Casefile Archives 9: The Frankston Serial Killer
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🗓️ 9 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
*** Content Warning: serial killer, extreme violence, animal cruelty ***
In early 1993, Frankston resident Donna received a series of unnerving prank calls. Afraid of being home alone, she accompanied her boyfriend during his pizza delivery shift, only to return home to find her worst fears had come true.
Her pet cats had been killed, and written in blood on the lounge room wall were the words: ‘Donna, you’re dead.’ This marked the beginning of a five-month crime spree that terrorised locals and resulted in the murders of three young women – Elizabeth Stevens, Deborah Fream and Natalie Russell.
The perpetrator was dubbed ‘The Frankston Serial Killer’, but who was he, and when would he strike again?
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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.
Where appropriate, updates have been added, but the core structure and storytelling remain faithful to the originals. Because of this, these re-releases may sound a little different to our recent episodes, but they allow us to bring some of the earliest episodes up to the technical quality listeners expect today.
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| 0:00.0 | As Case File continues into its 10th year, we're currently taking a very short break from new episodes. |
| 0:07.5 | Brand new cases will be returning on May 23 for premium subscribers and May 30 for the regular feed. |
| 0:15.3 | But in the meantime, we're continuing our special bonus series Case File Archives, |
| 0:20.4 | a collection of releases revisiting |
| 0:22.8 | the earliest years of the show, along with previously unreleased premium episodes. |
| 0:28.5 | Over the next three weeks, we'll be releasing two fully re-recorded episodes from our first year |
| 0:34.0 | of production, along with one episode that was previously only available to Patreon |
| 0:39.1 | and premium subscribers. Rest assured that these are additional bonus releases and will not replace |
| 0:46.0 | our standard schedule. We will still be delivering the same number of new episodes this year |
| 0:51.5 | as we did last year. Case file Archives is simply a way to mark the |
| 0:55.9 | 10th year, revisit some older episodes and share stories that newer listeners may not have heard |
| 1:01.5 | before. For the re-release episodes, we've fully edited, polished, re-recorded and freshly produced |
| 1:08.1 | them from start to finish to match our current production standards. |
| 1:12.3 | They are not complete rewrites. Our aim isn't to reshape the cases or alter the original |
| 1:18.5 | storytelling, but to preserve them as they were first told while bringing them up to the level of |
| 1:23.7 | production the show has today. Where appropriate, updates have been added, but the core |
| 1:29.2 | structure remains faithful to the originals. Because of this, these episodes may sound a little |
| 1:35.9 | different to our recent work. Today's re-release is the Frankston serial killer, originally |
| 1:43.1 | released as Case 23 in June 2016. |
| 1:47.6 | The case was first presented as a two-part series, with part one released on June 19, |
| 1:54.0 | followed by Part 2 the following week. |
| 1:57.1 | Thank you to everyone who has listened and supported us over the years. |
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