cases I’ve ever heard. Inspector Gadget probably would’ve done a better job than these clowns. The missing CCTV footage is the key. Also how can Britt be badly decomposed and missing limbs after only a few weeks? That couldn’t have happened if she slipped and drowned.
🤔 ...how did her friends at the hostel know her passport was still in the safe _before_ they told the owners Britt was missing?
Because all travellers who stay in hostels have to give up their passports when they check in. You only get it if you check out.
Bro, too many ads literally 2 minutes in and I get an Ad and it doesn't help that the one telling the case, talks about ads too.
Love your podcasts your voice is very robotic lol
If the police were as incompetent as they appear to be and if they were as harrassed by the media, the family and the public as they were, I sincerely hope the family had dna tests performed in Australia. The appearance of such advanced decomposition could be explained if the body was just some cadaver they had lying around, the missing molars could have been the result of the effort to hinder the identification of the corpse. It could be that the police wanted closure as much as the family, and so just provided a corpse.
Why do I feel like the son from the hostel owner was the one that did it but then look at everything that points to the police. Bc of the corruption
As someone from Croatia... there is no Conspiracy with the police. They most likely though that she ran away and ignored her missing since they never had such a case(or tough she ran away and didnt car, and when the body was found they tried to make it look like they where capable and shit.
The police fucked up and blundered the case and tried to save face. I have seen it happen with our police lots of times but its usually not a high profile case. That's the reason the police is wierd as fuck in this case.
Yip folks its a JUNGLE OUT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> THERE BE ON YOUR .>>> GUARD ALWAYS.
can't follow the story too many commercials annoyingly and disruptive. it's like here's a little story in-between listening to commercials
I think traveling alone is dumb. Especially for women.
She had been travelling to Dubrovnik with 2 others and it is seen as a relatively safe city.
Its like the film Hostel. Terrible.
did he say that her lungs were never recovered?
Dont get so drunk you dont know what you are doing, and when out as a group make sure you stay together.
Apparently, she wasn't a drinker.
Robinhood doesn't keep Shibu Inu, which makes it fucken shit, doesn't it?
Snuff movie 👹
Doesn’t sound like the Croatia I know. Have made a lot of progress. Though different people have different experiences granted
Is this the Croatia you know? ua-cam.com/video/VysDNu6X0sA/v-deo.html
@@tiarnan76 LOL, it will never end.
I’d give it a like but it’s at 420...
I'm 10 min in, how do young people afford to get up and travel??? 20 years old, sounds like she didn't have a job, and she's going to backpack across Europe?
If you fly with Aeroflot, Chinese Airways or any other low price airlines you can get to Europe fairly cheap and a pack packers train pass is also fairly cheap in Europe.
It's kinda a thing going backpacking _(coming of age)_ though Europe for young Europeans in their 20th
Edit
But not nowadays I'll guess
Entitled student types. They have never worked iin the real world and are therefore naive
@@maryfinnfan4140Jealousy is very unattractive.
Many people work their way round Europe doing casual labour. The initial cost would be for flights, and hostels are inexpensive. If she had savings or had been given some money by a relative she would have been able to go. At one point it was almost a rite of passage for Europeans to backpack around Australia and vice versa.
Her family was rich.
Sound like she was picked for body parts.
Subtitles please
Sounds like a one sided subjective rendition
It's pronounced 'HOS-tel' not 'hos-TEL'. Also you don't arrive 'to' a place.
Is it possible that it's the way Australians say it?
Both are correct but the pronunciation in the video is definitely more common in Australia. HOS-tel would be the word "hostile".
This is why you have no friends, Roger.
@@melmazing3993 🤣🤣🤣
What fool.
I'd go on a campaign to destroy Croatia's tourism industry.
Crime happens in all countries.
Another case of a young woman choosing to stay out alone to drink and dance and get home without her original group of revelers. It 's the excess and the self-isolating that so often changes a strong and intelligent person to a victim. When it's time to go, it's time to go.
There’s a difference between free spirits and just stupid....!!they became dumber and more naive!
Victim blaming? Seriously ? Jesus
Calamityj durrr durrr victim blame durrr how about we prevent this from happening again?
Michael Hicks stfu
I enjoy this channel but would prefer a more neutral presentation of the facts.
skeLEETal????? Who pronounces it like that?
English people and, presumably, Australians
i do
Stupidly risky behaviour for a woman. Good podcast.
Police uselessness...
Boring
Dddd
She became careless. She is in fireign land wjth no real friends except her fellow hostel dwellers. She should have stayed close with her fellow hostel companions and hailed private taxi back to hostel
Rich people getting into unnecessary trouble. What parent lets their children run around the world like that? Shameful.
Chels you sound like you live under a rock.
It’s rich people syndrome. They believe they are untouchable
@@l-train7876 no, that's where these idiot parents child now lives...
It isn't always rich people, and at one point it was extremely common. Parents have no say so over travel plans once their offspring turn 18. Stop being so judgemental.
Its sort of true. You dont hear inner city kids "backpacking" and falling prey overseas. Its usually preppy kids from affluent families etc. Most ppl from ghettos are street aware and dont get themselves going carefree alone or even comfortable doing this sort of stuff
As a former traveller , I think its important too stop with this garbage of travellers , especially young ones , teavellijg too see other cultures and find themselves etc lol thats not why we travell , its a part of it but the last reason , too party , drugs , sex , booze , get away from prying eyes and do what you couldnt at home , and within doing this , dangers come.....parents completely irresponsible and any parents that lets thier kid galavant around the world and third world gutters at 20 years old , i mean give me a break what kind of experience could a 20 year old have ? Complete malarkey