Casefile Presents features stories from various corners of the globe, told by different narrators. Through its narratives, Casefile aims to bring these cases and instances of wrongdoing to the forefront, sparking awareness, and helping the victims and their families to be remembered.
Season 1: The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron
Season 2: The Labyrinth
Season 3: Searching for Sarah MacDiarmid
Season 4: The Detective’s Dilemma
Season 5: Matty
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Casefile Presents features stories from various corners of the globe, told by different narrators. Through its narratives, Casefile aims to bring these cases and instances of wrongdoing to the forefront, sparking awareness, and helping the victims and their families to be remembered.
Season 1: The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron
Season 2: The Labyrinth
Season 3: Searching for Sarah MacDiarmid
Season 4: The Detective’s Dilemma
Season 5: Matty
In 2005 Olivia Newton John's ex-boyfriend Patrick McDermott vanished without a trace. Then, in 2006, sightings of him were reported in Mexico. Did he fake his own death? Poppy Damon and Alice Fiennes investigate.
New episodes every Wednesday.
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Episode 10: Families must go on after loss. For Mark and Faye Leveson, the journey to find Matt and give him a proper funeral was long and heartbreaking. Loren and the Levesons talk about how they both coped on their respective journeys.
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Episode 9: Court watchers, fair-weather friends, and dealing with the media, the Levesons experienced it all. When tragedies like Matt’s disappearance strike families, most are ill-equipped to deal with the aftermath. What have they learnt about justice?
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Episode 8: When Atkins revealed Matt’s burial site, Mark & Faye Leveson joined the search for their son’s remains in the Royal National Park in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire. In a dramatic moment right at the end of the third and final excavation, a bone was found.
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Episode 7: Under the protection of a Section 61 Certificate, which meant any evidence he gave couldn’t be used against him, Atkins told the court his version of the events the night Matt died. The most important question for the Levesons was: where’s Matt?
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Episode 6: Gary Jubelin took over the case, but the wheels of justice turn slowly; Matt had been gone for over eight years by the time the inquest began. It was then that the Levesons were offered a ‘deal with the devil’.: find Matt but Atkins goes free.
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Episode 5: When Michael Atkins walked away from court a free man, the Levesons were left in limbo because Matt was still missing. They kept up the search themselves, even buying a mattock like Atkins did, and digging in areas he could have buried Matt.
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Episode 4: Mark and Faye Leveson became disillusioned with the police, but finally Atkins was charged with Matt’s disappearance.
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Episode 3: When police found Matt’s abandoned car and a Bunnings receipt for duct tape and a mattock purchased on the day Matt went missing, suspicion fell on Atkins. A search of his home was videotaped which meant important evidence was captured on film.
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Episode 2: On Saturday 22 September 2007, Matt and his much older partner Michael Atkins went clubbing. After that night, Matt vanished, and his family began a frantic search. Atkins was strangely unhelpful until Mark and Faye forced him to go to the police.
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Episode 1: For nearly a decade, Loren O’Keeffe founder of MPAN – the Missing Persons Advocacy Network – watched Mark and Faye Leveson’s tireless search for their missing son Matthew, who had his whole life ahead of him until he began dating the wrong man…
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Episode 10: It took five years for Halliwell’s trials to finish. By then, Steve Fulcher had left the police force, leaving behind the biggest question of all: When a killer confesses, do you listen?
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Episode 9: With the controversy around Fulcher’s actions on the night of the confession, his career was soon in tatters and he faced disciplinary hearings about his conduct on the night he arrested Chris Halliwell.
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Episode 8: It was argued that while Fulcher could claim the ‘urgent interview’ provisions for Sian, when Halliwell suggested there could be a second victim, Fulcher should have ignored a possible confession and taken Halliwell back to the police station.
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Episode 7: Fulcher couldn’t ignore a potential confession from a self-confessed killer. After Halliwell was taken to the police station, Fulcher was hailed a hero. In court though, if Fulcher had broken the rules, could Halliwell’s confessions be inadmissible?
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Episode 6: Followed by a huge surveillance team, Halliwell led Fulcher to the location where he had taken Sian. He had killed her, he told Fulcher. Fulcher would have taken Halliwell in, but then the killer said: ‘Do you want another one?’
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Episode 5: Halliwell said: ‘Have you got a car? We’ll go.’ Instead of taking him to the police station with access to a lawyer, Fulcher agreed. Sian could still be alive. Fulcher used an exception to the rule for urgent interviews where a life is at stake.
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Episode 4: Fulcher had to navigate the minefield of an active investigation and the intense media interest. The minute police saw Halliwell buy an overdose quantity of pills, the game was effectively over. Halliwell was arrested.
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Episode 3: Halliwell had a police record and looked like a good suspect. Fulcher made the decision to place him under covert surveillance, hoping he still had Sian and he could lead them to her. Teams of police followed him for several days.
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Episode 2: The car stopped next to Sian, and a minute and four seconds later, it drove off and she was in it. But it didn’t make sense. Sian didn’t live that far away. More CCTV footage showed it was a taxi. The driver: Christopher John Halliwell.
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Casefile Presents features stories from various corners of the globe, told by different narrators. Through its narratives, Casefile aims to bring these cases and instances of wrongdoing to the forefront, sparking awareness, and helping the victims and their families to be remembered.
Season 1: The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron
Season 2: The Labyrinth
Season 3: Searching for Sarah MacDiarmid
Season 4: The Detective’s Dilemma
Season 5: Matty
