Casefile Archives 1: The Wanda Beach Murders
Casefile True Crime
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
*** Content Warning: child victims, child sexual assault ***
On January 11, 1965, 15-year-old Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt spent the day at Cronulla Beach with Marianne's four younger siblings. After lunch, the two teenagers went for a walk into the nearby sandhills at Wanda Beach, but never returned.
The following day, their bodies were found in the sand dunes. The murders shocked the nation, triggering one of the largest homicide investigations in Australian history. Despite an exhaustive inquiry, police were unable to identify the killer. Decades on, the mystery remains.
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Casefile Archives is a series of special bonus releases revisiting the earliest years of the show. The re-run episodes have been completely edited, polished, re-recorded and freshly produced from start to finish to match our current production standards. They are not complete rewrites - our goal wasn’t to alter the cases or reshape the writing, but to preserve the original storytelling while giving the production the refinement it didn’t have when we started the show back in 2016.
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| 0:00.0 | It's here. Case File has officially entered its 10th year. I want to take a minute to extend a |
| 0:07.1 | warm thank you to everyone who was listened, supported and stayed with the show over the past decade. |
| 0:13.4 | When I made the first episode of Case File, I had no real understanding of podcasting or audio |
| 0:18.9 | production. My simple hope was that it might reach 100 |
| 0:22.6 | listens. Fast forward a decade, and I could never have imagined being in this position, |
| 0:28.5 | with over 330 episodes in the Case File Catalogue, a loyal global audience and a small team |
| 0:34.9 | joining me for the journey. To mark the 10-year anniversary, I'd like to introduce you to Case File Archives, |
| 0:42.6 | a series of special bonus releases revisiting the earliest years of the show. |
| 0:48.5 | To kick things off over the next eight weeks, counting down to the new season, |
| 0:53.5 | we'll be releasing a mix of fully |
| 0:55.4 | re-recorded episodes from our first year of production, along with episodes that were previously |
| 1:00.9 | only available to Patreon and premium supporters. |
| 1:05.3 | Rest assured that these are additional bonus releases and will not replace our standard |
| 1:10.1 | schedule which is set to resume |
| 1:11.7 | on March 7 this year. |
| 1:14.7 | We also want to reassure you that we'll still be releasing the same number of new Case File |
| 1:19.5 | episodes this year as we did in 2025. |
| 1:23.6 | The Case File Archives series is strictly bonus content in the lead-up to the new season |
| 1:28.3 | as a way to mark our 10th year. |
| 1:31.5 | The rerun episodes have been completely edited, polished, re-recorded and freshly produced |
| 1:37.2 | from start to finish to match our current production standards. |
| 1:41.7 | They are not complete rewrites. |
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