As Case File continues into its 10th year, we're currently taking a very short break from new episodes.

Brand new cases will be returning on May 23 for premium subscribers and May 30 for the regular feed.

But in the meantime, we're continuing our special bonus series Case File Archives,

a collection of releases revisiting

the earliest years of the show, along with previously unreleased premium episodes.

Rest assured that these are additional bonus releases and will not replace our standard schedule.

We will still be delivering the same number of new episodes this year as we

did last year. Case file archives is simply a way to mark the 10th year, revisit some older episodes,

and share stories that newer listeners may not have heard before. For the re-release episodes,

we fully edited, polished, re-recorded and freshly produced them from start

to finish to match our current production standards. They are not complete rewrites. Our aim isn't

to reshape the cases or alter the original storytelling, but to preserve them as they were

first told while bringing them up to the level of production

the show has today. Where appropriate, updates have been added, but the core structure remains

faithful to the originals. Because of this, these episodes may sound a little different to our

recent work. Today's re-release is the North Hollywood Shootout,

originally aired as Case 18 on May 8, 2016.

I still remember sitting on the floor of my childhood lounge room

glued to the TV as footage of this shootout played on the evening news.

Even in the days before the 24-hour news cycle, social media,

and the kind of instant global coverage we see today, it was major news here on the other

side of the world, and those images are still burned into my mind nearly 30 years later.

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