Casefile Archives 8: The Tunstall Family
Casefile True Crime
Casefile Presents
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🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
*** Content Warning: Child victims***
On September 15 2006, detectives began investigating the sexual assault of 24-year-old Tiffany Hall from East St. Louis, Illinois. The assault had caused Tiffany to miscarry her 7-month old foetus.
A week later, police received a tip-off that would break the case wide open, revealing unimaginable horrors that devastated a family and an entire community.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode was originally a premium-only release, meaning it was only available for our |
| 0:06.0 | paying subscribers. Given that we never intended to keep premium episodes behind a permanent paywall, |
| 0:12.0 | these remaining episodes are now being released to all listeners as part of our Case File Archives |
| 0:18.0 | series to mark our 10-year anniversary. If you're interested in supporting |
| 0:23.0 | the show, you can still find our subscriber channels on Patreon, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. However, |
| 0:29.8 | please note that moving forward we will no longer be producing premium-only episodes. Paid |
| 0:36.7 | subscribers will continue to receive new Case file episodes one week early and ad-free, |
| 0:42.1 | as well as episodes of Behind the Files, where the case file team answers your questions |
| 0:47.0 | and discusses the recent cases we have covered. |
| 0:51.1 | As always, I'd like to offer a huge and heartfelt thank you to everyone who has listened and supported the show over the years, especially our Patreon and premium subscribers. |
| 1:02.4 | We appreciate each and every one of you. |
| 1:23.3 | We appreciate each and often distressing incidents. |
| 1:28.9 | If you feel at any time you need support, please contact your local crisis centre. |
| 1:35.1 | For suggested phone numbers for confidential support and for a more detailed list of content warnings, please see the show notes for this episode on your app or on our website. |
| 1:45.6 | In the mid-2000s, there wasn't much that could shock first responders in the Illinois |
| 1:50.7 | city of East St. Louis. The once thriving industrial city had been hit hard by the Great |
| 1:56.5 | Depression, after which had struggled to recover. From the 1950s onwards, the loss of industry |
| 2:03.2 | and the declining economy prompted residents to flee East St. Louis in the tens of thousands. |
| 2:09.1 | This led to a sharp decline in city services and employment opportunities. |
| 2:14.9 | Many of the remaining citizens lived below the poverty line with little assistance and scraped to get by. |
| 2:22.3 | Substance abuse and violence were ongoing issues, and the murder rate was more than 10 times the national average. |
| 2:29.9 | On the edge of East St. Louis is the Frank Holton State Park, a 1,000-acre expanse of woodland, |
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