Casefile Archives 7: Nicky Fleming
Casefile True Crime
Casefile Presents
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🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
*** Content Warning: Crime against a child ***
In 1998, the Easter holiday in Victoria, Australia, got off to a tragic beginning when 12-year-old Nicky Fleming was killed in a car accident while travelling to a family camping trip. But what initially looked like a single vehicle tragedy turned out to be a crime. And whoever had hit the Fleming family’s car had fled the scene…
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| 1:49.7 | On the night of Thursday, April 8, 1998, Luke Nolan and his partner Angela were driving along the Hume Highway, one of Australia's major interstate roadways. |
| 1:56.2 | The Hume stretches for 840 kilometres between the capital cities of Melbourne and Sydney, with |
| 2:02.2 | the dozens of exits and interchanges dotted throughout. |
| 2:07.0 | Luke and Angela were heading to the New South Wales border city of Aubrey for the Easter |
| 2:11.9 | break. As they travelled north on a quiet and remote stretch of the highway between the Victorian towns of Urowa and Benalla, |
| 2:20.9 | the couple encountered something that made them markedly uneasy. |
| 2:26.0 | A large red freight truck with a white semi-trailer was weaving in a snake-like way across the northbound road's double lanes. Luke and Angela suspected |
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